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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Two years on, a gusher of U.S. shale oil production is finally starting to seep into California, where refiners in the country's most isolated fuel market are waging an increasingly desperate battle to curb costs.
It's far from certain, however, that cut-priced light crude from eastern Texas or North Dakota will arrive quickly enough or in sufficient volume to revitalize California plants in the same way new domestic oil has rescued East Coast refiners.
The nation's toughest permitting rules, complex new carbon emission limits and a lack of pipeline infrastructure might delay the flow of large-scale shipments until the end of next year or beyond. By then the big discounts on the glut of U.S. inland crude might have diminished, some analysts warn.
For some companies it's a make or break moment. Niche refiner Alon Energy USA Inc ALJ.N - which mainly produces asphalt for which demand has slumped - shut its underutilized southern California refining system in October and November while it builds an offloading facility to bring in inland crude by rail late next year.
It is the only California refiner so far to seek permits to build a rail offloading facility, according to state and local agencies, but others are definitely looking.
Meanwhile, other companies are looking to profit from the price discrepancies that have emerged from the record boom in output from previously untapped shale deposits.
Kirby Corp (KEX.N), the nation's largest tank barge operator, bought rival Penn Maritime last month in a $295 million deal to boost its coastal fleet. Kirby is "starting to discuss" the idea of expanding those operations to the West Coast, moving oil from railway terminals in Washington State to existing marine import docks in California.
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP KMP.N Chief Executive Richard Kinder said there was "very enthusiastic" interest in a project to convert part of an underused natural gas pipeline to move crude to Southern California. The potentially $2 billion project would transport as much as 400,000 bpd of crude from West Texas and experts say it would take at least a year, if not two to complete.
The race is on and the clock is ticking. Other big projects across the United States are well ahead and could shrink the big discounts by 2014, according to Bernstein Research.
"It's entirely possible California refiners decide they can't get this done in time to catch the arbitrage, so refiners wouldn't get the benefit of low-cost crude from the Midcontinent," said David Hackett, president of energy consultancy Stillwater Associates in Irvine, California.
California's sheer distance from other markets east of the Rocky Mountains - where the big shale fields are located - already sets it apart. No major pipelines carry crude to the West Coast. No major waterways flow east to west into the state's refining hubs. Even the nation's major freight railroads thin out over the mountain range and on the West Coast.
The state's refiners have long depended on crude from now-shrinking fields in California and Alaska as well as Canada, where export infrastructure also has not kept up with rising production. Imported crude from Argentina to Asia now meets half of California's demand, up from just 10 percent in 1995.
Ironically, California has its own huge shale play, the Monterey shale, estimated by the U.S. government to be the biggest such reserve in the country. But output has been disappointing and producers have struggled with geology that differs from other fast-flowing reserves.
So instead, local refiners are angling to bring in oil from places such as the Bakken fields of North Dakota and the Eagle Ford and Permian Basin in Texas, turning to railways to tap into domestic production that is running at its highest in two decades.
The incentive is clear. Bakken was priced at around $82 a barrel on Friday, while roughly similar quality ANS crude from Alaska was nearly $106, according to Reuters data. That's a steal, even accounting for the up to $15 a barrel cost of shipping the oil by rail from North Dakota to the West Coast.
Phillips 66, which runs refineries in Los Angeles and San Francisco, is "looking for everything we can find," says Tim Taylor, executive vice president of commercial, marketing, transportation and business development.
Its West Coast plants already use rail to export refined fuels and have some capacity for unloading crude, he added.
At the moment, it is a trickle, however. While more than 40,000 barrels per day of Bakken crude from North Dakota is moving west to Washington, it struggles to move south.
Tesoro Corp TSO.N - poised to take control of more than a quarter of the West Coast's refining capacity when it closes a $2.5 billion deal to buy BP Plc's (BP.L) Los Angeles area plant - is taking "a few thousand barrels per day" of Bakken to its California system, Tesoro Chief Executive Greg Goff recently told analysts. He did not specify which plants.
NuStar Energy Lp (NS.N), a logistics company, is using manifest shipments - individual tank cars that are less economic than dedicated unit trains - to get some inland crude to its terminal just outside the San Francisco Bay area, the company says.
"We expect to see more of these movements west," Goff told analysts. "Regardless of the origination, additional crude oil supply should improve the West Coast crude oil position."
But dedicated terminals are going to be needed to deliver crude in meaningful volume.
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The scramble for cheaper crude comes just as California implements a landmark global warming law that requires emissions to match 1990 levels by 2020. Refiners say it might require hundreds of millions of dollars in upgrades to meet the requirements, potentially forcing some of them to quit the market.
One component of that law might also affect efforts to use more domestic crude: The Low Carbon Fuel Standard, or LCFS, that requires California refineries to run crudes produced in environmentally friendly ways.
The regulations have yet to be finalized six years after the law was passed and are now tangled in the courts. But experts say the LCFS could possibly shut out Bakken crude because of associated natural gas flaring during production, or even cheaper Canadian crude because of their emissions.
John Auers, senior vice president and a refinery specialist at Turner, Mason & Co in Dallas, said the method of transport also is likely to play a part in the "carbon intensity," or CI, scale that determines which crudes they are allowed to process. That could tilt the scales in favor of nearby domestic crude, in spite of the higher carbon cost of truck or rail transport.
"Conceptually, I would think that LCFS rules should advantage domestic crude movements to California. That doesn't mean it will," Auers said.
A more definitive obstacle is the permitting process to build new infrastructure. While small-scale deliveries are likely to keep trickling in, new facilities must be built to handle the larger unit trains of 100 tank cars or more.
More than a dozen such terminals have already been built in the past two years, with more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude now running on U.S. railways, according to the Association of American Railroads. Two years ago that was near zero.
