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Written by John A Martin
Category: Kansas People
Mr. Chairman: When I received the invitation to attend this meeting I did not think of "the day we celebrate," nor of what might occur here, nor of what I could say to you if I came. The invitation to address an assemblage of Scandinavian people broke down the barriers of time and place, and awakened recollections of a body of men, born on the Scandinavian Peninsula, who, nearly a quarter of a century ago, were endeared to me by the strong ties of common hardships, privations, and dangers.
For nearly three years the Kansas regiment I had the honor to command, tented, marched and fought by the side of a regiment of Scandinavians. And when the brave but unfortunate commander of that regiment, Col. Hans C. Heg, was mortally wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, I succeeded him in command of the Brigade. I speak from personal knowledge, therefore, when I say that the Scandinavian people who have immigrated to this country, and sworn allegiance to its Constitution and its laws, are thorough Americans. I have seen their loyalty and devotion tested in the fiery furnace of battle and by the most arduous and trying campaigns. I know, also, something of the work the Scandinavian people have done in developing the resources of this fair young State. Our census returns and our agricultural reports, in telling the story of the wonderful growth and prosperity of those sections of Kansas in which the Scandinavian settlers are located, tell, also, the story of their industry, their enterprise, and their thrift. And so, when I received your kind invitation to attend this meeting, my inclination to accept it, as I wrote Professor Swensson, was very strong. I wanted to avail myself of such an opportunity to acknowledge two important facts concerning Scandinavian Americans—first, the sturdy courage and splendid patriotism I had seen illustrated, by them, during our late civil war; and, second, that as citizens of Kansas they had done their full share in making this a great, prosperous, law-respecting commonwealth. This duty I gladly discharge. With reverent gratitude, I recall the services of the men from the Scandinavian Peninsula who mustered under the flag of the Fifteenth Wisconsin, and with admiring wonder, I look around me and see the substantial evidences of your industry, energy, and enterprise.
One hundred and seven years ago, after the Americans had carried the British works at Stony Point, the Commanding General, Anthony Wayne, sent to Washington a letter which read: "Dear General: The American flag waves here." That was all. But it told all. Today the American flag waves here and everywhere, from the Northern lakes to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. And wherever it waves it is the symbol of peace, order, education, progress, and freedom. It is the flag of sixty million people, and dear to them, one and all, because it is the flag of a Republic where each man is the equal of every other man, in rights and privileges as well as in duties and responsibilities. It is your flag as it is my flag—mine by birth, yours by adoption. You have a right, therefore, to celebrate the anniversary of our National Independence. The impulse which led you to leave the land of your birth and establish homes in the new world, was that love of Freedom and faith in Humanity which is the soul of the great Declaration. Thousands of men of your race and blood have fought and suffered and died for the flag of this Republic. Their services and sacrifices and your own choice have made you heirs to the common heritage of American citizenship—individual liberty and security, a fair chance to work and win, the sovereignty of electors, and the protection of just laws. No government can give more than this, and no fair-minded and independent man expects or asks more of any government.
In exchanging the rocks and snows of Sweden for the broad prairies and rich soil of Kansas, you have not only benefitted yourselves, but you have benefitted the State. I do not depreciate your native land. I know something of its history and its resources. Compared with the vast areas of the United States, the Scandinavian Peninsula is not a large territory. It includes less than three hundred thousand square miles; it has a population not exceeding six million; and its sterile soil yields grudgingly. But amid its rocks and snows, a singularly hardy and energetic people have lived and worked since the dawn of civilization. From the bleak and barren hills of this Peninsula came the earliest forms of constitutional government. There, too, is found not only the oldest aristocracy of Europe but the sturdiest, most prosperous and well-educated people. For of the Swedes, not one in a thousand is unable to read and write, and the common people are the owners of nearly the whole of the landed property in the Kingdom. This Peninsula, too, is rich in historic names. Gustavus Adolphus and Charles XII justly rank among the greatest rulers and soldiers the world has ever known. Among statesmen, Oxenstiern deserves his world-wide fame; and among artists, there is no name brighter than that of Thorwaldsen. In literature, the writings of Tegner, Fredrika Bremer, Carlen, and Bjornson are as familiar to English-speaking people as to the Swedes. The mystic philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg has interested and entertained the students of all countries. And among singers, what land or age has ever produced voices so rich in melody as those of Jenny Lind or Christine Neillson? At our Centennial Exhibition, in 1876, I spent many delightful days in the Swedish department, and I remember with still vivid interest its unequaled specimens of wood-carving, and the paintings in which the effect of moonlight on the water was reproduced with such marvelous fidelity and skill. The fair-haired people of the Scandinavian Peninsula have indeed stamped their impress upon the history, the literature, the arts, the industries, and the laws and government of the whole civilized world, and always the influence exerted by their teaching and example has been wholesome and beneficent.
We are interested now, however, in the Scandinavian people in America, and not those remaining on the Peninsula. The census of 1880 shows that there are 440,262 Scandinavians—Swedes, Norwegians and Danes—in the United States, and of these 194,337 are Swedes. The census of Kansas also reveals the fact that 11,207 of our citizens are of Swedish birth. This county of McPherson has within its limits the largest number, or 2,117; Saline county has 1,636; and Riley, Osage, Republic, and Clay have each over 500 citizens of Swedish birth within their limits. That they make good citizens is a fact universally acknowledged. Wherever they have settled, improvement and prosperity abound, and schools and churches multiply. They are, too, thorough Americans. They do not want to go back to the bleak, snow-clad hills and the vast forests of their native land, nor do they bring with them to this country that distrust of rulers and of law which arrays them against our government as if it was a natural enemy. They do not figure largely in politics; they prefer to attend to more material and personal concerns—building homes, conducting business and manufacturing industries, establishing schools for their children, erecting churches, and accumulating property. They do not, however, neglect the duties and responsibilities of the citizenship they have assumed; they study to discharge these, not as aliens, but in the true spirit of American individuality and patriotism. Hence, in exchanging the rocks and snows of Sweden for the soil and sunshine of Kansas, our Swedish citizens have, as I have said, benefited not only themselves but the young State with whose fortunes they have linked their own.
