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2013: Year One of 10?
We're going to get smaller and we're not going to get a whole lot more new stuff," Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III bluntly told airmen when describing the damaging, long-term effects of sequestration during stops in Japan and South Korea last August.
Most people assumed that indiscriminate, 10 percent across-the-board cuts would never be allowed to actually take effect. Not only have they taken effect, but political gridlock on Capitol Hill means most observers have done "a 180" and now believe sequestration will last for the full 10 years it was written into law. Sequestration is here to stay. There is little doubt about that.
Exactly what the Air Force's new leaner force will look like is still being worked out, but sequestration quickly damaged the Air Force's ability to go to war, its modernization plans, and its surge capabilities. Less readiness meant less ability to protect the nation.
In 2013, the Air Force reaffirmed its commitment to the F-35 strike fighter, the KC-46 tanker, and the Long-Range Strike Bomber. However, everything else—including the possibility of vertical cuts of entire weapon systems, such as the A-10 close air support platform—remains vulnerable to cuts, USAF leaders emphasized repeatedly last year.
What follows is a look at sequestration's impact on the Air Force during its first year of forced efficiency.
For more than a year, DOD leadership resisted the temptation to plan for sequestration, assuming that if they stated their case clearly enough, Congress would never let such devastating legislation actually get on the books. By January, the mood started to shift and then-Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta ordered the services to start hoarding cash. In a Jan. 10 briefing with reporters, Panetta admitted, "We have no idea what the hell's going to happen" with regard to future military budgets.
First Stand Down
The uncertainty definitely took its toll on planners, but on Jan. 7 then-Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley and Welsh proposed 10 "near-term actions" USAF would take to prepare for sequester. They included a civilian hiring freeze and furloughs for civilian employees; canceling travel, air shows, and conferences; curtailing studies; and either shortening or delaying contracts.
In February, one month before the sequester was to officially kick in, Air Combat Command chief Gen. Gilmary Michael Hostage III dropped another bombshell when he announced the command would move toward a tiered readiness model. It was intended to ensure at least a portion of the force remained combat capable as funds dried up.
"What will happen now is that when one of my units comes back from the combat theater [it] will stand down because I don't have the flight hours, … the weapon system sustainment to support fixing the airplanes, [or] the training ranges to train" the unit's members, Hostage told Air Force Magazine in an interview at the Air Force Association's Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Fla.
He added, "The problem is, it's not like my maintenance folks will be able to go out there and tweak airplanes and make them fully 'up' because we won't have the parts, we won't have the equipment, … [and] the depots will be cut like everything else" under sequestration.
The Air Force had never before used a tiered readiness approach, because the nation expects USAF to be ready to go to war, anywhere in the world, at a moment's notice.
Unprecedented, daunting forecasts didn't stop the inevitable. The sequester, which was written into the 2011 Budget Control Act as a penalty if Congress failed to reach a budget compromise, officially began at midnight on March 1, 2013. That meant DOD now has to cough up more than a trillion dollars over a 10-year period by making 10 percent across-the-board cuts to all accounts, regardless of priorities. Some accounts were completely exempted, however—most notably personnel—forcing the other areas of Air Force spending to bear even larger reductions to get down to the overall 10 percent reduction.
The cuts were designed to be so stupid, devastating, and demoralizing to the US military that Republicans and Democrats would have no choice but to break the partisan gridlock and reach a compromise. But that's not what happened.
By April, Active Duty combat units in the United States, Europe, and the Pacific began standing down as the Air Force attempted to absorb the funding cuts imposed by the sequester. Eventually, some one-third of all Active Duty combat units were affected.
"The current situation means we're accepting the risk that combat airpower may not be ready to respond immediately to new contingencies as they occur," said Hostage.
Also in April, the Air Force truncated a class at the Air Warfare Center's Weapons School at Nellis AFB, Nev., graduating students without a capstone exercise. It then shuttered the doors at the service's premier combat skills leadership school until funding was restored.
In yet another blow to readiness, the Air Force also canceled Red Flag and other major exercises, citing "budgetary considerations" associated with sequestration.
Congress eventually granted the Air Force a $1.8 billion reprogramming allocation, allowing it to move some $208 million back into flying hour accounts. This was not new funding, however—it merely allowed USAF to shift funds from other accounts to pay for the very highest needs.
By July, combat air forces units across the Air Force started flying again, but Hostage warned that, since April, readiness had steadily declined and the units still had a "measured climb to recovery."
He said the restoration did little to address long-term budget uncertainty surrounding sequestration because "we are using investment dollars to pay current operational bills, and that approach is not without risk to our long-term effectiveness. … We can't mortgage our future."
