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We take a break from the adventure to put George, Ray, and Derek to the test. Have they been paying attention to the nuances of Episodes 6 through 9? It's time to find out.
We also give shout-outs to our followers and fans!
Ep. 10 Chapt. 9 "Beginnings"
Ep. 09 Chapt. 8 "Secrets"
Jameson Mayfield and Adrienne Boothe make their way to the Leviathan building in New Yorke. There, Jameson receives his first assignment: protect an assassin being sent across enemy lines deep into the Confederation. Meanwhile, Martin Barnett learns the horrific family secret that will forever alter his life.
Ep. 08 Chapt. 7 "Keys"
Ep. 07 Chapt. 6 "Rats"


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package mockingjay

import (
	"regexp"
	"testing"

	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
)

type noOpLogger struct{}

func (noOpLogger) Println(...interface{}) {}

var (
	incomingRequest = Request{
		URI:    "/hello/chris",
		Method: "GET",
	}
	testLogger   = noOpLogger{}
	endpointName = "test endpoint"
)

func TestItMatchesRequests(t *testing.T) {
	requiredHeaders := make(map[string]string)
	requiredHeaders["Content-Type"] = "application/json"

	wrongHeaderValues := make(map[string]string)
	wrongHeaderValues["Content-Type"] = "text/html"

	wrongHeaders := make(map[string]string)
	wrongHeaders["Accept"] = "text/html"

	form := make(map[string]string)
	form["name"] = "Hudson"

	config := Request{
		URI:     "/cats",
		Method:  "POST",
		Headers: requiredHeaders,
		Body:    `123`,
		Form:    form,
	}

	failingCases := []struct {
		name            string
		incomingRequest Request
	}{
		{
			"Incorrect URI",
			Request{
				URI:     "/wrong-uri",
				Method:  "POST",
				Headers: requiredHeaders,
				Body:    `123`,
				Form:    form,
			},
		},
		{
			"Incorrect Method",
			Request{
				URI:     "/cats",
				Method:  "GET",
				Headers: requiredHeaders,
				Body:    `123`,
				Form:    form,
			},
		},
		{
			"Incorrect header values",
			Request{
				URI:     "/cats",
				Method:  "POST",
				Headers: wrongHeaderValues,
				Body:    `123`,
				Form:    form,
			},
		},
		{
			"Incorrect headers",
			Request{
				URI:     "/cats",
				Method:  "POST",
				Headers: wrongHeaders,
				Body:    `123`,
				Form:    form,
			},
		},
		{
			"Incorrect body",
			Request{
				URI:     "/cats",
				Method:  "POST",
				Headers: requiredHeaders,
				Body:    `456`,
				Form:    form,
			},
		},
		{
			"No form",
			Request{
				URI:     "/cats",
				Method:  "POST",
				Headers: requiredHeaders,
				Body:    `123`,
				Form:    nil,
			},
		},
	}
	for _, c := range failingCases {
		assert.False(t, requestMatches(config, c.incomingRequest, endpointName, testLogger), c.name)
	}

	assert.True(t, requestMatches(config, config, endpointName, testLogger), "The exact same request should match")
}

func TestItMatchesJSONWithSpaces(t *testing.T) {
	serverConfig := Request{
		URI:    "/hello/world",
		Method: "POST",
		Body:   `{"foo": 2}`,
	}

	incoming := Request{
		URI:    "/hello/world",
		Method: "POST",
		Body:   `{"foo": 2    }`,
	}

	assert.True(t, requestMatches(serverConfig, incoming, endpointName, testLogger))
}

func TestItDoesntMatchWhenJSONValuesAreDifferent(t *testing.T) {
	serverConfig := Request{
		URI:    "/hello/world",
		Method: "POST",
		Body:   `{"foo": 2}`,
	}

	incoming := Request{
		URI:    "/hello/world",
		Method: "POST",
		Body:   `{"foo": 3    }`,
	}

	assert.False(t, requestMatches(serverConfig, incoming, endpointName, testLogger))
}

func TestItDoesntCrashOnNonJSONAndAssumesNotMatch(t *testing.T) {
	serverConfig := Request{
		URI:    "/hello/world",
		Method: "POST",
		Body:   `{"foo": 2}`,
	}

	incoming := Request{
		URI:    "/hello/world",
		Method: "POST",
		Body:   `not json`,
	}

	assert.False(t, requestMatches(serverConfig, incoming, endpointName, testLogger))
}

func TestMatchingWithRegex(t *testing.T) {

	uriPathRegex, err := regexp.Compile(`\/hello\/[a-z]+`)
	regexURI := &RegexField{Regexp: uriPathRegex}

	assert.Nil(t, err)

	serverConfig := Request{
		URI:      "/hello/world",
		RegexURI: regexURI,
		Method:   "GET",
	}

	assert.True(t, requestMatches(serverConfig, incomingRequest, endpointName, testLogger))
}

func TestItMatchesWildcardBodies(t *testing.T) {
	incomingRequest := Request{
		URI:    "/x",
		Method: "POST",
		Body:   "Doesn't matter",
	}

	serverConfig := Request{
		URI:    "/x",
		Method: "POST",
		Body:   "*",
	}

	assert.True(t, requestMatches(serverConfig, incomingRequest, endpointName, testLogger))
}

func TestItIgnoresExtraHeadersInEqualityCheck(t *testing.T) {
	requiredHeaders := make(map[string]string)
	requiredHeaders["Content-Type"] = "application/json"

	config := Request{
		URI:     "",
		Method:  "POST",
		Headers: requiredHeaders,
	}

