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S.C. now can see the way forward
Let us think and act deliberately about a new legacy for our state.
S.C. now can see the way forward Let us think and act deliberately about a new legacy for our state. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: http://grnol.co/1IOAaqq
Published 8:43 a.m. ET July 10, 2015
(Photo: Jeremy Fleming)
On the evening of June 17, a hate crime took place at a Wednesday evening prayer meeting at Mother Emanuel AME Church near Francis Marion Square in Charleston.
The absolutely horrid nature of the crime, the cold-blooded assassination of innocent people solely because they were black — all under the ideology of white supremacy — shocked us all. It tore at the social fabric we all depend on to carry out our daily lives in a civilized way in our communities and our country. And it is this kind of senseless crime, shaped by racism and fueled by hate and hate talk, that our state must confront in a common sense and deliberate way.
The family members of those who were killed and the leadership and members of Emanuel AME in Charleston, moving with grace, dignity and Christian forgiveness, set an example for our communities, our state and the entire country on how to begin the healing process and prevent greater racial division.
Many of our state's political, religious, and university leaders have responded with determination to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds, and that, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is the right thing for South Carolina.
But, as many voices have said, we as a state need to follow this important symbolic gesture with action. Let us take down the flag, yes, but let us begin to work deliberately to effect systemic change and to build a more inclusive South Carolina.
While we cannot immediately fix the toxic ideologies or individual acts of racists, we can work together to think and talk differently about our fellow citizens and neighbors who might look different from us.
There is real value, crucial value in healing conversations within communities across South Carolina, among individuals from diverse socioeconomic, racial, and religious backgrounds who can speak openly and also listen openly to perceptions of others about racial barriers and how injustices of the past continue to have an impact today.
These efforts toward the common good are of immense importance, but real and lasting change requires more from all of us. What are the next steps in uniting our state?
There is little debate over whether personal responsibility and hard work are critical to success in life. Still, significant disparities in our systems of education, health and justice have a disproportionate impact on poor and minority citizens in our state, making it difficult to receive the rewards of hard work.
The collective impact of generational poverty, poor health, and lack of access to well-paying jobs divides our state into two South Carolinas: one for those of us with access to broad interactions, collaborations that enable us to experience the best our state has to offer, and the other, people at the margins beset by barriers impeding their ability to join the economic mainstream.
As we think about how we think and talk about the people of South Carolina, it becomes morally and ethically clear that all of us, economically well-off or poor, deserve a high quality education, good health care, and opportunities for good jobs. Creating conditions for this to happen makes great sense for our state in so many ways.
The more educated our citizens the more likely they are to find good jobs and contribute to the economic well being of our state. The less likely our citizens will need social services and the more likely to add to the tax resources critical to pay for the social and physical infrastructure our state depends.
As we go forward from the horrors of June 17th, let us learn from the example set by the parishioners and leaders of Mother Emanuel AME church toward healing the gaping wound that appalled our state. Let us have meaningful conversations that look honestly at the racial biases that poison minds and can lead to the most horrific acts.
Let us think and act deliberately about a new legacy for our state, one that brings the two South Carolinas together into one. A legacy of inclusion, of one South Carolina where we all share the benefits of belonging to the social and economic mainstream that connects us and offers collective hope for our state's future.
Dick Riley is a former member of the South Carolina House and Senate, former Governor of South Carolina, and U.S. Secretary of Education. Dr. Donald L. Gordon, is the executive director of Furman University's Riley Institute. The institute's three centers focus on crucial issues that challenge South Carolina, on public education, and leadership in an increasingly diverse state.
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Home Business Benioff says he's 'never leaving' Salesforce, but is thrilled to have Bret...
Benioff says he's 'never leaving' Salesforce, but is thrilled to have Bret Taylor alongside him as co-CEO
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Salesforce's Marc Benioff told CNBC's Jim Cramer on Tuesday that he was "never leaving" the enterprise software giant he co-founded in 1999, but is excited that Bret Taylor is joining him as co-CEO.
Benioff's comments in a "Mad Money" interview came shortly after Salesforce announced Taylor's promotion. Before his elevation to co-CEO, Taylor had served since 2019 as president and chief operating officer.
"I love Salesforce. You see me with our customers and how much fun I have with all of our stakeholders. I'm never leaving Salesforce. This is my life's pursuit," said Benioff, who also serves as chair of the company's board.
"But I couldn't be more thrilled to have a great partner here with Bret Taylor, and he's just amazing," Benioff continued. "This is my dream, that Bret would come in the company and we could work it and run it together and lead it together in a trusted partnership, and that's happening."
Cramer had asked Benioff whether Taylor's designation as co-CEO meant the outspoken billionaire entrepreneur was going to "go to the beach, run for president, whatever, or are you going to stay as co-CEO?"
In posing the question, Cramer noted that speculation about Benioff's future as chief executive swirled up in August 2018, when Salesforce tapped Keith Block to be co-CEO. Block stepped down in February 2020, leaving Benioff as sole CEO until Tuesday's promotion of Taylor.
The 41-year-old Taylor joined Salesforce in 2016 after the company' acquired his productivity software start-up Quip. He previously worked at Google and Facebook, and, on Monday, he became chairman of Twitter's board.
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Kriopigi is located in the Peninsula of Kassandra about 90 km away from Thessaloniki. It is built amphitheatrically at the slope of the piney hill with a great view to the gulf of Kassandra.
The region is populated from the ancient years and today Kriopigi is located between Neapolis and Flegra. The perfect climate, the combination of the green mountain and of the clear sea – was honored with many blue flags – along with the high services and the hospitality make Kriopigi one of the most remarkable resorts of the area. The hotel units, today they number 1000 rooms, as well as the camping of G.N.T.O and the three hundred furnished apartments and rooms in the area offer a comfortable and pleasant stay to the visitor as well as the possibility of various activities (sea sports, excursions, tennis, horse riding, e.t.c).
The Center of Pedagogic Research and Education is situated in Kriopigi, and it's a donation of Dr. Erhart and Sofia Ziegler. This center is a meeting point of educators from the entire world, who visit the center in order to cooperate and attend the various seminars and conferences that are being organized during the whole year.
The visitor can enjoy high quality natural products such as honey, fruits, olives, and olive oil and visit the fountain, which was named after the village and exists many years now. The region provides all the necessary services, restaurants, taverns, super markets, fish taverns, nightclubs, bars, pop art shops, e.t.c, which ensure heavenly vacations.