Despite all this, sequestration still wasn't done unleashing its wrath on the Air Force. Around the same time ACC was getting back in the air, some 650,000 DOD civilians were furloughed. Although DOD eventually reduced the number of unpaid furlough days from 11 to six, thanks to cost-saving measures and the ability to shift money from one account to another, the move still crushed morale and created a backlog in various areas across the department.
Within the Air Force, the furloughs hit Air Force Materiel Command hardest. Of the 80,000 personnel assigned to the command, more than 75 percent (60,200) are civilians.
"Perhaps the most visible effect of the furloughs will be the maintenance work performed at our depots, where we expect to see an estimated 25 percent drop in productivity," an AFMC spokeswoman said at the time.
Civilians also make up some 60 percent of US Strategic Command's workforce, commander Gen. C. Robert "Bob" Kehler told members of the House Armed Services Committee in May. STRATCOM employees were facing an "unprecedented combination of professional and personal concerns," Kehler said. "Some of the best young uniformed and nonuniformed people assigned to USSTRATCOM are questioning their future."
And this is just the beginning.
Welsh told Senate legislators that the Air Force may have to cut up to 25,000 airmen and as many as 550 aircraft from its accounts over the next five years if the sequestration spending caps continue.
"While we hope to build a viable plan to slow the growth of personnel costs over time and to reduce infrastructure costs when able, the only way to pay the full sequestration bill is by reducing force structure, readiness, and modernization," said Welsh during a Nov. 7 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
He once again cautioned that vertical cuts may be inevitable and said the Air Force would have to reduce flying hours from its operations and maintenance accounts by as much as 15 percent, if the spending caps were not lifted. While he said USAF had no plans to institute another round of furloughs, it may have to cancel, or significantly curtail, major exercises at the same time reducing its initial pilot production goals.
"The real and projected impacts of sequestration are sobering," he emphasized.
"We were forced to stand down 31 squadrons, including 13 combat-coded squadrons. An additional seven squadrons were reduced to flying rates that only enable proficiency in basic tasks, such as takeoff and landing," Welsh testified in November. "It will now cost a minimum of 10 percent more flying hours to retrain these squadrons than it would have to simply keep them trained all along."
A Significant Milestone
This winter's bipartisan budget deal—brokered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairs of the House and Senate budget committees—provides $63 billion in "sequester relief" over two years and reduces the deficit up to $23 billion during the same time period. The Bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2013 sets overall discretionary spending at $1.012 trillion in Fiscal 2014 and $1.014 trillion in Fiscal 2015, according to a joint release from Murray and Ryan. Under the budget deal, defense discretionary spending is $520.5 billion in Fiscal 2014.
Although the White House and representatives from across the aisle hailed the deal as a "good first step," no one got exactly what they wanted out of the agreement.
For example, veterans organizations were furious over language included in the bill that authorizes a one percent cut in annual cost-of-living increases for nondisabled veterans under the age of 62. The cut to military pensions is expected to generate some $7 billion; however, it also is said to cost a typical retired officer more than $124,000 over 20 years, reported the Military Officers Association of America.
In a letter to Congress and the White House, members of the Military Coalition called the cut "an egregious breach of faith."
The backlash did turn some heads on Capitol Hill. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) promised the committee would review the cost-of-living cuts before they took effect this year.
President Obama signed the Fiscal 2014 defense authorization bill into law in December. It prevents the Air Force from taking some actions it would like to initiate as cost-saving moves. For example, it prohibits USAF from retiring the Global Hawk Block 30 remotely piloted surveillance aircraft and from terminating the C-130H Avionics Modernization Program. It does, however, direct DOD to come up with a plan to transfer the MC-12W fleet to the Army.
The budget agreements were a significant milestone considering today's political climate, but the Defense Department still needs a fresh appropriations bill.
The Bipartisan Budget Act is now law. Congress largely reconciled its authorizations with its appropriations and avoided again getting slammed by sequestration's deep cuts.
The BBA merely raises sequester budget caps for Fiscal 2014 and Fiscal 2015, with the Pentagon's funding rising from $475 billion to $497 billion, said Todd Harrison, a leading defense budgetary expert with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
"This is about the same level of funding DOD is currently operating with" under the continuing resolution that governed military spending through the early part of the year, Harrison told Air Force Magazine. As such, Congress must either pass a new defense appropriations bill by Jan. 15, when the existing CR expires, or extend the existing continuing resolution a few more weeks.
"Either way, Congress will likely stay within the budget cap they just agreed to. I would be surprised if they did not because they would be deliberately triggering another sequester," Harrison said.
The Air Force has already submitted its Fiscal 2015 budget proposal to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and plans the public rollout of its Fiscal 2015 spending request this month. The 2015 budget request will be based on the current numbers, officials said. Sequestration was not an anomaly. It appears to be here to stay.


