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Jun 22 Go See: Ryan McGinness @ Michael Kohn Gallery
On display at Michael Kohn Gallery is Ryan McGinness' first solo exhibit with the gallery entitled Recent Paintings, which includes vital pieces from various bodies of work along with new paintings. The exhibit displays an array of the artist's day-glo psychedelic and "slick" works that layer contemporary iconography to underscore McGinness' commentary on language, history, and symbolism.
It's hard not to argue that Ryan McGinness has taken a cue from Andy Warhol with his method of creating reproductions. But what differentiates McGinness's work from Warhol's is that the concept of reproductions is taken a step further by implementing original variables and creating unique experiences each time. Unlike Warhol, McGinness creates individual symbols by hand, vectorizes them to perfection, and then layers them to create a singular experience within each piece.
Often times, McGinness' layering has a tendency to be overworked as with Brain Drain or Submit to the Universe. The images become so dense it's difficult to connect with the piece and 'get into it'. When the icons have more room to breathe--as in Pretending to Be Human and I'm a S'il Vous Playa--is when the paintings are at their best. Less visual confusion.
Recent Paintings will be on display until July 1st, so be sure to view this important body of work in person and draw your own conclusions.
Contemporary Art, Go See, Michael Kohn Gallery, Paintings, Ryan McGinness
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Adoption of Unified Communications continues to accelerate as many businesses and organizations embrace this powerful technology as an essential tool to achieve their corporate goals. It is also evident in the market that legacy PBX systems are reaching the end of their lifecycle (even traditional PBX vendors are moving their solutions to IP Telephony) making Cisco Unified Communications an increasingly advantageous investment.
Easier supplementation of new sites and new features across the entire organisation, relocation of a whole department, and general performance of everyday actions/additions/adjustments.
Extension Mobility feature – the ability to login on a IPPhone with your full profile (call restrictions, speedials, etc.) that is available everywhere in the enterprise). Extension Mobility can be utilised for shared desk policy and mobile workers (reducing the need for workplaces) and offer significant real-estate savings.
Reduction of PSTN costs for internal communications. IP Telephony offers VoIP/toll bypass by design, utilising the corporate IP WAN network. There is no need for back-to-back voicecards on PBX and routers or adding hybrid VoIP modules with limited lifetime. Ability to connect natively to VoIP providers for cheaper external calls.
Lower cabling costs in case of a new building: IPPhones offer an integrated switch that the user's PC can be connected to in order to utilise the same UTP cable to connect to Local Area Network.
Directory services (customer/partner or store directories can be accessed from IPPhones, 'view useful information' and 'click to dial' functions included). For example, a corporate user can be provided with information such as the role, building, letterbox, telephone numbers, email, department, etc.
Integration with 3rd-party clients like MS Outlook and IBM Lotus at the same time.
Corporate news and announcements on the IPPhone.
Ability to schedule conference and meeting rooms from IPPhone.
Videotelephony (video capabilities integrated with telephony functions) offers enhanced employee communications, reduction of travel expenses and valuable time savings with minimal cost, without the need for user training (a video call can be made exactly the same way as a voice call), minimal administration efforts (same dialplan as voice). Cisco's solution offers a broad range of videoconferencing endpoints, and also the ability to integrate with existing H323 and H320 solutions.
Unified Messaging solutions offer the ability to receive voicemail in MS Outlook, Lotus Notes or IMAP client, or even through a webbrowser. Fax integration with Outlook or Lotus Notes can also be provided. Unified Messaging enhances productivity as users can access their messages quickly and regardless of their location.
Teleworkers – users connected to the corporate network through a VPN connection, can utilise softphone applications to keep their telephony services in the same way as at their office desk. Mobile workers, moving frequently around the corporate campus or even across sites, can utilise extension mobility features (described previously), softphones or Wifi phones to maintain full telephony services at any time. Softphones are available for PCs, laptops, pocketsPC, PDAs and even GSM phones. Cisco Unified Communications Applications, Cisco Mobile Connect and Mobility Manager provide integration between the GSM world and enterprise telephony services.
Cisco Mobile Connect offers the ability to extend selected calls coming to a user's deskphone to ones GSM number (or alternate destinations if desired). The call will ring simultaneously in all destinations (deskphone, mobile, other) so the user, depending on their location, can reply using the preferred device. This significantly enhances user's reachability through a single (deskphone) number.
The Cisco Mobility Manager offers its users who utilise a GPRS/3G handset the ability to check presence information of their colleagues, chat with them, listen to voicemail messages, and check scheduled conferences calls. In other words, it provides the user with part of their desk functionality while one is out of the office and utilising a GPRS/3G connection.
Users can send audio or text messages to selected IPPhones (this includes news, announcements, security alerts, etc.). For example, a user can enter a message using their web-browser and send it to all the users of the finance department or all the users on the first floor of building A.
Cisco Unified Personal Communicator offers softphone, videophone, instant messaging, presence information and preferred method of contact, as well as directory services, access to voicemail, and access to web conferencing services – all from a single application on the user's PC/laptop. Research states that users increasingly utilize much more videotelephony, IM and web/audio conferencing services when these services can be offered in a user-friendly way. A Personal Communicator user can start a voice conversation, escalate it to a video call or web-conferencing session (being able to share presentations, documents, and invite more participants) by a single button on their client. Integrated messaging and embedded directory access (search for a user, make an audio call, a video call, an IM session or send an email with one click), significantly enhances user productivity. This client is also ideal for mobile workers.
These services can greatly enhance corporate training processes and collaboration between employees, help reduce time and process inefficiencies in globally distributed processes, and reduce travel expenses. Cisco UC applications offer options for scheduled and ad-hoc audio/web/video conferences, the ability to record a conference call and send it to the the users who could not attend using email.
Cisco Unified Contact Centers Solutions provide location flexibility (agents over the WAN, PSTN agents, distributed IVR services), enhanced redundancy (primary and secondary callcenter components can be distributed across data centers or different sites), integrated ACD and IVR capabilities (no need for integration of different systems), advanced IP IVR capabilities for voice portals (citizen or customer self service), CTI capabilities for CRM and other corporate applications integration, as well as the ability to easily add video, web, email channels of customer interaction.
Cisco Unified Communications Solution provides the flexibility to encrypt voice media and signaling, and perform device authentication without the requirement of additional components or solution redesign; offering a secure and reliable UC environment.


