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CITY OF NEWBURGH — Daryl Kelly remained defiant, even as the then-39-year-old City of Newburgh man faced sentencing on Aug. 27, 1997, following his conviction on raping and sodomizing his 8-year-old daughter.
CITY OF NEWBURGH — Daryl Kelly remained defiant, even as the then-39-year-old City of Newburgh man faced sentencing on Aug. 27, 1998, following his conviction on raping and sodomizing his 8-year-old daughter.
Orange County Judge Nicholas DeRosa called him a "pathological liar" at the hearing. Assistant District Attorney Karen DiValentino, who prosecuted the case, said he "stole a little girl's spirit."
But before the a 20- to-40-year sentence, Kelly, who had refused a plea deal making him eligible for release after just six years, again denied sexually abusing Chaneya Kelly at their home on Washington Street.
"It's kind of hard for me to have remorse for a situation that in my heart (and) in my mind never took place," he said.
Now a committee of the state District Attorneys Association, led by Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick, is reviewing a case short on physical evidence and largely reliant on the testimony of Chaneya Kelly and her mother, Charade Kelly.
At the heart of the review is Chaneya Kelly, now 24 and living in Maryland.
Within months of the sentencing she joined her mother in recanting the rape claims, with Chaneya Kelly saying she admitted to the allegations because a drug-addicted, belt-wielding Charade Kelly threatened her with a beating. Since then she has been a vocal part of her father's 15-year effort to be freed, even writing to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
"Everything that I said on the stand, I have no recollection of that ever happening," Chaneya Kelly said.
Daryl Kelly's trial began one day in October 1997.
Chaneya Kelly says she spent time downstairs with her father but was in her upstairs room when a disheveled Charade Kelly barged in with a belt.
"What did your father do to you?" Charade Kelly said, according to Chaneya Kelly. "Tell me or I'll beat you."
Chaneya Kelly insists she initially denied any abuse, and only raised abuse claims to avoid a beating.
"I don't remember how many times I said no, but I know I said no more than once," she said.
Prosecutors charged Daryl Kelly with multiple counts of first-degree rape, first-degree sodomy and first-degree sexual abuse, alleging repeated incidents between Oct. 17 and Oct. 25, 1997.
Constance Burns Carmody, a nurse with the Family Health Center in Newburgh, examined Chaneya Kelly on Oct. 27, 1997. She testified to finding redness in an area of her genitals, but no other evidence of a sexual attack.
The redness was "consistent" with sexual abuse, but could have other origins, like rubbing, she told the court.
Less than eight months after the sentencing, Chaneya Kelly and her mother recanted in sworn affidavits. Charade Kelly said she was in a "drug induced state" when she threatened her daughter with a belt.
Orange County District Attorney Frank Phillips defended his office's prosecution of Kelly in an interview with NBC.
"The system says he's not innocent, that the credibility of Chaneya was tested, that the issues surrounding her testimony back in 1998 were addressed," Phillips told NBC.
Patricia Thomas, Charade Kelly's mother and the pastor of a Newburgh church, accompanied Chaneya Kelly to the office of Gary Greenwald, who handled Kelly's sentencing, so her granddaughter could give a videotaped retraction.
Her daughter's claims inspired doubt from the beginning, said Thomas, who regularly talks to Daryl Kelly by phone.
"I kept questioning her," Thomas said of Charade. "It seemed like she wasn't sure." Phillips is not bound by any determinations made by the committee reviewing the case. Peter Cross, Daryl Kelly's current attorney, is weighing a petition to federal court. "Judge DeRosa is never going to reverse his decision," he said.
Chaneya Kelly thinks she was 15 years old when she was first allowed to visit him at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Dutchess County. But she remembers crying as soon as her father appeared.
"He came straight to me to let me know this is not your fault," she said. "We erased any tension."


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{Quick Tip} Certificate disappearing in IIS of CRM server even after successful import.
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Before I proceed with the post. let me clear this out. There is nothing special about IIS server where CRM is installed. It applies to all IIS servers. However being a devotee of Dynamics for quite sometime now, can't write any post without tagging CRM to it.
So here I was working for a client with on-premise 2016 version. And their certificate is about to expire. They needed to generate a CSR for a SAN Certificate as wildcard certificates are not allowed by most of company policies.
So they used Open SSL to generate the CSR. For reader's who might be interested in knowing how to generate SAN Certificate using Open SSL, https://geekflare.com/san-ssl-certificate/ provides a good example. And they got the certificate back from the Network team.
Now the D-day. They imported the certificate in Personal store and also imported the certificate in IIS using 'Complete Certificate Request' option. All set and good.
But the moment they try to bind the certificate to dynamics CRM site, they could not find the certificate. Repeated this process. However the same behavior every time.
A bit of research and this is what comes up – "Certificate without private Key Information in it, cannot be binded to a IIS website."
But how to do it?
When you generate a CSR request using Open SSL, the private key is output to a file. Usually the name is "Private.Key", unless you specified something else.
So you have the private key and the certificate separately. But how to bind the certificate with the Private key?
Follow the below steps
- Copy the Private Key file and the certificate to the Open SSL bin folder. Usually is it C:\OpenSSL-Win64 for 64 bit machines and C:\OpenSSL-Win32 for 32 bit machines
- Open command prompt as administrator and navigate to the bin folder in the command prompt.
- Run the below command
openssl pkcs12 -export -out certificate.pfx –inkey private.key -in certificate.crt –certfile
Here Certificate.pfx in the output certificate with the private key information and certificate.crt is the certificate you received from Network team.
Once the command completed successfully, you should be able to view Certificate.pfx in the bin folder.
Now all set and done. You will now just need to import this certificate to the IIS. But remember to use the "Import" option in the certificate window.
A rather off topic but hope it makes an interesting read.
Debajit Dutta
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The relentless pressure Progressives are using to get other companies to follow Kellogg's lead and remove their advertising from Breitbart and other conservative websites is a reminder that, for the Left, the personal is always political. Leftists will not allow any activity in their lives to be politically neutral. Everything they do is an opportunity to make a statement or, even better, to tighten the screws on a person or entity with which they disagree.
A little digging into Kellogg's history shows that we really ought not to have been that surprised when it decided to boycott half of America. After all, this is a company with a foundation that supported Black Lives Matter to the tune of almost a million dollars.
For those of us who believe we empower blacks by encouraging self-reliance, self-discipline, hard work, and honest conduct (just as we demand of ourselves and our children), it tells us a great deal when a vast food corporation (which I'd bet benefits greatly from federal welfare channeled to low income people) throws its weight behind a group that advocates for the end of the rule of law and the death of cops. In other words, Kellogg was politicized long before the Breitbart boycott reached it.
However, what a lot of people are missing is that Kellogg is not the only company out there that is putting politics where its profits (or lack of profits) are. According to the Sleeping Giants' twitter feed, which operates as a vast tattle-tale operation where rabid Progressives can put American companies on notice that their ads are appearing on Breitbart, fifty-seven other businesses have pulled Breitbart advertising:
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There's a growing trend among smartphone manufacturers to do away with the 3.5mm audio jack that has long been the standard connector for a huge range of audio equipment over the past century. Motorola's new Moto Z doesn't feature a 3.5mm audio connector, neither does LeEco's latest range of smartphones, and Apple has finally done away with the socket this year too. Of course, when Apple did it, it created a much more angry reaction from fans and haters alike than when Moto or LeEco did it.
In fact I had something to say about the removal of headphone jack on the Moto Z and LeEco. And while I still believe that, I am seeing a trend now and all these big names are writing about how Apple did the right thing, how headphone jacks are a 100 year old technology and they should go.
By now you must have read a dozen thought pieces on how dropping the beloved analog headphone jack is a bad idea, but at the same time, since the iPhone 7 launch others have been writing about how the Lightning port (or USB Type-C on other devices) is the future for all our audio needs.
While some audio enthusiasts are reluctant to see the death of a long running and highly successful standard, others are ready to embrace new technology and some of the benefits that are being promised along with it.
Grandiose verbiage aside, this is a huge move in the audio world. Ever since rumours started swirling of a jack-less iPhone, there's been widespread outrage on the internet. A petition that started in January has garnered more than 300,000 signatures to keep the standard headphone port. "This is right out of the Apple corporate playbook,"states the petition, noting the change will force iPhone users to replace their headphones and in the process "create mountains of electronic waste."