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Re: What I love and don't quite trust about Pete Walkers book COMPLEX PTSD from surviving to thriving
Post by Kenazandisaz » Tue Apr 30, 2019 2:47 am
coconuts wrote: ↑
That is why I value this forum so much. To feel so connected and almost normal for what I've been through and the result.. to recognize similarities in stories. To share my horrors with people who don't doubt its truth because it's too out there. And to recognize the horrors others have experienced and all the ugliness that comes with it, without shrinking away in disgust.
I'm digging that about this forum. Not that I can share my stuff, though I hope I will be able to eventually. (That's a barefaced lie. The very idea is so terrifying that I don't even hope to be able to, even though I see the incredible value it has. ) I hadn't quite realised how alienating it was to feel other and unrelatable even with other survivors. I didn't feel that I was like other people even when I was around people I was supposed to be like.
Earthhorse's quote from Judith Herman about the solidarity of the group is very apt.
Post by coconuts » Tue Apr 30, 2019 3:25 am
Kenazandisaz, (whew that's sorta a hard name to type, I kept having to check lol)
Anyways I think we understand the terror in sharing too. It took me a log time to share even the bits I have. It is hard, terrifying really, but freeing as well. Its relieving to tell "their" secrets. The things I have hidden in shame, a shame that shouldn't be mine.
If or when you are ready to share. We are ready to listen without judgement. Without gasps of horror. With understanding.
Thank you coconuts.
It is a cumbersome name. Feel free to shorten it.
earthhorse
Post by earthhorse » Tue Apr 30, 2019 1:01 pm
Hi Jitterbug,
I have to admit it's just such a pleasure to 'hear' from you <3
This is it EXACTLY!
I felt deeply unheard and unseen and also something of a failure after reading their works - while I also, like you, felt that there was so much that was positive, insightful and helpful in their works, it has been hard to internalize those insights amidst such conflicting other thoughts and feelings I had as I read.
And it feels nasty because some of the insights that work, were mine before I read this. And I don't know there is always soemthing uncomfortable about someone taking soemthign that is your truth, repackaging it and serving it back to you. So much of the stuff I like is about breaking shame, but odd how that is presented in a shaming and exclusive way - through the approach of self valorization of the author. I mean Herman was inspired by her own experiences and search for justice. But she never centers herself in her observations, but her very thorough research.
I have come to really LOATH Levine. Another guy who has got a lot form clients, but still decided it would be best to center his own experiences as a measure of 'how to', and 'what's possible', again sidelining and even dismissing domestic violence and child sexual abuse, AND even supporting false memory syndrome, ( with no scientific basis and contrary to many times over checked and double checked studies on memory, dissociation and trauma). Levine was bullied in school as a child for a few years. And though that can certainly be traumatizing, it is a little different than for instance incest! Or coming from a fundamentally unsafe home or care environment. Or being sold or used for adult gain.
It's funny though, there's Walker on one side advocating emotional healing, (which is such a good point), and Levine on the other side pointing to the way trauma is a survival reflex gone wrong ( also so important), but both denying/excluding the experiences, needs, stories and realities of the larger majority of survivors who develop cPTSD.
Levine is so toxic, in how he completely undermines the narrative or existential level of what it means to be harmed. And contrary to Levine also the emotional content of the work. I was doing somatic experiencing for 10 years with my therapist, a devotee of Levine. I had been looking for a therapist for a long time, no one would treat me because they thought my symptoms were too severe and my history too extreme... she was the only one at the time who would take me on. Initially her techniques helped me a lot with catatonic dissociation I was experiencing.
However, when my memories started to get too frightening for her, as well as me, (I remember gong home after therapy and reliving a memory, screaming and throwing up), I told er about it. After that, that was it, no more content, she didn't want to know and I was to also try and look away as quickly as possible. I wasn't allowed to talk about it, write about it, speak to others about it. I was only to bring it to her. And we were going to never discuss content but only bodily feelings that arose during sessions, and issues in the present - deal with it slowly, slowly bit by bit. Anytime the past would come up she said get out and we practiced shutting me down again - telling me I'm 'safe' now, but not dealing with what was happening now or my feelings now. So this just increased my isolation, anxiety, phobias and feelings of deadness and depersonalization.
After 10 years she couldn't even remember any of my basic history - was like a virtual stranger to her. After ten years still the same refrain, despite telling her, I'm gettign worse I'm in real trouble for 5 of those years - "slowly, slowly drop by drop". Yes the re-livng and the flooding slowed down. But it became a block to everything else in my life too! She just buried me alive in Levines 'technique'.
I went along with it, because the memories frightened me immensely. and I was terrified of them or lying or making things up. (Even though my T. would say things like I can see by your body that you aren't lying, she did not believe we need to deal with the content to heal) In the end it just hurt me Jitterbug. Hurt me terribly and wasted a lot of my resources and time. I ended up getting more and more anxious and depressed. Deeply depressed every time a memory surfaced and then had to be pushed down again - there was a direct link! She would also shame my depression a lot, like it was weakness, or that I was not adhering closely enough to Levine's techniques . Until I froze entirely, went into the land of ghosts, a regressed state - the opposite of what Levine's techniques are meant to achieve - my vitality was crushed. Now, only after nearly 3 years I am finally slowly coming out of that freeze. The impact on my over all health, income, professional progress and self esteem has been awful.
