American Dad!

American Dad! is an animated television series and adult sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Barker and Matt Weitzman for the Fox network. After Fox canceled the show it was picked up from TBS. The series is initially released on February 6th of 2005. American Dad! has been nominated many times, most notably for two Primetime Emmy Awards and two Annie Awards. In June 2013, she was awarded the category of best animated series by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Since its first broadcast, the series had more than 200 episodes. In the year 2014 the series passed from the FOX to the TBS network in its eleventh season in September.

Synopsis

The TV show focuses on the Smith family and three other characters with whom they share their lives daily: father and husband Stan Smith is a CIA agent, his wife Francine Smith is a housewife. Their eldest daughter Hayley Smith (voiced by Seth MacFarlane's sister Rachel MacFarlane) and their youngest son, Steve Smith (voiced by Scott Grimes) is a high school student. Apart from the entire Smith family, the series also includes three other main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend and husband Jeff Fischer, the domestic goldfish called Klaus Heissler, actually an East German, trapped in the body of a fish and Roger an alien.

The Smith family resides at 43 Cherry Street in the fictional Langley Falls, Virginia neighborhood. inspired by the city of Langley, Virginia in the United States. The house of the Smiths would seem to be composed of many secret chambers, and many other related and unorthodox pieces seen. The house is also composed of several hatches, including filled with alligators. Greg and Terry are a homosexual couple and neighbors of the Smiths. Steve has three friends. Snot, a Jewish curly-haired teenager, Barry an obese naive and greedy teenager under heavy drug treatment for behavioral problems. And Toshi, a young Japanese who, while understanding English, only talks in Japanese.

My opinion

Almost all episodes follow the same scheme. Like already in Family Guy, somebody of the Smith family goes after another member of the family or friends. There is a fight, struggle and towards the end a reasoning. The situation is usually resolved by saying "I'm (so) sorry" or "I was wrong". And everybody is happy. So predictable. I don't know why I'm still watching this.

How to prevent VOIP Spam

What is SPIT?

Spam over Internet Telephony (SPIT) is telephone spam that is transmitted over the Internet Protocol using IP (Voice over IP) telephony. Telephone spam refers to unwanted telephone calls that are automatically and in large numbers recorded. Phone spam is similar to email spam, but is currently less common and requires other safeguards due to synchronous communication.

How abuse takes place

IP telephony, as well as email and other Internet applications, is prone to being abused by unwanted messages and connections. Call machines can be used for telesales, telemarketers, for alleged winning messages, or as phone calls. In particular, IP telephony offers this freely available software (such as Asterisk or SIP) and inexpensive options to automatically sell a large number of calls. The IP telephony is often based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) [1] for setting up, controlling and reducing the telephone connections. After establishing a SIP session and accepting the call by the called party, a pre-recorded spam message can be recorded. For pure lock or ping calls, no audio data is transmitted.

Large numbers of unwanted and automated phone calls

SPIT is characterized by a large number of unwanted and automated phone calls that are transmitted using the Internet Protocol. The caller (spammer) tries to establish a large number of connections using suitable software and plays a recorded message as soon as the called party answers the call. Using the widely used Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the connections to INVITE messages are initiated and then configured and set up with other messages; The audio data is then transmitted via the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP). The spammer can this telephony software such. B. Asterisk use. The spam calls can be transmitted via gateways of the telecommunications network operators in the conventional telephone network (PSTN).

How to prevent VOIP Spam?

Many users have no problem with SPIT already being "shielded" behind NAT or a package filter, AKA firewall. Others, running a Linux server with VOIP server and client on it might be exposed to VOIP Spam. These can protect themselves by setting up one package filter rule:

iptables -A INPUT -p udp ! -s 217.10.79/24 --destination-port 5060 -j REJECT

assuming 217.10/16 is the IP range from your ISP. In this case it's Sipgate. That will throw away all UDP packages to the SIP port (5060, might differ on other setups) unless they come from 217.10.79/24.

How to disable auto play of videos in Chrome and Firefox browsers

When users enter certain web pages, often videos embedded there start to play automatically. Many users, including me, do not wish to run videos they didn't demand. But they play anyway. Is there a way in Browsers like Chrome or Mozilla's Firefox to deactivate the automatic play of videos? Besides it's annoying, these videos use data. When a user has a "cap" with his ISP (the maximal amount of data he can transfer every month) he might pay additional charges for a data transfer, he didn't demand. Luckily for web browser like Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome there is a way, to deactivate the automatic playing of videos, like in Youtube.

Chrome and Chromium web browsers

The Chrome web browser is currently the dominant browser and holds the biggest market share. Thanks to the implementation in Android smart phones and tablets, Android ships.

Desktop

After launching the browser click into the address bar on top and type in about: flags and hit the RETURN key. On top you find a search form. Enter autoplay and click on the first find the drop down menu and choose Document user activation is required. After you restart Chrome videos should not start automatically anymore, but asks the user to confirm, he wants to run a particular video.

Chrome on Android

This is easier. Launch the Chrome browser on your tablet or smart phone and visit Settings and then Site Settings. Scroll down the media menu and select the media tab. There you must select autoplay and click the checkbox, to disable the function.