	extraHeaders := make(map[string]string)
	extraHeaders["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
	extraHeaders["Content-Size"] = "ten"
	incomingRequest := config
	incomingRequest.Headers = extraHeaders

	assert.True(t, requestMatches(config, incomingRequest, endpointName, testLogger))
}

func TestItIgnoresHeadersKeyCasing(t *testing.T) {
	requiredHeaders := make(map[string]string)
	requiredHeaders["content-type"] = "application/json"

	expectedRequest := Request{
		URI:     "",
		Method:  "POST",
		Headers: requiredHeaders,
	}

	differentlyCasingHeaders := make(map[string]string)
	differentlyCasingHeaders["Content-Type"] = "application/json"

	incomingRequest := expectedRequest
	incomingRequest.Headers = differentlyCasingHeaders

	assert.True(t, requestMatches(expectedRequest, incomingRequest, endpointName, testLogger))
}

func TestItIgnoresOrderOfQueryString(t *testing.T) {
	expectedRequest := Request{
		URI:    "?a=1&b=2",
		Method: "GET",
	}

	incomingRequest := Request{
		URI:    "?b=2&a=1",
		Method: "GET",
	}

	assert.True(t, requestMatches(expectedRequest, incomingRequest, endpointName, testLogger))
}

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Books in Little: Those Intolerable Christians
Nov 23, 2016 | Books in Little, Reviews
Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World
by Larry W. Hurtado.
Baylor University Press, 2016.
Hardback, 304 pages, $30.
In his well-received and influential works, How on Earth did Jesus Become a God?: Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus (Eerdmans, 2005) and Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Eerdmans, 2003), Larry W. Hurtado, the New Testament scholar and Emeritus Professor (Edinburgh), explored the processes (which included both oral and written testimonies) by which Christian believers came to accept and then proclaim the divinity of Jesus Christ. The focus in each prior work was more internal to the evolving canon of scripture and community of Christian belief, but in his new work, Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World, Professor Hurtado switches the frame-of-reference more to the external, focusing more on what Romans thought of Christians than on what Christians thought of themselves.
In an era in which most of the developed West can be defined variously as post-Christian or Neopagan, Hurtado's book is especially apposite, because the cultural assumptions inherited by many Westerners (particularly Americans) include a loose association in identity between faith, national identity, and national culture. Whether these assumptions are explicit (regardless of accuracy) in statements such as those who profess a belief that the United States was founded as a "Christian nation," or implied in the broader nods given to a "Judeo-Christian heritage" by those historians of culture focused on ethics and the relationship between morals and power, these assumptions remain part of the fabric of our cultural awareness. Professor Hurtado's book offers the instructive insight that a Christian identity has been from the beginning one which is distinct from culture. To the extent that Christianity has lost this distinctive identity in any time or place, this has been because of (not always willing) accommodations made by the culture to the practice of the Christian faith, and compromises made by Christians between the practice of their faith and the prevailing culture.
The earliest condemnations of Christians in the Roman world involved accusations of atheism—that Christians did not venerate any gods in any of the temples of the empire. Christians were seen to be different. Professor Hurtado examines the Roman reaction to this distinctiveness and identifies four principle themes in observation, themes that would result in a revolution in Roman culture in less than three centuries:
Christians separated their identity from the ethnic or national identities of the peoples of the empire.
Christianity was exclusive in worship. As strict monotheists worshiping Jesus Christ, Christians were distinct in their avoidance of the syncretism common between other cults.
Christian teaching and worship was focused on language more than praxis. Christians were "bookish," relying more on authoritative texts for the definition of faith than on the liturgical norms enforced in other cults.
Christian ethics were distinctive. The practice of Christian ethics made Christians unique.
Each of these themes is explored and developed to tease out the nuances of the reality that Christianity in the first three centuries after Jesus' resurrection was distinct not only in the eyes of Christians but in the eyes of their neighbors. The religious life of the Roman Empire offered a cafeteria of options for citizens, a range of choices tolerated under the umbrella of the cult of imperial divinity. Christian distinctiveness was quickly identified, therefore, as a threat to civic life. Sophisticated Romans viewed Christianity not simply as unbelievable but as utterly incompatible with their own beliefs. In our own post-Obergefell era in America, we are now witnessing a similar phenomenon, one in which the prevailing culture is becoming more aggressive in asserting that Christians—even if they may believe whatever they choose to believe—may not practice this belief if this practice conflicts with the culture's enforced legal norms of conduct.
Destroyer of the Gods is a quick and fascinating read. Professor Hurtado's book allows Christians to explore how a distinctive identity has always been deemed a threat, so that they may better identify how they will practice their faith at a time when this practice is becoming increasingly distinct. The book may be read, however, by non-Christians as well, to explore the dynamics of the collisions between any culture rooted in earthly power and those (of any faith) who profess to set limits on such power in the service of a higher Power.
The Rev. Dr. Karl C. Schaffenburg is an Episcopal priest serving in Wisconsin, having previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S., U.K., and Germany.


