Multi Commodity Exchange of India is currently trading at Rs. 860.00, up by 4.75 points or 0.56% from its previous closing of Rs. 855.25 on the BSE.
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Vulnerabilities are too pervasive in software-based systems to find them all manually. CERT researchers develop automated tools that discover and mitigate software vulnerabilities and transfer them to security researchers, procurement specialists, and software vendors.
There are many places in the software lifecycle where software vulnerabilities can be discovered and mitigated. We develop new automated tools and techniques and put them in the hands of security researchers, procurement specialists, and software vendors to help them improve and evaluate the security of the software ecosystem used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the U.S. government (USG).
These tools and techniques are intended to be used by vendors during software development. Still, vulnerabilities exist in delivered software. In a project called "Automating Vulnerability Discovery," we focused on the ability to automatically discover vulnerabilities after software is developed and shipped, without assistance from the software vendor. This approach makes the problem more challenging because we must analyze programs at the binary level. But this requirement is critical in practice because many vendors are reluctant to share access to their products' source code, which they regard as sensitive and proprietary.
Vulnerabilities are pervasive in software-based systems and protocols, both in traditional IT networks and in those that support critical U.S. infrastructure. Software is written and updated frequently, and there are not enough human analysts to keep pace with the speed of production. Automation is the only way to keep up.
Led by Dr. Edward Schwarz, the Vulnerability Discovery project aims to reduce vulnerabilities in critical DoD and USG systems by improving techniques for automated vulnerability discovery. If vendors adopt our techniques in their software development processes, the DoD will acquire software applications that are hardened—and more secure—before and after they are deployed into the DoD infrastructure.
CERT researchers are working with the startup company ForAllSecure on a new technique for automating vulnerability discovery. We are also using research from the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab.
Black-box mutational fuzzing—Mutational fuzzing randomly introduces mutations into starting inputs called seed files. It then runs these modified inputs on the program to see if it causes a crash. Fuzzing is one of the most effective vulnerability discovery techniques in practice, and the SEI maintains its own black-box fuzzer, the CERT Basic Fuzzing Framework.
Vulnerability uniqueness determination—A primary challenge in vulnerability discovery is understanding which vulnerability triggered a crash and how serious that vulnerability is. For example, in one of our recent experiments, a major vendor's software produced over 40,000 exploitable crashes, but these crashes were caused by only a few vulnerabilities. We use a new technique that applies software patches to identify the scope of a vulnerability, which allows us to precisely count the number of vulnerabilities that a particular vulnerability discovery technique identifies.
ForAllSecure is a start-up company on a mission to make software safer. The ForAllSecure team builds software security tools for developers, enterprises, and end users that automatically find vulnerabilities in software at the binary level, using research transitioned from the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab.
ForAllSecure is one of the world's leading experts on binary concolic execution and is widely known for its Mayhem concolic executor, which recently won DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge competition. Concolic execution is a powerful form of symbolic program analysis that describes program executions as logical formulas and solves them to trigger and test new fragments of program code. Concolic execution is known for its ability to trigger code that is difficult to reach, allowing it to find vulnerabilities that other techniques such as fuzzing might miss. This power comes with a price, however, as concolic execution tends to be slow and has not scaled to large programs.
By joining our expertise in fuzzing with ForAllSecure's expertise in concolic execution, we have been collaborating on a new technique that brings the best of both fuzzing and concolic execution. Fuzzing brings scalability, speed, and the ability to discover vulnerabilities in large, complex programs. Concolic execution allows analysts to omit seed files, making the process of vulnerability discovery easier than ever. It also allows software analysts to test and detect vulnerabilities in code that is difficult for a fuzzer to reach.
In this paper, we focus on how to mathematically formulate and reason about one critical aspect in fuzzing: how best to pick seed files to maximize the total number of bugs found during a fuzz campaign.


if someone tells you to not do anything what will you do?
you'll get as said in post1 a highly active town thats 100% unraidable with lots of friends in return.
last time you simple ran away..
Can I join to your town? It is so boring to play alone.
JohnSnow wrote: Can I join to your town? It is so boring to play alone.


"Public safety works in Clinton." That was Clinton City Manager Frank Stovall's assessment the morning after a particularly gruesome two-car accident in Clinton. The investigation by the MAIT (Multi-disciplinary Accident Investigation Team) of the SC Highway Patrol isn't completed and no charges have been filed in the wreck that sent all four people in the two cars to hospitals. Unofficial preliminary reports are that one of the cars was speeding when the other car pulled out in front of it at the intersection of West Main Street and North Bell Street. The three people in the car believed to have been speeding were all ejected and were lying in the middle of Main Street when emergency personnel arrived. The other car landed on the railroad tracks and the driver had to be extricated by those first on the scene. The accident was horrendous. Parts from the cars littered the streets, giving the appearance of a junkyard. But Stovall's point is larger than a single accident no matter who is at fault. The City of Clinton responded quickly and efficiently. The accident knocked out power in a large area of the city. The downtown area was in total darkness. Residents and businesses had no electricity. An electrical surge knocked the meters off of 75 houses. Workers from the Department of Public Works responded in force and had power restored by most of the houses by 11 p.m. They had to go door to door to get electricity back on. The Department of Public Safety – both the fire and police divisions – handled the human side of the incident – the victims, the onlookers. They are trained in emergency medicine and many are certified medical technicians. When they get to an accident scene, they know what to do to help EMS workers, Stovall said. They know where the items are in the ambulances and can provide quick and efficient assistance that allows the EMTs to concentrate on the injured. All the city's volunteer firefighters were called in. Fire trucks patrolled the neighborhoods as electricity was restored in the case of house fires – a real possibility given the surge that knocked the meters off houses. The police quickly cordoned off the area around the accident – including the debris field – and asked for the assistance of MAIT investigators. Officers from Clinton were on the scene until almost daybreak. One shift of public safety police officers had gone off duty just before the accident happened and all of them turned around and came back to assist, Stovall said. There were at least three dozen full-time city employees who responded to the scene – from administration, public works and public safety. Most of them had already put in a full day of work for the citizens of Clinton. Some of them had attended a city council meeting that ended just before the accident happened. There are people who don't think Clinton should have a Department of Public Safety with firefighters trained as police officers and police officers trained as firefighters. It's been that way since the city moved to the concept in the early 2000s. Some of the municipalities in South Carolina have switched from public safety back to separate fire and police departments. Stovall admitted the day after last week's accident that he was not convinced of the soundness of public safety when he became city manager, but he's been converted. He's seen public safety in action up close and personal. He spent a day last week on a ride-along with a public safety police officer. Stovall believes public safety is the right thing for Clinton. Anyone seeing public safety in action last week would be hard-pressed to say the citizens of Clinton are not served well by the concept. Public safety certainly worked in Clinton last week in the hours following the accident. As did public works. Our city employees made us proud.


