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I've just been to a most enjoyable, informative and stimulating one day mini-conference on 6 June 2013, on the topic of Alternative Dispute Resolution that was hosted by the Hebrew University, in Bet Mayersdorf, on their Mount Scopus campus. The event was cosponsored by WIPO and the Israel Patent Office.
The conference was organized by Dr Guy Pessach, and kicked off with welcome remarks from Professor Yuval Shany, the Dean of the Law Faculty.
The Commissioner, Assa Kling, then spoke. He rather confusingly kept relating to the Patent Office, which seemed a little unfair after all the effort exerted by his predecessor to change the name of the the Israel Patent Office to Israel Patent Agency. Then again, it makes me feel more comfortable since I sometimes make the same mistake in this blog!
We note that both Professor Shany and Dr Pessach were comfortably informal in shirt sleeves, whereas the Commissioner, Assa Kling, wore a suit and tie. His deputy, Ms Jaqueline Bracha and the third arbitrator at the patent office, Ms Yaara Shoshani Caspi both were black pants-suits. I am not sure if the formal dress adopted by the arbitrators of the patent office was indicative of their elevated statuses, or whether academics on their home ground are generally more comfortable. In shabby contrast to the senior patent office staff, the two male stajers were looking scruffier than even by my standards, wearing rugby shirts, jeans and three days of stubble, so there doesn't seem to be a patent office uniform, per se.
I'd never actually met the Deputy Commissioner, Ms Jaqueline Bracha before. I found myself sitting next to her, and when the commissioner, Assa Kling, went up to give his words of welcome, quipped that he was going to speak in Klingon. She giggled. When she later swapped smart phone messages with the Commissioner, realized my indiscretion.
The first keynote lecture was given by Mr Johannes Christian Wichard, the Deputy Director General of the Global Issues Sector of WIPO. Mr Wichard gave a very interesting overview of WIPO's mediation and arbitration mechanisms. He wowed the audience with impressive statistics concerning the number of domain name conflicts WIPO manages to resolve, and then spoke in more detail about what, to me, was the more interesting topic of patent dispute resolution by mediation and arbitration, giving real life examples, but with names of parties withheld, and the costs involved. Of course the costs to WIPO and the mediator are NOT the full costs, as generally the parties are represented by legal counsel. Nevertheless, the talk provided food for thought as an alternative approach to solving conflicts, particularly where the parties are involved in an ongoing relationship, such as where a patent dispute arises between a supplier and the customer.
After a coffee break, in which food for thought was discussed over danish pastries and a fruit platter, Adv. Dan Or-Hof of PCZL gave a comprehensive review of the Domain Name Dispute Resolution before the organization that administers domain names in Israel. The speed and efficiency of the system seems admirable, with the full procedure taking less than two months. Nevertheless, it appears that ICCOS only hears about 4 cases a year.
I was somewhat surprised that someone from PCZL (Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer) would advocate alternative dispute resolution. I have a personal dispute with that law office since I was not paid for the work I performed in good faith for their clients during the period I worked there at the beginning of last year. My several and various requests for some sort of arbitration or mediation have been ignored, as have my requests for an explanation of their behaviour. No doubt Mark Cohen – the partner I was working under – and Zeev Pearl have some counter-claims against me, but I don't know what they are, so cannot address them. Pearl has threatened me not to sue, but doesn't really leave me much choice. If the Israel Association of Patent Attorneys was more active, perhaps they could arbitrate or mediate in cases like this. As it is, I have no option but to go to court, which will presumably end up more costly for both sides.
The next lecture was given by Adv. Ms Yaara Shoshani-Caspi, a judicial officer of the patent office who spoke about whether mediation or arbitration by the patent office adjudicators could supplement the formal in partes opposition and cancellation procedures. After presenting some background and statistics, she made some very interesting observations and finished with reference to UK Patent Office practice, where mediation and arbitration is more established.
Adv. Shoshani-Caspi preceded here substantive comments with a disclaimer that the views expressed were hers alone, and not representative of the patent office. The conference was conducted in English, and Ms Caspi therefore chose to read her presentation, which she read eloquently and confidently. Nevertheless, the fact that it was a read speech gave it a feeling of it being an official position paper, which perhaps, a more informal slide based presentation would have avoided. Apart from guest speaker Johannes Christian Wichard, who could have been given the paper to read himself, I think every one else present would have been at least as comfortable listening to the talk in Hebrew. After the presentation, the commissioner reiterated that the views expressed by Ms Shoshani-Caspi were hers alone and did not reflect patent office policy. This was particularly the case since there was no legal basis for the patent office to meet the parties early on, less formally, to try to determine the actual points of contention and to resolve them more efficiently. We note that he seems less cavalier than his predecessor with regard to making the system more efficient by innovative practices not supported by the regulations. Hearing the statistics regarding the number of cases the three patent office adjudicators manage each year, I was impressed with their efficiency and workload. I sometimes disagree with the odd decisions, but it is usually a question of nuance.
The fact that Ms Shoshani-Caspi read her talk made it a little more difficult to concentrate, but we note that the audience did seem very attentive. Being easily distracted I noted how much luxurious hair she had, hanging loosely around her face. Whereas she had let her hair down, this contrasted nicely with the distinguishingly balding commissioner who seemed more to be let down by his hair.
I asked Dr Guy Pessach if the lunch was for all participants or just speakers. He said that they were catering for 20, and kindly invited me along. I thus found myself lunching with the opposition, sitting between Commissioner Kling and Ms Shoshani-Caspi, with Deputy Commissioner Jaqueline Bracha and the head of the trademark department Ms Anat Levy sitting opposite. I would have quite happily paid for my lunch, but leaving Bet Meyersdorf to find a canteen and to find my way back through the rat's maze of the Mount Scopus campus is daunting. (I did my PhD on the architecturally less interesting but more user friendly Givat Ram campus). I note that the number of participants in the morning session significantly outnumbered those who returned for the afternoon, and suspect that the catering arrangements contributed to this. The fact that the afternoon session was more copyright and less patent oriented, may, also have resulted in some of the patent attorneys leaving early. Perhaps the solution is to provide a lunch for all participants, for a reasonable fee, which the cost per head in universities and the like, is generally reasonably from my experience organizing similar events, but to provide free tickets to speakers and VIPs?
In the afternoon there were two presentations on collecting societies and alternative dispute resolution.
The first speaker, Mr Yorik Ben David (No relation to my former partner, Jeremy M Ben-David, as far as I know) is the CEO of Israel Copyright Collecting Society, ACUM, who started his presentation by informing us that he'd just flown in from Washington via New York, was jet-lagged, and therefore apologized in advance if he didn't recognize any of the somewhat familiar faces in the audience. Alas, Poor Yorik, he knew them well…
It seems that AKUM's collection strategy is to first invite people to pay a reasonable license, then threaten them, then invite them to arbitration and only as a last resort, to sue. About a decade ago whilst I was working for Seligsohn and Gabrieli, I remember that the firm used to sue copyright infringers left, right and center on behalf of the collecting society, and apparently the change of strategy is due to AKUM being recognized as a monopoly, following their bullying tactics against the Israeli radio station Galei Zahal.
