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This is not a general distribution site. When you open this page and download the software, you are agreeing not to reverse-engineer or incorporate this software into any commercial product.
If you use Cytospec, Please acknowledge it in the following way: Cytospec Software is from Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories (and if you wish you can put the link (http://www.cyto.purdue.edu/Purdue_software)
FCSRENAME - Change Parmeter names in FCS files Download FCSrename here for WINDOWS for MAC use this MAC (MAC is an older version so does not have all featuers)
Video WMV FCSRename
or MP4 FCS Rename
This program was developed by us becuase some people were sending us FCS files that had names like FL1, FL2, FL3 etc - and we were VERY FRUSTATED that we had to keep consulting other documents to determine what the files actually contained!! So in the end we wrote this program in whcih you get a list of parameter names, and you can change them and they are written into the original FCS file!!! Problem Solved!
A video demonstrating how it works is WMV or MP4
Text to FCS
This is a program that converts text files to FCS - you can then download Cytospec (below) and read the files. This is very new piece of software developed for one of our projects in June 2018
Download the EXE file here
LDATAPP - Convert FCS files to ASCI
(Written by Steve Kelly at Purdue University Cytometry Labs)
Contributor: Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories |
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Authors: Valery Patsekin, Steve Kelley, Gerald Gregori, J. Paul Robinson |
LDATAPP dumps FCS listmode or histogram data into ASCII text files. It has a simple interface to select input files and output paths. It requires a 32 bit Microsoft Windows operating system. |
(The help function was changed in more recent versions of Windows and you must download a special conversion file from Windows website to make the help work in Windows 7 or higher
Another page for Cytospec is here
Cytospec V11.15 (Feb 2024) : CytoSpec_Setup.11.15.exe
Cytospect Versin 11.7 (October 2019)
Cytospect Version 11.6 (September 2019)
Download the latest version from here
(Dec 6, 2013)(V7) (see below for later versions)
Version 7 is now updated with protocol saving. The following program is called Cytospec(TM) and is a general purpose flow cytometry analysis program
For 32 bit you need the EXE file (download now).
For 64 bit use this EXE file (Download now).
New Version
Cytospec Version 9.0 (old) (April 19, 2016)
Download Cytospec V 9 64 bit (13 megs)
Download Cytospec V9 32 bit (9 megs)
Brief instructions for running Cytospec are here (download now) and will be updated one of these days!
1. Tutorial without audio (use above file) (play)
Video Tutorials
The following video tutorials teach you all the basics of Cytospec. You can use the 5 color listmode file HERE if you want to play along!
1. Demo 1 -YOUTUBE or download- Basic introduction
2. Demo 2 - YOUTUBE or download-Tabloid output
3. Demo 3 - YOUTUBE or download- PCA - how to apply it\
4. Demo 4 - YOUTUBE or download- More PCA
5. Demo 5 - YOUTUBE or download- Some Utility Features
6. Demo 6 - YOUTUBE or download- More Utility Features
7. Demo 7 - YOUTUBE or download- Create a new FCS file and perform PCA on it
Note: this is not currently uploaded to this site.
Download requires specific request to J.Paul Robinson - send me an email with your name and institution and a request to jpr(at)flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu - Note: while this is free to not-for-profit institutions, corporations who wish to use this software require a reseach and development contract with PUCL. This ensures our group can support your needs.
We frequently request a data set from you to test the program prior to giving you the software. This is to ensure that your files will run on this software.
PlateAnalyzerTM is a program for high content flow cytometry analysis. It requires specific license document which will be prepared for each user. In order to do this, you must send an email to jpr(at)flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu and request a copy providing your name, and institution. (NPF only)
Files needed:
Drug concentration file (This is an example, but you can make any one you want) (download now)
Sample Data file: zip file - this must be unszipped - it contains 384 well data - each are fcs files showing 32 drugs (30 megs)
Tutorial files (these were made on an earlier version, but they are very similar to the current version) Many of these are on YouTube - search for "PUCL, PlateAnalzyer, Purdue"
1. The quick 45 sec demo (play) YOUTUBE
2. instant gates (play) YOUTUBE
3. Basic analysis (download now) (23.8 megs)
4. Exporting data in CSV format (play) YOUTUBE
5. New Drugbox controls (Play) YOUTUBE
7. Wells with no cells video! (play) YOUTUBE
8. AutoUpdate feature (play) auto%20updates.wmv
9. Enhanced features March 2012 (play) YOUTUBE
10. SMILES codes read for drugs see YOUTUBE
11. New DRUGBOX Controls features YOUTUBE
12. Export CSV data files YOUTUBE
13. Dealing with Empty Wells YOUTUBE
14. 40 PLUS parameter data CyTOF analysis YOUTUBE
15. Autowell finder-extracting single wells from large files YOUTUBE


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Women playing (American) Football have it hard. The game itself is gruelling and physical, but the off-pitch attacks on their fitness for the game aren't always centered on their physical condition. Sexism, so gallingly obvious in the Lingerie Football League, is ingrained. But beyond that, building female-specific training and rehabilitation methods, as well as proper equipment, appears to be as big a challenge as the sport itself.
Women playing full-contact tackle football face challenges beyond the playing field—yet there's little research about this niche in athletics. Jennifer Carter, a University of Cincinnati doctoral student in the UC Department of Sociology, will present her research on body maintenance in women's professional football at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association.
Carter first began her research observing a team in the Women's Football Alliance (WFA), but she then became a defensive back, and learned firsthand how women condition themselves for such a physically demanding sport.
"My own participation in tackle football and observation shows that women players manage their bodies both on and off the playing field through equipment selection, the management of pain and injuries, and, finally, through conditioning and strength training," says Carter.
Carter says women in professional tackle football are not only challenged by size options on their gear, but also by a lack of education when it comes to the proper fit and use of equipment, as well as the time of year when the women's football season is played.
Equipment Challenges: "Everything from helmets and shoulder pads to shoes and pants—primarily designed for male football players—pose issues for women when it comes to finding the right fit," explains Carter, who adds that gear that doesn't fit properly won't properly protect players.
Playing Season: Carter explains that the two largest women's professional tackle football leagues, the WFA and the Independent Women's Football League (IWFL), play football during the spring season, which is considered by sporting goods stores as the offseason for football. Female football players, in turn, are affected by a lack of available equipment at their local stores, as merchants stock up on traditional spring sporting gear for baseball and track, for example.
Conditioning and Strength Training: Carter says weightlifting, cardio-conditioning, and participating in football-related drills are a necessary part of organized football for both women and men. For the female players in her study, however, Carter found that much of their offseason conditioning was completed without coach or trainer supervision. She found that while the players had access to prime training equipment, they had little knowledge or guidance on how to properly use the equipment, therefore, increasing their risk of injury and decreasing effectiveness of workouts. She also found that the women's knowledge of football-specific conditioning and strength-training was more limited.
"More specific to football, the lack of readily available opportunities for women to play at young ages, especially during high school years, contributes to a lack of knowledge of core training tenants, which young boys and men have often been exposed to over extended periods of time," Carter says.
Carter also states that societal beliefs about women's bodies affect the way they deal with pain and injuries. "While visible injuries on the field are dealt with similarly through a culture of sacrifice, off the field, women often face stigma due to visible bruising, cuts, scrapes, and other abrasions," she says.
Carter conducted her research during the 2011 season and during offseason conditioning for the 2012 season as part of her larger dissertation research which is still underway. Carter says the players she studied came from diverse backgrounds and held jobs ranging from engineers, school administrators, and nurses to factory workers and cooks. Ages on the team ranged from 18 to 33.
She adds that although this was a professional football league, most of the players did not get paid. The WFA players who were paid generally earned $1 per game. Despite receiving low or no compensation, the athletes paid for their uniforms, equipment, field rentals, and travel expenses.