The reason I can see the impact and make the link, is that with a different kind of approach and therapy I am working with now, my progress has been significant and tangible. There are things that help us! We are never beyond help! Along with, the fact that there is now a national program where I live dealing with the enormous number of people with extensive and severe childhood trauma, and compounded trauma, who are not being helped in this country and why... scientifically speaking ( ie evidence based), we need to deal directly with the trauma on all levels, to heal it and to alleviate our suffering. All this stabilization and management stuff has been treated as the primary goal, with our core traumas being ignored, though these tools should be there, evidence shows that survivors benefit most from processing the past, and understanding the impact on their lives. 5 things/healings that need to happen at once environmental - social/relational - emotional/psychological - physical/biological - existential/narrative/cultural.
Being trapped in silence with only one other person who was allowed to 'know' anything, encouraging this silencing and denying my truth, treating me not as a person, with person-hood, but a merely a body, and a client who doesn't 'get it' ie never 'good enough', it was childhood all over again. I would not wish this on my worst enemy. Oh no wait hahahaha it would be a nice revenge to doom my horribly sadistic father to 10 years of ineffective therapy, that induces depression, undoes all his self confidence in his own self expression, and promotes self hatred! but if he is a monster now I shudder to think what he would become with such treatment!) Repression, when the need to process arrives, is NOT a good idea.
I will definitely check out "The Body Keeps The Score", I read the body bears the Burden also by a neuroscientist that I enjoyed a lot. I do tend to enjoy these kind of rational approaches too.
Thanks so much Jitterbug. It means a lot to have this validation. And it is lovely to connect with you.
All the very best in this world to you,
"One kind word can warm three winter months"
Hi Kenazandisaz,
When I read your reply. I was so moved. I feel you have a very powerful precision in your analysis and words. It's incredibly empowering. Thank you!
And as to you disclaimer, I agree there is merit, and nothing is perfect. And if something helps you, it is helpful. And there are some truly lovely things to take from Walker.
I think it is fair though to problematize his use/appropriation of cPTSD dx.it's not just a systemic issue, its on a level here where you and I and others are being unseen and our stories and realities suppressed by the liberal 'expansion', perhaps better said, 'reduction' lets say, of a diagnosis that was meant for US, to be seen, heard, and supported. His work has become a canon. And that disturbs me, because it is so exclusive, dismissive and incomplete. So also feel free people who might read this to treasure his work a little less would be my feeling.
.. feeling a headache actually from this. It's like I have to see him as a benevolent authority figure, and I am not convinced his erasure or self centering is 'innocent', or that he is a neutral/friendly authority on the subject.
In advocating for 'good' survivors at the expense of 'problematic' ones, which is how I see his bashing of borderline and narcissistic survivors and his erasure of dissociative survivors, he is making himself part of the problem.
You know that's it exactly.
When I think about how queer communities can also hurt and exclude transgender people with their transphobia - the safer space where you can supposedly be yourself and find support rejects you, the space people like you struggled for, it's the most brutal of betrayals, the most brutal blow ... it's incredibly disempowering and isolating.
The irony is transgender people (of color) were not only on the frontlines of fighting for gay rights, they were also on the front lines of fighting for civil rights, ( check out the incredible Dr. Pauli Murray for example, well before Ruth Baden Ginsburg joined the fray). The same goes for survivors of extreme/severe torture and exploitation in childhood. I agree denying their/our humanity, reality and narratives, and space for those, means we keep going backwards. It's like a backlash that hurts the entire community. And as you say, certainly not progress. While not knowing these histories in the first place is why people feel entitled to act on their bigotry. So erasure is one of the most harmful things... to deny our existence, contributions and histories... and indeed control the narrative of representation.
I am a person who survived a lot, not just throughout my childhood but also thereafter. Abuse and traumatic experiences were relentless for the first 25 years of my life UNTIL I got far way from my family and started to recover the incest memories.. Though I never wanted to, and strove not to, let any of this define me, the reality remains my trauma is compounded over a long period of time... ie it's COMPLEX. . and I know for many others it goes on longer than this before we get a chance to recover or find safety...
Just even talking about pasts like this is stigmatizing, regardless of how far you go in life...
Herman helped me feel like I am not the only one, that I am not 'weak', nor inherently flawed, subhuman nor inferior. She was writing for those of us whom experience this kind of ongoing 'taboo' traumas in childhood, unspeakable things, that "should just be left in the past", or no one would even believe, and continuing trauma, ( compounding trauma) thereafter due to not being able to find adequate space, safety and societal support to resolve it. I thought others who identify with cPTSD, can understand living that level of unsafety, stigma and ostracization. The diagnosis felt safe for me, it 'normalized' what I have lived through. Relating to guys like Walker/Levine, it's like there's the well loved priest, exalted by the community, and I'm the circus freak always under suspicion...
