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INTERNET-DRAFT Sami Boutros Intended Status: Standard Track Ali Sajassi Samer Salam Cisco Systems John Drake Juniper Networks Jeff Tantsura Ericsson Dirk Steinberg Steinberg Consulting Thomas Beckhaus Deutsche Telecom J. Rabadan Alcatel-Lucent Expires:
December 28, 2015 June 26,April 17, 2016 October 15, 2015 VPWS support in EVPN draft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpws-01.txtdraft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpws-02.txt Abstract This document describes how EVPN can be used to support virtual private wire service (VPWS) in MPLS/IP networks. EVPN enables the following characteristics for VPWS: single-active as well as all- active multi-homing with flow-based load-balancing, eliminates the need for single-segment and multi-segment PW signaling, and provides fast protection using data-plane prefix independent convergence upon node or link failure. Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/1id-abstracts.html The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html Copyright and License Notice Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1 Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.2 Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2 Service interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.1 VLAN-Based Service Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.2 VLAN Bundle Service Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.2.1 Port-Based Service Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.3 VLAN-Aware Bundle Service Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.4 Flexible CrossConnect Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3. BGP Extensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.18 3.1 EVPN Layer 2 attributes extended community . . . . . . . . . 7 39 4 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 410 5 EVPN Comparison to PW Signaling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 511 6 ESI Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 612 7 Failure Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 6.112 7.1 Single-Homed CEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6.113 7.2 Multi-Homed CEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 713 8 VPWS with multiple sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 813 9 Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 913 10 Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 11 10IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11. 13 12 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11.113 12.1 Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11.213 12.2 Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1214 1 Introduction This document describes how EVPN can be used to support virtual private wire service (VPWS) in MPLS/IP networks. The use of EVPN mechanisms for VPWS brings the benefits of EVPN to p2p services. These benefits include single-active redundancy as well as all-active redundancy with flow-based load-balancing. Furthermore, the use of EVPN for VPWS eliminates the need for signaling single-segment and multi-segment PWs for p2p Ethernet services. [EVPN] has the ability to forward customer traffic to/from a given customer Attachment Circuit (AC), aka Ethernet Segment in EVPN terminology, without any MAC lookup. This capability is ideal in providing p2p services (aka VPWS services). [MEF] defines Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) service as p2p service between a pair of ACs (designated by VLANs) and Ethernet Private Line (EPL) service, in which all traffic flows are between a single pair of ESes. EVPL can be considered as a VPWS with only two ACs. In delivering an EVPL service, the traffic forwarding capability of EVPN based on the exchange of a pair of Ethernet AD routes is used; whereas, for more general VPWS, traffic forwarding capability of EVPN based on the exchange of a group of Ethernet AD routes (one Ethernet AD route per AC/segment) is used. In a VPWS service, the traffic from an originating Ethernet Segment can be forwarded only to a single destination Ethernet Segment; hence, no MAC lookup is needed and the MPLS label associated with the per-EVI Ethernet AD route can be used in forwarding user traffic to the destination AC. Both services are supported by using the Ethernet A-D per EVI route which contains an Ethernet Segment Identifier, in which the customer ES is encoded, and an Ethernet Tag, in which the VPWS service instance identifier is encoded. I.e., for both EPL and EVPL services, a specific VPWS service instance is identified by a pair of Ethernet A-D per EVI routes which together identify the VPWS service instance endpoints and the VPWS service instance. In the control plane the VPWS service instance is identified using the VPWS service instance identifiers advertised by each PE and in the data plane the MPLS label advertised by one PE is used by the other PE to send traffic for that VPWS service instance. As with the Ethernet Tag in standard EVPN, the VPWS service instance identifier has uniqueness within an EVPN instance. Unlike EVPN where Ethernet Tag ID in EVPN routes are set to zero for Port-based, vlan-based, and vlan-bundle interface mode and it is set to non-zero Ethernet tag ID for vlan-aware bundle mode, in EVPN-VPWS, for all the four interface modes, Ethernet tag ID in the Ethernet A-D route MUST be set to a valid value. In terms of route advertisement and MPLS label lookup behavior, EVPN- VPWS resembles the vlan-aware bundle mode of [RFC 7432] such that when a PE advertises Ethernet A-D per EVI route, the VPWS service instance serves as a 24-bit normalized Ethernet tag ID. The MPLS label in this route represents both the EVI and the VPWS service instance, so that upon receiving an MPLS encapsulated packet, the disposition PE can identify the egress AC from the lookup of the MPLS label alone and perform any required tag translation. For EVPL service, the Ethernet frames transported over an MPLS/IP network MUST remain tagged with the originating VID and any VID translation is performed at the disposition PE. For EPL service, the Ethernet frames are transported as is and the tags are not altered. The Ethernet Segment identifier encoded in the Ethernet A-D per EVI route is not used to identify the service, however it can be used for flow-based load-balancing and mass withdraw functions. As with standard EVPN, the Ethernet A-D per ES route is used for fast convergence upon link or node failure and the Ethernet Segment route is used for auto-discovery of the PEs attached to a given multi-homed CE and to synchronize state between them. 1.1 Terminology The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. MAC: Media Access Control MPLS: Multi Protocol Label Switching. OAM: Operations, Administration and Maintenance. PE: Provide Edge Node. CE: Customer Edge device e.g., host or router or switch. EVPL: Ethernet Virtual Private Line. EPL: Ethernet Private Line. VPWS: Virtual private wire service. EVI: EVPN Instance. Single-Active Mode: When a device or a network is multi-homed to two or more PEs and when only a single PE in such redundancy group can forward traffic to/from the multi-homed device or network for a given VLAN, then such multi-homing or redundancy is referred to as "Single- Active". All-Active: When a device is multi-homed to two or more PEs and when all PEs in such redundancy group can forward traffic to/from the multi-homed device for a given VLAN, then such multi-homing or redundancy is referred to as "All-Active". 1.2 Requirements 1. EPL service access circuit maps to the whole Ethernet port. 2. EVPL service access circuits are VLANs on single or double tagged trunk ports. Each VLAN individually will be considered to be an endpoint for an EVPL service, without any direct dependency on any other VLANs on the trunk. Other VLANs on the same trunk could also be used for EVPL services, but could also be associated with other services. 3. If multiple VLANs on the same trunk are associated with EVPL services, the respective remote endpoints of these EVPLs could be dispersed across any number of PEs, i.e. different VLANs may lead to different destinations. 4. The VLAN tag on the access trunk only has PE-local significance. The VLAN tag on the remote end could be different, and could also be double tagged when the other side is single tagged. 5. Also, multiple EVPL service VLANs on the same trunk could belong to the same EVPN instance (EVI), or they could belong to different EVIs. This should be purely an administrative choice of the network operator. 6. A given access trunk could have hundreds of EVPL services, and a given PE could have thousands of EVPLs configured. It must be possible to configure multiple EVPL services within the same EVI. 7. Local access circuits configured to belong to a given EVPN instance could also belong to different physical access trunks. 