Mr Ben David also described AKUM's internal arbitration mechanism for dealing with cases of alleged plagiarism, seen as coming under copyright law, and arbitrated by retired Supreme Court Justice Theodore Ohr. He noted that the fee structure used was based on that of the courts – which seemed a little like plagiarism to this blogger…
Adv. Reuven Behar, senior partner of Fischer, Behar, Chen Weil Orion & Co. who had apparently represented Cable provider HOT against AKUM, gave an alternative perspective. He noted that there was a proliferation of rights collecting societies, some of whom had broken away from others, but all wanted a bigger piece of the pie. He was critical that royalty calculations were generally made on the basis of income rather than profit. We were impressed with Adv. Behar's presentation, which was fluent and interesting. We were further impressed that, despite him being an attorney, and in flagrant copyright infringement, Adv. Behar was dressed identically to Mr Ben-David, wearing a blue button down shirt over a white teeshirt. It seems that in the interest of comfortableness, Adv. Behar is willing to forgo the comfort blanket of black suit and tie that other attorneys seem to require as a badge of their profession.
Dr Orna Rabinovich-Einy of Haifa University gave the final lecture. Dr Pessach introduced her as Israel's leading expert on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Her presentation was very fluent, very animated and very informative. She spoke a lot with her hands and didn't use slides. The talk was peppered with references to various ADR theorists and models. I didn't have the background to follow everything she was saying, at the pace she was saying it, and suspect that that was true of others in the audience as well. I was convinced that she was indeed at least one of the leading experts and a competent and experienced lecturer. I would have preferred ideas to be developed a little more. Particularly as the talk was after lunch and to the end of a fairly heavy program.
Alternative Dispute Resolution is becoming more popular. The IP Watchdog has just posted an article on the topic. See here
Dr Pessach is to be congratulated for organizing a thought provoking and stimulating conference. It is a shame that the turnout was a little low, and we suspect that poor publicity and generally late announcing of the event, was a contributory factor to this. There have also been three other conferences in as many weeks, Bar-Ilan and Colb (which I missed as I was in China but which apparently was also poorly attended), Shaarei Mishpat + patent office on design law, and Kim Lindy's best practices, which was aimed mostly at in-house counsel, who one would have thought would be an ideal audience for today's proceedings. Maybe cosponsoring with LES, AIPPI or IPR would be a good way to advertise the event a little more widely?
Categories: Academia, ADR, ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION, infringement, Intellectual Property, Israel Patent Agency, Israel Patent Office, Israel Related, Licensing, Patents, plagiarism, Uncategorized, WIPO


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Common Traffic Offences
Driving under the Influence of Drink or Drugs
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I. Driving
II. Careless Driving
"without due care and attention"
"without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road"
Proof of careless driving
Some typical examples of careless driving
Failing to keep a safe distance and rear-end collisions
Failing to check when reversing
Unsafe overtaking
Knocking down pedestrians
III. Dangerous Driving
"obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous"
Some typical examples of dangerous driving
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Excessive speeding
Driving an overloaded vehicle
Proof of dangerous driving
Ms. R drove through 2 red lights at the speed of 100 km per hour and then collided with a stationary vehicle on the opposite side of the road. Upon being charged with dangerous driving, Ms. R argued that trees blocked her view of the red lights, and then she lost control of the vehicle and it dashed into the other side of the road although she had tried her best to keep it on the right side of the road. Assuming that is true, would Ms. R be able to get away with the charge?
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"in charge of a motor vehicle"
"…or drugs"
"incapable of having proper control of the motor vehicle"
Obligation to submit to screening breath tests and provide specimens for analysis
Obligation to submit to a screening breath test
Mr. D, while driving, was stopped by the police for a random breath test. Mr. D, who had just attended a rave party, was perfectly aware that the alcohol level in his body definitely exceeded the statutory prescribed limit. In the hope of getting away with the charge of drink driving under section 39 or 39A of the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap.374 of the Laws of Hong Kong), he made up an excuse: "The breath test tools may be infectious" and refused to take the screening breath test. Would his plan work?
Ms. D had a few drinks at a bar and then drove home. She was stopped on the way by the police for a random breath test. Ms. D knew that she couldn't refuse to do the test. But she deliberately blew around the mouth piece instead of into it. Would her plan work?
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Ms. A's vehicle hit the rear of the vehicle in front. The police officer who arrived at the scene found Ms. A unsteady on her feet, her voice slurred, and her breath smelt of alcohol. Due to Ms. A's condition as such, the police officer found that no screening breath test could be conducted at the scene. Ms. A was later transferred to a hospital where she was still in an apparently drunken state. A police officer then required her to provide a specimen of urine for a laboratory test. Ms. A, seeing that no female police officer was present, refused to provide the urine specimen. The police officer and the doctor at the hospital then sought Ms. A's consent to provide a blood specimen; she again refused by saying: "I don't trust your doctor and your equipment. How do I know if your needle is contaminated with AIDS or not? I won't give blood to you." Eventually no breath, urine, nor blood specimen was taken. Was Ms. A entitled to make the above refusals?
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Drink driving vs failure to provide a specimen
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Related to driving licences
Permitting a vehicle to be driven by an unlicensed person
Driving while disqualified
Related to registration marks and vehicle licences
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I forgot that the Vehicle Licence of my car had expired and I renewed it a few days later. I left the car in my own parking lot and had not driven it in those few days. Did I commit any offence?
Related to traffic lights and signs
Related to speed limits
Related to alteration of vehicles
Related to the use of mobile phones
Ms. M understands that it is illegal to hold and talk on a mobile phone while driving. But she is unsure about using the speaker-phone function? And what about using a hand-free device? Does the law prohibit the use of such function or device?
Related to private roads
Mr. R is a very rich man owning a large piece of land and several luxurious sport cars. Can he let his 10-year old son drive one of his sport cars on that piece of private land? Let's assume further that that piece of land is completely barren and there is virtually no road at all. Can he argue that he has not done anything wrong on any road (irrespective of whether it is a private road) because there is no road?
Related to expressways
Related to parking
Mr. P, had a heated quarrel with his wife while driving along Queen's Road Central. He became so agitated that he stopped the vehicle in the middle of the road and just left the scene (and also his poor wife alone in the vehicle). What he had in his mind was: I don't care; I don't mind being given a parking ticket; after all, it costs only a few hundred dollars.
