This is week 7 of the 12 week Code Louisville Front End Web Development Track. It seems most students have decided on a project and are actively working on their project. Some students have already made their initial commit to GitHub, and others are close and will be doing that soon.
I'm working on a portfolio project. I've created a sketch of the design, and I have a basic idea of what I want the site to look like. I have created the basic file structure for the project, and I'm working on the HTML structure first. I've added a little CSS so I can see the layout of the structure and a header.
I'm working on a mobile first design philosophy. I'll add media queries in the CSS to format for tablet and desktop screen sizes.
Truthfully it was more of a review for me at this point, but the required hands-on repetition really worked well for me at this stage of my learning. I'm extremely happy with the combination and slightly different approaches between Treehouse and Codecademy. To top it off, Codecademy is free with an optional paid level that includes quizzes, a training plan, and mentors. Obviously time is an issue for Code Louisville students, but as your schedule permits, I would advise incorporating both Codecademy and LinkedIn Learning/Lynda.com , along with your Treehouse courses as you are able.
That is it for this week at Code Louisville. See you all next week!


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Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Takes Part in Election of Deputies to SPA
Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, took part in the election of deputies to the 14th Supreme People's Assembly at Sub-constituency No. 40 of Constituency No. 10 on Sunday. At 11:00 a.m., Supreme Leader of the Party, state and army Kim Jong Un arrived at the polling station set up in Kim Chaek University of Technology. He met with Hong So Hon, president of the university, and Ri Song Uk, chairman of its party committee. The teaching staff and students of the university enthusiastically welcomed him, offering the highest glory and warmest greetings. He headed toward the polling station, waving back to the voters in acknowledgement. He received a vote from the chairman of the election committee at Sub-constituency No. 40 of Constituency No. 10 for the election of deputies to the SPA and cast it for Hong So Hon, a candidate for a deputy to the SPA. Talking to Hong, the Supreme Leader said that Kim Chaek University of Technology plays a very important role in all key sectors of socialist economic construction. He gave a pep-talk to him, asking him to work well so that the university could fulfill its responsibility and obligation as the eldest son most trusted by the Party to make a breakthrough in improving science and education, invigorating economy and bettering the standard of the people's living, and as a locomotive leading science, education and economic construction of the country. Emphasizing once again the position and importance of the university in building a powerful socialist country, the Supreme Leader clearly indicated the direction and ways for it to follow and conferred a benefit for the education of the university and modernization of its scientific equipment and IT. Political News Team

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AirAsia X to be separated, IPO
An AirAsia X A330.
The AirAsia Group has announced a restructuring that will see AirAsia X operate more independently from the Malaysian carrier, while the long haul affiliate is also aiming to launch an initial public offering during the second half of 2011.
"After more than two years of operation, we have begun to notice some dilution of the AirAsia business model and recognise the need for AirAsia and AirAsia X to remain focused on their respective markets," said AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes. "Nevertheless, we are extremely pleased with how quickly AirAsia X has grown in the two and a half years since its birth."
The new arrangement will see AirAsia X take on responsibility for its day to day operations and commercial strategy, although it will continue to use the AirAsia brand and website under a 30 year agreement. Much of the commercial strategy and operations between AirAsia and AirAsia X have been shared despite the two companies operating on different air operators' certificates.
Although converging with their branding in recent years, AirAsia and AirAsia X are two different companies, with AirAsia X emerging from former regional airline FlyAsianXpress in 2007 to operate long haul services with a fleet of Airbus A330-300s. AirAsia X's investors include AirAsia, the Virgin Group, Orix and former Air Canada CEO Robert Milton.
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Q: Why not always use templates instead of actual types? Why not just use templates instead of actual type? I mean, then you would not have to care about what type you are dealing with at any time, right? Or am I wrong and is there actually a reason why we use actual types, like int and char?
Thank you!

A: I think it's an issue of over complication that will never give a benefit.
Consider a simple class:
class Row {
    size_t len;
    size_t cap;
    int* values;
};

NB: You'd really instantiate std::vector<int> but lets look at this as a familiar example...
So looking that way we certainly gain a benefit here by making this a template in the type of values.
template<typename VALUE>
class Row {
    size_t len;
    size_t cap;
    VALUE* values;
};

That's a big win! We can write a general purpose Row class and even if this is part of (say) a maths package and this is a vector space tuple with members like  sum() and max() and so on we can use other arithmetic types like long and double and build a very useful template.
How about going further? Why not parameterize the len and cap members?
template<typename VALUE,typename SIZE>
class Row {
    SIZE len;
    SIZE cap;
    VALUE* values;
};

What have we won? Not so much it seems. The purpose of size_t is to be the suitable type to represent object sizes. You could use int or unsigned or whatever but you're not going to gain flexibility (negative lengths won't make sense) and all you will do is arbitrarily limit the size of a row.
Remember to follow this through every single use of Row must be a template and accept an alternative for SIZE. Here's our Matrix template:
template<typename VALUE, typename ROW_SIZE, typename COL_SIZE>
class {
    Row< Row<VALUE,ROW_SIZE> , COL_SIZE> rows;
};

OK so we can simplify by making ROW_SIZE the same type as COL_SIZE but ultimately we've done that by picking size_t as the common denominator of sizes.
We can take this to it's logical conclusion and the entry point of the program will become:
int main() {
    main<VALUE,SIZE,/*... many many types ...*/,INDEX_TYPE>();
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Where every type decision is a parameter and been threaded up through all the functions and classes to the entry point.
There are a number of problems with this:

*

*It's a maintenance nightmare. You can't change or add to a buried class without threading its type decisions up to the entry point.

*It will be a compilation nightmare. C++ isn't fast at compiling and this will make it a shed load worse. For a large program I can imagine you might even run out of memory as the compiler resolves the mother of all templates. [more of an issue on larger applications]

*Incomprehensible error messages. For good reason compilers struggle to provide easy to trace errors in templates. With templates nested in templates to who-knows how deep that would be a real problem.

*You won't gain any useful flexibility. The types are eventually interlinked that many sundry types have a good provided answer that you won't want to change anyway.
In the end if you do have a type that you think is an application parameter (such as value-type in some mathematical package) the best way to parameterize is to use a typedef. typedef double real_type in effect makes the whole source code a template without all that template gubbins all round the shop.
You can typedef float real_type or typedef Rational real_type (where Rational is some imagined rational number implementation) and genuinely create a flexible parameterized library.
But even then you probably won't typedef size_t size_type or whatever because you're not expecting to vary that type.
So in summary you'll end up doing a lot of work to provide flexibility much of which you won't use and have mechanisms such as library level typedef that allow you to parameterize your application in far less conspicuous and labour intensive ways.
I'd say a draft guideline for templates is "Do you need two of them?". If some function or class is likely to have instances with different parameters then the answer is templates. If you think you've got a type (or a value) that is fixed for a given instance of the application then you should use compile time constants and library level typedefs.

A: There are a couple of reasons. Some of them I shall now list:
Backwards compatibility. Some code bases don't use templates and so you can just replace all the code.
Errors in Code. Sometimes you want to be certain that you are getting a float/int/char or what have you in order for your code to run without errors. Now it would be a fair assumption to use templates and then cast the types back to what you need but tat doesn't always work. For example:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

void hello(string msg){
    msg += "!!!";
    std::cout << msg << '\n';
}

int main(){
    hello("Hi there"); // prints "Hi there!!!"
}

This works. But replacing the function above with this one doesn't work:
template<typename T>
void hello(T msg){
    msg += "!!!";
    std::cout << msg << '\n';
}

(Note: Some compilers may actually run the code above but usually you should get an error in evaluation of 'operator+=(const char*, char [4])')
Now there are way to get around such errors but sometimes you just want a simple working solution.

