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THE EAST-END MURDERS.
In reference to the writing on the wall of a house in Goulston-street, we are requested by Sir Charles Warren to state that his attention having been called to a paragraph in several daily journals mentioning that in the Yiddish dialect the words "Jews" is spelt "Juwes", he has made inquiries on the subject and finds that this is not a fact. He learns that the equivalent in the Judeo-German (Yiddish) jargon is "Yidden."
It has not been ascertained that there is any dialect or language in which the word "Jews" is spelt "Juwes."
Mr. Lusk of 1, Alderney-road, Mile-end, has received the following communication from the Home Office, Whitehall, in answer to suggestions with regard to the proclamation of a reward by the Government, with a free pardon for an accomplice of the murderer:-
"October 12.
Sir, - I am desired by the Secretary of State to thank you for the suggestions in your letter of the 7th inst. on the subject of the recent Whitechapel murders, and to say in reply that, from the first, the Secretary of State has had under consideration the question of granting a pardon to accomplices. It is obvious that not only must such grant be limited to persons who have not been concerned in contriving or in actually committing the murders, but the expediency and propriety of making the offer must largely depend on the nature of the information received from day to day, which is being carefully watched, with a view to determining that question.
"With regard to the offer of a reward, Mr. Matthews has, under the existing circumstances, nothing to add to his former letter.
"I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"GODFREY LUSHINGTON."
Last Friday Mr. George Lusk, who is a member of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, received the following letter:-
"I write you a letter in black ink, as I have no more of the right stuff. I think you are all asleep in Scotland-yard with your bloodhounds, as I will show you to-morrow night (Saturday). I am going to do a double event, but not in Whitechapel. Got rather too warm there. Had to shift. No more till you hear me again.
"JACK THE RIPPER."
This letter was shown to the police. It bears a Kilburn postmark, and the handwriting is very similar to that of the post-card sent to a news agency, which had been copied and posted on the hoardings throughout the East-end by the police.
THE WHITECHAPEL MURDERS
To the Editor of The Times
I have been a good deal about England of late, and have been a witness of the strong interest and widespread excitement which the Whitechapel murders have caused and are causing. Everywhere I have been asked about them; especially by working folk, and more especially by working women. Last week, for instance, in an agricultural county I shared my umbrella during heavy rain with a maid servant, who was going home. "Is it true, Sir," said she, "that they're a-cutting down the feminine seck in London?" And she explained herself to mean that "they was a'murdering of 'em by ones and twos." This is but one of many examples, and my own main interest in the matter is, that I myself have been taken for the murderer. And if I, why not any other elderly gentleman of quiet habits? It may therefore be well to record the fact by way of warning.
Two days ago I was in one of the mining districts, I had just called on my friend the parson of the parish, and was walking back in the twilight, alone, across certain lonely, grimy fields among the pits and forges. Suddenly I was approached from behind by a party of seven stout collier lads, each of them about 18 years old, except their leader, who was a stalwart young fellow of 23 or so, more than 6ft high. He rudely demanded my name, which, of course, I refused to give. "Then," said he, "You are Jack the Ripper, and you will come along wi' us to the police at _____;" naming the nearest town, two miles off. I inquired what authority he had for proposing this arrangement. He hesitated a moment, and then replied that he was himself a constable, and had a warrant (against me, I suppose), but had left it at home. "And," he added fiercely, "if you don't come quietly at once, I'll draw my revolver and blow your brains out." "Draw it, then," I said, feeling pretty sure that he had no revolver. He did not draw it; and I told him that I should certainly not go with him. All this time I noticed that, though the whole seven stood around me, gesticulating and threatening, not one of them attempted to touch me. And, while I was considering how to accomplish my negative purpose, I saw a forgeman coming across the field from his work. Him I hailed; and, when he came up, I explained that these fellows were insulting me, and that, as the odds were seven to one, he ought to stand by me. He was a dull, quiet man, elderly like myself, and (as he justly remarked) quite ready for his tea. But, being an honest workman, he agreed to stand by me; and he and I moved away in spite of the leader of the gang, who vowed that he would take my ally in charge as well as me. The enemy, however, were not yet routed. They consulted together, and very soon pursued and overtook us; for we took care not to seem as fugitives. But, meanwhile, I had decided what to do, and had told my friend that I would walk with him as far as our ways lay together, and then I would trouble him to turn aside with me up to the cottage of a certain stout and worthy pitman whom I knew. Thus, then, we walked on over barren fields and slag heaps for half a mile, surrounded by the seven colliers, who pressed in upon me, but still never touched me, though their leader continued his threats, and freely observed that, whatever I might do, I should certainly go with him to the town. At last we came into the road at a lonesome and murderous looking spot, commanded on all sides by the mountainous shale hills of disused pits. Up among these ran the path that led to the pitman's dwellings which I was making for. When we reached it, I said to my friend the forgeman, "This is our way," and turned towards the path. "That's not your way," shouted the tall man, "you'll come along the road with us," and he laid his hand on my collar. I shook him off, and informed him that he had now committed an assault, for which I could myself give him in charge. Perhaps it was only post hoc ergo propter hoc, but, an any rate, he made no further attempt to prevent me and my friend from ascending the byway. He stuck to us, however, he and his mates; swearing that he would follow me all the night, if need were. We were soon on the top of the col, if I may so call it, from which the pitmen's cottages, lighted within, were visible in the darkness against a starry sky. "That is where I am going," I said aloud. To my surprise, the tall man answered in a somewhat altered tone, "How long shall you be?" "That depends," I replied, "you had better come to the house with me." "No," said he, "I shall wait for you here;" and the forgeman and I walked up to the cottage together. At its door I dismissed my ally with thanks and a grateful coin; and, entering in, I told my tale to my friend the stout pitman and his hearty wife, who heard it with indignation. In less than a minute, he and I sallied from his dwelling in search of the fellows who had dogged me. But they had vanished. Seeing me received and welcomed by people whom they knew, they doubtless felt that pursuit was futile and suspicion vain.