Mozilla's Firefox

The Firefox browser of Mozilla has some great features. It is highly customizable. It has among other native features the ability, to prevent videos from starting to play automatically. Click the URL bar and type in about:config. Ignore the warning and use the search form to find media.autoplay.default. Set this to "1" if it was not already set. Also find media.autoplay.allow-muted and set this to false. Restart the Firefox browser that the changes take effect

Other methods

If this isn't working for you, third party add-ons come into play. Open the Preferences menu and search for addons or extensions. There is a search form. Search for something like disable, auto play or automatic and install the appropriate extension.

TV series The Orville

The series The Orville is an American TV show created by Seth MacFarlane and premiered on September 10th 2017 on the Fox network in the United States and simultaneously on the Citytv2 network in Canada.

It's a science-fiction drama set in a future, where Earth is part of a larger community of civilizations that coexist in the universe in a peaceful way. The story takes place around a medium-class space ship called Orville and its crew.

Plot

In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union with an extended civilization, advanced and above all peaceful and comprises a fleet of approximately 3000 vessels. Among them the Orville, a modern spacecraft led by Captain Ed Mercer (portrait by Seth MacFarlane, the producer of the show), determined to prove his worthiness and to write a new chapter in his life, backed by an eccentric crew.

Cast

Main actors

• Seth MacFarlane as Captain Ed Mercer
• Adrianne Palicki as Commander Kelly Grayson
• Penny Johnson Jerald as Dr. Claire Finn
• Scott Grimes as Lieutenant Gordon Malloy. Scott Grimes was acknowledged in the movie Critters, when he was at the age of fifteen.

Continuity

The first season is considered by fans to be lighthearted, with the focus on jokes similar to these found in Family Guy, which is also produced by Seth MacFarlane. Season two started much darker and had fewer jokes but more blood and killings. Later episodes of season two followed what season one was like.

Crossover between Family Guy and The Orville

Some episodes of Family Guy mentioned The Orville. Many fans of both shows expect that at some point in the near future a crossover between Family Guy and The Orville should take place.

Star Trek references

Some actors from the Star Trek franchise took part in The Orville. Jonathan Frakes and Robert Duncan McNeill already directed episodes of The Orville. While actors like Roberto Picardo (the EMH of Voyager) or John Billingsley, portraying Dr. Phlox in Enterprise or Tim Russ (playing a Vulcan officer onboard the USS Voyager) already had a role in The Orville. Apparently Seth MacFarlane likes to have actors from the Star Trek universe in his show.

War between India and Pakistan

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoped to come out of the election campaign as a strong man. He did not quite succeed. On February 26th 2019 Modi bombed a terrorist camp in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, directly adjacent to the Kashmir mountainous region. He said he responded to a terrorist attack in Kashmir. In the long history of skirmishes between the two countries holding a nuclear stockpile, it was the first time that India did this, thus starting the conflict to escalate.

The cold war between Indian and Pakistan got hotter

Pakistan was unwilling to follow New Delhi's contention that the bombing was an anti-terrorist operation and a non-military preemptive strike. The following day Pakistani military aircraft shot down an Indian fighter plane over Kashmir and took the pilot in captivity. Now the airspace over Pakistan is closed to civilian traffic, because the government expects attacks from India. Thousands of flights have to be diverted worldwide. If this escalates to a war between the two nuclear powers, would it not only have consequences for the South Asian region but the rest of the world.

Dangerous situation

The situation is extremely tense. For the first time in almost 50 years, the air forces of both countries are in direct confrontation. The last war between India and Pakistan took place in 1971 and ended with the defeat of Pakistan and the secession of the state of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan.

My opinion

If Narendra Modi wants to respond to a terrorist attack and bomb a camp he should had spoken to the Pakistani president before. Let the Pakistani handle it. Only if Pakistan declined Narendra Modi should tell the Pakistani India will take care of of the situation itself. But as history often shows failure to communicate often leads to disaster. I wonder if Narendra Modi hasn't the brains to not have seen this. Lets pray that if the wage nuclear war there are no strong winds that the fallout falls on their countries only. Both have quite a large landmass.

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Synopsis

It is 1692 and a town in Massachusetts has an unnerving undercurrent running through it which threatens to tear apart the peace and harmony on which is it based. The undercurrent is that witchcraft is being practiced within the town and with everyone pointing the finger and suspicions at everyone else, the waters are cloudy as to who is actually guilty of the crime. The Salem witch trails start and suddenly everyone's dirty washing is being aired in public.

Strong Characters

The characters involved have been brought to life by Miller to the point that they can be seen on a daily life. Giles Corey is one such example. He is an ageing man, yet one of strong principles and also of integrity although very traditional in nature. He finds it strange and beyond him that his wife reads books, a point that he airs. This then results in his wife being accused of witchcraft. He remains strong to the end in a scene that is quite emotional. Stones are piled onto his chest in a bid for him to confess to practicing witchcraft - if he confesses, he will live but his family cannot inherit his land if so. His reply is constantly "more weight".

A great play with many twists, highlighting the evil trappings of life such and jealously and revenge and showing how a small event can spiral out of control. You cannot say you are a fan of modern plays unless you have seen this! Essential viewing.

How to silence a smoke detector

When your smoke detector starts chirping at you it wants to tell you to replace the empty 9 Volt block battery with a fresh one. Because this chirping becomes very annoying and more frequent the longer you wait you should act soon and put a new battery in place. To replace the empty pile you need a ladder or other means to reach the detector. Some allow to unscrew the top of the body with the hand, for others you might need a screwdriver to insert into a gap near the latch then pull the screwdriver and the top pops off. Remove the old battery and replace it with a fresh one. Assemble the body again.