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The Order: 1886 Art Director Talks Weapons, Horror Sections and Lore: Shows Spectacular Gameplay
June 18, 2014 12:08 PM EST
The Order: 1886 has impressed many at E3, and the game's Art Director Nathan Phail-Liff gave some more information about several aspects of the game in a video interview by the good folks at PlayStation Access.
Phail-Liff talks about the different factions we'll encounter in the game, mentions that we'll see some "drawn-out suspense-horror" sections alternate to shooting segments, and gives some pointers about the lore and about the mysterious Black Water.
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Singer a jolly good (peace) fellow
Provided to the Tribune
Provided to the TribuneDavid LaMotte will perform a concert Feb. 15 in Placerville as part of the Season of Peace and Nonviolence.
Singer-songwriter David LaMotte will perform in Placerville as part of the "Season of Nonviolence." The concert, sponsored by the El Dorado Peace and Justice Community, will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the Grange Hall, 2020 Smith Flat Road.
Tickets to the concert are $12 for adults and $5 for children, and are available at the door. The special family rate is $25 and includes two adults plus children. For more information, call (530) 622-1368 or visit http://www.edpjc.org.
This concert is part of LaMotte's yearlong farewell tour. He announced that after 2,000 concerts on four continents, he would stop touring to devote his primary focus to peacemaking work. He will pursue a master's in peace studies at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, as a Rotary World Peace Fellow, then move into peace work full time.
"It's sort of strange, I admit," LaMotte said. "Things have never been better with my music career, but I have a sense that this is what I'm supposed to do now, and I have to go with that. Folk singers talk a lot about following your heart, and I'm trying to practice what I preach."
LaMotte also is the volunteer director of the nonprofit organization PEG Partners (Proyecto Para Las Escuelas Guatemaltecas), which he founded with his wife in 2004. PEG works in partnership with Guatemalan communities to improve schools.
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Q: Relationship between Characteristic Function and Eigenfunction In probability we talk about "characteristic functions" of random variables, usually written as $\Phi_X(t)=E[e^{itX}]$. Is the characteristic function in some sense an "eigenfunction" (a function f such that for some operator A, $Af=\lambda f$ for $\lambda \in R$)? If so, is it correct to say that the operator in question is differentiation with respect to $t$, and that the eigenvalues are the moments of $X$? Is the space on which the operator acts the set of all functions of t, or is it more restricted? Also, in probability we always set $t=0$ to recover the moments. How can this be taken into account when thinking in terms of operators?