Now, I do not object to adventures, even in the decline of life; nor do I much blame my antagonists, whether their motive were righteous indignation, or, as is more likely, the hope of reward. But I think them guilty of a serious and even dangerous error of judgement in not distinguishing between the appearance of Jack the Ripper and that of your obedient servant, An Elderly Gentleman.
At Worship Street, three children, named Albert Bentley, 11 years of age; Florence Bentley, aged five; and William Shepherd, aged eight, were charged by Mr. Stevenson, an officer of the Reformatory and Refuge Union, Charing cross, with being found living in the company of prostitutes in a common lodging house, 8 White's row, Spitalfields. The rescue officer deposed to going to the place mentioned at about midday on Saturday and to finding the children in the kitchen of the house among a number of men and women, some of the latter being undoubtedly prostitutes, as he had seen them at all hours of the night about the street corners of Spitalfields and Whitechapel. The house was registered to accommodate 102 persons in 51 double beds. The house was usually a quiet one, where cohabitation was, he thought, the normal condition between the inhabitants rather than active prostitution. The boy Shepherd was in care of his father, a hawker, who had told witness that he was parted from his wife and that the boy occupied the bed with him. At the same time the boy was left to pass his time in the lodging house or the streets during the day, the father being away. The children Albert and Florence Bentley were in the lodging house with their mother. She was willing to part with them, so that they could go to industrial schools. The boy witness proposed to get admitted to Feltham if he passed the doctor. Mr. Montagu Williams said he supposed the kitchen of the lodging house was where the women passed the day, the children being among them and the men. The officer said that was so, and there were some other children even still younger. The magistrate said he would like to see the parents, and to enable them to attend he remanded the children to the workhouse.
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The Queen attends church as summit over Harry and Meghan looms
January 13, 2020 — 4.35am
London: Queen Elizabeth attended church at her Sandringham estate on Sunday ahead of a crisis meeting to work out a future for Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, after their shock decision to walk away from their roles as senior royals.
While the monarch searched for a way forward, supporters of her family's feuding factions used the British media to paint conflicting pictures of who was to blame for the royal rift.
Royal officials said the Queen had summoned her grandson Harry, his elder brother, Prince William, and their father, Prince Charles, to her rural retreat 160 kilometres north of London for a meeting on Monday.
The summit reflects the Queen's desire to contain the fallout from Harry and Meghan's decision to "step back" as senior royals, work to become financially independent and split their time between Britain and North America. The couple, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, made the announcement on Wednesday in defiance of a directive from the Queen not to go public with their intentions.
Prince William is expected to travel to Sandringham from London and Prince Harry from his home in Windsor, west of the British capital. Prince Charles will fly back from the Gulf nation of Oman, where he was attending a condolence ceremony on Sunday following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said.
Queen Elizabeth arrives St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham on Sunday. Credit:PA
The Duchess of Sussex, who is in Canada with the couple's baby son, Archie, is likely to join the meeting by phone.
Buckingham Palace said "a range of possibilities" would be discussed, but the Queen was determined to resolve the situation within "days, not weeks." The palace said the goal was to agree on next steps at Monday's gathering, which follows days of talks among royal courtiers, though "any decision will take time to be implemented."
Among the details that need to be worked out are who will pay for the couple's currently taxpayer-funded security, what money-making activities they can undertake and what the tax consequences would be of moving to Canada or the United States.
"The Queen has said she wants it done really fast, and that is because she doesn't want Harry to go off in a huff, I am sure, and not come back," royal biographer Angela Levin told Sky News.
Prince Charles, pictured here with Oman's new Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said, was said to be flying back from the Gulf to attend the Queen's emergency summit. Credit:Oman News Agency via AP
"They want to maintain the link of the family. It would be an absolute tragedy if it was done with a very bad feeling."
However, evidence of bad feeling in the royal clan was spread across the pages of Britain's newspapers. The Sunday Times reported that William was sad that he and Harry were now "separate entities" because he wanted "everyone to play on the same team."
While royal officials say the Queen was "hurt" by the surprise announcement, friends of Harry and Meghan say the couple felt they were being pushed aside because of the family's desire to focus on those in the line of succession: Charles, William and William's son George.
Tom Bradby, a TV journalist who is known to be close to Harry and Meghan, wrote in The Sunday Times that the royal family badly needed a peace deal to prevent "a protracted war" that could damage the monarchy.
"I have some idea of what might be aired in a full, no-holds-barred, sit-down [TV] interview [by Harry and Meghan] and I don't think it would be pretty," he wrote.
Harry, who is sixth in line to the throne, married Meghan, a former American actress, at Windsor Castle in 2018, and their son was born in May 2019.
While many praised the couple for injecting youth and glamour into the royal family, their shock announcement marked an explosive turn in the growing rift between them and the rest of the clan. Harry said in an October interview that he and William were on "different paths."
It also came amid the couple's growing unhappiness about their treatment by the media. Harry, who blames the press for the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a Paris car crash in 1997, has long complained about the intense scrutiny he receives.
Duke and Duchess of Sussex gave a controversial interview to ITV journalist Tom Bradby while they were in Africa. Bradby is known to be friends with the couple. Credit:ITV/YouTube
The couple have sued several newspapers over allegedly intrusive coverage, and Harry has accused the media of targeting the Meghan with abuse, some of it with "racial undertones."
The couple's decision to distance themselves from the royal family has drawn a mixed reaction. Many Britons expressed sympathy for Meghan and Harry but said they should not receive taxpayer-funded security if they do not perform public duties.
There was near-universal sympathy, however, for the 93-year-old Queen.
"I feel desperately sorry for her," said 70-year-old Jean Acton, who gathered with other local people to watch the monarch arrive at St Mary Magdalene church.
"It must be horrible for any parent, let alone if you're a royal or not."