Another year. Another city. Another AMAzing conference. And this year we're running a sell-out breakfast seminar, titled 'Digital novices and natives - Don't just Transform. Evolve'. Having curated numerous arts' organisations digital strategies over the last 6 years, our team will be sharing how to embrace digital to strive for your own sell-out success.
What is AMA and who goes?
The Arts Marketing Association (AMA for short) is the annual event that brings the arts marketing profession together under the one roof every year with 'a mission to matter'. This year the conference is being held at the incredible Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh between the 14th and 16th of July. With over 40 speakers and 40 sessions, the opportunities to engage, enlighten and evolve are copious.
Very few workshops sold out within the first day of being announced and so we were excited to see all 65 of our seats snapped up at the same pace as The Guardian's highly sought-after session. We're looking forward to seeing familiar and fresh faces across the 3 days, with partners Tessitura and Spektrix in attendance and clients including Almeida Theatre, Courtauld Institute of Art, Culture Republic, National Theatre of Scotland, The Halle and more all making it along!
Now .. more about that breakfast we promised you!
All too often we complete goals only to put our feet up in self-satisfaction. But it's at these crossroads where we should strive further and for more. Times of success are the best times for progression.
We regularly witness as organisations launch their new website with a contented "done". But, this is just the beginning. We challenge clients to think "what's next?". You wouldn't set off on a roadtrip with a map that only showed you how to get to your first destination, so why should it be any different as you set off on your journey toward digital excellence?
Instead of looking at just one part of your organisation's operational formula, say for example your website, our session will illustrate that it's not only your audience's user experience that need you need to consider, but all of your people (staff, stakeholders, etc). How do they use technology? Are your customer services and marketing departments singing from the same hymn sheet? Are the notes they're playing sounding the same, or do their instruments need retuned?
Digital evolution has been a large focus of our business over the last decade and we're constantly undertaking different projects spanning a vast number of industries. As the requirements of each vary so dramatically, we believe that the success of your project relies in the tangible value it offers to your users, both internal and external.
Our Managing Director, David Johnstone, and Head of Strategy, Cat Leaver, will explore this and more in their workshop and look forward to seeing many of your there.
If you didn't manage to book your slot at our session then fear not, we'll be around for the full conference and more than happy to answer any questions you may have. Connect with David or Cat in advance and drop them a line to organise a coffee (or, knowing them, a beer)!


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Q: Combining componenets of a list in r I have a list that contains data by year. I want to combine these components into a single dataframe, which is matched by row. Example list:
    List [[1]]
    State Year   X   Y
    23     1971  etc  etc
    47     1971  etc  etc

    List[[2]]
    State Year   X   Y
    13     1972  etc etc
    23     1973  etc  etc
    47     1973  etc  etc

   etc....

   List[[45]]
     State Year   X   Y
     1     2017  etc etc
     2     2017 etc  etc
     3     2017 etc  etc
     1     2017  etc etc
    23     2017 etc  etc
    47     2017 etc  etc

I want the dataframe to look like (I know I will have to go through and remove some extra columns:
    State   1971_X    1971_Y    1972_X    1972_Y....2018_X    2019_Y
    1         NA        NA       NA        NA         etc       etc
    2         NA        NA       etc       etc        etc       etc
    3         etc       ect      etc       etc        etc       etc
    ...
    50        NA        NA       etc        etc       etc       etc

I have tried the command Outcomewanted=do.call("cbind", examplelist) but get the message
"Error in data.frame(..., check.names = FALSE) :
  arguments imply differing number of rows: 36, 40, 20, 42, 38, 26, 17, 31, 35, 23, 33, 13, 29, 28, 32, 34, 41, 37, 43, 39, 30, 14, 10, 4, 7"

It seems that the cbind.fill command could be an option but has been retired? Thanks for any help in advance.

A: You may use reshape after a do.call(rbind()) manoeuvre.
res <- reshape(do.call(rbind, lst), idvar="state", timevar="year", direction="wide")
res
#   state     x.1971    y.1971    x.1972      y.1972     x.1973     y.1973
# 1    23  1.3709584 0.3631284        NA          NA -0.1061245  2.0184237
# 2    24 -0.5646982 0.6328626        NA          NA  1.5115220 -0.0627141
# 3    13         NA        NA 0.4042683 -0.09465904         NA         NA

