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Frequently Asked Questions
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What is SecurityKISS Tunnel?
SecurityKISS Tunnel is the program and the service that allows you access to the Internet despite censorship and local restrictions. It also makes your connection secure and prevents others from viewing your web browsing activities, instant messages, downloads, credit card information or anything else you send over the network.
Technically SecurityKISS Tunnel is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) implementation. It creates a VPN between your computer and our security gateway so that all your internet traffic travels through an impenetrable, non-transparent tunnel.
Is it completely free?
We offer both a free and paid version. The free software allows access to the service completely free with a limited daily usage.
The paid version has a higher usage limit in the monthly cycle and additional features. See the packages for full features.
Will the service remain free, or will you charge a fee in the future?
There will be a free version of the service available all the time.
My ISP provides me the Internet link with 10 GB per month. If I use your JADEITE plan, will my montly limit increase to 50 GB ?
No. SecurityKISS is not Internet provider and we cannot add an extra Internet link to your PC. If you ISP's monthly limit is 10 GB you will not be able fully use the quota of the JADEITE plan so it makes more sense to order the cheaper OLIVINE plan with 20 GB/month instead.
Thanks to the fact that SecurityKISS is using compression before data is encrypted and transferred. it is possible that the total data sent and received may be larger by about 10 or 20 percent depending on the type of traffic. So while there is no way to increase the 10 GB limit of your ISP, you may slightly increase the amount of user data transferred (for example to 11 GB).
How can I get a free account to use your service? Do you need any personal information from me?
You don't need an account. Just download the program and use it. Your installed program is identified only by a client ID.
We respect your privacy and your time so we don't need to know your name and you don't need to waste time filling in forms.
No more usernames and passwords!
How long do I need to wait for account activation?
Customer accounts are activated immediately after we receive the payment (usually it takes a few seconds).
Which operating systems are supported?
Since March 2012 the SecurityKISS service is available for all users on all platforms that allow OpenVPN and L2TP/IPsec connections. In particular the native SecurityKISS Tunnel program works in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. We also released a customized Tunnelblock installer with SecurityKISS configuration for Mac users. iPhone and iPad users can download a ready to use configuration for GuizmOVPN.
Apart from that it is possible to connect using the built-in L2TP/IPsec software on most modern operating systems (Linux, Android, DD-WRT, Symbian).
Can I run SecurityKISS Tunnel on a 64-bit operating system?
Yes, it works on 64-bit Windows.
Does SecurityKISS work with Windows 7 and Windows 8?
Yes, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8 are supported. We also tested SecurityKISS Tunnel successfully on Windows 8.1
Where are the VPN servers located?
While the company is based in Ireland the VPN servers (security gateways) are in the UK, US, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Poland, Sweden and the Netherlands. We are setting up new servers in other locations.
Are you planning to offer more servers in other countries?
Yes, we will publish locations of the servers once they are available.
As this software is very good to keep the system secure, why are you providing this software free of cost?
We make the software available for free to promote the quality and reliability of our service to everyone. We also offer paid packages, however we will maintain a free version of the service all the time.
We believe in the formula:
Satisfied User = Potential Customer
Free users can still enjoy the benefits of SecurityKISS Tunnel but they need to manage their limits judiciously.
When will the usage limit be dropped? I want to run this tunnel all the time.
The usage limit will remain and may be increased in the future.
For free users it is possible to use SecurityKISS Tunnel all the time if they manage their limit carefully while we provide paid versions of the service with full support and high usage limits. You can view the paid packages here.
For free users we increased the limit to 300 MB/day
Can I connect with SecurityKISS Tunnel from many PCs and can they be online at the same time?
With one client ID (with the same instance of the program) you may connect from many PCs. The limitation is that only one client ID can be connected to the same server at the same time.
In the paid version you get more than 15 servers so you may connect from the same number of PCs.
It is said the connection speed is up to 100Mbit/s but I can't even reach half of it.
100 Mbit/s is the physical upper bandwidth limit of the external server link. This doesn't mean however, that you will be able to keep connected at maximum bandwidth indefinitely as the speed depends on many factors mentioned below.
I have looked at the status on the Tun/Tap adapter and it says it is running at only 10Mbit/s.
"The Tun/Tap adapter will run at whatever speed the hardware and network will support - the 10Mbps you see in the interface properties doesn't really mean anything - it's really just a Windows artifact from the days when ethernet interfaces were always hardware and never virtual." By James Yonan
The connection speed in the tunnel is lower than my plain internet connection.
The tunneled connection speed will never be as fast as your plain internet connection because:
- data must travel a longer way:
your PC - SecurityKISS server - destination website
- routers on the way add some processing time or suffer delays in traffic from other users
- encryption/decryption processing must be performed on your PC and the SecurityKISS server
- the server link is shared by many users (especially in the free version)
To improve the tunneled speed you can:
- select servers that are closer to your real location
- use UDP connection type (when selecting the server)
- subscribe to a paid plan and select 'customer only' servers
Is there any speed difference between plans?
The primary difference is between the free GREEN plan and other plans. In the free version the bandwidth is controlled in order to prevent traffic congestion when a large number of free users connect to the service.
On the other hand, in the paid plans the connection speed is limited only by the 100Mbit bandwidth of our ethernet server, your internet bandwidth and the time needed for data to travel between your PC and the server.
The same rules apply for OLIVINE, MALACHITE, JADEITE and EMERALD plans so the speed should be the same for all paid plans; however, in the higher premium packages you receive more servers which are underloaded (since only high end plans customers can use them) so most of the bandwidth is available to you.
How can I upgrade my current plan?
If you bought 1 month plan and exceeded your monthly data allowance before expiry date, just buy another package and your account will be upgraded immediately. In order to upgrade your existing 3 month, 6 month or 12 month plan please contact Support
How to find my client ID?
You will find instructions here.
How does the SecurityKISS usage meter work?
You will find instructions here.
Can I change servers that I am connecting to?
Yes. SecurityKISS has servers in many locations and you can change server at any moment. If you don't select a server from the list before connection the program will connect to a random one.
When you need a server in a particular location you can select the server manually from the list.
Where is the server list?
The server list opens in a dedicated dialog window. You may get there from the menu bar or by clicking the bottom panel button. See screenshots.
How do I change server?
Once you open the server list, select the server you want to connect to and click 'Apply'. If you are connected via tunnel, disconnect and connect again. After clicking 'Disconnect' wait a few seconds before reconnecting to let your operating system return to a stable state.
After a successful connection the bottom panel should display the new IP address and corresponding country flag.
See the full instructions here.
What does the 'Customer Only' column mean in the server list?
Customer only servers are not used by free users so they are not overloaded, their IP addresses are not publicly known to everyone and have a better reputation on most websites that use IP monitoring or filtering.
I had to reinstall my Windows. The SecurityKISS Tunnel link from the activation email does not work anymore. How can I install SecurityKISS on the new system?
If you lost your SecurityKISS Tunnel installer or you want to install it on a new PC, you can download individually generated software from the client area panel at any time:
Please go to the Download tab and your operating system subtab. Generating the software usually takes up to 30 seconds and it includes security certificate and up to date server list for your client ID.
How do I use the Client Area Panel?
You will find instructions here.
Does this software contain a keylogger, virus, malware or spyware? When I try to install this software the system shows a warning.
No, the software is completely safe. The software is a property of SecurityKISS.com and it was written with the use of open source technologies. It means that it does not contain any third party component that would be malicious code or could present a potential risk.
