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How to Confront an Advancing Threat From China
Getting Tough on Trade Is Just the First Step
By Nikki Haley
Haley speaks to members of the media after chairing a meeting of the U.N. Security Council in September 2018
Mike Segar / REUTERS
The most important international development of the last two decades has been the rise of China as a great economic and military power. As China transformed, many Western scholars and policymakers predicted that economic reform and integration into the world economy would force the country to liberalize politically and become a "responsible stakeholder" in the international system. The idea, sometimes called "convergence theory," was that as China grew wealthier, it would become more like the United States.
The theory was comforting, but it did not pan out. China grew economically without democratizing. Instead its government became more ideological and repressive, with military ambitions that are not just regional and defensive but global and designed to intimidate. And as the distinction between civilian and military technology gradually eroded across the globe, Chinese President Xi Jinping made it official policy for Chinese companies to put all technology at the disposal of China's military. As the Princeton University scholar Aaron Friedberg has written, "What Xi Jinping and his colleagues have in mind is not a transitional phase of authoritarian rule to be followed by eventual liberalization, but an efficient, technologically empowered, and permanent one-party dictatorship."
Let's face it: Xi has killed the notion of convergence.
China is enormously important to the United States—for reasons both positive and negative. American companies highly prize its huge market, which is a crucial engine of growth for the world economy. But we cannot allow our strong interest in good economic relations with China to blind us to Beijing's hostile political intentions. The Chinese government defines itself as a foe of Western liberal democracy and the upholder of its own brand of communist nationalism. Its strategic ambitions are unfriendly, far-reaching, and deeply rooted in an authoritarian worldview.
Americans look with deep regret on the choices Chinese leaders have made. For decades, the United States strove to cultivate friendship. Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan both worked to forge cooperative ties through the transfer of high technology to support modernization and economic growth. The United States helped China enter the World Trade Organization on lenient terms. We gave it access to our markets even though China did not reciprocate. China's increasingly hostile policies cannot be explained as a reaction to unfriendliness from our side.
A PRINCIPLED FOREIGN POLICY
Since the end of World War II, the United States has been the world's greatest power by almost any measure: economic output, scientific discovery, military strength, and cultural influence. Since the start of the Cold War, and especially since the Soviet Union's disintegration in 1991, the United States has commanded a degree of power and influence unmatched even by the Roman or British Empire. But the United States is not an empire. Ours is a democratic country that takes pride in respecting the rights of other countries and peoples. In foreign policy, we don't always live up to our principles, nor do we always make the wisest decisions. But we don't just do whatever we can get away with, either.
One principle that guides U.S. foreign policy is that countries should respect what belongs to other countries. After World War II, the United States provided aid to rebuild Germany and Japan. We didn't steal the resources of either country. More recently, when we led the coalition that overthrew Saddam Hussein, we spent great sums to help rebuild Iraq. We didn't steal a drop of its oil.
At home, Americans live under the rule of law. Our laws are not just tools of the powerful but constraints on power. This understanding of the law shapes the way Americans think and act and the way we operate in world affairs. We respect private contracts—and we expect others to do the same. We respect property rights, including for intellectual property. We believe in moving forward technologically by inventing and innovating, not by stealing other people's ideas and reverse engineering them.
The United States has helped to build and protect an international system in harmony with such principles. By helping to maintain international peace and stability, enabling free navigation by sea and air around the world, and creating global communications and computer networks, the United States has led the world economy to spectacular growth since World War II. If the United States did not play this leadership role, life would be far worse for Americans and for countless others. Our lives would be more constricted and less safe. Our liberties would be under pressure. China wishes to usurp our country's leadership role, certainly in Asia and evidently in the rest of the world as well.
WHAT'S BEST FOR THE PARTY IS BEST FOR CHINA
Only a few decades ago, China was a poor, undeveloped country. Then, in the late 1970s, it began to reform its economy. Beijing observed the success of market economies and applied their lessons, with stunning results: in 1980, China's gross domestic product was $200 billion. Last year it was 70 times that—more than $14 trillion. As a result of this amazing boom, other developing countries began to see China as a model. Admirers lauded its combination of selective free-market practices and centralized guidance from a government that was decisive and farsighted. Often, these admirers overlooked the intensity of China's authoritarianism. Of course, it's easier for dictators than for leaders of democratic countries to act decisively and to take a long view.
As impressive as its growth has been, however, China now faces serious difficulties. It has spawned environmental disasters and created immense social dislocations that could eventually fuel political unrest. Huge numbers of people have moved from the countryside into dangerously polluted cities, but the government hasn't permitted them to get housing or education. China's economy has also slowed. In 2018, the official growth rate was the lowest in nearly 30 years, and the official rate very likely overstates the actual growth rate.
China's authoritarian leaders fear that free Chinese people would oust them from power, as free people have done throughout the world.
China's authoritarian leaders fear that free Chinese people would oust them from power, as free people have done throughout the world. One way Chinese leaders manage the threat to their rule is by provoking crises abroad and appealing to their people's nationalism. The result is a vicious cycle of repression and potential instability that makes the world a more dangerous place. Another way China's leaders manage the threat to their rule is by creating an Orwellian surveillance state: Xi has concentrated unprecedented power in his own hands, using facial recognition and big-data technologies to monitor huge masses of people. For the same reason, his government now strives for world leadership in 5G networking and artificial intelligence.
China's leaders primarily seek not the betterment of their people but the preservation of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule. For them, politics outweighs all other considerations. Many Americans have a hard time grasping this reality because it's not how we think about our own country. Our Declaration of Independence says that the government's highest aim is to secure the rights of individuals to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Politics in the United States serves, and is subordinate to, freedom, including economic freedom. In China, it's the other way around. Economics serves politics, and the political goal is to strengthen the government's power at home and abroad.
NO MORE BUSINESS AS USUAL
In past decades, CCP strategists debated the merits of various paths to national greatness. Some championed bide-your-time policies that encouraged private-sector growth and emphasized integrating China into the world economy. Their ultimate goal was to increase the power of the party and the military, but to do so in a manner that would make China's rise seem unthreatening to the rest of the world. Other strategists advocated a more assertive, nationalistic, and militaristic approach.
Under Xi's leadership, the latter approach has clearly prevailed. His government has seized islands in the South China Sea and built military facilities on them, in violation of promises to former U.S. President Barack Obama (among others) not to militarize. It has punished Vietnam, the Philippines, and Indonesia over maritime disputes, cutting their underwater acoustic cables and attacking their fishing fleets. It has violated Taiwan's airspace and kidnapped dissidents and critics in Thailand, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Those kidnapped include citizens of Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Those doing business in China in high-tech fields are advancing Beijing's military interests, regardless of their intentions.
Chinese officials say they have no interest in the politics of foreign countries, but their habit of bribing foreign officials has ignited corruption scandals in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Angola, and elsewhere. China's Belt and Road Initiative, Xi's signature initiative to extend loans and build infrastructure around the world, relies heavily on corrupt financing arrangements that burden foreign governments with debt they cannot afford to repay. In addition, China subverts academic freedom in universities in the United States and elsewhere through its government-funded Confucius Institutes. These organizations spread propaganda and sometimes manage to squelch discussion of topics embarrassing to China, such as the conquest of Tibet and the camps in Xinjiang Province, where Beijing claims to be "reeducating" an estimated one million Chinese Muslims, known as Uighurs.
The Chinese government also systematically directs Chinese companies to steal intellectual property from U.S. and other foreign companies, according to the U.S. Justice Department. In addition, it requires private Chinese companies to share with the military any technologies they acquire through innovation, purchase, or theft. The new civil-military fusion policy announced by Xi in 2015 effectively requires all privately owned Chinese companies to work for the military. That means business with Chinese companies is no longer just business. Those doing business in China in high-tech fields are advancing Beijing's military interests, regardless of their intentions.
A NEW STRATEGY FOR A NEW STRUGGLE
Since the United States emerged as the world's leading power, we have never had to contend with a potential military challenger that was also our most important trading partner. In the Cold War, we confronted a Soviet Union whose economy was a fraction of the size of China's today. History offers no close analogies, but that doesn't mean it offers no lessons.
During the Cold War, our government crafted new policies and programs to check Soviet military technological progress and weaken the Soviet economy. These included export control and trade promotion programs that served national security purposes. We created the U.S. Information Agency, which countered Soviet propaganda, and the Strategic Defense Initiative, which aimed to neutralize the Soviet Union's long-range nuclear-armed missiles. We also established programs to encourage higher education in relevant areas—for example, the Russian language and nuclear weapons technology.
To counter Chinese threats to U.S. vital interests, it is necessary for us to think creatively and courageously—and without any illusions about our adversary's intentions. To begin with, we should revise our regulations on trade and investment, especially in the high-tech sector, so that China can no longer exploit our openness. In general, I dislike government interference in private business. But our national security takes precedence over free-market policies. Adam Smith made this point in The Wealth of Nations, arguing that Great Britain's interest in preserving naval supremacy was more important than free trade in the maritime sector: "Defense," he wrote, "is of much more importance than opulence." With China committed to taking military advantage of all private commercial activity, we must alter the lens through which we examine U.S. regulation of foreign trade, international supply chains, inward investments, intellectual property protection, and incentives for critical defense technologies. The necessary regulation will be expensive and onerous, but it is the price we must pay to secure our country.
Even as we adjust our economic policies, we will also need to improve our diplomacy. The radical nature of China's national security strategy has become clear only in the last few years. As we rethink our own national security strategy in response, we have an interest in encouraging our allies to rethink theirs. Congress should ensure that U.S. officials have the authority and resources they need to promote understanding of China's strategy and to rally multilateral efforts to compete with it—to counter Chinese influence, to defend against military threats, and to preserve the principles on which the prosperity-promoting post–World War II international system was constructed.
To handle threats posed by China—as well as by Russia, North Korea, Iran, and jihadist terrorist networks, among others—we must strengthen our military. We need greater naval capability, more long-range air strike forces, and improved information technology and cyber-capabilities. We must also modernize our long-neglected nuclear infrastructure. The U.S. defense budget is huge, but not enough is allocated for capital investment. With limited resources, there will always be tradeoffs. But we must always be able to respond, in strong and measured fashion, to our most militarily sophisticated adversary.
China poses intellectual, technological, political, diplomatic, and military challenges to the United States. The necessary response is similarly multifaceted, requiring action in fields as disparate as intelligence, law enforcement, private business, and higher education. In recent years, many problems have been described as requiring "whole of government" responses. China requires a response that is not just "whole of government" but "whole of nation." Fortunately, there is support across the political spectrum for countering China's new aggressive policies. We must act now, before it's too late. The stakes are high. They could be life or death.
NIKKI HALEY was U.S. Representative to the United Nations from 2017 through 2018.
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105 old man sets new record in cycling, reveals secret of his fitness.
Wow at 105! A 105-year-old Frenchman set a new one-hour cycling record for his age Wednesday, although Robert Marchand was already in a class of his own.
Marchand pedalled for 22.547 kilometres (14.01 miles) in the national velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines west of Paris to the cheers of hundreds of spectators — and when he had finished he said he could have gone faster.
"I didn't see the sign saying there were 10 minutes to go, otherwise I would have speeded up," the wiry champion told a scrum of reporters who surrounded him at the finish.
Marchand dismounted and although a coach put a steadying arm around him, he walked off the track without difficulty.
"I'm not tired, my legs aren't hurting, but my arms are. It has to hurt somewhere!" he said after doing 92 laps of the track.
"I feel emotional — and I'm even asking myself if all this is real!" said Marchand, who was born in 1911, three years before World War I began.
When a reporter asked if he was going to do another lap, he said emphatically: "No!"
Age is slowing him though — three years ago he managed to ride 26.927 km in one hour, a record for someone aged over 100.
– No rivals –
There was no known existing mark for someone of 105, so Marchand truly blazed a trail on Wednesday.
"Now I'll wait and see if anyone wants to take me on," he said with a chuckle.
By comparison, the one-hour world record is 54.526 km, set by British Tour de France winner and multiple Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins.
Marchand, a retired firefighter who was a national gymnastics champion and a boxer, attributes his enduring fitness to a healthy diet — and lots of exercise.
"I've done sport all my life, eaten loads of fruit and vegetables, not too much coffee," he said before the record attempt.
"I do between 10 and 20 kilometres a day (cycling), but I don't train outside. I'm afraid I might catch flu!"
One of his coaches, Jean-Michel Richefort, said he felt "really emotional" about his not-so-young charge's achievement.
"He went off very fast and I was afraid he'd have cramp. But he kept his form, he was very focused and he followed a perfect line," he said.
As the celebrations continued, Marchand was asked if he now had his eye on the record for 110-year-olds.
"It's a long way off — let's talk about it at a later date," he said.
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Q: Delphi: Convert keys to letters, ignoring shiftsate I'm trying to make a search feature where the user can hold in the control key and type some text to search.
I'm using the OnKeyDown/OnKeyUp to trap the control key.
Is there a easy way to check if the key parameter given to the onKeyUp/Down event is a litteral?
Or is it possible to convert the char given to OnKeyPressed while holding down the control key to the char it would have been if the control key where not pressed?
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I need a solution that can handle letters beyond the simple a..z range, like æ, ø å.
It looks like Delphi 2009 got a couple of useful methods in the TCharachter-class; e.g. function IsLetterOrDigit(C: Char): Boolean;
I'm stuck with delphi 2007, though...

