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Posts tagged "improv"
ChittahChattah Quickies
Frames: Notes on Improvisation and Design [SlideShare] – Slides from Liz Danzico's excellent Interaction|10 presentation
bobulate, conference, danzico, design, improv, ixd10, presentation
Daniel Stillman of ECCO reviews my IxDA-NYC talk on Improv and Creativity – Thanks, Daniel!
LEGO architecture series – Including Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Guggenheim, as well as Hancock and Space Needle.
adults, architecture, brand, buildings, creativity, design, ecco, grownups, improv, ixda, lego, portigal, presentation, toys
Start Spreadin' The News: Steve in New York, NY
Urban Camouflage, New York, June 2004
I'm off to New York next week for a handful of speaking engagements. If you're going to be at any of them, please let me know!
Guest lecture in Chris Fahey's Interaction Design Fundamentals – School of Visual Arts MFA in Interaction Design – Nov. 16
We've Done All This Research: Now What? – Web 2.0 Expo – Nov. 17
(PPT here)
Design Research Presentation – Pratt Institute – Nov. 19
Yes, My Iguana Loves to Cha-Cha: Improv, Creativity and Collaboration – IxDA NYC (SOLD OUT!) – Nov. 19
(slides here)
Getting Generative: User Research Applied to Business Decisions – School of Visual Arts MFA in Interaction Design – Nov. 20
chris fahey, conference, improv, ixda, ixda nyc, New York, presentation, research, sva, web 2.0
IDSA National Conference 2009 – Day 2 Update – Core77 – Thanks for the good comments about my presentation!
communication, core77, creativity, design, IDSA, improv, research
The Box That Is Not A Box (But Is Still A Box)
Chip and Dan Heath write in Fast Company about the power of constraints
Keith Sawyer, author of the insightful book Group Genius, spent years studying the work of jazz groups and improvisational theater ensembles. He found that structure doesn't hamper creativity; it enables it. When improv comedians take the stage, they need a concrete stimulus: "What if Romeo had been gay?" The stimulus can't be: "Go on, make me laugh, funnyman."
"Improv actors are taught to be specific," Sawyer says. "Rather than say, 'Look out, it's a gun!' you should say, 'Look out, it's the new ZX-23 laser kill device!' Instead of asking, 'What's your problem?' say, 'Don't tell me you're still pissed off about that time I dropped your necklace in the toilet.'" The paradox is that while specificity narrows the number of paths that the improv could take, it makes it easier for the other actors to come up with the next riff.
This is something I've emphasized in my talks on improv and ethnography (which always end up being a workshop on improv/ ethnography/ design/ creativity)…the energy that comes from working on problems that are extremely constrained along some axes (i.e., each successive utterance must begin with a successive letter of the alphabet, from A through Z) and utterly open along other axes (i.e., what the actors say can or be anything they want).
collaborative, constraints, creativity, improv, problem solving, thinking
Connecting07: Connecting The Play of Improv with The Work of Ethnographic Research
Here's the presentation from last week's IDSA/ICSID conference.
http://portigal.com/wp-content/uploads/audio/Portigal_IDSA_Presentation.mp3
We spent about 1/3 of the time doing improv games (which may be "you had to be there") and about 1/3 in discussion (in which the audio favors me over the audience), but maybe you can skip past some of those parts.
conference, connecting07, design, ethnographic research, ethnography, icsid, IDSA, improv, play, presentation, slideshare, work
Connecting07 – Improv and Ethnography
If you are coming to ICSID/IDSA Connecting 07 in San Francisco later this month, I'll be giving a presentation entitled Connecting the Play of Improv with the Work of Ethnographic Research on Friday, October 19, from 5:45pm – 6:30pm in the Fairmont Hotel, Crystal Room.
In the meantime, you can read more about an earlier version of this presentation
To the rest of us in the audience, both exercises were quite funny. Most of the participants couldn't figure out at the time what we were laughing at.
All of which suggests that Improv is a powerful means of engaging with other human beings that is both immersive and "flow-like."
Portigal then went on to define activities associated with ethnography, focusing on the guided interview process in particular.
He concluded his talk by identifying the key "overlaps" between the two disciplines:
* Balancing a "plan" with being in the moment
* "Yes and…" (Using positive reinforcement of the other's statements to keep the conversation going.)
Dan Soltzberg and I will be attending the entire conference and we'd love to meet with folks to talk about how our work in uncovering user insights can help drive design and business decisions in your organization. Do let us know!
conference, connecting, ethnography, icsid, IDSA, improv, listening, overlaps, presentation, user research
Upcoming talk on improv and ethnography
It's won't be until October, but I'll be giving another talk about the overlaps and intersections between ethnography and improv at the CONNECTING'07: Icsid/IDSA World Design Congress. It's here in San Francisco, from October 17-20. More info as it it's available.
(Yes, my face and voice both are part of the website. Connecting!)
conference, connecting, connecting07, ethnography, icsid, IDSA, improv, play, presentation, work
Catch Your Dreams Before They Slip Away
Last weekend I went to an audition for a newly forming troupe from Blue Blanket Improv. I had done a full two hours of improv games for a really long time, and I was definitely rusty, but it was a lot of fun. I was hesitant to attend because there's a pretty strong focus to the group – non-profit community events, and performances. I'm not sure I care that much about either. With that emphasis on performances comes a need to be funny for an audience. When I interviewed Chris Miller about improv and creativity, he noted the difference between improv and improv comedy, and this is definitely about improv comedy. But Chris also encouraged me to go to the audition, simply for a chance to play. I'm glad I did, because it was absolutely a chance to play, but it also clarified something for me: that I am fascinated by the problem-solving aspect of improv games…the need to follow the constraints of the game (i.e., a one-minute scene that is improvised, then repeated in 30-second, 15-second, 7.5-second and 3 second versions), be collaborative, and be creative. I love the laughter that comes from the participants in the activity (and even if you aren't in the scene, you are going to get up and do it yourself next, so you share in that creative act) but I'm not so turned on by improv as a form of entertainment for those on the other side of the proscenium.
I got the call last night telling me that I passed the audition and was invited to join the troupe. I had to decline; I love the process and the way they've set up a structure for trust and creativity and collaboration, but I can't go down the road of committing to performing for others right now.
It was sort of a stunning decision to make; I can imagine at various points in my life I would have given anything to be part of something like this, especially at this nascent stage (essentially they are building a new troupe from scratch in our community).
The day before that call I had seen a posting up at CCA for writing classes at
Killing My Lobster
This class is a six-week boot camp where the main requirement is for you to write funny and keep writing funny. If you've always had a curiousity [sic] for comedy writing, had funny ideas and have wondered "what would happen if I actually took this to the next level," and enjoy learning and creating in a fun environment this may be the class for you. The class will culminate in a live reading of your favorite material.
I really enjoy sketch comedy as an audience and this class (sadly already in progress) sounds really cool. It's another set of creative problem solving tools with some very different constraints and philosophies than improv, but perhaps a valuable exploration in expanding storytelling skills.
And finally, a piece about laughter and social context in the NYT today.
The women put in the underling position were a lot more likely to laugh at the muffin joke (and others almost as lame) than were women in the control group. But it wasn't just because these underlings were trying to manipulate the boss, as was demonstrated in a follow-up experiment.
This time each of the women watched the muffin joke being told on videotape by a person who was ostensibly going to be working with her on a task. There was supposed to be a cash reward afterward to be allocated by a designated boss. In some cases the woman watching was designated the boss; in other cases she was the underling or a co-worker of the person on the videotape.
When the woman watching was the boss, she didn't laugh much at the muffin joke. But when she was the underling or a co-worker, she laughed much more, even though the joke-teller wasn't in the room to see her. When you're low in the status hierarchy, you need all the allies you can find, so apparently you're primed to chuckle at anything even if it doesn't do you any immediate good.
"Laughter seems to be an automatic response to your situation rather than a conscious strategy," says Tyler F. Stillman, who did the experiments along with Roy Baumeister and Nathan DeWall. "When I tell the muffin joke to my undergraduate classes, they laugh out loud."
Mr. Stillman says he got so used to the laughs that he wasn't quite prepared for the response at a conference in January, although he realizes he should have expected it.
"It was a small conference attended by some of the most senior researchers in the field," he recalls. "When they heard me, a lowly graduate student, tell the muffin joke, there was a really uncomfortable silence. You could hear crickets."
blue blanket improv, chris miller, comedy, context, creativity, humor, improv, killing my lobster, laughter, problem solving, status
Improvisation is the new black
Core77 has launched a broadcast series and the first entry is an interview I did with improv expert Chris Miller of LifePlays.
The Broadcasts will soon be turned into an official iTunes/podcast/RSS whatever thingie, and I'll also post the link at that point so you can subscribe and get all the auditory goodness as it happens.
audio, broadcast, chris miller, core77, improv, improvisation, interview, lifeplays, podcast
Applying improv to business, storytelling, and what-have-you (part 4)
See part 1 here of my experience at the AIN2006 Applied Improv conference. See part 2 here and see part 3 here.
This was the first time in a long time I'd attended a conference where I really didn't know anyone (nor was I presenting), and as an introvert, this was pretty challenging. Factor in the general distance in tone and aim from my typical conference setting and you'll see why I was half-in, half-out of the whole thing. Given that it was local, I passed on a lot of the social stuff and instead came home; I didn't feel the need to be in a hotel ballroom at 8:00 am for the first presentations. I picked carefully what sessions I would go to; of course that means I had few opportunities to meet people and interact casually and become more connected to the sessions. It's a balance for us introverts; one day I happened to come down the stairs with people and end up joining them for lunch, just because of timing; the next day I came back after lunch a few minutes early and stood by myself for a while before the sessions started (this happened at the breaks as well).
Don't get me wrong; I'm not blaming anyone for that and I'm comfortable with letting it happen. I'm extremely fortunate that most professional things I go there are more people I know and want to talk with than I will have the chance to.
The only reason to even go into this introvert perspective on a conference is to frame my overall reaction to the way the group interacted; I was an observer as well as a participant (as a good ethnographer should be).
This group was very earnest and enthusiastic, with lots of affirmation, applause, and laughter. When many of the people in attendance are performers and/or facilitators, the dynamic between presenter and audience skews pretty dramatically from the norm. Example 1: in the storytelling presentation, someone asked a question about how we remember stories, and someone in the audience spoke up and said there was a useful exercise she would like us all try – speaking the words to Happy Birthday "go ahead and do it…". It illustrated her response, but the dynamic was unusual. She was asking the group to do something; that is normally reserved for the presenter. Example 2: in the session on polarity management vs. problem solving, someone offered to spend a few minutes after the session formally wrapped to share some thing she had heard a professor for University of Toronto say about the concept.
The encouragement from others gave some sessions the feeling of a Patti Smith concert; where quiet comments directed at the presenter were spoken from time to time ("Andrew, you rock"). Although some presenters were taken aback by this attitude in general and found difficulty in getting through their material. Some talks were repeats of other talks given elsewhere – to non-improv audiences, and the presenters seemed surprised when things didn't work as they had expected. "Oh, I forgot you are all improvisers" was a comment I heard a couple of times.
There was some funny jargon where everything was a type of work. "Let's start off on the chairs and then we'll move to some floor work." "After this introduction we'll get into our story work" – just like Michael Richards informing us on Letterman that he had to do some "personal work."
The last day was held as "open space"; unscheduled time slots that could be claimed by anyone who showed up and wanted to run something, very much in the spirit of the unconference (as I suppose, was this participation ethic that many audience folk brought with them).
In the storytelling session, one person got up and told a story as part of a group exercise. Her story dealt with an experience she had facilitating a workshop (ya see what I mean?) and was interestingly characteristic of much of this group, I believe. In her story, there was some tension between some of the audience members who wanted another participant's noisy child to leave. The mother of the child was living in her car and was desperate to be in this session (the goal of which was transformancing or something I hadn't heard of). The person telling this story related how they were in this situation and being asked to make a decision that seemed impossible, but rather than acting she allowed herself to "go wide" and remain "in the field" and just then a man walked up and offered to look after the child, solving the problem. The emphasis of the story seemed to be the external spiritual force out there somewhere that changed the situation to a successful one. There was no acknowledgment of personal choice or responsibility, and also no pleasure in the mysteries of fate, but credit given to an inner peaceful state that let it all happen. It was a fascinating way of processing an experience and if I allowed myself to get past my negative reactions to the way the story was told (a bias against anything too New Age) I could somewhat identify with how she saw things. But I would never process something that way, let alone relate it that way.
Given the pretty vast cultural differences with the folks I encounter in design, research, marketing, and strategy circles, (where, for example, you'd never see the font Comic Sans being used) I'm fascinated by the notion that there's some real overlap with the services being offered and the types of organizations we're all working in.
ain2006, applied improv network, conference, improv