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What is good governance?
Good governance in the context of countries is a broad term, and in that regards, it is difficult to find a unique definition. According to Fukuyama (2013), there are two dimensions to qualify governance as good or bad: the capacity of the state and the bureaucracy's autonomy. They both complement, in the sense that when the state is more capable, for instance through the collection of taxes, there should be more autonomy because the bureaucrats are able to conduct things well without being instructed with a lot of details. In less capable states, however, less discretion and more rules setting are desirable.
Another way to think about good governance is through outcomes. Since governments carry out with goals like the provision of public goods to its citizens, there is no better way to think about good governance other than through deliverables, which are precisely the one demanded by citizens, like security, health, education, water, the enforcement of contracts, protection to property, protection to the environment and their ability to vote and get paid fair wages.
Similarly, good governance might be approximated with provision of public services in an efficient manner, higher participation given to certain groups in the population like the poor and the minorities, the guarantee that citizens have the opportunity of checks and balances on the government, the establishment and enforcement of norms for the protection of the citizens and their property and the existence of independent judiciary systems.
Lawson (2011) in his review of Rothstein's book "The quality of government: corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective" mentions that the author relates good governance to the concept of impartiality, which is basically when the bureaucrats perform their tasks following the public interest rather than their self-interest. Lawson differs with him in that this impartial application of law ignores important factors like the economic liberalism, which matters due to its relation with economic growth.
SOURCE: Good governance; From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_governance#Good_governance_in_national_governments
CITATIONS BY WIKIPEDIA:
Fukuyama,, Francis (January 2013). "What Is Governance?". Center for Global Development. Working paper 314.
Rotberg, Robert (July 2014). "Good Governance Means Performance and Results". Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions. 27 (3): 511–518. doi:10.1111/gove.12084.
Grindle, Merilee (October 2004). "Good Enough Governance: Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries". Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions. 17 (4): 525–48. doi:10.1111/j.0952-1895.2004.00256.x.
Lawson, Robert (2012). "Book Review of Bo Rothstein: The quality of government: corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective". Public Choice. 150: 793–795.
Rothstein, Bo (2011). The quality of government: corruption, social trust, and inequality in international perspective. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
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Home / Nature & Environment / Economics / Global Prosperity Beyond GDP / Where GDP is from, and what does that tell us?
Where GDP is from, and what does that tell us?
GDP expert Diane Coyle explains where GDP came from, and how it reflects what people needed the state to do at that time
My name's Diane Coyle, I'm a professor of economics at the University of Manchester,
and I'm the author of a book called GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History. The first time anybody started to try to measure the economy as a whole, was during the late 1920s, and 1930s in the US and UK in particular, as a response to the Great Depression. It was the first time governments felt they needed to get their arms around what was happening to the whole economy. They had some individual details like how many banks were failing, or how much steel was being produced. But with the expansion of the franchise in the early 20th century, that was the first time there was an expectation the government would do something about the state of the economy, and therefore the first measurement.
But the measures people constructed in the 1930s were very different from what we ended up with as GDP. GDP, itself, was a creature of the Second World War. Keynes, in particular, wanted to know what consumption sacrifice populations needed to make in order for the war effort to be sustained, what production resources were available for fighting the war effort. So GDP, therefore, included defence spending, in particular, which had been excluded from the earlier measures. The first attempts were attempts to measure economic welfare, and what we ended up with GDP was a measurement of economic production, or expenditure, and they're related but they're different things.
Simon Kuznets, who's often described as the father of GDP, actually was opposed to what we ended up with as GDP. He wanted that it was not a measure of social progress, and he was much more focused on constructing some aggregate that would give governments exactly that measure– how is the economy progressing? How is society progressing? The origin of the worst statistics is state, and I think you need to step back and ask yourself, what is it that the state needs to be measuring? What are we expecting our governments to do? And when GDP was created, it was to prevent depression recurring, and make sure that there was victory in the war. What do we needed to do now?
Well, I think we do want some thinking about progress and economic welfare, and taking it back to the origins in welfare economics.
In this video, economist Diane Coyle takes us through the origins of GDP as a measure of economic growth and what this should mean for our assessment of it today.
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In re Ricky Joe Jones, Cheryl Ann Jones, Debtors
Date Decided: Jan 25th, 2011
Decided By: U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit(Bankruptcy) (Federal)
Court: United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Kansas
Citation: 446 B.R 466
Ricky Joe Jones ("Jones") was severely injured whileemployed by Kansas City Southern Railway ("KCS"). He brought a FELA claim in1987 alleging KCS was negligent and sought damages for a permanent disability.The parties ultimately settled the suit, whereby KCS agreed to pay Jonesmonthly payments of $700, and increasing lump sum payments every 5 years. Per thesettlement agreement, payments owed to Jones pursuant to the RailroadRetirement Act ("RRA"), 45 U.S.C. § 231awere reduced, and Jones waived his seniority rights and future employment withKCS.
In 1998, Jones and his spouse ("Debtors") sold the rights toall of the lump sum payments with the exception of one $200,000 payment due in2023. In 2001, Debtors filed for bankruptcy. Debtors informed their bankruptcycouncil of the $200,000 payment, but failed to disclose it for the purposes ofthe bankruptcy proceedings.
In 2003, Debtors attempted to sell the rights to the$200,000 payment. The potential buyer informed the bankruptcy Trustee and theTrustee filed a motion to reopen the bankruptcy proceedings. The Trustee soughtto include the $200,000 payment into the schedule of assets available tocreditors. In response, Debtors claimed the remaining payment was exempt.
The Trustee objected to Debtors' exemption. Trustee claimsthat the settlement was for personal injury, which proceeds are not exemptunder Kansas state law. Additionally, it claims the exemptions for disabilitybenefits and employment-related benefits under the bankruptcy code do not applyto Debtors' settlement.
Debtors argue that the injury disabled Jones, thus thesettlement should be exempt because it was a disability benefit under thebankruptcy code.
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package golden