A: The term characteristic function is used in this context more to mean that
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                   \chi_{P}(s)=\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} e^{ist}dP(t)
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Clarence Thomas Tells the Media When He'll Leave the Supreme Court
During an interview at a conference in Dallas over the weekend, Justice Clarence Thomas revealed when he will "absolutely" leave the Supreme Court.
"One of the things I say in response to the media, when they talk about, especially early on, about the way they talk about the way I do my job, I said, 'I will absolutely leave the Court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours.' And that was meant as a compliment, really," Thomas said. "It really is good to be me. It really is."
For years, but especially in recent weeks, leftist activists and the media have called for Thomas to recuse himself from the bench because his wife is active in conservative politics.
Justice Thomas to the media:
"I will absolutely leave the Court when I do my job as poorly as you do yours." pic.twitter.com/2V7h9vtoLt
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 16, 2022
George Washington University Law professor Jonathan Turley has pushed back on allegations of corruption, which are completely unsubstantiated.
…The accusation appears based on the fact that Thomas' wife has a political career and has been an active conservative activist. Would a liberal justice be viewed as "corrupt" if his or her spouse was an pro-abortion activist?
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 14, 2022
…Mystal has previously denounced the Constitution as "trash" and the Framers as "racist misogynistic jerk faces." The danger is that the White House is yielding to this national rage addiction. https://t.co/lX05LUkyMp
During the conference, Justice Thomas also addressed the Supreme Court leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
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He looks like he's about to fall asleep or immobilized.
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Madoff Employee Breaks Silence
In a Daily Beast exclusive, one of the fraudster's employees tells Lucinda Franks that the supposedly legitimate brokerage business were in fact just money-losing fronts for his scheme. Plus, what Madoff's sons told staff the day after Bernie's arrest, trips to the company's secretive 17th floor, Bernie's obsession with the color black and employee neatness, the roles of other family members, and visits to the founder's Montauk home.
Lucinda Franks
Updated Jul. 14, 2017 11:33AM ET / Published Mar. 19, 2009 6:09PM ET
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In a Daily Beast exclusive, one of the fraudster's employees tells Lucinda Franks that the supposedly legitimate brokerage operations were in fact just money-losing fronts for the fraudster's scheme. Plus, what Madoff's sons told staff the day after Bernie's arrest, trips to the company's secretive 17th floor, Bernie's obsession with the color black and employee neatness, the roles of other family members, and visits to the founder's Montauk home.
An employee of Bernard Madoff's legitmate brokerage operations, which were described by the fraudster in his plea agreement as being "successful and profitable," has told The Daily Beast that they were in fact money-losers that acted as a front for his Ponzi scheme.
He said that these businesses, the proprietary and market-making arms on the 18th and 19th floors of Madoff Securities, were designed to lure investors in, especially highly placed figures in society, and to fool the SEC into thinking that he had a large and impressive galaxy of businesses.
But behind the façade, these businesses were a shambles. They were excessively staffed with grossly overpaid people, and run with marked inefficiency, he said.
"I keep thinking about the 90-year-old man who lost even his house and is bagging groceries. Then I think of the fact that I may have gotten paid with his money."
The employee, who did not want to be identified because of possible lawsuits or threats by victims, was a member of an elite group that designed sophisticated computer-trading programs. His identity was verified by consulting the Madoff employment roster, where he was listed. He also has an employment confirmation letter and a letter of reference from the Madoff firm.
His description of how the legitimate arms of Madoff Securities were run sounds like a skit out of Monty Python. "The three managers who ran parts of the businesses were getting $500,000 to $750,000 a year and they didn't even know anything about modern computerized trading," the employee said. They knew only the antiquated methods of talking to clients and trading in the stock market by phone. They mostly socialized, read the news. They would have been unemployable on the outside."
The employee learned the salaries of his colleagues when he secretly obtained a document listing them. "A senior computer programmer would make $350,000, where in most comparable firms they would be getting $200,000 to $250,000. The customer-relations people, who just handled complaints from clients, were making six figures. There wasn't anyone who wasn't paid in the hundreds of thousands," he said, adding: "There were twice as many people as were needed and there was rampant inefficiency.
"The company could have been profitable but the Madoffs didn't seem to care. The business model made no sense," said the employee. "In actuality the trading groups were generating profits and the company had enormous potential."
The employee was part of a trading group, which was able to break a security code that he says led them to a site that was supposed to be seen only by the Madoff family. It showed the profits and losses of the legitimate businesses. Even in years when they grossed $25 to $50 million, they calculated in the outlandish costs and thus concluded that the firm barely broke even and some years lost money.
Sources in the Madoff investigation confirm the losses that the employee described to me. We sat across from each other at a long black table in the house of an intermediary who arranged the interview. He was nervous, swallowing, hesitating, reluctant to talk. But when we got started, he spoke freely and even eagerly about his strange experiences with the Madoffs.
ANDREW AND MARK MADOFF'S ROLE In contrast to most Wall Street trading firms, where traders work hard and the atmosphere is intense, tumultuous, and fast-paced, Andrew and Mark Madoff, Bernie's sons, ran the operation "like a peaceful valley," he said. "Cursing or shows of emotion were not allowed. Once, this guy slammed down the phone and after he was reprimanded, the brothers called everyone together and said such behavior would not be tolerated and anyone who damaged equipment would have to pay for it themselves."
"The sons were not around a lot," he continued, "but when they were, they were nice guys, good to their staff." This employee worked there for four and a half years, and left in mid-2007, before the Ponzi scheme was revealed. Why did he leave? "I wanted more freedom, but also I just didn't like being part of a firm that didn't make sense."
Employees who had lost money complained to him and Andrew said: "I've been advised by my lawyer not to make any statements." Then he added "You're not the only victim here."
The day after Bernie was arrested, Andrew and Mark came to work, surprising everyone. Staffers who had lost money complained to him and Mark said, according to a friend of the employee: "I've been advised by my lawyer not to make any statements." Then he added "You're not the only victim here." (Noteworthy, as it suggests the brothers must have gotten a lawyer right away.)
Regulations require a company to preserve all emails and firms normally archive them in the hard drives of their computers. But Madoff, the employee said, had ordered that all emails be printed out and then deleted.
'NEVER DAWNED ON ME' Did he think something was fishy? "It never dawned on me that Bernie was running a criminal operation down on the 17th floor. I thought he was just a quirky guy. Now, in hindsight there are a lot of things that point to illegal activities. The emails, for instance, were clearly handled that way so that nobody could access them. They didn't want any record if someone got suspicious and wrote so to a colleague, for instance, or you pressed the search bar and the word Ponzi came up."
The salaries, said the employee, also in hindsight, were so large because Madoff wanted to keep people happy; he wanted allies in case they found out what was really happening. "Nobody left because they could never get another job that paid as well as this one. Some people, after his arrest, speculated that it was kind of like hush money; nobody asked any questions because the Madoffs were nice, protective, generous.