8. EPL-LAN and EVP-LAN are possible on the same system and also ESIs can be shared between EVPL and EVP-LANs. 2. BGP Extensions This document proposes the use of the Ethernet A-D per EVI route to signal2 Service interface 2.1 VLAN-Based Service Interface With this service interface, a VPWS services. The Ethernet Segment Identifier field is setinstance identifier corresponds to the customer ES and the Ethernet Tag ID 32-bit fieldonly a single VLAN on a specific interface. Therefore, there is set toa one-to-one mapping between a VID on this interface and the 24-bitVPWS service instance identifier. For both EPL and EVPL services, for a given VPWS service instanceThe PE provides the cross-connect functionality between MPLS LSP identified by the pair of PEs instantiating thatVPWS service instance will each advertise an Ethernet A-D per EVI route with its VPWSidentifier and a specific <port,VLAN>. If the VLAN is represented by different VIDs on different PEs. (e.g., a different VID per Ethernet segment per PE), then each PE needs to perform VID translation for frames destined to its Ethernet segment. In such scenarios, the Ethernet frames transported over an MPLS/IP network SHOULD remain tagged with the originating VID, and a VID translation MUST be supported in the data path and MUST be performed on the disposition PE. 2.2 VLAN Bundle Service Interface With this service interface, a VPWS service instance identifier corresponds to multiple VLANs on a specific interface. The PE provides the cross-connect functionality between MPLS LSP identified by the VPWS service instance identifier and a group of VLANs on a specific interface. For this service interface, each VLAN is presented by a single VID which means no VLAN translation is allowed. The receiving PE, can direct the traffic based on EVPN label alone to a specific port. The transmitting PE can corss connect traffic from a group of VLANs on a specific port to the MPLS LSP. The MPLS- encapsulated frames MUST remain tagged with the originating VID. 2.2.1 Port-Based Service Interface This service interface is a special case of the VLAN bundle service interface, where all of the VLANs on the port are mapped to the same VPWS service instance identifier. The procedures are identical to those described in Section 6.2. 2.3 VLAN-Aware Bundle Service Interface Contrary to EVPN, in EVPN-VPWS this service interface maps to VLAN-based service interface (defined in section 6.1) and thus this service interface is not used in EVPN- VPWS. In other words, if one tries to define data-plane and control plane behavior for this service interface, he would realize that it is the same as that of VLAN-based service. 2.4 Flexible CrossConnect Service This service provides the ultimate flexibility at the expense of additional lookup. With this EVPN-VPWS service a large number of attachments circuits (ACs), each of which represented by either single VLAN tag or double VLAN tags (QinQ) across multiple endpoints, are multiplexed in a single EVPN-VPWS service instance. An endpoint can be a physical interface, VSI, an IP-VRF, a MAC-VRF, or any other endpoint where cross-connection of the associated AC is desired. Because in this service mode, aggregation is performed across multiple endpoints, besides MPLS label, an additional VLAN ID lookup (either single tag or double tag) needs to be performed at the disposition PE in order to identify the destination endpoint. One can think of this as, the EVPN label identifies a cross-connect table and then a single tag (or double tag) lookup is performed to identify the endpoint. Each cross-connect table has its own unique VLAN space which mean it can have upto 4K single-tag VLAN (or upto 16M double-tag VLANs). VLAN IDs can be overlap across different cross-connect tables but MUST be unique within a table. The EVPN label besides identifying the cross-connect table, also identifies the following types of VID look-ups: Single VID lookup: The disposition PE MUST support single VID lookup where upon outer- VID lookup, the destination end-point is identified. Double VID lookup: The disposition PE MUST support double VID lookup where upon outer most two VIDs lookup, the destination end-point is identified. Wildcard VID Lookup: The disposition PE MAY support special double VID lookup where the first VID is outer most VID and the 2nd VID is the wild card (*). If no entry is found upon the lookup, a counter per cross-connect table is incremented. Upon finding an entry and identifying the destination endpoint, the packet is forwarded to that destination endpoint. Any further tag manipulation such as re-write (single or double), addition, deletion (single or double) will be performed at the endpoint. On the imposition PE, by associating an attachment circuit to an EVPN-VPWS service instance ID, we basically associate that attachment circuit with the corresponding cross-connect table. Since VID lookup (single or double) needs to be performed at the disposition PE, then VID normalization MUST be performed prior to the MPLS encapsulation on the ingress PE. This requires that both imposition and disposition PE devices be capable of VLAN tag manipulation, such as re-write (single or double), addition, deletion (single or double), at their endpoints (e.g., their physical interfaces). 3. BGP Extensions This document proposes the use of the Ethernet A-D per EVI route to signal VPWS services. The Ethernet Segment Identifier field is set to the customer ES and the Ethernet Tag ID 32-bit field is set to the 24-bit VPWS service instance identifier. For both EPL and EVPL services, for a given VPWS service instance the pair of PEs instantiating that VPWS service instance will each advertise an Ethernet A-D per EVI route with its VPWS service instance identifier and will each be configured with the other PE's VPWS service instance identifier. When each PE has received the other PE's Ethernet A-D per EVI route the VPWS service instance is instantiated. It should be noted that the same VPWS service instance identifier may be configured on both PEs. The Route-Target (RT) extended community with which the Ethernet A-D per EVI route is tagged identifies the EVPN instance in which the VPWS service instance is configured. It is the operator's choice as to how many and which VPWS service instances are configured in a given EVPN instance. However, a given EVPN instance MUST NOT be configured with both VPWS service instances and standard EVPN multi- point services. 2.13.1 EVPN Layer 2 attributes extended community This draft proposes a new extended community, defined below, to be included with Ethernet A-D per EVI route. This attribute is mandatory if multihoming is enabled. +------------------------------------+ | Type(0x06)/Sub-type(TBD)(2 octet) | +------------------------------------+ | Control Flags (2 octets) | +------------------------------------+ | L2 MTU (2 octets) | +------------------------------------+ | Reserved (2 octets) | +------------------------------------+ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | MBZ |C|E|T|R|P|B||C|P|B| (MBZ = MUST Be Zero) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ The following bits in the Control Flags are defined; the remaining bits MUST be set to zero when sending and MUST be ignored when receiving this community. Name Meaning P If set to 1 in multihoming single active scenarios, it indicates that the advertising PE is the Primary PE. SHOULD be set to 1 for multihoming all active scenarios. B If set to 1 in multihoming single active scenarios, it indicates that the advertising PE is the Backup PE. T If set to 1, the PE is requesting the ability to send an EVPN VPWS packet that includes a flow label. R If set to 1, the PE is able to receive an EVPN packet with a flow label present. E If set to 1, the PE is able of sending and receiving Entropy label.C If set to 1, a Control word [RFC 4448] MUST be present when sending EVPN packets to this PE. The combination of entropy label (E bit set) enabledA received L2 MTU=0 means no MTU checking against local MTU is needed. A received non-zero MTU SHOULD be checked against local MTU and control word (C bit set) requiredif there is invalid. Howevera mismatch, the local PE MUST not add the remote PE as the combinationEVPN destination for corresponding VPWS service instance. The usage of control word required (C bit set) and flow label transmit (T bit set) and/or flow label receive (R bit set)the Per ES Ethernet AD route is valid. For Entropy label handling,unchanged from its usage in [RFC7432], i.e. the transmitting PE knows whether"Single-Active" bit in the flags of the ESI Label extended community will indicate if single active or all active redundancy is used for this ES. In multihoming single active scenario, a remote PE receiving P=1 from more than one PE will select only one primary PE when forwarding traffic. A remote PE can support Entropy label or not. So, ifreceiving B=1 from more than one PE cannot support it, then the transmittingwill select only one backup PE. A remote PE MUST receive P=1 from at least one PE before forwarding traffic. As per [RFC6790], if a network uses entropy labels then the control word (C bit set) SHOULD not send Entropy label. 