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Boeing HorizonX Ventures provides further funding for Morf3D metal additive manufacturing
Boeing | August 30, 2019
Boeing HorizonX Ventures, the seed and mid/growth stage investment arm of the Boeing aerospace corporation, has provided further funding to metal 3D printing specialist Morf3D. Founded in 2015, the additive manufacturing and consultancy service received its first financial support from Horizon X in 2018. Both figures, from the funding in 2018 and the new funding dated August 30, 2019, remain undisclosed by the parties. This second round of investment from HorizonX however follows a reported significant increase in customer demand at Morf3D. Brian Schettler, Senior Managing Director at Boeing HorizonX Ventures, comments, Our latest strategic investment in Morf3D extends our commitment to our Industry 4.0 efforts - technologies that can transform aerospace supply chains for future growth and competitiveness.
Designing for Manufacturing's Internet of Things
The IoT represents a scenario in which every object or thing is embedded with a sensor and is capable of automatically communicating its state with other objects and automated systems within the environment. Each object represents a node in a virtual network, continuously transmitting a large volume of data about itself and its surroundings - we call these digital footprints a Code HaloTM.
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Aegis Software Announces Latest Updates to their FactoryLogix IIoT-Based MES Platform, Delivering Web-Based Data Democratization & Visualization
Aegis Software | November 19, 2021
-Aegis Software, a global provider of Manufacturing Operations Management Software, announces the latest innovations added to their latest FactoryLogix 2021.4 and 2021.5 releases. With FactoryLogix 2021.4 and 2021.5, Aegis device agnostic, web-based, real-time analytics, further elevating the democratization and visualization of real-time, contextualized data across the factory and the enterprise. Additionally, new globalization tools, amplified native connectivity capabilities, numerous quality management features for complex manufacturing, and many customer-driven enhancements are a fraction of the new features spanning these releases. "Manufacturers are drowning in unusable, non-contextualized data without the ability for anyone in the organization to easily generate meaningful reports without requiring technical skills or burdening IT. For more than twenty years, our data contextualization engine and easy-to-use analytics have been powering leading manufacturers to get real-time insights, on-demand, by anyone in the organization,With these latest releases, we have re-engineered our dashboard designer and real-time visualization capabilities to provide the same intuitive drag and drop design, publish, and view simplicity in a web-based, responsive environment that is accessible on any device, anywhere. FactoryLogix' Analytics Anywhere redesign continues our tradition of data democratization in a fresh new user interface without compromising the control or flexibility enabling anyone to extract meaningful data sets anytime, anywhere." Jason Spera, Co-Founder, and CEO, Aegis Software. FactoryLogix is a holistic and modular platform that delivers leading-edge technology with easily configurable modules to support and execute a discrete manufacturer's strategy towards Industry 4.0. FactoryLogix manages the entire manufacturing lifecycle: from product launch to material logistics, through manufacturing execution and quality management to powerful analytics and real-time dashboards. This end-to-end platform helps companies accelerate product introductions, streamline processes, improve quality and traceability, reduce costs, and gain greater visibility for competitive advantage and profitability. About Aegis Software Founded in 1997, Aegis Software uniquely delivers a comprehensive and flexible end-to-end manufacturing execution system (MES) platform giving manufacturers the speed, control, and visibility they require. Aegis has international sales and support offices in Germany, UK, and China, and partners with more than 37 manufacturing equipment suppliers. Since its inception, Aegis has been helping more than 2,200 factories across the military, aerospace, electronics, medical, and automotive industries, drive rapid and continuous innovation with the highest quality while reducing operational costs.
The Coronavirus Crisis: What Manufacturers are Saying – and Doing
IndustryWeek | May 29, 2020
For as much as the coronavirus has dominated the headlines and infiltrated the lives and actions of, well, nearly everybody around the globe, the pandemic's origins are relatively recent. The first hints of what was to come emerged in late 2019 and, indeed, the disease caused by the virus didn't even have a name until mid-February when the World Health Organization officially dubbed it COVID-19. The newness of the disease is important to any conversation. Because the world is still learning about its effects, researching possible cures and simply getting a grasp on the enormity of the coronavirus's reach, everything is fluid. Facts change daily. How best to mitigate its spread is up for constant modification. "Should we or shouldn't we?" is the topic of the day. These questions and concerns are widespread – including among U.S. manufacturing. IndustryWeek has been robustly reporting on the impacts of the coronavirus on our manufacturing audience, as well as how this community has responded to the challenges issued by the disease. We've written scores of stories and no doubt will greatly add to those numbers before things return to "normal."
Key Trends in Manufacturing Investment Enabling Industry 4.0 Identified by Nokia and ABI Research
Nokia, ABI Research | May 07, 2020
Nokia has partnered with ABI Research, to survey more than 600 manufacturing decision-makers to assess investment strategies related to 4G/LTE, 5G and Industry 4.0. The research also identified key business use cases that would drive investment in 4G or 5G. The research examined near-term drivers influencing buying decisions for new industrial systems across information technology and operations technology. Nokia has partnered with ABI Research, an independent research firm, to survey more than 600 manufacturing decision-makers to assess investment strategies related to 4G/LTE, 5G and Industry 4.0. The survey found that 74% of respondents are looking to upgrade their communications and control networks by the end of 2022 with more than 90% investigating the use of either 4G and/or 5G in their operations. Just over half of respondents (52%) believe that the latest generation of 4G/LTE and 5G will be necessary to meet their transformational goals. Read more: PwC: accelerating industrial digitalisation in manufacturing The research also identified key business use cases that would drive investment in 4G or 5G. Respondents reflected the need to digitalize and improve existing infrastructure (63%), automation with robotics (51%) and achieve new levels of employee productivity (42%). We have reached an inflection point in Industry 4.0 transformation as the fast, secure, low latency connectivity underpinning its implementation now becomes available. This research indicates the strong marketplace appetite for industrial-grade wireless networking to capture the transformational benefits of digitalization and automation. We believe that demand, combined with easy-to-deploy private wireless solutions, will drive adoption. - Manish Gulyani, Vice President Marketing, Nokia Enterprise The research examined near-term drivers influencing buying decisions for new industrial systems across IT (information technology) and OT (operations technology). IT drivers primarily focus on reducing downtime (53%), improving operations efficiency (42%), and enhancing security (36%). In comparison, OT drivers reflect a desire to replace aging infrastructure (43%), improve efficiency (40%) and increase capacity (38%). Further highlights indicate: • 88% of respondents stated that they were familiar with private wireless (4G/5G) networking • 84% that are considering 4G/5G will deploy their own local private wireless network in their manufacturing operations • leading priority buying areas are automation and machine upgrades (47%), IIoT initiatives (41%), with cloud infrastructure following at (37%). Importantly, research findings indicate a preference for deploying private fully-owned and operated wireless networks, with manufacturers favoring in-house management to allay security concerns. It's evident that respondents are not entirely committed to Wi-Fi/WLAN and will consider latest generations of wireless technologies. As a result, 2020 is a critical year for networking suppliers to educate the market regarding the merits of 4G/LTE and 5G. - Ryan Martin, Principal Analyst, ABI Research "Based on this research we also observe a pan-industry need to quantify not only the potential ROI of investing in private wireless, but also to clearly indicate the cost of inaction – vendors need to make the case for investing in Industry 4.0 today to gain a clear competitive advantage over those who choose to wait." Read more: AWS: smarter manufacturing with cloud and IoT technology About ABI Research: ABI Research provides strategic guidance to visionaries, delivering actionable intelligence on the transformative technologies that are dramatically reshaping industries, economies, and workforces across the world. ABI Research's global teams of analysts publish groundbreaking studies often years ahead of other technology advisory firms, empowering our clients to stay ahead of their markets and their competitors. About Nokia: We create the technology to connect the world. Only Nokia offers a comprehensive portfolio of network equipment, software, services and licensing opportunities across the globe. With our commitment to innovation, driven by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, we are a leader in the development and deployment of 5G networks. Our communications service provider customers support more than 6.4 billion subscriptions with our radio networks, and our enterprise customers have deployed over 1,300 industrial networks worldwide. Adhering to the highest ethical standards, we transform how people live, work and communicate.


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Q: different syntax for updating multiple columns of a row I have to update all the columns of a row in SQLite, I know I can do something like this:
UPDATE table_name
SET column1=value1,column2=value2,...

