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Q: ssl handShake failure soap I consuming a soap service via cxf that secured with ssl v3.
I download .cer file from server and create JKS file via keytool with this instruction:
keytool -import -v -file iban.cer -keystore iban.jks

In java code i use this code for client config:
    public void configureSSLOnTheClient(Object c) {

        org.apache.cxf.endpoint.Client client = ClientProxy.getClient(c);
        HTTPConduit httpConduit = (HTTPConduit) client.getConduit();
        File truststore = new File("jks/iban.jks");

        try {
            TLSClientParameters tlsParams = new TLSClientParameters();
            tlsParams.setDisableCNCheck(true);

            KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
            String trustpass = "password";

            keyStore.load(new FileInputStream(truststore), trustpass.toCharArray());

            log.info("Trust Manager Type:"+TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
            TrustManagerFactory trustFactory = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());

            trustFactory.init(keyStore);
            TrustManager[] tm = trustFactory.getTrustManagers();
            tlsParams.setTrustManagers(tm);

            keyStore.load(new FileInputStream(truststore), trustpass.toCharArray());

            KeyManagerFactory keyFactory = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance(KeyManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());

            keyFactory.init(keyStore, trustpass.toCharArray());
            KeyManager[] km = keyFactory.getKeyManagers();
            tlsParams.setKeyManagers(km);

            FiltersType filter = new FiltersType();
            filter.getInclude().add(".*_EXPORT_.*");
            filter.getInclude().add(".*_EXPORT1024_.*");
            filter.getInclude().add(".*_WITH_DES_.*");
            filter.getInclude().add(".*_WITH_NULL_.*");
            filter.getExclude().add(".*_DH_anon_.*");
            tlsParams.setCipherSuitesFilter(filter);

            httpConduit.setTlsClientParameters(tlsParams);

        } catch (KeyStoreException kse) {
            log.info("Security configuration failed with the following: KeyStoreException " + kse.getCause());
            kse.printStackTrace();
        } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException nsa) {
            log.info("Security configuration failed with the following: NoSuchAlgorithmException" + nsa.getCause());
            nsa.printStackTrace();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException fnfe) {
            log.info("Security configuration failed with the following: FileNotFoundException" + fnfe.getCause());
        } catch (UnrecoverableKeyException uke) {
            log.info("Security configuration failed with the following: UnrecoverableKeyException" + uke.getCause());
        } catch (CertificateException ce) {
            log.info("Security configuration failed with the following: CertificateException" + ce.getCause());
        } catch (GeneralSecurityException gse) {
            log.info("Security configuration failed with the following: GeneralSecurityException" + gse.getCause());
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            log.info("Security configuration failed with the following: IOException" + ioe.getCause());
        }

    }

And for calling service this code:
 String address = "https://xxxxxxxxxx/IBANSpecEnquiry/IBANSpec?wsdl";
    JaxWsProxyFactoryBean proxyFactory = new JaxWsProxyFactoryBean();
    proxyFactory.setServiceClass(IBANEnquirySpec.class);
    proxyFactory.setAddress(address);

    IBANEnquirySpec client = (IBANEnquirySpec) proxyFactory.create();
    configureSSLOnTheClient(client);
    Message04 message04 = client.getIBANSpec(message01);

When i running the code this error occures:
 Interceptor for {http://WebServices/}IBANEnquirySpecService#{http://WebServices/}getIBANSpec has thrown exception, unwinding now
org.apache.cxf.interceptor.Fault: Could not send Message.
at  org.apache.cxf.interceptor.MessageSenderInterceptor$MessageSenderEndingIntercept    or.handleMessage(MessageSenderInterceptor.java:64)
at org.apache.cxf.phase.PhaseInterceptorChain.doIntercept(PhaseInterceptorChain.java:272)
at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.doInvoke(ClientImpl.java:570)
at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:479)
at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:382)
at org.apache.cxf.endpoint.ClientImpl.invoke(ClientImpl.java:335)
at org.apache.cxf.frontend.ClientProxy.invokeSync(ClientProxy.java:96)
at org.apache.cxf.jaxws.JaxWsClientProxy.invoke(JaxWsClientProxy.java:136)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy143.getIBANSpec(Unknown Source)
at  ir.tejaratBank.service.impl.IBANClientManagerImpl.getIBANSpec(IBANClientManagerImpl.java:259)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
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Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: SSLHandshakeException invoking https://192.168.65.118:443/IBANSpecEnquiry/IBANSpec?wsdl: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.mapException(HTTPConduit.java:1347)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.close(HTTPConduit.java:1331)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.AbstractConduit.close(AbstractConduit.java:56)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit.close(HTTPConduit.java:632)
at org.apache.cxf.interceptor.MessageSenderInterceptor$MessageSenderEndingInterceptor.handleMessage(MessageSenderInterceptor.java:62)
... 128 more
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream0(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.URLConnectionHTTPConduit$URLConnectionWrappedOutputStream.setupWrappedStream(URLConnectionHTTPConduit.java:174)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.handleHeadersTrustCaching(HTTPConduit.java:1290)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.onFirstWrite(HTTPConduit.java:1246)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.URLConnectionHTTPConduit$URLConnectionWrappedOutputStream.onFirstWrite(URLConnectionHTTPConduit.java:201)
at org.apache.cxf.io.AbstractWrappedOutputStream.write(AbstractWrappedOutputStream.java:47)
at org.apache.cxf.io.AbstractThresholdOutputStream.write(AbstractThresholdOutputStream.java:69)
at org.apache.cxf.transport.http.HTTPConduit$WrappedOutputStream.close(HTTPConduit.java:1303)
... 131 more

I search for this error and i realized that error is for bad trustStore.
But i don't know how to generate correct trustStore.

A: to generate the trust store, try using this:
keytool -import -alias youralias -file [path to certificate]/iban.cer -keystore [path to truststore.jks]/truststore.jks -storetype JKS

but what would be better, is not using all of this ssl configuration, and instead import the certificate to your java cacerts trust store using this:
keytool -import -v -file iban.cer -keystore %JAVA_HOME%/jre/lib/security/cacerts -alias youralias

A: The error is not always indicative of a Trust Store problem.
If you are using Java 8, SSLv3 may be disabled due to trying to avoid the POODLE attack.
See this related post: How to enable SSL 3 in Java


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El sabor de la venganza (comercialitzat al mercat anglosaxó com Three Ruthless Ones, Gunfight at High Noon o Sons of Vengeance ) és una pel·lícula de coproducció hispano-italiana estrenada el 4 de maig de 1964 del gènere spaghetti western dirigida per Joaquín Romero Marchent, produïda per Alberto Grimaldi, amb banda sonora de Riz Ortolani, i protagonitzada per Richard Harrison, Raf Baldassare i Gloria Milland.