3be used when sending EVPN-encapsulated packets over a P2P LSP. 4 Operation The following figure shows an example of a P2P service deployed with EVPN. Ethernet Ethernet Native |<--------- EVPN Instance ----------->| Native Service | | Service (AC) | |<-PSN1->| |<-PSN2->| | (AC) | V V V V V V | | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ | +----+ | | PE1 |======|ASBR1|==|ASBR2|===| PE3 | | +----+ | |-------+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+-------| | | CE1| | | |CE2 | | |-------+-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+-------| | +----+ | | PE2 |======|ASBR3|==|ASBR4|===| PE4 | | +----+ ^ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ ^ | Provider Edge 1 ^ Provider Edge 2 | | | | | | | | EVPN Inter-provider point | | | |<---------------- Emulated Service -------------------->| iBGP sessions are established between PE1, PE2, ASBR1 and ASBR3, possibly via a BGP route-reflector. Similarly, iBGP sessions are established between PE3, PE4, ASBR2 and ASBR4. eBGP sessions are established among ASBR1, ASBR2, ASBR3, and ASBR4. All PEs and ASBRs are enabled for the EVPN SAFI and exchange Ethernet A-D per EVI routes, one route per VPWS service instance. For inter- AS option B, the ASBRs re-advertise these routes with Next Hop attribute set to their IP addresses. The link between the CE and the PE is either a C-tagged or S-tagged interface, as described in [802.1Q], that can carry a single VLAN tag or two nested VLAN tags and it is configured as a trunk with multiple VLANs, one per VPWS service instance. It should be noted that the VLAN ID used by the customer at either end of a VPWS service instance to identify that service instance may be different and EVPN doesn't perform that translation between the two values. Rather, the MPLS label will identify the VPWS service instance and if translation is needed, it should be done by the Ethernet interface for each service. For single-homed CE, in an advertised Ethernet A-D per EVI route the ESI field is set to 0 and the Ethernet Tag field is set to the VPWS service instance identifier that identifies the EVPL or EPL service. For a multi-homed CE, in an advertised Ethernet A-D per EVI route the ESI field is set to the CE's ESI and the Ethernet Tag field is set to the VPWS service instance identifier, which MUST have the same value on all PEs attached to that ES. This allows an ingress PE to perform flow-based load-balancing of traffic flows to all of the PEs attached to that ES. In all cases traffic follows the transport paths, which may be asymmetric. The VPWS service instance identifier encoded in the Ethernet Tag field in an advertised Ethernet A-D per EVI route MUST either be unique across all ASs, or an ASBR needs to perform a translation when the Ethernet A-D per EVI route is re-advertised by the ASBR from one AS to the other AS. Ethernet A-D per ES route can be used for mass withdraw to withdraw all Ethernet A-D per EVI routes associated with the multi-home site on a given PE. 45 EVPN Comparison to PW Signaling In EVPN, service endpoint discovery and label signaling are done concurrently using BGP. Whereas, with VPWS based on [RFC4448], label signaling is done via LDP and service endpoint discovery is either through manual provisioning or through BGP. In existing implementation of VPWS using pseudowires(PWs), redundancy is limited to single-active mode, while with EVPN implementation of VPWS both single-active and all-active redundancy modes can be supported. In existing implementation with PWs, backup PWs are not used to carry traffic, while with EVPN, traffic can be load-balanced among different PEs multi-homed to a single CE. Upon link or node failure, EVPN can trigger failover with the withdrawal of a single BGP route per EVPL service or multiple EVPL services, whereas with VPWS PW redundancy, the failover sequence requires exchange of two control plane messages: one message to deactivate the group of primary PWs and a second message to activate the group of backup PWs associated with the access link. Finally, EVPN may employ data plane local repair mechanisms not available in VPWS. 56 ESI Bandwidth The ESI Bandwidth will be encoded using the Link Bandwidth Extended community defined in [draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth] and associated with the Ethernet AD route used to realize the EVPL services. When a PE receives this attribute for a given EVPL it MUST request the required bandwidth from the PSN towards the other EVPL service destination PE originating the message. When resources are allocated from the PSN for a given EVPL service, then the PSN SHOULD account for the Bandwidth requested by this EVPL service. In the case where PSN resources are not available, the PE receiving this attribute MUST re-send its local Ethernet AD routes for this EVPL service with the ESI Bandwidth = All FFs to declare that the "PSN Resources Unavailable". The scope of the ESI Bandwidth is limited to only one Autonomous System. 67 Failure Scenarios On a link or port failure between the CE and the PE for both single and multi-homed CEs, the PE must withdraw all the associated Ethernet AD routes for the VPWS service instances on the failed port or link. 6.17.1 Single-Homed CEs Unlike [EVPN], EVPN-VPWS uses Ethernet AD route advertisements for single-homed Ethernet Segments. Therefore, upon a link/port failure of this single-homed Ethernet Segment, the PE MUST withdraw the associated Ethernet A-D routes. 6.17.2 Multi-Homed CEs For a faster convergence in multi-homed scenarios with either Single- Active Redundancy or All-active redundancy, mass withdraw technique as per [EVPN] baseline is used. A PE previously advertising an Ethernet A-D per ES route, can withdraw this route signaling to the remote PEs to switch all the VPWS service instances associated with this multi-homed ES to the backup PE 78 VPWS with multiple sites The VPWS among multiple sites (full mesh of P2P connections - one per pair of sites) that can be setup automatically without any explicit provisioning of P2P connections among the sites is outside the scope of this document. 89 Acknowledgements The authors would like to acknowledge Wen Lin andLin, Nitin SinghSingh, Senthil Sathappan and Vinod Prabhu for their feedback and contributions to this document. 910 Security Considerations This document does not introduce any additional security constraints. 1011 IANA Considerations Definition of 2 new flags in the control flagsAllocation of the Layer 2 extended community described in [RFC4761] as per section 2.1. 11Extended Community Type and Sub-Type for EVPN L2 attributes. 12 References 11.112.1 Normative References [KEYWORDS] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. 11.212.2 Informative References [RFC7209] A. Sajassi, R. Aggarwal et. al., "Requirements for Ethernet VPN". [RFC7432] A. Sajassi, R. Aggarwal et. al., "BGP MPLS Based Ethernet VPN". [PBB-EVPN] A. Sajassi et. al., "PBB-EVPN", draft-ietf-l2vpn-pbb-evpn- 08.txt. [RFC4761] Kompella, K. and Y. Rekhter, "Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signaling", RFC4761, January 2007. [draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth] P. Mohapatra, R. Fernando, "BGP Link Bandwidth Extended Community", draft-ietf-idr-link-bandwidth-06.txt Authors' Addresses Sami Boutros Cisco Email: email@example.com Ali Sajassi Cisco Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Samer Salam Cisco Email: firstname.lastname@example.com John Drake Juniper Networks Email: email@example.com Jeff Tantsura Ericsson Email: email@example.com Dirk Steinberg Steinberg Consulting Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Patrice Brissette Cisco Email: email@example.com Thomas Beckhaus Deutsche Telecom Email:firstname.lastname@example.com> Jorge Rabadan Alcatel-Lucent Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Ryan Bickhart Juniper Networks Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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»Service Resolver
1.6.0+: This config entry is available in Consul versions 1.6.0 and newer.
service-resolver config entry kind controls which service instances
should satisfy Connect upstream discovery requests for a given service name.