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Q: for loop to concatenate strings I need to concatenate strings in the list and add the integers to a sum; of course, I intend to change it to other data types later - thanks so much for all your kind responses
l = ['magical unicorns', 19, 'hello', 98.98, 'world']

comb_str = ''
comb_int = 0

for i in l:
    if type(i) is 'str':
        comb_str = comb_str + 'i'
    elif type(i) is 'int':
        comb_int += i
    else:
        pass

print comb_str
print comb_int

I am just getting the '0' output that was initialized in the beginning as if it skipped over the for loop :)

A: Taking your statements literally (that you only want integers, not numerics) the entire program comes down to two function calls with filtered versions of the list
>>> l = ['magical unicorns', 19, 'hello', 98.98, 'world']
>>> ''.join([s for s in l if isinstance(s,str)])
'magical unicornshelloworld'
>>> sum([i for i in l if isinstance(i,int)])
19
>>

A: You can try this out:
l = ['magical unicorns', 19, 'hello', 98.98, 'world']
l1 = [g for g in l if type(g)==int]
l2 = [g for g in l if type(g)==str]
print(sum(l1))
print(''.join(l2))

This will print your desired outcome.

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Are COVID-19 patients in hospital or admitted to hospital?
James Mahon, Tom Jefferson, Carl Heneghan
It has become common for the UK government daily briefings to include one slide that shows data relating to COVID-19 patients in hospital. Three recent slides have included the following different descriptions of the presented data:
Date Definition
1st April COVID-19 England hospital admission [1]
5th April Hospitalisations for COVID-19 [2]
9th April People in hospital beds with COVID-19 and 'number of people in hospital with confirmed COVID-19'
The April 1st briefing definition 'COVID-19 hospital admissions' can be interpreted in different ways. Does the definition include only those who tested positive, or people already in hospital for other reasons? Does it include people who had COVID-19 prior to admission and were admitted for other reasons than COVID-19? We do not know the answers to these questions.
The April 5th briefing definition 'Hospitalisations for COVID-19' is a different definition than that used on April 1st.
'Hospitalisations' implies the numbers were those admitted to hospital at the time of infection, although there is some ambiguity as to whether some (or all) were already in hospital. The word 'for' indicates that the patients are only in hospital due to COVID-19, it implies causality.
The April 9th briefing definition now changed to 'People in hospital beds with COVID-19,' and included 'number of people in hospital with confirmed COVID-19.' None of these mention hospitalisation or admission or infer that the numbers only relate to patients in hospital because of COVID-19.
Dominic Raab further added to the confusion by stating at the April 9th briefing: "the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus symptoms now stands at 16,784" [4].
This number matches the number of people in 'Hospital Beds with confirmed COVID-19' in the slides for that day.
The data to support the 1st, 5th and 9th of April briefings were provided by the Cabinet Office and are available in an Excel workbook after each briefing. We think the data source used, whilst not referenced, has been the same for each of the three slides, and for the statement from Mr Raab, but it is not clear [1-3].
The definition of people in hospital due to (or with) COVID-19 needs to be clear to understand the following:
How and where COVID-19 is being spread – if a large percentage of COVID-19 cases in hospital originated in hospital then this has implications for hospital infection management strategies, as well as understanding the impact of the lockdown on community transmission
the use of hospital data to understand the growth of the epidemic and when the peak has been reached – the total number of people in hospital at any one time with or due to COVID-19 does not aid understanding of the progression of the epidemic, as it is almost certainly a selected subpopulation. However, the number of new hospitalisations arising from community-acquired infection may be a useful indicator of changing COVID-19 prevalence rates both nationally and at a local level.
the demand COVID-19 is placing on NHS hospital capacity – the additional demand on the NHS from COVID-19 is, in part, a function of the additional length of stay due to COVID-19 of those patients who were already in hospital at the time of their infection, coupled with the new admissions due to the virus and their length of stay.
Current unanswered questions that require clarifying include:
The number of people in hospital for reasons other than symptoms of COVID-19 at the time of diagnosis
The number of people admitted from nursing or residential care homes due to symptoms of COVID-19
The number of people admitted from the community with a diagnosis of COVID-19
The number of people discharged from hospital with a diagnosis of COVID-19
James Mahon is an economist who holds an honorary post at the Liverpool Reviews and Implementation Group (LRiG) in the Department of Health Services Research at Liverpool University and works alongside the York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) at the University of York.
Tom Jefferson is a senior associate tutor and honorary research fellow, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford. Disclosure statement is here
[1]. Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms. Slides and datasets to accompany coronavirus press conference: 1 April 2020 [online] [viewed 10 April 2020]. Available from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/slides-and-datasets-to-accompany-coronavirus-press-conference-1-april-2020
[4]. Dominic Raab. Foreign Secretary's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 9 April 2020 [online] [viewed 10 April 2020]. Available from https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/foreign-secretarys-statement-on-coronavirus-covid-19-9-april-2020