Data
lst <- list(structure(list(state = c(23, 24), year = c(1971, 1971),
    x = c(1.37095844714667, -0.564698171396089), y = c(0.363128411337339,
    0.63286260496104)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
-2L)), structure(list(state = c(13, 23, 24), year = c(1972, 1973,
1973), x = c(0.404268323140999, -0.106124516091484, 1.51152199743894
), y = c(-0.0946590384130976, 2.01842371387704, -0.062714099052421
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The Last Days of Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte – a respected and feared military leader, a sharp strategist and seasoned negotiator, has crowned France with laurels in the early 19th century. In the wake of such a tremendous rise, the fall is all the more hazardous. Eventually captured and deported by the English on the island of Saint Helena, in 1815, the former Emperor spent his last, bitter days on exile.
On the deck of Royal Navy's HMS Northumberland sailing to Saint Helena, Napoléon did not breathe a single word. His disillusioned glance shot up along the main mast, with St. George's Ensign atop. The English navy escorted "Fleshy" towards a black, rocky island of the South Atlantic – a lonely prison snipped by strong winds.
The Emperor did not have his traditional, noble bearing, neither the ebullient dispositions of his Corsican youth. According to an English doctor, "he looked more like a fat Spanish monk than a modern-day hero". However, Bonaparte's eyes still sparkled with intelligence. Did he know already that this journey would have no return? His mind was probably elsewhere; remembering the very beginnings of his rise, his first position of command – he spearheaded a snowball assault in primary school – and his turbulent youth in Ajaccio, Corsica. Also the building of an empire that was to encroach upon Russian borders and include Hamburg, Roma, Barcelona or Amsterdam. Following the battlefield-born triumph came the time for oblivion, in the shape of a 120 square meter-coffin made of volcanic rock.
By the way: Napoleon wasn't a dwarf, he was 1,69 meter tall, an average height for 19th-century men. Painting: Napoléon abdiquant à Fontainebleau (1845) by Paul Delaroche. Credit: Wikicommons via Le Vif.be
There, Napoléon waited, endlessly – but what to wait for, 7,000 kilometers away from Paris, except death? The Emperor's prestige and glow vanished in Saint Helena, as France was bled dry by occupying Prussian and English forces. The Little Corporal had one mission left: dictate his memoirs for posterity. At a slow, careful pace, he disembarked upon the foggy island on October 15, 1815. Three former generals – Bertrand, Gourgaud and Montholon – accompanied him, as well as Emmanuel de Las Cases, who was tasked with compiling Napoleon's observations and memories.
On exile, there was not much to do but killing time. Napoléon did not particularly enjoy his conditions of incarceration: he stayed at a damp, rat-infested shack – the Longwood pavilion. His daily routine featured readings, card games, generous meals and lengthy nocturnal discourses. After a life busy with responsibility, forced idleness did not quite fit with the Emperor's mood. What is more, he did not receive much news from the outside world; his wife, Marie-Louise of Austria, and his son seemed to have forgotten about him. The only ray of sunlight piercing through Napoleon's grey thoughts was a 15-year old English girl named Betsy Balcombe, whose parents were working for the East India Company.
"Just need a couple of sea turtles and I'll make a raft." Painting: Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène (ca. 1820) by Franz Josef Sandmann.
Much to the jealousy of Bonaparte's generals and relatives, the young Betsy became soon a very close friend of the Little Corporal. She would interrupt his dictations to Las Cases, cover him with freshly plucked flowers, steal his papers, or attack him with his own sword! Although "she turned insufferable to the Emperor's kin, the latter could not do without her", according to French author Albéric Cahuet. That childishness probably breathed life into Napoleon's enduring melancholy. Unfortunately, it did not last long: the relationship raised the suspicion of Hudson Lowe, the island's governor, who put an end to it. This event did not improve the Emperor's health, already shaky. From 1817 on, sudden painful strikes in his belly pinned him to the ground. Stomach ulcer, perhaps something even more serious. Three years later, Napoleon – rather, a feverish, ghost-like version of himself – was bedridden, and the Corsican doctor appointed to cure him, Francesco Antommarchi, did not help since he suggested a treatment that proved disastrous.
Eventually, on May 5, Bonaparte said his last words ("My God… French nation… My son… Head of the army") before passing away. At the cadaver's side, despite their frequent rows, Hudson Lowe paid tribute to his prisoner:
"He was England's greatest enemy and mine too, but I forgive him everything. On the death of a great man like him, we should only feel deep concern and regret."
Napoleon on his deathbed. (Photo credit: Le Figaro)
Napoléon was born in Corsica – one year after it became a French possession, otherwise the Emperor would have been Italian – and died on another, luxuriant but desolate, island. However, the legend of the conqueror, architect of the Napoleonic Code and master of Europe, was not forgotten yet. His own death remains a historical mystery to this day, as analysts found enormous amounts of arsenic in his body.
"My life, what a novel!" Napoléon famously said. A novel packed with shadow and light, victories and humiliations. The Emperor undoubtedly revamped French post-revolutionary institutions, and prepared it for the modern era; his legacy tarnished, though, by the bloody sacrifice of his Great Army's hussars, frozen by thousands in the polar deserts of Russia, or by the re-legalization of slavery in French colonies. Why should we choose between the hero and the persecutor? Napoléon was both of those characters, or perhaps none; but he was surely a complex and enigmatic figure that still fascinates historians to this day.
Mental note: remember to invade Prussia and bring slavery back. Also: purchase bread.
A living proof of the respect and greatness that was associated with Bonaparte: decades after his demise, murmurs running in French countryside claimed that the Little Corporal was still alive. He had managed to escape his jailer, the rumor said, and his death was no less than a mockery staged by the English… In every legend lies a bit of truth: Napoléon had indeed set off again from Saint Helena. Because the young Betsy carried with her, on her exile towards England, a strand of the Emperor's hair…
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Napoleon-I
Jean Tulard, Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène [FRENCH]. Interview conducted by Richard Fremder, Herodote, november 2018.
Futura Sciences, "De quoi est mort Napoléon Bonaparte ?" [FRENCH]
Posted in History, PoliticsTagged 19th century, Bonaparte, Corsica, Death of Napoleon, French history, Napoleon, Napoleon's exile, Napoleonic Code, Saint Helena island, Waterloo
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Q: Redirecting user back to originally desired URL after login Example:

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*User is not logged in

*User has items in their shopping cart

*User goes to /checkout

*User is redirected to the /login page

*User logs in successfully and should be redirected back to the /checkout page

How does the login action know to redirect the user to checkout in this case? I want this to work in many different situations not just /checkout.

A: Would a query string parameter in the login page be enough?
eg:  www.example.com/Login.php?returnUrl=[someUrl]
After the authentication is successful, the user would get redirected to the url specified in the query string.
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Edit: This is a general solution, it many not be an option given the framework you are using.  But something to consider.

A: I posted a bit of the code from my "My_Form" class that has "referrer" tracking built in to the form on SO1249274.  The other solutions posted there may help you solve your problem as well.

A: I've done where we redirect to /login with a simple parameter of 'comeback'.  Login sees the parameter, and checks the referer to see that its one of our pages.  If it is, it redirects back to that referer.  Works really well.  Otherwise, one can put the 'destination' of the redirect-after-login in a different parameter (wether it be a querystring or session or flashmessage)

A: I use session variable to keep the requested URL. When he logs in successfully i do check if this session variable is set. If it is set, i do redirection to requested URL.


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As many food co-ops launch October is Co-op Month celebrations, it is important to consider that at the root of many successful membership drives and events is the concept of organizational alignment. When everyone from the board, staff, management and owners are in agreement on the purpose of the co-op, it makes promoting ownership much easier to the broader community. This is one of the take-away lessons that the leadership at Three Rivers Market in Knoxville, Tenn., learned when they began their re-incorporation as a co-op (2005) and expansion and relocation of their store (2009).
Before becoming incorporated as a co-op in the state of Minnesota (Tennessee does not currently have a legal process for co-op incorporation), the co-op's ownership investment was a hodgepodge of annual fees with a nebulous "lifetime membership." The board knew it had to change to a framework that better served the co-op to gain more owner investment, but also to be able to potentially give patronage refunds. While the process of changing was legal in origin, it set in motion an entire organizational shift toward becoming a "real" co-op in its business practices. Part of that process was for the board and management to better understand the needs and wants of the co-op's community. What they learned was that their community wanted a "good" co-op, and they made plans to become one.
The co-op is located in an up-and-coming neighborhood that has experienced varying levels of homelessness and crime. It speaks to the power of cooperation to be a difference-maker in a community as people from all walks of life have come together as owners. Being a welcoming business and providing a necessary service by selling healthful food was always essential, but when the co-op was able to expand and relocate in the neighborhood, it was able to fulfill other important aspects of the co-op's mission. They built a larger beautiful, cost-efficient green store, with interstate access and parking. "We became a place that people wanted to come to," said Jacqueline Arthur, Three Rivers' general manager.
Since then, they've experienced an exponential jump in the number of people who own the co-op, going from 1,900 owners in 2009 to over 5,000 currently. Not only did they streamline the process of joining, but the new store and its success confirmed that the expansion was the right thing to do. "We made it easier for people to feel like it was their store," Arthur said.
Board president Kim Davis believes that the changes the board has instigated to bring the co-op and its members into alignment throughout the last decade have had an impact on the community. "We're taking advantage of a synergy that's going in our store's new location," Davis said.
The community and city has put resources into streetscaping and helping launch new businesses by providing loans to people and businesses, like the co-op, that want to be part of the neighborhood's renaissance. "New things are blossoming in Knoxville," Davis added. She also cited the efforts of mayor Madeline Rogero, who is a Three Rivers Market owner and proponent for cooperatives. (See Rogero speak about co-ops online in the CBLD Library).


