I'm now going to ask you to do an assessment of yourself on these 18 skills.
which is something that you can also do on a free site.
pay attention to what I'm saying as I describe each of these 18 skills.
believe that this is a particular strength of yours.
that this is a particular strength of yours.
Growing as a leader requires that you take a look at yourself.
And so this is just for you, you're investing in yourself here.
Don't worry about what anybody else thinks about this.
This is your information and it's going to be helpful to you.
even though other people might see you differently.
can ask other people to rate you on these skills and some other things as well.
But, for now don't worry about your score.
to be curious and candid.
the Rest of Life, what I call total leadership skills.
to act with authenticity by clarifying what matters most to you.
1, strongly disagree, to 5, strongly agree.
The first one, know what matters.
how important is each one to you?
Are you clear about that and honest with yourself about what really does matter?
Is this a strength of yours or is this something that you're not very good at.
Do you embody your values consistently?
from feeling comfortable in your own skin.
being free to express what you care about really wherever you are.
Is that a strength of yours, or is that something you're not very good at?
how you spend your time and energy, where you invest your attention?
So do you align your actions with your values?
once again, how true is this statement of you?
through the stories of what's actually occurred to you in your real life?
beliefs, and made you into the person you are.
is that something that you're good at or Not?
to look to the point when you're gone.
and to say now what you expect that legacy will be.
spent a lot of time on it, others don't think about it at all.
but in all the different parts of their lives as what I call total leaders.
in the different parts of your life, or not?
Again, rate yourself on that scale of 1 to 5.
that bring to life this principle of being real, do you hold yourself accountable?
in a way that's in accord with what you believe and what you value most in life.
Do you ask others to help you to do that, or do you not?
to act with integrity by respecting the whole person.
that bring to life this principle are the following six.
as to whether this skill represents you as a particular strength or not.
listening to them and inquiring of them as to what it is that they expect of you.
remarkable people I'm going to be telling you something about.
what it is that they need from you.
What they see when they look at you.
yourself through the eyes of other people, get inside their heads and see yourself.
So clarifying what other people expect of you and what you expect of them.
not just your spouse, not just your best friend.
Not just your child, or what you expect of yourself, but all the important people.
in your ability to clarify expectations with them.
the whole is helping other people, which is pretty straightforward.
whatever it is that you can do to be helpful, or not?
they want are perhaps paradoxically always looking for ways to help other people.
still being thoughtful about what other people need and providing it.
that's part of the process of what it takes to build supportive networks.
being real, build supportive networks, are you good at that?
that you can help them get the help that they need from other people.
that you know and the people that they know.
Building supportive networks, is that something you're good at, or not?
Are you able to apply all your resources?
let's say in your community life, friends and contacts?
to use them to support your business goals or your family goals.
applying it to goals in the other part.
Another way to think about bringing the pieces together in a smart way.
The 5th of the be whole skills is to manage boundaries intelligently.
the other is psychological boundaries, and the 2nd one is more tricky.
A physical boundary is time and space.
Are you able to create the time and space to focus?
bounded in a particular time, and place.
do the pieces mesh in a way that's confusing.
Sometimes meshing or merging the different parts is a good thing, sometimes it's not.
whether is to merge them or to bound them.
There's no one best way, although you may have some preferences.
and that has to do with whether thoughts, feelings, interfere and distract you.
that's psychological interference of your family on your work.
Are you prone to being distracted in that way, or not?
you and the people in the different parts of your life, that's another skill.
Are you good at that, or not?
And finally, there's the skill of weaving the disparate strands.
is that something that you don't really think about or try to act on?
Rate yourself on that scale, too.
to act with creativity by continually experimenting with how things get done.
making that principle come to life in your world?
much on the way those results are pursued.
being flexible about where, when, and how they are pursued.
is that something that you could use some practice in developing?
the people with whom you might be interdependent in how you pursue them.
Are you good at that or is this something that you're not good at?
And this really has to do much with negotiation.
about coming up with creative solutions that work for them and that work for you.
what I call four-way wins.
being innovative is the capacity to challenge the status quo.
realize this isn't right, this has to change.
is that a challenge that you rise to, again, please rate yourself.
to the possibilities for doing something new.
That requires the capacity to imagine and to see new ways of doing things.
others can't [LAUGH] do that very well at all, which are you?
Are you someone who's good at seeing new ways of doing things, or not?
To be innovative requires a skill of embracing change courageously.
there is going to be anxiety or fear that it might not work out.
stupid, that you might fail.
So that fear is a natural part of trying something new.
pursue with the change that you're trying to make happen, even though you're afraid.
is that something that you want to work on?
trying to make things better, for yourself and for the world around you.
for others, that tends to inspire other people to do the same.
And that's what we mean by creating cultures of innovation.