But in California, progress is slow.
Alon Chief Executive Paul Eisman told analysts last month that it may take "up to a year" to get all the permits necessary to build the rail offloading terminal near its 94,000 bpd refining complex outside Bakersfield.
"We've been in the queue for a few months, so we think that the permit process at this point is less than a year away," he said. But he added there was still "a lot of uncertainty."
By contrast, Tesoro applied to Washington's state clean air agency for a permit to build its rail facility in July 2011, during the early stages of the Bakken boom. Approval came four months later and shipments of 40,000 bpd began this September.
Hackett said he is confident California refiners will figure out how to tap the growing U.S. flows because it is so cheap compared with imports that they can't ignore it.
"It's not an if, it's a when," he added.
Reporting By Kirsten Hays. Editing by Andre Grenon


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Design Trends from Fashion Week
Fashion Week, where the styles and colors for Spring and Summer are declared, is sweeping the fashion capitals of the world. Last week saw the streets of New York City flocked by the haute happenings, London is in the midst of the revelry, and next the runways of Milan will open, followed by Paris, with the Design Week shows following a similar pattern of globetrotting. Let's take a look at the designer movements of the moment!
First and foremost, color lays the palette for each season. Pantone is our go-to resource for au courant colors, their color predictions are spot-on. According to the trend-setters at Pantone, the color to watch out for is Monaco Blue, a nautical and classic blue. We can also look forward to a bold poppy red, and Nordstrom has already declared red lips as the must-have accessory of the season. Bringing a softer side to these classics, we will see happy buttercup yellows, delicate linen hued neutrals, and gauzy jade, dusk, and violet hues. Neons are still in, but are making their way into our homes and wardrobes as details and accessories rather than dominating entire pieces. Black and white, especially together, were also EVERYWHERE on the runways this season! Marc Jacobs entire line revealed a mod '60s world, almost exclusively in black and white.
Leather looks, perhaps inspired by the 50 Shades of Grey preoccupation, but more likely inspired by the work of photographer Helmut Newton, were prevalent. This tough look was softened with playful sweetheart details, think leather mixed with a garden floral print, or dolled up with lace. Linen also took center stage this season, bringing a relaxed yet luxurious vintage look, one that is also classic French. Stripes manifested themselves into all types of looks, dominating the designs of Michael Kors, Tommy Hilfiger, and Oscar de La Rente. The bold and graphic print trend of last season had staying power, and is, in fact, blossoming. Latin American prints, birds, and busy novelty motifs lent a vibrancy and fun to new designs. We are also seeing a lot of sheers, peek-a-boo cut-aways, and even granny gone wild macrame knots.
Vintage American and French Moderne themes have been prevailing in home decor trends. As the digital age becomes a global norm, iconic items like old fashioned telephones and televisions, typewriters and antique typography, have become more of an artform, representative of a nostalgic past, rather than the function that they once served. Even Micky Mouse himself is enjoying a resurgence in popularity, as the amabassador of such simpler times. French Moderne brings a contemporary finish to the curvaceous lines of Renaissance relics, a modern glamour with a reflective quality.
All of these elements might be summed up as Magpie-Chic. A worldly collector with an eye for style, browsing markets, antique stores, and boutiques from around the world. A bohemian arrangement, where a vintage items repose on contemporary furniture, and clean neutral colorscapes are shaken up by spicy accessories. Raid your granny's closet and pair one of her colorful skirts with a sophisticated white blouse. No need to match perfectly, or pick a defining theme. Bring together what you love and make it work.

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Bill Shadrach necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 207 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
HalberdCross is holding company with a variety of subsidiaries including a venture capital fund that funds university startups and commercializes intellectual property (IP) and a financial services company. In the future, the company will likely expand their corporate holdings to include additional business operating within other business segments.
As we progress with the HalberdCross branding and website development, the holding company will have links to the subsidiary operating companies including:
a. the brand name and logo
b. the overall brand design look throughout the websites of the subsidiaries
The target audiences for the HalberdCross businesses will be Development Directors at universities and colleges (specifically ones with intellectual property portfolios and active commercial development programs) and companies in need of financing and insurance coverage.
What is a "Halberd"
A halberd is a two-handed pole weapon that became prominent in use during the 14th and 15th centuries. The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It always has a hook or thorn on the backside of the axe blade. The halberd was 5 to 6 feet long, cheap to produce and very versatile in battle.
Today, the most famous use of the Halberd is as the decorative weapon of the famed Swiss Guard, the highly visible and colorful guardians of Vatican City in Rome, Italy.
HalberdCross is a trusted partner for start-up companies and will work to support their management and business growth. HalberdCross management believes that the new HalberdCross logo should be strong and clean… not a cartoon, soft, frilly or flowery.
The owners see the brand as possibly being used in conjunction with an icon to support the meaning or understanding of the brand. If an icon is used, the icon should represent stability, safety, quality and competency.
Please explore both positive and negative space. Color choices may be strong or muted or even rely on some combination of color and texture. We would also like to see optional designs which are two dimensional as well as designs which are three dimensional in nature. We would like to explore multiple aspect ratios from roughly 2:1 (two widths to one height) to a 1:1 (one width to one height).
At the end of the contest, we will require the winning designer to provide the following files in the handover phase:
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3. Font names and file(s)
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5. We will check the colors and layers of all of the files to ensure that they match the winning design. Please handover matching files (we're not being weird...we've had issues in the past)
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MWC 15 Special
Yesterday evening, Google announced via its Android Twitter channel a new service which it launch recently for Google Now: the Boarding Pass card. If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I'm currently flying quite frequently (most likely that's where the Lufthansa Frequent Traveler status comes from ;-) and nothing is more annoying than either checking-in on the airport or printing boarding passes at home/in the office but instead I'm always checking-in from my mobile phone and getting the boarding pass send to it. At the moment, I'm using PassWallet (see my review here) which allows to use Apple Passbook files on Android phones but it requires to download these Apple Passbook files.
