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France: "All the World Envies Us for the MIVILUDES"
May 25th 2021 | Massimo Introvigne | Bitter Winter
Considering how the French governmental mission against "cultic deviances" is routinely denounced by leading NGOs specialized in religious liberty and by governments, including the United States', which publish reports on international freedom of religion or belief, the claim by its former president and member of its new Guidance Council, Georges Fenech, in an interview of May 20, that "all the world envies us [France] for the MIVILUDES" may appear just as an exercise in typical French dark humor.
MIVILUDES, the Inter-ministerial mission for monitoring and combating cultic deviances (dérives sectaires), established in 2002, is the successor of the Inter-ministerial Observatory of Cults (sectes, 1996–98) and the MILS, Inter-ministerial mission for combating cults (sectes, 1998–2002). The French word "secte" serves the same derogatory function of the English word "cult," and is translated by most scholars as "cult" rather than "sect." It has been recently revamped and re-financed thanks to the effort of Marlène Schiappa, a politician who has decided to jump on the anti-cult bandwagon for her own reasons. Since July 2020, Schiappa serves as Minister Delegate in charge of Citizenship, attached to the Minister of the Interior, i.e., in the position dealing inter alia with "cults."
As American scholar Stuart Wright recently wrote, France has an "extraordinary government policy of religious intolerance" against new religious movements: "To say this approach was unique in international policy would be an understatement." Fenech himself in the same interview called the MIVILUDES "a French exception."
Yet, for 25 years MIVILUDEs and its predecessors have tried to export the French model of the "war on cults" to other countries—normally without much success, but there are exceptions.
The MIVILUDES itself explains on its website that it is part of its mission to inform other countries, through a cooperation with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of "its activities of monitoring and combating cultic deviances." But it does more. It believes it should "promote at the European level [and beyond] an attitude of fighting cultic deviances." The yearly reports of the MIVILUDES detail how MIVILUDES officers travel every year to different countries, participate in international meetings, attend and support anti-cult conferences to promote the "French model," spread (negative) information about groups targeted as "cults" in France, and react to criticism of the French anti-cult politics by scholars, NGOs, and governments.
What result did these massive efforts achieve? Only rarely does MIVILUDES report about its contacts with Russia and China, two countries where the repression of religious minorities labeled as "cults," including the Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia and dozens of groups in China, is carried out through arbitrary detention, torture, and even extra-judicial killings. A cooperation exists, and the main Russian and Chinese anti-cult Web sites regularly advertise the MIVILUDES activities and translate some of its statements, including against the Jehovah's Witnesses. However, the harsh repression of religious minorities in China and Russia is not a result of French efforts. It existed before the MIVILUDES and is a product of a fight against religious pluralism inherent in the nature of the local regimes. Yet, any support by democratic countries to practices of persecution and repression in Russia and China can only be qualified as shameful.
There was certainly considerable agitation to export the MIVILUDES to Australia, particularly through former anti-cult Senator Nick Xenophon. He called for the establishment of an Australian MIVILUDES to "monitor and control the activities of cults in Australia." Xenophon was also instrumental in organizing the meeting of Fenech, when he was president of the MIVILUDES, with a senior Australian prosecutor in Canberra. However, Xenophon's efforts failed. He eventually left politics and decided to work for defending Chinese company Huawei against accusations that it may represent a security risk in Australia because of his ties with the Chinese Communist Party.
MIVILUDES states that France "is unique with Belgium and, to a lesser extent, Germany and Austria, in having adopted a system both legal and administrative of monitoring and combating cultic deviances." In Germany and Austria, campaigns against "cults" were joined by governmental institutions, but their origins lie in the work of the anti-cult commissioners (Sektenbeauftragten) appointed by the Protestant and Catholic churches. Again, they existed before the MIVILUDES, and the logic is different from France, where the anti-cult campaigns are aimed at protecting the peculiar French notion of secularism (laïcité) rather than the dominant position of the majority churches. This does not prevent MIVILUDES from supplying derogatory information on minority religions to German and Austrian institutions.
Belgium, particularly in its French-speaking part, has old and deep ties with France, and in 1998 it created the CIAOSN, Centre for information and advise on harmful cultic organizations. It is similar to MIVILUDES and its predecessors, although with less powers. CIAOSN does not intervene directly in "combating" "cults," but forwards its advice and recommendations to other branches of the government.
There is little doubt that CIAOSN is deeply influenced by the MIVILUDES, and Fenech himself boasted about the French institution's influence in Belgium. A case in point is the 2018 report published by CIAOSN about the Jehovah's Witnesses' reaction to cases of sexual abuse among their members. Apart from its factual mistakes on the specific issue of sexual abuse, the report opened with a general criticism of the Jehovah's Witnesses clearly inspired by MIVILUDES propaganda.
It would be, however, a mistake to assess the international role of MIVILUDES only by examining its direct contacts with foreign institutions. In fact, the MIVILUDES exerts a larger influence through its symbiotic relation with FECRIS, the European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Cults and Sects, which is an umbrella organization for anti-cult movements in Europe and beyond. The MIVILUDES's Web site calls FECRIS one of its two "associations-partners." The other is the Australian Cult Information and Family Support (CISF), which has ties with ex-Senator Xenophon. CISF, discussing Xenophon's criticism of Jehovah's Witnesses and others, once reported approvingly about a definition of the Jehovah's Witnesses as "a cruel religion with no soul."
In its yearly report for 2008, which focused particularly on its international activities, the MIVILUDES detailed its close and continuous cooperation with FECRIS and FECRIS affiliates in different European countries, while criticizing CESNUR (the parent organization of Bitter Winter), the British INFORM, and centers cooperating with them in other countries for using the expression "new religious movements" rather than "cults" and for studying rather than "combating" them.
In countless events, MIVILUDES and FECRIS have introduced themselves as partners, with a division of labour where MIVILUDES helps FECRIS to receive French taxpayers' money, and spreads domestically and internationally derogatory material on "cults" prepared by FECRIS. This year, the MIVILUDES announced that it will finance projects against "cults" with the unprecedent sum of one million euros. It is easy to predict that most of this money will go to FECRIS-affiliated organizations.
FECRIS has been identified by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) as a main international threat to religious liberty. It has recently been found guilty of spreading false and libelous information about the Jehovah's Witnesses by the District Court of Hamburg in Germany. This should have sounded familiar to the MIVILUDES and Fenech, as they have been involved in several similar cases in France. In 2019, Fenech had been found guilty by the Justice Court of Caen, in a civil case, of having violated the presumption of innocence of the Church of Scientology in an interview where he took for granted that the Church was guilty of wrongdoings for which it was being investigated, but nobody had been incriminated.
In Caen, the judges said that Fenech spoke "as former president of the MIVILUDES," trying to elicit the impression in his audience that, since he had represented the government in this field, what he said was presumably true—which was not the case.
The same dynamic is at work in the international activities of the MIVILUDES exporting its slander against the Jehovah's Witnesses and other organizations. It tries to elicit the impression that since a government agency diffuses this information (largely coming from FECRIS and its affiliated organizations), then it should be true.
In 2020, USCIRF asked the United States government to "counter propaganda against new religious movements by the European Federation of Research and Information Centers on Sectarianism (FECRIS) at the annual OSCE Human Dimensions Conference with information about the ongoing involvement of individuals and entities within the anti-cult movement in the suppression of religious freedom."
The activities by anti-cult entities aimed at suppressing religious freedom go beyond the OSCE. The MIVILUDES is both a governmental agency and an "entity within the anti-cult movement," and due to its symbiotic relationship with FECRIS, it should also be targeted by a counterpropaganda denouncing its activities slandering religious movements and endangering religious freedom.