We use the word "epistolary" to describe novels that use letters and their derivatives as a means to propel or comment on the action in a book. Jane Austen was renowned for her use of letters, especially in Pride and Prejudice. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle updated that scenario through the use of telegrams in his Sherlock Holmes novels, and contemporary author Fannie Flagg created a gossip column in a local newspaper to comment on the action in Fried Green Tomatoes in the Whistle Stop Cafe.
I've always enjoyed that sort of thing, and decided to use a local blog, written by Wil Bennett (aka Little Crow) as a way to add significant details to my Carding novels.
This chapter, the second in Dazzling, begins with one of Wil's blog posts then moves on from there.
The air at Carding Regional High was buzzing this morning with word that the Carding school district has been awarded a grant to bring the Firewood Circus Company to town for a weeklong residency next month. The residency includes theater and music camps for students of all ages, culminating in a performance on the last day of camp.
Every student in Carding's elementary, middle and high schools is welcome to attend any class of their choosing for the entire week. And the entire town is invited to the performance put on by the camp attendees on the final day of camp.
The Firewood Circus Company is renowned in New England for its commitment to bringing the excitement of public performance to communities all over the region. They've taught at the college level as well as in small villages on the Maine coast and in big cities such as Boston and small towns like our own Carding.
Founded in Vermont over twenty years ago, the Firewood Circus Company has been a regular feature of Burlington, Vermont's First Night program, and appears at summer festivals of all sorts in all the New England states.
I can't wait. I have always wanted to learn how to juggle. I'll be looking for you at the show.
He raised a single eyebrow as he pulled into a parking space at the bird sanctuary. "Perhaps. But you must admit you do like being heard." He watched the rain hit the hood of his truck for a moment, trying to decide if he was watching small pellets of sleet or large drops of rain bounce off the metal. Either way, he didn't like it much. Anyone who was sane stayed off the roads in icy conditions, and Stephen liked to think of himself as sane.
"Okay, Dad," Faye said, barely looking up from the class descriptions in the circus company's brochure.
His foot sank into a puddle when he stepped out, and Stephen twisted his mouth down. Maybe he should just head home.
"Something wrong, Dad?" Faye asked when he didn't move.
"I don't like the way the weather's going," he said.
Stephen sighed, and looked up at the sky. The pewter clouds were thinning. Maybe it would stop raining. Maybe the temperature would rise above freezing.
If Faye didn't know better, she'd have guessed that she'd walked in on an argument between her father and the lady behind the sanctuary's counter. When the woman's head snapped up, the first thing Faye noticed were her batwing eyelashes and the tight circle of her too-red mouth. When her father picked up the large cage holding the hawk and turned around to face his daughter, Faye noticed his flushed cheeks. Stephen rarely got angry but when he did, his face lit up like a Christmas tree. She looked from one adult to the other but neither of them gave her any clue about what was going on.
"Hold the door open, would you Faye?" he said. As she did, Faye turned to look at the woman. Her lips had relaxed into a smile that wasn't a smile.
Suzanna was already at the back of the truck, the cap's back window up and the tailgate down. She, too, noticed Stephen's face, and glanced at Faye for a clue about how to react. But Faye just shrugged a little and shook her head.
"Whoa. Whoa there. Steady…steady," Stephen murmured as he eased the large cage into the truck. The red-tailed hawk nipped at his gloved fingers.
"Not sure," Faye Bennett said as she scanned the paperwork from the bird sanctuary.
Suzanna crowded in to look over her shoulder. "What does this mean, Small Farm?" She pointed to one of the lines on the form.
Suzanna took the paperwork from her friend's hands, and peered at it, tilting it toward the light coming from the bird sanctuary's office. "I think it says Sunrise Hill," she said, looking up with a shiver. Even though she had put on her heaviest jacket, the damp air of early April seemed to penetrate all the way through to her bone marrow. She glanced at the caged bird as it rocked from side to side, repositioning its feet. I got up early to see this, she reminded herself. I'm not going to mind the cold because we're setting a bird free, and that's what's important.
"That's pretty lame, Dad," Faye said, wrinkling her nose.
Stephen laughed then tested to make sure the cage wouldn't move. Then he rechecked the padding on its bottom and halfway up its sides. The hawk looked on, bored but on guard.
The two girls craned their heads to check out the woman at the door. "What time in the morning do you suppose she has to get up to put all that makeup on?" Suzanna asked as the woman fluttered her bat-wing eyelashes at Stephen.
Just then, Stephen stepped back from the woman, handed her a clipboard and pen, and marched back to the truck, his mouth a thin, straight line.
"I would say your Dad is not pleased," Suzanna said.
The girls stayed quiet as Stephen got into the truck, turned the key, and eased it into gear. Finally, Faye decided to risk a question.
"Who was that woman, Dad? I've never seen her before," she said.
The rain changed to mist as they rumbled up the hill. It was the type of drizzle that stays liquid in the air but turns to ice as soon as it hits a windshield, roadway, guardrail or sidewalk.
The two girls rubbed vigorously, Suzanna taking the passenger side while Faye, sitting in the middle, cautiously reached across her father to clear the glass in front of him.
He gave her single long braid a friendly tug. "Better," he said with a smile. Ever since Faye's entry into her hormonal years, she'd become prickly and unpredictable. There were times when Stephen was sure that he and Diana had given birth to Frankenstein's monster so he cherished any time that she became his little girl again.
The truck slowed more as the road turned from paved to dirt. Then the track narrowed and climbed up the backside of a second hill. Stephen stopped when they reached a flat spot at the bottom of a sharp curve to roll down his window and look at the road conditions.
"The ice is building up," he said.
"How much further do we have to go?" Faye asked.
"What if someone's coming from the other direction?" Suzanna asked.
"Good question," Stephen said as he laid on the truck's horn. "Hopefully, that will be enough warning to let someone know we're coming." He looked at the two girls, and unconsciously compared them. Even though they were only three months apart in age, his Faye (and her developing body) looked so much older. He wondered if Suzanna's Uncle Ted was having Frankenstein monster problems at his house. He'd have to ask.
"Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's not done," Stephen said. Deep creases set in on both sides of his mouth as his mind strayed back to his encounter with Margie Rosen. He hadn't liked being the target of her barely-veiled innuendos at the bird sanctuary. He hoped he'd read her wrong.
Freya reared up to flap her wings again. The sun provided backlighting that gave her small audience a moment to appreciate the reddish glint of her feathers. Her sharp eyes soaked in every detail of her terrain then she turned to her left, glanced at the trio watching breathlessly, and rose to catch a current of air that gently lifted her above the earth.
The girls chattered so much, neither one of them noticed the way Stephen's hands clenched the steering wheel on the curves that dropped down from the Small farm. He'd driven too many icy roads not to have a healthy respect for their power to surprise. If the hawk hadn't been battering herself in her enclosure at the sanctuary, he would have refused to release her that morning.
He sighed deeply when they finally reached the flat stretch of asphalt at the end of the road, and the tension in his shoulders and hands eased. With a glance at the two excited girls in the seat next to him, Stephen reminded himself that a little adventure now and then was a good thing, was it not?