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Posted by: Martin
Okay, so that preposterous, demented d-bag Mike Adams has noticed all the ridicule he's been getting online, and has, like most deluded narcissists, taken it for validation of his awesomeness. In a new post, he offers the following observation, which deserves an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in Clueless Projection. Now, remember this is the guy who wrote a trillion-word attack on skeptics that led Orac to call him "a pyromaniac in a straw man factory"... Salient hypocrisy boldfaced.
[Skeptics] also tend to jump to false conclusions about what people are really saying. In my previous article, for example, I never stated whether I believed in God, or whether I was an athiest [sic], or whether I followed organized religion and yet people read the article and they leaped to conclusions, assuming I was promoting organized religion, for example, or that I was condemning atheism.
Actually I never stated my position on those matters in the article at all, but the skeptics leaped to the conclusion that I did. This speaks to their tendency to warp all incoming information and restructure it to conform to the beliefs they already carry about the subject at hand.
ROTFL! You silly little bitch.
Labels: alternative medicine, hypocrisy, skepticism, Someone is WRONG on the internet, stupidity
Pombolo 1/25/2010 10:11 PM
"ROTFL! You silly little bitch."
Martin, if you had left that simple one-liner in response to his original break-down, it would have been the most succinct and accurate response to one of the most rabid spewings I have read in a long time.
Martin 1/25/2010 10:40 PM
Yes, well, Mike — being such an open-minded fellow — censors all critical comments from his site and bans people who leave them. Otherwise, I would have done.
who's mike adams?
Bud 1/25/2010 11:48 PM
Mike Adams: "Here's a list of all the crazy things 'skeptics' believe..."
Skeptics: "You obviously have no idea what we believe."
Mike Adams: "See how angry the skeptics get when I show them how ridiculous their beliefs are?"
Skeptics: "WTF?"
Martin 1/26/2010 12:02 AM
Bud: Well, presently, poor Mikey is reduced to "Waaah! Mommy! They're picking on meee!"
This is a fine time to quote some relevant passages from the Wikipedia entry for narcisstic personality disorder.
"To the extent that people are pathologically narcissistic, they can be controlling, blaming, self-absorbed, intolerant of others' views, unaware of others' needs and of the effects of their behavior on others, and insistent that others see them as they wish to be seen.
People who are overly narcissistic commonly feel rejected, humiliated and threatened when criticised. To protect themselves from these dangers, they often react with disdain, rage, and/or defiance to any slight criticism, real or imagined....
Though individuals with NPD are often ambitious and capable, the inability to tolerate setbacks, disagreements or criticism, along with lack of empathy, make it difficult for such individuals to work cooperatively with others or to maintain long-term professional achievements. With narcissistic personality disorder, the person's perceived fantastic grandiosity, often coupled with a hypomanic mood, is typically not commensurate with his or her real accomplishments."
marky: Dude, it was just yesterday. :-)
SkepticallySound 1/26/2010 1:22 AM
I like how the "Health Wangjerr" makes all these claims with little or no credible evidence...makes for a perfect guest on the 800 pound gorilla show a.k.a. The Alex Jones Show...oh wait he was on there today spewing his crap to people looking for confirmation bias in their pursuit for the "twoof."
Pombolo 1/26/2010 8:32 AM
Aren't there computer simulations showing what happens when masses or arbitrary attributes start to orbit around each other? As well as fractal plotting programs? Can't we combine these two things together to predict when people of equal fractal wrongness, like Alex Jones and Mike Adams, are destined to orbit/circle-jerk each other?
Oh, and listen to the first 45 seconds of Mike in this video - he sounds almost like a child!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlzSNnm-pVY
KJ 1/26/2010 8:58 AM
It seems like this Mike Adams fellow doesn't understand what skepticism really is.. It's an approach to information not a belief system. He seems like an A-grade moron to me.
magx01 1/26/2010 9:37 AM
a pyromaniac in a straw man factory
seems to be an apt description of this fellow. I lost count of the fallacies after 30 seconds.
DavidCT 1/26/2010 11:39 AM
Well Mike Adams is living proof that one does not have to be a theist to have weird beliefs. I came across the NaturalNews WEB site last year. I was complaining to the editor of paper in Maine about the unsupported health advise being given by a columnist using Mike dam's site as a reference.
Just look at the list of Mike's sponsors. It's enough to completely melt down your bullshit detector.
Philosopher's Mess 1/26/2010 10:28 PM
I understand the irony, but pointing that out doesn't make the claims any less true. Don't you perpetuate the straw-man yourselves.
PM, I'm going to be charitable and assume the "claims" you're referring to are the hypocritical ones Mike's making here — that he's being misrepresented by his critics — and not the idiotic claims he made about skeptics in his original rant, as I'd like to believe you're better than that. For the record, Tom Foss responded to exactly what was written in Mike's piece — hell, he quoted every single sentence — so there's no misrepresentation there. It is also a bald fact that Mike was disqualified from the Shorties because his fans, whether at his behest or not, broke the rules. I can see that maybe disqualifying him from the whole contest was overkill, when they could have just deleted the improper votes, but the whole thing hardly justifies Mike's moronic screed, let alone the whiny and dishonest projection he's engaging in now that people are calling him on it.
So far not a single skeptical critic of Mike Adams has attacked him for anything other than what he has actually said or done. We're big on the whole honesty thing over here. If you can point to any actual blog posts where our side has strawmanned him the way he's done us, then link to it, and I'll be the first man to rebuke that guy. Otherwise, the lesson we should be taking from this nonsense is that allegations you can't back up make one look like a real bad guy.
Ing 1/27/2010 12:14 AM
Pm's talking about strawman in general. He's saying we do strawmen against theists a lot I'm sure.
Martin 1/27/2010 2:05 AM
Well, I certainly strive not to. Apart from being a logical fallacy, straw man attacks are just cheap shots. Any atheist or skeptic who made straw man attacks against believers would be just as unworthy of respect as the Mike Adamses and Ray Comforts of the world.
Plus for Ray and Adams, there's no real reason to. Their opinions are fractually hilariously wrong on their own.
Philosopher's Mess 1/27/2010 10:05 AM
ING was right. I do see the straw-man employed by the show, blog, against people who disagree with you.
In fact the post itself was a form of the straw-man, as you didn't refute the actual statements of the dude, but instead pointed to the irony and contradiction to my your argument. Ad hominem attacks are also running amock, see "you silly little bitch".
A couple other examples in this thread....
1.Well, presently, poor Mikey is reduced to "Waaah! Mommy! They're picking on meee!" (Martin)
2.makes for a perfect guest on the 800 pound gorilla show a.k.a. The Alex Jones Show (Skeptically Sound)
3. Oh, and listen to the first 45 seconds of Mike in this video - he sounds almost like a child! (Pombolo)
4. Just look at the list of Mike's sponsors. It's enough to completely melt down your bullshit detector. (DavidCT)
All statments which saying nothing about what the dude actually argues, but just points to "accepted" insults and ad hominem attacks to belittle his perspective.
OH and "Any atheist or skeptic who made straw man attacks against believers would be just as unworthy of respect as the Mike Adamses and Ray Comforts of the world."
I couldn't agree more.
Shaun Wilson 1/27/2010 10:16 AM
"This speaks to their tendency to warp all incoming information and restructure it to conform to the beliefs they already carry about the subject at hand."
This seems to have some slight validity, though I'm sure it's accidental. Basically everyone does this to a greater or lesser extent - not all incoming information is accurate so we have to interpret on the basis of our world-view to filter out the crap. The difference here is that (definitionally) a sceptic should recognise the value of engaging more in the reverse process as well - using incoming information to evaluate our world-view. By contrast it seams that religious instruction seems to often include the ideal of following that quote exactly.
So yeah, real irony there.
Oh and one last thing...
@ Martin
"as I'd like to believe you're better than that."
This seems really dishonest to me, and a dirty tactic. You mostly disagree with everything I write on here and often insult me, so I can only deduce that you write this, to set up your next comment, which will be "Oh I guess I was wrong, you suck etc." Let's make this less personal, less fallacious, this round, all right?
PM, it seems you need to learn what logical fallacies like ad hominem and straw men actually are before making your feeble attempts to claim we're no different than Mike Adams. For instance:
This is not a straw man. It's exactly what Mike is saying. Read his piece. He's doing nothing but whining about how he's being picked on, after writing his asinine screed. He's like the class clown in 4th grade who shoots spitwads at all the other kids, then wonders why they don't invite him to their birthday parties.
Also, name-calling is not the same as ad hominem, and, as this page on fallacies points out:
Not all ad Hominems are fallacious. In some cases, an individual's characteristics can have a bearing on the question of the veracity of her claims. For example, if someone is shown to be a pathological liar, then what he says can be considered to be unreliable. However, such attacks are weak, since even pathological liars might speak the truth on occasion.
I would say that Mike Adams has more than shown himself to be a pathological liar. Thus attacks on his character that point to the fact he's a silly, lying little bitch are not ad hominems, as Adams is, in fact, a silly, lying little bitch. There is a point where personal attacks are no longer insults, simply descriptors. I made this point in an earlier post about Ray Comfort. When Ray Comfort is called an ignorant fool by Richard Dawkins (and everyone else), Dawkins is not calling Comfort a name, he is simply describing Ray Comfort. Everything in Ray's character and behaviors reveals that he is, in fact, an ignorant fool. If Ray were not out there making his living lying about science, reprinting spurious editions of Darwin with an anti-science preface that he largely plagiarized, making actual straw man attacks about atheists (like Mike Adams, claiming we believe things we actually do not), then there would be no grounds to call him an ignorant fool and to do so would be an ad hominem. But it's not an ad hominem when the person really is the thing you're accusing them of being. There's no fallacy in calling a lying idiot a lying idiot.
(As for Mike speaking the truth on occasion, I'm sure he does do that, such as when he says things like "My name is Mike Adams" or "I need to pee." But that doesn't invalidate the bulk of my point.)
@martin
Ah as usual, your response is "you don't get it"...I would say my degree and the countless hours I have spent studying Philosophy stand in disagreement with that, but ok.
What you wrote was fallacious because you didn't address the content of his argument, but instead labeled him a child.
