When a business is confronted with evidence or allegations against an administrator or employee of wrongdoing, it should respond deliberately, thoughtfully, and promptly. Gathering all the facts is essential. To do this, a thorough internal investigation should be conducted. Such investigations are important in a variety of circumstances, including claims of sexual harassment, inappropriate forms of behavior or communication, accounting or other fraud, and workplace injuries. The more information a business has about potential liability, the easier it will be to respond when and if such claims blossom. In addition, a proper investigation and response to information learned therein protect the business from claims that it callously turned a blind eye to workplace misconduct. The business must identify all sources of facts, obtain and document information from those sources, draw reasonable conclusions, and take swift action. Document collection and review, witness interviews, and careful analysis of the information provided from those sources are important components of any internal investigation.
Investigations should be conducted objectively. Ideally, internal investigations should involve an attorney. Not only will a lawyer presumably be objective, retaining a lawyer provides the protection of the attorney–client privilege. With some limitations, putting a lawyer in charge of investigations will shield communications that can be harmful to the business. Retaining a lawyer allows a business to obtain and act upon potentially negative information without the risk of being compelled to testify regarding the communications. Maintaining confidentiality may also encourage people to be more forthcoming with information. When a lawyer is not used, the individual conducting an investigation should not be a supervisor of the complainant or the subject of the complaint. It is important to avoid the appearance of bias or improper interest in the matter. The person investigating should also be familiar with the issues involved and the potential legal consequences.
Interviewers should ask open-ended, non-leading questions in order to obtain the most candid and accurate information possible. For the same reasons, each interviewee should be interviewed separately. It is important to keep detailed and dated notes that document all facts collected. Notes should include the duration of each interview. If possible, interviewees should affirm in writing that the information recorded is accurate. It is generally beneficial to have two people conduct each interview so the information obtained can be corroborated if necessary. All documentation should be maintained in a centralized filing system. This will enable the business to link incidents that may initially seem unrelated. Documentation should be kept confidential to the greatest extent possible and the investigation should only be discussed with those who must know about it. Interviewees should also be instructed not to discuss matters covered in the interview with others.
When the investigation is concluded, it is important to determine what action should be taken. The business should promptly resolve any inappropriate conduct. In determining what action to take, consider the credibility of the complainant, any relevant prior conduct and discipline, the egregiousness of the wrongdoing, knowledge of applicable company rules, and how any similar offenses were resolved in the past. Remedial action may include moving personnel to different locations, terminating the wrongdoer and/or implementing an education program to prevent similar conduct in the future. Any action that is taken should be documented. So too should the rationale about why said action is being taken. This serves to memorialize the business' good faith, reasonable response and can protect management against allegations of complicity.
A complainant should also be informed of any steps taken to rectify the situation. The manner in which a company responds to a complaint will often dictate whether a complainant decides to file a lawsuit. For this reason, the complainant should be informed that the business takes the allegation(s) seriously. Do not ignore the complaint or joke about the incident. Do not retaliate against the complainant, and inform employees that retaliation will not be tolerated.
When confronted with evidence or allegations of wrongdoing, obtaining complete information as early as possible is crucial. It can be difficult to determine how to respond without having all of the facts. A properly conducted internal investigation can ultimately save money, reduce exposure to litigation, and insulate managers from allegations of complicity.


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Q: Doing links like Twitter, Hash-Bang #! URL's
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What's the shebang/hashbang (#!) in Facebook and new Twitter URLs for?

I was wondering how Twitter works its links.
If you look in the source code, you use the links are done like /#!/i/connect or /#!/i/discover, but they don't have a JavaScript function attached to them like load('connect') or something, and that it doesn't require a page reload. It just changes out the page content.
I saw this page, but then all of those files would have to exist, and you couldn't just go straight to one of them. I imagine that on Twitter each of those files don't exist, and that it is handled in some other method. Please correct me if I'm wrong, though.
Is there a way I could replicate this effect? If so, is there a tutorial on how to go about doing this?

A: You might wanna check out more on Unique URLs.
It's loading the page via AJAX, and parsing the "hash" (the values that come after the "#") to determine which page it's going to load. Also, this method is used due to the nature that AJAX  requests don't count to the browser's history thus the "back button breaks". But the browser does however store into history the hash changes.
Using hashes plus the fact that you can use hashes to determine pages, you can say that you can keep AJAX requested pages "in history". Added to that, hashed URLs are just URLs, and they are bookmarkable including the hash, so you can also bookmark AJAX requested pages.

