Next Africa a Zimbabwean based high tech company has partnered the recently launched global satelite operator Yahsat to provide internet access to off grid Zimbabweans, residing in in peri urban and rural communities.
Next Africa will be offering solar energy to support their satelite based services at no extra cost to the client, while also supplying the hardware for connectivity.
In an interview with TechnoMag, Founder and CEO of 37 PVT Ltd Tawanda Jonathan Mushawedu Regain said for us at Zimbabwe Smart Sustainable Cities initiative, a Smart Education pillar, which is part of the National ICT policy launched by President Mnangagwa early this year, this a great fulfilment of our calling, the beginning of "creating a world class citizen" as our motto boldly claims, we believe the rural folk too deserves access to the digital world of endless possibilities.
Regain 37 PVT Ltd, has identified all the major local ISPs to deploy the internet connectivity to major schools, clinics and vocational training centres.
X-Sat Global Group, and Regain 37 PVT Ltd, are focusing on providing the technology, software and hardware while local ISP partners, provide the last mile connectivity and support in this project.
Under this partnership the three entities are driven to provide the best connectivity and devices that allows a pupil in a public school or private school to benefit from the internet connectivity via real time interactive devices, something that most of the competing solutions have failed to provide.
"Next Africa is looking at providing e-learning tools to more than 6000 of our the 9000 public schools in Zimbabwe," he added.
For customers the internet service provider will offer as a pay as you go model charging prices that are set to be way lowere than the other current services providers on a fixed calendar month.


J.P. Patches and Gertrude go Bronze to raise funds for Children's Hospital!
Kids growing up in the Northwest counted on J.P. Patches to put them in the mood for fun each morning before school from 1958 to 1981. Gertrude and all of her/his (Fabulous Bob Newman) alter egos filled the show with guest characters. From 2006 to 2008, J.P.'s (Chris Wedes) carpenter Carl Lovgren and author Bryan Johnston led a team to honor these characters with a bronze statue including a coin bank collecting donations for Children's Hospital, J.P.'s favorite charity. The statue is in place and $82,000 in excess funds were donated to Children's.
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"Would U" is a song by South Korean girl group Red Velvet. The song was released as the first track of the second season of SM Entertainment's music project SM Station. The music video features Irene and actor Kim Min-jae. Joy did not participate in the recording because of conflicting schedules with the filming of her drama, The Liar and His Lover.

Background and composition
On June 23, 2017, SM Entertainment released a video teaser for the music video marking the second season of SM Station. On June 29, 2017, SM Entertainment release the second music video teaser. The song was released on July 31, 2017.

The song has been described to be a medium tempo pop song that fits the spring season and expresses the shy heart of a girl who is waiting for her love to come true.

Reception
Following its initial release, "Would U" was met with positive reviews from music critics. Park Hee-ah of Y-Magazine viewed the track as "a song based on a very lovely plot."  Hamchwa of the same magazine described the track as "welcoming" adding it as a "perfect song in spring".

Music video
Although sung by all members of Red Velvet except Joy, the music video for "Would U" only featured Irene as a model. She was accompanied by actor Kim Min Jae in the music video of the song. In the video, Irene hides in a flower garden and steals actor Kim Min-jae, who shows off her spring-day performance. As Kim Min-jae walked through the garden, Irene was shy as she hidden herself in a flower garden. Irene then opened a gift box in the middle of the garden with the phrase 'Come to the secret flower garden'. This is the scene that follows the first teaser video when Irene discovered the phrase 'go to the jungle'.

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from Melon.

 Red Velvet (Irene, Seulgi, Wendy, Yeri) – vocals, background vocals
 Kim Woong – piano, moog bass
 Simon Petrén – outro piano
 Lee Ki – moog bass, drum programming
 Hong Beom-gyu – drum programming
 Lee Ji-hong (SM Lvyin Studio) – recording engineer, digital editing
 Oreo – Pro Tools operation
 Nam Goong-jin (S.M. Concert Hall Studio) – mixing engineer
 Kwon Nam-woo (JFS Mastering) – mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Release history

References

2017 songs
Red Velvet (group) songs
SM Entertainment singles

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Maldives projects 2020 tax revenues to fall by 48 per cent
m@ldives	206 views May 27, 2020
Tax revenues are expected to see a year-over-year drop of at least 48 per cent this year due to a fall in tourism receipts, the Maldives tax body announced Wednesday.
Maldives Inland Revenue Authority (MIRA) chief Fathuhulla Jameel told reporters that his officials had formulated and shared with the government five scenarios on the possible impact on tax revenues.
The most likely scenario estimates tax revenues to stand at MVR 8.95 billion ($579 million) against budget projections of MVR 17.9 billion ($1.2 billion) for the year. In the worst case, tax revenues may fall to as low as MVR 6.62 billion ($428.5 million).
"Revenues collected through MIRA has decreased significantly over the past three months," Jameel said.
"This is because of the halt in both tourism and other economic activities."
Figures show MIRA collected MVR 527.47 million ($34.1 million) as revenue in April — a 59.5 per cent drop from the MVR 1.3 billion ($84.1 million) in April 2019.
The announcement by MIRA comes as the Maldives prepares to reopen its borders to tourists in July.
The coronavirus outbreak has hit the Maldivian economy hard, as travel restrictions and other preventive measures affect the country's lucrative tourism industry, which contributes the bulk of the island nation's state revenue and foreign reserves.
Before the pandemic, the government had been bullish about tourism prospects, targeting two million, high-spending holidaymakers this year after last year's record 1.7 million.
However, tourist arrivals saw a year-over-year decline of 22.8 per cent in the first 10 days of March. Officials say the number of tourist arrivals to the Maldives could drop by half in 2020.
All international airlines have suspended scheduled operations to the Maldives, as the island nation enforced a blanket suspension of on-arrival visa in late March in a bid to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Even before the visa suspension, the Maldives had closed its borders to arrivals from some of the worst-hit countries, including mainland China, Italy, Bangladesh, Iran, Spain, the United Kingdom, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Visitors from three regions of Germany (Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg), two regions of France (Île-de-France and Grand Est) and two regions of South Korea were also banned from entering the country.
All direct flights to and from China, Italy, South Korea and Iran were also cancelled.
Cruise ships and foreign yachts were also banned from docking at any of the country's ports.
With arrival numbers falling and the visa suspension in effect, several resorts across the Maldives had been closed.
Tourism has been the bedrock of the Maldives' economic success. The $5 billion-dollar economy grew by 6.7 per cent in 2018 with tourism generating 60 per cent of foreign income.
However, the government is at present projecting a possible 13 per cent economic contraction this year — an estimated $778 million hit.
The government is in talks with bilateral lenders and international financial institutions to procure some $290 million in loans and financial aid.
In the meantime, the government will borrow MVR 4.2 billion ($272 million) under an overdraft facility at the central bank to cover state expenses and maintain public services amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
The government had also announced plans to shave MVR 5 billion ($324 million) off state expenditure and reduce the total state expenditure for the year to MVR 30 billion ($1.944 billion) from the approved MVR 38.7 billion ($2.5 billion).
Austerity measures include a 20 per cent cut on salaries and allowances of all political appointees, 25-35 per cent cuts on salaries and allowances of public sector employees, and 30-70 per cent cuts across travel, training, renovations and capital equipment budgets.
On March 8, Maldives reported its first cases of the novel coronavirus, as two hotel employees tested positive for Covid-19 at a luxury resort in the archipelago.
Eighteen more cases — all foreigners working or staying resorts and liveaboard vessels except five Maldivians who had returned from abroad — were later identified.
A six-case cluster of locals, detected in capital Male on April 15, confirmed community transmission of the coronavirus. Several more clusters have since been identified, bringing the total number of confirmed case in the Maldives to 1,457.
Five deaths have been reported and 232 have made full recoveries.
The Maldives announced a state of public health emergency on March 12, the first such declaration under a recent public health protection law.
The public health emergency declaration has allowed the government to introduce a series of unprecedented restrictive and social distancing measures, including stay-at-home orders in capital Male and its suburbs, a ban on inter-island transport and public gatherings across the country, and a nationwide closing of government offices, schools, colleges and universities.
Non-essential services and public places in the capital such as gyms, cinemas and parks have also been shut.
Restaurants and cafes in the capital have been asked to stop dine-in service and switch to takeaway and delivery.
A nationwide shutdown of all guesthouses, city hotels and spa facilities located on inhabited islands is also in effect.
Photo: Sun Online
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We love sloppy joes around these parts. I know you can buy a seasoning mix to add to ground beef or canned sloppy joe mix, but I'm a make-it-from-scratch kind of girl. And these make-it-from-scratch sloppy joes are so easy and soooooo yummy! I've tried and looked through several sloppy joe recipes, most call for ketchup. I decided that when there is ketchup in the sloppy joes it's just, well, too ketchupy. So I revised a recipe from my mother in law and this recipe is our go-to for a yummy and quick sloppy joe dinner.
I posted a recipe for French Bread Rolls earlier this week, and they make the perfect bun to go along with these sloppy joes. I usually have some of these rolls frozen, so I just pull them out of the freezer and wa-lah....dinner is served.
Recipe adapted from Maureen G.
In a deep 12 inch non-stick skillet brown ground beef until cooked thoroughly, cook diced onion along with the beef (if using dried onions add with other ingredients after the beef is cooked). When beef is done drain excess fat if desired. Return beef to pan and sprinkle with flour. Start with one tablespoon and stir until mixed into beef. Add remaining ingredients and mix until incorporated. Simmer for about 20 minutes, stirring frequently. If it doesn't seem as thick as you'd like add an extra ½ tablespoon of flour (sprinkle it in and mix well) and continue to simmer.
Hi! I am a friend of Candice Child's and also Dianna King's...Just wondering if you think it would work to use corn starch instead of flour for the Celiacs.
Jeri Dawn, Thanks for your comment. I think it would work just fine to use cornstarch. I actually would probably leave it out and maybe cook it longer and it will thicken as some of the juice evaporates....but if you'd like it thicker, I'd add a cornstarch/water solution. You'll have to lee me know what you find out. :) Hope you'll like this!