Google is now trying to go even further by automating this. Since it expects that it receives the boarding pass (for sure only if you use Gmail and only if Gmail cards are enabled in Google_Now), the Google Now boarding pass card extricate the info and presents it with the bar code, the terminal, gate info and seat number.
While the service seems to be somehow launched, Google says in its video, that this service is currently working with selected airlines only. The video is from January 7th and since that, I already flew a couple of times but it never worked for me/appeared in Google now. Therefore I would expect that Lufthansa is currently not part of the selected airlines but most likely Google is trialing it with U.S. airlines only. The video is at least showing a United Airlines flight.
As always, Google Now still requires at least Android 4.1/Jelly Bean.
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
OK, it wasn't technically a battle. But wasn't it kind of interesting that both Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift — the only two country artists performing — did their songs on Sunday night's (Nov. 18) American Music Awards in black tulle skirts? What are the odds, you know? And while Swift definitely scored points for revealing her tulle skirt mid-song. (It had been hidden under a big white dress that her dancers yanked off of her in that blink-and-you'll-miss-it way that only perfectly choreographed dancers can do.) But Underwood won the night, in my mind, because of how relevant her tulle was to her song "Two Black Cadillacs." It's a song about a man's wife and his mistress meeting for the first time at his funeral — a funeral they caused, by the way. But when Underwood sings in the chorus about how "the women in the two black veils didn't bother to cry," her veil-like skirt suddenly seems so appropriate. Even Justin Bieber seemed blown away when he said to his manager something that looked like "That was really cool."


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Done!Posted: 2011-12-01 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Done!
Me standing in front of the White House after my fifteen meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office. Notice the books are missing. They are in the president's hands.
As I write this in late February, I am working on a complete account of the once-in-a-lifetime meeting. So far it's about ten pages long. Single-spaced. I'll post when it's ready, hopefully soon.
Also, I am waiting for the photos. I had my cell phone and Jen's camera with me, but I was told explicitly to leave them in my pocket when I got into the White House. There was an official WH photographer snapping candids of the president and me. I'm not sure when his office will develop them and send them out. I've heard everything is done with print film so they must be developed the old-fashioned way. And I've also heard (from Jen's aunt and cousin, who met President Obama a few years ago as part of a larger event) that it takes eight months to get pictures back. So hopefully I'll have them by the summer, and I'll be sure to post them here as soon as I do.
As always, thanks for reading and I'm very grateful for everyone who helped me on these walks in 2006, 2008, and 2011. Feel free to contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com, especially for information on how to walk across America . Up next : writing the book .
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Just feet away….Posted: 2011-12-01 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on Just feet away….
Thursday morning I woke up, dressed, and Jen and I walked the final mile to the southwest gate of the White House. We arrived around 11:15 for my 11:40 appointment. Jen snapped this final picture as I showed my ID and passed through the first security checkpoint.
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One last thing to do …Posted: 2011-11-30 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on One last thing to do …
The night before I surrendered the books to President Obama, Jen and I found a small family-run print shop open late to photocopy all the messages which I had just collected in previous four weeks. The first three books, from 2008, had already been scanned by Curry Printing in Worcester.
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The Mad HatterPosted: 2011-11-30 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on The Mad Hatter
(Note that some of these photos from DC aren't exactly in chronological order).
Jen and I went to dinner at the Mad Hatter with her friend from college, Brad, and my friend from AmeriCorps NCCC, Nadine.
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A better picture of the Australian Embassy. Yes, the man on the surfboard is wearing a Santa hat.
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The Arc of the Moral Universe….Posted: 2011-11-30 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on The Arc of the Moral Universe….
While I was walking over the past month, during the slow times I'd turn on MP3 player and listen to "The Bridge," a biography of Barack Obama. According to author David Remnick this quote is one of Obama's favorites. Serendipitously it's one of the sayings engraved at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. It reads, "We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice – District of Columbia, 1968"
We didn't see (or look for) the controversial self-aggrandizing quote, "I was a drum major for justice, peace and rightousness," which will be soon be effaced and replaced.
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MLK and BJPosted: 2011-11-30 Filed under: Uncategorized Comments Off on MLK and BJ
At the newly-opened Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial.
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Kings Point, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's and women's cross country teams both placed 8th in the St. Joseph's Invitational at Sunken Meadow Park on Saturday, October 20th. Seventeen teams and 132 runners scored in the men's race and 12 teams and 105 runners in the women's race.
The men were led by junior Brandon Gillis (Hudson, N.Y./Hudson) who finished in 17th place (31:33) and freshman Kristyn Ruggiero (Commack, N.Y./Commack) in 16th place (23:09). Kristyns time now places her at 16th in Farmingdale's All-Time Sunken Meadow Park list.
Completing the scoring were:
Tom DiCamillo - 32:22 (31st)
Ray Thomas - 34:12 (56th)
Eric Harris - 37:01 (79th)
Jason Chin Chitty - 37:30 (82nd)
Teresa Cox - 24:28 (27th)
Lama Awad - 26:21 (51st)
Danielle Zugajewicz - 27:25 (61st)
Nicole Zarek - 30:05 (84th)
Samary De La Cruz -34:47 (96th)
Farmingdale State will now run in the Skyline Conference Championship on Sunday, October 28th at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.