A: One reason is that templates need to be instantiated for every concrete type, so, lets say if you have a function like that:
void f(SomeObject object, Int x){
  object.do_thing_a(x);
  object.do_thing_b(x);
}

And Int is templated, compiler must generate one instance of foo, do_thing_a, do_thing_b, and probably many more functions called from do_thing_a and do_thing_b for every Int be it short or unsigned long long. Sometimes this can even lead to a combinatorial explosion of instances.
Also, you can't make virtual member functions template, for obvious reasons. There is now way compiler can know what instances it should put into vtable prior to compiling the whole program.
By the way, functional languages with type inference doing this all the time. When you write
f x y = x + y

in Haskell, you actually get (very loosely speaking) something close to C++
template<class Num, class A>
A f(A x, A y){
    return Num::Add(x, y);
}

Yet in Haskell the compiler is not obligated to generate an instance for every concrete A.

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Sean Holman's Unknowable Country
mapping the boundaries of government secrecy in Canada
#CDNFOI
THE WEEK THAT WAS — MARCH 22, 2014
Government is zipping the lips of non-partisan sources of information. (Photograph by Shutterstock.com)
• Before becoming a journalist, I was a communications advisor for the British Columbia government. In that role, I regularly scheduled interviews between reporters and bureaucrats — providing the media with an opportunity to access detailed information about public interest issues that they couldn't get from cabinet ministers. Fifteen years later, those kinds of interviews, in my experience, appear to have become a rarity. Now, journalists are only allowed to speak with politicians and spin doctors. Nor am I alone in noticing this trend.
In a column for the Ottawa Citizen, University of British Columbia political science PhD candidate Stewart Prest argues that, "in field after field…politically relevant, yet non-partisan expertise is being removed from public discourse." According to Prest, that's a problem because "access to alternative sources of information is a prerequisite of democracy." And "in modern democratic states one of the most important sources for non-partisan information and expertise is the government itself."
• Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is right that Alberta's provincial political system — like those elsewhere in Canada — is too secretive. He's also right that it is too partisan. But I can't see that system being the reason why Premier Alison Redford was forced to resign. Yet that's exactly what the Calgary mayor is claiming.
Speaking with reporters, Nenshi said Redford's resignation is "the story of a system that takes someone like that, chews them up and then spits them out." But one could argue, as I did during an interview on CFAX 1070 last Thursday, that this is the story of a system that worked as it should. It's a story where Redford's caucus — elected officials — succeeded in holding to account a premier who had become both unpopular and misspent taxpayer dollars.
• Nenshi may not like Alberta's secretive provincial political system — "one where where party and caucus, a bunch of unelected people, a bunch of people who meet only behind closed doors, make decisions about the future of this province." But it's worth remembering that Calgary's city council has also been criticized for its secrecy.
A report published this past September by the Manning Foundation found that nearly a fifth of that council's meetings have happened in secret since Nenshi swept into office. But it's also worth remembering local governments across Canada have confronted similar complaints. And the foundation is seen as being opposed to Nenshi.
• The Hill Times reports Ottawa's Parliamentary Press Gallery — in response to the Harper administration's clampdown on government information — has passed a motion "asserting the right of journalists to ask questions 'in all photo-ops and availabilities with the Prime Minister, Cabinet ministers, and all Parliamentarians, to fulfill our functions as journalists in a democratic society."
That's all well and good. In fact, it's exactly what I would do. But it's important to remember journalists often don't get actual answers to those questions. Instead, politicians usually give statements that repeat their party's talking points. Those statements are then sometimes published or broadcast verbatim by Canada's news outlets. So just how much value is there in journalists asserting their right to access what can amount to little more than propaganda?
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Q: How to calculate this limit? Is it possible to use L'Hopital's rule? $$\lim_{x \to -2}\frac{(x-6)^{\frac{1}{3}}+2}{x+2}$$
Update
What is wrong with WolframAlpha then?
As it states that this limit does not exist here.

A: Yes, of course:
$$\lim_{x\rightarrow-2}\frac{\sqrt[3]{x-6}+2}{x+2}=\lim_{x\rightarrow-2}\frac{1}{3\sqrt[3]{(x-6)^2}}=\frac{1}{12}.$$
Without:
$$\lim_{x\rightarrow-2}\frac{\sqrt[3]{x-6}+2}{x+2}=\lim_{x\rightarrow-2}\frac{x-6+8}{(x+2)(\sqrt[3]{(x-6)^2}-2\sqrt[3]{x-6}+4)}=\frac{1}{12}.$$

A: If you want a "fancy", non-Hospital way, to evaluate the limit: let us only basic, though somewhat cumbersome, factoring.
From $\;a^3+b^3=(a+b)(a^2-ab+b^2)\iff a+b=\cfrac{a^3+b^3}{a^2-ab+b^2}\;$ , when we assume nothing is divided by zero, we get:
$$x+2=\left(x^{1/3}\right)^3-\left(2^{1/3}\right)^3=\left(x^{1/3}+2^{1/3}\right)\left(x^{2/3}-x^{1/3}2^{1/3}+2^{2/3}\right)$$
and likewise:
$$(x-6)^{1/3}+2=(x-6)^{1/3}+8^{1/3}=\frac{(x-6)+8}{(x-6)^{2/3}-8^{1/3}(x-6)^{1/3}+8^{2/3}}=$$
$$=\frac{x+2}{(x-6)^{2/3}-8^{1/3}(x-6)^{1/3}+8^{2/3}}$$
So we finally get that
$$\frac{(x-6)^{1/3}+2}{x+2}=\frac1{(x-6)^{2/3}-8^{1/3}(x-6)^{1/3}+8^{2/3}}\xrightarrow[x\to-2]{}\frac1{(-8)^{2/3}-8^{1/3}\cdot(-8)^{/13}+8^{2/3}}=$$
$$=\frac1{4-2\cdot(-2)+4}=\frac1{12}$$

A: Deriv of top is $(1/3)(x-6)^{(-2/3)}$ and of bottom is $1$. So no problem to use Lopital.

A: I'd say no, you can't use l'Hopital. This limit is the derivative of $(x-6)^{1/3}$ at $x=-2$, by definition of the derivative. If you don't already know this limit, how would you differentiate the numerator?
More concretely, if you try to apply l'Hopital, and use the definition of the derivative to do the calculations, the denominator becomes $1$, and the numerator turns into $$\lim_{x\to-2}\frac{(x-6)^{1/3}+2}{x-2}$$ So technically, you can use l'Hopital (the requirements of the theorem are fulfilled), but it won't help you progress at all.
Instead, since this limit is a derivative, I suggest you use more general derivative rules, like the derivative of $x^{1/3}$ and the chain rule, to find this derivative, and thus your answer.