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Larry Mabile's list of achievements goes on and on. He's shaped thousands of surfboards...
...and has a resume that brings envy to the most established shapers.
Larry grew up in Pacific Beach, California and spent his early years skateboarding and surfing. While in high school he ran a glassing shack behind his parents' house called Ghetto Glassing. Larry became known for his quality glassing work and earned the privilege to glass the boards of legendary shaper Skip Frye. This led eventually to his first shaping job for G&S Surfboards in 1979 where he continued to work next to master shaper Skip Frye.
He continued to hone his skills through the 90's while shaping boards at Xanadu, the Swift Movement and Kane Garden, where Larry was key designer for their surfboard line including the famous and popular Kane Garden Fish.
Larry has also been an contributing shaper for Hydrodynamica, an independent film project (currently in progress) investigating the legacy and influence of Bob Simmons and his design concepts. His modernized versions of the original hydrodynamic planing hull, called the Ghostbuster and White Pony, have a cult following around the world.
Today, Larry Mabile is full-time dedicated to his own company Third World Exotic Surfboards and more than ever highly appreciated worldwide for his modern takes on classic shapes.


PEP GUARDIOLA has called for referees to give more protection to star players like Kevin De Bruyne and Raheem Sterling.
The Manchester City pair fell victim of X-rated tackles from Dele Alli and Harry Kane respectively last weekend that should have earned the Tottenham and England pair red cards.
As Guardiola digested the news that young starlet Phil Foden will be out for at least a month with ankle ligament damage suffered in the midweek Carabao Cup win at Leicester, Guardiola is just relieved De Bruyne and Sterling were not seriously injured in the challenges that referee Craig Pawson deemed were worthy only of cautions.
The City boss doesn't believe his players were deliberately targeted, but insists there is too much spotlight on diving and not enough on the lack of appropriate punishments for potentially dangerous tackles.
"I don't believe the players go to injure another one," he said. "The football here is fast and aggressive and sometimes you get injuries, but the refs have to follow the rules.
"Alli and Kane are top players and I am not suspicious about them and thinking they are dangerous. But we were lucky with Raheem and De Bruyne, really lucky.
"Everybody is squealing about diving. If they want to punish those who are dive then okay, but the main thing the ref has to do is protect the players.
"We were also lucky against Tottenham because [Nicolas] Otamendi put his leg high against Kane and you have to protect Kane. It's the same what happened with [Sadio] Mane and Ederson when we played Liverpool earlier in the season.
While De Bruyne and Sterling escaped serious injuries, Foden didn't enjoy the same good fortune after making his full debut at Leicester, although Guardiola feared it could be worse.
Guardiola has put the brake on suggestions City are already champions as they reach the halfway mark on the back of 17 wins and a draw out of their first 18 games.
They will be bidding to stretch that record-breaking sequence against Bournemouth at the Etihad today with Guardiola refusing to allow complacency to creep in.
He said: "United and Chelsea are making [enough] points to be champions. When I say it is not over, it is not over because one draw or loss could change things and we still aren't halfway through.
Eddie Howe is hoping that will be today, and the Bournemouth boss is backing forgotten man Benik Afobe to make it happen.
Howe is set to call upon Afobe to replace the injured Jermain Defoe, who faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines with an ankle problem.
Former Wolves striker Afobe has made four Premier League starts this season but Howe said: "I am confident he will be ready if called upon.
"Benik is a very good character. He has got a really good mindset and is very confident.
"He had this period out of the team at the start of last season, had to be patient and played a huge part in us staying up and formed a very good partnership with Joshua King.
Defoe hobbled off during Bournemouth's midweek EFL Cup defeat at Chelsea and Howe said: "We are sending Jermain to a specialist. We are concerned it could be a more serious injury than just an ankle twist. It would be a blow to lose Jermain for any period of time.
City are looking to extend their record-breaking run of Premier League wins to 17 matches but Howe has warned his side they cannot afford to show any fear.
Howe added: "City are on their way to being a great team but we have to believe we can win.
"The underdog thing suits us. We can go in and try and be ourselves without that burden of having to get a result.


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package zornco.reploidcraft.blocks;

import cofh.api.energy.IEnergyHandler;
import net.minecraft.tileentity.TileEntity;
import net.minecraftforge.common.util.ForgeDirection;

public class TilePowerSupply extends TileEntity implements IEnergyHandler {

	IEnergyHandler[] sides = new IEnergyHandler[6];
	boolean checked = false;
	@Override
	public boolean canConnectEnergy(ForgeDirection arg0) {
		return false;
	}

	@Override
	public int extractEnergy(ForgeDirection arg0, int arg1, boolean arg2) {
		return 0;
	}

	@Override
	public int getEnergyStored(ForgeDirection arg0) {
		return 0;
	}

	@Override
	public int getMaxEnergyStored(ForgeDirection arg0) {
		return 0;
	}

	@Override
	public int receiveEnergy(ForgeDirection arg0, int arg1, boolean arg2) {
		return 0;
	}
	@Override
	public void updateEntity() {
		super.updateEntity();
		if(!checked)
			updateCheckedBlocks();

	}

	public void updateCheckedBlocks() {

	}
}

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This classic three tier cake stand will add an elegant accent to your affair. Designed with celebrations in mind.
Nickel plated brass. Heigt 42 cm. Small plate diameter 15.5 cm, medium plate diameter 18 cm, large plate diameter 21 cm.


