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require 'hiera/backend/eyaml/encryptor'
require 'hiera/backend/eyaml/utils'
require 'hiera/backend/eyaml/options'
require "rubygems"
require 'base64'

class Hiera
  module Backend
    module Eyaml
      module Encryptors
        class Pkcs11 < Encryptor
          self.options = {

            :mode          => { :desc    => "What mode <pkcs11|mri-pkcs11|chil|openssl> should be used to (de|en)crypt the values",
                                :type    => :string,
                                :default => 'chil' },

            :key_label     => { :desc    => "The label of the public/private key to use (pkcs11 mode only)",
                                :type    => :string,
                                :default => "badkeylabel" },

            :chil_softcard => { :desc    => "The softcard to preload into chil (chil mode only)",
                                :type    => :string,
                                :default => "badsoftcard" },

            :chil_rsakey   => { :desc    => "The rsa key to use in chil ( chil mode only )",
                                :type    => :string,
                                :default => "badkeylabel" },

            :public_key    => { :desc    => "Local path to the rsa public key (openssl mode only)",
                                :type    => :string,
                                :default => "./keys/public_key.pkcs11.pem" },

            :hsm_slot_id   => { :desc    => "The slot to use for the session (pkcs11 mode only)",
                                :type    => :integer,
                                :default => 4 },

            :hsm_library   => { :desc    => "HSM Shared object library path (pkcs11 mode only)",
                                :type    => :string,
                                :default => "/opt/nfast/toolkits/pkcs11/libcknfast.so" },

            :hsm_usertype  => { :desc    => "HSM Softcard user type CKU_<foo> (pkcs11 mode only)",
                                :type    => :string,
                                :default => "USER" },

            :hsm_password  => { :desc    => "HSM Softcard Password (pkcs11 mode only)",
                                :type    => :string,
                                :default => "badpassword" },
          }

          self.tag = "PKCS11"

          # Eyaml encryptor methods

          def self.encrypt(plaintext)

             self.checksize(plaintext)

             case self.option(:mode)
             when 'chil'
               result = self.chil(:encrypt,plaintext)
             when 'pkcs11'
               result = self.session(:encrypt,plaintext)
             when 'mri-pkcs11'
               result = self.mri_session(:encrypt,plaintext)
             when 'openssl'
               result = self.openssl(:encrypt,plaintext)
             else
               raise "Invalid mode specified #{self.option(:mode)}"
             end
             result
          end

          def self.decrypt(ciphertext)

             case self.option(:mode)
             when 'chil'
               result = self.chil(:decrypt,ciphertext)
             when 'pkcs11'
               result = self.session(:decrypt,ciphertext)
             when 'mri-pkcs11'
                 result = self.mri_session(:decrypt,ciphertext)
             when 'openssl'
               result = self.openssl(:decrypt,ciphertext)
             else
               raise "Invalid mode specified #{self.option(:mode)}"
             end
             result
          end

          #self.create_keys
          #    #    pub_key, priv_key = session.generate_key_pair(:RSA_PKCS_KEY_PAIR_GEN,
          #    #          {:MODULUS_BITS=>2048, :PUBLIC_EXPONENT=>[3].pack("N"), :TOKEN=>false},
          #    #                {})
          #   raise StandardError, "Not implemented"
          #end

          # Helper methods

          def self.checksize(text)
            # This limit seems to be within one byte of either methodology
            # This is an internal check to stop the trace from the vendor
            # or invalid output in the case of the openssl chil methodology
            if text.bytesize > 244
              raise "Byte limit exceeded ( #{text.bytesize} > 244 )"
            end
          end

          def self.wait_for_prompt(cout)
            # This is based on the output of /opt/nfast/bin/ppmk
            # This will basically allow us to type the passphase in
            # so that the openssl command can continue to use stdin
            buffer = ""
            begin
              loop { buffer << cout.getc.chr; break if buffer =~ /Enter pass phrase:/}
            rescue
            end
            return buffer
          end

          # Mode methods
          def self.chil(action,text)
            require 'pty'
            require 'shellwords'
            require 'base64'

            hsm_password   = self.option :hsm_password
            chil_softcard  = self.option :chil_softcard
            chil_rsakey    = self.option :chil_rsakey

            # TODO: Could turn this into an array and use << as the commands are about the same.

            encrypt = "echo #{Shellwords.shellescape(text)} |
            /opt/nfast/bin/ppmk --preload #{Shellwords.shellescape(chil_softcard)} /usr/bin/openssl rsautl \
             -engine chil \
            -inkey #{Shellwords.shellescape(chil_rsakey)} \
            -keyform engine \
            -encrypt | /usr/bin/base64"

            decrypt = "echo #{Shellwords.shellescape(Base64.encode64(text))} | /usr/bin/base64 -d |
            /opt/nfast/bin/ppmk --preload #{Shellwords.shellescape(chil_softcard)} /usr/bin/openssl rsautl \
             -engine chil \
            -inkey #{Shellwords.shellescape(chil_rsakey)} \
            -keyform engine \
            -decrypt"

            # Scrape the output of the ssl command, in the case of encrypt its a
            # a base64 encoded string, in the case of decryption its everything
            # after the header. This has been tested with multi line input

            if action == :encrypt
               command = encrypt
               regex   = /(.*engine "chil" set\..*\n)([\r\n\S]+)/
            elsif action == :decrypt
               command = decrypt
               regex   = /(.*engine "chil" set\..*\n)(.*(\n.*)?)/
            end

            # Type the passphase in the session and run the command with the
            # stdin being the plaintext or cryptogram. The encrypted value
            # gets wrapped in base64 to help with the shell but as eyaml
            # itself will wrap we decode it and hand back the raw to eyaml
            # , if we are encrypting the value ( decryption is the original)

            PTY.spawn(command) do |openssl_out,openssl_in,pid|
              self.wait_for_prompt(openssl_out)
              openssl_in.printf("#{hsm_password}\n")
              output = self.wait_for_prompt(openssl_out)
              if match = output.match(regex)
                header,cryptogram = match.captures
                cryptogram = Base64.decode64(cryptogram) if action == :encrypt
              else
                raise "Unable to parse output:\n #{output} \n with regex #{regex.to_s}"
              end
              return cryptogram
            end
          end

          def self.session(action,text)
            # This does a direct pkcs11 call through the gem. This will likely not work
            # in Puppet Enterprise 3.4 because gems with native c extentions will not work
            # with jruby and thats what the master will be running when it calls hiera.

            require "pkcs11"
            include PKCS11

            hsm_usertype  = self.option :hsm_usertype
            hsm_password  = self.option :hsm_password
            hsm_library   = self.option :hsm_library
            hsm_slot_id   = self.option :hsm_slot_id

            key_label     = self.option :key_label

            # Load the shared object library from the vendor
            pkcs11 = PKCS11.open(hsm_library)

            # Convert slotid from Human to array value
            pkcs11.active_slots[(hsm_slot_id - 1 )].open do |session|
              session.login(hsm_usertype,hsm_password)

              # Find the public and private key based on their label.
              public_key  = session.find_objects(:CLASS => PKCS11::CKO_PUBLIC_KEY).select { |obj| obj[:LABEL] == key_label}.first
              private_key = session.find_objects(:CLASS => PKCS11::CKO_PRIVATE_KEY).select { |obj| obj[:LABEL] == key_label}.first

              raise "No public key found for label #{key_label}" if public_key.nil?
              raise "No private key found for label #{key_label}" if private_key.nil?

              if action == :encrypt
                result = session.encrypt(:RSA_PKCS,public_key,text)
              elsif action == :decrypt
                result = session.decrypt(:RSA_PKCS,private_key,text)
              end
              session.logout
              result
            end
          end

          def self.mri_session(action, text)
            require 'shellwords'
            require 'hiera/backend/eyaml/encryptors/pkcs11/jruby_process_wrapper'