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More Thoughts From Me #5: The Handheld That Could
Author: Daniel Fugate Category: Articles, News, Nintendo 3DS Categories, Nintendo 3DS News, Date: 9th February, 2016
There is only one handheld system that you actually need right now. Yes, I'm talking about the 3DS. Here's why I bought the system and why I keep playing it.
I'm a huge fan of the Animal Crossing series. I've been playing the series since the first game on the Gamecube. So, when Nintendo said that there was going to be a new AC game for the 3DS, I had to have the game! I went ahead and bought the 3DS at launch.
And then I waited three years for the game to come out…
I did buy games in those three years for the 3DS though. In fact, I bought Street Fighter with the system when I first got it. I'm not a Street Fighter fan. There just wasn't very many games at the 3DS's launch and Street Fighter looked like the best one. I paid $250 (+ tax) for the 3DS. Not many people wanted to do that. The 3DS was having a bad first year, until Nintendo decided to drop the price. Then, the system took off.
Early on, there weren't many people who believed in the 3DS. Everyone seemed more excited for the Vita. As time went on though, more people bought the 3DS and the Vita flopped much like the PSP. Sure, some developers still make games for the Vita, but not many. Most of the portable third parties have either developed games for the 3DS, cellphones, or both. The 3DS has become a money making machine for Nintendo.
There are so many great games on the 3DS. It would take forever to list them. Though, I have to mention a few! Animal Crossing New Leaf is still my favorite 3DS game, but there are many others that I enjoy a lot. Most recently, Mario & Luigi Paper Jam has been awesome. Other excellent games include: Tomodachi Life, Stella Glow, Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer, Fire Emblem Awakening, and…ok, I need to stop listing these games! We'll be here forever.
The 3DS is an excellent system. Nintendo has done a great job with it. I still play this system every single day. And there's plenty of reasons to keep on playing it with so many cool games coming out this year.
Do you have a 3DS? What is your favorite game on the system? What game(s) are you looking forward to this year for the system?
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Since the Association was founded in 1986, it has undertaken over twenty different types of projects. Some of these were financed between 1990 and 1998 and they included the shipping of 550 commercial folding chairs for students and teachers, providing scholarship awards for students, and stipends to teachers, purchasing some of the new band instruments, shipping of barrels of school supplies for students, and fencing of a section of the school compound.
As the years went by, the necessity arose to finance more substantial projects. Below are the projects:
 Constructed the Fashu Collier Computer Lab at $7,000.00.
 Purchased a 10KVA generator at $11,500.00. The 15-year old generator is still in use; kudos to the school for effectively maintaining it.
 Contributed $7,000.00 for the construction of the second floor of the teachers' staff room.
 Contributed $5,000.00 towards concrete fencing of a piece of property owned by the school.
 Contributed $1,400.00 towards the repairs and painting of the school for the 140th Anniversary.
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Department of Computer Engineering
Automatic segmentation of colon glands using object-graphs
Gunduz Demir, C.
Kandemir, M.
Tosun, A. B.
Sokmensuer, C.
Medical Image Analysis
Gland segmentation is an important step to automate the analysis of biopsies that contain glandular structures. However, this remains a challenging problem as the variation in staining, fixation, and sectioning procedures lead to a considerable amount of artifacts and variances in tissue sections, which may result in huge variances in gland appearances. In this work, we report a new approach for gland segmentation. This approach decomposes the tissue image into a set of primitive objects and segments glands making use of the organizational properties of these objects, which are quantified with the definition of object-graphs. As opposed to the previous literature, the proposed approach employs the object-based information for the gland segmentation problem, instead of using the pixel-based information alone. Working with the images of colon tissues, our experiments demonstrate that the proposed object-graph approach yields high segmentation accuracies for the training and test sets and significantly improves the segmentation performance of its pixel-based counterparts. The experiments also show that the object-based structure of the proposed approach provides more tolerance to artifacts and variances in tissues. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Attributed graphs
Colon adenocarcinoma
Gland segmentation
Histopathological image analysis
Object - graphs
Published Version (Please cite this version)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.media.2009.09.001
Department of Computer Engineering 1308


The National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security have jointly announced the designation of 52 colleges and universities as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, Information Assurance Research, and in Information Assurance 2-Year Education for the years 2012 through 2017.
The centers – now totaling 166 in 42 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico – are recognized leaders in these fields. Program graduates often develop into cyber experts who help to protect national-security information systems, commercial networks, and critical information infrastructure in both the private and public sectors – meeting the increasingly urgent needs of the U.S. government, industry, and academia.
Seven institutions were designated as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education (CAE/IAE) for the years 2012 through 2017.
Seven joined the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Research (CAE/R) Program.
Eleven new institutions were identified as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance 2-Year Education (CAE/2Y).
Twenty-seven existing centers in Information Assurance Education successfully re-applied, maintaining their designation.
The complete list of centers and details about the selection process are available here. The 2012 designees are listed in the Fact Sheet below.
All of the designations are valid for five academic years, after which the college or university must successfully re-apply. The NSA-DHS partnership was initially formed in 2004 in response to the 2003 National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
Centers with the "Information Assurance Education" or "Research" designation are eligible to apply for scholarships and grants through the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program and the National Science Foundation's Scholarship for Service Program.
NSA and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) jointly sponsor the National Centers of Academic Excellence in IA Education (CAE/IAE), IA 2-year Education and Training (CAE/2Y) and IA Research (CAE/R) programs.
The goal of these programs is to reduce vulnerability in our national information infrastructure by promoting higher education and research in IA and producing a growing number of professionals with IA expertise in various disciplines. Designation as a CAE/IAE, CAE2Y or CAE/R is valid for five academic years, after which the school must successfully reapply in order to retain its CAE designation.
Students attending CAE/IAE or CAE/R designated schools are eligible to apply for scholarships and grants through the Department of Defense Information Assurance Scholarship Program and the Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service Program. Designation as a National Center does not carry a commitment for funding from NSA or DHS.
CAE/IAEs and CAE/Rs receive formal recognition from the U.S. Government as well as opportunities for prestige and publicity for their role in securing our Nation's information systems.
Nationally or regionally accredited Community Colleges, Technical Schools, state or federally endorsed IA/Cybersecurity training centers or U.S. Government IA/Cybersecurity training centers are eligible to apply to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in IA 2-year education or training. Applications are assessed against stringent CAE/2Y criteria, which are intended to measure the depth and maturity of programs of instruction in IA/Cybersecurity education and training.
Four-year colleges and graduate-level universities are eligible to apply to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in IA Education. Each applicant must pass a rigorous review, demonstrating its commitment to academic excellence in IA education. During the application process, applicants are evaluated against stringent CAE/IAE criteria.
Institutions meeting the Carnegie Foundation's classifications of Research University/Very High (RU/VH), Research University/High (RU/H) and Doctoral Research University (DRU) or the equivalent are eligible to apply for CAE/R. Universities applying for CAE/R must have academic IA/Cybersecurity programs that can support advanced academic research and development capabilities. Applicants are evaluated against stringent CAE/R criteria.
Four-year colleges and graduate-level universities are eligible to apply to be designated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations. Each applicant institution must pass a rigorous review, demonstrating its commitment to academic excellence in Cyber Operations. During the application review process, applicants are evaluated against stringent CAE/Cyber Operations criteria and academic content requirements.
For more information about CAE/Cyber Operations, please visit our website at: CAE/Cyber Operations.