A: The OnKeyDown & OnKeyPress Events have a number of Limitations.
Rather use a TApplicationEvents Component.
In it's  OnShortCut Event hander use the following code
procedure TFormA.ApplicationEvents1ShortCut(var Msg: TWMKey; var Handled: Boolean);
begin
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  end;

end;

This will trap ALT-B
have a look at Delphi - Using the TApplicationEvents OnShortCut event to detect Alt+C key presses for more info

A: You can convert the Key(Char) parameter from OnKeyPress event to it's ordinal value using Ord(Key) however, in the OnKeyDown event you can do the following
if CharInSet(Char(Key), ['A'..'Z']) then
  do something

you might also want to play with ShiftState to check if ALT, CTRL and/or SHIFT key is down...

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Date added: January 18, 2022 Application deadline: March 31, 2022 Contract type: permanent Hours: full-time Salary: Commensurate with experience
Third Way is a national think tank that was founded back in 2005 to champion modern center-left ideas. Our work is grounded in the mainstream American values of opportunity, freedom, and security.
The Alliance for Entrepreneurial Equity (AEE) is a new and exciting joint venture between Third Way and the National Urban League. It seeks to dramatically increase the opportunity for female and minority entrepreneurs to start and expand successful businesses. AEE will conduct research to unpack barriers for minority-owned businesses, create federal policy solutions to take those challenges head-on, connect academia to federal policymaking, and convene thought leaders on issues facing minority entrepreneurs. AEE works alongside Third Way's Economic Program, a dynamic team focused on devising and advancing policy solutions supporting the American worker.
Third Way is seeking a Policy Advisor to join the launch team for our new, multi-year advocacy initiative—the Alliance for Entrepreneurial Equity (AEE)—which will build a stronger and more equitable economy by improving opportunities for female and minority entrepreneurs. The ideal candidate will work with the program's Director, Senior Vice President, and other colleagues to increase awareness of the barriers facing these entrepreneurs among leaders in Congress, the Administration, and advocacy communities to ensure it becomes a leading public policy issue. The role would involve delivering high-impact research and analysis through written and digital materials, collaborating internally and with external partners to design and enact structural policy change, and convening events on major topics of interest.
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Cold hydrostatic testing has been started at unit 3 of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China's Jiangsu province, China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction Company Limited (CNI23) has announced. The Russian-supplied VVER-1000 is scheduled to start up in 2018.
CNI23 said cold tests began at Tianwan 3 at 4.23pm on 26 November. During the tests, the pressure within the primary circuit will reach 24.5 megapascals (MPa), while that in the secondary circuit will reach 10.8 MPa, the company said. It noted the tests are a "comprehensive examination of all pre-equipment manufacturing and installation quality".
China National Nuclear Corporation's (CNNC's) Tianwan 3 and 4 will be AES-91 VVER-1000 units designed by Gidropress and supplied by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom. AtomStroyExport is the main contractor, supplying the nuclear island. First concrete for unit 3 was poured in December 2012, while construction of unit 4 began in September 2013. Unit 3 is scheduled to begin operating in February 2018 with unit 4 following in March 2019. Two similar reactors (units 1 and 2) began operating at the site in 2007.


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With Grupo GEN, Brazil's largest publishing house for technical and scientific books, Cristina launched Uma Gramática Intuitiva: liberte-se das regras e tome posse da língua que você fala, EPU (2013) – An Intuitive Grammar – Free yourself from rules and take possession of the language you speak. She is Grupo GEN's consultant for language materials as well as for Portuguese as a Foreign Language and has authoured many of its titles in the area.
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67.26-84.7% percentage of homologies with corresponding regions in CC-, NB- and LRR domains of Bph14 gene respectively.
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Cuts in public mental health across Europe
The recession in Europe has dramatically impacted the public mental health system. States have cut vital services for tens of thousands of youth and adults living with mental health problems. These services include community mental health, primary care and access to medications.
In Ireland, it was decided recently that more than €50 million allocated by the Government to develop mental health and primary care services this year was to be used to offset the deficit in the Health Service Executive. Under the original plans €35 million was to be invested in mental health services to allow for the recruitment of about 400 staff and the opening of new units. About 200 personnel were to have been recruited as part of a €20 million investment in primary care. The deferral of the €50 million programme is among additional cuts to be announced shortly by the Ministry for Health. This means that up to 600 public nursing home beds will close and there will be cuts in patient mental health beds.
In Spain, significant changes have recently been introduced in the Personal Autonomy and Dependent Care Law, which will have a direct impact on users of mental health services. The budget has been reduced 13% among an additional cut of €283 million. Co-payment (for up to 90% of the service) has been established for those earning more than €532 per month. Carers have seen their salary reduced a minimum of 15% to 85% (depending on the region). Users will be able to claim late payments only after 2 years. In addition, users will not be able to combine services; for example, it will not be possible to go to a day centre and at the same time receive home care or an economic allowance for informal care.
In the face of budget pressures, national governments are facing increasingly difficult decisions. However, as shown in the examples above, it is difficult for communities to withstand further cuts to public mental health systems, which may have dramatic consequences. At the same time, legislators and taxpayers have the right to expect that resources spent on mental health services are spent wisely on services that work in preventing or alleviating mental health crises and in fostering recovery and independence. Cost-effectiveness evidence in mental health suggests that early intervention can provide an economic return of up to £7 per £1 expenditure.
Knapp M., McDaid D., Parsonage M., Mental Health Promotion and Prevention: The Economic Case, LSE PSSRU, Department for Health, 2011
Mental health fund cut to offset HSE deficit, Irish Times
Recortes en la Ley de Dependencia, OCU


House Republicans will hold their first big hearing next Thursday to kickstart tax reform under unified Republican government.
It's a big picture hearing, focusing on "policies that will generate economic growth, create jobs, and increase paychecks for all Americans," the committee announced.
Leading the hearings: House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL).
Quote from Brady: "Our hearing is an important step forward as we work with President Trump and our Senate colleagues on delivering historic pro-growth tax reform for the first time in 30 years."
Between the lines: Ways and Means leaders want major tax reform and are allergic to unfunded tax cuts that would be temporary.


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Christine Flowers | The booming voice of conservative women
By Christine Flowers |
Elise Stefanik, a representative from upstate New York, tried to speak at the impeachment inquiry this past week. She tried several times to ask a question, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff kept cutting her off.
He was annoyed. She persisted or rather, #andyetshepersisted, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren who tried to get a word in edgewise with Mitch McConnell during a Senate hearing. There were T-shirts printed with the pithy saying, and children's books telling the brave tale of She Who Was Shushed Up But Fought Back, but I somehow don't think the same thing will be happening with Elise.
That's because the same people who celebrate strong progressive women with booming progressive voices have little time for conservative women with equally fierce voices. You only have to look at the reaction some high-profile men had to Stefanik's attempts to be heard to understand the level of misogyny that exists in the current society against right-of-center females.
Kellyanne Conway's husband, also known as George "Kellyanne's Husband" Conway, tweeted out that the New York congresswoman was "lying trash," and urged people to support her challenger in the upcoming election. Journalist Matthew Dowd tweeted, and then deleted, a post saying that "Elise Stefanik is a perfect example of why just electing someone because they are a woman or a millennial doesn't necessarily get you the leaders we need." He later apologized in another tweet.
The irony is that I absolutely agree with the sentiment in his original comment, namely, that supporting someone simply because she shares your gender is a ridiculous way of doing business. I have penned many columns espousing that same principle, and I would normally congratulate Dowd for making a cogent point.
But the fact is, the only reason he felt comfortable making that point in the first place was because he made it on the back of a conservative woman who, not coincidentally, was scoring points against Democrats intent on impeaching Donald Trump. I would imagine if she were a progressive like the now-retired Katie Hill, she of the "throupie" fame, we would not have heard him tweeting about how "just electing someone because they are a woman or a bisexual doesn't necessarily get you the leaders we need."
The point is that conservative women are regularly ridiculed and discounted by progressives, particularly progressive men who are otherwise solicitous of the feelings of their left-of-center sisters, wives, girlfriends and House Majority leaders. Stefanik may very well have been out of order when she insisted on speaking at the impeachment hearing, but the backlash from liberals aimed at this Harvard graduate was disgusting, and quite telling.
It amazes me in this #Metoo era that some women are still fair game for below the belt attacks. The aforementioned Kellyanne Conway is regularly vilified in the press and in social media. A journalist from the Atlantic decided to describe her as a "casino worker's daughter who hasn't quite shaken her South Jersey accent."
"Saturday Night Live" depicted her as a sociopathic nympho in one sketch, a homicidal clown in another. And these were just the descriptions I can print in a family newspaper.
Another famous conservative, the one who triggered that whole "Conservative Chick Derangement Syndrome" is Sarah Palin, who was parodied, slandered, ridiculed and targeted for character assassination because she was unabashedly pro-life, pro-gun, and anti-PC. Yes, she did make some major PR mistakes and courted disaster with her shoot-from-the-hip delivery, but the hostility directed toward the former Alaska governor was unprecedented.
I have had my own brush with conservative misogyny when a feminist website labeled me "Republic— Christine Flowers." It's another phrase we don't use in the newspaper. And I get called Sarah Palin all the time, and not as a compliment.
You can argue that Hillary Clinton has been treated badly as well, and that Liz Warren had to deal with that Pocahontas stuff, and that Kamala Harris is still saddled with snide comments about her relationship with Willie Brown, and that Christine Blasey Ford was slandered by right-wing media, and so forth, and so on. The difference is, however, that for every offensive comment made about these liberal icons there are 10 arguments raised in their defense. Conservative women rarely get apologies.
In the end, Adam Schiff did us a favor in silencing Elise Stefanik. For conservative women, her muffled voice has become a mighty roar.
Flowers is an attorney and a columnist and can be reached at cflowers1961@gmail.com.
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#ifndef WEBRTC_MODULES_BITRATE_CONTROLLER_BITRATE_CONTROLLER_IMPL_H_
#define WEBRTC_MODULES_BITRATE_CONTROLLER_BITRATE_CONTROLLER_IMPL_H_