Va ser rodada a Almeria. Va tenir èxit de taquilla, la qual cosa esperonà a la PEA a produir Per un grapat de dòlars.

Argument
Oest Americà, 1875. Louise viu amb el seu marit i els seus tres fills Brad, Chet i Jeff en una cabana vora la frontera EUA-Mèxic. Un dia en què està sola amb els nens hi arriben quatre malfactors fugint de la justícia, que intenten robar uns cavalls i forçar-la. En aquell moment arriba el seu marit Chris Walker i es produeix un tiroteig en el que és assassinat Chris i moren dos dels assaltants, mentre que els altres aconsegueixen fugir. Des d'aleshores només pensa en venjar-se, i per això fomenta l'odi i la set de venjança en els seus fills.

Repartiment

 Richard Harrison - Jeff Walker
 Fernando Sancho - Pedro Ramirez
 Gloria Milland - Louise Walker
 Robert Hundar - Chet Walker
 Miguel Palenzuela - Brad Walker
 Gloria Osuna - Susannah Westfall
 Luis Induni - Westfall
 Carlos Romero Marchent - Charlie
 José Manuel Martín - Richard
 José Truchado - Palmer
 Francisco Sanz - Jutge Klem
 Alfonso Rojas - Grayson
 Aldo Sambrell - Palmer Henchman
 Emilio Rodríguez - Comissari Merrill
 Indio González - Palmer Henchman
 Rufino Inglés - Membre del jurat
 Joaquín Burgos - Membre del jurat
 Dina Loy - May
 Magda Maldonado - Esposa de granger
 José Riesgo - Clark Walker
 Rafael Vaquero – Granger
 Miguel Merino - Germà de Clark
 Ricardo Rodríguez - Palmer Henchman
 Ricardo G. Lilló - Hotel Clerk
 Marcelo Gonzalez
 Joaquín Bergía - Barman
 Pablito Alonso - Brad de nen
 Enrique Hernández - Chet de nen
 Luis Miguel Arranz - Jeff de nen
 Red Cameron
 Freddie Toehl - Rock
 Agustín Bescos - Ciudadano
 Pedro Fenollar - Ciudadano
 Antonio Orengo
 Rafael Romero Marchent - Home que es renta els peus

Premis
Als Premis del Sindicat Nacional de l'Espectacle de 1963 li fou atorgat el 3r premi amb 125.000 pessetes.

Crítiques
La pel·lícula va ser rebuda tèbiament per la crítica italiana de l'època. Leo Pestelli, de La Stampa, la va jutjar "directa amb un segur entreteniment", però va subratllar el fort component imitatiu dels westerns estatunidencs. L'Unità, per la seva banda, va criticar durament la pel·lícula, queixant-se que els seus fins espectaculars i la seva violència ofeguen els seus motius morals i va jutjar la representació "truculenta i desproveïda de qualsevol drama". La revisió retrospectiva de Paolo Mereghetti, en canvi, és positiva, ja que considera la pel·lícula "un western sòlid amb una estructura clàssica i caracteritzacions no trivials" i afirma que Marchent dosifica els registres amb habilitat.

Referències

Enllaços externs

Pel·lícules d'Espanya del 1964
Pel·lícules de western de la dècada del 1960
Pel·lícules en castellà
Pel·lícules d'Itàlia de la dècada del 1960

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Books, Printed Ephemera and Manuscripts
FRASER'S
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Autograph Note Signed ('W M') from the Irish journalist William Maginn to his friend and fellow-native of Cork Thomas Crofton Croker ('Dear Croft').
William Maginn (1794-1842), Irish journalist and friend of Charles Dickens, contributor Blackwood's Magazine and Fraser's Magazine [Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854), Irish antiquary; James Hardiman]
Without place or date [post 1831].
1p., 12mo. On bifolium. Good, on aged paper. Addressed on reverse of second leaf to 'T. C. Croker Esq'. Reads: 'Dear Croft | I return Hardiman with many thanks. | Yrs. &c. | [signed] W M'. The signature is underlined twice. The reference is to James Hardiman's 'Irish Minstrelsy', published in 1831.
BLACKWOOD'S
CROKER
Maginn
Autograph Letter Signed ('J. C. Hare') from Julius Charles Hare, Archdeacon of Lewes, to James Fraser, proprietor of 'Fraser's Magazine', complaining of Fraser's handling of his 'Vindication of Coleridge', with reference to Thomas De Quincey.
Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855), Archdeacon of Lewes [James Fraser (c.1805-1841), London bookseller and publisher of 'Fraser's Magazine'; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Thomas De Quincey]
'Hurstmonceux Battle' [Sussex]; 2 December [1834].
2pp., 4to. Bifolium. 21 lines of text. Good, on lightly-aged paper, with minor traces of mount adhering to corners of verso of second leaf. Addressed, with red wax seal and postmark, on reverse of second leaf, to 'Mr Frazer [sic] | 215 Regent Street | London'. A significant letter, which shows Hare in conflict with Fraser over the publication his 'Vindication of Coleridge' a full year before the article appeared in the British Magazine (January 1835). The letter begins: 'I am very much annoyed at finding that you have put off my article for another month.
Autograph Letters
COLERIDGIANA
Four ink drawings, portraits in the style of Daniel Maclise's illustrations to William Maginn's 'Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters' in Fraser's Magazine, and possibly depicting John Nichols, Theodore Hook, Percival Bankes and William Jerdan.
[Daniel Maclise; William Maginn; John Nichols; Theodore Hook; William Jerdan; Percival Bankes; Count D'Orsay; David Moir; James Fraser]
London; 1820s and 1830s?
Fraser's Magazine launched in London in February 1830, and to begin with its most popular feature was Maginn's 'Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters', with illlustrations by Maclise (collected in book form in 1873). The four portraits, all busts, are somewhat reminiscent of those in that work, but must be earlier if the identification of John Nichol, who died in 1828, is correct. The four are on separate pieces of paper, laid down 2 X 2 (with the four sitters looking inwards towards the centre of the page) on a leaf torn from an album.
BANKES
MACLISE
MOIR
Autograph Letter Signed to unnamed male correspondent.
James Anthony Froude
10 August [no year]; on letterhead 'THE MOLT, | SALCOMBE, | KINGSBRIDGE.'
English historian (1818-94). Two pages, 12mo, on grey paper. In very good condition, with traces of previous mounting on verso of otherwise-blank second leaf of bifoliate. He is flattered by the offer, but cannot 'take part at the opening of your Session'. 'Mr Graham wrote to me at your desire. I had to tell him as I hope he will have informed you, that my uncertain health forbids me to make any distant engagements | more than once when I have given such promises I have been unable to fulfil them and I have therefore found it necessary to decline once for all'. Signed 'J A Froude'.
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Advanced Unmanned Surface Vessels for Military Applications
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Military applications for the USV include:
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Deployment platform for VTOL vehicles
The USV can also be customized for commercial applications.
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Erik Henriksen
Assistant Professor of Physics
PhD, Columbia University
MA & MPhil, Columbia University
BA, Swarthmore College
Research Group Website
Atomically Thin Materials
Quantum Magnetism & Electronic Structure
Email: henriksen@wustl.edu
Office: Compton 377
Erik Henriksen's experimental condensed matter research laboratory utilizes state-of-the-art nanofabrication techniques in combination with measurements made at low temperatures and high magnetic fields to explore both the fundamental electronic structures and emergent quantum phenomena of low-dimensional materials.
The Henriksen lab's research is centered on the properties of electrons confined to two dimensions. This remarkable system has yielded a tremendous amount of interesting and important physics over the past several decades, from the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects to the groundbreaking discoveries of graphene and other atomically thin crystals, and especially to the recent realization of the topological nature of the electronic structure of a surprising number of materials both novel and familiar.
Present work focuses on the potential to realize topological electronic phases in graphene; the infrared spectrum of graphene's quasi-relativistic electrons; and pursuit of quantum spin liquids, a strange and novel phase of quantum magnetism. All these lines of research require precisely fabricated devices made of custom stacks of atomically-thin materials which we build in house.
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All devices in the lab are fabricated in-house on our own equipment as well as that of the cleanroom facilities in the Institute for Materials Science and Engineering (IMSE).
2013-present: Assistant Professor, Washington University
2012-2013: Visiting Assistant Professor, Harvey Mudd College
2011-2013: IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech
2009-2011: Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech
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Many-particle effects in the cyclotron resonance of encapsulated monolayer graphene
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Raman signatures of a structural transition in exfoliated α-RuCl3
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Electronic transport and scattering times in tungsten-decorated graphene
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The beautiful daughter of a wealthy landowner was in love with a handsome young scholar. Because he did not come from a wealthy family, her father did not deem him a worthy suitor for his daughter's hand. The young couple resorted to secret trysts late at night. Afraid of being found out, the girl could only confide in her pet parrot. One day, the father overheard the parrot reciting the words of love exchanged between the young couple. Confronted with this, the daughter could no longer hide her passion for the scholar. Fearing a scandal, the father finally gave his consent to their marriage. The two were wed and spent the rest of their lives in happiness.