Connected or not connected to the grid, that is the question

With a new power source detectors now connected to the grid shall run at least six month, so you should replace it twice a year. As a reminder many people use the dates we go from standard time to daylight savings and back. Items connected to the grid also use a pile as backup in case a fire knocked out electricity. These piles hold up to five years.

Temporarily silencing a chirping smoke detector

If you don't have a 9 Volt block cell handy or cannot reach the detector chirping can make you mad. But many smoke detectors ran into allow to silence them temporary for up to ten hours. Locate the small button facing downwards. You need some item to reach it. A long soup ladle might do the job. Press the button for about a half second. It will beep like when it had detected smoke then be silent. Have a look at that button which now should slowly flash all few seconds. Then you are good for eight to ten hours of tranquility and can finally have a good night sleep without the annoying noises. But sometimes it starts becoming noisy again after a few minutes. So wait say 30 minutes before you actually can be sure it will be silent. If not push the button for another half second again. But keep in mind this helps only temporarily. Go ahead and install a new pile instead. That way you mute the alarm device and can go back to your normal life.

[Update]

I noticed the button must lit when releasing and to push it twice that it works reliably.

A firefighter was checking the heat detector. I asked him to check the smoke detector only to find out it is connected to the grid without a battery. He recommended to replace it because it chirps as it is too old and needs to be replaced. Will ask my landlord to replace it.

The golden age of arcade video games

The golden age of arcade games is an era in which the popularity and innovations of arcade video games were at their peak. This period started 1978 with the release of Space Invaders until the mid-1990s with the development of personal gaming equipment becoming more powerful than typical arcade games.

Abstract

By the early 1980s, video game technology had become sophisticated enough to offer good quality graphics and sound, but still remained basically simple. Realistic images and full-screen animations were not yet possible, and only few games used synthesized voices. The success of a game based mainly on gameplay and the fun it provides . This interest in gameplay is the reason why many of these games continue to be enjoyed today despite being outdated by today's standards.

Economic sector

The Golden Age was a moment of great technical and conceptual creativity for arcade video games. The games were developed around a wide variety of genres while designers had to grapple with the strict limits of CPU power and available memory. This period also saw the emergence of arcades, places dedicated exclusively to arcade gaming. At this time, arcade bells are beginning to appear in supermarkets, gas stations, pizza parlors and many other retail businesses eager to generate additional revenue. Popular games then caused especially teenagers to scramble to try out the latest video game attraction.

Companies

The most successful companies in this field are probably Atari, particularly in the United States and Namco, particularly in Japan. Other publishers include Bally Midway, Capcom, Cinematronics, Konami, Nintendo, Sega, SNK, Taito and Williams.

Successful games of this golden era

The games below are some of the most popular and influential games of the period. All are in the Top 100 video arcade games according to KLOV.

• Space Invaders (1978)
• Asteroids (1979)
• Galaxian (1979)
• Lunar Lander (1979)
• Battlezone (1980)
• Berzerk (1980)
• Centipede (1980)
• Defender (1980)
• Missile Command (1980)
• Pac-Man (1980)
• Star Castle (1980)
• Warlords (1980)
• Wizard of Wor (1980)
• Donkey Kong (1981)
• Frogger (1981)
• Galaga (1981)
• Ms. Pac Man (1981)
• Qix (1981)
• Tempest (1981)
• Amidar (1982)
• Vanguard (1981)
• Burgertime (1982)
• Dig Dug (1982)
• Joust (1982)
• Moon Patrol (1982)
• Pole Position (1982)
• Q*bert (1982)
• Robotron 2084 (1982)
• Time Pilot (1982)
• Tron (1982)
• Xevious (1982)
• Zaxxon (1982)
• Dragon's Lair (1983)
• Elevator Action (1983)
• Spy Hunter (1983)
• Star Wars (1983)
• Tapper (1983)

Event management and teambuilding for companies

Event management and team building for companies ensures optimal sales figures and serves as effective sales training for employees, but also for freelancers inside a company. It also offers solid training options for career changers.

Funacts for businesses

Effective sales training in context of event management ensures best possible sales figures for employees and freelancers. It also presents a solid training option for potential employed lateral entrants, where no basic sales training is required. Before such a training, the employee should, of course, always be taught about his tasks. So she or he knows what opportunities exist to get the job done. This is the only way to ensure that such training is not blocked by employees meaningless, so that they can benefit from the workshops concerned. Funacts outside the company help to relax and make the job easier for everyone.

Bubblesoccer for your event

Bubble Soccer is a recreational activity in which the participants over their torso inflatable, usually transparent, balls (the so-called bubble balls or bumpers balls) and put it to play football. Both the upper body and the head of the players are protected by the inflatable bubble balls. The bubble balls are made of PVC or TPU and when inflated usually have a diameter of one and a half meters. Bubblesoccer thus acts like an airbag in bubble football games, as they protect the players in clashes. This creates a completely different from classic football game principle. Similar to the American football, the players rush to each other at the kick-off and first try to knock over the opponents and thus make their way to the gate.

