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- Prudent economic policy
- Skilled workforce and favourable business climate
- Cutting-edge industries
- High standard of living
- Highly vulnerable to international economic conditions
- Dependence of the Finnish banking sector on the Swedish and Danish financial sectors, despite the return of a major institution in 2017
- Ageing population
Risk assessment
Activity is slowing, but will remain solid
Growth will be resilient in 2019 despite cooler domestic demand. Household consumption is set to slow, but should still put in a dynamic performance, driven by the fall in unemployment (7.4% in September 2018) and the consequent rise in wages, against a backdrop of moderate inflation. Business investment is also expected to ease, while making a strong contribution to growth in a supportive environment featuring low interest rates and resilient domestic and external demand. In addition, the emergence of supply constraints in terms of equipment and labour will also promote investment.
After building permits peaked in 2018, residential construction will continue to support activity due to strong demand for apartments in urban centres, particularly in the Helsinki region, before slowing down by 2020.
Exports are expected to remain brisk thanks to gains made possible by the Competitiveness Pact – labour costs fell in real terms by 3.5% in 2017 – and strong performances by Finland's main partners, Sweden and Germany. Tourism, focused around natural sites and the Northern Lights, will continue to grow thanks to inflows of tourists from Russia (number-one source) and China (35% increase in 2017). At the same time, imports will grow relatively less quickly, echoing domestic demand. As a result, trade should contribute positively to growth in 2019.
Current and public accounts almost in balance
Even though 2019 is an election year, the government will continue to pursue a prudent fiscal policy. After lowering income taxes between 2016 and 2018, in return for the austerity measures of the Competitiveness Pact (extended annual working hours, partial transfer of employer contributions to employee contributions, wage freezes), the government will introduce only minor tax measures in 2019, including reducing the vehicle tax and increasing the excise duty on tobacco. At the same time, as revenues increase thanks to the favourable economic situation, the deficit, which is already well below 3%, is expected to decline. In addition, after being postponed several times, reforms to public social and health services are expected to be approved in 2019 and will involve merging the existing entities to create an intermediate level of 18 "counties", in a move that will ultimately generate savings estimated at €3 billion a year. Scheduled to come into force in 2021, these structural reforms aim to address the challenge posed by a rapidly ageing population to the social security system and public accounts. Against the backdrop of this prudent fiscal policy, public debt – which in 2018 fell below the threshold set by the European Stability and Growth Pact (60% of GDP) – will continue to decline.
With exports outstripping imports, the country will continue to enjoy a trade surplus, which is expected to improve in 2019. Exports will be driven in particular by the automotive sector, whose exports doubled between 2013 and 2017 to reach €4.8 billion (7% of the total), and by the wood and paper industry, the largest exporting sector, with 20% of the total. Despite tourism growth, the balance of services shows a recurring small deficit, as does the income balance, due to the repatriation of dividends by foreign investors. However, the current account is expected to show a surplus.
The outcome of the upcoming elections is uncertain, but the centre-left opposition has a slight lead
Although it has a tiny majority (104 seats out of 200), the governing coalition – led by Juha Sipilä's Centre Party, with the support of the centre-right National Coalition Party and the Blue Reform Party, which emerged from the split with the far-right Finnish Party in June 2017 – will remain in power until the parliamentary elections in April 2019. However, with less than six months to go before the elections, polls show coalition members getting between 35% and 40% of the vote. The centre-left Social Democratic Party, led by former Minister of Economy Antti Rinne, would come out on top with 22% of the votes and be well-positioned to try to assemble a coalition with other parties such as the Left Alliance, the Green League (environmentalist) or the Swedish People's Party (centre). However, uncertainty persists over the potential outcome and coalition combinations given how votes are fragmented across many parties.
The business environment is very favourable. The country is ranked 17th (out of 190) in the World Bank's Doing Business 2019 report, thanks in particular to its remarkable performance in insolvency settlement (2nd in the world).
Last update : February 2019
Bills of exchange are not commonly used in Finland because they signal the supplier's distrust of the buyer. A bill of exchange primarily substantiates a claim and constitutes a valid acknowledgment of debt.
Cheques, also little used in domestic and international transactions, but only constitute acknowledgement of debt. However, cheques that are uncovered at the time of issue can result in the issuers being liable to criminal penalties. Moreover, as cheque collection takes a particularly long time in Finland (twenty days for domestic cheques or cheques drawn in European and Mediterranean coastal countries, 70 days for cheques drawn outside Europe), this payment method is not recommended.
Conversely, SWIFT bank transfers are increasingly used to settle domestic and international commercial transactions. Finns are familiar with this efficient method of payment. When using this instrument, sellers are advised to provide full and accurate bank details to facilitate timely payment, while it should not be forgotten that the transfer payment order will ultimately depend on the buyer's good faith. Banks in Finland have adopted the SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) standards for EUR-denominated payments.
Debt collection
Amicable phase
The goal of the amicable phase is to reach a voluntary settlement between the creditor and debtor without begin legal proceedings. Finnish legislation obliges creditors to begin the amicable phase amicable phase via letters, followed up as necessary with a final demand for payment by recorded delivery or ordinary mail. This demand for payment asks the debtor to pay the outstanding principal increased by past-due interest as stipulated in the contract.
In the absence of an interest rate clause in the agreement, interest automatically accrues from the due date of the unpaid invoice at a rate equal to the Central Bank of Finland's (Suomen Pankki) six-monthly rate, calculated by reference to the European Central Bank's refinancing rate, plus seven percentage points.
The Interest Act (Korkolaki) already required debtors to pay up within contractually agreed timeframes or become liable to interest penalties.