There are some foreigners whose coming to America is a public disaster. These are the men who, degraded and embittered by the oppression of despotic governments, confound liberty with license and lawlessness, and can see no difference between the President of the United States and the Czar of Russia. The tolerance of our laws, the liberality of our system of government, allows such freedom of speech and of action that these men, abusing and outraging the liberty they are permitted for the first time in their lives to enjoy, at once array themselves as enemies of all law and all government. They cannot comprehend the fact that laws are as necessary to the human race as the air we breathe. They cannot understand the difference between an arbitrary despotism and a government "of the people, by the people, for the people." The red flag they unfurl is the flag of the robber and the murderer. Their cry for liberty is the cry of the wolf in the forest seeking for his prey. It is no wonder that public indignation is intensifying against these miscreants, and that the demand for laws that will deal with them promptly and sternly, is swelling into a popular clamor. Less than a quarter of a century ago more than two million men rallied around their country's flag, and cheerfully offered their lives that the Republic might be preserved. It is a glorious banner—the brave old flag of the stars and stripes. It is the flag of Yorktown, and Gettysburg, and Chickamauga, and Vicksburg, and Appomattox. Every man who lives where it floats is a freeman and a sovereign. It is the symbol of the only real Republic on the face of the earth. It is the flag of the only government where every man is free to do whatsoever he pleases as long as he does not invade the rights and freedom of his fellow-man. It is the banner of the Nation that opened this rich and beautiful land as a free gift to all—native and foreign-born alike. And any man, no matter where he was born, who seeks to degrade this glorious old flag, or to substitute in its stead the red flag of the robber and the anarchist, ought to enjoy, for an indefinite period, the liberty of the penitentiary.
I am glad to say that the Swedish settlers in the United States have never been accused or suspected of either sympathy or affiliation with the wretches who flaunt the red flag and affect to believe that all government is tyranny, and property is robbery.
This country is not only a free country, but its government is the perfection of human wisdom. From the dawn of its existence, the United States has been heir to the ripest harvests of the world's learning and experience. England, France, Germany and Sweden struggled through long centuries of barbarism, ignorance and oppression before they wrested from force and Kingcraft the protection of constitutional government. Our forefathers brought with them, across the ocean, the fruits of this experience. They loved liberty, and they braved the isolation and dangers of an unknown land in order to enjoy it. Transmitted from sire to son, and broadening and strengthening for a hundred years, the ideas and the aspirations of the men who landed at Plymouth and at Jamestown at last found expression in the Declaration of Independence. "This immortal State paper," says Bancroft, "was the soul of the country at that time; the revelation of its mind when, in its youth, its enthusiasm, its sublime confronting of danger, it rose to the highest creative powers of which man is capable. The heart of Jefferson in writing the Declaration, and of Congress in adopting it, beat for all humanity; the assertion of right was made for the entire world of mankind, without any exception whatever, for the proposition which admits of exceptions can never be self-evident."
It was inevitable that the successful maintenance of the rights asserted in the Declaration, and the establishment of a government based upon the self-evident truths it affirmed, should not only exercise a potent influence upon the civil institutions of the world but attract to this country the most energetic, daring and aspiring spirits of all civilized nations. A wide continent, almost boundless in its area and infinite in its resources, afforded human industry and activity such opportunities for the exercise of their powers as were never before known, while the theories and principles of the Declaration, embodied in the organic law of the Republic, guaranteed to every citizen the largest individual liberty consistent with social order, and ample protection in the enjoyment of the products of his industry and skill.
If it was great to be a Roman citizen centuries ago, it is glorious, today, to be a citizen of the United States. What Nation enjoys such a splendid fame as ours? What other people is so opulent in the blessings of liberty, intelligence and peace? What country can boast of a happier and more prosperous present, or a more hopeful future? We have no venerable antiquity to look back upon; but what Nation, old or young, has enriched history with so long a list of immortal names—the names of jurists such as Jay and Marshall; or statesmen equalling Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, Seward, and Blaine; or orators rivaling Patrick Henry, Webster, Clay, Douglas, Morton, and Sumner; or soldiers equalling Washington, Jackson, Grant, Sherman, and Thomas; or philosophers such as Benjamin Franklin; or poets of nobler fame than Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, and Whittier; or financiers greater than Morris, Gallatin, Chase, and Sherman; or historians such as Bancroft, Prescott, and Motley? And what age or country, marshalling all its proud names, and blending the splendid qualities of each in a single person, can match the towering greatness of him who was at once statesman, orator, philosopher, hero, patriot and wise ruler—Abraham Lincoln?
The citizens of the United States are heirs to the rights of the Declaration, the guarantees of the Constitution, the protection of the flag, and the fame and glory of all the splendid names I have mentioned. It is, therefore, glorious to be a citizen of this Republic, and in leaving the bleak Scandinavian Peninsula and coming to America, you have made a wise exchange. The true Fatherland is the land of equal rights. The best country is that which affords to all its citizens the best opportunities for acquiring happy homes. The best government is that which makes all men equal before the throne of its Constitution and its laws. This country, this government, as I firmly believe, is the United States. You share in this belief, and so believing, you have taken our National Festival to your hearts, and made it your Festival, to celebrate, to be proud of, to honor and to revere. I greet you, therefore, not as Swedes, but as fellow-citizens. I rejoice in your prosperity. I acknowledge the brave, energetic part you have taken in the work of developing the resources of Kansas. I gladly join with you in celebrating this Festival of Liberty. You and your kindred have witnessed the full fruition of the predictions which one of our great poets attributes to a prophetess of your race, who lived centuries ago:
"Men from the Northland, Men from the Southland, Haste empty-handed; No more than manhood Bring they, and hands.
"Dark hair and fair hair, Red blood and blue blood, There shall be mingled; Force of the ferment Makes the New Man.
"Them waits the New land; They shall subdue it, Leaving their sons' sons Space for the body, Space for the soul.
"Here shall men grow up Strong from self-helping; Eyes for the present Bring they as eagles', Blind to the past.
"They shall make over Creed, law, and custom; Driving men, doughty Builders of empire, Builders of men.
"Over the ruin, See I the promise; Crisp waves the cornfield, Peace-walled, the homestead Waits, open-doored.
"Here all is all men's, Save only Wisdom; King he that wins her; Him hail thy helmsmen, Highest of heart.
"Might makes no master Here any longer; Sword is not swayer; Here e'en the gods are Selfish no more.
"Walking the New Earth Lo, a divine One Greets all men godlike, Calls them the kindred, He, the Divine.
"Is it Thor's hammer Rays in his right hand? Weaponless walks he; It is the White Christ, Stronger than Thor.
"Here shall a Nation rise Mighty in manhood; Justice and Mercy Here set a stronghold Safe without spear.
"Weak was the Old World, Wearily war-fenced; Out of its ashes, Strong as the morning, Springeth the New.
"Beauty of promise, Promise of beauty, Safe in the silence Sleep thou, till cometh Light to thy lids!
"Thee shall awaken Fame from the furnace, Bath of all brave ones, Cleanser of conscience, Welder of will.
"Lowly shall love thee, Thee, open-handed! Stalwart shall shield thee, Thee, worth their best blood, Waif of the West.
"Then shall come singers, Singing no swan-song, Bird-carols, rather, Meet for the man-child Mighty of bone."
Source: Addresses Delivered in Kansas, by John A Martin Available at Project Gutenberg
Kansas People
The Western Home: Home on the Range Lyrics
About Kansas State History
Submission Guidelines For Authors
Kansas State History Disclaimer Notice
Kansas State History Privacy Statement
Scandal at Kansas Normal School: The Case Against E. P. Bancroft
The Railroad Builders: Building Along the Santa Fe Trail
Zebulon Pike and His Explorations