When you think about it, all the still great literature, that remains relevant and is in it's umpteenth edition for people who are recovering from incest for instance, seems to have been written over 25 years ago! The trend since the '90s has been this kind of suppression like in Walkers work.
Thank you for listening, and sharing your startling clear, kind and well developed thoughts.
Much warmth and admiration,
I also just wanted to say. I will find you if and when you want to share. I also find it very hard, i feel such 'otherness' in my abuse story. It's exactly that unspeakable quality... Also because of what I had to do to survive. But mostly my silence is about denial and the fact that it's really hard to live with and confront. I bury fragments all over the place, but can never see it all at once and that's okay.
So just take your time and trust yourself, your feelings and your pace. In any case know you are very welcome here.
Coconuts,
I love this, again i could have said this
To feel so connected and almost normal for what I've been through and the result.. to recognize similarities in stories. To share my horrors with people who don't doubt its truth because it's too out there. And to recognize the horrors others have experienced and all the ugliness that comes with it, without shrinking away in disgust.
You're amazing coconuts. Everything you share here empowers other people too.
I think the thing is, is its so important to be sensitive. To be able to stay present and sensitive with our stories. I don't want to trivialize anyone's experiences, I feel with them, just the thing is when things stay unspoken and unexplained for so many, including ourselves, (I also love what Herman says about not being able to even find words to say it), they and we can't feel with us, can't be sensitive. People desensitize or start to make unfair comparisons. This silence, misrepresentation and desensitization, is part of what makes experiences like ours, dehumanizing.
Thanks so much for sharing your feelings and stories here.
Hi Easystreet,
Just wanted to thank you for your affirmation and recognition in some of the feedback in the thread.
I know you have been dealing with some unspeakable things.
I hope you are safe and okay today.
All the very best to you,
EasyStreet
Post by EasyStreet » Tue Apr 30, 2019 7:31 pm
I have so much to learn from you, EH, and everyone else.
You are all very humbling in a positive, inclusive way, and I'm thankful for that.
Yesterday was actually the best I've felt physically and emotionally in about two years ! Today brought new challenges, but so it goes.
Thanks for thinking of me!
Thanks for being my tribe.
May I always be a worthy member.
dancingfish
Post by dancingfish » Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:21 pm
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone writing some interesting and insightful ideas here! Particularly dear earthhorse, you've clearly written out some ideas I realised I'd sensed a little bit but not really understood when reading through Walker's book.
I've been pondering it a bit, partly as I read through various parts and haven't really returned to it for a while. I don't really know the origins of "CPTSD", other than it was used to describe a different form of PTSD that arises through experiencing multiple events, and usually at child/developmental stages. I think perhaps it's starting to be used to now describe a whole spectrum of beyond-PTSD that's still being understood. If anything I felt a bit, hm, guilty when I first mentioned to my t that a bunch of what describes CPTSD described what I'd been experiencing - I hadn't been through SA, RA, trafficking, just a bunch of other stuff. It was useful for me - but I hadn't ever thought that in finding resources relating to me, it was and is taking away from the even more unspoken, invisible hurts of others.
Walker writes to a kind of narrow audience without realising it, I think. As you and others have put it, he writes very much from his own experience (perhaps without realising how much) rather than approaching the subject matter from a more neutral, almost academic viewpoint. I kind of took the reading material at face value, and some parts resonated strongly and others didn't so much at all. (Perhaps they're not relevant for me now, or perhaps they never will be.) The character types kind of made me laugh a bit - it was like suddenly encountering a pop quiz. :) "Do you like the colour green? Then you're an earth person!" etc. It made some sense, but a person is not a simple combination of one or two factors, of course. I guess I went into the book thinking it would be more definitive, and then found it less... formal? Than expected, but without quite realising the extent or ramifications.
What I think I was trying to add on there, that where some texts have broadened/diluted the meaning of CPTSD to a wider, spectrum, say? It's helped some more, but possibly at the cost of those who have a harder path to being seen, and heard, and finding healing. I'm grateful for the former for myself, but it's not right to diminish the hope for others.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights, they're much appreciated. :) I'm not quite able to keep all of them in my head and reply at the moment, but I'll be re-reading this. It somehow feels kind of brave that you were able to take a book of some (positive) renown, and look at it while keeping centred in yourself too. Realising the ways it was not right for you, and indeed for others as well. That takes some perspective and strength, I think - I recall you mentioned the authority figure, and (to my mind) how it's easy to assume they're just correct, without questioning.
Reading along, and sending each and every one of you here much caring, warmth, and a gentle hug if wanted. <3
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Q: Showing the boundary of a cylinder has Lebesgue-measure zero Let $\partial C=\{(x,y,z) \in \Bbb{R^3}\enspace\vert  \enspace x^2+y^2 = r, \enspace0\leq z\leq h\}.$ I'm trying to show $\partial C$ has Lebesgue-measure zero in $\Bbb{R^3}$.
Let $f: I \to \Bbb{R^2}$, s.t $f=(r\cos x, r\sin x)$, where $I=[0,2\pi]$. Now $f$ is Riemann-integrable and its graph surface $G_f = B(0,r)\subset\Bbb{R^2}.$
Therefore $m_n(G_f)=0$. Then $\partial C=[0,h] \times G_f$. This cartesian product has Lebesgue measure zero, since $[0,h]$ is bounded in $\Bbb{R^2}$. Therefore $m_n(\partial C)=0$. Is this right?

