Line Corp., Japan's biggest messaging service, is opening a cryptocurrency exchange next month even amid Bitcoin selloff that's fuelled pessimism over the future of virtual currencies.
The exchange, called Bitbox, will offer trading between more than 30 virtual tokens including bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash and litecoin, but not fiat currencies, the Japanese company said at an annual strategy briefing in Tokyo on Thursday. The website will be available in 15 languages to users worldwide, except for those in Japan and the U.S. Bitbox will charge a 0.1 percent trading fee.
Chief Executive Officer Takeshi Idezawa laid out a vision of a token-based economy that places blockchain technology at the centre of the messengers's efforts to tie together its various commerce, entertainment and media offerings. The move into cryptocurrencies comes at a time when the industry faces increasing regulatory scrutiny and security concerns that pushed the price of bitcoin about 60 percent lower this year. Line is expanding into financial services to reduce reliance on advertising revenue and offer a way to gain subscribers in countries dominated by Facebook Inc.'s Messenger and WhatsApp.
Line is considering creating its own token that can be used to pay users for contributions to its various services and third-party providers may also have access to the platform. Idezawa said development is already under way, but didn't give a specific timeline.
Line is also working on a stand-alone mobile app for the exchange, which will be separate from its messaging service, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because the details are private. Blockchain security firm BitGo Inc. is partnering with Line on security for the exchange, the person said.
The company, which established Line Financial Corp. in January, has also applied for a license to open a cryptocurrency exchange in Japan. The messenger has been offering Line Pay smartphone wallet service since 2014 and has attracted more than 40 million registered users worldwide. Line is investing 30 billion yen ($272 million) in fintech and AI operations this fiscal year and plans to expand its services to include lending and insurance.
Line last quarter began reporting results for the new strategic segment, which includes Line Pay, AI speaker Clova and e-commerce products. The businesses recorded 6 billion yen in sales in the three months to March 31, or about 12 percent of the company's total. They posted a 7.1 billion yen loss.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised its rating on the company to buy on June 21, citing in part the prospects of the fintech business. The shares of Line have climbed about 9 percent since.
"The potential of these services depends largely on usage trends for Line Pay," JPMorgan analyst Haruka Mori wrote in a report. "We expect the fintech business to substantially expand its earnings contribution" in fiscal 2022.


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Millionaire Manchin's coal money behind his knifing of Build Back Better
December 21, 2021	10:27 AM CST By John Wojcik
Coal baron: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., killed the Build Back Better. Barón del carbón: el senador Joe Manchin, demócrata de Virginia, mató a Build Back Better. | Andrew Harnik / AP
WASHINGTON—Joe Manchin has spewed reason after reason for killing President Biden's signature Build Back Better plan on Fox News and elsewhere over the weekend, leaving out the real reason: Based on campaign contributions and on his personal millions of dollars in wealth, he is a creature of the dirty fossil fuel industry in the United States.
He has given, in the last two days, a host of other reasons behind his knifing of the bill.
Manchin says Democrats have refused to attach "work requirements" to social benefits in the bill. That explanation is particularly outrageous considering that the child tax credits in the current rescue package—which would be extended by the BBB bill—have allowed millions of women and men to return to work.
Melissa Parks, a resident in Chicago's Wentworth Houses, has three children for each of whom she has been receiving $250, for a total of $750 each month since August. The money has allowed her to take care of her children and work full time since then for a local publishing company. The funds, under Biden's recovery plan, would continue only if the BBB plan, now killed by Manchin, had passed. "I was able to buy clothing for the children to go back to school, she said, and to pay my rent and buy food. And then go to work full time.
"Now I simply will have not enough to pay rent and buy food. If I feed the children I have to go without. At best it will be packages of ramen noodles in my household.
Parks said she hasn't fully figured out what to do but that she will try food banks at local churches.
Mancin cares nothing about people like Parks. What really bothers him about the bill is that it impacts his campaign contributors and his own personal wealth, is the section of the bill devoted to battling climate change. What Manchin really wants to kill the most is the bill's provision to spend $555 billion to switch the country over to wind and solar power and away from fossil fuels, including and especially dirty coal.
His move confirms the fears of progressive congressional lawmakers that they would lose leverage if they approved the infrastructure bill before BBB. They were angry, but not surprised about Manchin's announcement this past weekend. They point out that Manchin is the man who ran against President Obama's climate change legislation in 2010 and got elected to the Senate on that platform.
Manchin pulled the typical Republican negotiating trick with the BBB plan. He forced the removal of parts of the bill that would impose penalties on electric utilities that continue to burn coal but, despite those concessions to him, killed the bill anyway.
Manchin has received more campaign money from oil, coal, and gas companies than any other member of the U.S. Senate. Democrats hoped that by substantially weakening penalties against those companies when they violate clean energy standards they could win Manchin's support. He essentially told them where to go, however, as he announced his opposition to the bill despite those concessions.
Manchin's talk that he was against penalties for fossil fuel companies but for incentives for clean energy turned out to be just another piece of what, from the beginning, has been bad faith negotiating on his part.
Other "moderate" Democrats who also opposed the bill but backed it in the House, figuring it would fail in the Senate anyway, are, of course, glad that Manchin is taking the beating that they too deserve. Nevertheless, the Biden administration and progressive lawmakers, under pressure from the mass movements in the country, are struggling to perhaps save certain pieces of the bill in smaller form.
Manchin reportedly met with Biden after the initial anger expressed by the White House, and some lawmakers are holding out hope that the $2 trillion bill could be further changed to meet Manchin's demands.
So-called Democratic moderates are putting forward approaches that they actually preferred from the beginning, approaches far less sweeping than the BBB bill passed by the House and supported by the president. If a few of these elements end up becoming law, these moderates will no doubt try to claim credit for the popular ones when they face voters next year.
"At the start of these negotiations many months ago, we called for prioritizing doing a few things well for longer, and we believe that adopting such an approach could open a potential path forward for this legislation," Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., the chair of the "moderate" New Democrat Coalition, said in a statement. "Failure is not an option."
Despite having condemned Manchin for killing the bill, it is clear the White House would be happy to settle for compromises.
White House chief of staff Ron Klain tweeted DelBene's statement with praise. Facing unanimous Republican opposition, Democrats need all 50 of their caucus members in the evenly split Senate to support the legislation, or it is certain to fail.
"Just as Senator Manchin reversed his position on Build Back Better this morning, we will continue to press him to see if he will reverse his position yet again, to honor his prior commitments and be true to his word," White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.
Despite all the speculation about compromises, it is clear that the bill is dead, at least for now.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the chamber will vote "very early in the new year" on a changed bill, indicating that he has not totally given up on some type of "compromise."
"We are going to vote on a revised version of the House-passed Build Back Better Act—and we will keep voting on it until we get something done," he said.
Democrats see passage of something as critical to their chances in the 2022 midterms.
Millions have just received their last checks of up to $300 per child in tax credits. Unless BBB is passed, there will be no January child aid checks, causing catastrophic results for families that have survived because of those credits. The child tax credit checks have lifted millions of children out of poverty and have allowed mothers and fathers to return to work.
Manchin has been vocal about his reservations about a large social safety net bill throughout the negotiations, prompting House progressives to insist on paring it with the bipartisan infrastructure law. The two bills were unlinked last month after Biden and party leaders pushed to pass the transportation measure.
As the initial anger at Manchin wore off, numerous Democrats sought to take the optimistic view, grabbing on to his hint that he could be open to a restructured package even as he continues lying by saying his chief concerns are, not his personal wealth, but inflation and adding to the national debt.
Progressive anger erupts after Manchin kills Build Back Better
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John Wojcik is Editor-in-Chief of People's World. He joined the staff as Labor Editor in May 2007 after working as a union meat cutter in northern New Jersey. There, he served as a shop steward, as a member of a UFCW contract negotiating committee, and as an activist in the union's campaign to win public support for Wal-Mart workers. In the 1970s and '80s, he was a political action reporter for the Daily World, this newspaper's predecessor, and was active in electoral politics in Brooklyn, New York.
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Q: Custom IonicModal not hide at right position I have made my custom ionicModal Popup by change the width and height. However I got problems to handle the right position when the modal hide. See my snippet for more clear.
My expected output will be ionicModal hide at bottom to '0' regardless of modal size.

var myApp = angular.module('MyApp',['ionic','ngCordova']);
myApp.controller('HomeCtrl',function($scope, $ionicModal){