            # This base64 encodes the value for the shell argument when its
            # passed and then decodes it once the code is evaluated
            cmd = "puts Hiera::Backend::Eyaml::Encryptors::Pkcs11.session(#{action.inspect}, Base64.decode64('#{Shellwords.shellescape(Base64.encode64(text).strip)}'))"

            process = ProcessWrapper.execute("/opt/puppet/bin/ruby",
                                             ["-rhiera/backend/eyaml/encryptors/pkcs11",
                                              "-e",
                                              cmd])
            if process.exit_code == 0
              process.output_string.strip
            else
              raise "Error performing #{action}: '#{process.error_string}'"
            end
          end

          def self.openssl(action,text)

            # This mode allows offline encyption simply using the openssl gem
            # and a RSA public key. This method will not work master side in PE 3.4
            # likely (see notes in self.session) however it will work on desktops
            # Such as Mac OS X , to allow users to encrypt values.

            require 'openssl'
            public_key_path = self.option :public_key
            public_key      = File.open(public_key_path,"rb").read
            rsa = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(public_key)

            if action == :encrypt
              result = rsa.public_encrypt(text)
            elsif action == :decrypt
             raise "Decryption is not supported using openssl as you don't have access to the hsm"
            end
            result
          end
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

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These 3 Norwich City players are definitely fighting for their future at the club – Agreed?
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Norwich City were relegated last season to mark an immediate return to the Sky Bet Championship, following promotion during the 2014/15 campaign.
The club have toiled between the top flight and the second tier for a fair few years now and Scottish manager Alex Neil has been kept on at the club, in the hope that he can be the boss to oversee another promotion to the Premier League.
Norwich finished second from bottom of the top flight last season, with only the hapless Aston Villa below them and improvements will be required on the pitch ahead of the 2016/17 campaign.
With more new recruits likely to be on the horizon, some players will inevitable be offloaded during the coming weeks to free up more space in the Canaries' squad.
Football League World writer Lee Clarke takes a look at three players who are definitely fighting for their future at Carrow Road, ahead of the new Sky Bet Championship campaign.
Related Topics:Alex NeilCameron JeromeMatt JarvisMichael TurnerNorwich City
Article title: These 3 Norwich City players are definitely fighting for their future at the club – Agreed?

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Marcus Aurelius Carus (asi 224 Narbo, Galie – červenec či srpen 283 poblíž Ktésifóntu, Mezopotámie) byl římský císař vládnoucí v letech 282–283 spolu se svými syny Carinem a Numerianem.

Původ a kariéra
O Carově původu a kariéře podává větší množství informací pouze Historia Augusta, nepříliš důvěryhodný pozdně antický pramen, jehož svědectví označuje moderní historiografie téměř kompletně za fikci. Z ostatních dokladů je možné odvodit, že Carus pocházel z provincie Narbonensis v jižní Galii, že císař Probus ho ustanovil prefektem pretoriánů a že někdy před rokem 282 mu byl propůjčen konzulát (consul suffectus). Jméno jeho manželky není nikde uváděno.

Proklamace za císaře
K provolání Cara za císaře došlo v srpnu nebo v září 282 v horním Podunají – buď v Raetii, či v Noriku. Podle kronikáře Zonary se to stalo proti pretendentově vůli, informace, která dnes bývá zpravidla zpochybňována, neboť ji nepotvrzují jiné prameny. Lze soudit, že Carus měl původně za úkol bránit exponovanou dunajskou hranici před vpády germánských kmenů a že svou revoltou císaře Proba, který právě pobýval v Panonii, zcela zaskočil. V září či v říjnu byl Probus poblíž Sirmia zavražděn, poté co jednotky vyslané k potlačení uzurpace přešly na Carovu stranu. Tím skončil krátký mocenský zápas v impériu.

Vláda
Stejně jako jeho předchůdce na trůně postupoval Carus po převzetí vlády velmi energicky. Neztrácel čas, využil jednotek shromážděných na Balkáně k válce proti Sarmatům a koncem roku 282 nechal prohlásit oba své syny, Carina a Numeriana, za caesary. Na jaře 283 pověřil Carina, který byl současně povýšen na augusta, správou západních provincií, zatímco sám spolu s Numerianem zahájil tažení proti perskému králi Bahrámu II., jehož říše byla oslabena vnitřními nepokoji.

Válka, jejímž cílem bylo odčinit řadu porážek ze čtyřicátých a padesátých let, probíhala zprvu plně pod taktovkou Římanů. Carus pronikl hluboko do nitra Mezopotámie, dobyl perské hlavní město Ktésifón a donutil Bahráma II., aby oblast vyklidil. Potom se však postup zastavil a Carus, který mezitím přijal vítězné příjmení Persicus maximus, za nejasných okolností zahynul. Podle některých pramenů ho zabil blesk, podle jiných zemřel na nemoc nebo byl zavražděn. Jeho vláda trvala jen deset měsíců a pět dní.