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Writing Hope
A vestigial site with links I don't have a new home for yet
3o Days of Novel Prep
Plot Structures: The Hero's Journey (NaNo Prep 13)
We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are. — Madeleine L'Engle
Image courtesy of S Braswell via stock.xchng
Frequently we use the word hero interchangeably with main character, and that is what will happen here today. For an excellent excellent discussion of What makes a Hero, click that link.
Even though I say I'm using Hero "just" as MC, I think we should all understand the the reason there's a story about these people is that they are heroic: proactive, admirable and/or memorable.
At it's worst, "The Hero's Journey" is an OCD checklist that results in a story as bloated as a cat fed "exactly what the bag says she needs" that has to waddle from place to place.
At it's best The Hero's Journey is a psychological map that you can look at next to your story and decide if the terrain is relevant enough for the map to be useful.
Laid out by mythologist Joseph Campbell in his 1949 book, The Hero With a Thousand Faces (which is quite the slog to read, I've heard, totally giving you bragging rights if you get through the whole thing), the hero's journey is often described as a circle, punctuated by tasks or gateways or individuals that shape the story and the aforementioned hero.
For anyone who wants to explore this venerable (and useful, despite my tone 😉 ) structure, the better work to read would be Christopher Vogler's The Writer's Journey. This I have read and can heartily recomend as a reference work. It lays out the whole concept and shows how it can apply to the writers life as well as the storyline s/he is working on.
The cycle is as follows, but remember, it is shaped as a circle, not a line like this.
One of the philosophical differences I take to this structure is that the stories I enjoy most are about progression and trajectory. The core idea I see here is that you belong where you were, just as a different person. That you can only become through tragedy.
Maybe that's true, but I'm not going to play that way today.
Um, nothing yet.
(Image courtesy of Piotr Bizior via stock.xchng)
Step 0. The ordinary world. The "before" pic for your before-and-after shoot.
Call to Adventure
Refusal of the call
ultimate acceptance of the call (or the story wouldn't move on).
Helpers appear
provide training, trajectory, motivation or simply new thoughts that prepare him to overcome
Resistance (aka Threshold Guardians) shows up.
This feels like the biggest fight of the young hero's life– and maybe, but really it's just the fight to let him enter the arena.
Cross the threshold (about 25% into your story).
This is when the story premise really begins: Dorothy is in Oz, Frodo is on the move. This is the action we picked up this story for.
Tests, Allies and Enemies
Our hero meets a bit of everything and has to learn to sort through them
With his band of true friends the hero approaches the Midpoint of the story and his Great-Good Goal
The Ordeal (Midpoint climax and half-way point of your story)
also called Belly of the Whale– facing death and/or one's deepest fears
The Reward — The hero collects what he came for, but it (and he) is not completely secure yet.
This can be a physical object, a relationship, an epiphany, now available because he survived the ordeal.
The Road Back (seems to me that most of The Odyssey is this step. In any case it's a vivid example of how the road back isn't a cakewalk.) 75% mark comes somewhere in here.
Image courtesy of Gilbert Tremblay via stock.xchng
This is the climax-climax. The hero faces death/his greatest fears again, but this time, because of the journey, he is different. The moment of victory is the Hero and the rest of the world realizing that he is made new, transformed by his experiences.
Returning with the Elixar — The hero finishes his journey home, with some tangible element of his journey that will benefit his world has he has benefited.
For a beautiful list with all sorts of clickable trails to get lost in for hours of NT (you know who you are) entertainment, please please click here to visit the Hero's Journey Page on TVtropes.org.
And if you've never heard of or never visited TVTropes before, be prepared to lose yourself down the rabbit hole. For a story-centric person (like myself) it is one of the most delightful ways to lose time on the internet. The bonus (if you're a writer) is that none of your time will be wasted. It is all research.
Terrific links to see actual diagrams and examples are TV Tropes, like I already mentioned, and here, where the author of The Writer's Journey lays out his interpretation and some application.
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in Amnesty, illegal immigration, MALDEF, redistricting
Latino activist group MALDEF wants a 2nd all-Latino district in California
The Los Angeles Redistricting Committee's new constituency lines met with fierce opposition by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors provisional-redistricted map failed to generate a second "Latino-majority supervisorial district."
MALDEF contends five of the County Supervisors neglected their obligation to create a second all-Latino district as mandated by the federal Voting Rights Act. "They need to respect the Federal Voting Rights Act (in order to) avoid an expensive lawsuit the county is guaranteed to lose," said Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel of MALDEF.
In an email, Saenz pointed to the Census Bureau statistics that showed the Hispanic population in Los Angeles County, between 2000 and 2010, grew by almost half a million residents. On the other hand, the county lost approximately 150,000 non-Latino residents. "Latinos now make up almost half the county's population," he said.
However, MALDEF argues that the majority of the County Supervisors "specifically Supervisors Mike Antonovich, Don Knabe, and Zev Yaroslavsky apparently oppose creating a second Latino supervisorial district. They are more interested in preserving their comfortable, current district lines," Saenz said.
He also says that Los Angeles County has put incumbents' preferential district lines ahead of Hispanic voting rights in the past. Twenty years ago, Los Angeles County lost a Voting Rights Act lawsuit that found some supervisors intentionally sought to prevent the creation of a Latino district. The lawsuit paved the way for the first Latino member of the Board of Supervisors, Gloria Molina.
"Now, the Supervisors are on the verge of again adopting a map that disrespects the Latino community and its population growth. Moreover, they are on the verge of violating the Voting Rights Act by failing to create a new Latino district when they know that one is warranted," Saenz explained.
In an effort to secure another Hispanic district, the Advisory Commission received several maps from leaders that would create a second Latino-majority district. Nevertheless representatives Knabe and Yaroslavsky rejected all redistricting proposals.
As a result, MALDEF is encouraging Latino residents to call or email their representatives and make the following points;
1. It's just, and it is the law.Support the creation of a second Latino district because it better respects Los Angeles County's population and the Federal Voting Rights Act.
2. Latino voters have a long memory.The Latino community will interpret self-interested votes to deny a second Latino district as hostile actions against the Latino community. Remind them that the Latino community has a long memory should these Supervisors ever want to run for future offices.
3. Don't waste taxpayer money.Los Angeles County lost a costly lawsuit the last time it tried to ignore the Federal Voting Rights Act. Don't waste taxpayer money by triggering another successful lawsuit.
The County Supervisors MALDEF are targeting include; Gloria Molina, 1st District; Mark Ridley-Thomas, 2nd District; Zev Yaroslavsky, 3rd District; Don Knabe, 4th District and Michael D. Antonovich; 5th District Mayor.
MALDEF is a leading Latino civil rights organization specializing in courtroom litigation ensuring Hispanics get equal access to education, employment, immigrant rights and a voice in the political arena. They describe themselves as the "law firm of the Latino community," and promote social justice through advocacy and community organizing.
For more information on MALDEF, http://maldef.org/
For more redistricting information; http://wedrawthelines.ca.gov/ or http://maldef.org/redistricting/index.html
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Illegal alien lawsuits continue to clog the courts in California
Well-funded illegal alien activists in Southern California have found a new way to attack Americans fighting for secure borders and enforcement of current immigration laws. The fight has moved from the streets where they wave the their Mexican flag to America's civil courtrooms.
"Allow me to understand this correctly. Illegal aliens, people who have committed a crime by entering this country illegally, and who continue to commit additional crimes by using counterfeit documents to project a status they are not entitled to, are suing cities and citizens for "disrupting their RIGHT to work in the US, even though they have no such right? If any immigrant "rights" organization or other advocacy group is responsible for the filing of such suits, either directly or indirectly, they should be counter claimed against for abuse of process and malicious prosecution. It's time for the good citizens of this country to fight back through the courts," said retired ICE Agent John Sampson who now runs CSI Consulting and Investigations.
The beef about an upcoming lawsuit in San Diego against Jeff Schwilk, founder of the San Diego Minutemen, stems from a violent attack on Los Angeles anti-illegal immigration activist John Monti in November 2006 at the Rancho Penasquitos day-labor site in San Diego.
"Controversial San Diego attorney Daniel Gilleon was hired by La Raza operatives more than three years ago to go after San Diego Minutemen and other pro-security activists," says Schwilk.
Monti had gone to the infamous makeshift hiring site to photograph the day laborers and the law-breaking employers hiring illegal workers. "It is still a felony to hire illegal aliens in the U.S. and studies have shown that almost all day laborers are illegal aliens from Latin America, Schwilk explains.
While photographing the street-side hiring process, Monti was suddenly jumped from behind by at least seven Hispanic men. "They punched him, tried to steal his professional camera, and pushed him into the busy boulevard. Several passersby's witnessed the attack and called 911. When police arrived two minutes later, they found a bloody and shaken Mr. Monti," witnesses reported.
Once the police were called to the scene, all of the attackers had made a run for it. Luckily, Monti photographed many of the laborers prior to the attack and was able to show San Diego Police Department. The next day the victim, Monti, sent the same pictures via email to local San Diego activists so they could call the police if the suspects returned to the day labor site where they usually look for employment every day. At this point Schwilk received the pictures and forwarded them to his local law enforcement contacts and other concerned residents in the area.
Their claim was defendants were disseminating pictures of the suspects with Monti's statement and pointed out that they were wanted for questioning by SDPD regarding day-labor site scuffle. The flyer indicated if anyone had any information about the incident to phone the police.
Police records show the suspects were being sought for questioning and most of them were eventually found and questioned. No charges against the suspects were ever filed, as they all, not surprisingly, claimed that Monti attacked them first. According to Schwilk, local illegal alien activists were seen speaking with the suspects soon after the attacks.
"Witnesses who saw Monti being attacked and beaten were ignored by investigators and the city attorney, who were under extreme pressure from the so-called 'Mexican mafia' to protect the suspects (most of them Mexican citizens) from prosecution," Schwilk contends. Fox News' and Monti's lawsuits were eventually dismissed or settled, but Schwilk demanded a trial to prove that this was just another unfounded, frivolous lawsuit and malicious prosecution meant to harass and silence those who oppose illegal immigration.
This defamation suit also accuses Schwilk of putting up Monti's "wanted posters" in the area around the day labor site – a charge Schwilk denies. Schwilk and a few other concerned citizens did use Monti's pictures to identify two of the suspects standing at the sidewalk hiring area three days after the attack.
"When we saw two of the suspects back at their sidewalk loitering area, we immediately called SDPD. The lead detective of the nearby division came to the scene and explained to us that they had already questioned and released those two men and that an arrest had been made," Schwilk said. "The officers refused to elaborate further, but they told us they were fully investigating the assault on Monti and hoped to bring all of the guilty day laborers to justice."
The lead attorney in this so-called lawsuit is Dan Gilleon of Del Mar(??). In emails from Gilleon obtained by the Examiner, Gilleon repeatedly seems to be asking Schwilk to settle the case over the past year. In the most recent email sent on Feb. 6, Gilleon again offers to Schwilk, "If you want to settle, we'll take $1,000 for each plaintiff, cash now, or $10,000 each in stipulated judgments."
Schwilk has repeatedly told the plaintiff's attorney Gilleon that he has no intention of settling this case because he is the victim not the other way around. In addition to last minute attempts to avoid taking this case to trial, Gilleon failed to depose Schwilk for 2 1/2 years and recently convinced the judge to allow a last-minute deposition just days before the trial is set to commence.
In a voicemail message from Gilleon, he declined to comment on this pending case. However he claims there is a new lawsuit pending against Schwilk. However, court records show no new lawsuits have been filed.
Schwilk, who is now defending himself, says he strongly opposes a deposition at this late date because he believes Gilleon lied to the judge about trying to depose him in October. Evidence submitted to the court last week clearly shows that Gilleon claimed to have served Schwilk a notice of a deposition at a long-abandoned store in Oceanside. Schwilk says he has asked Judge Styn to rescind his recent deposition order and the motion is pending.
The trial begins on Thursday. It is worth pointing out, the attorney for the plaintiffs admitted that all his clients were living in Mexico and may not be able to enter the country legally to attend the trial, according to Schwilk.
It is a sad commentary that the civil court system is filled with well-funded foreign interests who hire activist lawyers to gain control of the country for their illegal clients.
The Minutemen vow to keep fighting no matter how many lawsuits La Raza activists file against them. "Our cause to make our cities and our country safe and secure is too great to be deterred by these people who make a mockery of our legal system," Schwilk finishes.
In another lawsuit filed in Costa Mesa, California, MALDEF the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund charges the city's anti-solicitation ordinance is unconstitutional. Joining in on the February 2, 2010 lawsuit is the ACLU of Southern California and the National Day Laborer's Organizing Network (NDLON).
The civil rights groups filed the lawsuit against the City of Costa Mesa on behalf of the Association de Jornaleros de Costa Mesa and the Colectivo Tonantzin, whose members have been restricted from peaceably expressing their need and availability for employment in the city's public areas due to the ordinance.
Claiming his client's first Amendment right, MALDEF President and General Counsel Thomas A. Saenz said, "Free speech, one of our most cherished rights, belongs to everyone in society. Day laborers seeking work have as much right to express themselves as the largest corporation employing hundreds of thousands. Costa Mesa's anti-solicitation ordinance violates this vital and longstanding constitutional principle."
"The city's anti-solicitation ordinance prohibits any person standing on a sidewalk or other public area from soliciting employment, business or contributions in any manner deemed to be intended to attract the attention of traveling vehicles. The ordinance subjects day laborers and other solicitors to a fine of $1,000 and imprisonment up to six months. The ordinance violates the day laborers' First and Fourteenth amendments rights under the United States Constitution," according Saenz.
"Day laborers have contributed to the Costa Mesa economy for decades," says Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. "Particularly during these tough times, the hard work they provide the community should be rewarded and not the target of destructive law enforcement practices."
The ruling of federal courts throughout the country in the past have ruled in favor of preserving the free speech rights of day laborers, which allows them to continue to solicit work.
"The contention that the civil rights of illegal day laborers are being violated is pure malarkey and if anything at all, the advocates can be criminally charged and prosecuted for aiding and abetting illegal alien immigration," says Vince Johnson in a letter to the city of Costa Mesa.
He goes on to explain this frivolous lawsuit should be recognized as such by any federal judge who may incorporate immigration law regarding employment by undocumented immigrants.
"I suggest that you utilize the resources of Homeland Security/ICE, the US Department of Labor and the US Justice Department to promptly stop this court action and affirm that this country can not be controlled by people who do not even have the right to be in this country. Any meddling by the Mexican government is a clear-cut violation of American law and sovereignty," Johnson finished.
The meddling of Mexico continues to play out on both sides of the border. It was reported by the M3 report (a publication put out by the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers) that all political parties of the Mexican Senate must reproached the policy change of direction of President, Barack Obama, "who has decided to go back on the promise he made to all the Hispanic groups that supported him, and now he insists on closing the border. The government of Barack Obama seeks to increase the funds to reinforce border security with $4.6 billion to support 20,000 agents of the Border Patrol, as well as to finish the first portion of the 'virtual fence,'" the report stated.
The Mexican government continues by "announcing that he (Obama) will build the missing portion of the 'virtual fence' by means of which everyone who crosses, undocumented or illegally, will be detected and can be immediately jailed and later expelled, (and also) reinforcing the number of agents for customs, as well as for the border. From now on we Mexicans will not know what to believe when we speak with the President of all the Americans, because he is a President who fails to keep his word," according to a member of the Mexican Senate.
One thing is certain Mexico continues to demand the rule of law be tweaked in their favor when it comes to illegal immigration. This will surely set up a very contentious immigration reform debate, one the American people have clearly stated Amnesty will not be a part of the legislation.
For more stories; http://www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner