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A project like Cetàcea wouldn't be possible without the help of all the volunteers who have collaborated and are collaborating with us in different aspects such as developing and creating photo-identification catalogs, preparing and giving talks or taking part in our activities.
If you feel like being part of Cetàcea and you want to collaborate with us, please contact us at info∂associaciocetacea.org.
I am a Biologist, interested and facinated by nature and inhabiting organisms since I was a child. However, I've always felt passionated about the sea and ocean fauna in a special way. My degree in biology allowed me to collaborate in diferent animal behaviour projects about rodents and raptors in Catalonia, and photo-ID and research projects of cetaceans in the Azores Islands. Furthermore, I also enjoyed working in marine nature educational projects. The "Associació Cetàcea" gives me the opportunity of improving and acquiring new marine conservation knowledge, at the same time, I do something about planet conservation and contribute to the knowledge about the biodiversity of our territory.
Although I live away from the sea, I have always been interested in the sea, especially in the marine mammals. After finishing a bachelor degree in Biology and taking part in a photo-identification project in the Açores Islands, I wondered if it was possible to carry out the same task in Catalunya. Finally, I found Associació Cetàcea and I decided to do my bit and collaborate with them and.
I was born and I grew up in a mountainous area in Catalunya, although I visited the sea every once in a while, as most of the people did. After finishing my degree in environmental sciences, I was fortunate to work in a NGO involved in marine conservations projects. There, surrounded by marine biologists, fishermen and coastal communities, I fell in love with the sea and every living creature that lives in it. They always quoted Jacques Cousteau: "We will conserve only what we love and we will love only what we understand. I have never worked in any field related to marine biology in Cataluna, but when I discovered Associació Cetàcea, the dream came true: to collaborate in marine studies in the Mediterranean.
Ever since I have been conscious I have been passionate about the animal world. As years passed by, and without knowing out, I discovered my true passion, the cetaceans. I then decided to dedicate my academic life to the marine world and when I felt a little unmotivated to study, I looked at the photographs of cetaceans hanging on my wall to get motivated again. I had my first encounter with a fin whale in Cap de Creus in 2009, when I was studying the Masters in Oceanography and Marine Environmental Management. It was an indescribable feeling. Although I haven't been able to dedicate my professional life to what I am passionate about, I have found in Associació Cetàcea the opportunity to get involved in a marine conservation project.
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Under the Patronage of His Highness Sheikh Maktoum Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Third Cohort of Executive MBA Students Graduate from Cass Business School Dubai
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Ceremony attended by H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum
23 different nationalities represented in graduating class
The third cohort of students from the Cass Business School Dubai Executive MBA (EMBA) programme have graduated in a ceremony held at the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Maktoum Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and President of DIFC, and attended by H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum.
The Cass EMBA is a flexible part-time course aimed at managers in the Gulf region who wish to accelerate their career development while remaining in full-time employment. The course has the same content as Cass's London-based Executive MBA, which in 2011 was ranked third in the UK and seventh in Europe by the Financial Times, with classes delivered by Cass academics who visit Dubai over a long weekend once a month.
This year's cohort of students hail from a variety of industries, including energy, engineering, commerce, manufacturing, finance, legal and government. A total of 23 different countries are represented in this year's graduating class, including students from as far away as Argentina, Australia, China and the USA.
His Excellency Abdulla Mohammed Saleh, Governor of DIFC, said: "I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate the Executive MBA programme students graduating from Cass Business School today. DIFC is proud to support educational programmes with Cass's quality that build up human capital for the financial services sector in the region, and help us deliver on our mandate to place Dubai and the UAE in the top league of international financial centres. These programmes provide professionals with the opportunity to access the very best of global management thinking, research and practice, equipping them with the analytical tools and knowledge to face the rapidly evolving business world. We wish the new graduates the best of luck and look forward to their contribution towards the growth of the regional financial services industry."
"It is with enormous pride that we celebrate the graduation of the third cohort of EMBA students from our DIFC campus," said Professor Paul Curran, Vice Chancellor of City University London, of which Cass Business School is a part. "Since opening in 2007, the Cass Dubai Centre has established itself as a dynamic hub for business education in the Middle East, offering regionally relevant electives delivered by world-class academics. The class of 2012 join hundreds of fellow alumni who have earned the prestigious Cass EMBA degree and are now forging careers at the very top of the global business community."
"Consistently ranked among the best in the world, the Cass EMBA programme is designed to unlock the potential of outstanding individuals and create an accelerated career path," said Ehsan Razavizadeh, Regional Director, MENA of Cass Business School, part of City University London, and Head of Cass Dubai Centre. "I extend my congratulations to all our students on successfully completing the rigorous 24-month course, and I look forward to hearing about their progress at one of our frequent alumni events across the world."
As the first EMBA programme in the world to offer specialisations in Islamic Finance and Oil and Energy Economics, the Cass EMBA is regionally-relevant, offering electives in Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Change Management, Advanced Corporate Strategy, Islamic Economics, Islamic Law of Business Transactions, as well as Mergers and Acquisitions, Advanced Corporate Finance and Private Equity. The Cass EMBA continues to increase in popularity, with student admissions to the programme in Dubai growing by 80 per cent since 2007.
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Covey jumped on this opportunity, "I love you to the water."
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Kelly Creagh talks to YE about 'Oblivion'
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'Oblivion: A Nevermore Book' by Kelly Creagh is out today!
"I hope that [readers] gain a deeper understanding of the stereotypes people place on one another and I hope it gives them a keener eye to see past labels."
The 'Nevermore' series tells the story of a goth and a cheerleader paired together for a school project on Edgar Allen Poe, to put it simply. To not put it simply it's a fantasy young adult book series about Varen and Isobel, an unlikely pair, who find themselves on a mysterious adventure inspired by the circumstances surrounding the life and death of Edgar Allen Poe. Fans of the series are hooked. As the author, Kelly Creagh gears up for the launch of the final book, 'Oblivion: A Nevermore Book,' YE got the chance to talk to her about the series, her writing process, her fans and more!
It's a few days before the book is set to release and Kelly's already getting excited tweets from fans who got their copies early. "It kind of hit really quick but I'm really excited!" And she's got plenty of reason to be. In addition to the book release the official 'Oblivion' release party sounds like it's going to be quite a hit.
"My good friend, who is the director of the Barr Memorial Library in Fort Knox, is having the official 'Oblivion' release party there. We're going to have a costume contest. People can dress up as characters from 'Nevermore' or characters from any of Poe's works. The grand prize will be the dress that is on the front cover of 'Enshadowed' and Isobel's necklace too." How fun does that sound?