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Externí odkazy

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  Carova biografie

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The Top 100 Cloud Services Providers (Talkin' Cloud 100) list for 2013 includes MSPs like mindSHIFT, EarthLink, TekLinks and plenty more. Here's a preview of the Top 100 CSP list, which arrives July 30, 2013.
Numerous MSPs–including mindSHIFT (owned by Best Buy), EarthLink and TekLinks–rank among the world's Top 100 Cloud Services Providers for 2013. But where did they land on the list? And how are those MSPs partnering or competing with giant cloud companies like Amazon Web Services (AMZN), Microsoft Office 365 (MSFT), Google Apps (GOOG) and Salesforce.com? Find out on July 30, when the third-annual Talkin' Cloud 100 report and list debuts on MSPmentor's sister web site. Here's a preview.
The big theme: Growth. The Top 100 CSPs generated more than $15.7 billion in combined cloud services revenues in 2012, up nearly 37 percent, according to the Talkin' Cloud 100 report. That growth has created a diverse ecosystem of cloud and channel companies working together on some fronts, and competing on others. This year's Talkin' Cloud 100 includes:
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Cloud Services Aggregators: CSAs, or cloud aggregators, typically offer a portal that allows VARs and MSPs to source multiple third-party cloud services for customers.
MSPs (Managed Service Providers) with cloud services expertise: MSPs proactively monitor and manage customers' on-premises and cloud-based systems.
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Check out our complete Talkin' Cloud 100 list and research report on July 30 to learn:
Which companies made the list.
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Various cloud and channel growth rates from 2011 through 2012.
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This Electronic Fund Transfers Agreement and Disclosure is the contract which covers your and our rights and responsibilities concerning the electronic fund transfers (EFT) services offered to you by Mills42 Federal Credit Union ("Credit Union"). In this Agreement, the words "you," "your," and "yours" mean those who sign the application or account card as applicants, joint owners, or any authorized users. The words "we," "us," and "our" mean the Credit Union. The word "account" means any one (1) or more share and share draft accounts you have with the Credit Union. Electronic fund transfers are electronically initiated transfers of money from your account through the EFT services described below. By signing an application or account card for EFT services, signing your card, or using any service, each of you, jointly and severally, agree to the terms and conditions in this Agreement and any amendments for the EFT services offered.
a. ATM Card. If approved, you may use your card and personal identification number (PIN) in automated teller machines (ATMs) of the Credit Union, CO-OP and NYCE networks, and such other machines or facilities as the Credit Union may designate. For ATM transactions, you must consent to the Credit Union's overdraft protection plan in order for the transaction amount to be covered under the plan. Without your consent, the Credit Union may not authorize and pay an overdraft resulting from these types of transactions. Services and fees for ATM overdrafts are shown in the document the Credit Union uses to capture the member's opt-in choice for overdraft protection and the Schedule of Fees and Charges.
- Make deposits to your share and share draft accounts.
- Withdraw funds from your share and share draft accounts.
- Transfer funds from your share and share draft accounts.
- Obtain balance information for your share and share draft accounts.
b. MasterCard Debit Card. If approved, you may use your card to purchase goods and services from participating merchants. However, you may not use your card to initiate any type of electronic gambling transactions through the Internet. If you wish to pay for goods or services over the Internet, you may be required to provide card number security information before you will be permitted to complete the transaction. You agree that you will not use your card for any transaction that is illegal under applicable federal, state, or local law. Funds to cover your card purchases will be deducted from your share draft account. For one-time debit card transactions, you must consent to the Credit Union's overdraft protection plan in order for the transaction amount to be covered under the plan. Without your consent, the Credit Union may not authorize and pay an overdraft resulting from these types of transactions. Services and fees for overdrafts are shown in the document the Credit Union uses to capture the member's opt-in choice for overdraft protection and the Schedule of Fees and Charges.
For other types of transactions, if the balance in your account is not sufficient to pay the transaction amount, the Credit Union may pay the amount and treat the transaction as a request to transfer funds from other deposit accounts, approved overdraft protection accounts, or loan accounts that you have established with the Credit Union. If you initiate a transaction that overdraws your account, you agree to make immediate payment of any overdrafts together with any service charges to the Credit Union. In the event of repeated overdrafts, the Credit Union may terminate all services under this Agreement. You may use your card and personal identification number (PIN) in ATMs of the Credit Union, CO-OP and NYCE networks, and such other machines or facilities as the Credit Union may designate.
In addition, you may use your card without a PIN for certain transactions on the MasterCard, CO-OP and NYCE networks. However, provisions of this Agreement relating to MasterCard transactions do not apply to transactions processed through non-MasterCard networks. To initiate a MasterCard Debit transaction, you may sign a receipt, provide a card number or swipe your card through a point-of-sale (POS) terminal and choose to route the transaction over a MasterCard network. Please refer to the Member Liability section of this Agreement for terms and conditions.
- Make point-of-sale (POS) transactions with your card and personal identification number (PIN) to purchase goods or services at merchants that accept MasterCard.
- Order goods or services by mail or telephone from places that accept MasterCard.
- There is no limit on the number of MasterCard Debit Card purchases you make per day.
- Purchases vary per day; contact the Credit Union for more information.
- Daily withdraws vary from ATM machines; contact the Credit Union for more information.
- Obtain balance information for your share, share draft, loan, and Club accounts.
- Make loan payments from your share and share draft accounts.
- Obtain tax information on amounts earned on share and share draft accounts or interest paid on loan accounts.
Your accounts can be accessed under Phone Banking via a touch-tone telephone only. Phone Banking service will be available for your convenience 24 hours per day. This service may be interrupted for a short time each day for data processing.
- Direct Deposit. Upon instruction of (i) your employer, (ii) the Treasury Department or (iii) other financial institutions, the Credit Union will accept direct deposits of your paycheck or federal recurring payments, such as Social Security, to your share and share draft account.
- Preauthorized Debits. Upon instruction, we will pay certain recurring transactions from your share draft account.
- Stop Payment Rights. If you have arranged in advance to make electronic fund transfers out of your account(s) for money you owe others, you may stop payment on preauthorized transfers from your account. You must notify us orally or in writing at any time up to three (3) business days before the scheduled date of the transfer. We may require written confirmation of the stop payment order to be made within 14 days of any oral notification. If we do not receive the written confirmation, the oral stop payment order shall cease to be binding 14 days after it has been made. A stop payment request for preauthorized Electronic Fund Transfers will apply to all subsequent transfers, unless you withdraw the request.
- Transfer funds from your share, share draft, Club, and Home Equity Line of Credit accounts.
- Obtain balance information for your share, share draft, loan, Club, and certificate accounts.
- Make loan payments from your share, share draft, and Club accounts.
- Access your Home Equity Line of Credit accounts.
Your accounts can be accessed under Online Banking via personal computer. Online Banking will be available for your convenience 24 hours per day. This service may be interrupted for a short time each day for data processing. We reserve the right to refuse any transaction that would draw upon insufficient funds, exceed a credit limit, lower an account below a required balance, or otherwise require us to increase our required reserve on the account. All checks are payable to you as a primary member and will be mailed to your address of record. We may set other limits on the amount of any transaction, and you will be notified of those limits. We may refuse to honor any transaction for which you do not have sufficient available verified funds. The service will discontinue if no transaction is entered after numerous unsuccessful attempts to enter a transaction and there may be limits on the duration of each access.
- Transfer funds from your share, share draft, and Club accounts.
Your accounts can be accessed under Text Banking/Mobile Banking via mobile device or other approved access device(s). Text Banking/Mobile Banking will be available for your convenience 24 hours per day. This service may be interrupted for a short time each day for data processing. We reserve the right to refuse an transaction which would draw upon insufficient funds, exceed a credit limit, lower an account below a required balance, or otherwise require us to increase our required reserve on the account. We may set other limits on the amount of any transaction, and you will be notified of those limits. We may refuse to honor any transaction for which you do not have sufficient available verified funds. The service will discontinue if no transaction is entered after numerous unsuccessful attempts to enter a transaction and there may be limits on the duration of each access.
h. Online Bill Pay. We will process bill payment transfer requests only to those creditors the Credit Union has designated in the User Instructions and such creditors as you authorize and for whom the Credit Union has the proper vendor code number. We will not process any bill payment transfer if the required transaction information is incomplete.
2. TRANSFER LIMITATIONS — For all share accounts, you may make no more than six (6) transfers and withdrawals from your account to another account of yours or to a third party in any month by means of a preauthorized, automatic, or Internet transfer, by telephonic order or instruction, or by check, draft, debit card or similar order. If you exceed these limitations, your account may be subject to a fee or be closed.
3. CONDITIONS OF EFT SERVICES — a. Ownership of Cards. Any card or other device which we supply to you is our property and must be returned to us, or to any person whom we authorize to act as our agent, or to any person who is authorized to honor the card, immediately according to instructions. The card may be repossessed at any time at our sole discretion without demand or notice. You cannot transfer your card or account to another person.
b. Honoring the Card. Neither we nor merchants authorized to honor the card will be responsible for the failure or refusal to honor the card or any other device we supply to you. If a merchant agrees to give you a refund or adjustment, you agree to accept a credit to your account in lieu of a cash refund. Participating merchants may not offer a discount to encourage use of your card rather than paying by cash or check.
c. Foreign Transactions. MasterCard. Purchases and cash withdrawals made in foreign currencies will be debited from your account in U.S. dollars. The exchange rate used to convert foreign currency transactions to U.S. dollars is either a government-mandated exchange rate or a wholesale exchange rate and is selected by MasterCard. The rate MasterCard uses for a particular transaction is the rate MasterCard selects for the applicable currency on the day the transaction is processed. This rate may differ from the rate applicable on the date the transaction occurred or was posted to your account.
f. Stop Payment of EFTs. Unless otherwise provided in this Agreement, you may not stop payment of electronic fund transfers; therefore, you should not employ electronic access for purchases and services unless you are satisfied that you will not need to stop payment.
g. Account Rates. The dividend rates on accounts on which electronic fund transactions may be made are set forth in the Credit Union's Truth-in-Savings Disclosure.
4. FEES AND CHARGES — There are certain fees and charges for EFT services. For a current listing of all applicable fees, see our current Schedule of Fees and Charges that was provided to you at the time you applied for or requested these electronic services. From time to time, the charges may be changed. We will notify you of any changes as required by applicable law.
5. MEMBER LIABILITY — You are responsible for all transactions you authorize using your EFT services under this Agreement. If you permit someone else to use an EFT service, your card or your access code, you are responsible for any transactions they authorize or conduct on any of your accounts. However, TELL US AT ONCE if you believe your card and/or access code has been lost or stolen, if you believe someone has used your card or access code or otherwise accessed your accounts without your permission, or if you believe that an electronic fund transfer has been made without your permission using information from your check. Telephoning is the best way of keeping your possible losses down. You could lose all the money in your account (plus your maximum overdraft line of credit).
You are not liable for an unauthorized MasterCard debit card transaction that was not conducted at an ATM if you can demonstrate that you exercised reasonable care in protecting your card or access code from loss or theft, if you have not reported two (2) or more incidents of unauthorized use to us in the past 12 months, and if your account is in good standing. For all other unauthorized use of a card or an access device, including ATM transactions, you may be liable up to $50.00.
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6. RIGHT TO RECEIVE DOCUMENTATION — Any documentation we provide to you that indicates that an electronic fund transfer was made to another person shall be admissible as evidence of such transfer and shall constitute proof of the transaction which it records.
c. Direct Deposit. If you have arranged to have a direct deposit made to your account at least once every 60 days from the same source and you do not receive a receipt (such as a pay stub), you can find out whether or not the deposit has been made by calling 978-328-5100. This does not apply to transactions occurring outside the United States.
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// Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT License.
// Code generated by Microsoft (R) AutoRest Code Generator.