Carter says that as the sport continues to attract growing numbers of women, gaining an understanding of offering women more equitable opportunities on how to manage their bodies will become increasingly more important, not only in building talented players but in protecting them from injuries.
Source: American Sociological Association
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The American political system is not broken. What's broken is the Republican Party. And it's not clear how it will recover.
What's wrong with American politics and what can be done about it is the question that election law expert Rick Hasen sets for himself in a fascinating new paper. In particular, he asks whether American politics is so broken that the only cure is to chuck the Constitution and replace it with a parliamentary system or some other radical systemic reform.
Hasen lays out the well-known case of dysfunction (perhaps best set out in Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein's recent "It's Even Worse Than It Looks") and considers, but mostly rejects, three possible rejoinders: that gridlock is actually what voters want; that gridlock is to some extent an illusion, and the system is more productive than frustrated partisans believe; and that dysfunction is real but could be cured by less-drastic measures such as Senate reform and electoral reform.
He concludes, however, that a fourth rejoinder — that it's still too soon to tell and perhaps the current problems are transitory — may have merit. It's certainly true, as he writes, that a 1970s belief that the presidency was broken yielded in the 1980s to presidential competence under Ronald Reagan. He could have added, too, that concern about impenetrable gridlock in the Eisenhower and Kennedy years was forgotten after the legislative triumphs of 1964 and 1965.
On all of this, I'm with him. The system does seem dangerously dysfunctional, but it's not clear that it's a long-term threat.
The key question, however, is the nature of the problem. Hasen sees it, as many do, as a mismatch between partisan polarization on the one hand and the U.S. Madisonian system on the other:
The source of these deadlocks over budget reform is hardly a mystery: It is the mismatch between highly ideological political parties and our divided form of government, which makes passing legislation difficult even in the absence of partisan deadlock. The partisanship of our political branches and mismatch with our structure of government raise this fundamental question: Is the United States' political system so broken that we should change the United States Constitution to adopt a parliamentary system, either a Westminster system as in the United Kingdom or a different form of parliamentary democracy? Such a move toward unified government would allow the Democratic or Republican parties to act in a unified way to pursue a rational plan on budget reform on other issues.
I think the emphasis on partisan polarization is misplaced. There's nothing about strong partisanship that makes effective government in the U.S. impossible. That Hasen highlights budget problems makes this, in my view, especially clear. Budgets are, by their nature, fairly easy to cut deals on! Indeed: I suspect the game theorists might actually find that it should be easier for two well-organized parties to cut those deals, even if their ideal points are quite distant, than it would be to reach a deal between unstructured, factionalized parties, even if there are no extremists among them. During the current 113th Congress, all that should be needed is for the captains of both teams to find an agreeable midpoint, and budget issues can be solved.
And yet: dysfunction, crises, threats of shutdown and irrational outcomes no one claims to want.
My conclusion? It's not partisanship. It's not polarization. It's not even extremism.
It's the Republican Party. The GOP is broken. Not too conservative; not too extreme. I have no view of where the GOP "should" be ideologically, and I don't think there's much evidence that being "too conservative" per se is losing elections for Republicans.
But broken, nonetheless.
I can talk how and why. Unfortunately, what I don't have is a fix — other than to say that a parliamentary system would, under current conditions, be even more of a disaster than the current very real consequences.
How did the Republican Party come to be broken?
Perhaps the biggest cause is the perverse incentives created by the conservative marketplace. Simply put, a large portion of the party, including the GOP-aligned partisan press and even many politicians, profit from having Democrats in office. Typically, democracies "work" in part because political parties have strong incentives to hold office, which causes them once they win to try hard to enact public policy that keeps people satisfied with their government. That appears to be undermined for today's Republicans.
A second and related cause has to do with a spiraling insistence on ever-more-pure candidates in party primaries. To some extent, this is perfectly healthy. Party actors are able to use nominations to fight for their interests and for their preferred positions on public policy; in a healthy party, those fights are one of the best sources of real democracy in the political system. The danger in even the healthiest parties is that participation in nomination contests tends to be highest among those with the most extreme views, which can leave a party too far from median voters. In the GOP, however, there are strong incentives to constantly create new levels of purity, in many cases by creating purely symbolic differences and attempting to exploit them. Knowing of that threat, candidates don't even need direct threats in many cases to make themselves easy marks for cranks attempting to pressure them.
In both of these causes, what seems to be at the root of it is a fairly enormous amount of money available to those who are willing to exploit it, whether it's selling books or funding rogue candidates, as long as they present themselves as more-radical-than-thou.
The third cause is different, since as far as I can tell it's simply caused by bad luck. Winning parties have a tendency to overlearn the lessons of their campaigns; winning candidates become role models for the party in the future. And the Republican Party, which has produced many impressive and honorable politicians over the years, has been unlucky in its winners — especially Richard Nixon and Newt Gingrich, but also in many ways Ronald Reagan. The lessons they learned from those politicians and from the 1968, 1980 and 1994 victories have reinforced the worst instincts of party actors (even though the victories actually mainly had to do with economic and other fundamentals that had nothing to do with the lessons "learned").
The result? A massively dysfunctional party, as they amply demonstrated over the last decade —think Iraq, Congressional corruption, economic collapse, and on and on. Just to give the basics:
- An aversion to normal bargaining and compromise
- An inability to banish fringe people and views from the mainstream of the party
- An almost comical lack of interest in substantive policy formation
- A willingness to ignore established norms and play "Constitutional hardball"
- A belief that when out of office, the best play is always all-out obstruction
As I said at the beginning, I really don't have any great solution to any of this. My guess is that while in theory it could be solved from the bottom up by activists or party-aligned groups who get fed up with it, the more likely solution will be that they'll get lucky and win a presidential election with a nominee who somehow is able to handle the job and reform his party, in part by example. But it could take a long time for that to happen. Far more likely is that the next time Republicans win they'll prove even more incapable of governing than they were during the George W. Bush presidency.
What I am confident about is that a political system in which the views of the majority party can easily and rapidly be translated into public policy would be extraordinarily dangerous under these conditions. In real-life parliamentary parties, all sorts of norms and rules tend to be put in place to dampen the extremism of an incoming government. For example, many nations have strong bureaucracies that can push back sharply against wild ideas from the incoming government; others have well-established corporatist systems that prevent extremism regardless of who is elected. Without those constraints — and with a tenuous connection to the healthy incentives for remaining in office — it's not hard to imagine a catastrophic result.
At any rate, there's no way to solve the problem unless the diagnosis is correct. The problem isn't partisanship or polarization. The problem is the GOP.


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Shocking Burst: A shocking burst weapon functions as a shock weapon that also explodes with electricity upon striking a successful critical hit. The electricity does not harm the wielder. In addition to the extra electricity damage from the shock ability, a shocking burst weapon deals an extra 1d10 points of electricity damage on a successful critical hit. If the weapon's critical multiplier is x3, add an extra 2d10 points of electricity damage instead, and if the multiplier is x4, add an extra 3d10 points. Bows, crossbows, and slings so crafted bestow the electricity energy upon their ammunition.
Even if the shock ability is not active, the weapon still deals its extra electricity damage on a successful critical hit.
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WI Platinum 2.5k Square foot Home averages $30 energy bills
Thanks to Jetson Green for sharing this awesome post! (Article written by Christine Walsh on Nov. 28, 2013)
Architect Virge Temme of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin recently received the LEED Platinum for Homes certification for a private residence she designed near Gills Rock. The home was built by Bay Lakes Builders, and the plans were based on the collaboration of all members of the construction and design team so as to ensure proper integration of all systems. The electric and fuel bills for this 2,600-square-foot house were less than $30 per month on average during its first year. This is only the seventh home in Wisconsin to receive the LEED Platinum certification.