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"strings"

	"github.com/pmezard/go-difflib/difflib"
)

// Compare compares the actual parameter to the contents of goldenFile and
// returns an empty string if they match. If they don't match, it returns a
// unified diff string documenting the differences.
//
// If the -update_golden flag is set, this function will overwrite the
// contents of goldenFile with the actual value. This is useful for updating
// the golden data automatically.
//
// goldenFile is a path relative to os.Getenv("GOROOT").
func Compare(actual string, goldenFile string) string {
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		}
		return ""
	}

	fullPath, err := getFullPathForRead(goldenFile)
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	}

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		log.Fatalf("Error while reading golden file: %v", err)
	}
	if string(expected) == actual {
		return ""
	}
	udiff := difflib.UnifiedDiff{
		A:        difflib.SplitLines(string(expected)),
		FromFile: goldenFile,
		B:        difflib.SplitLines(actual),
		ToFile:   strings.TrimSuffix(goldenFile, ".golden") + ".actual",
		Context:  3,
	}
	diffstr, err := difflib.GetUnifiedDiffString(udiff)
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		log.Fatalf("Error computing unified diff with golden file: %v", err)
	}
	return fmt.Sprintf("Actual data differs from golden data; run %q to update\n%v", formatUpdateCommand(), diffstr)
}

