Sunday, November 5, 2006
On November 5, 2006, King Abdullah II of Jordan met with 90 survivors of the Beslan school hostage crisis during their week long vacation in Jordan, organised at the King’s expense.
The King watched the students perform traditional dances and reviewed artworks that they had created celebrating the theme of cross-cultural communication and understanding. The event took place at the King’s Academy, in Madaba, Jordan.
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How a Residential Solar System Could Help You
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Edmund BrunettiHomeowners in Australia who are thinking about ways to reduce their electricity costs may want to start thinking about how solar power could help them. In the past, the idea of getting a solar power system installed at your home did not seem like it was a very good financial idea. However, the costs for these systems have come down dramatically, and it has gotten to a point where it is a sound investment to go with residential solar systems in Hobart and all across Australia. But what are some other benefits of using these systems? Here are a few:1. SustainableWhen you are thinking about your impact on the planet, and how much energy you are using in your home each year, you may be feeling like you have too big of a footprint. This is a feeling that has become increasingly common in Australia, with more people learning about climate change and thinking about their impact on the world. And it is also one of the biggest benefits of going solar. It is a sustainable and renewable source of energy, as the sun is not going anywhere anytime soon. You can power your home as much as you want in a sustainable way.2. Much Lower Electricity BillsHomeowners are not happy with how electricity prices seem to keep increasing every few years. If you are already unhappy with how much you are paying each year, think about what it is going to cost you in five or ten years. When deciding about whether to install solar panels on Devonport homes, think about how much you could save on your electric bills. With solar energy, you will have to pay next to nothing each month, and you will be reaping the rewards of your investment soon enough.3. Payment PlansIf you are unsure about going in so heavy from a financial perspective, you will be happy to know that you can fund the project through loans and payment plans. It is possible for you to enter a payment plan with the installing company, and you will still get a very good rate. When you have paid off your system, which should happen in a few years, you are free and clear. Now you are just seeing profits, and that is a wonderful thing for any homeowner.4. Durability and Minimal RepairsSolar power systems are so great because when they are properly installed and set up, you do not have to worry about maintenance or repairs. Yes, something could go wrong, but those issues are limited to one or two times a year. You will not have to spend big money on repairs or new parts, because your system will continue to work in the same way that it does on the day it is installed. That means even more of a financial benefit from this transaction.If you are seriously considering going solar, contact a top solar power installation company in your area.
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Friday, February 10, 2006
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) will meet in Canberra today for its first meeting of 2006. Members of COAG are the Prime Minister, State Premiers, Australian Capital and Northern Territory Chief Ministers, and the President of the Australian Local Government Association. COAG is chaired by the Prime Minister.
On the agenda is a wide range of issues such as health, economic reform, regulation, and education.
The state leaders (all of whom are members of the Australian Labor Party), met last night to develop a strategy for dealing with John Howard, Australia’s Prime Minister.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Eight Hungarian migrant workers sacked from a Domino’s Pizza franchise in Derby, England are said to have taken home virtually no pay for months because of illegal deductions.
The claim is refuted by the company who said in a statement “We have begun a thorough investigation during which we have scrutinised the franchisee’s employment practices. This took place with his full co-operation. The franchisee concerned is confident that he possesses the evidence required to refute these allegations. To the extent that we have been informed of all allegations and have reviewed all available evidence, we also believe this to be the case.”
The sacked workers are being supported in their claim by the workers union Unite. The union say the “there appeared to be a deliberate strategy of keeping the workers in debt to the company through a series of crippling deductions. The deductions included payments to cover the contract purchase of a car from their employer, insurance for the vehicle provided through their employer, and exorbitant rent for substandard accommodation, again provided through their employer. In addition, some workers had to pay fees of up to £180 for an “introduction” to the company. One worker earned just £5 in four months because of the constant and hefty deductions out of his wage packet. When the workers protested they were sacked.”
Friday, March 10, 2017
UK chancellor Philip Hammond announced his 2017 budget on Wednesday, which included a £2 billion pledge to social care and a tax hike on the self-employed. It was accused of breaking Conservative Party manifesto promises.