Likewise, do you not see the obvious fact that his comments about you all could be true as well, and therefore invalidating your own criticism towards him? No, you wouldn't because you are an indeologue.
PM: As for my comment, it was a snippy observation.
You seem to misunderstand what a Strawman fallacy is. None of the four examples you gave are strawmen.
A Strawman fallacy would be to misrepresent the argument of someone into a more easily refuted form: and then refute that, instead of what the person actually said. Adams has made no argument. He has simply listed assertions as if they were facts.
PM's classic "You're all a bunch of assholes" argument.
I post PM's entire post history as citation, especially his first slew.
So you're doing an 'appeal to authority' fallacy with yourself? Cute. You'd think those countless hours of study would have helped you catch yourself doing that.
You're simply lying at this point, PM. Mike's arguments were rebutted sentence-by-fucking-sentence by Tom Foss. And my comment about Mike was based on his actual behavior. Again, you're simply denying what's right on the screen in front of you in order to attack us, and it's pathetically transparent.
Likewise, do you not see the obvious fact that his comments about you all could be true as well, and therefore invalidating your own criticism towards him?
Could be, but aren't, so this little snipe does nothing for you.
No, you wouldn't because you are an indeologue.
Now that is an ad hominem. Well done.
You are now disinvited from the blog, PM. You'd clearly be happier somewhere else. Goodbye.
>"Waaah! Mommy! They're picking on meee!"
Wow...wasn't that a Yomin response as well? The similarities just get creepier.
Seriously--it's like a personality type that response is a predictable way. Just freaky.
And I have to laugh because I honestly just now went back to see what else you wrote after this and you have the entry on Narcissism!!! Hysterical!
The only reason anyone ever resorts to describing their own intelligence as an argument is because they have failed to demonstrate it.
Philosopher's Mess 1/27/2010 2:23 PM
You all are bullies, who like to hold somone down, while your friends get to take shots, pathetic.
"Observation:
You all are bullies, who like to hold somone down, while your friends get to take shots, pathetic."
You came here, slewing insults and poor spelling, and general jerkyness and seemingly TRY to start flame wars. Look do you have any points or are you just looking to shit in some hats?
PM's pattern
*Disagree with any given point, but in THE most insulting way possible.
*Bitch when people respond to him
*Accuse everyone else of bullying him.
Let's just cut out step two and jump right to the chase?
note: I am trying to be nice(r) to you, but you're making it hard due to your apparent goal to be the least liked commentator.
And I've decided to allow your last comment here to be one that proudly displayed what a sleazy little liar you are. You were banned once for trolling, you emailed us agreeing to play nicer, and you were allowed back for quite a long time, and none of your posts during that time where you argued with our atheist readers were censored or deleted. Now that you're being shown the door again, we're just all "bullies!" Honestly, you and Mike Adams are peas in a pod. You guys sure get a lot of mileage out of that "Waah mommy, the bullies are mean to me!" thing, don't you. Perhaps you can use this your newfound free time to refresh yourself a little on Matthew 7:3-5.
Read Martin's post, PM for the love of cheese, when you've pissed off a mod the response is NOT to snotty ass...as a snotty ass I should know!
Even if Martin did not spell out exactly how you were wrong, which....you know a lot of people wind up doing, if you had a problem with a mod or admin in a forum or blog giving you the impression that they're threatening the banhammer or whatever unjustly...don't paint a bulls-eye on your head. If you have a complaint send a PM about it, or talk to another mod or admin. Unless you're trying to get banned (I don't know why, to claim you're being censored or something? For attention? To piss people off?) doing what you've done is a basically a critical fumble on Knowledge(Common Sense) roll
Pombolo 1/27/2010 4:41 PM
Quick quiz everyone! Have a look here:
http://www.cracked.com/funny-3809-internet-argument-techniques/
and decide which ones have been used so far ;)
James Francesco 1/27/2010 9:17 PM
Ad hominem is so tricky when talking to debates. As martin points out, sometimes ignorant, stupid, fool, and even silly bitch, are descriptors...and accurate ones at that.
Seriously, why is it our job to maintain civility when talking to children? At some point everyone should be able to realize they're talking to a total ass-hat and just say "you're stupid" and be done with it.
Eh, ad homs are tricky, but personally, I aspire to refrain from them, even if they are completely warranted.
Note that I said aspire, as I often fail miserably :P
As for strawmen, one thing to note, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, isn't it prudent to draw a distinction between inadvertent and non inadvertent strawmen arguments?
I mean, I see this happen a lot on forums. Someone argues a point, and it ends up being a strawman argument, but you can sort of tell they did not do it intentionally. Rather than try and determine (or ask) whether or not it was intentional, people just jump all over it.
And lastly, at the risk of sounding somewhat.....well, stupid, is it me or did all of this constant pointing out of fallacies just sort of enter the 'big debate' in the last couple of years? I don't recall hearing this stuff a few years back, biut now it's strawman this and appeal to that.
Oh, that reminds me, the appeal to authority one bugs me. You tread such a fine line, because how often do we say something that could be construed as an appeal to authority? I mean, why is it automatically a fallacy? Do I go to my doctor, hear a cancer diagnosis, only to encounter people saying to me upon my return ''cancer? How do you know?'' to which I reply '' the doctor told me'' only to have them say ''that's an appeal to authority. Can you validate that diagnosis?''
I mean really, if I tell a theist it's an appeal to authority to say ''Kent Hovind said it'' yet point to the evidence for evolution, which, while compiled from a variety of sources, also comes to bear from individual experts as well, if you trace back the chain of evidence, aren't I essentially doing the same thing?
Why is it wrong to rely on experts? We all do it. I understand that the dea behind it is that just because something comes from a supposed expert, it does not mean it is true. And that's very true. I definitely see how it is fallacious to advance an argument just based on the fact that it came from an 'expert.'
But where/how do you draw the line? If the argument behind it is that you cannot automatically asume it is true because it comes from an expert, doesn't that invalidate everything we are ever taught, because no matter how validated, repeatable, etc the evidence is, we aren't doing the wrok ourselves. We're relying on the testimony of individual experts, just en masse.
I dunno, just thinking aloud here, go easy on me :P
Curt Cameron 1/28/2010 2:28 PM
PM said:
Ad hominem attacks are also running amock, see "you silly little bitch".
I just read through these comments, and I have to disagree. Calling Mike Adams a "silly little bitch" is NOT an ad hominem fallacy. That kind of fallacy would be if Martin said "Mike Adams' arguments are wrong because he's a silly little bitch."
You may prefer that Martin's post addressed Adams' crap as arguments, but what's the point? They're obviously stupid tripe to anyone who is a regular here. He's not trying to take on these statements as if they're valid arguments! We're just laughing at the stupidity.
soul_biscuit 1/28/2010 2:50 PM
@ magx01
In the case of scientists, we can point to their years of study and experiment, and to the peer-review process that governs scientific concensus. In the case of doctors, we can point to their years of study and experience as well, and also to the body of medical science which is itself policed by peer review.
In the case of Kent Hovind, we can point to his degree from Double-Wide University, and his laughably childish dissertation. No description of mental inadequacy is too strong to become an ad hominmen when leveled at Hovind.
@magx01:
"But where/how do you draw the line?"
It's a valid question. Typically, it's not considered a fallacy if you quote an authority during a discussion of the subject he's an authority on.
E.g. quoting your doctor's opinion regarding your health is reasonable, since he's trained in the field and has examined you personally.
The problem is when you quote an authority on subject A when discussing subject B.
E.g. "God exists, my doctor said so"
An expert opinion is not as good an argument as presentation of the evidence itself, but it is valid exactly because we can't all know everything.
Also, in most areas, there will be a general consensus among the experts. If all the people who have studied a field agree on a conclusion, it's on pretty solid ground.
Well, therien lies the problem. It's often misused, becuase I have seen claims of 'appeal to authority' levied at people for quoting Dawkins on biology.
The way you put it, it becomes clear as day, but it raises a question: Does anyone actually ever do that?
That seems so utterly silly to me to quote som- ah, nevermind, the anti-evolution, anti-vaccination and especially anti-global warming people do it all the time. Although it seems more like ignorance and misunderstanding than an appeal to authority to me.....or, at least, it's often an inadvertent appeal, as I said earlier with respect to strawmen.
For example, my best friend was into the whole global warming denial thing for a time, and he always quoted non climatologists who were still scientists, which to him seemed fine because ''they're scientists.''
It took me quite a while to get him to understand the fallacy there, but I know it was inadvertent. He wasn't doing it on purpose. I know th eend result is the same, but I think how one arrives at the point where they make such mistakes really matters.
I dunno, I'm rambling again. I tend to do that, my thoughts are very incoherent and jumbled at times. I describe it as like having a carbonated drink in my brain.
Thanks for the good points Biscuit and Lukas.
"Eh, ad homs are tricky, but personally, I aspire to refrain from them, even if they are completely warranted.
Note that I said aspire, as I often fail miserably :P"
Note that stating someone's stance in an accurate but stark light is not a straw man or ad hom. PM and others seem to be confused by this...stating someone's opinion in a way that is unflattering is not a strawman...provided it is accurate.
Ing 1/28/2010 10:47 PM
Ok now PM is harassing me off site. Oy vey.
I'm aware of that, Ing. I just don't think it's ever really useful. At least, in terms of advancing a debate. It's great for ending them though :P
Pombolo 1/29/2010 10:25 AM
@Ing: Any juicy tidbits? He was just beginning to become a good chewtoy before he was kicked - why let his ramblings go to waste ;)
@Pombolo, I really don't want to continue any flam war or bashing on him without him to talk as that's unfair regardless of how nasty he is. It's very explicit and personal which confuses me as other than going off on me for the one thing I have no idea why he'd have a hate on for me. He occasionally brought up some interesting topics and all even if he was insulting and odd, so I didn't want to see him banned.
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"The International Conference on the Great Lakes Region, brings us together to foster peace and security, so that our people can achieve their ambitions. Rwandans and Zambians are now more connected than ever before," he noted.
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Mertensophryne micranotis est une espèce d'amphibiens de la famille des Bufonidae.