Since 2004, the ordinary statute of limitations for Finnish contract law is three years.
Legal proceedings
Fast-track proceedings
For clear and uncontested claims, creditors may use the fast-track procedure, resulting in an injunction to pay (suppea haastehakemus). This is a simple written procedure based on submission of whatever documents substantiate the claim (invoices, bills of exchange, acknowledgement of debt, etc.). The court sets a time limit of approximately two weeks to permit the defendant to either respond to or oppose the petition. In addition, this fast track procedure can also be initiated electronically for cases of undisputed claims. The presence of a lawyer, although commonplace, is not required for this type of action.
Ordinary proceedings
Ordinary legal action usually commences when amicable collection has failed. A written application for summons must be addressed to the registry of the District Court, which then serves the debtor with a Writ of Summons. The debtor is given approximately two weeks to file a defence.
During the preliminary hearing, the court bases its deliberations on the parties' written submissions and supporting documentation. The court then convokes the litigants to hear their arguments and decide on the relevance of the evidence. During this preliminary phase, and with the judge's assistance, it is possible for the litigants to resolve their dispute via mediation and subsequently protect their business relationship.
Where the dispute remains unresolved after this preliminary hearing, plenary proceedings are held before the court of first instance (Käräjäoikeus) comprising between one and three presiding judges, depending on the case's complexity. During this hearing, the judge examines the submitted evidence and hears the parties' witnesses. The litigants then state their final claims, before the judge delivers the ruling – generally within fourteen days.
The losing party is liable for all or part of the legal costs (depending on the judgement) incurred by the winning party. The average time required for obtaining a writ of execution is about twelve months. Undisputed claims in Finland can normally last from three to six months. Disputed claims and the subsequent legal proceedings can take up to a year.
Commercial cases are generally heard by civil courts, although a Market Court (Markkinaoikeus) located in Helsinki has been in operation as a single entity since 2002, following a merger of the Competition Council and the former Market Court.
Enforcement of a Court decision
A judgment is enforceable for fifteen years as soon as it becomes final. If the debtor fails to comply with the judgment, the creditor may have it enforced by a bailiff, who will try to obtain an instalment agreement with the debtor, or enforce it through a seizure of assets.
For foreign awards, since Finland is part of the European Union (EU), it has adopted enforcement mechanisms applicable to court decisions issued by other EU members, such as the EU Payment Order and the European Enforcement Order. For judgments issued by non-EU members, the issuing country must be part of a bilateral or multilateral agreement with Finland.
Insolvency proceedings
Out-of-Court proceedings
Finnish law provides no specific rules for out-of-court settlements. Negotiations between creditors and debtors are made informally. If an agreement is reached, it must still be validated by the court.
Restructuring proceedings
The goal of restructuring is to allow an insolvent company to remain operational through administration, with the view that if the company is able to continue its business, it will be able to repay a larger part of its debts than would have been possible in the case of bankruptcy of the company. The commencement of these proceedings triggers an automatic moratorium, providing the company with protection from its creditors.
The board of directors maintains its power of decision but the receiver is entitled to control certain aspects of the company's operations, including the creation of new debts and overseeing transfers of ownership.
When debtors are unable to pay their debts when due and this inability is not temporary, they are placed into liquidation. Upon acceptance of a liquidation petition by the court, the debtor is declared bankrupt. A receiver is appointed, and a time limit is established for any creditors to present their claims. The receiver then establishes a proposed distribution scheme, whilst creditors supervise the selling of the estate and the distribution of the sales' proceeds.


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I was glad to see the catch up postings this morning - been looking all week... I thought you had given up Joe!ReplyDelete
We weren't at .500 for long, but these mets are overachieving. When Davis comes back, and if Wright and Bay get going, the mets have a serious shot at wild card berth
Not giving up at all Alex. I was out of town and it's hard to post these when I'm away.ReplyDelete
I agree. When Ike and Wright come back we should have a great run!
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1. Washi Words: Cover chipboard with tape for a quick makeover.
2. Washi Stickers: Layer overlapping strips of tape on wax paper, cut out your shape, and peel and stick it to your page. Add pen stitching using a permanent marker for a quick finishing touch.
3. Washi Corners: Cut a square piece of tape in half on the diagonal for quick photo corners. Layer with a second piece for a little extra oomph.
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LeTourneau University announces Dr. Jeffrey Quiett as professor of psychology, effective Aug. 1.
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He has professional membership with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy as a clinical fellow and approved supervisor. He also has professional membership with the Alabama Counseling Association.
"Dr. Quiett brings significant experience, wisdom, and leadership as well as that rare combination of theological and biblical training alongside a deep understanding of clinical psychology and the art of counseling," said LETU Provost Dr. Philip A. Coyle. "He can speak with expertise, passion and confidence on the significant relational and spiritual challenges confronting individual, couples and families today. Our undergraduate and graduate psychology, counseling and family therapy students will soon be awakened to the resources for changing lives through his teaching and mentoring at LeTourneau."
Quiett has taught numerous undergraduate and graduate courses at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Houston Baptist University and the University of Mobile.
Quiett has served as chaplain at Children's Hospital, University Hospital and Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. He has also served as a psychotherapist for Union Baptist Center for Counseling in Houston and as minister of counseling for Crosspoint Community Church and Jubilee Baptist Church.
With the University of Mobile, Quiett has led several mission trips overseas, including trips to Japan, Malta, Chile, China, Brazil and Romania.
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The concept of the Indian New Wave has been over-hyped and doesn't reflect the current situation in Indian cinema, said Miss Lovely director Ashim Ahluwalia at a DIFF Forum panel yesterday.
