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Trump downplays Russia in first comments on cyberattack
WASHINGTON — Contradicting his secretary of state and other top officials, President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested without evidence that China — not Russia — may be behind the cyberattack against the United States and tried to minimized its impact.In his first comments on the breach, Trump scoffed at the focus on the Kremlin and downplayed the intrusions, which the nation's cybersecurity agency has warned posed a "grave" risk to government and private networks."The Cyber Hack is far greater in the Fake News Media than in actuality. I have been fully briefed and everything is well under control," Trump tweeted. He also claimed the media are "petrified" of "discussing the possibility that it may be China (it may!)."There is no evidence to suggest that is the case. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said late Friday that Russia was "pretty clearly" behind the cyberattack against the United States."This was a very significant effort and I think it's the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was the Russians that engaged in this activity," he said in the interview with radio talk show host Mark Levin.Officials at the White House had been prepared to put out a statement Friday afternoon that accused Russia of being "the main actor" in the hack, but were told at the last minute to stand down, according to one U.S. official familiar with the conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.It is not clear whether Pompeo got that message before his interview, but officials are now scrambling to figure out how to square the disparate accounts. The White House did not immediately respond to questions about the statement or the basis of Trump's claims.Throughout his presidency, Trump has refused to blame Russia for well-documented hostilities, including its interference in the 2016 election to help him get elected. He blamed his predecessor, Barack Obama, for Russia's annexation of Crimea, has endorsed allowing Russia to return to the G-7 group of nations and has never taken the country to task for allegedly putting bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.Pompeo in the interview said the government was still "unpacking" the cyberattack and some of it would likely remain classified."But suffice it to say there was a significant effort to use a piece of third-party software to essentially embed code inside of U.S. government systems and it now appears systems of private companies and companies and governments across the world as well," he said.Though Pompeo was the first Trump administration official to publicly blame Russia for the attacks, cybersecurity experts and other U.S. officials have been clear over the past week that the operation appears to be the work of Russia. There has been no credible suggestion that any other country — including China — is responsible.Democrats in Congress who have received classified briefings have also affirmed publicly that Russia, which in 2014 hacked the State Department and interfered through hacking in the 2016 presidential election, was behind it.It's not clear exactly what the hackers were seeking, but experts say it could include nuclear secrets, blueprints for advanced weaponry, COVID-19 vaccine-related research and information for dossiers on government and industry leaders.Russia has said it had "nothing to do" with the hacking.While Trump downplayed the impact of the hacks, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has said it compromised federal agencies as well as "critical infrastructure." Homeland Security, the agency's parent department, defines such infrastructure as any "vital" assets to the U.S. or its economy, a broad category that could include power plants and financial institutions.One U.S. official, speaking Thursday on condition of anonymity to discuss a matter that is under investigation, described the hack as severe and extremely damaging."This is looking like it's the worst hacking case in the history of America," the official said. "They got into everything."Trump had been silent on the attacks before Saturday.Deputy White House press secretary Brian Morgenstern on Friday declined to discuss the matter, but told reporters that national security adviser Robert O'Brien had sometimes been leading multiple daily meetings with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the intelligence agencies, looking for ways to mitigate the hack."Rest assured we have the best and brightest working hard on it each and every single day," he said.The Democratic leaders of four House committees given classified briefings by the administration on the hack have complained that they "were left with more questions than answers.""Administration officials were unwilling to share the full scope of the breach and identities of the victims," they said.Pompeo, in the interview with Levin, said Russia was on the list of "folks that want to undermine our way of life, our republic, our basic democratic principles. … You see the news of the day with respect to their efforts in the cyberspace. We've seen this for an awfully long time, using asymmetric capabilities to try and put themselves in a place where they can impose costs on the United States."What makes this hacking campaign so extraordinary is its scale: 18,000 organizations were infected from March to June by malicious code that piggybacked on popular network-management software from an Austin, Texas, company called SolarWinds.It's going to take months to kick elite hackers out of the U.S. government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as far back as March.Experts say there simply are not enough skilled threat-hunting teams to duly identify all the government and private-sector systems that may have been hacked. FireEye, the cybersecurity company that discovered the intrusion into U.S. agencies and was among the victims, has already tallied dozens of casualties. It's racing to identify more.Many federal workers — and others in the private sector — must presume that unclassified networks are teeming with spies. Agencies will be more inclined to conduct sensitive government business on Signal, WhatsApp and other encrypted smartphone apps.If the hackers are indeed from Russia's SVR foreign intelligence agency, as experts believe, their resistance may be tenacious.The only way to be sure a network is clean is "to burn it down to the ground and rebuild it," said Bruce Schneier, a prominent security expert and Harvard fellow.Florida became the first state to acknowledge falling victim to a SolarWinds hack. Officials told The Associated Press that hackers apparently infiltrated the state's health care administration agency and others.SolarWinds' customers include most Fortune 500 companies, and its U.S. government clients are rich with generals and spymasters.———Associated Press writers Frank Bajak in Boston, Eric Tucker in Washington and Bobby Caina Calvan in Tallahassee, Florida, contributed to this report.
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May. 22, 2019 | 12:28 AM
Potential for Iran attacks 'put on hold'
This handout picture released by the US Navy on May 19, 2019 shows a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from the "Nightdippers" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5 transporting cargo from the fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE 8) to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during a replenishment-at-sea. AFP / Navy Office of Information / MC3 Darion Chanelle Triplett
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on May 22, 2019, on page 1.
U.S.' Gulf challenge: Maritime security
U.S. assault ship downs Iranian drone: Trump
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Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said Tuesday that while threats from Iran in the Middle East remained high, deterrence measures taken by the Pentagon had "put on hold" the potential for attacks on Americans. It was unclear exactly what Shanahan meant and Pentagon officials could not immediately clarify whether the threat from Iran had been diminished.
Rhetoric between Tehran and Washington has escalated in recent weeks as the United States tightened sanctions with what it said was the goal of pushing Iran to make concessions beyond the terms of a 2015 multinational deal to curb Iran's nuclear program. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the deal in 2018 .
Trump warned Monday that Iran would be met with "great force" if it attacked U.S. interests in the Middle East.
Washington's European allies say they share U.S. concerns about Iran's behavior, but disagree with Trump's decision to pull out of the nuclear deal, arguing that it undermines Rouhani's pragmatic faction and boosts Iran's hard-liners.

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I received my first unit, and three or four of the LED modules were DOA. I called Superbright customer service, and they had a replacement unit on the way quickly.
The light unit itself puts out a huge amount of light. I'm using this in an off grid cabin, and one fixture illuminates the room better than my coleman lantern did. The light is very blue though, so this would not be recommended for mirror work for ladies :-) I do wish that they had a version that was warmer in color with this luminosity.
I was so impressed with the unit that I just purchased another.
I am very satisfied with both the operation and the value of this fixture. Time will tell how well it holds up, but it appears to be quite a bargain.
I used this LED light bar in a service van that did not have a dome light over the side doors. I wired it into the front dome light so it comes on when the doors are opened, and it is mounted above the barn doors on the ceiling, pointing in. It is amazing. I no longer have to fumble for a flashlight to find my tools and parts anymore. Pretty certain that I will be getting more of these for other projects.


Technology major Microsoft on Thursday announced online courses on cloud computing, with a focus on data protection regulations, security and compliance.
The move is a part of Microsoft India's continued efforts in building awareness around cloud technologies, data privacy and security subject areas in India, a company statement said.
Launched in association with learning partner myLaw, the free-of-cost online course enables students, business and legal professionals, and overall legal and compliance communities to understand data protection, the basics of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), security and best practices around cloud better.
Titled Cloud Computing: Data Protection Regulation, the first phase of the course covers questions that arise in the context of privacy and data protection, including the transfer of data across transnational cloud computing networks, data protection and data security.
This course will also cover how regulations such as the GDPR and Indian data security laws are seeking to address issues in these areas.
The second phase of the course, Cloud Computing: Data Protection Compliance, to be launched in September 2018, will provide the legal fraternity with tools and practical insights required to meet the heightened privacy and security standards set out under the GDPR, Indian IT Act (2000) and other regulatory frameworks that are imperative to the modern data economy.
Short and easily accessible through mylaw.in and the myLaw app, the course is focused on upskilling professionals on the go with a flexible time schedule in a mobile first, cloud first environment.
Microsoft India and myLaw have co-curated the coursework for the program, which has a short run time of 2 -3 hours. The audio-visual course also provides additional downloadable supplementary content and reference materials for learners.