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Re: VPN configurationeskimo Dec 19, 2016 2:00 PM (in response to roee84)
Is it possible to configure by code or via Apple configurator a profile with VPN payload, which uses my custom VPN …
Yes. You can find instructions for doing this in the Configuration Profile Reference. Specifically, look at the
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Re: VPN configurationroee84 Dec 19, 2016 11:52 PM (in response to eskimo)
Thanks escimo, but that the problem is that if I want to use my PacketTunnelProvider implementation, the VPNType should be "VPN" (and the subtype should be the bundle id) , but if I want also the captive networks - the VPNType should be "AlwaysOn" (and not "VPN")
Re: VPN configurationeskimo Dec 20, 2016 1:38 AM (in response to roee84)
Always-on VPN implies a built-in VPN transport, namely IKEv2. I don't know if it's possible to implement similar functionality using a Network Extension provider; if you need a definitive answer you should open a DTS tech support incident, which will allow me to spend time researching this.
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Re: VPN configurationroee84 Dec 20, 2016 4:24 AM (in response to eskimo)
Got it, Thanks!
Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Dec 23, 2016 6:51 AM (in response to eskimo)
I am also keen in undertanding this aspect before moving forward: can you guys let me now if the DTS Tech Support incident has been opened (otherwise, I will do that).
@Quinn: below a short summary of the use case I am investigating and where I believe we are at in the Apple ecosystem. If I overlooked something, feel free to correct me as any insight would be valuable.
For a good slice of the enterprise developers that are looking at these technologies for the first time, the end objective is that of ensuring that the traffic on the device will always be tunnelled to the desired proxy (eg: not relying on the end user to activate / deactivate the tunnel). The particular VPN protocol (or even whether the tunnel is a VPN or an unencrypted tunnel) is often secondary.
At present, the above can be achieved to some extent with a combination of either:
1) An app using NEVPNManager (usually in combination with a configuration profile) with IKEv2 and Always-on VPN enabled. This would still need either a supervised device or a third-party MDM solution to ensure that the user does nor uninstall the profile and / or the app.
2) Alternatively, if the objective is the proxying nature of the tunnel and not necessarily the encyption of a full VPN, the following combined approach should do the trick:
- As for 1, but using a different type of VPN that does not allow Always-ON (for instance IPsec VPN)
- ...combined with a proxy setting enforced via the Global HTTP Proxy profile.
If the user had to turn the VPN off the traffic will still be routed to the global proxy specified in the profile, de facto preventing the user from circumnavigating the desired point of control. I think that this would only be an option for supervised devices though, as I am not sure if a Global HTTP Proxy Profile can be enforced by third party MDM solutions.
3) The disadvantage of both 1 and 2 is that we are restricted of using one of the default VPN protocols in order to obtain traffic routing. The Tunnel provider bring the advantage of using a custom VPN, which in turns may mean something as simple as the packet encapsulation provided by the SimpleTunnel implementation.
Furthermore, the documentation states that tunnels created bia the TunnelProvider extension are enterprise-level VPNs, and therefore will have priority over personal-type VPNs such as those created via the NEVPNManager.
It is not clear though (hence this post) if there is any way to enforce the tunnel provider to be always on, eg: to ensure that the user cannot circumvent the traffic tunnelling by simply switching off the VPN in Settings. If that is the case, it would be game-over for enterprise security solutions.
It'd be great to know where we are at the moment but, in any case, a crucial point would be to understand whether that was a design decision (eg: TunnelProviderManager is no meant to be used as a way to enforce traffic rerouting), or the consequence of not having considered this enterprise use-case.
In my case, I'd be happy to know that Apple is open to ship this as an enhancement in iOS11 to validate the techonlogy choice. On the contrary, I'd have to rely on one of the solutions above, which would be a shame as the Tunnel provider seems a more futurable technology to use.
On a side note: the above is focused on looking at a common architecture for MacOS and iOS, with a particular focus on the mobile environment. If we had to consider Mac only, a conceptually viable solution may be that of creating directly a network adapter by means of the BSD socket library. Apart from the hassle, we would be talking of damons and services running as root, the sort of mirabilia that is out of the equation in the iOS environment.
Re: VPN configurationroee84 Dec 25, 2016 12:31 AM (in response to m.digimat)
I didn't open a DTS tech support yet
Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Dec 28, 2016 2:51 AM (in response to roee84)
DTS tech support opened: 655794898.
It is a bit of an odd one as it is more of an API investigation / use-case analysys from Apple rather than a bug or code-related support request, but there's a reference to this post and hopefully @Quinn will be the one picking this up so he's aware of the context.
@roee84: did you manage to solve the issue of the traffic routed / natted back to the tunnel you were discussing in https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/36453 ? I have a similar post with reference here and I could use a hint from someone who's gone through it before: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/69962. Thanks!
Re: VPN configurationroee84 Dec 28, 2016 4:31 AM (in response to m.digimat)
It didn't worked well for me at the SimpleTunnel app, but worked just fine at my project
Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Dec 28, 2016 4:42 AM (in response to roee84)
That's quite a surprise..you mean that you never managed to make the traffic route back to the tunnel in SimpleTunnel, but it worked of the box when creating a new project that uses the Packet Tunnel API? Would you be able to elaborate furter on the configuration / setup that you are using? I have seen a variety of people with the same issue but sadly no-one seemed to have post what configuration worked for them.
Re: VPN configurationroee84 Dec 28, 2016 4:55 AM (in response to m.digimat)
Yes, it worked for my project.
But can you be more specific with your question?
Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Dec 28, 2016 5:47 AM (in response to roee84)
Absolutely, all the details are listed in https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/69962 but a shorter overview below.