A: "Hash-Bang" navigation, as it's sometimes called, ...
http://example.com/path/to/#!/some-ajax-state

...is a temporary solution for a temporary problem that is quickly becoming a non-issue thanks to modern browser standards. In all likelihood, Twitter will phase it out, as Facebook is already doing.
It is the combination of several concepts...
In the past, a link served two purposes: It loaded a new document and/or scrolled down to an embedded anchor as indicated with the hash (#).
http://example.com/script.php#fourth-paragraph

Anything in a URL after the hash was not requested from the server, but was searched for in the page by the browser. This all still works just fine.
With the adoption of AJAX, new content could be loaded into the current (already loaded) page. With this dynamic loading, several problems arose: 1) there was no unique URL for bookmarking or linking to this new content, 2) search would never see it.
Some smart people solved the first problem by using the hash as a sort of "state" reference to be included in links & bookmarks. After the document loads, the browser reads the hash and runs the AJAX requests, displaying the page plus its dynamic AJAX changes.
http://example.com/script.php#some-ajax-state

This solved the AJAX problem, but the search engine problem still existed. Search engines don't load pages and execute Javascript like a browser.
Google to the rescue. Google proposed a scheme where any URL with a hash-bang (#!) in lieu of just a hash (#) would suggest to the search bot that there was an alternate URL for indexing, which involved an "_escaped_fragment_" variable, among other things. Read about it here: Ajax Crawling: Getting Started.
Today, with the adoption of Javascript's pushstate in most major browsers, all of this is becoming obsolete. With pushstate, as content is dynamically loaded or changed, the current page URL can be altered without causing a page load. When desired, this provides a real working URL for bookmarks & history. Links can then be made as they always were, without hashes & hash-bangs.
As of today, if you load Facebook in an older browser, you'll see the hash-bangs, but a current browser will demonstrate the use of pushstate.

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The MotoGP racing season is almost upon us, as the next few weeks will serve as launching points for their championship bids for this year. First up is Ducati, debuting its 2019 team at the Phillip Morris R&D Cube in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Of course, the star of the show is Ducati's MotoGP race bike for the 2019 season, the Ducati Desmosedici GP19.
Sporting a very red livery, the design harken backs to the liveries of yore for the Italian brand, complete with a barcode-esque logo on the side, which slings the team title of "Ducati Winnow".
As usual, Ducati is pretty mum when it comes to actual details about its two-wheeled offering, and merely quotes a peak power figure of "over 250hp" for the 1,000cc desmodromic V4 engine.
Paddock estimates though peg that figure closer to 280hp, with some even suggesting that Ducati has managed to eek 300hp from the one-liter engine.
Whatever the case maybe, the Ducati Desmosedici GP18 was considered the most powerful GP bike on the grid last year, and there is little to doubt that the GP19 continues that trend.
Below we have a no-pixel-spared gallery of the new Ducati MotoGP bike and livery. That bike in question appears to be a GP18, not a GP19, which is expected to make its proper debut at the preseason Qatar test. Enjoy!


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Former Kaeng Krachan national park chief Chaiwat asked to resign from civil service
Chaiwat Limlikhit-akson, director of the 9th Office of Area Conservation Management, based in Thailand's northeastern province of Ubon Ratchathani, was asked to resign from the civil service today (Friday), by the civil service committee of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
The committee's decision is in line with the recommendation of the Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission, that Chaiwat, former chief of the Kaeng Krachan national park in Phetchaburi province, should be asked to resign or be dismissed from the civil service, after finding him guilty of malfeasance in office over an incident a decade ago, when he led some of his officials in burning down about 100 houses of Karen indigenous villagers in Ban Kang Kloy, deep inside the Kaeng Krachan national park.
All the Karen villagers were relocated to an area called Bangkloi Lang. The land was unsuitable for farming, however, so about 39 families went back to their previous location, called Bang Kloy Bon or Jai Paendin. The group was recently forced to leave again, resulting in many of them arriving in Bangkok and camping out in front of Government House, to demand the return of their ancestral land.
Natural Resources and Environment Permanent Secretary Chatuporn Burutpat said, after the committee meeting today, that the ministry has to enforce the law and all government officials have to comply with it, without exceptions.
He said that the committee had to choose whether to dismiss Chaiwat or ask him to resign from the service, adding that the committee is fully aware of his merit and previous good performance, so they resolved to use the second option, to set an example to other officials that they must obey the law.
Chaiwat has the right to appeal against the committee's resolution but, under the option chosen, he remains entitled to his pension.
The committee must now forward their resolution to the Natural Resources and Environment Minister to finalise the process, which could take 30 days.
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All choking aside, is Thailand making progress in battle with air pollution?
High level of air pollution found in 11 areas in and around Bangkok on Monday
Tonga volcano eruption triggers tsunami warnings in Japan, Pacific islands

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Q: SQL Trigger when queued insert transactions are finished In my application which is implemented using SoftwareAG Webmethods, I'm using JMS to process more than 2 millions of records in parallel, so basically each JMS thread will have a batch of records (lets's x1000) to process and then insert into database table (let's call it table A) and after each thread inserts each batch they will send result message on JMS which I will aggregate later to update the process status.
The problem I'm facing now is that the thread will process its batch, insert and put the result message on JMS queue but the insert transactions will get queued in the mssql database but it doesn't wait in the application itself. it considers it as done and continues with the next line of logic.
Therefore the process on each thread is completed and the main process is marked as completed while there are a lot of records still waiting to get inserted into the database yet.
so my question is that is there any trigger in mssql that can be used for when the queued transactions on a table are finished?

A: I suggest you instead of INSERT batches, use batches that will create a jobs with two steps. First step is insertion of data and second insert data about batch complete in some results table. After that you can check table with results.