But this is quite painful to do, can I do something like that:
Update tablename then (all the columns name) and then (All the values in order)

A: I do not think there is any way you can update the table the way you are looking for:
Here are some different ways to do update query in SQL:
http://www.techonthenet.com/sql/update.php

A: No; the documentation shows that only the standard syntax is supported:

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This is Ron Pramschufer and welcome to Publishing Basics Radio where weekly we try to help you navigate the self-publishing mine field. Today's guest is David Maturo, former VP of Finance of Ex Libras, an Internet-based print-on-demand publishing company. Dave, what's the difference between a conventional publisher, a self-publisher, a vanity publisher, a subsidy publisher, and a book printing service, and which one is Ex Libras?
This is Ron Pramschufer and welcome to Publishing Basics Radio where weekly we try to help you navigate the self-publishing mine field. Today is part two of our conversation with David Maturo of Ex Libras. So now to the services–we've been talking in just kind of like general terms, but you've basically got two different services offered. You've got a black and white trade book service and you've got a four color children's book service.
This is Ron Pramschufer and welcome to Publishing Basics Radio where weekly we try to help you navigate to self-publishing minefield. Today's guest is Brian Smith President and CEO of Author House Brian, your home page describes Authorhouse as a self-publishing company. What's a self-publishing company?
This is Ron Pramschufer, and welcome to Publishing Basics Radio, where weekly, we try to help you navigate the self‑publishing minefield. iUniverse is one of a handful of well‑financed, pay-as-you-go publishers that are out there on the Internet. The average sale of an iUniverse book is only about 200 copies, yet this Amy Fisher book; the first printing was over 20,000 copies, so this obviously caught my attention. My guest today is Susan Driscoll, President of iUniverse.
Generally cooperative publishing is just another form of vanity publishing. This could change it one of the large traditional publishers decide to make it happen.
If you don t understand a single other publishing concept, make sure you understand this. You will never make any money publishing with a vanity press or any other pay to be published publisher. Listen to this for 3 minutes and find out why.
Subsidy press is another form of of vanity publishing. As with any other type of vanity publishing, you will never make any money.. only the publisher will… and you are not it.
This is Ron Pramschufer and welcome to Publishing Basics Radio where weekly we try to help you navigate the self-publishing mine field. So, Jenna, in researching this interview today I've come to the conclusion that you're like the real writer's writer.
They have actually that I know of called the cops on two of their authors. But this is the kind of thing that Publish America does all the time. They harass their own authors. They start smear campaigns against their own authors. They're just an incredibly abusive company.
This is Ron Pramschufer, and welcome to Publishing Basics Radio, where, weekly, we help you navigate the self-publishing minefield. Publishing Basics Radio is sponsored by SelfPublishing.com, the Internet's only self-publishing superstore. Think you're ready to publish a book? Try SelfPublishing.com. Now, on with the program.


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4 Ways to Promote Gender Equality in the Workplace
Post author By Xuan Minh Hoang
Despite the strides we have made in gender equality, female workers still get paid less than their male counterparts, with women significantly underrepresented in senior management roles. Discrimination and unequal pay is illegal, but the facts show that we still face huge obstacles in equal opportunities, and employers play a vital role in overcoming these hurdles. The glass ceiling is hard, but surely breakable, and through a number of actions, your company can cast the stones to the invisible barriers.
1. Transparency in the pay gap
The gender pay gap remains a prominent issue, and the clearest example of gender equality at the workplace. Openness and transparency with pay figures in your company is the first step in tackling any workplace inequalities identified. Assessing where men and women do work of equal value and re-structuring the difference between those unjustified gaps is one start. However to really understand the causes, you need to reflect on the figures more broadly.
Transparency will cast light on the need for change, but like the small nudge of the ball, is only the very beginning of closing the pay gap. In most cases gender pay disparity cannot be resolved by a simple matter of adjusting pay figures. The results are not necessarily that of unequal pay, but reflects a much wider field of failures in balancing opportunities for women.
2. Acknowledge and challenge your own bias
In order to overcome gender inequality we must address our own bias. Gender related bias that hold women back can include outright discrimination to deep-rooted unconscious attitudes. The normalisation of everyday sexism has lead to an invisible gender bias that we often don't recognise. Human beings don't know how to be wholly unbiased; from the classroom to the boardrooms – at an early age, we are conditioned to believe that girls are this way and boys are that way. It's about challenging these 'natural' thoughts by examining, questioning and having open conversations.
Basic anthropology tells us that groups tend to recruit new members who are similar to themselves. So a predominantly male field will often choose a male candidate. This is an influential factor in why women are significantly underrepresented in traditionally male-dominated areas, and senior positions. Changing our bias in recruiting is integral, and admitting our own bias is an important step to a more open, diverse and fair workplace.
This is everyone's issue – men and women, and extends to women's own limiting self-beliefs.
3. Foster the next female leaders
Although men and women have an equal level of ambition early on in their careers, the absence of strong role models and mentors throughout a woman's professional development can have a significant impact on how she views her own capabilities and career prospects later in life. If they don't believe they can reach a leading position at high level, then they don't invest the time to structure their career plan to attain it. Introduce coaching and mentoring programs to provide women with opportunities to assess professional growth, develop their leadership skills, and identify a strategy to achieve this.
Although it may be tempting to solve gender inequality by concentrating on women, gender inclusiveness should involve both men and women, as initiatives involving only half of the population will likely have reduced results.
4. Support parents
Recent research has shown that the gender pay gap is closing for young workers, but widens severely among working mothers as they effectively suffer a pay penalty. One of the major barriers that prevent women from reaching to the top of their career is the lack of childcare support. Again this ranges from complete stigma to deep-seated traditions in the role of mothers. Employer's play a vital role in supporting mothers; work together to agree on a fair and balanced workplace goal that will drive productivity, whilst allowing flexibility and remote working where possible.
Progression and promotions are considerably more difficult to achieve when you take time off, which has a disproportionate effect on women who continue to hold the lion's share of childcare responsibility. To relieve working mothers of the domestic and childcare burden, parental leave for fathers should be promoted. Not only will this allow mothers to invest more time in their careers, but research has shown that fathers want to be more engaged and involved in child care duties.
Like all the previous points, gender equality involves both men and women; supporting female talent, and working together, equally.
Tags diversity, Employer, equality, gender inequality, Maternity Leave, paternity, pay gap
By Xuan Minh Hoang
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The carotid artery is the large artery whose pulse can be felt on both sides of the neck under the jaw. On the right side it starts from the brachiocephalic trunk (a branch of the aorta) as the common carotid artery, and on the left side the common carotid artery comes directly off the aortic arch. At the throat it forks into the internal and external carotid arteries. The internal carotid artery supplies the brain, and the external carotid artery supplies the face. This fork is a common site for atherosclerosis, an inflammatory buildup of atheromatous plaque that can narrow the lumen of the common or internal carotid arteries.
Coronary artery disease refers to the coronary arteries which are in or adjacent to the heart.
Carotid artery stenosis is a narrowing of the carotid artery in the neck and which supplies blood to the brain.
Peripheral artery disease, often called peripheral vascular disease, is a narrowing of the arteries other than those that supply the heart or the brain.
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Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art gave it back to Italy after learning the piece depicting Emperor Tiberius' son had been stolen, apparently by Algerian troops, from southern Italy toward the end of World War II, brought into France, eventually sold at auction in Paris and acquired by the museum in 2012.
ROME (AP) — Italy is putting on display a 1st century marble head that an American museum returned after learning it was stolen during World War II from a southern Italian museum.
The Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio acquired the sculpture depicting Roman Emperor Tiberius' son Drusus in 2012.
Major Massimo Maresca of Italy's national paramilitary police art squad said Friday the original working assumption had been that the piece had been stolen by Nazi troops and taken to Germany, the fate of many artifacts and artworks from countries occupied by Nazi Germany.
But "we were looking in the wrong place," said Maresca, of the Carabinieri art squad, which has an excellent record of tracking down ancient artifacts illegally exported from Italy.
Daimler is working on a concept designed especially for those who want the ease of car travel without the burden of actually having to own a car.


As I write this I have my turkey in the oven cooking, and my flat smells fantastic. I have followed the Cadbury Recipe it was weird I have never whisked whole eggs before, didn't know what to expect but it took a little longer then egg whites on their own but the colour was really nice. I think the tray was too big as it was cooked for 8 minutes not the requires 12 and it was dry, so next time I think I will add an extra egg and ounce of flour and sugar as well as an extra spoon of cocoa powder and keep a closer eye on it while it bakes.
I mixed it all in together and got a delightfully soft and sweet chocolate flavour.
The White Chocolate curls I made buy melting the chocolate and spreading out on my work top and left it to cool too the point where it takes finger prints but not dents, at this point a scraped it away from self to form the curls using my dough scrapper, and it worked I didn't believe it would work.
Anyway, I'll post my further attempts still I get the desired Roll I can use for family meal on Christmas!