Please join us for a Holiday Happy Hour on Tuesday, December 10th at the Rock Bottom Brewery in La Jolla to celebrate the holiday season.
We look forward to seeing you there to celebrate and socialize! Stay for as long as you like and enjoy appetizers sponsored by SDEP, door prizes, and one free drink per entry ticket. Proceeds from the event will benefit the American Red Cross.
If you bring a non-perishable food item or new toy for donation, you will be entered into the drawing for door prizes. Last year we had some great prizes sponsored by generous SDEP members, and this year we expect even more!! All food and toys will be donated to local charities.
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'Super Smash Bros For 3DS' Banning Players For 136 Years Thanks To Glitch
Scott Grill
Glitches are common place in gaming, but some Super Smash Bros. for 3DS players are experiencing a glitch that bans them from playing the fighting game online. It's not just a temporary ban. This ban lasts for 136 years.
Fans on the Super Smash Bros.sub-Reddit first reported the ban glitch and came together to figure out the possible reasons why it could happen. Oddly, it seems to occur when you attack a single opposing player by whatever means the game deems to be too much.
"I got banned from online for 136 years, what do?"
As of now, there's no known solution. Just blame Sakurai for now.
"How do I prevent this glitch from happening?"
Try not to target one player in Group/FFA.
Just use 1v1 for the time being
Don't use online at all.
EDIT:Don't quit mid-match (Thanks /u/chrisx8x23x95!)
"Will removing my game/SD card and reinserting it stop the glitch?"
No, I've tried it with a friend's DS who had the glitch. It does NOT solve the problem
There's no official response from Nintendo about the reasons behind the 136 year ban glitch. Reddit user rstevoa thinks he has the answer though, and it has to do with how computers handle numbers.
The short form explanation is that the maximum number that a 32-bit processor, like the one in the Nintendo 3DS, can handle is 4,294,967,295. Anymore requires added work by the programmer. The 136 year ban translates to 4,294,962,000 seconds, which is close to that maximum number.
Some sort of programming is resulting in players being banned for -1 seconds. This results in something going haywire with Super Smash Bros. and the player being banned for 136 years.
Fortunately, Nintendo has caught up with its competitors in terms of patching games. When a patch for this glitch will be released is anyone's guess at the moment. The other concern is obviously what happens if the same glitch appears in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. That consoles uses a 64-bit processor whose maximum number is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807. Naturally, that means a ban of approximately 292,471,208 years if the glitch carries over. Yikes.
Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 3DS and the Wii U is part of Nintendo's big push back to profitability. If this glitch becomes more widespread than it is now, the company risks some bad publicity during a critical sales period.
Have you been hit by this glitch? Are you concerned about being hit by this glitch? Sound off in the comments below.
[Images via Nintendo]
US Politics Republican Files Articles Of Impeachment Against Joe Biden

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package io.dropwizard.logging.json;

import ch.qos.logback.access.spi.IAccessEvent;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.Level;
import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ILoggingEvent;
import ch.qos.logback.core.spi.DeferredProcessingAware;
import com.codahale.metrics.MetricRegistry;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import io.dropwizard.configuration.YamlConfigurationFactory;
import io.dropwizard.jackson.Jackson;
import io.dropwizard.logging.BootstrapLogging;
import io.dropwizard.logging.ConsoleAppenderFactory;
import io.dropwizard.logging.DefaultLoggingFactory;
import io.dropwizard.logging.json.layout.ExceptionFormat;
import io.dropwizard.logging.layout.DiscoverableLayoutFactory;
import io.dropwizard.request.logging.LogbackAccessRequestLogFactory;
import io.dropwizard.util.Resources;
import io.dropwizard.validation.BaseValidator;
import org.eclipse.jetty.http.HttpFields;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Request;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.RequestLog;
import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Response;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.slf4j.Marker;
import org.slf4j.MarkerFactory;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.entry;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

public class LayoutIntegrationTests {

    static {
        BootstrapLogging.bootstrap(Level.INFO, new EventJsonLayoutBaseFactory());
    }

    private final ObjectMapper objectMapper = Jackson.newObjectMapper();

    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
    private final YamlConfigurationFactory<ConsoleAppenderFactory> yamlFactory = new YamlConfigurationFactory<>(
        ConsoleAppenderFactory.class, BaseValidator.newValidator(), objectMapper, "dw-json-log");

    @BeforeEach
    public void setUp() {
        objectMapper.getSubtypeResolver().registerSubtypes(AccessJsonLayoutBaseFactory.class, EventJsonLayoutBaseFactory.class);
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    private <T extends DeferredProcessingAware> ConsoleAppenderFactory<T> getAppenderFactory(String s) throws Exception {
        return yamlFactory.build(new File(Resources.getResource(s).toURI()));
    }