       $ionicModal.fromTemplateUrl('my-modal.html', {
             scope: $scope,
             animation: 'slide-in-up'
     }).then(function(modal) {
     $scope.modal = modal;
  });

  $scope.openModal = function() {
     $scope.modal.show();
  };

  $scope.home = function ()
  {
    $scope.modal.hide();
    }
});
body
{
  background-color:#f3f3f3;
  }
.modalEduLevel
{
    width: 90%;
    height: 80%;
    min-height: 0;
    max-height: 250px;
    top: 20%;
    left: 5%;
    right: 5%;
    bottom: 20%;
    border-radius:5px;
    border:2px solid gold;
}
.bg-gold
{
    background-color: #ffd70080;
}
.button-level
{
    background-color: white;
    border: 1px solid purple;
    color: purple;
    font-size: 1.3em;
}
.button-level:hover, .button-level:active
{
    background-color: purple;
    color:white !important;
}
<link href="http://code.ionicframework.com/1.3.1/css/ionic.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<button ng-click="openModal()">Open</button>

A: I would say you can do it with setting this simple CSS declaration:
.slide-in-up.ng-leave {
  -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 500%, 0px);
  transform: translate3d(0px, 500%, 0px);
}

Ionic sets the ng-leave class to every element that gets removed/hidden etc. The default transform for slide-in-up with ng-leave is transform: translate3d(0px, 100%, 0px); which is the same as when it enters ng-enter. By setting this to 500% it will be surely removed all the way to the bottom. You can do this same with the ng-enter class if you would like the animation to be similar in both cases. You can also overwrite the transition timing if you wish with a declaration like this:
.slide-in-up.ng-leave, .slide-in-up > .ng-leave {
  -webkit-transition: all ease-in-out 450ms;
  transition: all ease-in-out 450ms;
}

var myApp = angular.module('MyApp', ['ionic', 'ngCordova']);
myApp.controller('HomeCtrl', function($scope, $ionicModal) {

  $ionicModal.fromTemplateUrl('my-modal.html', {
    scope: $scope,
    animation: 'slide-in-up'
  }).then(function(modal) {
    $scope.modal = modal;
  });

  $scope.openModal = function() {
    $scope.modal.show();
  };

  $scope.home = function() {
    $scope.modal.hide();
  }
});
body {
  background-color: #f3f3f3;
}
.modalEduLevel {
  width: 90%;
  height: 80%;
  min-height: 0;
  max-height: 250px;
  top: 20%;
  left: 5%;
  right: 5%;
  bottom: 20%;
  border-radius: 5px;
  border: 2px solid gold;
}
.slide-in-up.ng-leave {
  -webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 500%, 0px);
  transform: translate3d(0px, 500%, 0px);
}
.bg-gold {
  background-color: #ffd70080;
}
.button-level {
  background-color: white;
  border: 1px solid purple;
  color: purple;
  font-size: 1.3em;
}
.button-level:hover,
.button-level:active {
  background-color: purple;
  color: white !important;
}
<link href="http://code.ionicframework.com/1.3.1/css/ionic.css" rel="stylesheet" />

  <button ng-click="openModal()">Open</button>

EDIT:
Here's a demo for you of a custom slide function in the modal.

var myApp = angular.module('MyApp', ['ionic', 'ngCordova']);
myApp.controller('HomeCtrl', function($scope, $ionicModal) {

  $ionicModal.fromTemplateUrl('my-modal.html', {
    scope: $scope,
    animation: 'custom-slide'
  }).then(function(modal) {
    $scope.modal = modal;
  });

  $scope.openModal = function() {
    $scope.modal.show();
  };

  $scope.home = function() {
    $scope.modal.hide();
  }
});
body {
  background-color: #f3f3f3;
}
.modalEduLevel {
  width: 90%;
  height: 80%;
  min-height: 0;
  max-height: 250px;
  top: 20%;
  left: 5%;
  right: 5%;
  bottom: 20%;
  border-radius: 5px;
  border: 2px solid gold;
}
.bg-gold {
  background-color: #ffd70080;
}
.button-level {
  background-color: white;
  border: 1px solid purple;
  color: purple;
  font-size: 1.3em;
}
.button-level:hover,
.button-level:active {
  background-color: purple;
  color: white !important;
}
.custom-slide {
  top: 100% !important;
  opacity: 0 !important;
}
.custom-slide.ng-enter-active {
  top: 20% !important;
  opacity: 1 !important;
  transition: opacity 150ms ease-in-out, top 350ms cubic-bezier(0.17, 0.04, 0.03, 0.94);
}
.custom-slide.ng-leave {
  top: 100%;
  opacity: 0;
  transition: opacity 450ms ease-in-out, top 350ms cubic-bezier(0.17, 0.04, 0.03, 0.94);
}
.custom-slide.ng-leave .button-level:hover,
.custom-slide.ng-leave .button-level:active {
  background-color: white;
  color: purple !important;
}
<link href="https://code.ionicframework.com/1.3.1/css/ionic.css" rel="stylesheet" />

  <button ng-click="openModal()">Open</button>

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Elifaz – postać biblijna ze Starego Testamentu
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"Comrades with Red Baby" belongs to the set of twenty lithographs from "The Storyteller's Enchantments of Zhang Xiaogang", which comes as a limited edition of 132 rare books.Inspired by family photos from the Cultural Revolution period, as well as the European tradition of surrealism, Zhang Xiaogang's lithographs engage with the notion of identity within the Chinese culture of collectivism.
"I think most people can understand. Art is not science. It doesn't have to be accurate. Art is a feeling, a state of mind. That's the most important thing."


This week we are going to be featuring five free apps that will aid you in your business travels, leisure travels, and in your home town as well.
1) Kayak App This app is an easy and convenient way to search all hotels in your price range at once. You can also use this app for last minute hotel bookings as it uses the GPS on your smart phone device to locate the closest hotels. Booking is a snap too and can be done directly from the app. This app also allows for you to check your flight status and look up airline baggage fees.
2) Gas Buddy App This app is your perfect travel companion on the road whether you are going on vacation, driving in your local city, or going on a business trip, this app will tell you where you can save money at the pump. It will also give you specific directions to the cheapest gas stations so you don't waste money driving around aimlessly.
3) Trip Advisor App This travel app will keep you on your toes before you decide to splurge on a specific tour, hotel, or restaurant. It allows you to read reviews posted by other travelers just like you to aid in your decision process.
4) Meal Ticket App The perfect app to help you find the best and least expensive local restaurants – find hundreds of coupons for instant, eco-friendly savings as you don't need to print them out – just show your server.
5) Yelp App This app is your go to app to find anything and everything local from restaurants, bars, coffee shops, gas stations, etc. You can read reviews and it even lets you know how much you will be spending before you head out.
We know that there are a ton of free smart phone/tablet applications out there but we hope that these 5 will be a great addition to the ones you might already utilize.


The B983 Vigore sofa is stunning for how effortlessly contemporary it looks. Its wide armrests and cushions combine perfectly in a design, which perfectly represents the vision of Natuzzi Editions. Besides looking great, Vigore is also a champion of pampering.
It includes a moving headrest and sleek leather covering with contrast stitching. Vigore also comes as a corner sofa, so it can fit the perfect spot you found for it.
In years done by, this collection was called the Constanzo and Vigore.