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Last Delta II Launch of GPS Satellite Successful
By Marcia Smith | Posted: August 17, 2009 12:00 am ET | Last Updated: December 5, 2011 6:14 pm ET
The final launch of a Delta II launch vehicle carrying a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite was successfully carried out today. Several more flights of the Delta II are scheduled through 2011 by United Launch Alliance, but this is the last to carry a GPS satellite. Newer GPS satellites need larger boosters in the Delta IV or Atlas V class.
Last Updated: Dec 05, 2011 6:14 pm ET


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Austin Hose
How a Manufacturer Scaled Coverage Across Sites to Improve Employee Safety
with Brandon Denney, IT Manager at Austin Hose
Austin Hose is a premier hose, fittings, and accessories supplier with locations in Amarillo, Odessa, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Wichita, and Oklahoma City. Agricultural, industrial, OEM, and natural resource businesses across Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas rely on Austin Hose's product line to meet production goals and stay on track.
Brandon Denney, IT Manager at Austin Hose, faced a number of challenges with the surveillance approach the team had historically deployed, and knew it was time for the business to adopt a standardized, modern video surveillance approach across locations.
Challenge: Lack of Expansion Strategy
"The DVR system we used led to coverage gaps that highlighted every challenge we faced as a business. We needed to expand surveillance coverage, but knew we couldn't until we figured out an alternative that better addressed our business needs."
The team's legacy surveillance solution provided an incomplete picture of day-to-day operations at each location. While Brandon had several white-box solutions in place, no site was sufficiently covered because surveillance was never a topline priority; it was expensive and difficult to install.
Of the systems that were in place, Brandon faced a number of expansion limitations associated with the DVR-backed system. "There was no way for us to streamline management across locations. There was a web interface, but it was incredibly slow if you weren't on the same network."
The combined shortcomings of this legacy solution resulted in difficulty managing surveillance across different sites, and the broken process wasn't scalable.
"We're able to use Verkada's fisheye camera to get four angles instead of using four different cameras. We're saving money but we're getting the same amount of coverage, if not more, with Verkada."
By using fewer cameras, Brandon has been able to repurpose his savings to further expand surveillance across locations. Once cameras have been installed, Brandon gives branch managers access to cameras within their respective sites. With this approach, managers can see footage as needed, and Brandon—as the platform administrator—is able to seamlessly manage cameras, sites and users.
With scalable installation and management processes in place, Brandon and leadership felt confident prioritizing an expansion of coverage of each Austin Hose location. To date, Brandon has deployed 76 cameras to cover two 150,000 sq. ft. Odessa locations and plans to continue expansion rapidly across locations.
Challenge: Employee Safety & Liability Concerns
"We didn't have a lot of visibility into what was happening day-to-day, especially since there are a lot of space to monitor. There were blindspots that we were unaware of until an incident occurred."
Monitoring workplace conduct reliably was a constant challenge for branch managers, who primarily relied on feedback to define and build safety measures. While it was possible to collect scattered insights and helpful suggestions to implement best practices, they couldn't rely on employee feedback to drive employee safety efforts.
Without question, the most challenging safety concerns to address were the unsafe practices that were essential for product testing and quality control. For instance, the team searched for a method to test hose pressure without subjecting team members to potentially harmful exposure to pressurized hoses, but struggled to find a workable solution.
"The new safety efforts we've put into place have made a noticeable difference across my team. Leadership is glad we're able to more reliably monitor workplace conduct to ensure that unsafe behaviors are corrected."
The Austin Hose team has made a number of strides in terms of employee safety. "We're able to be creative in how we're using video security. For example, when my team conducts pressurized tests for some of our hoses, they're able to stay on the other side of the wall and watch what's happening from a safe distance," Brandon recalls. "The live footage gives them the ability to confirm whether a hose is entirely depressurized before re-entering to disassemble the test."
Furthermore, by taking the guesswork out of employee safety, branch managers have been able to build and implement proactive team training around unsafe practices they observe. This safeguards the company from liability when members of the team engage in unsafe workplace practices—such as using machinery incorrectly—and has helped the team stay safe and avoid dangerous situations.
Challenge: Inefficient Site Management
"With our old mix of systems, inventory and facility management was a headache. There were multiple platforms and hours of scrubbing footage involved—and that's assuming there was captured footage of an incident at all."
A number of obstacles made fully protecting store locations and inventory a complicated, frustrating, and time-consuming experience. Brandon spent hours combing footage from a wide array of cameras and time intervals each time an incident unfolded. Even once Brandon located footage, he wasn't always able to identify the vulnerability that enabled the incident, or how he could prevent the next one from happening.
"I'm excited to have a powerful system in place that makes it simple to monitor store locations and inventory. I'm able to identify potential threats before they occur, even if I'm not actively monitoring the system."
With a more strategic approach to identify incidents of concern, site management and loss prevention are no longer black boxes. Brandon is able to quickly locate and share footage to effectively address vulnerabilities that have historically enabled theft to occur.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is broadcast on a large screen as he delivers a speech at the Fortune Global Forum in Guangzhou, China, on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017.
Justin Trudeau's rocky trip to China has spilled onto the pages of the country's nationalist state press, which lashed out at Canadian media for their "superiority and narcissism," and warned that China is in no rush to step closer to Canada.
As the Canadian prime minister left Beijing Tuesday night without an expected agreement to formally launch free-trade talks, the Communist Party-run Global Times published a sharp-tongued editorial directed at Canada, and in particular the Canadian press.
It pilloried The Globe and Mail as "irritating" for a Monday Globe editorial that called China an "absolute dictatorship" and said Ottawa should "be in no hurry to conclude" deliberations on whether to move forward with trade talks.
"The superiority and narcissism of the Canadian media … is beyond words," the Global Times wrote. It added that China "is also not in a rush to develop its relations with Canada. Let it be. This is the most genuine attitude of Chinese society."
The Global Times is a nationalist publication that often voices outrage more openly than other state outlets seen as more official messengers.
But the op-ed forms part of an continuing offensive against Canadian media, including numerous barbed statements by the Chinese embassy in Canada, an outburst by China's foreign minister at a reporter in Ottawa last year and, on Wednesday, publication of a biting video from Hu Xijin, editor of the Global Times.
It also comes amid difficult government negotiations over free trade, in which Mr. Trudeau wants Beijing to submit to "progressive" chapters on labour, the environment and gender that would impose changes on China.
China has not agreed to those demands, although Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne remained in Beijing Wednesday in hopes of salvaging a deal.
In the midst of tough political talks, Canada's media have become a "surrogate" for frustrations in China, which is loath to directly attack a foreign leader, said Yuezhi Zhao, a scholar of communication in China at Simon Fraser University in B.C.. "They don't want to critique Trudeau as much," she said.
But the Chinese media offensive should serve as a warning that "the road to clinching a free-trade agreement will be treacherous," said Lynette Ong, a political scientist who studies China at the University of Toronto.
Beijing is keenly aware of its economic might, and believes "Canada should count itself lucky to have an FTA with China," she said. "The Chinese will not easily give in to Canada's demands."
The Global Times' Mr. Hu made that explicit in a video commentary posted Wednesday morning. By late afternoon, it had attracted 140,000 views.
"If Canada is really so tough, why doesn't it just completely stop trading with China?" Mr Hu said.
Talking over screen shots of recent Globe articles, he made a sarcastic reference to the idea of Canada X-ray scanning every imported Chinese shoe to "check if it is produced democratically." Or should China, he asked, check every grain of imported Canadian wheat to see "if it is so rich in capitalism that we might choke to death eating it?"
Canadian media should understand "how little influence their country has in China," he said. And to Canadian authorities, he added: "If you continue to trade with China and benefit from it, you shouldn't let your foul-mouthed media continue their deeds."
The abrasive tone is not unusual for Mr. Hu, a controversial figure in China.
But it may also indicate "that China's honeymoon period with Justin Trudeau is at an end, and that he'll be viewed more like other foreign leaders," said David Mulroney, former Canadian ambassador to China. "That's not necessarily a bad thing."
The barrage of Canada criticism also comes amid a surge of confidence in China's leadership, buoyed by its ability to avoid the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent unrest that has plagued other countries in recent years. The Communist Party has accomplished that in part through savvy management, and in part through authoritarian rule that intervenes in markets and forcibly quells dissent.
Though that can mean disregarding human rights, China has also successfully maintained stability and improved living conditions – and is increasingly unwilling to broker criticism of its methods.
"Inside China there's this saying that early on we were beaten. Then we were hungry. And now we are being blamed," said Prof. Zhao, who has studied Chinese media for two decades. Now, there is a feeling that "we don't want to be blamed any more."
China under President Xi Jinping has openly posited its system "as an alternative to the liberal-democratic values that have underpinned the Western world for decades," said J. Michael Cole, a senior fellow at the University of Nottingham's China Policy Institute.
He counselled caution for leaders drawn to the rapid rise of what is now the world's second-largest economy, pointing to "the often corrosive ramifications, for our own cherished values, of closer ties with authoritarian China."
Criticism of China's system is shared by some in China, among them critics of Mr. Hu who took to social media after he posted his video.
"I really think you should shut up," one person wrote. "Has it ever occurred to you why foreign media all love to criticize China 'unfairly'? I think there's a lesson you need to learn for yourself," wrote another. "How can you say China is a dictatorship? China is just a nation where 'the leader's orders outweigh the law'," added another, sardonically.
As prime minister, Mr. Trudeau has refrained from stern public rebukes of China, but said this week he believes a "free, informed independent press is something necessary to support for a society to thrive." He offered as evidence the fact he conducted a news conference in Beijing. No Chinese media were in attendance, and only reporters travelling from Ottawa were allowed to ask questions.
Asked for comment Wednesday, the prime minister's officer referred to Mr. Trudeau's Tuesday remarks.
China heavily censors both traditional and social media. It ranks fifth from the bottom in the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index, ahead of Syria, Turkmenistan, Eritrea and North Korea.
For the Global Times, though, unleashing colourful insults against foreign media has become something of a sport. It has called the BBC "disgusting," accused the Washington Post of "sour grapes" and labelled other British media "gossip fiends" and "barbarians."
The Canadian media, the paper added in a Chinese-language commentary this week, suffer "narrow-mindedness," and live in a country that looks to the world like "America's 'semi-colony'."