    @Test
    public void testDeserializeJson() throws Exception {
        ConsoleAppenderFactory<ILoggingEvent> appenderFactory = getAppenderFactory("yaml/json-log.yml");
        DiscoverableLayoutFactory<?> layout = requireNonNull(appenderFactory.getLayout());
        assertThat(layout).isInstanceOf(EventJsonLayoutBaseFactory.class);
        EventJsonLayoutBaseFactory factory = (EventJsonLayoutBaseFactory) layout;
        assertThat(factory).isNotNull();
        assertThat(factory.getTimestampFormat()).isEqualTo("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ");
        assertThat(factory.isPrettyPrint()).isFalse();
        assertThat(factory.isAppendLineSeparator()).isTrue();
        assertThat(factory.getIncludes()).contains(
            EventAttribute.LEVEL,
            EventAttribute.MDC,
            EventAttribute.MESSAGE,
            EventAttribute.LOGGER_NAME,
            EventAttribute.EXCEPTION,
            EventAttribute.TIMESTAMP,
            EventAttribute.CALLER_DATA);
        assertThat(factory.isFlattenMdc()).isTrue();
        assertThat(factory.getCustomFieldNames()).containsOnly(entry("timestamp", "@timestamp"));
        assertThat(factory.getAdditionalFields()).containsOnly(entry("service-name", "user-service"),
            entry("service-build", 218));
        assertThat(factory.getIncludesMdcKeys()).containsOnly("userId");

        ExceptionFormat exceptionFormat = requireNonNull(factory.getExceptionFormat());
        assertThat(exceptionFormat.getDepth()).isEqualTo("10");
        assertThat(exceptionFormat.isRootFirst()).isFalse();
        assertThat(exceptionFormat.getEvaluators()).contains("io.dropwizard");
    }

    @Test
    public void testDeserializeAccessJson() throws Exception {
        ConsoleAppenderFactory<IAccessEvent> appenderFactory = getAppenderFactory("yaml/json-access-log.yml");
        DiscoverableLayoutFactory<?> layout = requireNonNull(appenderFactory.getLayout());
        assertThat(layout).isInstanceOf(AccessJsonLayoutBaseFactory.class);
        AccessJsonLayoutBaseFactory factory = (AccessJsonLayoutBaseFactory) layout;
        assertThat(factory.getTimestampFormat()).isEqualTo("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");
        assertThat(factory.isPrettyPrint()).isFalse();
        assertThat(factory.isAppendLineSeparator()).isTrue();
        assertThat(factory.getIncludes()).contains(AccessAttribute.TIMESTAMP,
            AccessAttribute.REMOTE_USER,
            AccessAttribute.STATUS_CODE,
            AccessAttribute.METHOD,
            AccessAttribute.REQUEST_URL,
            AccessAttribute.REMOTE_HOST,
            AccessAttribute.REQUEST_PARAMETERS,
            AccessAttribute.REQUEST_CONTENT,
            AccessAttribute.TIMESTAMP,
            AccessAttribute.USER_AGENT,
            AccessAttribute.PATH_QUERY);
        assertThat(factory.getResponseHeaders()).containsOnly("X-Request-Id");
        assertThat(factory.getRequestHeaders()).containsOnly("User-Agent", "X-Request-Id");
        assertThat(factory.getCustomFieldNames()).containsOnly(entry("statusCode", "status_code"),
            entry("userAgent", "user_agent"));
        assertThat(factory.getAdditionalFields()).containsOnly(entry("service-name", "shipping-service"),
            entry("service-version", "1.2.3"));
    }

    @Test
    public void testLogJsonToConsole() throws Exception {
        ConsoleAppenderFactory<ILoggingEvent> consoleAppenderFactory = getAppenderFactory("yaml/json-log-default.yml");
        DefaultLoggingFactory defaultLoggingFactory = new DefaultLoggingFactory();
        defaultLoggingFactory.setAppenders(Collections.singletonList(consoleAppenderFactory));

        DiscoverableLayoutFactory<?> layout = requireNonNull(consoleAppenderFactory.getLayout());
        assertThat(layout).isInstanceOf(EventJsonLayoutBaseFactory.class);
        EventJsonLayoutBaseFactory factory = (EventJsonLayoutBaseFactory) layout;
        assertThat(factory).isNotNull();
        assertThat(factory.getIncludes()).contains(EventAttribute.LEVEL,
            EventAttribute.THREAD_NAME,
            EventAttribute.MDC,
            EventAttribute.MARKER,
            EventAttribute.LOGGER_NAME,
            EventAttribute.MESSAGE,
            EventAttribute.EXCEPTION,
            EventAttribute.TIMESTAMP);
        assertThat(factory.isFlattenMdc()).isFalse();
        assertThat(factory.getIncludesMdcKeys()).isEmpty();
        assertThat(factory.getExceptionFormat()).isNull();

        PrintStream old = System.out;
        ByteArrayOutputStream redirectedStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        try {
            System.setOut(new PrintStream(redirectedStream));
            defaultLoggingFactory.configure(new MetricRegistry(), "json-log-test");
            Marker marker = MarkerFactory.getMarker("marker");
            LoggerFactory.getLogger("com.example.app").info(marker, "Application log");
            Thread.sleep(100); // Need to wait, because the logger is async

            JsonNode jsonNode = objectMapper.readTree(redirectedStream.toString());
            assertThat(jsonNode).isNotNull();
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("timestamp").isTextual()).isTrue();
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("level").asText()).isEqualTo("INFO");
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("logger").asText()).isEqualTo("com.example.app");
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("marker").asText()).isEqualTo("marker");
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("message").asText()).isEqualTo("Application log");
        } finally {
            System.setOut(old);
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void testLogAccessJsonToConsole() throws Exception {
        ConsoleAppenderFactory<IAccessEvent> consoleAppenderFactory = getAppenderFactory("yaml/json-access-log-default.yml");
        // Use sys.err, because there are some other log configuration messages in std.out
        consoleAppenderFactory.setTarget(ConsoleAppenderFactory.ConsoleStream.STDERR);

        final LogbackAccessRequestLogFactory requestLogHandler = new LogbackAccessRequestLogFactory();
        requestLogHandler.setAppenders(Collections.singletonList(consoleAppenderFactory));