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Personalisation with scale… We make the big, small: Dan Neary
ByNoor Fathima Warsia on March 10, 2014
Facebook is gunning to compete in the space of reach, frequency & engagement
To speak the marketer language, FB is talking return on investment (ROI) instead of clicks, impressions, likes & such metrics
Connecting the next five billion will be achieved through mobile - the ace card in FB's growth plan
Innovation in product & on device and multi app approach cornerstone to FB's mobile first philosophy
The first thing one observes in a conversation with Dan Neary is the clarity of thought in what Facebook stands for. For the Vice President of the social network's APAC operations, this precision of Facebook's role towards all its stakeholders — consumers, the communication business and marketers — is important. Not because despite its laurels, Facebook is still a young media company but because Facebook has decided to challenge the very banner of 'social', and be considered in the set of the so-called mainstream marketing channels – in short, compete with any medium whose selling points include reach, frequency and engagement.
As ambitious as that sounds, the pursuit does not come without hurdles. Of all the comments that the industry has on Facebook, one that surfaces more often than not is that Facebook has become a bit of a confused case — is its purpose connecting with friends, discovering even? Is it about how many Likes one can get on a brand page or a status post? Is it about accessing news and information that are beyond personal – unlike what it was a decade ago? The list goes on.
Comparables in the domain don't face that problem just yet. Twitter, for instance, in its microblogging format, has ably captured the space of what is happening in the moment – the scope may arguably be limited but the platform's positioning is clear. LinkedIn is another example. Focussed on professionals, LinkedIn broadened its scope towards creating content but always stayed true to its core proposition.
Facebook's definition, in that sense, cannot be constrained to a single hashtag. This should not come as a surprise. Facebook is facing every challenge that a domain pioneer does. In its everyday journey, it is defining what a social media company should be. And if its 2013 financial reports are anything to go by, Facebook is doing a very good job of it so far.
Likes, clicks, impressions be gone… Make way for ROI
The personalisation that social media enables, augments the digital promise of saving the wasted advertising dollar. In its current avatar, Facebook is reminding marketers of this promise. "It is really important to distinguish social from a marketing tool. Social is how people connect. One of the big challenges we have is when marketers limit their thinking by putting on a social cap. We are a network of 1.2 billion people. It would be a missed opportunity to only think Likes. For a social platform too, marketers would shift from likes and fans to standard marketing of reach, frequency and relevant messaging," remarks Mr Neary.
He states that unlike properties that are still engaging marketers on clicks, impressions and likes, Facebook keeps the conversation on moving units in terms of real business – whether it is driving purchase intent or ultimately impacting sales.
One factor that matters here is measurement. "Some of that is driven on our site," informs Mr Neary, and adds, "We are able to tell brands with 100 per cent certainty how many people saw an ad and did they follow that with action on the ecommerce or online site. On the offline, we partner with data providers to marry our online exposure of ads with offline data and then report to brands such as Unilever and Proctor & Gamble (P&G), the impact on sales when the brand is exposed to the right TG. There are players in the space that do not necessarily have this kind of network or engagement. For them, it may make sense to keep people focussed on things that we do not believe matter. For us, the narrative is moving towards ROI as opposed to cookies, keywords, clicks, impressions and so on."
Facts to consider
APAC is FB's largest and fastest growing region
Mobile is the linchpin to FB's APAC growth
Facebook has over 1.2 billion people; 76% of these access FB on a mobile device
A person accessing FB from mobile, is checking the network on average 14 times a day
Globally, adults are spending more than five hours a day on digital platforms; this is past traditional TV
Mobile internet will surpass television consumption in 2014-15
FB's ad revenues from mobile grew from 23 per cent to 56 per cent in 2013
Why the 'connect the world & build a knowledge economy' spiel works
The role of business is not limited to earning profits. Wise organisations have understood the importance of creating new markets and devising ways of reaching out to untapped audiences. This principle, that is also seen in the sustainability initiatives of corporates such as Unilever, P&G, The Coca-Cola Company and so on, requires investment. Facebook is making a similar investment in its mission of connecting the next five billion – yet another responsibility that comes with being a genre leader. Facebook is not venturing in this alone. Internet.org is a collaborative effort of various such companies that are keen to 'connect the world' or who have in some way or another saturated the current connected audiences.
When Mr Neary refers to Facebook's mission statement that also includes building a knowledge economy as the guiding philosophy behind all of the company's growth endeavours, it is consistent with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's views as quoted on various public platforms. Driven by this, Facebook has identified, and determinedly followed, one clear route of achieving this goal – the mobile way.
"We believe that the connection of the next five billion will be on mobile devices," states Mr Neary. The statement has a significant impact on Asia Pacific markets, where in countries such as India and Indonesia, that also happen to be Facebook's second and fourth largest markets globally, sizeable consumer numbers have had their first internet experience on mobile.
A mobile-first, multi-app world
Facebook embarked on the mobile journey at around the time of its IPO. Back then, many questions were raised on the mobile strategies of companies. While everyone knew mobile was coming, no one, Facebook included understood how dramatic and quick the shift would be. "Mark did something transformational at the time and said that Facebook was no longer going to build around desktop and then figure out mobile. We are truly going to be mobile first. It sounds like a small move in our product development but it is gigantic in terms of its impact. In the engineering team, you are not allowed to present on desktop – you have to first present on a mobile device," divulged Mr Neary.
The strategy also accounted that large audience numbers was still on feature phones. Facebook's feature phone app crossed 100 million in 2013 and opened a section of audience that was otherwise not reachable by mobile.
While main FB app has over 1.2 billion people, the purpose of Facebook Creative Labs (essentially a brand name to the mindset of pursuing a multi-app strategy) believes that not everything has to belong to the core FB app.
Consequently, Facebook follows a multi-app strategy to engage its audience. The acquisition of Instagram, and more recently WhatsApp, was on these lines. The launch of Facebook messenger and Paper too was part of the multi-app mobile strategy.
Mr Neary concludes by summing up that in Facebook's engagement with marketers, it makes the big companies small. "Because they get personalisation at scale, that was not possible before. Historically, brands spent a lot of money to find the one person that was interested but that does not move overall business. At the same time, we make the small, big by empowering them with a similar kind of advertising platform as a large company. Our mobile story is not just targeted but also relevant, and done in an interesting way. We feel good that over time, there would be a number of different use cases around our mission on how we connect the world and build a knowledge economy. Some would be more popular than others."
Five Qs to Dan Neary on challenges facing Facebook
#1 One of the promises of digital was to also decrease media's dependence of advertising revenue. That does not seem to be the case yet. Do you see other forms of revenue developing in the near future?
There are all different kinds of ways to diversify. We are however very focussed on what we are doing right now which revolves around reach, engagement and monetisation through advertising.
#2 Even though Facebook's 2013 financial reports had some impressive numbers, international press had much to write about the decline in teen audiences…
Much has been written but a lot is frankly misguided. We define engagement by number of monthly users on Facebook that come back for a daily visit. That number continues to go up. Roughly speaking, 61 per cent of our monthly users come back every day. Teens are amongst our most active and engaged group. A third party research said that of the teenagers online in the US, 94 per cent have an FB account. That is very close to full penetration. We have seen the number stay stable. Another study also suggests that in addition to FB, teens are using many other platforms as well. That is not surprising since they are growing up in a digital age. But one of the other platforms engaging teens is Instagram. In the long term, there would be many different properties and experiences out there. We are attempting to be in as many of them as possible.
#3 China is a large digital market and still a complicated one for players such as yourself? What is Facebook's China strategy?
We don't have a site and we continue to think a lot about that. At some point, we will but we are still contemplating the right approach. When we have something, we would be loud and proud about it. The interesting point to notice here though is that China is a manufacturer in the world. One of the big opportunities that comes with, and that is something we are already deeply involved in, is how we can help these companies to access global markets. Facebook is a great way to do it. There are resellers in China helping us in reaching out to those marketers. Our focus is to develop a market strategy is that is beneficial for the government, businesses and our global platforms.
#4 We saw Facebook add Hashtags, trending stories and other such initiatives that are associated with some of your competition. Have we seen you take some pages from the likes of Twitter?
We are taking nomenclatures that work in the digital space. There is nothing more to it than that.
#5 If you had to pick the biggest challenge that you are faced with at present, what would it be?
We would have several ones but education is the biggest. Businesses are run by people. They understand Facebook from how to connect but not necessarily how to work with it from a business perspective. We are trying to build the infrastructure around Asia that can educate people from the business viewpoint.
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Tags: Dan Neary, Facebook, Facebook Creative Labs, FB messenger, FB Paper, Instagram, mobile first approach, multi app strategy, Whatsapp