Apple went ahead with it's plans anyways. True to its current obsession with minimalism, Apple has aggressively streamlined the shape of its products and eliminated standard ports over the past decade. It used the introduction of minimalistic gadgets to phase out the floppy drive (iMac G3, 1998), phone jacks (MacBook, MacBook Pro 2006), ethernet ports (MacBook Air 2008), and CD/DVD players (MacBook Air 2008). Earlier, it made its most dramatic design omission yet with the new MacBook, replacing the USB, monitor, and power ports with the new USB-C standard. Apple has introduced disruptive changes to its products over and over again in the last 20 years, and it has been an important factor in the company's success.
The headphone jack was the last of the original ports to remain standing since Apple released its first mass-market PC in 1984. "Our obsession continues to simplify and improve," Jony Ive, Apple's chief design office, said in a video shown at the Apple event on Wednesday.
The 3.5mm audio jack was popularized as the way to plug headphones into Sony's portable Walkman tape player and got a new lease on life as a way to handle audio on virtually every mobile phone and PC.
If you look back a decade or so, the phones then all had digital connectors and the standard headphone jack was nowhere to be seen. Remember the Nokia Pop-Port? Or the Sony Ericsson FastPort? Good times.
But that didn't work now, did it? A few years later, we all ended up coming back to the gold standard that was the TRS jack. Even Apple when it launched the iPhone chose to go with a standard (albeit unnecessarily recessed) 3.5mm jack, even though it would have made way more sense back then to just send audio through the 30-pin connector as some companies were still doing it.
So then why now? I think there is a lot of buzz these days around the whole high resolution audio thing. Manufacturers claiming they can use the pure digital output of their phones' USB ports to send you uncompressed high quality sound. But this is nonsense.
Let's consider what they say
The headphone jack is an analog connection originally designed for old-fashioned telephone switchboards in the early 20th century. It can't transfer nearly as much data as a digital connection like a Bluetooth, Lightning or USB Type-C connection. Plus, the headphone jack only sends information one way: from power source to speaker.
The major difference is that the 3.5mm connector transfers stereo analog audio out of the socket, meaning that all of the digital conversion and headphone driving components are housed in the smartphone. This means the quality of the audio output depends largely on your phone. Take the new LG V20 and its 32bit HiFi Quad DAC for instance, you cannot enjoy that kind of audio via a headphone jack on any other smartphone because those wouldn't have such high and of course power consuming converters.
The new USB Type-C standard is proposing a different take on this old formula, opting to transmit digital audio data over the connection instead. This will then leave the headphones or other connected devices to convert this data into an analog signal and to drive the speakers themselves. This of course requires power, but that can also be sent over the same USB port. But the advantage here is that the audio output you get is totally dependent on your headphones and not on any other device. Certainly, buying a high quality expensive headphone wouldn't cost you as much as an LG V20 especially if you don't really want an LG V20. Take a look at the diagram below, Device A shows the current set up with headphone jacks and Device B is one without a headphone jack or DAC.
Good headphone manufacturers may also be able to produce superior circuit board layouts to those in today's smartphones, which could produce better noise and lower cross-talk characteristics. Not only that, but headset manufacturers will be free to pick top quality DAC and amplifier components, and custom design and tune these circuits for their speakers. This would free consumers from being tied to whatever their handset manufacturers decide to include. This isn't to say OEMs are picking notably poor quality audio parts for their smartphones these days, so this would probably only be useful in lower cost smartphones.
USB/Lightning/Bluetooth can of course transfer more than just digital audio and is bi-directional. This also opens the door for advanced communication between hardware, so high-end headphones may be packed with additional hardware and software features. The volume, play, pause, and skip functions that are included in some smartphone headphones could be made more reliably compatible, and could also be augmented with shuffle, navigation, and even EQ options. Furthermore, digital processing options included in headphones could be accompanied and controlled by dedicated smartphone apps, giving users control over the sound of their headsets from the palm of their hand.
With bidirectional communication now possible between the devices, we can send information back to the smartphone, like biometric data, [language] translation data, and audio quality information. Real-time audio translations would obviously be a huge win for everyone.
Moreover, consumers don't want wires anymore. Many will jump at this statement saying "I do" assuming they alone make up a large part of the market. I have seen that countless times. But hear this, the sales of wired headphones has been on a steady decline while bluetooth headphones which may suck in audio output compared to the wired ones, are on the rise.
Instead of the nostalgia over the loss of a tiny hole on the side of the gadgets, the issue at heart is about possibilities for sophisticated tech devices without the cord. After all, who doesn't love cordless phones, irons, speakers, mice, and wireless headphones when we're running around?
Audiophiles have long clung to their cables (and vinyl records), believing wireless technology compromises the listening experience. But Olive, who is the research director for audio company Harman International, says the jack connector actually has little impact on acoustic quality. The two most critical factors to good sound quality are the headphone's speaker (called the surface transducer or exciter) and the original sound recording.
The current industry standard, Bluetooth 4, is "good enough" as any wired connection, he adds, and the release of Bluetooth 5, which is expected in late 2016 or early 2017, promises to make fidelity even better. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group boasts that the newest standard will double the speed of connections and increase the capacity of data broadcasts by 800%. Apple's move to eliminate analog ports will help accelerate scientific research that could benefit a wider audience. As an example, he said an international conference on headphone technology he co-chaired in Denmark last month delved into hearing aid innovations.
To make even more sense, consider this : Everything is digital now. The music players, music files, and the equalizers—every step of the process is handled by computers. It makes absolutely no sense to have a single purporse 3.5mm port in advanced devices like current generation smartphones. Headphones can do more with the digital signal produced by a USB Type-C (or lightning) cable or wireless Bluetooth connection.
Now let's consider what they don't say
Of course, we cannot ignore all the annoyances with wireless headphones as I've mentioned in my rant in a previous post mentioned above, and then there are people scared to loose the wireless ear buds that have been springing out lately, including Apple's Airpods. Also, as is the case now, the Bluetooth headsets don't offer as good sound quality as the wired ones and the so called "digital" output is not very advanced than the "analog" output from the headphone jack.
The only thing that's happening here is moving the conversion process out of our phones and into the headphones which means we are no longer limited by the DAC included in the smartphone which, depending on the price and implementation can be average to excellent. Furthermore, our ears have some compatibility issues with digital audio. Whether it's 16-bit or 32-bit, MP3 or FLAC, they just couldn't care less. We can only listen to the analog audio after it has been properly amplified. And whether the processing is done on the phone or within your headphones is moot.
You could have high quality 24-bit track on your phone. It could get processed first within the phone and then sent over an analog connector to your headphones. Or it could get sent directly as a digital signal to your headphones and then converted to analog and to your ears. At which point during the chain the conversion happens is irrelevant. So saying USB audio is better because it sends pure digital audio is marketing nonsense as at some point it does get converted to analog and the end result is the same. And if you analyze the sales graph above, the only thing it proved is most consumers don't care about the HiFi audio they just want something that sounds good enough and makes life easy, not complicated.
Sure the companies will cook up more technical terms to explain how USB or Lightning ports offer better sound but really, try them and you'll know they don't.
What's also worth noting is that we've had USB audio since quite a while now. The iOS devices already output audio through Lightning connector. Android phones running Lollipop and above can output USB audio. Even older Android phones with a custom configuration could output audio through microUSB. We have had a so-called superior audio interface at our disposal for a few years now, and yet no one switched to it. We hardly have any earphones or headphones that connect directly to them. We don't because no one cares. Not even audiophiles as the advantages are just not worth it, because there are barely any for the consumer.
It's only going to benefit the industry. Smartphones aren't going to cost any less because they have one lesser hole in them, maybe the $100 ones will but not the more expensive ones. It's only going to drive the cost of good quality headphones higher and the quality of sound from cheaper headphones lower because they may not include a DAC as good as your smartphone even if its a cheap smartphone.
And yet, if previous trends are to be considered , we maybe forced to adapt to the new standards if the other Android manufacturers follow Apple as they mostly do. Motorola and LeEco have already beaten Apple to it but they did not have the influence of Apple.