Suplementy metabolizmu może pomóc stracić funtów. Chcesz znać właściwą dawkę zwiększając metabolizm suplement, który działa do odchudzania?
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Metabolizm jest tempo, w jakim organizm zamienia jedzenie w energię. To ma sens, że dla utraty wagi, chcielibyśmy nasz metabolizm jest szybki. Pozwala to na nasz organizm do spalania tłuszczu z pożywienia zamiast przechowywania. Ważne jest, aby pamiętać, że nawet podczas odpoczynku, organizm nadal spalanie kalorii.
That means that finding good metabolism supplements is an important part of weight loss. Another important thing is to know the right dosage that works.
Most metabolism booster pills give users an extra energy boost. The slower the metabolism, the less calories one needs to feel energized throughout the day.
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In this modern era, the aero garden is very popular. Here, you will see how they grow fresh herbs, tomatoes, some plants, and others will grow perfectly. In this case, to grow the plants with the garden will give more precious time to grow and give precious life. The inspirations of how this kind of garden is situated will be conformed right here.
There are some types of the plants that will grow in the aero garden. They are situated based on the types of the plants. For the vegetables, they will grow into fresh and tasty veggies in the right meals to serve on your countertop. To get the aero garden tips to row the vegetables, you can begin harvesting about ten weeks. Then, you can harvest them continuously for up to about six months. The vegetables are such as the cherry tomatoes, green beans, chili peppers, mega cherry tomatoes, and more others.
Besides the veggies, the plants that can grow perfectly in your aero garden will be the flowers. Yeah, flowers with great growth will look more wonderful. This is the way you can grow the beautiful and fresh flowers all the years. Surely, they will liven up your garden all the time. In this case, the flowers will grow only in about 30 days from when you plant the flowers with the big colorful blooms. They are such as the lavenders, scented blooms, mountain meadow, English cottage, and more.
To plan the garden with this way, some aero garden reviews are needed to know the ideas and plans. There are actually still some plants that can be achieved perfectly by using these aero gardening systems. They are such as plants for herbs, live plants, salads, and more. The kits of growing the aero garden are also different for some cases.


SIGRADI 2015 [Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - vol. 1 - ISBN: 978-85-8039-135-0] Florianópolis, SC, Brasil 23-27 November 2015, pp. 108-112.
The article presents the pedagogical experience of the elective course "Feel the space: design with tactile models" held at the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of USP / S?o Carlos in 2014. From the critique of the primacy of seeing, the experimental activity proposed a housing design process with a visually impaired person, using models, plants and tactile maps. Were investigated and compared the free use of materials and processes with the use of digital fabrication - MDF plates manufactured with a laser cutting machine. As a result, it is presented the tactile representation system developed in the activity.


This global pharmaceutical company needed a prescription for guiding visitors around its Indianapolis headquarters and Technology Center campuses, and through its buildings. Wayfinding challenges included the fact that the sprawling campuses are subject to ongoing construction with frequent road closures and parking lot shifts. Existing signs varied in appearance and included no public wayfinding and little identification. It also did a poor job of reflecting Lilly's status as an innovative corporation on the cutting edge of pharmaceutical research.
Corbin Design's prescription included creating a corporate signage standard that reinforces the brand image and is made available to staff by way of a Web Toolkit.
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Powerflo Book West Coast Summer 2017 Tour With P.O.D.
Chad Childers Published: June 8, 2017
Photo by Travis Shinn
The new all-star outfit Powerflo are heading west for the summer. The band has just announced a string of West Coast dates playing alongside rock vets P.O.D.
The band consists of Cypress Hill's Sen Dog, Downset guitarist Roy Lozano, Biohazard singer/guitarist Billy Graziadei, former Fear Factory bassist Christian Olde Wolbers and Worst drummer Fernando Schaefer. The band recently premiered their video for "Victim of Circumstance" right here at Loudwire, teasing the June 23 release of their self-titled debut album.
Powerflo will kick off their touring with a June 15 headlining date at the Viper Room in Los Angeles in advance of the P.O.D. dates in July. Speaking about the forthcoming run with the SoCal rock vets, Graziadei stated, "We're so amped to get on tour and show everyone what Powerflo is made of! To be with our homies in P.O.D., that takes the cake! See you in da pit!" The July West Coast run kicks off in Fresno, Calif., on July 8, with stops in Riverside, Bakersfield and Los Angeles as well as Tempe, Ariz. before the final date in Las Vegas on July 14. See the full tour schedule below.
In other Powerflo news, the band's new single "Resistance" has been chosen as the latest theme song for WWE NXT, the weekly wrestling battle show on the WWE Network. The song was featured in last week's broadcast and will get more hits as it continues to be pushed in this season's programming. A promo reel can be seen below.
Look for Powerflow's self-titled record coming June 23 via New Damage Records. The album is available to pre-order here and via the band's PledgeMusic campaign.
Powerflo 2017 Tour Dates With P.O.D.
6/15 -- Los Angeles, Calif. -- The Viper Room*
7/8 -- Fresno, Calif. -- Full Circle Brewing Company
7/9 -- Riverside, Calif. -- RHA
7/11 -- Bakersfield, Calif. -- Bryders
7/12 -- Los Angeles, Calif. -- The Regent
7/13 -- Tempe, Ariz. -- Marquee
7/14 -- Las Vegas, Nev. -- Brooklyn Bowl
*headlining show
Watch Powerflo's "Resistance" Featured in This WWE NXT Promo Reel
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Watch Powerflo's 'Victim of Circumstance' Video
Source: Powerflo Book West Coast Summer 2017 Tour With P.O.D.
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Q: Like Box ('Could not retrieve the specified page. Please verify correct href was passed in.') I need some information, why like box frame not working: 'Could not retrieve the specified page. Please verify correct href was passed in.'. I`m testing this href in http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug - it says correct answer, but frame not working.
In access logs for UA facebookexternalhit/1.1 always answer status 200 (and 301/302 for specific page).
example page: http://www.now.ru/item/series/comedy/Univer_222394
additional information: on some pages frame works, and some does not work
thanks.

A: The Facebook Like Box is really designed to use the URL for a Facebook page, not for a general Web Page.  It pulls Timeline content from a fan page within Facebook.
It can be used for a Web Page if the page has defined Open Graph Meta Tags and has been Liked at least once.  However, there will be no "stream" functionality.  The Like-Box for a Web Page would just have functionality similar to the Facepile plugin (except that Facepile just shows you friends, and a Like-Box also shows non-friends.)
Typically, though, you would want to supply the Like-Box with a Facebook Page URL in the following format:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Facebook-Page-Name/Facebook-Page-ID

Perhaps you are intending to use a Like Button or Facepile Social Plugin instead?  Either of those can accept any URL as input.