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Score Keeping in Board Games: How Do You Deal with Independent Scoring?
We play a lot of games that require independent score keeping, such as Azul and Bunny Kingdom. These are basically honor system games, more so than general victory point games. Since the scoring is complex and completed round by round, there's no way of knowing whether the score is being calculated correctly for each person -- and, often, it just isn't. Over time, I've noticed that the same people tend to win these games, even if they aren't generally good at that type of game.
They aren't cheating.
They're confused.
Some Of Us Are Bad at Math
And I mean, bad at math. All math. Anything to do with numbers. Scoring up a victory point game at the end is just straight addition, and even then some of us can get confused and add things together twice, or forget to add together entire groups. I know that this isn't malicious, because I've seen the same people just completely forget to score a huge number of things, thinking they had lost catastrophically.
The only reason they tend to win more frequently in independent score keeping games is because there is a habit of rounding up when you're doing math. Say you're doing a long calculation of "2 x 8 + 3 x 1 + 4 x 5," and by the end you feel uncertain: was that 36 or 37? Some people will blow past the entire premise and round up to 40 without thinking about it, because that's generally what they've been taught to do.
You Don't Know What You Don't Know
So why don't players ask for help? They don't realize they need it. They blow by "2 x 4 is 10..." and never realize they've made a mistake unless someone walks through it step by step with them. In games like Azul, it's impossible to go over everyone's scoring together, unless you want every round to take forever.
The problem was actually revealed when we played a simpler game: Ancestree. In Ancestree, the ideal is that everyone does self-scoring, but because it was simple enough to do so, we walked through everyone's score together. We found a ton of little errors that were producing vastly different results, from simply reading the board wrong (and thinking some things were adjacent when they weren't), to doing really basic mathematic comparisons incorrectly (4 is more than 5). You might think this is just "stupid people," but it's really not: it's that people become careless when they're playing a game, especially when they're overwhelmed with learning a new game.
It's Not a Big Deal Unless You Make It One
There's no real answer to this. Teaching them how to score over and over doesn't help, because they're just making a lot of casual mistakes. If you've ever corrected exams, you know: people make really small, silly mistakes all the time, which has a dramatic impact on the result that they get.
Unfortunately, it can leave you slightly adrift because you aren't sure whether you're losing strategically or if you're just losing because of the numbers. But there are some things you can do to mitigate this, such as by having everyone use pen and paper, or offering up a calculator. If people have access to some kind of tool, they're more likely to do their work correctly. Working through a score out loud can also help.
Of course, our group doesn't have anyone who would ever intentionally cheat. If your group does, it's an entirely different ball park. Independent scoring games are just not feasible for those situations, because there are a thousand ways someone can discretely fudge the numbers. By the end of a game of Bunny Kingdom, there's no way to back track and determine how many points someone truly got, such as in a game of Lords of Waterdeep. Thus, it's worth thinking about when selecting games to play.
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The death of Baghdadi: How ISIS used al-Qaeda's mistakes to grow a caliphate
SyriaSource by Amanda E. Rogers
Extremism Iraq Middle East Syria Terrorism
Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) French and American Soldiers supporting the siege on Al-Baghouz Fawqani pose for a photo on March 19, 2019. Four days later, the Syrian Defense Forces would declare victory over the Islamic State. Photo by user Philleydelphia on Wikimedia Commons
Optimistic predictions about the end of the Islamic State (ISIS) surged in the wake of US President Donald Trump's October 27 press conference announcing the death of the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but prove misguided in the long term. The threat posed by ISIS remains high, particularly outside the para-state's previously held territories in Iraq and Syria (to say nothing of affiliated organizations from Libya to the Philippines). The death of Baghdadi is highly unlikely to significantly impact the organization in any substantive manner.
Initially, ISIS supporters remained quiet across social media platforms, a silence interpreted by many analysts as indicative of "chaos inside what is left of the leadership." Within four days of Trump's announcement, however, official statements released by ISIS simultaneously confirmed Baghdadi's death and named his successor Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, belying claims by US military forces that it leveled the compound. Trump claimed that US troops also neutralized Abu al-Hassan al-Muhajir, alleged to be the member likely next in line for Baghdadi's position.
Premature triumphalism in public discourse surrounding the ISIS leader's death, most critically, obscures the very real threat posed by the group. These optimistic assessments fail to accurately account for the organization's resilience and strategic objectives. It also fails to understand the group as one that actively learns from, and dynamically adapts to, changing situations on the ground—as well as the mistakes of previous non-state armed groups—such as its predecessor al-Qaeda.
Premature triumphalism in public discourse surrounding the ISIS leader's death, most critically, obscures the very real threat posed by the group.
Unlike al-Qaeda's gradualist approach to awakening and subsequently mobilizing Sunni Muslims for the end goal of establishing a caliphate, ISIS will continue to exert considerable appeal among sympathizers, given the achievement of claiming and controlling territorial holdings for an extended period. Further, the threat posed by ISIS has never been confined to an exclusively territorial theater of combat; rather, what some dub "the virtual caliphate"—i.e. the idea—remains viral, very much alive, and highly unlikely to dissipate any time soon.
The mistakes of al-Qaeda contribute to the threat ISIS continues to pose. Among other lessons ISIS drew from predecessors, the group proves far more resilient to decapitation strikes due to an organizational structure purposefully designed to provide not simply one, but in many cases, numerous potential successors in the event of a key operative's death. In contrast to al-Qaeda's delayed announcement of Osama bin Laden's death, and the six weeks elapsed before the group settled upon a successor, within four days of Baghdadi's death, official propaganda channels crowned Quraishi in conjunction with appeals for the immediate renewal of loyalty pledges from affiliate organizations.
Al-Qaeda's highly centralized, upper-echelon leadership presided over a loose network of dispersed cells and was quickly driven to fragmentation after the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. However, the Islamic State's territorial control and reason for controlling sister-city capitals in both Raqqa and Mosul, is partially for durability. It intentionally created a supranational spread that renders regrouping possible in the future; should the security situation on the ground deteriorate.
Perhaps the most critical lesson ISIS drew from al-Qaeda's missteps—and one that continues to elude many analysts and pundits—concerns the issue of leadership visibility. The identity of Baghdadi eluded many intelligence specialists in the United States, a single photo from his detention in American run-military prisons as the most readily verifiable biographical information about the notorious ISIS leader.
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From the beginning, ISIS took considerable security measures to obscure Baghdadi's identity. Within the organization, even high-level leadership rarely saw Baghdadi in person; even in such rare instances, he appeared with face covered—practices that partially account for his nickname "the Ghost." Moreover, ISIS propaganda deliberately downplayed the caliphal figurehead of Baghdadi—unlike much of al-Qaeda's communications, in which the publicity-hungry leader serves as the charismatic face of the organizational cause.
While Bin Laden issued numerous "proof of life" videos upon reports of his death—as well unprompted, on many other occasions—Baghdadi appeared in visual formats merely twice: the 2014 Ramadan address at Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri, in which Baghdadi proclaims himself caliph of the Islamic State, and a short video clip released by ISIS-affiliated media five years later, in April 2019. Thereafter, Baghdadi's only communications—themselves few and far between—appeared in sporadic audio releases.
Certainly, Baghdadi exerted a certain appeal for some in the ranks, but it is the very idea of the caliphate itself that served—and will continue to do so—as the primary influence and significant draw for sympathizers of the Islamic State. Indeed, long before the declaration of a caliphate or Baghdadi's ascension to the helm of predecessor organization Mujahideen Shura Council (MSC), ISIS shrouded Baghdadi in mystery to such an extent that many within the US military, MSC membership, and rival organizations wondered if any such leader existed at all.
This deliberate decision to relegate the key figurehead to the background will enable the Islamic State to sustain itself in the future.
In the wake of naming Baghdadi's successor, the ISIS announcement drew similar speculation. If the organization's history proves anything, expect the same careful obfuscation of any identifying information that provide biographical detail for Quraishi.
This deliberate decision to relegate the key figurehead to the background will enable the Islamic State to sustain itself in the future. Beyond territorial control, the group's preference for the idea of a revived caliphate, rather than leadership, ensures the threat of ISIS will continue. This continuation is likely to be a viral contagion contingent on no singular individual, or organizational capacity for kinetic operations.
The separation of territorial control and leadership loyalty from the idea of the caliphate, in fact, enables us to make key predictions about the post-Baghdadi future of ISIS. Languishing in a northern Iraq prison, unrepentant ISIS fighter Muhammad Hasik dismissed the death of Baghdadi as insignificant, predicted upcoming attacks on European soil, and concluded that the so-called caliph's neutralization makes "no difference," as "the people exist. The people are there. . . It's more dangerous than before."
Not only have attacks in the so-called West increased alongside territorial losses incurred by ISIS—as predicted—and are highly like to continue, but the central objective of such operations remains the eradication of the "grayzone," a phrase used by the group in reference to spaces of coexistence between Muslim and non-Muslim. ISIS attacks in non-Muslim majority nations are expressly intended to create blowback for, and incite attacks against Muslim citizens in those countries.
This strategic approach to divide-and-conquer should be familiar to the United States military planners as Abu Musaab al-Zarqawi—the founder of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the closest organizational branch—successfully pioneered such communitarian attacks during the US occupation. In the process, it transformed an insurgency into a prolonged, sectarian civil war—the ensuing cyclical revenge violence opening up a space from which the Islamic State would later emerge.
No longer confined to Shia versus Sunni conflict, ISIS has taken what this author terms "Zarqawi 101" and simply globalized it. The "ghost" of not only Baghdadi, but Zarqawi, lives on. Under the leadership of Quraishi, we should expect much of the same.
Former US President Barack Obama neutralized Bin Laden, but did not eradicate al-Qaeda. Nor will President Trump's successful assassination of Baghdadi destroy ISIS. The Islamic State has learned considerably well from the mistakes of the past—and it is high time the United States do the same: learn from history, lest we be doomed to repeat it, and the hydra will only continue to grow.
Amanda E. Rogers is a National Endowment for Humanities visiting assistant professor of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at Colgate University. Follow her on Twitter: @MsEntropy.
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This is a serious but not fatal blow to the Islamic State, and the generational conflict against Salafi jihadist organizations is far from over. The Islamic State's center of gravity will increasingly be its narrative pull rather than its claim to represent a governing caliphate.
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In advance of the 2018 NBA Draft, there was plenty of debate. It became clear very early in the process that the Phoenix Suns centered on Arizona big man Deandre Ayton with the No. 1 pick but, in the age of debate, that didn't slow anyone down in arguing in favor of other players for the top spot.
Luka Doncic, now a member of the Dallas Mavericks by way of a trade with the Atlanta Hawks was perhaps the player most frequently placed in the top spot by scouts, but Duke big man Marvin Bagley III wasn't far behind in the eyes of many. In fact, Bagley III landed with the Sacramento Kings with the No. 2 overall selection and, while not everyone loved that choice, it is easy to see the upside with the youngster.
This week, though, Bagley garnered some notoriety in saying plainly that he believes he's better than Ayton.
It has to be said that this doesn't matter. Most — if not all — top prospects enter the league with overflowing confidence and many of them would say something similar on the record when promoted. It is noteworthy to some degree that Bagley answered the question directly but, in terms of overall importance, there is very little here.