Event management for private events

Event management for private events offers interested parties who want to book a sales coaching the opportunity to clarify questions in an individual interview and to get in-depth advice on existing options that are available. It makes sense to invite the directly responsible employees in a conversation. So you can discuss topics directly with them in a direct workshop. To find out what expectations and demands are placed on the training. Or to explore whether there is any training need for the employees. Because there are different assessments and opinions that need to be considered and identified in advance for the training program to succeed. This tasks becomes a lot easier in relaxed environments by creating private events with fun games for the employees.

Side events for companies

An ideal solution is provided by side events for companies to implement new sales strategies and to train their employees to pursue new marketing concepts. An interim sales force helps to use the optimal solution to take advantage of new sales strategies and marketing concepts that involve employees. At this point, it is important to emphasize that action can only be as good as a management that lays down this idea. Thus, the supervising sales trainer is obliged to support all necessary measures. And to ensure appropriate advocacy work for their own employees and to support all measures which ensure that all measures of the trainer are not blocked, but supported. Only in this way can a conversion action lead to success for the company.

Event management for clubs

The event management for clubs offer clubs to pursue a strategy to make their own club visible on the Internet. This gives them the opportunity to present the association to existing members, but also new prospects who may want to join, in order to promote them.

Team building

Team building brings together well-working teams formed from various external groups. Teambuilding helps companies in to develop and deploy new strategies. Striking tasks and unfamiliar environments have to be mastered together in order to solve common experiences. Here employees get to know each other in order to master the problem. With the company's interim sales and employee training, a professional sales trainer is ideal for providing content for interim sales and employee training, even if it does not depend on the size of the business.

Human Table Soccer for your events

There's no getting bored if you offer a Human Table Soccer for your event. Team-wise, up to twelve players can play at six bars. Absolute teamwork is required to win the prize. At Human Table Soccer, or human soccer, not only football fans get their money's worth. The fun team event is suitable for both men and women, motor friends as well as for those who can not win the sport so much. At the latest with the kick-off, the teams are activated to peak performance. The life-sized table football is one of three to four stops at the event. To provide variety during the game breaks, we also build a dribbling course, goal wall shooting and a ball speed meter.

Restructuring the sales strategy

A professional sales trainer offers interim sales lines and employee training that does not depend on company size. Any desired restructuring, as often desired by sales organizations, will be accompanied by a coach in your sales organization if companies want to succeed. An absolute prerequisite is a joy in the sale for the one who really wants to be successful, who wants to realize his personal and individual goals. Only when work is fun and both sides of the service or product communicate appropriately can the customer be convinced that he recognizes the benefits. Only if this succeeds, the customer will feel the desire to use and acquire the service or the product. A good coach will help to remove existing blockages that are subject to your own mindset.

An effective seller strategy is not static. Within the target group, therefore, the given facts should be adapted to the product. Effective salesman strategies are basically not static. Instead, you must look at the facts that are given. This takes into account the strategies of the respective product and the respective target group. This can include adolescent end users who appreciate other aspects of products they sell, senior citizens over the age of 70, or managers in their middle class. Thus, prospective sellers should consider considering which target group they want to sell a product before planning a rough course to consolidate the sales strategy.

Soccer dart for your events

At the Soccerdart you shoot Velcro footballs on a giant inflatable dartboard and deliver exciting matches. Soccer Dart is a huge hit at every football party, but also at all other celebrations and happy gatherings. The football dartboard can be easily assembled by one person in a few minutes. Fun for children and adults.

Fashion trends for winter of 2019/2020

What are the fashion trends for winter of 2019 - 2020

Which handbags and shoes are in in the coming season? How are the new fashion colors combined with the products? What kind of materials and fashion accessories will we see in the new fashion collections? Be inspired by upcoming fashion trends to find out.

The Top 10 Fashion Colors of the Winter 2019/2020

Fashion colors have a big effect on sales behavior. Colors can make the outfit coverable or destroy it. Discover which colors are best suited to you. The fashion colors for the winter of 2018/2019 are unusual for those who remember past years. Forgotten are black, brown, gray and dark blue tones, the years gone by. The color trends for the upcoming winter fashion are so unusual and sometimes too bright and delicate that they remind of spring colors. But that's intended.

Padded jackets

Did you have a padded jacket last year that you wore with enthusiasm? Then there is good news. Because padded jackets, also known as Michelin jackets, are in the coming winter season announced again.

Layer fashion

One of the most striking trends of winter fashion is dedicated to simplicity. For the winter itself that's not surprising. But even in the coming season, a large amount of these products will go on sale, which are perfectly matched.

"Boxy Shoulders", sequins and silver

a trend that has been observed in the fashion industry for years is the "boxy shoulders" reminiscent of the "big shoulders" of the 1980s. We will see her again this winter. Although it may seem like a real silver at first sight, it is not. The appearance of silver in the clothing will be announced this winter.

Handbags and shoes in vivid colors and tasteful combinations

Handbags and shoe trends are all about color this winter. Often it is bright and cheerful colors that set the trend this winter. Think of a bright red, which is a top fashion color for the coming winter. Or a bright yellow, blue or the combinations of these colors. The compilation of these colors and will stimulate your imagination. Lozenge shoes and boots will no longer be the exception in the upcoming Saigon. The latest trend in footwear trends for the winter of 2018/2019 are boots specially designed for these colors.