It was announced there will be a 2% increase in national insurance contributions for the self-employed, with chancellor Philip Hammond citing worries that people were choosing to become self-employed in order to pay lower taxes and his perception of unfairness in the different rates paid by employees and self-employees. There were accusations this change in policy goes against the manifesto promises the Conservative Party ran on in 2015, which promised four times that there would be no increase in national insurance rates. Conservative MP Anna Soubry tweeted saying she believed these new measures would be unpopular as many would see them as unfair. The leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, claimed the new measures will not clamp down on people whose self-employment is just for tax benefits, instead causing problems for those legitimately self-employed, arguing that if they are to start paying similar tax rates to the employed then they should get rights such as statutory maternity pay. The think tank Resolution claimed, however, this increase is outweighed by other government policies and is, therefore, a good move.
In addition to this, the chancellor announced a £2 billion pledge to social care over the next three years, saying he was aware of the stress the ageing population is having on the NHS and social care. Liberal Democrat Norman Lamb described the amount as “wholly inadequate”, saying much more is needed to pay for an increase in care demands due to the ageing population. The lowest threshold at which shareholders pay dividend taxes is to be lowered from £5,000 to £2,000 claiming that the taxes for dividends provided “an extremely generous tax break for investors with substantial share portfolios”. Other budget announcements include an additional £325 million for the NHS, £90 million transport spending for the North of England, £20 million to support campaigning against violence against girls and women and a slight increase in funding for the devolved governments.
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70-345 Real PDF Exam Material
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Case Study: 1
Fabrikam inc.
Overview
Fabrikam. Inc. is an international manufacturing company that has 5,000 employees. The company has sales, marketing research and human resources departments.
Fabrikam has two main offices and three branch offices. The main offices are located in New York and London. The branch offices are located in Seattle, Montreal, and Paris.
The offices connect to each other by using a WAN link. Each office connects directly to the Internet. The WAN connections from the main offices to the branch offices are reliable.
Existing Environment
Exchange Environment
The Exchange Server organization contains servers that have either Exchange Server 2010 or Exchange Server 2013 installed. Each main office contains two Exchange Server 2013 servers. Each branch office contains one Exchange Server 2010 server.
MX records are configured to deliver email to the offices in New York and London. Email is delivered to the London office only if the New York office is unavailable.
Each office is configured to use a separate namespace for client access. The New York office is configured to use a namespace of mail.fabrikam.com.
The servers in the New York and London offices are members of a database availability group (DAG). Each mailbox database in the New York and London offices has three copies.
The technical support staff in the branch offices have administrative access to the existing Exchange servers and are assigned Organization Management permissions.
Users from the sales department frequently send email messages that contain the Social Security number of customers in the United States.
Problem Statements
Fabrikam identifies the following issues on the network:
Users in the Paris office report that when launching Microsoft Outlook, they receive a security alert indicating a certificate name mismatch. The security alert is not generated when they connect to Outlook Web Access. Users from the other offices do not report receiving the security alert.
Network administrators report that the mailbox databases in the New York office sometimes activate on the Exchange servers in the London office, resulting in poor performance for the New York office users.
Planned Changes
Fabrikam plans to implement the following changes to the network:
Upgrade the organization to Exchange Server 2016 during the next six months.
Enable online document viewing and editing from Outlook on the web.
High Availability Requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following high-availability requirements for the planned deployment:
Mailbox databases that contain mailboxes for the New York office users must only be activated on the servers in the London office manually.
All client access connections to the London and New York offices must use load-balanced namespaces. The load balancing mechanism must perform health checks.
Security and compliance requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following security and compliance requirements:
After the planned upgrade, the maximum mailbox size must be 5 GB.
Administrators from the branch offices must be able to view the mailbox properties and reset the passwords of the users, but must be prevented from changing the mailbox database configurations.
Users who are involved in legal disputes with customers must be prevented from permanently deleting email messages pertaining to the dispute. The users must be able to delete all other messages permanently.
If a user enters a Social Security number in an email message addressed to an external recipient, the user must receive a notification before sending the message If the user sends the message. The message must not be delivered. A compliance officer must be notified of the violation.