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A Kurdish sniper looks at the rubble in the Syrian city of Kobani (AP)
Across the Middle East today, non-Muslim minorities are on the retreat. Let the numbers alone tell the story. Christians in Iraq comprised eight per cent in 1987 and are one per cent today. The mysterious Mandaeans, who once kept alive Babylonian traditions and a Gnostic faith in the Iraqi Marshes, have shrunk by more than nine-tenths. Even Egypt's Copts, the largest of all non-Muslim communities in the Arab world, are beginning to head towards Europe and America.
This trend is not new. One in 20 inhabitants of Latin America is descended from 19th-century Christian emigrants from the Levant.
Such 21st-century immigrants have left behind them a Middle East which is more polarised along religious lines than it has ever been. Religious intolerance does not stop when it drives out non-believers; instead it constricts society into narrower and narrower circles. First pagans are persecuted; then Christians and Jews are driven out; then Muslim groups turn on each other with more brutality than they ever showed to outsiders. Sunni against Shia, Salafi against Sufi, and even al-Qaeda against Daesh (the self-styled "Islamic State").
The battles for orthodoxy are ever-diminishing in their purpose, ever-expanding in the violence and chaos that they bring. The best lack all conviction, as Yeats wrote, and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
The post-1918 dream of national self-determination risks turning into the nightmare of religious segregation. Christians and Yazidis from Iraq bear eloquent testimony of threats or actual violence directed against them for their beliefs. In Syria, minorities who fear the Islamist opposition are corralled into support for a bloody and divisive government. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood government of 2012 had just about the lowest level of Christian representation for 150 years.
It wasn't always this way – and it didn't have to be this way. Yes, for those who want to interpret Islam as a militant faith which should be spread through violence, there are religious precedents and arguments at their disposal. This is what "Islamic State" exploits. Pretending that they have no religious basis at all is a mistake: it makes us ignore that the fight against their ideology is not just a matter of bombs and bullets but also of theology and psychology. Equally, though, those who think that the path of confrontation between Muslims and those of other faiths is inevitable, and that the Middle East has always been a maelstrom of sectarian conflict, could learn something from its modern history.
In 18th-century Egypt the Copts – Egyptian Christians, who have their own ancient Church, founded by St Mark as tradition has it – were said by one European visitor to "tremble like leaves" because of constant persecution. They were excluded from government service and owning land, and their legal rights were severely restricted. Even riding on horseback was forbidden, in case it elevated a Christian above the level of a Muslim. By 1911, their position had changed utterly. There was a Copt as prime minister, and the Copts owned 20 per cent of the land (being probably then somewhat over 10 per cent of the population). Lebanese Christians had set up the country's first newspapers. A Jew had been called "Egypt's first Molière".
Most telling of all, Egypt's film industry was just getting off the ground: Togo Mizrahi, one of its great Jewish directors, set up his first studio in the 1920s. Leila Murad was a Jewish Egyptian actress; even that more familiar figure, Omar Sharif, was originally a Christian. Both he and Murad adopted Islam as adults; but anyone who has read Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet will know that, in the early 20th century, Egypt was a cosmopolitan place.
It might be tempting to put this down to the British involvement in Egypt, which began in the 1870s. The Copts themselves, though, saw the British as having interrupted a home-grown process of enlightenment under Egypt's liberal native ruler, who before the British came had appointed the country's first Christian prime minister and had declared "all are Egyptians alike". At a time when Jews in Europe were far less emancipated, it was a radical move.
Other parts of the Ottoman Empire were not so advanced. Christians and Yazidis continued to be persecuted in the late 19th century. When autonomous Arab states emerged after the First World War, though, they opened up space for non-Muslims to thrive.
A Mandaean became president of one of Iraq's biggest universities. Many of the country's star footballers were Christian. So was the country's foreign minister, Mikhail Yohanna, for all that he took the Muslim-sounding name Tariq Aziz.
In Syria, an Alawite rose to become president, through a political party (the Ba'ath) founded by a Christian. Minority religions still attracted prejudice; rather as in the 19th century, Catholics could achieve prominence in English life but never equality. Yet the Arab world might have seemed in the 1940s or 1950s to be on a trajectory, rather like Europe's, towards greater acceptance of the other. And then, it shifted and went in the other direction.
What changed? Three things, and it happened some time ago: token appointments like Aziz's concealed the social shifts that began in the 1950s and have since exacerbated conflicts. Those three things involved leadership, education and a sense of direction.
Governments point the way: "all are Egyptians alike" has not often been the motto in Egypt since the 1952 coup removed the country's monarchy. That coup introduced an era of anti-colonial autocracies across the Arab world. But other social changes were underway, too. The creation of Israel sparked a desire to have Muslim states to rival and oppose the Jewish state. Oil money enriched the Muslim world's most conservative kingdoms, and empowered hard-line preachers and institutions. Villagers migrated to the cities, and developed what the author Amin Maalouf called "the intense religiosity of the urban migrant", who finds religion – of the black-and-white, us-against-them variety – to be the best protection against the vanishing of community spirit and the secularising effect of city life.
The struggle for identity gave scope for Islamist movements which made it a priority to take over the education system and use it as a recruitment base. Learning Arabic in Egypt became a matter of studying the Koran.
In a bigger way, religion has become the answer to the question: who am I? If the answer is "I am an Egyptian", then a Copt or a Muslim can be equally loyal to that identity, because it includes them both. If the answer is "I am an Arab" then, though it is an identity forged by Islam, it still admits Christians. But if the answer is "I am a Muslim" then this cannot include Christians any more.
The Middle East's great rift today is between Iran and its allies on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia and its allies on the other, which neatly fits into and reinforces the religious divide between Shia and Sunni Muslims. From the beginning of the Syria conflict I found that I could predict very accurately whether a Muslim would prove to be Shia or Sunni, just based on their view about Bashar al-Assad. Christians are neutrals in that conflict, but in the end a society that defines itself by religion will not make a comfortable home for them.
For the Middle East to regain its lost tolerance would, again, require three changes. One is peace, which is easier said than done: the Syrian crisis will not quickly be resolved, nor will Saudi Arabia and Iran reach an agreement any time soon on their respective roles in the world; but the Middle East would be better if they did.
Another is education. I spent years studying Arabic language and culture. Sometimes, as I travel in the Middle East, I feel that the Arabs themselves are abandoning this rich heritage. Religion then becomes the one reference point around which people can rally, which makes them feel that they are a people.
Education, though, must encompass a benign understanding of other faiths and cultures. It must give a true understanding of history, not a long list of battles that Muslims have won. We non-Muslims
can help with this. We can set an example of understanding, for one thing. We can also help projects to provide education to Syrian refugees, who are a huge sector of the Middle East's population who may otherwise be deprived of any chance to study and learn.
And then there is the tantalising possibility that, by giving Arab and other forms of Islamic culture the honour that they deserve for their genuine contribution to world civilisation, we might shut out the sham and violent interpretations of that culture. I don't mean a superficial, over-rosy interpretation of Islam's history; it was really not much more tolerant, nor much less, than Christianity. We had our Crusades; they had their jihads, or futuhhat, meaning the invasion of non-Muslim lands by Muslims. They killed pagans who refused conversion; so did Christians, in Europe. They enforced orthodoxy with force and fought over small differences of doctrine: so, of course, did we. Both religions also set moral boundaries at a time when no government could do so; both gave opportunities to shape nations on a basis that was not simply that of race; both, at their best, brought people closer to God.
A true appraisal of Middle Eastern history would show the disaffected, often psychologically disturbed recruits to ISIS that they have misread the history of their own religion. The Arabs made amazing conquests in the years after Mohammed's death, but plenty of other peoples (Greeks, Romans, Persians, Mongols – let alone the French and British) did the same. What the Arabs did that was more amazing was to keep hold of their empire for so many centuries. They did that by making good use of the talents of the non-Muslims over whom they ruled – from the very first caliphs, who had Christian doctors and architects, to the open-minded Khedive Ismail, who governed Egypt and Sudan from 1863 to 1879. This is a history lesson worth learning.
Finally, governments must give a clear lead. Attempts to placate bigots do not generally work; rather, they encourage them. They must be confronted – in the Middle East as in Europe. This must include certain extremist clergy who have hitherto been given a wide licence to preach hatred. It must also include tougher laws on the financing of terrorism. This means promoting a sense of equal citizenship and enforcing a rule of law in which a court, not a tribe or a religious community, is the place of resort for people who want to protect and claim their rights.
Gerard Russell is a former diplomat whose book on Middle Eastern religions, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, is published by Simon &; Schuster UK
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America has historically had one of the world's greatest arsenals of nuclear weapons on earth. Liberals have rued this fact and pointed to it as proof of some undisclosed plot within the bowels of government to destroy the world. Even more to the point, they blamed the vast nuclear capabilities of the United States for nuclear aspirations of other states. If only the U.S would disarm others would also was a common refrain heard from liberal academics throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Such was the logic of the looney left.
The Weekly Standard ran a story this week on a speech by a State Department spokesman. Rose Gottemoeller, speaking at the Brookings Institute, claimed the U.S. had reduced its nuclear arsenal 85% from its cold war high and plans on further reductions but they "still have a lot of work to do" to reach their goal. That goal being "achieving the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.." While not committing to total disarmament, she did say the size of America's future nuclear arsenal would be determined through negotiations with America's allies. In other words, America is leaving it up to other nations to determine what its nuclear defense capabilities should be.
Not only is the U.S. cutting the size of its nuclear deterrent, it has not invested in substantial upgrades of its arsenal since the cold war. Such is not the case with its most lethal potential adversaries. Giving up any pretense of following its Soviet Era treaties, Putin is committed to becoming a super power once again. Recent test of new generation nuclear cruise missiles and Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) confirms Russian technology is now surpassing that of the U.S. Despite this, the big news is not what Russia has been up to, but recent advancements in China.
China is not only an emerging market, but an emerging military power as well. With the help of stolen American technology, China is playing catch up to the United States. This is especially true in the area of nuclear weapons. Once unable to send a missile much further than its own borders, it now boast advance ICBM technology. Most of China's missile know how can be traced back to President Clinton and his loosening of technology transfers to China. Other bits and pieces have been gained through its clandestine thefts of American designs.
In a remarkable coincidence, as the State Department was commenting on U.S. resolve to remove nuclear weapons from the world, China was testing the Holy Grail of nuclear weapons, the MiRV missile. MiRV stands for multiple, independently targetable reentry vehicles and refers to the capability of outfitting a single ballistic missile with multiple war heads (See Business Insiders China's New MIRV Ballistic Missile Is A Big Deal). A huge leap in technology that means China has entered the big boys nuclear weapons club. Combined with its latest advancements in missile technology, China is a nuclear power that will now be able to hold's own against the U.S. As the Asian giant continues its aggressive stance towards its neighbors, such developments can't be seen as helpful for world peace. China has imperialistic ambitions that it keeps only thinly veiled. Driven by a belief that China's destiny is to be the center of the world politically, economically and militarily, they are committed to becoming the world's premier power.
While the U.S. wallows around in a world of idealistic blindness, it is being left behind. Present plans to update America's air, and, and sea nuclear defenses are decades behind. New bombers are not slatted for service until 2035, Minuteman 3 missiles are slowly decaying with no replacement on the horizon and the Navy is just now looking at updating its delivery systems. The Arsenal of Freedom is rusting while the those of its despotic adversaries grows. What little technological advantage still exists will likely be given away under Obama's loose trade restrictions policy. God forbid that one day the U.S. is no longer a substantial deterrent to those with imperial ambitions. A day that, as of now, is inching ever closer.