#include "webrtc/modules/bitrate_controller/include/bitrate_controller.h"

#include <list>
#include <utility>

#include "webrtc/base/criticalsection.h"
#include "webrtc/base/scoped_ptr.h"
#include "webrtc/modules/bitrate_controller/send_side_bandwidth_estimation.h"

namespace webrtc {

class BitrateControllerImpl : public BitrateController {
 public:
  BitrateControllerImpl(Clock* clock, BitrateObserver* observer);
  virtual ~BitrateControllerImpl() {}

  bool AvailableBandwidth(uint32_t* bandwidth) const override;

  RtcpBandwidthObserver* CreateRtcpBandwidthObserver() override;

  void SetStartBitrate(int start_bitrate_bps) override;
  void SetMinMaxBitrate(int min_bitrate_bps,
                                int max_bitrate_bps) override;

  void SetReservedBitrate(uint32_t reserved_bitrate_bps) override;

  int64_t TimeUntilNextProcess() override;
  int32_t Process() override;

 private:
  class RtcpBandwidthObserverImpl;

  // Called by BitrateObserver's direct from the RTCP module.
  void OnReceivedEstimatedBitrate(uint32_t bitrate);

  void OnReceivedRtcpReceiverReport(uint8_t fraction_loss,
                                    int64_t rtt,
                                    int number_of_packets,
                                    int64_t now_ms);

  void MaybeTriggerOnNetworkChanged();

  // Returns true if the parameters have changed since the last call.
  bool GetNetworkParameters(uint32_t* bitrate,
                            uint8_t* fraction_loss,
                            int64_t* rtt);

  void OnNetworkChanged(uint32_t bitrate,
                        uint8_t fraction_loss,  // 0 - 255.
                        int64_t rtt) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(critsect_);

  // Used by process thread.
  Clock* clock_;
  BitrateObserver* observer_;
  int64_t last_bitrate_update_ms_;

  mutable rtc::CriticalSection critsect_;
  SendSideBandwidthEstimation bandwidth_estimation_ GUARDED_BY(critsect_);
  uint32_t reserved_bitrate_bps_ GUARDED_BY(critsect_);

  uint32_t last_bitrate_bps_ GUARDED_BY(critsect_);
  uint8_t last_fraction_loss_ GUARDED_BY(critsect_);
  int64_t last_rtt_ms_ GUARDED_BY(critsect_);
  uint32_t last_reserved_bitrate_bps_ GUARDED_BY(critsect_);

  DISALLOW_IMPLICIT_CONSTRUCTORS(BitrateControllerImpl);
};
}  // namespace webrtc
#endif  // WEBRTC_MODULES_BITRATE_CONTROLLER_BITRATE_CONTROLLER_IMPL_H_


The 55 Moving Average has acted as resistance, so we've got a bearish "High Wave" on this line. Therefore, the market is likely going to test the nearest support in the short term.
We've got a bearish "Harami", which has been confirmed enough. In this case, the pair is likely going to continue moving down in the direction of the last low.


Jeen Mata is an incarnation of the Durga. Jeen Mata place is known as Shakti Peeth and its full and real name was Jayantimala.
Jeen Mata (Goddess of power) temple is located in Aravalli hills, Raiwasa in Sikar district of Rajasthan, 115km from Jaipur and 29 from Sikar. Jeen Mata is an incarnation of the Durga. Jeen Mata place is known as Shakti Peeth and its full and real name was Jayantimala. The sacred shrine of Jeen Mata is believed to be a thousand years old. The year of its construction is not known, it is believed that Pandavas during their exile from Hastinapur reconstructed the temple in the present style. The temple of Jeenmata was a place of pilgrimage from early times and was repaired and rebuilt several times.
A natural grace of serenity is lent by the lushgreen vegetation and rich flora, fauna around the temple. The architecture of temple is very good. The main hall has pillars covered up top to bottom with engraved flora and fauna, dancers and deities.The sacred shrine of Jeenmata is believed to be a thousand years old. Millions of devotees assemble here for a colourful festival held twice in a year in the month of Chaitra and Ashvin during the Navratri. There are a number of dharamshalas to accommodate large number of visitors.
As per the legend, Mugal Emperor Aurangzeb wanted to raze to the ground the Mandir of Mata. Being invoked by Her priests, the Mata let out its army of bhairons (a specie of fly family) which brought the Emperor and his soldiers to their knees. He sought pardon and the Kind hearted Mataji excused him from Her anger. Aurangzeb donated akhand (Ever-glow) oil lamp from his Delhi palace. This lamp is still glowing in the sacred sanctorium of the Mata.
On the eighth day of the bright half every month, devotee visit the temple. Infants are brought for symbolic hair shearing and married couples come to pay their homage.
Aarati is performed at 4.00 am, 8.00 am and 7.00 pm.