Related to insurance
Related to pedestrians
Mr. J crossed a road irrespective of the red light signal. He argued that despite the red light signal, he had carefully checked that there was no vehicle approaching. He therefore believed that it was safe to cross the road and proceeded to do so. Did Mr. J's argument amount to a "reasonable excuse", so that he was not liable under Regulation 33(6) of the Road Traffic (Traffic Control) Regulations (Cap.374G of the Laws of Hong Kong)?
The negligent pedestrian
Ms. N crossed a road while talking on her mobile phone. She did not look properly up and down the road and did not notice an approaching vehicle. The vehicle failed to stop in time and knocked down Ms. N. Would Ms. N be liable under section 48 of the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap.374 of the Laws of Hong Kong)?
Related to cycling
Cyclist A rode a bicycle frantically and knocked into cyclist B. Cyclist B suffered serious injury and eventually died. Can cyclist A be prosecuted under the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap.374 of the Laws of Hong Kong)?
VI. The Driving-offence Points System and the Fixed Penalty System
The Driving-offence Points System
How it works
Deduction of points
I became aware that I had incurred 15 driving-offence points within the last 2 years. I immediately went to take a driving improvement course and successfully obtained a course certificate. So my balance of driving offence points should now be 12, right?
Calculation of points
I was involved in an accident where I was liable for careless driving, failing to stop after an accident and failing to report after an accident, which would incur 5, 5 and 3 driving-offence points respectively. So in this one single accident, I incurred 13 points, right?
Mr. R repeatedly incurred 15 driving offence points and was to be disqualified for 6 months. He submitted that his wheelchair bound mother was suffering from heart disease, recurrent mental problem and suicidal tendency, that he had to drive her to the hospital for regular medical checks, and that he frequently had to drive home to take care of her in case of emergency. Mr. R tried to rely on the circumstance of "exceptional hardship" and sought a non-disqualification order.
The Fixed Penalty System
How it works
What offences are covered
VII. What to do when accidents happen
Duty to stop
Duty to give particulars
Duty to report
Mr. C's vehicle accidentally collided with another vehicle. Both drivers stopped, got out of their vehicles and quarreled. In the heat of the incident, the driver of the other vehicle did not ask Mr. C to give particulars, but did tell Mr. C to remain at the scene to wait for the police. Mr. C, who had to attend an important meeting, then left the scene. The other driver, however, managed to remember the registration mark of Mr. C's vehicle and reported the same to the police. The police had no difficulty in locating Mr. C in his office within just one hour. During the interview with the police, Mr. C told everything in detail to the police. Under such circumstances, what are Mr. C's liabilities (if any) under section 56 of the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap.374 of the Laws of Hong Kong)?
Preserving evidence
A vehicle bumped into the back of another vehicle. Both vehicles stopped. There was of course some damage to both vehicles; but luckily, no one was injured. In order not to block the traffic, both drivers agreed to drive the vehicles to a nearby gas station to discuss liability and damages. Since they had obviously moved the vehicles, would they be liable under section 57 of the Road Traffic Ordinance (Cap.374 of the Laws of Hong Kong)?
Notifying the insurer
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Elements of the offence
Obligation to submit to screening breath tests and provide specimens for analysis
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I wanted to see what happens on my home network. Is there something going on I should be aware of? Is there any device which creates suspicious connections like phoning home? I will use OpenWRT and syslog-ng to get the answers and Elasticsearch to get analytics.
SOHO routers are usually not really resourceful, neither is mine. Therefore I needed a solution using as little resource as possible but still capable to answers that questions. My solution uses connection tracking data from the main OpenWRT router. Offload the information from OpenWRT to a central syslog server. Enrich it with GeoIP, Reverse DNS and session length metadata by using syslog-ng. Then analyze the logs with Elasticsearch.
The first part of this blog series answers where the packets come and go and some metrics. What are inside the packets is up to another posts.
Logging connection tracking data with OpenWRT and syslog-ng
My original idea was to log the SYN and ACK,FIN packets with Iptables on the FORWARD chain and correlate them. However it did not work as I planned. Although the most important data are included in syslog messages like network source, destination, port numbers. However the logs cannot be easily correlated to each other to get session data because there is no common identifier in iptables logs which would be unique to any given connection. (Stream ID would be but it is encoded in TCP options.) Logging all packets would simply kill the performance so it does not worth it. I needed an alternative solution.
Founding an essay about Flow-based network accounting in Linux did turn the tide. I realized that 'nf_conntrack' in Linux kernel (netfilter) actually keeps track of every connections throughout their lifetime (even UDP which is stateless). I only needed a tool to get that data off the OpenWRT router possibly to syslog-ng. The essay mentioned many tools but ulogd looked the most promising.
Ulogd is capable to log connection tracking data to local syslog. The following example shows a NEW and a DESTROY event of a specific connection logged by ulogd.
Mar 13 15:03:57 openwrt ulogd[21765]: [NEW] ORIG: SRC=172.18.0.227 DST=22.214.171.124 PROTO=TCP SPT=57534 DPT=443 PKTS=0 BYTES=0 , REPLY: SRC=220.127.116.11 DST=18.104.22.168 PROTO=TCP SPT=443 DPT=57534 PKTS=0 BYTES=0 Mar 13 15:09:00 openwrt ulogd[21765]: [DESTROY] ORIG: SRC=172.18.0.227 DST=184.108.40.206 PROTO=TCP SPT=57534 DPT=443 PKTS=9 BYTES=3371 , REPLY: SRC=18.104.22.168 DST=188.8.131.52 PROTO=TCP SPT=443 DPT=57534 PKTS=8 BYTES=1301
Note: 220.127.116.11 represents a website, while 126.96.36.199 represents the public IP of my home network.
Configuring ulogd on OpenWRT to send conntrack events to syslog-ng
My OpenWRT systems already send their syslog to a remote central syslog server. OpenWRT uses logread to send syslogs remotely. The remote server runs on syslog-ng. Therefore I only have to configure ulogd to send the connection tracking events to local syslog instead of a file.
Fortunately ulogd can send the events to many destinations. I found a post about logging connection tracking events with ulogd and it helped me to configure the service properly.
On the following link you can find the complete configuration of ulogd I created for OpenWRT 18.06. Nevertheless I describe the details below as well.
- First you have to install ulogd and some of its modules. You can do this either in LuCI or in the command line.
[email protected]:~# opkg update \ && opkg install ulogd ulogd-mod-nfct ulogd-mod-syslog ulogd-mod-extra
- The configuration of ulogd uses an INI style syntax. Two sections will be important for us, [global] and [ct1].
In [global] section after the list of plugins there will be presets of stacks. Stacks are a list of plugins and they work like commands piped together. There are input plugins, filter plugins and output plugins.
- Look for the comment below. We are going to adjust the stack belonging to that comment like this.