package com.azure.resourcemanager.automation.models;

import com.azure.core.util.Context;
import com.azure.resourcemanager.automation.fluent.models.CredentialInner;
import java.time.OffsetDateTime;

/** An immutable client-side representation of Credential. */
public interface Credential {
    /**
     * Gets the id property: Fully qualified resource Id for the resource.
     *
     * @return the id value.
     */
    String id();

    /**
     * Gets the name property: The name of the resource.
     *
     * @return the name value.
     */
    String name();

    /**
     * Gets the type property: The type of the resource.
     *
     * @return the type value.
     */
    String type();

    /**
     * Gets the username property: Gets the user name of the credential.
     *
     * @return the username value.
     */
    String username();

    /**
     * Gets the creationTime property: Gets the creation time.
     *
     * @return the creationTime value.
     */
    OffsetDateTime creationTime();

    /**
     * Gets the lastModifiedTime property: Gets the last modified time.
     *
     * @return the lastModifiedTime value.
     */
    OffsetDateTime lastModifiedTime();

    /**
     * Gets the description property: Gets or sets the description.
     *
     * @return the description value.
     */
    String description();

    /**
     * Gets the name of the resource group.
     *
     * @return the name of the resource group.
     */
    String resourceGroupName();

    /**
     * Gets the inner com.azure.resourcemanager.automation.fluent.models.CredentialInner object.
     *
     * @return the inner object.
     */
    CredentialInner innerModel();

    /** The entirety of the Credential definition. */
    interface Definition
        extends DefinitionStages.Blank,
            DefinitionStages.WithParentResource,
            DefinitionStages.WithName,
            DefinitionStages.WithUsername,
            DefinitionStages.WithPassword,
            DefinitionStages.WithCreate {
    }
    /** The Credential definition stages. */
    interface DefinitionStages {
        /** The first stage of the Credential definition. */
        interface Blank extends WithParentResource {
        }
        /** The stage of the Credential definition allowing to specify parent resource. */
        interface WithParentResource {
            /**
             * Specifies resourceGroupName, automationAccountName.
             *
             * @param resourceGroupName Name of an Azure Resource group.
             * @param automationAccountName The name of the automation account.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithName withExistingAutomationAccount(String resourceGroupName, String automationAccountName);
        }
        /** The stage of the Credential definition allowing to specify name. */
        interface WithName {
            /**
             * Specifies the name property: Gets or sets the name of the credential..
             *
             * @param name Gets or sets the name of the credential.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithUsername withName(String name);
        }
        /** The stage of the Credential definition allowing to specify username. */
        interface WithUsername {
            /**
             * Specifies the username property: Gets or sets the user name of the credential..
             *
             * @param username Gets or sets the user name of the credential.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithPassword withUsername(String username);
        }
        /** The stage of the Credential definition allowing to specify password. */
        interface WithPassword {
            /**
             * Specifies the password property: Gets or sets the password of the credential..
             *
             * @param password Gets or sets the password of the credential.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withPassword(String password);
        }
        /**
         * The stage of the Credential definition which contains all the minimum required properties for the resource to
         * be created, but also allows for any other optional properties to be specified.
         */
        interface WithCreate extends DefinitionStages.WithDescription {
            /**
             * Executes the create request.
             *
             * @return the created resource.
             */
            Credential create();

            /**
             * Executes the create request.
             *
             * @param context The context to associate with this operation.
             * @return the created resource.
             */
            Credential create(Context context);
        }
        /** The stage of the Credential definition allowing to specify description. */
        interface WithDescription {
            /**
             * Specifies the description property: Gets or sets the description of the credential..
             *
             * @param description Gets or sets the description of the credential.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            WithCreate withDescription(String description);
        }
    }
    /**
     * Begins update for the Credential resource.
     *
     * @return the stage of resource update.
     */
    Credential.Update update();

    /** The template for Credential update. */
    interface Update
        extends UpdateStages.WithName,
            UpdateStages.WithUsername,
            UpdateStages.WithPassword,
            UpdateStages.WithDescription {
        /**
         * Executes the update request.
         *
         * @return the updated resource.
         */
        Credential apply();

        /**
         * Executes the update request.
         *
         * @param context The context to associate with this operation.
         * @return the updated resource.
         */
        Credential apply(Context context);
    }
    /** The Credential update stages. */
    interface UpdateStages {
        /** The stage of the Credential update allowing to specify name. */
        interface WithName {
            /**
             * Specifies the name property: Gets or sets the name of the credential..
             *
             * @param name Gets or sets the name of the credential.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withName(String name);
        }
        /** The stage of the Credential update allowing to specify username. */
        interface WithUsername {
            /**
             * Specifies the username property: Gets or sets the user name of the credential..
             *
             * @param username Gets or sets the user name of the credential.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withUsername(String username);
        }
        /** The stage of the Credential update allowing to specify password. */
        interface WithPassword {
            /**
             * Specifies the password property: Gets or sets the password of the credential..
             *
             * @param password Gets or sets the password of the credential.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withPassword(String password);
        }
        /** The stage of the Credential update allowing to specify description. */
        interface WithDescription {
            /**
             * Specifies the description property: Gets or sets the description of the credential..
             *
             * @param description Gets or sets the description of the credential.
             * @return the next definition stage.
             */
            Update withDescription(String description);
        }
    }
    /**
     * Refreshes the resource to sync with Azure.
     *
     * @return the refreshed resource.
     */
    Credential refresh();

    /**
     * Refreshes the resource to sync with Azure.
     *
     * @param context The context to associate with this operation.
     * @return the refreshed resource.
     */
    Credential refresh(Context context);
}


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Movie Review – Widows (2018)
It's a heist film that stole nearly 2 and a half hours of my time!
BQB here with a review of "Widows."
When I saw ads for a film about the wives of dead criminals who get together to pull of a heist of their own, I thought that idea seemed like a cool idea for a movie.
Problem is, I went in expecting a tight action movie and got something different altogether. Frankly, it's less about the heist and more of a study and meditation on life in inner city Chicago, how a corrupt system keeps people down and out, forced into a life of unhappiness and people can only break out of it if they lie, cheat, steal or you know, commit a massive and unlikely to succeed heist.
At the outset, the movie has a great pedigree. Gillian Flynn of "Gone Girl" fame co-wrote the script with the flick's director, Steve McQueen of "12 Years a Slave" fame.
The cast includes Viola Davis, Liam Neeson, Robert Duvall, Michele Rodriguez, Colin Farrell, and well, more stars than I can mention and the surprise is somehow all these big names were talked into sharing the limelight. It's an ensemble cast where no one really gets a lot of time in the sun but rather, each is a cog in the machine, doing their part as you wait to see what the final output will be.
Viola Davis leads the squad of women who need to pull off a robbery in order to appease the gangster their late husbands stole from. Along the way, they'll have to face their own demons.
Veronica (Viola) is a teacher who always kept her nose clean and had lied to herself, telling herself her husband wasn't a thief but some kind of businessman though she always knew the truth and she clearly despises the world of hoodlums and losers she will have to wade into.
Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) seeks the independence of owning her own clothing store, though her husband had racked up so much gambling debt that she loses it. She wants it back.
Alice (Elizabeth Debicki) has grown use to a life of being beaten by her ex-husband, having convinced herself that attaching herself to a rich man like a barnacle is the only way to survive, but hopes the robbery can break her out of this life.
Besides those three, there are multiple sub-plots and characters, all who intersect, Colin Farrell as a third generation Chicago politician forced into a life he doesn't want by his father, Duvall, and being challenged for his seat on the city council by Brian Henry, the gangster the babes owe money to who is looking to move out of the world of underworld crime to the world of political white collar crime, strangely a step up.
It's pretentious. Full of itself. It has a lot of twists for the sake of twists. There are twists where you are like "Holy shit I didn't see that one coming!" followed by "Hey wait a minute, this twist doesn't make sense."
Gillian Flynn built her name on the super-twisty "Gone Girl" but I hope she doesn't fall into the Shamalan trap of trying to build a twisty career. Hitchcock might have been able to keep the twists going forever, but few can and sometimes it is necessary to move on and seek a non-twisty career.
It's good. It's worth your time though I think a half-hour to 45 minutes could have been chopped off without missing much. The heist is cool but they do make you wait and wait and wait for it.
If you came for a tight, solid action flick, you will be disappointed. If you wanted to learn how the system sucks and how it sucks people in and leaves them with no choice but to do bad shit to get by, you came to the right place.
STATUS: Shelf-worthy. Skip the theater and rent it. You'll need your couch to be comfy on this long time commitment.
Tagged movie reviews, Movies, widows