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Q: How far apart need two circles be so the intersecting area is A? I have two circles with radii $r$ and $R$. I need to know how far apart to draw them
so that their intersection has area $A$. Basically, I'm solving for $d$ in the diagram seen in the MathWorld link.
It's not hard to solve for $A$ (see MathWorld),
$A = r^2\cos^{-1}\left(\frac{d^2+r^2-R^2}{2dr}\right) + R^2\cos^{-1}\left(\frac{d^2+R^2-r^2}{2dR}\right)-\frac{1}{2}\sqrt{(-d+r+R)(d+r-R)(d-r+R)(d+r+R)}$
but I've been struggling to find a solution for $d$.

A: Equations arising from the areas of circular segments are often not solvable with elementary functions, largely because the area of a circular segment with radius $r$ and central angle $\theta$ is $\frac{1}{2}r^2(\theta-\sin\theta)$, which involves both $\theta$ and $\sin\theta$ in a way that can't be pulled apart algebraically.  It's quite likely, though, that given specific values of your parameters $r$, $R$, and $A$ it would be possible to find a numeric approximation for $d$.

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package com.communote.server.persistence.tasks;

/**
 *

 * Base Spring DAO Class: is able to create, update, remove, load, and find objects of type
 * com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.Task.
 *

 *
 * @see com.communote.server.model.task.Task
 * @author Communote GmbH - http://www.communote.com/
 */
public abstract class TaskDaoBase extends
        org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.HibernateDaoSupport implements
        com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao {

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#create(com.communote.server.model.task.Task)
     */
    public com.communote.server.model.task.Task create(com.communote.server.model.task.Task task) {
        return (com.communote.server.model.task.Task) this.create(TRANSFORM_NONE, task);
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#create(int transform,
     *      com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.Task)
     */
    public Object create(final int transform, final com.communote.server.model.task.Task task) {
        if (task == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Task.create - 'task' can not be null");
        }
        this.getHibernateTemplate().save(task);
        return this.transformEntity(transform, task);
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#create(int,
     *      java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.Task>)
     */
    public java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> create(final int transform,
            final java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> entities) {
        if (entities == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Task.create - 'entities' can not be null");
        }
        this.getHibernateTemplate()
                .executeWithNativeSession(
                        new org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateCallback<com.communote.server.model.task.Task>() {
                            public com.communote.server.model.task.Task doInHibernate(
                                    org.hibernate.Session session)
                                    throws org.hibernate.HibernateException {
                                for (java.util.Iterator<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> entityIterator = entities
                                        .iterator(); entityIterator.hasNext();) {
                                    create(transform, entityIterator.next());
                                }
                                return null;
                            }
                        });
        return entities;
    }

    /**
     * @see
     *      com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#create(java.util.Collection<de.communardo.
     *      kenmei.core.api.bo.tasks.Task>)
     */
    @SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked" })
    public java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> create(
            final java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> entities) {
        return (java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task>) create(TRANSFORM_NONE,
                entities);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public void evict(com.communote.server.model.task.Task entity) {
        this.getHibernateTemplate().evict(entity);
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#findNextScheduledTask()
     */
    public com.communote.server.model.task.Task findNextScheduledTask() {
        try {
            return this.handleFindNextScheduledTask();
        } catch (RuntimeException rt) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Error performing 'com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao.findNextScheduledTask()' --> "
                            + rt, rt);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#findNextScheduledTasks(java.util.Date,
     *      int, java.util.Collection<Long>)
     */
    public java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> findNextScheduledTasks(
            final java.util.Date upperBound, final int maxTasks,
            final java.util.Collection<Long> taskIdsToExclude) {
        if (taskIdsToExclude == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao.findNextScheduledTasks(java.util.Date upperBound, int maxTasks, java.util.Collection<Long> taskIdsToExclude) - 'taskIdsToExclude' can not be null");
        }
        try {
            return this.handleFindNextScheduledTasks(upperBound, maxTasks, taskIdsToExclude);
        } catch (RuntimeException rt) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Error performing 'com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao.findNextScheduledTasks(java.util.Date upperBound, int maxTasks, java.util.Collection<Long> taskIdsToExclude)' --> "
                            + rt, rt);
        }
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#findTaskByUniqueName(String)
     */
    public com.communote.server.model.task.Task findTaskByUniqueName(final String uniqueName) {
        if (uniqueName == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                    "com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao.findTaskByUniqueName(String uniqueName) - 'uniqueName' can not be null");
        }
        try {
            return this.handleFindTaskByUniqueName(uniqueName);
        } catch (RuntimeException rt) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Error performing 'com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao.findTaskByUniqueName(String uniqueName)' --> "
                            + rt, rt);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Performs the core logic for {@link #findNextScheduledTask()}
     */
    protected abstract com.communote.server.model.task.Task handleFindNextScheduledTask();

    /**
     * Performs the core logic for {@link #findNextScheduledTasks(java.util.Date, int,
     * java.util.Collection<Long>)}
     */
    protected abstract java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> handleFindNextScheduledTasks(
            java.util.Date upperBound, int maxTasks, java.util.Collection<Long> taskIdsToExclude);

    /**
     * Performs the core logic for {@link #findTaskByUniqueName(String)}
     */
    protected abstract com.communote.server.model.task.Task handleFindTaskByUniqueName(
            String uniqueName);

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#load(int, Long)
     */
    public Object load(final int transform, final Long id) {
        if (id == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Task.load - 'id' can not be null");
        }
        final Object entity = this.getHibernateTemplate().get(
                com.communote.server.model.task.TaskImpl.class, id);
        return transformEntity(transform, (com.communote.server.model.task.Task) entity);
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#load(Long)
     */
    public com.communote.server.model.task.Task load(Long id) {
        return (com.communote.server.model.task.Task) this.load(TRANSFORM_NONE, id);
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#loadAll()
     */
    @SuppressWarnings({ "unchecked" })
    public java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> loadAll() {
        return (java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task>) this
                .loadAll(TRANSFORM_NONE);
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#loadAll(int)
     */
    public java.util.Collection<?> loadAll(final int transform) {
        final java.util.Collection<?> results = this.getHibernateTemplate().loadAll(
                com.communote.server.model.task.TaskImpl.class);
        this.transformEntities(transform, results);
        return results;
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#remove(com.communote.server.model.task.Task)
     */
    public void remove(com.communote.server.model.task.Task task) {
        if (task == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Task.remove - 'task' can not be null");
        }
        this.getHibernateTemplate().delete(task);
    }