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Q: How to store a private key in token/smart card using keygen tag in Google Chrome I need to specify the location of private key storage to smart cards/tokens using the keygen tag.
Using Mozilla Firefox, when a form containing the keygen tag is submitted and any cryptographic hardware device is plugged in, the browser prompts a combo box where i can choose which storage device i want to put my private key in.
Yet, when using Google Chrome, it doesnt prompt the combo box and always store the private key in disk!
Anyone already face the same problem? Any alternative solution?
Thx!


Uselio lets you automatically generate hundreds of relevant leads with verified emails/phone numbers so you can connect with the people that matter for your business. With the industry's lowest price and biggest people database, it's the most powerful prospecting/leadgen tool ever created.
Where are the leads generated from?
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I've been using LinkedIn Sales, joined your Beta two weeks ago and it's been great!
Can we also get phone numbers along with the emails? I signed up but there's no free trial! You should think of giving away at least 10 leads for free.
@heynaeem I would love to try it for free and If I liked, I would definitely pay for it!
@heynaeem I'm trying to sign up for a $9 plan for unlimited leads but there's no option for that.. Please help.
Is there another way to pay for the subscription? I'm not comfortable giving you my credit card info directly.
@photawe Hey - I'm not really sure of any other way to handle payments I'm afraid. :/ We're built on Stripe and fully compliant with payment security standards & protocol.
@heynaeem I don't argue with that, I'm just not comfortable with giving my card details to your site. What I mean, with so many site breaches these days (where lots of stuff can be stolen), if you were to use another provider, such as paypal or something similar, I would be more inclined to pay.
@photawe We use Stripe for a number of projects and its the best cc processor we've ever used.
@SacBookReviewer By looking at it, Stripe looks pretty awesome. My issue is this: I want to visually see that my credit card info is not stored anywhere on uselio. The way it's now, this is not clear to me. In other words, I would prefer to be redirected to the stripe site, so I would understand that my credit card info won't be stored on uselio.
@photawe websites don't get the credit card info from stripe. I don't think they can keep it at all unless they did something really hinky with the stripe API. I know on our sites we only get the last 4 digits of the cc number and a token to track the transactions. We use stripe on a couple of sites from use of the API to wordpress plugins and none of them give us access to the user card details.
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Justice Scalia lost on same-sex marriage. But at least he can say, "I told you so."
By Dylan Matthews Updated Jun 26, 2015, 10:51am EDT
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Justice Antonin Scalia wrote an utterly scathing dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, Friday's historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage. But at least he can say he saw the court's opinion coming.
At least since 2003's Lawrence v. Texas, Scalia has been warning that the court's gay-rights jurisprudence would lead inevitably to a ruling in favor of marriage equality. And justices making pro-LGBT decisions countered him, insisting that they weren't speaking to the marriage issue at all.
But the subsequent years have proved him right. The Court really was going down a path toward increased recognition of the rights and dignity of same-sex couples, and marriage equality is the logical culmination. It's not much solace for Scalia legally, but it's a weird predictive victory of sorts.
Scalia's 2003 prediction
Ruth Harlow (right), lead lawyer for plaintiffs John Lawrence and Tyron Garner, and Lambda Legal executive director Kevin Cathcart stand outside the Supreme Court following the Lawrence v. Texas ruling. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)
The Lawrence decision struck down state laws banning sodomy and, in doing so, reversed 1986's Bowers v. Hardwick, which concluded that "sodomy laws should not be invalidated on the asserted basis that majority belief that sodomy is immoral is an inadequate rationale to support the laws." Translation: laws can be constitutional even if they're based solely on moral disapproval.
By abandoning this judgment, Scalia argued that through Lawrence the Court placed in jeopardy a whole number of laws:
State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution, masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are likewise sustainable only in light of Bowers' validation of laws based on moral choices. Every single one of these laws is called into question by today's decision; the Court makes no effort to cabin the scope of its decision to exclude them from its holding.
That statement is a little unfair, as the Court made some effort to cabin in the scope of its decision. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the opinion in Lawrence, and would go on to write the opinion in Obergefell, explicitly stated that the ruling did not concern laws banning same-sex marriage:
The present case does not involve minors. It does not involve persons who might be injured or coerced or who are situated in relationships where consent might not easily be refused. It does not involve public conduct or prostitution. It does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter.
In her concurrence, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor — who, unlike Kennedy, ruled against sodomy laws on equal protection grounds similar to those that will likely be used in a marriage decision — protested yet more strongly that she didn't intend to open the door to same-sex marriage:
Texas cannot assert any legitimate state interest here, such as national security or preserving the traditional institution of marriage. Unlike the moral disapproval of same-sex relations — the asserted state interest in this case — other reasons exist to promote the institution of marriage beyond mere moral disapproval of an excluded group.
Scalia thought this was nonsense: "'Preserving the traditional institution of marriage' is just a kinder way of describing the State's moral disapproval of same-sex couples." O'Connor's reasoning, he concluded, "leaves on pretty shaky grounds state laws limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples."
How his 2013 dissent helped same-sex marriage
Edie Windsor, the plaintiff in United States v. Windsor, celebrates after her victory. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
In 2013's United States v. Windsor, which struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, Scalia reiterated his concerns, and outright predicted that the case would lead to the wholesale legalization of same-sex marriage:
In my opinion, however, the view that this Court will take of state prohibition of same-sex marriage is indicated beyond mistaking by today's opinion. As I have said, the real rationale of today's opinion, whatever disappearing trail of its legalistic argle-bargle one chooses to follow, is that DOMA is motivated by "'bare . . . desire to harm'" couples in same-sex marriages. Supra, at 18. How easy it is, indeed how inevitable, to reach the same conclusion with regard to state laws denying same-sex couples marital status.
By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.
Once again, Kennedy, writing for the majority insisted that the Court didn't intend to rule on the question of same-sex marriage bans' constitutionality:
The class to which DOMA directs its restrictions and restraints are those persons who are joined in same-sex marriages made lawful by the State … This opinion and its holding are confined to those lawful marriages.
Ironically, judges ruling in favor of marriage equality in lower courts wound up citing Scalia's Windsor dissent frequently. Here's Robert Shelby, a district court judge in Utah:
The Constitution's protection of the individual rights of gay and lesbian citizens is equally dispositive whether this protection requires a court to respect a state law, as in Windsor, or strike down a state law, as the Plaintiffs ask the court to do here. In his dissenting opinion, the Honorable Antonin Scalia recognized that this result was the logical outcome of the Court's ruling in Windsor.
The court agrees with Justice Scalia's interpretation of Windsor and finds that the important federalism concerns at issue here are nevertheless insufficient to save a state-law prohibition that denies the Plaintiffs their rights to due process and equal protection under the law.
The Supreme Court's same-sex marriage battle, explained
Same-sex marriage used to be a boogeyman used against women's rights
Phyllis Schlafly in 1981. (Dave Buresh/the Denver Post via Getty Images)
Scalia's decade of premonitions is a vivid illustration of how same-sex marriage has gone from a reductio ad absurdum argument against attempts to expand LGBT or women's rights to an actively desirable public policy for which advocates forthrightly argue.
Scalia has some company. Phyllis Schlafly and other opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment — the amendment to explicitly bar discrimination based on sex that made it through Congress and is three states short of ratification — often invoked same-sex marriage, along with unisex bathrooms and the conscription of women, as scary potential consequences of the amendment's enactment. And so, naturally, the ERA's supporters denied that any such thing could occur. For example, here's Judy Carter, then–President Jimmy Carter's then-daughter-in-law, speaking out in favor of the ERA in the New York Times on November 8, 1977:
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The ERA didn't pass, but it's striking that all of the scare stories brought up by opponents now feel perfectly acceptable. There are women in combat. Same-sex marriage has majority support from the public. Unisex bathrooms are becoming increasingly mainstream, especially as tolerance of transgender people grows.
Scalia and Schlafly were right on the history. They didn't count on Americans thinking their nightmare scenarios were just fine.
Same-sex marriage legalized nationwide: Supreme Court rules
Edie Windsor, winner of landmark same-sex marriage case and LGBTQ hero, has died at 88
The best lines from Justice Scalia's rage-fueled same-sex marriage dissent


