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Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX, sometimes also written as Unix with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna. Today's Unix systems are split into various branches, developed over time by AT&T as well as various commercial vendors and non-profit organizations.
As of 2007, the owner of the trademark is The Open Group, an industry standards consortium. Only systems fully compliant with and certified to the Single UNIX Specification are qualified to use the trademark; others are called "Unix system-like" or "Unix-like".
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the influence of Unix in academic circles led to large-scale adoption of Unix (particularly of the BSD variant, originating from the University of California, Berkeley) by commercial startups, the most notable of which are Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX. Today, in addition to certified Unix systems, Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and BSD are commonly encountered. Sometimes, "traditional Unix" may be used to describe a Unix or an operating system that has the characteristics of either Version 7 Unix or UNIX System V.
Unix operating systems are widely used in both servers and workstations. The Unix environment and the client-server program model were essential elements in the development of the Internet and the reshaping of computing as centered in networks rather than in individual computers.
Both Unix and the C programming language were developed by AT&T and distributed to government and academic institutions, causing both to be ported to a wider variety of machine families than any other operating system. As a result, Unix became synonymous with "open systems".
Unix was designed to be portable, multi-tasking and multi-user in a time-sharing configuration. Unix systems are characterized by various concepts: the use of plain text for storing data; a hierarchical file system; treating devices and certain types of inter-process communication (IPC) as files; and the use of a large number of software tools, small programs that can be strung together through a command line interpreter using pipes, as opposed to using a single monolithic program that includes all of the same functionality. These concepts are known as the Unix philosophy.
Under Unix, the "operating system" consists of many of these utilities along with the master control program, the kernel. The kernel provides services to start and stop programs, handle the file system and other common "low level" tasks that most programs share, and, perhaps most importantly, schedules access to hardware to avoid conflicts if two programs try to access the same resource or device simultaneously. To mediate such access, the kernel was given special rights on the system, leading to the division between user-space and kernel-space.
The microkernel concept was introduced in an effort to reverse the trend towards larger kernels and return to a system in which most tasks were completed by smaller utilities. In an era when a "normal" computer consisted of a hard disk for storage and a data terminal for input and output (I/O), the Unix file model worked quite well as most I/O was "linear". However, modern systems include networking and other new devices. As graphical user interfaces developed, the file model proved inadequate to the task of handling asynchronous events such as those generated by a mouse, and in the 1980s non-blocking I/O and the set of inter-process communication mechanisms was augmented (sockets, shared memory, message queues, semaphores), and functionalities such as network protocols were moved out of the kernel.
In the 1960s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AT&T Bell Labs, and General Electric worked on an experimental operating system called Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), which was designed to run on the GE-645 mainframe computer. (Eventually Multics became a commercial product, although sales did not meet expectations). Multics was an interactive operating system with many novel capabilities, including enhanced security.
AT&T Bell Labs pulled out of the Multics project and deployed its resources elsewhere. One of the developers on the Bell Labs team, Ken Thompson, continued to develop for the GE-645 mainframe, and wrote a game for that computer called Space Travel. However, he found that the game was too slow on the GE machine and was expensive, costing $75 per execution in scarce computing time.
Thompson thus re-wrote the game in assembly language for Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-7 with help from Dennis Ritchie. This experience, combined with his work on the Multics project, led Thompson to start a new operating system for the PDP-7. Thompson and Ritchie led a team of developers, including Rudd Canaday, at Bell Labs developing a file system as well as the new multi-tasking operating system itself. They included a command line interpreter and some small utility programs.
Up until this point there had been no financial support from Bell Labs. When the Computer Science Research Group wanted to use Unix on a much larger machine than the PDP-7, Thompson and Ritchie managed to trade the promise of adding text processing capabilities to Unix for a PDP-11/20 machine. This led to some financial support from Bell. For the first time in 1970, the Unix operating system was officially named and ran on the PDP-11/20. It added a text formatting program called roff and a text editor. All three were written in PDP-11/20 assembly language. Bell Labs used this initial "text processing system", made up of Unix, roff, and the editor, for text processing of patent applications. Roff soon evolved into troff, the first electronic publishing program with a full typesetting capability. The UNIX Programmer's Manual was published on November 3 1971.
In 1973, Unix was rewritten in the C programming language, contrary to the general notion at the time "that something as complex as an operating system, which must deal with time-critical events, had to be written exclusively in assembly language". The migration from assembly language to the higher-level language C resulted in much more portable software, requiring only a relatively small amount of machine-dependent code to be replaced when porting Unix to other computing platforms.
AT&T made Unix available to universities and commercial firms, as well as the United States government under licenses. The licenses included all source code including the machine-dependent parts of the kernel, which were written in PDP-11 assembly code. Copies of the annotated Unix kernel sources circulated widely in the late 1970s in the form of a much-copied book by John Lions of the University of New South Wales, the Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code, which led to considerable use of Unix as an educational example.
Versions of the Unix system were determined by editions of its user manuals, so that (for example) "Fifth Edition UNIX" and "UNIX Version 5" have both been used to designate the same thing. Development expanded, with Versions 4, 5, and 6 being released by 1975. These versions added the concept of pipes, leading to the development of a more modular code-base, increasing development speed still further. Version 5 and especially Version 6 led to a plethora of different Unix versions both inside and outside Bell Labs, including PWB/UNIX, IS/1 (the first commercial Unix), and the University of Wollongong's port to the Interdata 7/32 (the first non-PDP Unix).
In 1978, UNIX/32V, for DEC's then new VAX system, was released. By this time, over 600 machines were running Unix in some form. Version 7 Unix, the last version of Research Unix to be released widely, was released in 1979. Versions 8, 9 and 10 were developed through the 1980s but were only released to a few universities, though they did generate papers describing the new work. This research led to the development of Plan 9 from Bell Labs, a new portable distributed system.