He said that clubbing new Indian films together under the New Wave banner could confuse audiences as Indian cinema, unlike Iranian cinema, had no common aesthetics. "A film like [Anurag Kashyap's] Gangs Of Wasseypur is very different from an arthouse Indian film," Ahluwalia said.
He added that the term is convenient for festival programmers but discouraging for filmmakers as it discredits individuality.
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"The Bollywood format of the 80s with lots of songs doesn't work any more. The audience wants to see more realistic stuff. Bollywood has moved away from the old style of filmmaking," Ahluwalia said.
Raj Kumar Yadav, who plays the lead in Hansal Mehta's Shahid, said: "Ten years ago, an actor like me wouldn't get work. Now there are filmmakers who don't run behind stars. Even studios are investing in films with new actors."
But Ahluwalia added that the Bollywood studios are still very powerful and not willing to back edgy or risky projects giving rise to the 'new hybrid films', which are neither independent nor Bollywood.
Speaking on international co-productions, Sourav Sarangi, director of documentary Chaar…The Island Within, said: "There is no infrastructure for documentaries in India. That is why filmmakers like us have to find a support system in international collaborations."
Ahluwalia said that Indian studios are not ready for international co-productions as they interfere with their distribution plans.
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This white paper provides an in-depth overview of the network security features available on Cisco® 1900, 2900, and 3900 Series Integrated Services Routers.
Next-Generation Branch Security
• Secure connectivity: These features provide highly secure and scalable network connectivity, incorporating multiple types of traffic. Examples include IP Security (IPsec) VPN, Group Encrypted Transport VPN, Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), Enhanced Easy VPN, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) VPN.
• Integrated threat control: These features prevent and respond to network attacks and threats using network services. Examples include Cisco IOS® Firewall, Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Content Filtering, NetFlow, and Flexible Packet Matching (FPM).
• Trust and identity: These features allow the network to intelligently protect endpoints using technologies such as authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) and public key infrastructure (PKI).
• Cisco network foundation protection: These features protect the network infrastructure from attacks and vulnerabilities, especially at the network level. Examples include AutoSecure, Control Plane Policing and Protection, Source-Based Remote-Triggered Black Hole (RTBH) filtering, and Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (URPF).
Secure Connectivity
• QoS: Low-Latency Queuing (LLQ) before cryptography is a critical requirement to help ensure voice quality over VPNs. The embedded processor provides LLQ as well as postencryption interface-level QoS.
• IP Multicast: Secure Multicast is a foundational technology that combines the keying protocol, Group Domain of Interpretation (GDOI) with IPsec encryption to provide users an efficient method to secure IP Multicast traffic. It enables the router to apply encryption to nontunneled (that is, "native") IP Multicast packets, increasing efficiency by eliminating the requirement to configure separate tunnels. Encapsulating IP Multicast packets allows IP Multicast routing (for example, Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)) to route the packets even though they are encrypted. Native IP Multicast encapsulation also avoids the excessive packet replication that normally occurs with unicast tunnels. Secure Multicast is well suited for applications such as encryption of IP packets sent over satellite links, encryption in audio conferencing, secure real-time content replication, and DMVPN, among others.
Standard IPsec VPN
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Group Encrypted Transport VPN
Figure 1. Group Security Functions
• Provides data security and transport authentication, helping to meet security compliance and internal regulation by encrypting all WAN traffic
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• Helps ensure low latency and jitter by enabling full-time, direct communications between sites, without requiring transport through a central hub
• Reduces traffic loads on customer premises equipment (CPE) and provider-edge encryption devices by using the core network for replication of multicast traffic, avoiding packet replication at each individual peer site
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Figure 2. DMVPN
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• Easy VPN supports digital certificates, improving security over preshared keys.
• The technology enables load balancing of multiple central-site Easy VPN concentrators. Policy push of backup concentrator information to the CPE allows you to scale the solution without CPE reconfiguration.
• The technology provides virtualization of Easy VPN Server, allowing service providers to offer VPN services to multiple customers using a single platform.
• Easy VPN offers full-feature integration, including dynamic QoS policy assignment, firewall and IPS, split tunneling, and Cisco IP Service-Level Agreement (SLA) and NetFlow for performance monitoring.
• Cisco Configuration Professional provides wizard-based quick deployment of Easy VPN integrated with AAA and firewall, and real-time graphical monitoring of remote Easy VPN clients.
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• Configuration requirements at the headend, as well as at the remote branch offices, are greatly simplified.
• You can configure IP services using VTIs (or download the services from AAA servers), and at connection time, VTI instances are cloned dynamically from these templates. There is no need to manually create myriads of similar looking sets of configuration commands for each remote site.
• Offering per-user attributes such as QoS, VTI allows painless configuration of policies on a per-user basis, enabling administrators to be proactive in delivering the desired application performance and keeping users productive and motivated.
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• HSRP and RRI: RRI works with both dynamic and static cryptography maps to simplify network designs for VPNs requiring either high availability or load balancing. Routes are created for each remote network or host on the headend device to allow for dynamic route propagation. HSRP and IPsec dynamically reroute traffic to provide maximum availability of services. For hosts that do not have the ability to switch to another router if a primary router failure occurs, HSRP provides continuous network access. In this case, the HSRP virtual IP address is used as the VPN tunnel endpoint to provide continuous availability for stateless failover of IPsec.
• SLB: You can define virtual servers to represent a group of physical servers in a cluster of network servers (a server farm). When a client initiates a connection to the virtual server, Cisco IOS Software chooses a physical server for the connection based on a configured load-balancing algorithm. In case of a failure of a physical server, SLB dynamically reroutes all the incoming new IPsec sessions to the other server, thus providing redundancy.