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The California Dream — the idea that every person can achieve a better life, regardless of where they start out — is central to who we are as Californians. Even in a time of economic growth and record employment, too many Californians are experiencing the squeeze of stagnant wages and the rising price of building-block necessities such as housing, health care, education, and child care. We can and must reanimate the California Dream, building a California for All.
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Street beatings and melees broke out on both coasts this weekend during confrontations involving the Proud Boys and antifascists — ideologically opposed movements that both condone political violence and practice it with some regularity on their opponents.
Gavin McInnes, who founded the Proud Boys in 2016 as a nationalist men's club, was scheduled to speak at the Metropolitan Republican Club that evening about "Deep State Socialists" and "Western Values" — common themes for his group.
So on Saturday evening, a conservative group organized a "flash march for Law and Order" — marching toward the downtown plaza where a memorial had been set up for the police shooting victim, Patrick Kimmons.
Predictably, the marchers arrived at the plaza to find it full of counterprotesters chanting "Black Lives Matter." The local antifascist group was among those live-tweeting from that side of Fourth Avenue.
The right-wing marchers paused on the other side of the street, waving U.S. flags and chanting back — "All Lives Matter," and "U.S.A., U.S.A.!" and eventually shouted threats.
From there, the scene devolved into something like an exponentially larger version of the Manhattan assault. (Explicit videos below).
Officers spotted not only pepper spray in the crowd, but also "hard-knuckled gloves, firearms, batons and knives," police wrote — not to mention flagpoles turned into clubs.


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Q: jQuery Offset reading fixed navigation instead of actual divs in nested structure I am having a problem with the jQuery offset() function. Please take a look at the jsfiddle file for the code and preview.
Quick overview: I am making a one page website that contains multiple pages. Each page is inside a div. Now in the navigation bar, on the top, there are anchors that once clicked, takes you towards the div that is associated with the anchor. Once an anchor is clicked, it becomes active and I used css to customize that active anchor, to make it stand out from the non active. This is the same as focus. However, one problem I am having is when the user scrolls, he passes different div's. Take a look at this snippet
$(window).on('scroll', function() {
    $('.section').each(function() {
        //  alert($(this).offset());
        //  alert($(this).offset().top());
        //  alert($(this).offset().bottom());
        //  alert($(window).scrollTop());

    if($(window).scrollTop() >= $(this).offset().top()) {
            var id = $(this).attr('id');
            $('nav a').removeClass('active');
            $('nav a[href=#'+ id +']').addClass('active');
        }
    });
});

This function compares the $(this).offset() to the window. However, the problem is that the navigation bar is always floating on the top of the screen regardless of where you scroll. And $(this).offset().top() is always returning the navigation bar (since its at the top). So this has no affect to the div's that are below.
I have included a sample on jsfiddle for you to get a live preview of what my problem is.
https://jsfiddle.net/exxvq48m/11/
Any advice? thank you for your time.

A:
.offset() returns an object containing the properties top and left.

Ref: http://api.jquery.com/offset/
You are trying to use top as a function. That is causing the problem 1.
Then second issue is $('nav a[href=#'+ id +']'). Here you need to enclose href value in quotes. So you code should be:
$(window).on('scroll', function() {
    $('.section').each(function() {
        //  alert($(this).offset());
        //  alert($(this).offset().top());
        //  alert($(this).offset().bottom());
        //  alert($(window).scrollTop());

      if($(window).scrollTop() >= $(this).offset().top) { // <<< changed
        var id = $(this).attr('id');
        $('nav a').removeClass('active');
        $('nav a[href="#'+ id +'"]').addClass('active'); // <<< changed
      }
    });
});

That should work for you.


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While sailing in the tropics, you can be more or less cavalier about sail changes and maneuvers leaving decisions late to throw in a reef or roll up a sail. Reaction times can be quick once you have made the decision. If things get a bit out of hand, a bare-assed soaking up by the mast is neither here nor there and actually can be refreshing.
The level of anticipation though, must be increased as a function of higher latitudes. The colder it gets the longer it takes not only to get kitted up to deal with a change, but every movement just takes longer, not only because more clothing is restrictive, but also as the temperature drops levels of anxiety naturally increase and more methodical methods automatically should kick in. When you reach the 'gloves are no good' stage and mittens are de rigueur, count on an added time factor of four or five for putting in reefs and changing sail. Simply tying a knot, or putting a line around a cleat can be ridiculously slow. Often, I go barehanded knowing I can do things quicker and then scuttle back to shelter and warm my hands. This also keeps the gloves or mittens dry!