    /**
     * @see
     *      com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#remove(java.util.Collection<de.communardo.
     *      kenmei.core.api.bo.tasks.Task>)
     */
    public void remove(java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> entities) {
        if (entities == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Task.remove - 'entities' can not be null");
        }
        this.getHibernateTemplate().deleteAll(entities);
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#remove(Long)
     */
    public void remove(Long id) {
        if (id == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Task.remove - 'id' can not be null");
        }
        com.communote.server.model.task.Task entity = this.load(id);
        if (entity != null) {
            this.remove(entity);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Transforms a collection of entities using the
     * {@link #transformEntity(int,com.communote.server.model.task.Task)} method. This method does
     * not instantiate a new collection.
     *

     * This method is to be used internally only.
     *
     * @param transform
     *            one of the constants declared in
     *            com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao
     * @param entities
     *            the collection of entities to transform
     * @see #transformEntity(int,com.communote.server.model.task.Task)
     */
    protected void transformEntities(final int transform, final java.util.Collection<?> entities) {
        switch (transform) {
        case TRANSFORM_NONE: // fall-through
        default:
            // do nothing;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Allows transformation of entities into value objects (or something else for that matter),
     * when the transform flag is set to one of the constants defined in
     * com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao, please note that the
     * {@link #TRANSFORM_NONE} constant denotes no transformation, so the entity itself will be
     * returned.
     *
     * If the integer argument value is unknown {@link #TRANSFORM_NONE} is assumed.
     *
     * @param transform
     *            one of the constants declared in
     *            {@link com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao}
     * @param entity
     *            an entity that was found
     * @return the transformed entity (i.e. new value object, etc)
     * @see #transformEntities(int,java.util.Collection)
     */
    protected Object transformEntity(final int transform,
            final com.communote.server.model.task.Task entity) {
        Object target = null;
        if (entity != null) {
            switch (transform) {
            case TRANSFORM_NONE: // fall-through
            default:
                target = entity;
            }
        }
        return target;
    }

    /**
     * @see com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#update(com.communote.server.model.task.Task)
     */
    public void update(com.communote.server.model.task.Task task) {
        if (task == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Task.update - 'task' can not be null");
        }
        this.getHibernateTemplate().update(task);
    }

    /**
     * @see
     *      com.communote.server.persistence.tasks.TaskDao#update(java.util.Collection<de.communardo.
     *      kenmei.core.api.bo.tasks.Task>)
     */
    public void update(final java.util.Collection<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> entities) {
        if (entities == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Task.update - 'entities' can not be null");
        }
        this.getHibernateTemplate()
                .executeWithNativeSession(
                        new org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateCallback<com.communote.server.model.task.Task>() {
                            public com.communote.server.model.task.Task doInHibernate(
                                    org.hibernate.Session session)
                                    throws org.hibernate.HibernateException {
                                for (java.util.Iterator<com.communote.server.model.task.Task> entityIterator = entities
                                        .iterator(); entityIterator.hasNext();) {
                                    update(entityIterator.next());
                                }
                                return null;
                            }
                        });
    }

}


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Byblos is an Italian fashion brand that had been set up in 1973 as a division of Genny SpA. The creative heads behind the first collections were a group of stylists before the young Gianni Versace created several lines in 1975 and 1976. The French designer Guy Paulin took over from Versace before Keith Varty and Alan Cleaver became the head designers of Byblos. The company quickly evolved into a fashion brand that catered for the young, the optimistic and the joyful. The ladies' wear and men's wear collections are colorful and modern, with influences from travels all over the world. Byblos was a successful fashion brand until the public fell in love with more elegant and sophisticated designs and out of love with Byblos' fun creations.
Byblos Parfums have always been a hit with their customers. The first self-titled fragrance Byblos for women is a floral-fruity composition created by Ilias Ermenidis. Byblos Uomo, an aromatic and spicy fragrance for men, was launched in 1993 after the initial success of the ladies' perfume. In 1997 several perfumes of the brand hit the shelves. Byblos Mare, a fragrance for women, was composed of mandarin orange, lilac, waterlily, violet, rose, jasmine, vetiver sandalwood and musk. Cielo, a fresh and spicy scent based on mandarin orange, coconut, pepper, nutmeg, jasmin, lily of the valley, sandalwood, patchouly and musk. Fuoco, another ladies fragrance, represents the element of fire with notes of cinnamon, spices, sandalwood, vanilla and citruses. The rich floral Terra consists of violet, citruses, galbanum, cyclamen, rose, freesia, jasmine, orris root, heliotrope, sandalwood, cedar and musk.
The oriental-floral Uragano and the floral-green Brezza were presented in 2000. A collection of three fragrances, Musk, Sandalo and Patchouly, was presented in 2002. The perfumes are more complex and versatile than their names suggest and were composed around notes of flowers, fruits, woods and spices. In 2004 the brand presented Bamboo, another men's fragrance, as a follow-up on the original Byblos Uomo. The composition featured bamboo, citruses, spices, musk and floral accords. A line of three fragrances for men, Blu Men Energy, Blue Man Cool and Blue Man Enjoy, were launched in 2005.
2006 saw the launch of Blu Happy Hour, a fresh and fruity chypre, and Blue Light Fever, a floral-fruity composition. Byblos Water Flower hit the shelves in 2007. It is composed of peach, apple and sparkling bitter grapefruit combined with sea notes, lily of the valley, waterlily, rose and freesia. The base reveals aromatic notes of lavender, soft vanilla, Australian sandalwood and sensual white musk. In Black, a woody and aromatic perfume for men, was launched in 2011. It features grapefruit, neroli, sweet notes, vetiver, woods and resins.
The earliest edition was created in 1990 and the newest is from 2017. Byblos fragrances were made in collaboration with perfumers Philippe Roques, IFF, Ilias Ermenidis, Fabrice Pellegrin, Anne-Sophie Chapuis, Violaine David, Christine Nagel, Guillaume Flavigny, Daphne Bugey, Henri Bergia and Celine Ripert.


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Annual Celebration of World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life on February 2
WASHINGTON – The Catholic Church will hold its annual celebration of World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life on February 2, and parishes will commemorate the event over the weekend of February 5-6. This event is a special time for individual parishes to celebrate the gift of consecrated life and pray for men and women discerning a consecrated vocation with the global Catholic Church.
Instituted by Saint John Paul II in 1997, World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life is celebrated in conjunction with the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, also known as Candlemas Day, which commemorates through the blessing and lighting of candles that Christ is the light of the world. So too, those in consecrated life are called to reflect the light of Jesus Christ to all peoples.
Bishop James F. Checchio of Metuchen, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations spoke of how the example of consecrated men and women should spur all of the faithful on to greater holiness. "With lives of poverty, chastity, and obedience, consecrated men and women provide us with an example of complete dedication to Christ. They remind us that regardless of the vocation the Lord calls us to, we are all called to union with Christ and to do our part to build up the Kingdom of God."
As it does every year, the USCCB's Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations commissioned the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) to conduct a survey of the religious Profession Class of 2021. The survey polled women and men religious who professed perpetual vows in 2021 in a religious congregation, province, or monastery based in the United States. CARA received a response from 547 of 742 major superiors for an overall response rate of 74% among religious institutes. Of the 182 identified men and women religious who professed perpetual vows in 2021, 62 sisters and nuns and 60 brothers and priests responded to the survey for an overall response rate of 67%.
Some of the major findings and highlights of the report are:
On average, responding religious report that they were 19 years old when they first considered a vocation to religious life.
The average age of responding religious of the Profession Class of 2021 is 37. Half of the responding religious are age 34 or younger. The youngest is 24 and the oldest is 70.
Seven in ten (71%) responding religious report their primary race or ethnicity as Caucasian, European American, or white. One in ten (13%) identifies as Asian/Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian. One in ten identifies as Hispanic/Latino(a). Four percent identity as African/African American/black and just two respondents identify as mixed race.
Three-fourths of responding religious (76%) were born in the United States. Of those born outside the United States, the most common countries of origin are Vietnam and the Philippines (5 religious from each).
On average, the respondents who were born outside the United States were 23 years old when they first came to the United States and lived here for 15 years before perpetual profession.
Nine in ten (86%) responding religious report that someone encouraged them to consider a vocation to religious life. Men are more likely than women to be encouraged by a parish priest, friend, mother, and parishioner.
Almost all responding religious (99%) of the Profession Class of 2021 have at least one sibling. One in five (20%) have one brother or sister. Four in five (42%) report having two or three. A third (35%) have four or more siblings.
The Profession Class of 2021 is highly educated. Two in ten responding religious earned a graduate degree before entering their religious institute. Seven in ten (70%) entered their religious institute with at least a bachelor's degree (63% for women and 77% for men).
Four in five (80%) participated in one or more religious programs or activities before entering their religious institute. Two-fifths of respondents (39%) participated in youth ministry or youth group. Three-tenth participated in young adult ministry or group (33%) and Catholic campus ministry/Newman Center (30%). One in five (18%) participated in a World Youth Day prior to entering their religious institute.
Prayers of the Faithful, and a parish bulletin quote for World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life may be found on the USCCB website. Profiles of the Profession Class of 2021 and the entire CARA survey can be found here.