You will see many colorful bags this winter. Especially a combination of the colors of red, orange or purple mixed with yellow, which are currently in fashion. Should not you prefer bright colors or? Then choose between eye-catching accessories, such as a bag in a different color.

What malls are open on Christmas and New Year's Day and New Year's Eve 2019/2020

What malls are open on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Years' Day 2019 to 2020

Can malls and stores be expected to be open on Christmas and New Year's Eve 2019 and New Year's Day 2020?

Unimportant if you live in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal or any other North American city, malls and stores will not be open on New Year's Day and Xmas but likely be open New Year's Eve. It's the same for cities and towns in the USA and Canada for the 2019/2020 season.

All stores are open now on New Year’s Day in the US. Regard that this might not the case for stores in Canada. It’s a big day for returning gifts and also spending the gift cards you got for Christmas as well as looking for bargains for yourself. Malls are open New Year’s Day and people go not only to shop but to grab a meal at the chain restaurants like Cracker Barrel/Outback Steakhouse etc…these tend to be at malls. In the US, liquor stores are regulated by state so you cannot make a blanket statement.

What a service is open usually follows business hours for a Sunday. Call them up before to make sure.  And if you want to visit a restaurant, make a reservation as soon as possible. Train services, bus and metro services might be limited and operate on Sunday schedule.

What's open December 25th 2019 and January 1st 2020

• Restaurants
• Bars
Emergency and rescue services
• Most museums
• Convenience stores
• Liquor stores

What's closed

• Malls
• Grocery stores

GDPR decision to use Facebook Custom Audience

Is the ruling of the ECJ ruling on Facebook fan pages adequately implemented?

in 2018 an agreement on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was published as the result of the ECJ's Facebook fan pages decision. It should have the goal for Facebook to comply with this judgment. An analysis on the decision of the Facebook Custom Audience.

The European Court of Justice ruling on the Data Protection Regulation

Following a ruling by the European Court of Justice, as confirmed on the 5th of June 2018, Facebook is directly responsible for processing and collection of personal data at the EU level. On its platform Facebook determines all purposes and means of its processing activity. Proof of this is the fact that companies or persons who want to maintain a Facebook fan page, commit themselves with their registration to agree to the terms of use and the data processing of Facebook.

Facebook is not acting as a processor in this questionable relationship, but in computing it determines the purpose and way in which it stores and evaluates the user's data.

On the other hand, the operator of the fan page is also considered responsible, who can define parameters in his pages and the activities developed from them. He can thus define target groups and decide which other activities and campaigns he wants to organize via his fan page. For example, companies that operate Facebook fan pages are classified as jointly responsible according to the ECJ ruling (Art. 26 GDPR).

The implementation of the ECJ ruling of the Bavarian Administrative Court based on Facebook

Following the implementation of the ECJ ruling, Facebook has published an agreement as a result. This provides that the company wants to comply with the requirements of the judgment. However, on closer inspection, there are considerable doubts. The "Agreement" of Facebook presented in this context reflects some elements of the order processing of Article 28 of the GDPR, instead of conforming to Article 26 of the Regulation, which refer to the Joint-Controller Contract. This comes in particular to the course, if an online shop is operated with the participation of Facebook. Here is to be mentioned in particular.

• Not only data and documented instructions of the customer are processed by Facebook.
• Employees and employers which have access to personal information need to have a special confidentiality clause, for which they must declare their consent.
• Under special conditions, Facebook undertakes to delete or otherwise return personal data.
• Persons in charge who have a Facebook account or have it created by an authorized auditor have the right to scrutinize.
• As data from the Facebook user is transferred to the US, a reference to existing EU standard contractual clauses must be made.

Further critical points resulting from this ruling to keep in mind

• Subcontracting is permitted without written permission or a right to object.
• For requests from stakeholders, the support does not require a required format.
• No further documentation is needed for organizational and technical measures.
• Evidence provided in SOC 2 Type II shall be declared as appropriate and so as to comply with all technical and organizational measures.

Conclusion

One should expect a global corporation, such as Facebook, to be aware of the difference between an agreement between a joint controller contract and the article 28 of the Data Protection Regulation. He should work out an agreement on this which contains well-sounding phrases that are almost right under data protection law. This should make it clear to everyone involved that Facebook is the sole person responsible, as they only process data for their own purposes.

Polishing aluminum and stainless steel

How to grind and polishing stainless steel and aluminum

The properties of aluminum

You should first understand the properties of aluminum, if you want to polish stainless steel. Like normal steel, aluminum oxidizes. With the difference that the oxidation on steel, which is generally known as rust, slowly eats away the metal. When aluminum is exposed to air, a thin layer of alumina forms. This layer of alumina actually protects the metal from further corrosion and gives the surface a dull and whitish appearance. Chemical polishing agents dissolve the alumina and restore it to its original state. Use caution when using chemical products as they can damage the skin and cause burns. Prolonged application on the aluminum can also cause pitting. Polishing aluminum helps to avoid these problems.

Prepare the steel

Grinding with brushes and mirror polishing of metal sheets is often recommended. The grinding can be applied to flat material and all types of surfaces. With our state-of-the-art machines, plates can be cold-rolled as well as hot-rolled to achieve the desired finish. For example, we offer grades of grain grinding, a certain roughness value or the high-gloss polishing of mirrors in various shapes and sizes. Individual pieces or series can be processed according to the customer's wishes for the desired surface finish. The high-gloss polishing of turned and milled parts as well as the processing of composite frames and constructions are available.