We, the undersigned, constitute the executive board of the Mormon Environmental Stewardship Alliance (MESA). We represent a growing grassroots nonprofit organization comprised of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with friends and allies.
Church leaders have long encouraged members to be engaged in political and community affairs. Recent and timely Church announcements regarding Environmental Stewardship and Conservation (see https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/environmental-stewardship-conservation), and Honoring Creation (see https://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/in-honoring-creation-we-honor-the-creator), underscore principles of preservation and conservation, and our accountability for being good stewards of the land, air, water and other resources of the earth. Through these, our faith leaders remind us that "God's creation is bigger than politics." Our cause lies at the intersection of these two principles — engaged citizens advocating for environmental stewardship and conservation.
We strongly support the admonition of prophets of our time — from Joseph Smith to Russell M. Nelson — who individually and collectively have called on Saints around the world to "care for the earth, be wise stewards over it, and preserve it for future generations." Faith is action, and our faith guides our actions and activism. Fortunately, our own LDS values and beliefs of caring for creation are shared among major faith traditions around the world, including many Indigenous Peoples' beliefs and traditions.
In the past year, many treasured natural areas and sacred places of human history, particularly Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, have come under attack. Many of these attacks are led by politicians from Utah with whom we share a common LDS faith. Even more troubling to us is that these challenges to our public land conservation efforts have been done for primarily political reasons, rather than from a standard of values we cherish as a people. These values are rooted in a deep desire to protect and preserve wild places, both for wholesome outdoor recreation, and to preserve the cultural histories and sacred sites of our Native brothers and sisters, whom our faith holds in high regard doctrinally.
The people of Utah and the citizens of the United States overwhelmingly support not only the protection of natural areas in general, but more specifically the conservation of these vast public lands in Utah.
A recent study showed that 98% of public comments during the Trump Administration national monument review (initiated a year ago) supported keeping and even expanding these national monuments, rather than reducing or rescinding them. In addition, the elected leaders of five tribes — Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, Ute and Ute Mountain Ute — were key proponents of establishing Bears Ears National Monument, and they continue to support this monument to protect the living cultural landscape.
Today, MESA members and large numbers of Latter-day Saints remain disappointed that many of our elected political leaders fail to represent the deeply held views of their own constituents in this regard, much less the views of the vast majority of Utahns and fellow Americans who wish to preserve and protect these national treasures. Church leaders "commend those who seek to care for the earth in harmony with gospel principles," and we echo this sentiment.
We admire and respect the early explorers who mapped out this rugged frontier, pioneers who established colonies and settlements throughout this part of the West, and the Indigenous Peoples who preceded them by many generations, all of whom continue to inhabit this territory today. There are many oral and written histories of these places of solitude, beauty, hardship, and peace. We honor these histories, and their many evidences and artifacts that are laced throughout these vast areas of wilderness terrain. These spectacular natural and sacred places provide essential balance against our large and growing, and often overly consumptive, societies, and remind us of the uniqueness and goodness of God's creation.
We support how and why Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument were established — to protect native ecosystems, unique vistas, archeological treasures and Indigenous Peoples' cultural and ancestral sites that are abundant in both monuments, and following years of public input from diverse perspectives. We share with our Native brothers and sisters a love of and reverence for our earthly home and all of God's creations.
We feel compelled by our faith and our knowledge of the principles and values of environmental stewardship, to individually and collectively advocate for the conservation and proper regard for our public lands. In this important quest, we urge you, our political leader with whom we share a common faith, to support our national monuments as originally established, and appropriately conserve these areas of priceless natural beauty, critical ecosystems, and the innumerable cultural and archeological sites they contain.
We urge you to be leaders and exemplars in environmental stewardship and conservation efforts, to rise above the entrenched political dogmas that have reduced the protection of these public lands, and to avoid the damage and destruction of these important wilderness areas and sacred historic cultural sites if not adequately preserved.


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Representing Ethnographic Research as Drama
This month we published Interpretations – An Ethnographic Drama by Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese. In this post the authors explain why they chose to present their research as a play script.
Interpretations – An Ethnographic Drama is an outcome of a large, team linguistic ethnographic research project, Translation and Translanguaging: Investigating linguistic and cultural transformations in superdiverse wards in four UK cities (TLANG). As part of the research project we conducted ethnographic observations in an Advice and Advocacy service in a Chinese community centre in a city in the Midlands of England. We were interested in people's communicative practices in a context where clients needed help to negotiate bureaucratic systems related to welfare benefits, health, education, insurance, immigration status, and so on.
Following comprehensive analysis of data, we produced a rich, detailed research report. However, we were not convinced that academic writing alone was adequate for the task of representation of social practice. Although we are thoroughly invested in the tradition of writing ethnography, we recognise a need to reach beyond its limitations. With this in mind, we chose to represent the life of the Advice and Advocacy service as Interpretations – An Ethnographic Drama, which takes an arts-based approach to the representation of research outcomes.
In linguistic ethnography we typically observe, and ultimately explain, the lives of others. But we wanted to move beyond explanation of cultural life, which can be reductive. We chose to represent the social practices of the Chinese community centre as ethnographic drama because it is a form which by definition resists explanation. It was not our intention to explain or make meaningful the lives of Chinese or Chinese-heritage people in the UK. We were instead concerned with all aspects of communication.
The community centre proved to be a rich site at which to observe the communicative practices with which advice workers render the world more just for their clients. We peered into the hidden spaces where, day after day, mediation, translation, and interpretation enable those with limited capital to gain access to resources which are otherwise elusive, and often out of reach. Through ethnographic drama we did not attempt to explain these cultural practices, but we made them visible.
Ethnographic drama enables us to show the complexities of interactions in which Advice and Advocacy workers are essential figures who keep the city moving. Beyond making social space more habitable, they have the potential to make life better for those who come to them for help. In our observation of the advisors' practice, more than anything we see people concerned to improve the lives of their clients. In the nooks and crannies of social life they keep the superdiverse city moving. In showing the world rather than telling it, ethnographic drama offers a representation of social life that has the potential to enhance, heighten, and expand understanding, and to bring ethnography to wider audiences.
We are very grateful to Mutlilingual Matters for their generosity and vision in enabling us to take off creatively, turning field notes, transcripts, and other ethnographic material into drama that shows communicative practice in an often-concealed part of social life in the superdiverse city.
For more information about this book please see our website.
If you found this interesting, you might also like the authors' previous book, Voices of a City Market.
Adrian Blackledge
Angela Creese
ethnographic drama
Interpretations – An Ethnographic Drama
linguistic ethnographic research
linguistic ethnography
Translation and Translanguaging
Voices of a City Market
The Importance of Giving and Receiving in the Tourism Industry in a Covid-19 World
The Space Tourism Industry and Sustainability


Begin by gathering your delicious ingredients.
Grease the cupcake pan and place the circles in each cupcake tin, pushing down to the bottom. Leave a small edge of crust to fill them.
Bake in a 425°F oven for about 8 minutes or until crust is light golden brown.
Let the crust cool completely while you make the whipped cream.
Add 1 cup heavy cream and 1 tablespoon powdered sugar into an electric mixer and mix on high until thick.
Remove crust from cupcake pan and spoon in approximately 2 tablespoons key lime yogurt into each piecrust.
Top with whipped cream and a small wedge of lime and enjoy!!
I recently took a pie class to improve my pie-making skills, and I learned so much that I wanted to share my new skills with you! Along with some insightful tips, I learned that pie is such a versatile dessert that a recipe is not always required. These Mini Key Lime Pies are beyond easy! Start with a flaky, buttery crust (make your own or try Pillsbury pie dough). Then add a filling and serve with your favorite ice cream or whipped cream! Maybe that's where the expression, "easy as pie" comes from. ;) For this recipe, I used Yoplait Whips! Key Lime Pie yogurt and it's as easy as spooning it into the center of each crust. The yogurt has just the right amount of sweetness, and topped with the whipped cream you have one tasty little pie. They're super cute and the perfect bite-sized treat for any party!