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INTEGRAL News Archive for 2012 - INTEGRAL
AO-10 Long Term Plan published on the web
3 December 2012 The AO-10 INTEGRAL Long Term Plan (LTP), providing the best long-term information currently available for the coming cycle of AO-10 observations (January 1 to December 31, 2013) has been published on the ISOC website. When scheduling, ISOC intends to follow the LTP as closely as possible. We advise observers to check the LTP regularly.
Happy Birthday - INTEGRAL 10 years in orbit
17 October 2012 Ten years ago, on 17 October 2002 at 6:41 GMT, the European Space Agency's INTEGRAL observatory was launched.
From rare breeds of high-energy stars to the feeding habits of monster black holes and the annihilation of antimatter, the mission has been uncovering the secrets of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe.
We wish all the best to INTEGRAL for the years to come.
We take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support and interest in the mission.
AO-10 Data Right Proposals - results
1 October 2012 During the call for Data Right Proposals (deadline 28 September 2012) the ISOC system received 38 valid proposals, requesting data rights to 123 fields and for 453 targets in total (every data right proposal can request observational data from multiple fields, defined in observing proposals, and multiple sources in each field). The large majority of requests was for Galactic Astronomy.
The Time Allocation Committee will decide on the proposals by mid November 2012.
Category Number of proposals Number of subscriptions Number of sources requested %
(# of proposals)
Galactic Astronomy 30 100 368 79.0
Extragalactic Astronomy 7 11 23 18.4
continuum/line emission 1 12 62 2.6
Total 38 123 453 100
Release of INTEGRAL Off-line Scientific Analysis version 10
24 September 2012 A new version of the INTEGRAL Off-line Scientific Analysis (OSA) has been released by the ISDC. Among the improvements of OSA version 10.0 are a better IBIS/ISGRI energy calibration and new features for the JEM-X imaging. The analysis package can be download from the ISDC download page, with the corresponding documentation.
TOO observations of Swift J174510.8-262411
18 September 2012 As of today, INTEGRAL will perform Target of Opportunity observations on the recently discovered X-ray transient Swift J174510.8-262411 (Sw J1745-26 for short; see ATel #4381, #4383, #4385). The PI of the observation, Dr Belloni, has requested that the data be made public and immediately available to the community.
Please consult the scheduling pages for more information.
INTEGRAL AO-10 Call for Data Right Proposals is open!
3 September 2012 Today, the Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. Alvaro Giménez-Cañete) has released the 10th Announcement of Opportunity for data right proposals with INTEGRAL.
This announcement solicits proposals for obtaining data rights to targets within AO-10 observations to be carried out from January 2013 onwards. Proposers from all over the world are welcome to participate. All proposals will be subject to an independent peer review by the INTEGRAL Time Allocation Committee (TAC). The deadline for proposals submission is Friday 28 September 2012, 14:00 CEST (12:00 GMT).
More information can be found on the AO-10 Data Right Proposals page.
INTEGRAL in nominal status again
17 August 2012 After INTEGRAL entered ESAM yesterday, it has been recovered at 10:55 (UT). INTEGRAL is now in a nominal status and is again executing the scientific timeline.
INTEGRAL in Emergency Sun Acquisition Mode
16 August 2012 INTEGRAL entered Emergency Sun Acquisition Mode (ESAM) today at 08:52. The root cause is well understood and there are no indications of a permanent failure on-board. The spacecraft will be left in ESAM until after perigee when recovery operations will commence.
GRB 120711A: A long and bright GRB detected by INTEGRAL
12 July 2012 Yesterday, a bright and long GRB triggered the IBAS system (trigger 6599) at 02:44:48 UT on July 11th 2012, during the INTEGRAL observation of the LMC/SN 1987A, and was dubbed GR B 120 711A. The GRB was so bright that it saturated the telemetry (GCN #13434). A refined analysis revealed prolonged faint emission, lasting for at least ~1000s after the main burst (GCN #13435). Many high-energy instruments detected the GRB (including MAXI/GSC: GCN #13436, Fermi/GBM: GCN #13437, Fermi/LAT: GCN #13444, Swift/XRT: GCN #13442 and Konus-Wind: GCN #13446). Gamma-ray emission up to around 2 GeV was detected from the GRB direction from 800 s to ~7000s after the main burst. This is the longest ever observed for a GRB in GeV domain (GCN #13444).
An optical transient source was detected shortly after the trigger; the source rapidly brightened, peaking at roughly 112s after the trigger (GCN #13430). Thereafter, the optical decayed, as usual for GRB afterglows (GCN #13432). The most likely redshift of the GRB is z=1.405 (GCN #13441).
New INTEGRAL Galactic Plane Survey included in SkyView
26 June 2012 A new INTEGRAL Galactic plane survey by R. Krivonos and colleagues (see paper and web site ) has been added to the SkyView Virtual Observatory facility. This survey combines 9 years of INTEGRAL IBIS observations from December 2002 through January 2011 with a total of 135 megaseconds of exposure. Data is generated for the Galactic plane in the region |b| <= 17.5. The survey is sensitive to about 1 millicrab in the hard X-ray range from 17-80 keV.
New leap second file for INTEGRAL timing analysis
26 June 2012 An additional leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2012 (see IERS Bulletin). The INTEGRAL Off-line Scientific Analysis (OSA) software is designed to account for the leap seconds provided that the latest available file is in the directory: "aux/adp/ref/leap".
If your INTEGRAL analysis requires absolute timing on the timescale of a second, you should update the content of your local repository with the new files contained in the ISDC archive by using, e.g., a command like the following:
rsync -lrtv isdcarc.unige.ch::arc/rev_3/aux/adp/ref your_destination/aux/adp/ref
22 June 2012 The INTEGRAL AO-10 General Programme , as recommended by the Time Allocation Committee (TAC) and approved on the 12th of June by the ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. Alvaro Giménez), has been released and the observers have been informed.
Observations interrupted by ESAM and recovered
8 June 2012 On 7 June at 4:50UT a "Single Event Upset" of the Reaction Wheel Drive Electronics and subsequent unplanned movement of the spaceraft triggered the Emergency Sun Acquisition Mode (ESAM) – setting the instruments into safe mode and orienting the spacecraft to have the sun at 90 degrees to the solar panels. Within 8 minutes of the ESAM trigger the satellite was in a safely controlled attitude. Recovery started as soon as possible and took until the early hours of 8 June to complete. This is only the third such event since launch, previous ESAM events were in January 2005 and June 2007. Congratulations to the team at the Mission Operations Centre for the prompt recovery of the satellite and further observations.
Solar flare 17+18 May
18 May 2012 INTEGRAL was affected by a moderate solar flare, but accompanied by strong proton radiation, starting on 01:49Z on 17 May 2012 in revolution 1171. Soon after, JEM-X, OMC and IBIS deactivated autonomously due to the high radiation and remained inactive for 31.2, 30.8 and 5.4 hours, respectively. The SPI ACS high voltage had to be switched off for an hour, otherwise the instrument continued working normally. Nominal operations of all four instruments were resumed at 13:54Z on 18 May.