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Q: Python log encryption with a public key using pycrypto I'm developing a web app (using gevent, but that is not significant) that has to write some confidential information in log. The obvious idea is to encrypt the confidential information using a public key that is hard-coded into my application. To read it, one would need a private key, and 2048-bit RSA seems to be safe enough. I have chosen pycrypto (tried M2Crypto as well, but found nearly no differences for my purpose) and implemented log encryption as a logging.Formatter subclass. However, I'm new to pycrypto and cryptoraphy, and I am not sure my choice of the way my data is encrypted is reasonable. Is PKCS1_OAEP module what I need? Or there are more friendly ways of encryption without dividing the data in small chunks?
So, what I did is:
import logging
import sys

from Crypto.Cipher import PKCS1_OAEP as pkcs1
from Crypto.PublicKey import RSA

PUBLIC_KEY = """ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDe2mtK03UhymB+SrIbJJUwCPhWNMl8/gA9d7jex0ciSuFfShDaqJ4wYWG4OOl\
VqKMxPrPcZ/PMSwtc021yI8TXfgewb65H/YQw4JzzGANq2+mFT8jWRDn+xUc6vcWnXIG3OPg5DvIipGQvIPNIUUP3qE7yDHnS5xdVdFrVe2bUUXmZJ9\
0xJpyqlTuRtIgfIfEQC9cggrdr1G50tXdXZjS0M1WXl5P6599oH/ykjpDFrCnh5fz9WDwUc0mNJ+11Qh+yfDp3k7AhzhRaROKLVWnfkklFaFm7LsdVX\
KPjp7dPRcTb84c2OnlIjU0ykL74Fy0K3eaPvM6TLe/K1XuD3933 pupkin@pupkin"""

PUBLIC_KEY = RSA.importKey(PUBLIC_KEY)

LOG_FORMAT = '[%(asctime)-15s - %(levelname)s: %(message)s]'

# May be more, but there is a limit.
# I suppose, the algorithm requires enough padding,
# and size of padding depends on key length.
MAX_MSG_LEN = 128

# Size of a block encoded with padding. For a 2048-bit key seems to be OK.
ENCODED_CHUNK_LEN = 256

def encode_msg(msg):
    res = []
    k = pkcs1.new(PUBLIC_KEY)
    for i in xrange(0, len(msg), MAX_MSG_LEN):
        v = k.encrypt(msg[i : i+MAX_MSG_LEN])
        # There are nicer ways to make a readable line from data than using hex. However, using
        # hex representation requires no extra code, so let it be hex.
        res.append(v.encode('hex'))
        assert len(v) == ENCODED_CHUNK_LEN
    return ''.join(res)

def decode_msg(msg, private_key):
    msg = msg.decode('hex')
    res = []
    k = pkcs1.new(private_key)
    for i in xrange(0, len(msg), ENCODED_CHUNK_LEN):
        res.append(k.decrypt(msg[i : i+ENCODED_CHUNK_LEN]))
    return ''.join(res)

class CryptoFormatter(logging.Formatter):
    NOT_SECRET = ('CRITICAL',)
    def format(self, record):
        """
        If needed, I may encode only certain types of messages.
        """
        try:
            msg = logging.Formatter.format(self, record)
            if not record.levelname in self.NOT_SECRET:
                msg = encode_msg(logging.Formatter.format(self, record))
            return msg
        except:
            import traceback
            return traceback.format_exc()

def decrypt_file(key_fname, data_fname):
    """
    The function decrypts logs and never runs on server. In fact,
    server does not have a private key at all. The only key owner
    is server admin.
    """
    res = ''
    with open(key_fname, 'r') as kf:
        pkey = RSA.importKey(kf.read())
    with open(data_fname, 'r') as f:
        for l in f:
            l = l.strip()
            if l:
                try:
                    res += decode_msg(l, pkey) + '\n'
                except Exception: # A line may be unencrypted
                    res += l + '\n'
    return res