Do you wholeheartedly disagree with something? Let us know your thoughts and opinions, not that it will matter to any of the companies but we as consumers should know what we're getting into.


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During 1800's, roulette started to spread in the United States of America and Europe. The popularity of the game has rapidly spread and became the most renowned casino game ever. Due to the rampant cheating of the gamblers as well as the operators the betting plan was simplified and this leads to the birth of American Roulette which is quite different from the French method.
The American roulette rapidly grew and developed in all regions where provisional games where established. With the simplified betting plan and fast cash actions the American roulette have dominated every casino in all corners of the globe. The earliest form of roulette was invented in France during 18th Century. It is believed that the famous roulette was a result of an inventive fusion of English wheel sports like E.O., Ace of Hearts, Reiner and Roly-Poly.
There are also several groups believing that the game originated from number of Italian board games such as Hoca and Biribi. But, the real thing is that the modern roulette was the revised form or French board game of similar name. The players of roulette have different options of betting alternatives. Those players who chose to place inside bets can either chose an accurate number where the ball will fall or on different pockets near the winning slot of the gaming layout. Those players who are interested in placing outside bets can pick on the positional grouping of pockets which are larger than pockets for inside bets. The payout for every kind of bet is odd and based on upon the probability of the game.
The minimum and maximum bets are enforced by a roulette table. These rules all normally pertain separately to all inside and outside bets for every spin of the player. If the player wins on the spin he has to collect all the winning prizes in order to play the next bet. The Multiball is one of the most popular online roulette where players can play more than one roulette ball. The Mini roulette is yet another modern type on online roulette. This type of roulette is based on the European rules which have payouts different from standard roulettes. Whatever type of roulette the player chose they have to keep in mind that this game is by chance or luck.
There is no way the players can buy roulette systems to cheat the casinos especially online casinos. To date the French Roulette or the"0" is a game that can be found in Europe while the American Roulette of the"00" is a game that can be found in casinos at Las Vegas and Atlantic City. However, roulette is more popular in Europe because of its cultural context and half house advantage. Meaning all players has a better chance of walking out a winner. Since the game has gain popularity and becoming as staple in different casinos it was only a matter of time when the Roulette Online was born. Today the roulette online was very popular and one of the world most loved online casino game.


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In Ireland it is not unusual for our weather to be unpredictable and our seasonal collection reflects this.
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Helpful Canine Training Advice That Your Dog Will Love
Many people love having a pet in the family, and dogs are the most popular pet. When animals like dogs are younger, they are known for disobedience, destruction, and mischievous behavior. Review this article to find advice on training your dog.
If you have a focal point for your dog to pay attention to, he will ignore all other distractions he would normally be tempted to watch. With enough repetition, your dog will focus on other things less and less, opting to wait for signals from you.
When training, find a verbal clue your pet can understand so they will know exactly when to do as you say. A positive word will give your dog time to obey.
Do not ever use a shock collar to train your dog. Often times, they do not work and are over priced. In addition, shock collars and some similar items can actually discourage your dog from practicing good behavior. Generally speaking, these techniques often produce undesirable results.
Be sure to keep your treats close by when you're training your dog. You want to teach your pooch that good behavior is beneficial. This is a good way to make your dog know the difference between a good and bad thing.
Walk Properly
You should train your dog to walk properly on his leash. Learning to walk properly on his leash will keep you both safe when you are outdoors.
Dogs need an hour or more of exercise each day, aside from their potty breaks. Making sure your dog has enough exercise makes training sessions more effective and encourages regular good behavior from your dog. A dog is happy when it gets it exercise and a happy dog follows orders.
Your training sessons should be kept short. The attention span of a dog is pretty short, so it is important to keep them interested in training by keeping the training short. You can choose to adopt a more intensive regimen, but only if you are willing to allow your dog a few moments of relaxation and play to break up the session.
Overworking a new puppy with new information will only lead to trouble. Puppies can't pay attention for too long and are not very good at focusing on something for long periods of time, so limit the duration of training sessions. If you try to do too much too fast, he will associated it as a negative experience and will resist in the future.
Keep your eyes on other dogs as you walk your own. There are some dogs that are aggressive for reasons that have nothing to do with their owners. If you see a dog that seems to be that way you should always steer clear, especially if you have your pet.
One tip to keep in mind when training your dog is to be sure that you introduce it to social environments early and frequently. Your dog has to learn how to behave around other animals and people. The best way to develop good behavior in these situations is to put your dog in the environment as much as possible. This ensures their safety and the safety of others.
Grooming is very important. Be sure to research any special grooming and hygiene requirements associated with the breed of your dog. Attention to your dogs grooming needs, whether it's a weekly thing, as some breeds require or less frequently, gives you time to build a good relationship with your dog. This will keep your dog fresh and reduce the chance of illness.
You should be able to have a clean home and a loving dog. Having a rowdy or destructive dog can make it difficult to maintain a presentable home, but training your dog can easily fix this problem. Use the advice in this article to make living with your dog more manageable.
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Dr. Andy Yablonski (Alex O'Loughlin, "Moonlight") leads an elite team of medical professionals who work with organ transplant patients and their families, offering a last chance at hope for many. At the preeminent transplant hospital in the country, Yablonski and his colleagues race against time to save lives, as well as managing the fears and concerns of worried family members of donors and recipients alike.
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How to Handle a Google Penalty - And, an Example from the Field of Real EstateBlog Post: June 11, 2007
I appreciate you helping us Realtors find our way in the crazy world of SEO, especially with the latest shakeup. Thanks for choosing my site to use as an example.
Could you elaborate on the significance of my ranking for my title tag? You said it was definitely bad, but could you explain? Is it a matte of link quality/quantity?


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While I am usually more of a 'shop and see what you can find' kind of girl, it's not uncommon for me to compile a wish list of items I'm keeping a look out for. This Wednesday, I've decided to share with you what's on my wish list for the month of July! Here are the 8 items I've been longing to purchase.
1. Mules – ALDO
2. Tie Dye Maxi – House of Fraser
3. Chambray Shirt – Lord & Taylor
4. Rouge Lipstick – Sephora
5. White Lace Kimono – New Look
6. Orange Nailpolish (like Betty Draper) – Essie
7. Asymmetrical Skort – TOPSHOP
8. Platform Sandals – Steve Madden


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I'm trying to implement a routing short-cut solution, whose requirement is as following:
server1(Linux) sends ip packets(destined to server3) to server2(Linux) via an ip tunnel between them, server2 forwards the ip tunnel's output (the inner ip packets) to server3. Each server has only one NIC and a public ip associated with it. All servers can communicate with each other.
I'm sure the ip tunnel between server1 and server2 was configured correctly and worked well. server2's ip_forward was enabled too. On server2, I can capture the traffic on the ip tunnel interface, and they are originated from server1 and destined to server3. The problem is server2 does not forward the ip tunnel's output at all.
On server2, I just run "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward". Is there anything I missed for enabling ip_forward?
Or originally, ip forward can't work on servers with only one NIC, can it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks a lot!
why would you want to relay it thru server2?
you should just create an additional tunnel from server1 to server3
without a 2nd nic it server2 I don't know of a way to forward via the same nic that received the inbound data.
I have to agree with wanderer. The whole point of encryption is to protect your data.
You want to send data from A to B over an encrypted tunnel, then send it from B to C without the benefit of an encrypted tunnel.
Either do as wanderer said and create an encrypted tunnel from A to C or just send the data from A to C without benefit of encryption since it doesn't seem to be important to you.
When working in the IT industry I have two solid gold rules I live by and they are:
1) If it ain't broke, don't fix it
What you're talking about doing is way overcomplicated. An encrypted tunnel from A to C is KISS
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Thanks for the information above!
Assume that server1, server2 and server3 are in 3 IDCs respectively. Sometimes, server1 can't reach server3 via ISP's routing schema due to some faults in the mediate network, but server1 can reach server2 and server2 can reach server3. Adding a route via server2 to server3 may enhance the reliablity of the connection between server1 and server3. That's why I make it a little complicated.
Now the problem is ip_forward on server2 doesn't work as I expected. I begin to suspect my original understanding of ip_forward. Seems it can only work on servers with at least 2 NICs, isn't it? Is there any canonical literature explainned this point?