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• Regulate network access, isolate infected systems, prevent intrusions, and protect critical business assets
• Counteract malicious traffic such as worms, viruses, and malware before they affect your business
Cisco IOS Firewall
• Zone-based policies: This feature allows grouping of physical and virtual interfaces into zones to simplify logical network topology. The creation of these zones facilitates the application of firewall policies on a zone-to-zone basis, instead of having to configure policies separately on each interface. Packets are not forwarded unless explicit zone-pair policies are specified in each direction, between each zone pair. The policy is written using Cisco Policy Language (that is, Modular QoS CLI [MQC]) and establishes the type of stateful inspection and session parameters that apply to each zone pairing. For example, the Internet-to-demilitarized zone (DMZ) boundary would require an explicit policy allowing HTTP and Domain Name System (DNS) to traverse.
• Advanced Application Inspection and Control (AIC): This feature uses inspection engines to enforce protocol conformance and prevent malicious or unauthorized behavior such as port 80 tunneling or misuse of email connectivity (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol [SMTP], Extended SMTP [ESMTP], point of presence 3 [POP3], and Internet Mail Access Protocol [IMAP]).
• Firewall for secure unified communications: Cisco IOS Firewall transparently supports voice traffic, including application-level conformance of media protocol call flow and the associated open channels. It supports voice protocols such as H.323v2, v3, and v4; Skinny Client Control Protocol (SCCP); and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and assures protection of unified communications components such as Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Border Element, and their endpoints.
• VRF-aware firewall: Firewall is included in the list of services available at the individual context level for VRF deployments.
• Firewall high availability: Stateful firewall failover facilitates HSRP-based active-standby failover between two devices, avoiding disruption of active sessions.
• Transparent firewall: This feature provides Layer 2 segmentation, allowing easy addition of firewall into existing networks without renumbering IP subnets.
• IPv6 firewall: IPv6 firewall allows Cisco IOS Firewall to operate in mixed IPv6 and IPv4 environments.
• Granular security policies: This feature supports per-user, per-interface, or per-subinterface security policies.
• Integrated identity services: Integrated identity services provide per-user authentication and authorization.
• Policy-based firewall management: Cisco Security Manager and Cisco Configuration Professional provide intuitive policy-based ways to manage Cisco IOS Firewall.
Cisco IOS IPS
• Inline function: Going beyond detection, this feature enables the router to respond immediately to security threats and protect the network. Routers can drop traffic, send an alarm, locally shun, or reset the connection as needed, to stop attacking traffic at the point of origination and remove it from the network as quickly as possible. You can configure these actions per signature.
• Signature Event Action Processor (SEAP): Unique, risk rating based signature event action processor allows more accurate and efficient IPS event monitoring by filtering or separating events with low/high Risk Rating; dramatically improves the ease of management of IPS policies.
• Ready-made signature files: This feature allows users who want maximum intrusion protection to select an easy-to-use signature file that contains "most-likely" worm and attack signatures. Traffic matching these high-confidence-rated worm and attack signatures is configured to be dropped. Cisco Configuration Professional provides an intuitive user interface to provision these signatures, including the ability to upload new signatures from Cisco.com without requiring a change in software image, and configures the router appropriately for these signatures.
• Customizable signatures: With this feature you can modify an existing signature or create a new signature to address newly discovered threats (you can enable each signature action individually).
• Transparent IPS: This feature provides Layer 3 IPS for Layer 2 connectivity, permitting easy addition of IPS to existing networks with no IP subnet renumbering required.
• VRF-aware IPS: IPS is included in the list of services available at the individual context level for VRF deployments.
• Large signature database: The number of signatures from which to choose is ever-increasing; currently Cisco IPS sensor platforms support more than 1200 of the signatures.
• Consistent management: You can load and enable selected IPS signatures in the same manner as Cisco Intrusion Detection System (IDS) sensor appliances.
Cisco IOS Content Filtering
• Subscription-based services: Easy-to-renew 1-, 2-, or 3-year subscription-based service is associated to the router platform; no individual user licenses are required. Your subscription provides access to Trend Micro's database, with content filtering policies set on the router.
• Security ratings: Cisco IOS Content Filtering protects against a variety of web-based threats, including zero-day attacks. It assesses the security risk posed by a website based on analysis from Trend Micro's TrendLabs, and it helps combat phishing and guards against spyware that may send confidential information to hackers and cybercriminals. TrendLabs provides the security rating for a given URL based on a combination of past behavior and current exposure to malware, adware, phishing, spyware, and hacking.
• Category-based URL classification: Content-based classification of URLs helps restrict access to objectionable or productivity-affecting websites (sites focusing on gambling or weapons, for example). More than 70 categories are available, including reputation-based blocking (spyware and keylogging, for example).
• Keyword blocking: Cisco IOS Content Filtering allows blocking of websites based on selected keywords that occur in the URL.
• Black and white list support: Cisco IOS Content Filtering supports 100 black and 1000 white URLs. For example, you can add trusted websites to a white list.
• Management provisioning: Cisco IOS Content Filtering is easy to use and deploy. It is managed through Cisco Configuration Professional, a web-based router management tool.
• Caching: The caching feature stores URL categories and their policy decisions (permit or deny) locally on the router, ensuring quick response time to access the Internet. Administrators can configure the cache duration on the router.