During my quest around flight simulation hardware I have set my focus on hardware manufactured specifically for helicopter flight simulation. My last experience was a replica Bell 206 collective from the Austrian company OE-XAM, and the experience I had using that collective was flight simulation on a completely new level. Therefore I decided to explore the helicopter hardware market once again and now set my focus on a set of torque pedals.
The torque pedals in this review are replica Bell 206 torque pedals which are also manufactured by the Austrian company OE-XAM. The pedals are plug and play and tested using FSX on both Win7 and Win 8.1.
I ordered the set of torque pedals directly at OE-XAM. The ordering went with ease and I used PayPal as paying method. After completing the order and payment, the pedals were manufactured, packed and shipped with an international forwarder.
There were a short lead time of about one week covering the process of the pedals going through the production, being packed and getting ready for transport. Hereafter the transport was about four days, so the complete lead time was about 1-2 weeks which is quite fair.
The delivery had a cost of Euro 25,- since it was inside the EU, but OE-XAM is also able to deliver to both the US/Canada (Euro 35,-) and Australia/New Zealand (Euro 48,-) - prices can be found on OE-XAM's web site.
The pedals were carefully packed inside a hard cardboard box. The inner wrapping around the pedals was bubble plastic which was sealed with tape with the marking "Remove Before Flight" which I think is a quite fun idea. Furthermore the cardboard box was filled with polystyrene foam pieces between the bubble plastic and the cardboard box.
The conclusion in regards of the packing is that the packing is indeed very professional and I don't think it could be much better.
An additional touch is that the tape used outside the hard cardboard box, was with black and yellow stripes making the box look very cool and inside was a surprise - some nice "Remove Before Flight" stickers.
When taking a look at the pedals I could quickly see that these pedals were not the standard flight simulator hardware pedals, but indeed some high quality and very professionally manufactured pedals.
The first thing that I discovered was that everything that I could see and touch was all made of metal. No plastic parts whatsoever! Just this simple fact already raised my expectation to a completely new level.
The pedals are created with an eye for the details - and do resemble their real world counterparts very well. I found some images on the web site www.Airliners.Net of exactly some Bell 206 pedals and the resemblance was remarkable. I could only see some minor differences like the base casing which is the center and heart of the pedals. On the images that I found of the real pedals, I could see that the base casing was cylindrical and the pedals that I have tested have a square shaped tube casing instead.
I know that OE-XAM has created two versions of the Bell 206 torque pedals and the upgraded set of pedals (not included in this review), is created with the cylindrical base casing, so if you want to go all the way in regards of replica realism, then OE-XAM can provide that for sure.
The torque pedals basically consist of a base casing where all the electronics are placed within. The base casing is created with metal which is then painted with a black and matte paint providing the pedals with a very realistic look.
The base casing is mounted onto a metal bracket, which of course has also been painted the same black and then welded together so that the base and the bracket is one piece. The bracket has the exact same shape as the real Bell 206 torque pedals bracket, which I have also confirmed from pictures from www.Airliners.Net. There are drilled a total of five holes in the bracket to support the screws that can be used to mount the pedals in the home cockpit. One hole is located in the tip pointing towards the pilot and the remaining four holes are located in each corner of the square part of the bracket.
It would be good if we are told how much the mofo costs or at least a link to their website and not just give us the shipping cost only.