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$m_3 (\partial C) = h \cdot m_2 \{(x,y)| x^2+y^2 = r \}$. Hence it suffices to
show that the measure of the circle $rS^1$ is zero.
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#include "arch/win32/ArchPluginWindows.h"
#include "arch/win32/XArchWindows.h"
#include "common/PluginVersion.h"
#include "base/Log.h"
#include "base/IEventQueue.h"
#include "base/Event.h"
#include "synergy/Screen.h"

#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#include <Windows.h>
#include <iostream>

typedef void (*initFunc)(void*, void*);
typedef int (*initEventFunc)(void (*sendEvent)(const char*, void*));
typedef void* (*invokeFunc)(const char*, void**);
typedef void (*cleanupFunc)();

void* g_eventTarget = NULL;
IEventQueue* g_events = NULL;
static const char * kPre174Plugin = "Pre-1.7.v";

ArchPluginWindows::ArchPluginWindows()
{
}

ArchPluginWindows::~ArchPluginWindows()
{
}

void
ArchPluginWindows::load()
{
	String dir = getPluginsDir();
	LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "plugins dir: %s", dir.c_str()));

	String pattern = String(dir).append("\\*.dll");
	std::vector<String> plugins;
	getFilenames(pattern, plugins);

	std::vector<String>::iterator it;
	for (it = plugins.begin(); it != plugins.end(); ++it) {
		String filename = *it;
		String name = synergy::string::removeFileExt(filename);
		String path = synergy::string::sprintf(
			"%s\\%s", dir.c_str(), filename.c_str());

		LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "loading plugin: %s", filename.c_str()));
		HINSTANCE handle = LoadLibrary(path.c_str());
		void* voidHandle = reinterpret_cast<void*>(handle);

		if (handle == NULL) {
			String error = XArchEvalWindows().eval();
			LOG((CLOG_ERR "failed to load plugin '%s', error: %s",
				filename.c_str(), error.c_str()));
			continue;
		}

		String expectedVersion = getExpectedPluginVersion(name.c_str());
		String currentVersion =  getCurrentVersion(name.c_str(), voidHandle);

		if (currentVersion.empty() || (expectedVersion != currentVersion)) {
			LOG((CLOG_ERR
				"failed to load plugin '%s', "
				"expected version %s but was %s",
				filename.c_str(),
				expectedVersion.c_str(),
				currentVersion.empty() ? "unknown" : currentVersion.c_str()));

			FreeLibrary(handle);
			continue;
		}

		LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "plugin loaded: %s (version %s)",
			filename.c_str(),
			currentVersion.c_str()));

		m_pluginTable.insert(std::make_pair(name, voidHandle));
	}
}

void
ArchPluginWindows::unload()
{
	PluginTable::iterator it;
	HINSTANCE lib;
	for (it = m_pluginTable.begin(); it != m_pluginTable.end(); it++) {
		lib = reinterpret_cast<HINSTANCE>(it->second);
		cleanupFunc cleanup = (cleanupFunc)GetProcAddress(lib, "cleanup");
		if (cleanup != NULL) {
			cleanup();
		}
		else {
			LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "no cleanup function in %s", it->first.c_str()));
		}

		LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "unloading plugin: %s", it->first.c_str()));
		FreeLibrary(lib);
	}
}

void
ArchPluginWindows::init(void* log, void* arch)
{
	PluginTable::iterator it;
	HINSTANCE lib;
	for (it = m_pluginTable.begin(); it != m_pluginTable.end(); it++) {
		lib = reinterpret_cast<HINSTANCE>(it->second);
		initFunc initPlugin = (initFunc)GetProcAddress(lib, "init");
		if (initPlugin != NULL) {
			initPlugin(log, arch);
		}
		else {
			LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "no init function in %s", it->first.c_str()));
		}
	}
}

void
ArchPluginWindows::initEvent(void* eventTarget, IEventQueue* events)
{
	g_eventTarget = eventTarget;
	g_events = events;