If no resolver config is defined the chain assumes 100% of traffic goes to the healthy instances of the default service in the current datacenter+namespace and discovery terminates.
»Interaction with other Config Entries
- Service resolver config entries are a component of L7 Traffic Management.
»Sample Config Entries
Create service subsets based on a version metadata and override the defaults:
Kind = "service-resolver"
Name = "web"
DefaultSubset = "v1"
Subsets = {
"v1" = {
Filter = "Service.Meta.version == v1"
"v2" = {
Filter = "Service.Meta.version == v2"
Expose a set of services in another datacenter as a virtual service:
Kind = "service-resolver"
Name = "web-dc2"
Redirect {
Service = "web"
Datacenter = "dc2"
Enable failover for all subsets:
Kind = "service-resolver"
Name = "web"
ConnectTimeout = "15s"
Failover = {
"*" = {
Datacenters = ["dc3", "dc4"]
Representation of the defaults when a resolver is not configured:
Kind = "service-resolver"
Name = "web"
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Kind- Must be set to
(string: <required>)- Set to the name of the service being configured.
(string: "default")Enterprise- Specifies the namespace the config entry will apply to.
(map<string|string>: nil)- Specifies arbitrary KV metadata pairs. Added in Consul 1.8.4.
(duration: 0s)- The timeout for establishing new network connections to this service.
(string: "")- The subset to use when no explicit subset is requested. If empty the unnamed subset is used.
(map[string]ServiceResolverSubset)- A map of subset name to subset definition for all usable named subsets of this service. The map key is the name of the subset and all names must be valid DNS subdomain elements.
This may be empty, in which case only the unnamed default subset will be usable.
(string: "")- The filter expression to be used for selecting instances of the requested service. If empty all healthy instances are returned. This expression can filter on the same selectors as the Health API endpoint.
(bool: false)- Specifies the behavior of the resolver's health check interpretation. If this is set to false, instances with checks in the passing as well as the warning states will be considered healthy. If this is set to true, only instances with checks in the passing state will be considered healthy.
(ServiceResolverRedirect: <optional>)- When configured, all attempts to resolve the service this resolver defines will be substituted for the supplied redirect EXCEPT when the redirect has already been applied.
When substituting the supplied redirect into the all other fields besides
Name, and
Redirectwill be ignored.
(string: "")- A service to resolve instead of the current service.
(string: "")- A named subset of the given service to resolve instead of one defined as that service's DefaultSubset If empty the default subset is used.
If this is specified at least one of Service, Datacenter, or Namespace should be configured.
(string: "")- The namespace to resolve the service from instead of the current one.
(string: "")- The datacenter to resolve the service from instead of the current one.
(map[string]ServiceResolverFailover) - Controls when and how to reroute traffic to an alternate pool of service instances.
The map is keyed by the service subset it applies to and the special string
"*"is a wildcard that applies to any subset not otherwise specified here.
Namespace, and
Datacenterscannot all be empty at once.
(string: "")- The service to resolve instead of the default as the failover group of instances during failover.
(string: "")- The named subset of the requested service to resolve as the failover group of instances. If empty the default subset for the requested service is used.
(string: "")- The namespace to resolve the requested service from to form the failover group of instances. If empty the current namespace is used.
(array<string>)- A fixed list of datacenters to try during failover.
»Service Subsets
A service subset assigns a concrete name to a specific subset of discoverable
service instances within a datacenter, such as
"version2" or
A service subset name is useful only when composed with an actual service name, a specific datacenter, and namespace.
All services have an unnamed default subset that will return all healthy instances unfiltered.
Subsets are defined in
service-resolver configuration entries, but are
referenced by their names throughout the other configuration entry kinds.
Configuration entries may be protected by ACLs.
Reading a
service-resolver config entry requires
service:read on itself.
Creating, updating, or deleting a
service-resolver config entry requires
service:write on itself and
service:read on any other service referenced by
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Friday, 1st May 2015, doors 7pm
The Horse Hospital
Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1JD
Tickets £5 in advance, £6.50 on the door
We recorded the Shulie post screening discussion between Helen De Witt, Mandy Merck and Juliet Jacques – Listen to the discussion here:
The Dialectic of Sex: 'a must-have for those interested in feminist theory, both past and present. Its reappearance now, during yet another period of 'ridicule' towards women's rights, is perhaps even more pertinent than its first publication.'
– Kathleen Hanna, riot grrrl
1970: Shulamith Firestone was just 25 years old when she published The Dialectic of Sex. It was the first book of the women's liberation movement to propose a feminist theory of politics. It offered second-wave feminists the impetus to act. It became an international bestseller.
2015: 45 years later, as Naomi Wolf suggests 'no one can understand how feminism has evolved without reading this radical, inflammatory second-wave landmark'.
Now is the time to revisit Firestone's seminal ideas. Join in the revolution at an evening of screenings, readings, art activism and conversation to celebrate Verso's publication of the new edition of Shulamith Firestone's groundbreaking manifesto.
To start the conversation, we welcome Juliet Jacques (journalist and author of the forthcoming Trans, Verso September 2015), Mandy Merck (Professor of Media Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London) & Helen de Witt (BFI, Head of Cinemas) to discuss the significance and cultural legacy of Firestone's work.
Film Programme
Year of the Woman
A fantasy by Sandra Hochman, 1973, USA, 82 mins
With Sandra Hochman, Warren Beatty, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Norman Mailer
The film they couldn't kill about the revolution they couldn't stop.
Year of the Woman is the first feature-length film in the USA that was exclusively produced by women. A piece of history in itself, it documents for the first time how women at the 1972 Democratic Party Convention in Miami conquered the political world previously dominated by men.
'The best documentary ever made' – Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
'It has to be the best documentary on the woman's movement because it is the only documentary on the woman's movement' – Flo Kennedy
Directed by Elisabeth Subrin with Kim Soss, 1997, USA, 36 mins
"A cinematic doppelgänger without precedent, Elisabeth Subrin's Shulie uncannily and systematically bends time and cinematic code alike, projecting the viewer 30 years into the past to rediscover a woman out of time and time out of joint and, in Subrin's words, 'to investigate the mythos and residue of the late 1960s'.
Staging an extended act of homage as well as a playful, provocative confounding of filmic propriety, Subrin and her creative collaborator Kim Soss resurrect a little-known 1967 documentary portrait of Firestone, then a young Chicago art student, who a few years later would become a notable figure in Second Wave feminism and the author of the radical 1970 manifesto, The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution.
Reflecting on her life and times, Shulie functions as a prism for refracting questions of gender, race and class that resonate in our era as in her's, while through painstaking mediation, Subrin makes manifest the eternal return of film".