"The Madoffs had all of us out to Montauk for yearly weekends. We didn't go to their houses but they put us up in hotels. They had a barbecue lunch on the sand and a formal dinner under a tent at the yacht club. On Sunday they took a small subset of employees on a fishing trip.
"It was a family affair, everyone brought their spouses and children, but on the beach, the Madoffs socialized with themselves. The employees stood apart.
THE SECRETIVE 17TH FLOOR The employee says he only saw the 17th floor, where the fraudulent Investment Advisory operation was located, about two times. He noticed the out-of-date computers and the old-fashioned dot-matrix printers that printed out paper with green and white stripes. The computers he saw were about 15 years old, including one system that "is not even around anymore—miles away from modern Windows technology. And the statements I've seen from victims don't look like my statements from Fidelity. They had primitive typefaces, as though they had been typed on a typewriter. Nobody sends statement like that, so maybe it was done to create the illusion of old-fashioned transparency."
He learned that those who staffed the 17th floor were less than knowledgeable, often uneducated, often appeared incompetent. "There was this one guy, who had worked there his whole life who generated the statements but he would often not get them out on time."
Looking back, he speculates that the faked statements were essentially done manually. He thinks two people did research as to what a blue-chip stock historically traded for and a similar price was chosen and the fake trades entered into a computer, the statements printed out and sent to unsuspecting clients. "I wonder whether everyone's statements were basically the same, just varied a bit, because if they weren't that would be a lot of work for the employees down there."
Annette Buongiorno's unit was in a separate part of the office. Two assistants who worked for her have reportedly told investigators that they were told to help generate the false trades.
"Everything had to be black. The computers, the tables, even the picture frames. If he saw a kid's picture in a silver frame, for instance, he would order the offender to get a black frame."
The firm's odd way of being run was chalked up to Bernie's quirkiness. "We just thought he was a brilliant eccentric man." The 17th floor, for instance, to the shock of the employee, was messy. Papers strewn on desks, people in jeans, a sense of organized chaos.
BERNIE, 'OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE' "Yet take the 18th-and 19th-floors: Bernie was obsessive compulsive about the floors where the legitimate businesses were," he said. "Everything had to be black. The computers, the tables, even the picture frames. If he saw a kid's picture in a silver frame, for instance, he would order the offender to get a black frame. If you had a jacket over the back of your chair, he would take it off. He went down the row of windows and made sure that the slats were all at the exact same angle. You couldn't have any paper on your desk."
"I had these huge cheap gray headphones and Mark said to me 'Those headphones are gray and you can't wear them.' So he bought me these expensive pair of Bose."
"Now that I look back on it, I wonder whether he wanted the proprietary and market-making businesses to appear perfect, to create the impression that they was really profitable and legitimate."
Why was the messy 17th floor so antithetical to Bernie's weird passion for neatness and uniformity? "Maybe he just didn't care," said the employee, "as long as they did their job. He let Frank Di Pascali run it." Di Pascali, a longtime Madoff employee, has reportedly refused to talk to investigators. "He was a very off-putting man," the employee said. "Rough, not very friendly. He had a thick New York accent, not a very cultured manner. When we were at one of the Montauk beach parties, his son was there and he used the word 'Guinea' to describe him."
Bernie was only around about half the year, according to the employee: "The other half he spent at his houses in France, Palm Beach, wherever he and Ruth landed."
The 19th floor, where the employee worked, was where the proprietary-trading business was located. The 18th-floor stored all the trades and the emails, and of course the 17th floor was the nexus of the Ponzi scheme. "But the three businesses seemed comingled. There were two men on the 18th floor offices who I think knew what was happening," said the employee. "They made huge salaries. The 17th floor not only produced the falsified statements, they did the accounting for our office on 19. Emails of both the legitimate and illegitimate businesses were handled and stored on the 18th floor.
What should have been a red flag, the employee said, was that the 17th floor's statements detailing the financial output of his four-man computer unit often did not match what they calculated for themselves. "They screwed up a lot and were not technically sophisticated. And in that business, you have to be accurate, you have to know what you are doing."
ROLE OF OTHER MADOFFS When Bernie was away, were members of the family the ultimate bosses who oversaw the illegal operations that Di Pascali allegedly ran? Some employees are wondering now whether they were because, outside of Mark and Andrew, none of them seemed to do what they were ostensibly hired to do. "I didn't even know that Peter (Madoff's brother) was the firm's compliance officer," the employee said. "I never saw him doing compliance. He was more concerned with making sure that the firm could run business out of their office in the Bulova building if a disaster occurred." The building, near La Guardia airport, where Madoff had offices, had office systems that were duplicates to those in their offices in the Lipstick Building. We had these drills where we had to drop everything and rush to the Bulova building. A lot of money was spent on this duplicate office."
"Shana Madoff , the compliance legal counsel, Peter's daughter who was married to an SEC compliance officer, only spent half time in the office. When she was here, she seemed to work on human resources rather than compliance."
Ruth was the firm's bookkeeper: "But I only saw her walk through once or twice," Some friends of the employee, in hindsight, have said that Andrew and Mark must have known or suspected that things were not kosher. "They were educated guys, one of them had gone to Wharton, I think. They saw the balance sheets. We were making no money, some years losing it, and the brothers, I heard, were getting $4 million annually. That just didn't track."
"But I don't want to believe that they knew or were involved," the employee said. "I believe they're innocent. They were really nice guys, they looked very straight. They treated me well even though as a computer programmer, I didn't command the respect the hotshot traders did. When I told them I wanted to leave, Andrew tried to persuade me to stay and when I declined, he let me work only four days a week so I could start up my computer business.
'IT WAS GOOD TO WORK FOR BERNIE' "We all joked that the motto of the place was that 'it was good to work for Bernie.'
"We assumed Bernie was a billionaire and we didn't understand why he didn't leave his money in safe investments and just collect interest. Why did he support this lousy business? It didn't seem worth it for a billionaire." In court, Madoff admitted that at one point he put $250 million of clients' money into the legitimate businesses.
"But it was drummed into us that Bernie was into positions for the long haul, that he believed the stock market was cyclical and that eventually what was down would come up. So I thought that Andrew and Mark just believed what their father said and followed his philosophy. If he wasn't bothered, why should they be?"
When asked how he felt when the Ponzi scheme was revealed, the employee became silent. "At first I was detached. I didn't have relationships with the Madoffs like lots of others did. I had no emotional connection."
He looked down. "But now, I keep thinking about the 90-year-old man who lost even his house and is bagging groceries. Then I think of the fact that I may have gotten paid with his money."
Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly attributed a statement to Andrew Madoff; it should have been Mark Madoff.
Lucinda Franks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who was on the staff of the New York Times and has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review and Magazine. Her latest book is My Father's Secret War, about her father, who was a spy for the OSS during World War II.