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Star Trek Online console moved to the back burners '\\'
Cryptic Studios claims that its tepidly received sci-fi MMORPG will remain on the PC only because of difficulties with "business side of things."
Cryptic Studios announced that massively multiplayer online role-playing game Champions Online and Star Trek Online for a few months of each other for the PC and consoles in 2008. PC editions of those games that landed on a soft critical methods within a few months apart in 2009 and 2010, and now the death of its console editions have also come in lockstep.
Light on these burners ago, in fact, not the space fireball.
In Atari-owned studio, confirming that "There are no current plans for the console version of the Champions League" In late March, the executive producer Craig Zinkievich said that the same fate befell the Star Trek Online. "It 'pretty much in the same boat as the Champions console version right now," Zinkievich said the UK gaming site VideoGamer .
Star Trek Online operates independently from any of the events set out in a movie or TV series. Players act as the captain of the spacecraft, operating under the banner or the United Federation of Planets (also known as 'Federation ") or the Klingons, who are locked in an intergalactic struggle.
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from .config import *
from base64 import encodestring
import ldap
import ldap.modlist as modlist
import re
import sha
import string

def encode_password(password):
    '''encode password to sha'''
    sha_digest = sha.new(password).digest()
    return '{SHA}' + string.strip(encodestring(sha_digest))

def get_full_user_dn(username):
    '''get full dn for username'''
    # define variables
    search_scope = ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE
    retrieve_attributes = ['cn']
    search_filter = 'uid=' + username

    # connection and bind
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)

    # search for full dn
    ldap_result_id = l.search(LDAP_USER_BASE, search_scope, search_filter,
                              retrieve_attributes)

    return l.result(ldap_result_id)[1][0][0]

def get_full_group_dn(group):
    # define variables
    search_scope = ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE
    retrieve_attributes = ['cn']
    search_filter = 'cn=' + group

    # connect
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)

    # search for full dn
    ldap_result_id = l.search(LDAP_GROUP_BASE, search_scope, search_filter,
                              retrieve_attributes)

    return l.result(ldap_result_id)[1][0][0]

def get_username(dn):
    '''get full dn for username'''
    # define variables
    search_scope = ldap.SCOPE_BASE

    # connection and bind
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)

    # search for full dn
    ldap_result_id = l.search(dn, search_scope, '(objectClass=*)')

    return l.result(ldap_result_id)[1][0][1]['uid'][0]

def user_attributes(username):
    # define variables
    search_scope = ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE
    retrieve_attributes = ['uid', 'givenName', 'sn', 'mail']
    search_filter = 'uid=' + username

    # connect
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)

    # search
    ldap_result_id = l.search(LDAP_USER_BASE, search_scope, search_filter,
                              retrieve_attributes)

    # create result list
    result = []
    for i in l.result(ldap_result_id)[1]:
        attributes = [i[1]['uid'][0],
                      i[1]['givenName'][0],
                      i[1]['sn'][0],
                      i[1]['mail'][0]]
        result.append(attributes)

    return result[0]

def user_ls():
    ''' returns a list of users '''
    # define variables
    search_scope = ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE
    retrieve_attributes = ['uid', 'givenName', 'sn', 'mail']
    search_filter = 'uid=*'

    # connect
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)

    # search
    ldap_result_id = l.search(LDAP_USER_BASE, search_scope, search_filter,
                              retrieve_attributes)

    # create result list
    result = []
    for i in l.result(ldap_result_id)[1]:
        attributes = [i[1]['uid'][0],
                      i[1]['givenName'][0],
                      i[1]['sn'][0],
                      i[1]['mail'][0]]
        result.append(attributes)

    return result

def user_add(admin_password, username, first_name, last_name, email, password):
    # connection and bind
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)
    l.simple_bind_s(LDAP_ADMIN, admin_password)