– Gavin Smith and Mark MacElhatten, curators, Views of the Avant-Garde, The New York Film Festival, 1997.
Queen Mary University London will be hosting an in-depth exploration of The Dialectic of Sex on Sat 16th April, free and open to all. For more information, contact Sophie on firstname.lastname@example.com


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I lost track of Chaesdegango. One day my letters and phone calls to his house on Humboldt Street went unanswered.
He became a presence in my life in the early 1980s, when my pretty new girlfriend and I visited one of my favorite haunts, the funky Muddy Waters coffeehouse (named after the nearby Platte River and, I imagine, the blues legend) located in the dilapidated far reaches of lower downtown. Hanging on the walls was a collection of colorful acrylic paintings that put me in mind of my favorite moderns of Europe's "whimsical school" — Klee, Kandinsky and Miró — but infused with a decidedly contemporary air, à la Keith Haring, say.
I purchased my first Chaesdegango there. The price was right. Chaesdegango marked his paintings with prices such as $29.95 or $34.50. Bigger, later paintings might go for as much as $45. He said he just wanted to earn enough money to buy more supplies so he could make more paintings. And that's what he did; the walls of his Humboldt Street house were covered with them. Chaes had a liberal exchange policy: If you wished, you could trade in an older painting straight across for a newer one.
I married that pretty girl in the back yard of my house on West 29th Avenue near Sloan's Lake. She took a job teaching seven kids in a one-room school in Rico, a tiny mountain hamlet located across Lizard Head Pass from Telluride, and we moved to southwest Colorado, where I built us a house with a long horizontal wall in the living room and installed track lighting to illuminate our collection of five Chaesdegangos. Later, we moved to the high desert between Durango and Cortez and built another house with a long horizontal wall and track lighting.
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From time to time, we kept in touch with Chaesdegango (his name came to him in an African dream). We visited him occasionally on trips to Denver — maybe exchanged a painting or two. Later, he transferred his collection of paintings from his house to a permanent gallery space above a used bookstore on East Colfax Avenue. In 1992, a profile in Westword noted that "Chaesdegango's work defines the Denver School," which the article defined as "innocently dangerous, romantically pragmatic, brainy, and a shade wacky."
He and his wife divorced. He made his living by doing electrical work, and eventually his hands became so shaky that he had to give up painting. He tried his hand at making small movies, and then the day arrived when he was just no longer there.
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For nearly four decades now, Chaesdegango — the artist and his work — has been part of our lives and the lives of our two children, who grew up under the benevolent glow of his paintings. We owe him much for enhancing our lives for so long, and I would hate to see his memory disappear without a trace.
After a recent trip to Denver and an opportunity to tour our old bungalow on West 29th, memories of those earlier days flooded back, and I tried once again to find some evidence of Chaesdegano. A Google search turned up nothing, and I had no luck using those people-finding services on the Internet. I even tried the obituaries, but drew a blank.
Surely, someone in Denver knows what happened to Chaesdegango (his taken name) or Ron Chidester (his given name). If you know something, please let us know.
Mike Maxwell lives in Montezuma County Colorado and is writing a book titled Future Focused History: Rethinking the Role of History Education in Society. Have information about Chaesdegango? Share it in a comment or email email@example.com.


text: Iraq's Minister of Industry and Minerals, Nasser al-Issawi, called for more investment by the Iranian companies in different sectors of the Iraqi economy, saying Baghdad will provide the investors with land and necessary permissions to launch industrial towns in Iraq. He made the remarks in a meeting with Iran's Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiei in Baghdad on Tuesday, IRNA reported. For his part, Rabiei expressed Iran's readiness to share its technical knowhow with the Iraqis, suggesting that the two sides can launch joint pharmaceutical and cement companies. Rabiei left Tehran for Baghdad on Monday for an official visit to the neighboring country where he met with a number of high-ranking Iraqi government officials, including his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed al-Sudani, with whom a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed aimed at promoting workers' rights.


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I was ushered from the large-scale holding pen where all patients wait for diagnostics testing into a smaller waiting room. It was just a nondescript middle age man and me. Neither of us had a phone nor reading material to bury our face in so we played The Awkward Game for several minutes: Eye contact? No eye contact? Conversation? Keep private? Focus on that hangnail? Even without speaking we could tell that the other was tired and drained from a long day of testing and both opted for silence.
That was until the scheduler came in with a stack of papers, each bearing a patients' name. She started rattling off the names on the header of each as we both shook our heads indicating 'not me'. She quickly opted for the more effective method of just asking us our names. She turned to the man across from me first:
"What is your name?" She asked in a thick accent native to somewhere in the Middle East, I deduced.
"Stinky," he said back in a deadpan voice.
I immediately burst out laughing; I may have even snorted. What a funny and unexpected joke to hear from this unassuming man with whom I've been darting glances from for the past 15 minutes. I caught his eyes and shot him a toothy smile as if to say: "Right on, man. Way to keep it funny in an otherwise crappy situation."
He did not smile back and in fact looked both stoic and exacerbated. My heart sank but my doofy smile stayed on my face not knowing what else to do. It took a few seconds for my slow brain to process that no, he was not making a joke. My expression changed from chummy to incredibly apologetic.
He stood up as the scheduler shuffled her papers and brought his to the top.
"That's me – George Stinky," he again confirmed, pointing to his name in writing.
I was mortified and the blood rushed to my face in sheer horror of my bad sense of humor. He followed the scheduler out of the room completely avoiding acknowledgement of the curly headed girl that laughed in his face.
I wanted to run after him and tell him that I was sorry, that I thought it was a joke. It probably wouldn't have made the situation any better though. Joke or no joke, his last name still stinks.


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New Delhi, Feb 17 When "Kabir Singh" hit the screens last year, it started a whole new debate as many thought that its lead actor Shahid Kapoor played a misogynistic hero. His co-star Anurag Arora says it's not necessary that a film should always be a message-oriented one.
Anurag had essayed the role of Harpal Sikka, father of the film's female protagonist Preeti, essayed by Kiara Advani in "Kabir Singh".
Asked about the negative response by a section of the audience, Anurag told : "A film should be seen like a film. Why to take it like it should be an inspirational thing every time? This is a story of a person, and in real life, there are people like him. I have seen people like Kabir Singh in real life. It is not always necessary that a film should be message-oriented."
"People took it too seriously. Why so serious about it? If you look at 'Raman Raghav 2.0', Nawazuddin Siddiqui played a serial killer in it. That doesn't mean that you become a serial killer. There are so many things happening in our society, so people will be making films on them. You cannot always judge them saying that 'this is giving a bad message or so'," he added.
Anurag is currently seen as an army officer in the TV show "Ek Duje Ke Vaaste 2".
"It is always fascinating... the army. There is always an attraction. The army people have different lifestyles. I see this as an opportunity to pay my tribute to the Indian Army," said the "Fukrey" actor.
He will be seen reprising his role as Sub-Inspector Jairaj Singh in the second season of "Delhi Crime".
"It will be the same character with a different case," he said.
He has another web series, "Patal Lok". "It is a crime thriller involving the police and criminals," he shared.
As for films, he will be seen in "Roohi Afza", also starring Janhvi Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao.