The warning is triggered by TUN/TAP driver installation. It simulates an Ethernet device and because it is quite a low level operation your operating system displays the warning. The TUN/TAP driver code is a part of OpenVPN project and is entirely safe, tested and used by millions of users.
SecurityKISS Tunnel has been certified by Softpedia as '100% CLEAN'.
Below is the original note from Softpedia:
|'SecurityKISS Tunnel has been tested in the Softpedia labs using several industry-leading security solutions and found to be completely clean of adware/spyware components. We are impressed with the quality of your product and encourage you to keep these high standards in the future.'
|Read more. Softpedia
My anti-malware software reports a virus in your program. What does that mean?
It may mean that:
- You downloaded an infected program from a website other than www.securityKISS.com
- You downloaded the program from www.securityKISS.com but the file was infected on the way
- The file is clean but your antivirus software wrongly detects it as a virus (False Positive)
First, please make sure that you downloaded SecurityKISS Tunnel directly from our website.
There is a marginal probability of the 'man in the middle' attack i.e. someone between your computer and our website replaced the stream of data so that you received an infected file. This may be especially true if you are using anonymous proxy services.
Most likely it is a third possibility, but just in case please check the file with a different antivirus program.
Some antivirus programs are known for many 'false positives' (AVIRA and EMSISOFT are infamous examples). A false positive is a situation where an antivirus program reports legitimate and normal files as a virus. You can find more information on Wikipedia: Wikipedia: False Positives.
SecurityKISS Tunnel may be wrongly classified probably because it contains the code to connect to www.securityKiss.com to get the welcome message and the current list of Security Gateway addresses (VPN servers).
This problem is caused by some anti-malware products that tend to appeal to a user's way of thinking 'The more threats antivirus detects, the better' which is a spurious conclusion.
You can scan SecurityKISS Tunnel files by uploading them to online services that use several anti-virus programs.
We recommend the services below because they do not require installation of any software on your computer:www.virusscan.jotti.org
The scan reports include results from about 40 different antivirus engines.
As a shortcut, please see the report from Virus Total on a SecurityKISS scan:SecurityKISS Tunnel scan report on www.virustotal.com
Of course to double check you can use other antivirus services of this kind.
My outgoing traffic is very sensitive. My fear is that a SecurityKISS VPN connection may suddenly drop the line and my PC will continue sending information using a standard unencrypted connection.
How can I automatically block the traffic? Do you have a solution for this?
The solution is Exclusive Tunneling. It boils down to blocking the default route for underlying traffic so that no data can be sent outside of the tunnel.
Why am I always assigned the same IP address from a particular server? Is it based on my client ID? This would seem to have the potential to compromise my security.
Assigning the same IP is an OpenVPN feature - it is the underlying technology that SecurityKISS Tunnel uses. It is based on the client ID and not an external IP address. The mapping is only stored internally on our server.
The 'static IP' is an option in OpenVPN but it is a default option and there is no reason to change it as it is fully secure.
The local IP you can see in the SecurityKISS application is the IP address of a virtual network created inside the tunnel so it is completely opaque for third parties. This IP does not appear outside of the tunnel as it makes no sense to the external world (it is in a non-routeable address pool).
When I'm connected via SecurityKISS Tunnel and testing the connection using internet vulnerability tools like Shields Up I can see that the following ports are open: 22, 80, 443. Isn't it a security threat?
When connected to SecurityKISS Tunnel, the server you are connected to is scanned instead of your PC.
Port scanning tools like the one from Shields Up are designed to test open ports on an internet users' PC and it generally makes no sense to run port scan tools for the server because it is normal for a server to open these ports to 'serve' the content as part of its nature.
It is a general principle of the client - server architecture that the server side must open a port to make communication possible. An average internet user works as a client so usually they don't need to open any ports, that's why the negative Shields Up scan test result may be an indication of some vulnerability. However, testing the server in the same way is like trying to apply the same standards to a completely different network entity. What is good for the goose is NOT good for the gander here. While for a PC workstation, exposing open ports is not very common, for the server it's perfectly normal to have many ports open.
To explain why the mentioned ports are open:
port 22 is an SSH console for administration, port 80 has many applications, port 443 is part of the VPN server software.
None of these open ports are a security threat. Additionally, they are protected against attacks with adaptive firewall rules.
Can I be absolutely sure that data uploaded/downloaded is completely secure?
The tunneled connection is very secure - it is even resistant to 'man in the middle' type of attacks.
The thing that can make the whole solution less secure is the end of the tunnel, especially on the user's side.
Using SecurityKISS Tunnel your data is very well protected once it leaves your PC but if your PC is infected with a virus, or the internet browser sends too much information then SecurityKISS Tunnel will not help much. That's why having a good antivirus program in addition to SecurityKISS is so important.
How do I start the program in troubleshooting mode?
You'll find instructions here.
I installed SecurityKISS Tunnel but cannot connect.
Make sure you have downloaded SecurityKISS Tunnel from our website. Do not use a program downloaded from other websites. It will not work. The copy of the program you got from your friend will not work either.
Check your firewall settings to see if connection is allowed for SecurityKISS Tunnel (TCP 80, 443 and UDP 123).
You may also check that the DHCP client is running. You'll find instructions here.
I can establish the tunnel but connection is slow and hangs up often.
Please check your firewall for some advanced options that may cause problems with tunneled connections.
For example the Comodo firewall has a 'Block Fragmented IP Datagrams' option which is turned on by default (Comodo -> Firewall Behavior Settings -> Advanced).
Since tunneling is about wrapping packets together, some of them may be fragmented and blocked by the firewall because of that.
Issues of this kind are particularly difficult to track down so in case of an unstable connection it is recommended to turn off the firewall for a short time and observe if there is any difference.
When in the tunnel my mail client program cannot connect to receive or send email.
In the free version sending and receiving emails directly from mail programs like Thunderbird or Outlook is blocked in our service to prevent sending spam and other abuse. Please also see our offer which explains it in more detail.
When SecurityKISS Tunnel installation completes and I'm trying to run it I get another dialog from AVG anti-malware software saying that a threat was detected. After selecting 'Ignore the threat' I still don't have access to the program.
When AVG software complains about the SecurityKISSTunnel.exe file you actually need to select the AVG dialog box option to 'Ignore the threat' but it is not enough.
You can find additional info on the 'Ignore the threat' AVG dialog box, which says that the program can still be blocked by AVG Resident Shield. It means that Resident Shield does not respond to the 'Ignore the threat' command.
To fully enable the program you need to configure AVG manually: in the AVG application open Tools; Advanced Settings, find the Anti-Virus; Resident Shield; Exceptions form, and add SecurityKISSTunnel.exe into the list of exceptions for Resident Shield. (Thanks to Bill Rodgers).
I can't connect from Android or iPhone/iPad
- Please follow the checklist:
- Make sure you follow instructions for proper operating system
- Ensure you are entering correct username. The only accepted format is "client12345678" with lowercase "client". Both username and password are case-sensitive
- In case of L2TP method check if Pre-Shared Key (secret) is entered. You can find it in the client area panel or in the activation email and it is different from password.
- If you use home/office wi-fi router check if "Enable IPSec" and/or "Enable VPN" option is selected in the firewall section of the router configuration . Otherwise (3.x Honeycomb, 2.3 Gingerbread or older) use L2TP.