See part 1 here of my experience at the AIN2006 Applied Improv conference. See part 2 here and part 4 here.
Carla Rieger (who positions herself as a motivation speaker and "Artistry of Change Expert") led a half-day version of a full-day seminar entitled Captivate Your Audience Through Stories. Stories are memorable, she says, because they are an (imaginary) kinesthetic experience that goes into long-term memory more efficiently.
Carla alluded to four different styles of storytellers, although we didn't get a ton of detail about the differences (the titles are quite descriptive, however).
asserter
contemplator
The workshop wasn't about storytelling in general, but applying it specifically to training and facilitation (which may have been a common factor for many of the participants, but is still a bit narrow).
Carla couldn't define to our satisfaction the difference between an anecdote and a story, but she was distinguishing between the two. An anecdote seemed to be a short relating of some sequence of events, whereas a story at the very least led to a concluding point.
She outlined a 5-part story structure
Set the platform: the status quo (Dorothy is in Kansas, in black and white).
Tilt the platform: a new element or conflict (the tornado takes Dorothy to Oz)
Consequences: the bulk of the narrative (Dorothy goes to Emerald City to see the Wizard)
Getting Back to Stability: a new heroic act (Dorothy melts the witch and goes back to the Wizard with the broom)
New Platform: the new status quo; what is different as a result of this story (Dorothy is back home and there's no place like it)
Individually we brainstormed ideas for stories, then got into groups of 3 and picked one to tell each other. Our team listened and then fed us back our story in those five parts. This was pretty hard. My story (about a strange movie-going experience) normally ends on a punch-line, but suddenly I had to add a denouement; I really wasn't prepared for that. Others told stories with multiple tilts. The point was to figure out how to evolve the story so that it did fit into the structure, of course. Oh, and we also acted out the story through a series of tableaux (one for each stage in the structure); it wasn't exactly clear what this provided. Others reported varying experiences with the actual improv part of the exercise. I had some small insight about the challenges of the structure; since the final step was very conceptual and hard to act, it said something back to us about the challenge of creating that part of the story.
Next steps, after the workshop, were for all of us to then try and write up our story (and Carla suggested we actually tell the story into a voice recorder and type that up, for a more natural flow). She offered to review our stories and send us a few presentations and PDFs if we sent something in to her. I think this Friday is the deadline and I'm not sure I have the motivation to write the story up; I've got a bunch of stories I feel I've committed to telling in one form or another. But we'll see.
The notion of a proper structure for a story is interesting. Certainly one has to learn a basic vocabulary before starting to tweak it or personalize it. I feel confident about my own storytelling abilities, but they are not trained or schooled; I don't know the principles and can't improve my stories by focusing on specific tasks.
I noticed Nicolas Nova's recent post about story flows, where the action of famous stories are graphically represented. It would be interesting to look at these in terms of Carla's structure and see if there's any alignment between these models.
ain2006, applied improv network, carla rieger, improv, stories, storytelling
The Innovise Guys (Doug Stevenson and Gregg Fraley) ran a session that was described as an introduction to Innovisation(tm), although I'm not really sure what it was specifically about. They started after lunch and so things were late. And trying to facilitate a room full of facilitators was challenging, since everyone wanted to take the discussion in new ways, and each bit of facilitator-ese they offered up ("okay, let's rock and roll, since we're getting low on time") was countered with a participant's own facilitator-speak ("Gregg, if I could just honor that rock with some roll of my own, and ask…."). It wasn't entirely clear what the session was supposed to accomplish; I think their idea was the power in combining improv activities with stuff from Creative Problem Solving (you may remember I considered attending their conference earlier this year). The exercises didn't seem to work, however. In one, the group was given a problem ("help me find an inexpensive fuel-efficient car") and asked to throw out words. Some words applied to the problem but by design the suggestions drifted into the random and silly. Then we stopped and looked at the list of words and use them, one-by-one, as seeds for generating actual solutions. In another, an improv game was staged where the actors were product development people trying to slogan, package, advertise, and create a jingle for a new cereal product. They were instructed to respond with the usual "yes, and…" but with extra enthusiasm. And we the audience were supposed to…do something…build on these ideas somehow. The whole approach left me somewhat cold (and soggy in milk?) since I'm not convinced coming up with ideas is anyone's big challenge. Connecting those ideas to an actual problem, prioritizing ideas, and sorry for being obvious here but ensuring those ideas have some resonance with the people you are targeting them at…those are the tough problems. Play-acting as marketing people may be fun and feel creative, but it doesn't automatically solve the right problems the right way. Maybe I'm being too literal and the point is to think of the right setting to use this stuff. It's one thing, then, to offer facilitation tips for meetings, but another to frame it as a trademarked methodology for innovation.
Although they were charming and personable as facilitators, I still don't buy into the whole creative-consultant-as-clown routine. These guys have created characters for themselves, gently, with a caricature-style logo (above, although neither of them have brown hair any longer, so…), and matching outfits (big black bowling shirts with slogans stitched on 'em, baggy khaki pants, and matching brightly colored silly shoes). Why?
ain2006, applied improv network, doug stevenson, gregg fraley, improv, innovise
Last week I went to AIN2006, the annual conference of the Applied Improv Network. This was my first time attending any such conference, and I was a little uncertain what to expect. Indeed, since the event was local I hedged my bets somewhat by picking carefully what sessions I wanted to attend and passing on the banquet/comedy night/scavenger hunt/etc. More on the overall experience later.
I showed up (faint with hunger, and late since I was at school that evening) at the end of the pre-conference day for an evening of mixer stuff. The energy was very positive as different people led the room (of maybe 60 people) through a range of exercises. In one, we had a bingo card with different personal characteristics ("likes country and western," "allergic to cats," "commutes across a bridge") and we had to fill the cells with names. Good ice-breaker, as people would exchange with each other rather than name-and-bolt. Although there was some eager shoving that was a bit surprising. In another game we had to close our eyes, fold our arms to our body, and walk to the center of the room, and when you encountered someone else you could attract or repel, eventually we ended up as a coagulated mob in the middle of the room. This was very challenging; both to keep your eyes closed, and to allow an incredible violation of social distance. Indeed, by having my eyes closed gave me some permission to violate the norm, since I could somehow surrender any responsibility. When I was surrounded by people on either side and could not choose where to move, I had to accept that other people were touching me, and just let it happen. I was intrigued to notice where my own boundaries were, and what the triggers were (or mitigating factors), but much of the debrief emphasized the sensual nature of experience, with lots of giggling. Perhaps many of those folks knew each other and had spent the day together, and were at a different point of trust than I was, having just walked in.
The sessions I attended were less experiential than that (although all were far more participatory and physical than anything I've done at any other conference). Andrew Welch talked about improv applied to quadrants (one person next to me asked me sotto voce "what's a quadrant?"). I don't know if that term is local to the improv world, to the type of leadership consulting Andrew does, or what. Quadrants in this case refers to some 2 x 2 model, two perpendicular axes that lead to a four quadrant model representing behavior, goals, personality types, or whatever.
Andrew asked the group (most of whom seemed to be some type of applied improv training facilitator consultant) what the challenges are in "our" industry that don't seem to go away. And the answers were amazingly consistent with what I've heard in any sort of consulting discussion (design, user experience, usability, ethnography, etc.). Clients ask for the world, but have no time. Clients want to change culture, or behavior, but have no budget. This dovetailed into an exercise about how to explain and sell services to a prospective client; there's something very universal about these challenges, although as usual, the default is to beat up clients for not "getting it" and I'm pretty tired of that rhetoric.
Andrew introduced the difference between a problem, and a polarity. If there's no upside, then it's a problem. If there is an upside, it's a polarity. Take gossip for an example – there are benefits to gossip; there's a reason people do it and get something out of it. A problem, in his framework, was something like a conveyor belt that wasn't wide enough to accommodate the pizza. Cultural issues were almost always going to be polarities, it seems.
Problem solving:
Working towards a final answer, decision, or outcome
Requires an Either/Or mindset
Policies, rules, facts, solution to problem
Polarity Management:
Managing unsolvable problems, optimizing the tension between 2 interdependent opposites
Requires a Both/And mindset
Stability and Change; Activity and Rest; Planning and Action
This frame-shift was presented as a key to more effective leadership.
In the second half of his talk, Andrew started with a curious exercise. He ran four scenes with two people who had a certain relationship and a certain location. In the first version, the actors were given the location and relationship. In the second version (I tried this one), one actor knew the relationship and the other actor knew the location. In the third version, an audience member knew both and would ding a bell if the dialog was "right", and in the fourth version the actors drew dialog from slips of paper to constantly evolve the entire story.
This demonstrated four different problem types:
KNOWN: Both players knew who and where
KNOWABLE: Players could learn who and where from each other
COMPLEX: Players could possibly discern who and where (in hindsight) by probing
CHAOTIC: Who and where were unpredictable, as was dialogue
and with that comes four different approaches to problem solving:
KNOWN: Sense – Categorize – Respond
KNOWABLE: Sense – Analyze – Respond
COMPLEX: Probe – Sense – Respond
CHAOTIC: Act – Sense – Respond
[and part of the point here was the use of improv to demonstrate this model more tangibly than a basic slide deck, or say, um, a blog entry]
There were certain types of jobs that tended strongly towards one of these types
KNOWN: Sense – Categorize – Respond — Loan officer, FDA inspector
KNOWABLE: Sense – Analyze – Respond — Architect
COMPLEX: Probe – Sense – Respond — Kindergarten teacher
CHAOTIC: Act – Sense – Respond — Firefighter
This is known as The Cynefin Framework.
Both of these models remind me of to Wicked Problems, a framework I was excited to encounter (though admittedly I haven't found any way to apply it other than in conversation).
I'll describe the other talks and the conference in general in subsequent posts.
ain2006, andrew welch, applied improv network, cynefin, improv, polarity management
What am I in for?
I'm feeling eagerness and trepidation over the upcoming Applied Improv Conference. Eagerness because I find improv has enormous potential for creativity and collaboration (and even connections to ethnography) and discussions of improv can be provocative and intellectually invigorating.
And trepidation over whether this event will be filled with earnest, clowny, extroverted, unprofessional flakes where I've just got no common ground.
We have an exciting Plenary Session planned for Wednesday evening with Nika Quirk of InterPlay.
InterPlay means "interaction" and what could be better to kick off a conference? InterPlay is easy, fun, and life changing. It is based in a series of incremental "forms" that lead participants to movement and stories, silence and song, ease and amusement. In the process, we unlock the innate wisdom of our bodies and in our relationships.
Nika Quirk is a lifelong mover and student of dance, starting with her interest in wiggling to TV jingles at age 3. She founded and directed a Dance Choir using authentic movement and a collaborative choreography process she developed. Completing the yearlong InterPlay Leadership Program in 1997, she earned certification in the methodology and has focused her application of InterPlay in small groups, individual coaching, and "labs" exploring business partnership. Nika's career spans law, business management, non-profit program development, academic teaching and professional coaching. In August, she began a doctoral program at California Institute of Integral Studies and is following her curiosity about the connections between improvisational ability and social creativity.
I guess it's up to me to bring some open-mindedness back and cover up my cynicism (which I oh-so enjoy). The conference is local, so no travel costs, and is relatively inexpensive, and is an experiment for me. I'm passing on some of the typical conferences my peers are attending this year (and that I have been regulars at in the past) in order to branch out, but I can feel the tension inside me over that decision.
applied improv, comfort zone, conference, cynical, earnest, event, exploration, improv, play
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I have been a member of Mirc/Ez 2 Serve for over 10 years and am having a huge problem which I hope you can help.
I was able to log in to ez 2 serve last month without any problems (ez 2 serve v2 v 6.14) including a couple of weeks ago.
I cannot log onto the site any longer and am wondering why.
No settings have changed from my computer or lan and I am wondering if there is a newer version of ez 2 serve or if the mirc options default port 6667 has changed.
The ops people that I have had help me in the past sharing or other questions are Maggie, retro, johnny wb, angel-babe, morgan lefey, snow 52 and Gary.
My user id is under 3 different log ins - dabunny, littlebabydabunny and iluvmyboots as I have a lan and log in separately depending on which computer I'm using.
If you can email me to let me know why I am having this problem or have any of the above ops contact me this would be greatly appreciated. I can be reached @ dabunny@xplornet.com.
Wierd. Never heard of this one before, but the sites listed on search engine claim relationship with mIRC Co. Ltd. while at the same time saying there is no such relationship. Might be something Khaled might want to look into.
The version string hints it was made for mIRC 6.14 which was released over 7 years ago and still suffered from known security risks.
For your own safety I suggest to keep an closer eye on the software you're using.