Selections of warehouses usually include a variety of ground and polished Stainless steel sheets, as well as tailor-made blanks, colored and blasted sheets of materials such as glass, ceramic, corundum and various sheets that can receive a motif. Also, highly polished tubes and plates are available from stock. Articles out of stock are usually ordered as soon as requested and be available in a day or two. The daily work of these shops involve the processing of tapes, tubes and sheets, which often requires manual processing. The final step before delivery includes cleaning and careful packaging.

Phone without credit check?

Many users of cell phones want full cost control and prefer to subscribe to a prepaid service rather than signung a contract. These users do not have to give up buying a mobile phone when looking for an offer. Ordering of mobile phones is no longer limited to promotional offers or monthly installments in their financing. The customer can fulfill his primary desire to acquire a mobile device. The security of the order at favorable conditions offers the customer the acquisition of a mobile phone without a contract. Cheap rates and other benefits ensure that the customer does not have to dig deep into their own pockets to fulfill the dream phone's dream.

How to get a new phone without a credit check

For both business and private customers, ordering a contract-free mobile phone has long since become a veritable boom in recent years. Many of the new models can be purchased at convenient rates. These include many well known brands like a new phone from Samsung or the latest iPhone or tablet from Apple, without the customer having to bind himself to an unwanted contract. This offers great savings, which can be increased if the interested party makes price comparisons to get an overview of the prices of the offers in installments.

How to finance a premium smartphone with a good mobile phone contract

With a negative credit score a purchase is usually rejected. Specialized credit intermediaries help in this case to obtain a loan, despite bad credit ratings. You can compare the best installment loans with a comparison calculator on some web seites. A good credit score is usually required. It's considered as a financial basis for many businesses. Previously, the credit check was quite strict and thus prevented consumers with a negative score from acquiring a new cell phone. It's now known that the score not only registers existing liabilities and debts, but also includes a frequent change of residence or job in credit score databases, so that this entry no longer leads to the rejection of a purchase.

The customer who wants to buy a mobile phone on on credit, can now opt for low monthly payment rates and choose between many models and brands without signing a contract. For many consumers, this is a chance to buy a new device, although in the past there were problems, which did not allow installment purchase. New customers thus receive a fair credit check and could agree with the information. They express their openness and create a great deal of trust with traders.

Comparison between a fund policy and a fund savings plan

A fund savings plan has no sales charge. So there are no closing costs. In addition, there is no annual management fee and therefore more flexibility. The withholding tax essentially influences the decision whether to resort to a fund savings plan or the fund policy in the old-age provision. The so-called final withholding tax applies from the year 2009. Thus, profits on church tax and solidarity surcharge are taxed at 25% per fiscal year.

When does a unit-linked pension plan pay off?

On the other hand, unit-linked pension insurance is more favorable if no payment is made before the age of 60 or the term is at least twelve years. With a personal tax rate, only half of the investor's income will be taxed.

Check the policies

Before concluding the contract, investors should scrutinize it because there can be huge differences in ancillary fund policies that, at first sight, are not immediately apparent due to lack of transparency. In the first few years, investors must pay some of the high administration and termination fees that are often included in many insurance policies. Even though they generally offer better after-tax returns, the investor escapes high interest rates in this insurance variant.

If you invest in so-called fund of funds you will often pay three times the fees, especially for fund policies. These include the administration and distribution fees, as well as the management fee of individual target funds.

It should not only be considered in the decision on the pure cost. Also, the selection of offers, on which he can fall back with his insurance, is an important criterion. The more funds available to the interested party, the better he can put together a coordinated portfolio tailored to his personal needs.

Unit-linked insurances are interesting if a longevity risk is to be covered by the saver. With a fund savings plan you can often fall back on a large range of funds, which shines through their variability. As deposits vary from year to year, a fund plan is more appropriate because in the meantime the savings plan can be suspended without incurring drawbacks because the expense ratio for this insurance model rises, while the initial charge on fund savings is only the attributed to each paid installment. The depot thus grows faster at the beginning, because there are no existing closing fees.

An example

If a stock fund pays $ 100 per month for 20 years and thus earns a return of eight percent per year, assets of $ 47,920 will be earned after deducting withholding tax under existing tax law. If the 100 EURO are instead paid into a unit-linked insurance, the saver receives, after deducting taxes, 51,130 Euro in the same investment period and with the same return.

What's the best option?

The decision for or against a product depends on running costs and the calculated return after deduction of the tax. Due to tax treatment, the fund policy is slightly ahead of the pack, while generally higher return opportunities are achieved by a fund savings plan.

Windows 11 Safe Mode

The Windows 11 Safe Mode

There are several ways to start Windows 11 in a safe mode. Here is an overview. Note that this also applies for Windows 10.

After Windows 11 booted up, Safe Mode can be reached by using a shortcut key. If this still works with old versions of Windows, Windows 10 and 11 often fail because the user has only a short time to respond. When you start the PC, you normally need to simultaneously press the [Shift] and [F8] shortcut keys. But it's also easier if Windows 10 starts properly:

1. Click the Windows button located to the right of the power button . If Windows restarts directly, it will also be in the bottom right corner of the start screen.
2. The Restart option appears when clicking on the power button.
3. Press and hold the Shift key and click with the mouse on Restart to access the UEFI menu .
4. On the light blue background you can see if you are in the UEFI menu. Then select Troubleshooting .
5. There you will find Advanced Options and here the Windows Startup Settings feature. Click on the button Restart .
6. It takes a while for the emergency system to start. Press the F4 soft key to restart Windows in Safe Mode.