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Q: How to rotate bi_server.out log file Oracle OBIEE 12c. We have log rotation set up for the bi_server logs. They are set to 5MB, and rotate accordingly.  However, we have a log file called bi_server.out which is 24GB and doesn't rotate for some reason.  I don't see any settings in the WLS Admin Console to change the rotation settings for this log file.
Hoping someone could tell me where to look for the settings of this specific log to ensure that it rotates at a certain size, or creates a new log beyond logging so many queries.

A: .out isn't technically one of the log files which are governed by the log rotation. The .out is the file where the detailed outputs get piped to.
Update: If your .out file grows to those sizes then you definitely have an issue somewhere. You have to find out what's duping into the .out all the time and why.
Rename the file to bi_server1_0001.out when the obis1 component is stopped and then the system will create a new, empty one.


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Tesla Inc. and Panasonic Corp. are tempering expansion plans for the battery gigafactory into which they've plugged billions of dollars in the last few years, deepening concerns about demand for the carmaker's electric vehicles.
The maker of the Model 3 sedan said Thursday that while it's going to continue making new investment as needed in its plant outside Reno, existing equipment may be able to produce far more output than previously estimated. Panasonic said it will study additional investment in collaboration with Tesla, following a Nikkei report that said the two had frozen spending plans.
Tesla shares slumped as much as 3.8% shortly after the open of regular trading Thursday, extending their drop this year to 20%. A record decline in deliveries during the first quarter stoked concerns about slackening demand for the Model 3, the company's newest and least-expensive car. While Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk last week reiterated a forecast for 360,000 to 400,000 vehicle deliveries in 2019, investors remain cautious given its history of missing ambitious projections.
Tesla and Panasonic had intended to raise capacity at the gigafactory by about 50% by 2020, but financial problems forced a rethink, the Nikkei said, without citing its sources. Panasonic also intends to suspend planned investment in Tesla's battery and electric vehicle plant in Shanghai, and instead provide technical support and a small number of batteries from the existing gigafactory, the newspaper reported.


Read the latest press release of the scaling up of the CEFG Group and its 5th meeting in Amsterdam on "Financing infrastructure and public-private partnerships".
The CEFG Group is a spin-off high-level network of CEOs/CFOs and finance managers of major European cities that is based on various EPSA editions. For more information, consult www.cefg.eu.


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Q: Creating a percentage table I've created a table based of counts based on two columns in my data frame. I used:
data.frame(table(df$State,df$Subset)[,])

Is there a way I can turn these counts into percentages for each specific State?
             S1       S2        S3       S4    S5     S6     S7
NY          195     1296       974     5528  3597    505    282
NJ          172      733       763     3253  3088    315    166
CA           48      552      1087     2073  1212   1149    203

So rather than counts, it each would be a percentage of each specific state. All NY would add up to 100% across, same with NJ, CA, etc..