Samsung has launched Galaxy Tab A 10.5 LTE models in India. As with the name the features can be identified out, 10.5-inch TFT display with pixel resolution of 1920 * 1800 and aspect ratio of 16:10.
It comes out of the box running Android Nougat v8.1 and has been powered by 1.8GHz Octacore Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
It comes with 3 GB RAM, 32 GB ROM which can be expanded via. Microsd card upto 400 GB. It can be used to click selfie with configuration of 8 MP Primary & 5 MP front facing camera.
Attention of the center is Battery which is of 7300 mAh. It has dimension of 260 * 161.1 * 8 and weights 534 grams.
Connectivity includes Wifi, Bluetooth, GPS.
In Indian market, it would cost around Rs. 31000-35000.
Along with the Tablet SPEN is available and keyboard can also be used but it has to purchased separate. Users can choose out of 3 color versions which are Black, Blue & Grey.


Current transfer rumours targeting Anthony Martial and his transfer history before joining Manchester Utd FC.
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has "lost patience" with 22-year-old winger Anthony Martial, who is set to join another Premier League club, with Tottenham and Arsenal believed to be keen on the Frenchman.
Sevilla want to make a last-ditch bid to tempt Manchester United into letting them have Anthony Martial before Friday's transfer deadline.
Sevilla are still looking for a top quality forward, with Julian Draxler and Anthony Martial emerging at the top of their list.


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Chain Mail vs. Ring Mail – Are They the Same?
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Do you remember playing the game telephone as a child where a message is passed from person to person until the last person in line repeats what he heard to the whole group?
If you do, then you recall that the final message repeated is usually wildly different from the original.
Unfortunately, this is exactly how confusion often develops around certain terms and misnomers take root in our everyday language.
As you learn about the art of making your own chain mail, at some point you will likely run across the term ring mail and wonder if it refers to your chosen hobby or is something else entirely.
What is the difference between chain mail and ring mail? Chain mail is the term used to describe traditional body armor made of interlocked metal rings and, more recently, the art of using jump rings to create jewelry and other items. Ring mail refers to a garment with rings attached but not linked, but its past existence is highly debated.
It can be embarrassing to be caught using the wrong terminology.
As you read through the following, you will clearly understand the difference between chain mail and ring mail and why the two terms are sometimes confused.
Chain Mail Vs. Ring Mail
The terms chain mail and ring mail are often used interchangeably, but they are not the same thing.
If you are thinking about learning how to create garments, jewelry, or other items by interlocking metal pieces together, you should be aware of the correct terminology associated with your new hobby.
Technically, chain mail refers to the flexible, heavy body armor made of interlocking metal rings that was popular among soldiers and knights during the medieval period in Europe.
Although brass and iron were occasionally used when making mail, steel was by far the most popular material due to its strength.
Mail reigned supreme until the rise of the more protective plate armor in the 14th century.
However, plate armor was much too expensive for most people of the time to consider, so the use of mail persisted until the widespread use of guns proved the covering to be outdated and ineffective.
Prior to the 18th century, this type of protective covering was simply referred to as mail, meaning mesh or mesh net.
It's interesting to note that the word itself only referred to the armor material, not a specific garment.
For instance, a knee-length shirt of mail is called a hauberk, a hood to cover the head is a coif, and coverings for the legs are called chausses.
The word chain refers to a series of interlocked metal rings.
It is thought that when the term mail began to be used to incorrectly describe any protective armor, the need arose for a way to distinguish between true mail and other armors.
Hence, the word chain was added to eliminate any possible confusion, although it is rather redundant to use both words when speaking of true mail.
Chain Mail in Modern Times
Because not many people today walk around in full mail, the term chain mail has evolved to include a variety of crafts made with interlocking metal rings known as jump rings, though true historians would certainly not agree with this current usage of the term.
Today, chain mail crafters enjoy make all kinds of items including:
Garments, such as shirts and bikinis.
Gloves to protect the hands while using knives or saws.
Historical replicas for plays, events, etc.
Scrubbers for scouring dirty pans.
Jewelry items, such as bracelets, rings, and necklaces.
Decorative items, such as interesting wall hangings and candle holders.
Although many people like to make their own jump rings out of various wire gauges and materials, many others simply buy jump rings in bulk for whatever project they happen to be working on.
Jump rings can be found in bright aluminum, copper, sterling silver, niobium, silver or gold filled, brass, plated metals, metal alloys, and metals with various finishes.
Though jump rings used for chain mail work are typically round, they do also come in other shapes, such as oval and triangle.
You can find jump rings in a variety of colors, various gauge sizes (how thick the metal is), and different diameters to accommodate any project from a full mail suit to a simple ankle bracelet.
Know that projects made with larger jump rings will lack the rigidness of those constructed from smaller rings, but the larger rings are much easier to manipulate.
Ring Mail
The term ring mail is used to refer to a piece of cloth or leather that has metal rings sewn onto it. The rings, however, are not interlinked in any way.
This type of "armor" is significantly inferior to traditional mail in that it is incapable of preventing damage caused by the thrusting of a sword or other sharp, penetrating objects.
In fact, there hasn't been any archaeological evidence found to prove that ring mail was ever used in European battles of any sort, though some evidence seems to indicate that it may have been used elsewhere in the world, though only rarely.
Some think that forms of ring mail may have been worn underneath true mail (and the associated padding worn in conjunction) to provide ventilation and an additional protective layer, as the mention of eyelet doublets (thought to be a variant of ring mail) in historical documents seems to suggest.
However, many believe that ring mail never existed at all. "Ring mail" would more accurately be termed ring armor, as mail, if you recall, is mesh formed from links purposely connected to one another.
With "ring mail," the links may lie adjacent to one another, but they are not connected to each other or anything else other than the fabric.
While ring mail's existence in history may be a moot point as far as you're concerned, you should know that if you're working on a project that involves linking metal rings together to form a flexible, durable mesh material, you are not making ring mail.
The correct term in modern times would be chain mail or simply just mail.
Scholars of the 18th and 19th centuries are blamed for much of the confusion that exists today over mail terminology, according to Arador.com.
Two historians in particular seem to be at fault.
In the later half of the 1700s, Francis Grose, a Victorian writer, was one of the first to use the term mail to describe any form of body armor made of metal.
His use of the word in this broad, general manner would include plate and scale armor, neither of which are true mail.
Samuel Rush Meyrick, a writer in the early 1800s, is credited with contributing to the confusion as well.
While studying and attempting to interpret mail featured in various illustrations and tapestries of his contemporaries, he invented several terms to describe what he thought he was viewing.
These terms included banded mail, trellised mail, mascled mail, and, you guessed it, ring mail.
Since then, scholars have determined that most of the renderings Meyrick was studying were likely simply the artists' attempts of reproducing the basic European 4-in-1 weave, and thus, Meyrick's supposition that the depicted patterns actually existed has been largely discredited.
Additional Confusion in Modern Times
Popular books, such as Three Hearts and Three Lions; book series, such as A Song of Fire and Ice (and its award-winning, derived TV series Game of Thrones); and games, such as Dungeons and Dragons have also likely also contributed to the confusion that exists with the two terms.
What Is the Best Way to Start Learning Chain Mail Weaves?
Ideally, beginners should spend a fair amount of time watching a few basic weaves being woven by someone with experience.
This is often done through videos, but a face-to-face lesson is often more helpful as you can ask questions and hear feedback as you attempt a couple of weaves.
Books and online tutorials with plenty of illustrations are also helpful as you can work on each step at your own pace.
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World Germany, Hungary to Mark End of the Iron Curtain
Germany, Hungary to Mark End of the Iron Curtain
Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 4:57 pm | י"ז אב תשע"ט
SOPRON, Hungary (Reuters) -
People walk at the Pan-European Picnic Memorial Park in Sopronkohida, Hungary, August 16, 2019. (Reuters/Bernadett Szabo)
Thirty years ago on Monday, Hungarian border guards for the first time allowed people from communist East Germany to cross freely into Austria, and hundreds of them rejoiced. The Iron Curtain was passing into history.
This was a milestone in a year of momentous change in Europe, leading in a few short months to the fall of the Berlin Wall in November, 1989.
But Hungary, the first country to dismantle the east-west frontier, was also the first to fortify its southern border against a big new influx of Asian and African immigrants.
In 2015, Hungary built a high-tech double razor wire fence, complete with heat sensors, night vision cameras and constant border patrols along its 186-mile border with Serbia and Croatia.
This was the physical manifestation of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's vision of a "fortress Europe".
The immigration issue threw a wrench into the usually close ties between Hungary and Germany, since Orban clashed with the views of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who initially threw the gates open to migrants.
Orban and Merkel will mark the fall of the Iron Curtain together in Sopron on Monday.
In Europe, opinions are divided on these new barriers. For some of those whose lives were changed forever by their chance to flee to the West, they are a calamity. They remember fondly the so-called Pan-European Picnic, where hundreds of East Germans broke through to Austria as border guards stood aside.
"That was our second birthday," said Hermann Pfitzenreiter, who took his wife and small children across the border that day and came back to the border town Sopron to mark the anniversary and meet old Hungarian friends.
"Erecting these walls and fences, it's catastrophic," added his wife Margarete. "As Germans, we belonged in Germany, but we had experienced the same unlivable life (as today's immigrants). I'd love to drop Viktor Orban on the other side so he feels what that is like."
"High as these walls may be, they will never deter people," Hermann Pfitzenreiter said. "What you see in the pictures (of us crossing) can't be put into words. We could not believe it was happening, it was total ecstasy, it had been unthinkable."
The Pfitzenreiters, interviewed by Reuters in Sopron, now live in Germany, near Mannheim.
THIS FENCE IS NOT THAT FENCE
Hungarians who helped bring down the Iron Curtain resent any parallels with Hungary's current southern border fortifications or its practice of keeping immigration next to zero, saying such practice is necessary to preserve the Europe that the events of 1989 created.
Arpad Bella, who headed up the border station unit posted at the Sopron crossing in August, 1989, said he had his hands full with the Pan-European Picnic, a political jamboree packed with hundreds of "Ossies", or east Germans.
"I could confront them and risk violence, or let them through and face the consequences," he said at the memorial park now on that spot. He chose the latter. "Every border guard was sick of the task… We just wanted them gone."
Eventually he evaded consequences as his chief waited on the national chief, who waited on the interior minister, who waited on then-prime minister Miklos Nemeth, who waited on Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev.
"Everyone waited until in September the borders were opened officially and everyone was free to march West.
"We did that for the sake of European unity. And what we do now serves to preserve that unity. If some countries dislike that or it hurts some interests, let them worry about it. I fully support Viktor Orban in this policy."
Laszlo Magas, who organized the Pan-European picnic in 1989, said it was "shocking and wonderful to see those people with their kids on their shoulders, approaching the border all scared, then erupt in happiness when they stepped over to Austria."
Magas said that had nothing to do with today's situation.
"It was anachronistic to have two Germanys. We were helping a nation. This here is completely different. Let's not mix that up with the fence that the masses of migrants forced us to build."
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Q: Why is RAID not a backup? When someone mentions RAID in a conversation about backups, invariably someone declares that "RAID is not a backup."
Sure, for striping, that's true. But what's the difference between redundancy and a backup?