Répartition
Cette espèce se rencontre jusqu'à  d'altitude :
 dans le sud-est du Kenya le long de la côte de la province de la Côte au Sud de Gede ;
 dans l'est de la Tanzanie dans les régions de Tanga, de Pwani, de Morogoro, de Lindi et sur les îles Unguja dans l'archipel de Zanzibar et Songo Songo.

Publication originale
 Loveridge, 1925 : Notes on East African batrachians, collected 1920-1923, with the description of four new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, , .

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Q: Unable to read a file and pass into arguments 1) I'm trying to open a file, read the mix data (ints, chars and strings) and store them into args.
1.1) so in the sample.txt is a total of 13 (excluding args[0])
2) Need to read a file from terminal "./myprog.c < sample.txt"
Heres my code and have no idea where i went wrong:
sample.txt:
123 213 110 90 1
hello my friend
boo bleh
a b c

myprog.c:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
        int i = 1;
        FILE *fstin=fopen(argv[0], "r"); //open the file
        if (fstin == NULL) {
            puts("Couldn't fopen...");
            return -1;
        }
         //Getting all the inputs from file
        while ((fscanf(fstin, "%d", argv[i])) != EOF){
            i++;
        }

        fclose(fstin);
        for (i=0; i<10; i++) {
            printf("%d\n",argv[i]);
        }

        return 0;
}

Any help is greatly appreciated!
PS: Would like if anyone could post their complete solution? Will upload unto this post and  let everyone have a review of this problem
PPS: Please excuse the poor level of coding as I am a beginner and completely new to C.

A: #include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int ac, char *av[]){
    int i, argc=0;
    char **argv=NULL, data[16];
    FILE *fstin = stdin;

    if(ac == 2){
        if(NULL==(fstin = fopen(av[1], "r"))){
            puts("Couldn't fopen...");
            return -1;
        }
    }
    while (1==fscanf(fstin, "%15s", data)){
        argv = realloc(argv, (argc+1)*sizeof(char*));
        argv[argc] = malloc(strlen(data)+1);
        strcpy(argv[argc++], data);
    }
    if(ac == 2)
        fclose(fstin);

    for (i=0; i<argc; ++i) {
        printf("%s\n", argv[i]);
    }
    //deallocate
    return 0;
}

A: You are making mistake at 2nd point where you divert your file to other file which is wrong. Actually you need to first compile and need to make executable.
gcc -o my_prog ./myprog.c -Wall

You need to execute this program as below to read file from c program:
./my_prog ./sample.txt

As you are new to C programming first go to man pages related to file operations.
    Solution:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

   //If command line argument is not inserted then stop operation
   if (2 !=  argc) {
      printf("Invalid number of arguments : %d\n", argc);
      return -1;
   }
   int size = 0, ret = 0;
   char *data = NULL;
   FILE *fp = NULL;