SH-SY5Y cells were co-transfected under the same conditions as in Fig. 1E. The cells were fixed after 40 h and stained for the proliferation antigen Ki-67. The proliferative fraction was calculated as the number of Ki-67 immunoreactive transfected cells divided by the total number of transfected cells (Student's t-test, n=5). Transfection with VCP did not significantly affect cell cycle in either siCtrl or siPINK1 cells.


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CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canadian researchers said on Monday they have discovered North America's smallest known dinosaur, a pint-sized predator half the size of a house cat and cousin to the ferocious Velociraptor, which roamed in what is now Alberta 75 million years ago.
Hesperonychus, whose name means "western claw", prowled southeastern Alberta in Western Canada during the late cretaceous period, running on two legs, eating insects, small mammals, or whatever else it could find.
Researchers said the dinosaur resembled its cousin Velociraptor, a hunter with a fierce reputation and a killer claw similar to that of Hesperonychus.
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Watch: Protesters Blast ICE as Agents Act on Federal Child Trafficking Warrant
By Mairead McArdle
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As the national debate on immigration continues to heat up, video from last year has resurfaced of neighbors protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security agents as they broke into a home on a federal warrant for trafficking of minors.
People in the West Oakland neighborhood of Oakland, Calif. woke up early one morning last year when they heard ICE agents raiding one of the houses and assumed the agents were arresting illegal immigrants for deportation, according to the video from a local CBS News outlet.
The protesters, who crowded around the house, were apparently not given any information by the agents about what was happening.
"It's been really tough because we have no idea what's going on in there, and we know that there's a lot of injustices that have been happening," said Hadar Cohen, who held a sign reading, "No person is illegal."
"We care for our neighbors, and we're for immigration rights."
The Oakland Police Department told the CBS station that the operation technically had nothing to do with immigration enforcement and the agents were acting on a federal search warrant obtained during an ongoing criminal investigation into juvenile sex trafficking.
However, no charges have been filed in this case, and one person now faces deportation.
ICE was seen leading two people out of the house with blankets over their heads to protect their identities.
"ICE is not welcome in this country. HS is not welcome," said another neighbor, Adley Penner. "I don't support what they do. I think it is a blasphemy."
Protesters also wrote, "We love our neighbors" and "OPD [Oakland Police Department] is a disgrace" on the ground in chalk.
Several politicians have called for scrapping ICE recently after outrage over the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy for illegal immigrants, which resulted in children being separated from their parents as the adults were prosecuted.
Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York became the first sitting senator to support abolishing the agency last week. "I believe you should get rid of it, start over, reimagine it and build something that actually works," she said in announcing her stance. She was soon joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
"People are smuggled and trafficked, while children are sexually exploited at home and abroad," ICE's website states. "Most ICE offices and programs have a role in preventing terrorism. Several are on the front lines of this effort, either identifying dangerous persons before they enter the U.S. or finding them as they violate immigration or customs laws. ICE also works to prevent the illegal export of U.S. technology that could be used or repurposed to do harm."
Correction: A previous version of this story said ICE agents were breaking up a child sex-trafficking ring. No criminal charges have yet been filed, but the agents were acting on a federal warrant for child human trafficking.
Mairead McArdle is a news writer for National Review Online and a graduate of Thomas Aquinas College.	@johnsonhildy
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Liya Luttovna Lashkova COMMUNICATIVE TRAINING OF FUTURE TEACHERS OF THE PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 50-54.
The relevance of the studied problem is caused by the developed social-economic situation in Russia, which influences revaluation of teacher's role in society, change of his professional status, prestige of the profession among others. The success of a teacher in profession is in many respects connected with abilities in the field of communication (statement and solution of communicative tasks, possession of effective communication methods). The purpose of the paper is justification of students' training for effective communication on studies on various disciplines of the higher educational institution program during practical training and organization of educational actions. The leading approaches to the problem are system, integrative, activity, competence-based and problem-communicative approaches. The author presents the created and realized pedagogical system of students' communicative training, conceptual justification and technological support of the system. The materials of the paper can be useful to optimization of communicative training of future preschool teachers at higher education institution.
Elena Lavrova DIRECTIONS TO ACHIEVE INNOVATIVE TYPE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE RUSSIAN-BELARUSIAN BORDER AREA // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 55-58.
In this paper, the author identifies the problems of uneven socio-economic development of border regions of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus such as growing disparities in economic processes between the regions, the loss of cooperative ties. The author proposes to increase the innovative and investment potential of the real sector of the economy of the neighboring regions, to develop the institutions of investment and infrastructure, forming cross-border clusters; efficiently use natural resources and labor potential; improve transport system.
Olga Martyanova THE EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS SOLUTIONS IN CONDITIONS OF UNCERTAINTY BY MEANS OF MODELING OF PRICE RISKS ASSESSMENT OF ETA ON THE BASIS OF PROBABILISTIC MODELS AND HEDGING // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 59-71.
The paper is devoted to development of price risks assessment tools of ETAusing hedging and probabilistic models for efficiency increase of business solutions of the organizations participating in international trade.
Оlga Nekrasova PSYCOLOGICAL PREPAREDNESS OF A TEACHER TO WORK WITH SPECIAL NEEDS CHILD // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 72-76.
This paper is dedicated to psychological readiness problem of future teachers' in general schools for implementation of inclusive education. The paper describes the professional difficulties of mass school teacher connected with psychological barrier presence, incapability to communicate with special need child, and also of their emotional acceptance. The issue of professional education system change and necessity to develop the program complex to form psychological readiness of future teachers for working with special needs children are raised in the paper.
Kira Prigozhina INTRODUCING INTERCULTURAL DIMENSIONS INTO A FOREIGN LANGUAGE COURSE // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 77-80.
The paper deals with methods and approaches of introducing intercultural dimensions into a language training course. As far as any foreign language course is rather straightforward and aimed at satisfying clearly defined and exact needs of students, educational purpose is presumed to be quite transparent, with clearly structured course program. Special attention is to be paid first of all to raising cultural awareness of students. Following this, structuring and comparing culture concept frames, which will further determine the choice and flexibility of behavioural strategies.
Olga Shum ORIGINALITY OF AUTHOR'S SUBJECTIVITY IN M. GORKY'S STORY "MISTAKE" // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 81-87.
The paper deals with the literary interpretation of M. Gorky's story "Mistake" (1895). New reading is based on the research of the main subject motive – the transformed archetypic formula "a teacher turning the pupil to his belief". Central characters "teacher" Kravtsov and "pupil" Yaroslavtsev are considered through a prism of the author's attitude towards them expressed by means of artistic touch of the nomination and comparison. It is established that this early work included thematic aspects and images conceptually significant in the context of Gorky's further creativity. The option of treatment of the story title is offered.
Vera Tolmacheva SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL READINESS OF A TEACHER AS PSYCHOLOGICAL-PEDAGOGIC CATEGORY // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 88-92.
The paper deals with the main approaches to design a system of formation of social-ecological readiness of a future teacher of preschool educational organization to work with a family on improvement of preschool children health. The special attention is paid to consideration concepts "system", "model", "modeling". The bases for creation the concept of social-ecological readiness formation of future teacher at preschool educational organization are reflected. The main attention is paid to consideration of all-pedagogical and specific regularities of conceptual development and functioning of the system. Consideration of the general and specific principles of formation of social-ecological readiness is significant: professional orientation of educational process at higher educational institution, humane and personal orientation of vocational training, nature conformity, conformity to culture, integrity, humanization of social-ecological preparation, scientific character, predictability, continuity, systematicity, regionalization, variability of social-ecological preparation. The main approaches, which are the cornerstone of the concept, are considered s from positions of systematicity, pedagogical activity, process and component of professional-pedagogical preparation.
Andrey Andreevich Tumanov, Tatyana Vitalyevna Kapelko POLITICAL COOPERATION WITHIN THE COUNCIL AND THE BARENTS EURO-ARCTIC REGION (HISTORICAL AND LEGAL ASPECT) // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 93-96.
The paper analyzes the geopolitical cooperation of European states in the Council and the Barents Euro-Arctic Region.
Ruslan Umakhanov THE SOCIAL RELATIONS IN MEKHTULIN FEUDAL POSSESSION IN XVIII – THE BEGINNING OF THE XIX CENTURY // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 97-101.
Based on sources and literature the paper analyzes development of the social relations in one of influential feudal possession of the Northern Dagestan in XVIII – the beginning of the XIX century. The author reveals the provision of various estates making themselves social structure of the khanate, their gradation and relationship among themselves.
Nadezhda Volobuyeva, Zhanna Morozova ABOUT FORMATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ADVANCED PRESCHOOL AGE CHILDREN ABOUT THE NATIVE LAND ON THE EXAMPLE OF CHUKOTKA // Modern European Researches. - Salzburg, 2016. - №2. - P. 102-111.
The paper deals with the experience of formation of knowledge and ideas of children of the advanced preschool age about the native land on the example of Chukotka: its nature, features of life, professions, cultures, stories. It promotes expansion of an outlook, development of cognitive interests of children and formation practical and intellectual abilities as bases of ecological education. Process of familiarizing preschool children with study of local lore is rather difficult, demands the thought-over selection of the content of knowledge, design of pedagogical process on the basis of the personal focused interaction, integration of means, methods and different types of children activity, especially in severe conditions of Chukotka.