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Why one of Europe's top airports has become a 'crazy mess'
By reader, October 8, 2022 in The Beer Bar
From CNN Travel
Amsterdam (CNN) — Hours-long lines for security that often snake outside under tents. Untold numbers of angry passengers who have queued in those lines -- yet still missed their flights. Worker strikes and delayed or lost baggage. Condemnation by major airlines, most notably KLM.
At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, labor shortages continue to fuel unprecedented chaos that began in the spring, prompting many travelers and aviation insiders to wonder what has happened to an airport long considered one of the most efficient and highly regarded in Europe -- if not the world.
The beleaguered airport -- the world's third busiest for international passenger numbers in 2021 -- has continued to cut flight capacity, infuriating airlines such as KLM, the national carrier of the Netherlands whose hub is at Schiphol. The latest round of cuts asked airlines to implement reductions up to 22% for the winter season -- a "hopeless situation, lacking any perspective," KLM said in a release.
KLM added that the situation is "damaging our reputation among passengers who are keen and willing to travel after the extended Covid crisis." The airline estimates it has incurred more than 100 million euros (about $96 million) in damages as a result.
Over the summer, several airlines, including Air Malta, TUI and Transavia, opted to shift flights from Schiphol to other airports, according to Simple Flying.
Many have placed blame on mismanagement, and on September 15, Dick Benschop, president and CEO of Royal Schiphol Group, announced his resignation. Benschop will remain in place until a successor is found.
Benschop was a keynote speaker at the World Aviation Festival in Amsterdam, a conference attended by about 5,000 aviation industry professionals, where Schiphol's struggles were a common topic of conversation.
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I hope I won't have problems connecting in AMS on my upcoming trip to Europe in November.
Haven't we heard virtually the same about London's Heathrow - huge queues for check-in and security, late arrivals and departures and airlines asked to cut a large number of flights to enable the airport just to operate?
I must have been one of the lucky ones at Amsterdam. I took four inter-European flights in and out of Schiphol in mid-March. Two arrived early and two departed bang on time. But the walk required within the airport to get between gates was as long as almost anywhere.
Haven't we heard virtually the same about London's Heathrow
Yes - and Paris airports too over the summer. All used staffing shortages as excuses - doesn't seem entirely plausible. Major airports in Spain, BCN & Madrid had no issues.
3 hours ago, scott456 said:
I'd bring extra sandwich just in case
21 hours ago, vinapu said:
A marmalade one, like Paddington Bear and the late Queen of the UK? 🤣
On 10/8/2022 at 9:03 PM, vinapu said:
and condoms just in case.
The EU (and Nederlands government) want to stop flights within Europe to save the environment. Schiphol put a $250 tax on my friend two weeks ago for a flight from AMS to Prague to discourage air travel within Europe. (the fee was lifted 2 days later but it's supposed to go back in). In the meantime they are not making it any easier for tourists to use the trains. But they are serious about stopping as much intra-Europe air travel as legal no matter what the loss of jobs or tourists. This summer they required hotel thermostats during the heatwave to be changed to go no lower than 80F (27C).
The folks running the EU are batshit crazy.
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This summer they required hotel thermostats during the heatwave to be changed to go no lower than 80F (27C).
8 years ago I overnighted twice at the Holiday Inn at Helsinki 's Vantaa airport. The room was fine but I found when trying to work it was becomming quite cold. Could I find a thermostat anywhere? Nope. Since no one at reception bothered to answer phones, I made the long trek. The young lady told me that the hotel had done extensive research and found that 21 degrees was the most commonly accepted room temperature. So the temperature could not be changed. I told them quite forcibly that they clearly had not checked with anyone who lives in the tropics! I ended up with a tiny electric heater which was on full blast and not very effective for both my stays.
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How about wearing some clothes instead of working naked?
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9 hours ago, tassojunior said:
This is what I have at home in the summer and it works quite well for me, thank you. No, I'm not cheap as electricity is included in my condo fees so no real savings for me but I think summer is for us to feel warm, not cold, fact missed by some of my co- workers
My prefer temperature setting is 26 in summer and 24 in winter.
13 hours ago, PeterRS said:
Cold is bad enough but at least there's layered clothing. People with respiratory problems and the elderly can die from high heat/humidity. Little enough oxygen in what we still call "air" as it is. I bought a 10" fan I carry in my carry on and have plugged in by the bedside all summer trips since many hotel chains here have upped the temp in summer too. If the EU doesn't want us flying in Europe but using trains I wish they would get shuttles from airports to train stations and new user help. I've always hated CDG and used to live by Schiphol in Amstelveen. But I'm routing all my Skyteam trips now through CDG instead because of the AMS mess. Rather risk French strikes than that.


The concept Blake, William, 1757-1827 represents the subject, aboutness, idea or notion of resources found in Boston University Libraries.
Blake's sublime allegory; : essays on The four Zoas, Milton, Jerusalem.
Samuel Palmer and "the Ancients"
The valley of vision, : Blake as prophet and revolutionary.


Fifty years ago this week a Delta rocket roared into space carrying a payload that sparked a revolution in the way the world communicates. On board the rocket, launched on July 10, was Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite.
The story of Project Telstar can be traced back to 1955 when John Pierce, a researcher at AT&T's Bell Labs, began looking at the possibility of using space-based stations for communications.
Beginning in 1960, NASA and Bell Labs experimented with bouncing radio via large, metallic balloons and succeeded in sending a signal across the U.S. But engineers soon realized that the Project Echo technology didn't scale. The demands of television transmission required a balloon much larger than could be made at the time.
In stepped the much more sophisticated Telstar.
At about 34 inches (76.2 centimeters) in diameter, the roughly circular satellite (it actually had 72 sides) would spin on its axis in space as it orbited the Earth. Solar panels occupied most of the faces and charged 19 batteries, "of the type used in rechargeable flashlights but specifically designed for the space environment," read a Bell Labs paper of the time.
The electronics, housed in a 20-inch aluminium tube, consisted of an amplifier that would boost the received signal about ten billion times before it was retransmitted. Original plans called for the satellite to relay two channels of television, but weight restrictions of the Delta launch rocket meant this was cut back to a single channel.
It wasn't just the satellite that required significant engineering work.
Unlike today's communications satellites, which sit 36,000 kilometers, or about 22,400 miles, above the equator so that they appear stationary when viewed from Earth, Telstar was in a much lower orbit and appeared to move across the sky. A sensitive tracking antenna was needed to keep in contact with Telstar as it moved from horizon to horizon. The entire orbit took about two hours and 40 minutes, but the satellite was only in a position to relay signals between the U.S. and Europe for about 20 minutes during each of these orbits.
Bell Labs chose Andover, Maine, as the location for the U.S. tracking station, due to favorable terrain and a quiet radio spectrum. Ground stations were built at Goonhilly in the U.K. and Pleumeur-Bodou in France.
The first television transmission from Europe came on July 11, when signals were sent from France and the U.K. and were received in Andover.
While these initial transmissions were major achievements, Telstar's primary purpose was as an experimental platform and it was used to conduct over 250 technical tests in the subsequent months.
On Nov. 23, the satellite started providing some valuable but unwelcome data.
The control channel used to command the satellite stopped responding and scientists suspected that space radiation might be messing with some of Telstar's 1,064 transistors and 1,464 diodes. At the time, the high radiation of the Van Allen belt was known, but its effects on sensitive circuitry were not well understood.
Laboratory tests pointed to certain transistors being more susceptible than others and engineers devised a control signal to bypass these components. They managed to get a control signal to Telstar when it was traveling at its closest point to the Earth and successfully regained control.
Demonstrations of TV from Europe to the U.S. resumed in January, but they were to be short-lived. The satellite again started having problems and on Feb. 21 it misinterpreted a command and operated a relay that disconnected most of the electronics from the power source.
While Telstar's life was short and its capability limited, it helped start to answer fundamental questions about satellite communications.
The same concerns, such as the effects of space radiation on electronics and the prediction of a satellite's orbit, are still relevant today with more than 300 communications satellites ringing the Earth to provide television, radio, telephone and Internet relays that touch almost all of our lives.