AT&T licensed UNIX System III, based largely on Version 7, for commercial use, the first version launching in 1982. This also included support for the VAX. AT&T continued to issue licenses for older Unix versions. To end the confusion between all its differing internal versions, AT&T combined them into UNIX System V Release 1. This introduced a few features such as the vi editor and curses from the Berkeley Software Distribution of Unix developed at the University of California, Berkeley. This also included support for the Western Electric 3B series of machines.
Since the newer commercial UNIX licensing terms were not as favorable for academic use as the older versions of Unix, the Berkeley researchers continued to develop BSD Unix as an alternative to UNIX System III and V, originally on the PDP-11 architecture (the 2.xBSD releases, ending with 2.11BSD) and later for the VAX-11 (the 4.x BSD releases). Many contributions to Unix first appeared on BSD releases, notably the C shell with job control (modelled on ITS). Perhaps the most important aspect of the BSD development effort was the addition of TCP/IP network code to the mainstream Unix kernel. The BSD effort produced several significant releases that contained network code: 4.1cBSD, 4.2BSD, 4.3BSD, 4.3BSD-Tahoe ("Tahoe" being the nickname of the Computer Consoles Inc. Power 6/32 architecture that was the first non-DEC release of the BSD kernel), Net/1, 4.3BSD-Reno (to match the "Tahoe" naming, and that the release was something of a gamble), Net/2, 4.4BSD, and 4.4BSD-lite. The network code found in these releases is the ancestor of much TCP/IP network code in use today, including code that was later released in AT&T System V UNIX and early versions of Microsoft Windows. The accompanying Berkeley sockets API is a de facto standard for networking APIs and has been copied on many platforms.
Other companies began to offer commercial versions of the UNIX System for their own mini-computers and workstations. Most of these new Unix flavors were developed from the System V base under a license from AT&T; however, others were based on BSD instead. One of the leading developers of BSD, Bill Joy, went on to co-found Sun Microsystems in 1982 and created SunOS (now Solaris) for their workstation computers. In 1980, Microsoft announced its first Unix for 16-bit microcomputers called Xenix, which the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) ported to the Intel 8086 processor in 1983, and eventually branched Xenix into SCO UNIX in 1989.
For a few years during this period (before PC compatible computers with MS-DOS became dominant), industry observers expected that UNIX, with its portability and rich capabilities, was likely to become the industry standard operating system for microcomputers. In 1984 several companies established the X/Open consortium with the goal of creating an open system specification based on UNIX. Despite early progress, the standardization effort collapsed into the "Unix wars," with various companies forming rival standardization groups. The most successful Unix-related standard turned out to be the IEEE's POSIX specification, designed as a compromise API readily implemented on both BSD and System V platforms, published in 1988 and soon mandated by the United States government for many of its own systems
AT&T added various features into UNIX System V, such as file locking, system administration, STREAMS, new forms of IPC, the Remote File System and TLI. AT&T cooperated with Sun Microsystems and between 1987 and 1989 merged features from Xenix, BSD, SunOS, and System V into System V Release 4 (SVR4), independently of X/Open. This new release consolidated all the previous features into one package, and heralded the end of competing versions. It also increased licensing fees.
During this time a number of vendors including Digital Equipment, Sun, Addamax and others began building trusted versions of UNIX for high security applications, mostly designed for military and law enforcement applications.
In 1991, a group of BSD developers (Donn Seeley, Mike Karels, Bill Jolitz, and Trent Hein) left the University of California to found Berkeley Software Design, Inc (BSDI). BSDI produced a fully functional commercial version of BSD Unix for the inexpensive and ubiquitous Intel platform, which started a wave of interest in the use of inexpensive hardware for production computing. Shortly after it was founded, Bill Jolitz left BSDI to pursue distribution of 386BSD, the free software ancestor of FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
By 1993 most commercial vendors had changed their variants of Unix to be based on System V with many BSD features added on top. The creation of the COSE initiative that year by the major players in Unix marked the end of the most notorious phase of the Unix wars, and was followed by the merger of UI and OSF in 1994. The new combined entity, which retained the OSF name, stopped work on OSF/1 that year. By that time the only vendor using it was Digital, which continued its own development, rebranding their product Digital UNIX in early 1995.
Shortly after UNIX System V Release 4 was produced, AT&T sold all its rights to UNIX to Novell. (Dennis Ritchie likened this to the Biblical story of Esau selling his birthright for the proverbial "mess of pottage".) Novell developed its own version, UnixWare, merging its NetWare with UNIX System V Release 4. Novell tried to use this to battle against Windows NT, but their core markets suffered considerably.
In 1993, Novell decided to transfer the UNIX® trademark and certification rights to the X/Open Consortium. In 1996, X/Open merged with OSF, creating the Open Group. Various standards by the Open Group now define what is and what is not a "UNIX" operating system, notably the post-1998 Single UNIX Specification.
In 1995, the business of administering and supporting the existing UNIX licenses, plus rights to further develop the System V code base, were sold by Novell to the Santa Cruz Operation. Whether Novell also sold the copyrights is currently the subject of litigation (see below).
In 1997, Apple Computer sought out a new foundation for its Macintosh operating system and chose NEXTSTEP, an operating system developed by NeXT. The core operating system, which was based on BSD and the Mach kernel, was renamed Darwin after Apple acquired it. The deployment of Darwin in Mac OS X makes it, according to a statement made by an Apple employee at a USENIX conference, the most widely used Unix-based system in the desktop computer market.
In 2000, SCO sold its entire UNIX business and assets to Caldera Systems, which later on changed its name to The SCO Group.
The Dot-com crash (2001-2003) has led to significant consolidation of versions of Unix. Of the many commercial flavors of Unix that were born in the 1980s, only Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX are still doing relatively well in the market, though SGI's IRIX persisted for quite some time. Of these, Solaris has the largest market share.