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Where is it showing in Registered Users?
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If you are like I was a couple of years ago the idea of branding YOU is scary and ludicrous.
Never mind that the marketing gurus can make a solid case that personal branding is the best way to build your business. You have twice as many reasons why it won't work for you.
I want to say this kindly but I'm not sure there is a kind way.
Stop being a spambot for your company!
Please understand, I love my company. I will use the products until I die.
But I am doing a better job of representing my company and products by branding myself.
My goal and my company's goal are in agreement. They want me to sell more products and enroll more distributors. And I want that too.
And the best way for me to reach our mutual goal is for me to brand ME.
That is because people buy from those they KNOW, LIKE and TRUST.
If I am a spambot filling my Facebook page with ads for my company product I give people no reason to KNOW, LIKE or TRUST me.
When I brand ME with who I genuinely am, people will get to KNOW, LIKE and TRUST me.
And then they will buy from ME.
It should be that simple, however . . .
I believe that our biggest fear of branding ourselves is the question: If people KNOW me, will they LIKE and TRUST me?
Of course, if I am a dishonest liar then I shouldn't expect people to LIKE and TRUST me once they KNOW me.
Maybe our problem is that we do KNOW ourselves and we know that sometimes we aren't very likable.
This is one of the best reasons for branding yourself. You get to work on who you are.
You will get to KNOW yourself! And I promise. You will get to LIKE yourself. And as you do this before the whole world (oh so scary, I know) they will be able to TRUST you.
And when they KNOW, LIKE and TRUST you, you will be far more productive for your company than any SpamBot.
So, you're still not convinced. Maybe if you heard my story you would start believing.
I was not comfortable with me – who I was.
I am sure that was my big hang up in branding myself. But I was desperate. I knew that I had to grow. And I had a great coach who talked me through my fear.
I had no reason to be so full of self-doubt. But it controlled me.
So, when my coach gave me the assignment to set up a "fan" page on Facebook and label myself as a "public figure" and use my name, it was a triple whammy of fear and self-doubt.
It would have been easier if my coach had called it a "business" page.
But she didn't and I am glad. I needed to push through that fear.
Believe me, finding fans is easy. It is the easiest part of the process.
And I had coaches throughout the process.
Are you ready to begin the process?
Second, I was no more a "public" figure than my dog was.
The truth is we don't have any business trusting our feelings.
In my case, here in my community, I was a public figure. I had directed a non-profit organization for fifteen years. I had been successful in doing that. People I didn't know knew me and respected me.
I had built a small network marketing team before I needed to stay home with my mom. I wasn't earning six figures. But I received a monthly residual check from my successful efforts.
And more to the point, I had sixty- plus years of life experience. I was an entrepreneur committed to helping others.
And I was a leader who dared to step out from the crowd.
And stepping out from the crowd made me a public figure.
Are you ready to step out from the crowd? Then you are ready to brand YOU and be a public figure committed to helping others.
And third, my name? Why? No one knew who I was!
Facebook. At the time, I was using a picture with my dog and so I used it.
A hard and fast rule is that your profile picture should be a picture of you. Not your dog. Not your grandchildren. Not anything else. YOU.
So, I sort of fudged with my dog in the picture. But now it has almost become my logo and for now, I will keep it. Max gets lots of comments.
I fudged in a greater sense by using a qualifier in my name.
Today my page is Connie Suarez but in the beginning, I was Connie Suarez, Difference Maker.
I couldn't stand alone as Connie Suarez.
But Facebook fixed that in an unexpected way.
When you set up a Facebook business page you can customize your URL. So I tried www.facebook.com/conniesuarez and learned that it was already in use.
I shrunk away from the impertinence of theconniesuarez but accepted it as practical.
That helped me to get to where today I embrace theconniesuarez.
I am glad that I didn't have the option of plain old conniesuarez.
I get to be theconniesuarez.
Today I feel like The Connie Suarez.
It was a process. It was a painful process. But I learned that I have something that you don't have to offer. It is me – with all the failures, faults and wrinkles. But it is a genuine me who cares about you with all your failures, faults and wrinkles.
I offer you my experience and the wisdom I have gained and will continue to gain from the process.
You can offer others the same things – today.
Tomorrow and the next day you will have appreciated in value if you are faithful to the process.
If this is what has been missing in your business, I would love to visit with you. I would love to be the coach that believes in you the way my coach did back in August of 2016.
May you soon experience the power that comes when folks KNOW, LIKE and TRUST you.
Here is to YOU becoming a powerful BRAND.
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FindLaw Blotter
CA State Assembly Adds Homeless to Hate Protections
By Kamika Dunlap on May 20, 2010 1:55 PM
The California State Assembly approved a bill to combat hate-based violence against the homeless.
The legislation would increase civil rights protections for the homeless by allowing the homeless to sue for larger sums of damages if they are targeted in an attack, the Associated Press reports.
Many Republicans voted against the bill, saying homelessness isn't in the same category as race, gender and sexual orientation.
But as previously discussed, homeless advocates argue attacks against the homeless are no different than racially or ethnically motivated crimes and should be added to hate crime laws, carrying with them stiffer prison terms.
The bill passed by the California Assembly would add additional civil, not criminal, measures to deter attacks on the homeless. Perpetrators would not receive additional jail time on account of an attack being targeted on someone homeless, but could end up owing more money if sued by the victim.
Advocates for the homeless argue that attacks against the homeless show bias toward a vulnerable population needing protection under a state hate crimes law.
The bill's sponsors say California ranks second in the nation in crimes against the homeless. In addition, this bill would give homeless people or public interest groups on their behalf, the right to seek redress by suing their attackers for civil rights violations.
Under the bill, about 157,000 homeless would be added to the list of groups protected from hate-based violence.
So far, hate crime laws have been adopted in Maine, Maryland and Washington D.C.
Florida could become the next state to give homeless people such protections.
Currently, Florida's hate crime law provides for increased penalties if someone is specifically targeted because of his or her race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or age. With new legislation pending, the homeless population would be added to that list.
California's bill allowing additional civil damages, however, still needs approval from the Senate and the governor's signature before it would become law.
State Hate Crime Laws (Anti-Defamation League)
Homeless Could Be Added to CA Hate Crime Laws (FindLaw's Blotter)
New Hate Crimes Law: More Help for the States (FindLaw's Blotter)