   //Open file in read mode given from command line argument
   if (NULL != (fp = fopen(argv[1], "r")))
   {
      //Find size of file
      fseek(fp, 0L, SEEK_END);
      size = ftell(fp);
      fseek(fp, 0L, SEEK_SET);
      //if file is empty no need to read it.
      if (size > 0)
      {
         //Data pointer which contains file information
         data = (char *) calloc(sizeof(char), size);
         if (NULL != data)
         {
            //Read whole file in one statement
            fread(data, sizeof(char), size, fp);

            printf("File %s is readed successfully\n", argv[1]);
            printf("Data:\n");
            printf("%s\n", data);
            free(data); data = NULL;
         }
         else
         {
            perror("memory allocation failed\n");
            ret = -1;
         }
      }
      else
      {
         printf("File %s is empty\n", argv[1]);
      }
      fclose(fp); fp = NULL;
   }
   else
   {
      perror("File open failed\n");
      ret = -1;
   }
   return ret;
}

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"Today in front of you, in front of the people of Pakistan, I pledge I will run Pakistan in such a way as it has never before been run," he said.
On Friday, officials announced that Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party had won 114 of the 269 seats being contested in the National Assembly.
Open Doors, which monitors Christian persecution around the world, said that everything suggests that Khan will be no friend to religious freedom, noting that "he seems keen to ensure that Pakistan remains a strongly Islamic republic."
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Many Christians fear Imran Khan as the country's leader as he has said he wants to return to jirga, a traditional assembly of leaders that make decisions by consensus and according to the teachings of Pashtunwali – a series of non-written ethical codes which predate modern laws and which prove a dangerous mix in combination with Sharia, the strict Islamic law.
Khan has voiced support for Pakistan's blasphemy laws, saying he understands that the laws are an "inconvenience" for some people. "But it is a law that is complete and I support it," he reportedly said.
That makes Khan a sharia supporting headbanger.
Pakistan has some of the most severe blasphemy laws in the world, prescribing the death penalty for the crime of insulting the Prophet Muhammad and life imprisonment for offending the Koran, Islam holy book.
The blasphemy laws are an extremely sensitive issue in the predominantly Muslim nation where Christians make up less than two percent of the population.
In June, Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi completed her ninth year of imprisonment for her faith after being arrested for blasphemy in 2009 and sentenced to death by hanging in 2010.
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Bibi had been harvesting berries in a field with a group of Muslim women who grew angry with her for drinking out of the same metal water bowl as them, insisting that as a Christian she was unclean.
Last January, U.S. President Donald Trump voiced exasperation at Islamabad's inadequate efforts against terrorism, suggesting that U.S. foreign aid would be terminated as a result.
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Not long after, the U.S. State Department announced it would add Pakistan to its Special Watch List as a "Country of Particular Concern" for severe religious freedom violations, citing the egregious abuse of Christians, Hindus, Ahmadi Muslims, and other minorities in the country.
Pakistan was placed on the List for "severe violations," suggesting evidence that religious minorities are significantly more threatened in that country.
Pakistan is an Islamic republic whose constitution requires all laws to be in conformity with the Sharia, or Islamic law.
The nation's penal code prohibits Ahmadi Muslims from identifying as Muslim and using Islamic greetings, as well as banning the "defiling" of the Quran and words that can be interpreted as "blasphemy" against Islam.
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Islamabad, Pakistan, Jul 27, 2018 / 02:30 pm (CNA).- Imran Khan has emerged as the victor in a general election held in Pakistan Wednesday, July 25. The professional cricket player-turned-politician has previously voiced support for the country's controversial blasphemy laws.
While votes are still being tallied in some areas, Khan's centrist Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) have won 115 seats so far, becoming the largest party in the National Assembly.
Khan, who ran as a populist reforming candidate, has publicly supported laws imposing strict penalties for blasphemy against Islam – including desecrating a Quran or insulting Mohammed. Penalties for insulting Islam's chief prophet include fines, prison, and even the death penalty.
While no one has been formally executed for the crime in Pakistan, mob violence and killings have accompanied public accusations of blasphemy. This includes the assassination of Salmaan Taseer, the Muslim governor of the Punjab province and a critic of the blasphemy laws, and Shahbaz Bhatti, a Catholic and Pakistan's only Christian cabinet member. Bhatti's cause for beatification was opened by the Diocese of Islamabad-Rawalpindi in 2016.
In his 2011 autobiography, Khan spoke out against a lack of government action against religious leaders who used the issue of blasphemy "arguably [to] incite murder."
Coming just weeks before the election, his public backing for the controversial laws was seen by many observers as a concession to hardliners in the country ahead of the vote.
Parties running on an explicitly anti-blasphemy platform did poorly at the polls, with Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, which campaigns under the rallying cry "Death to Blasphemers" failing to win a single seat, despite a garnering a large following in the province of Punjab.
As CNA has previous reported, accusations of blasphemy are disproportionately leveled against religious minorities, and the laws are seen as a vehicle for religious intolerance or persecution. While Pakistan is 97 percent Muslim, 14 percent of blasphemy cases are brought against non-Muslims.
Cardinal Joseph Coutts, Archbishop of Karachi, has spoken about the religious climate in Pakistan, which he says is getting more dangerous for Christians. In an interview with CNA in June, he raised the risks increasing posed by radicalization and foreign influences.
While saying that the majority of Pakistani Muslims are moderate and support democracy, he noted that some extremists do not.
There's no such thing as a "moderate Muslim".
"[They] don't accept democracy, they don't accept the international declaration of human rights, they say it's not Islamic."
Of course not. Islam is replacement theology.
While saying that Islamic hard-liners are a small minority, Coutts cautioned that they are now becoming a more prominent force in the life of the country.
Coutts is delusional. Islamic hard-liners are not a small minority. They are the overwhelming majority.
"We've always had these kinds of people on the fringes, but they weren't dominant," he added. "Now they are becoming more assertive."
While he will need to form a coalition to formally take power, Khan is widely expected to become Prime Minister. He has pledged to create 10 million new jobs in five years and promised in his acceptance speech to prioritize the rule of law and end institutional discrimination.
"We will not do any kind of political victimizing. We will establish the supremacy of the law; whoever violates the law, we will act against them.
"We will set an example of how the law is the same for everyone. If the West is ahead of us today, it is because their laws are not discriminatory; this will be our biggest guiding principle."
Although pledging to end corruption, the victory comes with allegations of vote-rigging. Every party apart from Khan's Movement for Justice have complained about the way the vote was conducted. European Union observers characterized the campaign as having a "lack of equality" among the parties.
Despite this, the second largest party, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has accepted the result. Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, a senior party official said that despite "reservations" over the way the election was held, they were accepting the result to "strengthen democracy in the country".
There will never be 'democracy' in Pakistan. It will always be a s#*thole country run by Islamic despots.
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John 15:9-11: As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.
First, Jesus is saying here, "if you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love." Jesus here is not speaking to individuals, individually. He's speaking to us, 2nd person plural: "If you-all keep my commandments, you-all will abide in my love." Jesus here is talking about life together: we are to abide in love. The New Testament says virtually nothing about personal spirituality or personal salvation; all its emphasis is on the Body of Christ, the Kingdom of God, the New Humanity in Christ. [i] Jesus here is speaking to us.
And then this much-repeated verb, to abide. The Greek root, meno, means to remain, endure, be steadfast, wait, stay, continue… which goes without saying if we weren't tempted to flee, abandon, disregard, vacate, denounce. The poignancy of the verb "to abide" is to remain steadfast when everything inside of you says, "I'm out of here." "You've offended me or disappointed one time too many, and I will now, justifiably shun, or abandon, or punish, or get even with you. However many times I'm supposed to forgive, this is over the line. I'm done with you." The verb "to abide" redresses that temptation to leave people.
And then, what Jesus is saying here is even more radical. This is not just about flight; it's also not about fight. Jesus says, "abide in love." There's several Greek New Testament words we translate in English as "love." This is the most radical of loves. This is self-sacrificial love, laying down our lives for another. The love here is not about mutual attraction or brotherly/sisterly affection. This is the kind of love Jesus demonstrates at the cross. Self-sacrificial love.
"You all: abide in love," which are very strong words. Those who know us the best and love us the most can hurt us the worst. And we them. Jesus here is speaking to us collectively, not individually, and he presumes life together: that we need one another; see love, show love, God's love in and through one another; and because we must be reminded so many times "to abide," we know that this is not always easy. Necessary, exceedingly challenging, possible. Only made possible by Jesus who calls us to this high mark. Our living into Jesus command "to abide in love," requires practice. And it requires prayer: Gracious Jesus: supply what you command.
[i] Insight drawn from the writings of Archbishop Michael Ramsey.
This is a great day for abiding cool and rainy , a good day to think about abiding. Thank you Curtis again you are a very helpful person. Still and again.
This is a radical perspective that is opposite of the Christianity I grew up with and wounded me. First, the idea of first person plural, that we are in this together rather than it's all up to me and I must be a loyal spiritual producer/consumer. Second, the concept of abiding or to show up and stay with, rather than to change or afflict others for their own good. In another sermon on Jesus love, you cite Merton that we in essence need to love in a way where we become our neighbor, rather than demanding our neighbor becomes like us. Finally, you point to the conclusion that self-sacrificial love makes our joy complete.
Thank you for your clarification on how my path of Christian sorrow is based on the evangelical teaching that the Kingdom of God is achieved through personal spirituality or personal salvation, and the Apostle Paul is used in particularly to justify this as the Christian agenda. As I continue to heal from these wounds, I will consider what it means to abide.
Thank you for the word and emphasis on "not running". Sitting in the fire with one another is starting to make some sense.
Thank you, Bro. Curtis, for this reminder to abide. I remember that Bro. Robert Smith, SSJE, who endured much ill health, was one of the order's "champion abiders." He was a great role model for those who would abide, as have been many of the brethren throughout the years.
The word "community" struck a chord with me today, as All Saints Episcopal Church in Fort Lauderdale and St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in Boca Raton will this evening join together in community to lift up two ordinands to the transitional diaconate. It is a significant community gathering for me since I am employed full time at All Saints, and worship and serve as head verger at St. Gregory's.
Please keep our ordinands, Susan Beebe (St. Gregory's) and Todd Hoover (All Saints) in your prayers as they embark upon this new journey of service to God.