The 3rd HESTOUREX International Exhibition, from the 4th to 7th of April, on health, medicine, sports and tourism as the largest and only B2B platform of its kind, with the support of the Turkish government with the participation of a large number of activists from all over the world in the areas of health and Treatment, sports, as well as the presence of prominent international business representatives for the international development of business in the field of health and sports, was held. The main objective of HESTOUREX is the development of health tourism and the development of bilateral cooperation among countries alongside professional business meetings. More than 5,000 exhibitors from 168 countries visited the exhibition. The location of the Antalya Expo Center in Antalya has been strategically located not far from the Antalya International Airport.
The exhibition was sponsored by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and the Turkish Ministry of Health.
Exhibitors in the field of health tourism, sports, hospitals and clinics, travel agencies, hotel / chain hotels / health villages, sports facilities, medical equipment companies, cultural tourism, sports federations and international tourism associations were active participants.


Divorce Will Affect Your Estate Plan | Rizzo & Diersen, S.C.
When it's time for divorce, it's also a vital time to review your estate planning.
Because divorce can be so traumatic, many people overlook its ramifications on their estate plan. Don't do that. Be sure to review your estate plan.
Divorce affects your financial power of attorney, healthcare power of attorney, will, trust, beneficiary designations on a retirement account or life insurance policy.
Wisconsin law is clear. Unless a governing instrument or court order provides otherwise, a divorce terminates the beneficial provisions for the former spouse. Also the former spouse – or relative of the former spouse – can no longer act in your interest (as a fiduciary). A divorce also changes your will or trust, terminating beneficial provisions for your spouse's relatives.
So even if you want your former spouse to make healthcare and financial decisions for you if you are incapacitated, the spouse can not. Any designation of either a financial or healthcare power of attorney is void.
You need to choose someone else. If you don't, your family would be forced to seek a guardianship so someone is authorized to make your healthcare or financial decisions. With proper post-divorce planning, this can be avoided.
There's more. If your former spouse dies and has children from a previous relationship, he or she may want them to inherit the former spouse's property. But the law terminates the children's ability to inherit from a will or trust (created prior to the divorce from the person who is not their blood relative). The only way around this is to execute a new will or trust after the divorce.
There's more to consider. And like all of the above, many of these developments might be unexpected.
Let's say that you don't want relatives of your former spouse to inherit from your estate. That could still happen because of default inheritance provisions. They are automatic. If you don't plan effectively, those relatives may very well inherit from your estate. You have to make decisions now.
The conclusion is clear. After a divorce, be sure to update your estate plan.
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We have so many wonderful roses to show you that I am going to have to spread them across several articles. Why am I showing you these now, in September? Well, I am showing them to you now so that you have time to consider which ones are perfect for your garden. So sit back, relax and enjoy. All images courtesy of David Austin Roses Limited.
2019 will be our second year selling David Ausin roses and we have expanded our selection of roses for sale. For 2019 we have not only more shrub roses but also more climbing roses and a good selection of the best rambling roses. We have a limited number of each available, however, (10-20 depending upon the variety), so it is best to get your order in quick.
This rose has graceful, medium-sized,semi-double flowers of a pleasing apricot colour and are produced from the ground upwards and are held in large heads of up to 15 roses. This rose is absolutely stunning, here in the Moosbach Garden we have a corner bed planted up with 3 of these and it looks stunning when it flowers. In a good climate it is not unusual for this rose to reach a height of 1 3/4 metres. My experience with this rose is that a puts up a fantastic display early on and although it does throw the occasional flower after this it should be treated as a bonus rather than be expected.
A pretty rose bearing numerous cupped flowers with yellow stamens. The rose is a lovely light pink colour with a powerful Myrrh fragrance. The rose has a delicacy about it that is really quite romantic in the old fashioned style of roses. Again, in the right climate this rose can grow to at least 1 1/2 metres tall. A good repeat flowerer.
A striking variety with large single flowers in coral-pink. One of the largest English roses forming a big bushy shrub with wonderful rose hips in Winter. It grows to a height of about 1.8 metres.
This a smaller rose, (90cm x 90cm) but again given the right conditions it can acheive more height but probably suited to the front of a flower bed rather than at the back. It is a good repeat flowerer but only with a light to medium strength fragrance.
Rich orange-red buds open up to chalice shaped blooms that are filled with loosely aranged orange petals. It has a nice warm tea fragrance of a medium strength and will grow to about 1 1/2 metres in the right climate. The perfume has tomes of apple and cloves. This rose is also available as a climber and as a standard rose.
Blooms of orange and yellow paired with a strong fruity fragrance make this rose a firm favourite. It grows to just over 1 metre tall so is probably best suited to the front of the flower bed or even in a large teracota pot on a patio.
I simply adore this rose, it is just so beautiful, has a gorgeous perfume and a really good repeat flowerer. In the right situation will grow to 1 1/2 metres or more. This is in my top 5 favourite roses.
Large coral-pink flowers are held gracefuly on arching stems. It has a strong fruity fragrance with tones of lemon and raspberry. In better climates it can grow to 1 1/2 metres.
An exceptionally beautiful rose of a delicate soft pink with a strong Tea fragrance. Can grow up to 1 1/2 metres in the right climate. Perfume exhibits tones of lemon and grapefruit. This rose has a strong, healthy, upright growth.
This rose is simply top-class. It repeat flowers extremely well, is very vigorous and disease resistent and the flowers are perfection. A middle strength perfume of a fruity nature. Can easily grow to 2 metres tall in the right climate.
A firm favourite here in the Moosbach Garden with a filled bloom more reminiscent of a peony. Lovely colour and repeat flowers well. Can easily reach 1 1/2 metres in height.
A lovely rose with darker pink flower reminiscent of salmon. Can easily reach 1 1/2 metres high and repeat flowers well. The blooms last well in full sun and heat. It has a strong Myrrh fragrance.
A beautiful white rose that start as peachy-pink buds, it has a strong old rose fragrance and can grow up to 1 1/2 metres. Very, very beautiful.
So I hope that this has given you some food for thought, I haven`t included all of the roses that we have on offer for 2019 but you get the idea. The sizes that I have quoted here are not guaranteed and do not come from David Austin roses but from my own experience. All roses do better with lots of direct sunlight and lots of water, in colder climates you should expect less growth. If you do not have at lease 4 hours of sunlight per day in the Summer than maybe a plant other than a rose might fare better. I aam always happy to offer my opinion or answer any questions that you might have.
Here is the first video from us talking about David Austin Roses, it's only 5 mins long and not an indepth video. Hope you enjoy.
The Generous Gardener (Ausdrawn). David Austin featured climbing rose of the week. A fantastic English climbing rose, tall, strong and disease resistant.
Image courtesy of David Austin Roses.
David Austin Senior comments in his book " The Rose" that "The Generous Gardener" is his favourite climbing rose and I have to say that I am inclined to agree. When I first bought one last year I was mesmerised by the beautiful blooms, the exquisite perfume and the quality and colour of the leaves. The scent for this rose is a mixture of tea and Myrrh and it is a good repeat flowering shrub. It grows to a height of around 350cm, so I think you need 2, 1 planted either side of a rose arch for the most stunning of displays. It is available as a shrub rose as well but I'm reliably informed that it does better as a climber.
I've planted mine at the top of the big bed, next to the steps in the top garden so that it is the first thing that you see and smell as you enter the garden from the road. I'm half inclined to plant a second on the opposite side of the path so that the assault on the senses is complete. My plan is to fill this big bed with a classic colour combination of light pink roses paired with dark blue perennials like lavender, delphiniums and salvia, I've already sourced the seed for some fantastically dark blue salvias. A rose arch of "The Generous Gardener" with its lovely light pink flowers would fit this scheme perfectly, acting as a gateway into a rose paradise, my only concern is planting it far enough away from the road so that it is not eaten by the deer.
The problem with deer is really quite severe here in the Black Forest and we have resorted to erecting an electric fence 6 feet tall all the way around the garden. I'm keeping a watchful eye on all of the roses for any sign of predation, I've also bought some very smelly black powder that you mix with water and then paint onto the leaves but I'm reluctant to put something that smells unpleasant onto beautifully scented roses. We have had a snowy winter here (it's not over yet) and it's been shocking to see how many deer foot prints there are in the garden if the gate is left open over night. Hopefully we will win the battle.
However, we are confident that the measures that we have put in place will be successful and all of the hard work will pay off in the summer. We are currently building new paths in the garden to create some stunning rose walks (Rugosa Sarah Van Fleet, Wild Edric, Mrs Anthony Waterer) and then we will be building some rustic rose arches using natural materials found on our land. You'll notice in the photograph above that the rose is growing up a wooden arch and I think that this is the perfect material, especially here in the Black Forest where there is so much wood readily available. That being said I think it looks just as stunning climbing up a wall of the house, if you are thinking of planting a climbing rose like this up a wall remember that roses need at least 4 hours of sunshine a day. Most roses thrive best in a south facing position, will tolerate an eastern or western position but perform very poorly against a north facing wall. There are some specific roses that are more suited to shadier locations like Alba Semi-Plena and if you would like some suggestions of suitable rose varieties then please drop me an email.
We do have a limited supply of "The Generous Gardener" available to purchase here at the garden or via our website.
We also have available the fantastic book by David Austin "Meine Rosen", available for collection or for delivery. We will also be selling some limited stocks of phlox, delphiniums, acanthus, sweet peas, cosmos and lavender and these will be available from May onwards.
Please remember that although some disease resistant roses are available now, roses on the whole do suffer from fungus and black spot and the only way to keep your roses in optimum health is to spray them every 4 to 6 weeks with a proprietary spray and to give them a handful of David Austin Rose feed after each flowering has ended. This ensures a continued high quality roses throughout the summer.
So I wish you all much happiness and enjoyment gardening!
The Charles Darwin Rose is part of the Leander group of roses which are renowned for forming large, robust shrubs with arching growth. They came into existence by the crossing of Old Rose Hybrids with the modern varieties.
This strongly perfumed yellow rose has particularly large flowers and the perfume changes depending upon the weather conditions. The perfume varies from a soft floral tea rose to lemon. The blooms are upward facing which is a real bonus as so many rose flowers droop towards the ground.
In habit, the rose is vigorous reaching a height of 120cm and a width of 110cm, this rose is also disease resistant which is fairly uncommon amongst roses.
We have three of these roses planted together at Moosbach in the top rose garden.
This rose can be described as eye-catching due to the large size of the individual flowers and their orientation, i.e. facng upwards. I think that a round flower bed with three of these planted together in the centre of the bed would make a stunning show piece in any garden. David Austin recommend planting three roses of the same variety together in a triangle, 1 meter apart. In time this will look like 1 substantial plant, of course not everybody has either the space or the budget to buy 3 roses at a time but if you consider how many years of joy this will bring you and visitors to your garden then it really is value for money.
Good companion planting for yellow roses are dark blues and purples like lavender and Salvia, these have the advantage of not growing too tall and are therefore ideal for the edge of a round border. I'm in favour of the use of perennial plants over annual plants as there is a better return on time invested but you could use annuals if you wish.
I would recommend using David Austin's mycorrhizal Fungi when planting roses, one packet has enough for 3 roses and this helps the plant to get established and extends the root system giving the plant a larger area to extract water and nutrients from. Rose fertilizer should be used directly after the plant has finished blooming as this encourages the next set of blooms and ensures that the quality of the initial blooms is maintained. In winter, you can do nothing better for your roses that applying a generous mulch of well-rotted horse manure, in summer you will reap the benefits with better bigger blooms. You must make sure that it is well rotted as fresh manure takes nitrogen out of the soil as part of the decomposition process and you want to add nitrogen, not take it away.
There is an instructional video on how to plant roses on the David Austin Website – how to plant a potted rose and how to prune a shrub rose.
We do have a limited supply of these roses available on our website and you can order one by clicking here.
On the subject of companion planting, white and blue flowers go exceptionally well with roses and one of my favourite colour combinations are blue and yellow but blues also work especially well with light pink roses like Harlow Carr, Gentle Hermione and Gertrude Jekyll. Good choices of blue perennials are: delphiniums, Salvia, Lavender and Campanula. Peonies are also a classic combination with roses and have the added bonus of a long season of interest with purple leaves when they first emerge, stunningly beautiful flowers and fiery autumnal leaves. Here at the Moosbach Garden we have a combination of perennial and tree peonies but remember that tree peonies can grow as big as 2 metres so give careful consideration as to where you plant them.
This beautiful English Musk rose can be grown either as a shrub or as a climbing rose. When the buds appear on this strongly perfumed rose they are of a delicate light lemon, however, when they open the flowers are a gorgeous creamy white.
The petals are arranged in concentric circles and you can get lost admiring the wonder and beauty of nature. The perfume is myrrh mixed with meadow-sweet and vanilla.
If grown as a shrub rose you should expect a plant 140cm x 90cm and if grown as a climber you should expect to achieve a height of 2.5m. If you have the space why not grow it in both forms.
For me there is something pure and untainted about white flowers and this rose would be perfect if you want to create a white border or even a white garden if you are lucky enough to have the space. Here at the Moosbach Garden we are creating multiple outdoor rooms, including a rose garden.
I'm a big fan of using Yew hedging as a backdrop for planting schemes. For me the dark green foliage of Yew contrasts beautifully with light coloured flowers and is a classic staple of garden design. Also, looking forward, as one can not help but doing with gardening, Yew is slow-growing so only needs cutting once per year and this is a very important consideration for the future.
I challenge everyone to have a go at designing their own garden space, it is amazing how satisfying it is to create something from scratch and slowly watch it mature. You can make this more affordable by buying small plants and allowing them to mature slowly. Even if you are new to gardening there are many things that you can do to create a wonderful garden on a low-budget. Carol Klein's book "Grow your own garden" by BBC books (only available in English) is a fantastic guide to growing your own plants from seeds, cuttings and plant division.
As you would expect we have the David Austin Rose "Claire Austin" available to purchase on our website www.moosbach-schwarzwald.com or you can visit us at the Moosbach Garden and peruse all of the wonderful plants that we have for sale.
David Austin rose Harlow Carr (Aushouse) – image courtesy of David Austin Roses.
This fabulous rose is part of their fragrant rose collection and is perfect for the flower border. A robust rose with medium sized fragrant flowers of a delicate rose pink. It is bushy in form and has the advantage of producing blooms almost to the ground, giving a stunning visual display.
The perfume evokes childhood memories of glorious summer days without end and the perfume is very similar to rose scented soaps. The leaves which are at first bronze in colour turn green and the rose is very disease resistant, unusual amongst many roses.
In height and spread it can grow to 120 x 90 cm but this can be improved by planting 3 of this excellent rose in a triangle 1 metre apart giving the effect of one large bush. It can also be used as a hedging plant and is an excellent way to divide a garden space. At 120cm this does not form a tall hedge and if you want to create a substantial hedge then I would recommend one of the Rugosa roses like Sarah Van Fleet, Mrs Anthony Waterer or Wild Edric.
We also have a selection of delphiniums, acanthus, sweet peas and day lilies for sale.
Pink roses combine especially well with blue flowers such as Salvia, Lavender and Delphiniums. Like all flowers I recomment planting in groups rather than individually which can lack the impact of group plantings, groups of plants should drift into each other in a naturalistic way and if you have the space be repeated at intervals within a flower border.