Adding Cordova's browser platform to a hybrid app allows us to run and debug apps using the regular web browser without deployment to a device or server. However, if the plugins we're using don't support the browser platform, then they won't be available at runtime and we would have to code around that in our app logic. This isn't ideal for a cross platform development approach, so it is desirable to always support the browser platform when creating a plugin. Each of the core Cordova plugins provide some level of support for the browser platform.
Often, the functionality that a plugin provides can't be directly replicated in the browser – that's why a plugin was needed in the first place: to allow our app's functionality to go beyond the browser's sandbox capabilities. When implementing a browser platform version of a plugin, we therefore need to consider our options to provide an alternative experience that makes sense within the confines of the browser.
Some plugins may choose to render UI components using HTML in place of native controls when running in the browser, others may return dummy data in place of reading sensors or external accessories that are present on the device but missing from the browser.
Let's explore this by taking the "ModusEcho" plugin that we developed in a previous blog post, and extending it to support the Browser platform.
The <runs/> element is required to tell Cordova to initialize the module – it won't work without this as it will fail to register the module as a plugin.
For a browser "toast", we simply create and style a <div> with the supplied message from the caller, then use setTimeout to automatically dismiss it around 3 seconds later.
We then add our module to the set of plugin proxies that Cordova uses in place of native bridge calls when running in the browser.
The system's default browser will open at a URL such as localhost:8000/index.html and render the app. The Browser platform generates a deviceready event in the same way as other Cordova platforms do, and plugins that support the browser platform will be available to use.
The darker "PLUGIN READY!" area is the <div> that serves as a toast implementation, and will be dismissed automatically after approximately 3 seconds.
Using Cordova's browser platform gives us a lot of development, testing and deployment flexibility when writing hybrid apps. Extending plugins to also support it makes that experience a lot more useful, and can avoid the need to add platform specific conditional code to the core application logic. Hopefully this post showed that adding browser platform support to a plugin can be quick and painless. Feel free to browse our updated "ModusEcho" plugin GitHub repo, or install the updated plugin from npm.
Simon Prickett is a pragmatic technology enthusiast with broad experience of technical consultancy, product and software development, technical training, software architecture, development and system analysis. Simon has developed and led solutions for clients including MTV Networks, Coca-Cola and USA Today. Simon graduated top of his class from Aston University. During his time with Modus Create, Simon filled the role of Architect.