How to identify stock market direction?
To get good returns out of the investments in share market, one has to be updated with the current market trend. Even a small mistake can cause a big loss. Market trends could be classified based on two criteria - market direction and time period.
To get good returns out of the investments in share market, one has to be updated with the current market trend. Even a small mistake can cause a big loss. Market trends could be classified based on two criteria - market direction and time period. Based on market direction there are two types of trends: Uptrend and downtrend. While an uptrend has high highs and low lows, a downtrend has lower highs and higher lows. An uptrend can also be termed as Bullish trend and a downtrend can be termed as Bearish trend.
There are three types of market trends based on time period: short, intermediate and long term trends. These can also be termed as minor, secondary and primary trends respectively. One has to carefully study the trend on time scale and make investments accordingly so as to gain well out of it.
Primary trend is a long term and the most important trend because it sets the tone for the other two trends. While it generally lasts for one to three years, unless a clear sign of trend reversal, it is considered as the main trend. In case of an uptrend the highs will be constantly higher than the previous one. While for the downtrend the lows will constantly fall lower.
The Secondary trend is a temporary price movement within the primary trend in the contrary direction lasting for three weeks to three months. Each primary trend consists of several secondary trends within it.
Minor trend is a very short term trend within the secondary trend whose duration lasts for a few days to a week. It is contrary to the direction of a secondary trend but doesn't impact much.
All the three trends give information about the stock prices. But, only the primary and secondary trends hold actual importance when it comes to profit making. Because minor trend's effect is not too long or deep. While most attention is to be paid to the primary trend, the secondary trend also holds due importance especially when it is a downtrend, and could be used to buy more stocks. These stocks could add up to the profit which can be earned with the ongoing primary uptrend.
How to find an ongoing trend?
To locate an ongoing trend look for the lows in different time periods like 6 months, 1 year, 3 years and so on. Try to draw a trend line by marking all the lowest lows. See if the trend line goes upwards or downwards depicting a primary up or a low trend. One could easily locate a few secondary trends within a primary trend by seeing the duration of trend lines.
How to find a trend reversal?
To find a trend reversal one has to look for three things: a broken trend line, a retest and failure, and price falls below the prior low. Like we have drawn a trend line above by marking all the lows, similarly, draw a trend line and check if there is any deviation in the trend line.
A broken trend line might not always show a trend reversal, it could just be temporary downfall and trend might continue back. So as to confirm retest in some time. Check if the uptrend still makes higher highs and lower lows, if it fails and the stock no longer makes higher highs, then we have to check for the final confirmation before taking any call on the trend reversal.
If the price further continues to fall below the prior low it confirms that there is a trend reversal and is the correct time to jump off the stocks.
Most investors invest in an uptrend, stay there until they find any weakness, which indicates a slowdown. This indicator could tell the right time to take the profit and jump off. It is always important to keep an eye on the trend. A recent uptrend may not always indicate a bullish market. A steady rise might look like an uptrend but it might just be a rebound from the previous sharp drop. Therefore, the above analysis comes into the picture to help in determining trends and decision making.


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Cisco, EMC, VMware Coalesce to Advance the Data Center
Vendors plan to deliver pre-built foundation solutions and enable private computing clouds
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Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc., storage king EMC Corp. and virtualization leader VMware joined forces on Tuesday in a far reaching partnership to deliver pre-designed, integrated solutions to help business customers advance the data center and maximize cloud computing services.
The three companies launched a coalition called the Virtual Computing Environment, the goal of which is to bond elements from each company's data center offerings into a more cohesive, efficient and flexible product, called Vblock Infrastructure Packages, to help customers saddled with mixing and matching equipment from a variety of vendors locate simpler, more cost effective answers.
At launch the coalition's founders spent a great deal of time explaining themselves and the thinking behind their partnership. Each went to great lengths to express the idea that they would work in concert with one another and to cement the coalition's goal to safely lead customers toward private cloud computing.
"There's a hope that cloud computing could help lower the cost of computing, making the cost more variable and providing IT flexibility," said Joseph Tucci, EMC chief executive.
"To be fair, there's also a lot of angst around the robustness, the reliability the security and the lack of control associated with cloud computing," he said.
"To help our customers shift more of their IT budgets to activities that increase their level of productivity and competitive advantage and help them get the best out of what cloud computing has to offer, Cisco and EMC along with VMware have formed the virtual computing environment, or VCE coalition."
VMware chief executive Paul Maritz said that "the fact is there are no easy solutions to the private cloud today. People have to try to assemble pieces themselves. The VCE coalition gives customers a pre-built foundation for a private cloud."
John Chambers, Cisco chief executive, said that the union of the three companies would result in "bringing virtualization to our common customers."
New Acadia venture to fast track private clouds
Together the three vendors, supplemented by an investment from Intel Corp., also will form an entity called Acadia, whose aim is to speed up the building of so-called private clouds among large enterprises and service providers. In private clouds, companies create their own online services through their data center and parcel computing resources internally.
EMC's Tucci said that the new company currently lacks a chief executive but a search was on. Tucci said that Acadia would be staffed with about 130 people, tasked with helping customers to build out their private clouds. Acadia will work with customers and partners and will not serve as a resource for customers to outsource their virtual data centers, Tucci said.
Officials from the three vendors pointed to an expected market for data center virtualization of $85 billion by 2010 and suggested that their union will catalyze a partner community of system integrators, service providers, channel partners and developers.
In particular, Cisco immediately sought to outline the opportunity for its channel partners, specifically to integrate and deliver the Vblock solutions to customers.
"This announcement is very unique and very significant to our partner community," said Edison Peres, Cisco senior vice president, worldwide channels go-to-market.
"It brings together market leaders with best-of-breed technologies, validated designs and end-to-end vendor accountability. This is unprecedented and it will accelerate customer demand," he said.
Peres said that despite the pre-built designs of the Vblock solutions, there is still room for partners to differentiate themselves from one another.
"Bringing all of this together is the partner ecosystem," Peres said. "This is a great opportunity for partners to increase their relevance, increase their differentiation and most importantly, increase their profits," he said.
"We have always been committed to working with partners and in this coalition it's no different—partners are at the core."
The founders said that the coalition has set up pre-sales, professional services and support capabilities designed to ease barriers to engaging with customers.
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This morning we proceed on a days excursion to picturesque valley at Sonamarg, set in a valley amongst glaciers and placid lakes at an altitude of 2740 meters. Here you have a day to pursue your individual interests, before returning to Srinagar. Overnight on the hotel.