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A man accused of killing a teenage Muslim girl appeared in a Virginia court on Monday morning to face a murder charge, the court clerk's office said, as police said the killing was not being investigated as a hate crime.
Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, was in his car when he got into a dispute with the 17-year-old girl and a group of her friends before dawn on Sunday in Sterling in Northern Virginia, about 30 miles (48 km) outside Washington, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. Martinez got out of the car and assaulted the girl, police said.
The girl and her friends were to have their last meal at a nearby International House of Pancakes, a fast-food chain, before fasting for Ramadan, the Washington Post reported.
Her friends sought help at a nearby mosque, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), the mosque said in a statement. The mosque added extra overnight prayers sessions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when devout Muslims fast from dawn to sunset.
Police arrested Martinez after he was seen driving suspiciously, and found what they believe to be the body of the girl later Sunday in a nearby pond.
It was not immediately clear whether Martinez had a lawyer and whether he had entered a plea to the charge of second-degree murder during an initial court appearance. The county prosecutor's office did not immediately respond to questions.
Neither the police nor the mosque confirmed the identity of the girl, but an online fundraising page and local media named her as Nabra Hussein.
The girl and her friends were dressed in abayas, the robe-like dress worn by some Muslim women, according to the Post, prompting fears that the victim was targeted because she was Muslim.
Fairfax police said in a statement on Monday morning that they were not investigating the murder as a hate crime.
Police did not say whether Martinez and the girl knew each other.


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In high school Boismard (Brionne), the world championship has mobilized many students of the institution.
They were indeed responsible for the implementation of several major developments: lectern for speeches, podium for the finals mailboxes for the Hall of accreditations countries panels for the Parade of Nations at the opening ceremony, a surprise for the official dinner Wednesday night ... and trophies!
Solicited students were carpentry students (Bac pro Carpenter Fitters and CAP Carpenter Installer) for the podium, mailboxes and panels, Joinery pro ferry students to the desk, and students Brevet des Craftsmanship for trophies.
The project has mobilized teams of high school since the beginning of the school year, he enrolled in the course of teaching progressions teachers. Add these supplements represent the quality and timeliness.
A unifying project that started from the drawing, being applied arts, to the podium, the trophies, the desk, which is followed by modeling under technical drawing to realize the plans before going to production.


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Etudes balkaniques (Sofia) Issue 2016 N 2
Catherine HOREL, Fiume-Rijeka, frontières et identités 1880-1921
Abstract: Following the Hungarian-Croatian Compromise of 1868, Fiume was given the statute of a separate body belonging to the Hungarian kingdom building thus its only access to the sea. Fiume had its own municipal administration that fostered the tendency toward autonomist politics. The city was largely Italian but the suburbs were on the contrary inhabited by Croats whose authorities resided in Zagreb. Hungary wanted to profile the city as a strategic place and developed its infrastructures and industries. Three different projects were at stake: the Hungarian central powers' will to "magyarize" and promote the city according to state interests; the Croatian national identity aiming at reunifying the Croatian medieval triune kingdom; the Italian autonomist movement sometimes overlapping with irredentism. The paper examines Fiume's "frontier" identity by looking at a multicultural society and its actors through language policies, associative life, multiple loyalties and conflicts.
Keywords: Austria-Hungary, Croatia, Irredentism, Identities, Cities