The building process started with the excavation of the meadow where the house stands, while the top soil was stockpiled and used for final grading later. Once the foundation was complete, the foundation forms were stripped and the below-slab plumbing and electrical runs installed. The builders continued with laying thermal tarp to protect the home from freezing rains. This was followed by the installing of under-slab insulation. All the joints were staggered and sealed in this process to prevent air movement between layers. Furthermore, all the penetrations through insulation were foam sealed, which protects against cold seepage and potential Radon gasses.
The roof was then installed, using 16″ I-joists to reduce thermal transmission and to provide additional insulation depth. The I-joists were placed directly over the studs below and the framed walls with studs at 24″ on center to reduce redundant top plate, which also reduced the overall framing materials need. The rafters were then screwed and strapped to studs to provide additional protection from wind. All the intersections were then foam-sealed.
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The house has insulation values of R-45 for walls, R-60 for the roof, and R-30 for ground insulation. Together with passive solar orientation and specially-coated windows to introduce solar warming, and which also feature overhangs to protect from summer over-heating, there is no need for a furnace or a boiler for space heating.
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The Refresh Summary page in the Admin Portal is where capacity admins get an overview of all scheduled refreshes activity on their premium capacity. The page is powered by a New REST API for refresh monitoring that can be extended using existing automation tools .
Through the Refresh Summaries page, capacity admins have visibility into:
- Scheduled refresh activity status for the past 7 days including error messages (in the "History View")
- "Hot-spot" times in the week when too many refreshes are scheduled (in the "Schedule View").
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- Various scheduled refresh statistics for all configured scheduled refreshes (like average duration based on past 60 executions, number of refreshes per day and more)
Learn more about the Refresh Summary page and how to use it to ensure successful scheduled refresh execution in the Power BI Docs.
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- Setup. During the set up of your Workplace instance, you will appoint one or more User(s) as the system administrator(s) of your Workplace community who is responsible for managing your Workplace instance. You must ensure you have at least one active system administrator for your Workplace instance at all times.
- Workplace API. During the Term, Meta may make available one or more Workplace API(s) to you, in order for you to develop and use services and applications that complement your use of Workplace. Any use of the Workplace API(s) by you, your Users, or any third party on your behalf shall be governed by the applicable provisions of the Workplace Platform Terms, currently available at workplace.com/legal/WorkplacePlatformPolicy, as amended by Meta from time to time ("Workplace Platform Terms").
- Support. We will provide Workplace support to you via the direct support tab in the Workplace admin panel ("Direct Support Channel"). You may submit a support request to resolve a question, or report an issue, concerning Workplace, by raising a ticket through the Direct Support Channel ("Support Ticket"). We will provide an initial response to each Support Ticket within 24 hours from the time at which you receive email confirmation that your Support Ticket has been validly raised through the Direct Support Channel.
- Your Data and Obligations
- Your Data. Under this Agreement:
- you retain all right, title and interest (including intellectual property rights) in and to Your Data;
- during the Term, you grant Meta a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully-paid right to use Your Data solely to provide Workplace (and related support) to you, pursuant to this Agreement; and
- you acknowledge that Meta is the data processor and that you are the data controller of Your Data, and by entering into this Agreement you instruct Meta to process Your Data on your behalf, only for the purposes specified in (and in accordance with) this Agreement (including the Data Processing Addendum).
- Your Obligations. You agree (a) that you are solely responsible for the accuracy and content of Your Data; (b) to obtain all necessary rights and consents required by Laws from your Users and any applicable third party to allow the collection and use of Your Data as contemplated in this Agreement; and (c) that your use of Workplace, including Your Data and its use hereunder, will not violate any Laws or third party rights, including intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights. If any of Your Data is submitted or used in violation of this Section 2, you agree to promptly remove it from Workplace. You are solely responsible for any decision to share Your Data among Users or with any third parties, and Meta is not responsible for use, access, alteration, distribution or deletion of Your Data by those to whom you or your Users make it available.
- Prohibited Data. You agree not to submit to Workplace any information or data that violates the terms of this Agreement or is subject to safeguarding and/or limitations on distribution pursuant to applicable laws and/or regulation ("Prohibited Information"). With regard to health information, you acknowledge that Meta is not a Business Associate or subcontractor (as those terms are defined in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ("HIPAA")) and that Workplace is not HIPAA compliant. Meta will have no liability under this Agreement for Prohibited Information, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein.
- Indemnification. You will defend, indemnify and hold harmless Meta (and its Affiliates and their respective directors, officers, employees, agents, and representatives) from and against all claims (from third parties and/or Users), costs, damages, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or in connection with your breach or alleged breach of this Section 2 or otherwise related to Your Data, Your Policies or use of Workplace in violation of this Agreement. Meta may participate in the defense and settlement of any such claim with its own counsel and at its own expense. You shall not settle any claim without Meta's prior written consent if the settlement requires Meta to take any action, refrain from taking any action, or admit any liability.
- Backups and Data Deletion. Meta does not provide an archiving service, and you are solely responsible for creating backups of Your Data. You may delete Your Data consisting of User content at any time during the term through the system administrator functionality of Workplace.
- Aggregate Data. Under this Agreement, we may also generate aggregated statistical and analytical data derived from your use of Workplace ("Aggregate Data"), but such Aggregate Data will not include Your Data or any personal data.
- Your Data. Under this Agreement:
- Data Security
- Security of Your Data. We will use appropriate technical, organizational and security measures designed to protect Your Data in our possession against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction, as further described in the Data Security Addendum.
- Legal Disclosures and Third Party Requests. You are generally responsible for responding to third party requests regarding Your Data, such as from regulators, Users, or a law enforcement agency ("Third Party Requests"), but you understand that, in response to a Third Party Request, Meta may disclose Your Data to comply with its legal requirements. In such circumstances, we will, to the extent allowed by law and by the terms of the Third Party Request, use reasonable efforts to (a) notify you of our receipt of a Third Party Request and ask the third party to contact you and (b) comply with your reasonable requests regarding your efforts to oppose a Third Party Request at your expense. You will first seek to obtain the information required to respond to the Third Party Request on your own, and will contact us only if you cannot reasonably obtain such information.
- Payment
- Fees. You agree to pay Meta the standard rates for Workplace (currently available here: https://www.workplace.com/pricing) for your use of Workplace, subject to any free trial period as described in Section 4.f (Free Trial), unless otherwise agreed in a signed written document. All fees under this Agreement will be paid in USD, unless otherwise specified in-product, or unless otherwise agreed in a signed written document. All fees will be settled in full in accordance with your payment method pursuant to Section 4.b. Any late payments shall be subject to a service charge equal to 1.5% per month of the amount due or the maximum amount allowed by law, whichever is less.
- Payment Method. When you enter into this Agreement you agree to settle fees under one of two categories of payment: (i) payment card customer (whether paying directly, or through a third party payment platform), or (ii) invoiced customer, as determined in Meta's discretion. Payment card customers may (in Meta's sole discretion) become invoiced customers (and vice versa) based on factors such as the number of Users and creditworthiness, but Meta retains the right to re-classify you as a payment card customer or an invoiced customer at any time.
- Payment Card Customers. Payment card customers will have their designated payment card charged for their usage of Workplace.
- Invoiced Customers. Invoiced customers will be extended a credit line by Meta and will be issued invoices on a monthly basis, unless otherwise agreed in a signed written document. If categorised as an invoiced customer, you will pay all fees due under this Agreement, in full and cleared funds as directed by us, within 30 days of the invoice date.
- You agree for us to obtain your business credit report from a credit bureau on acceptance of this Agreement, or anytime thereafter.