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Taxotere Permanent Hair Loss Lawsuit
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Chemotherapy permanent hair loss particularly in the treatment of breast cancer can be devastating. Now Sanofi-Aventis, the maker of a popular intravenous chemotherapy drug, Taxotere, is exposed to several lawsuits alleging that the side effects of Taxotere, may cause permanent hair loss or baldness (Alopecia) in a significant number of women.
Recently, Hattie Carson filed her claim of permanent baldness from Taxotere side effects, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. Carson, alleges that Sanofi-Aventis failed to adequately warn female breast cancer patients and doctors about the risk of permanent baldness from Taxotere.
According to Carson, she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, and underwent chemotherapy with Taxotere. Carson was diagnosed with permanent hair loss, after her hair did not grow back after 6 months.
Taxotere Permanent Baldness Reports
Alopecia is a common and emotionally devastating side-effect of systemic chemotherapy. Scalp, pubic and axillary hair may be lost, as well as eyebrows and eyelashes, but in most cases, the hair loss is temporary and usually reversible, with complete hair regrowth within the 3–6 months following the chemotherapy cycles.
Recently, in the past few years, many case reports of permanent irreversible post-chemotherapy alopecia, no hair growth after 6 months have been described from Taxotere.
What is Taxotere?
Taxotere (docetaxel) is a cancer medication that interferes with the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body.
Taxotere is used to treat breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer, and head/neck cancer.
Taxotere is a semi-synthetic cancer drug given in a cocktail of chemotherapy drugs, for the treatment of breast cancer. Taxotere was approved by the FDA in May 1996 for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer after prior chemotherapy attempts had failed.
Carson claims in her lawsuit, "Although alopecia is a common side effect related to chemotherapy drugs, permanent alopecia is not. Defendants, through its publications and marketing material, misled Plaintiff, the public, and the medical community to believe that, as with other chemotherapy drugs that cause alopecia, patients' hair would grow back."
Sanofi-Aventis Warned About Permanent Hair Loss in Europe and Canada
Carson alleges that Sanofi-Aventis warned doctors and patients in Europe in 2005 and in Canada 2012 about the risks of permanent hair loss from Taxotere side effects, but failed to provide such warnings to the U.S. patients and doctors until January 2016. Read the FDA Warning label change in January 2016.
Taxotere Permanent Hair Loss "Disfiguring"
According to Carson, permanent hair loss from Taxotere is disfiguring for women, and that it caused her to suffer great mental anguish, economic damages and that the psychological damage was extensive enough that it caused a loss of work or inability to work.
Taxotere "I look like an 80-year-old, ugly old man"
Taxotere affected women are now warning other permanent hair loss victims in soial media venues. According to a 2010 article in the Globe and Mail, "I had a normal head of hair and I am now completely bald," said Cynthia MacGregor, 50, of Montreal, who has been diagnosed with alopecia universalis, a loss of all body hair.
According to Shirley Ledlie, 51, of Brittany, France, said: "It's like having 'I am a cancer sufferer' tattooed on your forehead. … I look like an 80-year-old, ugly old man."
Permanent balding women from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and France are calling themselves the Taxotears. They include one Taxoterrorist, the nickname for Ms. Ledlie, who posted pictures of her balding head on the Facebook page of the pharmaceutical company.
"We want every woman who's been offered Taxotere to know it is a possibility, so it is her choice whether to take the risk or not," Ms. Ledlie said.
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Creating the Optimal Facebook Business Page & Restrictions
By Aristo Lam | Jun 20, 2016 | Scaling | 11 min read
While family and friends may know that a business exists, it's essential to make the business known to the world at large. How? Well, luckily, my boy Mark Zuckerberg came up with a handy and popular social network to help you accomplish your marketing (and squad) goals. The answer? A Facebook Business Page y'all.
As of last year, there were over 50 million active business Pages on Facebook, with an average of 2.5 billion messages being left on business Pages every month (Facebook for Business). But why are so many users following businesses on Facebook? A 2013 study asked a sample of 2,000 Facebook users this very question. It turns out that the two most popular reasons to "Like" a Facebook Business Page were: 1) to support a brand they liked, and 2) to get a coupon or discount (Marketing Land).
It is clear that many business owners are seeing the benefits of interacting with their customers and bringing their Pages to life. So how can you set up the perfect Facebook Business Page while using Page restrictions to your advantage?
Creating a Facebook Business Page
Log in to your personal Facebook account and visit this URL: https://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php
Determine the Facebook Business Page type. Facebook has six different Page classifications with their own set of relevant information fields:
Local Business or Place
Company, Organization, or Institution
Brand or Product
Artist, Band or Public Figure
Cause or Community
For the purposes of this guide, let's assume today that you're a superstar restaurateur that just opened up a new ramen noodle café (something that Saskatoon desperately needs, by the way). In this example, although you may be a self-proclaimed "ramen artist," you'll want to refrain from choosing the "Artist" Page type and go with "Local Business." Select the category that best describes the business (Restaurant/Café) and input the address information. Ensure that this information is correct, agree with Facebook's page guidelines and click "Get Started!"
Fill out business information. Throughout this section, you'll want to be as thorough, accurate and detailed as possible. Try to put yourself in the shoes of potential customers—what information would they want to see when researching the Business Facebook Page?
Add Categories
Hint: "Ramen Restaurant" exists as a business category. Chances are high that you'll be able to find a category that perfectly describes the business. Add as many relevant categories for the business as needed. This will help to improve the ranking of the Facebook Business Page in searches, and customers will be able to find them more easily.
Think of the business description as the elevator pitch—an attention-grabbing, make-or-break sales pitch that can be communicated in a quick 30-45 second elevator ride. Likewise, the business description on Facebook should be informative, but no longer than four to five sentences. Tell people what you do, why you do it and why they should care. This your opportunity to leave a memorable first impression!
Add a unique Facebook address
http://www.facebook.com/yourbusinessnamegoeshere. Creating a unique Facebook address makes it easier for people to find the Page. If you're familiar with search engine optimization (SEO), it makes sense—people are most likely to search for a business by name on search engines. Be careful with this step though, because once you commit to an address, it can only be changed one more time.
Add a profile picture
This is the first visual that people will see when they search for the business, and just like any profile pictures on personal Facebook accounts, this picture will be seen whenever the business makes a comment. As a business, the picture should be business-related and preferably a logo. This will help to make the Page recognizable, which will drive engagement. Make sure the logo is prominently displayed, and make sure it's at least 180 pixels wide (Facebook Help Center).
Time is valuable (even money), so you'll want easy access to the Page. Adding the Page to Favorites will put it right on your home page, so you'll be able to access the Page the moment you sign-in to Facebook to manage the Facebook Business Page.
Claim the business
Since anyone can create a Page on Facebook, there may be duplicate Pages for a business floating around. You can avoid any potential confusion by claiming your Page and merging unofficial duplicates (Facebook Help Center). As someone who deals with duplicate listings and Pages on a daily basis, I would suggest claiming your Page as soon as you can—take control of the situation before it has the chance to become messy.
Reach your target audience
Notify Facebook if you would like to target a specific audience for the Page. You can target your audience by location, age, gender, interests and language. For example, with your ramen restaurant, you may want to focus on targeting people in your city. Keep in mind that anyone can still find the Page, but Facebook will work to put your content in front of the people specified within your target market.
Once you've completed these steps, you will have set up a basic Facebook Business Page! To get the most out of your Page, however, you'll need to understand how to adjust your Page settings.
But how?
If you are logged on with the managing Facebook account for your Page, you will see a manager dashboard. Click on settings, and you'll be directed to the general settings tab. This is where the magic happens.
Facebook Business Page settings and restrictions
The settings on the general tab determine the functionality you can offer to people interacting with the Page. You can provide as much accessibility as you want for followers, or you can just as easily restrict functionality at any time. Let's break down the definitions of important setting options and the implications they'll have for any local business Page:
NOTE: Limiting any of these restrictions will make it impossible for third party software providers to access your data. That means systems that provide you additional analytics and crawl your data will not be able to access your page.
When your Page is published, it's public for anyone to find on Facebook. If needed, you can choose to unpublish a Page, effectively hiding it from followers and non-followers alike. That said, anyone assigned a Page Role (Admin, Editor, etc.) will still be able to find it. Remember, communication is key—you'll probably want to keep your Page in published mode at all times, unless circumstances truly call for your Page to be hidden.
Have you ever noticed that some business Pages have a grey checkmark next to their business name? That's a Facebook verification badge. Verified Pages show up higher in search results, and it means that the Page officially represents the business/organization. Pages are verified by Facebook's moderation team, but here's a resource that can help you get started with the process on the Facebook Help Center.
Visitor posts
With this setting, you can determine if you want to give visitors the ability to publish posts on the Page. You can also decide if visitors can publish photos or videos. Be especially careful when making your decision here, and consider what goals you want to accomplish with the Page. For example, if you want the Page to be primarily used as a platform to communicate news and updates, allowing others to post on the Page could overflow your feed with content you don't want followers to see. If you want to meet your followers halfway, there is an option to review posts made by others before they become published. If you want complete autonomy over the content published on the Page, you can simply disable this functionality all together.
News feed audience and visibility for posts
Similarly to how you can target a specific audience for your Page, this setting allows you to select a preferred audience for individual posts on the Facebook Business Page. This is a new feature, and a part of the organic targeting tool Facebook calls "Audience Optimization." The purpose of this tool is to put your posts in front of the audiences that will be most likely to engage with them.
Selection of a preferred audience can be made through interest tags (based on Facebook's pre-existing categories), gender, age, location and language. While gender, age, location and language restrictions limit a post's reach, interest tags will simply make it easier for people in the specified interest groups to see your posts. You might be wondering: "how does Facebook create categories of interests, and how are they linked to users?" Well according to a Facebook spokesperson, an algorithm is used to create interest categories based on factors such as shared content, Facebook Ads and other Facebook data sets.
In practice, you might tag one of your ramen restaurant posts with relevant terms like Saskatoon, Japanese Food or Tasteful Noods, if you think people interested in those things will want to see posts from the Page. If any of you gets the bright idea to start a ramen noodle restaurant called Tasteful Noods, I will expect that you cite your source, and I will accept free ramen for life as payment for the inspiration.
Another fairly new feature, Messages allows your Page to be used as a channel for people to contact the business via private message, much like a Contact Us form on a website. A benefit of activating this feature is that a business can maintain real-time communication with followers. If you do this, make sure that you or someone from the business is able to respond to any messages—nobody likes being ignored!
Tagging ability
This setting gives others the ability to apply tags on photos and videos published on your Page. For example, a customer might tag themselves and their squad in a picture that you posted of them dining in the restaurant. Again, while you'll want to be careful of letting others have an impact on your content, this is a feature that can encourage positive engagement from followers, and even make others aware of your Page through the sharing tool.
Others tagging this page
You can keep your ear to the ground by allowing others to tag the business (e.g. @yourramenrestaurant). This is essentially the opposite of a private message. You'll be notified whenever anyone publicly tags the business by name in a post or a comment. While this can be a useful tool to gain insight into a business's online presence, you'll need to be ready to stay on top of these mentions.
Country restrictions
This one is pretty self-explanatory—where do you want the Page to be seen and where do you want thePage to be hidden? When you add country restrictions, the Page will only be visible to people in unrestricted countries. It was reported that in 2015, Facebook may have had as many as 170 million fake users (Huffington Post). In other words, there are a lot of big, fat phonies out there that will contribute nothing worthwhile towards your Facebook Business Page. Placing country restrictions on the Page can help to cut down on irrelevant or undesired activity, but limiting your Page visibility too much can also hinder the overall level of engagement you see, especially if the business attracts customers from all over the world.
This restriction is perhaps the most important restriction to consider for the Facebook Business Page.
You need to ensure that the content created by and for the business is being seen by the appropriate audiences. If you are using the Page to share external content found online or if you are letting others post to the Page, you need to be mindful of how that content reflects on the business. Sharing that hilarious but controversial article can have a bearing on the business's reputation. Ensure that your settings give you reasonable control over the Page content.
Before you get too excited about setting age restrictions, however, keep in mind that restrictions will completely hide the Page from entire age groups, and thus potential fans. According to a recent survey, Facebook was the most popular social networking site used amongst teenagers aged 13-17, with 71% of the 1,060 teens surveyed having active accounts (Pew Research Center). Furthermore, the average Facebook user aged 18-29 has a much larger friend network compared to older users. Try to avoid age restrictions unless it's absolutely necessary or beneficial for your Page. This brings me to my next point...
Age restrictions are required if the business deals with age-restricted products or services.
No responsible parent wants to find their 14-year-old kid looking at the local marijuana dispensary Business Facebook Page, and ethical business owners wouldn't either. In a survey of US parents, it was found that despite Facebook's requirement for users to be at least 13 years of age, 36% of the 1,007 parents admitted that their child joined Facebook before they turned 13 years old. What's more, 68% of these parents actually helped their child to create their accounts (3103 Communications). Lying about your age on the internet is easy, but as a Facebook Business Page owner, you can take precautions on your end to protect your followers and your reputation.
Page Moderation
Freedom of speech is not absolute in the real world, and you can even take it a step further on any Facebook Business Page. Think of the Page as a sovereign state that you have authority over—if you feel the need to, you can block posts or comments containing any words you select. This setting can help to eliminate inappropriate content on the Page, because any posts or comments containing the nominated keywords will automatically be marked as spam. Side note: the limit for this feature is 10,000 characters, meaning you can't include the whole dictionary. Ideally, you shouldn't feel the need to apply this feature at all, especially since Facebook has a…
Profanity Filter
Watch your profanity! Commonly reported words and phrases determine Facebook's profanity blocker, and you can decide how PC you want to get with the Page. @#$% yeah!
Similar Page Suggestions
Life is all about give and take. Checking off this option will let Facebook recommend the Page on other Pages that are similar to this one (and vice versa). So if a user was on your ramen restaurant page, they might see other Japanese restaurant Pages being recommended to them in the sidebar. If you don't feel like sharing the spotlight, then don't. Just remember that an extra push in visibility can help your Page gain traction, and deselecting the similar page suggestions means you won't show up on others' searches.
Post in Multiple Languages
With this setting, you can decide if posts with alternative languages can be published on the Page. Although Facebook has made inspiring efforts to integrate many diverse languages into its platform (including Pirate English), you will want to select the language most appropriate for the customers of the Facebook Business Page you are managing (interesting to note that English is the most prominently-used language for business). You'll want to consider the demographic you are targeting when making this decision to ensure that the business's posts are being communicated in a language that their audience will understand.
If your followers see a post composed in a foreign language on the Page, it can still be understood most of the time with Facebook's translation tool. You ever see the See Translation option on the occasional post or comment? It indicates that Facebook has recognized the use of a foreign language from the one on your account settings. While Facebook's translation tool is not always accurate, it can be helpful for followers if your Page allows posts in alternative languages.
And that's it!
In summary, Facebook Business Pages provide an exciting opportunity for business owners to communicate with their current followers and to gain new fans. Your Page settings ultimately determine the effectiveness of a Page, and how a business communicates on Facebook. Most importantly, can someone please open up an authentic ramen noodle restaurant in Saskatoon? I'll help you to manage your online reputation in exchange for noodles.
Aristo Lam
Aristo Lam is a Product Marketing Manager who thrives on shaping the marketing and communication strategy for the Vendasta platform. When he's not cooking up the latest go-to-market strategy for new releases in the office, you can find him cooking up some fancy dishes at home.
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Vivocha is completely cloud-based, offering maximum flexibility, real-time updates, and zero deploy time. Developed with integration in mind, Vivocha offers APIs designed to simplify the process of integrating with external apps.
Integrating Vivocha with other applications allows agents to keep working on a single platform while interacting with contacts. This reduces average response time, speeds up task completion, and avoids errors, providing a better overall experience.
Vivocha enables businesses to seamlessly communicate with prospects and customers directly on their own store, using any combination of voice, video, chat, callbacks, and collaboration tools like co-browsing, and form and document sharing.
Vivocha offers a complete, easy to set up and fully customizable integration with a number of platforms to create a unique e-commerce environment.
Creating ad hoc engagement widgets for any number of user segments, each with a customised CTA, is quick and simple.
With Vivocha, you get unparalleled agent productivity, thanks to seamless integration between a number of platforms – CRM, customer service, ticketing and many more.
Service reps can see every bit of relevant information in one screen, the very desktop they interact with customers from – whether it be via chat, click-to-call, callback and even video.
Agents can leverage existing customer information and even update it with the latest interaction-based data, thus delivering better customer experience together with an increased personal and overall productivity.
Vivocha integrates perfectly with your CMS, exploiting website information to proactively engage customers and to be quicker and effective in communicating with them.
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Abracadabra is a text adventure developed by Odisea Software and published by Proein Soft Line only in Spanish for the Amstrad CPC, MSX and ZX Spectrum in 1988.