Figure 4. Example of Anomaly-Based DDoS Detection Using NetFlow and Arbor Networks
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• Certificate Servers: Supports external (e.g. Verisign) or in-house (e.g. Microsoft) certificate servers; for smaller deployments Cisco IOS Software Certificate Server can be used
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• Auto Enrollment and Renewal: Allows router to automatically request the digital certificate and renew prior to expiration; Certificate rollover allows seamless transition when CA's Certificate is renewed
• Secure Device Provisioning: Allows routers with factory-default configurations to be deployed securely using PKI and IPsec VPN, without extensive end-user configuration; ideal for remote offices or teleworker locations
• PKI - AAA Integration: Allows router to use an AAA server at the back-end to provide authorization; provides granular control based on certificate fields
• Certificate Based Access Control: Provides function similar to PKI - AAA Integration, except uses on-box ACLs to accept or reject certificates based on certificate fields
• HTTPS management and SSL VPN features: Supports persistent self-signed certificates
• Certification Revocation Checking: Supports Certification Revocation Lists (CRLs) and Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
• Multiple-Tier CA Hierarchy: Allows the router to work with CA TrustPoints at multiple levels; can be used to set up branch routers to work with departmental CAs or other subordinate certificate servers
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• Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)
• Subordinate and Registration Authority modes
Standard 802.1x-Based Identity Services
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• Interactive mode: Prompts you with options to enable and disable services and other security features
• Noninteractive mode: Automatically executes the AutoSecure command with the recommended Cisco default settings
Control Plane Policing and Protection
Figure 5. Control Plane Policing: Packet Buffer; Incoming Packets; Cisco Express Forwarding and Forwarding Information Base (FIB) Lookup; Output Packet Buffer; and Silent Mode
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Figure 6. Real-Time Wire-Rate Defense Against DDoS Attacks with Source-Based RTBH Filtering
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Detroit Auto CEOs' PR Suicide
Public opinion will now prevent Congress from approving any significant sums of money for the car industry so long as these CEOs remain at the helm. So, in retrospect, their act of folly was a complete blessing.
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The three CEOs of the Big Three auto companies did something great with their dumb display of total insensitivity.
General Motor's Rick Wagoner, Ford's Alan Mulally, and Chrysler's Bob Nardelli inadvertently exposed what the real problem was when they flew down to Washington, D.C., to beg for $25 billon dollars from the government ---- in their private corporate jets.
The cost of the CEOs' flights to DC and back to Detroit was estimated at about $20,000 each. A commercial flight would have cost each CEO about $600.
At a time when the country is convulsing with the shock of the financial meltdown, massive job losses, spreading hunger in some urban areas, the captains of the U.S. auto industry did not even blink an eye; they took private planes to Washington.
The CEOs are clueless and out of touch with regular Americans already suffering from the brunt of economic downsizing, or from the fears of impending layoffs. How can these CEOs be trusted with such massive sums of money? If they cannot even pretend to be frugal under the prevailing financial and economic conditions how can these men be trusted to deploy the $25 billion they are seeking to productive use?
Their actions are completely unacceptable and amount to political and public relations suicide. Public opinion will now prevent Congress from approving any significant sums of money for the car industry so long as these CEOs remain at the helm.
So, in retrospect, their acts of folly was a complete blessing. The government can now tie any funding for each of the car companies to the resignations of the three CEOs.
That must be only one of the conditions.
The most important conditions must be for General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler to produce a business plan that shows by when (a) each of their companies will produce significant amounts of fuel efficient cars and in what quantities (b) show by when each company will produce "green" cars, employing electric or solar energy and in what quantities (c) show their plan for work force restructuring, including salaries for remaining employees, and (d) show the level of across the board pay cuts that company executives will immediately take.
Finally, in return for the investment and loan, government should take a partnership role in each company.
Barring these steps; no federal bailout for these companies.
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Until recently, wagering on regional casinos was for losers. But betting on Penn National Gaming, a Wyomissing, Pa.–based casino and racetrack operator, could soon be a winning strategy.
Penn (ticker: PENN) will split on Nov. 1 into a real-estate investment trust called Gaming & Leisure Properties (GLPI), and an operating company that will lease properties from the REIT. By January, each Penn holder will receive a total of 1.35 G&LP shares and a special $3.33 cash dividend, with the promise of more dividends to follow, as REITs, by law, must distribute 90% of their earnings.
As separate entities, Penn's parts could be worth considerably more than the company's $55 stock price and $4.3 billion market value. The operating company could be valued at eight times this year's estimated cash flow of $1.95 a share, or $15.60 a share. But G&LP could command as much as 13.8 times estimated cash flow of $2.93, or $54. The loftier multiple is in line with other "triple net lease" REITs, whose tenants must pay property taxes, insurance, and upkeep. Add the special dividend, and the parts could be worth north of $70 a share, or 30% more than the current stock price.
Both companies could add still more value in 2014, assuming a midteens growth rate and an annual dividend of at least $2.32 a share. Penn has been trading sideways for much of this year, after jumping late last year on news of the REIT's creation.
Growth for the REIT and the operating company could come from their consolidation of the regional gaming industry, whose markets have been suffering. Penn has gaming licenses in 18 states, and the spinoff will give G&LP the currency to pay up for rivals in accretive deals. Gaming properties have traded at eight times cash flow. The REIT is expected to spend $500 million on new properties in its first year, implying a rise of as much as $60 million, or 17%, in its cash flow.
It should have little trouble finding attractive targets; privately, Penn management has said it received many expressions of interest from potential sellers. The U.S. has more than 100 privately owned gaming operations, many run by aging owners who might want to cash out. In addition, some publicly traded casino companies are looking to reshuffle assets.