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Fall Program 2019
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2018 Mercedes-Benz AMG GT C Roadster
The Gentleman's Track Star
Plus: Brilliant twin-turbo V-8, brilliant dual-clutch gearbox, track-worthy suspension, badass sex appeal
Minus: Rides like trucks used to, tight cabin and trunk, poor ergonomics
2018 AMG GT C Roadster starts at $157,000
Also AMG GT Coupe (469HP, $112,400), GT Roadster (469HP, $124,400) and GT R Coupe (577HP, $157,000)
Ever seen one of these? No, I didn't think so. It's a true exotic. AMG is Mercedes-Benz's high-performance brand, like M is to BMW. Normally, AMG converts everyday Mercs into fire-breathing dragons. But this one, the GT, is a two-seater built from the ground up by AMG—there's no corresponding "ordinary" Mercedes. All the luxury and safety features we'd expect from the three-pointed star are here, but our GT C roadster can hit 60 MPH in 3.6 seconds. Top speed is 196 miles per hour. And prices start at $157,000.
The heart of the GT C is a 4-liter twin-turbocharged V-8 that sits behind the front wheels. It sends 550 horsepower to the back wheels through an automated 7-speed transmission with two electrically operated clutches. The gearbox is built into the rear axle, for better weight distribution. In five different drive modes, several of which are unsuitable for public roads, the computer will shift gears automatically, or the driver can do it manually with paddles on the steering wheel.
So stand on the throttle and cue the thunder and lightning! The engine gets raucous and the upshifts pop like gunshots. The power rolls on in a savage wave—one of those two clutches is always waiting to take the handoff from the other. The brakes are just as immediate and just as powerful. Staying between the lines is easy too; the steering is light, but precise and linear. Oh, for a racetrack . . .
What's not to like? Quite a lot, it turns out. This cabin is almost claustrophobic; there's a lot jammed in here, and just getting in and out is a challenge. The trunk, at least in the convertible, barely holds one suitcase. The visibility—to the sides, the rear and past the windshield pillars—is awful. The ergonomics are iffy too; reaching the shifter is awkward, and most owners will never figure out all the electronics. (Even the mufflers are adjustable, for sound.) And the suspension! In Comfort mode, never mind Sport or Race, the GT rides like a truck, and that's being unkind to trucks. On a potholed road, you'll want to bring your chiropractor along.
The AMG GT C is unquestionably brilliant to drive—within a narrow window of circumstances. Living with it, though, is a different story. Mercedes calls it a GT, a grand touring car, but really it's a super sports car that demands sacrifices in convenience and comfort and utility. Does Mercedes care? No. They've got so many models that if this one doesn't do it for you, three others will, and they can hang their performance credentials on it. Truly, as a pure go-fast toy the AMG GT C is stupendous, so much so that the price seems almost reasonable.


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This course helps you to make sense of what a diagnosis of psychosis involves. We look at the symptoms, causes and impact that psychosis can have on our lives. Early warning signs are considered, alongside a wide variety of approaches and coping strategies. There will be handout information and further links to take home to deepen your understanding and develop your self-management skills. Discussion time is factored in so that you can talk about your individual experiences within the safety and support of the group.
Learning outcomes
Students will:
- Learn that they are not alone
- Get an overview of the symptoms, causes, treatments and support available for psychosis
- Become familiar with a variety of coping skills and self-management tools
Course structure
Weekly sessions for up to 6 weeks
Aimed at
Students with lived experience of psychosis, schizophrenia or a schizo-affective disorder, who would like to develop knowledge and insight into their condition. Supporters and carers are also welcome to apply.


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Introduction: Child Friendly EXTREME LED Humidifier
I saw this instructable by pro-mpilchfamily a great idea. I needed one for my daughter, but I wanted to make it child friendly, add a little pizazz if you will. This is basicly a modification of the one I saw, the design concept belongs to PRO- MPILCHFAMILY, I just made a few changes to suit our needs. My hats off to you "Thanks for sharing".
Step 1: Materials
- Materials you will need, this is a very easy project, about 2hr to complete. a plastic container, two sponges, a low voltage fan 12 or 24 volt, a led mist / fog maker, a pc. of aluminum, screws, a wall power supply for fan, 45 deg. vac. attachment
Step 2: Tools
Drill, drill bits, spade bits, wire cutters, x acto knife, tin snips, hot glue gun, compass, soldering gun, solder, wire cleaner / flux, screw driver, calipers, pc. wire
Step 3: Starting the Build
Drill a hole to fit gromet on the led mister, make sure the hole is close to top of container. Feed the wire of the mister from the inside out. Then you can take your hot glue gun, and glue the mister to the bottom, inside the container. Glue around gromet, and hold in place till it sets. Take one of the sponges and place a drop of glue on each corner, and put inside container on the other side leaving room for other sponge to slide between wall and glued sponge.
Step 4: The Top
Cut the pc. of aluminum to fit the inside of the top. Then drill a small hole at each corner of the aluminum. Drill thru the aluminum into the top and then put in the screws at each corner. Measure the bottle at the depth it will sit in the top. Then take your compass and draw a circle the size of your bottle on the plastic top. Then draw the other circle for the vac. attachment. Use the x acto knife to cut out both circles, and trace around the holes onto the aluminum with a pencil. Remove the alum. plate. Use a unibit to drill a hole in each circle, cut the holes out with tin snips. And screw the plate back on the top. Take your hot glue gun and glue around the alum. plate. Rotate the glue gun to get that welded effect.
Step 5: Glue and More Glue
Insert the bottle and glue around the outside, flip over and glue around the bottle.Notch the top of the bottle to unload water. Cut a 1.5 inch square pc. of sponge, and put inside the bottle at the top. Place the vac. attachment on top and glue around the outside. Cut hole for fan on the container at the same end as the sponge, at the top of container. Screw fan to the side, and place other sponge just inside container. Solder wires from fan to power supply. Make sure the fan is wired right. Some fans will run in reverse when wired backwards, you want the fan to blow into the container.
Step 6: Ready for Moisture
Fill container with water, just to cover the led mister, remove the sponge from the bottle and fill the bottle then replace the sponge. Place top on container and snap the lid all the way around. IMPORANT the mister must remain below water level or it will burn the ceramic disc on the mister. Dont plug the mister in to power, unless it is under water. After water is put into bottle and container, Plug in the mister and the fan and enjoy.
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Do these ultrasonic 24V devices also work on 12V? Because the reason I didn't buy one yet is the fact that 12V adapters are easy to find, but 24V is a lot harder and I don't like spending a lot on this.
Nicely done! I like how you use 1 sponge to help control the flow of the water out of the bottle.
But what happens when you start getting mold buildup on the sponges? There are 3 reasons why i went with a regular Humidifier filter with mine. For one the filter is easily changed out cause eventually you will get mold buildup. Secondly the filter isn't as dense as a sponge allowing more air to flow through and a better transference of the moisture into the air. Third the filter does actually filter any minerals out of the tap water. But with the mist fogger you really don't need the sponge on the air intake side. The fogger is putting all the moisture into the air.