So what about the new book? Kelly is sure that fans of the series will get a lot of their questions about Valen answered in this installment, but it will also keep in line with the first two books. She assures us that there are plenty of twists, turns and surprises even she didn't see coming, which has been a theme of her writing since the start.
"I like to leave that window open because I find that my subconscious is a far better organizer than my conscious mind. And I get really great things. Fans are familiar with the character of Penfeathers. Well, I wrote a scene early on in the 'Nevermore' book and it was Isobel being chased through the park. At the time when I wrote the draft I didn't know who was chasing her, but later on Penfeathers invited himself onto the scene. I didn't even know who this character was. I just thought, ' Well okay, I'll let you hang out here and we'll see what's up with you.' And later I realized, 'Oh my gosh, he was the one responsible!' I really like when I surprise myself with my writing. Plus if I'm surprised then surely my readers going to be surprised."
On the topic of her readers, Kelly is extremely grateful for her fans.
"I would love to say to my fans that I am an author because of them. I get to have my work published because of them. There's hard work involved but an author isn't an author until she has readers. I'm their fan. I appreciate when they go buy my book. I appreciate when they get them from the library and when they respond to my work. There's no better feeling in the world."
That's the constant as we continue to talk to Kelly. She's excited by the work she's doing and thrilled by her fan's enthusiasm. She's passionate about authors she loves as well. She talks about JK Rowling, Steven Pressfield and Holly Black as some of the many people she draws inspiration from. She hopes that this series will inspire people to look past the labels society puts on them and draw inspiration from their surroundings.
Stay tuned to see what's next from Kelly. She has a couple of really interesting projects on the way including a Harry Houdini inspired novel and a book about a teen belly dancer, a young adult Muslim-American boy, and a fugitive genie called "Smoke, Fire, and Iron." If the creativity of the "Nevermore" series is any indication, we have a lot more to look forward to from Kelly Creagh.
Read one of Kelly's favorite passages from "Oblivion" below:
Isobel started forward, keeping her sights on the still visible line of his angular shoulders. Sleek and jaggedly cut, his jet hair caught a gleam from the fluorescent light fixtures as he passed beneath them. That detail, so minute, so real, prompted her to second-guess herself.
Sparing a quick glance at the walls, she checked for the hallway clock that would confirm what she already knew— that she had to be asleep.
That there wasn't one at all gave her the last shred of evidence she no longer needed.
When her eyes found him again, however, she saw that he'd traveled twice as far down the corridor as before, as if time had skipped while her gaze had been diverted.
A jolt of terror spurred Isobel to stumble after him on shaky legs. Then her mind caught up to her actions, commanding her to stop, to slip into the crowd so he wouldn't see her.
Wake up, wake up, wake up, she told herself, even while her feet kept moving, following the thrumming command of her heart.
A deep ache pulsed inside of her, urging her to yell out to him. To repeat the words she'd written that morning, and make him hear what he'd already proven he couldn't.
But then he vanished around the next corner, into the stairwell.
Isobel stopped, her chest constricting with a debilitating mixture of sorrow and fear. Sorrow that he'd once again evaporated. That this glimpse of him had happened within the realm of her imagination, and not in that mid-region
where she knew he truly dwelled.
The sensation of fear welled higher. It consumed her longing and warned her not to let him discover her here—in his world.
Wake up, she told herself again, before he finds you.
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If you're reading this blog then you know that one of the things we continuously preach is the need for sellers to start selling internationally as soon as possible. Yes, there's still a lot of fruit on the Amazon.com tree but it's being picked by more and more people. But there's other trees, if you look just a little further on the horizon, specifically Canada and Europe.
In this article we'll discuss how to start selling on Amazon.co.uk and Europe. In my experience, Canada is the easier international market to conquer, and you may also be interested in our companion article, How to Sell on Amazon.ca. However, the UK and Europe are the much bigger markets with the greatest potential. This article will give you all of the information you need to get started.
For years I've looked into selling into Europe, however, I always got dismayed when I formed the impression that it was too complex and hard. The truth of the matter is that selling into the UK is pretty simple. Selling into a dozen or so other countries in the EU is hard. There's a famous Mark Twain quote that goes "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, then starting on the first one." This quote couldn't be more applicable here – focus on selling in the UK first and then worry about the rest of Europe.
There are some steps for selling in the UK which can be used for the EU, specifically in terms of a VAT number, but these similarities will disappear once Brexit happens (and even before then there are still a lot more steps to selling in the EU than just in the UK). If you focus on selling just in the UK first then the whole process is much less intimidating.
OK, you know that Europe is huge – 700 million people or nearly twice as much as America. But let's not fool ourselves – Europe is a continent, not a country. Despite the European Union, Europe is a fragmented continent and there's not really 700 million potential customers. On top of this, Amazon North America did about $80 billion in sales in 2016 (and it's safe to say the vast majority of this is in the USA). Amazon Europe did abut $20 billion. So Europe in total is about 25% the size of North America.
On top of this, of all of Amazon's traffic in Europe, 42% come from Germany, 31% from the UK and the rest is spread across Western Europe. Really, Europe right now consists basically of Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de.
So if you do some simple math, if you sell 100 widgets on Amazon.com (ignoring Canada and Mexico for simplicity) you can expect to sell about 8 on Amazon.co.uk and 11 on Amazon.de. We're using a lot of estimates to derive this number but it's pretty consistent with my anecdotal evidence. The competition is less fierce in Europe for the most part, so you can probably expect your sales to be slightly higher than this.
So Should You Sell on Amazon.co.uk?
So we know that Amazon.co.uk will give you an 8% boost to your sales roughly and Amazon.de would give an 11% boost. Is this worth it? If these were just other sales channels, like an eBay, with no real additional costs then the answer would be an easy yes. But it's not that simple.
The real main problem with selling into Europe, aside from the cost of VAT registration and administration (spoiler alert: this is about £500 to register and £250/year in administration thereafter) the big cost is shipping your inventory to the UK. And to be exact, the cost of shipping isn't the real issue as shipping to London or Los Angeles is roughly the same. The problem is your inventory will turn about 10x slower in the UK than in America and therefore you have to ship less or store more, neither of which are ideal situations.
Let's take a simplistic example. You ship three months of goods in a 20′ container to the US. We know your sales in the UK will be about 8% of the U.S. This means you either a) ship a 20′ container of goods to the UK and store 37.5 months worth of inventory there or b) ship 8% of a container (2.16 CBM of LCL Freight) to the UK. Can you still be profitable with a shipment that is only 8% of your average size or will the cost of shipping kill your margins? Are you comfortable storing inventory for longer?
If you are buying widgets for $1 and selling them for $100 you can probably afford to pay a bit extra in shipping and still make a killing. Most of my businesses make around 10-20% net profit so the equation isn't nearly that black and white for me (and it probably isn't for most people). The other situation is when you turn over your inventory so quickly that you're comfortable storing inventory for a longer duration of time. For example, I know some people who sell an entire container of the same widget every 2 weeks. For these people, storing goods for 25 weeks instead of 2 weeks doesn't ruin their cash flow.