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Prague Airport handled a total of 17,804,900 passengers in 2019. That means that approximately one million more passengers passed through the airport than in 2018, which sets another historic record and a six per cent year-on-year increase. Throughout the entire Read More
Aegean set a new traffic record in 2019, nearly reaching the 15 million passenger threshold. The carrier recorded a seven per cent increase in total passenger traffic last year, a significant achievement marking 20 years of operation. More specifically, Aegean Read More
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Hilton has launched Tempo by Hilton, what it is calling an approachable lifestyle brand. It is curated to serve a growing segment of "modern achievers" who seek a hotel experience that reflects their ambition. By combining thoughtful design and diverse Read More
News: Manchester signs tourism partnership with New York City
Marketing Manchester and NYC & Company have signed a city-to-city tourism collaboration agreement. Formalised at a press conference at Cultureplex in Manchester, the new two-year alliance includes a collaboration agreement between the two cities, the sharing of best practices in Read More
News: Ryanair calls for air passenger duty holiday for whole aviation sector
Ryanair has written to chancellor of the exchequer, Sajid Javid, calling on him to extend the air passenger duty 'holiday' given to Flybe, to all UK airlines. The deal was announced earlier this week and could see the regional airline Read More
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University Scholarship in China 2022 | Fully Funded
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Scholarship 2022 is a golden chance for international students to study in China for free. The university itself is highly research-oriented. So the students who are eager to research in their respected fields and are ready to excel from others are highly appreciated to study in Shanghai. SJTU international graduate program offers almost 100 graduate courses in 31 colleges and schools. The students who wish to continue their higher studies in an environment that can provide them will all the possible platforms to outshine others in terms of skills development, is their best chance because it offers them to continue fully-funded masters and PhD in China.
Shanghai Jia Tong University is one of the oldest universities in China. Moreover, the university has been ranked in the top 100 universities of the world. The university has diversity in the nationality of students because it is home to more than 7000, international students from all over the globe. That is the fact why SJTU has a huge network of alumni all over the world. By this fully-funded international scholarship by a Chinese university, the talented students become of this huge alumni network.
Jio Tong scholars who become Jio Tong alumni have founded numerous associations in the US, Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mailand China. The students who come to Shanghai Jio Tong University for a fully-funded scholarship do not have to bear financial burdens on their shoulders to continue their studies in Shanghai. Resultantly they become more and more productive and participate in the routine services of alumni with full zeal and zest. With their contributions, the contact list always keeps on increasing. Furthermore, SJTU scholarship facilitates the students by providing them probable opportunities to conduct and to participate in conferences and conducting sino-foreign cultural exchange events.
The scholarship for international students in China's top university is a stepping stone for highly motivated and talented students to make their names in the international arena. There are numerous SJTU students who won top prizes in international competitions such as ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, and International Mathematical Contest, etc. Moreover, the SJTU alumni are seen in key posts in government, NGOs, or private sectors. So, the graduates with competitive abilities, extraordinary leadership qualities, and excellent academic records are highly encouraged to apply for this top scholarship in the best university in China.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Scholarship in China 2022:
Benefits of the Shanghai Jio Tong Scholarship 2022:
The students for PhD will be granted SJTU fellowship, CSC Scholarship/SGS Scholarship, and SJTU Scholarship.
The master's students will be granted the CSC Scholarship/SGS Scholarship, SJTU scholarship, and school/college scholarship.
The students will get to know the Chinese culture.
The students will become part of the SJTU alumni network for a lifetime.
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Eligibility Criteria of the Shanghai Jio Tong Scholarship 2022:
The candidate must not be a Chinese citizen.
The candidate must have an excellent academic record.
The candidate must be in good health.
For the master's program, the candidates must have a bachelor's degree.
For PhD program, the candidates must have a master's degree.
The candidate must be proficient in Chinese or English.
How to Apply for the SJTU Scholarship in China 2022?
The candidates have to apply online at [email protected]
The candidate has to submit an application fee of RMB 800 which will be non-refundable.
The candidates have to apply for scholarships separately.
There are two channels for scholarship one is through university and the second is through online Chinese Embassy/Consulates in the home country.
If you are applying through university, you have to choose "apply for the scholarship through SJTU".
If you are applying through the embassy or consulate, you must consult the embassy for the application schedule, eligibility, and requirements because it varies from country to country.
if you are applying for the School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, you are required to contact the supervisor and get an acceptance letter from your chosen supervisor.
Learn how to accept an acceptance letter from a supervisor?
Required Documents of the SJTU Scholarships in China 2022:
Degree Certificates
Proof of Language Proficiency
Scanned Copy of Passport
Passport Size Photo
Study Plan and Personal Statement
Two Recommendation Letters from Associate Profesor or above.
Application Deadlines:
Dec 15, 2021 Deadline for 1st Round scholarship application.
Mar 31, 2022 Deadline for 2nd Round scholarship application.


On August 25, 2018, the Baha'is of Statesboro and their friends gathered at the Rea's home to enjoy Joe and Glory Goldstein's narrated PowerPoint presentation of their recent pilgrimage to the Baha'i Holy Shrines in Haifa, Israel. Twenty people of diverse backgrounds (China, Peru, Guam, Brazil, Trinidad, Canada, and the USA) shared prayers, food, and fellowship.
This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on August 25, 2018 1:38 PM.
The previous post in this blog was Junior Youth Gathering.
The next post in this blog is Junior Youth Social.


What is bourbon whiskey? Bourbon whiskey is a distinctive whiskey of Kentucky made from a grain mixture of a minimum 51 percent corn and aged in new, charred oak barrels.
Where is it made? Technically, bourbon whiskey can be produced anywhere in the United States, although in practice over 90 percent is made in Kentucky. Bourbon is also produced in 48 states, but not in Hawaii and South Dakota.
Where did the name bourbon originate? Back in the 1700s practically all of Kentucky was a part of Virginia and a large part of the region was called "Bourbon County." In 1785, it was named by settlers in honor of the French royal family — the Bourbons, who helped the colonists win the American Revolutionary War.
In 1789, a Baptist minister, Elijah Craig, made a distilled spirit by combining spring water, corn, rye and barley malt. Craig is often erroneously credited as the inventor of bourbon whiskey.
What are the ingredients? Federal regulations require that bourbon whiskey be made from a minimum of 51 percent corn; however, 65 to 75 percent is generally used. The blend of other grains is dictated by the distiller's own private formula; barley, oats, rye and wheat can be used.
How long is bourbon aged? There is no minimum amount of aging for non-straight bourbon whiskey, and technically a distiller could pump the clear distillate into a new charred oak barrel and then immediately empty it.