Members of the International Longshoremen's Association will vote on whether to ratify a new six-year contract covering employees at the Port of New York and New Jersey.
ILA and the New York Shipping Association reached tentative agreement on the deal, the sides said July 10 in a joint statement. The shipping association's membership also must approve the deal, the statement said. The union's current contract with the shipping association expires Sept. 30.
ILA has local contracts that cover employees at specific ports and a master contract that covers union members nationwide, union spokesman Jim McNamara told Bloomberg on July 11.
The Port of New York and New Jersey contract covers about 4,000 employees, he said.
A single-day ratification vote on the master contract will involve all 25,000 union members at ports from Maine to Texas, McNamara said. That vote will be taken after all local contacts are settled, he said.
A tentative agreement on the master contract was reached in June, ILA and the shipping association said.
"New York is the largest and in many respects the most complex port on the East and Gulf Coasts. We have reached a tentative agreement that is beneficial to both sides," ILA President Harold J. Daggett and NYSA President John Nardi said in the joint statement.
NYSA didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.


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Investors tracking shares of SLM Corporation (SLM) may be focusing on where the stock is trading relative to its 52-week high and low. At the time of writing, the stock had recently reached at $10.07. At this price, shares can be seen trading -19.18% off of the 52-week high mark and 26.75% away from the 52-week low. Investors often pay increased attention to a stock when it is nearing either mark. The Price Range 52 Weeks is one of the tools that investors use to determine the lowest and highest price at which a stock has traded in the previous 52 weeks. It has a market cap of $4424.15M.
Active moving action has been spotted in SLM Corporation (SLM) on Wednesday as stock is moving on change of -1.47% from the open. The US listed company saw a recent price trade of $10.07 and 5558866 shares have traded hands in the session. There are 3532.81K shares which are traded as an average over the last three months period.
Looking performance record on shares of SLM Corporation (SLM) we observed that the stock has seen a move -13.04% over the last 52-week trading period. The stock generated performance of 8.75% tracking last 3 months and -2.61% over the recent 6 months. Investors will be anxiously watching to see if things will turn around and the stock will start gaining or losing momentum over the next few months. If we look back year-to-date, the stock has performed 21.18%. Shares are at -1.85% over the previous week and -3.91% over the past month.
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Never in the history of the country has there been a more dangerous and damning statement.
This came with the arrival of the two-year anniversary of Mr. Trump's Inauguration. With that came a broadside of rationale for the removal of Trump as president. That was led by a publication which has a great history, but under the leadership of Jeffrey Goldberg has become hyper-partisan and a center of Left-wing thought -- The Atlantic.
After running what was entitled Unthinkable, 50 essays on the most outlandish and dangerous moments of the Trump Presidency, The Atlantic ran their pièce de résistance: Impeach Donald Trump. This 28-page analysis gives rationale for going after Trump based on innuendo and falsehoods; i.e., political violence since his election is mainly from the Right. I presume the author is not aware of Antifa and the Black Bloc.
The author, Yoni Applebaum, also lays out five points of reasoning for impeaching even if Trump is not worthy of impeachment. His first point is "once an impeachment inquiry begins, the president loses control of the public conversation." Otherwise start proceedings just to shut up Trump. The last of the five points: "even when it fails to remove a president, it severely damages his political prospects." Meaning it would be a death knell for Trump's reelection. In summary, if we cannot do a current political coup then we can make sure he is a one-term president.
It is questionable whether the American public would tolerate this thinly-veiled maneuver so the Trump-haters had to have real ammunition. They got it Thursday night January 17th at 10:11 P.M. when BuzzFeed released a story that caused even people like myself to be knocked back on their heels. Trump purportedly had told Michael Cohen, his attorney, to perjure himself in front of Congress. The report caused a firestorm because "IF IT IS TRUE," then Democrats would have what they need -- an actual crime with which to impeach Trump.
I was baffled. I questioned that Trump had put something like that in an email. Others picked apart BuzzFeed's story and the credibility of the authors. John Santucci of ABC News stated contradicting BuzzFeed "In all our reporting, I haven't found any in the Trump Org that have met with or been interviewed by Mueller." The authors had not even seen the underlying evidence or had they. They could not agree. Andrew McCarthy, a former U.S. attorney and the go-to guy for me and so many others on these legal matters, said he could not believe it because Mueller would have charged Cohen with that when he had charged him.