- If you still cannot connect, please send email to email@example.com with detailed info:
- what is your client ID
- which connection method you use (OpenVPN or L2TP/IPsec)
- which server you try to connect to
- what is the version of the operating system (especially for Android)
- what is the error message displayed by the device
Are internet providers (ISP) aware of exact downloads/uploads or only their size?
Your ISP is only aware of one connection to SecurityKISS gateway and its volume. Neither type nor protocol of encapsulated traffic is visible to any third party.
Do you keep logs of traffic through your tunnel?
For security and billing purpose we collect information about a user's IP address and connection time. Please read more in our Privacy Policy
What information is kept in logs and how long are the logs stored?
We store logs containing connection/disconnection time, user's real IP address and also traffic volume to control usage for every user. We don't store information about connection type or websites the user has visited.
Logs are automatically deleted after 10 days and the only information that is kept for a long time is the total data volume transferred per user.
I am concerned about the amount of information stored about the users using your VPN. What information do you keep? Websites visited, usernames, passwords, etc?
As stated in a previous response - we do not store logs with information about traffic type, content or destination IP addresses. Your data is decrypted and sent directly to its destination.
I am still worried about the security of my personal information because you store my IP address and connection time.
This is the minimum amount of information that we must store in order to keep the service running.
Please note that compared to the amount of information captured by an average website it is a small drop in the ocean. Normally every website can store a visitor's IP address and register a user's activity, guess their preferences based on the time spent on a particular page and even the order of clicks (needless to mention cookies).
We do not require registration from free users - there are no login names or passwords so they cannot be associated with your IP address. Such a design primarily has a user's privacy in mind.
This is a very important point of our philosophy - we protect you from the third parties but we also want to protect you from ourselves.
We don't want to be another Big Brother Google who knows your next step before you even think of it. We are here to come to grips with this Orwellian dystopia that becomes a reality nowadays.
I'm connecting from Italy to a SecurityKISS server in Chicago. When i use Firefox and surf to the Google homepage I can see the Italian version! Is this correct? I would expect an English version for the United States.
If you had connected to the Google website before using SecurityKISS Tunnel, Google is able to recognize you as an existing user and display an Italian language version instead of the US version. It is possible because Firefox (and any other internet browser) is storing a small piece of information locally on your PC when connecting to a website for the first time. This piece of information is called a cookie. Cookies can be turned off in your browser settings but it may limit functionality of many websites. Every time you open the website, the browser sends a cookie back to that website to identify you as a returning visitor. Thanks to that the website can also display the language version which was saved when you first connected.
There is also another phenomenon possible. Google tries to assign default language settings to the IP address the user is connecting from. This assignment is based on the language in which the search queries are submitted. It may happen that many Italian users connect via SecurityKISS Tunnel to Google and submit search queries in Italian so the Google algorithm identifies the SecurityKISS server as Italy based and an Italian version is displayed by default regardless of the real server location. We have experienced similar issues with our Manchester server where Hong Kong's Google version was displayed by default because there were many SecurityKISS users connecting from that part of the world.
Finally it is possible that IP geolocation is wrong. Websites are trying to guess which part of the world you are connecting from. Based on tbe IP address, they try to match the country; however, there is no such thing as an official IP-country matching central service. All these guesses come from approximate databases built on empirical data and often they are wrong in some cases. It has already happened that the most popular geolocation databases were identifying one of our UK servers as located in Ireland and a German server as located in Italy.
Would your software cause my computer to not have full access to various sites like ebay.com or youtube.com or amazon.com, etc.?
No, website providers do not block outgoing traffic from our security gateways. Remember however that SecurityKISS Tunnel does not prevent sending cookies from your browser to websites. This is potential opportunity to block users by website providers.
In the paid version I tried to use VoIP (2 different providers: Fastvoip and Voipalot) both using SIP protocol but I couldn't establish a call. Why are you blocking VoIP/SIP traffic?
We don't block VoIP/SIP traffic for our customers. We have tested Fastvoip and Voipalot services and experienced many connection problems even on raw (non-tunneled) connection. When starting Voipalot in Ireland the program is failing when trying to find voipalot.com server.
Our conclusion is that those services are not reliable enough and also they may find it difficult to traverse NAT (Network Address Translation) which is an inherent part of local home networks and VPN services such as SecurityKISS.
It may be worth to look for other VoIP alternatives. Although we do not recommend using non-transparent technologies like Skype we have tested it with our service and it works well with SecurityKISS Tunnel.
Is there an option to set up forwarding ports, to fully set up something like emule to work as efficiently as possible?
No, we do not support port forwarding. It is not technically possible on a shared server IP.
Why does your geolocation data differ from the WHOIS data?
There is a different purpose and meaning of WHOIS data and geolocation service.
When you check a server or your computer IP address on our geolocation service you are getting the best estimate of actual location of the device with this IP address. The estimate is based on traffic analysis and information from users.
WHOIS query identifies the person or company to which the address has been delegated. Usually it shows the address where the ISP is registered on. Additionally large ISPs tend to cover wide geographic areas and in WHOIS database they are allocated to the same city and country.
Is your VPN using OpenVPN, PPTP or L2TP?
SecurityKISS Tunnel software (Windows only) is using OpenVPN while there is also L2TP/IPsec option available. PPTP was discontinued on 2014/12/17
What is the difference between OpenVPN and PPTP?
It is explained in this article.
What is the encryption strength of your tunnel?
We use 128-bit Blowfish algorithm for session encryption. For the session keys exchange we employ 1024-bit RSA certificates. Session keys are renegotiated once per user per hour.
Why SecurityKISS Tunnel is more secure than other VPN providers?
Each SecurityKISS Tunnel program downloaded from our website is different. Every user receives an unique individually generated application with secretly generated 1024-bit pair of signed keys: public and private.
The idea is that the private key should be known only to you and we destroy client's RSA private key soon after downloading the program. We don't store the private key as it should be known only to you and it is not needed for the server to establish a secure tunnel. Since every user has a different private key they are really secret and the established tunnel is resistant to all known types of attacks including 'Man in the Middle' attack (providing that you do not disclose the private key).
Because every user has a different key there is also one more advantage - we don't need user names and passwords to identify users.
Other VPN providers provide only one instance of VPN program which has the same pair of RSA keys for all users.
It means that the allegedly private key is publicly known!
Those VPN providers identify users by user name and password which means that the entire security is based on the password which becomes the real key in the communication channel. Effectively 1024-bit or 2048-bit RSA key or even a single session 128-bit security is reduced to 8 - 40 bit security depending on password strength.
What is the technical difference between Pause and Disconnect? Which one is better and for what?
Disconnect turns down the tunneled connection, so in order to restore the complete connection establishment with authentication and other security procedures must be performed.
Pause changes only the routing table on the user's machine, so the tunnel is alive but user traffic is not redirected to it so it sits idle.
From practical point of view Pause is for fast on/off switching.
I don't want my DNS queries to be resolved by Internet Service Provider's (ISP) servers, which may result in the ISP being able to log data. Does SecurityKISS offer anonymous DNS servers?
Yes, by default every SecurityKISS server has its own DNS software server which resolves users' DNS queries when they are connected in the tunnel. These DNS servers operate on the local tunneled network 10.x.x.x and are not accessible from outside. All DNS queries travel encrypted inside the tunnel. We don't log DNS traffic.