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Cambridge Bay swimmers left high and dry after community pool forced to close
The hamlet of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, has closed its community pool, citing hazardous conditions in need of repair.
Hamlet says structural problems make the pool unsafe for swimmers to use
Kate Kyle · CBC News · Posted: Jul 31, 2019 3:00 AM CT | Last Updated: July 31, 2019
The community pool in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, sits unused after being closed for repairs. (Kate Kyle/CBC)
People looking to take a dip in Cambridge Bay's community swimming pool won't be able to for the rest of the summer.
The hamlet says the indoor pool, which is only operational for six weeks a year in the summer, isn't safe.
The facility's doors closed for the year Monday because of major structural problems.
"Last two or three years, we have been really fighting with it," said Richard Webster, who maintains the pool for the Nunavut hamlet of about 1,700 people.
Richard Webster, who maintains the Cambridge Bay pool, says it's unsafe for use. (Kate Kyle/CBC)
The 30-year-old pool is on its "last legs," he said.
"I wouldn't feel safe with anybody in there," he added, saying the supports that cradle the pool liner — similar to an above-ground pool — are giving way.
The deck surrounding the pool is slumping because of thawing permafrost underneath the building. The braces supporting the metal walls are corroding.
Some of those supports have totally given way, leaving the vinyl liner bulging.
Shifting ground underneath the pool has contributed to problems. (Kate Kyle/CBC)
"If something was really to open up, that water pressure is going to pin you there underwater, if not push you right through under the building. It's a real safety issue," Webster said.
'I feel so bad for the kids'
This latest problem with the pool now has the hamlet weighing its options: fix it or build a new pool.
Marla Limousin, the hamlet's chief administrative officer, says the hamlet is heading into capital planning sessions.
"We'll now have to move [the pool] as a higher priority," Limousin said.
Marla Limousin, Cambridge Bay's chief administrative officer, says the hamlet will discuss what to do with the pool during upcoming capital planning sessions. (Kate Kyle/CBC)
"It's really important. Kids that are not going out on the land and they are in the community — that pool is filled every afternoon and every evening."
It's also the only place in the community where people can learn to swim.
The hamlet is working toward building a new multiplex, which would include an arena, track, pool and youth centre, but it's still early days and there's no money committed yet.
Limousin says they plan to remove the liner to see if the pool can be repaired. It's not clear when those repairs would happen or how long it could take.
"I feel so bad for the kids. They sit there on the steps and wait until the pool is open."
Youth in Cambridge Bay wait outside the door to the community pool. The facility's doors closed on Monday due to major structural problems. (Kate Kyle/CBC)
Historic buildings get new life in Cambridge Bay heritage park