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Q: How to create the 3-Dimensional Nx.Tensor from 4-Dimensional Nx.Tensor (in elixir)? I need to create 3-D tensor m from two matrices a, b (two 2-D tensors) such that
m[i][k][j] = a[i][k] * b[k][j]
(in fact the dimension order doesn't matter here so it could be also:)
m[k][i][j] = a[i][k] * b[k][j]   or
m[i][j][k] = a[i][k] * b[k][j].
I found the way how to create 4-D tensor n, n[i][l][k][j] = a[i][l]*b[k][j] and now I need to slice/gather/take somehow only that elements where l==k.
Is there any way to slice n, or create m in other better way?
a_mat = Nx.random_uniform({5,5}, names: [:i, :l])
b_mat = Nx.random_uniform({5,5}, names: [:k, :j])
n_tensor = Nx.dot(a_mat,[], b_mat,[])
m_tensor = ???

Thank you.

A: After some exploration I think that the best approach is:
m_tensor = Nx.dot( Nx.transpose(a_mat), [], [0], b_mat, [],[0])

it will create a tensor where
m[k][i][j] = a[i][k] * b[k][j]


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An Egyptian investment group is spending $25 million on a major Kenyan Sports infrastructure Project. Wadi Degla Investment International has broken ground for a luxury sports and lifestyle club in Kiambu County, just off the country's capital Nairobi. The private club, witha membership fee of 10,000 dollars, will include swimming pools, tennis courts, football fields, basketball and health facilities.
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Q: Why doesn't the size of the font change immediately after altering it? I am trying to make an option within the setting that changes the font size of a label.
I tried to use properties so that when the user changes the font size in Settings, the result/change will show up immediately. Instead, the change only takes effect when restarting the application. Here is my code for reference.
example.py
import kivy
from kivy.properties import *
from kivy.uix.settings import SettingsWithSidebar
from kivy.uix.label import Label
from kivy.config import ConfigParser
from kivy.app import App

example_config = ConfigParser()
example_config.read("example.ini")

class TitleLabel(Label):
    font_size = ConfigParserProperty(defaultvalue=40, section="style", key="font_size",
                                     config=example_config, rebind=True)

class ExampleApp(App):

    def build(self):
        self.settings_cls = SettingsWithSidebar
        self.use_kivy_settings = False

    def build_config(self, config):
        config.setdefaults(
            "style", {"font_size": 40}
        )

    def build_settings(self, settings):
        settings.add_json_panel("Settings", self.config, "settings.json")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    ExampleApp().run()

example.kv
FloatLayout:

    TitleLabel:
    SettingsButton:

<TitleLabel>:
    text: "[color=#30C9E9]ExampleTitleText[/color]"

    markup: True
    font_size: int(root.font_size)
    size_hint: None, None
    size: self.texture_size
    pos_hint: {"center_x": 0.5, "center_y": 0.5}

<SettingsButton@Button>:
    text: "Settings"
    size_hint: 0.1, 0.1
    pos_hint: {"right": 0.975, "top": 0.975}
    on_release: app.open_settings()

settings.ini
[
  {
    "type": "numeric",
    "title": "Font Size",
    "desc": "Pick how big you want the font to be.",
    "section": "style",
    "key": "font_size"
  }
]

I tried to link the ConfigParserProperty() to the font_size (in example.kv under <TitleLabel>). I tried to link the NumericProperty(example_config.get("style", "font_size")) to the font_size also. Neither worked. I know it has to do something with properties, but I do not know how I would set it up.
If you have any idea how to fix this, your help would be very much appreciated.

A: There exists an example from the kivy team that does exactly that.
I think the important thing therein is the on_config_change method they use to update all modified values - Hope it helps
"""
Config Example
==============

This file contains a simple example of how the use the Kivy settings classes in
a real app. It allows the user to change the caption and font_size of the label
and stores these changes.

When the user next runs the programs, their changes are restored.

"""

from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.settings import SettingsWithTabbedPanel
from kivy.logger import Logger
from kivy.lang import Builder

# We first define our GUI
kv = '''
BoxLayout:
    orientation: 'vertical'
    Button:
        text: 'Configure app (or press F1)'
        on_release: app.open_settings()
    Label:
        id: label
        text: 'Hello'
'''

# This JSON defines entries we want to appear in our App configuration screen
json = '''
[
    {
        "type": "string",
        "title": "Label caption",
        "desc": "Choose the text that appears in the label",
        "section": "My Label",
        "key": "text"
    },
    {
        "type": "numeric",
        "title": "Label font size",
        "desc": "Choose the font size the label",
        "section": "My Label",
        "key": "font_size"
    }
]
'''

class MyApp(App):
    def build(self):
        """
        Build and return the root widget.
        """
        # The line below is optional. You could leave it out or use one of the
        # standard options, such as SettingsWithSidebar, SettingsWithSpinner
        # etc.
        self.settings_cls = MySettingsWithTabbedPanel

        # We apply the saved configuration settings or the defaults
        root = Builder.load_string(kv)
        label = root.ids.label
        label.text = self.config.get('My Label', 'text')
        label.font_size = float(self.config.get('My Label', 'font_size'))
        return root

    def build_config(self, config):
        """
        Set the default values for the configs sections.
        """
        config.setdefaults('My Label', {'text': 'Hello', 'font_size': 20})

    def build_settings(self, settings):
        """
        Add our custom section to the default configuration object.
        """
        # We use the string defined above for our JSON, but it could also be
        # loaded from a file as follows:
        #     settings.add_json_panel('My Label', self.config, 'settings.json')
        settings.add_json_panel('My Label', self.config, data=json)

    def on_config_change(self, config, section, key, value):
        """
        Respond to changes in the configuration.
        """
        Logger.info("main.py: App.on_config_change: {0}, {1}, {2}, {3}".format(
            config, section, key, value))

        if section == "My Label":
            if key == "text":
                self.root.ids.label.text = value
            elif key == 'font_size':
                self.root.ids.label.font_size = float(value)

    def close_settings(self, settings=None):
        """
        The settings panel has been closed.
        """
        Logger.info("main.py: App.close_settings: {0}".format(settings))
        super(MyApp, self).close_settings(settings)

class MySettingsWithTabbedPanel(SettingsWithTabbedPanel):
    """
    It is not usually necessary to create subclass of a settings panel. There
    are many built-in types that you can use out of the box
    (SettingsWithSidebar, SettingsWithSpinner etc.).