Consider Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, owned by entrepreneur Neil Bluhm, 75, or Detroit's MotorCity Casino, owned by Marian Bayoff Ilitch, 80, co-founder of Little Caesars Pizza. Other targets could include publicly traded Isle of Capri Casinos (ISLE), with a $300 million market capitalization, or Dover Downs Gaming (DDE), with a $48 million market cap. Bluhm, MotorCity, and Dover Downs declined to comment; Isle of Capri didn't respond.
Bigger operators are also selling assets. Penn bought Harrah's St. Louis gaming and lodging facility last year from Caesars Entertainment (CZR); Penn's chief operating officer, Timothy Wilmott, a former Harrah's executive, will lead the new operating company.
PENN CEO PETER CARLINO, a former real-estate developer whose family owns a 14.5% stake, is no stranger to successful deal-making. Penn's shares, which went public in 1994, have returned nearly 25% a year under his leadership. "The new financial and operational structure gets Carlino back to his roots," says David Rainey, of Broad Run Investment Management, a major Penn shareholder. Carlino and other Penn officials declined to speak with Barron's.
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Penn National's split into a REIT and an operating company eventually could unlock 30% more value. Growth will come from buying more casinos.
One thorny issue for Penn and G&LP is excess capacity in regional gaming. The industry's largely lower-income clientele is struggling, and the nation's top metropolitan areas all have casinos within a three-hour drive. The opening of Caesars' new Horseshoe Cincinnati casino in March, for instance, hurt Penn's properties in Ohio and Indiana. Penn's numbers have suffered in the interim, but starting in the current quarter, comparisons will look better.
At the top of the market in 2007, Carlino arranged to sell Penn to a consortium led by Fortress Investment group. The deal fell apart, but Fortress kept some shares and Penn got some cash, which it used to buy a distressed M Resort in Henderson, Nev. When the split is completed, the Carlino family will own just under 10% of the operating company and a higher percentage of the REIT; and Fortress, 9.9% of each entity. Fortress founder Wesley Edens is expected to serve on the REIT's board.
For all Carlino's deal-making, Penn peaked in 2007 at $63.29 a share. It's a good bet they'll be heading higher.
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With a pliant, narrow blade that thinly cuts and finely trims, this German knife is specially designed to bone and fillet fish and poultry. The full-tang high-carbon-steel blade is triple riveted to the polypropylene handle for peerless balance.
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Jeff Rosen's Must-Read on CJ Roberts
Take the time to read Jeff Rosen's latest piece in The New Republic. Here's the money quote, as far as F1@1F is concerned:
And then, there was last term's voting-rights case, in which Roberts wrote an 8-1 decision rejecting a broad constitutional challenge to the Voting Rights Act and instead deciding the case on technical grounds. For those who wanted to believe that Roberts was a genuine conciliator, this was a powerful piece of evidence. Like others, I praised his performance in the case as an act of judicial statesmanship.
But, in retrospect, the ruling may have been less statesmanlike than it appeared. According to a source who was briefed on the deliberations in the case, Anthony Kennedy was initially ready to join Roberts and the other conservatives in issuing a sweeping 5-4 decision, striking down the Voting Rights Act on constitutional grounds. But the four liberal justices threatened to write a strong dissent that would have accused the majority of misconstruing landmark precedents about congressional power. What happened next is unclear, but the most likely possibilities are either that Kennedy got cold feet or that Roberts backed down. The Voting Rights Act survived, but what looked from the outside like an act of judicial statesmanship by Roberts may have in fact been a strategic retreat. Moreover, rather than following the principled alternative suggested by David Souter at the oral argument–holding that the people who were challenging the Voting Rights Act had no standing to bring the lawsuit–Roberts opted to rewrite the statute in a way that Congress never intended. That way, Roberts was still able to express his constitutional doubts about the law-as well as his doubts about landmark Supreme Court precedents from the civil rights era, which he mischaracterized and seemed ready to overrule.
The voting-rights case may help explain why Roberts didn't take a similarly conciliatory posture in Citizens United. After all, one was certainly available. Just as Roberts had implausibly but strategically held in the voting-rights case that Congress intended to let election districts bail out of federal supervision, he could have held–far more plausibly–in Citizens United that Congress never intended to regulate video-on-demand or groups with minimal corporate funding. As with the voting-rights case, judicial creativity could have been justified in the name of judicial restraint.
There is, of course, a charitable explanation for why Roberts took the conciliatory approach in one case but not the other: namely, that he felt the principles involved in Citizens United were somehow more important and therefore less amenable to compromise. As he told me in our 2006 interview, he has strong views that he, like his hero John Marshall, is not willing to bargain away. Marshall, Roberts said, "was not going to compromise his principles, and I don't think there's any example of his doing that in his jurisprudence."
But a less charitable explanation for the difference between the two cases is that Roberts didn't compromise on Citizens United because, this time, he simply didn't have to.
Setting aside Rosen's brief and remarkable peek into the NAMUDNO deliberations, this passage also has echoes of F1@1F's main thesis: the Court is guided by a Chief Justice who picks his battles wisely, preserving the Court's political capital only for the cases most near to movement conservatism's heart. Rosen takes this point, but wavers in conclusion:
It's impossible, at the moment, to tell whether the reaction to Citizens United will be the beginning of a torrential backlash or will fade into the ether. But John Roberts is now entering politically hazardous territory. Without being confident either way, I still hope that he has enough political savvy and historical perspective to recognize and avoid the shoals ahead. There's little doubt, however, that the success or failure of his tenure will turn on his ability to align his promises of restraint with the reality of his performance. Roberts may feel just as confident that he knows the "right" answer in cases like Peek-a-Boo as he did in Citizens United. But political backlashes are hard to predict, contested constitutional visions can't be successfully imposed by 5-4 majorities, and challenging the president and Congress on matters they care intensely about is a dangerous game. We've seen wellintentioned but unrestrained chief justices overplay their hands in the past–and it always ends badly for the Court.