In 2003, the SCO Group started legal action against various users and vendors of Linux. SCO had alleged that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code now owned by The SCO Group. Other allegations included trade-secret violations by IBM, or contract violations by former Santa Cruz customers who had since converted to Linux. However, Novell disputed the SCO Group's claim to hold copyright on the UNIX source base. According to Novell, SCO (and hence the SCO Group) are effectively franchise operators for Novell, which also retained the core copyrights, veto rights over future licensing activities of SCO, and 95% of the licensing revenue. The SCO Group disagreed with this, and the dispute resulted in the SCO v. Novell lawsuit. On August 10, 2007, a major portion of the case (the fact that Novell had the copyright to UNIX, and that the SCO Group had improperly kept money that was due to Novell) was decided in Novell's favor. The court also ruled that "SCO is obligated to recognize Novell's waiver of SCO's claims against IBM and Sequent". After the ruling, Novell announced they have no interest in suing people over Unix and stated, "We don't believe there is Unix in Linux".
In 2005, Sun Microsystems released the bulk of its Solaris system code (based on UNIX System V Release 4) into an open source project called OpenSolaris. New Sun OS technologies such as the ZFS file system are now first released as open source code via the OpenSolaris project; as of 2006 OpenSolaris has spawned several non-Sun distributions such as SchilliX, Belenix, Nexenta, and MarTux.
In an effort towards compatibility, in 1999 several Unix system vendors agreed on SVR4's Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) as the standard for binary and object code files. The common format allows substantial binary compatibility among Unix systems operating on the same CPU architecture.
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard was created to provide a reference directory layout for Unix-like operating systems, particularly Linux.
The inclusion of these components did not make the system large — the original V7 UNIX distribution, consisting of copies of all of the compiled binaries plus all of the source code and documentation occupied less than 10MB, and arrived on a single 9-track magnetic tape. The printed documentation, typeset from the on-line sources, was contained in two volumes.
The names and filesystem locations of the Unix components have changed substantially across the history of the system. Nonetheless, the V7 implementation is considered by many to have the canonical early structure:
The Unix system had significant impact on other operating systems.
It was written in high level language as opposed to assembly language (which had been thought necessary for systems implementation on early computers). Although this followed the lead of Multics and Burroughs, it was Unix that popularized the idea.
Unix had a drastically simplified file model compared to many contemporary operating systems, treating all kinds of files as simple byte arrays. The file system hierarchy contained machine services and devices (such as printers, terminals, or disk drives), providing a uniform interface, but at the expense of occasionally requiring additional mechanisms such as ioctl and mode flags to access features of the hardware that did not fit the simple "stream of bytes" model. The Plan 9 operating system pushed this model even further and eliminated the need for additional mechanisms.
Unix also popularized the hierarchical file system with arbitrarily nested subdirectories, originally introduced by Multics. Other common operating systems of the era had ways to divide a storage device into multiple directories or sections, but they had a fixed number of levels, often only one level. Several major proprietary operating systems eventually added recursive subdirectory capabilities also patterned after Multics. DEC's RSX-11M's "group, user" hierarchy evolved into VMS directories, CP/M's volumes evolved into MS-DOS 2.0+ subdirectories, and HP's MPE group.account hierarchy and IBM's SSP and OS/400 library systems were folded into broader POSIX file systems.
Making the command interpreter an ordinary user-level program, with additional commands provided as separate programs, was another Multics innovation popularized by Unix. The Unix shell used the same language for interactive commands as for scripting (shell scripts — there was no separate job control language like IBM's JCL). Since the shell and OS commands were "just another program", the user could choose (or even write) his own shell. New commands could be added without changing the shell itself. Unix's innovative command-line syntax for creating chains of producer-consumer processes (pipelines) made a powerful programming paradigm (coroutines) widely available. Many later command-line interpreters have been inspired by the Unix shell.
A fundamental simplifying assumption of Unix was its focus on ASCII text for nearly all file formats. There were no "binary" editors in the original version of Unix — the entire system was configured using textual shell command scripts. The common denominator in the I/O system was the byte — unlike "record-based" file systems. The focus on text for representing nearly everything made Unix pipes especially useful, and encouraged the development of simple, general tools that could be easily combined to perform more complicated ad hoc tasks. The focus on text and bytes made the system far more scalable and portable than other systems. Over time, text-based applications have also proven popular in application areas, such as printing languages (PostScript), and at the application layer of the Internet Protocols, e.g. Telnet, FTP, SSH, SMTP, HTTP and SIP.
Unix popularized a syntax for regular expressions that found widespread use. The Unix programming interface became the basis for a widely implemented operating system interface standard (POSIX, see above).
The C programming language soon spread beyond Unix, and is now ubiquitous in systems and applications programming.
Early Unix developers were important in bringing the theory of modularity and reusability into software engineering practice, spawning a "Software Tools" movement.
Unix provided the TCP/IP networking protocol on relatively inexpensive computers, which contributed to the Internet explosion of world-wide real-time connectivity, and which formed the basis for implementations on many other platforms. (This also exposed numerous security holes in the networking implementations.)
The Unix policy of extensive on-line documentation and (for many years) ready access to all system source code raised programmer expectations, and contributed to the 1983 launch of the free software movement.
Over time, the leading developers of Unix (and programs that ran on it) evolved a set of cultural norms for developing software, norms which became as important and influential as the technology of Unix itself; this has been termed the Unix philosophy.
In 1983, Richard Stallman announced the GNU project, an ambitious effort to create a free software Unix-like system; "free" in that everyone who received a copy would be free to use, study, modify, and redistribute it. The GNU project's own kernel development project, GNU Hurd, had not produced a working kernel, but in 1992 Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel as free software under the GNU General Public License. In addition to their use in the Linux operating system, many GNU packages — such as the GNU Compiler Collection (and the rest of the GNU toolchain), the GNU C library and the GNU core utilities — have gone on to play central roles in other free Unix systems as well.