When using SecurityKISS Tunnel, is DNS still done the 'regular' way outside the tunnel, or does SecurityKISS do it for me?
When connected with SecurityKISS Tunnel, the DNS queries and responses are sent inside the tunnel.
It means that DNS info is protected in the same way as every other data transmitted in the tunnel - completely opaque to a third party.
I went to the website dnsleaktest.com and did a test. The test concluded that SecurityKISS DNS servers were leaking. Can you explain?
There is a lot of misunderstanding about DNS leaks so let's clarify the basics first.
DNS leaks may happen on Windows and it is related to the known Windows vulnerability (no global DNS settings + closed source => hard to predict how DNS queries are routed). This is not 100% fixable by the third party software like SecurityKISS. It is just a design and implementation flaw in Windows. The best advice we can give to users experiencing this is "Please use a decent operating system instead".
Many SecurityKISS users reported DNS leaks after visiting the dnsleaktest.com website. They were concerned that the test shows various DNS server locations so we investigated these cases.
Fortunately all the reported incidents to SecurityKISS were not actual DNS leaks but only the "smoke and mirror" alarming results from such websites like dnsleaktest.com and ipleak.net. The DNS servers displayed on dnsleaktest.com are the servers in the DNS hierarchy that are trying to resolve the domain. This is how DNS system works and there is nothing wrong with it. Normally these servers don't know your real IP address. Queries are proxied by VPN server so they are anonymized like the rest of the traffic.
Only if dnsleaktest.com shows your real location, it might be worrying and deserve investigation.
In most cases there is nothing to worry about but it's confusing to users and the DNS leak websites incite fear and draw wrong conclusions.
Even if it is not the real problem we had to address this issue because users don't know whom to trust and it is quite complicated matter to be explained in one sentence. We updated our servers so that certain DNS queries are not forwarded upstream to external DNS servers. It should prevent displaying confusing results on dns leak testing websites.
Can you briefly explain the difference between using TCP vs UDP servers?
SecurityKISS Tunnel can use TCP or UDP protocol to connect to the servers.
TCP was designed as a stateful, reliable protocol with error checking, retransmissions, connection and congestion control.
UDP is lightweight, connectionless (each packet is handled individually) and faster.
SecurityKISS Tunnel supports both methods to give users option if one of the protocols is blocked in their network however, it is recommended to use UDP because it is faster.
It may happen that UDP is blocked on Internet Provider firewall so then TCP is the alternative option. Usually TCP's performance penalty is low and connection speed is almost the same as in UDP.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using TCP 443, UDP 123, UDP 5000 or UDP 5353?
In most cases it does not matter. Multple options are given in order to enable users who are behind restrictive firewalls and some protocol (UDP/TCP) and port (443, 123, 5353, 5000) combinations are blocked. If randomly selected option works there is no need to worry about. Otherwise it's worth to check a different combination.
Should I compress the data before sending in the tunnel?
No. It will give you no advantage in speed because we use compression anyway.
The compression factor depends on the type of data you are sending and whether you use our OpenVPN client or L2TP.
Can you provide tls-auth file for OpenVPN configuration?
We don't use tls-auth. The tls-auth option uses a static pre-shared key (PSK) which is shared between users and the server.
It is often used if two peers connect over VPN as an additional line of defense. In the commercial VPN multi-user setup it makes no sense because the key is no longer secret. It is shared among users, everyone knows it so it does not offer any security (although it may mitigate some Denial-Of-Service attempts against server).
May I distribute your software?
There is no point in doing it since every downloaded instance of SecurityKISS Tunnel is a different binary.
Please do not share copies of downloaded binaries nor make them available on sharing websites. The shared binary is not going to work. Moreover it is in your interest not to share downloaded program because it will stop working for you. If you want to recommend it to someone - share the news and redirect people to our download website where they can get software for free.
Your software is one of the best ideas I've ever seen. Excellent work.
Thank you. You can help to improve it by sending suggestions and issues you found. Also any suggestions related to the website and its content are welcome.
We are going to expand the Articles section so if you have any ideas or texts you would like to publish - let us know!
Especially we are interested in making it as intelligible as possible since we want to reach a wide audience.


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Thank you for stopping by House of Cards Challenge Blog today!
Group #8 is sharing their creations with you today for
our current challenge...
Add Texture and/or Color Inspiration
Before we start to show you the cards we've a technique to share with you.
We hope it will get your creativity flowing.
Here is Karen's How to Create A Textured Background Tutorial
Die cutting machine & dies; or punches
Pencil and ruler; stylus tool; paintbrushes; or tools or cotton wool to apply ink
White or coloured card; snippets of white or coloured card
White acrylic paint; or watercolour paint; or inks; or metallic paints
Pritt stick
After my lovely bosses asked me to create and share a tutorial for adding texture to your background papers or card. I decided to think about it first because my instant idea was to get very mucky with mixed media techniques. However, I know not everyone likes to get mucky so I thought about how the non mucky crafters and artists could also try this technique with inks instead of MM supplies if they don't own them. This is not my technique, it's been around for a long time and as I've always wanted to try and I thought that it would be ideal for The House of Cards. I want both mucky and non mucky creators to try it. So here goes …
I die cut lots of the smallest flower that is on the Tim Holtz Bigz Sizzix die.
Because everyone doesn't own die cutting machines or dies you could also do this technique with a punch and if you don't own any punches you can draw and cut out easy to create shapes with a pencil and ruler (e.g. squares or rectangles) or you could cut out random shapes (e.g. rough circles).
You don't have to own lots of tools to try this technique to.
Once I had die cut plenty of flowers I grabbed a piece of mucky white card (I regularly get ink or paint onto my card stock because I'm a bit mucky when crafting). You could also use card or paper that you don't like. I've realised that this is a fabulous way to use up those itty bitty snippets that are left over from our projects too.
Recycling and trying to craft responsibly means a lot to me and I've recycled for a long time.
I used a piece of A6 card that was left from another project and that had a dark fingerprint on it. I used my ruler and pencil to create a three by four grid on the card.
Once I had drawn the lines in I played around with the placement of the flowers until I was happy with the look. I used Pritt Stick to glue my flowers in position.
I added a thin layer of white acrylic paint and once that was touch dry I grabbed a stylus and plopped white acrylic paint onto the die cut flowers. The next step was to grab my heat gun and blast over the glued flowers: bubbles, lots of lovely textured bubbles! That was the result I wanted.
I left the card to dry again before using a fine brush to go around the outside of the die cut flowers which is why they catch the light so much.
I hope I have inspired you to try this technique. Just remember if you don't own acrylic paints or watercolour paints you can use ink pads or re-inkers or any other
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Glen Adkisson via Facebook
This photo was posted on Facebook by Glen Adkisson after tornadoes struck Oklahoma on Monday. "This was in our yard 5/20/2013...Collinsville," he wrote.
The photo shows a baby in diapers on a high chair gazing at a white cake with one pink candle.
Glen Adkisson of Collinsville, Okla., posted on Facebook that it had been found "in our yard" following Monday's devastating tornadoes.
Allison Messer via Facebook
This photo was posted on Facebook by Allison Messer after a tornado struck Oklahoma, with the message "Found in our pasture between Stroud & Depew. Would love to find the momma this belongs too."
The message below reads: "This photo is of my sisters deceased husband when he was a child. We are from Shawnee Oklahoma. She did live in the trailer park. She and my 7 year old nephew lost their home. I will try to contact u va Facebook. Bless you for posting this!"