# Unfortunately dictConfig() does not support altering formatter class.
# Anyway, in demo code I am not going to use dictConfig().

logger = logging.getLogger()
handler = logging.StreamHandler(sys.stderr)
handler.setFormatter(CryptoFormatter(LOG_FORMAT))
logger.handlers = []
logger.addHandler(handler)

logging.warning("This is secret")
logging.critical("This is not secret")

UPDATE: Thanks to the accepted answer below, now I see:

*

*My solution seems to be pretty valid for now (very few log entries, no performance considerations, more or less trusted storage). Concerning security, the best thing I can do right now is not forgetting to prohibit the user who runs my daemon from writing to the .py and .pyc files of the program. :-) However, if the user is compromised, he still may try to attach a debugger to my daemon process, so I should also disable login for him. Pretty obvious moments, but very important ones.

*Surely there are solutions being much more scalable. A very common technique is to encrypt AES keys with slow but reliable RSA, and to encrypt data with the AES that is pretty fast. Data encryption in the case is symmetric, but retrieving the AES key requires either breaking RSA, or getting it from memory when my program is running. Stream encryption with higher-level libraries and binary log file format also are a way to go, though binary log format encrypted as a stream should be very vulnerable to log corruption, even a sudden reboot due to electricity blackout may be a problem unless I do some things at a lower level (at least log rotation on each daemon start).

*I changed .encode('hex') to .encode('base64').replace('\n').replace('\r'). Fortunately, the base64 codec works fine with no line ends. It saves some space.

*Using an untrusted storage may require signing records, but that seems to be another story.

*Checking if the string is encrypted based on catching exceptions is ok, since, unless the log is tampered with by a malicious user, it's base64 codec who raises an exception, not RSA decryption.

A: You seem to encrypt data directly with RSA. This is relatively slow, and has the problem that you can only encrypt small parts of data. Distinguishing encrypted from plaintext data based on "decryption doesn't work" is also not a very clean solution, although it will probably work. You do use OAEP, which is good. You may want to use base64 instead of hex to save space.
However, crypto is easy to get wrong. For this reason, you should always use high-level crypto libraries wherever possible. Anything where you have to specify padding schemes yourself isn't "high-level". I am not sure if you will be able to create an efficient, line-based log encryption system without resorting to rather low-level libraries, though.
If you have no reason to encrypt only individual parts of the log, consider just encrypting the entire thing.
If you are really desperate for a line-based encryption, what you could do is the following: Create a random symmetric AES key from a secure randomness source, and give it a short but unique ID. Encrypt this key with RSA, and write the result to the log file in a line prefixed with a tag, e.g. "KEY", together with the ID. For each log line, generate a random IV, encrypt the message with AES256 in CBC mode using said IV (you don't have any length limits per line now!) and write the key ID, IV and the encrypted message to the log, prefixed with a tag, e.g. "ENC". After a certain time, destroy the symmetric key and repeat (generate new one, write to log). The disadvantage of this approach is that an attacker who can recover the symmetric key from memory can read the messages encrypted with said key. The advantage is that you can use higher-level building blocks and it is much, much faster (on my CPU, you can encrypt 70,000 log lines of 1 KB per second with AES-128, but only around 3,500 chunks of max. 256 bytes with RSA2048). RSA decryption is REALLY slow, by the way (around 100 chunks per second).
Note that you have no authentication, i.e. you won't notice modifications to your logs. For this reason, I assume you trust the log storage. Otherwise, see RFC 5848.

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Brain and Mental Performance Cancer
Chemobrain Treatment? Potential Remedy For The 'Mental Fog' In Cancer Patients
Posted on Sep 08, 2008, 1 p.m. By Donna Sorbello
Cancer patients have complained for years about the mental fog known as chemobrain. Now in animal studies at West Virginia University (WVU), researchers have discovered that injections of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), an antioxidant, can prevent the memory loss that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs sometimes induce.
In the WVU researchers' study, rats were given the commonly used chemotherapy drugs adriamycin and cyclophosphamide. When on the drugs, rats who were trained to prefer a light room to a dark room forgot their training.
"When animals are treated with chemotherapy drugs, they lose memory," said Gregory Konat, Ph.D., professor of neurobiology and anatomy at WVU. "When we add NAC during treatment, they don't lose memory."
Chosen for its antioxidant properties, NAC is a modified form of the dietary amino acid cysteine.
Jame Abraham, M.D., director of the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Program at WVU's Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, said as "chemobrain" entered the national lexicon, many patients expressed frustration about doctors not taking the complaints seriously.
"In the past, there was a lot of ignorance among doctors about chemo-induced cognitive problems," Dr. Abraham said. "In some patients, problems can persist for up to two years."
The WVU authors say as many as 40 percent of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy complain of symptoms such as severe memory and attention deficits. Previously, scientists suspected the cancer, rather than chemo drugs, might be the cause.
Earlier this year, Dr. Abraham's team of researchers used MRI scans to document the extent of changes to the brain in women who received chemotherapy for breast cancer. Now the connection between drugs and memory loss is clear, and a potential remedy is suggested as well.
"At this point, we have no evidence to say that NAC is safe in patients who are getting chemotherapy," Abraham said. "We need more studies to confirm the role of NAC in patients."
In addition to the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, researchers from WVU's Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center and Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry collaborated on the study.
The study was funded as part of a $275,000 grant over three years from the U.S. Department of Defense. Abraham is principle investigator on the studies.
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Natasha Kmeto will release the Inevitable LP on Dropping Gems this September 18th.
Inevitable is the follow-up to Kmeto's 2013 album, Crisis, and follows tours with Lapalux and TV On The Radio—the latter group's Tunde Adebimpe appears on the new record. RA's Andrew Ryce profiled Kmeto last year, describing Inevitable as "a more confident record all-around, with better production values and upfront vocals." The label speaks on the personal tone of the LP's lyrics, which explore "her relationship with her partner and the self-actualization of her own queer identity." Production-wise, Inevitable builds upon her soul and R&B informed take on electronic pop.
Check out the lead single, "Come And Say," below.
Dropping Gems will release Inevitable on September 18th, 2015.
Out in June, the LP features Natasha Kmeto and Nosaj Thing.
Raica, GB (Gifted & Blessed) and wndfrm will also play the Missoula festival's third edition.
The all-day-and-night festival goes down at Judkins Park in July.
The Portland singer, songwriter and producer will tour throughout February and early March.
Laurel Halo and Cygnus will also join us at the Seattle festival in September, which has announced the rest of its 2015 lineup.
Andrew Ryce sits down with the American singer and producer who's building a reputation as one of electronic music's finest new live acts.
The Seattle producer will drop his debut full-length on the Portland label next month.