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Arbitration and Mediation
"The advantage of the processes of mediation and arbitration is principally in the ability of the sides to quickly get back to their perspective businesses while maintaining a working relationship, without the dispute creating ongoing hostility between them."
Adv. Aharon Pollak
As businesses grapple with uncertain and rapidly changing times, disputes that arise need swift, effective and clear resolution. Settling such disputes through arbitration and mediation demand an expert with the highest levels of technical skill and professionalism. Amit, Pollak, Matalon & Co. ("APM & Co.") is your expert.
After more than five decades' experience in litigation, APM & CO. founder and senior partner, Adv. Aharon Polak has engaged exclusively in arbitration and mediation for many years now, and clients thrive under his leadership and guiding principles, which include:
1. Recognize the legal and factual arguments of a case. In private conversations with each of the parties, without the presence of the other party, we analyze and reflect on the legal and factual situation. Needless to say, the content of these conversations is confidential to the opposing party, subject to the express permission of the litigant regarding what and how much is disclosed to the opposing party, with the principal motive of the litigants to achieve the best possible outcome for themselves;
2. Make a massive effort to turn the conflict into a controversy. By doing so, you remove the motive of the litigant to harm or punish the other party, as is common in disputes. The focus is on reconciliation and achieving the best result;
3. Negotiate effectively with each of the parties and directly appeal to those who have the decisive opinion; and
4. Build a bridge between the position of the litigant and his attorney. It often turns out that the plaintiff can be more extreme than his attorney. Real life experience shows us that lawyers are more compromising than clients, due to their knowledge of a potentially unpredictable legal system. In such cases, the attorney is assisted by the authority of the mediator in his attempts to reach a compromise.
In arbitration, Aharon invests a great deal of effort in the efficiency of the arbitration process. Together with the parties' attorneys, he sets clear deadlines for each stage of the proceedings.
One factor deterring litigants from taking the path of arbitration is that there is right of appeal against an arbitration award even, if the arbitrator made an error in his ruling. With that in mind, Aharon has strived, for years, to persuade the Department of Justice and Supreme Court justices to amend the Arbitration Act in a way that would allow an arbitral award to be appealed by right. Thus far, the struggle has been only partly successful.
In recent years, Aharon has resolved a broad range of civil disputes through mediation and arbitration, including complex disputes between large Israeli companies and businesses; he has found effective
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Will has been hesitant to walk again after his initial successful foray, but I figure he will be walking more and more as the days go on. And I'm glad to know, at least, that he actually can do it.
The other issue of excitement in our house is that we've had squirrels in our attic, and we* finally caught one of them. Rob set up a "Havaheart" live trap and baited it with whole wheat bread and organic peanut butter. After a few near misses, one of the squirrels got trapped in there today. Rob placed the trap in a rubbermaid tub, and we took the thing to a very lovely park several miles from our house. Hopefully the squirrel decides to stay in the park, because if it tries to head back to our place, it will probably not survive such a long trip through heavy traffic. Now all that remains is to catch the other squirrel and patch up the holes where they are getting in. Hm.
Well, there is so much more to say, but I am still carsick from our Thanksgiving adventure. And that's not helping me get over my hypermesis flashbacks. Also, I am exhausted and not ready to head back to work tomorrow. It is going to be insane from here on out to the end of the semester. Ugh, feels like mile 20.