Linux distributions, comprising Linux and large collections of compatible software have become popular both with individual users and in business. Popular distributions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, SUSE Linux Enterprise, openSUSE, Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Mandriva Linux, Slackware Linux and Gentoo.
A free derivative of BSD Unix, 386BSD, was also released in 1992 and led to the NetBSD and FreeBSD projects. With the 1994 settlement of a lawsuit that UNIX Systems Laboratories brought against the University of California and Berkeley Software Design Inc. (USL v. BSDi), it was clarified that Berkeley had the right to distribute BSD Unix — for free, if it so desired. Since then, BSD Unix has been developed in several different directions, including OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD.
Linux and BSD are now rapidly occupying much of the market traditionally occupied by proprietary Unix operating systems, as well as expanding into new markets such as the consumer desktop and mobile and embedded devices. Due to the modularity of the Unix design, sharing bits and pieces is relatively common; consequently, most or all Unix and Unix-like systems include at least some BSD code, and modern systems also usually include some GNU utilities in their distribution.
In 2005, Sun Microsystems released the bulk of the source code to the Solaris operating system, a System V variant, under the name OpenSolaris, making it the first actively developed commercial Unix system to be open sourced (several years earlier, Caldera had released many of the older Unix systems under an educational and later BSD license). As a result, a great deal of formerly proprietary AT&T/USL code is now freely available.
time_t, historically defined as "signed 32-bit integer". On January 19 2038, the current time will roll over from a zero followed by 31 ones (
01111111111111111111111111111111) to a one followed by 31 zeros (
10000000000000000000000000000000), which will reset time to the year 1901 or 1970, depending on implementation, because that toggles the sign bit. As many applications use OS library routines for date calculations, the impact of this could be felt much earlier than 2038; for instance, 30-year mortages may be calculated incorrectly beginning in the year 2008.
Since times before 1970 are rarely represented in Unix time, one possible solution that is compatible with existing binary formats would be to redefine
time_t as "unsigned 32-bit integer". However, such a kludge merely postpones the problem to February 72106, and could introduce bugs in software that compares differences between two sets of time.
Some Unix versions have already addressed this. For example, in Solaris on 64-bit systems,
time_t is 64 bits long, meaning that the OS itself and 64-bit applications will correctly handle dates for some 292 billion years. Existing 32-bit applications using a 32-bit
time_t continue to work on 64-bit Solaris systems but are still prone to the 2038 problem.
The present owner of the trademark UNIX® is The Open Group, an industry standards consortium. Only systems fully compliant with and certified to the Single UNIX Specification qualify as "UNIX®" (others are called "Unix system-like" or "Unix-like").
By decree of The Open Group, the term "UNIX®" refers more to a class of operating systems than to a specific implementation of an operating system; those operating systems which meet The Open Group's Single UNIX Specification should be able to bear the UNIX® 98 or UNIX® 03 trademarks today, after the operating system's vendor pays a fee to The Open Group. Systems licensed to use the UNIX® trademark include AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, Tru64 (formerly "Digital UNIX"), A/UX, Mac OS X 10.5 on Intel platforms, and a part of z/OS.
Sometimes a representation like "Un*x", "*NIX", or "*N?X" is used to indicate all operating systems similar to Unix. This comes from the use of the "*" and "?" characters as "wildcard" characters in many utilities. This notation is also used to describe other Unix-like systems, e.g. Linux, BSD, etc., that have not met the requirements for UNIX® branding from the Open Group.
The Open Group requests that "UNIX®" is always used as an adjective followed by a generic term such as "system" to help avoid the creation of a genericized trademark.
"Unix" was the original formatting, but the usage of "UNIX" remains widespread because, according to Dennis Ritchie, when presenting the original Unix paper to the third Operating Systems Symposium of the American Association for Computing Machinery, "we had a new typesetter and troff had just been invented and we were intoxicated by being able to produce small caps." Many of the operating system's predecessors and contemporaries used all-uppercase lettering, so many people wrote the name in upper case due to force of habit.
Several plural forms of Unix are used to refer to multiple brands of Unix and Unix-like systems. Most common is the conventional "Unixes", but "Unices" (treating Unix as Latin noun of the third declension) is also popular. The Anglo-Saxon plural form "Unixen" is not common, although occasionally seen. Trademark names can be registered by different entities in different countries and trademark laws in some countries allow the same trademark name to be controlled by two different entities if each entity uses the trademark in easily distinguishable categories. The result is that Unix has been used as a brand name for various products including book shelves, ink pens, bottled glue, diapers, hair driers and food containers.
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ls cd pwd mkdir rm rmdir cp find touch mv
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Wednesday - 2/13/2013, 6:02am EST
The leaders of each of the military services warned senators Tuesday that the military is on the brink of a readiness crisis as sequestration looms just two weeks away. And in some areas, they say the consequences of the budget scenario are already being felt.
The problems are the result of the combination of Congress' failure to pass a 2013 budget and the automatic sequestration cuts the Pentagon has called a "doomsday" scenario. The steepness of the defense cuts, the military service chiefs told the Senate Armed Services Committee, would be unprecedented and would make large segments of the uniformed military unready to deploy by the end of the year.
But when he testified before the panel, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter sounded almost resigned to the idea that the doomsday scenario would indeed come to pass.
"We've been using the word 'devastating' for 16 months now. There was a time when I thought sequestration was unlikely. I used to say I was hopeful and optimistic. Then I said I was just hopeful. Now I'm not even hopeful. We're only two weeks away," he said."