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Sterling Check sets IPO terms, to value the company at up to $2.1 billion
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Sterling Check Corp. /zigman2/quotes/229432454/composite STER -0.22% has set terms of its initial public offering, in which the New York-based background and identity verification services company looks to valued at up to $2.07 billion. The company is looking to raise up to $104.7 million as it is offering 4.76 million shares in the IPO, which is expected to price between $20 and $22 a share, while selling stockholders are offering 9.53 million shares to raise up to $209.6 million. The company expects to have 93.96 million shares outstanding after the IPO. The stock is expected to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "STER." Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley are the lead underwriters. The company recorded net income of $4.0 million on revenue of $298.7 million for the six months ended June 30, after a loss of $40.8 million on revenue of $207.9 million in the same period a year ago. The company is looking to go public at a time that the Renaissance IPO ETF /zigman2/quotes/207665280/composite IPO +3.46% has gained 8.3% over the past three months while the S&P 500 /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +1.05% has tacked on 5.0%.
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Q: how to recreate CURL command in Powershell or HttpWebRequest I have curl command, how execute it on PowerShell?
curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/pkcs7-mime" -k --cert C:\certnew.cer --key C:\private.key --pass 123123 --request POST "mysite.com" --data "RequestBodyTemplate"

I could not find in PowerShell how to sign a request with two certificates
--cert C:\certnew.cer --key C:\private.key --pass 123123

It's my powershell script, and it's not works!
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$keyPath = "C:\private.key"
$keyPass = "123123"
$url = "https://localhost.com:80/webservice"
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Q: Best way to regulate 9/12v down to 5v and 3.3v If my source is 9 or 12v should I first us a linear regulator to step it down to 5v and from the 5v use another linear regulator to step it down to 3.3v? The 3.3v will be going to a micro-controller while the 5v will drive some 5v sensors/relays.
Current is under 500mA total, probably closer to 300. The power source for the loads (relay etc) are coming from a separate power source.

A: If those sensors/relays are external to your device, there's a fair chance that the 5V supply can get shorted and shut down. If you wish your microcontroller to work through such an event, it'd be necessary to have a separate buck converter for both 5V and 3.3V - if you care about power efficiency. If you don't mind some heat, it'd be OK to use a separate linear regulator for 5V and 3.3V, fed straight from the input source. That way it'd be easier to prevent relay transients from upsetting the microcontroller, too.
Efficiency-wise, when you use linear regulators it doesn't matter how you stack things up: cascaded or independent, all of the current consumed at any regulated voltage has to flow from the input supply. So if you consume 200mA @ 5V and 50mA @ 3.3V, it's still 250mA from the 9-12V supply.
With switching regulators, you have to take each regulator's efficiency at its actual load current and compare the independent-vs-cascaded variants. Of course for the microcontroller to stay ON in spite of control (5V) shorts, you need the regulators to be independent.
I have plenty of 3.3V microcontrollers running from linear regulators fed from 12V - sometimes it's the cheapest option when you have a powerful supply available.

A: A linear regulator will dissipate power but if the current in the load is small this power loss may be acceptable. If this power loss is not acceptable then use two switching regulators.
Generally having a linear regulator fed from a higher voltage linear regulator is OK but the higher voltage regulator may overheat if too much current is taken by the lower voltage regulator.