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Room XII
late 18th cent.
wood, iron, brass
This instrument, like the apparatus inv. 1027, is used to perform experiments on the centrifugal force. The wooden base carries a hinged board whose slope can be adjusted by a metal arc and a fastening screw. The board supports a vertical frame carrying a wheel fitted with a handle. The handle, via a lathe and pulley, rotates a horizontal iron axle bearing two perpendicularly placed elastic metal blades that form two meridians of a sphere. When the axle is spun, the centrifugal force distorts the blades, turning the sphere into a rotating ellipsoid whose flatness increases in proportion to the velocity. There is a mechanism for blocking the blades at the point of maximum flattening. The apparatus thus offers a convincing demonstration of the cause of the Earth's flattening at the poles, which is precisely the vortical rotation of our planet on its axis. The instrument also came with a glass globe (missing) to replace the axle with blades. The globe was filled with a mixture of water and a liquid of different density, or with water containing a wax pellet or an air bubble. With such combinations, the globe provided a demonstration of the effects of gravity combined with the centrifugal force. The operating principle of the apparatus was described by Jean-Antoine Nollet in Leçons de physique expérimentale (Paris, 1743-1748). Provenance: Lorraine collections.
- Jean-Antoine Nollet
- Machine for experiments on the centrifugal force (Inv. 1027)
- Experimental mechanics
- Museo di Fisica workshops
- Pulley (sheave)
- Centrifugal force / Centripetal force
- Earth's flattening at the poles
- Period of Earth's rotation
- Rotating ellipsoid

