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How to outsource your mission critical services in a secure way

Todays news from Basefarm´s company blog “Above the clouds”:February 26, 2014: Today more than 30 000 sites are hacked everyday*. It means that they get hacked, modified or alerted by someone placing hidden viruses, which are then transferred to the computer or device who visits the site. The numbers are breathtaking and the trend suggests that the numbers will increase to 40,000 per day by years end. With this in mind, let us simply conclude: most companies today are like a swiss cheese with hole in it. Therefore it is a good idea to outsource your mission critical services to a hosting

Social Landlords urged to apply for share of £685,000 fund to install energy efficiency measures in South West social housing

Ready for Retrofit is inviting social landlords from across the South West to apply for funding to install energy efficiency and micro generation retrofit measures in social housing.The organisation is releasing funds of £685,000 to support the installation of schemes that will improve the energy efficiency of social housing as well as supporting the local supply chain for such services. Social housing providers across the South West (apart from Cornwall) have until 19th March 2014 to apply for funds, and all schemes must be able to complete works by 31st October 2014. All

Social Landlords Urged to Apply for Share of £685,000 Fund to Install Energy Efficiency Measures in South West Social Housing

Ready for Retrofit is inviting social landlords from across the South West to apply for funding to install energy efficiency and micro generation retrofit measures in social housing.The organisation is releasing funds of £685,000 to support the installation of schemes that will improve the energy efficiency of social housing as well as supporting the local supply chain for such services. Social housing providers across the South West (apart from Cornwall) have until 19th March 2014 to apply for funds, and all schemes must be able to complete works by 31st October 2014. All

Stena Line acquires direct route from Ireland to France

Leading European ferry company Stena Line  has acquired the Irish-owned Celtic Link ferry service which operates from Rosslare-Cherbourg.  Celtic Link currently provides a three times weekly service between Ireland and France with the Mv Celtic Horizon, which can accommodate 1 000 passengers, 200 cars and 120 freight units. Ian Davies, Stena Line’s Route Manager (Irish Sea South) said: “The acquisition of the Rosslare-Cherbourg route is a key strategic investment for Stena Line and one which will help stimulate and strengthen new and existing opportunities

Born Free - Simba the lion heads home

From French Zoo to Africa's bushveld ... Simba the lion is finally free to start a new chapter of his story, thanks to the efforts of Born Free and The Natuurhulpcentrum  - with partners Land Rover and Kenya Airways.This week, Born Free & The Natuurhulpcentrum (Wildlife Rescue Centre) are celebrating the safe return of Simba the lion to his homeland Africa.  He was accompanied for the last leg of his journey from Nairobi in Kenya to his new home in Malawi and given a personal welcome to his new life-long home by actress, founder and trustee of the Born Free Foundation, Virginia McKenna, OBE

IAR Systems enhances Renesas Electronics’ innovative program for RX MCUs designs

Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany—February 26, 2014—Renesas Electronics Europe, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions has invited its Platinum Alliance Partner IAR Systems®, the world-leading supplier of embedded development tools, to enhance the innovative software program for European customers by joining the RX Maximization program. The RX Maximization program is built around the high-performance RX 32-bit microcontroller family, consisting of free-of-charge RTOS and Middleware components, worth up to €20,000, allowing developers to quickly customize sample code to

IAR Embedded Workbench strengthens development of new low-power ARM Cortex-M0+ core from STMicroelectronics

Developers working with the newly released STM32L0 microcontroller series will be able to benefit from its full potential by using IAR Embedded Workbench for ARMEmbedded World, Nuremberg, Germany—February 26, 2014—IAR Systems® announces support for the new ultra-low-power STM32L0 series based on ARM® Cortex®-M0+ from STMicroelectronics®. The support is available using IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM, recently enhanced with major new features including multicore debugging. The STM32L0 ultra-low-power series features a 32MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ processor core, a 12-bit Analog-to-Digital

IAR Systems enhances Renesas Electronics’ innovative program for RX MCUs designs

Embedded World, Nuremberg, Germany—February 26, 2014—Renesas Electronics Europe, a premier provider of advanced semiconductor solutions has invited its Platinum Alliance Partner IAR Systems®, the world-leading supplier of embedded development tools, to enhance the innovative software program for European customers by joining the RX Maximization program. The RX Maximization program is built around the high-performance RX 32-bit microcontroller family, consisting of free-of-charge RTOS and Middleware components, worth up to €20,000, allowing developers to quickly customize sample code to