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A Confederate statue is coming down today in Virginia
It was christened "At Ready," and the statue's installation during Jim Crow sent a signal to many that resounded for decades — in a city that renewed its association with deadly racial violence in 2017.
Saturday, the statue is coming down.
Charlottesville City Council Member Kristin Szakos said the statue is a symbol of injustice, affiliate
WVIR reported last month when the county commission made its decision.
"Clear to every Black defendant who must pass them on the way into court: this space is reserved for the Confederate cause," she said. "You will find no justice here."
Three years ago in the idyllic University of Virginia hometown, a "Unite the Right" rally sparked violence that killed one woman,
Heather Heyer, injured dozens of other people and helped to highlight reemerging white supremacy.
It prompted President Donald Trump to
say there were "
fine people" on both sides of the conflict, which began with a rally by white nationalists and other right-wing groups.
The city and others began grappling with monuments to racism and slavery. A Virginia judge ruled last year that the statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson in Charlottesville are war monuments that the city cannot remove without permission from the state.
Across the country, though, some statues were brought down, and some buildings renamed.
The movement gained momentum amid the nationwide reckoning over racial injustice after the police killing of
George Floyd in Minneapolis. In August,
Columbia University said it will remove the name of a slave owner from a dormitory on its Manhattan medical campus, in just one recent example.
Saturday in Charlottesville, Albemarle County is aiming for an educational experience for viewers everywhere.
"Livestream viewers will have a direct sightline of the removal work, with live commentary sharing the history of Court Square, the memorials, and their installation," the county said in a release. "During more routine work periods, recorded interviews and lectures by local historians, design professionals, elected officials, and community members will be aired in split-screen with the live-feed. … The event will also be recorded for future viewing.
"We hope you will join us — online — to view this important moment for our community."
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Women often face weight problems after having children. After you have your baby, it may be a while before you feel motivated to exercise. That's okay. Even without a planned exercise routine, you can begin to get back into shape.
Bridget Swinney, M.S., R.D., author of "Eating Expectantly" ($12; Meadowbrook Press), says there are many reasons why exercise is so important. "Research has shown that people who exercise regularly lose more weight and have the best odds of keeping it off. Other benefits of exercise include improved cardiovascular fitness, lowered heart rate, lowered blood pressure, toned muscles, less body fat, improved immunity, and more!" says Swinney.
1. Walk the dog. Not only will you be getting some exercise, your pooch will appreciate it as well.
2. Shop 'til you drop. Or you can walk around the entire mall and window-shop.
3. Go dancing! Ballroom, country-western, or even square dancing will do. Or put on your favorite music at home and cut a rug!
4. Take a stroll around a scenic place like a lake, a tree-lined avenue, or a forest trail.
5. Go canoeing or paddleboating.
6. Do arm exercises using one-pound weights or cans of soup while watching your favorite show.
7. Go to the pool and just walk from side to side. Bring a friend. You won't notice the time passing as you chat.
8. Try aerobic lawn mowing. Cut your grass with a push mower and start a fad in your neighborhood.
9. Plant a garden. A bonus of gardening is enjoying the fruits of your labor. If you don't care for gardening, clean your house often; vacuuming can be aerobic.
10. Set a walking date with a neighbor or coworker. Once you get to talking, you'll hardly notice the time or the exercise.
Always remember that you should start at your own pace, no matter how slow it seems. You may need some time to get used to having a baby in the house and to set up a new routine. Also, stretching is important, even if you don't feel like exercising. And if you can find activities that you, your friends, and your family enjoy, you won't even notice that you are exercising during all the fun!
"Eating Expectantly" is a practical guide to prenatal pregnancy, as well as offering helpful advice for the new mother. Covering topics from high-risk pregnancies to menus and recipes for all trimesters, this "must have" book will help any expectant and new mother through one of the most incredible journeys in her life.


The Husky Gold tomato is popular for its beautiful gold color and because it is compact growing, is often chosen as a patio or container variety. Growing award winning varieties always improves your chances for success, and the Husky Gold hybrid tomato was the winner of the 1993 All-America Selections award. It is resistant to cracking, verticillium and fusarium wilts.
The designation F1-Hybrid tells you this variety has been cross-produced from two distinct "pure" tomatoes. Because 'Husky Gold' is an F1, or first-generation hybrid, it should have better-than-average vigor and give more uniform and bigger yields. But if you save seeds for next year you'll probably not recognize, or like, the tomatoes produced.
These golden tomatoes are medium-sized. The flavor is sweet and mild. The vines are dwarf indeterminates and bear fruit all season but because they are compact don't usually require staking.
Combining the best of both indeterminate (tall continual growth) and determinate (short bushy) plants is the dwarf indeterminate (or ISI, for indeterminate short-internode). This type produces all season but remains a compact size.
Husky Gold hybrid tomatoes are vigorous and easy to grow from seedlings purchased at your garden center or grow from seed indoors. They can be planted outdoors when the soil warms. Recommended safe planting dates can be found in when to plant tomatoes.