This exchange appears on a Facebook page -- May 19th 2013 OK Tornado Doc & Picture Recovery -- set up to return photos and documents to victims of a deadly storm system that has ripped across the state.
Early Tuesday, the page included hundreds of family photos and documents. A picture of a cat with one blue eye sat next to another of a woman in a camp chair holding two blond and grinning children. A grimy electricity bill was next to the stained photograph of a toddler sitting on Santa's knee. An ultrasound photo showed what appeared to be a baby in utero.
Some postings had happy endings, with pets and pictures being reunited with their families.
A photo of a brown-haired young man cuddling a smiling girl with long caramel-colored hair elicited an overjoyed response from Dana Davis: "this is my picture it was in my room at my sisters and her house got destroyed by the tornado by lake thunderbird !"
Becky Miller, one of the page's administrators, knew the photos and documents that landed on the ground as so-called falling debris, might look like detritus but were in fact irreplaceable artifacts or documents for somebody.
This photo was posted on Facebook by Kristi Hodge after a tornado struck Oklahoma with the message "Found 2 miles south of Ramona at 815 PM floating from the sky."
"People had falling debris 100 miles away – people were saying it is raining debris in the yard," said the resident of Liberty, Okla., which is about two hours away from Oklahoma City. "That's what started it. I wanted people reunited with precious pictures or colored pictures – you can't replace those in a disaster."
Indeed, Jeremy-Trista Blevins posted a ripped picture of three children – the smallest a bald and smiling baby – that she says she found in Sand Spring, 119 miles from where the hurricane struck.
The page, which was started by Leslie Edgar Hagelberg, Miller's cousin, and her sister, Sarah Miller-Deibert, quickly turned into a sort of clearing house, attracting others trying to help those in need.
Diana Gann's plea for help subduing a traumatized mule prompted almost 150 responses.
A posting originally on Photos of Moore Oklahoma Tornado Pets Lost & Found and cross-linked on May 19th 2013 OK Tornado Doc showed a nervous-looking black lab.
"3 dogs rescued from Moore tornado! Bathed, and cared for at rescuers home. Want to reunite them back with their families," the message with the photo read. "Prayer to all our furry friends and families."
Erin Lang via Facebook
Erin Lang posted this photo on Facebook after Monday's tornado in Moore, Okla., writing: "3 dogs rescued from Moore tornado! Bathed, and cared for at rescuers home. Want to reunite them back with their families. Please spread the word and contact Erin Lang or Carey Ralstin on Facebook! Prayer to all our furry friends and families."
And down the page another message from Farah Payton-Snider declared: "The black Lab is my (friend's)... dog Tin. Please call me ASAP."
Payton-Snider, 36, said she would close her flower shop and head into Oklahoma City first thing in the morning to try and help reunite people who had been hit by the tornado with their pets.
"I feel helpless, I want to be able to do something," said Payton-Snider, who lives in Newcastle, Okla.
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Cloud insurance and secure identity management alleviate SLA concerns
Following outages and breaches at major cloud service providers, IT executives ponder new priorities: cloud insurance and secure identity management.
Following the recent downtime and data breaches at top-tier cloud service providers including Amazon Web Services LLC, Sony Corp. and Epsilon Data Management LLC, the risk deck has been shuffled at enterprises looking to move to hybrid cloud computing. Two risks that lurked in the middle of our top 10 list -- liability and identity management -- have floated to the top.
Once again, enterprise executives are talking about the need for cloud insurance, or at least a discussion about who is responsible when the cloud goes down. Presently, public clouds offer standardized service-level agreements, or SLAs, that offer remuneration for time -- but not for potential business -- lost during the downtime. Recent events could be opportunities for providers and CIOs to negotiate premium availability services, according to experts.
Granted, not all outages are alike. "A single point of failure [as happened with the Amazon outage in Virginia] will be rare," as redundant technologies and provider partnerships continue to knit the fabric of an enterprise cloud, said Jerry Archer, senior vice president and chief security officer at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based Sallie Mae Inc., which provides origination services and collections for $200 billion worth of private and federal-backed student loans.
The breaches at Epsilon, a database marketing services provider in Irving, Texas, and at Sony's Playstation 3 network, however, "will cost people for a long time," Archer said. The former breach exposed email addresses and customer names, and the latter exposed credit card data. Both involved millions of customers.
What can IT executives who are considering cloud investments do to protect their companies against such risks? For Archer, the road to the cloud begins not with a cloud insurance policy, but with a secure identity management system.
On-ramp to the cloud: Secure identity management
As Sallie Mae's CSO, Archer has a job that encompasses "anything that starts and ends with security, physical as well as logical," he said. "We are broadly now seeing [across the industry] more cross-environmental attacks -- physical as well as logical -- by someone who figures out how to get into the building."
Sallie Mae is responding to such security threats with initiatives including device management, surveillance, forensics and cross-training of logical security and physical security personnel. Underpinning this strategy is a secure identity management system that reduces human error in the access process while streamlining the company's efforts in compliance.
"The amount of regulation that we face every year is just enormous," Archer said. "We're spending 70% of [IT] resources on compliance." In fact, Sallie Mae was audited 10 times last year on access control.
Based on a positive experience at a previous job, Archer brought in SailPoint Technologies Inc.'s IdentityIQ software to automate a process that had been arduous, if not downright risky for Sallie Mae. Previously, two employees worked full-time to compile the access privileges of thousands of employees into spreadsheets, then route them to business managers for review. Some managers were being asked to review and validate access data in spreadsheets with more than 3,000 entries.
We are in a period of time here where we need to get out in front and solve this problem. You don't want to be the guy with the shovel following the circus parade.
Jerry Archer, senior vice president and CSO, Sallie Mae Inc.
Before the IdentityIQ installation, Sallie Mae had "a lick and a promise at certification," Archer said. Now, there's a genuine certification process -- and a more secure on-ramp to the cloud. "Like everyone else, we are looking at moving outside our four walls, and will move in that direction quickly. We will get to the cloud version [of IdentityIQ] soon," he said.
For now, Archer remains focused on Sallie Mae's architecture, and is aggregating access to all core systems and defining roles for half the workforce. He's already completed that work for 50% of workers -- mainly onshore servicing reps who typically have 100 to 150 accesses, he said. By the end of 2011, he will have defined roles for 80% of Sallie Mae's 9,000 employees.
Cloud insurance to hedge against the risk?
For IT executives who are already operating in the cloud -- or even just preparing for it, as Archer is -- the recent outage and breaches also have put the topic of cloud insurance back on the table as an option for remuneration in case of what some call inevitable: downtime.
While a lot of people are talking about cloud insurance, not a lot of enterprises are buying it, according to Drew Bartkiewicz, founder and CEO at CyberRiskPartners LLC, a New York-based consultancy that advises enterprises about risk. The problem is that IT leaders do not understand risk economics and hedging risk, and risk managers do not understand IT, he said. As a result, companies are spending millions of dollars more on security to get the equivalent of a ninth seatbelt installed in a car, rather than accept that a car's financial liability is not always a function of "better security."
One way a cloud customer can get a rough sense of the financial risk involved in public cloud computing is to look at a Ponemon Institute LLC study that claims that a security breach costs an organization approximately $204 per record compromised. That figure is an underestimate, however, because it does not take into consideration all the reputational harm done to a company that is temporarily unavailable because of a data breach, said Tanya Forsheit, a founding partner at InfoLawGroup LLP in Los Angeles.