        PrintStream old = System.err;
        ByteArrayOutputStream redirectedStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        try {
            System.setErr(new PrintStream(redirectedStream));
            RequestLog requestLog = requestLogHandler.build("json-access-log-test");

            Request request = mock(Request.class);
            when(request.getRemoteAddr()).thenReturn("10.0.0.1");
            when(request.getTimeStamp()).thenReturn(TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMillis(1353042047));
            when(request.getMethod()).thenReturn("GET");
            when(request.getRequestURI()).thenReturn("/test/users");
            when(request.getProtocol()).thenReturn("HTTP/1.1");
            when(request.getParameterNames()).thenReturn(Collections.enumeration(Arrays.asList("age", "city")));
            when(request.getParameterValues("age")).thenReturn(new String[]{"22"});
            when(request.getParameterValues("city")).thenReturn(new String[]{"LA"});
            when(request.getAttributeNames()).thenReturn(Collections.enumeration(Collections.emptyList()));
            when(request.getHeaderNames()).thenReturn(Collections.enumeration(Arrays.asList("Connection", "User-Agent")));
            when(request.getHeader("Connection")).thenReturn("keep-alive");
            when(request.getHeader("User-Agent")).thenReturn("Mozilla/5.0");

            Response response = mock(Response.class);
            when(response.getStatus()).thenReturn(200);
            when(response.getContentCount()).thenReturn(8290L);
            HttpFields httpFields = new HttpFields();
            httpFields.add("Date", "Mon, 16 Nov 2012 05:00:48 GMT");
            httpFields.add("Server", "Apache/2.4.12");
            when(response.getHttpFields()).thenReturn(httpFields);
            when(response.getHeaderNames()).thenReturn(Arrays.asList("Date", "Server"));
            when(response.getHeader("Date")).thenReturn("Mon, 16 Nov 2012 05:00:48 GMT");
            when(response.getHeader("Server")).thenReturn("Apache/2.4.12");

            requestLog.log(request, response);
            Thread.sleep(100); // Need to wait, because the logger is async

            JsonNode jsonNode = objectMapper.readTree(redirectedStream.toString());
            assertThat(jsonNode).isNotNull();
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("timestamp").isNumber()).isTrue();
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("requestTime").isNumber()).isTrue();
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("remoteAddress").asText()).isEqualTo("10.0.0.1");
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("status").asInt()).isEqualTo(200);
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("method").asText()).isEqualTo("GET");
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("uri").asText()).isEqualTo("/test/users");
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("protocol").asText()).isEqualTo("HTTP/1.1");
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("userAgent").asText()).isEqualTo("Mozilla/5.0");
            assertThat(jsonNode.get("contentLength").asInt()).isEqualTo(8290);
        } finally {
            System.setErr(old);
        }