Join us at the VIP Lounge in the Houston Galleria to meet Hall of Famer Warren Moon, former quarterback for the Houston, Minnesota, Kansas City, and Seattle pro-football teams. Mr. Moon, currently a broadcaster in Seattle, will be at the VIP lounge to meet with invited guests before and during Monday night's game between the New York Giants and New Orleans.
Mr. Moon will lead an interactive "Chalk Talk," where football fans can ask him about his career, the current season, and Monday night's game while enjoying a football inspired menu. You'll be encouraged to mingle, meet Mr. Moon, take photos with him, and ask questions during the game. You'll also take home a special item autographed by him.
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The Scoop on Kansas City Transit Funding
Why did such a large diverse group of Transit Supporters show up at the November 18 Kansas City Transportation & Infrastructure Committee meeting to support Ordinance 100951 to restore funding to transit?
City Government has been diverting an excessive and increasing amount of money from the ½ cent Transportation Fund to non-transit uses.
This is crippling transit. In 2009 KCATA reduced service by 9.5% and increased fares 20% in order to sustain an even lower level of service.
(Click on pie chart to enlarge.)
The city has gone from diverting less than 5% in FY2003/2004 to over 18% in FY2010/2011
Transit Supporters are aware of the budget pressures caused by the recession. The city has made a lot of very difficult decisions. But adequate transit is a basic city service that should be protected as a city priority. The proposed ordinance would reaffirm the city's commitment to provide reasonable transit service to the community.
This is an issue of fairness, social equity, and keeping faith with the voters.
It honors the voter's support for transit when they passed the supplemental 3/8 cent sales tax.
Transit affects people's ability to get and maintain jobs. The national organization, Transportation Equity Network (TEN) has a new report explaining how MORE TRANSIT=MORE JOBS. 65% of the trips on our public transit system are related to work or looking for work.
In addition to jobs, transit provides vital connections to education, medical care, worship, shopping, entertainment and a vast array of personal activities.
The significant cuts to transit service have unfairly affected the people who require transit, such as the elderly and the disabled.
The ordinance confirms the City Council's commitment to make Kansas City a "Green" and "Sustainable" place to live.
However much the City needs additional funds in times of recession, the ½ cent transportation tax shouldn't be raided to subsidize non-transit activities.
Why do we need Ordinance 100951?
The pattern of shifting more and more money to non-transit uses is likely to continue without the ordinance.
It is much too easy to just keep diverting money from this fund for other purposes. The city currently diverts over 18%. What is to keep them from going to 25% or 30%?
Rather than using the 3/8 cent sales tax to improve transit as voters intended, the city is, in effect, using the 3/8 cent sales tax to replace the 1/2 cent sales tax.
In the current budget the 3/8-cent sales tax is providing more money for transit than the ½ cent sales tax.
Kansas City Funding for Public Transit during the recession
Funding for Public Transit
FY 2008/2009
1/2 cent sales tax
20,734,48
$(9,008,014)
One third of the $9 million decrease in transit funding over the last two years is a result of the city siphoning off additional money to non-transit uses. The remainder is due to lower collection rates during the recession.
The City is unlikely to help transit from other city revenue sources, so we need to make sure transit gets most of this sales tax revenue.
What does the proposed ordinance actually do?
The ordinance directs the budget office on how to allocate proceeds of the ½ cent transportation tax. (See footnotes)
There will be no change in the amount of the money available for the budget, just clear direction from the City Council that certain funds be used for transit.
Non-transit activities will revert to receiving 5% of the funding like they did when voters overwhelmingly voted for expanded and improved transit in 2003. The remainder will again go to transit.
Will this proposed ordinance cure the financial woes of the KCATA?
This ordinance will not totally mend all the financial woes of the KCATA since sales tax receipts are still low.
Without this ordinance, Mark Huffer, General Manager of KCATA, pointed out that service cuts of 25%-35% are looming as early as 2014, when the KCATA Reserve Fund would be exhausted.
Is there opposition to the Ordinance?
Some concerns have been expressed about losing "flexibility" in the budgeting process. However, considering that the transit system suffered a tremendous financial reduction from the decline in sales tax, maintaining the City's ability to continue diverting huge amounts of money away from the transit system shouldn't be called "flexibility".
There is some concern about how to replace the money for non-transit activities that would return to transit. The non-transit activities could return to previous funding methods before the 1/2 cent transportation fund was used so heavily to subsidize their activities.
At the next Transportation and Infrastructure Committee meeting on December 16, the committee will make a recommendation on the ordinance to the full council. Please contact your city council members and the mayor to support Ordinance 100951 and restore funding to the transit system.
Contact information can be found here.
o http://kcmo.org/CKCMO/CityOfficials/index.htm
How will the ordinance be calculated?
The proposed ordinance will create a new calculation. Both TIF (Tax Incremental Financing) and city administration fees are deducted first. These currently total about 15% of this sales tax. The 95%Transit/5% Public Works split will happen after TIF and the city administration fees are deducted.
How did TAN get all of this budget information?
The Kansas City Budget is online. Choose the appropriate budget from the box in the upper right corner on this link. Next click on any of the icons that appear. Then open or download the PDF file. It is over 500 pages long. From the FY 2010-1011 Adopted Budget TAN mainly used the Budget by Department and the Schedules.
o http://www.kcmo.org/CKCMO/Depts/CityManagersOffice/Office%20of%20Management%20and%20Budget/index.htm
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Change of Date for Committee Vote on Ordinance 100951
A decision on transit Ordinance 100951 will not happen tomorrow, December 9, 2010. Councilman Riley, Chair of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, intends to hold the ordinance, which restores funding to transit from the ½ cent sales transportation tax, to allow staff additional time to provide a plan to the Council.
We have been told that staff will provide a plan addressing the budget implications if the ordinance passes on the non-transit activities that are currently using that money.
Of course passing the ordinance would start to address the huge shortfall in the public transit budget.
The next discussion of the ordinance is planned for Jan. 6, 2011. The Council will not meet for two weeks over the holidays. On Jan 6th staff will present information concerning the budget.
We are pursuing permission to provide additional public testimony on Jan 6.
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TAN to City Council–Postpone Support for Commuter Rail
Two weeks ago Mike Sanders and Jim Terry (TranSystems) presented the Regional Rapid Rail concept to the Kansas City Council and requested a letter of support for a $4.5 million earmark to do an Alternative Analysis of this concept and supporting transit. The Kansas City Council proposed a resolution to provide this letter. Testimony was held this morning on the resolution. Mike Sanders and Jim Terry spoke in favor of the resolution. Ron McLinden spoke in favor of putting the resolution on hold until the MARC Commuter Corridor Study is complete in 6-8 weeks. This study is supposed to evaluate the feasibility and viability of the concept. The legislative committee passed the resolution this morning.
Link to Kansas City's resolution
http://cityclerk.kcmo.org/liveweb/Documents/Document.aspx?q=YqMTgyrZqfbuzQ4IU2LxaHt4aTbzM6yZAILEMUBDk4MoMoIapbXkhY9XeKSqKxrE
Below is a copy of Ron's statement this morning.
Presentation to the Kansas City Council Legislative Committee on May 20, 2010 by Ron McLinden