8 May 2012 INTEGRAL will conduct a new series of public Earth/Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) observations in revolution 1168 (starting on May, 9th). This implies that, for those revolutions (1168, 1169, then 1197 and 1206 in August, 1216 in September and 1234 in November), the possibility to react to a ToO will be severely limited. Earth observations will also be done in AO11. This is a public programme where the Earth will drift through the field of view of the INTEGRAL instruments (see animation here). Results from this observation will help in separating the cosmic and instrumental backgrounds, and so ultimately lead to improved background subtraction. Scientifically, the main goals are to measure the spectral shape of the CXB emission above 20 keV and to study any high-energy emission from the Earth during storms in auroral regions.
The total number of proposals received is 59. The total observing time requested is about 65 Msec (for all types of observation, i.e. fixed time, normal time, and ToO). Here, 10% of the requested total ToO time has been taken into account. Given that up to about 20 Msec of observing time (for new observing proposals) will be available for the AO-10 observing programme (12 months duration starting on 1 January 2013), this corresponds to an oversubscription in time by a factor of 3.3. This is again a high value, showing the continued high interest of the scientific community in the INTEGRAL mission.
Scientific Category Number of proposals Requested observing time (Ms),
Galactic Astronomy 38 32.2
Extragalactic Astronomy 14 19.4
continnum/line emission 7 13.6
Total 59 65.2
The Time Allocation Committee, will peer review early June all proposals and will recommend the AO-10 observing programme to ESA.
A second Call within this AO-10 will be released on 3 September, inviting proposals on individual point sources or selected sky areas (for diffuse emission studies) to be associated as "data-right proposals" with the selected observations, excluding ToO observations. The deadline for submission of data rights proposal will be 28 September 2012.
Christoph Winkler
INTEGRAL Project Scientist
ToO observations of MAXI J1305-704
18 April 2012 Tomorrow, April 19, INTEGRAL will perform a Target of Opportunity observation on the recently discovered X-ray transient MAXI J1305-704 (ATel #4024), in order to identify the nature of the source. Please consult the scheduling pages for more information.
Multi-wavelength Campaign on the Galactic Centre's Supermassive Black Hole
15 March 2012 On 15-22 March 2012 INTEGRAL will participate in a large-scale multi-wavelength campaign on the Galactic center with major international astronomical facilities. The Galactic Center is known to have flaring phases caused by material falling onto the black hole. The aim of this campaign is to measure the behavior of the emission near the black hole during these flares by performing observations simultaneous with VLBA in the radio, the European Southern Observatory's VLT in the optical, and ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra satellites in the X-rays. INTEGRAL will supplement the campaign with data in the soft gamma-rays, in order to study the emission of the most energetic photons expected to come from such events.
12 March 2012 Today, the Director of Science and Robotic Exploration (Prof. Alvaro Giménez) has released the 10th Announcement of Opportunity for observing proposals with INTEGRAL.
This announcement solicits proposals for observations to be carried out from January 2013 for a period of 12 months. Proposers from all over the world are welcome to participate. All proposals will be subject to an independent peer review by the INTEGRAL Time Allocation Committee (TAC). The deadline for Proposals submission is Friday 20 April 2012, 14:00 CEST.
Observing proposals selected for AO-10 will subsequently be open for so-called "data right proposals" via a second Call for Proposals. These associated proposals allow the possibility to obtain data rights on point-like, extended sources or emission features contained in the field of view of accepted observing proposals.
A X5 class Solar flare affected the INTEGRAL instruments again
07 March 2012 Following the latest Solar flare, this morning near 00:28, IBIS, JEM-X1/2 and OMC went all into safe mode from about 04:00, after the coronal mass ejected entered the Earth's environment. So far, SPI remains operational.
Update: After 09:00 (UT) SPI started to be affected as well, and the instrument has been put in safe mode as well around 12:00 (UT). Since the radiation level is still increasing, it is unlikely that the instruments return to nominal operations during the current revolution, 1147.
Update: At the start of revolution 1148 radiation levels were still very high, instrument operations will only be resumed when the background has reduced to a safe level.
Update: Activation of the main instruments was completed during revolution 1149 on 12 March at 11:11 for SPI and 14:07 for IBIS.
Final Update: Activation of the two monitors was completed about 6 hours later, at 19:42 for OMC and 20:36 for JEM-X. The IREM counts are now only slightly higher than their nominal values.
01 February 2012 Since yesterday, 31 January at UT 18:04 all instruments have been reactivated and operations continue normally.
INTEGRAL instruments affected again by another solar flare
30 January 2012 Following a further solar flare on Friday 27 January evening INTEGRAL operations have again been effected. The IBIS, JEM-X and OMC instruments were in safe mode from about UT 19:00 for the rest of revolution 1134. Following perigee yesterday, 29 January, the background levels had decreased sufficiently to allow IBIS to be reactivated again. SPI was unaffected by the flare and could continue to operate nominally.
All instruments working again
27 January 2012 With receding levels of high background radiation, all instruments have been activated again. IBIS was re-activated on 25 January at 09:40Z, OMC on 26 January at 19:12Z and JEM-X at 23:03Z the same day.
Strongest solar storm since May 2005
24 January 2012 The IBIS, JEM-X and OMC instruments are in safe mode due to excessively high radiation conditions following a M8.7 class solar flare that occurred during the perigee passage between revolution 1132 and 1133, on Sunday January 22 at around 5:00 CET. SPI is operational and the star tracker seems to be functioning nominally. As soon as the radiation level drops sufficiently, the instruments will be re-activated. This is likely be at the end of 1133 or at the start of 1134. Further reading about the eruption: http://www.space.com/14319-huge-solar-eruption-sparks-radiation-storm.html.
ToO observations of GX 304-1
17 January 2012 Today, INTEGRAL began a series of Target of Opportunity observations on the Be-/X-ray binary GX 304-1, which was caught in a new recurrent outburst by MAXI (ATel #3856). The source will be closely followed over the next revolutions. Please consult the scheduling pages for more information.
Upcoming call for AO-10
16 January 2012 ISOC is preparing the next call for proposals requesting INTEGRAL observing time. The AO-10 release will be on 12 March 2012, deadline 20 April 2012. The subsequent call for proposals requesting data rights will be released September 2012. The AO-10 cycle of observations will begin on 01 January 2013 and has a duration of 12 months.
Release of AO-10: call for observing time proposals: 12 March 2012
Deadline for submission of observing time proposals: 20 April 2012 (14:00 local time, Madrid)
Meeting of the Time Allocation Committee: June 2012
Release of AO-10: call for data rights proposals: 3 September 2012
Deadline for submission of data rights proposals: 28 September 2012 (14:00 local time, Madrid)
Meeting of the Time Allocation Committee: November 2012
Planning constraints in revolutions 1132 and 1133
16 January 2012 On 23 January 2012 INTEGRAL will have a lunar eclipse about 3 hours after the earth eclipse. Planning the combination of manual and automatic and on-board autonomous operations for this eclipse is rather difficult and therefore re-planning of revolutions 1132 and 1133 is very difficult.