# this is a stack for flow-based logging via LOGEMU stack=ct1:NFCT,ip2str1:IP2STR,print1:PRINTFLOW,sys1:SYSLOG
- Look for the section called [ct1]. We are adding a new configuration element called hash_enable. Disabling hashes makes ulogd to log both NEW and DESTROY events separately. Otherwise it would only log DESTROY events. Although DESTROY contains everything we need the NEW events as well because of their timestamps, because we will make use of them for building session metadata.
[ct1] hash_enable=0
- You can do a manual check of the configuration by starting ulogd manually.
[email protected]:~# ulogd -v Mon Mar 11 15:42:51 2019 <5> ulogd.c:843 building new pluginstance stack: 'ct1:NFCT,ip2str1:IP2STR,print1:PRINTFLOW,sys1:SYSLOG' Mon Mar 11 15:42:51 2019 <5> ulogd_inpflow_NFCT.c:1399 NFCT plugin working in event mode
- The last step is to enable the service and start it.
[email protected]:~# /etc/init.d/ulogd enable [email protected]:~# /etc/init.d/ulogd start
That is all you have to do to make OpenWRT send its connection tracking events to syslog-ng.
Update: Note for general Linux users. I found that netfilter accounting is usually disabled in kernels, especially on OpenSUSE Leap. This will result that PKTS and BYTES will always be 0. To overcome this one must enable accounting by executing the following command.
# runtime only [email protected]:~# echo "1"> /proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct # make it permanent across system reboots [email protected]:~# echo 'net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1' > /etc/sysctl.d/100-custom.conf
Thanks to Eric Leblond's great blog article for mentioning it.
Processing ulogd log messages from OpenWRT with syslog-ng
Note: the complete syslog-ng configuration can be found on GitHub.
My goal is to parse and enrich the log messages with metadata. Syslog-ng provides many parsers to use out of the box. You can see a short overview about the parsers I use in this case.
|Metadata we add to logs
|Syslog-ng parsers providing the metadata
|separate upstream and downstream metrics
|parsing key-value pairs from all streams
|creating session start, session end and length
|GeoIP metadata
|Reverse DNS for clients and servers
Some parsers can be chained together in a single parser{} block. They behave like commands piped together in a Linux shell. One parser's output will feed the input of the next parser. Thus their order is important.
The first block of parsers look like this. Please refer to the ulogd log samples to get an idea why I do these. I also added comments to the config for clarification.
parser { # Split a single log line into two parts around the comma character # Name the first part as ORIG and the second as REPLY csv-parser( columns(ORIG, REPLY) delimiters(chars(",")) ); # Parse the part of the log message available in macro ${ORIG} # the separator is the = character # Prefix it with "nf_orig." kv-parser( prefix("outbound.") template("${ORIG}") ); # Do the same with the other part of the log message kv-parser( prefix("inbound.") template("${REPLY}") ); # Lookup geoip data for the destination (server) geoip2( "${outbound.destination.ip}", prefix( "geo." ) database( "/etc/syslog-ng/GeoLite2-City.mmdb" ) ); };
Further parsers like grouping-by() and python() will be discussed later.
Correlating log messages from OpenWRT with syslog-ng
The central syslog server receives two type of log messages from each connection. One message from NEW events and another from DESTROY events. These two symbolize the beginning and the end of a session. I will use grouping-by() parser to correlate these messages into one context and get the session length metadata. The admin guide has a flow chart about how messages are added to the context and how it gets terminated. You may want to read that in advance.
The parser uses key() and scope() to build-up a context and identify which messages needs to be added to the context.
For specifying key() requires already parsed data. My setup can be translated to this: "Messages containing the same SRC, DST, SPT and DPT values from the ORIG part of the message belong to the same connection, unless they are not from the same host."
parser p_correlate_session_data { grouping-by( key("${outbound.source.ip}/${outbound.destination.ip}/${outbound.source.port}/${outbound.destination.port}") scope("host") where(match("ORIG" value("MESSAGE"))) trigger(match("DESTROY" value("MESSAGE"))) having( "${UNIXTIME}@2" ne "1" ) aggregate( value("event.start" "${ISODATE}@2") value("event.end" "${ISODATE}@1") value("event.duration", "$(- ${UNIXTIME}@1 ${UNIXTIME}@2)") value("MESSAGE" "Session completed; client='${outbound.source.ip}'; server='${outbound.destination.ip}'; destination_port='${outbound.destination.port}; protocol='${network.transport}'; session_lenght='${event.duration}'\n") inherit-mode("context") ) inject-mode("pass-through") # destroy events sometimes arrive later than 2 minutes, even when a client app is already closed (ssh, telnet) timeout(600) ); };
The context will be closed and evaluated either when a message arrives which matches the filter specified in having() or the timeout() occurs.
Important! The timeout is currently set to 10 minutes. Connections longer than 10 minutes will set to 10 minutes in Elasticsearch.
The evaluation will aggregate the context and creates new name-value pairs specified with values(). For example, it creates a new MESSAGE. This message is logged the same place where the received logs are stored. This is how such a new message looks like.
{ "tags" : "openwrt", "host" : { "name" : "firewall", "ip" : "10.1.1.1" }, "inbound" : { "source" : { "port" : "80", "bytes" : "44", "packets" : "1", "ip" : "10.1.1.2" }, "destination" : { "ip" : "188.8.131.52", "port" : "36351" } }, "message" : "Session completed; client='18.104.22.168'; server='18.104.22.168'; destination_port='80; protocol='TCP'; session_lenght='3'\n", "ecs" : { "version" : "1.0.0" }, "@timestamp" : "2019-07-03T14:55:41+02:00", "outbound" : { "source" : { "packets" : "1", "port" : "36351", "address" : "example.com", "bytes" : "40", "ip" : "126.96.36.199" }, "destination" : { "geo" : { "region_iso_code" : "EX", "location" : "11.000000,12.000000", "city_name" : "Smithwille", "continent_name" : "Antarctica", "country_iso_code" : "AN", "region_name" : "", "country_name" : "" }, "address" : "foobar.com", "port" : "80", "ip" : "18.104.22.168" } }, "event" : { "duration" : "3", "end" : "2019-07-03T14:55:41+02:00", "start" : "2019-07-03T14:55:38+02:00" }, "network" : { "transport" : "TCP" } }
Actually I only need the parsed name-value pairs for Elasticsearch. The existence of this message indicates that everything is available. Therefore I will filter on this message later.
Add reverse DNS data to OpenWRT messages with syslog-ng's Python parser
Although getting reverse DNS can be questionable I still find it useful. You just need to keep in mind, the domain name given back by reverse DNS queries does not necessarily correspond to the domain name of a server you visited. What you usually have is the domain name of an edge router or reverse proxy of CDN networks your OpenWRT connected to.