Thanks for the comment, you are very right about the mold buildup, the main reason I used sponges is it was the only thing on hand at the time. the filter you used is much better, I just didnt have correct materials. I needed it asap my daughter was sick and I just compromised with some household goods. And the intake sponge was used to kind of cut down on dust or debris, sponges were not made to filter. So I thought that if I used two of them it would help. I did eventually change the intake and output sponges to filters.When my daughter was finshed with it I dried it out real well and packed it in a box for storage, or till someone needs it again. Anyway this was a very inexpensive build, and something good to have around. My hats off to you for sharing, and my daughter thanks you. Thanks


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Anyway, here is a wrap-up of our trip to the mountains last weekend. Last Friday, Charlie and I spent the whole day in West Jefferson and Boone. One of the first things we noticed on our drive was a new Quilt Barn at the N.C.Mountain Research farm near our home.
Charlie paid some client visits, we ate lunch with my brother John in Boone, and then we spent a couple of hours with my father at his apartment in a retirement community. He needed help with a few things on his computer. Before I left, he had a shortcut to my blog on his desktop, and we got him into Facebook! It looks like he is having fun with that already.
And here is my Valentine, which is a watercolor painting of our house here in Wake Forest. He did it during a craft night at the retirement center. I can just see all of those elderly ladies cutting out doilies and pink foil hearts, and my father producing this beautiful painting! (He is a retired commercial artist.)
It is actually 3-D. The house sticks out from the background because of a bit of foam core behind it. You know I love this picture!
Then we followed the logging trails around and spent a long time hiking along the creek. It was absolutely gorgeous.
Here are Charlie and Ricky (and Maggy) on one of the big rocks near the creek, probably picturing themselves bow-hunting there next fall. Mary and I were wowed by the scenic locations and were picturing picnics with the grandkids.


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|that's me, and a swatch of peace out my back door
Once in a while you have to slow, sit, lie down, even. Look at things from a different perspective.
Have you tried it recently? What did you experience?
|that's me, and a swatch of peace out my back door
I totally agree -- ad it's wonderful!
I used to be one of those woman who worked 60-70 hour weeks. I never had enough time for much else in my life.
Strange as it may seem going deaf was the best thing for me. I slowed down and saw the world around me. Now everything is a visual europhia. I love living off the beaten track. (Hugs)Indigo
Our ground is muddy.
Jealous! ;)
I love this idea. I don't do it enough. :)
It has been a while since I've done that and I need to.
I just got back from my first visit to NYC. Now that's a very different perspective for a west coast country girl. Great picture. Great post.
I walk with my head down a lot - because my brain is weird and can't take in too much at one time - so I have to make myself look up and around and see things I may miss (I also look down to find interesting things on the ground).
wonderful place you have, too!
I pet my cats and drink in the purring. It calms my heart.
Good advise - without the blinders, I've had some really neat experiences. I'm visiting you from Deb Shucka.
you look relaxed and in a way
"a little" dead. reminds me of
the painting Christina's World.


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MARGARETVILLE, Oct. 3, 2011 – Repair options and their estimated costs were delivered September 30 to the owners of five buildings in a Margaretville business block heavily damaged by flooding August 28.
The Margaretville Village Board and representatives of other local and regional agencies were also present at the meeting in the Village Office when Jodie Barker, an engineer with Lamont Engineers, explained three options which now must be mulled by the owners of 798-836 Main Street (known locally as the Cheese Barrel block):
The figures, Barker noted, are just "opinions of cost" based on estimates provided by contractors. They include engineering costs but not the costs of restoring interiors, including plumbing, electrical service, windows, doors and sheet rock that can be expected to shift when the buildings are stabilized and straightened.
"Our opinion is necessarily cautious," said Barker. "This estimate does not constitute a prescription or a plan. A detailed plan is needed for a contractor to follow."
If damage to the structures is calculated at 51% or greater (their value the day before the flood compared to the cost to repair them), they will also have to be "flood proofed" – raised 2 to 3 feet above the street – according to floodplain regulations adopted by the Village to enable its residents and businesses to purchase flood insurance.
Owners Sue Ihlo, Robin Tischmacher, Juergen and Lore Mahler, Mary Lou Pratt and Florence Barra (of BP Visions and CSA Properties) and Peter Molnar are expected to meet soon to determine how they will proceed; none appeared to favor demolition. Representatives of the MARK Project, Assemblyman Clifford Crouch's office, and the Delaware County Planning Department offered their services in seeking out potential funds to assist in the redevelopment of the block, which could take six months to a year. Owners are also expected to file applications for flood recovery grants from the Catskill Watershed Corp.
Town and Village Code Enforcement Officer Pat Davis reminded the owners that they were issued notices giving them six months to submit a plan and seek a permit to repair their buildings to habitable condition. They would have 12 months after that in which to complete the project, but "we'll work with you on this."
The consensus in the room was that unity among the property owners would be key to restoring this block of retail and residential structures in the heart of the Margaretville business district.
Meanwhile, village officials are trying to arrange a meeting with the NYS DOT to repair and reopen Bridge Street, and to determine whether the affected block is still vulnerable to traffic vibrations on Main Street. If not, Main Street, which has been closed since August 29, may also be reopened.


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Lake Placid, NY – January 12, 2017 – The Lake Placid Horse Shows, presented by long time sponsor Sea Shore Stables LLC, are thrilled to announce the 2017 show dates for the best two weeks of horse show competition! Partnering sponsor Bainbridge Farm, is a long standing friend and supporter of the Lake Placid Horse Shows who have increased their support of the horse show and will be the headline sponsor of the 2017 Lake Placid Horse Show and the I Love New York Horse Show!
Since 2011, Sea Shore Stables LLC has been the title sponsor of the Lake Placid Horse Shows. Owned by Britta Lippert, Sea Shore Stables has strong ties to the Lake Placid Horse Shows and is proud to continue the tradition of supporting this event. "Lake Placid is a wonderful event that my family and I look forward to every year," said Britta Lippert, owner of Sea Shore Stables, LLC. "We are thrilled to once again be a part of the excitement and look forward to 2017!"
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"I am deeply grateful to the Lippert family and Sea Shore Stables for their continuous support of the Lake Placid Horse Shows," said Richard M. Feldman, Chairman of the Lake Placid Horse Show Association. "They have become cherished members of our Lake Placid Horse Show family and it is an honor to have them as the Lake Placid Horse Shows' 2017 title sponsor."
Bainbridge Farm has been a contributing sponsor of the Lake Placid Horse Shows since 2014 adding to the excitement of the Lake Placid Horse Shows for all who attend. For the 2017 season, Bainbridge Farm has increased its role as a sponsor of the Lake Placid Horse Shows.
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2019 7:49 am
Post subject: Shipping incorrectly showing "free" to customer
I have an upset seller who is seeing a "free shipping" on her display. I do not have any free shipping offered. This has happened before, but I just sent an apology letter to the buyers, thinking that it was some temporary glitch, or that they had missed the link to the estimated shipping. I've gotten enough of these that I thought I better check on it.
This last person says that I'm advertising free shippng, but when she goes to purchase, she is charged shipping.
I've asked her for a screen shot from her devise, am hoping she provides one. I have gone and double checked to see that I didn't accidentally tick the wrong button and have taken screenshots of both my admin product page and the customer display page and all seems correct.