Garuda Indonesia - Customer Review. How safe is this corrupt airline?
Indonesia's flag carrier takes its name from Hindu mythology after the name of Lord Vishnu's bird, Garuda. However the airline dates its beginnings to the 1947 founding of KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf (KLM Interinsular Service), a subsidiary of the world's oldest airline KLM. Following Indonesia's independence airlines were nationalised and merged under the name Garuda Indonesian Airlines. During the 1950-60s Garuda acquired a sizeable and mixed fleet of aircraft and developed an extensive route map from Mecca to Hong Kong. In 1965 the arrival of wide body jets allowed the airline to launch European services, first to Amsterdam and Frankfurt, with other destinations following. That year the airline also offered the first direct links between Indonesia and communist China, via Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh. During the 1970s Garuda was the world's largest operator of Fokker F28 jets which provided the backbone of their domestic network. In 1980 the first Boeing 747 entered service. Prior to this Garuda had been a predominantly McDonnell Douglas flier with its last MD11 retiring in 2002. The airline had its heyday during the 1980-90s with Bali being Australia's most popular holiday destination. To support tourism growth Garuda expanded to Los Angeles, Rome, Johannesburg, Cairo and many other destinations which were all axed in the late 1990s when hard times hit. Garuda's sudden decline started with a fital accident in 1996, followed by a second in 1997. That same year Indonesia was hit hard by the Asian Financial Crisis which caused political turmoil in Southeast Asia's largest nation. The events of 9/11 caused a further decline in air travel with a terrorist bombing in Bali in 2002 targeting Australian tourists being particularly devastating to the tourist island's economy. Things got worse when the SARS virus further discouraged travel around Asia. Just when the situation started to pick up, Indonesia was the epicentre of the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami which inundated coastal resorts. In 2004 Garuda cancelled its last European service. That year a Garuda off duty pilot was charged with murdering an Indonesian human rights campaigner on one of the last flights to Amsterdam and in 2006 Garuda's CEO (and others) were convicted of his murder. In 2007 the scandal ridden airline experienced another fatal crash which caused the European Union to ban the airline, and all other Indonesian carriers, from their airspace. The ban was lifted in 2009 when the airline resumed services to Amsterdam, and also Los Angeles. Hitting rock bottom in 2009 caused the airline to embark on a five year overhaul and image makeover which ended with Garuda being awarded Most Improved Airline of 2014. In 2011 Garuda listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange, but was not favourably received by investors who generally avoided the IPO. In 2012, in response to losing market share, particularly to discount rival Lion Air, Garuda launched its own low cost subsidiary Citilink. In 2014 financial losses resulting from intense competition caused the airline to trim its network and cut costs. That same year Garuda joined SkyTeam. In 2015 Lion Air pushed Garuda into second place in terms of passengers flown but in 2017 Garuda was named Best Cabin Crew.
Garuda provides its passengers with a high level of service and is actively trying to model itself on prestigious carriers like Singapore Airlines and Emirates. Its attractively attired thin crew are extremely polite, modest and formal. Most international crew are bilingual. An authentic Indonesian experience begins the moment you step aboard.
Garuda's domestic network is not as extensive as rivals, however they cover all large centres and domestic routes comprehensively. Internationally Garuda connects all major airports in Australia to the resort island of Bali and are increasingly connecting Bali to more regional Asian cities too. From Indonesia's capital Jakarta, the airline has an extensive network serving Europe, Los Angeles, the Middle East and Asia. Garuda also operates international flights from other Indonesian cities to regional Asian destinations such as Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, which are essentially similar flying times as domestic flights.
Garuda is almost always cheap, often cheaper than low cost carriers. For example Australian holiday makers to Bali have a choice between poor service and no free catering on Jetstar or high quality service and tasty free meals on Garuda - yet Garuda is almost always cheaper. However within Indonesia Garuda is beaten on price by the nation's numerous low cost carriers which are amongst the world's worst.
Garuda's catering is really good. Indonesian food is yummy and most of their dishes have a local feel about them. Indonesian food is generally flavoursome rather than spicy, so is popular with foreigners too. Meal sizes are generous and are served with alcohol, tea/coffee and soft drinks. Their Business Class services have improved dramatically in recent years and are comparable to prestigious airlines.
As part of Garuda's upgrade the airline has invested in personalised seat-back inflight entertainment units for all international flights with a sizeable choice of options in Indonesian, English and other languages.
Check-in procedures have improved and in all tourist airports are efficient, however Indonesia deserves its bad reputation for baggage theft and mishandling. It is advisable to take out Travel Insurance, especially if you intend to travel around the nation's domestic network. Good locks and other precautions are advisable. In Indonesia lost bags are not in the habit of being found.
Garuda's operates First Class on a few selected routes and they call their Business Class, Executive Class. The airline has enormously improved its premium product recently. Its catering is equal to a fine dining restaurant, seats are spacious and comfortable (but not as modern as some) and the crew are subservient and ever present. The airline's lounges which used to resemble an upmarket buffet have also improved, but now resemble an upmarket cafe.
Garuda's Economy passengers get very good value for money, especially when flying to the holiday island of Bali. Economy passengers receive polite and efficient service, a generous baggage allowance and are served a delicious meal. There really is no comparison between Garuda and discount rivals like AirAsia and Jetstar, yet Garuda is usually comparable or even cheaper in price.
As a member of SkyTeam, GarudaMiles frequent flyer scheme can earn points anywhere in the world with other SkyTeam members, however it is designed to appeal to Indonesian travellers rather than non-residents. There really is no reason for occasional travellers to join. Otherwise the scheme works like other frequent flyer programmes but is not as developed as the leaders, such as Delta.
When your CEO is convicted of murdering a passenger, you know your airline's corporate culture has hit rock bottom. This happened to Garuda in 2008 and was part of a long list of managerial inspired public relations disasters which resulted in the airline embarking on an image revolution. While the airline has dramatically improved its service, image and procedures it is certain that nepotism, corruption and incompetence continue throughout the company, especially in its head office. Indonesia is a spectacularly corrupt country with corrupt practices in businesses, government and day-to-day life being regarded as normal. In recent years Garuda has been successful at presenting a clean image to the world, but behind the scenes it has a long way to go before it can be proud of its real corporate culture.
Indonesia has Asia's worst safety record and Garuda's is similarly appalling. If you're a nervous traveller either stop thinking about their history of accidents and coverups or fly another airline. The airline has had too many accidents and incidents to list here but claims to have improved recently. Evidence does not support this with several problems occurring in recent years. Poor maintenance, cutting corners because of cost cutting, carelessness and poor pilot and staff training are all to blame. Managers are more interested in covering up maintenance issues rather than fixing them. In a 2007 crash where a domestic Garuda flight overshot the runway and burst into flames killing 21 passengers, crew handled the situation poorly and the airline was late in offering assistance. While the airline's procedures may have improved it is doubtful whether the bravery of crew and attitude of senior managers actually has.
Asia's most improved airline and without doubt the best cheap airline to Bali.