- Taxes. All fees are stated exclusive of any applicable goods and services tax, value-added tax, sales and use tax, surtax and similar taxes or duties under applicable laws, other than taxes based on the income of Meta. You will pay all amounts due under this Agreement in full without any set-off, counterclaim, deduction or withholding. In the event any payment that you make under this Agreement is subject to a deduction or withholding, you shall obtain prior written approval from Meta and be responsible for making the appropriate payment to the appropriate taxing authorities and financially responsible for interest, penalties, fines, or similar liabilities resulting from your failure to timely remit such taxes to the proper governmental authority or agency. You acknowledge and accept that you are accessing and using Workplace at the address you have provided within your Workplace account settings or otherwise provided to us in writing and we will charge you applicable taxes based on the location of such address. In the event of a tax audit or tax dispute with relevant taxing authorities arising out of this Agreement or if there are statutory or regulatory changes which impact the tax obligations of the Parties, the Parties agree to cooperate and use reasonable efforts to conclude the matter with minimal adverse tax consequences. For instance, if a relevant taxing authority asserts that Meta should have collected applicable taxes from you, and you paid such taxes directly to the taxing authority, you agree to provide us proof that such taxes were paid (to the satisfaction of such taxing authority) within thirty (30) days of Meta's written request thereof. You agree to indemnify us for any underpayment or non-payment of any taxes that are not specifically excluded in this Agreement, including any penalty and interest.
- Suspension. Without affecting our other rights under this Agreement, if you do not pay any fees by the due date, then we may suspend all or part of the Workplace services (including access to paid for services) until payment has been made in full.
- Workplace for Good Free Access. Notwithstanding Section 4.a, if you apply for free access under the Workplace for Good programme and Meta determines that you qualify in accordance with Meta's policies (currently referenced at https://work.workplace.com/help/work/142977843114744) we will provide Workplace to you free of charge in accordance with such policies on a going forward basis. If as a result of a change in our policies you no longer qualify for free access, then Meta will provide you with three (3) months' prior notice of this and after such notice, Section 4.a will apply.
- Free Trial. Meta may in its sole discretion offer you a free trial of Workplace for a fixed period, the duration of which shall be determined at Meta's sole discretion and communicated to you via the admin panel of your Workplace instance. At the end of such free trial Section 4.a (Fees) will apply.
- Confidentiality
- Obligations. Each party agrees that all business, technical and financial information it obtains (as "Receiving Party") from the disclosing party in connection with this Agreement ("Disclosing Party") constitutes the confidential property of the Disclosing Party ("Confidential Information"), provided that it is identified as either confidential or proprietary at the time of disclosure or should be reasonably known by the Receiving Party to be confidential or proprietary due to the nature of the information disclosed and the circumstances surrounding the disclosure. Except as expressly authorized herein, the Receiving Party will: (1) hold in confidence and not disclose any Confidential Information to third parties: and (2) not use Confidential Information for any purpose other than fulfilling its obligations and exercising its rights under this Agreement. The Receiving Party may disclose Confidential Information to its employees, agents, contractors and other representatives having a legitimate need to know (including, for Meta, those of its Affiliates and the subcontractors referenced in Section 12.j), provided that they are bound to confidentiality obligations no less protective of the Disclosing Party's Confidential Information as provided in this Section 5 and that the Receiving Party remains responsible for compliance by any such person with the terms of this Section 5.
- Exceptions. The Receiving Party's confidentiality obligations will not apply to information that the Receiving Party can document: (a) was rightfully in its possession or known to it prior to receipt of the Confidential Information; (b) is or has become public knowledge through no fault of the Receiving Party; (c) is rightfully obtained by the Receiving Party from a third party without breach of any confidentiality obligation; or (d) is independently developed by employees of the Receiving Party who had no access to such information. The Receiving Party may make disclosures to the extent required by Laws or court order, provided that (unless prohibited by Laws) the Receiving Party notifies the Disclosing Party in advance and cooperates in any effort to obtain confidential treatment.
- Injunctive Relief. The Receiving Party acknowledges that use of or disclosure of Confidential Information in violation of this Section 5 could cause substantial harm for which damages alone would not be a sufficient remedy, and therefore that upon any such threatened or actual use or disclosure by the Receiving Party the Disclosing Party will be entitled to seek appropriate equitable relief in addition to whatever other remedies it might have at law.
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Meta Ownership. This is an agreement for access to and use of Workplace, and no ownership rights are conveyed to Customer. Meta and its licensors retain all right, title and interest (including all intellectual property rights) in and to Workplace, Aggregate Data, any and all related and underlying technology, and any derivative works, modifications or improvements to any of the foregoing created by or on behalf of Meta, including based on your Feedback (defined below). No rights are granted to you except as expressly set forth in this Agreement.
- Feedback. If you submit comments, questions, suggestions, use cases or other feedback relating to your use of Workplace or its API or our other products or services ("Feedback"), we may freely use or exploit such Feedback in connection with any of our products or services or those of our Affiliates, without obligation or compensation to you.
- Disclaimer
META EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT WORKPLACE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE. WE MAY PERMIT THIRD PARTIES TO DEVELOP AND MAKE AVAILABLE SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS THAT COMPLEMENT YOUR USE OF WORKPLACE OR WE MAY PERMIT WORKPLACE TO OTHERWISE INTEGRATE WITH OTHER SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS. META IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SERVICES OR APPLICATIONS THAT YOU CHOOSE TO USE IN CONNECTION WITH WORKPLACE. YOUR USE OF SUCH SERVICES OR APPLICATIONS IS SUBJECT TO SEPARATE TERMS AND POLICIES AND YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. - Limitations of Liability
- For the purposes of this Section 8, "Excluded Claims" means: (a) Customer's liability arising under Section 2 (Your Data and Obligations); and (b) a party's breach of its obligations in Section 5 (Confidentiality) but excluding claims relating to Your Data.
- The limitations in this Section 8 will survive and apply even if any limited remedy specified in this Agreement is found to have failed of its essential purpose, and the parties agree that neither party is limiting or excluding their liability for anything that cannot be limited or excluded by law. You acknowledge and agree that our provision of Workplace is based upon the assumption that our liability is limited as provided in this Agreement.
- Term and Termination
- Term. This Agreement will commence on the date on which you first access your Workplace instance and continue until terminated as permitted herein (the "Term").
- Termination for Convenience. Without prejudice to any termination rights that you may have under the Data Processing Addendum, you may terminate this Agreement at any time, for no reason or any reason, upon thirty (30) days' advance notice to Meta by your admin electing to delete your Workplace instance within the product. Meta may also terminate this Agreement at any time, for no reason or any reason, upon thirty (30) days' advance notice to you.
- Meta Termination and Suspension. Meta reserves the right to terminate this Agreement with reasonable notice to you or immediately suspend your access to Workplace if you breach this Agreement or if we deem such action necessary to prevent harm to the security, stability, availability or integrity of Workplace.
- Deletion of Your Data. Meta will delete Your Data promptly after any termination of this Agreement, but you understand that deleted content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time whilst deletion is carried out. As set forth in Section 2.e, you are solely responsible for creating any back-ups of Your Data for your own purposes.
- Effect of Termination. Upon any termination of this Agreement: (a) you and your Users must immediately cease using Workplace; (b) at the Disclosing Party's request, and subject to Section 9.d, the Receiving Party will promptly return or delete any of the Disclosing Party's Confidential Information in its possession; (c) you will promptly pay Meta any unpaid fees incurred prior to termination; (d) if Meta terminates this Agreement without cause in accordance with Section 9.b, Meta will refund to you a pro rata amount of any pre-paid fees (where applicable); and (e) the following Sections will survive: 1.c (Restrictions), 2 (Your Data and Obligations) (other than Meta's license to Your Data in Section 2.a), 3.b (Legal Disclosures and Third Party Requests), 4 (Payment) through 13 (Definitions). Except as may be specified in this Agreement, either party's exercise of any remedy, including termination, is without prejudice to any other remedies it may have under this Agreement, by law or otherwise.