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Q: Django single sign on and Php site: cross domain login? I am building a small app as a service in django and now is the time to integrate it on some clients PHP web app.
Our client A from domain www.a.com handles his own authentication for his users and probably use cookies for sessions.
How could i make logged in users from his domain also logged in on my Django app dommain www.b.com/clientA/ ?
I see how i can make them reloggin on my domain and use an authbackend checking credential with domain A but that means the user will have to enter his login/pass twice: on www.a.com and www.b.com.
Accessing cookie from domain www.a.com is impossible for security reasons i think.
How would you handle this ?

A: You are correct in assuming cookies from another domain cannot be accessed. However, if it's on a subdomain, you should be able to access the cookies if they're set correctly.
If you absolutely must have them on completely separate domains, it's going to be a bit tricky. If you can't modify the existing PHP code, you can pretty much forget it.
One option would be using OpenID - that may be the simplest way to tackle this, as there are OpenID libraries available for PHP and Python. OpenID would allow you to have a single-sign on like authentiction, and since it's already used on various sites it is proven and works.
Another option is writing a custom single sign-on system.
The basic idea is that when a user arrives at your site, you direct them to a login site. This can be either in the PHP or Python end of things, or separate. Here, the user will sign in, and then the login generates a secret key - this can be a hash, random string, whatever as long as it's not predictable - and the user is redirected back to the main site with the key.
The main site then sees the user has a key, and sends a request to the login site behind the scenes to verify the user's key.
Now the user is logged in at one site. When the user visits the second site, it too redirects the user to the login site. Since the user had already logged in, the login site simply redirects the user back with a new secret key, and the second site verifies it from the login site and now the user is logged in without having to input their credentials another time.

A: Ok, this is how to authenticate a Django user from PHP, or how to "read" a Django password from PHP.
I think OpenID is the best solution but I had to authenticate Django users in a PHP app sharing the same database today and this is how I solved:
<?php

/* Generates crypted hash the same way as Django does */
function get_hexdigest($algorithm, $salt, $raw_password) {
   if (!array_in($algorithm, array('md5', 'sha1'))) {
       return false;
   }
   return $algorithm($salt.$raw_password);
}

/* Checks if password matches the same way Django does */
function check_password($raw_password, $django_password) {
    list($algorithm, $salt, $hsh) = explode('$', $django_password);
    return get_hexdigest($algoritm, $salt, $raw_password) === $hsh;
}

?>

The key is to understand the format in which Django saves the passwords, which is:
[algorithm]$[salt]$[hash]
So for example I had an "admin" user with password "admin" and the password field in the auth_user row was:
sha1$63a11$85a93f217a72212b23fb0d5b95f3856db9575c1a

The algorithm is "sha1", the salt, which was generated randomly is "63a11" and the crypted hash is "85a93f217a72212b23fb0d5b95f3856db9575c1a".
So who do you produce the crypted hash in PHP? You simple concatenate the salt and the raw password and hash it with the algorithm, in this case, sha1:
<?php

$salt = '63a11';
$pass = 'admin';

echo sha1($salt.$pass); // prints "85a93f217a72212b23fb0d5b95f3856db9575c1a"

?>

That wasn't difficult! I got it by reading the relevant code in the Django sources.

A: You can use HTTP redirects back and forth. When the user accesses www.b.com, and no cookie is set, redirect to www.a.com/crosslogin?return_to=URL&challenge=stuff. On a.com, check for the cookie, and if it is set, redirecto to URL?verified=otherstuff.
This would require challenge-response cryptography if you want users to prevent from faking authentication. a.com and b.com would need to setup a shared secret, and stuff is encrypted with that secret. otherstuff is also encrypted with that secret; when decrypted, it gives a tuple (stuff, user). b.com may need to keep a replay cache to make sure that otherstuff can be used only once.

A: I see the following options:
1) Use Open ID as Jani Hartkainen suggested. It could be the best solution.
2) Use one domain via http reverse proxy:
Use reverse http proxy to put both php application and your django application on the same domain. This would give you access to the sessions cookies of your php app.
Once you get the php session id in your django application run a request to the PHP application with the session cookie set to check who is logged in.
Unfortunately this may require html scraping or implementing a simple service in PHP application that would return a name of the logged in user.
Once you get the logged in user you can authorize it in your django app.
3) PHP session id passed via GET:
Modify the PHP app to add session id as a parameter to links to your django app.
For example ask clients to refer to your web site as follows:
<yourwebsite.com>/?client_session_id=<session_id>&client_name=<client_name>

Once you get the session id you can authenticate user as described in point 2.