IT executives can minimize this risk by employing such strategies as secure identity management before migrating to the cloud, but the most vexing problem is that the cloud industry "has a long way to go before it provides the transparency needed for true IT governance," Sallie Mae's Archer said.
"We are in a period of time here where we need to get out in front and solve this problem," Archer said of the lapses. "You don't want to be the guy with the shovel following the circus parade."
Let us know what you think about the story; email Laura Smith, Features Writer.


text: Are you the type of gamer who thrives on the rich worlds of EVE Online or World of Warcraft, worlds made more realistic by the semi-real interactions with other flesh and blood gamers? 'Cause, man, I am so not. And neither is Wired's Clive Thompson, who writes today about the joys of playing solo, even in games that simulate, in a fashion, big open worlds filled with personalities like Fable II. To some degree, I can chalk up my own disinterest in the tedium of massively multiplayer online games. Grinding away on "kill X number of Monster Y and report back" style missions just aren't my thing. But it's really the potential for social interaction that does these games in for me.Obligation gaming, the guilt of not being available for a gaming session, regardless of the genre — I even hate feeling trapped by first-person shooter social calls — is what makes me a gaming shut-in. A virtual Man's Best Friend, like the one in Fable II is about all I can handle. Thompson looks at it a bit differently, writing "The fact that I know I'm the only person actually alive makes the game seem all the more dreamlike, as if everything — those mountain ranges, those creepy beetles — really is taking place inside my head." True, bots suck, as does being verbally berated online by little boys who have just discovered the F-word. Even in a perfect world, though, where everyone else might be a gentlemanly good sport, I think I'd prefer to do most of my gaming alone. Am I the only one? Gamer's Radical Realization: I Prefer Playing With Myself [Wired]


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Nursing Home Fired Nursing Assistant With Asthma Over Smoking Issue, Federal Agency Charged
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Camden Place Health & Rehab, LLC, a Greensboro health and rehab facility, will pay $51,000 and furnish other relief to resolve a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Yvonne Quaynor worked for Camden Place as a certified nursing assistant (CNA). Quaynor has asthma, a condition that affects her ability to breathe. The EEOC's complaint alleged that around January 2010, Camden Place began requiring all of its CNAs to supervise residents during scheduled smoking breaks. Quaynor found that the secondhand cigarette smoke that she inhaled while supervising these breaks aggravated her asthma. The EEOC said that Quaynor complained repeatedly to her supervisors that the cigarette smoke was aggravating her asthma and that in July 2010, after a particularly severe asthma attack, Quaynor brought a note from her doctor to Camden Place and asked to be excused from supervising the smoking breaks. The suit further alleged that Camden Place denied Quaynor's request and that she was subsequently fired on July 26, 2010, for refusing to supervise the smoking breaks.
Such alleged conduct violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which protects employees and applicants from discrimination based on their disabilities and requires employers to provide disabled employees with reasonable accommodations. The EEOC filed suit on Dec. 2012 in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (Civil Action No. 1:12cv1370), after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to monetary damages, the two-year consent decree resolving the suit requires Camden Place to conduct training on, among other things, the ADA and its reasonable accommodation requirements; Camden Place's procedure for requesting a reasonable accommodation under the ADA; and the obligation to engage in the interactive process under the ADA when an employee requests such an accommodation. Camden Place will also post a copy of its anti-discrimination policy at its facility.
"Employers must be sensitive and reasonable about an employee's complaints about a workplace hazard to their health, and health-related facilities should be especially cognizant of this," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District, which includes the Greensboro Local Office, where the original charge of discrimination was filed. "We are pleased that Camden Place is taking action to ensure that it fulfills its obligations under the ADA."
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws prohibiting discrimination in employment. More information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.


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FLINT, Mich. — A detective says a 73-year-old Flint woman admits beating her teenage granddaughter to death with a hammer, then dismembering and scattering the remains 15 years ago.
Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton has charged Lois Janish with an open count of murder in the death of 14-year-old Coral Hall. The girl disappeared in 1998 and her body has never been found.
Janish was arraigned Thursday in Flint District Court, and Judge Nathaniel Perry III ordered her jailed without bond.
Leyton spokesman John Potbury says the teen went missing after calling a friend asking for a place to stay and saying she'd been fighting with her grandmother.
MLive.com reports that Sgt. Greg Hosmer says Janish apologized for dumping her granddaughter's body. She says she and her now-dead boyfriend dismembered her.


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Create a unique purse from AMACO with art deco style and flair all your own. Suede adds interesting texture to the finished project.
- AMACO® WireForm® Woven Metal Mesh — Modeler's Mesh –Black Aluminum 8 Mesh – 31/4" x 31/4" Piece
- AMACO® Rub 'n Buff® — Antique Gold and Ebony
- AMACO® T-3 Double-Ended Stylus
- AMACO® All Purpose Sealer
- Judy's Stone House Designs: Large Wedge Shaped Box Purse with Handle
- Metallic Russet and Gold Acrylic Paint
- Tandy Leather Co.: Velvet Pig Suede Remnant Piece (shown here in aqua)
- Forster® Woodsies® Wooden Circles — 1 Jumbo, 1 Medium and 5 Small
- Hampton Art Stamps: Swirls-H Rubber Stamp
- API: Crafter's Pick™ The Ultimate Glue
- Paintbrushes: 1" Flat, #6 Shader and Fine Tipped
- Two 9" x 12" Pieces Red Felt
- Drill Equipped with 1/16" Drill Bit
- 6 Mini Silver Brads
- Fine Tipped (non-bleeding) Permanent Black Marker
- 2 Silver Spiral Shaped Paper Clips
- 3 Round Mirrors, 3/4" Diameter
- Screw Driver (small Phillips head needed)
- Scrap Paper and Cardstock
- Ruler
- Scissors
- Soft Cloths
- Disposable Gloves
- Cosmetic Sponge
- Sandpaper
- Tack Cloth
- Pencil
- Masking Tape
Note: Suede pieces add interesting texture to finished project. If unavailable, simply paint these sections of the project using turquoise acrylic paint. Circles can then be stamped same as is directed when using suede.
- Remove latch, hinges and beaded handle from box. Lightly sand (if needed) then wipe with tack cloth. Trace box shape onto scrap pieces of paper to make two patterns. Allowing for wood thickness on all outside edges, use one of the patterns to cut two red felt pieces for inside lining of purse. Set felt aside.
- Referring to project photo as a guide, draw geometric lines on second paper pattern to create a design template with pencil and ruler. Position AMACO® Black WireForm® piece onto pattern to determine final placement on purse front. Make a dot on template to mark holes that will need to be drilled in wood to attach mesh later. At intersecting points on template, mark two additional dots to attach remaining brads used as accents (see photo).
- Place pattern template on top of purse front, taping at corners to hold in place. With ruler and template as guides, use largest end of stylus to press the design into the soft wood, making slight indentions. Drill holes at marked dots. Remove pattern template, lightly sand drilled holes (if needed) then trace lines again with stylus, pressing them deeper into the wood for better visibility.
- With gloved hand, use corner of soft cloth to apply AMACO® Antique Gold Rub 'n Buff® to outside of box. Apply to corners and side edges only on inside of box as felt lining will cover the remaining surfaces. Buff with clean portions of cloth to remove excess and create a lustrous shine.