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UCLA public policy professor creates committee to advise the EPA
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J.R. DeShazo, professor of public policy in the UCLA Luksin School of Public Affairs, has created a committee of environmental economists to help ensure that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has access to the most advanced research. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, the External Environmental Economics Advisory Committee will advise the EPA on the social costs and benefits of its policies.
"Our mission is to provide independent, state-of-the-science advice with regard to the benefits, costs and design of the EPA's environmental programs," said DeShazo, co-chair of the committee, who is also a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.
Policy changes related to the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Energy Independence and Security Act will impact millions of Americans and firms, along with the ecosystem. As a nonpartisan research organization, the committee intends to operate until the EPA reconstitutes an internal environmental economics advisory committee composed of independent economists.
Read more on the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs website.
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For more ideas and to ensure you are doing the movements properly consult a personal trainer, or me, Coach Jason at coachjas@tritrain.ca.
This is what makes tri-training so unique.
The more you can get used to running off the bike the more it becomes completely normal. I guarantee the first time you try you will feel like Frankenstein impersonating Ralph Macchio in the "Karate Kid", but it does get better.
Be organized before the workout to ensure that your time in between is kept short (lay out your shoes and change of clothes beforehand, have a quick drink and get out the door).
Essentially you are getting practice in your transitions too!
Swimming in a pool is one thing, open water is another, and open water in a race environment is a third beast all together.
Hopefully you can get a chance to practice in your race day wetsuit before the event itself. Your time spent out there may be shorter because working in open water is challenging (and you can't use the walls for breaks).
Practice periods of hard effort to simulate the start and then brief periods of settling down to goal race pace. Try counting strokes such as "30 hard, 30 easy" to let your heart rate come back down. Then repeat!
Also, practice "sighting" so that you swim in a straight line. Lift your head every 6-8 strokes and focus on a point in the distance. Make it seamless and continue on with your regular, relaxed swim stroke.
If you do make it out to a lake or reservoir, make sure you take all safety measures possible. Do NOT go alone. In fact swimming with another person close by is a great way to help simulate the race. Take turns being the lead and swim on the other person's heels, hips, beside – take note of how each one feels.
The same principle applies to road riding on your bike. Spending an entire winter in your basement on a trainer is one thing, but that should only be as a tool to prepare you for the real thing.
Freeing yourself from the stationary engages your core muscles to help with balance. You also now have to deal with changes in elevation, wind, and that dog that might jump in front of you.


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A hard-hitting, yet humorous drama, Anna Christie depicts the reunion of a troubled father and daughter in the docks of New York. Chris Christopherson is an old sailor who has spent his life on the seas, to the detriment of his family. He has not seen his daughter, Anna, since she was 5 years old. After his wife died, he sent Sweden-born Anna to live with cousins on a farm in America. At the beginning of the play, he receives a letter from his daughter, announcing that she is coming to New York. Anna is now a prostitute, after being abused by the men on the farm, and has fallen on hard times. She does not reveal this to her father, but instead lets him think she is a nurse. Anna hopes that she can stay with her father to rest up for a while, but she does not realize that he lives on a barge. Initially resistant to this lifestyle, Anna goes to live with Chris and, while living there, they rescue 5 men who have survived a shipwreck. One of these men is Mat Burke and, although Anna is initially wary of him, they become close and fall in love. Chris is not happy about this match as he does not want his daughter to marry a sailor. After Chris and Mat argue, Anna stops them both by revealing the secrets of her past. Furious, both Mat and Chris storm out of the barge and disappear on a drunken bender for 2 days. When Chris returns, he reveals that he has signed up for a voyage to South Africa but has arranged for all of his earnings to be sent to Anna. Mat then also reappears, desperate to know if Anna really loves him. When she confirms that she does, Mat also reveals that he has signed up on the same voyage as Chris, but he will wed Anna before he goes. As the play closes, Anna has escaped the life she hated and is about to marry the man she truly loves. Undeterred by loneliness, she promises both men that she will find a house and be waiting for them there when they return from their voyage.
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Thanks, Joe. Per my comments with you in the post, I do think that photography skills can be learned, and that communicators shouldn't necessarily feel that they have to hire. They can learn.
I don't entirely agree with Geoff. I think the explosion of iPhones, selfies and viral homemade youtube videos has given people a false sense that these skills can be learned or that anyone can shoot a video/photo for a brand. At my company, we tried empowering employees to create their own media but it bombed. We too had to go back to hiring paid professionals to create this content. Additionally, it is a tremendous insult to say anyone can learn on the fly the skills that those who studied photography/video for years, at a university, etc. With that said, producing amateur media can be OK for your own personal own media platforms or the scrappy startup, but never for a self respecting brand.
Before any phtoographer was a photgrapher, they had no skills. They were learned.
Agreed. For example, say you need headshots for your company's "about us" page. Do you want the random vacation snapshots employees will send in or do you want to spend a couple hundred bucks on a professional? It's well-worth the money to get professional headshots with a consistent look.


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On This Day...29th November
On this day for today's date begins with an 1890 Lancashire Cup tie away at Kearsley. With a crowd of just 500 supporters watching, the Shakers romped to a 6-0 victory with the goals coming from Bourn 2, Cooper 2, Plant and Whiteside.
1902 brought the first Football League game with a Division One tie against Bolton Wanderers at Gigg Lane. A strong crowd of 11,000 gathered for the game which brought both points for the Shakers, with a 3-0 win thanks to goals from John Berry (2) and Billy Wood.
The Shakers would fall into a barren run in terms of victories on this day and would not win another game until 1955. Between 1902 and 1952 a game with Manchester United in the Manchester Cup was lost 4-0 in 1911, a 3-1 defeat at Bradford Park Avenue in 1913, a 2-1 defeat at Clapton Orient in 1919, a 4-0 defeat at Burnley in 1924, a 3-1 defeat at Stoke City in 1930 and a 1941 War League 4-0 defeat at Preston North End.
Slightly more positive was a 2-2 draw against Brentford in 1947. This was a Division Two game played at Gigg Lane in front of 12,896 supporters, with the Bury goals coming from Eddie Kilshaw and Jimmy Constantine.
Blackburn Rovers were visitors to Gigg Lane in 1952 for a Division Two game that attracted a strong crowd of 17,473 supporters. Walter Kelly scored the only goal of the game to hand victory to the Shakers.
A historic night fell for the Shakers in 1977 when runaway First Division leaders West Bromwich Albion visited Gigg Lane for a League Cup Fourth Round tie. The Baggies fielded their strongest possible side but were no match for the Shakers as a solitary Ian Robins goal, who had scored in every round of the competition thus far, handed the Shakers a 1-0 victory in front of 13,898 supporters on a cold and foggy evening (see main image at the top of the page).
1980 brought Wimbledon to Bury for a Division Four game. A crowd of just 2,392 supporters were on hand to see Paul Hilton score the only goal of the game.
The last recorded game on this day took place in 2014 when Dagenham & Redbridge visited Bury for a League Two game. 3,042 supporters were on hand to witness a 2-0 defeat.
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On Tuesday Universal announced that The Wolf Man will now be released in 2010. The film had an original release date of April 3, 2009, it was then pushed to November 6th and now the new official release date will be February 12, 2010.
The Examiner – Universal's decision to push back the release date again, as well as The Wolf Man's film's noticeable absence from last week's San Diego Comic-Con, has raised serious concerns. February has long been considered Hollywood's dumping grounds for bad movies.
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Sarika says:
Yikes, that coupled with reshoots… doesn't look good! But Emily is in it 🙂
João says:
So, we should worry…
I'm sure it'll get a release eventually! There's just trying to make it better 🙂
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Q: ReactJS: How to pass variable through nested 'anything()(Component)'? First of all: I don't know how const result = anything()(Component) is called, so I didn't find usable info in my search. The title of this post has to get edited...
But this is my problem:
This is how I add data via react-apollo to my Component:
const result = withData(
  graphql(
    gql`
      query Content($id: ID!, $language: String!) {
        article(id: $id) {
          title,
          intro(language: $language)
          }
        }
      }
    `, {
      options: (props) => ({
        variables: {
          id: props.id,
          language: language
        }
      })
    }
  )(Component)
)