	PluginTable::iterator it;
	HINSTANCE lib;
	for (it = m_pluginTable.begin(); it != m_pluginTable.end(); it++) {
		lib = reinterpret_cast<HINSTANCE>(it->second);
		initEventFunc initEventPlugin = (initEventFunc)GetProcAddress(lib, "initEvent");
		if (initEventPlugin != NULL) {
			initEventPlugin(&sendEvent);
		}
		else {
			LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "no init event function in %s", it->first.c_str()));
		}
	}
}

bool
ArchPluginWindows::exists(const char* name)
{
	PluginTable::iterator it;
	it = m_pluginTable.find(name);
	return it != m_pluginTable.end() ? true : false;
}

void*
ArchPluginWindows::invoke(
	const char* plugin,
	const char* command,
	void** args,
	void* library)
{
	HINSTANCE lib = NULL;

	if (library == NULL) {
		PluginTable::iterator it;
		it = m_pluginTable.find(plugin);
		if (it != m_pluginTable.end()) {
			lib = reinterpret_cast<HINSTANCE>(it->second);
		}
		else {
			LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "invoke command failed, plugin: %s command: %s",
					plugin, command));
			return NULL;
		}
	}
	else {
		lib = reinterpret_cast<HINSTANCE>(library);
	}

	invokeFunc invokePlugin = (invokeFunc)GetProcAddress(lib, "invoke");
	void* result = NULL;
	if (invokePlugin != NULL) {
		result = invokePlugin(command, args);
	}
	else {
		LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "no invoke function in %s", plugin));
	}

	return result;
}

void
ArchPluginWindows::getFilenames(const String& pattern, std::vector<String>& filenames)
{
	WIN32_FIND_DATA data;
	HANDLE find = FindFirstFile(pattern.c_str(), &data);
	if (find == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
		FindClose(find);
		LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "plugins dir is empty: %s", pattern.c_str()));
		return;
	}

	do {
		filenames.push_back(data.cFileName);
	} while (FindNextFile(find, &data));

	FindClose(find);
}

String
ArchPluginWindows::getPluginsDir()
{
	return ARCH->getPluginDirectory();
}

String
ArchPluginWindows::getCurrentVersion(const String& name, void* handle)
{
	char* version = (char*)invoke(name.c_str(), "version", NULL, handle);
	if (version == NULL) {
		return "";
	}

	return version;
}

void
sendEvent(const char* eventName, void* data)
{
	LOG((CLOG_DEBUG5 "plugin sending event"));
	Event::Type type = g_events->getRegisteredType(eventName);
	g_events->addEvent(Event(type, g_eventTarget, data));
}