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Will a backup refuse to copy a corrupt
  file?

Even if a backup copies corrupt or bad data, the point of a backup is that you can and should have multiple copies. For instance, last hour, yesterday, last week, etc. You can get a similar effect from using rotating snapshots on your storage device.
But the other reason for backups is geographic redundancy. You should certainly keep copies of critical data in two different geographic locations. How separate those locations are depends on how critical the data is; keeping copies in two different buildings in the same city protects against fire or theft. Keeping copies in two different countries protects against bigger problems.

A: RAID can be a great way to mitigate risks due to hardware failures, but RAID won't help you when your users delete (accidentally or otherwise) their data.  To recover data you need some archival facilities, either through local snapshots or online/offline backups.

A: Redundancy protects you against your hardware failing. It does not protect against user error, nor against malicious activity (e.g., crackers getting into your system).
See: Why Mirroring is Not a Backup Solution for a hard-earned lesson.

A: In a RAID5 array, consisting of disks over 400Gb, if you lose a disk there's something like a 75% chance of having an unrecoverable read error while the array is being rebuilt. Think  about that for a second and it becomes pretty obvious why someone will always remind you that "RAID is not a backup".
RAID gives you higher reliability and performance, but it's not infallible.

A: The number one reason you want a backup is not because the physical media died (this is rare), but because of some error that caused the data to be lost or corrupted.
RAID doesn't protect you against a file being deleted.
RAID doesn't protect you against a file being overwritten.
RAID doesn't protect you from your system being compromised and all of your data being overwritten, deleted, or corrupted.
RAID doesn't protect you from your ops team accidentally paving a machine with important data on it.
RAID doesn't protect you from a foolish DBA running a drop command on the production server (mistaking it for a test environment).
RAID doesn't protect you if the building burns down.
P.S. http://ma.gnolia.com/. This is what can happen if you don't have good backups. Your site is snuffed out of existence (note: this tends to be bad for business).

A: Fire, theft, RAID controller fault, human error, the list goes on

A: What's the difference between redundancy and backup? Ok, configure a RAID 5 disk set. Store some business-critical stuff on it. Pull a disk out. Everything still works! That's redundancy. Now delete all the data (don't cheat with the recycle bin). Now restore it from the most recent backup. You don't have one? Oops. Well at least you can tell your boss your disks are using RAID 5 redundancy (as you get marched out of the building...)

A: RAID guards against one kind of hardware failure. There's lots of failure modes that it doesn't guard against.

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*File corruption

*Human error (deleting files by mistake)

*Catastrophic damage (someone dumps water onto the server)

*Viruses and other malware

*Software bugs that wipe out data

*Hardware problems that wipe out data or cause hardware damage (controller malfunctions, firmware bugs, voltage spikes, ...)

and more.

A: Redundancy is great if one of your disks fails.  It's no so great if your computer gets a virus, or you mistakenly delete a file, or you need to restore the disk to a previous version for some other reason.  That's when you need a backup.
RAID helps you recover from failures, but backups let you go back in time.

A:
Q: Why is RAID not a backup?

A: Because the whole purpose of a RAID is to make sure that nothing in the world can interrupt that accidental rm -rf / (or DELTREE /X C:\), not even yanking the power chord in panic.

Q: But whats the difference between redundancy and a backup?

A: If you accidentally overwrite your PhD thesis with garbage, redundancy ensures that you have multiple copies of garbage, in case one gets bad. A backup ensures that you can restore your PhD thesis.
(And an archive ensures that you can retrieve multiple older versions of your thesis, and a version control system also tells you why you made a new version in the first place.)

A: It should also be mentioned that a hardware fault in the raid controller can easily corrupt the data on all attached disks. So while you reduce the danger from disk failures you add the danger of raid controller failures.

A: Also consider with raid that you have multiple hard drives probably build at the same time and then exposed to the same conditions for years .... what are the chances that they will all fail about the same time .... pretty high

A: RAID helps you to eliminate downtime in case of limited, but most probable scenarios, of HDD failure scenarios. Usually it's one drive failure at a time.
RAID does not protect you from having stored invalid data on drives. Application or system software bug causing wipe of some or all data from drives, or human mistake deleting wrong data, or malicious users, or viruses. In such scenarios, RAID ensures, that data loss happened also on redundant drives.
RAID does not protect you from lossing whole array at the same time. Fires, floods, or other catastrophes destroy it all at once. Similarly thiefs can stole whole NAS at once, or very drunk roommate in a very bad mood can play "throw it as far away as possible" with NAS.
Backups help you get back in time. Restore what was once stored as current/live data.
Backups help you to restore previous versions of lost data in case of catastrophic failure.
Mirroring of data helps you to protect from catastrophic loss of single physical location, but doesn't necessarily prevent hackers or viruses or other means of data loss, or corruption, propagation to mirrors.

A: [Not an answer, I already know. But an instructive tale nevertheless. Feel free to not upvote it. I'm posting it as an answer simply because it's too long for a comment.]
"We have redundant web servers on a load balancer, redundant database servers in a cluster and redundant hard drives in every server. So how did this happen? According to our server company there was a manufacturers bug in the firmware of the specific model that 6 of our 8 hard drives were on. That bug caused the disks to die after a certain number of hours running."
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The marketing industry is broken. Consumers are tired of interruption, push, mass media and the manipulation of marketing and advertising generally. They want to deal with honest, ethical companies that have heart and purpose and that care about serving all their stakeholders instead of their pockets. Conscious Marketing proves that marketing can really work if the paradigm is shifted--radically. In Conscious Marketing: How to Create an Awesome Business With a New Approach to Marketing, author Carolyn Tate demonstrates just how beneficial this shift can be. By practising the four tenets of conscious marketing, companies can raise their brand's profile and attract customers for life. The book shows how building a business with a higher-purpose can lead to sustainability, profitability and industry leadership. Conscious marketing works for both multinational corporations and cash-strapped small business alike.
The book includes a three-part guide to crafting an actionable plan, including where to find help. Marketing doesn't have to be the budgetary dead weight it has become. It can be fun, human and inspiring for everyone involved, but change requires a deep shift in thinking and behaviour that goes way beyond the transaction or the sale. To stay relevant in the modern economy, businesses must show what's at their core, why they do what they do and why it matters. Conscious Marketing is a comprehensive guide to fixing the problem, with a sustainable solution.
CAROLYN TATE is a speaker and educator and the founder of The Slow School of Business, a school dedicated to helping companies build purpose-driven and prosperous businesses that make the world a better place. Carolyn is also the author of Small Business Big Brand, Marketing Your Small Business For Dummies and Unstuck in Provence. Visit slowschool.com.au or carolyntate.co.