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They're Pancakes! They're Shortcake! They're Practically Paleo!
Don't shut down on me yet. I know I said the "P" word! And while paleo and gluten-free are certainly hot topics and very trendy today, I'm betting most of you are like me and when you hear those words (along with vegan or vegetarian) you think, "Uuuughh, groan, whine". I'm of the mindset that food is good, and I like to eat it. I like to eat it ALL.
There's plenty of solid reasons for trying new lifestyle changes, though. I have one friend who discovered, once she went completely vegetarian for a month, that her body does not handle animal proteins well. Now she serves meat, poultry and fish as a treat instead of daily rations. I have another friend who co-wrote with her husband a really great post on going mostly paleo/primal. I highly recommend reading Daniel's notes on WHY they went that route and how it has benefited them.
I actually enjoy a dietary challenge from time to time. I think it opens the doors of culinary creativity, and almost always introduces me to new foods that I would not have thought to try – or new ways to use foods that I wouldn't have tried on my own.
Right now my husband and I are nearly done with a detox/diet that we started at the end of March. We're at the end of a 3-week phase where we can't have starches or sugar. It has not been nearly as difficult as I thought it would be, largely due to several recipes I've tinkered with. I've also enjoyed several of the recipes I've discovered so much that they are now a member of my recipe book. I don't think I'd want to make this a permanent lifestyle, but I can say that I'm going to continue to find and add grain-free foods to our regular menus.
One more note: I think they are actually better the next day. The last batch I made, I made on Saturday night so we could eat them Sunday morning. Just re-heat them for 30 seconds or so in the microwave or in the oven for a few minutes.
Mix all ingredients in a bowl, except coconut oil. Batter should be slightly runny. If it's still thick, add more milk until it resembles typical pancake batter. Grease griddle or pan with oil. Spoon batter onto hot griddle into 2-3″ rounds. When sides begin to brown, flip pancakes. Brown the other side, then serve warm! Add pureed strawberries and whipped cream. If strawberries aren't super sweet, you may want to add a packet of stevia or a teaspoon of sugar while pureeing. Typically they won't need it, though. Especially if they are in season! Leftovers should keep in the fridge at least a week.
Tell me if you try these! I have a few more starch and sugar-free recipes that I will post here if anyone is interested. I'll be back to eating those things next week, but it never hurts to try new recipes, right?