Phoenix Solar Completes Ground-Mount Solar Facility At Morgan Stanley’s Purchase, NY Corporate Campus

823-kilowatt peak photovoltaic system to offset up to 25% of building’s daily peak electricity useSAN RAMON, California, February 26, 2014 — Phoenix Solar Inc. (www.phoenixsolar.com) today announced the completion of an 823-kilowatt peak  ground-mount solar facility on six acres at Morgan Stanley’s corporate campus in Purchase, New York. Phoenix Solar provided all engineering services, procured a portion of the components, and managed the construction of the solar facility. The ground-mount solar facility is expected to generate approximately 1,000 MWh of electricity per year, offsetting

Silencing the voices of Northern Ireland’s history

There is a threat to preserving the historical record of the Northern Ireland Troubles which may be as hazardous as any fire or flood. In a new article published in the journal Archives and Records James Allison King warns that the fallout from a recent intervention by the British Government risks silencing people’s accounts that would otherwise have been put on record. In his paper, “‘Say nothing’: silenced records and the Boston College subpoenas”, King examines the ‘Belfast Project’ at Boston College, a ground-breaking oral history endeavour in which interviews gave valuable and

We’re off to see the Wizard - live in Knowsley this April

The Wizard of Oz- Knowsley Leisure and Culture Park, Huyton Saturday 26 April 7.00pm Sunday 27 April 1.00pm and 5.00pm showsFamily favourite The Wizard of Oz is brought to the stage at Knowsley Leisure and Culture Park this April. The show is being brought to Knowsley for a two-night run by Trio Entertainment Ltd following a hugely successful summer season in Blackpool last year. This heartwarming show is filled with feel-good factor, as audiences meet classic characters the brainless Scarecrow, loveable Tin Man and cowardly Lion – not to mention our heroine Dorothy and her

Does your iPod make you socially isolated?

A recent study published in the journal Leisure Studies, ‘iPod use and the perception of social introversion’  by Benjamin R. Garner (University of Kansas), discusses the effects that iPod use has on society and social interaction. Garner conducted a study with 105 college students at a small university in the south of North America. His study focused on how the participants view iPod users, with a hypothesis that they would perceive them as less likely to engage in social interaction. He also wanted to determine whether

Dissolving the share ownership system of Metsä Group's management team

Metsä Group Stock Exchange Release 26 February 2014 at 2.00 pm EETMetsä Group's parent company Metsäliitto Cooperative announced on 10 August 2010, that its Board of Directors had resolved to fund Metsä Group Executive Management Team members’ holding company for purposes of encouraging the Executive Management Team members to purchase and own Metsä Board Corporation’s shares, thus increasing the long-term owner value of Metsä Group and promoting the Group's strategic goals. For the share ownership, the Metsä Group Executive Management Team members at the time acquired a company called

Achieving the Dream Following Through on White House Summit Commitments

Hosts first-ever College Readiness Institute; releases Developmental Education Practitioner Briefs in partnership with MDCOrlando, FL (February 26, 2014) – Today, Achieving the Dream launched new tools to increase college and career readiness at community colleges by hosting the College Readiness Institute and releasing a series of practitioner briefs titled, “Right from the Start. ” These actions demonstrate the commitments made by Achieving the Dream at the January 2014 White House Summit on Increasing College Opportunity

Metsä Group’s executive management’s shareholding system in which Metsä Board’s CEO Mikko Helander participated has been dissolved

Metsä Board Corporation Stock Exchange Release on 26 February 2014 at 2 pm EET Metsä Board Corporation told on 10 August 2010 that CEO Mikko Helander participates in Metsä Group’s (then Metsäliitto Group) executive management’s shareholding scheme, the purpose of which has been to encourage members of Metsä Group’s executive management to acquire and own Metsä Board’s shares and, through this, to increase Metsä Group’s long-term shareholder value and to support the achievement of strategic targets. For purposes of owning shares, members of Metsä Group’s Executive Management Team acquired

Testing for exposure to benzene: as multi-billion pound FPSO industry meets in London, AB Biomonitoring reports on key safety tools

“Safety is paramount. An FPSO vessel can hold up to 2 million barrels of oil at a time”One of the oil and gas industry’s growing specialised sectors – the floating production, storage and offloading vessels market (FPSO) – holds its fourth annual conference  in London on the 5th and 6th March. There are now nearly two hundred of these vessels across the globe, from the North Sea to the Gulf of Mexico, with the largest capable of storing 2.2 million barrels of oil, and costing over $800 million to build. An FPSO is a floating vessel