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Q: Call https wsdl from php 5.2.0 I need to call a https wsdl service from php. The original message error was:
SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'https://xxxxx.svc?wsdl' : failed to load external entity "https://xxxx.svc?wsdl"
I did this:

*

*I actived in php.ini: extension=php_openssl.dll

*I copied: libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll in System32

*My version of PHP is 5.3.9

And the message error says this:
SOAP-ERROR: Parsing Schema: can't import schema from 'http://xxx.svc?xsd=xsd0''
I read a lot of post with the similar errors, but anyone helps me.
I need your hepl


The Remixes Vol. Дизайн у Вас интересный, я вот тоже для блога искал — стала прикручивать, а все посты куда то делись. Грегори Дарк [en].
Статистика игроков команды Buffalo. Френсис Лоуренс. Thanks for keeping Josh and I look forward to the others as well.
Майкл Хауссман. Curious Fantasy Believe Radiance. I am inspired by the truth that you speak on this extremely important issue.
Источник — https: Why will your book take so long to get on the shelves?
Френсис Лоуренс. Дейв Майерс [en]. Glad to see that Will Okun will be back. Билли Вудрафф [en]. Бритни Спирс.
Марк Класфелд [en]. He had some of the best insights and raw stories of a very impressive group.
Where are you thinking of traveling next, considering that many of us submitted some suggestions a few posts back? Интересные новости, статистические данные, история и достижения. Пол Хантер [en]. Пространства имён Статья Обсуждение. Юнас Окерлунд. What were the raections and assistance extended by neighboring countries of the region and the world, to BD?
Проверено 4 декабря Френсис Лоуренс. Дейв Майерс [en]. Герб Ритц.
Where are you thinking of traveling next, considering that many of us submitted some suggestions a few posts back? Thank you so much for your informative passionate articles on Darfur. Новые объявления публикуются ежедневно.
Thank you. Will accompanied me on my win-a-trip journey to Africa last summer, blogging as he went, and his essays from his school have been for most of us another kind of foreign correspondence. Источник — https: What were the raections and assistance extended by neighboring countries of the region and the world, to BD?
Найджел Дик. He had some of the best insights and raw stories of a very impressive group.
His responsibilities include running a millennium village in Rwanda and fighting neglected tropical diseases. Femme Fatale. Грегори Дарк [en]. Текущие результаты игр, архив результатов за предыдущие сезоны. Эээх… буду писать заново. Thanks for keeping Josh and I look forward to the others as well.
Josh is a public health and development expert from Columbia University who is working in Rwanda. I keep listening to friends talk about getting free online grant applications so I have been searching around for the best place to get one. Свежие результаты игр, сведения о результатах прошлых лет.


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Amálie Kristýna Karolína Bádenská, provdaná kněžna z Fürstenbergu (rozená baronka Amálie z Hochbergu, poté hraběnka Amálie z Hochbergu a princezna Amálie Bádenská; 26. ledna 1795 Karlsruhe – 14. září 1869 Karlsruhe) byla manželkou knížete Karla Egona II. z Fürstenbergu.

Život a rodina
Baronka Amálie z Hochbergu se narodila 26. ledna 1795 v Karlsruhe velkovévodovi Karlu Fridrichovi Bádenskému (1728–1811) a jeho druhé manželce Luise Karolíně Geyerové z Geyersbergu, hraběnce z Hochbergu (1767–1820). Manželství jejích rodičů bylo morganatické, a tak se Amálie narodila bez knížecího titulu a byla vyloučena z dynastické linie rodu Zähringů. Původně jí byl přiznán titul baronky, v roce 1796 se její matka stala hraběnkou z Hochbergu a i jí byl přiznán hraběcí titul.

Amáliin nevlastní bratr velkovévoda Karel Ludvík Fridrich Bádenský jí a jejím sourozencům v roce 1817 potvrdil dynastickou příslušnost a udělil jim knížecí hodnost a oslovení velkovévodské výsosti.

Dne 19. dubna 1818 se v Karlsruhe provdala za Karla Egona II. z Fürstenbergu (28. října 1796 Praha – 22. října 1854 Bad Ischl) a stala se kněžnou manželkou z Fürstenbergu.

Amálie a Karel Egon II. měli sedm dětí:

 1. Marie Alžběta (15. 3. 1819 Donaueschingen – 9. 4. 1897 Donaueschingen)
 2. Karel Egon III. (4. 3. 1820 Donaueschingen – 15. 3. 1892 Paříž), 6. kníže z Fürstenbergu (1854–1892)
 ⚭ (4. 11. 1844 Greiz) Alžběta Henrieta z Reuss-Greizu (22. 3. 1824 Paříž – 7. 5. 1861 Berlín)
 3. Marie Amálie (12. 2. 1821 Donaueschingen – 17. 1. 1899 Rauden)
 ⚭ (19. 4 1845 Donaueschingen) Viktor I. z Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürstu (10. 2. 1818 Langenburg – 30. 1. 1893 Rauden), vévoda ratibořský
 4. Maxmilián Egon I. (29. 3. 1822 Donaueschingen – 27. 7. 1873 Lány)
 ⚭ (23. 5. 1860 Vídeň) Leontýna Antonie z Khevenhüller-Metsch (25. 2. 1843 Vídeň – 9. 8. 1914 Strobl, pohřbena ve Stroblu)
 5. Marie Henrieta (16. 7. 1823 – 19. 9. 1834 Vídeň)
 6. Emil Egon (12. 9. 1825 Donaueschingen – 15. 5. 1899 Leontýn, pohřben v Nižboru)
 ⚭ (31. 5. 1875) Leontýna z Khevenhüller-Metsch, vdova po Maxmiliánu Egonovi I. – viz výše
 7. Paulína Vilemína (11. 6. 1829 Donaueschingen – 9. 8. 1900 Sławięcice / Slawentzitz)
 ⚭ (15. 4. 1847 Donaueschingen) Hugo z Hohenlohe-Oehringenu (27. 5. 1816 Stuttgart – 23. 8. 1897 Sławięcice / Slawentzitz)

Amálie zemřela 14. září 1869 v Karlsruhe. Pohřbena byla jako její muž ve Fürstenberské hrobce v kostele Maria Hof v Neudingenu (Donaueschingen).

Na její počest byla v roce 1818 obec Čamrdoves přejmenována na Amalín (Amalienberg), od roku 1892 je součástí městysu Křivoklát.

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Amálie
Amálie
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Narození v Karlsruhe
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Úmrtí 14. září
Úmrtí v Karlsruhe
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A one-time program is a hypothetical device by which a user may evaluate a circuit on exactly one input of his choice, before the device self-destructs. One-time programs cannot be achieved by software alone, as any software can be copied and re-run. However, it is known that every circuit can be compiled into a one-time program using a very basic hypothetical hardware device called a one-time memory. At first glance it may seem that quantum information, which cannot be copied, might also allow for one-time programs. But it is not hard to see that this intuition is false: one-time programs for classical or quantum circuits based solely on quantum information do not exist, even with computational assumptions.
This observation raises the question, "what assumptions are required to achieve one-time programs for quantum circuits?" Our main result is that any quantum circuit can be compiled into a one-time program assuming only the same basic one-time memory devices used for classical circuits. Moreover, these quantum one-time programs achieve statistical universal composability (UC-security) against any malicious user. Our construction employs methods for computation on authenticated quantum data, and we present a new quantum authentication scheme called the trap scheme for this purpose. As a corollary, we establish UC-security of a recent protocol for delegated quantum computation.
Anne Broadbent, Gus Gutoski, Douglas Stebila. Quantum one-time programs. In Ran Canetti, Juan Garay, editors, Advances in Cryptology -- Proc. CRYPTO 2013, LNCS, vol. 8043, pp. 344-360. Springer, August 2013. © IACR.


Donald Trump's Communications Strategy – Is the End Near?
Businessman and Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump continues to dominate the media as he has since announcing for president. His latest firestorm is his proposal to ban Muslims seeking to enter the United States. Trump made his proposal as the focus of the campaign has shifted to terrorism following the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris ..
This language, which sometimes does not make sense to people outside of the PR/marketing world, is full of phrases that sometimes leak out into my personal life; phrases that are greeted with confused faces and the inevitable "Wait, so what do you do again?" Here is some of the public relations/marketing lingo we use, and ..


Abstract: The environmental temperature and humidity have a great impact on the imaging quality of the large telescope. The design and realization of the environmental temperature and humidity monitoring system for large telescope are discussed. The system adopts the SI7006?20A as the temperature and humidity sensor and STM32F103 as the processor. The environmental temperature and humidity are detected and displayed by networking the CAN bus and upper computer. The designed system was verified with experiment. The results show that the system can monitor the environmental temperature and humidity accurately and provide the basis for humiture compensation and control in the active optical system.
 Silicon Laboratories Inc. SI7006?20A I2C humidity and tempe?rature sensor datasheet [R]. Austin: Silicon Laboratories Inc., 2015.