Dorothy: Blanche, honey, are you okay?
Dorothy: I've just never seen you do anything domestic.
Saturday night Good Couple invited us over to their place for dinner. Good Girl pulled out all the stops, making us a tasty dinner and dessert. It's amazing how comfortable the four of us have become in such a short amount of time. Dinner was relaxed and fun, even without alcohol as a social tool. It's kind of refreshing having friends that don't drink. It gives us a break from our other friends who are pretty heavy drinkers. Plus it's nice to know that we're still fun people when we're sober. 😉 This is good news for when we decide to have a baby and I have to go nine months without the sauce.
Over dinner, Good Girl and I got to talking about work. She's currently unemployed, having just moved to the area with her husband for the academy. She's thinking of going back to school for photography once academy is over and they've saved up some cash. She takes the most amazing pictures. I love taking snapshots but this girl knows how to take a beautiful photo. Her dream is to do the stay at home wife thing, and hopefully have kids soon. Then she could do photography and have her own schedule.
I told her about my job and about how I'm not all that happy doing it. The thing is, as I've mentioned on this blog before, I don't know what it is I really want to do. I'm envious of her position and being able to have the free time right now to figure it out. Sure, they don't have much of a disposable income, but they're making it work. She's also incredibly active and has fixed up their little apartment to where it really feels like a home. She's definitely a domestic engineer and not just an unemployed woman watching Oprah and soaps all day long.
It got me thinking about what we'll do when Match is out of academy and he gets his pay increase. Part of me would love to be able to quit my job as an IT engineer and become a domestic engineer instead. I would love to have the free time to get back into gym classes like kick-boxing and yoga. I'd also love to be able to take a photography class or even a cooking class to bump up my cooking skills. I also love watching HGTV shows about interior design and it'd be fun to take a class and learn more about lines like Layla Grayce, Noir furniture, and ways to make a room really pop. I could take a creative writing class and live the dream of being a full time blogger. It would be nice to have all of that free time to really figure out what it is I really want to do with my life.
What about you? Would you choose the stay at home life if you and yours could afford it? Have you ever taken time off work by choice, to figure out what you wanted to do?
No way! I would be bored to tears. Plus, I have the bad habit of spending money when I'm off work (i.e. shopping, going to movies, etc.) so it would be two steps backwards! One of my best friends is unemployed, taking one class on the weekend b/c her husband works and they only have one car. I've seen how depressed she has gotten, especially since they live in a suburban neighborhood where she can't walk anywhere.
Wow I can totally relate. I want to be a stay at home mom when Marine and I have kids. But I also know that it this day and time its hard for a family to make it one income. I'm taking classes now for webdesign because thats a job I could do from home. It wouldn't have to be full time but it would be extra income. I think I would get bored staying home for longer than a month lol So I have to have a job. But it would be nice to have a month two off with no worries so I could catch up on my projects around the house. Finish that scrapbook I started and never finished, etc. Ahhh we can only dream!
Hey! Been a while. Hope all is well. Sounds like it.
If we had the money I would quit almost everything I'm doing and completely reinvent.
Now is the time, especially if you plan on having kids. After that it gets a lot harder to justify quitting cold to try something new.