This topic describes the Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) functionality that is new or changed in Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012. AD CS provides customizable services for issuing and managing public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates used in software security systems that employ public key technologies.
Policy module support for the Network Device Enrollment Service New Using a policy module with the Network Device Enrollment Service provides enhanced security so that users and devices can request certificates from the Internet.
TPM key attestation New TPM key attestation lets the certification authority (CA) verify that the private key is protected by a hardware-based TPM.
Windows PowerShell for Certificate Services New New Windows PowerShell cmdlets are available for backup and restore.
The AD CS role service, Network Device Enrollment Service, is designed for secured networks and trusted administrators. Because of this design, enrollment can use a single password, or even no password, to request multiple certificates. In addition, there is no authentication for the subject name value supplied. However, Windows Server 2012 R2 supports a policy module for the Network Device Enrollment Service, which provides additional authentication that makes it practical to run this role service in a perimeter network. This configuration supports the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) scenario, where mobile devices such as those that run iOS and Android, and computers that are not domain members, can now use the Network Device Enrollment Service to request user and computer certificates from the Internet. This is sometimes referred to as over-the-air enrollment.
Windows Server 2012 R2 does not come with a policy module. You must install this separately, from a software vendor that provides a policy module, or write your own policy module. If you install a policy module from a software vendor, typically, this will be from a company that provides management for mobile devices. For example, System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager provides a policy module that is required for when you deploy certificate profiles.
TPM key attestation lets the certification authority (CA) verify that the private key is protected by a hardware-based TPM and that the TPM is one that the CA trusts. This functionality prevents the certificate from being exported to an unauthorized device, and can bind the user identity to the device.
All TPMs have an endorsement key that is unique to each TPM. In some cases, TPMs have an endorsement key certificate that chains to the manufacturer's issuing CA. Not all TPMs support attestation but when they do, you can optionally choose to validate the key attestation by using the endorsement key, or by using an endorsement key certificate.
To use TPM key attestation, the client operating system must be Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2. To configure TPM key attestation, use a version 4 certificate template with an enterprise CA, and configure the settings on the Key Attestation tab. Do not select Do not store certificate and requests in the CA database on the Server tab of the certificate template properties, because this configuration is not supported with TPM key attestation. In addition, standalone CAs and web enrollment do not support TPM key attestation.
User credentials. No additional configuration is required on the CA.
Endorsement certificate. You must add the root and issuing CA certificates for the TPMs to new certificate stores on the CA. The new certificate stores are EKCA for the intermediate store, and EKRROT for the root store.
Endorsement key. You must add each endorsement key for the TPMs to an approved list (EKPUB list).
New Windows PowerShell cmdlets are available in Windows Server 2012 R2. You can use these cmdlets to back up and restore a certification authority (CA) database.
Backup-CARoleService New Back up the CA database.
Restore-CARoleService New Restore the CA database.
For more information about these cmdlets, see Backup-CARoleService and Restore-CARoleService.
Server Manager provides a centralized graphical user interface for installing and managing the AD CS server role and its six role services.
AD CS server role and its role services are integrated into Server Manager, which allows you to install the AD CS role service from the Manage menu using Add Roles and Features. Once the server role is added, AD CS appears in the Server Manager dashboard as one of the roles that can be managed. This provides you a central location from which you can deploy and manage AD CS and its role services. Further, the new Server Manager allows you to manage multiple servers from one location and you can see the AD CS role services installed on each server, review related events, and perform management tasks on each server. For more information on how the new Server Manager works, see Manage multiple, remote servers with Server Manager.
To add the AD CS Server Role, you can use the Add Roles and Features link on the Manage menu in Server Manager. The AD CS installation flow is similar to that in the previous version, except for the division of the binary installation process and the configuration process. Previously the installation and configuration was a single wizard. In the new installation experience, you first install the binary files and then you can launch the AD CS Configuration wizard to configure the role services that have already had their binary files installed. To remove the AD CS Server Role, you can use the Remove Roles and Features link on the Manage menu.
All AD CS role services can be configured or have their configurations removed by using the AD CS Deployment Windows PowerShell cmdlets. These new deployment cmdlets are described in the AD CS Deployment cmdlets Overview topic. The AD CS Administration cmdlet allows you to manage the Certification Authority role service. The new administration cmdlets are described in the AD CS Administration cmdlets Overview topic.
You can use Windows PowerShell to script deployments of any AD CS role service as well as the ability to manage the CA role service.
You can use either Server Manager or Windows PowerShell cmdlets to deploy the AD CS role services.
All Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 versions allow you to install all of the AD CS role services.
Unlike previous versions, you can install AD CS roles on any version of Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2.
In Windows Server 2008 R2, the different role services (previously called components) had different operating system version requirements, as described in Active Directory Certificate Services Overview. In Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2, all six of the roles services work as they would on any Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 version. The only difference is that you will find AD CS with all six role services available for installation on any version of Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2.
All six of the Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 AD CS role services can be installed and run using the Server Core or the Minimal Server Interface installation options.
You can now easily deploy AD CS role services using Server Manager or Windows PowerShell cmdlets working locally at the computer or remotely over the network. In addition, Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 provides multiple installation options that even allow you to install with a graphical user interface and later switch to a Server Core or Minimal Server Interface installation. For more information on installation options, see Windows Server Installation Options.
Certificate Enrollment Web Services is a feature that was added in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This feature allows online certificate requests to come from untrusted Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) domains or even from computers that are not joined to a domain. AD CS in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 build on the Certificate Enrollment Web Services by adding the ability to automatically renew certificates for computers that are part of untrusted AD DS domains or not joined to a domain.
Administrators no longer need to manually renew certificates for computers that are members of workgroups or possibly joined to a different AD DS domain or forest.
Certificate Enrollment Web Services continues to function as it did before, but now computers that are outside of the domain can renew their certificates using their existing certificate for authentication.
Support both cryptographic service providers (CSPs) and key service providers (KSPs).
Can be set to require renewal with the same key.
Are only available for use by Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2.
Specify the minimum certification authority and certificate client operating systems that can utilize the template.
To help administrators separate what features are supported by which operating system version, the Compatibility tab was added to the certificate template properties tab.
The new version 4 certificate templates provide additional capabilities, such as enforcing renewal with the same key (available to only Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 certificate clients). The new Compatibility tab allows administrators to set different combinations of operating system versions for the certification authority and certificate clients and see only the settings that will work with those client versions.
It marks options as unavailable in the certificate template properties depending upon the selected operating system versions of certificate client and certification authority.
For version 4 templates, it determines which operating system versions are able to use the template.
Clients prior to Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 will not be able to take advantage of the new version 4 templates.
There is a statement on the Compatibility tab that reads These settings may not prevent earlier operating systems from using this template. This statement means that compatibility settings have no restrictive effect on version 1, version 2, or version 3 templates and enrollment may proceed as before. For example, in Compatibility tab, if the minimum client operating system version is set to Windows Vista on a version 2 template, a Windows XP certificate client may still enroll for a certificate using the version 2 template.
AD CS in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 allow for a certificate to be configured so that it will be renewed with the same key. This allows the same assurance level of the original key to be maintained throughout its lifecycle. Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 supports generating Trusted Platform Module (TPM)-protected keys using TPM-based key storage providers (KSPs). The benefit of using TPM-based KSP is true non-exportability of keys backed up by the anti-hammering mechanism of TPMs. Administrators can configure certificate templates so that Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 to give higher priority to TPM-based KSPs for generating keys. Also, using renewal with the same key, administrators can remain assured that the key still remains on TPM after renewal.
Entering the personal identification number (PIN) incorrectly too many times activates the anti-hammering logic of the TPM. Anti-hammering logic is software or hardware methods that increase the difficulty and cost of a brute force attack on a PIN by not accepting PIN entries until after a certain amount of time has passed.
This feature allows an administrator to enforce renewal with the same key, which can reduce administrative costs (when keys are renewed automatically) and increase key security (when keys are stored using TPM-based KSPs).
Clients that receive certificates from templates that are configured for renewal with the same key must renew their certificates using the same key, or renewal will fail. Also, this option is available only for Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 certificate clients.
If Renew with the same key is enabled on a certificate template and later key archival (Archive subject's encryption private key) is also enabled, renewed certificates will not be archived. To learn more about this situation and mitigation for it, see Key Archival and renew with the same key.
Internationalized names are names that contain characters that cannot be represented in ASCII. AD CS in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 supports Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) in several scenarios.
There is limited support for IDNs as previously described.
When a certificate request is received by a certification authority (CA), encryption for the request can be enforced by the CA via the RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_PKT, as described in MSDN article Authentication-Level Constants. On Windows Server 2008 R2 and earlier versions, this setting is not enabled by default on the CA. On a Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 CA, this enhanced security setting is enabled by default.
The CA enforces enhanced security in the requests that are sent to it. This higher security level requires that the packets requesting a certificate are encrypted, so they cannot be intercepted and read. Without this setting enabled, anyone with access to the network can read packets sent to and from the CA using a network analyzer. This means that information could be exposed that might be considered a privacy violation, such as the names of requesting users or machines, the types of certificates for which they are enrolling, the public keys involved, and so on. Within a forest or domain, leaking these data may not be a concern for most organizations. However, if attackers gain access to the network traffic, internal company structure and activity could be gleaned, which could be used for more targeted social engineering or phishing attacks.
Upgrade the Windows XP clients to a newer operating system.
Windows XP clients will not be compatible with this higher security setting enabled by default on a Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 CA. If necessary, you can lower the security setting as previously described.
Certificate services in Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 can be configured to utilize Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) sites to help optimize certificate services client requests. This functionality is not enabled by default on either certification authority (CA) or the public key infrastructure (PKI) client computers.
For information on enabling AD DS Site Awareness, see TechNet Wiki article AD DS Site Awareness for AD CS and PKI Clients.
This change enables Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 certificate clients to locate a CA in their local AD DS site.
When enrolling for a template-based certificate, the client queries AD DS for the template and the CA objects. The client then uses a DsGetSiteName function call to get its own site name. For CAs with the msPKI-Site-Name attribute already set, the certificate services client determine the AD DS site link cost from the client site to each target CA site. A DsQuerySitesByCost function call is used to make this determination. The certificate services client uses the returned site costs to prioritize the CAs that allow the client the Enroll permission and support the relevant certificate template. The higher cost CAs are tried to be contacted last (only if former CAs are unavailable).
A CA may return no site cost if the msPKI-Site-Name attribute is not set on the CA. If no site cost is available for an individual CA, then the highest possible cost is assigned to that CA.
Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 can protect certificates and associated private keys by combining an existing PFX format with a new data protection feature. This allows encrypting the contents of the PFX file with a key that belongs to a group or to an individual, instead of protecting it with a password.
To implement this feature, at least one domain controller must be running Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2.
For more information, see the TechNet Wiki article Certificate PFX Export and Import using AD DS Account Protection.
Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot certificates remotely and across server farms by using Windows PowerShell.
Share certificates and keys securely across server farms running Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2012 R2 by using Windows APIs.
Earlier versions of Windows can consume this PFX because internally the operating system assigns a strong random password. The password is included in the PFX, and it is protected by a set of security identifiers (SIDs) with data protection APIs. Any user that has access to the PFX can see that password and share it with previous Windows versions.
A PFX file can now be protected to a security principal instead of just a password. The user interface for certificate export has been updated to allow for the selection of a security principal during export.
In Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2, certificates provide life cycle notifications in MY store from the certificate enrollment API and Windows PowerShell levels. The notifications include expiration, deletion, new, renewal, replacement, close to expiration, archive, and export. Administrators and developers can manage (view, install, copy, request, and delete) certificates and their associated private keys remotely by using Windows PowerShell. This feature allows a script or an executable to launch in response to a certificate lifecycle notification.
The expiration notification is supported by stores in addition to MY store.
For more information, see the TechNet Wiki article Certificate Services Lifecycle Notifications.
For an application and server-workload developers who use certificates in their product, integrating with the certificate life cycle in Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 is easy and reliable, and it can be done remotely. Developers can develop applications that reconfigure themselves any time a certificate is renewed or replaced with another certificate—by autoenrollment or by a manual or scripted action by an administrator. The investment needed to integrate with the certificate management interfaces is very small.
For an administrator who manages applications that use certificates, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 certificates are used by those applications automatically. This occurs because applications integrate with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2 certificate notifications or when the administrator's script is triggered by a certificate event.
Notifications can now be enabled to alert system administrators before certificates expire.
Windows Server Backup feature can be installed on the certification authority (CA) to create a System State Backup that includes the CA private keys.
In Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 the System State Backup feature automatically backs up the CAs private key when an administrator or backup operator uses Windows Server Backup feature to perform a System State Backup.
The Windows Server Backup feature now includes the CA private keys.
To add this functionality to Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2008, apply the appropriate update listed in article 2603469 in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.
For details on using this feature, see Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Certificate Services System State Backup and Restore.