Then as you know, the Special Counsel's office came out and said the story is false. And the MSM melted along with the Trump-haters. The furor subsided, or did it? Ben Smith, editor-in-chief, did not falter in the face of the pressure of an unprecedented press release by the Special Counsel denying the story Mr. Smith had published. Did he release documents validating the article? Did he bring forward the two government officials who supposedly were sources? In the ultimate act of hubris, he told the Special Cousel to prove BuzzFeed was wrong. Then the legion of Trump-haters started parsing the Special Counsel's statement as if it was not a complete disabusing of the BuzzFeed story.
The new criteria for our press to run with a story has become "IF IT IS TRUE." It does not matter where the report comes from or the seriousness of the claim. The MSM has become an echo chamber for anything anti-Trump. This one though was a behemoth story, published with no validation and once again our press is sadly embarrassed. They did not have to run the story, however, as the Wall Street Journal did not touch the report in its print addition.
Don't think that this is over. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the new chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, says this needs to be investigated. Lawrence Tribe former Harvard professor and a regular Tweeter of Trump Hysteria, is still advocating immediate impeachment along with others like Billionaire Gone Wild, Tom Steyer.
"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party" lived for over 60 years as the most damning statement/inquiry ever made in our history. Though it was made by powerful people in our government, it was barely echoed in the Press. The Press ended up fighting the implications of the question. Today the press has started the use of "IF IT IS TRUE" and then amplified it. The elected officials just copied the phrase and went along.
A justification used for Trump Impeachment is his abuse of our Constitution even though it is unclear how he has done such. This is actual abuse of our Constitution. Our Press has abused the First Amendment and degraded itself in a manner that will permanently harm the value of a free press and thus our First Amendment rights. And yet there is not one person being fired or quitting in shame – are you listening Chuck Todd?
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I was lucky enough that my work sent me to both visit our office and team of 4 in Nepal, and as well to attend SANOG 27. After submitting my talk on TLS using Let's Encrypt, I was humbled to have been selected to present as well.
This is my first trip to Nepal and the place is amazing. I'm sad to report that on top of the thousands killed and way more displaced, amazing, ancient sites were heavily damaged in the 2015 earthquake. I visited both Kathmandu Durbar Square and Boudhanath both of which suffered devastating damage.
Thanks to my awesome co-workers, they took me on a motorbike trip to Nagarkot which gave me a chance to get away from the hotel and see something more than nearby Thamel. Kathmandu Valley countryside is beautiful. Though the smog prevented epic views of the Himalayas, staying at the mount side hotel and waking early to see the sunrise was splendid.
On our return ride to Kathmandu, we stopped at Bhaktapur Durbar Square, which suffered much less damage from the quake. The Nyatapola Temple is stunning.
This is my first time attending a Network Operators Group (aka "NOG") meeting. The bar for future NOGs has been set very high given how amazing SANOG 27 was. The conference, though attaining an all time high over 300 attendees, felt quite small. Given that I was a speaker and staying at the hotel where the conference was, I was also treated almost every night with a dinner paid for by a local sponsor (or not so local in Huawei's case). There were a couple very sales-centric talks (which is frowned upon), otherwise most of the talks were impressive and informative. I attended them all as there was only one track with all attendees present.
You can see my slides or you can re-watch the live streamed YouTube recording. I was humbled to receive many compliments on my talk, but I feel I have room for improvement!
Special thanks to Fakrul Alam for letting me do a brief Let's Encrypt demonstration during the Network Security workshop (and also for doing a quick key signing!).
Anyone looking to up their game should seriously consider attending a regional NOG. For example, SANOG 27 was $310 all in: Conference, Tutorial and Workshops with Lunch for all 8 days. Considering flights from the US are well under $1,000, this is quite cheap compared to, say, Black Hat. At over $2,000 for Black Hat, if you took this money to SANOG 27 instead, you would be able to pay for airfare, the full Monty of conference, workshops and tutorials, your hotel AND get a trip to Kathmandu included! I can not underscore enough the level of expertise I saw in the presenters and teachers here. They're simply amazing.
Dileep Agrawal's (World Link Communications) talk on Jugaad AKA a history of ISPs in Kathmandu.
Philip Smith's (NSRC) talk on the State of the Internet Routing Table – 500+k BGP entries and growing!!
Meandering around from the Hotel to Khatmandu Durbar Square with Donald Clark (Google).
Thanks to PCH for sending me!
Thanks very much to SANOG 27, Aftab Siddiqui, Gaurab Raj Upadhaya and GZ Kabir for accepting my proposal to speak!
Most of all my thanks to the totally awesome PCH staff who live in the Kathmandu valley. Thank you thank you thank you to Kabindra Shrestha, Chatur Ratna Shakya, Rustan Shrestha, and Dibya Khatiwada. They extended an amazing amount of hospitality and made me feel very welcome at both SANOG and their homeland at large. The best gift a foreigner could ask for is the welcome and help that I received from these four. You are all amazing!