- Remove wood beads from handle wire and apply Ebony Rub 'n Buff®. Apply the same color to top and side edges of all wooden circles. Buff with clean part of cloth as before.
- With the #6 shader and fine tipped paintbrushes, apply Metallic Russet acrylic paint to top side of four small wooden circles and random triangle shapes on purse front. For additional accent, portions of some wooden beads and wedge shapes at purse bottom can also be painted. Let dry. Use permanent black marker to outline triangle shapes on purse front. TIP: For best results, test marker on scrap piece of wood first; making sure that it doesn't bleed when coated with sealer.
- Brush side edges only of jumbo, medium and one small wooden circle with one coat of AMACO® All Purpose Sealer. Apply 2-3 coats of the sealer to all remaining wood surfaces. Let dry completely.
- Use cosmetic sponge to apply Metallic Gold acrylic paint to rubber stamp image, then stamp onto suede remnant pieces that have been cut to fit top of jumbo, medium and one small wooden circle. For additional accent cut suede pieces to fit some wedge shapes at bottom of purse as well as random shapes on purse front. Portions of the original pattern template can be cut to use as patterns for creating exact size piece(s) needed. Spread a thin layer of glue onto back of suede pieces using a scrap piece of cardstock, then glue to wood.
- Attach WireForm® to purse front using four brads, and insert remaining 2 brads through prepared holes. For all, open brad wings on inside of box to secure. One at a time, use scrap cardstock piece as a spatula to spread a thin layer of glue over inside purse front and back. Press felt lining piece onto the glue-coated surface, smoothing with palms to remove any trapped air pockets and covering the brad wings.
- Reassemble purse, attaching hinges and latch. Slide beads back onto wire before reattaching. With purse lying flat, refer to photo to add remaining accents to front, gluing all pieces in place. For best results leave to lie flat overnight to allow glue to cure.
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Grieb & Benzinger introduce the Blue Whirlwind, the world's first watch powered by a visible tourbillon movement by Patek Philippe based on a rare skeletonised tourbillon minute repeater calibre.
The rare Patek Philippe tourbillon movement came to Grieb & Benzinger's attention thanks to a hardcore watch collector and a happy coincidence. It took more than fifteen months from first studying Calibre RTO 27 PS for it to take on its final form – without anticipating the kind of hype that this movement would create in 2011: The same movement caused a sensation as it sold within a one-off Patek Philippe Tourbillon Minute Repeater in stainless steel, donated to the Only Watch charity auction in Monaco 2011. The hammer fell at an incredible 1.4 million Euros!
This remarkable result galvanised Grieb & Benzinger into creating a breathtaking new 43mm platinum wristwatch. The fine guilloché on the plates and bridges necessitated moving original drillings by less than one-twentieth of a millimeter, and the movement needed to be carefully reassembled, adjusted, disassembled, and reassembled in order to guarantee full harmonious functioning of the large number of levers. This movement, with 336 individual components, not only includes a tourbillon, but additionally a minute repeater mechanism – making it one of the most complicated movements in the world.
The movement was modified in true Grieb & Benzinger style; fully skeletonised, guilloché and engraved by hand. Even gear wheels were embellished with guilloché and the 12 finely guilloché bridges and cocks coated with rhodium and rose gold. There's also an additional mysterious wheel, visible on the back, which replaces the original gold drive wheel for the tourbillon.
By hand-skeletonising the base plate, the team created the world's first visible skeletonised tourbillon based on a Patek Philippe movement. After the skeletonisation and guilloche process, the base plate was coated with blue platinum, a signature element of every Grieb & Benzinger piece.The skeletonised Sterling silver dial in striking regulator style was embellished with a rare Breguet frosted finish created using a method currently practiced only by Grieb & Benzinger.
These numerous intricate details take months at a time, sometimes even more than a year, until an exquiste Grieb & Benzinger Platinum timepiece has been completed.
The Blue Whirlwind will be available to just one single lucky collector worldwide able to pay the asking price of US$850,000. What price perfection?
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The 100th episode of Selling Houses Australia Series 10 is in one of the hottest property markets in the country, Sydney's inner west. To celebrate this amazing anniversary, a huge challenge was taken on all in the name of charity. For almost a hundred years, this heritage house in the suburb of Petersham has been owned by the Salvation Army. Dozens of families have been housed within the classic brick walls of the property. But the problem was, it was very run down and almost unliveable. The job was to renovate and sell the property, with every dollar made on the sale going back to the Salvos.
The house was dilapidated but had some strong features, including a formal lounge and dining room, ornate cornices and ceiling roses. The downside to the large five-bedroom layout was that there was only one decent-sized family bathroom.
The free-standing house had its own back garden which was cluttered and overgrown, and the front was in dire need of an upgrade – but they had to keep with its heritage style. This was one of the biggest, toughest, and most rewarding renovations taken on by the SHA team.
Shaynna recreated the grandeur of the original house with some modern enhancements. Each room – and all the decorative trim detail – was carefully painted to help restore the rooms to their former glory. New lighting and stylish window coverings were installed throughout the house. Luxaflex PolySatin® Shutters now provide shade in the lounge, dining area, bedrooms and bathrooms, and Luminette® Privaxy Sheers and Roller Blinds were fitted in the family room and kitchen. In the formal lounge and dining rooms, both fireplaces were reinstated by installing gas fireplaces and beautiful mantles, and a mix of old and new furniture was combined to create a sense of historical sophistication.
One of the smaller bedrooms was transformed into a bathroom to create a more practical floorplan of four bedrooms and two bathrooms. The house now has a bespoke kitchen that is twice the original size, complete with custom Luxaflex Roller Blinds, stunning bench tops, splashback and modern appliances. The kitchen elegance is mirrored in the informal lounge area which includes new bi-fold doors and automated soft shades (operated with the PowerViewTM Motorsation system, through the phone/tablet PowerView app or handheld remote).
Out the front of the house, the old unsightly carport was pulled down to reveal the façade of our heritage beauty. Cobblestones grace the path to the front door, and tessellated tiles were laid in a federation style on the porch to revive the heritage feel that had been lost over time. The colours of the tiles also provided Charlie with a colour scheme for the exterior paints.
Charlie removed everything from the existing back garden to start with a clean slate. His first addition was a paved entertaining area which gave him the base for a large outdoor kitchen and dining setting – topped off with a remote-controlled retractable Luxaflex Garda awning. To get the most out of the small-sized yard, Charlie also laid new turf for a kids' play area, built raised garden beds, and lined the fence with mature plants.
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UPDATE: Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and baby North West have left the building! E! News has exclusively confirmed that the happy trio left Cedars-Sinai hospital overnight, just shy of a week after the new mom checked in and gave birth (a full five weeks earlier than expected!). The new family unit is heading to an undisclosed home in Los Angeles.
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4 cups finely diced ripe mango
4 cups finely diced fresh pineapple
5 cups sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons light rum (optional)
1 6 oz box liquid pectin
Add the sugar, mango, rum and pineapple to a large pot. Prep jars/lids for canning. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally. Add the lemon juice. Boil for 15 minutes or until thickened. Carefully mash, using a potato masher, any remaining large chunks. Add the pectin (both packets!). Continue cooking at a low (rolling) boil for 5 minutes or until thick and jammy. Fill the jars. Wipe off the lip and sea Process in the hot water bath for 10 minutes.