Start Windows 11 in safe mode

1. In this menu, you need to hold down the Windows and R keys simultaneously to open the Run dialog.
2. In this enter msconfig and press OK to start the system configuration.
3. Above is the Start tab. Choose Safe Boot and Network .
4. To enter Safe Mode, press the OK Button that Windows restarts.

You can also use Safe Mode at the command prompt cause.

1. If you press the windows and x keys at the same time, you have a shortcut menu
2. After you select Command Prompt (Administrator) , confirm the security prompt by clicking OK.
3. To start Windows in safe mode, then enter the command bcdedit set {current} safeboot network .

You can also create a desktop shortcut to safe mode so that you see an icon on your desktop that will help you get into safe mode quickly.

1. To do this, right-click on an empty area (where there are no icons or other) and select New and then Link .
2. Enter shutdown.exe / r / o / f t 00 as the path here. Then click Next and then Finish .
3. If you click this Icon shutdown.exe in the future, Windows will start directly in Safe Mode.

Using the Windows 11 DVD to restore

If Windows does not boot from the hard disk and you have the Windows 11 DVD at hand, the item Computer Repair will appear after loading the DVD to repair Windows.

If all these tips fail, you may be able to send your computer to the manufacturer for repair. However, if the computer is older and there is no longer a guarantee, it is not recommended. Consider purchasing a new computer, which usually works right after it starts up.

Cost effective digital printing

Cost-effective digital printing with attention to detail

Interested in the latest technology in digital printing? Even without expensive printing plates or printing patterns, digital direct printing is possible, which it achieves the better results of textile prints in the high photo quality. This is particularly suitable for single pieces and short runs, because this method allows quick and easy creation.

In this article we show the functionality of digital direct printing. On a checklist, all their peculiarities are summarized to help you decide which benefits you will derive from it.

Preparations

Without costly or expensive preparations, an automated process is seamlessly integrated into the production, so that in a good price / performance ratio of the digital direct printing for large orders and unique items are unrivalled for the customer.

The operation of digital direct printing

If you want to apply digital illustrations and vector graphics true to detail and colourfast on textiles, you have the opportunity to benefit from the advantages of digital direct printing. It works in a similar way to ordinary paper printers, but allows for photo quality prints and fine gradients. Unlike traditional printing processes, there are no additional costs involved in setting up the textile printer so that production can begin immediately upon receipt of the data as it supports common file formats of the software known on the Internet. Once the design is aligned, textiles previously prepared for printing can be printed directly.

Fast and easy finishing of textiles

Due to the perfect ratio of price to performance, this printing process is just right for your small orders. Also, without special time pressure large orders can be carried out quickly when using the digital printing. Promotional items, as well as clothing and bags, are printed immediately after receipt of the order, so you get the ordered goods delivered after only a few hours after receiving your order. With digital direct printing, many complex motifs can be realized without additional effort, which can not be achieved with conventional printing processes.

The finished textiles are washable in the washing machine up to 40° C due to the particularly tear-resistant imprint. Thus, the textile will shine even after many years of wearing still as new. In the production no presettings are necessary, that you can also create small series cost-effective. Digital direct printing is one of the most widely used methods for enhancing its textiles with photos and motifs. Interesting color gradients and outstanding motifs irritate the technology and make every product a real eye-catcher.

Powerful Brother printers are often used for textile printing. They allow a particularly true-to-original contour sharpness and color intensity. Each imprint is fixed in a second step using a drying tunnel. This ensures that the required light increases the wash resistance and thus improves its elasticity. The result may be reminiscent of a screen printing, but in this case has significantly filigree color gradients and contours.

Thanks to its innovative technology, the color result radiates a special shine even with dark textiles. Various file formats, such as tiff, jpg and png, can be printed in any structure and hue without further editing. The manufacture of the textiles themselves is ecological and sustainable, since when used in the selection of printing materials on the application of harmful chemicals is omitted. This not only protects nature, but also your skin.

Preparation the files

Textile printers can handle almost all file formats. You should be careful to choose at least a resolution of 300 dpi. This prevents motive from being rendered "pixelated", which would otherwise make the expression on the T-shirt look weird. You should also use a transparent background. So not only completely dark or bright, so that no rectangular edge is created and the motif shines in its full beauty.

In its particularly elaborate production of flex and Flockdruck is one of the most commonly used Plottdruckverfahren. Specially cut films provide a fascinating look when using flexographic printing, even if the photo print is sometimes velvety and matt.

Small and medium transfer printing

For small and medium runs of transfer printing, flex and flock printing is of particular interest. For textiles made of complicated materials for printing, the transfer printing impresses with its brilliant colors and longevity.

For motives with few color areas, the flex and flock printing is therefore particularly suitable. Even highly detailed motifs are cut at high volumes of precise machines. The cutting plotter will prepare a special foil for each color layer, which will then be "latticed" by hand. An optimal cut of the desired motif is created, which is applied to the product with the printing press to produce the final product.