    # dn of the new user
    new_user_dn = 'cn=%s %s,%s' % (first_name,
                                   last_name, LDAP_USER_BASE)

    # getting ldap attributes together
    attrs = {}
    attrs['objectclass'] = ['top', 'inetOrgPerson']
    attrs['cn'] = '%s %s' % (str(first_name), str(last_name))
    attrs['mail'] = str(email)
    attrs['givenName'] = str(first_name)
    attrs['sn'] = str(last_name)
    attrs['uid'] = str(username)
    attrs['userPassword'] = str(encode_password(password))

    # create ldif
    ldif = modlist.addModlist(attrs)

    # add ldif to server
    l.add_s(new_user_dn, ldif)

    # disconnect
    l.unbind_s()

def user_modify(admin_password, username, email, password):
    # define variables
    full_dn = get_full_user_dn(username)

    # connection and bind
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)
    l.simple_bind_s(LDAP_ADMIN, admin_password)

    # encode password
    password = encode_password(password)

    # create mod list and modify ldap entry
    mod_list = (
        (ldap.MOD_REPLACE,
         'userPassword',
         str(password)),
        (ldap.MOD_REPLACE,
         'mail',
         str(email)),
    )
    l.modify(full_dn, mod_list)

    # disconnect
    l.unbind_s()

def user_rm(admin_password, username):
    # define variables
    full_dn = get_full_user_dn(username)

    # connection and bind
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)
    l.simple_bind_s(LDAP_ADMIN, admin_password)

    # delete
    l.delete_s(full_dn)

    # disconnect
    l.unbind_s()

def user_addto(admin_password, groupname, username):
    ''' add user to group '''
    # get full dn's
    full_group_dn = get_full_group_dn(str(groupname))
    full_user_dn = get_full_user_dn(str(username))

    # connection and bind
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)
    l.simple_bind_s(LDAP_ADMIN, str(admin_password))

    # getting attrs together
    mod_attrs = [(ldap.MOD_ADD, 'member', full_user_dn)]

    l.modify_s(full_group_dn, mod_attrs)

    # disconnect
    l.unbind_s()

def user_rmfrom(admin_password, groupname, username):
    ''' removes user from group'''
    # get full dn's
    full_group_dn = get_full_group_dn(str(groupname))
    full_user_dn = get_full_user_dn(str(username))

    # connection and bind
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)
    l.simple_bind_s(LDAP_ADMIN, str(admin_password))

    # getting attrs together
    mod_attrs = [(ldap.MOD_DELETE, 'member', full_user_dn)]

    l.modify_s(full_group_dn, mod_attrs)

    # disconnect
    l.unbind_s()

def group_add(admin_password, groupname, username):
    # connection and bind
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)
    l.simple_bind_s(LDAP_ADMIN, str(admin_password))

    # dn of the new group
    new_group_dn = 'cn=%s,%s' % (str(groupname), LDAP_GROUP_BASE)

    # getting ldap attributes together
    attrs = {}
    attrs['objectClass'] = ['top', 'groupOfNames']
    attrs['cn'] = str(groupname)
    attrs['member'] = get_full_user_dn(str(username))

    # create ldif
    ldif = modlist.addModlist(attrs)

    # add ldif to server
    l.add_s(new_group_dn, ldif)

    # disconnect
    l.unbind_s()

def group_ls():
    ''' creating an array with group and users '''
    # define variables
    search_scope = ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE
    retrieve_attributes = ['cn', 'member']
    search_filter = 'objectClass=groupOfNames'

    # connect
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)

    # search
    ldap_result_id = l.search(LDAP_GROUP_BASE, search_scope, search_filter,
                              retrieve_attributes)

    # print result
    groups = {}
    for group in l.result(ldap_result_id)[1]:
        group_members = []
        for member in group[1]['member']:
            group_members.append(user_attributes(get_username(member)))
        groups[group[1]['cn'][0]] = group_members

    return groups

def group_rm(admin_password, groupname):
    # definde variables
    full_dn = get_full_group_dn(str(groupname))

    # connection and bind
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)
    l.simple_bind_s(LDAP_ADMIN, str(admin_password))

    # delete
    l.delete_s(full_dn)

    # disconnect
    l.unbind_s()

def is_in_group(group, user):
    # define variables
    search_scope = ldap.SCOPE_SUBTREE
    retrieve_attributes = ['member']
    search_filter = 'cn=%s' % group

    # connect
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)

    # search
    ldap_result_id = l.search(LDAP_GROUP_BASE, search_scope, search_filter,
                              retrieve_attributes)

    member_list = l.result(ldap_result_id)[1][0][1]['member']
    try:
        if get_full_user_dn(user) in member_list:
            return True
        else:
            return False
    except Exception:
        return False

def ldap_fetch(uid, password):
    # search_filter = "uid=" + uid
    l = ldap.open(LDAP_SERVER)
    try:
        l.bind_s(get_full_user_dn(uid), password)
        return unicode(uid)
    except Exception:
        return None

    l.unbind_s()

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2019 All-ODAC Teams
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In the rainy months of early 2013, deafening roars filled the air in the otherwise quiet and tranquil Selenkay conservancy. Our Guardians in the area had been reporting tracks of two male lions for some days and it seemed, perhaps, that these newcomers had finally decided to take on Ndelie, the current resident male lion in the area. The roaring sessions continued for a couple of nights; then a deep silence descended on the area, a silence as dark as the night itself. Life, we thought had returned to normal, but little did we know that a coup had just taken place and life would never be the same for some of the lions in Selenkay again.
Soon after, we responded to several lion depredation incidents in Mbirikani and we found Ndelie, many miles away from his territory in Selenkay. We immediately realized that the two new young males had managed to overthrow him. He was exiled from his family and had returned to the area where he had come from many moons ago. Within a few months, we found one of the new males mating with our collared female Selenkay and there was no sign of her young cubs Ndelie had sired.
These mysterious young males were shy, elusive and uncomfortable with vehicles. In fact, we could hardly get a photograph of them owing to their constant disappearing and extreme skittishness. However, with time and we believe due to the confidence and calmness of the females they were mating with, we slowly were able to get photographs of them and begin to attempt to figure out who they were and where they had came from.
Since then the two young males took over Selenkay areas, they have never looked back. They killed off any young cubs of Ndelie and immediately went about the serious business of reproduction and they have been very successful. They have so far sired 14 cubs from four females and have just mated with the fifth female who they have recently 'stolen' from another male in northern Eselenkei. Over the year, they have grown bigger, both physically and in confidence. The shyness is gone and has been replaced by sheer confidence and a 'don't care' attitude.
The Guardians have given them Maasai names – Loorngojine (he of the hyena) and Loosinkiran (named after the largest hill in the Conservancy). At height of their takeover, Lorngojine killed a hyena and left it on the road for all passersby to observe and know who was in now in charge. Loosinkiran got his name because he often patrols the area surrounding the hill.
Although we now have names for these two males and know them from their personalities, preferences, the females they have mated with and the many cubs they have already produced, we still have no idea where these two males came from, exactly how old they are, who they are related to, etc. We have so many unanswered questions. The Guardians ask repeatedly if there is any way we can figure out where they came from and who they really are.
The lion monitoring team of the Lion Guardians program have been recording lion sightings for 10 years, as a result we have developed a detailed database that provides us with the family history of all the lions in our coverage area over this time period. But these two males are not in our extensive lion database – they seemingly appeared out of nowhere! They were not born or raised in any of the Lion Guardians' areas of the Amboseli ecosystem nor do they seem to have originated from Amboseli National Park. What we do know from our observations and those of others, is that male lions can travel vast distances (200 to 400 kilometers) in search of new territories as they disperse.
We can also make some logical deductions about Loosinkiron and Loorngojinye based on our observations of them. Their shyness and skittishness confirms that they are probably not from a protected area where they would have been accustomed to seeing and hearing vehicles. The direction from which their tracks were first seen by our Lion Guardians, indicate that they could have come from Laing'arrunyoni hills in the Matapato section, an area currently outside our jurisdiction. However, we cannot be certain.
To be certain, we need a new tool and that is why we are developing the Lion Identification Network of Collaborators (LINC) – a cutting edge technology that will enable us to communicate and collaborate with lion researchers and interested citizens to better understand and conserve lion populations across broad landscapes.
But why is it so important to know where they came from? Today we know that lions, especially male lions, can move large distances between populations as they move from their natal home ranges. But we are not sure of which populations are healthy enough to send out dispersing males, how often this happens, where they reach, etc. This activity of dispersing is one of the most important ecological processes, although it remains one of the least understood. As human populations continue to rise and put more pressure on lion rangelands and isolating lion populations, it is increasingly important to understand their dispersal characteristics and how we as conservationists can effectively play a role to maintain connectivity and thus a larger viable metapopulation.
Migrating individuals can rejuvenate populations where local extinction may have occurred, as well as enable a "rescue effect" in which immigrating individuals protect a dwindling local population from extinction.
LINC will allow us to better understand these migration patterns, the movement from populations and thereby enable more effective lion conservation on a broader scale. It will allow us to pinpoint and work on priority areas between various lion populations to ensure lion survival across Maasailand and East Africa.
It takes a community to conserve lions and preserve cultures – help us Make the LINC.