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A potentially useful way to seek an understanding of one's suffering is by considering the bigger historical context in which the harm took place. Such consideration may help uncover the links between one's suffering and the adversary group's suffering. An understanding of one's suffering in relation to the past or current suffering of the 'other' may reveal insights into the adversary group's basic psychological needs (e.g. security, autonomy, avert existential threats). A threat to these needs may have given rise to the motivation to use aggression to protect them.
For some, it may be possible to make sense of their suffering by viewing the roles of victims and perpetrators as reversible. Such flexibility can result from considerations that a degree of victimhood and hopelessness must have lied within the perpetrator to motivate him/her to cause suffering in others. The inter-changeability of roles between victims and perpetrators may further be encouraged by beliefs that human beings are fallible and that they all share a potential to harm each other. This skill may also require one's acceptance that one's views of justice and truth may not be shared by others, especially by the adversary party.
Sometimes victims become too preoccupied with their search for understanding the causes of the harm they've experienced and consequently may neglect to harvest the benefits of the above researching & learning skills phase. In other words, understanding becomes the only and ultimate goal. The above skills are not intended solely to accumulate knowledge but also to utilize that acquired knowledge to stimulate shifts in one's static, uncompromising attitudes and positions.


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Хосе Антонио Родригес Вега () — испанский серийный убийца, более известный как «Убийца пожилых леди», приговоренный к 440 годам лишения свободы за изнасилования и убийства не менее 16 женщин в возрасте от 61 до 93 лет, совершённые им между августом 1987 и апрелем 1988 года.

Биография
Хосе Антонио Родригес Вега родился 3 декабря 1957 года в городе Сантандер, франкистская Испания. В подростковом возрасте избил своего тяжелобольного отца, за что был выгнан из дома матерью. После чего, по собственным словам, у него сформировалась мизогиния. В 1978 году совершил серию изнасилований женщин, за что был приговорён к 27 годам лишения свободы. Однако позже за хорошее поведение срок был сокращён до 8 лет. Вега был выпущен в середине 1986 года. Пока он сидел в тюрьме, жена развелась с ним, что только усилило ненависть будущего убийцы к противоположному полу. Он женился во второй раз, по одним данным, на умственно-отсталой, по другим — на женщине, страдающей эпилепсией. Вега всячески измывался над женой и избивал её, однако для друзей и соседей сохранял видимость заботливого и любящего мужа.

У Хосе Вега был природный талант располагать к себе людей, поэтому до момента ареста все окружающие его люди отзывались об убийце только с положительной стороны, как о приятном трудолюбивом человеке и заботливом муже.

Серия убийств и арест
Схема, по которой действовал преступник, всегда была одинаковой. Благодаря своей располагающей внешности и природному обаянию Вега знакомился с будущей жертвой, как правило, с одинокой пожилой женщиной, общался с ней до тех пор, пока не узнавал точный распорядок дня, привычки и прочие необходимые вещи, потом предлагал оказать какую-либо помощь по дому либо во дворе и, проникая в жилище, совершал изнасилование и убийство жертвы. Во всех случаях Вега забирал себе какие-либо понравившиеся ему вещи с места преступления: от букета искусственных цветов до телевизора.

Первой жертвой маньяка стала 82-летняя Маргоритта Гонсалес, которую он изнасиловал и задушил 6 августа 1987 года, кроме того, покидая место преступления, Вега засунул женщине в горло её же зубные протезы. Второй была убита 80-летняя Кармен Фернандес, это произошло 30 сентября 1987 года. В середине октября того же года Вега изнасиловал и задушил 66-летнюю Нативидеду Эспинозу. 21 января 1988 года изнасиловал и убил Кармен Гонсалес. Последней жертвой маньяка стала 66-летняя Юлия Фернандез, изнасилованная и задушенная им 21 апреля 1988 года.

Кроме того, Хосе Вега совершил ещё по меньшей мере 11 убийств, однако имена жертв, как и обстоятельства их совершения, следствием так и не были раскрыты. По крайней мере несколько убийств, совершённых Вегой, были признаны изначально «смертью по естественным причинам», это объясняется пожилым или престарелым возрастом жертв.

Наконец, 19 мая 1988 года Хосе Антонио Родригес Вега был арестован полицией на улице Кодо деля Торе в Сантандере, прямо во время прогулки со своей 23-летней знакомой Марией Ньевес. Изначально Вега отрицал всяческую причастность к убийствам, но уже вскоре полицейские во время обыска дома маньяка нашли потайную комнату, в которой были обнаружены вещи, похищенные с мест преступлений, после чего он во всём сознался.