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Cory Sbarbaro, Group Health Community Foundation | We are pleased to introduce our new board of directors: a group of 16 individuals, reflective of the diverse perspectives and voices across Washington, who are committed to carrying on Group Health's legacy of caring, innovation, excellence and equity. The board of directors has the incredible opportunity to engage communities across the state and determine the priorities and strategies that will shape the work of the foundation for years to come. This work begins in earnest later this month — when the board will gather for the first time to learn about each other, develop a shared understanding of the Group Health legacy, and explore the values and principles that will form the underpinnings of the board's governance. more »
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Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all areas of her life. The warped power dynamic of coach and rider extends far beyond the stables, and Roan's relationship with her father has long been inappropriate. She has been able to compartmentalize that dark aspect of her life, ruthlessly focusing on her ambitions as a rider heading for the Olympics, just as her father had done. However, her developing relationship with Will Howard, a boy her own age, broadens the scope of her vision.
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Lehmanbro42O wrote: I honestly really like UT and want to study there. But my sights as of now are set on working in LA. I know UCLA/USC are the clear top choices for someone wanting to work in LA, but would anyone happen to have any insight on the UT to LA move and how realistic of an aim it is?
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I've been complete since 1/22 and have not heard anything.... both numbers below the 25%s - should I expect a rejection at this point?
For those who interviewed, how soon after the interview did you get a decision?
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Have any of you who are waitlisted candidates been admitted yet? My stats come in below UT's medians but I'm clinging to my spot on the waiting list!
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Nope, I haven't heard anything! It's strange because last year WL'd applicants got in by now!


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The moment of maybe
by Joshua Gamson | July 7, 2015
In the days since Obergefell v. Hodges and its rainbow celebration, I spent way too much time on Facebook reading through the voluminous posts and commentaries about how wonderful, awful, incomplete, conservative, progressive, lame, and historic is the Supreme Court's decision. Setting aside the more strident, ungenerous, overstated, patronizing, and self-serving of these—frankly, that eliminates a lot of them—these stocktaking discussions highlight several important, basic points. First, marriage equality symbolically and legally marks the end of outsider status for many within gay movements, and that is both an uneasy and vexed transition. Second, there's a whole lot more work to be done, both in terms of completing the equalization of rights and the broader work of social justice and institutional change; beware of what Michelangelo Signorile has called "victory blindness." Third, the fact that the Supreme Court ruled favorably towards marriage equality, and that public opinion, pop culture, and big business have shifted so favorably towards gay rights in recent years, stands in stark, telling juxtaposition to the heightened attacks on black Americans and the rollback of reproductive rights.
Clearly, the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision marks a turning point for the LGBT movement—or rather, for the diverse, messy array of efforts and organizations that fall under that rubric. The question now is what that movement will do in this moment of possibility. A lot of smart people have been thinking, writing, talking, and acting on that question, and the best I can do is to cull from them the intertwined principles that might guide the next stages in this vibrant, ass-kicking movement.
Formal equality is not enough. Activists such as Urvashi Vaid have for decades been pointing to the limits of pursuing a "state of virtual equality that would grant legal and formal equal rights to LGBT people but would not transform the institutions of society that repress sexual, racial, and gender difference." If you needed a devastating reminder of legal equality's insufficiency, you could get that by flipping from the breathless SCOTUS celebrations to Rev. Pinckney's dead body being carried past the Confederate flag. Now that gay and lesbian virtual equality is now well within reach—legal scholar Nan Hunter predicts that the LGBT-rights movement "will seem banal in 20 years if not sooner"—LGBT movements can return to a more ambitious social justice agenda.
Do not close the doors. A few years ago, Vaid suggested the guiding movement principle of "Leave No Queer Behind," and it's a crucial one at this moment. One of the risks when some beneficiaries of a movement are invited into social institutions is that they will abandon those who remain by necessity or choice on the margins. Refusing to do so—refusing to betray or abandon those who aren't easily assimilated or who don't want to assimilate—may involve the movement, as historian Timothy Stewart-Winter points out, in challenging the institutions that have just invited some of us in.
Intersectionality is not just a theory. That sexuality is intertwined with race, class, gender, physical ability, age, and the like is often noted but has not deeply informed much of mainstream LGBT rights organizing. It should be impossible to see the attacks on black and brown bodies, for instance, as an issue separate from LGBT concerns, if only for the obvious reason that some of us are LGBT people of color. The fight for gay rights has advanced in part by deploying economic and racial privilege, and over time, Vaid asserts, LGBT organizations have moved away from their earlier intersectional roots; the movement has been "oddly complacent in its acceptance of racial, gender, and economic inequalities, and vocal only in its challenge to the conditions facing a white, middle-class conception of the 'status queer.'" At this turning point moment, she has advocated, a "re-formed LGBT movement focused on social justice [must] commit itself to one truth: that not all LGBT people are white or well-off."
Coalitions, coalitions, coalitions. All of these linked principles—seeing formal equality as a starting rather than end point, refusing to leave anyone behind, making intersectionality a core organizing principle—promote a renewed focus on building and strengthening coalitions. The movement itself has always been a coalition, of course, and a fragile one; this transitional moment offer an opportunity to recommit to a coalition of lesbian and gay and bisexual and transgender coalition. It's also an opportunity to imagine and enact new progressive coalitions; some are already working on these coalitions, and others have long ties that can be renewed.
Until last week, these principles seemed right but like a bit of a lost cause. As sociologist Suzanna Danuta Walters puts it, the gay marriage fight, for all its practical and symbolic value, took up a lot of "bandwidth and sucked the air out of the potentially more capacious room of queer world-making." Now, at this turning point, when energy can be redirected and different voices emboldened, they seem instead like hopeful possibilities. Whether the LGBT movement manages to, as Walters says, "pivot and recalibrate," I can't predict, but the principles for recalibration are certainly well articulated. We are in a big moment of maybe.
Joshua Gamson is in the department of sociology at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Modern Families: Stories of Extraordinary Journeys to Kinship (NYU Press). Visit his website at joshuagamson.com; follow him at @joshgamson.
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I'll take "intersectionality" seriously when it used to belittle, berate, chide and extort other social groups such as women, racial minorities, the disabled, etc. It only ever seems to be invoked when used to attack gays for not being sufficiently radical enough for certain ivory tower academics. Gamson has been regurgitating the same argument for years - it started with his infatuation with queer theory in the 90s but now that seems to be passe - intersectionality is the new black!
PS - Urvashi Vaid has always been a champagne socialist sucking off the teat of large foundations whilst preaching revolution. Get a new guru
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The Peoples Choices roots go back to the late 1960s. The original Peoples Choice was formed at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, and was made up of members from two other bands — The Chosen Few and The Horde. The band played into the early 70s. The group started as a six-piece, and later became a seven-piece group. The constant of the group was always having a horn section. The group had 13 different members during this time.
The next chapter of The Peoples Choice started in 2002 when several of the original members re-united, and with a couple of new faces, played at a Rock and Roll Reunion Concert in Central Wisconsin. Following this successful event, it was decided to keep playing. This newly formed band started playing under the name, TR and The Baker Boys. After being asked to play another Rock and Roll Reunion Concert in Stevens Point as The Peoples Choice, it was decided to change the name back permanently. Today, The Peoples Choice is a 9 piece group featuring a 4 member horn section. In addition, the group has a professional soundman. The Peoples Choice plays all types of music with their specialty being Classic Rock. Bookings have included weddings, fundraisers, private parties, corporate events, and clubs throughout Wisconsin.
Original member of The Peoples Choice. Member of the Milwaukee band Dr. Sax and the Maniacs for 20 years before moving to Wausau. Over 40 years of playing in various groups throughout the Midwest.
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Crush the garlic and parsley together, if possible, using a mortar. Add the olive oil and lemon juice.
Baste the pinchos with the oil mixture and set them aside to marinate for about an hour.
You can use a frying pan or an oven. I chose to use the oven because I don't have a very flat frying pan big enough for pinchos.
Frying pan: on medium high heat, fry the pinchos on each side for 1- 2 minutes.
Oven: Preheat to 250 and cook for 5 minutes. No turning needed!
Oh these look sooo good! Bring on summer.
Shrimp are a unique source of the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrient.
Small tips are always welcomed.
Yes…That means I will eat more of them hahaha!