I was intimidated by selling in Europe for the longest time but it's not that hard. The problem is that compared to selling in the US, anything that requires more than 5 lines of information (which is what it takes to sell on Amazon.com) is hard.
With Amazon.com anyone can open up an account without any tax or business registration numbers. This is due in large part to the fact that the US has no federal sales tax or VAT. Further, anyone can ship goods into America without having to make so much as a formal customs declaration (no duties!) as long as those goods are declared at $800 or under (and of course, no seller would ever under declare their goods).
The hardest part in this entire step is registering for VAT (and you cannot even open a Seller Central account before you have this) and that really isn't that hard (it's a monetary cost more than a huge time cost). But compared to selling on Amazon.com it can seem hard.
Pan-European FBA: Ship to a single Amazon warehouse. Amazon will then distribute your goods across Europe as they please.
Multi Country Inventory (MCI): Choose where to store goods in multiple warehouses around the EU.
Central European FBA: German marketplace + stock stored in Poland and Czech Republic.
OK so let's cut to the chase and lets also forget Brexit for the time being (this won't impact things for at least a couple of years. The easiest and most simple way to get started is to ship your goods into the UK using European Fulfillment Network (EFN). Your goods will automatically be available for UK customers and you can still ship to other European customers from your UK warehouse, albeit at slower speeds, and with a 35,000 Euro limit to each other country, more or less. I won't go into the the full details of what is termed Distant Selling VAT Thresholds, but it means that you can ship a certain amount of products (averaging about 35,000 Euros but it varies per country – see here) from one country in the EU to another country into the EU without having to register for VAT in that country. If you're familiar with sales tax nexus in the U.S., this is very different as it does not matter if you have any permanent establishment or if you warehouse goods in that EU country or not, you still need to collect VAT if you ship more than those thresholds into those countries.
Pan-European FBA sounds great but it is going to require 7 "Sales Tax Registrations" (aka VAT) Registrations and 64 VAT filings per year. Does this sound fun? Didn't think so. This is a good time to mention that sales tax/VAT in Europe is nothing to joke with. This isn't like some U.S. Congress that can't get their act together, with sales tax which no one really knows how to handle. The authorities in Europe are on top of this and I have at least one friend who was sent a bill for over $100,000 from Europe for uncollected VAT. More on this later though.
The easiest way is to use a VAT service. Almost everyone I know has done this (it costs about $700 to register, more on this later). I won't go into detail about how to self register but apparently somehow you can do it through the HMRC website (the UK government authority responsible for taxation).
There are two main services which most people seem to use: www.avaskaccounting.com and www.simplyvat.com. Here's a price list from Avask Accounting.
Sample costs for VAT registration and filing.
These fees are in line with what SimplyVAT charges. In summary, you're looking at about £550 to register for VAT (or about $750US) and about £250 in annual fees later (about $350US).Amazon has periodically been offering partnerships through large accounting firms like KPMG for around the same price. I've never used them myself but my feeling is that you will be gauged long term for in filing fees and be given minimal one on one advice.
The paperwork is fairly mundane and getting your VAT number takes about 4-6 weeks on average.
The paperwork for filing for VAT is extremely minimal, especially when compared to many state regimens in the U.S.. You essentially report what your gross sales were, how much VAT is due on those sales (which should be a very simple calculation) and also how much VAT you paid on purchases. So if you imported £10,000 worth of widgets, you would have paid £2000 in VAT at the time of import. If you sold those widgets for £25,000 you will owe £5000 in VAT. This means that you will ultimately owe £3000 to the UK government in VAT. If you paid VAT on any other services along the way, which you almost certainly did for things such as for shipping and warehousing, you can claim that back here too.
There's a second thing you need in order to sell into the UK and that's what they call an Economic Operator Registration and Identification number (EORI). If you're familiar with importing into the US then this is similar to being an Importer of Record. This number is very easy to get and you can technically apply for it yourself (https://www.gov.uk/eori). However, most VAT services will register this for you.
If you have researched VAT numbers et al for selling in the UK, you have probably read a bunch about selling thresholds, distance selling rules, and other confusing verbiage. If you are an American company, Canadian company, or any other non European company, these don't apply to you. You need to register for VAT.
VAT is collected at every transaction and you can claim that back. For example, if you pay $100 in shipping, there is $20 in VAT incorporated into that which you can claim back.
When you import your goods into the UK you are going to pay VAT (which is 20% for almost all items) at that time of import. For example, if you import £1000 worth of goods you will pay £200 in VAT. If you then sell those goods for £2000 you will have to remit £400 in VAT for those sales. BUT you can claim a deduction of that £200 you paid on import. You can also claim a refund on any other things you are charged VAT on along the way.
Sellers need to be really careful to make sure they calculate the correct margins on their products. For example, let's say you sell a product for £20 which costs you £13. You would actually lose money on this transaction because of VAT.
Remember, that VAT is blended into your item price. If you forget to incorporate it into your prices you could sell your items at a big loss. Make sure you take this into account.
This will be one of your biggest challenges if you're planning to sell on Amazon.co.uk. As I mentioned earlier, you face the dilemma of shipping either too much product to the UK (and tying up your cash) or shipping a smaller amount (and paying more for shipping).
The good news is that sea shipping to the UK is actually cheaper in most cases than to the U.S. By using one of my favorite websites, Sea Rates, we can see that the current market price to ship a 20′ container from Ningbo, China to Tilbury, UK is about $950US. The same container to Los Angeles is closer to $1450. The shipping time to the UK is about twice as long (28 days) as it is to Los Angeles so be aware of this.
The cost of shipping a 20′ container from China to the UK.
If you can ship a full container into the UK and have your turnover time be 3-6 months you're probably sitting pretty (meaning that same container would only take 1.5-3weeks to sell in the U.S.!) as your shipping costs will be lower than to the U.S. The same principles I discuss in How to Ship from China to Amazon.com apply here, specifically about when to use a middle man or not. In the UK there are no shortage of great middle men and freight forwarders, as like the U.S. and Canada. I've heard great things about Regional Express who can help arrange shipments from China to Amazon warehouses and do all of your FBA prep.
The biggest challenge will come from people who are shipping from China to the U.S. and taking advantage of the highly advantageous $800 de minimis and similarly advantageous $2500 threshold for no formal customs entry. Such generosity does not exist in the UK as the de minimis threshold in the UK is only £15. This means essentially every shipment into the UK will need formal customs brokerage, to pay duties, and to pay VAT. If your margins can support this then great. If they can't then you may be stuck being a U.S. only seller.
This guide should give you solid fundamentals for starting selling on Amazon.co.uk and, down the road, the rest of Europe.
Are you interested in selling in the UK or the rest of Europe but still have questions? Post them in the comments below. If you're an experienced European seller and have anything to add then please share them as well.
Great article Dave! I was looking for this info everywhere! This is by far the best explanation!
This is super helpful, you're awesome for putting this together.
Hi Mike - thanks for offering this other consideration.
Many thanks Dave and Mike, great and very helpful article.