ISA Server 2004 firewalls use the listener concept to represent a socket that is ready to accept an incoming connection for either a Web or Server Publishing Rule. A socket is a combination of an IP address and a port number. For example, if you had a single IP address bound to the external interface of the ISA Server 2004 firewall, and you created a Web listener that accepted incoming connections for non-encrypted Web requests, the socket listening for the connection would the combination of that IP address and TCP port 80.
This solution has not been tested in enterprise environments and has not undergone thorough regression testing. We have deployed this in small office environments with the understanding that it is a proof of concept exercise. This is not an officially supported configuration and use it at your own risk.
Web listeners can also be configured to support a variety of authentication methods. Web Publishing Rule listeners differ from Server Publishing Rule listeners because the Web Publishing Rule listeners are able to authenticate users at the firewall computer before the connection is forwarded to the published Web server.
One important advance in ISA Server 2004 is its Forms-based authentication mechanism. Forms-based authentication is used in Outlook Web Access (OWA) Web Publishing Rules to present a form to the user in which user credentials are entered. In addition, OWA forms-based authentication allows you to prevent reuse of credentials on the client machine and block the reading of attachments from OWA clients.
The ISA Server 2004 forms-based authentication page looks like the form generated by the Exchange 2003 OWA Web site. However, the form is generated by the firewall instead of the OWA Web site. This confers a significant security advantage because unauthenticated connections are never forwarded to the OWA Web server. The ISA Server 2004 firewall only forwards authenticated connections to the OWA Web site. These authenticated connections represent a much lower security risk than unauthenticated connections.
Another advantage of the ISA Server 2004 forms-based authentication mechanism is that it extends the advantages of the Exchange 2003 forms-based authentication to all Exchange OWA sites. All versions of Microsoft Exchange, including Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 can benefit from the additional security provided by the ISA Server 2004 forms-based authentication method.
However, one problem with the OWA forms-based authentication mechanism as implemented in ISA Server 2004 is that forms-based authentication and other forms of authentication are mutually exclusive on the same listener. This means if you enable forms-based authentication on a Web listener accepting incoming Web connections, then no other authentication method can be used. This is problematic for users who have only a single IP address bound to the external interface of the ISA Server 2004 firewall and need to publish both the OWA and Exchange Mobile Access sites (such as OMA, Active-Sync and Exchange RPC/HTTP).
The figure below shows the basic problem. The "ear" on the top of the graphic shows a listener that is listening on socket 192.168.1.70 TCP 443 and is configured to use Forms-based authentication. The "ear" on the bottom of graphic represents a listener configured to listen on the same socket, 192.168.1.70 TCP 443, but this time using Basic authentication. This configuration cannot work, because you can only configure a single listener per socket, and you cannot configure the same listener to use both forms-based and basic authentication.
One solution to this problem is to bind a second IP address to the external interface of the ISA Server 2004 firewall machine. The second IP address provides a second socket that you can make available to a second Web listener. In the figure below, the "ear" on top is listening on socket 192.168.1.70 TCP 443 and is using forms-based authentication for incoming requests. The listener represented by the "ear" on the bottom of the figure is listening on socket 192.168.1.71 TCP 443 and is configured to use Basic authentication. You can use the first listener for publishing the OWA Web site on the Internal network, and you can use the second listener to publish other Web sites, such as the Exchange Mobile sites, or other non-Exchange Server related sites.
Note that you can still obtain a high level of security for authentication even when you use only Basic authentication on the Web listener. The ISA Server 2004 firewall allows you to configure the listener to forward the user credentials to the Web site in the same way the forms-based authentication mechanism works. This prevents unauthenticated users from connecting to the Web site. You also do not need to worry about the Basic authentication credentials from moving in the "clear" and being captured by hackers. The SSL encryption on the connection encrypts the user credentials when they are sent by the client to the server.
However, the above example does not solve the problem of using both forms-based authentication and basic authentication when you only have a single IP address bound to the external interface of the firewall. In fact, there is no solution to this problem. However, there is a very clever workaround that Kai Wilke came up with!
Kai Wilke's solution accepts the fact that you can't use both forms-based authentication and basic authentication on the same listener. There's no way around that, but what Kai realized is that he could "chain" listeners, much in the same way you do with back to back firewall configurations when you're publishing OWA sites behind the back-end ISA Server 2004 firewall. What Kai discovered is that you can create a second listener on the ISA Server 2004 firewall that listens on the locahost network. You configure the listener on the localhost network to use forms-based authentication!
The external host sends a request to http://owa.msfirewall.org/exchange. The name owa.msfirewall.org resolves to the IP address on the external interface of the ISA Server 2004 firewall that the Web listener is configured to use. In this example, the External listener is listening on socket 192.168.1.70 TCP 443. This listener does not require users to authenticate and does not prompt users for credentials. This listener accepts the incoming request.
A Web Publishing Rule is created that uses the External listener. The Web Publishing Rule is configured to forward incoming requests to owa.msfirewall.org to localhost. The connection is forwarded to the localhost and the listener configured on the localhost network is configured to use forms-based authentication. Because the listener is configured to use forms-based authentication, it generates a form and sends that form to the user.
The user fills in the username and password information in the form and sends it to the ISA Server 2004 firewall. The firewall accepts the credentials on the External listener, and then Web Publishing Rule using the External listener forwards the credentials to the localhost listener. Because the localhost listener uses forms-based authentication, it forwards the user credentials to the OWA Web site. When the user is authenticated, the connection request is forwarded to the OWA Web site on the internal network.
Users who need to access Web sites that are not the OWA Web site can also connect to the External listeners. For example, suppose the user wants to connect to the site, https://owa.msfirewall.org/oma. In this case, the External listener is configured with Basic authentication.
The connection for the owa.msfirewall.org/oma is forwarded to the Exchange Server based on a Web Publishing Rule that is configured to forward the connection to the OMA Web site on the Exchange Server on the Internal network. This Web Publishing Rule can also be configured to delegate authentication, so that the connection request is authenticated before it is forwarded to the OMA site on the internal network. Note in this example, the Web Publishing Rule used for the OMA site does not forward the request to the listener configured on the localhost network because OMA clients cannot use the forms-based authentication method.
The genius in Kai Wilke's approach is that he realized the localhost network is considered as just another network by the ISA Server 2004 firewall. Because of that, he was able to create a logical back to back firewall configuration using the External listener as the logical front-end firewall and the localhost listener as the back-end firewall. Great!
Exporting the Web site certificate from the OWA Web site and importing that certificate into the ISA Server 2004 firewall's machine certificate store. This certificate will be used by the External listener.
Create the Web Publishing Rule that uses the External listener to accept the incoming requests for the OWA site and forward those requests to the localhost listener.
Create the Web Publishing Rule that uses the localhost listener to accept the incoming requests from the External listener, and forward those requests to the OWA site on the internal network.
Create the Web Publishing Rule that forwards requests to other Web sites (such as the Exchange Mobile Web sites) that uses only the External listener.
In order to insure secure communications from end to end, you need to install a Web site certificate on the OWA Web site on the internal network. There are several ways you can get the certificate: the Web enrollment site, the Certificates mmc, or an offline request. After the Web site has a certificate, you can then export the certificate, along with its private key, to a file.
After the certificate and its private key are exported to a file, you can then import that certificate into the ISA Server 2004 firewall machine's Personal certificate store. In addition, the CA certificate of the CA that issued the certificate must be installed in the Trusted Root Certification Authorities certificate store on the ISA Server 2004 firewall machine.
The details of how to request a Web site certificate for the OWA Web site, how to export it to a file, and how to import that file into the firewall's machine's certificate store have been discussed in detail in the ISA Server 2000 Exchange 2000/2003 Deployment Kit. Please check out the kit over at http://isaserver.org/news/exchangekit.html.
The next step is to obtain a certificate for the localhost listener. The easiest way to do this is to use the enterprise CA's Web enrollment site to obtain the certificate. In the example network used in this article, the domain controller on the internal network is an enterprise CA and the Web enrollment site is enabled. This certificate will be installed into the firewall's machine certificate store. We will not need to install the CA certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store because that should have been done when the Web site certificate was installed on the ISA Server 2004 firewall machine.