Connectivity requirements
Fabrikam identifies the following connectivity requirements:
Connections for inbound and outbound email must be initiated and terminated from an Edge Transport server in the perimeter network.
All external client connections from the branch office users must be proxied from the New York office to the branch offices.
The number of namespaces used for client access must be minimized.
Question: 1
You need to recommend changes to the existing environment to meet the high-availability requirements for the mailbox databases. What should you recommend?
A. Run TheSet-MailBoxDatabasecmdlet.
B. Run theSet-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupcmdlet
C. Run theSet-MailBoxServercmdlet.
D. Run theSet-MailBoxDatabaseCopycmdlet.
Answer: B
Explanation:
References: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd297934(v=exchg.160).aspx
Question: 2
You begin to implement the Exchange Server 2016 servers and plan to decommission the Exchange Server 2013 servers during the next six months.
You need to recommend which actions must be performed to support the planned changes for document collaboration.
You install Microsoft Office Online Server on a new server.
Which two cmdlets should you recommend running next? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
A. New-OfficeWebAppsFarm
B. Set-PartnerApplication
C. Set-MailboxServer
D. New-OfficeWebAppsHost
E. Set-OrganizationConfig
Answer: A, C
Question: 3
You need to recommend a solution for the users involved in the legal disputes. What should you include in the recommendation?
A. a journal rule
B. an Outlook protection rule
C. an in-place Hold
D. a Litigation Hold
Answer: C
Explanation:
References: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637980(v=exchg.160).aspx
Question: 4
You deploy Layer 7 load balancers to the New York and London offices.
You are planning the namespace configuration that will be used once you complete the planned upgrade to Exchange Server 2016.
You need to recommend a solution to meet the connectivity requirements for the namespaces.
What should you recommend?
A. On the New York office servers, change the internal URLs to mail.fabrikam.com.
B. On all of the branch office servers, change the external URLs to Snull.
C. On all of the branch office servers, change the external URLs to mail.fabnkam.com.
D. On the New York office servers, change the internal URLs to Snull.
Answer: C
Question: 5
You need to recommend changes to the messaging infrastructure. The changes must meet the connectivity requirements after the planned upgrade. Which two actions should you recommend? Each correct answer presents part of the solution.
A. From the Mailbox servers, import the Edge Subscription file.
B. On the Edge Transport Servers, start Edge Synchronization.
C. On the Edge Transport servers, import the Edge Subscription file.
D. On the Edge Transport servers, create an Edge Subscription file.
E. On the Mailbox servers, restart the Microsoft Exchange Transport service.
Answer: A, E
Question: 6
You need to recommend changes to the existing environment to meet the high-availability requirements for the mailbox databases. What should you recommend?
A. Run the Suspend-MailboxDatabaseCopy cmdlet
B. Run the Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy cmdlet.
C. Deploy a file share witness to a branch office.
D. Modify the cluster resource properties.
Answer: D
Question: 7
HOTSPOT
You need to configure a data loss prevention (DLP) policy to meet the compliance and security requirements.
How should you configure the policy rule? To answer, select the appropriate options in the answer area.
Answer:
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
“2008 Boao Forum for Asia” started two days ago in Bo’ao, Hainan, China, and participated with government and industrial executives worldwide. Because revolutions in the Web 3.0 era have made a major impact on global economy, several elites from the Internet industry like Kai-Fu Lee provided forecasts for this key industry in the forum.
Furthermore, Vincent Siew, the vice-president elect, provided his comments in the forum. But two coalitions (Pan-Blues and Pan-Greens) declared different comments on Siew’s participation.
But due to a hot topic of environment and greenhouse effect, Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, winner of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, commented on this forum: “There were several sectors on energy-saving, not governments, but the public should play a great role in this global warming era.”
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Wikinews interviewed author Amy Scobee about her book Scientology – Abuse at the Top, and asked her about her experiences working as an executive within the organization. Scobee joined the organization at age 14, and worked at Scientology’s international management headquarters for several years before leaving in 2005. She served as a Scientology executive in multiple high-ranking positions, working out of the international headquarters of Scientology known as “Gold Base”, located in Gilman Hot Springs near Hemet, California.