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Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart (Paperback)
By William Alexander
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"A delightful and courageous tale and a romping good read. Voila!" —Mark Greenside, author of I'll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do)
William Alexander is more than a Francophile. He wants to be French. There's one small obstacle though: he doesn't speak la langue française. In Flirting with French, Alexander sets out to conquer the language he loves. But will it love him back?
Alexander eats, breathes, and sleeps French (even conjugating in his dreams). He travels to France, where mistranslations send him bicycling off in all sorts of wrong directions, and he nearly drowns in an immersion class in Provence, where, faced with the riddle of masculine breasts, feminine beards, and a turkey cutlet of uncertain gender, he starts to wonder whether he should've taken up golf instead of French. While playing hooky from grammar lessons and memory techniques, Alexander reports on the riotous workings of the Académie française, the four-hundred-year-old institution charged with keeping the language pure; explores the science of human communication, learning why it's harder for fifty-year-olds to learn a second language than it is for five-year-olds; and, frustrated with his progress, explores an IBM research lab, where he trades barbs with a futuristic hand-held translator.
Does he succeed in becoming fluent? Readers will be as surprised as Alexander is to discover that, in a fascinating twist, studying French may have had a far greater impact on his life than actually learning to speak it ever would.
"A blend of passion and neuroscience, this literary love affair offers surprise insights into the human brain and the benefits of learning a second language. Reading William Alexander's book is akin to having an MRI of the soul." —Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of Sleeping Arrangements
"Alexander proves that learning a new language is an adventure of its own--with all the unexpected obstacles, surprising breakthroughs and moments of sublime pleasure traveling brings." —Julie Barlow, author of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
William Alexander, the author of two critically acclaimed books, lives in New York's Hudson Valley. By day the IT director at a research institute, he made his professional writing debut at the age of fifty-three with a national bestseller about gardening, The $64 Tomato. His second book, 52 Loaves, chronicled his quest to bake the perfect loaf of bread, a journey that took him to such far-flung places as a communal oven in Morocco and an abbey in France, as well as into his own backyard to grow, thresh, and winnow wheat. The Boston Globe called Alexander "wildly entertaining," the New York Times raved that "his timing and his delivery are flawless," and the Minneapolis Star Tribune observed that "the world would be a less interesting place without the William Alexanders who walk among us." A 2006 Quill Book Awards finalist, Alexander won a Bert Greene Award from the IACP for his article on bread, published in Saveur magazine. A passion bordering on obsession unifies all his writing. He has appeared on NPR's Morning Edition and at the National Book Festival in Washington DC and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times op-ed pages, where he has opined on such issues as the Christmas tree threatening to ignite his living room and the difficulties of being organic. Now, in Flirting with French, he turns his considerable writing talents to his perhaps less considerable skills: becoming fluent in the beautiful but maddeningly illogical French language.
"[Alexander] deals with a lot of pangs, yearnings and fears that readers, especially those around his age--57 when he set out to learn French--can identify with . . . The appeal of Flirting with French is not in the breathless descriptions of Paris or the bad puns in the chapter titles, but in the author's amiable dunderheadedness as he delves into the culture, with all its confounding contradictions." —The New York Times Book Review
"While language learners are a natural audience for this book, there is no prerequisite. Anybody who liked Alexander's previous books or just likes to see an underdog try to beat the odds will enjoy this voyageur's latest adventure." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Alexander presents himself as an apprentice, but the reader quickly discovers he is also a master teacher . . . Alexander even manages a highly readable gloss of Noam Chomsky's linguistic theory, a feat of intellectual distillation akin to 'Jacques Derrida for Dummies.'" —The Wall Street Journal
"One of America's funniest writers . . . Très, très bien!" —Counterpunch
"A charming memoir by a passionate Francophile . . . Alexander's love affair with French, he concludes in this wry and warmhearted memoir, has reaped unexpected rewards." —Kirkus Reviews
"Flirting with French is hilarious and touching, all the way to the surprise ending. In this 'travelogue' about learning French, William Alexander proves that learning a new language is an adventure of its own--with all the unexpected obstacles, surprising breakthroughs and moments of sublime pleasure traveling brings." —Julie Barlow, author of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
"Flirting with French is far more than a fling; it's a deep love affair. A blend of passion and neuroscience, this literary love affair offers surprise insights into the human brain and the benefits of learning a second language. Reading William Alexander's book is akin to having an MRI of the soul. A surprise delight that will ignite desire in every reader." —Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of Sleeping Arrangements
— Review quotes
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Foreign Language Study / French
Social Science / Popular Culture
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Bite-sized mini muffuletta sandwiches are loaded with sliced meat, cheese, and salty olive salad. These appetizers are loaded with a taste of New Orleans.
I'm not gonna lie. I don't care who wins the Super Bowl. I'm not a big NFL watcher. Or a big football watcher. Okay, so I'm not a big sports watcher. Last year I kinda got into it because the Saints were playing. They are the closest NFL team we have and there was what whole underdog, Hurricane Katrina thing that I can relate to. But Pittsburg and Green Bay are a LOOONG way from Mississippi. If someone invites us to a Super Bowl party I'll go, and I'll watch, but I'll mostly be going for the food.
This would have been much more appropriate last year since it has to do with New Orleans. But I'm sure a Packers or a Steelers fan can still appreciate a good muffuletta. If you've never sampled one of these giant submarine-style sandwiches, you are in for a treat. Salty and savory, they are good to the last bite.
A lot of restaurants offer their version of the muffuletta, but it originated at Central Grocery in the French Quarter. This is where I had my first muffuletta. They are as big around as a dinner plate and several inches thick – my mother and I split one and we still couldn't finish it. Not only are the sandwiches delicious, but Central Grocery is just a neat place in and of itself.
New Orleans is about three hours from where I live. Obviously, that's a little far to drive for a sandwich, so when I have a craving for a muffuletta I make this homemade version. I won't claim to have recreated the Central Grocery masterpiece, but it is tasty. If you don't feel like making your own homemade olive salad, use a jar of store bought. I have done this many times and it works just as well. These make great finger foods for tailgating or your Super Bowl party.
Spread olive salad over the inside of both lengths of bread.
On the bottom half, arrange salami, followed by a layer of provolone, ham, and finally mozzarella. Arrange top half of baguette over sandwich.
Cut sandwich into 3-inch squares. Secure each section with a toothpick.
Arrange sandwiches on a platter, cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, preferably overnight.
Combine garlic cloves, olives and pimentos in a food processor. Pulse until ingredients are coarsely chopped. If you do not have a food processor, ingredients will need to be chopped by hand.
Pour in olive oil and vinegar. Continue to pulse until oil and vinegar are well incorporated.
Transfer to a medium bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and allow to stand overnight.
I have never had a muffuletta bit have heard nothing but great things about them. This one here looks delicious.
love the idea of the mini muffuletta!