I am running SimpleTunnel on my iPhone (10.x) and estabilishing a tunnel with tunnel_server running on my Mac (Sierra). The tunnel is created on the virtual interface etun2 and the client is assigned an IP from the default pool defined in config.plist (192.168.2.2): the VPN icon appears on the device. When I open mobile Safari, for instance, and type in www.bbc.co.uk, I can see that the DNS query is sent from the device via the tunnel to utun2, mapped (via nat) to the Mac's WI-FI interface en0 and IP 10.0.0.11, and from there forwarded to my router at IP 10.0.0.1. The router responds with the DNS response with destination IP matching Mac's one 10.0.0.11, but the packet is not routed back from en0 to utun2 and therefore it doesn't reach the iPhone via the tunnel. As a consequence, the client cannot browse the web.
It looks like the nat rules to map the tunnel' virtual network interface (utun2 / 192.168.2.2) to the server's IP address and Wi-FI network interface are working on the way out, but the response packets have no idea that they should be mapped back from nat0 to etun2 and 192.168.2.2.
It is a similar situation to the one depicted in a variety of other posts I've seen you replying to on 11 Feb 2016 (https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/36453). did you setup a paritculat config.plist and nat rules configuration to achieve routing the responses back to the tunnel, or did you find out there was something intrinsecally bugged with SimpleTunnel's code that you have fixed in your own project?
Re: VPN configurationroee84 Dec 28, 2016 6:00 AM (in response to m.digimat)
Oh, as I said - It didn't worked for me with the SimpleTunnel project.
Only when I created another project and used my server it worked.
Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Dec 28, 2016 6:12 AM (in response to roee84)
Is you VPN server still an instance of tunnel_server running on OSX, or has it been re-implemented in another language and/or runs on a different operating system, eg: Linux? Just wondering as this may be more of a netops congiuration issue and therefore it will vary from OS to OS (different nats and mapping restrictions), but I was trying to test it end-to-end using tunnel_server to run it locally on OSX.
Re: VPN configurationroee84 Dec 28, 2016 6:08 AM (in response to m.digimat)
Completly different (Linux)
Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Dec 28, 2016 6:52 AM (in response to roee84)
Ok, thanks. That chages it all, but at least I know I still have to find someone who's managed a working tunnel via the sample project.
Re: VPN configurationeskimo Jan 5, 2017 9:26 AM (in response to eskimo)1 of 1 people found this helpful
Earlier I wrote:
I don't know if it's possible to implement similar functionality using a Network Extension provider …
I spent some time looking into this and confirmed that it's not currently possible for third-party VPN transports to connect up to the Always-On VPN infrastructure (r. 21363342). If you'd like to see that supported in the future, I encourage you to file an enhancement request describing your requirements. While we have seen similar requests before, a fresh bug report will allow you to express your needs in your own terms, and allow iOS engineering to gauge the level of demand.
Please post your bug number, just for the record.
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Re: VPN configurationroee84 Jan 6, 2017 2:50 AM (in response to eskimo)
Good to know, thanks again!
Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Jan 6, 2017 3:12 AM (in response to eskimo)
Here we go, enhancement request number 29899053 filed, it contains a reference tot his post and the DTS request.
Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Jan 13, 2017 1:36 AM (in response to eskimo)
Actually, I just realised that the support for Alway-On is not just unavailable for custom VPN transports created via PacketTunnelProvider (which is what I originally got from Quinn's reference to third-party VPN transports in the reply to my DTS), but for any VPN setup programmatically via the API ( including the supposingly supported IKEv2 setup via NEVPNManager). Unless I have missed something, the only way to setup an "enforced" VPN tunnel from an app seems to be to get the app to point to the URL where an IKEv2 VPN configuration profile is host in order to install VPN via a profile. The latter can be set to "Always-On', which in turn applies to supervised device. This seems a much harsher limitation of the VPN API than I oriiginally thought.
Is this analysys correct or have I missed a potential combination of NEVPNManager and supervised device configuration that would allow us to enforce a tunnel created programmatically?
Re: VPN configurationeskimo Jan 13, 2017 1:30 PM (in response to m.digimat)
Given that Always-On VPN requires a supervised device, there's very little point in providing an API for enabling it because the user of the device is unlikely to have the privileges to enable it.
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Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Jan 16, 2017 2:17 AM (in response to eskimo)
Hey Quinn, I don't agree with the interpretation here.
In the same ways at the "AlwaysOn" VPN tickbox on the configuration profile states "Supervised Devices Only", so it can be configured ahead but it will only kick in when the profile is installed on uspervised devices, exposing it via the API could follow the same behaviour and allow the developers in conjunction with the device "Supervisor" (usually the IT admind which are our enterprise customers) to create an app that enforces a tunnel on the end user's device.
With the current limitation, the only solution for a developer is to create an app that downloads and install a configuration profile , which is viable but fairly limiting in terms of dynamically chaning the tunnel configuration...something better achieved with the API approach. This is the same problem described in the OpenVPN for iOS app, where the lack of AlwaysON support in NEVPNManager is identified by the developers as the root cause for the issue raised by the end user: https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=20820.
Re: VPN configurationeskimo Jan 16, 2017 2:28 AM (in response to m.digimat)
I don't agree with the interpretation here.
Well, the good news here is that I'm not the one you have to convince (-:
If you want the VPN subsystem to support something that it currently doesn't, you need to make that argument to VPN Engineering via an enhancement request.
Please post your bug number, just for the record.
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Re: VPN configurationm.digimat Jan 16, 2017 8:39 AM (in response to eskimo)
Eheh absolutely, the comment was more for the sake of the conversation than anything else . I've already filed an enhancement requets for PacketTunnelProvider follwing the DTS outcome you may remember, I will udpate that to address the issue as a generic VPN API's limitation.
Re: VPN configurationAndreyDevIOs Nov 14, 2018 3:28 AM (in response to roee84)
Any news on the feature? Is it implemented? Is it going to be implemented?