What is an IDC?
It matters not how straight the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
***William Henley***
Sorry, here IDC stands for Internet Data Center.
I try fedora with server2, then it works. So seems there's a bug in ubuntu. I have reported a bug to ubuntu community:
Hope they can respond it quickly!


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Haslam to return to WSBK with Kawasaki in 2019
Leon Haslam will make his full-time return to the World Superbike Championship next season with Kawasaki, taking the place of Tom Sykes.
The impending departure of Sykes from the Japanese marque after nine years was announced last week, paving the way for Haslam to take his place, which had been rumoured for some time.
Haslam left WSBK at the end of 2015 when Aprilia withdrew from the series, joining British Superbikes with Kawasaki, and he currently leads the 2018 standings riding for the Bournemouth squad.
The 35-year-old has made five wildcard appearances with the Puccetti Kawasaki squad over the past three years, most recently at Imola and at Donington Park in May.
"I have to say a big thanks to Kawasaki for this opportunity," the five-time WSBK race winner said.
"Returning to the World Superbike Championship is something I'm really looking forward to. After scoring race wins, lap records, pole positions and a championship runner-up position in my seven years there it's going to be great to get back to WSBK.
"The support of Kawasaki throughout my three years in the British Superbike Championship and via KHI [Kawasaki Heavy Industries] at the Suzuka 8 Hour race has been exceptional.
"The like-minded approach from Kawasaki UK and KHI in Japan has been really appreciated and I'm now hoping to repay them with the 2018 British Superbike title and then to challenge for next year's WSBK championship.
"The 2019 season will throw up some new challenges as the competitiveness between the manufacturers continues to be at the highest level but I'm confident that with the professional and successful team behind me we can enjoy plenty of success."
Haslam's deal with KRT is only for the 2019 season, with paddock speculation suggesting his place within the team could already be under threat from Puccetti WSBK rookie Toprak Razgatlioglu.
The Briton will partner future teammate Jonathan Rea, as well as Kazuma Watanabe, at this weekend's Suzuka 8 Hours, spearheading Kawasaki's bid for a first win in the event since 1993.
Outgoing KRT man Sykes has been linked with a move to the GRT Yamaha squad, though current Ducati rider Marco Melandri has emerged as favourite for this, with World Supersport series leader Sandro Cortese also in line for one of the squad's R1s.
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1) Effect difference between styling waver 01 and 02
Styling waver 01 would give you more natural textured hair style result. 02 would give you a little more look extraordinary hair look.
2) Using other hair styling accessories or tools together with Cirrus
You can use hair spray / clay / wax before / after using the Cirrus™ Wave Styler to obtain the best result.
3) Do not use damaged product.
Do not to keep using the wave styler when it is damaged.
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It is simple to clean the CIRRUS Wave Styler with damp cloth. Moisten the cloth with water and rub over styler's surfaces. To clean the styling wavers, take out the wavers gently from the styler and use moist cloth to clean them. Only if necessary, then wash the wavers with water to get rid of sticky product build-up. Use a dry cloth to wipe the wavers and allow them to air dry. Please do not rinse the styler with water in any case.
5) Appropriate method to hold the Cirrus Wave Styler
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ET on Carl's Shocking Death; The Guardian Lauds Season 8 Episode
This week, Entertainment Tonight calls Carl's death one of the year's most shocking TV twists, while The Guardian is a fan of a Season 8 episode. Plus, Scott Wilson (Hershel Greene) discusses the show with the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Read on for more:
• Entertainment Tonight chooses Carl's death as one of 2017's most shocking TV twists, calling it "a sad moment for fans, leading many to wonder how Carl's comic storylines will be handled in the series. We thought Carl was untouchable, but we were wrong. You got us!"
• The Guardian names Season 8's "Some Guy" one of the year's best TV episodes: "A crash-bang-wallop of an episode that shocked the show back into action and saw the end of another beloved character."
• Scott Wilson tells the Atlanta Journal Constitution, "A lot of The Walking Dead shows were shot more or less like a Western, particularly the first episode I was in. Other episodes were shot with that Western scope, that Western feel."
• ComicBook.com announces that The Walking Dead is nominated for the ComicBook.com Golden Issue Awards in these categories: Best TV Actor (Lennie James), Best Villain (Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Negan), Most Tragic Death (Shiva and Sasha) and Best Episode (Season 7's "Bury Me Here").
• Adweek says The Walking Dead was 2017's most-watched shows for the year among 18- to 49-year-olds, according to Nielsen's live-plus-7 stats.
• ComicBook.com reports, "To celebrate the upcoming season, The Walking Dead's official Twitter account shared [a] new poster that mashed up Negan with Jim Carrey's version of The Grinch. The resemblance between the two is uncanny, to say the least."
• Digital Spy has "questions and plot points left dangling by the Midseason Finale, so we've rounded them up and offered some theories for your reading pleasure."
• Waxing nostalgic, ComicBook.com writes, "Carl's looming demise has us looking back at the one-eyed teen's top ten scenes."
• In a similar vein, ComicBook.com honors Steven Yeun by "recalling Glenn's five best moments in the zombie apocalypse."
• Dread Central notes how "several characters from Sesame Street have been zombified, resulting in images that will no doubt make some of you laugh while others might be horrified at what their childhood characters have gone through."
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National statements
Transcript of remarks at UN Security Council stakeout
Thematic issues
- Chemical weapons
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Great Lakes Region
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Peace and Security
- Peacekeeping
- Protection of Civilians
- Syria
Remarks by the Australian Ambassador to the United Nations, Gary Quinlan, at the UN Security Council Stakeout
Transcript, E&OE
Ambassador Quinlan: Good afternoon. First of all, I need to say something on Guinea-Bissau which is just to draw your attention to the fact that a press statement on Guinea-Bissau, following the Council's consultations on 5 September, was issued last evening. That's been circulated and I think it's all very self-explanatory. You had a very good presentation after the discussions on 5 September in the Council by the UN Special Representative José Ramos-Horta, so I think that's covered those issues.
In relation to this morning's consultations on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, I do have a press statement which I'm obliged to read and which is going out now. I've been asked by the Council to read it.
This is the third time that the Council has met since 21 August, when the security situation in eastern Congo went south very badly, particularly with activity by M23 – the armed rebel group. And the Council has met three times to review that security situation and political and diplomatic efforts that are underway, to try and ensure that we can secure a stop to the military threat, but also so that we can keep advancing the political process – and there was a fairly extensive discussion this morning. The Secretary-General's Special Envoy, Mary Robinson, came in for a discussion by VTC. Also, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Martin Kobler, accompanied by the Force Commander for MONUSCO, General Santos Cruz – they came in for the discussions this morning by VTC from Goma.
There was very strong support in the Council for the continuation of the robust mandate that was agreed earlier this year to protect civilians, and to do that, to neutralise armed groups. That's the central point again coming out of this morning, (and) also strong support for continuing diplomatic and political efforts. The Kampala peace process or discussions, involving the M23, convened by President Musuveni of Uganda, as you know, has started again and has set itself an ambitious target of fourteen days. Ambitious on one level and not ambitious on another, because there is a terrible urgency about this process that is underway again. There will be discussions, of course, in the margins of the General Assembly, which begins the week after next, while leaders are here and the Secretary-General and others will be obviously involved in those processes.
In terms of the press statement – since I am obliged to read it out, I will do so.
On 12 September, the members of the Security Council heard a briefing via VTC by Special Envoy to the Great Lakes Region, Mary Robinson, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Martin Kobler, on the situation in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The members of the Security Council reiterated their concern on the fragile security situation on the ground. They commended the joint visit of the Special Envoys and Special Representatives of the United Nations, African Union, European Union, and United States, to the DRC, Rwanda and Uganda from September 3-7 in an effort to bolster peace in the region. They took note of the Declaration of the 7th Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region held on September 5 in Kampala. The members of the Security Council reiterated their support for the implementation of the commitments under the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of Congo and the region, and called upon all signatories to fulfil their commitments in good faith, which is essential to achieving lasting peace and security in eastern DRC and the Great Lakes region. In this regard, the members of the Council looked forward to the upcoming meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism scheduled to take place on 23 September in New York.