INNOVATIVE SKINCARE® Introduces SHEALD™ Recovery Balm in their iS CLINICAL Cosmeceutical lineup

The Ultimate Remedy for Post-Procedure and Severely Dry Skin(Burbank, CA)  INNOVATIVE SKINCARE®, a leader in clinically – validated skin care formulas for healthy, youthful-looking skin, has proudly introduced its newest product creation iS CLINICAL SHEALD™ Recovery Balm, a highly effective after-care and intensive protective moisturizing treatment, to resounding success.  According to INNOVATIVE SKINCARE Founder and CEO, Bryan Johns, “We created SHEALD™ Recovery Balm in response to the demands of our professional partners; requesting a rich occlusive salve that could help heal post-

Brighter's rights issue heavily oversubscribed

Brighter's rights issue (subscription period February 7th-21st, 2014) has been heavily oversubscribed. The subscription rate was approx. 640 percent. The rights issue has brought Brighter approx. SEK 10.4 million, before issue costs. This means that the private placement in January 2014 and this rights issue have together generated a total of just over SEK 35 million, before issue costs, for Brighter."Both of our two recent new issues have attracted keen subscription interest. The purpose of the rights issue was to enable our existing shareholders to essentially maintain their share of

Did Five Years of Drought Leads to Two Years of Revolution in Syria?

Negotiators in Geneva might not have brought the conflict in Syria to an end last week, but work recently published by an academic from Radboud University in the Netherlands explains how the 2006–10 drought contributed to its start. Writing in Middle Eastern Studies*, Francesca de Châtel makes it clear that “it was not the drought per se, but rather the government’s failure to respond to the ensuing humanitarian crisis that formed one of the triggers of the uprising, feeding a discontent that had long been simmering in rural areas.” In her view, the situation now facing Syria is “the

UK shoppers put families before Fairtrade

· Ethical issues only influence a minority of people when they choose what food products to buy, survey reveals · Consumers need a clearer understanding of the difference they can make when buying Fairtrade products · Buying behaviour of the British public most influenced by product claims for health-related benefits The majority of the UK’s food shoppers are overlooking ethical products such as Fairtrade goods in favour of those that offer a direct or tangible benefit to their own lives, a new study from MMR Research Worldwide (MMR) reveals.  Only a minority take into

Finnair to add winter frequencies to Bangkok

Next December Finnair will supplement its double-daily winter service to Bangkok with three additional frequencies per week from December 30, 2014 to March 27, 2015. The extra flights bring the number of Finnair’s peak-season weekly Bangkok services to 17, the most frequencies of any European carrier. The additional flights are scheduled to depart on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday evenings. AY091 departs Helsinki Airport (HEL) at 20:15 for arrival at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) at 11:00 local time the next day. AY092 leaves Bangkok on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays at 12:45 for

CashGuard leaves robbers empty-handed

Thanks to CashGuard the two raiders who attempted to rob a Spar store in Dublin, Ireland, where forced to leave empty-handed.   The staff were threatened but not injured and two raiders fled the store after they couldn’t access any cash. Listen to the radio interview with the CashGuard representatives in Ireland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC8LBjYj234&feature=youtu.be After several incidents the store installed a CashGuard solution in August 2011. At CashGuard we are very proud to provide a solution that creates a safer work environment for retail staff.

Vattenfall divests German engineering consultancy

Vattenfall has agreed to sell its German engineering consultancy Vattenfall Europe Power Consultant GmbH (VPC) to palero capital GmbH (Palero). Completion is expected during the first quarter 2014. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.The engineering consultancy is a non-core business for Vattenfall and the divestment of VPC is a continuation of the consolidation strategy. In March 2011, Vattenfall sold parts of its Swedish engineering consultancy business to Pöyry PLC. “ With the sale of VPC, Vattenfall consistently continues to deliver on its consolidation since

Vodafone's Project Spring awards Ericsson with 5 year deal

· Ericsson has been awarded with a five year deal as part of Vodafone's Project Spring organic investment programme  · The contract includes upgrading and expansion of Vodafone's 2G and 3G network and ambitious build-out of 4G LTE along with professional services such as network-roll out, integration, tuning & optimization as well as support services · Ericsson's service professionals will transform Vodafone network into a market leading high-performance network for mobile broadband with full 4G LTE support         Vodafone, one of the world's largest telecommunications

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