The idea of turning underused rail lines into a regional transit system is appealing – almost seductive. There's a lot of interest in having rail transit. Every big city has it, and we don't want to be left behind. There's less agreement, of course, about where it should go, and how we should pay for it.
In January, 2008, when the ATA was doing its most recent light rail study, you heard a presentation from Jeff Boothe, a rail transit expert from Washington, DC. I recall distinctly one of the things he said: Before you do light rail you need to know what you want it to do for you.
The same applies today. What do we want rail transit to do for us, and will this proposed system actually do it?
You may be aware of a commuter corridors study that Mid-America Regional Council has had under way for about six months. Its principal focus is to determine whether this commuter rail concept makes sense: Can it deliver the travel time savings needed to attract enough riders to make it a viable project, one that can successfully compete for federal funding? That study should be completed in six to eight weeks. We suggest that you hear the results of the MARC study before you endorse the concept.
The concept envisions using city streets for some of the most critical rail segments, and it would cross several boulevards at grade. We suggest you get input from your Public Works Department, and also from the Parks Board.
If you adopt this resolution now, before you have all the facts, you will further heighten public expectations about a concept that might or might not be viable. The resolution says that you support asking for federal money to study the proposal further, but the headlines will say that commuter rail is a big step closer to becoming reality.
Candidly, we're concerned that this proposal is a distraction from more fundamental transit issues: What kind of total transit system will best serve the citizens of Kansas City, and help our city to grow as the vibrant urban center of the region? How can we assure adequate and reliable funding for the transit service we already have, and for expansion to meet growing needs?
All of us applaud Jackson County's interest in transit, and we should seize this opportunity to work with the County to put in place a mechanism for county-wide funding of major transit corridors, including commuter service using buses or rail. Creating a county transit authority under existing state law is one such funding mechanism. Jackson County outside Kansas City has unmet transit needs, and funding will be needed regardless of what kind of transit service is ultimately provided, so let's get going on it now.
In summary, here's our request to you:
+ Put this resolution on hold pending the results of the MARC study, and input from Public Works.
+ Join with other elected officials and work with Jackson County to establish a broader funding base for transit through creation of a county transit authority.
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By EDD K. USMAN	 May 22, 2019 No Comments
Microsoft 365 for Campaigns addresses issues in election technology to maintain integrity of elections in the Philippines
IN an effort to protect the integrity of democratic processes and institutions in the Philippines, Microsoft introduces a new service from their Defending Democracy Program. Called Microsoft 365 (M365) for Campaigns, the service offers high-end security capabilities of the Microsoft 365 Business offering to political parties and campaigns.
The majority of security breaches faced by political campaigns originate from malicious phishing attacks targeting email and file sharing systems. Despite such incidents, many campaigns are still ill-equipped to deal with threats from nation-states and criminal scammers.
Campaign staffers and leaders in campaign technology often discuss how security solutions for email often were too hard to configure and too expensive. M365 for Campaigns addresses these issues by making it easy to deploy advanced security features at a lower cost.
"Microsoft's Defending Democracy Program continues to work with the government to explore technological solutions to preserve and protect electoral processes," says Microsoft Philippines Legal Corporate Affairs director Atty. Raul Cortez.
"Philippine democracy must not fall to threats such as malicious phishing and file sharing systems which can be prevented."
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For the best and most secure communication and collaboration service a campaign staff need not be an IT expert to get advanced security protections from the types of threats they face. M365 for Campaigns streamlines the configuration and setup for high-impact security settings.
Furthermore, any campaign using M365 for Campaigns will have free access to Microsoft's AccountGuard service. AccountGuard provides notification about cyberthreats, including attacks by known nation-state actors, in a unified way across both email systems run by organizations and the personal accounts of these organizations' leaders and staff who opt in. To date, AccountGuard is protecting more than 36,000 email accounts in 26 countries and has made hundreds of threat notifications to participants.
"Microsoft is currently exploring ways to bring Microsoft 365 for Campaigns to the Philippines in order to protect campaigns from hacking and increase political advertising transparency online. Cyber-enabled interference has become a critical concern, pushing Microsoft to strengthen partnerships with the government with a goal to protect free and fair elections," said Cortez. (Microsoft Philippines)
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more
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A Great Interview with David Levinson
May 17, 2016 by Lee Goldberg
The good folks at the Classic TV History blog are doing God's work. They've just done their second, in-depth interview with TV writer-producer David Levinson, whose many credits include THE BOLD ONES: THE SENATOR, SARGE, CHARLIES ANGELS, HART TO HART, NIKITA and scores of other shows. It's a long, detailed, terrific interview filled with fascinating anecdotes about the writing and production of the various series that he's been associated with over his long, varied career. It doesn't matter whether you know the shows that he's worked on or if you liked them — this is gold for anybody interested in TV history or in a career in television. I loved every word of the interview. Levinson has been around a long time and he's got some great stories, like this one about an episode of THE VIRGINIAN…
Oh, this is good. By the way, I was a total asshole about this. This is my second season on the show as a producer. I'm like 27 years old. I'd done like four episodes the season before, and I wanted desperately to do a show about black cowboys. I talked to a writer by the name of Norman Jolley, and we'd come up with a really good story about a cowboy who had worked his whole life to save up the money for his son to go to college, and then he got ripped off. In order to get his money back, he falls in with a bunch of rustlers to steal the cows from John McIntire's ranch, and bad things happen.
Nowhere in the script did it mention that the father and son were black. Just the character names.
Everybody liked the script, and I go in to see the executive producer, and he says, "Who are you thinking of casting?"
I said, "I want to cast James Edwards."
There's this long pause, and the executive producer – who, by the way, was the nicest fellow you'd ever want to meet: Norman Macdonnell, who had produced Gunsmoke all those years – looked at me and said, "Isn't he black?"
I said, "He was the last time I saw him."
Very gently, he explained to me that we had a primarily redneck audience and you just couldn't cast a black man as the guest star in one of the shows. I said to him, "Well, listen, you're the boss, and if that's the way you feel, that's what we'll do. But I feel it only fair to tell you that I'm going back to my office and calling The New York Times and The L.A. Times to tell them about this conversation."
He came up from behind the desk, and he was a big guy. His face was totally flushed and he looked at me and said, "You little cocksucker."
I said, "Yes, sir."
And we cast Jimmy Edwards. The show went on the air. There were no letters. Nobody fucking noticed that there were two black actors playing the leads in this show. But shortly thereafter I left The Virginian.
No surprise. But the real pleasure of the interview with Levinson aren't dramatic moments like that but the meat-and-potatoes stuff about the making of TV. I strongly recommend the interview… and everything else on the Classic TV History blog, especially their incredible Oral History of THE SENATOR, which is better than a lot of TV books that I've read.
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