The $45 billion in cuts scheduled to take place on March 1 would slice every program in DoD by an equal amount. Congress made the cuts irrational and painful by design so that it would force itself to find another way to reduce the national deficit. But those punitive 2013 cuts are only the beginning. The 2011 Budget Control Act, the law which created sequestration, also imposes caps on DoD spending for 10 years. The military says these caps are so austere that the current defense strategy, unveiled a year ago, would have to be discarded and rewritten.
Dempsey: Things will only get worse
This year's cuts will severely erode military readiness, and things will only get worse from there, said Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
"None of us walk away from a crisis or a fight, that's not in our nature. But if ever the force is so degraded and so unready, and then we're asked to use it, it would be immoral to use the force unless it's well-trained, well-led and well-equipped," he said.
Asked by Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) whether the nation was now creating that dilemma for future commanders, Dempsey replied: "We are on that path."
Because of the different characteristics of the military services, sequestration would have different readiness impacts for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. But the Army and Marines would see what are arguably the most immediate short-term impacts. They would have the largest proportional shortfalls in their operation and maintenance accounts, which fund everything from training to service contracting to civilian pay.
Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army's chief of staff, said the Army would have a $17 billion-$18 billion shortfall in its O&M accounts by the end of this year if sequestration and a full-year continuing resolution both occur. He said the Army is prioritizing funds for warfighing in Afghanistan, but it would be forced to cut out training for 80 percent of its ground forces.
"Currently, we've funded the next group of units that would go into Afghanistan, but we cannot fund the group that comes after them in the later part of 2013," he said. "It would take them much longer to be prepared, so we'll have to make a decision somewhere along the line to either extend those who are already there or send people over who are not ready. I'd choose not to send people who are not ready. That's the cascading problem we have."
Odierno said the Army also would have to impose delays on each one of its 10 major acquisition programs and cancel repair and maintenance of major equipment in the second half of fiscal 2013, causing the layoffs of approximately 5,000 civilians. In 2014 and beyond, the Army would have to reduce its size by at least another 100,000 soldiers.
"I began my career in a hollow Army," said Odierno, who graduated from West Point in 1976. "I do not want to end my career in a hollow Army."
Half of Marine units will fall below minimum readiness standards by year's end
In the Marine Corps, the story is similar. With much of its operation and maintenance budget dedicated to Afghanistan, it'll have to take cuts disproportionately from non-deployed operations.
Gen. Jim Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps
Gen. Jim Amos, the commandant of the Marine Corps, said those resource reprioritizations are already having an effect. By the end of this year, more than 50 percent of Marine units will fall below the service's minimum acceptable readiness standards for combat deployments.
"I have kept deploying units ready, but only by stripping away the foundations of the long-term readiness of the total force," he said. "While these short-term adaptations are possible, the enduring effects of some of these decisions put us at an unsustainable tipping point. We're eating our seed corn to feed our current demands, leaving less to plant for the long-term capabilities of the force. This pattern inevitably leads to a hollow force, and its impacts are already being felt under the continuing resolution."
They're being felt in the Navy as well, said Adm. Mark Ferguson, the vice chief of naval operations.
For instance, the Navy last week canceled the deployment of the carrier U.S.S. Truman just as sailors were preparing to depart. By the end of this week, it will notify private-sector shipbuilders that it's canceling all maintenance in the third and fourth quarter of this year. And if sequestration happens a couple weeks later, training will take an immediate hit.
"Like the other services, we'll effectively stop training and certification," he said. "We shut down four air wings on March 1. After nine days, those pilots lose their certifications, and now it takes six to nine months to retrain them at a much higher cost."
And Furguson said the cash shortfall has already had an effect on the maintenance the Navy is performing as a result of the hiring freeze DoD has imposed across the military services.
"We now lose about 350 workers a week, 1,400 a month. We'll be down 3,000 people in our shipyards soon," he said. "[If sequestration occurs], we will furlough the workers in our shipyards, which will cascade through on the work completion rates of the submarines and ships going through overhaul in those public yards and really impact on the readiness going forward."
Furloughs for civilian workforce would begin in April
Carter said under sequestration, most of DoD's civilian workforce would be furloughed for one day a week, probably beginning in April after the military makes required legal notifications to Congress and labor groups.
He told the Senate that the furlough of what he termed DoD's "much-maligned" civilian workforce would have immediate operational impacts.
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter
"People seem to think these are all people who live in the Washington suburbs and come in to work in the morning at office buildings. They're not. They are mostly people at depots and shipyards who are fixing our equipment," he said. "Forty-four percent of them are veterans. 86 percent of them don't even live in the Washington area. The net of it is that many of them will be furloughed for as many as 22 days, in other words, a fifth of their paycheck will be gone."
As a presidential appointee, Carter said he cannot legally be furloughed.
"But I'm going to give back a fifth of my salary if the rest of the people in our department are getting sequestered," he said.
And while uniformed military pay would be exempt from sequestration, service members would be hit too, the Pentagon says. DoD would have to try to scramble to fill a multibillion dollar hole in its separate 2013 healthcare budget, hopefully avoiding cuts to TRICARE services.
But Dempsey said most other services military members rely on would suffer.
"The support services, whether it's teachers in schools or medical professionals in clinics, about 30 percent of base operations will be degraded," he said.
Even though he's no longer hopeful that Congress will avoid sequestration in the remaining couple weeks, Carter pleaded with lawmakers to at least delay the across-the-board cuts once again, assuming that there's not enough time to reach a grand bargain which would cancel them entirely.
"But the cloud of uncertainty hanging over our nation's defense affairs is already having lasting and irreversible effects. Ultimately, the cloud of sequestration needs to be dispelled and not just moved to the horizon," he said. "What's particularly tragic is that sequestration is not a result of an economic recession or an emergency. It's not because discretionary spending cuts are the answer to our nation's fiscal challenge, you can do the math. It's not because the paths of revenue and entitlement spending have been explored and exhausted, and it's not because sequestration was ever a plan that was intended to be implemented. All this is purely the collateral damage of political gridlock."