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Before graduating in 2005 with degrees in Retail and Consumer Science (with an emphasis in eCommerce) and a Minor in Public Business Administration at the University of Arizona, David Zapletal had already successfully grown a start up ad network from serving an initial 1 million impressions per day to over 10 million impressions per day. It was his deep understanding of internet advertising during the industry's beginning stages that led him to another start up at the time, CPXi. More than 8 years that have passed and Zapletal currently serves as Chief Innovation & Media Officer for Digital Remedy. In that role he continues to help grow and implement optimization tactics across various ad serving platforms, oversee daily operations of the account management and trafficking groups and maximizes ROI for Direct Response advertisers as well as for Publishers. Outside of Digital Remedy, Zapletal commits his efforts to an organization called Camp Dream Street, a camping program for children with disabilities, where he serves on the Board of Directors.
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TJ Sullivan has over 20 years of media sales and leadership experience. His knowledge of the digital media landscape, ability to develop strategic solutions that solve brand challenges, and talent for motivating sales teams, have made him a vital member of several media and ad tech organizations. Before joining Digital Remedy, Sullivan was VP, Connections at iHeart Media, a cross-divisional group that enabled national advertisers to seamlessly work with multiple iHeart business units; CRO of Reelcontent, a video distribution company for brands; SVP of sales at AdoTube, a video ad network; and was Co-Founder and SVP of video measurement company, OpenSlate—for which he is still an advisor.
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Outside of his work in the media industry, Sullivan sits on the Board of St. Elizabeth School in Wyckoff, New Jersey and the Advancement Committee of St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City, New Jersey. He resides in New Jersey with his wife and four children.
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Prior to Digital Remedy, Tony built and ran his own direct response company from 2002-2007 after graduating from New York Institute of Technology, where he learned the fundamentals of digital advertising and optimization strategies that still remain relevant today.
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by Jack London
There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do want to explain. Unfortunately, I do not know her name, much less her present address. If her eyes should chance upon these lines, I hope she will write to me.
It was in Reno, Nevada, in the summer of 1892. Also, it was fair-time, and the town was filled with petty crooks and tin-horns, to say nothing of a vast and hungry horde of hoboes. It was the hungry hoboes that made the town a "hungry" town. They "battered" the back doors of the homes of the citizens until the back doors became unresponsive.
A hard town for "scoffings," was what the hoboes called it at that time. I know that I missed many a meal, in spite of the fact that I could "throw my feet" with the next one when it came to "slamming a gate for a "poke-out" or a "set-down," "or hitting for a light piece" on the street. Why, I was so hard put in that town, one day, that I gave the porter the slip and invaded the private car of some itinerant millionnaire. The train started as I made the platform, and I headed for the aforesaid millionnaire with the porter one jump behind and reaching for me. It was a dead heat, for I reached the millionnaire at the same instant that the porter reached me. I had no time for formalities. "Gimme a quarter to eat on," I blurted out. And as I live, that millionnaire dipped into his pocket and gave me ... just ... precisely ... a quarter.
It is my conviction that he was so flabbergasted that he obeyed automatically, and it has been a matter of keen regret ever since, on my part, that I didn't ask him for a dollar. I know that I'd have got it. I swung off the platform of that private car with the porter manoeuvering to kick me in the face. He missed me. One is at a terrible disadvantage when trying to swing off the lowest step of a car and not break his neck on the right of way, with, at the same time, an irate Ethiopian on the platform above trying to land him in the face with a number eleven. But I got the quarter! I got it!
But to return to the woman to whom I so shamelessly lied. It was in the evening of my last day in Reno. I had been out to the race-track watching the ponies run, and had missed my dinner (i.e. the midday meal). I was hungry, and, furthermore, a committee of public safety had just been organized to rid the town of just such hungry mortals as I. Already a lot of my brother hoboes had been gathered in by John Law, and I could hear the sunny valleys of California calling to me over the cold crests of the Sierras. Two acts remained for me to perform before I shook the dust of Reno from my feet. One was to catch the blind baggage on the westbound overland that night. The other was first to get something to eat. Even youth will hesitate at an all-night ride, on an empty stomach, outside a train that is tearing the atmosphere through the snow-sheds, tunnels, and eternal snows of heaven-aspiring mountains.
But that something to eat was a hard proposition. I was "turned down" at a dozen houses. Sometimes I received insulting remarks and was informed of the barred domicile that should be mine if I had my just deserts. The worst of it was that such assertions were only too true. That was why I was pulling west that night. John Law was abroad in the town, seeking eagerly for the hungry and homeless, for by such was his barred domicile tenanted.