- Other Meta Accounts
- Personal Accounts. For the avoidance of doubt, User accounts are distinct from any personal Facebook account that Users may create on the consumer Facebook service ("Personal FB Accounts"). Personal FB Accounts are not subject to this Agreement, but rather are subject to Meta's terms for those services, each between Meta and the relevant user.
- Workplace and Ads. We will not show third-party advertising to your Users on Workplace and we will not use Your Data to provide or target advertising to your Users or to personalize your Users' experience on their Personal FB Accounts. Meta may, however, make in-product announcements or inform system administrators about features, integrations or functionality related to Workplace.
- Beta Features
- Beta Testing. Meta may, from time to time, make available beta or pre-release features (each, a "Beta Feature") for the purposes of testing and obtaining Feedback.
- Possibility of Errors. You acknowledge that by accepting to use the Beta Features, that such Beta Features are:
- in a testing phase, remain under development and may contain errors, including technical errors that may interfere with functionality; and
- may not perform as intended or as effectively as other features.
- Beta Feature Changes. Meta may (at its sole discretion) impose limits on, suspend, disable, terminate, remove, replace, change, upgrade, update or roll back any Beta Feature (or part of a Beta Feature), without notice to you.
- As-Is. IN ADDITION TO ALL THE DISCLAIMERS MADE IN SECTION 7 (DISCLAIMER) ABOVE, WHICH, FOR CLARITY, ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO BETA FEATURES, ALL BETA FEATURES MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. META HAS NO OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE ANY TECHNICAL SUPPORT RELATED TO BETA FEATURES. META HAS NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED OBLIGATION TO YOU TO MAKE ANY BETA FEATURE AVAILABLE TO YOU. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF ANY BETA FEATURE IS DONE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK AND TO MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, META HAS NO LIABILITY TO YOU IN CONNECTION WITH ANY BETA FEATURE.
- General
- Changes. Meta may change terms of this Agreement and policies referenced in or incorporated by this Agreement at any time, including but not limited to the Data Processing Addendum (to comply with applicable data protection law), the Data Security Addendum, and the Acceptable Use Policy, by providing you with notice by email, through Workplace or by other reasonable means (each, a "Change"). By continuing to use Workplace thirty (30) days after notice of a Change, you shall be deemed to have consented to such Change.
- Governing Law. Without prejudice to Section 12.p, this Agreement and your and your Users' use of Workplace as well as any claim that might arise between you and us, are governed by, and must be construed in accordance with, the laws of the United States and the State of California, as applicable, without giving effect to their principles of conflicts of law. Any claim or cause of action arising out of or relating to this Agreement or Workplace must be commenced exclusively in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California or a state court located in San Mateo County, and each party hereby consents to the personal jurisdiction of such courts.
- Entire Agreement. This Agreement is the entire agreement between the parties regarding your access to and use of Workplace and supersedes any prior representations or agreements relating to Workplace. Headings are for convenience only, and terms such as "including" are to be construed without limitation. All URLs noted in this Agreement include any successor URLs applicable to the same subject matter. This Agreement is written in English (US), which will control over conflicts in any translated version.
- Waiver and Severability. Failure to enforce a provision will not be deemed a waiver; waivers must be in writing signed by the party claimed to have waived. Any terms or conditions in any Customer purchase order or business form will not modify this Agreement and are hereby expressly rejected, and any such document will be for administrative purposes only. If any provision of this Agreement is adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, invalid or otherwise contrary to law, such provision will be interpreted so as to best accomplish its intended objectives and the remaining provisions of this Agreement will remain in full force and effect.
- Publicity. Any press release or marketing campaign about the parties' relationship requires the prior written approval of both parties. Notwithstanding the foregoing: (a) within your own company, you may publicize or promote use of Workplace during the Term (e.g., to encourage User adoption), subject to Meta's brand usage guidelines provided from time to time, and (b) Meta may reference your name and status as a Workplace customer.
- Assignment. Neither party may assign this Agreement or its rights or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the other party, except that Meta may assign this Agreement without consent to any of its Affiliates or in connection with a merger, reorganization, acquisition, or other transfer of all or substantially all of its assets or voting securities. Subject to the foregoing, this Agreement will bind and inure to the benefit of each party's permitted successors and assigns. Non-permitted assignments are void and will create no obligations on Meta.
- Independent Contractor. The parties are independent contractors. No agency, partnership, joint venture, or employment is created as a result of this Agreement and neither party has authority to bind the other.
- No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement benefits Meta and Customer and there are no intended third party beneficiaries, including any Users.
- Notices. Where you are terminating this Agreement pursuant to Section 9.b you must notify Meta by your system administrator electing to delete your Workplace instance within the product. Any other notice under this Agreement by you must be in writing, which must be sent to Meta at the following address (as applicable): in the case of Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, to Merrion Road, Dublin 4, D04X2K5, Ireland, Attn: Legal, Workplace and, in the case of Meta Platforms Inc, to 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA, Attn: Legal, Workplace. Meta may send notices to the email address on your account. Meta may also provide operational notices regarding Workplace or other business-related notices through messages to system administrators and Users within Workplace or conspicuous posting within Workplace.
- Subcontractors. Meta may use subcontractors and permit them to exercise Meta's rights under this Agreement, but Meta remains responsible for compliance of any such subcontractor with this Agreement.
- Force Majeure. Neither party will be liable to the other for any delay or failure to perform any obligation under this Agreement (except for a failure to pay fees) if the delay or failure is due to unforeseen events that occur after the signing of this Agreement and that are beyond the reasonable control of such party, such as a strike, blockade, war, act of terrorism, riot, natural disaster, failure or diminishment of power or telecommunications or data networks or services, or refusal of a license or authorisation by a government agency or entity.
- Third Party Websites. Workplace may contain links to third-party websites. This does not imply our endorsement of any website and we are not responsible for the actions, content, information, or data of third-party websites or actions or any link contained in them, or any changes or updates to them. Third-party websites may provide their own terms and conditions of use and privacy policies that apply to you and your Users and your use of such third-party websites is not governed by this Agreement.
- Export Controls and Trade Sanctions. In use of Workplace, Customer agrees to comply with all export and import laws and regulations of the United States and other applicable jurisdictions, as well as any applicable sanctions or trade restrictions. Without limiting the foregoing Customer represents and warrants that: (a) it is not listed on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties; (b) it is not subject to any UN, U.S., EU, or any other applicable economic sanctions or trade restrictions; and (c) it does not have operations or Users in a country subject to comprehensive U.S. trade sanctions.
- Conditions on Governmental Entity Use. If you are a Governmental Entity, you represent that: (i) no applicable law, policy, or principle restricts you from agreeing and performing, or accepting performance of, any term or condition of this Agreement, (ii) no applicable law, policy, or principle renders any term or condition of this Agreement unenforceable against you or any applicable Governmental Entity, (iii) you are authorized to, and have the legal capacity under applicable laws, policies, and principles to represent and bind any applicable Governmental Entity to this Agreement; and (iv) you enter into this Agreement based upon an impartial decision concerning the value of Workplace to you and your Users and no improper conduct or conflict of interest has influenced your decision to enter into this Agreement. Do not enter into this Agreement if you cannot make the representations in this Section 12.n. If a Governmental Entity enters into this Agreement in violation of this Section 12.n, Meta may elect to terminate this Agreement.