We first need to create an Access Rule that allows the firewall to connect to the CA Web enrollment site. In the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 management console, expand the server name and then click the Firewall Policy node. In the Task Pane, click the Tasks tab and then click Create New Access Rule.
On the Welcome to the New Access Rule Wizard page, enter a name for the rule in the Access Rule name text box. In this example, we will name the rule Firewall to CA. Click Next.
On the Protocols page, select the Selected protocols option from the This rule applies to list and click Add.
In the Add Protocols dialog box, click the Common Protocols folder and double click the HTTP protocol and then click Close.
On the Access Rule Sources page, click Add. In the Add Network Entities dialog box, click the Networks folder and then double click on the Local Host network. Click Close.
On the Access Rule Destinations page, click the Add button. Click the New menu and then click Computer.
In the New Computer Rule Element dialog box, enter a name for the computer in the Name text box. In this example we will call it CA. Enter the IP address in the Computer IP Address text box. In this example, the IP address is 10.0.0.2, so we will enter that into the text box. Click OK.
In the Add Network Entities dialog box, click the Computer folder and double click on the CA entry. Click Close.
Open Internet Explorer and enter the address of the CA into the Address bar. In this example we will enter http://10.0.0.2/certsrv and press ENTER.
Enter a valid user name and password into the authentication dialog box and click OK.
On the Welcome page, click the Request a certificate link.
On the Request a Certificate page, click the advanced certificate request link.
On the Advanced Certificate Request page, click the Create and submit a request to this CA link.
On the Advanced Certificate Request page, select the Web Server certificate from the Certificate Template list. In the Name text box in the Identifying Information for Offline Template section, enter the common name that will be included in the certificate. In this example, we want the name to be localhost. We will enter localhost into the Name text box. Put a checkmark in the Store certificate in the local computer certificate store checkbox. Click the Submit button.
Click Yes in the Potential Scripting Violation dialog box informing you that the Web site is requesting a certificate on your behalf.
On the Certificate Issued page, click the Install this certificate link.
Click Yes in the Potential Scripting Violation dialog box informing you that the Web site is adding one or more certificates to the computer.
Close the browser after you see the Certificate Installed page.
At this point the certificate will be available for binding to the localhost listener.
The first Web Publishing Rule we'll create will accept the incoming requests for owa.msfirewall.org and forward them to the localhost listener. This listener will be configured to use basic authentication and use the original Web site certificate to impersonate the OWA Web site on the Internal network.
In the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 management console, expand the server name and click the Firewall Policy node. In the Task Pane, click the Tasks tab and then click the Publish a Mail Server link.
On the Welcome to the New Mail Server Publishing Rule Wizard page, enter a name for the rule in the Mail Server Publishing Rule name text box. In this example, we will name the rule OWA FBA (External to Localhost). Click Next.
On the Select Access Type page, select the Web client access: Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access, Exchange Server ActiveSync option. Click Next.
On the Select Services page, select the Outlook Web Access option and click Next.
On the Bridging Mode page, select the Secure connection to clients and mail server option and click Next.
On the Specify the Web Mail Server page, enter localhost in the Web mail server text box. Click Next.
On the Public Name Details page, enter the name that external users will use to access the site in the Public name text box. In this example, external users will use the name owa.msfirewall.org to connect to the OWA Web site, so we will enter that name into the text box. Click Next.
On the Select Web Listener page, click New to create a new Web listener.
On the Welcome to the New Web Listener Wizard page, enter a name for the listener in the Web listener name text box. In this example, we will name the listener External443 (basic) to denote that the listener is listening on the external interface of the ISA Server 2004 firewall and that its configured to use Basic authentication. Click Next.
On the IP Addresses page, put a checkmark in the External checkbox. Click Next.
On the Port Specification page, remove the checkmark from the Enable HTTP checkbox. Place a checkmark in the Enable SSL checkbox. Click Select. In the Select Certificate dialog box, click the Web site certificate and click OK. Click Next on the Port Specification page.
Click Finish on the Completing the New Web Listener Wizard page.
Click Edit on the Select Web Listener page. On the External443 (basic) dialog box, click the Authentication button. In the Authentication dialog box, remove the checkmark from the Integrated checkbox. Click OK in the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 dialog box. Place a checkmark in the Basic checkbox. Click Yes in the ISA Server Configuration dialog box informing you that you should use SSL. Click OK in the Authentication dialog box.
Click Apply and then click OK in the External443 (basic) dialog box.
Click Next on the Select Web Listener page.
On the User Sets page, accept the default setting, All Users, and click Next.
Click Finish on the Completing the New mail Server Publishing Rule Wizard page.
Right click on the OWA FBA (External to Localhost) rule in the Details pane of the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 management console and click Properties.
In the OWA FBA (External to Localhost) Properties dialog box, click on the Paths tab. On the Paths tab, click the Add button. In the Path mapping dialog box, enter the value /cookieauth.dll into the Specify the folder on the Web site that you want to publish. To publish the entire Web site, leave this field blank text box. Select the Same as published folder option. Click OK.
Click Apply and then click OK in the OWA FBA (External to Localhost) Properties dialog box.
On the Welcome to the New Mail Server Publishing Rule Wizard page, enter a name for the rule in the Mail Server Publishing Rule name text box. In this example, we will name the rule OWA FBA (Localhost to Exchange). Click Next.
On the Specify the Web Mail Server page, enter owa.msfirewall.org in the Web mail server text box. Click Next.
On the Public Name Details page, select the Any domain name option in the Accept requests for list. Click Next.
On the Welcome to the New Web Listener Wizard page, enter a name for the listener in the Web listener name text box. In this example, we will name the listener Localhost443 (FBA) to denote that the listener is listening on the external interface of the ISA Server 2004 firewall and that its configured to use Basic authentication. Click Next.
On the IP Addresses page, put a checkmark in the Local Host checkbox. Click Next.
On the Port Specification page, remove the checkmark from the Enable HTTP checkbox. Place a checkmark in the Enable SSL checkbox. Click Select. In the Select Certificate dialog box, click the localhost certificate and click OK. Click Next on the Port Specification page.
Click Edit on the Select Web Listener page. On the Localhost443 (FBA) dialog box, click the Authentication button. In the Authentication dialog box, remove the checkmark from the Integrated checkbox. Click OK in the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 dialog box. Place a checkmark in the OWA Forms-based checkbox. Click OK in the Authentication dialog box.
Right click on the OWA FBA (Localhost to Exchange) rule in the Details pane of the console and click Properties.
On the OWA FBA (Localhost to Exchange) Properties dialog box, click the Paths tab. Hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard and click on each of the paths in the path list. Click the Remove button. Click Add. In the Path mapping dialog box, enter the path /* in the Specify the folder on the Web site that you want to publish. To publish the entire Web site, leave this field blank text box. Select the Same as published folder option. Click OK.
Click Apply and then click OK in the OWA FBA (Localhost to Exchange) Properties dialog box.
In the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 management console, expand the server name and then click the Firewall Policy node. In the Task Pane, click the Tasks tab and then click the Publish a Mail Server link.
In the Welcome to the New Mail Server Publishing Rule Wizard page, enter a name for the rule in the Mail Server Publishing Rule name text box. In this example we'll name the rule Exchange Mobile Services and click Next.
On the Select Access Type page, select the Web client access: Outlook Web Access (OWA), Outlook Mobile Access, Exchange Server ActiveSync and click Next.
On the Select Services page, remove the checkmark from Outlook Web Access checkbox and place checkmarks in the Outlook Mobile Access and Exchange ActiveSync checkboxes. Click Next.
On the Specify the Web Mail Server page, select the This domain name (type below) option in the Accept request for list and then enter the name for the internal Web site in the Web mail server text box. In this example, the mobile site is located on the same server as the OWA site, so we will enter owa.msfirewall.org in the text box. Click Next.
On the Select Web Listener page, select the External443 (basic) option from the Web listener list. Click Next.
On the User Sets page, accept the default value, All Users, and click Next.
Select the OWA FBA (External to Localhost) Rule in the Details pane and then click the move up arrow in the Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004 management console button bar to move the rule to the top of the list. Click the OWA FBA (Localhost to Exchange) rule and click the move up arrow until it is second on the list.
At this point the all three Web Publishing Rules will work correctly. You do not need to restart the machine or the ISA Server 2004 services. Connections to the OWA site will return a log on form to users, and connections to the OMA site will not generate a form. And because of Kai Wilke's smart thinking, we can do it with a single IP address!
In this article we discussed the problem of publishing Web sites behind the ISA Server 2004 firewall that do and do not support OWA forms-based authentication when you have only a single IP address bound to the external interface of the ISA Server 2004 firewall. The solution to the problem was so create a second Web listener on the localhost network and configure the listetner on the localhost network to use FBA while configuring the Web listener that listens on the external interface to use only Basic authentication.