Finally, I might say a couple of words about Syria. Obviously, there's a great deal of activity underway about Syria and as I said, I think, on Tuesday here, this is a step by step process. Discussions are continuing among members of the Council, in particular, of course, the P5 and discussions today between Secretary Kerry of the United States and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. And we obviously want to make sure that our efforts here in New York are complementary with those discussions in Geneva. We all know that the stalemate on Syria has been within the P5, the permanent members of the Council, and we need to break that stalemate – and in order to break it, obviously these kinds of discussions that are underway are necessary, are essential, in fact, to bring the sides closer together and to see if we do have a viable, enforceable basis for having a solution in respect of Syria's chemical weapons programs….the discussions that are going on in Geneva involve a good number of technical experts as well, accompanying Secretary Kerry and Mr Lavrov – and we'll see what the nature of the regime that might be put in place to secure an arrangement might be.
Of course, the Council is very seized of all of these discussions. Just because we're not formally meeting, I might comment, does not mean that people are not working…thinking and trying to see what sort of progress we might be able to make. I am very confident that the Council will meet as soon as we need to and the next major phase, of course, we would expect would be the UN investigation report.
Q: Ambassador Araud earlier today said that France was told last night about the reports from the Secretary-General and as you've probably seen Minister Fabius has said it will be Monday and it will probably implicate Assad. I wanted to know, are you aware of any communications yesterday from the Secretariat or from the Secretary-General himself either just to the P5 members or to all 15? What's your understanding of what was communicated to anyone beyond France yesterday on this topic?
Quinlan: I'm not familiar with any communication that did or did not take place, I have to say, between the Secretariat and the French. All I can say is that the Secretary-General has not formally advised us of when he will receive the report because he is waiting for that advice to come to him from Dr Sellstrom. And then he will advise us, as President, of when he believes we should convene a meeting of the Security Council. I do know that he has reconfirmed his desire to have a meeting with the Council as soon as the report is available and consequently as soon as we can organise a meeting of the Council. I should say that we expect that sooner rather than later. But there has been no official communication to me and I'm not aware of any official communications to other Member States…
Q: [Inaudible – interjected question]
Quinlan: Look, I'm not them, so I don't know. But I must say that we, we as President of the Council, have tremendous confidence in the Secretary-General and the Secretariat on this, and we want to ensure that we see a very clear, quick process – but also a very proper process. And I think that is what the Secretariat have been putting all their focus on.
Q: Just going back to that, we just heard a briefing from Mr Ladsous that was fairly optimistic in terms of the M23 being pushed further north and removing immediate threat to Goma and MONUSCO itself. So I wanted to ask if that came up in your discussions this morning. And secondly, all we're hearing about in terms of rebel groups is M23. Did the FDLR or other rebel groups come into the discussion this morning as that would seem to be within the mandate of the MONUSCO and the Intervention Brigade.
Quinlan: On the first question, I really can't give you any serious advice on operational matters. That is in fact a matter for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the Force Commander and the Special Representative on the ground. But the briefings we had this morning were consistent with what you're telling me Under-Secretary-General Ladsous has said. But this is a precarious situation, it's fragile, and so there continues to be a lot of attention to ensuring the existing gains are locked in but also how they can be extended and reinforced. But on operational matters, I'm simply not in a position to answer and I don't want to mislead you, but that is consistent with what we heard this morning. But it is precarious, it is fragile and we want to make sure that we don't go backwards.
On the question of the other armed groups – yes, this was mentioned this morning. The fact remains that the mandate which we reconfirmed, reconfirmed in our discussions among ourselves this morning, is very strong, very robust on the protection of civilians – and the protection of civilians is to be achieved by neutralising armed groups. I think that's the exact words used in the resolution. Those armed groups are not just M23. There's very large numbers, as you know, and that includes FDLR. And a number of countries and others in the room mentioned that in particular and also the need to address that threat. It's very clear, there's never been a question of it not being addressed. The immediate, urgent danger we faced around 21 August and beyond, of course, was the immediate threat in Goma from M23. So operationally that was what was dealt with first. Other operational decisions will take into account the nature of the threat and what needs to be done. But the organising principle, and we've seen it – and we're all very pleased with it, and thanked, in fact, the Force Commander and his forces on the ground for the courage they've displayed as well as their determination – that will continue. We're very confident that will continue and we want to see it continue.
Q: Ambassador – do you envisage, do you see a possibility of the Security Council having a resolution on Syria's chemical weapons since you're going to be meeting on it next week?
Quinlan: Well we'll have to wait and see. I mean, obviously there are drafts. I read a draft published by Reuters yesterday, for example, which was instructive. But there are texts out there, as you know. People have been trying to bring together – various members of the Council, particularly among the Permanent 3 – a text which they felt was acceptable to them and how they thought we needed to proceed. Russia indicated that it had an alternative text. Those texts are being discussed among themselves in the P5 to see if it's possible to bring their different perspectives on this together, and that's where we're at. Obviously other members of the Council are following this very closely and we want to see, we want to see something. We want to see an outcome, we want to see action. It's a bit premature to say precisely what that outcome will be but the activity, you know, it's now intense. So we'll wait and see. As I say, this is a step by step process and I don't want to speculate on exactly what the nature of that would be.
Q: Have any elements of the resolution been discussed with the non-permanent members by the P3 or the P5 at any point in time?
Quinlan: All members of the Council are talking to each other in different configurations. I can't speculate because I don't know precisely what conversations all the time are taking place between individual members of the Council. But there's a lot of activity underway. I can't really say more than that.
Q: Has Ambassador Churkin presented an alternative text?
Quinlan: No, it hasn't been – it's been discussed as I understand it. I have not seen it.
Q: Did the issue of the shelling of Rwanda from within DRC come up in this briefing and what's the status of the UN since finding out who did that?
Quinlan: Yes, it was mentioned by one or two members, of course. And the investigation through the Joint Verification Mechanism is, as I understand it, not yet finalised. But I'd have to take operational advice on that, but it's not yet finalised. But it was mentioned; it was.
Q: The Secretary-General this morning received a document from the Syria Government saying that they plan to, you know, an accession document to the Chemical Weapons Convention. Did you receive a document and is there going to be some sort of Security Council reaction to this latest development?
Quinlan: I haven't received a document and since I don't have a responsibility as President of the Council in respect of (treaties) – I'm not a depository for treaties – I wouldn't expect to receive it in that sense. I understand this was mentioned by the press spokesman of the UN Secretary-General a little while ago – I haven't seen the transcript of that but we hadn't known about that, and that's not surprising. I understand that the response was that they're looking at this document now and translating it, and we'll see where we go. But I haven't seen it and it didn't come to us as President of the Council. But, you know, we're not the depository for treaty action.
Q: …the French Minister said that the investigators' report on Syria and the chemical weapons, is going to be finished on Monday, is going to be issued to the Secretary-General. Do you expect that next week, the Security Council, you as the President, to have received this report on Monday, Tuesday, or during the next week?
Quinlan: We expect to receive it sooner rather than later but I have no precise timetable yet. My understanding is Dr Sellstrom and his team need to finalise their work. Today is Thursday and they've been working, as you know, at a fast pace but with increased numbers of people, increased numbers of laboratories involved and all the rest of it. That report, as I understand it, needs to be finalised. It is, as I understand it, not yet finalised. It then goes to the Secretary-General. The Secretary-General has undertaken to make it available almost immediately after he receives it, as soon as he practically can, to the Security Council. I expect that's how we'll proceed. I cannot put a timing on it just now but I do expect it sooner rather than later.
Q: (Inaudible)…letter from Syria on accession to the CWC …[inaudible]..essential for you, for the Security Council members to have that before proceeding to bring about a resolution.
Quinlan: Yes, absolutely, yes. I'm not disputing…We haven't seen it – it hasn't come to us as President of the Council. I'm not aware of it having come to us, but obviously it would be an important part of what has been speculated on as one of the components of an arrangement of a regime that would need to be enforceable in respect of handling chemical weapons in Syria in the future.
Q: …do you entrust that it will be given to you as soon as possible?
Quinlan: We would expect the normal processes would take place. And normally the Secretary-General when he receives a letter of accession or ratification in relation to a treaty, he distributes that to all member states. That's the normal treaty practice but again I don't want to, sort of, give you a definitive answer on that because I'm not responsible for treaties.