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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA North Korea and its neighbors in the region reacted with caution to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision Thursday to cancel the U.S.- North Korea nuclear summit.
North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan said in a statement released by the North's central news agency (KCNA) that his country remains open to resolving problems with the United States whenever and however, and offered praise for President Trump's diplomatic engagement efforts.
We had held in high regards President Trump's efforts, unprecedented by any other president, to create a historic North Korea-U.S. summit, said the vice foreign minister in a statement released Friday by KCNA.
Tone and substance
The conciliatory tone that came from Vice Foreign Minister Kim stands in sharp contrast to earlier criticisms, insults and threats made by another North Korean official that prompted Trump to cancel the June summit in Singapore with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
On Thursday North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui called U.S. Vice President Mike Pence a political dummy and threatened a nuclear-to-nuclear showdown with the U.S. over comments made by Pence calling for North Korea to follow the Libya denuclearization model.
The Libya model refers to the rapid and complete dismantlement of that country's nuclear program in 2003 and 2004, before the easing of any sanctions. But North Korea is acutely aware that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed by his own people a few years later, with support from a multinational military coalition that included the United States.
Pyongyang has called for a more incremental process that links concessions to partial nuclear reductions and postpones complete denuclearization until its undefined security demands are met.
Trump blamed the tremendous anger and open hostility from Pyongyang for forcing the cancelation of the summit, but many analysts say the issue was more about substance over tone and the unbridgeable gap between the two denuclearization positions.
But North Korea's measured reaction to Trump's rejection letter also offered the opportunity for the summit to be held in the future, raising hope that diplomatic progress is still possible.
I think it is worth positively evaluating North Korea showing its willingness to continue the talks with the U.S., while calmly assessing the current situation, said Kim Yong-hyun, a professor of North Korean studies at Dongguk University in Seoul.
Trump reportedly made the decision to withdraw from the summit without consulting other key countries in the region affected by the North Korea nuclear threat.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a late night national security meeting to assess the fallout from the summit cancelation. Moon reportedly said he was perplexed by the decision to cancel and urged Trump and Kim to communicate directly to resolve the impasse.
Moon had been instrumental in facilitating U.S.-North Korea talks by persuading Kim to agree to a broad denuclearization goal at the recent inter-Korean summit.
On Friday, Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon said South Korea would continue to strive to fulfill the peace building goals of that summit, and said he believes North Korea also remains committed to finding a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff.
It appears that (the North) remains sincere in implementing the agreement and making efforts on denuclearization and peace building, the unification minister said.
In Tokyo, Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga voiced support for President Trump's decision to pull out of the summit with North Korea and called for continued enforcement of the United Nations sanctions in place that ban 90 percent of trade with the North.
In order for North Korea to change their policies, it is necessary for Japan and the U.S. and South Korea to continue to apply pressure, including the United Nations sanctions and importantly with the nations that supported these (the sanctions), including China and Russia, Suga said.
The Communist Party newspaper, China Daily, ran an editorial Friday calling on the U.S. and North Korea to maintain their commitment to dialogue and continue to work toward an end to hostilities and denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
However, President Trump had earlier suggested that China may have emboldened the Kim government to take a more confrontational position toward denuclearization talks. Trump said he noticed a change in attitude from the North Korean side after the second Kim meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this month, and later on Twitter urged China to maintain strong sanctions enforcement.
Nearly all North Korean trade goes through China, and there have been observational reports of increased trade along the border region, although Beijing denies it has eased sanctions restrictions.
However it would not be surprising for Beijing to allow increased informal trade with Pyongyang, given Kim's improved relationship with Xi, and the unilateral good faith measures taken by the North that include the destruction of it nuclear test site on Thursday, the release of U.S. prisoners, and the continued suspension of further nuclear and missile tests.
Although China publicly says that it is fully following the U.N. sanctions against North Korea, it will ease the sanction compared to the past in the process of improving the relations with North Korea, said Seo Jeong-kyung, a professor with the Sungkyun Institute of China Studies in Seoul.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said, we took this news with regret, in reacting to Trump's announcement canceling the North Korea summit. He also voiced support for his North Korean ally, saying Kim had done everything that he had promised in advance, even blowing up the tunnels and shafts of his country's nuclear testing site.
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Sorry for the extreme lack of updates this month, as my M was busy travelling. First there was the family trip to Taipei and Hongkong, and then there was her work trip. I can understand why my M is not bringing me on her work trips, but shouldn't I be joining on the family trips since I'm part of the family?
Instead, this golden here got left behind while the OTHER golden in the family gets to go on holidays.
Yes, his name is really MR Golden. And so far he has been to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taipei and Hong Kong again. He's taken more plane rides than me and I am JEALOUS.
And he came back with these pictures to taunt me with too!
Come to think of it, I think my baby sister was the only kid lugging a non-disney character soft toy in disneyland.
And to top it all off, not only did my baby sister bring only Mr Golden on the trips, she found herself another golden to harrass in Taipei!
I thought I was the only golden she should sleep on, but nooo... she found this resident dog of a cafe. So what if he's the owner of 3 cafes named after him? I have a whole range of products named after ME!
I think my baby sister should have her loyalty checked.
What can a dog do around here to earn a howliday?
This happened to me last week. One day, my MM asked my M if she locked me inside the bedroom before she left for work because when he went home, I was alone in the room with no waterbowl and no windows opened (only the small window in the toilet was opened).
My M was surprised and said no, and later they realised that it was my baby sister who locked me in. Apparently that morning, before she left for school she came into the room to give my usual hug and kiss goodbye. And when she left the room, she conveniently closed the door after her. My M didn't realise as she was waiting outside for my baby sister.
Boy was I glad when my MM came home and released me from imprisonment! It was boring and stuffy in the room!
My M went on a business trip last week and who else did I bunk in with but Scuba?
Aunty Viv kept telling my M what a scaredy cat I had been and that the wild birds who flew into the balcony were scaring me so much that I was hiding in Aunty S's room. I must say that I am not a scardey cat. I am VERY brave, especially with my M is standing behind me. But the humans say I'm brave only because I have a back up.
Other than me, my baby sister also had a sleepover with Scuba the week before.
I bet Scuba must be thinking by now why everyone is sleeping in his house.