Does anyone know what could cause this to happen or what I can do to prevent it?
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I have no idea. Everything I just checked returned a shipping price although I have no clue what standard post would be and it seems to run about 15 cents cheaper than Priority mail.
I would write to the eCRATER team immediately as they can see things we can't.
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Thanks for the reply. I have contacted them and got this answer:
[quote]Thank you for your email. With USPS calculated shipping, if the buyer is
viewing the item on Google shopping, the shipping will not show until the
buyer clicks on the link and is taken to your store, where the shipping
shows USPS calculated shipping.
I wrote back about one in the past that had actually gone through with no shipping charged (and I had just gone ahead and shipped it at a loss, since the shipping was more than the price of the item). I got an reply back that I don't quite understand, waiting for a clarification.
I will say that they are very fast at replying. I hate to bug them, since they obviously don't charge very much for their services. I really appreciate their speed of reply.
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Y'all forgive me, I obviously am not familiar with this format.
I meant to put the quote around the reply to differentiate it from my words. I see my error there, now
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When you selected Calculated Shipping for your store you need to provide a backup shipping. This can be the shipping matrix, flat rate shipping, or a combination of the two for your store. This backup will be used for those times when the USPS website is slow or down. Otherwise, your buyer will be charged $0.00 shipping and the eCrater rules don't allow sellers to bill for additional postage after the buyer has paid.
Since there is no way for Google Shopping to know where the buyer and seller are located, eCrater uses your backup shipping in the free feed they send to Google Shopping. If you have no backup shipping, your item will show Free Shipping in Google Shopping. Then the customer will see the shipping charge after they arrive on the item page.
You will might find this topic helpful which is also on this subject.
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Thank you! I have in the meantime, received a repy from ecrater saying the same thing, except that I'm a dolt and I can't figure out how to fill this backup method. I'll go check the link you sent me and see if it has an explanation for how to fill in these blanks.
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Having a loading problem with this link, but will keep trying.
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Still trying, but that link is not working for me. Are we sure it hasn't changed?
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Here's the link:
The other link is missing the "m" in ecrater.com that is why it is not working
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@YardSale ... Thanks for catching the error.
I wanted to add a reminder for anyone reading this topic that the checkout system will always look for the USPS Calculated Shipping first. If the USPS doesn't respond AND for the Google Shopping feed, the system looks to the item page to see the backup selected for that item; Free Shipping, Weight Matrix, or Flat Rate. If you select Flat Rate Shipping To, the boxes will appear to add your flat rate shipping
for that item
. If Weight Matrix is selected, then the system will go to the matrix which is used storewide. Any one of these three can be used as a backup on a PER ITEM base. Just remember, if you are using USPS Calculated it over-rides any choice made on the individual item page, BUT the choice on the individual item page will be used for the Google Shopping feed and as the back-up if the USPS website is down.
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Waze — Louisville's First Internal Hackathon
After Louisville became the 5th US city to be part of the Waze CCP program, we started collecting the shared real-time, anonymized traffic data from Waze users. When Metro processed this data and ingested it into a database, our Office of Civic Innovation immediately saw the data's inherent value and knew it could benefit departments and improve the lives of our citizens.
Ed Blayney, our innovation project manager, took the first steps with the Waze data and worked with Mike Reynolds in IT to process the data, and our traffic department stakeholders to find initial value and use cases around traffic speeds, signal timings, and fixing equipment at non-connected intersections. But we knew there were more uses to be found.
Early Use Cases
One of Innovation's early data use cases was looking at traffic jams and speed around large events, hoping to improve traffic flow for future events. Here's an example looking at Thunder Over Louisville, a large waterfront fireworks show to kick off two weeks of Derby festivities. The activity spikes on the map below started around 9pm to 11pm when the show first started, ended, and then people were trying to get home.
Other examples including comparing reports from citizens via 311 and comparing them to the same Waze reports for certain categories, like potholes, missing traffic signs, roadkill, and weather issues.
Event Preparation
We prepped our internal Data Governance group for the Waze hackathon by running an analog hackthon the month before (getting them exposure to how these events are run and the kinds of outcomes you could expect) and prepped for it in our July monthly meetup.
Additionally we invited employees in specific departments (Police, Air Pollution, Parking, IT, Public Works, Budget, HR, Health) and local Metro government partners (Downtown Partnership, KYTC, KIPDA, our Waze citizen editor, TARC).
Read about all of the details, schedule, data sets, and project ideas on our Waze event preparation web page.
Waze Internal Hackathon
People spent most of their Friday participating in the city's first internal hackathon. About 45 people were there throughout the day at our OPI2 coworking space, the LouieLab, including Mayor Greg Fischer [in spirit via video].
We collaboratively pitched about 15 different projects initially, and narrowed it down to just 6, organized into small groups. These groups worked throughout the day, pulling down Waze data and merging it with other data sets (lane closures, 311, collisions, traffic counts, census) and learning new toolsets in the process (Power BI, Carto, MS SSMS, GeoEvent Processor).
The Projects
At then end of the day, the groups presented their projects:
- Crash Analysis. Looked at secondary accidents and traffic collision fatalities, combined with Waze accident reports, and mapped the results in Carto.
- Getting Cars Off the Road. Looking at Waze congestion, how could we create incentives to increase bus ridership? Want to do a city-wide employee survey and compare HR data for home and work addresses with TARC routes. Target certain areas with detailed TARC route data and LouVelo bike share incentives for last mile. Use Waze to validate results later.
- Rain's Effect on Driving. Looked at driving habits during rain using NOAA rainfall data. Pushed Waze data from source database to Power BI to Excel to ArcGIS to visualize.
- Heavy Truck Traffic. Air Pollution Control used KIPDA truck counts at intersections for air quality applications. Would like to export and warehouse the data for analysis.
- Cameras for Collisions. Use the ESRI's GeoEvent Processor to get Waze alerts for an accident where cameras are active so the Real Time Crime Center can be notified and point the cameras at the accident immediately for quicker response time and monitoring.
- Speeding Monitoring. Currently when citizens report speeders in an area, LMPD is required to send a police unit to monitor the area. Instead would like to use Waze to look as speeds along the corridor for a few days and get data to determine if there is speeding, and what are the most likely times, and then send an officer. Also use Waze to see if this has an immediate, short, or long term impact.
The Outcomes
This event met our goals of exposing the enterprise to the new Waze data, educating and training on new tools and growing skillsets, and working across department silos on innovative projects collaboratively.
We feel internal hackathons are an effective way to train employees on new tools, get them using new data, create collaboration between departments, and most importantly institutionalize innovation.
Many participants now want to do internal hackathons with their department's data and resources. The innovation team will work to push events like this across the city, including leadership participation, and make them part of our city's strategic planning.
The Future
Our team is working to create a Hackathon Kit for internal use, templates for OPI to use, a process map, and some standard procedures for hackathons. We've run a bunch of events like this, and now want to formalize our knowledge and cement the value into Metro.
Currently we use a combination of internal servers and cloud services to access the Waze data. We are working on an end-to-end Amazon AWS solution to process, store, and analyze the data, and will share this on Github when complete for other cities to use and easily replicate.
Thanks to everyone who participated and look for more events like this in Louisville. Keep innovating!