Sequestration 2.0 would mean furloughs for DoD's entire civilian workforce
US to cut carrier fleet in Persian Gulf to 1
Navy details two rounds of budget cutbacks for 2013
Air Force: Sequestration already creating 'chronic inefficiency'


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New here. Been an admirer of Sam Harris for a while now.
I have been pondering this question for some time but have not posed it to any Christians until recently on another forum. The feedback was very disappointing. Hope it is Ok to post it here. Just would like some feedback from Christians and non believers.
Many, if not most Christians I encounter (including myself when I was a believer for 25 years) would probably claim that they have faith in and worship God/Jesus because of who God/Jesus are. In other words - God is worthy of their worship and adoration simply because He is God, not because of anything He has done (or will do). And the specific thing "He has done" that I want to discus is God's provision of "heaven" for His followers to live for eternity.
I listened to a debate recently between Dr. W. L. Craig and Dr. Sam Harris concerning morality. In the debate, Dr. Craig said - "You don't believe in God to avoid going to hell. Belief in God isn't some kind of fire insurance. You believe in God because God, as the supreme good, is the appropriate object of adoration and love. He is goodness it's self to be desired for it's own sake…It has nothing to do with avoiding hell or promoting your own well-being."
Dr. Craig claims that believers believe in God because God deserves to be believed in. He claims that belief in God has nothing to do with what you will receive as a result of that faith.
My question is then directed primarily toward Christians - If the bible that Christians now possess had no mention of heaven, meaning that, regardless of whether or not a person "believed in" the God of the bible or not. Regardless if a person "worshipped" God or not, when we die, we ALL would end up in the same place - hell
1 - Christian, do you think you would still believe in and worship the God of the bible if you would still end up in hell when you died?
2 - Christian, do you think anyone would have good reason or incentive to worship the God of the bible if He, God, did not promise some kind of reward (escape from hell and eternity in heaven) for that faith and worship?
You see, I believe Dr. Craig has not actually thought it through. As intelligent and educated as he is, I do not believe his above quote is true. I believe if you remove the promise of a reward from the Christian concept, most prospective believers, those who would become Christians under the current biblical concept of heaven and hell, would not become Christians if the concept of reward (heaven) were removed. Which would mean that people don't believe in God simply because He is God, but because of what He has to offer as a reward - heaven.
If my suspicions are correct, which I believe they are, people become Christians out of purely selfish reasons - self preservation. To me, that is counter to Dr. Craig's above claim.


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Berrick Barnes will retain the Wallabies No 10 jersey with coach Robbie Deans ruling out Quade Cooper as an option for Saturday's Test against Wales.
Barnes may be the Wallabies' fourth-choice flyhalf, but according to the head coach he should start in the first of three Tests against Wales. Kurtley Beale and James O'Connor are not available because of injuries, and Cooper is not yet fit enough to be considered for selection.
Cooper recently made his return from a serious knee injury, playing in two matches for the Reds. Deans, however, believes it would be foolish to rush Cooper back into Test rugby.
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The Twenty-Fourth Session of the Annual Conference of The Southern California Region of The Ninth Episcopal District Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and the 99th Year of Witness in California will convene on Sunday, August 23 through Wednesday, August 26, 2009. It will be held at The Four Points by Sheraton LAX Hotel, 9750 Airport Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, hosted by The Phillips Temple C.M.E. Church, Los Angeles, California, Rev. John Deron Johnson, Host Pastor. Rev. Napoleon Goshay, Host Presiding Elder-Los Angeles District, Rev. Peris J. Lester, I, Presiding Elder-Los Angeles-San Diego District, Rev. Julio A. Andujo, Regional Administrator, Mrs. Doris Y. Williamson, Missionary Liaison, Bishop Dotcy I. Isom, Jr., Associate Bishop and Bishop Henry M. Williamson, Sr., Presiding Prelate of the Ninth Episcopal District. The C.M.E. Quadrennial Theme is: "From Good to Great: The Jesus Challenge," "Together We Can!"
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The Annual Conference will convene on Sunday, August 23rd at 4:00 p.m. with a "Quadrennial Worship Service Celebration" which will be held at Lewis Metropolitan C.M.E. Church, 4900 South Western Avenue, Los Angeles, California. The special guest speaker will be Bishop Thomas L. Brown, Sr., Presiding Prelate of The Fourth Episcopal District. The Southern California Mass Choir will render songs of praise and The Annual Conference Ushers will be on duty. Immediately following the Quadrennial Worship Service Celebration, a special "Quadrennial Reception" will be held from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. in the fellowship hall honoring Bishop and Mrs. Henry M. Williamson, Sr. and Family for Outstanding and Dedicated Leadership for the past Eight (8) Quadrennial Years. The Ninth Episcopal District was Bishop Williamson's first appointment as Presiding Prelate, which encompasses Five Regions, namely: The Alaska-Pacific Conference, The Arizona-New Mexico Conference, The Northern California Conference, The Oklahoma Conference and The Southern California Conference, which includes over 120 churches on the West Coast. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he has served with Dignity, Dedication and Distinction, always rendering Extraordinary and Outstanding Services to promote the Purposes, Aims and Goals of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, The Community, The Nation and The World! Special guests, including city and state officials will be in attendance to pay Special Tribute and Honor at the reception.