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An Interview with John Williams part 2
by Simon · January 1, 2010
AP-L: That leads almost directly to my next question – in your opinion, is the guitar an intrinsically harder instrument to play than the major classical instruments, the piano and violin, given that there is a relative shortage of established virtuosos?
JW: The answer is no, on two counts. No instrument is more difficult than another, because we have to establish by what standards we are making the judgment. Even if we take all three instruments playing the same piece, say the Bach G Minor fiddle fugue, it won't help because if we compare it to the Liszt B Minor Piano Sonata, is it more or less difficult? Obviously, on the guitar the Liszt is going to be impossible, so we have to look at the total repertoire available to each instrument. Yet a 6 month old baby could probably hammer out a middle C on a piano whereas it couldn't do that on a guitar until it was a few years old, but that doesn't make it a candidate to play Chopin and Liszt!
The second point, regarding a true comparison involving note preparation, is also no. In basic respects, note preparation on the guitar is no harder than the fiddle, maybe even easier, but there may be certain aspects that are harder playing certain types of music. Personally, I don't think that fingering or sight-reading is any harder on the guitar than on the violin. Some people don't find holding down notes on the guitar very difficult at all, because they have great natural strength in their hands.
A-P-L: You obviously are one of those people…
JW: Funnily enough, I'm not! But that may be because I don't practise a lot. Contrary to popular belief, I do practise, but not in vast amounts. If I practised five hours a day, I'd have stronger hands, but I don't. Obviously some chord shapes are difficult to get because of the position and angle on the neck, but learning the first scale on the violin is also very awkward to do. Frankly, I think it's a big cop-out on the part of guitarists; deliberate or not, its still a cop-out. So in summary, guitarists are bad technicians, bad sight-readers, bad at playing ensemble, bad listeners and don't know their instrument as well as they should.
These things are all changing, as I have indicated, but still apply regarding sight-reading, as any student at a music college knows. I have been giving master classes in ensemble at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and the Royal College of Music in London for just that reason. It's the history of the instrument that has given us this awful legacy, but we are learning from it and we are changing it. The guitar, in my opinion, is also becoming a more acceptable concert instrument because we are making the change.
Up till now, those works which allow the guitar to play in a chamber ensemble, such as the Bocherini Quintet, are a relative rarity and always make allowances for the guitar. As it is, a guitar student will often spend six months just learning the guitar part in order to play it at the end of year recital, which is ridiculous! The whole point of chamber music is its accessibility, and any student string player would be able to sight-read a dozen Mozart or Haydn Quartets before deciding which one to learn.
Here in Australia and elsewhere, as I have indicated, this is changing, particularly in Melbourne with Jochen Schubert, and Tim Kain in Canberra and previously in Manchester, as well as Trinity College and Paco Pena's summer school in Spain. The answer at all levels is quite simple, irrespective of the standard, is to use existing chamber ensemble for other instruments from the enormous catalogue of music available; for example, the renaissance consort repertoire, the Terpsichore dances, the Mozart and Haydn Quartets, all in single line form. Most of the parts are playable directly, except perhaps for the viola clef, but even that is no great job to transcribe. In the cello part, it isn't very often that you have to play its lowest note, C, but that isn't a real problem.
I'm not suggesting that we should start hearing Mozart Quartets for four guitars at the Opera House, but this music is invaluable in developing all the skills I have been talking about. Another thing is that it also helps to widen the guitarist's musical horizons. Fernando Sor's music is pleasant enough, and Carulli's, but if you play even an early Haydn Quartet, brother, you know you're playing great music! Most of guitarists I meet who play in competitions still belong to the older school of guitar playing where ensemble work is rare, but a couple of the young ones, especially from Germany, are very good all-round musicians.
AP-L: What do you think about the problems of tone production for guitarists?
JW: I think it's an extension of what we've just been talking about because one of the effects of having a tradition of solo repertoire, which is often music which is difficult to play, is that more emphasis is often put by a teacher on getting through the notes rather than playing the real substance of each note, and that's a reason why we don't concentrate continually from the beginning on tone production. By Grade 4, 5 and 6, for example, you've got Villa Lobos Preludes, which are much too difficult for those levels, but we're lumbered with that problem.
Take a major third on the top strings with a bass accompaniment, the type of thing you'll find in any simple guitar piece by Giuliani. If you hear a guitarist play it, it will sound fairly dull by comparison with how a string trio would play the same set of notes, where there would be much consideration of the phrasing and tone variation by each player. But because the guitarist finds such a thing superficially very easy to play, very often their approach to tone production is also superficial, with little or no consideration given to voice matching and tonal contrasts, even though the guitar has special difficulties because each of the three top strings has a quite distinct sound, so it's both a blessing and a curse.
AP-L: You have an enviable reputation as a very powerful player, one capable of getting the maximum volume from an instrument – what are your thoughts on volume as opposed to tone?
JW: Yes, it's understandable that guitarists generally have an obsession with volume, because the guitar is a quiet instrument, but I think that many guitarists confuse loudness with fullness; they should seek a focus in their sound rather than simply trying to fill a room – the thing about fullness of sound is that it also louder because of the extra body on the note. It's the range of dynamics and tone in music that make it interesting to the ear, not volume per se. One thing that I loved about one of my two old Fleta guitars, was the ability it gave one to express that wide range of sound. I've always had strong nails, so that has helped too, but the reality is that the dynamic range that the guitar has is much less than the range, which actually carries in a concert hall.
AP-L: Does this explain your use of amplification, despite your obvious ability to produce a full, strong sound?
JW: I feel that subtle amplification overcomes most of these problems, but it seems ironic that many makers are now aiming directly at producing much louder instruments. I feel that the wide range of options available today for amplifying the guitar means that you can focus on the warm, intimate sounds of the guitar even in a large auditorium. The end result will be musically much more satisfying than trying just to produce a large, possibly unmusical, sound output, even if it is totally natural.
I know that to some critics any form of amplification is musical heresy, but I think that we have to go one step further. The guitar played in a large hall is not heard at its loveliest for most people in that hall; ideally, the guitar should not be played in a large hall if we want to experience the full range of its tone, because it doesn't sound the same at a distance of 20 meters or more. This is because it's a partly percussive instrument, and the percussive aspects carry more than its other dynamic and tonal qualities, so what we're hearing is not really a true guitar sound. So it's not whether you can hear a guitar at the back of the Sydney Opera House, but what you hear that counts. I find that amplification helps in that regard, but obviously it has to be well done.
The London Guitar Studio
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3:10 TO YUMA 2007
Poffy The Cucumber February 28, 2009
When you shoot the devil in the face… you'd better hope he's not Russell Crowe.
Black hat, White hat, Gray souls…
Every way of man is right in his own eyes.
– Wade quoting the Book of Proverbs, 3:10 TO YUMA.
Every modern Western released after Eastwood's mighty 1992 elegy has laid hollow claim to "The best western since UNFORGIVEN."
3:10 TO YUMA is.
That's because – like UNFORGIVEN – YUMA is not a "Western," but an operatic tale set in the old west, balancing themes of honor, cowardice, heroism, paternalism, on the simplicity of the road movie, the buddy movie, with magnificent performances, nuanced, subtle, graceful and uncompromising.
Sexy Villain Poffy
Phew, my thesaurus is bloody…
A crippled rancher, Evans (Christian Bale), must escort notorious captured outlaw, Wade (Russell Crowe), miles into town to put him onboard the 3:10 p.m. prison train to Yuma… With all hell on their trail.
Sounds a bit Don La Fontaine (R.I.P.) – it's actually Wade's gang, led by maniacal Charlie Prince (Ben Foster), pursuing his boss with a single-mindedness bordering on homosexual.
Set in the 1880s, shortly after the Civil War, we meet rancher Evans (Bale), down on his luck, one foot lost to the war (in a heroic battle, he tells his sons), barely supporting a wife and two boys, staring into the abyss of a drought, while the local authorities constantly try to run him off his farm to make way for a railroad…
While Wade (Crowe) nonchalantly robs a bank stagecoach; a detached tyrant, Wade lets his men do the misdeeds while he draws pictures and moves in after the bloodletting. The savagery of his men washes over him without effect; he is well on his way to nihilism. Their loyalty means nothing: he emotionlessly guns down one of his gang taken hostage by the stagecoach driver, to remove the driver's advantage – then he guns down the driver…Wade is so arrogant about his power and indifferent about his fate that he calmly rides into the town where the stagecoach was headed, has a drink and uses the fact that he looks exactly like Russell Crowe to seduce a bargirl into bed.
The lives of the outlaw and the rancher intertwine when Evans happens to be in town when Wade is captured, and accepts $200 to join the posse to escort Wade to the station. ($200 was exactly the amount the army paid for his shot-off foot. Analog with the Iraq war and the way America treats its war-wounded: Evans tells how the army gave out money not so the soldiers could walk away from the war recompensed, but so that the government could walk away from the soldiers, disavowing further responsibility.)
Peter Fonda (renowned for his iron horse, here riding a real one) is bounty hunter, Byron McElroy, so tough that after getting shot and having the bullet removed by a veterinarian, is ten minutes later taking Wade into custody and riding out of town with the posse.
3:10 TO YUMA is not about the train trip or the train – it is about the journey of the outlaw and the rancher, by road and by soul.
Remade from the 1957 film of the same name (with Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, from a short story by Elmore Leonard), director James Mangold (from the great COP LAND to the not-so-great WALK THE LINE) elevates the somewhat clichéd 1950's characters to multi-dimensional, complex people.
Wade is not the sneering black-hat villain of the original, and it is no accident seductive Russell Crowe plays him – charming, principled, educated; in a stopover at Evans's homestead overnight, Wade easily wins over the rancher's wife (Gretchen Mol), "I once knew the daughter of a sea captain. She had the greenest eyes I ever saw. Like yours. And I'd stare deep into them. And they'd just change color right in front of me. All the colors of the sea…" (Women love that kind of tongue-dancing, don't they? It's too easy.) The only way we can even identify Wade as the "villain" is – ironically – his black hat.
Evans is not the respected, upright do-gooder. The town officials resent him for not surrendering his land, and his family regards him as less than manly. In impassioned desperation, he tells his wife why he needs to endanger his life accompanying the outlaw to the train – redemption: "I'm tired of the way that my boys look at me. I'm tired of the way that you don't."
Evans's son (Logan Lerman), enamored with the outlaw way, tails the posse originally to worship Wade, and ends up finding a new respect for his father in a shocking new ending to the original tale.
Nuance reaches a zenith in the film's final scenes as Wade admits to Evans that he has been to Yuma prison twice, and escaped twice, and the ghost of a knowing smile flits across Evans's face… He would win back his respect this day.
The 2007 YUMA ends on a more powerful note than the original and Mangold and new screenwriters, Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, create a moral dilemma where Wade and Evans realize they are more like each other than each would dare admit – principled men – and were it not for the circumstances they might well have been friends. A reckoning looms – the gauntlet run through the town, the rancher and the poet villain, the rancher's boy, and the mad homosexual – and somehow, Wade and Evans both find redemption in the tragedy that unfolds.
In the scenes where Wade and Evans flee through the town, dodging bullets from Wade's gang and the townsfolk alike, we step outside ourselves and think, "Jesus Christ – it's Christian Bale and Russell Crowe! – megastars together onscreen!" Amazing how they lost themselves in their characters so completely. A Brit and an Aussie playing two Wild West Americans. How does that grab ya, Yanks?
Guess it's still not as offensive as Chuck Connors playing GERONIMO.
3:10 TO YUMA 2007 (Sep 2007)
aka: THREE TEN TO YUMA, THREE-TEN TO YUMA.
Director: James Mangold.
Writers: Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Elmore Leonard.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Peter Fonda, Gretchen Mol, Logan Lerman, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Vinessa Shaw, Alan Tudyk, Luce Rains.
Tags:2007, 3:10 TO YUMA 2007, Alan Tudyk, Alpha-number, Ben Foster, Christian Bale, Derek Haas, Drama, Elmore Leonard, Gretchen Mol, Halsted Welles, James Mangold, Logan Lerman, Michael Brandt, Peter Fonda, Rating-10, Remake, Russell Crowe, THREE-TEN TO YUMA, Western