Gameplay
Abracadabra is a text adventure. The game depicts the game world and events in textual form. As in a tabletop role-playing game the game is played move by move. The player enters a move in form of a command in natural language, referring to the game world, non-player character or items in his possession. The game's parser then evaluates the move much like a tabletop RPG's gamemaster, remodeling the game world if necessary and telling the player the outcome of his move. This way the player can explore the game world, solve puzzles and advance the plot. Solving certain puzzles grants access to further parts of the game world.

In addition the game shows hand-drawn pictures that depict the current location in the game world. The location pictures take up about two thirds of the screen with the lower third reserverd for text input and output.

Plot
In the year 1209, a knight named Clus d'Eledorf was bewitched by the jealous Queen Saligia, enamored with him, to become a ghost haunting the Castle Burgenfels until he would confess his love to her. The game is divided into two parts. In part one, Clus has to find a way to rid of the witch, break the curse and escape his prison. In the second part, Clus needs to seek out and rescue his beloved Princess Violeta from the Greenwald forest.

Reception
The game was well received by Spanish video game press. MicroHobby called it an "excellent game with a high level of graphic quality and more importantly a stunning setting and realization" and a "fantasy adventure game that provides all the elements necessary to satisfy even the most demanding fans of this genre." Micromania gave it a score of 8/10 and CAAD opined that "among the adventures existing on the Spanish market, this one is definitely the best."