A: I don't know if the comment ?prop.table is enough. prop.table by default will only give you the cell-proportions, and what is being requested are row proportions.
tbl <
structure(c(195L, 172L, 48L, 1296L, 733L, 552L, 974L, 763L, 1087L,
5528L, 3253L, 2073L, 3597L, 3088L, 1212L, 505L, 315L, 1149L,
282L, 166L, 203L), .Dim = c(3L, 7L), .Dimnames = list(c("NY",
"NJ", "CA"), c("S1", "S2", "S3", "S4", "S5", "S6", "S7")), class = "table")

Compare these two values:
> prop.table(tbl)
            S1          S2          S3          S4          S5          S6
NY 0.007171491 0.047662830 0.035820676 0.203302563 0.132286418 0.018572322
NJ 0.006325622 0.026957449 0.028060755 0.119635173 0.113566989 0.011584716
CA 0.001765290 0.020300835 0.039976463 0.076238461 0.044573572 0.042256629
            S7
NY 0.010371079
NJ 0.006104961
CA 0.007465706
> prop.table(tbl, margin=1)
            S1          S2          S3          S4          S5          S6
NY 0.015755029 0.104710350 0.078694352 0.446634887 0.290619698 0.040801487
NJ 0.020259128 0.086336867 0.089870436 0.383156655 0.363722026 0.037102473
CA 0.007590133 0.087286528 0.171884883 0.327798861 0.191650854 0.181688805
            S7
NY 0.022784196
NJ 0.019552415
CA 0.032099937

Only the second one is the basis for a "percentage estimate (which does require multiplication by 100):
> 100*prop.table(tbl, margin=1)
           S1         S2         S3         S4         S5         S6         S7
NY  1.5755029 10.4710350  7.8694352 44.6634887 29.0619698  4.0801487  2.2784196
NJ  2.0259128  8.6336867  8.9870436 38.3156655 36.3722026  3.7102473  1.9552415
CA  0.7590133  8.7286528 17.1884883 32.7798861 19.1650854 18.1688805  3.2099937

I think the more useful result would round that set of values to one decimal place.


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3 was created in 2002, several UMTS-based mobile phone networks operate under the brand name including providing Broadband Internet and operated in Australia, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and the United Kingdom to name a few.
3 Contract Phones
3 SIM Only
The Three mobile network was launched in the UK on the 3rd of March 2003 (3/3/3) and inside 32 months get hold of 3.2 million customers the aim from the start has been on the rollout of 3G technology 3 "came out with a bang" with one of the quickest 3G rollouts in UK mobile history.
They offer both PAYG and contract services including Sim-Only straight to the public. Hutchinson Whampoa owns 3 (who previously owned Orange) and today have over 3.5 million mobile customers in the UK. 3 time after time get lofty ratings from consumers and Consumer organizations alike when it came to customer satisfaction, somewhat due to outstanding coverage, to a degree due to unlimited data offers (All-You-Can-It) and supported with higher than normal standards of customer service.
3 released HSDPA tech in 2008 and at present manage the chief level of nationwide 3G coverage in Great Britain.
3 World Wide and 3 to Roam
At the beginning of 31 December 2012, 3's registered customer base worldwide amounted to over 23.5 million. All 3-branded networks offer Hutchison Telecoms International 3G tech (WCDMA, some also run 2G and 4G networks).
Released tech that allows mobile users, to use their free or inclusive bundles and allowances while abroad. Introduced in February 2007, they called it '3 Like Home'
With the exclusion of 3 Indonesia The service permitted mobile users to use any 3-branded network, free from paying any additional roaming charges, in order words paying the unchanged amount for data, voice and messaging services as we would do if we were at home.
It's the roaming agreements between the networks that have made this arrangement possible.
3G Network Performance
3 Like Home' Feel at Home
Three was the first 3G mobile phone network in the UK. The extra services, which only 3G can offer has attracted million of customers. These great features and services combined with amazing value for money has resulted in Three becoming the UK's network that possess 99% UK population coverage for voice and text, and presently at over 92% 3 has the biggest population coverage for video services. Its the fastest growing network however, previously there have been worries with reference to coverage but that all transformed years ago, suffice to say that three is the UK's first 3G network and now has nearly 4 million customers.
The introduction of SmartPhones on the UK's 3G networks has generated significant attention and still is. In terms of widening capacity beyond the perimeters, this always gets lots of spotlight questions such as the position of data-intensive devices and network coverage. In response Three boosted their network with well over 5,000 new sites since 2009 and this has brought 3G coverage to over 98% of the UK's population which means quicker and in addition, better coverage throughout the UK both indoors and outdoors supplemented with reliable connections.
Three network was future-proofed built for 4G technologies in other words, it was built for conveying data. while growing the capacity to meet the always-growing request for data, in response Three has put in billions of pounds in developing, expanding and designing the network this means Three is connecting more people to the internet in more places.
Three gobbled up large slice of EE mobile phone spectrum for free
3 took control of a massive slice of EE's mobile phone spectrum for free - yes that's right for free, talk about being in the right place at the right time.
Telecoms heavyweight Everything Everywhere hands over £450m of spectrum to UK's smallest mobile phone company
In 2012 Three network obtained a large chunk of spectrum from rival Everything Everywhere (of course now known as EE) for a total of.........wait for it £0, yes you did read that rite, £0.
This In effect doubled 3's network airwaves it owns in the UK from 30 megahertz to 60MHz. The deal, was finalised before that year's 4G auction, just, and this was for a good reason.
EE, formed through the merger of T-Mobile and Orange networks in 2010, however there was a clause in the deal, it could only be permitted to go ahead on the condition that EE sold a big section of its top-tier spectrum before the year ran out (before the government's long-awaited 4G spectrum auction).
EE had no choice but to sell off part of its spectrum anyway why? Because it possessed much more than other network rivals, this order came from the Telecoms governing body OFCOM and regulators.
Top Business analysts had put EE down to raise at least up to £450m, for sure EE's BIGGEST two rivals apparently if not obviously O2 and Vodafone were ready to offer large amounts.
However as far as evasive business strategy goes EE decided the best thing to do was to give away the spectrum, that resides in the 1,800MHz band, to the UK's smallest network 3 for £0 (The enemy of my enemy is my friend). Suffice to say that Three has less than 10 million customers, compared to EE with nearly 27 million.
So in effect what EE did is, introduce Three as a threat to the bigger mobile companies which included O2 and Vodafone . Getting the deal gave Three the components it needed to service its fast-growing market share, and this it has done since then.
The strategy was aimed at tipping the outcome of the government's long-awaited 4G spectrum auction, in EE's favour.
Ofcom the telecoms watchdog, had initially said it cannot promise Three any of the valuable 800MHz spectrum coming up for auction, with EE free to acquire a much bigger chunk by bidding up the price. And as we know that three were able to increase its bandwidth by acquiring spectrum from EE (for £0), before the sale of government airwaves.
EE and Three came out from the 4G auction both with a small part of 800MHz.
If that was the plan, it backfired for EE because three came out with spectrum from both EE and from the government auction, this overall was a better than expected result for 3. A truly win win situation.
Challenging and changingmobile
At the time in 2003 when Three entered the telecoms market , things were very different then, the scenario in which they operated was more or less a monopoly ,it was quite different from today, consumers had little choice and prices were high. In hindsight this was the niche for 3 to operate in, so Three attempted to take-on and change the mobile industry not just for themselves but mainly also for the benefit of consumers.
Since establishing themselves, Three gone on to provide Mobile users affordable, fair and reasonable moderate economic prices with flat-rate mobile internet, low-cost Mobile Broadband (from just £10 a month) and of course what we all know 3 mostly for which is the "All You Can Eat" tariffs(at phoneismobile we like to call these tariffs the "holy grail tariff") introduced in March 2012, it has now come to the stage where it's all about data at the heart of mobile phone plans and three was the first to really take note and the rest followed.
For those who really want to totally embrace the mobile internet without feeling restricted or worrying about costs, you know , having total piece of mind. 3 Ultimate Internet plans provide all-you-can-eat data, And for those who want to discover the mobile internet for the first time.
Even the basic Internet plans provide a 250MB allowance with zero chance of going over allowances thereby avoiding over charges. Mobile users get text alerts that warn users when they're coming close to their data limits to ensure that one has full control over their finances.