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The old Chain of Rocks Bridge was built in 1929 and at one point in its history carried Bypass US 66 across the Mississippi River. In 1967, the new Chain of Rocks Bridge was built to carry Highway 270, so the old bridge was closed. For 30 years the old bridge was abandoned and was eventually going to be torn down. But because of the high cost of demolition, nobody ever got around to it. Because of its deteriorated look, it was actually used for a scene in the 1981 movie "Escape From New York City." It was fortunate for the residents of the St. Louis Metro area that it wasn't torn down because in 1998 renovations on the bridge began and the old Chain of Rocks Bridge was transformed into the Route 66 Bikeway that is a 1 mile long paved trail on the bridge, crossing the Mississippi River and connecting the St. Louis Riverfront Trail with the MCT Confluence Trail (via the Chain of Rocks Road) on the Illinois side. The Old Chain of Rocks Bridge is also a popular place for Bald Eagle watching in the winter. In 2006 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Old Chain of Rocks Bridge Location
Access from Riverview Drive in St. Louis, MO or Illinois 3 in Madison County, IL.
Crosses over the Mississippi River just south of the new Chain of Rocks Bridge/Highway 270
Old Chain of Rocks Bridge Related Links:
Chain of Rocks Bridge - National Parks Service Website
Old Chain of Rocks Bridge Photo Gallery
Route 66 Old Chain of Rocks Bridge
The Old Chain of Rocks Bridge Bikeway Link
Route 66 memorabilia on the Bridge
View of Chouteau Island from the Bridge
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View of the New Chain of Rocks Bridge
Illinois side (Chouteau Island) of the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge Bikeway Link
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Coventry to become focal point of Mega-Events rese...
Coventry to become focal point of Mega-Events research
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Fresh from experience of the World Cup, researchers from Brazil will be joining those from the UK, South Africa and the USA to examine the impact of sporting and cultural mega-events.
As part of the €850,000 4-year CARNiVAL project funded by the EC and led by Coventry University, over 30 researchers from Rio de Janerio, Cape Town and North Carolina be staying in Coventry for between 1-3 months to conduct research.
Experts will attend the European Association of Sport Management Conference hosted by Coventry University on the 9-12th September, providing insight into the latest thinking from across Europe. Following this they will carry out their own research in the UK looking at issues such as: the impact of events on public health, urban renewal and national identity. Dr Samantha Gorse, the Coordinator of the CARNiVAL programme notes:
"This is quite a unique opportunity. Researchers from Brazil looking at the World Cup will be able to compare notes with UK researchers looking at the London Olympics & Paralympics and the Glasgow Commonwealth Games. This creates an opportunity to influence thinking in the run up to the Rio de Janeiro, 2016, Durban's bid for the Commonwealth Games in 2022 and a potential bid by South Africa for the 2024 Olympic Games.
What is critical here is the ability to gain a solid comparison of different national and cultural approaches to the hosting of these enormously costly events and to take a long-term perspective on what works and what doesn't. From this standpoint the North American and South African perspectives will be essential."
Researchers will stay in Coventry to November, when a number will travel on to Munich, Germany the final partner in the project.
Anyone interested in following the project can visit the website www.coventry.ac.uk/carnival or sign-up to the Twitter feed @Carnival_CovUni. Alternatively, if you are interested in being part of CARNiVAL, please email Dr Gorse - samantha.gorse@coventry.ac.uk or Dr Ian Brittain ian.brittain@coventry.ac.uk