One more question, please, yes.
Q: …through the relationship between what's happening in Geneva and the possible assertion that the Syrian Government is signing on to the treaty. That relationship with the report that you are expecting next week, one does excuse the other? For example, if they go ahead and sign the treaty and they go with the process in Geneva, would you put aside and away the Sellstrom report so that, that the…
Q: No?
Q: So then…
The entire international community is waiting for the Sellstrom report and we're hoping to see it sooner rather than later. That is an investigation that is being done into the specific incident and there is a mandate for that and that report is being done. And it stands on its own. We then need to see that, of course, as a part of what will be the overall response by the Council to the situation for chemical weapons.
Q: (inaudible)
On the contrary. Yes. Thank you.
Q: (inaudible)
Quinlan: I'm sorry?
Q: (inaudible)…were you debriefed on the P5 discussions?
Individuals are talking to one another and I am reasonably well aware of these discussions between individual members of the Council and where all these matters are up to. But they were private discussions among the P5 as I understand it. And that's really all I can say. Yes.
Thank you.
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The amount of behind-the-scenes work that went into creating ParaNorman should be worth an award by itself. New featurettes for the Chris Butler and Sam Fell film are reminding the academy voters that the animated feature is the "most ambitious stop-motion film ever made." Using cutting-edge technology in the form of fully-articulated puppets and 3D printing, just to name a few, the creative army behind ParaNorman is still a devoted group of craftspeople at their core. Even for those of you who enjoyed the film, these featurettes reveal a lot of hidden details in certain scenes and will give you a whole new appreciation for the work that went into bringing ParaNorman to the screen.
Featuring the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Anna Kendrick, John Goodman, Leslie Mann and Tucker Albrizzi, ParaNorman is now available on DVD/Blu-ray. Hit the jump to check out the featurette.
Check out the featurette for ParaNorman below:
For even more behind-the-scenes looks at ParaNorman, head on over to the "For Your Consideration" site and check out the following links:
- Watch: Animation Roundtable with BRAVE, PARANORMAN, WRECK-IT RALPH, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, and RISE OF THE GUARDIANS Directors
- Travis Knight (President & CEO of LAIKA) Talks PARANORMAN and Future LAIKA Projects
- Kodi Smit-McPhee Talks PARANORMAN, THE CONGRESS, ROMEO AND JULIET, and A BIRDER'S GUIDE TO EVERYTHING
- Leslie Mann Talks PARANORMAN and Judd Apatow's THIS IS 40
- Anna Kendrick Talks PARANORMAN, DRINKING BUDDIES, and TWILIGHT Fans
- Directors Sam Fell and Chris Butler Talk PARANORMAN
- Christopher Mintz-Plasse Talks PARANORMAN and KICK-ASS 2; Describes the Sequel as 'WARRIORS Meets KICK-ASS'
- PARANORMAN Time-Lapse Video Shows a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Making of a 3D Stop-Motion Animated Feature
- Watch Six Clips from PARANORMAN
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I thought it would be fitting to share about this video from Dr. Oz considering that Easter is this weekend. We have made Easter, like many other holidays, a day to eat a lot of candy and sweets. Well, Dr. Oz would recommend that you stop eating refined sugar for a lot of reasons, and in this video he recommends a substitute: coconut sugar.
I have used coconut sugar for quite a while now. I learned about it a year or two before you could even find it in its granulated form in the health food stores. I had to search Asian food stores for this lovely sugar. I have found it to be a tasty substitute for its more refined counterpart, white sugar. As Dr. Oz points out, coconut sugar doesn't put stress on your blood sugar levels the same way that white sugar does. Check out the graph he shares! It is pretty impressive. Because coconut sugar is unrefined, it retains all of its natural minerals and vitamins.
The only part I thought was odd in the video is when Dr. Oz explained that he was pleasantly surprised at coconut sugar because he thought it might have a "chemical" taste, but it didn't. Why, Dr. Oz, would you think that sugar made simply and naturally from coconut nectar would taste like a chemical? The process to make coconut sugar is quite simple. The nectar from a coconut flower is collected and then boiled down and granulated — no chemicals needed.
Like other unrefined sweeteners, the granulated form is much more coarse than white sugar. Because of that I like to give it a minute or so in a blender or food processor (I call it powdering), which makes it fine enough to use in recipes like buttercream frosting. It has a caramel, butterscotch flavor, which pairs especially well with chocolate. In some recipes you will notice a slight change in flavor when compared to white sugar, but that change is not necessarily negative.
You can use it as a one-to-one replacement for both white and brown sugar, which makes it simple to use instead. Really, you can use it in the majority of your normal recipes easily.
All in all, I personally love coconut sugar and have since before it was a popular health food item. I still often choose to use other naturals sweeteners that were produced closer to home, such as pure maple syrup and raw honey, but for this cane sugar-sensitive family, coconut sugar has been a real blessing.
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Ed Sheeran Denies Writing 'Don't' for Taylor Swift, Talks 10-Year Planby Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
It's well known among Swifties and Sheerios that Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are good buds. But was there ever something more in the past? Something that maybe inspired his song of betrayal, 'Don't'?
The British singer created some buzz when he debuted 'Don't,' a tune off of his upcoming album 'X.' The song's meaning is pretty straightforward: he was seeing a girl who wasn't quite on the same page as him in their unlabeled relationship, who moved on quickly to someone else. And, according to the lyrics, he's pretty angry about it.
When Ed recently sat down with Parade, he was asked whether the song is about his pal T. Swift. He revealed that it is "about someone who's well known, but not Taylor."
Hmm… There was previous speculation that 'Don't' could be about fellow pop star Ellie Goulding, but Ed is keeping tightlipped outside of denying the Taylor rumor.
There might not be any romantic stirrings between Ed and Taylor, but the 23-year-old ginger isn't lacking a love life. He does have a girlfriend — sorry, Sheerios — and while he won't give a name, he did share that she's a chef.
As for the future, he's already looking ahead to what he'll be doing with his life after he's finished making music. "I know this isn't going to last forever," he said. "Now is the time when I'm making my musical statements and being cool and going to parties. But I don't think I'll be living this life in 10 years' time. If I am, please slap me."
What will he be doing in lieu of partying? "Back home, bunch of kids. At 33, I should be starting to settle down."
PopCrushers, can you imagine Ed as a dad? Too cute!


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As a sucker for a good documentary, I sat down the other day and watched The Happy Movie. I realised I was a bit late in seeing this as it was made in 2012 but what an eye-opener it is. If anyone hasn't seen this and has an interest in what makes a happy life and likes a bit of science thrown in to back it up, I would completely recommend this.
It's a wonderful documentary that gives a fascinating look at the science behind happiness – following people from all walks of life from the slums of Kolkata to Tokyo and seeing who is happy and what elements in our lives create this widely sought-after emotion. I think you can probably guess what these are but if you have a spare 1hr 15 mins then it really is worth a watch (I've posted the trailer below) 🙂
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The Caribbean American song writing duo Planet VI is known for their exceptional talent in the music industry. The Caribbean American Movers and Shakers, have created music for Justin Bieber, Akon, Beyonce, Rihanna, kelley Rowland, and many more. Planet VI is the new Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, with several Grammy Awards under their belt. Chris Brown's Loyal, has officially become the summer anthem with over 70 Million VEVO, and record breaking radio spins.
However, a new record by the Virgin Islands very own 'Rock City' Timothy and Theron Thomas aka PlanetVI, can be the next hit for 2015.The duo has proven to be one of the most success pop and urban song writers over the past decade.


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SAN Francisco lawmakers have voted to outlaw most public nudity, despite protests in the famously free and easy California city – including a naked demo outside City Hall.
The city's Board of Supervisors approved a ban proposed by Scott Wiener; its Castro neighborhood is a gay hub where so-called Naked Guys regularly hang out.
The law was approved by 6 votes in favor to 5 against at an afternoon meeting, at which Wiener said the move was long overdue.
"Free expression in the abstract is really nice… until it comes to your neighbourhood," Wiener told the meeting. "I guarantee people would not have waited as long as we waited in the Castro."