The Three Minute Thesis (3MT™) is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland.
The exercise develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of students' capacities to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience.
Master's and doctoral students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance. 3MT™ is not an exercise in trivializing or 'dumbing-down' research but forces students to consolidate their ideas and crystallize their research discoveries.
This year's finalists represent five colleges and two institutes.
Currently enrolled master's and doctoral students at the University of Georgia will be eligible to participate in 3MT™. Graduates are not eligible. Students must present on the research that will culminate in either their master's thesis or doctoral dissertation. Previous winners of the 3MT competition are not eligible to participate.


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Pierce The Veil have announced a new UK tour
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In Flames have released another new single from their upcoming album, 'Foregone'.
Titled 'Meet Your Maker', the track is the 4th to be released from the album, due to be released on February 10th.
Frontman Anders Fridén spoke about the track, saying: "When we started to write for Foregone, 'Meet Your Maker' became the song that set the tone in terms of what we were aiming for sonically as well as thematically. You'll see it's everything you've come to expect from In Flames and some. Enjoy and see you on the road in 2023!"
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The Christ Child in Medieval Culture
The Christ Child in Medieval Culture: Alpha es et O!
Edited by Mary Dzon and Theresa M. Kenney
The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular culture, visual art, and literature. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period.
The contributors to this unique volume analyse depictions of the Christ Child through a variety of frameworks, including the interplay of mortality and divinity, the medieval conceit of a suffering Christ Child, and the interrelationships between Christ and other figures, including saints and ordinary children. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture synthesizes various approaches to interpreting the cultural meaning of medieval religious imagery and illuminates the significance of its most central figure.
PUBLISHED MAR 2015
PUBLISHED MAY 2012
The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period.
'The abiding impression of this collection – and every essay repays reading and re-reading – is of the extraordinary richness and poetry of medieval devotions and its remarkable freedom from sentimental fripperies.'
Henrietta Leyser
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
'A lively collection of essays.'
Elisabeth Dutton
'A fascinating volume that makes highly entertaining reading, and should be of widespread scholarly interest.'
Judith Oliver
The Medieval Review
'Meticulously documented and edited, this book provides an impressively rich display of the intersections of medieval theology with the visual arts, literary expression, and popular devotion… We will certainly keep this "source-book" to explore further the ever-endearing and engaging figure of God as baby and little boy.'
Laurie Postlewate
The Catholic Historical Review vol 101:03:2015
'The book is highly relevant for those interested in the Middle Ages, the history of Christianity, as well as religion and the arts; it can be an interesting point of departure for future studies on the construction of childhood in the West.'
Daniel Sáenz
Journal of Religion and Culture
'An excellent collection! ... With its impressive, forward-thinking scholarship, these essays will find a broad readership of scholars and students from a variety of disciplines.'
Josie Campbell, Department of English, University of Rhode Island
Mary Dzon is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee.
Theresa Kenney is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Dallas.
Introduction: The Infancy of Scholarship on the Medieval Christ Child
Mary Dzon and Theresa Kenney
SECTION ONE: The Christ Child as Sacrifice
The Christ Child as Sacrifice: A Medieval Tradition and the English Cycle Plays
Leah Marcus
The Manger as Calvary and Altar in the Middle English Nativity Lyric
Theresa Kenney
Signs of Death: The Sacrificial Christ Child in Late Medieval Art
Elina Gertsman
The Christ Child in the Tree: The Motif in the Thirteenth-Century Wood-of-the-Cross Legends and Arthurian Romances
Nicole Fallon
SECTION TWO: The Christ Child and Feminine Spirituality
Birgitta of Sweden and Christ's Clothing
Mary Dzon
Women Wielding Knives: The Circumcision of Christ by His Mother in an Illustrated Manuscript of the Meditationes vitae Christi (Paris Bibliothèque Nationale de France MS. ital. 115)
Holly Flora
Ihesus ist unser!: The Christ Child in the German Sister Books
Richard Kieckhefer
SECTION THREE: The Question of the Christ Child's Development
The Holy Tooth: Dentition, Childhood Development, and the Cult of the Christ Child
William MacLehose
'The Ink of Our Mortality': The Late-Medieval Image of the Writing Christ Child
Mary McDevitt
Reshapings of the Childhood Miracles of Jesus
Pamela Sheingorn
Miri Rubin
Manuscripts Cited
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medieval studies \ medieval art
religious studies \ religion and society
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the governorship election in Sokoto State as inconclusive.
This was revealed at about 2:55 am on Monday by the returning officer, Professor Fatima B. Mukhtar, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Dutse, after the final collation of results.
According to the results which was declared at the state collation centre at Sultan Abubakar institute of Quranic and general studies, Sokoto, the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, is leading his closest rival, who is the candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC), with total votes cast of 489,558 and 486,145 respectively.
The difference between the results declared for both candidates is 3,413 votes which is less than the total number of cancelled votes in the state.
The INEC returning officer said: "The difference between the two major parties is just 3,413 with cancellations in 136 polling units, which is equivalent to 75,403 with total registered voters across 22 Local Government Areas of the state.
"In view of this explanation, I cannot declare any winner for this election. I hereby declare this election inconclusive," she said.


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Loxodonta cookei — вимерлий вид африканського слона. Типова місцевість: 'E' Quarry, Langebaanweg, ПАР. Назва виду присвячена Г. Безілу С. Куку, палеонтологу, який спеціалізувався на вимерлих африканських ссавцях.

Діагностика
Це примітивний слон-локсодонт, що зберігає постійні третій і четвертий премоляри. Відрізняється від L. adaurora, L. exoptata, L. atlantica та L. africana меншою кількістю молярних пластинок, особливо в задніх зубах, і нижчими індексами гіпсодонту, а від нелоксодонтних слонів наявністю передніх і задніх додаткових конулів і тенденцією до емалеві обідки пластинок для формування серединних синусів зі зношеністю, протягом коронок молярів.

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Q: How to use metrics using Steeltoe Actuator + opencensus + Prometheus We are implementing enterprise level application using micro-services architecture.To implement it, .net core and JAVA are being used and it is used pivotal steeltoe framework to implement micro-services features for .net and sprint boot for JAVA.Now we are production ready and need to capture metrics in production environment. We are planing to use actuator framework and Prometheus + graffana dashboards.
Metrics monitoring can be achieved by actuator framework very easily.
If we want to implement same functionality using steeltoe we have to use opencensus to export metrics to Prometheus . My question is - Is there example which is supported to .net core to export metrics from opencensus to Prometheus via steeltoe.
Thanks in advance,

A: Yes, Prometheus endpoint is supported with Steeltoe.  Take a look at the documentation here: https://steeltoe.io/docs/management/prometheus
HTH,
Jason