    }
}

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Photos of The City's Rock Legends Before They Were Famous
by Brindsi Liberty
on Jun. 10, 2015 at 1:29 PM
at 1:29 PM on June 10, 2015
Brooklyn-native, musician, and photographer Paul Zone gave us a taste of the punk life in his exhibition Growing Up In The New York Underground: From Glam to Punk at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in the end of May.
Zone was in the middle of the 1970's East Village underground music scene, and he candidly documented the rise to fame of many rock and punk legends including Debby Harry, The Ramones, David Johansen, Lou Reed, and dozens of other big names.
The pictures shown at the exhibition have never been seen before and generated some authentic NYC rock nostalgia for all. Zone explains:
All these pictures were taken before any of these musicians had made their first records. It wasn't like I was taking pictures of rock stars. These were just friends, they weren't famous yet.
If you were unable to make it to last month's exhibition, Zone has compiled his rare images into a book available for purchase on Amazon.
via Brooklyn Magazine
26 Wooster Street, New York, New York 10013
leslielohman.org
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If you're still considering whether or not to get off of Facebook, here's one good reason you should
Hint: it's not because of fake news or Zuckerberg's inhuman tendencies
Image from this article by the Guardian
I'm writing this because popular opinion is colored with unfounded claims and easy targets leading to a mass misunderstanding of the problem of the current social media ecosystem, and also because it's easier to write once than explain every time someone asks me why I'm no longer using Facebook (the long story isn't quite as powerful in a short form).
While there are several problems with Facebook, here I will only go into the one which I believe is the most important, as it is deep rooted in the "DNA" of the platform and hints at the potential of it to gain influence over our lives, even more so than it has already. That DNA (not to be confused with the leadership/personality based DNA described in this well written piece) is the ad-based business model, without which Facebook would be nowhere near the size and dominance it currently possesses.
The recent controversies are only a preview of the amount of power Facebook could exercise if it chooses to. In an ideal (non-profit driven world), it won't. But if it means manipulating users' opinions and emotions for the sake of revenue, I don't think any tech company has the empathy to back down. Such companies are profit-driven machines, sustainable only by their ability to serve relevant content to their users, so as to gain more and more engagement. In Facebook's case, each like or reaction we make is a data point which Facebook uses to understand us, allowing them to provide even more relevant content in a continuous cycle of engagement and targeted advertising. This in itself is not bad. But it's the potential of such data driven content serving that reveals the true negative implications of Facebook's business model.
Here's the cycle broken down:
Users react to and like posts
Facebook aggregates such user activity data to pinpoint his/her interests
According to user interests, FB feeds content more likely to garner a reaction
Facebook gains a broad understanding of the users' characteristics (interests, hobbies, political affiliation, intelligence level, sexual orientation, career field, etc etc).
Facebook uses its incredible knowledge of its users to serve ads that blend in well with the content we are used to seeing, so they too have a very high likelihood of being clicked.
A high likelihood of being clicked means that an advertiser has the highest likelihood of making a return on said advertisement. From this it's obvious to see why Facebook has become the world's largest marketing company — because of its ability to pinpoint ads to relevant users so accurately, companies with a product to sell have no good reason to advertise anywhere else.
As the stockpiles of data keep growing, Facebook's knowledge of users gets better, and ad click-rates get higher → Facebook makes more money from advertisers.
But surely, Facebook is using our data responsibly, right?
This is the scariest part. For the most part, Facebook assumes an innocent countenance when it comes to the question of data usage. Controversies like that of Cambridge Analytica are passed off as exploitation by a third party, without the knowledge or intentional involvement of Facebook itself. But Facebook's management of user data is far from innocent.
Given the amount of time the average person spends on the platform each day, there is no doubt the content we see influences the way we think. So what happens when Facebook chooses to use our data for the wrong purposes, by showing us content meant to make us feel a certain way or believe a certain narrative or ideology. Facebook can, theoretically, manipulate people into falling in line with whatever agenda that it might find most beneficial — and that, most likely, is one in which Facebook itself is not harmful to society. How do we know it's not doing this already? Its algorithm is completely opaque. Nobody but the engineers who created it know what data is being used to define what shows up in your Newsfeed.
It's happened before. In June 2014, an article published by Forbes describes a "massive psychological experiment" Facebook performed on its users to test how they react to emotional content in their feeds. The results showed that, when exposed to more emotional content, users were more likely to create posts which reflected those same emotions (a phenomenon called emotional contagion). Case in point. Whether or not they have done it since or plan to in the future, Facebook has the power to manipulate the way its users think and feel, and this, I contend, is the most verifiable reason that Facebook is a malicious actor in today's society and use of it should be reconsidered by all.
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UK international development minister praises partnership with Canada on gender equality
UK international development minister Penny Mordaunt highlighted the success of the UK's strategic partnership with the Canadian government on gender equality at a Women Deliver's event at the High Commission of Canada in the United Kingdom in London on April 8. In September 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a new partnership between the two countries to champion gender equality, which so far has included co-hosting a multi-sector Safe Abortion dialogue in London in January 2019 and presenting a united front at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2019.
Mordaunt also announced the launch of a new £42 million (US$52 million) program supporting sexual and reproductive health and rights. The program will be led by Marie Stopes International and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
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You eyes are probably your most important facial feature. People notice the eyes when interacting and it is shown to be the feature we focus on most.
Their appearance and expression plays significant roles in how young, attractive, interesting, alert or energetic we appear to be.
During the consultation for eyelid surgery, your surgeon will enquire regarding your general medical history, and any previous eye or eyelid surgery.
At the time of the consultation, it is also important to appreciate the facial asymmetry points you may not have noticed, and your surgeon can describe the type of changes you can expect from the surgery as well as the positioning of the scars.
Eyelid surgery can be carried out either under a local anaesthetic with intravenous sedation or under a general anaesthetic. Small interventions can also be carried out under local anaesthetic alone. The operation can be carried out as a day case procedure, or can be carried out at the same time as a facelift, in which case an overnight stay would be necessary.
A number of precautions can help speed up recovery after eyelid surgery and reduce the chance of complications.
It is important to avoid vigorous activities or stooping at least for the first five days after the surgery, primarily to avoid bleeding. Bleeding can occur even at an interval after the operation, and because the eyelid surgery is generally pain-free, it can be tempting for people to feel that normal activity levels are safe.
As with any other type of surgery, there are uncertainties and risks associated also with blepharoplasty. Reporting any suspected problems early to your doctor allows for prompt intervention and speed up recovery.


Doe anyone collect or use the old mac equipment (like SCSI scanner etc) I have some great old stuff I would be happy to donate.
I also have tons of old computer programming books, although they are useless for programming today, if someone was a collector or knows of a recycling program, please let me know.
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I see your SCSI scanner and raise you a Zero Footprint external drive for a SE30.
3) Best Buy -- They will recycle for free - Wipe your drives clean first - or remove them from the device.
4) Put it back in the closet and try again in 6 months to let it go.
Thanks for the tip about Best Buy. I didn't know they recycles for free. I'm assuming that means you don't have to buy something there to recycle something.
You can check this link for what their restrictions are. I would also call before going to the store. The toughest part is when you have to remove the hard drive if you are not savvy with a screwdriver.
I'd be interested in a SCSI Nikon filmscanner for 35mm and 2 1/4 format film-not a flatbed.


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Click the link in the Investor column to see the details of the redemption or download a copy of the completed application document, if one was uploaded.