I have tried to find 29899053 enhancement request without success. Either it is hidden/is not accessible for ordinary users or I do not know where to search.


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Day 0I was able to install and run Mozilla Firefox (and not just Iceweasel), LibreOffice, Skype, Google Talk, Mupen64Plus 1.5, and Redshift all fine on the live session (through a live USB made with MultiSystem) on my laptop. That said, installing the Debian menu to get an automatically-updating Openbox menu did not work, in that while the Debian menu did show all the installed programs, it did not automatically update itself to reflect newly installed applications.
Day 1I quickly checked stuff out on the live session on the office desktop just to make sure things worked OK. I couldn't find a shortcut to the installer in the live session, so I rebooted and picked the boot menu option to install #!. The #! installer reminds me of a combination of the Debian installer and the Debian-based Linux Mint installer, and it seemed pretty nice. That said, when it came to actually loading and installing packages, the installer kept looking for a CD and couldn't find any because I was using a live USB. Looking at the #! forums, it seemed like this was a problem with live USB systems made with UnetBootin, and while I had used MultiSystem instead, I suspected that they make live USB systems in similar ways.
I then tried the "dd" command to write the full ISO file to the USB drive. While once again the live session worked fine, the installer again got stuck regarding how I was using a USB drive rather than a CD. I figured that was not the problem, so I reformatted my USB drive and put MultiSystem with the #! live image back on it; this also allows me to conduct my usual reviews again in my usual fashion.
I saw some forum posts about how the live session file system has a folder called "sid" which needs to be renamed "wheezy", so I did that from the installed Chakra session (which had not yet been touched) and tried again. Just to be sure, when rebooting into the #! installer, I also added the boot parameter "cdrom-detect/try-usb=true" to the commands in the boot menu entry. This time, the installer did progress and was able to properly format appropriate partitions of the hard drive in the office desktop and install #! properly. That said, it had trouble configuring APT and could not install GRUB. I rebooted into the live #! session and followed steps in the forums to properly configure APT and install/configure GRUB through the "chroot" command. Finally, I rebooted back into the newly-installed #! system and performed the final required steps as outlined in that same forum post, and after all that song and dance, GRUB worked. Then, I hit a brick wall in the form of the login manager SLiM. I mean, it seemed to say my username and password were fine, but it could not execute the command to actually log me in.
Here, I again turned to the forums for help. Apparently it's a known problem with this prerelease of #! 11 "Waldorf". There were a few possible solutions, but all of them, including purging the system of SLiM and then reinstalling it, failed to fix the issue. Finally, I gave up and tried logging in as the root user, and that actually worked. That said, I was greeted not by the nice customized #! Openbox session but by a completely bare (no Tint2 panel, no custom themes, no wallpaper, no custom Openbox menu except for the submenu containing the Debian menu) Openbox session. Granted, I was able to use all of my programs just fine, but it was extremely cumbersome having to manage windows manually (i.e. using 'ALT'+'TAB' all the time to switch windows).
More related to my work, none of the issues that I had with SSH and X/11 in Chakra appeared in #!. I didn't need to quit and restart SSH just to use Gedit consecutive times. I was able to copy text from Gedit in the SSH session to LibreOffice in the host session. And logging in was very fast, as it should be.
To be honest, given that there appears to be no solution to me not being able to log in as a normal user, I don't think I'm going to go any farther with #!. It apparently just isn't ready for my desktop. That's fine, though, because it's a year away from achieving a final, stable release. Frankly, I was shocked that even the live session worked as well as it did. That said, I would like to see the #! developers put a little more time into making the ISO files play nicely with USB drives, because even the recommended "dd" method seems rather hit-or-miss. In any case, I'm going to switch to a different distribution to review. I'm thinking Fuduntu if it works out, because I'm putting out a (regular) review of that today; if it doesn't, it'll be Sabayon, SolusOS, Kubuntu, or something else. Whatever it ends up being will be reflected in the final title of this post.
Day 2Before getting to what I actually did install to replace #!, I'll briefly discuss what I tried out before that. First, I tried Fuduntu 2012.3. I am still attracted to the fact that it uses GNOME 2. Things like Mozilla Firefox, Skype, Google Talk, and Mupen64Plus 1.5 all installed fine, as did the Linux Mint Menu. All of those worked fine except for Mupen64Plus, which, when closed, caused the whole system to freeze. Furthermore, I had encountered another random crash before that too, and that caused menu items and open programs to stop working as well as panel applets to disappear one by one. Finally, neither F.lux nor Redshift worked properly. The two major crashes combined with that minor hiccup mean that I'm not going to use Fuduntu.
Next, I tried the 64-bit edition of Sabayon 9 KDE (where previously I had reviewed the 32-bit edition). Mozilla Firefox, Skype, Google Talk, codecs, and Mupen64Plus 1.5 all worked great, which would basically make it workable on my personal laptop. However, using SSH to access the computing cluster for my UROP did not work for whatever reason; issuing the command caused the terminal to just hang there. This makes it totally unsuitable for my office desktop; also, for future reviews, I'll probably add using SSH to log into my account on that computing cluster to the things I test.