void
log(const char* text)
{
	LOG((CLOG_DEBUG "plugin: %s", text));
}

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The Flat Learning Curve Again: Obama Signals His Desires In A Law Enforcement Matter Of Some Considerable Consequence
June 11, 2016 June 11, 2016 / Jack Marshall
…and not just any law enforcement matter, but an investigation of a former Secretary of State and presumptive Presidential nominee.
Nice. You see, Barack Obama just doesn't care. That's the only possible explanation for this pattern which goes way back to 2009, when he opined on whether his old friend from Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, was the party at fault in an altercation with a Cambridge, Mass, police officer. That was his first year as President, so maybe it's plausible that this "Constitutional scholar" and allegedly brilliant man didn't know that the President of the United States warps the justice system and law enforcement when he declares how he thinks they should handle a particular matter, since he is at the tippity top of our rule of law. Obama has done this again and again, however—with Trayvon Martin… in the Big Branch Mine disaster…as Obamacare approached a key challenge in the Supreme Court…in the military sex abuse scandal…regarding Arizona's illegal immigration laws, and regarding other matters. He has to know by now that it biases the process, but his supporters cheer, the news media makes excuses, only Republicans, the "conservative media" and Ethics Alarms complain, so he keeps doing it anyway. He can get away with it, so he just doesn't care.
This, however, was special. The same day that the White House admitted that the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's intentional mishandling of official e-mails for her own personal needs–she didn't want citizens to be able to see her business and political machinations using the Freedom of Information Act—was a criminal investigation, he endorsed Clinton for President in glowing terms.
Fox News' Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen asked White House Paid Liar Josh Earnest about the appropriateness of this—heaven forfend that any non-conservative-biased news outlet would ask such an obvious and necessary question, queried "You have other employees of the executive branch, career prosecutors, FBI agents, working this case who have now just heard how the president wants to see this case resolved, in essence. Isn't there some conflict there?"
Rosen, you may recall, was the journalist who had his computer illegally monitored by this very same Justice Department.
"James, there's not," Earnest replied. "The reason that the president feels confident that he can go out and make this endorsement and record a video in which he describes his strong support for Secretary Clinton's campaign is that he knows the people who are conducting the investigation aren't going to be swayed by any sort of political interference. They aren't going to be swayed by political forces. This is the reason that we actually ask career federal prosecutors to take the lead on these kinds of matters. They don't have political jobs. They have career jobs as law enforcement officers and as prosecutors and investigators. That's what their responsibility is."
Ah. So if you work for the President of the United States, and your direct superior was appointed by the President of the United States, and the President of the United States says that the person you are investigating is spectacularly qualified to be the next President of the United States, and thus he would be embarrassed politically and personally should that person be indicted by his own Justice Department, that statement will not affect your judgment in any way.
Nah. Why would it?
He's only the President of the United States.
It's not going to influence anybody's decision.
Who believes that? Obama doesn't believe that. I assume that Earnest doesn't believe that.
A clearer signal could not be sent that Barack Obama does not want Hillary Clinton indicted. It is an abuse of power and an insult to the integrity of the justice system for President Obama to do this.
Character, Ethics Alarms Award Nominee, Government & Politics, Law & Law Enforcement, Leadership
abuse of power, arrogance, bias, Clinto e-mail investigation, ethics, fairness, George Zimmerman, Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal, James Rosen, Josh Earnest, military sex abuse scandal, President Obama, Prof. Henry Louis Gates, responsibility, the U.S. Constitution, Trayvon Martin, U.S. Justice Department, Upper Big Branch Mine disaster
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14 thoughts on "The Flat Learning Curve Again: Obama Signals His Desires In A Law Enforcement Matter Of Some Considerable Consequence"
Inquiring Mind
At what point does the combination of corruption, thuggery, and incompetence (among all else) throughout the Democratic Party finally force a reconsideration from "Never Trump" people?
Jack Marshall
From this analyst, never. It is per se irresponsible to vote for an unstable, dim-bulb, loud mouth, ignorant narcissist like Trump. Party, alleged positions, none of it matters until you get past that.
dragin_dragon
At the risk of thumping my own chest, when will you guys learn to listen to Uncle Dragon? There was NEVER the slightest chance that Clinton would be indicted, not now, not ever. In point of fact, no-one in this administration will ever be held to account for their actions, ever, and if Hillary wins the election, as seems probable, there will never again be a Republican President. Thus, we will have given up being a Republic and will become an Empire, much like Rome did. It just didn't take us as long.
Zoltar Speaks!
There are absolutely no good choices for President this Presidential election cycle, only worse choices; all we have left is to vote against because there's nothing reasonable to vote for. This is what the shear ignorance and blatant apathy of the majority of We The People have allowed our politics to become. This is what the dumbing down of the American populous has done. This is exactly what the Democratic Socialists, Progressives, and a fair amount of Liberals have been striving for for many years; absolute dominance (or as close as they can get), but not by promoting their ideology, but by demonizing their opposition – they are winning by default.
In my opinion, Clinton would not be on the verge of winning a Presidential election if it had not been for the presence of Trump in the campaign, period, end of discussion. With every passing day, with every spoken word out of Trump's mouth; everything in my gut tells me that this scenario was planned. I predict that Clinton will win the Presidential election with the largest landslide in the history of the United States and the Republicans will loose the majorities in congress in short order. The Republican party is effectively finished.
We're doomed. 😦
Can you fix the closing tag after the word "exactly" where the bold should have ended; I flop-flopped the / and the b.
I saw a clip on TV of Biden endorsing Clinton, and I swear to you that one of the reasons he gave was that she has "a profound respect for the rule of law."
If anybody out there have a transcript, maybe they can reassure me that It was just a fever dream and that there are some lies so insultingly brazen that not even the Obama White House would utter them.
The Emperor wants to protect his legacy so is it any surprise that he and Biden endorse crooked Hillary. America is getting to resemble Mussolini's Italy except Obama has not made the trains run on time.
Neither did Mussolini…he changed the schedules.
fattymoon
Just back from a break-in ride on my new motorcycle. Read this. Reached for my pendulum. Asked if Clinton will be indicted. The answer is yes.
E2 (nee Elizabeth I)
If Hillary is Obama's primary legacy after eight years as POTUS, then it's all worse than I thought. However, however corrupt, secretive, lawless and sickening Obama and Hillary and the Democratic/Clinton machine are, I cannot, and will not, vote for a dangerous nutball like Trump. I really don't want to see our nation and the world go down in flames. We've survived corrupt presidents before — the leviathan of government just trundles on, for the most part — but we have not, have never, had a completely ignorant, hateful, psychopath in office before this. I know it is our own fault: but we won't survive Trump. Neither, perhaps, will the rest of the civilized world. And not incidentally, can we really embarrass ourselves as a nation by having such a loudmouth ignoramus lead the United States of America? Where is the gravamen, the importance, the history of the office? It will be dead, dead, dead with Trump as President. I will swallow my gorge and vote for Hillary. Never thought I'd say it or do it, but then I never though a Trump would be a candidate, either.
Other Bill
Very well put, E2, although I think the US could survive a Trump presidency. But it wouldn't be pretty. Four years of reality TV writers running the executive branch would be awful. But then again, we've had almost eight years of Valery Jerritt and Ben Rhoades writing executive branch policy…
Think on this, as well…HRC, if elected, will almost certainly appoint 2 and possibly as many as 4 SCOTUS Justices. Her litmus tests will be gun control and abortion. God only knows what Trumps would be.
Wade Lineberger
This quote from your introduction to your site: " The objective is to provoke thought about the issue that isn't controlled by biases, pre-conditioned reflexes, ideology or rationalizations."
Do you really believe that it is possible to form thoughts that are independent of our own biases and presuppositions, conscious or otherwise?
Sure it is. You need to be aware of those biases, and be determined to not allow them to interfere with independent and objective thought. It's not easy, and it's not always possible. But it must be an ongoing objective.
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