    You would only want to create a Settings subclass like this if you want to
    change the behavior or appearance of an existing Settings class.
    """
    def on_close(self):
        Logger.info("main.py: MySettingsWithTabbedPanel.on_close")

    def on_config_change(self, config, section, key, value):
        Logger.info(
            "main.py: MySettingsWithTabbedPanel.on_config_change: "
            "{0}, {1}, {2}, {3}".format(config, section, key, value))

MyApp().run()


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MEK: Iranian Protesters Draw Support, Regime Faces Condemnation
Written by Esmail Mohades on December 10, 2019 . Posted in NEWS
Iranians diaspora, supporters of MEK rally in support of Iran Protests
Protests continue in cities scattered across Iran despite the regime's brutal crackdown on protesters. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is weighing in on the situation, and the regime is facing strong condemnation for their murderous activities.
Rallies in Support of Protesters
On Saturday, December 7th, MEK supporters in Stockholm, Sweden held a rally to express solidarity with the Iranian people's uprising and continuing protests. Demonstrators gathered in spite of the cold weather to express their support for the Iranian people's struggle for freedom from the clerical regime and to condemn the brutal crackdown on protesters that has cost the lives of over 1,000 protesters, according to Mujahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK) sources. Speakers called on the international community to hold regime leaders responsible for these crimes against humanity, and speakers and demonstrators echoed National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) President-elect Maryam Rajavi's call on the United Nations to send a fact-finding team to Iran to determine the full extent of the regime's crimes during the uprising.
Iranians across the globe, PMOI/MEK supporters are voicing solidarity with #IranProtests.#Iranhttps://t.co/xFLMUbgWWv
— People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) December 9, 2019
MEK supporters also held rallies on Saturday in the cities of Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, Australia in solidarity with the Iranian people's November uprising and ongoing anti-regime protests. The demonstrators condemned the regime's murders, arrests, and torture of protesters.
Additional rallies have also been held by MEK supporters in Oslo, Norway; Ottawa and Toronto, Canada; and Hamburg, Germany.
European Lawmakers Condemn Regime
On Sunday, Joseph Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, issued a statement condemning the Iranian regime for "the widespread and disproportionate use of force against nonviolent protesters." Borrell said that such conduct was "unacceptable" to the E.U. and its Member States.
December 8th, EU Representative Josep Borrell Fontelles issued a declaration on behalf of the European Union expressing condemnation of the #Iran regime's crackdown on protesters during #IranProtests #StopIranBloodshed #FreeAllProtesters @USAdarFarsihttps://t.co/5lttfypS9Z pic.twitter.com/RH1etJ3eaY
The Portuguese Parliament adopted a resolution expressing concern about the Iranian regime's crackdown and "illegal killings" of protesters. The resolution was adopted with the support of the Socialists, Socialist Democrats, the Lefts, the Popular Party, the Nature Party, and others and received a near-unanimous vote.
Titled "For those killed in demonstrations in Iran," the resolution reads in part:
"The recent events in Iran is a concerning example of illegal killings by the Iranian regime's security forces where they used excessive forces in their intense crackdown of recent protests… The report also show live bullets fired from rooftops and from a helicopter in one case. Based on these reports, the Portuguese Republic Parliament expresses its concerns over the deaths of protesters killed in recent weeks and calls for an end to the regime's crackdown."
Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Koford spoke strongly against the regime's crackdown on protesters, saying: "The European Union has a common opinion with a clear criticism of Iranian authorities' unacceptable use of force against protesters. Denmark has worked for a clear and unambiguous joint opinion. It has succeeded. Freedom of speech and assembly must be respected."
Updates on Regime Crackdown
The November uprising spread to at least 190 cities and towns throughout Iran. As of today, the MEK has confirmed the names of 400 protesters killed by regime security forces. The NCRI reports the total number of protesters killed by security forces is 1,029 as of today. More than 4,000 more were injured, and another 12,000 protesters were arrested.
The fate of the imprisoned protesters is uncertain. The regime uses torture as a means to coerce confessions, and the mullahs did not refrain from shooting citizens in the middle of the street. These 12,000 people are in immediate danger.
Tags: Human Rights, Iran human rights, Iran Opposition, Iran Protests, Iran Uprising, Maryam Rajavi, MEK, Mujahedin-e Khalq, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), NCRI, People's Mojahedin organization of Iran, PMOI, Regime Change