The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the circumstances surrounding the protests by members of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria on Tuesday leading to the picketing of the chambers.
The lower chamber of the National Assembly also urged President Muhammadu Buhari to forward the new minimum wage bill, as jointly proposed to him, to the National Assembly for consideration.
Adopting a motion by Mr Sani Zoro (APC, Jigawa State) at the plenary on Wednesday, the lawmakers unanimously resolved to set up a joint ad hoc committee with the Senate to probe into the labour action.
Moving the motion, Zoro called for legislative intervention in the ongoing crisis between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, leading to the current strike by the union.
The lawmaker said the House was also disturbed that members of PASAN picketed the chambers to press home their grievances despite that the legislature had the responsibility to address such issues in the polity.
Zoro also prayed that the Federal Government should henceforth and in good faith, implement its agreement with ASUU to prevent incessant strikes by the university lecturers.
The Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, put the motion to voice vote and it was unanimously granted by the House.


Well – I like the cover but it doesn't really fit the book. I remember reading the summary when I first picked up this freebie…but it has been so long that I was shocked when reading it.
The story follows Ava who got a terrible birthday gift a year previous. She is a seeker for the Grim Reaper. What is that you ask? A crappy job that is what that is! She descends from a fallen angel who made an arrangement that all his descendants would work for the Grim Reaper so he could get into heaven. What a selfish jerk!!! A seeker has to find people who have souls that are white and then submit their name to be taken. There is a lot more to it, but that is the jest.
Ava has been doing this for a year and has submitted a couple of names and it is killing her. It's rough. While on the search for another name, she meets Cole who has a white soul. Of course, right? Through some events, she actually grows to like him and him her. Things happen and Ava has to make a decision.
This was a refreshing breathe of air in this YA paranormal genre. A fresh concept and fresh characters. It was nice and gave me hope for the genre.
Ava was an interesting character. I wanted to know more about her mom too. The mom has a past and I feel so bad for her. These two are doomed with a horrible job. I am curious about Xavier as well. Who are you sir? I wasn't a huge fan of Cole. He was an asshat the majority of the book.
The story started off strong and I was highly invested. I did lose interest about halfway or so. I kept trekking onwards, but it lost some steam. Everything became all about Cole and blah blah. Ugh. I wished there wasn't a love interest right away. I feel it deflated the story a bit. Don't get me wrong, the love interest does make it compelling, but I feel like it happened too fast and maybe someone more deserving. Ava needed someone better. Cole was a jerk.
In the end, I did like this overall. I felt a little deflated when Ava got obsessed. The love happened to fast and I didn't like Cole. But yes, an interesting concept that kept me hooked. It was a nice change! I'll give this 3 stars.
YA paranormal romance *shakes her fist* - worse than Warhammer series, it is.


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Q: Kivy - How to authenticate Kivy apps using fingerprint scanners I am hoping to make use of fingerprint scanners within my Kivy app for authentication.
Unfortunately, I haven't found any documentation regarding how to do this. I'm quite new to Kivy development, and I was hoping to achieve this by (e.g. for Android) importing the android API and calling the appropriate method. However after reading this stackoverflow response it appears:

Fingerprint scanner is not a feature in Android. So each company as Samsung, Motorola, HTC create is own API and SDK to access to fingerprint sensor.

(e.g. SamsungPass).
Although I then found this

Google has now announced a generic fingerprint API for Android that can be utilised by any custom apps for authorisation ...
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT" />

Any help regarding how I can add fingerprint authentication to Kivy apps is greatly appreciated. Thanks


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English Press
Postcard from Toronto: Rubbing Elbows with Marion Cotillard
from Vogue.com (US) / by John Powers
After spending all that time undercover, I needed a drink, so I moseyed over to Moët & Chandon's dinner for Rust and Bone, a satisfying new French melodrama by one of my favorite directors, Jacques Audiard, whose work is an almost perfect blend of French realism and Hollywood mythology. This movie is all about the relationship between a marine-world trainer (Marion Cotillard) who loses her legs in an accident with an orca, and her lover, a thuggish, but sensitive single father, played by the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts, with a blend of toughness and virility that should make him an international star.
I'd barely finished my first glass of bubbly when I found myself eating prosciutto and figs next to Cotillard, who, dressed in black and white Christian Dior, proved even lovelier in person than she is on screen. She had just finished a long trip to Telluride for that Rocky Mountain film festival, a journey that involved four flights, including a scary one in a small plane from Los Angeles to Denver along with others including Laura Dern. "It was very bumpy," she told me. "We were all so happy to see the ground."
It is Cotillard's destiny to be the reigning French star of her era, one equally at home in a Hollywood juggernaut like the The Dark Knight Rises or an edgy European art film. She's one of those actresses who's good in an ordinary role, but great when tackling a part that's hard, like the one she plays in Rust and Bone, for which she'll almost surely be given an Oscar nomination. When I mention this to her she just laughs. "The hardest roles are my favorites," she says. That's why she still works in Europe as well as Hollywood. Although she's taking time off at the moment, she's already agreed to be in the next film by Belgium's Dardenne brothers, two-time Cannes winners who are the state of the art in realistic filmmaking. "I'm so excited that I have agreed to do it even without a script," she says. "They're geniuses. All their movies are good."
We're just talking about making Rust and Bone when we're interrupted by the film's publicists. It's time for Cotillard, Schoenaerts, and Audiard to head off to that night's screening. After the actress gives me a farewell pat on the arm, Audiard rounds the table and shakes my hand.
"Don't drink too much champagne," he says, having fun with the event's sponsors. "It's poison."
Maybe he's right—he is French, after all—but when the waiter comes by with another bottle of Moët, I find myself saying, "Why not?"
James Gray & Marion Cotillard Discuss How They Came Together For Next Year's Period Piece 'The Nightingale'
Marion Cotillard choosy on movie roles


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Annalisa Scarrone, také známá jen jako Annalisa (narozena 5. srpna 1985, Savona, Itálie) je italská popová zpěvačka a skladatelka. Stala se slavnou díky účasti v talentové soutěži Amici di Maria De Filippi (2010–2011), kde skončila na 2. místě. V březnu 2011 vydala své 1. album zvané Nali, které dosáhlo 2. pozice na oficiálním italském albumovém žebříčku a bylo platinové.