At this point, I was getting a bit desperate for a replacement for #!, so on the advice of commenter Jagdeesh Deshpande (and also because I had the ISO file still on my computer), I made a live USB of the 64-bit edition of Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" with UnetBootin. Before using it on my office desktop, I gave the live session another run on my personal laptop. While Mozilla Firefox and Google Talk worked, codecs did not, and neither did any attempt to install them in the live session. Furthermore, installing the 64-bit edition of Skype failed miserably despite following instructions elsewhere to install the requisite 32-bit libraries and other dependencies, because some packages simply weren't present as listed in the repositories. Maybe this is because additional repositories enabled in the installed session are disabled in the live session, but unless I really messed up somewhere (which is probably the case), the required repositories were already enabled anyway, yet the packages just weren't there. Also, Mupen64Plus 1.5 did not fully work because of the lack of two key packages; starting it worked, but I could not configure the input settings, which is the biggest reason why I stick with version 1.5. While this meant that I probably won't be using Kubuntu on my laptop anytime soon, I went ahead and installed it on the office desktop. The installation itself took a couple minutes, but because I had also told the installer to download proprietary packages and apply some updates, the whole process took longer. After all of that, I rebooted and used "sudo apt-get update" followed by "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" in the terminal to upgrade the system. (Also, GRUB and everything else worked just fine.)
After rebooting again to allow kernel updates to take effect, I customized the desktop in exactly the same way that I did to Chakra, including the KDE Lancelot menu, the Plasma theme (Ronak, which is the default in Chakra), the shortcuts on the panel, and the widgets on the desktop. I also set the keyboard shortcuts for switching workspaces, assigned applications to different workspaces, and made windows of the same parent application automatically tab together, as I did in Chakra.
After that, I installed Mozilla Firefox using the given menu entry. Strangely, there was another dummy menu entry for Mozilla Firefox that did not work. But even more weirdly (in a very good way), Mozilla Firefox came with exactly the same customizations as I had done in Chakra. This really weirded me out, but I was quite happy nonetheless.
Following that, I installed Redshift and its accompanying GTK-based panel icon (the latter of which was not available in Chakra but is available in Ubuntu and its siblings). Even more weirdly, when I went to the KDE System Settings program to add it to the list of programs to start upon startup, it was already there (though I had to change "redshift" to "gtk-redshift" to get it to display in the panel). The only conclusion I can draw from this is that these customizations that I made in Chakra were saved in my home folder, and those were carried over because I only changed the root partition when installing Kubuntu and left the home partition intact. This also explains why Mozilla Firefox was already customized to my tastes and why there may have been another dummy menu entry for Mozilla Firefox. I guess from now on, I'm going to try to make a separate home partition unless space constraints prevent that from happening.
Regarding my UROP, SSH again worked just fine. GUI applications like Gedit were not at all problematic, and I was able to copy text from Gedit through SSH to other applications on the host session like LibreOffice Calc.
Overall, Kubuntu seems quite smooth and workable. Again, it probably won't fit my personal needs, but it seems to fit my (rather minimal) work needs quite well, and I like the way it has worked so far.
Day 3There really isn't much to report here about Kubuntu, except that it works really well. This was also the first day in Kubuntu that I tried logging into sites that required MIT web certificates, and I found that even the web certificates from my time with Chakra were still saved and usable in Kubuntu.
Day 4Today, I experienced a similar hang-up with Mozilla Firefox in Kubuntu as I did in Chakra: when I clicked on an image and held the mouse button down for a little too long, the cursor tried to drag the image somewhere, and that caused the cursor to become unusable (aside from being able to drag it around). Thankfully, I figured out that by using 'ALT'+'TAB' to switch to the Mozilla Firefox window and using 'ALT'+'F4' to close it, I was able to regain full control over the cursor; I didn't need to log out and needlessly end running programs as I did in Chakra.
Also, at the end of the day, I updated and upgraded the packages in the system. Only two packages needed upgrading, and that went without a hitch.
Day 5Today I did another update/upgrade and found nothing needed upgrading. Also, I found a few days ago that the Plasma theme I was using ("Ronak") was showing scrollbars that were way too thick; that bug went away as of today. Otherwise, there really isn't much to report.
Day 6Today I did another update/upgrade, and that went well. Also, I realized that I could be making some use of the fairly large amount of free space on the hard drive through SSH. After installing the server-oriented OpenSSH packages, I was able to use SSH to access the desktop remotely; that said, I was unsuccessful at doing so from my personal laptop and was only able to login from either the UROP computing cluster (into which I normally log in through SSH) or an MIT Athena cluster computer. Furthermore, using Dragon Player to play an MP4 file remotely took forever and often caused the process to hang and the rest of the system to slow down noticeably, and the sound didn't work either. Anyway, I'm getting an external hard drive soon, so this won't be as big of an issue; it was just a little experiment to see if I could get it to work. Otherwise, work went fine on this computer as usual.
Day 7There really isn't much to report today. Everything worked just fine.
Day 8Today, I did one final update/upgrade, and that went smoothly. The nice thing was that before I did it, a notification about updates popped up in the system tray, but after I did it using the CLI tools (rather than clicking on it and using the Muon Update Manager), the notification went away anyway. Also, I was finally able to change the Plasma panel theme to "Elly" while leaving the theme of the other parts of Plasma as "Ronak"; this success is to be contrasted with the failure from a few days ago (which I haven't reported until now because I didn't think at that time that (1) it was worth reporting or (2) that I would try again). I like the "Elly" theme for the panel and taskbar because it has good color contrasts among active and inactive window buttons, unlike virtually all other Plasma themes for the panel.
That said, I prefer the "Ronak" theme for everything else because it looks better, but more importantly, "Ronak" shows a small circle with an arrow in it where a menu item in the KDE Lancelot menu can be activated without clicking, whereas "Elly" doesn't show that so I have to guess where to hover the cursor.
That said, when I modified the themes, for some reason the font settings reverted to their defaults (the Ubuntu fonts), so I had to change them back to what I had set before (the Droid fonts).
Otherwise, there isn't much to report. UROP-related things worked fine today too.
I would say that I had a pretty good time with Chakra, but it was marred by the occasional stability issues. I would say that I had a much better time with Kubuntu in that regard; I got to benefit from all of the great things about KDE along with the stability and support of an Ubuntu base. I still wouldn't use Kubuntu on my personal laptop because of the issues with other programs I use frequently, but this positive experience here could be a good sign for something else like Linux Mint with KDE.