Unfortunately syslog-ng does not support running name resolution on any macro. However we can write such a parser in Python. By using such a parser I managed to resolve host names for clients and servers and add them to the session metadata.
There is an existing Python code to do reverse DNS resolution, but it needs some changes to work on any macros. Because of the current license of that post does not explicitly permit changes and redistribution of the content. I only provide a patch you may need to apply on top of that. (I am in discussion with the owner to get proper permissions and update this post accordingly.)
10a11,14 > def init(self, options): > self.ip = options["ip"] > self.result_key = options["result"] > return True 16c20 < ipaddr_b = log_message['suricata.dest_ip'] --- > ipaddr_b = log_message[self.ip] 23c27 < log_message['parsed.dest.hostname'] = hostname --- > log_message[self.result_key] = hostname
Specifying the python parsers should come after the previous parsers. You can do it like this.
parser p_reversedns_server { python( class("SngResolver") options( "ip" "outbound.destination.ip" "result" "outbound.destination.address" ) ); };
My OpenWRT server assigns domain names for clients with fixed IP addresses. Therefore I do reverse lookup on client IP addresses too. If you would like to do the same, then create another parser but with options pointing to nf_orig.SRC and hostname.client. Again for the complete configuration check the GitHub repository.
Sending conntrack sessions from OpenWRT to Elasticsearch
Sending network traffic data of your home network from OpenWRT to syslog-ng is a great thing. But what is more cooler is to send it to Elasticsearch and create visualizations and reports. You can create nice visualizations once you have proper data type mapping set. Regardless what software you use for log transfer data type mapping must be in advance.
Creating data type mappings for connection session details
Explicit mapping should be created manually by using Elasticsearch's PUT API. You can do this in Dev Tools → Console. If this is new to you, then you should check my previous step by step guide about it.
Because of the length of the mapping file I provide a downloadable version in the following file on GitHub.
Please note that this mapping also specifies a template for the index names it will match on. In my case it is network-*.
Monitoring my home network with examples
I already created videos about how you can make different type of visualizations in Kibana. You should definitely check the videos if you are stuck. Therefore this time I picked up two recent cases because I wanted to focus on what benefits I could get by having network data in Elastic.
Where and how are my images uploaded by using a web printing service?
I wanted to print dozens of family photos on paper. I decided to use CEWE's (Rossmann) service to do that. They even have a Qt based software for Linux to place orders.
I wanted to feel secure as I am about to upload private data to someone else's computer. Where are they uploaded? Are those services use HTTPS for transferring my precious family photos? Let's find that out.
Note: My actions did take place between 21:00 and 22:30 on March 17th, 2019.
- In the browser's address bar I noticed that registration and uploading takes place on "photoprintit" domains via HTTPS. Let's check the traffic belonging to those domains. Using the following regex query outbound.destination.address:*photoprint* on the dashboard gave me the following results.
- On the top left corner in Coordinate Map visualization we can see that all traffic goes to Germany (I am located in Hungary). As a result I checked the service's Data Privacy document which also shows that both their web site and the hosting is located in Germany. I am not surprised as Rossmann is a German company, however it is quite funny that I had to send my photos to Germany for printing so they will deliver them back to Hungary.
- Do they use HTTPS for the traffic? Let's use a Data Table visualization to see that. It seems like that there are some traffic on 80, however most of the traffic goes to 443 (HTTPS).
I did not have to do any extra work to get these information because GeoIP, Reverse DNS, traffic size and details are all there. As a result I could do the same exercise with any other web site.
Is there any device on my network phoning home?
Is there any network traffic going to a specified country, for instance is there anything going to China unattended? (I could choose any other country.)
Note: In the following examples I excluded a client host where I made explicit connections to Chinese websites. Data is from 11 day long period.
- We can filter on a country by using outbound.destination.geo.country_name:China.
- According to the results there are two devices which communicate to that country. The device tplink.lan is a WiFi Access Point running on OpenWRT. The other device Galaxy-A5-2016.lan is a smartphone connecting to that access point over WiFi.
Let' see the details on a different Data Table visualization again.
Apparently there are communication going outwards of my home network, however I still do not know what is inside of them. That WiFi Access Point used NAT a couple of days ago until I disabled it, seems like there may be duplicate entries.
A logical next step would be to run tcpdump on OpenWRT parameterized to only capture and save TCP packets going on to those IP addresses. You can further analyze the packet captures with other tools. But this is a topic of another post I will write later.
I hope that with the help of this blog post anyone can monitor their home network with OpenWRT and syslog-ng. However it is not necessary to use Elasticsearch. You can use any other tools you like.
If this post was helpful for you, then please share it. Even more should you have anything to ask then feel free to make any comments below. I will highly appreciate it.


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A resolution recognizing Pastor Ronnie T. Mitchell of New Livingstone Baptist Church and the upcoming dedication of their new expansion.
WHEREAS, Pastor Ronnie T. Mitchell, a truly inspirational man has shared his wisdom and guidance with the congregation of New Livingstone Baptist Church; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Ronnie T. Mitchell is a native Tennessean, born and raised in Nashville, the second son born to Charles and Julia Mitchell, was united in marriage to Beverly his soul make of 36 years and from their blessed union they became parents of one daughter, Kimberly Stevenson and grandparents to one granddaughter Parker; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Mitchell attended St. Vincent De Paul and John Early Elementary Schools. A graduate of North High School previously located on Clay Street, where he earned the nickname "Clay Street Slim." He was an active member of the basketball and football teams and was voted, along with his wife Beverly Merrell Mitchell, as "Most Popular" in their senior year; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Mitchell attended Tennessee State University and Emmanuel Theological Seminary, where he was president of the school's alumni and graduated top of his class; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Mitchell worked in a family owned (owned by his father "Chuck Mitchell") record shop known as the "Jam." He is employed in the management division for Metro Codes Administration and has worked for that department for 23 years; and
WHEREAS, Pastor Mitchell became a member of New Hope Baptist church on Sulphur Creek Road under the leadership of the late Pastor William Scruggs, Sr. where he was a deacon and later answered his calling into the ministry. After only six months in the ministry, he was asked to pastor New Livingstone Baptist Church and has been the leader and shepherd of New Livingstone for 28 years; and
WHEREAS, a few of Pastor Mitchell's accomplishments are: receiving the PHILANTROPIST AWARD, coordinated "Taking It To The Streets-(Welcome to the New Sam Levy Neighborhood), organized Middle Tennessee Diversity Contractors Association (MTDCA) for Black Contractors, received the R.H. Boyd Minority Business Advocate Award, organized "First Band-Aid Conference (raising awareness about AIDS and HIV) and organized E-4:12 to Renew Hope in Self, Restore Families and Reclaim our Communities; and
WHEREAS, in February 2009, New Livingstone Baptist Church began an expansion project in which Pastor Mitchell did a sermon entitled "What Meaneth These Stones". (Joshua 4:20-24), where he asked that church members write their name and an amount on a block as a pledge towards the expansion fund thus when the wall was knocked down the members were able to take the block home; and
WHEREAS, the meaning of that is that when someone would see the stone at their house the person would more than likely ask why that stone is there and the member would tell them it is a memorial of the faith they had for the expansion. The project started September 29, 2009 and is expected to be finished in 2010.
WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that the Metropolitan Council recognizes Pastor Ronnie T. Mitchell as he continues his ministry and the congregation of New Livingstone Baptist Church on their upcoming dedication of their new expansion.
Section 1. The Metropolitan Council hereby goes on record as recognizing Pastor Ronnie T. Mitchell of New Livingstone Baptist Church and the upcoming dedication of their new expansion.
Section 2. The Metropolitan Council Office is directed to prepare a copy of this Resolution to be presented to Pastor Ronnie T. Mitchell.
Section 3. This Resolution shall take effect from and after its adoption, the welfare of The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.
Sponsored by: Jamie Hollin
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|May 4, 2010
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Shahzad advises clients on domestic and international tax matters in mergers and acquisitions, private equity fund formation, and private equity transactions. He also represents clients in tax matters before the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Claims, and Federal District Court, as well as the IRS and Franchise Tax Board.
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Hi, I'm 23 years old and female, and I am kind of freaking out because about half a week ago the tip of my tongue stopped tasting. And the next day it spread to the middle of it, and now it's affected all of my taste buds. And my tongue has this half numb feeling when I eat or drink, even water. Before an area went numb it started tingling and prickling and hurting a little (brought on by using a natural cinnamon clove toothpaste that never bothered my mouth in the past but recently started burning my taste buds), then when the pain died down after a few hours so did the taste sensations. My sense of smell is still sharp as ever. And I know this is not because of burning myself, and I'm not sick. I do not know what is going on.:confused: Does anyone have info on this? Or what I can do to restore the taste??
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I love to serve it with our Instant Pot sticky chicken wings or air fryer fried ravioli. To start, you want to season your black beans. I like to use some cumin, salt and a bit of black pepper. You then top your pizza with a bit of the beans and corn.
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Chipotle Chicken Pizza
- 1 gluten-free Real Good Foods cheese pizza
- 2 chipotle peppers with onions in adobe sauce diced
- 1/2 C cooked black beans
- 1/2 C cooked corn
- 1/4 C red onion sliced
- 1/4 tsp. cumin
- 1/2 C queso fresca
- 1 C sour cream
- 1/2 C fresh cilantro
- 1 tsp. lime juice
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- more fresh cilantro as garnish
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Season black beans with cumin
- Remove pizza from box and plastic wrap
- Top with half of each, corn, black beans and queso Fresca
- Also top it with all of the sliced red onion
- Bake 16-18 minutes or until cooked through and golden
- Meanwhile, make lime crema by pulsing sour cream, salt, 1/2 C cilantro and lime juice until mixed well but not too runny
- Remove from the oven and top with remaining corn, black beans and queso Fresca
- Garnish with fresh cilantro and drizzle with lime crema
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- 1 gluten-free Real Good Foods cheese pizza
- 1/2 C black beans
- 1/2 C cooked corn
- 2/3 C cooked rotisserie chicken shredded or diced
- 1/4 C red onion sliced
- 2 chipotle pepper in adobe sauce diced
- 1 C cojita cheese crumbled
- bunch of fresh cilantro chopped
- 1 pint sour cream
- 1 tsp. lime juice
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Top the frozen pizza with corn, black beans, onions, chipotle peppers in adobe sauce, chicken and half the cheese
- Bake at 350 degrees 15-20 minutes or until pizza is cooked through and cheese is golden
- Meanwhile, pulse sour cream, salt lime juice and all but enough for pizza garnish of the chopped cilantro in a food processor just a few times to combine
- Set dressing aside
- Remove pizza from the oven and top with remaining cheese and fresh cilantro
- Drizzle with cilantro lime dressing and enjoy pizza hot


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All set on the backdrop of a crowd filled stadium. The Rugby Star slot, much like we've seen in Microgaming's similar slots previously in Cricket Star and Football Star, covers the reels in an imagery of symbols that you'd find on the field.
You get action-packed players from some of the top nations in the sport, including Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Wales, and England, all trying to score tries, kick penalties or defend against the competition.
You'll also find scrum caps, boots, the stadium itself and that all important super shiny trophy. But those cover the lower paying symbols, what you are really on the look out for are the rugby ball scatters, and those stacked wilds on reels 2, 3 and 4.
What makes the action keep on coming are those 243 ways to win reels. No ordinary bet lines here, like you'd find in Hot As Hades slot, but you get wins for adjacent symbols paying from left to right instead.
It gives you more opportunities and, combine them with those stacked wilds that can appear across the three central reels, gets you wins in the base game upwards of 50x your bet.
More often than not, you will get a single wild reel be completely stacked on reel 3 or 4, but find two or even three reels completely stacked, and then you're certain to win big.
Because there's something else we haven't mentioned about this Rugby Star slot game yet, and that's it comes with rolling reels or avalanche reels, like you'd find in NetEnt's Gonzo's Quest.
This gives you symbols that disappear on a win with more dropping down from above to fill the gaps. This can create multiple winning combinations from a single spin.
And if you find those stacked wilds on a win you'll get the same again on the next spin, increasing your chance of extra wins even more.Start Playing at »
One of the base game bonus features that you will randomly come across is that of the Wild Pass feature. This will randomly turn one or two of reels 2, 3 or 4 completely wild and guarantee you a win.
If these wilds combine with those other stacked wilds you can, potentially, create some high paying four and five of a kind wins.
A bonus feature that doesn't show up that often, but a nice little bonus when it does.
This is the bonus feature that you will be on the look out for. Find three rugby ball scatters and you win 15 free spins, four gives you 20, and five the maximum of 25 free spins.
Usually, you can expect to find three scatters and get those 15 free spins, which can not be re-triggered. However, they do come with a few added features.
Like increasing multipliers on those avalanche wins.
Every time you get a successive win via the rolling reels, you will see the multiplier bar at the top of the slot increase from 2x up to trophy winning 10x.
You also get those stacked wilds making an appearance. Personally, we've seen wins of over 200x our total bet, with an average of about 50x – 80x your bet.
So you can imagine what you could win with the max 25 free spins. Much more is possible here.
A fun action-packed feature that has the potential to reward you for your efforts, especially as you have to spin between 150 – 200 spins in the base game to find them.
This has to be the best of the three Microgaming sports 'Star' slots. You get the feeling that you can get some very decent wins in the base game as well as the free spins.