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Q: Cheapest way to cache data in node.js? I am implementing a node.js server running a matching algorithm. Since I want to keep the server responding as quickly as possible, I would like to be able to retrieve data from a cache instead of querying the database every single time. For example, I need to keep information about 10000 - 50000 users. My fear is that this would take up a lot of RAM. Is there any way to store that much data in a cache without the risk of running out of RAM?

A: You can use memcached or redis, who themselves care about memory and its lack removed obsolete data

A: from what I read as to what you are trying to do it seems you are contradicting yourself. AS to how I see, using cache has the following objectives:

*

*keep pre-processed data in memory so that you dont have to execute logic to generate them again

*keep data in a store which is much faster when we want to fetch the data.

Now, based on what I read from your question it seems your objective if #2. If that is so, then you have no option but to size for how much data do you want to keep in memory. That sizing should then be used to have enough RAM to hold the results and not going back to teh database.
Caching frameworks like ehCache also provide the option of swapping data from disk. Check this link from ehCache (http://www.ehcache.org/documentation/user-guide/storage-options#memory-use-spooling-and-expiry-strategy); this should help you design for how the cache should be setup aka eviction strategies to keep the sizes controllable and also when (and how) you should be ready to spool the data to a underlying disk-storage. Spooling to a disk means you would need to have HDD. But then you would need some benchmarking as to if DB is faster than the underlying cache-store.
you can chose in JVM caches like ehCachs, JCS or even go for much more sophisticated frameworks like memcache, redis which will do all this for you OOTB.
cheers
kapil

A: node-memchache is faster than redis and is easier to implement. You can see
https://github.com/ptarjan/node-cache

A: With mcache it's fairly easy to cache data from database queries in Node.js.
Here is an example for caching a query from MySQL:
const Mcache = require('mcache');

const garbageCollectionInSeconds = 10;
const timeToLiveInSeconds = 60;

// This function will be called to update the cache
const update = function (id, callback) {
  mysql.query('SELECT ... WHERE id=?', id, callback);
};

const cache = new Mcache(timeToLiveInSeconds, garbageCollectionInSeconds, update);

const id = 'some-entity-id';
cache.get(id, function (error, data) {
  if (error) {
    console.error(error.message);
  } else {
    console.log(`Result: ${data}`);
  }
});


Every four years the greatest athletes of the world gather to compete for gold and glory. The way I see it, they are just rubbing my bleeding disorder in my face.
OK, maybe not. Unless the cornermen are allowed to inject their boxers with clotting factor. Wait, what about the swimmers? I haven't swam regularly since I was 12, but I have a pool pass to the Holiday Inn via my Cold's Gym membership. Of course, I'd have to start training now, which means I'd be 37 the next time the games roll around... which is just enough time to rally the bleeding disorders community!
If we can get Marco Polo added to the games, then we can grab the gold in 2012.