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Devon's commitment to jazz education is undiminished . Members of DYJO 1 continue to progress to UK music conservatoires. The promised return to the Montreux International Jazz Festival by DYJO 1 was fulfilled with three performances.
The two elite Jazz Ambassador groups (drawn from DYJO 1) continued with their outreach programmes. The value of their work is being demonstrated in North Devon schools where a new junior DYJO is being developed. The Jazz Ambassadors are also being used to increase players' skill levels in soloing and the development of compositional ideas. We note with interest plans to develop original teaching materials to enrich existing stocks and to target them at primary school-age pupils.
DYJOs 1 and 2 continue to perform in school Local Learning Communities as a standard part of their annual programme. Thus cascading of skills is enabled as well as the inspirational fillip which only live music can provide. It is worth noting that the two DYJOs meet monthly from September to March, enjoy a residential course and undertake at least six gigs per season. Their programme includes public performances throughout the county. Of the two, the DYJO 1 repertoire is the more advanced and aims to show how integral improvisation is to the idiom by encouraging musical empathy, support and interaction. DYJO 2 concentrates on the basic big band ensemble practice and styles and on essential improvisation. Progression in both groups is monitored and evaluated and peer review is encouraged among section leaders.
The Jazz Explosion programme, which started as a project and first attracted our attention in 2009 is now well established. This year, workshops continued to be provided for Key Stage 2 pupils, and, as has become the norm, customised teaching materials and lesson plans were published on the website in advance.
We pay tribute to all the above-mentioned authorities for their commitment to music education and jazz in particular. We are pleased to award Diplomas to East Renfrewshire, One Education Music (Manchester), Oxfordshire, SoundStorm (Bournemouth & Poole), Southampton; and a Diploma of Special Merit to Devon together with a special trophy donated by Yamaha Music Europe - UK, in recognition of the fact that Devon have now won six Diplomas on the trot, four of them "of Special Merit"!
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Poussignac (okzitanisch: Possinhac) ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Lot-et-Garonne in der Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (vor 2016: Aquitanien). Die Gemeinde gehört zum Arrondissement Marmande und zum Kanton Les Forêts de Gascogne. Die Einwohner werden Poussignacois genannt.

Geografie
Poussignac liegt etwa 17 Kilometer südsüdwestlich von Marmande. Nachbargemeinden von Poussignac sind Argenton im Norden, Grézet-Cavagnan im Nordosten, Labastide-Castel-Amouroux im Osten, Casteljaloux im Süden, Beauziac und Saint-Martin-Curton im Südwesten sowie Ruffiac im Westen und Nordwesten.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kirche Saint-Martin aus dem 14. Jahrhundert, Umbauten aus dem  16. Jahrhundert, Monument historique

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Q: Instantiate React-component in jquery's draggable helper-function I have a list of items realized as a React compontent. This list is a "Toolbox". If I start dragging an item from this list I want it to be represented as an instance of a React compontent.
My first approach was to just return a React.render(<MyReactDiv>, document.body) in my customized jQuery helper-function but I can't get it running.
Any suggestions?
So far my code is (ES6)
ListPage.js
import React from 'react'
import MyReactDiv from './myReactDiv'
import $ from 'jquery'
import draggable from 'jquery-ui/draggable'

export default React.createClass({

  render () {
    return (

one

two

three

)
  },

  componentDidMount () {
    $('.draggableLI').draggable({
      // helper: 'clone', // <-- I dont want to clone the li
      helper: () => { // ... but want to return an instance of MyReactDiv during dragging
        // not working:
        // let content = React.render(<MyReactDiv>, document.body)
        // return content

        // working but duplicated code:
        return $('
A Div
')
      }
    })
  }
}

MyReactDiv.js
import React from 'react'

export default React.createClass({

  render () {
    return (
A Div
)
  }
}

A: It's been a while, so hopefully you'll find this useful.
In order to use a react component as a helper, I had to do something like this:
jQuery('.draggable').draggable({
   helper: function() {
      var helper = jQuery('

');
      helper.appendTo(jQuery('body'));
      React.render(<Component/>, document.getElementById('helper'));
      return helper;
   },

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Q: In a list of strings, for each string remove part of a string after a specific character I have a list of strings and I would like to get rid of the part of the string after the character '_', but it gives me an error I can't find
import requests
url = 'https://data.gateapi.io/api2/1/pairs'
r = requests.get(url = url)
coins = r.json()
print(coins)
['USDT_CNYX', 'BTC_USDT', 'BCH_USDT', 'ETH_USDT', 'ETC_USDT', 'QTUM_USDT', 'LTC_USDT', 'DASH_USDT', 'ZEC_USDT', 'BTM_USDT', 'EOS_USDT', 'REQ_USDT', 'SNT_USDT', 'OMG_USDT']

clean_coins = []
for coin in coins:
    test=coin.split("_")
    test = test[0]
    clean_coins = clean_coins.append(test)

AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'append'

A: The problem is in clean_coins = clean_coins.append(test).
The append method of a list modifies the list and returns nothing, this means that you are assigning the result of clean_coins.append(test) which is None to clean_coins and on the next iteration you get an error because clean_coins is now None and you are trying to call .append() on it.
To fix it just replace clean_coins = clean_coins.append(test) with clean_coins.append(test)

A: You can have a 1 liner like the below
coins = ['USDT_CNYX', 'BTC_USDT', 'BCH_USDT', 'ETH_USDT', 'ETC_USDT', 'QTUM_USDT', 'LTC_USDT', 'DASH_USDT', 'ZEC_USDT', 'BTM_USDT', 'EOS_USDT', 'REQ_USDT', 'SNT_USDT', 'OMG_USDT']

clean_coins = [x.split('_')[0] for x in coins]
print(clean_coins)

output
['USDT', 'BTC', 'BCH', 'ETH', 'ETC', 'QTUM', 'LTC', 'DASH', 'ZEC', 'BTM', 'EOS', 'REQ', 'SNT', 'OMG']


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Last night I was going to write some humorous witty blog but then thought nope I'll wait until tomorrow….
Early this morning (around 1am Wed 24th) my mate Brian sent me a message so as not to wake me to let me know that his missus Kell had passed away. I was awake and dumbfounded when I read the text. Typically in this modern era we texted back and forth rather than spoke on the phone. I knew he was crying and who wouldn't be, he had just lost his partner to a cruel and debilitating disease.
I thought back only to Sunday when we went over to visit and even though Kell was in pain and on a morphine pump she still smiled and laughed at our stupid jokes. On Monday Brian said that they were admitting her to hospital as she had taken a turn for the worst and that he was trying to cope with the kids as they and him were upset. "No I'm fine" he said "she'll be right". Not even 48hrs later and she was gone.
Brian met Kell only four years ago and being the man he is also took responsibility for Kell's kids including one with down syndrome. He adopted them and said if anything happens he would continue to look after them. None of us expected this to happen so soon. Kell had been feeling sick and had a lump for a couple of years and all the doctors bar one, said it was nothing, this one doctor said hmmm and sent for further tests and they found Cancer but basically it was too late.
This brought back memories of my own fathers struggle with Cancer and how it affects everyone concerned. It also brought to light how vulnerable we all are and that maybe we are not so tough and as strong as we think we are.
Now as I listen to the song Crackin' Cancer (I wrote it to raise money for Cancer Research), the second verse was and is about my father, the third verse reminds me of Kell and the news she was told.
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Este asteroide fue descubierto el 10 de mayo de 1999 por LINEAR en Socorro.