The 96% – 97% return to player rate helps this medium variance slot, giving you plenty of action throughout.
It's not perfect, by any means. The sounds could have been better and the animations lack that finishing touch.
Then there's the betting range. With a minimum bet of 0.50 per spin that wipes out some smaller gamblers who enjoy the sport on a budget.
Even the maximum bet is only at 50 per spin compare to the likes of some WMS and IGT slots that give you the chance to bet over 200 per spin.
But for a game that is created for a special occasion, around a sport that is loved by millions around the world, this Rugby Star slot is great fun.
One to help build up the world cup excitement to the half time intervals and lunch break.


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I'm not naming names, but some people in my life ask me pretty often: Why do you care about all these teen things? A reasonable question, given the fact that I'm 35, a mom and have an office jammed full of YA novels. I have given a lot of explanations about how the stakes feel so much higher for teenagers, which makes their drama more entertaining. Plus I don't want to watch a bunch of 30-somethings sitting around in Brooklyn cafes — I want escape. But nothing I say can match the eloquence of Phylicia Rashad (on ANY subject). Ms. Clair Huxtable herself, whose daughter Condola is starring in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway right now (opposite Orlando Bloom) really explained it well.
"It's innocence and the purity of love," she said. "No matter how complex the world gets and no matter how tired we become of its complexity, we all look to love, and we love love. Yes we do."
"When you are at that age, you are of the purest heart," Condola Rashad added. "To see two young people fall in love in spite of everything around them is the most touching thing you can see."
So, it's no wonder Romeo and Juliet is also hitting the big screen once again this Friday, this time played by Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld, in adaptation directed by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. And though everyone wants to point to the tepid box office performance of Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments earlier this year, I'm not willing to discount EVERY SINGLE MOVIE that happens to feature people of that age range. Hunger Games did gangbusters last year, remember. Catching Fire could match it still. And don't even get me started on how excited I am for Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars and Vampire Academy. Or for every Thursday night when Glee and Vampire Diaries air.


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January 18, 2018
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Innovation in Mississauga is moving forward at an incredible pace. On January 18th, ICUBE is excited to host it's second annual Pitch Competition, bringing innovators, entrepreneurs and all lovers of tech together to see the great things happening in technology! In the past these pitch competitions have been a great way to showcase teams to investors and organizations that can propel these start-ups forward. Our finalists have gone on to raise $300K on Kickstarter, operate in 13+ countries, have valuations over $12M and more!
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- Michelle BrooksVP Human Resources, SOTIMichelle BrooksVP Human Resources, SOTI
Michelle Brooks is currently a Human Resources Executive at SOTI. She has a proven track record of building high performance teams to propel organizations into high growth by building engaging cultures, robust learning and development programs and talent acquisition initiatives. Michelle is a results-driven leader that thrives in environments of rapid change by striking a balance between measured process and servant leadership.
- Khaled IwamuraFounder, InSaugaKhaled IwamuraFounder, InSauga
Khaled Iwamura is the founder of www.insauga.com and www.inbrampton.com. He also hosts insauga's popular live TV show--which airs on RogersTV--at Celebration Square every Thursday night over the summer and in the studio in the winter season for the last 4 years straight.
Khaled has emceed major city events at Celebration Square including New Years Eve (30,000 people), Sound Bites Music Festival (25,000 people), Sauga Block Party (10,000 people) and Japan Festival Canada (40,000 people).
- Diana KraskouskayaCEO & Co-Founder - Dalriada TherapeuticsDiana KraskouskayaCEO & Co-Founder - Dalriada Therapeutics
Diana Kraskouskaya is currently the CEO at Dalriada Therapeutics, a Toronto-based start-up pharmaceutical company focusing on the development of innovative small molecule-based anti-cancer therapeutics. She is also a Senior Research Associate for the Gunning Group at the University of Toronto. Her research aspirations are to bring innovation to drug discovery through bridging chemical and biological approaches.
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Our goal is to eliminate 8 billion food miles before the 8 billionth person is born. We are doing this by empowering urbanites to grow their own food at home with our FarmWall. We offer a full package service where the customer only needs to water their plants and watch the system grow up to 40lbs of fruits and vegetables a month.
We have a goal of eliminating 8 billion food miles, saving 8 million liters of water, and growing 800 000 pounds of local sustainable food before the 8 billionth person is born. We are doing this by empowering anybody to grow anything anywhere in any space at any time of year. Whether it is in your kitchen or in the spare closet make your spaces productive.
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- Mohan MarkandaierEntrepreneur & InvestorMohan MarkandaierEntrepreneur & Investor
Mohan Markandaier is currently a Manager Partner of Good News Ventures, as well as a Member of the Board of Directors for both York Angel Investors and HTBASE. He is a dedicated entrepreneur with experience in technology, strategy, product development, marketing and sales, operations and client management. Mohan received his Bachelor of Applied Science degree from University of Toronto.
- Blair MabeeSenior Manager, Assurance & AdvisoryBlair MabeeSenior Manager, Assurance & Advisory
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Blair is an active member of MNP's National Public Company Workgroup which involves researching new and proposed standards, reporting requirements and the potential impact on clients as well as preparing resources for the firm. Blair is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA). He received his Honours Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University.
- Christine HoDirector of Business, Legal & Community AffairsChristine HoDirector of Business, Legal & Community Affairs
- Brenda HoganSenior Investment Manager, Ontario Capital Growth CorpBrenda HoganSenior Investment Manager, Ontario Capital Growth Corp
Brenda is currently the Senior Investment Manager at Ontario Capital Growth Corporation. She sits on the Board of Governors of Dalhousie University, and serves on the Research and Benchmarking Committee of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA). With an MBA from Dalhousie University in addition to credentials from Ivey and Rotman, Brenda has worked on multiple projects within business and finance.
PITCH is designed to showcase innovation and entrepreneurship at UofT Mississauga, our city and our region. Focusing an early and developing stage ventures, ICUBE brings together innovators from a variety of sectors. Join us to learn from amazing speakers sharing their experiences, network with great companies and sponsors, and be at the hub of where ideas grow at UTM!


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This week, more than 300 bands will barrage north Brooklyn for the ninth iteration of the Northside Festival, pushing the neighborhood's extensive network of concert venues to the limit. There will be no shortage of good vibes, ringing eardrums, and sweaty dance parties tucked away in north Brooklyn's every recess. The smorgasbord guarantees that there's something for everyone—from hardcore to hip-hop—but picking what shows to prioritize can be intimidating. Here are the shows you can't miss this weekend.