As you can see, I have to use the variables $id and $language. Now I need to add i18n support to my component, which I have to do with translate()(Component):
const result = translate(['common'], { i18n, wait: process.browser })(
  withData(
  graphql(
    gql`
      query Content($id: ID!, $language: String!) {
        article(id: $id) {
          title,
          intro(language: $language)
          }
        }
      }
    `, {
      options: (props) => ({
        variables: {
          id: props.id,
          language: language
        }
      })
    }
  )(Component)
  )
)

The translation is working, but I do get the error Unhandled (in react-apollo) Error: GraphQL error: Variable "$id" of required type "ID!" was not provided.
What am I doing wrong as it seems the id value doesn't get to the query...

A: Try the following:
import { compose } from 'react-apollo';

...

export default compose(
  graphql(`query { ... }`),
  translate(['common'], { i18n, wait: process.browser })
)(Component);


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Fantasy Flight Games The Investigators of Arkham Horror
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An essential tome for all the most daring fans of Arkham Horror, Eldritch Horror, Elder Sign, Mansions of Madness, and the other Arkham Horror Files games. The Investigators of Arkham Horror contains fifty-two short stories with full-color illustrations by more than forty of the industry's most
An essential tome for all the most daring fans of Arkham Horror, Eldritch Horror, Elder Sign, Mansions of Madness, and the other Arkham Horror Files games. The Investigators of Arkham Horror contains fifty-two short stories with full-color illustrations by more than forty of the industry's most talented artists. Discover the hidden secrets of the investigators who risk everything to save humanity from certain doom! With its lavish art and haunting stories, this gorgeous, 264-page, hardcover art and setting book delves deep into the lives of the investigators from the acclaimed Arkham Horror Files games. These men and women explore those parts of our reality that lie outside of what our senses and science can perceive, often confronting beings of such unfathomable power that simply beholding them can shatter the mind. With The Investigators of Arkham Horror, the tales of these heroic men and women gain new focus as they explore 1920s Arkham, the far-flung corners of the Earth, and the strange worlds of the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Love Lovecraft? You'll love this!
By Arturo A. Dominguez on 28 December 2017
This is so cool. I love Fantasy Flight's Arkham games (Mansions of Madness, Arkham Horror, Eldritch Horror, Elder Signs) and this book really adds to the fun and mythos. Beautiful artwork and great back stories. Must have for H.P. fans.
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Great (but Fragile) Mythos Book
By "Odysseus" on 09 January 2019
Excellent book; looks beautiful; spectacular writing and great artwork, most gleaned from the Arkham Horror game boxes and cards. Some very engaging writing, and some great stories. A definite must-have for any fan of Lovecraft and the Arkham Horror games. However, I'm not sure if the book is poorly made or if it's just how it's shipped, but I ordered it three times and all three copies were very damaged: broken corners (not just bent, but cracked), and the spine literally peeling away. At any rate, this is a heavy, glossy cover book (kind of like a high school yearbook), which means it's very easily damaged. If your copy comes in an envelope instead of a box, or it it comes in a box three times the necessary size (and with one airbladder), keep your fingers crossed...
Book damaged
By CROSSARD on 18 May 2018
The book is great, the illustrations are beautiful, but it came damaged! I have paid $22.30 for shipping and handling. For that price I would've expected it to come in a cardboard box, not a simple envelope!
Great book, not so great shipping handling
By Handi on 30 December 2018
I have no qualms about the content. It is a must for Arkham Horror LCG fans. Fantastic content and details with outstanding works from the artists.
The two stars knock out is due to the way the shipping is handled.
Bought two of these books on two different occassion from Amazon and both came in with damages on different corners due to zero padding in the oversize shipping box. These books are heavy hardcover so as it move around in the mostly empty box, obviously something bound to get damaged. Unfortunately these are out of print so they are not cheap and irreplaceable so I'm not going to return them.
Nice Have for Arkham Horror Fans!
By Tri Le on 28 November 2018
I've always been a huge fan of Fantasy Flight Games and the world of Arkham Horror. This book is a nice showpiece to supplement the Arkham Horror Universe. I enjoyed the short backstories of the various investigators that inhabit Arkham and I really liked the artwork. The quality of the stories is a bit uneven, but mostly enjoyable. Great for any fan of the board games tied to these characters!


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