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Russian police catch bribe-seeking pension fund officials
Corruption up 450% in a year in Russian armed forces – prosecutors
Level of corruption increased in 2013 - Transparency International
6,014 corruption convictions in the past year - Russian Supreme Court
Legislators propose increasing prison term for corruption related crimes
Corruption crimes increase by almost one-fourth
Photo: Top 10 Corrupted Officials
© RIA Novosti, Mikhail Kutuzov
Tags: Corruption, Bribery, Russia, Moscow
MOSCOW, September 11 (RIA Novosti) – Police officers caught several high-ranking officials in Russia's Pension Fund demanding a 3.5 million ruble ($106,000) bribe from their buildings' security company, the police announced Wednesday.
The head and deputy head of two separate Moscow-based branches of the Pension Fund asked the head of a firm responsible for the two buildings' security for the bribe in exchange for "hassle-free signing of job completion reports, and a guarantee that government contracts would be signed and renewed," according to a statement by the Interior Ministry.
It said the security firm head had notified the police, who conducted an "operative experiment" to catch the officials in the act of taking the bribe.
The police said they are now investigating whether the men had committed similar crimes previously.
Corruption in both public and private sectors remains a major problem in Russia, and has become a point of focus for President Vladimir Putin's reform agenda. The Transparency International global watchdog estimated the cost of corruption in Russia at $300 billion in 2012, placing Russia 133rd out of 174 countries in its Corruption Perceptions Index last year.
A new law requiring foreign and domestic companies operating in Russia to implement extensive internal measures to combat corruption took effect in January this year.
Putin also said that world leaders at last week's G20 summit in St. Petersburg had approved Russia's initiatives to expand the Anti-Corruption Action Plan, aimed at combating bribery and enhancing international cooperation in fighting corruption among the G20 members.
15:13 11/09/2013 Police officers caught several high-ranking officials in Russia's Pension Fund demanding a 3.5 million ruble ($106,000) bribe from their buildings' security company, the police announced Wednesday.


We'll no doubt move up the list, barring more wacky storms on the coast. But for us, this has been a pretty ho-hum winter. No huge storms, not a whole lot of snow on the ground even now. It's been pretty cold, though, but that can be a good thing. The snow they're getting on the coast is wet and heavy which is really annoying. And they have ice problems as the temperature keeps flirting with freezing.
Yes, we get snow in the winter. Not as much as you'd think from the national news network, but more than most places. And when we get it, we push it out of the way and go about our business. Just what you'd expect from Dreamtown USA.
One final note: I guess it's good that the TV news is consistent in portraying the snowiness of an area by setting their reporters up next to plowed piles of snow just like they do whenever they visit here in the winter. But do they know that's a dictionary definition of lying? Keep it real, people!
There's a huge storm moving across the country, expected to dump up to two feet of snow in places like Washington D.C. In Dreamtown? Not so much. Maybe some light flurries.
This is the second big storm to hit the east coast this winter. Neither hit Dreamtown. Yet I've been stuck in New York City for both. Go figure.
So the next time someone you know associates snow with Buffalo, tell them they must be thinking of Philadelphia or other east coast cities. You know, the places that can't handle the snow. Heh.
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Ritchie Bros. to Acquire IronPlanet
Related: Auctions, Goldman Sachs, IronPlanet, J.P. Morgan Securities, Merger and Acquisitions, Ritchie Bros.
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated and IronPlanet® jointly announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Ritchie Bros. will acquire IronPlanet for approximately US$758.5 million, subject to customary closing adjustments.
Founded in 1999, IronPlanet complements Ritchie Bros.' primarily end-user customer base, as it focuses largely on the needs of corporate accounts, equipment manufacturers, dealers and government entities in equipment disposition solutions. It conducts its sales primarily through online-only platforms, with weekly online auctions and in other equipment marketplaces. IronPlanet, a private company based in the United States, sold approximately US$787 million of Gross Merchandise Value (GMV)1 through their sales channels during 2015, and has achieved a 25.2% compounded growth rate in assets sold from 2013 through 2015. This growth momentum has continued, with a 41% increase in GMV during the first half of 2016 relative to the same period in 2015.
"This transformative transaction is the logical next step for Ritchie Bros., building on our multi-channel platform, global reach and long-standing customer relationships. Together with IronPlanet, we will create a combined company of trusted brands with the ability to provide customers around the world with a greater number of choices and platforms to sell, buy and list equipment when, where and how they want – whether onsite or online. Our commitment to diversifying our offerings is directly in line with customer demand for multiple selling and buying solutions," said Ravi Saligram, Chief Executive Officer of Ritchie Bros. "This acquisition will help accelerate our growth in revenue and earnings and add shareholder value by continuing to expand our capabilities in new channels, sectors, regions and customer segments. Ritchie Bros. and IronPlanet both have talented teams and winning cultures built on a passion for serving customers."
"This is an exciting day for IronPlanet, our customers, employees and shareholders. IronPlanet joining forces with Ritchie Bros. will allow the combined company to deliver a multi-channel marketplace that will provide a full range of equipment asset management and disposition solutions. IronPlanet has built a leading online marketplace and technology platform across a number of verticals, and when combined with Ritchie Bros.' strength in live onsite auctions, will prove to be a powerful combination in driving value for our customers," said Gregory J. Owens, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IronPlanet.
Compelling Strategic and Financial Rationale
Ideal and complementary fit to expand Ritchie Bros.' strategy to create a more diversified, multi-channel company with greater scale that can provide even more choice to customers. Equipment sellers frequently choose to sell their assets across multiple sales solutions. The transaction will bring together Ritchie Bros.' strength in live, onsite and integrated online auctions with IronPlanet's leading position as an online marketplace, creating a broader multi-format equipment sales and asset management platform, with solutions including:
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers live onsite and online simulcast auctions
IronPlanet online-only auctions, including a Reserved Daily Marketplace & Buy-Now formats
Cat Auction Services live onsite and online simulcast auctions (auctions anchored by Caterpillar dealers)
Kruse Energy & Equipment AuctioneersSM live onsite and online simulcast auctions (for the oil & gas industry)
EquipmentOne online auction and marketplace
Mascus sales listing service
TruckPlanet®, GovPlanet®, SalvageSale and other sector-specific online sales channels
Ritchie Bros. Private Treaty
Ritchie Bros. Financial Services
Creates a more valuable marketplace and expands addressable market. Customers will benefit from a larger marketplace with more buyers and sellers, as well as a greater number of choices and services. As an example of the value the combined company's multi-channel transactional platforms and greater scale can deliver, Ritchie Bros. also announced today that it has entered into a historic, long-term strategic alliance with Caterpillar, which will significantly strengthen its relationship with Caterpillar dealers. Ritchie Bros. will become Caterpillar's preferred global partner for live onsite and online auctions under the agreement, which will take effect upon completion of the IronPlanet acquisition.
The addition of IronPlanet provides Ritchie Bros. with access to new, large customer segments, including government surplus and oil & gas. Furthermore, the wider range of sales solutions offered by the combined company will allow it to more effectively meet customer preferences in many key international locations, including the U.K., Germany, Japan and China – where Ritchie Bros.' established infrastructure will provide a platform to launch IronPlanet solutions.
Strengthens digital capabilities to provide enhanced levels of customer service. The combined entity will have an integrated technology platform to provide customers with more tailored solutions that meet their needs and enhance the overall customer experience. These solutions, including multiple dealer portal options, valuable business intelligence, amplified data analytics and multiple online sales channels, position the combined company to provide comprehensive asset management solutions.
Together, Ritchie Bros. and IronPlanet are better positioned to cater to evolving consumer preferences, with more transactions being conducted online. Collectively, Ritchie Bros. and IronPlanet (on a pro forma basis) sold more than US$3.0 billion of assets through online transactions during the 12 months trailing June 30, 2016 – ranking the combined business among the world's top 50 B2B e-commerce companies, based on value sold2.
Expected to deliver long-term growth and profitability. The transaction is expected to be accretive to earnings within the first year (excluding transaction costs) and significantly bolster growth in Gross Auction Proceeds (GAP), revenue and earnings over the long term. The combination will also enhance the generation of free cash flow, which will enable Ritchie Bros. to support strategic growth priorities, return value to shareholders and reduce debt.
Presents tremendous opportunities to build on Ritchie Bros.' business model and strong heritage. Ritchie Bros. and IronPlanet share a passion for serving customers and providing them with easy-to-use solutions. Bringing together Ritchie Bros.' scale, geographic footprint and brand strength with IronPlanet's complementary online models will offer customers more options to move more of their inventory across multiple sales channels. Transparency and a customer focus will continue to be the cornerstones of the combined company, as it leverages best practices from both organizations, including IronPlanet's successful inspection and IronClad Assurance® equipment condition certification.
Under the terms of the transaction, Ritchie Bros. will acquire 100% of the equity of IronPlanet for approximately US$740 million in cash and the assumption of unvested equity interests in IronPlanet, subject to adjustment, that brings the total transaction value to approximately US$758.5 million. This represents a 13.0x multiple of IronPlanet's 2017 Estimated Adjusted EBITDA, inclusive of the expected $100 million net present value of tax synergies and $20 million in run-rate cost synergies. Ritchie Bros. intends to finance the transaction through a combination of cash on hand and new debt, and has bridge financing commitments from Goldman Sachs Bank USA subject to customary terms and conditions to facilitate the transaction close. Following the close of the transaction and the required financing, Ritchie Bros. is expected to have a net debt to EBITDA ratio of no more than 3.0x.
Ritchie Bros. has secured employment agreements with key executives, who will supplement the strength of Ritchie Bros.' global management team. Mr. Owens has agreed to join the combined company's executive committee upon closing.
The transaction was approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies and is expected to close by the first half of 2017, subject to regulatory clearances and the satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.
Goldman, Sachs & Co. is serving as financial advisor to Ritchie Bros. and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Dechert LLP are serving as legal advisors. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC is serving as financial advisor to IronPlanet and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is serving as legal advisor.
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A new Play at the Volkstheater is Taking on the Current Political Situation in Gutmenschen
Old, Stage, Where to go / By Leonie Binder
Austria's current political situation is scathingly portrayed in Gutmenschen.
Tragedy need not be spectacular; sometimes all it takes to tear a life apart is a single letter. Gutmenschen, a new play by the Volkstheater ensemble and the Israeli born, award-winning director Yael Ronen, illustrates that with great humor and yet still manages to touch. Named after a derogatory German term for politically correct do-gooders, Gutmenschen straddles reality and fiction, channeling real stories through fictional characters to address current socio-political issues with caustic wit. Inspired by ensemble member Seyneb Saleh and her cousin Yousef, a refugee from Iraq, Ronen is unafraid to address controversy with laughter. Where so many fail, she succeeds.
Performed in German, the English surtitles are clearly visible and easy to read, allowing Anglophones to enjoy the play – even if some of the cultural context might go over their heads. Maryam (Birgit Stöger, a fictionalized stand-in for Saleh), a lifestyle blogger and single mother of two, has just agreed to appear on Red Bull's ServusTV as the protagonist of the reality show Gutmenschen, her new sponsor decking out her entire apartment and her clothes in Red Bull's corporate colors blue and red. As more and more members of Maryam's unusual family appear, current political issues like rightwing policies, same-sex marriage, the canceled smoking ban and racism are addressed; yet the proverbial elephant in the room remains Maryam's cousin Yousef, whose asylum application was rejected. While Maryam's family and friends bicker endlessly, they all desperately want to prevent his deportation.
Do-Gooding Gives You Wings
The characters are all strong and almost stereotypical: The overstrained, liberal, slightly selfish mother; Klara, a sexually open-minded singer and her deceptively mild-mannered boyfriend Elias; Maryam's gay friend Schnute, father of one of her children, his boyfriend Moritz and Schnute's ultraconservative, racist mother. Like every good reality show, these diverse personalities lead to instant conflict, effectively framing issues with proponents and detractors. The arguments are exaggerated for comedic effect, yet the archetypal characters remain believable throughout.
When the tomboyish Klara presented her latest song, a parody of a Hubert von Goisern hit, the audience laughed when she got to the chorus "Du bist so weit, weit rechts…"(You are so far, far right…). But as the lyrics started to address Austrian politics, the chuckles died down as the seriousness became tangible.
At the very end, Yousef himself appeared on stage, walking around for thirty seconds without saying anything as he's barred from working in Austria – a stark reminder of the restrictions put upon refugees. Seeing the real-life impetus for the plot in the flesh was very touching, and Yousef's appearance brought reality even closer. The delight of the audience was palpable by the long and exuberant applause at the premiere.
Treating serious subjects with levity is fraught with danger – especially in front of an audience of touchy Gutmenschen. And indeed, Ronen's play is a tightrope act – blunt at times and bordering on cabaret, but making it safely to the end.
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Districtul Lapseki este cunoscut pentru cireșele sale, iar în oraș se organizează anual un festival al cireșelor.