The first must-see concert is Thursday evening's triple threat at McCarren Park, featuring 2017 buzz band Jay Som at 6:30, jazz mammoth Kamasi Washington at 7:30, and Brooklyn's own Dirty Projectors at 8:45. Lo-fi pop wunderkind Melina Duterte, recording under the alias Jay Som, sings with the hushed intimacy of all of us shower balladeers, but with the best fuzzy melodies this side of Youth Lagoon. In March, she released her excellent debut Everybody Works, a record containing hints of arena-bound choruses and DIY production alike. She's opening for Kamasi Washington, the bandleader and composer who introduced the millennial crowd to jazz's ease and urgency by lending his virtuosic tenor saxophone to Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp A Butterfly. Washington is the rare artist to resuscitate a genre for the 21st Century, honoring jazz's legacy as a space for experimentation and innovation.
Headlining the bill is Dirty Projectors, playing the first of only two tour dates so far scheduled behind 2017's self-titled album. This will be something of a debut for Dave Longstreth's something-of-a-solo version of Dirty Projectors—he's already announced that the band will be playing the new album, Dirty Projectors, in it's entirety.
We are performing the album Dirty Projectors in its entirety for one of probably 2 or 3 times ever tomorrow night in McCarren park in Brooklyn as part of the Northside Festival. By 'we' I mean : human all-star @nat_baldwin , actual prodigy @bellinspace , Brazilian force of nature @maurorefosco , father of sonic rainbows @tyondaibraxton , and of course the ungrammable Mike Johnson (and a special guest too!) This is the first Dirty Projectors show in forever and it's gonna be so epic. There is no tour on this album so this is truly a moment. Also so so excited and honored to be sharing the bill with @jaysomband and @kamasiwashington. Ok thank you for reading, see you tomorrow maybe!
In place of the yelping harmonies and precious arrangements of Bitte Orca, which propelled the band to alt-stardom in 2009, Longstreth opts for spare beats and a plunking piano this time around. With the Dirty Projectors' knack for discovering the pop sensibilities inside unusual sounds, the band's set is sure to draw the crowd together for some of this summer's most memorable singalongs.
On Saturday night, Miguel will sex up Brooklyn with his philandering blend of R&B and pop at McCarren Park. Anchored with opening sets by BJ the Chicago Kid and Saro, the show is bound to feature some of the most sultry and exuberant music the festival has to offer. Though it's unclear if Miguel has new solo material to perform—his latest release is a feature on British pop star Dua Lipa's latest single, and before that came a collaboration with DJ Premier called "2 Lovin U," a reimagining of the concluding track to 2015's swooning Wildheart—his stage presence is a sight unto itself.
With songs as well-coiffed as his pompadour, and just as irresistible, Miguel is not to be missed. Just don't get dropkicked.
If neither bedroom introspection nor lascivious serenades are for you, never fear. Northside's closing performance at McCarren Park on Sunday boasts a lineup of punk music meant to inject adrenaline straight into your veins. It's also free—so you don't have to pay a dime to see some of today's most vital rock performers.
Tony Molina kicks the show off at 3:30 with his sub-two minute bangers, followed by contemporary punk icon Jeff Rosenstock, still riding high off rave reviews of his 2016 album WORRY. The Hotelier will take the stage at 5:00 to prove that they're more than the vanguard of emo-revival, but a fire breathing rock outfit with a slew of searing, yearning tunes of youth lost and found. As if we'd even want a respite, PUP—who famously named their 2016 album The Dream Is Over after a doctor's lament at the state of singer Stefan Babcock's vocal chords—aim to test our mettle with balls-to-the-wall choruses.
The swan song of Sunday's show, and thus the festival, belongs to the New Jersey post-hardcore legends Thursday. After a five year hiatus, in which many of the young musicians in the opening bands marinated in the innovative sound of these alt-rock OG's dark and raw take on emo, Thursday will start to pummel Brooklyn at 7:00. I suppose one could lounge on a picnic blanket on McCarren's lawn to survey these shows, but it's going to require real discipline not to get up and dance.
It's worth exploring Northside's deep lineup to unearth some bands who haven't yet made it big. If you're hankering for a show that will feel a bit more communal than the heavyweights at McCarren Park, on Thursday Union Pool will host the discomfiting pop of Ginla, Dougie Pool, and She-Devils—a perfect soundtrack to today's unsettling political climate.
At 10:00pm on Saturday, Julia Holter graces National Sawdust with her orchestral ambient arrangements. She'll be playing a solo show, meaning we all get to witness how she spins the oceanic atmosphere of her music with nothing but a few instruments and a loop pedal. For those of us more into "angry wistfulness," Girlpool will play Warsaw at 10:30 on Friday, touring behind their fantastic record Powerplant from a few weeks ago.
But don't take my word for it. Sometimes the best shows are the ones you don't intend to see. Maybe our abysmal subway system (thanks, Governor Cuomo!) will trap you somewhere where an artist you don't know is about to play. Get a beer, stick around, and give them a shot. Northside is a buffet with a generous smattering of new tastes to sample.


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Fun color on a winter day, Tory Burch inspiration board with this years Pantone color~Tangerine Tango.
Fun color on a winter day, Tory Burch inspiration board with this years Pantone color~Tangerine Tango.
It has been forever since I have posted any progress photos from my home.
Some of our projects seem like they take so long. The saying is very true in our house the shoemakers children's go barefoot.
Our house is a small old farmhouse with all sorts of charm.
Guest Room
Bedding, lamps, throw and pillows available at Elan Interiors Home Boutique
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Whole heart art from Elan Interiors Home Boutique
More Hallway
We are working on the downstairs and the never ending outside. We have 1/2 the siding ripped off and I can't wait to have that project behind us!
I wanted to spotlight a great new store that I found recently. Ms. Fit in Fayetteville NY.
I had gotten to know Inez a bit this summer before even going in her shop. I was always envious of her cool, casual look wondering where in the world did she find her clothes, I now know. I stopped in the other day and was blown away by the creative charge I received from the store. As a lover of fabrics and details I could not get over all the inspiration the clothing held.
Inez is awesome at pulling together outfits that I would have never imagined. She defiantly took me out of my comfort zone and that is exactly what I have been looking for. I love their philosophy on clothing which is similar to mine on the lines I carry for the home. It needs to be easy maintenance: wash, dry, wear.
Some of the designers they carry:
Krista Larsen I think is my favorite
Closer runner up is Magnolia Pearl
Other lines they carry Rundholz, Deca, Kokomarina and of course accessories: Robert Clergerie and Chan Luu.
Great article in Romantic Country this month on one of our Artist Jennifer Lanne.
Check out painting by her at the Boutique we have a few that were featured in the article.
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As you might recall from the great pictures and lovely stories, we did a tour in January through Germany and Czech Republic.
We enjoyed ourselves every night, made new friends and saw beautiful places. All of that we captured on video, and we recorded all our performances. Fast forward a few weeks; and here it is; we made it into an official video for "About Murder".
The track is from our last album "Life Is Not Enough" which you can pick up in our store.


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