Diskografie

Sólová umělkyně

Alba

Singly
 2011 – Diamante lei e luce lui
 2011 – Giorno per giorno
 2012 – Senza riserva
 2012 – Tra due minuti è primavera
 2012 – Per una notte o per sempre
 2013 – Pirati
 2013 – Scintille
 2013 – Alice e il blu
 2013 – A modo mio amo
 2014 – Tutto Sommato
 2014 - Sento solo il presente
 2014 - L'Ultimo Addio
 2014 – Dimenticare (Mai) (ft. Raige)
 2015 – Una finestra tra le stelle
 2015 – Vincerò
 2015 – Splende
 2016 – Il Diluvio Universale
 2016 – Se Avessi Un Cuore
 2016 – Used to You
 2016 – Stella Cadente (ft. Rocco Hunt)

S Elaphe Guttata

Alba
 2006 – Blue trip

Singly
 2006 – In garden's orange rack

Reference

Externí odkazy

Italské zpěvačky
Narození 5. srpna
Narození v roce 1985
Narození v Ligurii
Žijící lidé
Ženy
Italští hudební skladatelé
Italští římští katolíci

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Meet the 3 Chinese Hackers Pwned by Mandiant
Josh Harkinson
Retired PLA rear admiral Zhang Zhaozong, who inspired UglyGorilla.People's Liberation Army/Mandiant
In case you missed it, the cybersecurity firm Mandiant just released a bombshell report (pdf) on how nearly 150 sophisticated hacking attempts against American corporations and government agencies over the past decade almost certainly originated from a single Shanghai office building controlled by People's Liberation Army (PLA). The hacking group, dubbed APT1 in the report, launches its attacks from roughly the same address in the city's Pudong New Area as the one used by the PLA's Unit 61398, a probable cyberwar division. But the excellent New York Times exclusive on Mandiant's findings omits some colorful details about the hackers themselves. One of them, for instance, is apparently a Harry Potter fan. Here are profiles of the three Chinese hackers Mandiant outed in its report.
Jack Wang, a.k.a. Wang Dong, a.k.a. UglyGorilla
A profile photo used by UglyGorilla
Back in 2004, the cyberwarfare expert Zhang Zhaozhong was participating in an online Q&A hosted by the website China Military Online. A retired PLA rear admiral, professor at China's National Defense University, and strong advocate of the "informationization" of military units, Zhang had written several works on military tech strategy, including "Network Warfare" and "Winning the Information War." One question for Zhang came from a site user with the handle "Greenfield," who brought up the United States' cyberwar capabilities. "Does China have a similar force?" he asked. "Does China have cyber troops?"
Greenfield would soon become one of those troops, according to Mandiant. When he registered for the China Military site, he gave his real name as "Jack Wang" and the email address uglygorilla@163.com—details that would later be associated with the hacker known as UglyGorilla. That October, UglyGorilla registered the hacker zone HugeSoft.org, a name that, as Bloomberg has reported, "combines two common descriptors of a gorilla, along with sub-domains like 'tree' and 'man.'"
In 2007, UglyGorilla authored the first known sample of a widely used family of Chinese malware and brazenly left his signature in the code: "v1.0 No Doubt to Hack You, Writed by UglyGorilla, 06/29/2007."
DOTA, a.k.a. Rodney, a.k.a. Raith
DOTA may have taken his or her name from the video game "Defense of the Ancients," commonly abbreviated DotA. The name shows up in dozens of email accounts that DOTA created for social engineering and phishing attacks, according to Mandiant. It appears Mandiant was able to hack some of these accounts, allowing them to get DOTA's phone number (a mobile phone in Shanghai) and the username of DOTA's (blank) US-based Facebook account, where DOTA registered as female. Mandiant published a screen-grab of one of DOTA's Gmail accounts:
DOTA appears to speak fluent English and may be a fan of American and British pop culture. The answers to security questions associated with his or her internet accounts—such as, "Who is your favorite teacher?" or "Who is your best childhood friend?"—are often some variation of "Harry" and "Poter."
Mandiant linked some of DOTA's other passwords to a pattern that seems to be associated with Unit 61398, the PLA's cyberwar division.
Mei Qiang, a.k.a. SuperHard
Similar to UglyGorilla, Mei Qiang signs much of his work by embedding his name into the code. His malware is often signed "SuperHard" and his Microsoft hacking tools are altered from "Microsoft corp." to "superhard corp."
SuperHard primarily works on tools used by other Chinese hackers; he's probably employed in APT1's research and development arm, according to Mandiant. He has also volunteered to write Trojan software for money. Mandiant researchers gained access to some of the hacker's internet accounts. They believe he (or she; it's hard to know) used the email address mei_quiang_82@sohu.com, which, based on Chinese habit, suggests that the user is named Mei Quiang and born in 1982. They also traced SuperHard to Shanghai's Pudong New Area—information that should give US security experts plenty of leads, assuming the hacker hasn't been fired yet.
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Author donates funds to aid festival, library
Afnan Beauti and Afnan Beauti|April 4, 2016
Children and young adult author Richard Peck donated $100,000 to the Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival and de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi.
Children's Book Festival coordinator Karen Rowell said the funds will aid the de Grummond Collection. The money will help cover registration and travel costs for some regular festival attendees whose sponsors have budget challenges that include travel expenses.
"We have a dedicated group of librarians and teachers from the Southeast region and beyond who, because of budget shortfalls, sometimes find it difficult to attend," Rowell said. "However, Mr. Peck's generosity will make it easier for professionals or followers of children's literature make their way to the festival."
Peck has won many prestigious awards for children's literature. He also won the Margaret A. Edwards Award from School Library Journal, the National Council of Teachers of English/ ALAN Award and the 1991 Southern Miss Medallion from the Kaigler Children's Book Festival. His works include "A Year Down Yonder" and "The River Between Us." He spoke at the festival's Ezra Jack Keats Lecture in 2000 and at a de Grummond Lecture in 2010.
"While our list of keynote authors and featured speakers is an important part of every festival, the number and variety of attendees is just as important for making it work," Rowell said. "Without them, half the discussion would be missing."
The book festival will be April 6-8 and is expected to have participants from 46 states.
The festival will feature keynote speakers Keats Lecturer Michael Cart, George O'Connor, Joyce Sidman, Melissa Sweet, Coleen Salley, Storytelling Award winner Tim Tingle and Rita Williams- Garcia. The festival will also celebrate the 50th anniversary of the de Grummond Collection by welcoming back 2003 Medallion winner Lois Lowry as the de Grummond Lecturer. Also in celebration, a special Centennial Keats Lecture given by author Deborah Pope will recognize the 100th birthday of children's literature illustrator and writer Ezra Jack Keats, who died in 1983.
"These awards were established to honor illustrators and writers of children's books new to the field because very often people don't get the encouragement they need in the beginning when they need the encouragement the most," Pope said. "The books are given to writers and illustrators who create books in the spirit of Ezra Jack Keats, not to copy him, but books that celebrate the diverse nature of our population."
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