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Google's Android Concessions Fail to Please Critics in Europe
A broader choice of browser and search apps
To comply with changes ordered by the EU competition watchdog, Google (GOOGL) will be letting Android users in Europe use their preferred Internet browser and search apps. Google was fined a record $5.0 billion last year on charges that its Android licensing practices give it an unfair advantage over competitors in the browser and search markets. Google owns the Android operating system and licenses it free of charge to device makers that preinstall its browser and search apps in their products.
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Google dominates the browser and search markets in Europe
At the end of March, Google's Chrome browser held 62% of the mobile browser market in Europe, while Apple's Safari, Samsung (SSNLF) Internet, and Firefox held 24.8%, 9.6%, 0.58%, respectively, according to StatCounter.
Google also dominates the EU search market. It held 97.4% of the mobile search market in Europe in March, and Yandex (YNDX) placed a distant second with a 1.4% market share, StatCounter data shows. Microsoft (MSFT) and Verizon (VZ) held 0.37% and 0.51% of Europe's mobile search market in March, respectively.
Critics say changes inadequate
In addition to slapping Google with a heavy fine, the EU antitrust agency has ordered the company to make changes that will preserve competition in the mobile browser and search markets. The company's move to allow Android users in Europe to choose browser and search apps other than its own is part of these requested changes. However, Google critics including FairSearch, the lobby group whose complaint led to the company being fined in the Android matter, are not convinced the changes will correct anything, Reuters reports.


Aldi Stores and John Lewis tie as Effie UK's Marketers of the Year. adam&eveDDB earns recognition as Effie UK's Most Effective Agency. Lidl UK and TBWA\London's "How Lidl Grew A Lot" is named as the Effie UK's first Grand Effie winner.
LONDON (19 September 2018 / Updated 20 September 2018) -- Winners of the 2018 Effie Awards UK program were revealed tonight at the annual Effie Awards Gala in London. Since 1968, the Effie Awards have honoured marketing ideas that work, and now celebrate marketing effectiveness with 51 programs globally. Tonight's celebration marks the third year of the competition in the United Kingdom.
adam&eveDDB was named the Effie Awards UK Agency of the Year for its work with John Lewis, Marmite, and The Automobile Association, among other brands.
John Lewis, with adam&eveDDB, was awarded two Golds: one for "Buster the Boxer: John Lewis' most effective Christmas ever" in the Retail category and another for its "The gift that keeps on giving: John Lewis at Christmas" campaign in the Sustained Success category (for efforts that have experienced sustained effectiveness for 3+ years). These special recognitions are based on Effie's standard point system, which recognises all companies credited on a finalist or winning campaign.
The Grand Effie winner (the most effective marketing communications effort of the year) was awarded to Lidl UK and TBWA\London, with contributing agencies Starcom and Ebiquity, for "How Lidl Grew A Lot." The winner was selected following much discussion and debate by a special jury, led by 2018 Jury Chair, Aline Santos, EVP, Global Marketing and Head of Diversity & Inclusion, at Unilever.
"Marketers are moving from assumptions to evidence, and they are doing so through data," noted Santos.
The 2018 UK winners and finalists were celebrated at Plaisterers' Hall in London, with 14 cases moving on to become winners. Effies were also awarded to IKEA & Mother (Gold), Beano & Red Brick Road (Silver), McDonald's & Leo Burnett London (Silver), Yorkshire Tea & Lucky Generals (Bronze), Sainsbury's & AMV BBDO (Bronze), and Glasgow School of Art & J. Walter Thompson (Bronze).
All of the 2018 UK winners and finalists will receive points towards their ranking in the 2019 Effie Index. Visit effieuk.org and effieindex.com for more information.
View the full list of 2018 Effie Awards UK winners here.
Effie Worldwide is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that champions the practice and practitioners of marketing effectiveness. Effie Worldwide spotlights marketing ideas that work and encourages thoughtful dialogue around the drivers of marketing effectiveness. The Effie network works with some of the top research and media organizations worldwide to bring its audience relevant insights into effective marketing strategy. Since 1968, the Effie Awards have become known by advertisers and agencies globally as the pre‐eminent award in the industry, and recognize any and all forms of marketing communication that contribute to a brand's success. Today, Effie celebrates effectiveness worldwide with over 50 global, regional and national programs across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East/North Africa and North America. Effie initiatives include the Effie Index, ranking the most effective companies and brands globally and the Effie Case Database. For more details, visit effie.org. Follow @effieawards on Twitter for updates on Effie information, programs and news.