A small group of clothed protesters had gathered outside City Hall for the meeting, and within seconds of the law being approved boos went up, and one of the female demonstrators took her clothes off.
Police rapidly moved in with a blanket to take her off. But as they did several other protesters also undressed, some of them entering City Hall, before coming back outside, according to an AFP photographer on the spot.
After a while some five to seven naked protesters put a blanket down and one got out a guitar, playing for passersby on the City Hall steps. One held a placard reading "Nude doesn't equal lewd."
Wiener had said before the vote that he expected it to pass, while stressing that nudity would still be allowed on San Francisco's beaches and at various festivals and parades.
The city law bans anyone over five years old from exposing his or her genitals in public, with fines starting at $100 for a first offence, but rising to $500 and a year in jail for a third offence.
A person may not expose his or her genitals, perineum, or anal region on any public street, sidewalk, street median, parklet, or plaza, or in any transit vehicle, station, platform, or (public transport) stop," it says.
The law "shall not supersede or otherwise affect existing laws regulating nudity," and violating it "does not require lewd or sexually motivated conduct," according to the statute, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.
Wiener, a 15-year resident of the neighbourhood who has long fought for laws to be tightened, condemned a lawsuit launched last week to try to pre-empt his new ordinance.
"The lawsuit is … from what I can tell a publicity stunt, it seems pretty frivolous to me," he said, adding that nudity restrictions were already common across the United States and in parts of California.
California state law prohibits exposing one's genitals "with lewd intent" – but under the way the law is applied in San Francisco, what is lewd is in the eye of the beholder.
Home to the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the Castro – where sex shops coexist with trendy cafes and bars – is still one of the most free-thinking neighbourhoods in this famously liberal city.
Under the new ordinance, exceptions are made for a number of events, including the annual Pride Parade, the bondage and leather Folsom Street Fair and the Bay to Breakers run, a historic costume-optional race.
"The legislation will still allow nudity on San Francisco's beaches and our street festivals and parades," Wiener told AFP.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, who would have to sign the ordinance into law, has made his views clear. "We're talking about much more than just first amendment rights," he told ABC7.
"People have gone overboard with their exhibitionism," he added.
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Today's the day! You've worked hard and your chatbot is now done! It's written in Python with the SAP Conversational AI Python starter kit and Flask, the Python HTTP server. You've developed the code on a laptop, using ngrok to conveniently expose a public URL to Bot Builder.
It's now time to deploy the chatbot in production, to ensure permanent availability. You chose to host it on the cloud using a very popular service platform: Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Deploying on AWS is not a straightforward process, especially if (like me) you are a developer, not a system engineer, because it implies to be familiar with web hosting, and also with AWS' extended range of products and services.
In the first place, why do we need to host the chatbot server, and which part of it exactly ?
Let's have a look at the general architecture of a SAP Conversational AI chatbot. There are two main server components : first the chatbot conversation engine, which implements the logic of intents and manages conversations. It is a black box powered and hosted by SAP Conversational AI. On the right is the business server that we have developed and which responds to HTTP requests through webhooks.
For instance if our chatbot needs to check products inventory to answer a user request, the request will be processed through a REST API call to our server using the endpoint Url that was specified on the webhook.
It is the REST server (the red bot at the right of the webhook) that we have developed that we need to host on-premises or in the cloud.
If we chose to host on Heroku, there is a very good step by step article on the SAP Conversational AI blog. In our case we'll go for Amazon Web Services (AWS) because it has a very broad range of cloud services for a reasonable budget.
Which AWS architecture to host our bot ?
Obviously we will need a server. In our use-case, we own a domain name, say "beautifulbots.com" and would like to access this server through a webhook base url like "https://beautifulbots.com/mybot".
We have to use a HTTPS channel as per SAP Conversational AI requirement, and since self-signed certificates are not accepted, we need to attach a real certificate to our endpoint. AWS architecture guidelines don't allow to attach a certificate directly on a AWS based website or application. We must use a front service like a load balancer (Elastic Load Balancing), a CDN (Amazon CloudFront), or an API server (Amazon API Gateway). In our case the logical choice is the load balancer, which provides also the benefit to adapt the number of servers to the load, if need arises.
So the target architecture is: a load balancer accessed in HTTPS, routing requests on HTTP (port 5000) to the AWS server instance hosting the Flask web server and implementing the business logic, and optionally a persistent storage.
AWS configuration service
To create this configuration, AWS recommends to use AWS Elastic Beanstalk, an easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services. Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment, from capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling to application health monitoring.
Elastic Beanstalk is an additional layer on all the basic AWS services, which means we can also opt for a manual configuration of the services we need without using Elastic Beanstalk.
Using Elastic Beanstalk is great when you need scalability as this is automatically managed. Note that this implies using distributed services for each tier. If our bot needs to store data (and it certainly does, at least if we have a notion of user profile), we'll need to use a persistent distributed storage layer, like S3, dynamoDB or RDS.
In our case, our need is a bit basic: our load will be limited so we will not need automatic load balancing, and working with a single server backed on persistent EBS storage will allow us to host our sqlite3 database directly on our server. A stronger option in production would definitely be to go for EBS or S3 persistent storage, but for the moment we'll be happy with the root filesystem of our instance.
So in conclusion we will deploy our components (EC2 server, Elastic Load Balancer) by hand.
Let's start !
Step 1: create instance
If you don't have an AWS account yet, you should sign-up first. The good news is that you can benefit from the AWS Free Tier program which will provide to you a lot of services for free for up to 12 months.
Now go to the GetStarted page to see how to create your instance and launch it. The simplest way is to connect to the console and click on the Launch Instancebutton.
Although you can choose from pre-configured images (AMI), we will start with an empty Linux box. In our exemple, we will not need a lot of power or memory, so we'll go for the default Linux AMI (HVM) of type t2.micro with 1GB of RAM and 1 CPU, because it's free if you benefit from the Free Tier program.
One word about data persistence: there are two storage options, one is ephemeral and the other persistent. Basically, root volume (your entire virtual system disk) is ephemeral only if you choose a server backed by Amazon EC2 instance store. If your root volume is backed by EBS, everything you have on your root volume will be saved between reboots. Since our bot uses a small database to store user profiles and context, we will make sure that our root device type is "ebs".
Choose Review and Launch to let the wizard complete the other configuration settings. You'll notice that the wizard has created a Security Group for you. Security groups act as a firewall for associated instances, controlling both inbound and outbound traffic at the instance level. In our case we will use HTTP on port 5000 (Flask server), so as a gross initial setup you can specify inbound SSH anywhere, HTTP anywhere, HTTP on port 5000 anywhere and lastly HTTPS anywhere.
Step 2: connect to the instance
As part of the creation process, the wizard prompts you for a keypair. If you don't already have a keypair, create one. It will be used to log in to your instance, which has no password. You specify the name of the key pair when you launch your instance, then provide the private key when you log in using SSH.
Proceed to launch the instance and go to the console to see it running. In the Description of the running instance, you will see it's public IP and DNS name. Be aware that these are assigned dynamically to the instance each time it is launched, which means that if you reboot the instance you will get a new IP (and a new name). This sounds like a problem but is not since it will be accessed through the load balancer.
Click on the Connect button in the console, it will open a popin with the instructions to connect to the instance, and the ssh command line to paste in your terminal window.
If you can't connect to the instance with SSH, one reason could be that your security group rules don't allow SSH from your domain. Make sure inbound / outbound is open on SSH for your location.
One tip about the SSH connection : it's timeout is very short, so you'll find yourself having to reconnect after staying idle for a few minutes. You can change your SSH config to put a longer timeout : edit the ~/.ssh/config file on your local machine and add the following lines :
Host *
ServerAliveInterval 50
Step 3 : configure the server
Now that you can connect to the instance, it's time to configure it. This is quite easy.
Our server is developed in Python, and we will deploy it in a virtual environment.
Let's install virtualenv and then create a "recast" virtual environment :
virtualenv -p python2 recast
Activate it :
Let's create the project directory
We can now install all the python packages that we need.
So what do we need exactly ? Well any package that we had installed on our development environment: obviously the SAP Conversational AI API, and then any packages needed to implement the business logic of our bot.
git clone firstname.lastname@example.com:RecastAI
.git recast_ai
-r requirements.txt
This will install Recast and Flask python librairies.