Meet America's largest bird: the Suri - Peruvian Tourism News - Peru Info It is the largest bird in America, also known as the ostrich, or Andean ostrich.
It is the largest bird in America, also known as the ostrich, or Andean ostrich. This non-flying species can reach a height of 5 feet and weigh up to 66 pounds; its beak and head are gray, with its back and neck darker and the ends of their feathers white.
The Suri, whose scientific name is Rhea pennata, is a running bird that only inhabits South America. It thrives in deserts, saline soils, steppes, sparsely flooded areas and high altitude wetlands, as well as in territories with little oxygen, extreme cold and intense solar radiation, such as Peruvian punas.
Although male and female Suris are the same size, the male specimen appears to be a little taller due to its greater amount of plumage which, in the reproductive stage, is longer than usual.
The Suri is vegetarian. Because its diet is based mainly on plants, fruits and seeds, it is considered a natural disseminator.
The Suri, or Andean ostrich, is an endangered species. The Peruvian State has categorized it as being in "critical danger", according to DS 004-2014-MINAGRI. This decree prohibits their hunting, capture, possession, transport and export for commercial purposes.
According to a census conducted by the National Forest and Wildlife Service ('Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre', SERFOR) in 2008, it was estimated that the population of Suri in our country amounted to just 447 individuals, of which 70% were juveniles. These were distributed as follows: 186 registered in Moquegua, 157 in Puno and 104 in Tacna.
By 2016, SERFOR conducted a second census and registered a smaller population: 350 Suri individuals in the wild throughout Peru. The largest number of Suris were found in Tacna where there were 166 individuals, followed by Puno with 112 and third place Moquegua with 72 animals. It should be noted that there is a captive population that was not included in the census.
Because this species lives in the highlands of Peru, Bolivia and Chile, in 2006 it was decided to create the International Network for Suri Conservation ('Red Internacional para la Conservación de Suri') which established the development of conservation plans in each country as its first agreement. A year later, the National Network for Suri Conservation was implemented to ensure that public and private institutions comply with the conservation plans established.
Among the objectives of these plans are the guarantee of Suri conservation in its natural environment, generating knowledge about Suri populations so that, with the help of these plans, there can be a reduction in the risks and threats faced by this species, such as: the commercialization of its meat and feathers (used to make folkloric suits), the collection of its eggs for human consumption, among others.
In Peru, there are currently three protected natural areas dedicated to the conservation of the Suri: the Taypipiña and Checca private conservation areas in Puno, and the Vilacota Maure Regional Conservation Area (RCA) in Tacna. There are also rescue centers: the Lake Titicaca Special Bi-National Project ('Proyecto Especial Binacional Lago Titicaca', PEBLT) and Sumac Kantati, both in Puno; and in Lambayeque there is Suri-Sicán, a center specializing in the reproduction of non-flying giant birds, among which is the Suri.
It is very common for Suris to be covered with dust, as they take sand "baths" to fix their feathers.
The Suri male is polygamous, there are groups of up to 10 individuals made up of one male and nine females.
Males are considered "model fathers" because they are the ones who incubate, feed and protect their offspring.
On December 17, 2018, the Central Reserve Bank of Peru ('Banco Central de Reserva del Perú', BCRP) put into circulation the seventh coin of the numismatic series, "Threatened Wild Fauna of Peru", which alludes to the Suri.


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require 'spec_helper'

describe 'Grades' do
  let(:assignment) { Fabricate('coursewareable/assignment') }
  let(:classroom) { assignment.classroom }
  let(:lecture) { assignment.lecture }
  let(:receiver) do
    Fabricate('coursewareable/membership', :classroom => classroom).user
  end

  context 'when logged in' do
    let(:grade) { Fabricate('coursewareable/grade', :classroom => classroom,
                            :assignment => assignment)}
    let(:url_to_visit) do
      lecture_assignment_grades_url(
        lecture, assignment, :subdomain => classroom.slug)
    end

    before(:each) do
      sign_in_with(user.email)
      visit url_to_visit
    end

    context 'as owner/collaborator' do
      let(:user) { classroom.owner }

      it { page.should_not have_css('#grades ul.inline-list') }

      context 'when a grade exists' do
        before(:all) { grade }

        it do
          page.should have_css("#update_grade-#{grade.id}")
          page.should have_content(grade.receiver.name)
        end
      end

      context 'can create a new grade' do
        before(:all) { receiver }
        let(:attrs) { Fabricate.build('coursewareable/grade') }

        it do
          page.click_on('new_grade')
          page.fill_in('grade_mark', :with => attrs.mark)
          page.select('Percent', :from => 'grade_form')
          page.select(receiver.name, :from => 'grade_receiver_id')
          page.fill_in('grade_comment', :with => attrs.comment)
          page.click_on('submit_grade')

          new_grade = assignment.grades.first
          new_grade.mark.should eq(attrs.mark)
          new_grade.form.should eq('percent')
          new_grade.receiver.id.should eq(receiver.id)
          new_grade.comment.should eq(Sanitize.clean(attrs.comment))

          page.current_url.should eq(lecture_assignment_grades_url(
            lecture.slug, assignment.slug, :subdomain => classroom.slug))
        end
      end

      context 'can edit a grade' do
        before(:all) { grade }
        let(:attrs) { Fabricate.build('coursewareable/grade') }

        it do
          page.click_on("update_grade-#{grade.id}")
          page.fill_in('grade_mark', :with => attrs.mark)
          page.select('Percent', :from => 'grade_form')
          page.fill_in('grade_comment', :with => attrs.comment)
          page.click_on('update_grade')

          grade.reload.mark.should eq(attrs.mark)
          grade.form.should eq('percent')
          grade.comment.should eq(Sanitize.clean(attrs.comment))

          page.current_url.should eq(lecture_assignment_grades_url(
            lecture.slug, assignment.slug, :subdomain => classroom.slug))
        end
      end