Yield: about 6 8-oz jars
Note: A great source for canning information is the Blue Book guide to preserving. I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books and equipment I find useful.


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Sounds interesting but i can't see it getting off the groung unless the ICC seperate the Windies islands in their 14 different nations of 20Twenty Internationals in general.Originally Posted by CricInfo
Sounds interesting but i can't see it getting off the groung unless the ICC seperate the Windies islands in their 14 different nations of 20Twenty Internationals in general.Originally Posted by CricInfo
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Sorry i didn't mean to make two threads u can delete this one.
Where did you get this from chaminda_00?
I reckon it would be amazing to have it even if the top players are not available...
They should even have it in the Olympics..
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No, the Americans wouldn't like that.Originally Posted by chekmeout
They hate being upstaged.
It was from baggygreen, the Australian CricInfo site, personally i don't think it would work unless the top players are avaliable and the games are given full status. They tired it in the past in KL '98 and cus the top players didn't turn up it didn't take off.Originally Posted by chekmeout
They get upstaged in many sports Football, Handball ring a bell, this would just be another one they get upstaged at the olympics.Originally Posted by SirBloody Idiot
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would certainly be good to watch
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Wouldn't matter so much seeing as it's the Commonwealth Games though!Originally Posted by SirBloody Idiot
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Originally Posted by marc71178I was commenting on chekmeout suggestion to habe 20Twenty Cricket in the Olympics as well as maybe in the CG. I gather SBI was doing the same.Originally Posted by benchmark00
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NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE (by John Cleese)
To the citizens of the United States of America,
In the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. (Except Utah, which she does not fancy.)
Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect :
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not 'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise". You will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh. You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope with correct pronunciation. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up "interspersed". There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary then you won't have to use bad language as often.
2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize".
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney, upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as "Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we're talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon". If you persist in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g. Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play English characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or "Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political incorrectness.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US Rugby sevens side by 2005. You should stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable. Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called "rounders" which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves, collector cards or hotdogs.
7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than a vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2nd will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day".
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French fries are not real chips. Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps". Real chips are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to chips is beer which should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be
trained to be more aggressive with customers.
11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added
to all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.
12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter will be referred to as "beer", and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as "Lager". The substances formerly known as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen
Knat's Urine", with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Knat's Urine". This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last 1000 years in Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of confusion.
13. From November 10th the UK will harmonise petrol (or "Gasoline" as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2005) prices with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol prices (roughly $6/US gallon - get used to it).
14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns,
lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun.
15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.
16. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you
shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).
Thank you for your co-operation and have a great day.
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Interesting stuff , now lets get back to the cricketOriginally Posted by BoyBrumby
good old John Cleese
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Yeah just what we need another useless crappy time wasting knockout comp.
It will do so much for cricket to play games with 1/5th filled small stadiums and televise it to the world. Like the TV stations will show hours and hours of cricket while all the other sports are on.
How many 20Twenty games have u seen with 1/5th filled stadiums, i haven't seen too many. Why would u want to watch another sport when cricket is on, doesn't sound like ur a true cricket fanOriginally Posted by Scallywag
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CRS: CHINA AND U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE PROPOSALS: REACTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS, March 17, 1999
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Title: CHINA AND U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE PROPOSALS: REACTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
CRS report number: RS20031
Author(s): Robert G. Sutter, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
Date: March 17, 1999
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- The Chinese government has strongly criticized U.S. announcements that it will develop or assist in deploying missile defense systems involving cooperation with U.S. allies in East Asia, and reports of such possible U.S. cooperation with Taiwan. Though the U.S. government may attempt to reassure China that it is not the target of the new systems, initial Chinese reactions suggest that the United States may face serious difficulties with China if on balance it sees U.S. interests well served by current plans and goes ahead with them, and especially if it supports ballistic missile defense efforts in Taiwan.
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Kenneth Faried still lighting it up for Team USA
Two days after helping the U.S. pull away for a victory over Turkey in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup, Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried, again, had a big day as the Americans routed New Zealand, 98-71.
Faried posted a double-double of 15 points and 11 rebounds, with one steal and one block in the latest U.S. victory. Anthony Davis led the team with 21 points and nine rebounds in the win, which extended the Americans' record in the tournament to 3-0 and puts them atop the Group C standings.
Faried's is averaging 14.3 points on 80.8 percent and a team-high 8.3 rebounds per game over three matches in the tournament.


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Germinal Stage actor Akanda (Catherine) Robinson remembered
Germinal Stage-Denver founder Ed Baierlein has passed on word of the death of actor Akanda (Catherine) Robinson.
He writes: "Akanda was a colleague of ours at The Third Eye in 1972-73, and she acted in eight roles at Germinal Stage from 1982 through 1983, the most notable being the title role in 'Hedda Gabler,' Ruth in the musical 'High Spirits,' and a virtuoso turn as the Devil in our second production of 'Don Juan in Hell.'
"She was a wonderful talent – very versatile – and a joy to work with. She will be sorely missed."
Here is the news report from the Estes Park Trail Gazette:
Akanda Robinson, 62, of Estes Park, died peacefully in her sleep June 2, 2009, after six months of difficulties with her heart and asthma.
Akanda was born Catherine Claire Robinson, Dec., 29 1946, to Heber and Frances Robinson in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1953, the family moved to Denton, Texas, until 1961 when they moved to Beverly, Mass. She graduated from Beverly High School in 1964.
Shortly after that she started an acting career in Boston. In 1971 she starred in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" at the Charles Playhouse. The next year she moved to Denver and was active in theater there for many years.
In 1978 She attended the Astro Consciousness Institute for Self Enlightenment and Peace, earning a Bachelor of Divinity degree.
In 1981 at the Steamboat Repertory Theatre, Steamboat Springs, she played Lizzie Curry in "The Rainmaker." She also appeared in "Camelot."
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Akanda moved to Estes Park and occasionally acted in local productions put on by the Fine Arts Guild. She sang with the Estes Park Chorale and the Oratorio society. Akanda worked in various retail stores downtown most recently Awesome Shirtworks, Rock Wall-T's and Forget Me Not. For the most part she led a quiet life for the last 20 years. She never married and had no children.
She is survived by her brother, John Robinson, living in Massachusetts, and Bill Robinson, in North Carolina; as well as her uncle and aunt, David and Lenore Vanderkooi in Nashville Tenn.
Her laughter and free-spirited personality will be missed by all who knew her.
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I don't have broadband/wifi connection where I live and rely on 3G for facebook/browsing etc. I don't rely on it too heavily, however have racked my brain trying to figure out why I'm using so much, compared to the same usage I was using with my 4S on iOS5, with no issues.
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We've heard the cases for the Opel Adam in the U.S. One solution might be to make the Adam more rock-worthy for arduous American roads. The Adam ROCKS that's being shown next month at the Geneva Motor Show would do, but it's still not coming here.
It's understandable Audi would want to butch up an A4 Avant and call it the Allroad, especially since it's all-wheel drive and it's like a half-step from a Q5 at that point. Roughing up a minicar as Opel has done by making Adam ROCKS is more along the lines of putting a Smart in hiking boots. No idea what they were going for here.
As useless as it is, the taller ROCKS that rides on 17 or 18-inch wheels is still really funky to look at. It screams "active person's car," but I bet that bumper cladding will work almost as well as those Bumper Bully protectors everyone in dense cities strap to their Mercedes CLAs.
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