I believe Roberts has the political sense to avoid an all-out clash with the elected branches and that the Court has formed its docket and made its decisions accordingly. F1@1F's mission is to test that hypothesis through oral argument and opinion analysis as well as interviews with those interested enough to get in the Court's general admission line. Given the expected longevity of the Roberts Court, this term alone, even set against the trend of the previous three terms, will hardly be determinative. But it will be informative.
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Interesting behind the scenes info. I'm curious about what parts of civil rights era jurisprudence Rosen says Roberts mischaracterizes…curious and nervous.
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WALTHAM, MA-Host Bentley defeated the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's swimming team in a dual meet at the Dana Center pool Saturday afternoon. The Falcons won the men's competition, 134-100, and took the women's meet, 140-89.
For the women, freshman Chelsea Hopkins-Pottle (Brockton, MA/Brockton HS) qualified for the New England Championships when she finished fourth in one meter diving with a score of 177.00. For the men, senior Craig Johnson (Acushnet, MA/New Bedford HS) took the 100 yard butterfly in 57.38 seconds, while sophomore Matt Dean (Londonderry, NH/Londonderry HS) won the 100 yard breaststroke in 1:06.49.
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Bus and Ida May are good family friends of ours, and they live on a farm near Seattle. Their farm used to be even larger than it is now, but there is now a major highway, several off ramps, businesses and condos where the cows used to graze. Every summer for the past several years, my wife Nichelle and I have enjoyed homemade desserts with them on their back porch made from ingredients picked just several yards away. After spending time with them one evening, I felt compelled to photograph them. To make things as comfortable as possible, I set up in their back yard, while friends and family came over for dinner. A good amount of my studio work is actually done on location like this. Not necessarily on a farm, but in a place that my subject feels most comfortable. In this case, it was a farm. Not to mention, I would choose to work outside on a warm summer evening instead of in a studio any time given the choice.
I have a photography show opening in a few weeks, and the headshots of Bus and Ida May will be two of the 12 or so images on display. I will have more information about the show shortly, and after I wrap up a few large projects, I will be able to get back to a more regular blog schedule. Thanks for taking a look, and I hope you are enjoying what is left of summer.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Private dinner gatherings that Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback hosted for dozens of legislators at his official residence didn't substantially violate the state's opening meetings law even though they touched upon his legislative agenda, a state prosecutor said Tuesday.
Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor issued his findings after a nearly seven-month investigation into seven meetings in January for members of 13 legislative committees. Brownback invited more than 90 lawmakers, almost all of them fellow Republicans.
Taylor, a Democrat, said his investigation found no evidence to suggest any substantial violations of the Kansas Open Meetings Act, which generally prohibits a majority of legislative bodies from discussing government business without public notice or access to the meetings. He said his investigation found that in some instances the legislators touched on issues before them at Cedar Crest gatherings, but that generally they did not intend to violate the act.
Many of the legislators who were invited to the dinners described them as social gatherings heavy on small talk, and Brownback and his aides repeatedly said they were comfortable that no laws were violated. However, the governor also acknowledged that he called the meetings to discuss his legislative agenda and took some questions.
Governors have had regular social gatherings for lawmakers at Cedar Crest for decades, but Brownback's events were seen as unusual because he grouped legislators by committee. Taylor had said from the outset of his investigation that, as an individual, Brownback couldn't violate the open meetings law and that legislators would face any potential sanctions.
Also, violations of the Open Meetings Act are civil, not criminal, matters. Officials who knowingly break the law can be fined up to $500 per incident, but typically, a case leads to an order or agreement spelling out what steps officials will take to avoid future violations.
Taylor launched his investigation after receiving a complaint in late January from an attorney for The Topeka Capital-Journal, which wrote the first news reports about the gatherings. The district attorney initially said he could have the investigation wrapped up by mid-February.
Many Republican legislators had accused Taylor of launching a political investigation, and GOP leaders initially were put off by his tactics. For example, early on, he sent a letter to all legislators, demanding that they preserve records and electronic files as potential evidence.
The Open Meetings Act allows the state's attorney general or a county prosecutor to subpoena witnesses and documents and compel witnesses to answer questions under oath. But some legislators noted that the Kansas Constitution gives them immunity from having to answer subpoenas while they are in session, and Taylor's office didn't wrap up interviews with lawmakers until June.
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Alex Rodriguez's name has been connected to yet another twist in the MLB Biogenesis scandal.
CBS' "60 Minutes" reported on Friday that associates of Rodriguez leaked documents to the media that identified Milwaukee's Ryan Braun and the Yankees' Francisco Cervelli (Rodriguez's teammate) as targets of the Biogenesis probe.
Braun (62 games) and Cervelli (50 games) have since accepted suspensions connected to the Biogenesis investigation.
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How and where - (in what application Photoshop, Corel or something else) can I make a 3D design that looks like the illustrations, for example?
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How and where - (in what application Photoshop, Corel or something else) can I make a 3D design that looks like the illustrations, for example?
Thanks in advance. Best regards
You can render a 3-D image using 3-D rendering and modeling software, or you can draw a 2-D image that looks 3-D. (or, in many cases, a bit of both)
The left logo appears to be modelled, the right logo appears to be a 2-D illustration.
To do 3-D modeling, you'll need to get some 3-D software and learn it. Options include SolidWorks, SketchUp, Maya, and many, many others.