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The most important remaining battle to rein in Wall Street is over Senator Blanche Lincoln's measure to stop the big banks from being subsidized by taxpayers for their risky derivative trades. Miraculously, it's still in the bill but it's on life support. The bill has now gone to the conference committee where differences between the House and Senate bills are to be ironed out.
Big, big money is at stake. Wall Street's five largest banks have a corner on the trade, raking in about in about $30 billion in over-the-counter derivatives last year. It's the single largest reason they're too big to fail. So they're spending like mad on Washington lobbyists and campaign donations in order to keep the subsidy in place. (Lincoln's provision doesn't force them to give up derivative trading, by the way; it only forces them to do it in a separate entity that doesn't get subsidized by deposit insurance or the Fed's discount window).
All the guns are aimed at this measure. But it's still possible that the people can prevail, if we're organized and active. Here's a list of all the Dems on the Senate Banking and House Finance Committee, as well as Republican conferees. All conferees are indicated by ->.
Organize and mobilize your friends and acquaintances, especially those who live in these states or districts, to call their members and make their voices heard. Tell them you want Lincoln's measure (Section 716 of the Senate bill) to remain in the final bill. Say you'll hold them responsible if it goes.


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The Netflix documentary on serial killer Ted Bundy is causing waves. Did you know he had a typewriter in his Aspen jail cell? How did that happen? How come he wasn't given a Swintec typewriter, the clear-case Swintec typewriter found in many prisons today? How did that happen?
That's it, friends. Back to my own typewriter adventures and surviving Freeze-Amaggedon here in Milwaukee.