Speaking of which, the next long-term review subject will probably be Linux Mint 13 LTS "Maya" Xfce RC. Granted, it's not at the stage of an official release yet, but it will be in a few days, and it will be cool for me to see the process of upgrading the packages in an RC to those of an official release. Also, I realize that I haven't reviewed it properly yet, but I've checked it out, and I like what I see thus far, so I'll be posting a full preview tomorrow in conjunction with the start of the new long-term review. After that will come the final long-term review of the summer, and the subject of that will probably be Linux Mint 13 LTS "Maya" KDE (which should see its official release by then).
Finally, I'm not posting a picture because my Kubuntu desktop is almost identical (save of course for the modified panel and taskbar themes) to my Chakra desktop from before, and that is entirely by design. You can look at that post if you want to see the customizations that I made.


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Jennings could return to Europe next season due to the NBA lockout
The trendsetting young Buck could easily see himself going back over the pond next season in the event of a lengthy lockout. A guy's got to make a living, and Jennings knows the landscape having played in Italy straight out of high school.
"I'm sure my value will be higher than it was before, the first time I went over there," he told NBA.com last night after helping Milwaukee snap the Mavericks' 12-game winning streak. "I'm sure this time I'll get some playing time. The will be the best thing, I'll be able to play now, make a little money and keep some income coming in for my family."
Jennings made the ground-breaking leap to Europe in 2008, signing with Lottomatica Roma of the Italian League, instead of going to college. The swift lefty played sparingly with Lottomatica, but did gain valuable experience and it didn't hurt his draft stock. The Bucks selected Jennings 10th overall in the 2009 Draft.
NBA rules require players to be at least 19 and one year out of high school before being eligible to enter the league. (The union has asked to restore the minimum age back to 18 in its CBA proposal.)
It's no secret that NBA players are considering playing in professional leagues around the world in the event of a work stoppage. The longer one lasts and the more paychecks are missed, the greater the possibility for many to find employment elsewhere. Players are within their rights to work and therefore play in another league, regardless of their current contract status with NBA teams, in the event of a lockout.
But a major obstacle would be obtaining a letter of clearance from FIBA to sign with international teams, given the relationship between FIBA and the NBA. The NBPA would undoubtedly fight any obstruction, perceived or otherwise, to its members earning a living.
Though his first move to Europe didn't exactly open the floodgates for other prep players to follow, Jennings may well lead a new exodus to foreign lands.
"Oh yeah, of course I wouldn't mind going back overseas," Jennings said. "I've been almost everywhere overseas and I lived in Italy for a year. I know what type of game it is and I know what it's about."
In the second year of his rookie contract, Jennings said he's living by a strict budget. He drives a Ford Edge, doesn't have a fancy house and stays near the Bucks practice center.
"It's a good thing I'm living in Milwaukee," Jennings said, "because when the snow comes I'm not leaving the house."
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Jimmy Kimmel has made a habit of making waves with his hilarious skits involving celebrities for his "Jimmy Kimmel Live" late night show, and it appears he's done it again.
Jimmy Kimmel has recruited Kathy Griffin and George Takei for a new parody titled: "Kate Is Enough: The Kate Gosselin Story."
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The trailer for the fake biopic about the ex-couple from TLC's "Jon & Kate Plus 8," features the Bravo "My Life On The D-List" star as Kate Gosselin and "Star Trek" legend as Jon Gosselin.
In photos from the trailer, obtained by Access Hollywood, Kathy nails Kate's trademark haircut – spiky in the back, flat ironed in the front – with a blonde wig.
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In one of the photos, which you can see HERE, Kathy, as Kate, catches George, as Jon, in an embrace with a cheerleader.
In another shot, Kathy, once again as Kate, shows off her bikini body poolside.
The clip can be seen on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" on Wednesday September 9 at 12:05 AM on ABC
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The city of Panipat, well known for the battles of Panipat, is a significant historic city of Panipat District in the state of Haryana. Panipat is famous in India with the name of "City of Weaver" due to the presence of numerous factories and weaving looms making handlooms like blankets and carpets.
Panipat is the birthplace of the famous Urdu Shayar 'Maulana Hali.' The battle of Panipat has been significant with the name of this city. Panipat is also one of the five legendary cities that were found by the Pandava brothers, due to which it came to be known as Panduprastha. Three pivotal battles have been fought on the land of Panipat.
Along with being a significant historic destination of India, Panipat is also the biggest centre of Shoddy Yarn in the world. Its Samalkha subdivision is also famous as a Foundry of Agricultural instruments. The district also has heavy industry due to the presence of Indian Oil Corporation, National Thermal Power Corporation Power Plant and National Fertilizers Plant.
Panipat also has some significant tourist destinations like Hemu Samadhi-Sthal, grave of Ibrahim Lodhi, Kabuli Bagh, Devi Mandir, Salar Gunj Gate as well as the famous Tomb of Bu Ali Shah Qalandar. The city of Panipat is well connected with other major cities of India through highways, railways, and flights.
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July 19, 2012
By MARK KENNEDY, Associated Press
Producers of a musical based on the life of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy are seeking an exceptionally talented young actor — one who can play a preteen Gordy, a young Michael Jackson and a precocious Stevie Wonder.
Gordy launched an audition website July 17 to help find the young man between the ages of 8 and 11 who can sing, dance and act like the King of Pop in his Jackson 5 days and Wonder at about age 11.
"Motown" will open on Broadway next spring.
Gordy says he's not looking for imitators, but someone who "can be themselves in the role" and give him "the same chills" he experienced when he first saw Jackson at age 10 in 1968.