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Q: Does Kestel (.NET Core 3.1) support md5RSA certificates? I have been trying to get a simple HTTPS secured Kestrel service running which validates clients using an installed self-signed root certificate (from a 3rd party). I am struggling to find what is specifically is wrong with the client certificate and why the service is bouncing the connection. Could someone answer categorically that Kestrel in .NET Core 3.1 on a linux box running OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017 no long accepts root certs which have a signature algorithm of md5RSA ?

I have been unable to fuind any way to find anything more specific from Kestrel.
I added the following to the program.cs to try to help:
    private static bool ClientCertificateValidation(X509Certificate2 clientCertificate, X509Chain chain, SslPolicyErrors sslPolicyErrors)
        {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            int certNumber = 0;
            foreach (X509ChainElement element in chain.ChainElements)
            {
                certNumber++;
                var errors = element.ChainElementStatus;
                List<string> errorList = new List<string>();
                foreach(var cError in errors)
                {
                    errorList.Add(cError.StatusInformation);
                }
                sb.AppendLine("Certificate #" + certNumber + ": (" + string.Join(",", errorList.ToArray())  + ")");
                sb.AppendLine("  Subject: " + element.Certificate.Subject);
                sb.AppendLine("  Issuer: " + element.Certificate.Issuer);
                sb.AppendLine("  Serial #: " + element.Certificate.SerialNumber);
                sb.AppendLine("  Thumbprint: " + element.Certificate.Thumbprint);
                sb.AppendLine("  Valid Dates: " + element.Certificate.NotBefore.ToString() + " to " + element.Certificate.NotAfter.ToString());
                sb.AppendLine("  Signature Algorithm: " + element.Certificate.SignatureAlgorithm.FriendlyName);
                sb.AppendLine("  Version: " + element.Certificate.Version);
                sb.AppendLine("  Encoded Certificate: " + Convert.ToBase64String(element.Certificate.Export(X509ContentType.Cert)));
            }

            Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString());

                if (sslPolicyErrors.HasFlag(SslPolicyErrors.None))
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"***************** NO POLICY ERRORS! **********************");
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }

Calling it via:
 public static IHostBuilder CreateHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
            Host.CreateDefaultBuilder(args)
            .UseSerilog()
            .ConfigureWebHostDefaults(webBuilder =>
            {
                webBuilder.UseStartup<Startup>();
                webBuilder.ConfigureKestrel(options =>
                {
                    options.ConfigureHttpsDefaults(
                        httpsOptions =>
                        {
                            httpsOptions.ClientCertificateMode = ClientCertificateMode.RequireCertificate;
                            httpsOptions.SslProtocols = SslProtocols.Tls12;
                            httpsOptions.ClientCertificateValidation =ClientCertificateValidation;
                        });
                });
            });

But truly "Certificate signature failure" gives me little to go on. Having run openssl verify - the result is OK....So what is Kestrel doing?
Thanks in advance
UPDATE:
The self signed (3rd party) certificate is installed on the server to validate the 3rd party's clients. The command mentioned does return an error though as the cert was supplied by a 3rd party I am unsure what the problem with it is?