Véase también
 Lista de asteroides
 asteroide del cinturón principal

Enlaces externos
 Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Datos orbitales (inglés)

Asteroides del cinturón principal
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos por el Linear
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos desde el Sitio de Pruebas Experimentales
Objetos astronómicos descubiertos en 1999
Objetos astronómicos por denominación provisional
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Keeping tabs on federal government efforts to protect citizens' privacy
Redeeming NIST's Reputation
Bill Would Ban NSA from Undermining NIST Crypto Standards Eric Chabrow (GovInfoSecurity) • June 23, 2014
Rep. Alan Grayson's amendment would bar NSA meddling on NIST standards.
If the NSA's meddling in NIST cryptography standards soiled the reputation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an amendment approved by the House of Representatives could help restore it.
"This amendment ... should go a long way toward recovering the lost reputation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology," says Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J.
We should not want taxpayers' dollars to be appropriated to one agency to be used deliberately and actively subvert the work of another agency.
On a voice vote, the House on June 19 approved an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, the law that finances Defense Department operations, which would prevent the National Security Agency from spending appropriated funds to alter NIST IT security standards to allow the e-spy agency to snoop.
"It's only common sense that we should not want taxpayers' dollars to be appropriated to one agency to be used to deliberately and actively subvert the work of another agency and at the same time destroy the privacy and the liberty and the personal property of our own citizens," says Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., the amendment sponsor (see Will NIST-NSA Cooperation Continue?).
Cryptographer Bruce Schneier and others contend a NIST random-number standard, Special Publication 800-90, contains a backdoor to allow the NSA to spy on organizations employing a specific random bit generator, known as Dual_EC_DRBG. After media reports last fall about the alleged exploitation, NIST temporarily withdrew the guidance and dropped Dual_EC_DRBG (see NIST to Review Crypto Guidance Methods).
In Eye of the Beholder
How sullied was NIST's reputation? That depends on the beholder. Schneier says NIST's reputation was "badly bruised" by the NSA interference, though he believes this was an isolated case. Still, he says, "no one knows if they can be trusted."
And NIST did something it rarely does: withdraw a piece of guidance. In revising the guidance, and to bolster its credibility, NIST called on stakeholders to suggest ways to improve it. That process resulted in NIST drafting Interagency Report 7977: NIST Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Development Process. In May, with NIST's backing, its primary advisory committee named a panel of noted cryptographers, academics and business leaders to provide an independent assessment of the way it develops cryptographic standards and guidelines (see Experts to Assess NIST Cryptography Program).
The NSA employs some of the world's best cryptographers, so federal law requires NIST to collaborate with the intelligence agency on developing its encryption standards. "The Grayson amendment was pretty artfully written to still allow the NSA to provide expert advice, when necessary, but to prevent the NSA from undermining cryptography standards in the future," says Harley Geiger, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a not-for-profit group that champions online civil liberties.
Even defenders of the NSA backed the amendment. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., characterized as "ridiculous" a widely held belief among cryptographers that the NSA deliberately sabotaged NIST standards. Because the legislation doesn't bar NSA-NIST collaboration on standards, he voted for it. The NSA "participation in setting standards is a no brainer," says Frelinghuysen, who chairs the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. "You want the standards to be designed by the people who best understand the threat. They recommend the standards that they themselves use."
Differing Duties
True, but as Holt points out, the NSA has dual and perhaps conflicting responsibilities: to build the best encryption to defend government and military systems and to break encryption to intercept electronic communications that could harm the nation. The amendment is designed to clarify NSA's responsibilities.
"These dual roles caused real problems for American standards and hence for American technology and American companies," Holt says. "It's unfortunate that NIST, which is supposed to be an impartial arbiter of national and even global standards for technology, was effectively used to propagate defective encryption standards. This amendment, I think, will help correct that."
Congress will pass and President Obama will sign the National Defense Authorization Act. But it's not certain the Grayson amendment will survive a House-Senate conference committee to work out the final appropriations bill. The Obama administration has yet to weigh in whether it supports the amendment. "We're reviewing the language in the amendment," says Laura Lucas Magnuson, a White House spokeswoman.
Schneier says the amendment is needed, but isn't optimistic it will survive the legislative process. "The NSA really has destroyed trust on the Internet and that destruction of trust is toxic," he says. "... I'm glad there are some people in Congress that are doing this; it's really important domestically and internationally. We need to be trustworthy and if we're not, we really hurt the entire global Internet."
Let's hope the amendment survives the Senate vote, and President Obama signs it. We'll never fully know what the NSA does. The amendment would not just bolster NIST's reputation, but help the repute of the NSA, federal government and the nation. Congress and the president should go on record to declare that meddling in security standards is un-American.
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Chabrow, who retired at the end of 2017, hosted and produced the semi-weekly podcast ISMG Security Report and oversaw ISMG's GovInfoSecurity and InfoRiskToday. He's a veteran multimedia journalist who has covered information technology, government and business.
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