Суд и смерть
На суде, начавшемся в ноябре 1991 года, Хосе Вега отказался от всех признательных показаний и утверждал, что все женщины умерли по естественным причинам. Кроме того, в некоторых случаях Вега отрицал даже сам факт знакомства с жертвой. Однако найденные в доме убийцы некоторые вещи убитых им женщин доказали обратное. Судебные психиатры признали Вега страдающим психопатическим расстройством личности, но все же способным отвечать за свои действия, поэтому в конечном итоге Хосе Антонио Родригес Вега был признан виновным в 16 убийствах и приговорен к 440 годам лишения свободы.

24 октября 2002 года во время прогулки в тюремном дворе Хосе Вега был атакован двумя другими заключенными, которые нанесли ему несколько ранений заточками, от которых преступник скончался на месте. На следующий день он был похоронен в безымянной могиле на тюремном кладбище, на похоронах присутствовали лишь два работника кладбища.

Примечания

Серийные убийцы по алфавиту
Серийные убийцы Испании
Серийные убийцы 1980-х годов
Убитые в местах лишения свободы
Убитые серийные убийцы

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This error keeps on showing on my Windows 2003 Enterprise server when i try to add it to my newly created domain. DNS is configured for the domain up and running on the domain server; also Netbios helper services are started on both.
Network path could mean several things, but I would guess you havea connection issue. Check layer 1 (cables) to make sure they are all pluged in and working (green lights on nics). Next look at layer 3. Can you ping your gateway from the new server? Is the new server's IP in the rigt subnet for the gateway, and does the new server have the correct ip info for the dns server?
If you can ping the gateway, can you ping the dns server, the DC? traceping may help find where the "dead" spot is in the connection. Hard to give more specific advice.
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2017 Yamaha YZ450FX Review | First Impression
By DR Staff
For 2017, Yamaha has continued to push the envelope as the leading Japanese manufacture to offer a variety of closed-course competition off-road motorcycles. Their lineup includes the YZ250X (two-stroke), YZ250FX, and YZ450FX; all of which are considered by Yamaha to be GNCC/woods-ready racers, based off of their flagship motocross models. For our initial impressions of these models, the Dirt Rider crew headed out to our testing grounds in order to learn more about what the Yamaha YZ-X motorcycles have to offer.
Much like the 250FX counterpart, the 450FX has also acquired some beneficial changes for 2017. Both models witnessed the removal of the kick-start assembly for weight reduction savings, new fuel and engine warning indicator lights hidden behind the front number plate, and revised suspension settings to aid in better handling.
There were very few changes for 2017 on the YZ450FX.DR Staff
This engine is not for the faint of heart! It is an absolute monster that has a ton power that might be a tad much for the average rider, especially when out for a casual trail ride. Compared to the rest of the X models, this bike seems to relate to its little brother 250FX the most, by being quick revving and very snappy, but with double the power output. We feel that the 450FX is best suited for aggressive and competitive riders/racers who will appreciate its raw power output and capability to go fast. In low traction situations, it is beneficial to bust out the Yamaha Power Tuner to dial in a mellower hit by adding fuel or retarding the ignition in the beginning of the power.
The motor is ready for all that dare try to tame it.DR Staff
Although Yamaha did revise suspension settings for the new year, the 450FX still requires some fine tuning to become more comfortable. In general, we feel this bike can be twitchy at speed… and because of the motor you tend to be "at speed" a lot! The forks seemed a little harsh in the initial part of the stroke, but quickly became more compliant the harder and faster you rode. One of our testers noticed that this bike really transferred a lot of harshness into their hands at lower speeds, making it harder to hold on as the day progressed. On the flip side, the rear shock was very solid and predictable. It did not wallow, and felt consistent throughout the stroke.
The dzus fasteners are recessed so they don't accidentally pop off.DR Staff
The weight of this motorcycle is deceiving. One would assume, especially when lifting this bike on/off a stand, that it would feel like a tank when on the trail. But this is definitely not the case with the 450FX. It shows a nimbleness and finesse that can be surprising when a rider keeps up their momentum. But the slower you go, the more the weight and size of this bike becomes evident. Straight-line stability is the stand out handling feature for the 450FX, as it allows you to eat up short and long sprints without hesitation. Like the little sibling 250FX, this bike has a very wide cockpit that does not assist in making the bike feel any smaller. Our test riders agreed that if the radiator shrouds went on a diet to become a little more narrow, it would help translate into a more agile feeling motorcycle.
Fuel Capacity: 2 gal.
Claimed Weight with Fuel: 262 lbs.
New indicator lights for oil and gas.DR Staff
The 450FX can handle open style riding without hesitation.DR Staff
Yet it is still a relatively easy turning machine.DR Staff
It has a wide-ratio five speed transmission that is both lower and taller than the moto version.DR Staff


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és un biatleta francès, ja retirat, que va competir durant les dècades de 1980 i 1990.

El 1992 va prendre part en els Jocs Olímpics d'Hivern d'Albertville, on fou quaranta-setè en la prova dels 20 quilòmetres del programa de biatló. Dos anys més tard, als Jocs de Lillehammer disputà dues proves del programa de biatló. Guanyà la medalla de bronze en el relleu 4x7,5 quilòmetres, formant equip amb Thierry Dusserre, Patrice Bailly-Salins i Hervé Flandin, mentre en la prova dels 20 quilòmetres fou trenta-dosè.

En el seu palmarès també destaca una medalla de plata i dues de bronze en els set Campionats del món de biatló que disputà.