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External links

 Abracadabra at the World of Spectrum
 Abracadabra at CPC Power

1980s interactive fiction
1988 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Europe-exclusive video games
Fantasy video games
MSX games
Video games about ghosts
Video games about witchcraft
Video games developed in Spain
Video games scored by Frédéric Motte
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Things to Know About Liquidating Your Business
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Given that around 80% of all companies fail within the first few years of operation, liquidation is a regular occurrence in the business world. A company's existence is brought to an end during the liquidation procedure. The assets of the company are subsequently allocated to all eligible supplicants fairly and equitably.
Also available are the services of wholesale and retail liquidation companies that will purchase stuff that has been liquidated from others and then resale this merchandise to consumers as well as smaller businesses in quantity. Merchandise liquidators are a type of company that specialises in liquidating merchandise.
In this article, we will explore liquidation and how it might be beneficial to a firm.
Various Types of Liquidation
Liquidation is typically divided into two categories: liquidation and bankruptcy. When a company goes into creditors' voluntary liquidation (CVL), it means that both the shareholders and the company's directors have concluded that liquidation is the best course of action because the company is insolvent and lacks the assets necessary to pay off all affiliated creditors. As a result of its inability to pay its debts, the company decides to close its doors to pay off its creditors on a voluntary basis.
Some companies, however, are forced to liquidate because one or more of their creditors have brought the company to a higher court over non-payment of debt obligations, in which case the company is obliged to liquidate. The corporation will be forced to liquidate if the creditors succeed in their lawsuit before the high court so that its assets can be liquidated to pay off the debts. A form of liquidation known as "compulsory liquidation" is used to describe this type of situation.
Is Liquidating a Good idea?
By liquidating a firm's assets, the business no longer needs to be concerned about legal issues, as they will be suspended due to the liquidation process. Following the company's liquidation, any remaining debts are written off, and leases may be terminated due to the liquidation.
Furthermore, the company's employees can be paid by receiving redundancy compensation, allowing them to leave with a sense of satisfaction after everything is done. It can also save a company from going through lengthy and onerous legal processes, and liquidation is really a pretty inexpensive process in most cases.
Corporations that liquidate will also experience reduced pressure from creditors, as the vast majority, if not all, of them, will obtain at least some kind of payback after the sale of a company's assets.
What Companies Should Consider Liquidation?
Organisations whose assets directly create money and those whose assets are the tools utilised to generate income should consider liquidating their assets. Even corporate entities that own assets that are utilised to produce money indirectly might benefit from product liquidations.
What Assets Can Be Used in Liquidations?
To pay off its creditors, an organisation can sell a variety of assets to raise the necessary funds. Among other things, a business can sell real estate, art and supplies, corporate vehicles and office furniture, and a wide variety of business equipment such as credit card machines and phones, computers and printers, fax machines and scanners, and cash registers.
Many liquidators would purchase such items in bulk and then resell them to customers searching for a good price or smaller businesses, such as startups, requiring a few extra supplies to get their business off the ground.
How to Liquidate Your Company's Assets
The appointment of a liquidator is the first step for the liquidation of assets. In a compulsory liquidation proceeding, the court will issue the order for the liquidation. During a voluntary one, the company's shareholders will vote on whether to proceed with the process.
However, the liquidator will collect the enterprise's corporate assets, including uncalled capital (that is, the amounts owed on corporate shares), and then sell them so that the proceeds can be used to pay back the company's creditors in the order of priority that they were owed the money.
Furthermore, if any money is left over after the assets have been sold, the liquidator will transfer the proceeds to the company's shareholders in question. Following that, the company is formally or officially dissolved. After a liquidation, a corporation will no longer dispose of any of the assets it has acquired. Therefore, we recommend that you contact a professional goods liquidator to assist you in expediting the process and maximising your return on investment to the extent that this is possible.
What Are the Benefits of Liquidating a Business?
The process of liquidating an organisation will assist in getting rid of excess inventory. For example, a business specialising in distribution or retail will almost certainly have some excess inventory after the quarter.
The surplus inventory will not only take up valuable storage space that could be put to greater use, but it will also increase the company's storage expenses. The corporation could opt to liquidate to get rid of surplus inventory and sell the undesired assets to pay off creditors while also saving money on storage costs as a result of doing so.
Minimise Debt Repayments
One of the most significant benefits of liquidation is that the majority of your debts will be forgiven or written off, but there are some exceptions to this. The costs of your corporation's creditors' meeting and the Statement of Affairs will still be your responsibility.
The sale of company assets will cover all further liquidation costs (including debt/outstanding creditor repayments) incurred as a result of the bankruptcy. In most cases, this makes liquidation a more cost-effective alternative.
When hiring liquidation services, they will be in charge of the administration of any redundancy or restructuring charges. They will be responsible for all employee layoffs and related payments, as well as for the cancellation of any leases or other long-term obligations they may have.
Unless you or your shareholders have provided personal guarantees or taken out director's loans, you or your shareholders are not required to pay these debts.
Put a Stop to All Legal Action
By declaring bankruptcy, you are able to put an end to the possibility of legal action and redirect your efforts elsewhere. It is unlikely that your creditors will be able to bring legal action against you unless they can establish some form of personal culpability for the company's debt.
Consequently, you can demonstrate that your company was forced to close due to dissatisfied creditors petitioning you through the courts, rather than that it was forced to close due to a voluntary decision.
Cancel Lease Arrangements with no Consequences
Not only will you be able to reduce the number of debt repayments your company has already made, but you will also be able to avoid making any additional payments in the future.
When a company undergoes liquidation, any lease or hire purchase arrangements will be cancelled, as is customary. This means that you are no longer responsible for any additional payments that may have been a part of your original agreement.
You may be able to recover any outstanding amounts owed to leasing company creditors from your designated insolvency partners if you have any outstanding leasing company debts.
What About Employees During a Liquidation?
All employment agreements with a firm that is going out of business may be terminated if the company goes out of business. If the firm has employees at the time of its liquidation, the liquidators would normally pay a visit to the business and advise the employees of the company's inability to continue operating. Employees who have unpaid entitlements will be advised in writing of the liquidation, which is typically delivered to the employee's last known email or postal address if one exists.
The company in liquidation will re-employ the employees who are required for the period of time they are required, which could be anywhere from a few days to several months if the liquidators continue to trade the business or require the expertise of certain employees after the company's liquidation has been completed.
Employees who continue to work for the firm after it has been liquidated are compensated as a result of the company's trading on expenditures account. If the liquidators are successful in selling the company's business, the purchaser may be able to provide new employment opportunities to at least some of the company's employees.
Priority is given to the payment of employees' preferential claims after the cost of the company's liquidation, which includes any trading on costs, the cost of realising the company's assets, the costs of the liquidator's fees and expenses, as well as the costs of the petitioning creditors, especially if the company was put into liquidation by the High Court.
Suppose funds are available to pay any of the preferential employee claims. In that case, they are likely to come from the sale of the business and assets of the company, as well as the collection of any debts owed to the company, all of which can take time. If funds are available to pay these claims, partial payouts are not uncommon to occur when funds become available.
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• Specify research question which address the management problem/decision.
• Design a research program.
• Carry out research. Sourcing from ONLY secondary data.
• Identify alternatives and make recommendation to improve the performance of the organization.
• A persuasive report showing how the management problem/ decision should be managed.
Assessment Criteria students will be assessed on their knowledge of the concepts covered in the course and their capacity to apply that knowledge to improve business decision making.


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using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
using Pimix.Cryptography;

namespace Pimix.IO.FileFormats
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Legacy file format with encryption and information header.
    ///
    /// There is a verbose header part, 0x1225 bytes long and starts with "0x01231225".
    /// Information wise, it only contains SHA256 and file size.
    /// SHA256 starts at 0x0e90 (3728) and is in hex string format (thus occupies 64 bytes)
    /// File size starts at 0x073e (1854) and will end with space.
    ///
    /// We only provide decoder for this format.
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public class PimixFileV0Format : PimixFileFormat
    {
        public static PimixFileFormat Get(string fileSpec)
        {
            var specs = fileSpec.Split(new char[] { ';' });
            foreach (var spec in specs)
            {
                if (spec == "v0")
                {
                    return new PimixFileV0Format();
                }
            }

            return null;
        }

        public override string ToString()
            => "v0";

        public override Stream GetDecodeStream(Stream encodedStream)
        {
            Info = Info ?? new FileInformation();
            if (Info.EncryptionKey == null)
            {
                // We have to get the data from server...

                if (Info.Id == null)
                {
                    // We need to get the secondary id from the stream as ":SHA256".
                    encodedStream.Seek(3728, SeekOrigin.Begin);
                    byte[] sha256Bytes = new byte[64];
                    encodedStream.Read(sha256Bytes, 0, 64);
                    Info.Id = ":" + Encoding.UTF8.GetString(sha256Bytes, 0, 64);
                }

                Info = FileInformation.Get(Info.Id);
            }

            if (Info.Size == null)
            {
                // If we only miss the file size, we can get from the header.
                encodedStream.Seek(1854, SeekOrigin.Begin);
                byte[] sizeBytes = new byte[92];
                Info.Size = long.Parse(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(sizeBytes, 0, 92));
            }

            ICryptoTransform decoder;
            using (Aes aesAlgorithm = new AesCryptoServiceProvider())
            {
                aesAlgorithm.Padding = PaddingMode.ANSIX923;
                aesAlgorithm.Key = Info.EncryptionKey.ParseHexString();
                aesAlgorithm.Mode = CipherMode.ECB;
                decoder = aesAlgorithm.CreateDecryptor();
            }

            return new PimixCryptoStream(new PatchedStream(encodedStream) { IgnoreBefore = 0x1225 }, decoder, Info.Size.Value, true);
        }

        public override Stream GetEncodeStream(Stream rawStream)
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }
    }
}


Since the introduction of Touch ID, there have been some potential legal issues for owners. When the feature was first introduced, Marcia Hofmann of Wired Magazine pointed out Touch ID could override the 5th Amendment. Police are allowed to make someone perform a simple task, such as walking a straight line during a traffic incident, but they cannot compel you to share information without a warrant. Her prediction was that, eventually a court would rule that placing your finger on the device would not be protected the way that sharing your password is protected.
A year later, a Virginia court ruled in the police favor, allowing them to force a Touch ID unlock without a warrant. Since then, iPhone owners all over the country have been forced to make a choice - do you use the Touch ID for convenience and risk a personal invasion, or do you use the phone PIN and protect your information?
With the most recent beta of iOS 11, Apple has introduced a feature that has an interesting side-effect. The feature allows a user to rapidly press the power button of the phone to trigger a panic mode. The panic mode allows you to call emergency services easily, but its side effect is even more intriguing. After triggering panic mode, the phone locks itself to prevent information from being stolen. To unlock the device, you must enter your PIN, as if the phone had been power cycled. This feature makes perfect sense, assuming you're being mugged, it can keep the phone safer from the mugger.
The interesting side-effect here is that, if you're being pulled over by the police, you can also trigger panic mode to prevent the cops from forcing you to unlock the device. This added feature, likely an accidental side-effect rather than a conscious idea, is a welcomed change. Personally, I have opted to skip the Touch ID feature all this time because of the potential for corporate confidential information to be retrieved by law enforcement without a warrant. This new feature, however, will finally be the turning point that will allow myself, and others, to use a feature that Apple introduced 4 years and 5 phone models ago.