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by Morwenna Jones
01 February 2016, 10:51pm
why the new barbie bodies matter
We look into the feminist failings of Barbie's past to see just why the new line with more realistically shaped bodies is important.
She's been branded "the most infamous body in the world". If she were life-size, she'd be 5'9" tall, weighing in at just under eight stone with her 16" waist, 29" hips and 32" bust evincing the perfect hourglass figure. Of course, she'd also lack the 17% body fat necessary to menstruate, would have to crawl on all fours due to her ankles being unable to support her body, and would have a head 6" larger than her own waist, which would also be so out of proportion that she'd have to live without several vital internal organs, have half a liver and a few inches of intestine.
Of course, I'm talking about Barbie, the most famous doll in history. Over her 57-year-long career she's starred in 34 movies, been the subject of Aqua's worldwide chart-topping single Barbie Girl, and become her own franchise of video games, magazines and clothing. And now, she's just undergone the biggest makeover in her history.
Late last week toy manufacturing giant Mattel announced that they are creating new Barbie dolls with "tall, curvy and petite" body shapes, as well as different skin tones, eye colours and hairstyles. Barbie Fashionistas will feature 33 new dolls, 30 hair-colours, 24 hairstyles, 22 eye colours, 14 face shapes, seven skin tones and four body shapes; the aforementioned "tall, curvy and petite" as well as "original".
Sales of Barbie dolls have been in freefall for the last two years, changing the face (and body) of a doll owned by 92% of American girls aged 3-12 is a bold move by the company, but maybe the last roll of the dice, too. It's also a move that it's hard not to see as responsive to the increase in awareness surrounding issues relating to female body image. It goes without saying that the never-changing shape of the Barbie is incompatible with the fact that womanhood and women's shapes are not one thing, an incompatibility that has important repercussions for Barbie's young audience.
For nearly six generations, Barbie has sent a message to children that women should have one particular shape and that this one particular shape is more valuable than others. In 1963, Slumber Party Barbie was even sold with a set of scales permanently stuck at 110 pounds and her own diet book entitled How to Lose Weight, which had one very simple recommendation: "Don't Eat!"
Archaic as that advice may seem, nearly 40 years later in 2006 a study published in the journal Developmental Psychology found that Barbie was continuing to make young girls feel inadequate. It revealed that girls exposed to Barbie at a young age expressed greater anxiety about their body weight compared with those exposed to other dolls, results that are hardly surprising.
I can remember a girl in my sixth-form who had a mug that read "I just want to be like Barbie… that bitch has everything", and the mug was right. Over the years Barbie has had a plane, a train, a beach house, a luxury ski chalet, more convertible sports cars than she knows what to do with and, of course, Ken, her handsome fictional boyfriend who has been everything from an Olympic gold medallist to a pizza delivery boy.
What is most worrying is that previous dolls have continuously espoused the notion that being thin and beautiful goes hand in hand with "having everything", and even, on some occasions that beauty and fashion are the most important things a girl can think about.
Previous pre-programmed "Hello Barbie" dolls having been wired to utter phrases like "Math class is tough", "Let's plan our dream wedding" and, as of September last year, the most recent Hello Barbie still utters lines like "One place to learn a lot about outfits and clothes is school!" and "Hey... wanna talk about fashion for a bit?"
Seen in this context, it's no surprise that Barbie attracted scrutiny with her most famous catchphrase, the 1984 slogan "We girl can do anything!" and Mattel's subsequent statement that Barbie was an icon of female empowerment. What's most depressing is that years earlier Barbie really was an icon of female empowerment, she was a businesswoman in 1963, an astronaut in 1965 and a surgeon in 1973, when just 9% of doctors were women.
Barbie COO Richard Dickson might have argued that "Barbie had careers at a time when women were restricted to being just housewives" but shop for an "I Can Be" career Barbie today and your choices are limited to babysitters, pop-stars and "pet vets" and "zoo doctors" (because apparently you're a "doctor" if you look after zoo animals, but only a "vet" if you look after hamsters and guinea pigs).
However, for the first time, children can see more realistic ideas of female beauty and ideas of womanhood and women's shapes that mimic their own or the women they know. "We believe we have a responsibility to girls and parents to reflect a broader view of beauty," said Evelyn Mazzocco, Senior Vice President and Global General Manager Barbie. "Barbie has always given girls choices -- from her 180 careers, to inspirational roles, to her countless fashions and accessories...We are excited to literally be changing the face of the brand -- these new dolls represent a line that is more reflective of the world girls see around them -- the variety in body type, skin tones and style allows girls to find a doll that speaks to them".
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Vietnam draws lines in the sea
Par Vietnam aujourd'hui le samedi 7 décembre 2019, 19:50 - News in english - Lien permanent
Hanoi's new defense white paper reflects fears of Chinese encroachment.
Defense is serious business in Vietnam, a country that has a history of fighting off foreign aggressors. Today, in the context of more contested strategic environment and increasing pressure from a more aggressive China, Vietnam needs an update to its defense policy.
The 2019 defense white paper released last month, Vietnam's first in 10 years, doesn't offer detailed updates on the force structure and organization of its military forces and makes only a passing reference to the defense budget spending in a footnote about the fluctuation in the percentage of the GDP for defense budget, which was at 2.36 percent in 2018. But it does—and this is arguably the most interesting part—elaborate on the strategic context and espouse the national strategy for protecting the homeland. It includes the elements of its strategic doctrine, based on the pillars of self-reliance and resilience, and national defense struggle to set all disputes peacefully.
Many long-term doctrines are reasserted in the white paper, including the much quoted "three no's": no military alliances, no foreign bases and usage of the territory for military activities, and no siding with one country against another. Vietnam is sticking to nonreliance but emphasizes an important caveat: Any form of defense is acceptable with the nation under attack. As part of this, the white paper sharpens Vietnam's commitments to international integration, portraying commitment to international maritime legal principles as an important part of securing the country's prosperity and international role over the last three decades since the Doi Moi reforms that opened the country's economy up in 1986.
The defense white paper assesses that the global situation is rapidly evolving toward a multipolar order, and everyone, including the great powers, need to "adjust strategies to prioritize national interests above all values." The Asia-Pacific region, including Southeast Asia, "continues to be a center for dynamic development and occupies an increasingly important geoeconomic, geopolitical, and geostrategic location."
But it is also a battleground among the great powers. The white paper specifically names several foreign initiatives, including China's Belt and Road Initiative, the U.S. Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy, and India's Look East policy. Among the destabilizing elements that threaten regional stability, peace, and prosperity are the disputes in the South China Sea, referred to in Vietnam as the East Sea. The 2019 paper, while avoiding, as always, calling out any nation by name, is more explicit than its 2009 counterpart in referring to the challenges that have worsened over the last decade:
"New developments in the East Sea, including unilateral actions, power-based coercion, violation of international law, militarization, change in the status quo, and infringement upon Vietnam's sovereignty, sovereign rights, and jurisdiction as provided in international law have undermined the interests of nations concerned and threatened peace, stability, security, safety, and freedom of navigation and overflight in the region."
Vietnam has been at the forefront of challenges from China in the South China Sea, ranging from the threat of militarized artificial islands and Beijing's test deployments of capabilities from those facilities last year to more targeted provocations.In the past couple of years, Vietnamese economic operations within its claimed exclusive economic zone and continental shelf have been a subject of repetitive challenges from Beijing, resulting in some withdrawal of oil and gas exploration projects, including demanding that the exploration operation with Repsol cease in 2017 and the recent standoff around the Vanguard Bank.
The white paper describes Vietnam as a maritime nation and so says that it pays special attention to the safety and protection of the seas, committing itself to freedom of navigation and overflight, free trade, and peaceful economic activities in accordance with international law.
An important new part of the white paper's language states: "Vietnam does not accept defense cooperation under pressure or any coercive conditions." This explicitly rejects any disadvantageous partnerships and asserts national autonomy in deciding its defense ties and security interests—while leaving itself open to friendly cooperation. The white paper declares Vietnam's willingness to cooperate on border protection, both land and maritime, which includes joint patrols and exchanges—an issue of particular importance given the tensions over the maritime disputes and threats to its sovereignty by China's incursion into Vietnam's exclusive economic zone in July. This position is also an implicit rejection of China's position in the South China Sea, which seeks to frame the disputes as purely bilateral and rejects multilateral arrangements and the involvement of third parties, such as the United States.
In a much more detailed fashion than past defense white papers, the 2019 version refers to the escalating nature of threats in the East Sea as well as Hanoi's position toward them. Hanoi explicitly declared support for innocent passage, congruent with the principle regularly invoked by the United States and its allies to justify freedom of navigation operations, as well as the security and safety of navigation and overflight on the East Sea.
This is one of the strongest forms of support expressed by Vietnam, particularly important given that other Southeast Asian claimants are increasingly reluctant to express such support for the freedom of navigation operations. The white paper calls for taking no actions that would complicate the situation or expand disputes, at the same time avoiding militarization, threat, or use of force. Clearly, Chinese military capacities in the disputed waters are of grave concern to Vietnam.
By Huong Le Thu - Foreign Policy - December 6, 2019


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Oct 8 Kirk Alyn [John Feggo Jr], American actor (Superman), born in Oxford, New Jersey (d. 1999)
Oct 10 George Mathews, American stage and screen character actor (The Eve of St. Mark; Glynis - "Chick"), born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 1984)
Oct 19 Dan Tobin, American stage and screen character actor (I Married Joan; Perry Mason), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1982)
Oct 22 Tamara Desni [Brodsky], German-born British actress (The Green Finger, Hell's Cargo), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2008)
Oct 23 Hayden Rorke, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, When Worlds Collide), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1987)
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