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Medallistes als Jocs Olímpics d'hivern de 1994
Esportistes als Jocs Olímpics d'hivern de 1992
Biatletes francesos
Savoians


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The Math Factor Podcast » Yoak: Will A Real Gold Coin Please Stand Up?
You have a sack of coins of three types: brass, silver and gold. You know that the majority of the coins are gold, though they've been painted and partially hollowed so that you can't actually determine the type of a particular coin. Fortunately, you have a machine into which you can insert two coins and the machine will tell you whether the two coins are of the same type or different types.
Your task is to locate a gold coin.
You will compare the coins in "passes" with each coin not being compared more than once in a pass. In a pass, every coin can be a member of a comparison or not, but any particular coin can't be part of more than one comparison during the pass. Your goal is to minimize the number of passes required to be sure that you locate a single gold coin.
You should be able to describe how many passes (at most) your solution will require rather than the number of passes increasing arbitrarily with the number of coins that turn out to be in the bag.
I'm going to take a bite at that there gold coin.
The key point is that most of the coins are gold. We can throw away coins with abandon as long as we know that no more than half of them are gold. Most of the remaining coins will still be gold.
The choices for the first pass are entirely arbitrary. We simply group coins into arbitrary pairs.
If a pair is different then we discard it on the basis that we are discarding at least as many non-gold coins as gold coins. We will still have a majority of gold coins.
This leaves us with only matched pairs.
For the second pass we can take one coin from one of these matched pairs and compare it to a coin from another matched pair. If they are different we discard both pairs, we know that we are discarding at least as many non-gold coins as gold coins, so we will still have the majority of the coins being gold.
Now we have groups of four coins which are matched. Each group has two coins which have not been compared in the second pass. Again we take a coin from each group of four and compare it to a coin from another group of four. Again we throw away groups which do not match.
Now we have groups of eight coins which are matched. Each group has two coins which have not been matched in the second pass. Etcetera, etcetera….
We can keep matching groups until we run out of groups of the same size. Since the size of each group is a power of two the largest group will be all gold.
We have only used two passes.
Is this the most efficient way to find a gold coin in terms of the number of comparisons?
How many comparisons would be needed to find every gold coin?
That's a neat solution! I used twice as many passes, but sorted all the coins out into three piles, one of each kind. All the gold coins are then in the largest pile.
So, assuming there are the least number of brass coins, and the most coins are gold, [spoiler] in four passes[/spoiler] you can work out exactly which coins are gold, which are silver, which are brass.
It makes a difference how you interpret 'the majority of the coins are gold'. I took it to mean that more than half of the coins are gold.
You could also take it to mean 'there are more gold coins than either silver or brass coins'. This makes the puzzle much harder.
Sticking with my interpretation and solution I thought the following was neat.
I did intend that there more than 50% of all coins are gold. My solution requires that as well.
This solution is better than the one that I intended to offer! Mine requires three passes.
The first step I had envisioned is identical to the one above. Arbitrarily line up coins and compare adjacent pairs, discarding any pairs that don't match. In the second pass you compare one coin from each pair with a coin of each adjacent pair. (Any odd coin on the end is ok with this strategy.) You have now grouped all adjacent like pairs.
As the final step in this approach, you compare a coin from each group with a coin in the group two away. Since you know the adjacent ones are different, identifying whether the groups two away are like or different is enough to collect all remaining groups with like groups.
That's three passes and more comparisons to boot.
This is a great puzzle jyoak, is it original?
If you don't throw away the unmatched pairs then I think your method sorts all of the coins into three piles in four passes, which is the number Chaim used.
I can prove that four passes is the minumum to sort all the coins in general, that is without using the fact that the majority of coins are gold.
(e.g. you could relable the gold coins as silver, silver coins as brass and brass coins as gold).
This increases exponentially with n with a base of 3.
The number of comparisons in one pass is at most n/2. With p passes it is pn/2. The number of possible results is at most 2^(pn/2).
This increases exponentially with n with a base of 2^(p/2).
If p passes is sufficient then we need the number of results to increase at least as quickly as the number of arrangements.
Which gives p > 3.
So 4 passes is the minimum that will always work.
Stephen, It isn't original and I don't know the source. Puzzles of this sort are common as interview questions for computer programmers and the culture tends to appreciate them and continue to pass them around. This is one such I heard around the water cooler of a programming shop. Another such puzzle that's been on the site before was in DX. http://mathfactor.uark.edu/2008/05/13/dx-dumb-robots/ This one is anecdotally ascribed to originating from a Microsoft interview question, though I don't have strong evidence of that.
A variant of this is that you can make arbitrary comparisons and want to minimize their number. This is basically the "majority element" problem.
In the worst case, I believe you need n-1 comparisons (for n elements).
1. Pick C random coins (with replacement).
2. Find the majority among them.
3. Output that as the answer.
Unfortunately if you have just slightly more than half of one type and just slightly less than half of the other, this doesn't work so well. But if you know that there is a fixed proportion of the gold coins (e.g., 50.01%) then you only need to make a *constant* number of comparisons.
A slight problem with the 2 pass solution, if you have an odd number of coins then you are not guarenteed to have more than 50% gold coins after 1st pass. Eg if have 5 coins, 3 of them gold, 2 silver- what happens after your 1st pass with 2 matches?
GGSSG which has the two matches. You'd match the first two and retain. You'd match the second two and retain. And you always retain the odds. So you have a majority of gold.
To finish the algorithm, you'd then match pair one (GG) to pair two (SS) and they don't match so you'd discard them. At this point, you have one coin and you know it is gold because in removing you removed at least as many non-gold as gold and you started witha gold majority.
I know this doesn't necessarily ansswer your objection as you may have a different ordering in mind. Show us how.
This puzzle is very confusing if you can touch the coin you can tell by the weight. The gold coins will always be the heaviest. The gold coin should look different to the others so maybe that would be the best way to distinguish them.
What is the answer or solutions?
I am not very good at math but this sound interesting.
Stephen's 2-pass solution, and his 4-pass extension of Jeff's solution, depend on a loophole in the problem statement. Jeff's 3-pass solution does not use the loophole.
How many parallel passes does it take to separate all the coins by type into three piles?
Parallel Minded: Yes, you make a good point, why would you be concerned about the number of passes if each pair is compared sequentially? Unless the coins were affected by the machine maybe? Seems unlikely. For the record the problem talked about a machine that took two coins at a time but I agree that then we should be looking at the number of comparisons. Now for your question, [spoiler] I think straus already answered it with four passes. Arrange the coins in a circle. Use two passes to compare each coin with it's immediate neighbours. We now have contiguous groups of like coins, each group known to be different to the neighbouring groups. We use two more passes to compare each group to the groups which are one away. Label one group as A and work clockwise. The next group we label B. Going round the circle we can identify each group as A, B or C.[/spoiler] It's a fun part of these types of puzzles to try different variations and see what difference they make to the answer. One obvious change is to get rid of passes altogether and just think about how many pairs we should compare. Or we could look at the average number of comparisons, rather than the maximum. In my answer above I have assumed we can take knowledge from one pass and use it to define the next pass, but what if we can't? What if we must define the comparisons in each pass before we start? (maybe this was your intention) I don't know the answer to these questions!
The last question you ask is interesting, it's like sorting algorithms where all the comparisons need to be specified ahead of time: Sorting Networks.
You need to compare every possible pair of coins.
If there are any two coins A and B which are not compared with each other, then suppose all other coins (call them "class C coins") are equal to each other but unequal to A or B. In this case you cannot know whether A and B are the same or not.
Would it help if you are told there is at least one of each type of coin?