At other houses the doors were slammed in my face, cutting short my politely and humbly couched request for something to eat. At one house they did not open the door. I stood on the porch and knocked, and they looked out at me through the window. They even held one sturdy little boy aloft so that he could see over the shoulders of his elders the tramp who wasn't going to get anything to eat at their house.
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Holding Her Down
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Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing.
Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all,The 'appy roads that take you o'er the world.Speakin' in general, I 'ave found them goodFor such as cannot use one bed too long,But must get 'ence, the same as I 'ave done,An' go observin' matters till they die.
—Sestina of the Tramp-Royal
It was in Reno, Nevada, in the summer of 1892. Also, it was fair-time, and the town was filled with petty crooks and tin-horns, to say nothing of a vast and hungry horde of hoboes. It was the hungry hoboes that made the town a hungry town. They battered the back doors of the homes of the citizens until the back doors became unresponsive.
A hard town for scoffings, was what the hoboes called it at that time. I know that I missed many a meal, in spite of the fact that I could throw my feet with the next one when it came to slamming a gate for a poke-out or a set-down, or hitting for a light piece on the street. Why, I was so hard put in that town, one day, that I gave the porter the slip and invaded the private car of some itinerant millionnaire. The train started as I made the platform, and I headed for the aforesaid millionnaire with the porter one jump behind and reaching for me. It was a dead heat, for I reached the millionnaire at the same instant that the porter reached me. I had no time for formalities. Gimme a quarter to eat on," I blurted out. And as I live, that millionnaire dipped into his pocket and gave me … just … precisely … a quarter. It is my conviction that he was so flabbergasted that he obeyed automatically, and it has been a matter of keen regret ever since, on my part, that I didn't ask him for a dollar. I know that I'd have got it. I swung off the platform of that private car with the porter manoeuvering to kick me in the face. He missed me. One is at a terrible disadvantage when trying to swing off the lowest step of a car and not break his neck on the right of way, with, at the same time, an irate Ethiopian on the platform above trying to land him in the face with a number eleven. But I got the quarter! I got it!
But that something to eat was a hard proposition. I was turned down at a dozen houses. Sometimes I received insulting remarks and was informed of the barred domicile that should be mine if I had my just deserts. The worst of it was that such assertions were only too true. That was why I was pulling west that night. John Law was abroad in the town, seeking eagerly for the hungry and homeless, for by such was his barred domicile tenanted.
It began to look as if I should be compelled to go to the very poor for my food. The very poor constitute the last sure recourse of the hungry tramp. The very poor can always be depended upon. They never turn away the hungry. Time and again, all over the United States, have I been refused food by the big house on the hill; and always have I received food from the little shack down by the creek or marsh, with its broken windows stuffed with rags and its tired-faced mother broken with labor. Oh, you charity-mongers! Go to the poor and learn, for the poor alone are the charitable. They neither give nor withhold from their excess. They have no excess They give, and they withhold never, from what they need for themselves, and very often from what they cruelly need for themselves. A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.
There was one house in particular where I was turned down that evening. The porch windows opened on the dining room, and through them I saw a man eating pie -a big meat-pie. I stood in the open door, and while he talked with me, he went on eating. He was prosperous, and out of his prosperity had been bred resentment against his less fortunate brothers.
He cut short my request for something to eat, snapping out, I don't believe you want to work.
Now this was irrelevant. I hadn't said anything about work. The topic of conversation I had introduced was food. In fact, I didn't want to work. I wanted to take the westbound overland that night.
You wouldn't work if you had a chance, he bullied.
I glanced at his meek-faced wife, and knew that but for the presence of this Cerberus I'd have a whack at that meat-pie myself. But Cerberus sopped himself in the pie, and I saw that I must placate him if I were to get a share of it. So I sighed to myself and accepted his work-morality.
Of course I want work, I bluffed.
Don't believe it, he snorted.
Try me, I answered, warming to the bluff.
All right, he said. Come to the corner of blank and blank streets — (I have forgotten the address) — to-morrow morning. You know where that burned building is, and I'll put you to work tossing bricks.
All right, sir; I'll be there.
He grunted and went on eating. I waited. After a couple of minutes he looked up with an I-thought-you-were-gone expression on his face, and demanded:
I … I am waiting for something to eat, I said gently.
I knew you wouldn't work! he roared.
He was right, of course; but his conclusion must have been reached by mind-reading, for his logic wouldn't bear it out. But the beggar at the door must be humble, so I accepted his logic as I had accepted his morality.