- Resellers. You may choose to access and use Workplace through a Reseller. In the event you access and use Workplace through a Reseller, you are solely responsible for: (i) any related rights and obligations in your applicable agreement with your Reseller, and (ii) as between you and Meta, any access by Reseller to your Workplace instance, Your Data, and any User accounts that you may create for your Reseller. In addition, in the event you access and use Workplace through a Reseller, you agree that the Reseller Customer Terms shall take precedence over any conflicting terms in this Agreement.
- Australian Small Businesses. If you are an Australian small business, this Agreement may be subject to the Australian Consumer Law and your rights under the Australian Consumer Law. If the Australian Consumer Law applies to you and your use of Workplace, the additional provisions within the Australia SMB Addendum form part of this Agreement and are incorporated herein by reference.
- Definitions
In this Agreement, unless otherwise stated:"Acceptable Use Policy" means the rules for use of Workplace found at www.workplace.com/legal/FB_Work_AUP, as may be modified from time to time. "Affiliate" means an entity that directly or indirectly owns or controls, is owned or is controlled by or is under common ownership or control with a party, where "control" means the power to direct the management or affairs of an entity, and "ownership" means beneficial ownership of 50% (or, if the applicable jurisdiction does not allow majority ownership, the maximum amount permitted under such law) or more of the entity's voting equity securities or equivalent voting interests. For purposes of this definition, a Governmental Entity is not an affiliate of another Governmental Entity unless it wholly controls such other Governmental Entity. "Agreement" means all the terms and conditions contained or referenced in these Workplace Terms of Service and its addendums, including (but not limited to) the Data Processing Addendum, Data Security Addendum, Acceptable Use Policy, MGPT, Reseller Customer Terms, Workplace Platform Terms and Australia SMB Addendum (and any terms referenced therein). "Australia SMB Addendum" means the terms found at https://www.workplace.com/legal/FB_Work_Australia, as may be updated from time to time. "Data Processing Addendum" means the data processing addendum attached to, and forming part of, this Agreement, including any terms referenced therein. "Data Security Addendum" means the data security addendum attached to, and forming part of, this Agreement. "Governmental Entity" means any country or jurisdiction in the world, including without limitation any state, local, municipal, regional, or other unit or political subdivision of government, any governmental organization, instrumentality, enterprise, or other entity established, owned or controlled by such a government, and any representative or agent of any of the foregoing. "Laws" means all applicable local, state, federal and international laws, regulations and conventions, including, without limitation, those related to data privacy and data transfer, international communications, the exportation of technical or personal data, and public procurement. "MGPT" means the Meta Global Processor Terms available at: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/Meta-Global-Processor-Terms. "Reseller" means a third party partner that has a valid agreement with Meta authorising them to resell and facilitate access to Workplace. "Reseller Customer Terms" means the terms found at https://www.workplace.com/legal/FB_Work_ResellerCustomerTerms, as may be updated from time to time, and forming part of this Agreement, and being the additional terms between the parties which are applicable to you, if you access and use Workplace through a Reseller. "Users" means any of your or your Affiliates' employees, contractors or other individuals that you permit to access Workplace. "Workplace" means the Workplace service that we make available to you under this Agreement, and any subsequent versions thereof, including any websites, apps, online services, tools, Beta Features, and content that we may provide to you under this Agreement, as may be modified from time to time. "Workplace Subprocessors" means the named entities identified by Meta at https://www.workplace.com/subprocessors, (or a successor location) as may be updated from time to time. "Your Data" means (a) any contact information or network or account registration data that you or your Users submit to Workplace; (b) any content or data that you or your Users publish, post, share, import or provide on Workplace; (c) information we collect when you or your Users contact or engage us for support regarding Workplace, including information about hardware, software, and other details gathered related to the support incident; and (d) any usage or functional information (e.g., IP addresses, browser and operating system types, and device identifiers) regarding how Users interact with Workplace. "Your Policies" means any of your applicable employee, systems, privacy, HR, complaint or other policies.
Data Processing Addendum
- Data Processing. To the extent Meta acts as a Processor of Applicable Personal Data, the parties shall comply with the MGPT as modified by Section 2 (Modifications to the MGPT) below. The MGPT forms part of this Data Processing Addendum, and is expressly incorporated herein by reference. For the avoidance of doubt, the modifications set out in Section 2 (Modifications to the MGPT) shall continue to apply notwithstanding any future updates to the MGPT. Capitalized terms used in this Data Processing Addendum, but not otherwise defined elsewhere in this Agreement, shall have the meanings set out in the MGPT.
- Modifications to the MGPT. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the MGPT, for the purposes of Meta's Processing activities under this Agreement, the MGPT is modified as set out below and the following modifications supersede any conflicting language in the MGPT:
- The Meta entity that you contract with under this Agreement shall be your Processor for all of your Applicable Personal Data.
- Section 2.1.d of the General Terms is deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following: "Company understands and agrees that Company may delete and download its Applicable Personal Data at any time through the tools provided within Workplace during the Term, after which, Meta will delete all Applicable Personal Data as described in Section 9 of the Applicable Terms."
- Conflicts. Notwithstanding Section 1.3 (Conflicts) of the General Terms in the MGPT, to the extent there is a conflict or inconsistency between the terms of the MGPT and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail (unless such term(s) contradict a requirement under Law, in which case such requirement(s) under the Law shall prevail).
- Processing Description. In conducting its activities as Processor under this Agreement in relation to any Applicable Personal Data within Your Data, Meta confirms that:
- the duration, subject matter, nature and purpose of the Processing shall be as specified in this Agreement;
- the types of Personal Data Processed shall include those specified in the definition of 'Your Data';
- the categories of Data Subjects include your representatives, Users and any other individuals identified or identifiable by Your Data;
- your obligations and rights as Controller in relation to any Applicable Personal data within Your Data are as set out in this Agreement and the MGPT; and
- the frequency of the data transfers are on a continuous basis for the duration of the Agreement, unless otherwise expressly provided in the Agreement.
- Sub-processors. You acknowledge and agree that in connection with the provision of Workplace, Meta has contracted with the Workplace Subprocessors to act as its Sub-processors of Applicable Personal Data.
Data Security Addendum
- Background and Purpose
This document describes the minimum security requirements applicable to Meta's provision of Workplace to you. - Information Security Management System
Meta has established and will maintain an Information Security Management System (ISMS) designed to implement industry-standard information security practices applicable to its provision of Workplace. Meta's ISMS is designed to protect against unauthorized access, disclosure, use, loss or alteration of Your Data. - Risk Management Process
Security of information and information processing facilities, including IT infrastructure and physical facilities, shall be based upon risk assessment. Risk assessment of Workplace will be done on a regular basis. - Organization of Information Security
Meta has a designated Security officer with overall responsibility for security in the organization. Meta has designated personnel responsible for oversight of security of your Workplace instance. - Physical and Environmental Security
Meta's security measures shall include controls designed to provide reasonable assurance that access to physical processing facilities is limited to authorized persons and that environmental controls are established to detect, prevent and control destruction due to environmental hazard. The controls include: The controls include:- Logging and auditing of all physical access to the data processing facility by employees and contractors;
- Camera surveillance systems at critical entry points to the data processing facility;
- Systems that monitor and control the temperature and humidity for the computer equipment; and
- Power supply and backup generators.
- Segregation
Meta will establish technical mechanisms designed to ensure that Your Data is logically segregated from other customers' data and that Your Data is only available to authorized users. - Personnel
- Training
Meta shall ensure that all employees with access to Your Data undergo security training. - Screening and Background Checks
Meta shall:- Have a process for verifying the identity of the personnel working with your instance of Workplace.
- Have a process for performing background checks on personnel working with your instance of Workplace in accordance with Meta standards.
- Personnel Security Breach
Meta will establish sanctions for unauthorized or impermissible access to Your Data by Meta personnel, including punishments up to and including termination.