The examples in this book use MySQL 5.0, with InnoDB tables, but the concepts we describe should apply equally to other databases.
Unlike tables using the MyISAM engine, InnoDB tables properly support foreign key constraints. We will make use of these to infer relationships between tables.
We chose MySQL because it is free and relatively easy to set up. You can download it from http://mysql.org.


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Q: How to use afterInstall event in installer class? I have this under afterinstall event which creates a registry key.
private void install_AfterInstall(object sender, InstallEventArgs e)
{
    RegistryKey reg = Registry.ClassesRoot.CreateSubKey("*\\Shell\\Test");
    reg.SetValue(String.Empty, "My App");
    RegistryKey command = Registry.ClassesRoot.CreateSubKey("*\\Shell\\Test\\Command");
    command.SetValue(string.Empty, Application.StartupPath + "\\test.exe %L");
    command.Close();
    reg.Close();
}

How can I use this event properly? How can I create setup that uses this? installshield, innosetup etc. Or can we do with installshield?

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Or can we do with installshield?

You can add registry keys with InstallShield.
[Edit: the following is true for InstallShield Spring 2012. It is possible the details are different for different versions of InstallShield.]
In the Installation Designer tab, under System Configuration, click Registry. On the bottom pane, "Destination computer's Registry view", create the subkeys you wish to be created on installation (so that looks like HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Test\Command).
And then create the values you want: an unnamed string value in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Test with the value My App, and an unnamed string value in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\Shell\Test\Command with the value "[INSTALLDIR]test.exe" "%1".
Alternatively, you can import a .reg file with the values you want set.
Doing this will create a component for your registry entries. If you want it all in one component, create the component first and do this under the "Registry Data" item underneath that component.
Doing it this way is easier than calling into code you write, as if you do it with a custom action (which is how you'd call into your code), you'd also need to create a rollback action, an uninstall action, and an uninstall rollback action.