To install the other packages, from your development environment create a requirements file:
pip freeze > requirements.txt
Copying the project files to the server
You will note that although it's possible to automate code deployment, this is out of scope for this tutorial, and for the sake of simplicity we will just deploy once by copying the files by hand.
From your development environment, make a tar of the complete hierarchy and copy it to the server instance with scp (using the keypair .pem file, just like you did with ssh) .
On the server instance, you can then untar the files in the ~/mybot/ directory. You now have the same file structure than on your development environment.
Using the requirements.txt, Let's install the dependencies :
-r requirements.txt
Server adjustments for production
Changing the Flask host
To expose our Flask app to the internet (so it can accept connections from remote sources instead of just local ones), we must set its host as "0.0.0.0."
Edit recast/server.py and change the app.run() call:
, port
# for AWS
Testing the Flask server
Testing the bot can be quite cumbersome because there are a lot of components involved : the network routes, protocols, security groups, HTTPS, Flask server to name a few. So it's a good idea to test the Flask server as an independent component. Besides, as we'll see later on, the load balancer will need a health check route to assess if the server is up.
So in the Flask server code we will add the following route :
############ health check --- required by AWS Load Balancer
"Hello World!\n"
Let's launch the server and test it : open a second window terminal on the server instance and issue
$ curl 127.0.0.1:5000
Hello World!
Everything's fine.
We can move forward to the next step : HTTPS on the load balancer.
Step 4 : configure HTTPS
SAP Conversational AI needs a HTTPS endpoint for all webhooks. For our bot it will be "https://beautifulbots.com/mybot". Although self-signed certificates are accepted by Flask, they are refused by SAP Conversational AI conversation server, so on your checklist you'll need a domain name and a valid SSL certificate attached to this domain.
In case you don't have a domain name yet, it's easy to use Amazon Route 53 , which is their cloud DNS service. From there you can buy domain names and manage DNS entries, and they are easy to integrate with other AWS services.
As for the SSL certificate, if needed you can also create it from AWS Certificate Manager (it's free and auto-renewal is easy).
Step 5 : configure Load Balancer
As mentioned earlier you cannot attach directly the SSL certificate to the server instance, instead you need to go through a load balancer.
Declaring and configuring a load balancer is a quite straightforward process. We'll configure the balancer to accept HTTPS inbound trafic, and route it to the Flask bot server on HTTP port 5000.
From the AWS console, navigate to the Load Balancing section and choose "create a load balancer". From the 3 types of available load balancers, the one we need is the application load balancer. Hit the "create" for application load balancer. Give a name, and choose the 'internet-facing' scheme. Since the load balancer will route HTTPS to HTTP, choose a HTTPS listener.
You need to give 2 availability zones, make sure one of these include the zone where your server operates !
We now have to configure security settings, aka HTTPS. Attach the SSL certificate that you created or imported in he previous section (if you bought it from AWS it's even easier).
The security group for your load balancer must allow it to communicate with registered targets on both the listener port and the health check port. Previously we created a security group with ports open for HTTP, HTTPS and SSH, we can use it just fine.
Next step is to declare routing. Just follow the steps to declare first a target group on HTTP on port 5000 (Flask inbound port), and than as target add your bot server instance.
In the Health Check section, provide the health check route that we have prepared, which is /health_check.
In summary we have declared a balancer which will receive HTTPS requests and route them to the bot server instance on HTTP port 5000.
Testing the load balancer
It's now time to test the routing configuration. First in the EC2 management console, under "load balancing" check that the balancer is up and running and, in Target Groups, check that the status of the bot server instance is "healthy". It means that the load balancer could reach the server on the health check route and protocol we specified, and the server responded fine.
Step 6 : attach sub-domain to Load Balancer
Last thing we need is to make sure the DNS will route any requests on mybot/beautifulbots.com to the load balancer. Easy. just create an alias (A record) in the DNS pointing mybot/beautifulbots.com. to the Elastic Load Balancer public DNS name (you will find it in the EC2 Management Console).
Setup is complete. We can now perform a full test from the outside world !
Step 7 : end to end testing
First we will perform the health test, this time from our desktop ("the outside world").
$ curl -X GET https://beautifulbots.com/mybot
Hello World!
It works !!
We can now confidently put the base URL "https://beautifulbots.com/mybot" in bot settings / bot builder webhook base URL in the SAP Conversational AI settings of our bot and start to use the bot in production !
Step 8 : post-install tasks
Create a server image (AMI)
When everything is working fine and the configuration is quite stable, it's a good idea to create an image of your server that you can instantiate whenever you will need a new instance, without having to go through the whole configuration process from a standard Linux box.
This is a very simple process , from the EC2 console, in the Actions menu, selectImage -> Create Image and follow the instrutions.
Distributed file storage
Now that your server is in production, you certainly have data that is stored on the server and that is of critical importance. Server data is transient and will be deleted when the instance terminates. It is then a good practice to either host your critical data on a persistent distributed storage layer, or to schedule regular backups on persistent storage.
Furthermore, for scalability purposes, a distributed storage layer will be mandatory if you plan to scale up with multiple bot server instances behind the load balancer.
Operation Costs
Amazon AWS has a very convenient billing dashboard which details monthly costs and cost forecast.
In our configuration the monthly cost sets at 35 US Dollars (if you are free-tier, than it will be almost free).
A convenient option is to setup alerts when budget reaches a predefined threshold.
Although the whole process of setting up the bot server was a bit tedious, in the end you'll have a very solid and scalable configuration that will allow your bot to reach out millions of users !


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It was a tense meeting. I'd gathered our whole team to talk about the fact that we were under very high demand, and people seemed to be fraying at the edges.
"Is anyone beside me feeling worried you just can't get it all done?" one person began. The floodgates opened. An outpouring of anxiety, distress and complaint followed — much of it aimed at the person in charge, who happened to be me.
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On raising a son on the autism spectrum, progressive politics, pop culture, and coffee addiction.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
No Go PoMo
It's the thirteenth day of October and this is my eighth post of the month. That feels good.
I have a hunch that if this were the thirteenth day of October and this were my thirteenth post of the month, it would not feel as good.
I'm opting out of NaBloPoMo this year.
9 comments:
- David said...
Yeah, well I have had a dearth of postings this month, mostly due to work-related stress management (which blogging doesn't seem to quite provide since I don't post much about work). And I agree with your commentor (sp?) budandpie:
"Guilt and self-imposed pressure are the enemies of blogging, and those things can only increase when there is an artificial and unnecessary goal like posting every day. "
So I support your decision and look forward to your posts, in whatever frequency they appear, with your thoughtful inspirations.
- October 13, 2007 9:16 AM
- Kim Rossi Stagliano said...
AMEN! The very name is kinda ick, don't you think?? We've been on vacation for a week in Orlando so no blogging. I'll blog the trip later including my Mia leaving the hotel room on an excursion in a 2000 room hotel.... Aye yi yi!!! Overall, the trip has been really autism friendly though. We've met several families with kids with autism or Asperger's. It's scary.... Hope you're well, MOM-NOS!
Mom-KRS... :)
- October 13, 2007 10:00 AM
Ooo I lost myself completely in the links there. Sounds like we all need a little breather.
Best wishes
- October 13, 2007 1:30 PM
- Daisy said...
Ah, reality sets in. You have put your priorities in order. Post as much as you wish; we'll be here.
- October 13, 2007 2:56 PM
- Bea said...
- October 13, 2007 8:30 PM
Ditto B&P.
- October 14, 2007 8:53 AM
- Niksmom said...
Heavy sigh...but you will post *some* right?!
- October 14, 2007 11:57 AM
You know, I have always thought of my blog as a forum to share what I want and when I want. Sometimes, it actually works out to be almost daily, and other times, it is spaces in between because I am not sure I want to share or have a topic worth sharing. Forcing (if that's a correct term???) myself to be creative I think would take away some fo the emotion and feeling of the blog. So, I support your decision and hope that you will just write when you can, and know that I and many others are enjoying it for what it's worth.
- October 14, 2007 7:14 PM
well, i will allow this ONLY if you post A LOT, like, about 29 times in the mo of no.
- October 15, 2007 3:08 PM