- Training
- Security Testing
Meta shall perform regular security and vulnerability testing to assess whether key controls are implemented properly and are effective. - Access Control
- User Password Management
Meta shall have an established process for User Password Management, designed to ensure passwords are personal and inaccessible for unauthorized persons, including at minimum:- Password provisioning, including verifying the identity of the user prior to a new, replacement or temporary password.
- Encrypting all passwords when stored in computer systems or in transit over the network.
- Altering all default passwords from vendors.
- Strong passwords relative to their intended use.
- User awareness.
- User Access Management
Meta will implement a process for changing and / or revoking access rights and user IDs, without undue delay. Meta shall have procedures for reporting and revoking compromised access credentials (passwords, tokens etc.) 24/7. Meta shall implement appropriate security logs including userid and timestamp. Clock shall be synchronized with NTP. The following minimum events shall be logged:- Authorization Changes;
- Failed and successful authentication and access attempts; and
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Despite its unassuming name and interface, Business Calendar is—by a good margin—our favorite calendar app on Android, due to its flexibility and ease of use.
Business Calendar
Platform: Android
Price: Free ($4.99 Pro)
Download Page
Smooth scrolling calendar
Zoom into multi-day (1-14 days) views with a tap and drag
Choose between a graphical view (with colored boxes) or a text view (with the names of your actual events)
Month, agenda, day, and event views
Quickly fade certain calendars in and out with one tap shortcuts along the bottom
Search through events
Customizable widgets for month, week, day, and agenda views
Tap a day to see a quick popup of that day's events
Many options for recurring events
Drag and drop in multi-day view to copy events (Pro only)
Link contacts to an event (Pro only)
Plugins to support Google Tasks and Toodledo (Pro only)
Change font sizes (Pro only)
11 widget themes (Pro only)
Select individual calendars for each widget (Pro only)
Where It Excels
Business Calendar is not the most advanced calendar on the Play Store, but it's close—and its incredible interface is worth losing one or two features to the competition. Instead of having views for "week", "4-day", "month", and so on, you start with a month view and can tap and drag on a certain set of days to shrink the view to those days. It's really well done. Tapping on a specific day smoothly brings up a small pop-up of that day's events, and you can swipe to an agenda view if you'd rather see your month that way. Every time I tap a day, I'm shocked at how nicely everything works in this app.
It also lets you select certain "shortcut" calendars to put along the bottom row. This lets you show and hide them with one tap, which is great for those one or two calendars you don't always want listed. The pro version can drag and drop events, which is really awesome if, say, you have the same event three days in a row and don't want to re-create it three times. Its widgets are also very pretty and functional. Basically, it's powerful and insanely easy to use, and much easier to navigate than pretty much any other calendar out there.
Where It Falls Short
Alone, it doesn't have a lot of cons, save for maybe some more advanced features when it comes to creating repeating events (though it still does a pretty good job of that too). Most of the things its missing are more personal preference than missing features. For example, it's not exactly the prettiest calendar app...but then again, few calendar apps are very pretty.
The Competition
Jorte (Free) is a close second, and its biggest strength over Business Calendar is the ability to show your tasks list under your calendar, and show your day's agenda under the month view when you click on it. It's a really nice way to see everything at once. It only syncs with Google Tasks, but if you're a Google Tasks user, it's pretty solid. It has a multitude of different views, and can also integrate with apps like Google Maps—if you add a location to your event, you can tap on that location to see it in the Maps app. Jorte is by far the most popular calendar app on the Market, and with good reason: it's free, has some nice features, and integrates with other apps, but it just doesn't hold up to Business Calendar's ease of use in our opinion.
aCalendar (Free, $3.99 Pro) is a popular app, with some nice features to go along with it. Its day and week view include small month views on the same page, which is handy, and it can even grab birthdays for your contacts and remind you of them. Its month view also shows the name of individual events rather than just a colored dot, which is nice—but tapping a day to expand doesn't work as well as in Jorte or Business Calendar It's a solid competitor if you're looking for something different.
Cal (Free), from the makers of Any.do, is a free option that is far prettier than its competitors—but unfortunately, it's a little confusing too. You navigate between day and month view with a vertical swipe, though the app doesn't tell you that, and its month view isn't very informative (since it doesn't show your calendar's colors or even individual events). It's very pretty, and it integrates with the Any.DO task manager nicely, but if you rely on your calendar a lot, it isn't our first choice.
Calengoo ($5.99) is a good (albeit expensive) app for those that just want a quick glance at their calendar. Its views are very readable and its easy to jump back and forth betweent hem using tabs across the top. It also has an advanced "repeating events" system, so its good if you add a lot of events from your phone.
Many of you are probably still using the stock Google Calendar app. It isn't a bad app, per se—it doesn't make you run for the hills looking for an alternative—but we promise you, once you try any of the above options, you won't go back. Google Calendar works well enough, but the interface is a little clunkier, and all your settings are very basic compared to the alternatives. If you ever use your calendar on your phone, we recommend taking a look at the alternatives above. You'll be glad you did.
Lifehacker's App Directory is a new and growing directory of recommendations for the best applications and tools in a number of given categories.


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Any PHP script is built out of a series of statements. A statement can be an assignment, a function call, a loop, a conditional statement or even a statement that does nothing (an empty statement). Statements usually end with a semicolon. In addition, statements can be grouped into a statement-group by encapsulating a group of statements with curly braces. A statement-group is a statement by itself as well. The various statement types are described in this chapter.
The if construct is one of the most important features of many languages, PHP included. It allows for conditional execution of code fragments. PHP features an if structure that is similar to that of C:
if (expr) statement
As described in the section about expressions, expression is evaluated to its Boolean value. If expression evaluates to TRUE, PHP will execute statement, and if it evaluates to FALSE - it'll ignore it. More information about what values evaluate to FALSE can be found in the 'Converting to boolean' section.
The following example would display a is bigger than b if $a is bigger than $b:
<?php if ($a > $b) echo "a is bigger than b"; ?>
Often you'd want to have more than one statement to be executed conditionally. Of course, there's no need to wrap each statement with an if clause. Instead, you can group several statements into a statement group. For example, this code would display a is bigger than b if $a is bigger than $b, and would then assign the value of $a into $b:
<?php if ($a > $b) { echo "a is bigger than b"; $b = $a; } ?>
If statements can be nested indefinitely within other if statements, which provides you with complete flexibility for conditional execution of the various parts of your program.


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Here is an excellent excerpt from an online article from Catholic.com, entitled "Praying to the Saints."
The historic Christian practice of asking our departed brothers and sisters in Christ—the saints—for their intercession has come under attack in the last few hundred years. Though the practice dates to the earliest days of Christianity and is shared by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, the other Eastern Christians, and even some Anglicans—meaning that all-told it is shared by more than three quarters of the Christians on earth—it still comes under heavy attack from many within the Protestant movement that started in the sixteenth century.
Can They Hear Us?
One charge made against it is that the saints in heaven cannot even hear our prayers, making it useless to ask for their intercession. However, this is not true. As Scripture indicates, those in heaven are aware of the prayers of those on earth. This can be seen, for example, in Revelation 5:8, where John depicts the saints in heaven offering our prayers to God under the form of "golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." But if the saints in heaven are offering our prayers to God, then they must be aware of our prayers. They are aware of our petitions and present them to God by interceding for us.
Some might try to argue that in this passage the prayers being offered were not addressed to the saints in heaven, but directly to God. Yet this argument would only strengthen the fact that those in heaven can hear our prayers, for then the saints would be aware of our prayers even when they are not directed to them!
In any event, it is clear from Revelation 5:8 that the saints in heaven do actively intercede for us. We are explicitly told by John that the incense they offer to God are the prayers of the saints. Prayers are not physical things and cannot be physically offered to God. Thus the saints in heaven are offering our prayers to God mentally. In other words, they are interceding.