A: Okay, so both dotnet and openssl agree the signature is invalid. Although I don't see a practical way to reproduce this, 'unknown digest' (instead of 'bad padding' or 'out of range') suggests the signature was in fact created by the issuer (i.e. not corrupted data or signature, or wrong key) but the signer did it wrong. Try the following procedure (I used my own cert since yours is too private for anybody to see):
$ openssl req -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout 70348834.key -nodes -x509 -md5 -subj /CN=70348834 -out 70348834.crt
Generating a RSA private key
.....+++++
....+++++
writing new private key to '70348834.key'
-----
# RSA-1024 no longer meets standards but this is just for testing
$ openssl verify -check_ss_sig -CAfile 70348834.crt 70348834.crt
70348834.crt: OK
$ openssl asn1parse -i <70348834.crt
    0:d=0  hl=4 l= 514 cons: SEQUENCE
    4:d=1  hl=4 l= 363 cons:  SEQUENCE
    8:d=2  hl=2 l=   3 cons:   cont [ 0 ]
   10:d=3  hl=2 l=   1 prim:    INTEGER           :02
   13:d=2  hl=2 l=  20 prim:   INTEGER           :39163AA0A0B6898D0DF0304F4F8D5649507B4877
   35:d=2  hl=2 l=  13 cons:   SEQUENCE
   37:d=3  hl=2 l=   9 prim:    OBJECT            :md5WithRSAEncryption
   48:d=3  hl=2 l=   0 prim:    NULL
   50:d=2  hl=2 l=  19 cons:   SEQUENCE
   52:d=3  hl=2 l=  17 cons:    SET
   54:d=4  hl=2 l=  15 cons:     SEQUENCE
   56:d=5  hl=2 l=   3 prim:      OBJECT            :commonName
   61:d=5  hl=2 l=   8 prim:      UTF8STRING        :70348834
   71:d=2  hl=2 l=  30 cons:   SEQUENCE
   73:d=3  hl=2 l=  13 prim:    UTCTIME           :211217042113Z
   88:d=3  hl=2 l=  13 prim:    UTCTIME           :220116042113Z
  103:d=2  hl=2 l=  19 cons:   SEQUENCE
  105:d=3  hl=2 l=  17 cons:    SET
  107:d=4  hl=2 l=  15 cons:     SEQUENCE
  109:d=5  hl=2 l=   3 prim:      OBJECT            :commonName
  114:d=5  hl=2 l=   8 prim:      UTF8STRING        :70348834
  124:d=2  hl=3 l= 159 cons:   SEQUENCE
  127:d=3  hl=2 l=  13 cons:    SEQUENCE
  129:d=4  hl=2 l=   9 prim:     OBJECT            :rsaEncryption
  140:d=4  hl=2 l=   0 prim:     NULL
  142:d=3  hl=3 l= 141 prim:    BIT STRING
  286:d=2  hl=2 l=  83 cons:   cont [ 3 ]
  288:d=3  hl=2 l=  81 cons:    SEQUENCE
  290:d=4  hl=2 l=  29 cons:     SEQUENCE
  292:d=5  hl=2 l=   3 prim:      OBJECT            :X509v3 Subject Key Identifier
  297:d=5  hl=2 l=  22 prim:      OCTET STRING      [HEX DUMP]:041438C135B9D18DF0668B0AA31933FE0F947FBEDF84
  321:d=4  hl=2 l=  31 cons:     SEQUENCE
  323:d=5  hl=2 l=   3 prim:      OBJECT            :X509v3 Authority Key Identifier
  328:d=5  hl=2 l=  24 prim:      OCTET STRING      [HEX DUMP]:3016801438C135B9D18DF0668B0AA31933FE0F947FBEDF84
  354:d=4  hl=2 l=  15 cons:     SEQUENCE
  356:d=5  hl=2 l=   3 prim:      OBJECT            :X509v3 Basic Constraints
  361:d=5  hl=2 l=   1 prim:      BOOLEAN           :255
  364:d=5  hl=2 l=   5 prim:      OCTET STRING      [HEX DUMP]:30030101FF
  371:d=1  hl=2 l=  13 cons:  SEQUENCE
  373:d=2  hl=2 l=   9 prim:   OBJECT            :md5WithRSAEncryption
  384:d=2  hl=2 l=   0 prim:   NULL
  386:d=1  hl=3 l= 129 prim:  BIT STRING
# the number before the colon on the last line is the offset of the raw signature
$ openssl asn1parse <70348834.crt -strparse 386 -out 70348834.sig
Error in encoding
139775850254976:error:0D07207B:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_get_object:header too long:../crypto/asn1/asn1_lib.c:101:
# ignore that error; RSA signature isn't ASN.1, but -strparse still extracts it, see:
$ ls -l 70348834.sig
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dthomps dthomps 128 Dec 16 23:27 70348834.sig
$ openssl rsautl -verify -certin -inkey 70348834.crt -in 70348834.sig -asn1parse
    0:d=0  hl=2 l=  32 cons: SEQUENCE
    2:d=1  hl=2 l=  12 cons:  SEQUENCE
    4:d=2  hl=2 l=   8 prim:   OBJECT            :md5
   14:d=2  hl=2 l=   0 prim:   NULL
   16:d=1  hl=2 l=  16 prim:  OCTET STRING
      0000 - 2b 7c cf 6d c8 0f 53 82-0b 57 64 4d 5a e0 d6 9a   +|.m..S..WdMZ...
# FYI rsautl -verify isn't properly a verify operation in cryptographic terms,
# technically it's only the 'recover' part of verify-with-recovery (only for RSA)

Your 'recovered' signature should look like my last block above except for the data in the OCTET STRING (but it should still be the same length, l=16); if not complain to the cert issuer or provider that they've given you an invalid certificate.

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From all outward appearances, Cambridge, MA-based data warehousing appliance maker Dataupia and its founder Foster Hinshaw have both been through near-death experiences this year. Heart problems forced to Hinshaw to step down as CEO in January. Dataupia's board brought in not just a new leader, Tony Sirianni, but a new strategy, concentrating on selling software rather than integrated hardware-software packages.
But the strategy didn't seem to be enough to stave off the effects of the recession: by June, as we reported, the company had laid off the majority of its staff and was seeking new financing in order to stay alive. In August, reports surfaced that the company had been reduced to a skeleton crew and was selling off its assets. Many database industry observers put the company into the dead pool.
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But Hinshaw also says that while the recession caused some bumps for the company, including the big wave of layoffs, the rumors about Dataupia's troubles were far out of proportion to reality. "I don't want to quote Mark Twain, but some folks on their way out may have said some things that were very hypey," he says.
Like Hinshaw's previous company, Netezza (which went public in 2007), Dataupia started out selling data warehousing appliances—very fast servers preloaded with the software needed to help companies such as wireless operators sort through terabytes of historical customer data to discern patterns and extract intelligence. And with Hinshaw back in the saddle, that is once again the company's emphasis.
But under Sirianni's leadership, Hinshaw explains, the company steered for a while toward selling the software designed for Dataupia's hardware as a standalone product. The attraction of this strategy was that it necessitated much lower research and development costs, Hinshaw says.
"With an appliance, you can drop it into a customer site and literally within days you are up and running, which is a powerful story, but the R&D costs are fairly high," he says. "So there is always the question of whether you want to spend on that R&D, or just take the software and let the customer do the integration" into their existing IT systems.
Foster is a fu#$ing idiot. A true megalomaniac who insists on going down with the ship. Which is fine, except that it is going to cost a lot of people a lot more money, before this finally rests.
"Hinshaw—who is widely considered to be the father of the data warehousing industry…" Sorry, but that distinction is Bill Inmon's alone. Even Kimball fans would agree. Mr. Hinshaw is credited with coining the term "data warehouse appliance" and he certainly was a DW appliance pioneer who did groundbreaking work at Netezza. However, he did not create the DW industry.
@Chas — You're quite right, that was my mistake. Dataupia does not claim that Hinshaw is the father of data warehousing. But he is certainly the pioneer in data warehousing *appliances*. I have corrected the story.


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