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This message from Bill Dempsey (click the image above) was taped just before Notre Dame's Commencement and provides a brief mid-year report on Sycamore Trust with remarks about Father Jenkins's invitation to President Biden to be commencement speaker, the university's unprecedented decision to withhold from alumni information about Catholic representation on the faculty, and an important new project by Sycamore Trust.
After the video was recorded, a number of reports about the Biden/Notre Dame episode appeared attributing Biden's dodging the Commencement to concern over a "backlash" or "uproar" over his abortion policy triggered by the Sycamore Trust Open Letter to Father Jenkins. We will publish shortly a detailed report providing you with an opportunity to comment.
It is about mid-year. The pandemic is receding. I thought you might not mind if I took up a few minutes of your time to talk about the University of Notre Dame, some recent events, and Sycamore Trust as we come out of this pandemic. But first of all — and I think most importantly — what I want to do, for myself and all of my associates, is to thank you very much for all the support that you've given to us in your interest, enthusiasm, and prayers — and, for those who have been able, your financial support. We are in our 15th year and are the most significant organization by far of its sort in the country. And it's all due to you.
So having said that, let me turn to a couple of matters that have developed quite recently in respect to the university of Notre Dame. The first has to do with the commencement speaker.
As I think most of you know, President Biden is not going to be the commencement speaker. But that isn't because he wasn't invited — because, as you may not know, Father Jenkins did invite him. Now we have here the most formidable adversary of the Catholic church on abortion, marriage, sex, gender, and religious Liberty. This is significantly worse in terms of scandal than was the honoring of President Obama in 2009. That brought down the criticism of Notre Dame by 83 Cardinals, Archbishops, and Bishops. When has that ever happened before to a Catholic university? But this time it is much worse because President Biden is a Catholic. And he won't let you forget it. What that means to the ordinary person looking at an invitation by Notre Dame to honor President Biden is, as far as the university is concerned, the Biden brand of Catholicism — in which one can dissent from these important teachings of the Church and work against them and still claim to be a faithful Catholic — it's perfectly alright. And if it's alright with the university of Notre Dame, the preeminent Catholic university in the country, it should be alright with everybody else.
Now, why would Father Jenkins feel comfortable doing this? I ask you to ask yourself would he have done it if he knew that a majority of the faculty would strongly oppose him. I suggest that he would not. And that points to the central issue at the university of Notre Dame in terms of its Catholic identity — the one that we've been concerned with from the very start. That is the substantial decline in Catholic representation on the faculty. The university recognizes that this is a crucial issue. It makes the presence of a majority of dedicated Catholics on the faculty the test of its Catholic identity.
That brings me to the second fact which has just developed. We have just discovered through our inquiry that the university has now decided not to disclose any more the faculty data that would indicate whether or not it does have a majority of Catholics on the faculty. This is the first time it's ever done that. It is obviously a crucially important decision. I don't see how the university can in conscience sustain or maintain this position over time. We hope that this isn't the final word. But it is the word at the moment.
Now this is a pretty bleak picture that I'm painting. But I don't mean it to be that. I mean it to be challenging and not all that bleak because Notre Dame remains the most Catholic of the major Catholic universities in the country. It has more Catholic faculty than other major universities except for Catholic university and more Catholic students. Now, this may not be saying all that much, given the calamity that has befallen Catholic higher education. But it is certainly saying something. And it means that a young man or a young woman who wants to get a Catholic education at Notre Dame can get the very best that's available any place in the country. But for the student who doesn't make that effort, the odds are not very good.
Now as to Sycamore Trust, to return to our agenda, we've had to cancel our last two annual breakfast meetings, which have been very important to us — and we hope to all of you who've been able to attend or participate online. We continue our investigative reporting, of course. The students haven't been able to put on many productions, panels, or that sort of thing. So we haven't been called upon to support them in those efforts. But the pandemic has had a good side product for the future. We now have the equipment and the technology that will enable us to put on live panel discussions of issues that are important to the university. And we intend to do that.
That brings me to our last item of news, which is very important to us — and I hope it will seem so to you. The Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association of the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's has, for some years, been offering pretty substantial scholarships to students who will carry the rainbow flag at the university of Notre Dame. We wanted to match that practice and provide scholarship assistance to students who work hard to improve and maintain the Catholic character of the university of Notre Dame. But we haven't had the resources to do it until now. And now, through the generosity of a 1973 alumnus, Mike Hanson, we will be able next year to provide scholarships assistance to five or six students in recognition of the work that they've been doing to enhance the Catholic identity of the university. We hope that they will benefit from their association with us. And we know that we will benefit from our association with them.
Now that concludes what I wanted to say this morning to you except for a couple of brief footnotes. First, this is not a fundraising presentation, but I was struck by the fact recently that hardly anybody uses the option of monthly contributions. And so I wanted to bring that to your attention in case it fits your situation. I know that it is an important part of the fundraising programs of other organizations. And so I mention it now.
The second footnote has to do with our Board of Trustees at Sycamore Trust. I've mentioned them before. I wish that you would take a few minutes just to go to our website and look at their biographies. You will find that it is a highly credentialed and greatly experienced group of Notre Dame alumni. I am proud to be counted among their number and to have them as friends, as an additional bonus.
With that, then, I leave you. I wish God's blessing upon all of you, each and every one, upon the university of Notre Dame, its students, its faculty, its entire community, and, all who love it throughout the United States.
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Join us Thursday, February 21st as we welcome Jim Bradford, of the National Christian Foundation Alabama to speak on the topic of charitable giving through a Giving (Donor Advised) Fund. There are many benefits of using a Giving Fund for your charitable giving. Some of those benefits are it simplifies giving by using the internet, you can set up recurring grant schedules, the ease of tax preparation, making sure that all donations are tax deductible by using it for all of your giving and training children/grandchildren in generosity. However, the biggest benefit of a Giving Fund is the tax savings available by giving out of Non-Cash assets or alternative assets such as business interests, real estate, life insurance etc…. The majority of Americans do most of their giving out of their cash reserves even though most American's wealth is primarily in the form of Non-Cash (primary home, secondary home, business interest, stock portfolio, retirement account etc…). National Christian Foundation's specialty or "sweet spot" is helping donor's unlock these Non-Cash assets for charitable giving while showing them how to save HUGE amounts in taxes! Jim will educate us on how a Giving Fund through NCF works as well as how it can be used in some very creative ways to offer huge tax savings for us and our clients.
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