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Сапейков () — деревня в Протасовском сельсовете Октябрьского района Гомельской области Белоруссии.

На западе и юге граничит с лесом.

География

Расположение
В 24 км на северо-восток от Октябрьского, 19 км от железнодорожной станции Ратмировичи (на ветке Бобруйск — Рабкор от линии Осиповичи — Жлобин), 187 км от Гомеля.

Транспортная сеть
Транспортные связи по просёлочной, затем автомобильной дороге Паричи — Октябрьский. Планировка состоит из чуть изогнутой улицы, ориентированной с юго-востока на северо-запад, к которой на севере присоединяется переулок. Застройка двусторонняя, неплотная, деревянная, усадебного типа.

История
По письменным источникам известна с XIX века как деревня в составе казённого поместья Брожа. В 1879 году упомянута в числе селений Чернинского церковного прихода. Согласно переписи 1897 года в деревне Сапейки находился хлебозапасный магазин. В 1908 году в Чернинской волости Бобруйского уезда Минской губернии.

В 1925 году в Романищевском сельсовете Паричского района Бобруйского округа. В 1930 году организован колхоз. Во время Великой Отечественной войны в апреле 1942 года немецкие оккупанты сожгли 16 дворов и убили 15 жителей. 20 жителей погибли на фронте. Согласно переписи 1959 года в составе колхоза «Восток» (центр — деревня Моисеевка); работал магазин.

Население

Численность
 2004 год — 45 хозяйств, 88 жителей.

Динамика
 1897 год — 43 двора, 266 жителей (согласно переписи).
 1908 год — 54 двора, 309 жителей.
 1925 год — 69 дворов.
 1940 год — 86 дворов, 340 жителей.
 1959 год — 228 жителей (согласно переписи).
 2004 год — 45 хозяйств, 88 жителей.

Литература
 Гарады і вёскі Беларусі: Энцыклапедыя. Т.1, кн.1. Гомельская вобласць/С. В. Марцэлеў; Рэдкалегія: Г. П. Пашкоў (галоўны рэдактар) і інш. — Мн.: БелЭн, 2004. 632с.: іл. Тыраж 4000 экз. ISBN 985-11-0303-9 ISBN 985-11-0302-0

См. также

 Городские посёлки Белоруссии
 Города Белоруссии

Примечания

Ссылки

Населённые пункты Октябрьского района (Гомельская область)

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Andy Warhol. Polaroids (Hardcover)
by Richard B. Woodward (author), Reuel Golden (editor)
Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book features hundreds of these instant photos.
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© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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