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The Role of Board Members in a Capital Campaign
Aside from their responsibilities for self-perpetuation, and the selection and oversight of administrative leadership, the two fundamental responsibilities of a not-for-profit governing board are to assure that their institution makes continued progress in the furtherance of its mission, and to guarantee the availability of the financial resources necessary to do so. Both of these latter charges come into sharp focus in relation to capital campaigns.
It is virtually impossible for a major fundraising drive to succeed without the leadership and support of the institution's board. Beyond the obvious fact that these individuals are carefully selected for the strengths they can bring to the institution, it is they who are the most knowledgeable about it, and who approve the most important decisions pertaining to its ongoing welfare. All other constituents look to them for assurance that the institution is on the right course, and offer their own effort, financial support and emotional commitment in the faith that the board is performing its duties at the highest levels of civic responsibility.
Indeed, to serve as an elected member of the governing board is to act as the shareholder representative of the public, for the state invests in this group the authority to assure that the institution remains worthy of the not-for-profit status conferred upon it on behalf of the rest of the citizens of the state. Therefore, when it comes to capital campaigns, the public expects the board to make judicious decisions about how much money must be raised and how it will be used.
How can a board be certain of this? In fact, if the board retains control of the institutional strategic planning process, and participates fully and appropriately in that process, then its members can be confident that the institutional priorities have been carefully and thoughtfully developed. Moreover, they will understand the cost of these priorities, and the plan for funding them, utilizing a combination of accumulated assets, operating income, debt service, and philanthropy – in the form of a capital campaign.
If the board is fully engaged in the institutional planning process, reserving for itself the ultimate authority for approval and adoption, then it is indeed the board's own plan for the future welfare of its institution. Clearly, the board will be committed to its successful execution.
And how can the public be certain of this? In addition to participating in the development of the institutional plan, and adopting it as their roadmap for the coming years, the members of the governing board demonstrate their own unanimous support and ownership by stepping forward before anyone else is even asked, pledging at 100% participation. Normally the board's financial commitments represent a minimum of 20% of the campaign goal, and sometimes much more.
To no one's surprise, a group of individuals that has already taken such important steps in the leadership of their institution usually plays a major role in securing the balance of the funds needed for the campaign to be successful.
There is no substitute for an informed, engaged and committed governing board.
Practical Approaches to Strategic Planning
Good strategic planning is an extremely valuable management tool. The planning process allows individuals with a stake in the institution to investigate the purpose, status, and needs of the organization and determine the best course of action from each level of involvement.
Clyde Watkins
Clyde P. Watkins is Chairman and Partner at Ter Molen Watkins & Brandt.
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The Good Dinosaur Review
by Noah R. Taylor | November 25, 2015, 2:17 pm
Had The Good Dinosaur been released 18 months ago, in the spring of 2014 like it was originally supposed to be, it likely would have been received with more fanfare than it will be for this Thanksgiving date. Because The Good Dinosaur was pushed back, this is the first year that's seen the release of two Pixar films, and Inside Out is a hard act to follow. Now most of the commentary around The Good Dinosaur will likely be "it wasn't as good as Inside Out", and it's not. Unfortunately I don't think it's even as good as the film it was meant to follow, Monsters University, which is already considered by most to be lesser Pixar.
The concept for the film has been known for years and is set up in all of the trailers: what if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs missed earth? If you're dealing with a reality where dinosaurs never went extinct, one would think the instinct would be to set it in modern day. How would our lives be different if dinosaurs still existed? Instead the film is set a few million years after the asteroid passed earth by. Dinosaurs have learned to farm and speak, whereas humans are still wild and little more than pests. Arlo, our protagonist, is a young, clumsy Apatosaurus eager to prove himself to his family, who don't seem to have much patience for his inability to help around the farm. In true Disney style, Arlo tragically loses his father in a flash flood while trying to track down the pesky human child that's been eating their crops. Arlo then has a second accident in the same river, causing him to get swept away and lost in a vast, beautiful wilderness. While he tries to make his way home, he develops a boy and dog relationship with the human as they navigate the dangers of an eat or be eaten world.
It all feels like very well tread ground, something Pixar is usually great at avoiding. It's lacking their distinct stamp that makes you think "only Pixar" as you watch it. Really any animation studio could have made this film (which is how I also felt about Brave). There's nothing about this story that feels new or innovative. Once Arlo begins his journey, he's put through a series of trials that all feel very familiar and similar. Everyone he encounters either helps him or tries to eat him, and if it's not some other animal threatening him, it's a natural element. That darn river is a continuous source of antagonism. It all begins to feel very repetitive and amounts to very little, just a bunch of unfortunate events to fill 90 minutes, without much in the way of a climax. I guess the moral of the story is to be brave and confront your fears… and stick to your own kind, but that's a tough one to get into without going into spoiler territory.
What was clear from the first images of The Good Dinosaur was that animators have done a great job with the environment. It's a great looking film with incredibly photorealistic landscapes, so it mostly succeeds on a visual level. The design of the main characters however feels a little lacking and seem almost like placeholders for more detailed renditions that never came. I much prefer the look of many of the supporting characters who Arlo meets along the way but never stick around for very long. A standout scene used in much of the marketing is one where Arlo encounters triceratops adorned with a variety of pets, sadly this is the only scene he appears in.
The Good Dinosaur serves as a good reminder that these films are really just for kids. Many of the things adults will criticize it for are exactly what will endear it to children. Repetitiveness is their bread and butter, and they seem to like dinosaurs too. This could become another steady stream of income for Pixar the same way the much derided Cars has been. It puts into perspective just how much hope and anticipation some adults (such as myself) have come to put into this brand of children's entertainment, so much so that sometimes we forget who the real target demographic is. But with such a troubled production history that included replacing the director and most of the voice cast partway through, one can't help but wonder how much Bob Peterson's (the first director, now only credited with the concept) original vision differed from this final version and if it would have been something a little more original.
Watch our interview with director Peter Sohn, where he speaks about taking over the production, the decision to put graphic characters into photorealistic settings, and of course, what's on his Dork Shelf.
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Former White House counsel for the Nixon Administration John Dean appears before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Mueller Report on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 10, 2019. (Jeff Malet)
Former White House counsel John Dean: Mueller report is to Trump as Watergate road map was to Nixon
"It's quite striking and startling that history is repeating itself — and with vengeance," Dean tells a House panel
Shira Tarlo
June 11, 2019 2:53PM (UTC)
John Dean, one of the most prominent figures in the scandal that ended the presidency of Richard Nixon, returned to Capitol Hill on Monday to help House Democrats draw parallels between Watergate and the Russia investigation.
Dean, the former White House counsel, whose congressional testimony in 1973 is widely believed to have led to former President Richard Nixon's resignation, testified to a congressional panel that he sees parallels between President Donald Trump's actions and those of his former boss.
"It's quite striking and startling that history is repeating itself — and with vengeance — so that's why I've spoken out," Dean told the House Judiciary Committee.
Dean cooperated with investigators during the Watergate investigation in the early 1970s in exchange for a reduced sentence for his involvement in the botched burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex and subsequent cover-up by the Nixon administration. He served only four months after being released.
He told the House Judiciary panel Monday that special counsel Robert Mueller's report, which detailed at least ten instances of possible obstruction by the president, is to Trump as the Watergate grand jury report was to Nixon.
"In many ways, the Mueller report is to President Trump what the so-called Watergate 'road map' . . . was to President Richard Nixon," Dean said. "Special counsel Mueller has provided this committee with a road map."
Dean said the House Judiciary Committee serves the important function of "public education" for Americans who likely skimmed over Mueller's 448-page report detailing the former special counsel's nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow and whether the president obstructed justice.
"This report has not been widely read in the United States," he said. "It's not even been widely read in the Congress."
The hearing highlighted the problems Democrats face in attempting to draw attention to Mueller's findings, with Trump repeatedly blocking current and former West Wing aides from cooperating with requests for documents and testimony. Unlike Dean, who eventually turned on Nixon and testified in the 1970s, Trump's former White House counsel Don McGahn has refused to appear before the panel, because the White House directed him not to do so. Dean on Monday called on McGahn to testify before the House Judiciary Committee,.
"Mr. McGahn represents not Donald Trump but the office of the president," Dean said. "His client is the office of the president, and I think he owes that office his testimony before the committee."
Trump had blasted House Democrats earlier Monday for inviting Dean to appear before the panel.
"Can't believe they are bringing in John Dean, the disgraced Nixon White House Counsel who is a paid CNN contributor," the president tweeted. "No Collusion - No Obstruction! Democrats just want a do-over which they'll never get!"
Trump denied there were any similarities between himself and Nixon, who resigned in 1974 before Congress could impeach him.
"You can't impeach somebody when there's never been a thing done wrong," the president said in impromptu remarks to reporters at the White House Monday. "When you look at past impeachments, whether it was President Clinton, or I guess, President Nixon never got there. He left. I don't leave. There's a big difference. I don't leave."
"John Dean's been a loser for many years," Trump added.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee also mocked Democrats for bringing in Dean.
"Here we sit today in a hearing with the ghost of Christmas past, because the chairman of the committee has gone to the speaker of the House and sought permission to open an impeachment inquiry and she said no," said Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.
Gaetz also asked Dean how much he earned as a paid CNN contributor. Dean declined to say. He then took aim at Dean for comparing other presidents to Nixon.
"Throughout history, you accuse presidents of acting like Richard Nixon and you make money off of it, right?" Gaetz charged, alleging that Dean has made a "cottage industry" of comparing presidents to Nixon.
"Those who do act like him, I point it out," Dean responded. (In 2004, Dean published "Worse than Watergate,"a book about former President George W. Bush's administration.)
In his opening remarks, Dean said the last time he appeared before the House Judiciary Committee was July 11, 1974. Seven of the committee's 41 members were not born at the time, including Gaetz, who told Dean, "You sit before us here with no knowledge of a single fact of the Mueller report on a hearing entitled, 'Lessons of the Mueller Report.'"
John Malcolm, a conservative legal scholar at the Heritage Foundation, also testified Monday before the House Judiciary Committee, explaining why he believed Mueller's evidence fell short of establishing Trump had obstructed justice. Former federal prosecutors Joyce White Vance and Barbara McQuade appeared before the panel, telling lawmakers why they believed Mueller's evidence amounted to criminal obstruction of justice.
"If I was assessing that evidence as to a person other than a sitting president, the facts contained in [the Mueller] report would be sufficient to prove all of the elements necessary to charge multiple counts of obstruction of justice," said Vance, the first female U.S. attorney nominated by former President Barack Obama. "I would be willing to personally indict the case and to try the case. I would have confidence that the evidence is sufficient to gain a guilty verdict and win on appeal."
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I wanted to show a subtle part of the above image.
I felt when looking at this scene, the background just behind Myself and the Mrs, was to similar to our clothing and wanted to break it up abit.
With large piles of fallen leaves on the ground, it would be good fun to add some of these.
Lots of distractions, sign posts and rubbish on the ground.
Where our dark tops are, they blend in with the background around us.
With the camera set on a trip pod, i got the Mrs to throw some leaves in the air.
Another shot of some leaves.
As the camera is on a tripod, it makes editing much easier.
As im now using the Nikon D800 camera, the file sizes are crazy large, and so instead of importing every image as layers into the one file, I simply made selections of just the leaves that i wanted and moved them onto the final image.
As always, if you have any comments or questions, id love to hear from you.