    end
  end

end

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In August last year, Huffington Post CEO Jimmy Maymann was promoted to oversee all of AOL's content and consumer brands.
That includes everything from TechCrunch, to AOL.com, to parent company Verizon's video streaming service Go90.
We caught upp with Maymann at the Cannes Lions advertising festival this week to discuss how he's settling in, what big plans he has for AOL, and his thoughts on some of the other biggest topics in media right now — from the Gawker/Hulk Hogan trial, to the recent report on media agency rebates.
Jimmy Maymann: That is correct. What happened was, on the back of the Verizon acquisition last summer … Tim [Armstrong, AOL CEO] and I had a conversation with Verizon about what we wanted to do on the content side of the business. Both in terms of what we already have in hand … but also where we wanted to go.
The good thing, from my perspective, is Verizon acquired AOL not only for the advertising technology — which has been rumoured that: 'oh, they were only interested in the advertising technology' — they were very excited about the content part of the business as well and how we could accelerate that even further but to do that we needed someone to take responsibility.
We have three pillars: we have HuffPost; we have Hive brands, which is all our independent brands, and we have AOL membership and home, which is the traditional legacy AOL business, so to say. So that whole structure has been made and now we are moving to the next phase because we have put ourself in a place where we are able to grow organically but also knowing that we want to get to 1 billion people. That's not going to happen organically so we are going to be more aggressive with M&A and with helping us accelerate on the healthy platform we have.
Obviously technology in general has become much more pop culture. If you think about the HBO series "Silicon Valley," TechCrunch was obviously heavily featured.
That obviously also opens up much more of the audience for us. It's a limited niche audience if you're just covering new startups and entrepreneurship.
O'Reilly: Isn't that a good thing, though? That's the difference.
Maymann: That is our DNA but at the same time we can definitely do things off the back of that, that will open up other doors where other people can come in that really build on it, so I think that's a fair way to look at it.
O'Reilly: Do you do that by acquiring talent, or utilising the talent you already have in different ways?
O'Reilly: Talk to me about Facebook Live, then. Lots of publishers are experimenting with it. Is it a worthwhile investment? You might reach a lot of people, but is that comparative to TV views? Facebook is paying publishers to experiment with Live as well, one way of looking at that is: great, some income. The other way of looking at it is: ah, now we have to actually produce this stuff that we weren't doing on our own platform. How do you view that gamble?
Maymann: I think for us it's not really a gamble, we have actually been bullish on live ever since I was at HuffPost. If you recall in 2012, we actually launched HuffPost Live. We did eight hours of live and are still doing huge amounts of live programming across HuffPost.
We have actually been leaning into it before it became this huge thing that it is right now, which obviously makes it easier for us because we have a good perspective of what works across our properties. We have huge streams of live content that obviously we can take and put it across Facebook Live and other places so it's not like we have to go and create something from scratch. If you have to start from scratch, obviously, it's a bit of a bigger gamble because you have to find your way and find out what exactly connects with an audience.
It's not just Facebook Live. You've seen the huge rise of Snapchat video over the past year, from zero to almost 10 billion video views. So obviously, and it's a very, very different platform from Facebook, right, it's a different way of doing things … different demos, different ways of activating these people.
O'Reilly: I remember at Huffington Post you were talking about this idea of personalisation and this idea of serving a different homepage to each user. Is that still something you believe in? Does that work across the AOL portfolio as well?
Maymann: Yes. So it is something that I'm a big believer in because I can actually see that it's something that allows us to deliver better experiences to the people that come to our properties.
On any given day across all our properties we have around 2,000 pieces of content, so that's more than enough content. The thing is just like when you go to YouTube, when you have 500 hours of content uploaded every minute … it's information overload. How do you make sure you get the right content in front of the right people at the right time?
I think that's where passive personalisation really becomes key because social media has been great in the sense that it has put a spotlight on content would not necessarily draw big audiences. But at the same time, when they arrive on Business Insider or something else, they might arrive out of the feed, only for that story, and then disappear so it's hit and run.
But with passive personalisation what you're able to do all the time is to actually give a better experience and give you something that's relevant. When you arrive on this story, you find something that's also relevant … Then you get them into a funnel and, a little bit like Amazon, without locking in, we get better and better at predicting what you hopefully like and what kind of content we should get in front of you.
Passive personalisation is getting more and more important.
and is something that we have. We acquired a company called Gravity a couple of years ago that actually sits in my portfolio and works across all our content brands to optimise for this and create better-personalised experiences.
O'Reilly: A couple of weeks ago the Association of National Advertisers released its report into [non-transparent] media agency [behaviour, like not disclosing] rebates and it's been a topic of conversation around Cannes. What was your reaction to the report?
Maymann: I did see the report and I think in general the agencies we are dealing with, whether this is a big issue, it's not something that we are seeing in general.
We have a very good relationships on the agency side and the advertiser side. I think also you are at a point in time where adding value to the advertiser's business is becoming clearer and clearer so I think honestly it's something that will even itself out. I don't think it's something that should be a big worry for advertisers, at least not with what we are seeing.
O'Reilly: You mentioned M&A might be an option for you this year. Where do you need to fill gaps? What are you on the hunt for?
We took over Microsoft's properties, to monetise those and their ad sales team, which gave us reach and scale in markets where we were not in. So we are now in 22 markets globally and I think that matters if we want to be in the top tier from a media/publisher perspective. We need to have scale and we need to make sure we scale in the right kind of markets. So things that can give us geographical scale is important.
O'Reilly: What was your take on the Gawker case [in which Hulk Hogan successfully sued the media company for damages in a trial that was funded by billionaire VC Peter Thiel]?
Scott Keeler/The Tampa Bay Times via APIn this Tuesday, March 1, 2016 file photo, Terry Bollea, known as professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, watches potential jurors at the Pinellas County Courthouse, in St. Petersburg, Fla., as jury selection began in his case vs. Gawker Media.
Maymann: I think it's a highly debated case in the US. Obviously Gawker, their editorial line has been very progressive, so to say, in the way that they have gone after people. That being said, of course, I'm not sure it's a good thing when you have people with very deep pockets that are getting behind and trying to take down media organisations.
I think media organisations are here to keep people and organisations and governments accountable. When media really works that's what media does.
Then I think also sometimes they can step over the line. But if we start to take all media companies down that are holding people to account, or being critical, then as a society and as a democracy I think that's problematic. So that's my point of view on that.
O'Reilly: Are you doing anything interesting in the VR space?
Maymann: We are. What sparked out interest in the space, five to six months ago we acquired this company called Ryot which is an augmented reality, VR, 360-immersion video company. It's run by this amazing guy called Bryn Mooser who used to work at the Peace Corps for 10 to 15 years, then saw what technology could do in those areas and started to produce content … and this year was nominated for an Oscar award.
O'Reilly: How long until VR comes mainstream enough for you to be able to make money from it?
Maymann: Obviously you can think about it the way you just asked the question: everyone needs to have the Oculus Rift or the Samsung Gear, otherwise you're not going to really have the full experience. That's correct if you really talk deep VR.
Bryn showed how they had used $400 GoPro cameras to create these kinds of experiences and that makes it very accessible to news organisations, to individuals, to brands to go out to experiment and create these kinds of immersive experiences. That's, in the short term, very, very exciting and interesting. Then of course eventually we will run around with Oculus headsets, but that's not something that will happen overnight.
Since we acquired Ryot we have focused on integrating with HuffPost so we now have VR equipment in all our 16 offices around the world, we have the capability, so any given day we can go out and shoot at 2-minute thing that we feel could connect an audience better to a story. So that's the kind of commitment to it.
O'Reilly: How much input do you get from Verizon on the content side? Data? Go90?
Maymann: Go90 had a lot of content deals when we were acquired and we are leveraging those content deals across our owned and operated properties. So that's fantastic to get some more premium content that you can share across to your audience.
O'Reilly: How do those deals work when it comes to premium content? I imagine a lot of those were thrashed out before the acquisition?
Maymann: You're right on that: some of those things, it's easy to carry over, on other things we are in the process of going back and renegotiating those things. Obviously we have an interest in trying to line up all that content.


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Mihailo Polit-Desančić (; 16 April 1833 – 30 March 1920) was a political figure, a journalist and a Serbian writer. He was a member of the Serbian Learned Society (Srpsko učeno društvo) and the Serbian Royal Academy (Srpska kraljevska akademija), predecessors of the current Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Biography
Mihailo Polit-Desančić was born in Novi Sad, and was an Aromanian or had mixed Aromanian–Serb origins. In Vienna, Polit-Desančić graduated in jurisprudence and obtained another degree in Paris in political science. Polyglot and scholar, he became a close collaborator of Svetozar Miletić and, with him, one of the most important political figures of the Serbs of Vojvodina of the time, integrated in the possessions of the House of Austria. He then published the periodical Branik, from 1890 the organ of the Serbian Liberal Party in Hungary. He was a member of the parliaments of Croatia and Hungary and a member of Sremski Karlovci's Ecclesiastical and School Council (Crkveno-školski sabor).

After the dissolution of Svetozar Miletić's party, he was a member of the Radical Popular Party (Narodna radikalna stranka) and a member of the People's Liberal Party (Narodna liberalna stranka) and the leader of the liberals of Vojvodina.

He died in Timișoara, and is buried in the Dormition Cemetery in Novi Sad, where his funerary monument is part of a set of 24 tombs of historical, cultural and other personalities inscribed on the list of protected cultural monuments (ID No. SK 1588) of the Republic of Serbia.

Works
Among his works are Verenica Crnogorka (The Montenegrin Bride, 1863),  the historical drama Branivoj knez Zahumski (Prince Branivoj of Zahumlje, 1868), the travelogue Putne uspomene (Travels Souvenirs), books of memories like Kako sam svoj vek proveo (How I passed through my century), Uspomene iz 1848–1849 (Memories of 1848–1849), Pokojnici (The Deceased) and four books entitled Besede (Words).

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1833 births
1920 deaths
Serbian writers
Serbian journalists
Serbian political people
Serbian people of Aromanian descent
Aromanian politicians


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Alatyr (, , mordvinsky Ратор) je řeka v Nižněnovgorodské oblasti a v Mordvinské a v Čuvašské republice v Rusku. Je dlouhá 296 km. Povodí řeky má rozlohu 11 200 km².

Průběh toku
Protéká severní částí Povolžské vrchoviny. Ústí zleva do Sury (povodí Volhy) na 277 říčním kilometru.

Vodní režim
Zdrojem vody jsou převážně sněhové srážky. Zamrzá v listopadu a rozmrzá na začátku dubna.

Využití
Je splavná pro vodáky. Leží na ní město Ardatov a při ústí Alatyr.