Golden era of pinball machines

A pinball machine is an electro mechanical coin operated arcade game. It works by the principle of scoring points by directing one or more metal balls on a game board separated from the player by a window. The main goal is to achieve a high score. The secondary goal is to play as long as possible without the ball leaving game board and possibly obtaining extra balls and win a replay. This type of game was a great success from the 1950s to the late 1990s, to the point of entering the pop culture. Many cafes and restaurants offered them to their customers. There were also specialized gaming rooms known as arcades

History

The pinball as we know today derived from the French game Bagatelle around 1770 and the Japanese billiard, it was fully developed in Chicago in the 1930s by mechanics and electricians who were unemployed because of the financial crisis of 1929. By gambling for money it was banned in several major US cities soon after. Cash was later replaced by replays to make pinball legal. The electro mechanic was replaced by electronic (solid state) in 1976. Pinball suffered a decline in the 1980s as a result of the rise of video games. And major manufacturers like Williams, who had previously acquired Bally, went out of business in 1999 and Gottlieb in 1996, leaving Stern as the only manufacturer.

Score

Counting of points with the pinball machine is rather particular and arbitrary. The scores of very old machines were counted in hundreds of thousands points which were displayed by lamps signaling a row of 100,000 and was left to the user to add them. The arrival of electro mechanical wheel counters brought the scores down to hundreds of points, with a lamp lighting a number "1" at the top of the 3 digits when it was above 999.

In the 1970s, with the arrival of electronic displays, the scores began to count thousands or tens of thousands of points. This "inflation" continued until the mid-1990s, when several games allowed up to millions of points to get a free game. Quite recently the counting of points returned to more reasonable values.

Ben Daglish passed away

The Commodore 64 community mourns Ben Daglish who passed away October 1st 2018.

Ben was well known to many who spent their teens in front of their 8bit computer as composer from video games. Tunes like Last Ninja, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, Bombo or Bulldog remain classics to this day. You can download many of his music in original C64 format my SID download web page.

He was born in London in England and later moved to Sheffield. Besides the breadbox he also composed music on other computers from the 1980s, including the Amstrad CPC and the Sinclair Spectrum. He was 52 years old.

Ben's famous Trap demo which blew away many Commodore 64 users in 1986.

Plane crashes in aviation history

Definition of a plane crash

An air accident, also known as "plane crash", is an event related to the operation of an aircraft that results in the death or serious injury to one or more persons and often irreparable damage to the body shell of the aircraft. An event involving flight safety without serious consequences is considered an air incident. The term air disaster is used by the media, especially for accidents involving an airliner. In most accidents is only one plane involved. Mid-air collisions of two planes are rare. The attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) 9/11 are not considered air accidents.

States may establish an authority to ensure flight safety and accident investigation. These agencies, as well as a few non-governmental organizations, maintain databases whose purpose is to advance security. All American airlines, be it Delta Air Lines or United Airlines experienced fatal crashes.

The main reason is bad weather in combination with human error misjudging the thunderstorm in front. Other problems of human errors include not to communicate in the cockpit. Problems leading to structural damage include design flaws, material fatigue or mistakes in maintenance of an airplane.

The development of statistics groups air accidents according to various criteria, thus makes it possible to raise the awareness of manufacturers, operators, crew, air traffic controllers, maintenance personal and others by identifying the primary or secondary causes of accidents.

• Destruction of the plane in flight: collision between two planes, major structural defect, fire, terrorist attack, interception by the Air Defense of the country overflown
• Destruction of the structure on impact with the ground, better known as "crash": navigation error and striking an obstacle, serious mechanical incident forcing the pilot to attempt an emergency landing
• Ground accidents: collision between a plane in take-off or landing with another aircraft that has entered the runway

The vast majority of accidents concern general aviation but the media and the public are mainly interested in accidents involving airliners.

The International Civil Aviation Organization - ICAO

The ICAO definitions and the resulting statistics relate to motorized aircraft used by organizations or civil companies. States relying on ICAO recommendations to establish an investigative agency may, however, extend the scope of the jurisdiction to include non-motorized aircraft accidents, unmanned aircraft on board and military uses, but excluding related cases.

Aim of the ICAO is the recommendation of an accident analysis process to investigate the causes and to derive actions to improve safety. The accident report establishes the primary cause and, often, the sequence of secondary causes that contributed to the problem. These conclusions are of interest to manufacturers and equipment manufacturers, airlines or operators, crews, navigation controllers and maintenance services. The determination of responsibilities does not fall within the scope of investigations.

The term "disaster" does not appear in the official texts but appears in the media when the accident concerns the commercial air transport of passengers. The notion of "catastrophe" is also changing in relation to the increase in traffic and the increase in the size of aircraft.

General aviation and, in particular, light aviation generate far more accidents than air transport, but they are rarely the subject of media coverage at the national level. Air accidents related to military activities, training and missions outside conflict, are rarely the subject of a report made public that could reveal classified information.

Aircraft accident investigations aim to improve flight safety. An accident rarely has a single cause. Unofficial reports or databases compiling accidents most often identify a determining cause, but the report of the investigative office looks for the causes that generate or participate in the determining cause as well as the errors of perception or action that did not allow corrections or palliatives. The report is used by the Official Services to modify the standards and by the manufacturers, operators, crews, air traffic control service and maintenance workshops to modify the procedures. In principle, the report of the investigative office does not determine the responsibilities but is an essential element for any legal action.