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Black Mirror Rewatch: Arkangel
Last year, I compiled a non-definitive ranking of Black Mirror episodes. Once a month, I revisit an episode, starting from the bottom. Herein lies #17.
The Talent: Showrunner Charlie Booker writes, with the one and only Jodie Foster in the director's chair.
The Setup: Marie (Rosemarie DeWitt) is a working single mother who just might be a little overprotective of her young daughter Sarah. When Sarah goes missing (very briefly) after a moment of distraction at a local park, Marie decides to try out the beta version of Arkangel, a tracking software that lets you monitor every aspect of your child's whereabouts and health via a tablet.
Arkangel also includes a handy filter program that lets Marie block upsetting images from Sarah's eyes, thus leading the poor kid to see anything sex or violence-related as a very pixelated blob. Worrying that blocking out content is warping her child's sense of morality, Marie finally turns off the program and lets her kid grow up relatively normally, until, of course, the now teenage version decides to try out boys and cocaine.
The Ending: Marie crosses more than a few lines behind Sarah's back, threatening her boyfriend and mixing an emergency contraceptive in her daughter's breakfast smoothie. When Sarah discovers the truth, she erupts, beating her mother with the now broken Arkangel tablet and hitchhiking far away.
The Theme: I said in my initial brief review of Arkangel that it really seems made for nervous parents, and that holds true. This is an episode about the dangers of helicopter parenting and...that's about it. Parenting is hard. Kids need to push boundaries and grow up, and at some point, moms and dads need to learn how to let go and let their children make mistakes. Otherwise, they risk losing the thing they love the most.
The Verdict: Like many of the episodes that fall in this tier, you can't call this a bad hour of television. It's a well-acted, adequately written story that just doesn't really offer much new in its ideas.
Technology Tip: As tempting as it may be, just let your kid watch porn and learn about fight clubs the natural way: from a slightly older rebel who will eventually love her enough to let her try his cocaine.
The Black Mirror Grade
Cruelty Scale: 3/10. DeWitt is good enough that we understand her actions, but it's hard to feel too bad when her decisions are what they are
Quality Scale: 6/10. Perfectly fine entertainment that never ascends too high
Enjoyment Scale: 4/10. The best Black Mirror episodes are either terrifying, innovative, or deeply human, and this one has a hard time with all of those boxes. Two watches was more than enough for me.
Up Next (Month): Ready Player 1? We wrap up Season 5 with Striking Vipers
Labels: black mirror, charlie brooker, jodie foster, rosemarie dewitt
dixie lane March 16, 2021 at 2:18 PM
I haven't seen this episode for a looooong time but I do remember it was maybe the second or third Black Mirror episode I saw, and I remember watching it and saying "if they are all as bad as this, I quit." I really liked the concept (I'm a sucker for any dystopic sci-fi, hence my general love for BM) and unhappy ending but I thought the acting was ABYSMAL -- like grade 6 xmas pageant quality -- and that ruined the rest of it for me.
But that said, no one else I've chatted about this episode with has felt that way so maybe I'm wrong. I should revisit it myself and see if I was out to lunch.
deadlydolls March 16, 2021 at 4:26 PM
I wasn't bothered by the performances (but that's totally subjective so if you were, don't second guess yourself!) but I just found the overall effect very meh. None of the performances helped that.
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Cover Of The Day 7/7/13 | "The Brotherhood of Evil Geeks"
How can one cover have so many ridiculously awesome things on it? I stumbled across this by accident and had to ask myself what I was looking at. An Indiana Jones pulp type character, a very 1940's looking femme fatale, a ninja, a burning Nazi flag AND Dinosaurs? What is going on here? I didn't know a damn thing about this comic, but you better believe I bought the first issue based on that cover alone.
Half Past Danger is a 5 issue mini series being put out by IDW, written and drawn by Stephen Mooney. If this cover excites you, do yourself a favor and pick it up. You'll be glad you did.
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from .regressor import Regressor

class FeatureExtractorRegressor(object):
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            'feature_extractor', 'regressor']):
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        self.regressor_workflow = Regressor([self.element_names[1]])

    def train_submission(self, module_path, X_df, y_array, train_is=None,
                         prev_trained_model=None):
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            module_path, X_df, y_array, train_is)
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            fe, X_df.iloc[train_is])
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        reg = self.regressor_workflow.train_submission(
            module_path, X_train_array, y_array[train_is],
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        return fe, reg

    def test_submission(self, trained_model, X_df):
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            fe, X_df)
        y_pred = self.regressor_workflow.test_submission(reg, X_test_array)
        return y_pred


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In a profitability evaluation by Fordham Journal of Company & Monetary Regulation, it was decided that the average profit margin from seven publicly traded payday lending corporations (together with pawn outlets) within the U.S. was 7.sixty three%, and for pure payday lenders it was 3.57%. What's stunning is that borrowers have common incomes and a checking account and that they actually have access to different types of credit.
Once you've got accomplished this, your lender should give you an inexpensive period of time to provide you with a repayment plan before using debt collectors. Your employer is not often contacted, however it is common for a lender to run an internet credit score check. The fees have been filed in 2016 during a U.S. crackdown on abusive practices by payday lenders. It was the reality throughout a lot of the United States till the 1990s, when financial deregulation and the gutting of state usury laws enabled the payday lending business to proliferate.
Dubbed the "Hydra Lenders," the businesses automatically withdrew what were characterized as finance fees" payday after payday, making use of none of funds toward compensation of principal, the indictment charged.


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Jidenna aka Classic Man is one of Janelle Monaé's Wondaland Label artist. He just released his latest video Little Bit More which is the latest single off upcoming album, Long Live the Chief.
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