One Mediator
Another charge commonly levelled against asking the saints for their intercession is that this violates the sole mediatorship of Christ, which Paul discusses: "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus" (1 Tim. 2:5).
But asking one person to pray for you in no way violates Christ's mediatorship, as can be seen from considering the way in which Christ is a mediator. First, Christ is a unique mediator between man and God because he is the only person who is both God and man. He is the only bridge between the two, the only God-man. But that role as mediator is not compromised in the least by the fact that others intercede for us. Furthermore, Christ is a unique mediator between God and man because he is the Mediator of the New Covenant (Heb. 9:15, 12:24), just as Moses was the mediator (Greek mesitas) of the Old Covenant (Gal. 3:19–20).
The intercession of fellow Christians—which is what the saints in heaven are—also clearly does not interfere with Christ's unique mediatorship because in the four verses immediately preceding 1 Timothy 2:5, Paul says that Christians should interceed: "First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way. This is good, and pleasing to God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim. 2:1–4). Clearly, then, intercessory prayers offered by Christians on behalf of others is something "good and pleasing to God," not something infringing on Christ's role as mediator.
"No Contact with the Dead"
Sometimes Fundamentalists object to asking our fellow Christians in heaven to pray for us by declaring that God has forbidden contact with the dead in passages such as Deuteronomy 18:10–11. In fact, he has not, because he at times has given it—for example, when he had Moses and Elijah appear with Christ to the disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt. 17:3). What God has forbidden is necromantic practice of conjuring up spirits. "There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. . . . For these nations, which you are about to dispossess, give heed to soothsayers and to diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you so to do. The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brethren—him you shall heed" (Deut. 18:10–15).
God thus indicates that one is not to conjure the dead for purposes of gaining information; one is to look to God's prophets instead. Thus one is not to hold a seance. But anyone with an ounce of common sense can discern the vast qualitative difference between holding a seance to have the dead speak through you and a son humbly saying at his mother's grave, "Mom, please pray to Jesus for me; I'm having a real problem right now." The difference between the two is the difference between night and day. One is an occult practice bent on getting secret information; the other is a humble request for a loved one to pray to God on one's behalf.
Overlooking the Obvious
Some objections to the concept of prayer to the saints betray restricted notions of heaven. One comes from anti-Catholic Loraine Boettner:
"How, then, can a human being such as Mary hear the prayers of millions of Roman Catholics, in many different countries, praying in many different languages, all at the same time?
"Let any priest or layman try to converse with only three people at the same time and see how impossible that is for a human being. . . . The objections against prayers to Mary apply equally against prayers to the saints. For they too are only creatures, infinitely less than God, able to be at only one place at a time and to do only one thing at a time.
"How, then, can they listen to and answer thousands upon thousands of petitions made simultaneously in many different lands and in many different languages? Many such petitions are expressed, not orally, but only mentally, silently. How can Mary and the saints, without being like God, be present everywhere and know the secrets of all hearts?" (Roman Catholicism, 142-143).
If being in heaven were like being in the next room, then of course these objections would be valid. A mortal, unglorified person in the next room would indeed suffer the restrictions imposed by the way space and time work in our universe. But the saints are not in the next room, and they are not subject to the time/space limitations of this life.
This does not imply that the saints in heaven therefore must be omniscient, as God is, for it is only through God's willing it that they can communicate with others in heaven or with us. And Boettner's argument about petitions arriving in different languages is even further off the mark. Does anyone really think that in heaven the saints are restricted to the King's English? After all, it is God himself who gives the gift of tongues and the interpretation of tongues. Surely those saints in Revelation understand the prayers they are shown to be offering to God.
The problem here is one of what might be called a primitive or even childish view of heaven. It is certainly not one on which enough intellectual rigor has been exercised. A good introduction to the real implications of the afterlife may be found in Frank Sheed's book Theology and Sanity, which argues that sanity depends on an accurate appreciation of reality, and that includes an accurate appreciation of what heaven is really like. And once that is known, the place of prayer to the saints follows.
"Directly to Jesus"
Some may grant that the previous objections to asking the saints for their intercession do not work and may even grant that the practice is permissible in theory, yet they may question it on other grounds, asking why one would want to ask the saints to pray for one. "Why not pray directly to Jesus?" they ask.
The answer is: "Of course one should pray directly to Jesus!" But that does not mean it is not also a good thing to ask others to pray for one as well. Ultimately, the "go-directly-to-Jesus" objection boomerangs back on the one who makes it: Why should we ask any Christian, in heaven or on earth, to pray for us when we can ask Jesus directly? If the mere fact that we can go straight to Jesus proved that we should ask no Christian in heaven to pray for us then it would also prove that we should ask no Christian on earth to pray for us.
Praying for each other is simply part of what Christians do. As we saw, in 1 Timothy 2:1–4, Paul strongly encouraged Christians to intercede for many different things, and that passage is by no means unique in his writings. Elsewhere Paul directly asks others to pray for him (Rom. 15:30–32, Eph. 6:18–20, Col. 4:3, 1 Thess. 5:25, 2 Thess. 3:1), and he assured them that he was praying for them as well (2 Thess. 1:11). Most fundamentally, Jesus himself required us to pray for others, and not only for those who asked us to do so (Matt. 5:44).
Since the practice of asking others to pray for us is so highly recommended in Scripture, it cannot be regarded as superfluous on the grounds that one can go directly to Jesus. The New Testament would not recommend it if there were not benefits coming from it. One such benefit is that the faith and devotion of the saints can support our own weaknesses and supply what is lacking in our own faith and devotion. Jesus regularly supplied for one person based on another person's faith (e.g., Matt. 8:13, 15:28, 17:15–18, Mark 9:17–29, Luke 8:49–55). And it goes without saying that those in heaven, being free of the body and the distractions of this life, have even greater confidence and devotion to God than anyone on earth.
Also, God answers in particular the prayers of the righteous. James declares: "The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects. Elijah was a man of like nature with ourselves and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit" (Jas. 5:16–18). Yet those Christians in heaven are more righteous, since they have been made perfect to stand in God's presence (Heb. 12:22-23), than anyone on earth, meaning their prayers would be even more efficacious.
Having others praying for us thus is a good thing, not something to be despised or set aside. Of course, we should pray directly to Christ with every pressing need we have (cf. John 14:13–14). That's something the Catholic Church strongly encourages. In fact, the prayers of the Mass, the central act of Catholic worship, are directed to God and Jesus, not the saints. But this does not mean that we should not also ask our fellow Christians, including those in heaven, to pray with us.
In addition to our prayers directly to God and Jesus (which are absolutely essential to the Christian life), there are abundant reasons to ask our fellow Christians in heaven to pray for us. The Bible indicates that they are aware of our prayers, that they intercede for us, and that their prayers are effective (else they would not be offered). It is only narrow-mindedness that suggests we should refrain from asking our fellow Christians in heaven to do what we already know them to be anxious and capable of doing.
In Heaven and On Earth
The Bible directs us to invoke those in heaven and ask them to pray with us. Thus in Psalms 103, we pray, "Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word! Bless the Lord, all his hosts, his ministers that do his will!" (Ps. 103:20-21). And in Psalms 148 we pray, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!" (Ps. 148:1-2).
Not only do those in heaven pray with us, they also pray for us. In the book of Revelation, we read: "[An] angel came and stood at the altar [in heaven] with a golden censer; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God" (Rev. 8:3-4).
And those in heaven who offer to God our prayers aren't just angels, but humans as well. John sees that "the twenty-four elders [the leaders of the people of God in heaven] fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints" (Rev. 5:8). The simple fact is, as this passage shows: The saints in heaven offer to God the prayers of the saints on earth.


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