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Soleá Morente y Napoleón Solo
Her second album 'Ole Lorelei' has been one of the most important albums of 2018 for the specialised press. The reason for this great success can be found in this excerpt from Efe Eme's review by Eduardo Tébar: "This work stands out for the arrangement and definition of Soleá as its own voice with a strong discourse. Even the drama (because there is drama) appears here with fewer thorns. It seems Soleá is applying Enrique Morente's ethics: music without prejudice, and if it bothers, it is even better". Her fusion of flamenco and pop generates debate, but above all it creates a new personal formula to celebrate music in this country. Under this formula there are already unquestionable hits like 'Baila Conmigo', 'Ya no solo te veo a ti' or the amazing 'Ole Lorelei', which makes her music generates great interest and that she has the spotlight over her next movements.
Soleá Morente is currently at that moment in which she has already tried many things, different records and glitter wrappings that expand her universe to take her to a very peculiar place. All of this can give her that concept of complete and special artist as it happens with Rosalia, without the hype and omnipresence of the her, but with very similar personalities and interest in doing something interesting by expanding the horizons of flamenco. She will shortly publish her third album produced by David Rodríguez (La Estrella de David, La Bien Querida) that can only bring very good news and whose songs she will present in her anticipated performance at Tomavistas.
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Does Facebook Really Make Narcissists?
Posted by Sam Page	/ November 22, 2011
In "The Social Network," Mark Zuckerberg's fictional girlfriend breaks up with him after he refuses to stop talking about himself at dinner. Miffed, Zuckerberg hastily retreats to his Harvard dorm, opens a beer, and posts about his latest personal problem on the Internet for everyone to see.
This opening scene of "The Social Network" the story of Facebook, the world's largest social networking site, i typifies a common attitude about such websites : outlets built for and by self-interested, whining Millennials.
Due largely to the writings of Jean Twenge, author "The Narcissism Epidemic" and "Generation Me," the symbiotic relationship between rising rates of narcissistic behavior in Generation Y and sites like Facebook has been widely accepted.
A new study, however, challenges this presumed link between social networking and self-centeredness. With the lofty title, "Millennials, narcissism, and social networking: What narcissists do on social networking sites and why," the study found no relationship between narcissism and how much time individuals spend on social networking sites or how often they post "status updates."
And while the study's authors—four professors from Appalachian State University and High Point University in High Point, North Carolina—admit social networking may appeal to narcissists, they assert it does not actually create narcissists. Instead, the experts agree with an argument posited by many Millenials: The narcissistic reputation results from the misperceptions of older generations. What looks like self-centeredness to many is actually a vital means of communication, self-expression, and professional advancement for Generation Y.
Shaun Davenport, an associate professor at High Point University and one of the paper's three authors, believes his and his colleagues' relatively young ages for academics (all under 40, unlike Jean Twenge) uniquely allowed them to challenge the stereotypes associated with Generation Y and social networking.
"Social networking is so transparent in some ways—you put yourself out there," said Davenport. "With the older generation that isn't as comfortable with that openness, they could perceive that as narcissistic because [Millennials] want to be open and have more shallow relationships."
Indeed, the paper concludes, "While previous generations accomplished this via letter, telephone, or email, the Millennials may simply prefer to connect and communicate via SNSs. Thus, this may not be a sign of pathology, but a product of the times."
For many, Facebook and similar sites are the easiest way to keep in contact with friends, It's an update to the phone book, says Matt Vanek, 19, a student at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, adding that making personal information available to so-called "friends" is not self-aggrandizing, just functional.
"When I didn't know my lab partner's name after three sessions I tracked him down on Facebook," said Vanek.
Yet, according to Twenge's survey data, it is not the type of behavior that makes Generation Y unique, but the numbers. In one highly publicized study, Twenge found that 57 percent of Millennials agreed that their peers used social networking sites for "self-promotion, narcissism, and attention-seeking."
Wes Davenport and his colleagues, however, argue that, while such behavior might be narcissistic, it does not make the majority of Millennials narcissists. Their research delineates between clinically diagnosed narcissists and subclinical narcissism, "a personality trait that normal, healthy individuals possess to varying degrees."
Twenge asked if social media was used for attention seeking and self-promotion. 37 percent "agreed somewhat," while 20 percent "agreed strongly." To extrapolate these results as proof that 57 percent of Millennials are clinical narcissists—a classification that applies to just one percent of the world's population—is a stretch, at least for Davenport and his colleagues.
Even Twenge's use of "self-promotion" as a synonym for "narcissism" betrays a bigger misunderstanding. For some Millennials, the ability to self-promote on social networking sites has become a professional necessity for networking and making other work-related connections.
Indeed, as Davenport concludes, social networking only makes it easier for people to behave in certain ways, not more likely to do so. Social media can help either a budding narcissist or sports reporter, but it will make you neither.
"It's a lot easier to be a narcissist on social networking sites than via telegram," he said with a laugh.
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Australians have taken to river cruising in a big way, with more than 50,000 going on a river holiday each year, managing director of Avalon Waterways, Stewart Williams said.
"It's one of the fastest growing markets – the number of Australians who go on river cruises has been growing at double-digit since 2007.
"Seven years ago only 12,500 Australians went on a river cruise. In 2013 the numbers surged to 50,000,'' he said.
Already, Avalon's river cruises have been selling fast with expectations that 97 percent will be sold this year – up from 94 percent last year.
"Bookings for 2015 are already 11 percent up,'' he said.
To meet this surge in demand Avalon will launch two new ships, Avalon Tapestry II and Avalon Tranquility II next year, taking its total fleet to 15. The all-suite ships will have 64 cabins each.
The company will double its presence in France to four ships in 2015.
"Australians love cruising in Europe, especially in the romantic Rhine, Burgundy, Provence and Normandy,'' Mr Williams said.
One of its new routes next year will be the dual-river itinerary which will combine a cruise on the Rhine from Amsterdam to Basel followed by a cruise on the Rhone from Beaune to Cote d'Azur.
In Asia, Avalon will also introduce the new 36-cabin Avalon Myanmar to cruise the Irrawaddy in 2015 and a new Avalon Siem Reap on the Mekong between Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam and Siem Reap in Cambodia.
Avalon has also appointed television personality Deborah Hutton as its new Australian ambassador.


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Archive: April, 2011
New York National Guard to host US/Canada senior military leader conference
April 28, 2011 — LATHAM, N.Y. - General officers from the military forces of Canada and the United States will meet... MORE
South Carolina Air National Guard welcomes Moroccan air force officials
April 26, 2011 — MCENTIRE JOINT NATIONAL GUARD BASE, S.C. - The South Carolina Air National Guard hosted members of... MORE
Philippine leaders visit Guam Guard
April 21, 2011 — BARRIGADA, Guam - The Guam National Guard recently hosted key leaders of the Philippine military to... MORE
Ghanaians get up-close look at how North Dakota Guard handles flooding
April 15, 2011 — FARGO, N.D. - The 91-degrees-and-humid African country of Ghana and the snow-still-falling-in-April... MORE
North Dakota Guard state partner visits during flood
April 13, 2011 — FARGO, N.D. - An eight-year-old partnership took a new step this week as the head of a Ghana... MORE
Stavridis: National Guard State Partnership Program resources well-spent
April 11, 2011 — WASHINGTON - The National Guard's State Partnership program is a good return on investment, the... MORE
New York Army Guard members learn survival skills from Canadian Army
April 5, 2011 — GOGAMA, ONTARIO - Hundreds of miles from civilization, New York Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class... MORE
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Q: Static Columns and Dynamic Rows in iReport I'm really new to iReport and I'm having difficulty in designing a report similar to below.
I want Bank Wire,Credit Card,Cheque,Transaction,Blue,Red,Total
to be static in that page and the  values in the column to be Dynamic. I actually have a List of Java Bean to be displayed columns wise.I was able to do it dynamically but i want the first column to be styled differently.

Transaction      Blue      Red       Total
---------------+---------+---------+---------
 Bank Wire     |     0   |    0    |     0
 Credit Card   |     2   |    0    |     2
 Cheque        |     1   |    0    |     1
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Total All      |     3   |    0    |     3
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Thanks in advance...