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Řeky v Nižněnovgorodské oblasti
Řeky v Mordvinsku
Řeky v Čuvašsku
Povodí Sury


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A remarkable tale of recovery from a rare form of cancer
Storrington author Susan Overton-Smith tells of her recovery from a rare form of cancer in her new book Tell Your Story, published through Amazon at Kindle £2.99, paperback £7.99.
Saturday, 1st January 2022, 7:05 am
Sue Overton-Smith
Susan said: "Originally, I thought to write and tell people of what has happened to me, especially my pupils and their parents since I had suddenly disappeared from their everyday lives.
"Another teacher had been retiring at the end of the summer term and my form had asked 'You won't be leaving, will you?' To which I replied, 'Oh no, you don't have to worry about that.' Little did I know what lay ahead.
"My life changed dramatically in the summer of 1999. A visit to the doctor set in motion a chain of events over which I no longer had control. A rare type of cancer was found.
"My consultant, a surgeon of many years' experience, said that if one were to look through all the medical journals and textbooks, he was almost certain that my case was unique.
"This is the story of my journey into the unknown in which I share my innermost thoughts and feelings. It covers my triumphs and setbacks including the trauma of losing my voice, a disaster for a teacher, my subsequent attempts to speak again after months of silence and my ongoing in-ability to swallow. The bitter irony is that when the battle is thought to have been won a cruel shock lies in store. Completely without warning I am staring death in the face, not once but twice. I could not have survived without a dedicated medical team, my faith and a sense of humour.
"The book covers the main phases of hospital treatment and the unfolding of events during my illness between July 1999 and early 2000.
"I did regain my voice after about six months. Partly because of having a tracheostomy and partly because of the drying-out effects of radiotherapy I was unable to speak during this time, and then it was softer and less distinct than before, so not everybody understands me all the time, and therefore I was not able to return to teaching. I had taught at the former Arundale school in Pulborough for 13 years when I had to make the difficult decision to retire. I have still kept in touch with former members of staff, parents and pupils as we were one big family.
"I feel the book will appeal to a variety of people because when I have talked about my experience to individuals or to small groups, it has always evoked a positive response.
"When I told my first surgeon from St Richard's and my speech therapist some years ago that I was writing a book, they were most enthusiastic and told me that medical staff were very keen to read books written from the patient's perspective so that they would have a better understanding. I believe it may also give hope to cancer sufferers and others diagnosed with a life-threatening condition.
"I believe it will also appeal to anyone who believes in or is searching for God as my story includes the testimony of the remarkable way He saved me, when there was no other way. I had a miracle for which I shall always be grateful.
"In hospital I had grown spiritually by reading three of Colin Urquhart's books and it was in God's Plan for Your Healing that he had pointed me to the words in the Bible which I needed at that critical time. Also, when I was in hospital, having no voice for a period of several months, my only form of communication was to write everything down for others to read.
"This prompted people to remark that I ought to write a book. I couldn't contemplate it at first but during the first year after my illness a friend invited me to join her for a creative writing class. I wasn't interested in doing the exercises the others were doing so I asked if the tutor would mind if I began to write a book.
"It was very difficult to speak at that stage so someone had to read my work out for me. I was writing a chapter a fortnight. I remember writing it longhand from 7am to 11pm, eager to get it down on paper.
"At one point I was finding the memories so traumatic that I decided to have a break and come back to it, but the break went from three days to three weeks to three years and so on. Once I had stopped, I found it difficult to start again. I wished I had never taken a break. I had written the parts I could remember most vividly in 2001. My task later was to fill in the rest of it, which proved to be more complicated than I had anticipated.
"When the first lockdown came I knew it was an opportunity to complete the book so that my story would reach people, and it is so rewarding to see it in print!"
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How Do We Get More Black Men to Attend College?
College attendance is at a record high. More people are enrolling in college-level courses, both on campuses and through online learning, than at any other point in American history. While the more people with degrees is certainly a boon for the American economy, not every group is benefitting from this elevated educational shift. Specifically, black young men are attending college at lower rates than their pee even coming in behind black young women when it comes to college enrollment and graduation.
So what can we do to encourage more of these young men to not only enroll, but also to graduate, from our nation's colleges and universities? It will take a multi-faceted approach to raise the numbers of young black men going to college significantly, but I do believe it is possible to accomplish, and soon.
Acknowledge there is a problem. As a culture, we need to do a better job of admitting that we are making mistakes when it comes to the education of young black men. This is especially true of educators. This notion that these young men have just the same opportunities as their classmates and that succeeding is solely up to them is flawed. These boys arrive in classrooms with a cloud of discrimination over them, even if it is not conscious on the part of the educators. We are too quick to write these boys off, too quick to say that they are "on their own" in their successes - and we need to change that mentality in order to change their collective futures.
Start early with targeting. After the acknowledgement that this group of young men needs our help to navigate K-12 learning and ultimately graduate from college, we need to put programs in place to make this happen. The positivity of a college education should be pointed out as early as elementary school and then reinforced as the students get older. In high school, black young men should be encouraged to take Advanced Placement courses and get introduced to college-level materials. School counselors should suggest clubs, volunteer opportunities and even jobs that align with the college goals of these young men and explain how each plays into their career goals.
Provide mentors. It's no secret that most of the faces black young men view in classrooms look nothing like theirs. Even in this day and age of increasing diversity in the teaching field, the majority of K-12 teachers are women and are white. Of course adding more black men to the teaching workforce is a step in the right direction, but we should also seek out other opportunities for mentorship. Community leaders who are men of color should be part of the K-12 experience for black boys in order to show them what is possible with hard work and yes, a college education. This mentorship can be as simple as men who present to a full classroom of students to those who work one-on-one in after-school tutoring or athletic pursuits.
Re-evaluate school discipline procedures. The school-to-prison pipeline is real. Kids who are suspended, expelled or arrested at a young age are at a much higher risk of ending up in prison later in life. The group that is suspended, expelled or arrested on school grounds the most? Yep. Black young men. Is this group of young men genuinely worse than their peers, or are they simply disciplined more harshly? I think the answer to that lies somewhere in the middle. It is hard to deny that black young men are viewed through a harsher lens than their peers but there may also be some truth to this notion that they misbehave more often too (not because they inherently misbehave more but because of outside environmental factors like single-parent homes and poverty that impact them more than other student groups). With both of these reasonable assumptions in mind, educators should look for specialized systems of discipline that work for black boys - that keep them in school settings while keeping classroom processes streamlined and effective for the other students.
We need to take this lack of black men in our colleges and universities seriously. More education means a better quality of life for these groups of students and an improved way of life for the rest of us, too. It will take some cooperation between educators starting at the early childhood level and extending to the college setting - but that effort is necessary if we want to see these young men truly succeed.


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New release by Elizabeth Rodriquez and OKÀN
7 Arts Label has just announced the release of a new recording by Cuban violinist Elizabeth Rodriquez and OKÀN. Members of OKÀN are also known to Canadian audiences for their work with jazz saxophonist Jane Bunnett as part of the highly successful Maqueque project. Recorded live in studio on October 14, 2016 at Inception Sound Studios in Toronto and entitled Desnudando el Alma, the new CD further strengthens the musical connection between Havana and Toronto. Elizabeth Rodrigu
Brazil Film Fest 2016 at TIFF
Nise- The Heart of Madness. Directed by: Roberto Berliner Art has the potential for revealing worldviews and diverse forms of knowledge. Every community in the Toronto area willing to enjoy authentic narratives is welcome to learn more about other cultures by taking part in the 2016 edition of Brazil Film Fest from November 4- 6 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Brazil Film Fest is fully dedicated to Brazilian cinema where the Brazilian film production of recent years is being recogni
Lula's Top WOMEX picks
3 International and 5 Canadian Womex showcases that I can wait to hear! While the conference sessions at the annual world music expo WOMEX offer a great opportunity to connect with other presenters as well as artists and agents and to engage in heady conversations about the latest global trends in digital distribution, do-it-yourself marketing and social change through programming, the heart of WOMEX is really the showcases. Here are some of the shows that I'm especially look


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You've registered, attended the events, have all sorts of ideas for the stories you want to share with the world and now it's time! The theme of the Tenth Annual 72 Hour Shootout will be announced at 8 p.m. EST June 6, 2014. Join the Asian American Film Lab for the Launch Party and the LIVE THEME ANNOUNCEMENT in New York City! Filmmakers will still be seeking actors at the June 6 party and several of the Shootout judges will be attending. In addition, the new promo film for this year's Shootout: I'm Not Colorblind, written and directed by Film Lab's own Shootout Coordinator, Justin C. Lee, will be shown.
The 2014 72 Hour Shootout Coordinator Justin C. Lee and Connections Social Coordinator Willy Peng, along with the dedicated team of 72 Hour Shootout interns will be giving you some party games and networking tips to ensure you interact, mix and mingle to your heart's content. Bring business cards, demos, headshots, etc. and come ready to meet people at a rapid pace. Do not be late as they will only be there for two hours, so come on time and take advantage of every moment.
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There is a strong desire to insure inclusion in the decision-making process for content creators of all stripes: those independent producers who come from all segments of our very diverse world have a chance to shape the worlds of film, television and digital content. The inaugural launch of the Minority Independent Producers Summit (MIPS) will enable the first meeting of its kind in affording independent producers from under-represented communities, including those of color, LGBT, women and those with disabilities, opportunities for working in small groups with established film and television producers, fund raisers, distributors and experts in multimedia.
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