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const pug = require( 'pug' )
const sandrimg = require( __dirname + '/parse-sandr-images' )

const compilepug = ( source, locals ) => {
	return new Promise( ( resolve, reject ) => {
		// Search and replace the image links, then resolve
		sandrimg( pug.renderFile( source, locals ) ).then( resolve ).catch( reject )
	} )
}

module.exports = compilepug


Have you ever felt like the weight of the world was on your shoulders? Yesterday the call to be Superwoman became too much. I try to do it all and wear all my hats with class and poise. Usually I can handle it, my background in writing with a deadline had helped me thrive under pressure. However, on days when the force becomes too much it seems like everything falls apart.
So now I'm left wondering how am I or we as women supposed to wear the title of Superwoman? I am only one person and there's only so many hours in the day. Plus, (and I don't know if this applies to you) I have moments when I have my own agenda or want me time. So how do we take on the world, keep our corner of the world in order, and be true to ourselves?
The reason I wanted to write this is because I feel one thing that is lacking in our world is honesty. As I said I look like I have it together on the outside, but behind closed doors I struggle with being me. I second guess myself constantly, wonder if I've doing enough, and consider throwing in the towel. It's a constant battle that we face every day to be at our best and manage.
Our lives consist of playing multiple roles and sometimes that has to happen simultaneously. We're expected (either by ourselves or others) to do it all without breaking a sweat. Let me be the first to say that it's unrealistic! I've been trying for over 20 years to have it all together, and I'm just as lost as the day I started.
When I look at my responsibilities and compare it to my friends who are moms (especially the single moms) and marvel in wonder. Really and truly I salute you. With my multiple jobs and tight-knit family sometimes it feels like I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown. So I've had to take a hard look at myself and my schedule and decide to make some changes.
One of the things that's helps me manage my responsibilities is giving my cares to the Lord. I have to remind myself that God didn't give me this life to be stressed and worn out. He wants me to enjoy it and place my worries at his feet. Plus, when we depend on the Lord He renews our strength.
Next, I've learning to be my own cheerleader instead of my own worst critic. It's okay to have high expectations of ourselves and want to handle everything, we have to be realistic. Instead of beating ourselves up over what's not done, let's be thankful for what we did accomplish. Plus, it's important to make time for ourselves in our busy schedule.
Lastly, I will recommend (and I'm still working on) is saying no. This advice comes from a good friend who told me just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. It's okay to tell people we can't do something or be somewhere, and we shouldn't feel guilty. It's a part of being realistic and not stretching ourselves too thin.
While it's not always easy being superwoman, I want to encourage you to wear the title proudly. It may not seem like it but you're doing more than you know and despite the chaos you can handle it. Remember that you have the power to handle what's on your plate. The source of your Superwoman strength starts with taking care of you.
True indeed. Somethings aren't in our control no matter how hard we want them to be.
Your not weak because you didn't get things done. You are made strong to know its okay to ask for help or finish it tomorrow.
Thank you for your kind words. I really appreciate it. I'm a perfectionist sometimes about a lot of things so when I do something I like to see it all the way through. I need to work on that and take it down a notch.
Somedays are just more stressful than others because a bunch of curve balls are hard to deal with. So I have to remember as you said that some things can be done tomorrow.
No problem sweetie!! Everytime I come there is always something interesting to read!!
Thank you so much for your advice, it was wonderfully said. It's hard to see sometimes that I can't be everything to everyone at the same time, but it true. I have to learn to do what I can and do the rest later. Otherwise I'm just going to run myself into the ground.
Another point that you brought up that I liked was that I need take time for myself. By doing that I will be able to be a better person to everyone around me. I will work on doing that and keep you posted.
Thank you for the advice and stopping by!
Don't push yourself too much. Just manage what you can and take care of the rest at a later time. You don't have to be Superwoman Jen. lol…Just do all you can, that's the most people can expect from you.
Thank you JSin. I'm working on getting a little bit done at a time compared to doing everything at once like I would love for things to happen. It's taking some time to adjust, but I'm getting there.


Facebook is adding a new option to let you nominate somebody to manage your account after you die. It's designed to make it easier to turn your page into an online memorial.
At the moment, once Facebook learns a user has died (and has seen supporting evidence such as a death certificate or obituary) it locks their account. It then turns their timeline into a memorial, meaning other users can continue to post messages.
Under the new system, users can nominate another Facebook user to be their "legacy contact." Once the user dies, Facebook will "memorialize" their account, adding "Remembering" above their name.
The nominated legacy contact then gets limited control over the account, specifically to write a post (under their own name) that is kept permanently at the top of the deceased user's timeline, to update the profile and cover photos, and to respond to friend requests.
When nominating a legacy contact, users can also decide whether or not to grant the ability to download an archive of their past photos and posts. Private messages won't be made available, whatever the settings.
As well as the legacy contact option, Facebook is also adding an option to instead request that your account be deleted after your death.