Monday, August 24th is "Women in Ministry Day." Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. at The Four Points by Sheraton LAX Hotel and the fee is $50. The Opening Meditation will be 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. featuring Rev. Alvin Young, Pastor of Brown Temple C.M.E. Church in Santa Ana, CA as the Speaker. The Opening Session will be 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. with the Presentation of Bishop Henry M. Williamson, Sr., Presiding Prelate, Roll Call of Ministers and Roll Call of Lay Delegates. The Minister's Spouses, Widows and Widowers Hour of Worship will be 11:00 a.m. - 12 Noon with the featured Speaker, Mrs. Kim Johnson, First Lady of Phillips Temple C.M.E. Church of Los Angeles. Lunch will be served from 12 Noon - 2:00 p.m. A Health Presentation: The Witness Project will be 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. with Sisters Ann Cochran and Holly Kiger as the Presenters. The Business Session will be held 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Then the Plenary Session entitled "Go Grow Your Church! Spiritual Leadership for African American Congregations," will be held 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Featured speakers include Rev. Dr. James Markham-"Evangelism," Rev. Brian Reese-"Administration," Rev. Gwendolyn Rector-"Stewardship," and Rev. Joseph C. Gardner, Sr.-"Raising the Church Budget." Dinner will be served 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Evening Service of Worship will begin at 7:00 p.m. featuring the $100 Lena Jones Rice Missionary March, Mrs. Alfreda Davis, Conference Missionary President, and Mrs. Doris Williamson, Missionary Liaison. The Special Guest Speaker will be Dr. Louise Baker-Brown, First Lady of the Fourth Episcopal District. The Annual Conference Missionary Choir will be featured and the Ushers will include Phillips Temple C.M.E. Church and The Annual Conference Ushers.
Tuesday, August 25th is "Laity and Ministry to Men's Day." Registration will begin at 8:00 a.m. and the fee is $50.00. The Morning Meditation will be 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. featuring Rev. Dr. James Markham, Pastor of Emmanuel Temple C.M.E. Church in Victorville, CA as the Speaker. The Business Session will begin at 9:30 a.m. - 12 Noon. Lunch will be served 12 Noon - 2:00 p.m. The Memorial Service of Worship will be 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. with Featured Speaker, Rev. Napoleon Goshay, Presiding Elder of the Los Angeles/San Diego District. The Business Session will be at 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Dinner will be served 5:00 pm. - 7:00 p.m. The Evening Service of Worship-Holy Communion, Laity and Ministry to Men will begin at 7:00 p.m. with Mr. Donald Bruce Levingston, Conference Lay Leader and Mr. Travis Hicks, Conference Ministry to Men. The Special Guest Speaker will be Bishop Charles Blake, Presiding Prelate of The Church of God in Christ and Senior Pastor of West Angeles COGIC, Los Angeles, CA. The Southern California Mass Choir will render songs of praise and The Annual Conference Usher will be on duty. The worship service will also include an "Adam and Eve" March.
Wednesday, August 26th will be the Closing Session. The Morning Meditation will begin at 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. featuring Guest Speaker, Mrs. Phedonia Johnson, National President of One Church, One School. The Plenary Session entitled "Go Grow Your Church!" will begin at 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Speaker will include Rev. Byron Smith-"Worship," Rev. Pansy Washington-"Personal and Congregational Spiritual Growth," and Rev. Julio A. Andujo-"Seven Paths to Your Best Ministry Now!" The Business Session will be 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. The Ordination and Closing Service of Worship will be 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. with Bishop Henry M. Williamson, Sr. as the Closing Speaker, Presiding Prelate of the Ninth Episcopal District. Everyone is welcome to come!


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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Miami University tennis finished competition on the first day of the Purdue Invitational with two rounds of doubles action and one round of singles play. RedHawk individuals competed in doubles play against No. 27 Purdue and in singles play against No. 70 Louisville.
Miami started the day off against Purdue, dropping all three doubles matches to the Boilermakers. In doubles play against Louisville, senior Nimisha Mohan and junior Christine Guerrazzi won their match against the Cardinals' Manuela Velasquez and Rebecca Shine by a score of 6-4. Miami lost in their other two matches against the Cardinals.
Mohan, who did not compete during the fall portion of the team's schedule due to an injury, won her singles match against Anastasija Trubica of Kansas by a score of 6-3, 7-5. Freshman Andrea Badileanu def. the Jayhawks' Claire Dreyer, 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 10-5. Complete Miami results from Day 1 of the Purdue Invite are listed below.
Miami resumes play at the Purdue Invite at 9 a.m. on Saturday when they take on Kansas in doubles competition.
Day 1 Results:
Purdue vs. Miami
Mara Schmidt/Krisztina Kapitany (Purdue) def. Christina Raymond/Andreea Badileanu (Miami), 6-2
Lynda Xepoleas/Daniela Vidal (Purdue) def. Nimisha Mohan/Christine Guerrazzi (Miami), 6-4
Nicole Robinson/Natalia Davila (Purdue) def. Alix Thurman/Ramona Costea (Miami), 6-2
Miami vs. Louisville
Julia Fellerhoff/Elle Stokes (Louisville) def. Christina Raymond/Andreea Badileanu (Miami), 7-5
Nimisha Mohan/Christine Guerrazzi (Miami) def. Manuela Velasquez/Rebecca Shine (Louisville), 6-4
Olivia Boesing/Cassie Pough (Louisville) def. Alix Thurman/Ramona Costea (Miami), 6-4
Kansas vs. Miami (Ohio)
Maria Jose Cardona (Kansas) def. Christina Raymond (Miami), 6-1, 6-0
Maria Belen Ludueña (Kansas) def. Christine Guerrazzi (Miami), 6-2, 6-3
Andreea Badileanu (Miami) def. Claire Dreyer (Kansas), 7-6 (7-5), 4-6, 10-5
Paulina Los (Kansas) def. Alix Thurman (Miami), 6-1, 6-3
Nimisha Mohan (Miami) def. Anastasija Trubica (Kansas), 6-3, 7-5
Caroline Henderson (Kansas) def. Ramona Costea (Miami), 6-7 (2-7), 6-2, 10-7
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9 a.m. Purdue vs. Louisville; Kansas vs. Miami (doubles)
10 a.m. Purdue vs. Kansas (singles)
12 p.m. Miami vs. Louisville (singles)
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MARK KEOHANE, writing in Business Day Sport Monthly, watched a tribute to a legend of the game and felt only hope.