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Homepage / Formations / MS Cybersecurity Engineering
Cybercrime regularly makes the headlines and is on the rise. The consequences of this can be dramatic and cybersecurity-related jobs are increasing in number to protect us from it. To be an expert in the field a dedicated training course is needed, such as the specialised master's degree in Cybersecurity Engineering from IMT Nord Europe. It has received SecNumedu certification issued by the ANSSI and is accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles. It was also ranked in the top 10 of the best Masters, MS and MBA degrees in Cybersecurity and Systems Security.
Consult the brochure
An engineer specialising in cybersecurity engineering must develop expertise in the implementation of information system security in a company, identify risks and develop security plans intended to protect the company's vital resources against internal and external attacks of any kind.
All your questions about the master's degree
The MS in "cybersecurity engineering" trains you in rapidly developing professions, recently defined by ANSSI (National Agency for Information Systems Security):
Cyber Security Auditor/Controller/Evaluator
Cybersecurity operator
Cybersecurity trainer/instructor
Cyber security developer
Cybersecurity architect
Head of Information Systems Security (RSSI)
Companies specialising in cybersecurity assist the training with contributions from their experts, the provision of platforms and by proposing and sometimes even supervising projects.
Orange Cyberdéfense and its Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence (PEC) in which IMT Nord Europe is a stakeholder;
Stormshield, a subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space CyberSecurity, one of whose R&D sites is located in proximity to the school;
Advens, specialist in information security management;
Wavestone, a major operator in consulting;
Centre d'Innovation des Technologies sans Contact (CITC), a key operator in the Internet of Things and Ambient Intelligence.
In all, 500 hours are devoted to theoretical and practical teaching and activities as part of a multidisciplinary scientific and technical project. The training is organised according to 3 main teaching units (TUs):
UV FUNS (FUndamental of Network and Security) - Period: September; Total Duration: 96 hours7 ECTS
Networks, models and architecture
Queuing theory, quality of service
Fundamentals for network security
Dependability of systems
Introduction to cryptography (mathematic fundamentals)
Operating systems / UNIX
UV TOP (TheOry & Practice of information security) – Period: September- October – Total duration: 127 hours8 ECTS
Legal and regulatory issues of cybersecurity
The basics of networks – models, architectures and protocols
Cryptography – foundations and applications
Biometric authentication – systems and uses
Trust and Reputation Management (in English)
Organisational audit – the fundamentals of risk analysis, ISO 2700x family
"Risk analysis" projects
UV SRS (System and Network Security) – Period: November- December – Duration: 129 hours 9 ECTS
Recent cyber attacks and cyber defences
Hacking and technical audit
Network Security (I)
Intrusion Detection Systems or IDS (in English)
Cybercrime investigation (digital forensics)
Kerberos access control and authentication models
Image Processing and Pattern Recognition in Biometry
WiFi network security
CNSA Stormshield certification
UV CIS (Cybersecurity of Industrial Systems and Services) – Period: January; Duration: 136 hours12 ECTS
Security of industrial control systems (ICS)
Business continuity plan & risk management
Security management and SIEMs (Security Information Event Management)
Dependability, is cybersecurity a new challenge?
Advanced Network Security (II) – Security of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network
Virtualization Functions (NFV)
Methodologies for evaluating authentication approaches and methods of attacks and counter-attacks (spoofing & anti-spoofing)
Cloud computing and cloud security
Internet of things (IoT) and security
Bibliographic project
Scientific and technical project9 ECTS
To give engineering students a real grounding in the reality of cybersecurity, a 130-hour tutored project must be undertaken jointly by professionals and teacher-researchers from IMT Nord Europe.
Professional thesis
A work placement in a company (or professional thesis) lasting 5 months validates the course. It allows you to put into practice your abilities to understand an industrial problem in its broadest acceptance, scientific, economic, organisational, relational, human, etc.
To be awarded a place on the training which takes place in Villeneuve d'Ascq, you must have:
an Engineering degree accredited by the CTI (5-year degree)
University degrees at Masters M2 level (5-year degree)
M1 (4-year) or Masters (4-year) level university degrees and three years of professional experience
Foreign degrees of equivalent level (5-year degree)
Prerequisites: computer and network knowledge
Registration fees vary depending on your status: €9,000 including tax for young graduates and job seekers, €13,750 including tax for professionals, to which an application fee of €60 is added.
This is a French-taught post-master program. To apply you must demonstrate at least a B2 level in French.
Download candidature file
The application deadline is June 14th, 2023.
Application Calendar
Application Deadline Admissibility results (Yes, No, Waiting list) Admission Results for the candidates on the waiting list)
Round 1 March 15th, 2023 April 15th, 2023*
July 5th, 2023*
Round 2 and Final Round
Non EU-students are invited to get informed on the conditions to come study in France here and if needed to register on the "Etudes en France platform". You are advised to apply in the 1st round in order to have more time to arrange your international mobility on time.
Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration. In order to ensure that your application is processed, it is your responsibility to make sure that it is complete and that all required supporting documents are attached in the appropriate format (ZIP and PDF) no later than the deadline.
The €60 application fee is non-refundable for whatever reason (resignation, denial, admission etc.) and is due to complete your application.
* These dates are approximative and non-contractual.
The program consists of an academic semester on campus from September 2023 until February 2024, and a 6-month internship in a company or a research centre between February and August 2024.
Director of the Specialised Masters
Ahmed MEDDAHI
Administrative contact person
masteres.specialises@imt-nord-europe.fr
I entered the world of work after obtaining a DUT in Network and Telecommunications. I worked for more than 5 years at SFR where I progressed to an engineer position in a team in charge of production for business services. I wanted to resume my training so that I could progress to a pre-sales engineer position. I chose to follow the remote learning course offered by IMT Nord Europe which allowed me to continue my professional activity alongside my training. In 2016, I decided to continue my studies in the Specialised Masters in cybersecurity engineering. The teaching was comprehensive and I acquired good theoretical and practical knowledge, particularly through the projects, practical work and the week dedicated to the CSNA Stormshield certification. The many group projects also gave me an opportunity to discuss and learn from my peers about our differences and how to overcome these. The mix of generations between those like me who were returning to their studies and the young people who were following their engineering course made the experience a very rich one. I have now been hired by a cybersecurity software editor, Stormshield, as a pre-sales engineer and I can definitely say that this is down to the master's degree from IMT Nord Europe.
Djamel SLAOUTI


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Julien Cordonnier (born June 27, 1980 in Chartres) is a retired French professional football player.

Later career
After retiring from football at the end of 2013 due to injuries, Cordonnier was appointed sporting director of US Orléans at the end of January 2013. He was fired at the end of 2016 due to the teams poor results.

At the end of February 2018, Cordonnier was hired as a scout at AS Saint-Étienne. On 5 March 2020, he got a new position as a sporting director of the club. On 7 May 2021, Cordonnier returned to his former club, LB Châteauroux, as a chief-scout.

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1980 births
Living people
French footballers
French expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
Ligue 2 players
Swiss Super League players
LB Châteauroux players
AS Beauvais Oise players
Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players
Clermont Foot players
US Orléans players

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