You see, I am now hungry, I said still gently.
To-morrow morning I shall be hungrier. Think how hungry I shall be when I have tossed bricks all day without anything to eat. Now if you will give me something to eat, I'll be in great shape for those bricks.
He gravely considered my plea, at the same time going on eating, while his wife nearly trembled into propitiatory speech, but refrained.
I'll tell you what I'll do, he said between mouthfuls. You come to work to-morrow, and in the middle of the day I'll advance you enough for your dinner. That will show whether you are in earnest or not.
In the meantime — I began; but he interrupted.
If I gave you something to eat now, I'd never see you again. Oh, I know your kind. Look at me. I owe no man. I have never descended so low as to ask any one for food. I have always earned my food. The trouble with you is that you are idle and dissolute. I can see it in your face. I have worked and been honest. I have made myself what I am. And you can do the same, if you work and are honest.
Like you? I queried.
Alas, no ray of humor had ever penetrated the sombre work-sodden soul of that man.
Yes, like me, he answered.
All of us? I queried.
Yes, all of you, he answered, conviction vibrating in his voice.
But if we all became like you, I said, allow me to point out that there'd be nobody to toss bricks for you.
I swear there was a flicker of a smile in his wife's eye. As for him, he vas aghast -but whether at the awful possibility of a reformed humanity that would not enable him to get anybody to toss bricks for him, or at my impudence, I shall never know.
I'll not waste words on you, he roared. Get out of here, you ungrateful whelp!
I scraped my feet to advertise my intention of going, and queried: —
And I don't get anything to eat?
He arose suddenly to his feet. He was a large man. I was a stranger in a strange land, and John Law was looking for me. I went away hurriedly. But why ungrateful? I asked myself as I slammed his gate. What in the dickens did he give me to be ungrateful about? I looked back. I could still see him through the window. He had returned to his pie.
By this time I had lost heart. I passed many houses by without venturing up to them. All houses looked alike, and none looked good. After walking half a dozen blocks I shook off my despondency and gathered my nerve. This begging for food was all a game, and if I didn't like the cards, I could always call for a new deal. I made up my mind to tackle the next house. I approached it in the deepening twilight, going around to the kitchen door.
I knocked softly, and when I saw the kind face of the middle-aged woman who answered, as by inspiration came to me the story I was to tell. For know that upon his ability to tell a good story depends the success of the beggar. First of all, and on the instant, the beggar must size up his victim. After that, he must tell a story that will appeal to the peculiar personality and temperament of that particular victim. And right here arises the great difficulty: in the instant that he is sizing up the victim he must begin his story. Not a minute is allowed for preparation. As in a lightning flash he must divine the nature of the victim and conceive a tale that will hit home. The successful hobo must be an artist. He must create spontaneously and instantaneously — and not upon a theme selected from the plenitude of his own imagination, but upon the theme he reads in the face of the person who opens the door, be it man, woman, or child, sweet or crabbed, generous or miserly, good natured or cantankerous, Jew or Gentile, black or white, race-prejudiced or brotherly, provincial or universal, or whatever else it may be. I have often thought that to this training Of my tramp days is due much of my success as a story-writer. In order to get the food whereby I lived, I was compelled to tell tales that rang true. At the back door, out of inexorable necessity, is developed the convincingness and sincerity laid down by all authorities on the art of the short-story. Also, I quite believe it was my tramp-apprenticeship that made a realist out of me. Realism constitutes the only goods one can exchange at the kitchen door for grub.
After all, art is only consummate artfulness, and artfulness saves many a story. I remember lying in a police station at Winnipeg, Manitoba. I was bound west over the Canadian Pacific. Of course, the police wanted my story, and I gave it to them — the spur of the moment. They were landlubbers, in the heart of the continent, and what better story for them than a sea story? They could never trip me up on that. And so I told a tearful tale of my life on the hell-ship Glenmore. (I had once seen the Glenmore lying at anchor in San Francisco Bay.)
I was an English apprentice, I said. And they said that I didn't talk like an English boy. It was up to me to create on the instant. I had been born and reared in the United States. On the death of my parents, I had been sent to England to my grandparents. It was they who had apprenticed me on the Glenmore. I hope the captain of the Glenmore will forgive me, for I gave him a character that night in the Winnipeg police station. Such cruelty! Such brutality! Such diabolical ingenuity of torture! It explained why I had deserted the Glenmore at Montreal.
But why was I in the middle of Canada going west, when my grandparents lived in England? Promptly I created a married sister who lived in California. She would take care of me. I developed at length her loving nature. But they were not done with me, those hard-hearted policemen. I had joined the Glenmore in England; in the two years that had elapsed before my desertion at Montreal, what had the Glenmore done and where had she been? And thereat I took those landlubbers around the world with me.