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Diekman could handle A's closer role in 2021, Forst believes
/ by Brodie Brazil
If the A's indeed transition to a new closer for 2021, it's not because they think just anyone can do the job.
"We know those last three outs are always the toughest to get," general manager David Forst told NBC Sports California this past week.
While it appears AL Reliever of the Year Liam Hendriks will capitalize on free agency and leave the A's, Jake Diekman's name was brought up by Forst in a recent media session. Although it might have been interpreted more formally than just a suggestion.
"I had to text Bob [Melvin] and say, 'No, I didn't make a proclamation,' " Forst said about his communication with the A's manager.
What Forst intended to say, was the obvious.
"As well as Jake pitched in 2020, and reliable as he was, there's no reason he couldn't pitch at the end of the game," Forst said. "Based on what we saw."
Diekman appeared in 21 of Oakland's 60 games in 2020, sporting a 0.42 ERA, allowing just one run and eight hits in 21.1 innings pitched. But there's also two other things to consider if his success as a setup man will translate into the closer role for 2021.
"Since Sean [Doolittle] was here, we haven't had a left handed closer," Forst said. "We also know how valuable the matchups are in the seventh and eighth innings."
Which was also the immediate thinking of Melvin, in managing late-game matchups.
"'If he does close, can he also pitch in the 7th and 8th inning?' " Forst said of Melvin's text reply. "Because we know how great he is there."
RELATED: Diekman subtweets Cano after PED suspension
In a winter where MLB free agency is moving at a slow and unpredictable pace, there is some comfort for the A's knowing they already have an internal option, should nothing else present itself externally before next season.
"We're lucky to have Jake for another year, based on what he did in 2020," Forst said.


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It isn't uncommon for a young girl in the throes of playing dress-up at Grammy's house to become enamored with old costume jewelry—especially when it's in abundance and stored in a large, red purse. For Meg C, her grandmother's impressive collection of jewelry helped form the basis of a lifelong love of art, fashion and detail that has thus far found its greatest expression in the creation of her custom-made, fine jewelry.
Meg C's work has quickly become a celebrated part of the Lexington arts scene. Still marked by the whimsy and wonder she found in jewelry as a young child, her pieces now also embody remarkable symmetry enhanced by clean and distinctive lines. There are nods within her work to everything from art deco and art nouveau to pop art and vintage fine jewelry. Whether the wearer is in a gray v-neck tee or an evening gown, a Meg C piece looks right at home.
Meg C Jewelry Gallery
After intensive coursework in design and metal-smithing at FIT, Meg C earned her AAS. A stint at a mom and pop jewelry store in Vermont gave her further opportunity to hone her skills as a craftsperson, repairer, custom designer and maker. She enrolled in a trade school in Brooklyn and began work on her own collection, and then after some traveling, made her way to Blaine Lewis and his New Approach School for Jewelers. Throughout it all, in whatever city she was living, Meg spent thousands of hours diligently perched atop the jeweler's bench in her bedroom, tools and materials in hand. After moving to the Bluegrass in 2011, she opened Meg C Jewelry Gallery in 2012.
Today, Meg C Jewelry Gallery offers a carefully curated selection of between seven and ten distinct collections of jewelry by American artists in addition to Meg C's own. She has a workshop and bench at the back of the gallery where, each day, you can still find her perched: hands dirty, eyes focused, tools engaged. The heady joy of a new design, the rush of solving a problem in wax and wire, the reliable delight of spying a stranger in one of her pieces continue to captivate her attention and efforts.
One-Of-A-Kind Design, with a One-Of-A-Kind Customer Experience
Part of the reason Meg C's work has such range is due to her love of fine materials. Recycled platinum, silver, gold, and one-of-a-kind ethically sourced stones are her palette, and, for her, they are not just de rigueur; they are the commonplace materials of a sustainable jeweler at work. When you wear a piece of Meg C jewelry, it isn't just a thing of beauty—it's entire existence, from who mined it to how the environment fared in its extraction is, too.
Ready-Made Lines
Repairs & Remakes
Lace Kentucky Agate Pendant
Mint Garnet and Diamond Ring
Blue Zircon Offset Ring
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