To do 2-D illustration that looks 3-D, you'll need to learn some basic illustration skills (perpective, shading, scale, etc.) and then learn some software to draw it. Options include PhotoShop, Illustrator, InkScape, The GIMP, and many, many others.
Photoshop CS6 Extended has strong 3D capabilities, vastly upgraded, faster and a lot simpler to work with than CS4 or CS5. PS brings all the power of Photoshop to the party, which becomes important when you're working with custom textures and bump maps, or for subtle shading and blend mode effects, and has the advantage that you're already familiar with most of it. You can download the public beta as of today (April 13, 2012) for free, so it's worth a try.
PS Extended imports most standard 3D formats, so if you create something with Blender or Sketchup you can still work with it in Photoshop. Maya has specific round-trip functionality to allow an artist working on a 3D object to take it into Photoshop for texture, shading, etc., and bring it back into Maya for final rendering.
If you'll be getting into extensive 3D work (and you have the budget!), then a full-blown application like Maya, 3DS Max or SolidWorks would be the way to build your 3D objects, using Photoshop to enhance as needed. (The fact that 3D artists use Photoshop so heavily is the reason the program acquired 3D features in the first place. Nothing moves on a video screen without being kissed by Photoshop somewhere along the line!)
You can easily make something similar to the first logo using the 3D revolve tool in Adobe Illustrator. For more complex icons, a possibility would be to use Illustrator's gradient mesh tool or to create the logo in a dedicated 3D design program such as Autodesk Maya or Cheetah3D and then can be augmented in Photoshop.
Here's an example of the fist logo example done in Photoshop CS 6 Extended. Note that I only let it go for 5 (rendering) passes; the longer it renders the more noise is removed...
As you can see, for some of your 3D needs Photoshop CS 6 Extended can be your goto app. After all, as a designer, you're probably already there... and it comes with a/the Creative Cloud. (^_^)
Check out Photoshop.com for more information. Or comment below and I'll update this post with a few steps on making the rings and text (3D Extrusions). Cheers!
Disclaimer: I am the editor-in-chief of Photoshop Dimensions.
Rendering in 3d software allways produce bitmaps and these pictures are only suitable for presentation of a logo, not for use outside of web. Resolution problems occurs with resizing, even printing. So... The real logo is only vector based illustration, suitable for all purposes.
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This Particle wasn't the same Particle I saw before. There was more than a particle of difference. This Particle was more focused and controlled, with more defined direction. This Particle was good.
I remember the lights, though. The lights were the same as before. Lots of lights– the kind that change colors, shapes, textures, and moods... beaming off the stage, into the crowd, onto the band, around the room, and into my eyes just enough to remind me to blink. They call it "intelligent lighting" because the lights can be programmed to react to the music. If you could program people to react to the music, they would they be intelligent people. I don't know... I digress.
Last time, the lights were better than the band, and that's never a good thing. Before, Particle's jams were too jammy, the guitar noodled too much, the sythns were too synthetic, and the bass was too much down beat and not enough in the pocket. I guess that's why this time around I thought I was listening to a different band.
Is this the Particle I knew? This Particle has rid itself of shameless, aimless jam explorations and replaced them with a cleverly arranged electro-dancefunk odyssey. This Particle had a grasp on how to control the momentum of a dance beat– the gradual buildups that pull your heartstrings with the steady pulse of the kick drum until you feel like you're going to explode if that snare doesn't drop soon. Drop the snare. Drop the snare, damnit! Bring in that damn Moog line that's going to release the tension!
Finally the snare drops, the hi-hats swing into double time, the bass fills out its groove, the guitar swells in the pockets, and the melody rears its head. Just at the right time. If you blink, you might miss it.
What else was the same? Oh, yes. That dancing dude front stage surrounded by racks of keyboards, synth modules, and samplers. I remember him from before. Last time he was much more annoying, doing a dance halfway between the robot and a seizure. Maybe the fact that I was irritated with the music made him so unbearable last time. This time his dancing didn't detract so much.
I was more distracted by his playing, maniacal and precise. He moved around the devices like a mad scientist, waving his hands, conducting the rest of the band, smiling at the sneering guitarist, and generally enjoying his powers of hypnosis over the audience. His dancing still sucked... oooh, purty lights... what was I talking about again?
Oh, yeah. The dude on keyboards. He dropped in samples, doubled the bass, filled in piano accompaniments, and dueled with the guitarist something fierce. Every once in a while he would look over to the side, where DJ Logic (Project Logic, Medeski Martin and Wood) was standing next to his Newmark turntables, and smile. Logic would nod just enough for a beam of light to reflect off his newly bald head.
Logic wasn't there last time. He was a welcome addition. When he finally joined Particle for a jam in the second set, it was a perfect match. That's not too difficult, considering Logic has the knack of making his turntablism fit into nearly any scenario. I have to thank him for a job well done.
Particle proved this time around that they're a band worthy of the hype. They came with their A-game. They even made me feel kinda bad for dissing them in print last time... well, not really. Just goes to show: You can't please all the people all the time, but if you please some of them most of the time, you're in pretty good shape.


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ciaranchef wrote:Fantastic, what base was this?
IanH wrote:ciaranchef wrote:Fantastic, what base was this?
Base at top of each post.
Welcome on board and very nice shots and subject. Any Phantom is a good one.
Regards, Ian
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ciaranchef wrote:Great post, interesting to see these rare aircraft...thanks.
soundbarrier wrote:ciaranchef wrote:Great post, interesting to see these rare aircraft...thanks.
Nice post indeed but honestly the T-4 is not that rare in Japan. If you go there for two weeks its almost boring to see them
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