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Lixin Gao, Distinguished Professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a 2021–22 fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, joining an extraordinary group of artists, scientists, scholars and practitioners who will learn from and inspire one another in a year of discovery and interdisciplinary exchange in Cambridge.
Gao, who was named the Katherine Hampson Bessell Fellow in the Radcliffe program, will pursue an individual project in a community dedicated to exploration and inquiry.
She will investigate how to perform data analytics on complex networks in a privacy-preserving manner. Performing analytics on the data is crucial but raises privacy concerns for people and organizations. The key challenge is that there is an underlying or hidden structure in the data that forms a complex network and the network can be exploited to discover private information. The ultimate goal is to gain a substantially better understanding of the capabilities of privacy-preserving computation on data analytics for complex networks.
Gao's extensive research focuses data communication networks, multimedia computing and data-intensive computing. She was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and fellow of the Association of Computing Engineering (ACM), both highly selective achievements that are reserved for a small number of outstanding researchers. She has published more than 200 journal and conference publications, which have been cited in total more than 17,700 times, giving her an h-index of 58. (An h-index of 58 means that she has published 50 articles that have each been cited at least 50 times.) Her research has been supported through numerous external research grants from the National Science Foundation and industry. She has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award.
Gao earned her Ph.D. in computer science at UMass Amherst and joined the faculty in 2000 as associate professor after four years as assistant professor at Smith College. She was promoted to professor in 2007, and elevated to distinguished professor in 2018
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"In the wake of an unprecedented—and profoundly difficult—14 months, the challenges facing our society are daunting. Some of these challenges are new, others are merely new to the spotlight—deep and longstanding issues that have been exacerbated by the pandemic and its far-reaching consequences. Our newest class of fellows will reckon with this moment and its meaning, and they will push the limits of knowledge and practice across the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. We cannot wait to welcome them."
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Mount Southington Ski Area is located in Plantsville, Connecticut, United States, on Mount Vernon Road.

Mountain information
The mountain has a skiing season from December to mid- March. However, in some years winter rainfall ends the season early. The runs are open 9am-10pm (Sat-Sun) and 10am-10pm (Mon-Fri).

There are fourteen trails: six Green Circle, four Blue Square, and two Black Diamond. Seven lifts serve the mountain: two double chairs (1-Summit, 1-Beginner Hill), two triple chairs (Summit), one rope tow (Children's Learning Area), and two Magic Carpets (Beginner Area and Children's Learning Area).

History
Mount Southington was the site of a dairy farm until the 1960s when Dr. Harold Richman, the Palmisano family, and other investors purchased the farm and developed a ski area at the site after Richman was inspired by ski areas in Vermont. The mountain opened for skiing on December 10, 1964 and gradually expanded with more trails and lifts. Mount Southington formerly had a J-bar in the beginner area until 2001, when it was replaced by a double chair. The mountain also once had two T-bars on the Stardust Trail, which were removed back in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

The mountain's two remaining T-bars, lift #4 and lift #5, were removed after the conclusion of the 2008-2009 ski season. They are being replaced with a new Partek Triple Chairlift. The new chair runs on a similar path as the old T-bars, but slightly re-angled because the chairlift goes to the top of the mountain, unlike the previous mid-mountain T-bars.

External links
Ski Mount Southington official site

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Шипицынский сельский округ — сельский округ в Большереченском районе Омской области.

Административный центр — село Шипицыно.

История
В 1924 году был образован Шипицынский сельский совет из части территории ликвидированной Больше-Реченской волости.

В 1925 году сельский совет был ликвидирован и вошёл в Кирсановский сельский совет.

В 1965 году Шипицынский сельский совет восстанавливается путём преобразования Кирсановского сельского совета и переносом центра в село Шипицыно.

В 1990-х годах сельский совет преобразовывается в сельскую администрацию.

В начале 2000-х годов сельская администрация преобразовывается в сельский округ.

В 2010 году в сельском округе была ликвидирована деревня Малокаиркуль.

Население

Административное деление

Примечания

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Quebec's new government and the issues it faces.
Author: Milner, Henry
Electorates are fickle. They punish politicians who make tough decisions, and when change is in the air they reward inexperienced parties that have no track record. In the recent Quebec election, this is what happened both on the centre-right (Liberals vs Coalition Avenir Quebec) and the centre-left (Parti Quebecois vs Quebec Solidaire). On the centre-left, a key moment came when PQ leader Jean-Francois Lisee, who was the most articulate participant in the debates, attacked QS spokesperson Manon Masse for her party's unrealistic program. This attack on a party assumed to be nowhere near power seemed unfair and, in combination with Masse's exceeding the (low) expectations in her debate performance, resulted in QS taking enough votes to give the PQ fewer seats than in any election since 1973.
On the centre-right, the CAQ was expected to win, but no polling firms anticipated a CAQ majority. It turned out that, with sovereignty off the table, francophones who were tired of the Liberals had an alternative in the CAQ, while many non-francophones stayed home rather than, as before, voting Liberal to stop the separatists. This even though the CAQ, which was largely absent in English-speaking Quebec, was frequently mischaracterized in the English media as antiminority because of its secularist position on religious symbols worn by public servants in authority.
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Holladay City Council considers zoning change
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HOLLADAY — Residents of the Aix La Chapelle condominiums on Murray-Holladay Road want their zoning changed so they can sell their properties to federally backed lenders.
The only problem? Holladay doesn't have a zone designation that fits the sprawling complex.
Because of new federal lending rules, owners can't sell their homes unless the existing commercial zoning is brought into accordance with the residential use, several said.
The issue is complicated by the construction of the city-subsidized Holladay Village project a stone's throw from the low-income condominiums. The new development could draw interest in upgrading the condos to a "higher" commercial use in the near future.
The Holladay City Council held a public hearing Thursday on a proposal to change the zone to multi-family residential instead of commercial. The only other option, officials said, is to create a new zone.
"To me, we should be able to have a zone that matches what we are until a developer comes," said Megan Mackay, who sits on the board of the Aix La Chapelle Homeowners Association. "We deserve to be able to have the right to buy and sell our properties until that happens."
The council is likely to vote on the issue Feb. 18.
Also Thursday, the Holladay council voted to give Cafe Normandie a new zoning that allows the restaurant to use its state liquor license. The eatery sits between Aix La Chapelle and the massive lot that once was home to Cottonwood Mall.
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Telegram Doubles Amount Raised in ICO to $1.7 Billion
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Messaging app provider Telegram has successfully raised another $850 million through its initial coin offering (ICO) private sale, public documents reveal.
According to a Form D disclosure filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by Telegram founder Pavel Durov on Thursday, the funds raised were "purchase agreements for cryptocurrency."
The company announced it had raised $850 million in late February in the initial ICO phase, which was already at the time one of the largest amounts raised via a token sale to date.
Notably, the filing states that "this $850,000,000 offering is in addition to the previous offering," indicating that the company has now exceeded its initial target of $1.2 billion, and has accumulated a total of $1.7 billion.
The token sale, which is based on the Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) framework, possibly isn't over yet. The filing states that, "The issuers may pursue one or more subsequent offerings." As previously reported, Telegram may try to raise as much as $2.55 billion.
While the Form D did not disclose the number of investors, it did note that only people or entities investing a minimum of $1 million were allowed to participate.
The funds will be used to develop the Telegram Open Network (TON), an ambitious blockchain meant to decentralize multiple facets of digital communication, ranging from file sharing to browsing to transactions.
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