Joost van der Westhuizen does not like me and I've never liked him. But that's pretty irrelevant to this column. I've always had the greatest respect for his ability as a rugby player and anyone who questions his pedigree as a player will be made to look foolish.
But I found the recent tribute dinner to Joost overwhelming and moving. I found him so likeable in the way he communicated and I found myself wishing for a miracle cure for his illness. I found myself inspired by a man's refusal to accept that he is beaten and I found his humility in his darkest hour more glorious than any try he scored, any tackle he made and any match he won for the Springboks.
I'd heard about the evening the South African Rugby Legends Association had arranged to celebrate the life of Joost and I had been told it was something special. Then I found myself flicking through channels on a Sunday afternoon and there was Joost and his 1995 World Cup-winning team-mate Joel Stransky in conversation. I turned up the volume and never turned it down.
I saw a man robbed of his most incredible athletic powers, but it seemed secondary to the remarkable emotional presence when he smiled, laughed, spoke and battled to keep the tears at a safe distance.
So many people had come to see him. To say thank you and good luck. They came to salute a rugby player and they left applauding a man, whose legacy will not be what he did in 89 Tests but what he will do with how many days he has left. What that number is no one knows, but already Joost, with the J9 Foundation and the considerable benevolence of South African businessman Gavin Verajas, has improved the quality of life among those suffering a similar fate of motor neuron disease.
The accusation against Joost as a player was that he took, and took too much for granted. It is common among the world's finest athletes … those given the physical powers rarely think about the privilege. Often the mind stagnates because it is rarely called on to negotiate a hurdle.
All Joost has now is his mind and the more he spoke the less I seemed to care that the speech was slurred and that this man of just 40 years old was among the most feared players less than a decade ago.
I professionally knew a player who took and now I was watching a man who gave … from his heart. It wasn't the gifts he handed out or the many people he thanked. It was the joy he seemed to get out of knowing he could influence the quality of life among what he called his new team-mates – those hit by motor neuron disease, a condition for which there is no explanation and no cure.
'It is not how long you have but the quality of those days,' he said during the evening. 'Initially I asked "why me" and then I asked "why not me?"'
I thought I would feel pity but never have I been so wrong. I saw someone who reminded me that we breathe to live and not to suffocate, and that if we give of ourselves, so do others.
The entire evening also emphasised why rugby is unique and why the traditions among players must be promoted and not buried in the avalanche of cash.
Joost's two greatest rivals George Gregan and Justin Marshall sat next to him and said they'd be there for him in every way needed. They once were gladiators who only knew each other through combat. Now they were men determined to leave a legacy greater than a rugby memory.
There were so many lessons for the younger players, but it would be ridiculous to think they could have the emotional appreciation just yet, but to the game's custodians there is no such excuse of youth and naivety.
An environment has to be created for players to mingle after battle and the ceremonial pomp associated with these gatherings should never diminish.
It is why I will always want to see the Barbarians play, but for God's sake create a situation designed for success and not the hopeless failure we saw against Australia at Twickenham. Percy Montgomery played against Gregan for 10 years and never exchanged a word with him outside the game. He tells me they spent a week together with the Barbarians and it was fabulous. So too so many other players.
The South African Rugby Legends Association has no equal in rugby union. It helps that the man who financially gives so much is so in love with the game, but the cash contributions of Verajas could not survive without the intent and goodwill of former Boks like John Allan. Get these men of substance involved with the professional game so that it is a game that gives more than it takes.
Rugby, so powerful in creating opportunity and so cruel in crushing hope, is so much more than a World Cup-winning result.
It is also so much more than cash. It is about people, who we rarely get to know. We see the players, honour them and abuse them, and then we see the next generation.
It shouldn't take tragedy to force a rethink in how we view the game, its traditions and most importantly its players.
I watched a tribute to a legend of the game and when I thought I'd feel despair I felt only hope.
Hopefully those entrusted as custodians of South African rugby felt a similar desire to give and not take.
– This column appears in the January issue of Business Day Sport Monthly, on sale now at selected retailers.


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Morgan Stanley Children's Hosp
Jersey City Medical Center
Harlem Hospital Center
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Lenox Hill Hospital
Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Ctr
Manhattan Psychiatric Center
Metropolitan Hospital Center
Gracie Square Hospital
Lincoln Med/Mntl Hlth Ctr
Allen Hospital
Hospital For Special Surgery
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
New York Weill Cornell Med Ctr
Rockefeller University Hospital
Beth Israel Medical Ctr-Ptrie
NYU Langone Medical Center
Rusk Institute Rehabilitation
Bellevue Hospital Center
NYU Hospital For Joint Diseases
VA Medical Center
Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center
New York Eye And Ear Infirmary
James J Peters VA Medical Ctr
New York Downtown Hospital
Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center
Mount Sinai Queens
Bayonne Medical Center
St Barnabas Hospital
Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hosp
Saint Clare's Hospital/Boonton
Saint Josephs Medical Center
Trinitas Regional Medical Ctr
Trinitas Regional Medical Ctr
Montefiore Medical Center
North Central Bronx Hospital
Long Island College Hospital
Overlook Medical Center
St Johns Riverside Parkcare
Summit Oaks Hospital
The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Montefiore Wakefield Campus
Rockland Children's Psychiatric
Rockland Psychiatric Center
St John's Riverside Hosp-Andrus
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