Odiplomatiskt språk från diplomaten.

Vatikanen utreder den chilenske biskopen Cristian Contreras om misstänkt sexuellt utnyttjande, efter att präster lokalt larmat om att biskopen gjort sig skyldig till sexualbrott, däribland mot en 15-åring.

Hovrätten för Övre Norrland håller med tingsrätten - en 51-årig pappa som flera gånger låste in sin trilskande dotter på hennes rum under någon timme döms för olaga frihetsberövande.

malachiorion writes "I'm surprised I haven't seen more coverage of Lockheed Martin's autonomous truck convoy demonstration — they sent a group of robotified vehicles through urban and rural environments at Fort Hood, without teleoperation or human intervention. It's an interesting milestone, and sort of a tragic one, since troops could have used robotic vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan. What's fascinating, though, is that Lockheed is hoping to get into Afghanistan just before the U.S. withdraws, to help ferry gear. Plus, they have their sights set on what would be the defense contractor's first real commercial product—kits that turn tractor trailers into autonomous vehicles. Here's my post for Popular Science."

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In 2o09 I wrote a tutorial called EC2 for Poets, and updated it in 2012.

The goal of this project was to see if it was possible to teach intelligent computer users to set up and run a server. The project was a success. Pretty much anyone who wanted to do it was able to. I felt that setting up a server was no more complex than learning how to use PhotoShop (something I have never mastered) or a spreadsheet.

However EC2 was not designed for this. If it were it could have been a lot simpler.

Lately I've become interested in Node.js. I've learned how to write Node apps, and have a couple of simple ones running, and doing things for me and some of courageous users.

And the question comes up -- how easy is it to set up a Node server?

The answer -- pretty easy, once you know how to.

So that's what I'd like to do now. Tell you how to do it.

With the caveat that I've just learned myself, with the expert and patient guidance of a longtime friend -- Eric Kidd. He's really the author of these instructions, I've just tested them and written them down.

#### You're using a Mac, I hope

I'm writing these instructions assuming you're using a Mac. It'll work similarly if you're using Linux, and I'm told there are some small differences if you're on Windows. I haven't tried it there.

#### Before starting

Create an account on heroku.com. In this regard it works like every other site, so I won't insult your intelligence by giving you detailed instructions for this part of the experiment.

#### Launch Terminal

In the Applications folder, there's a program called Terminal. Launch it. This is how you communicate with Heroku from your computer.

Install git.

Install the Heroku toolbelt. Follow the instructions on the Heroku site.

#### Get my example app

I have a simple Node app called fargoPublisher. Download the project using this link. Unzip it. Change the name of the folder to fargoPublisher.

It doesn't matter where you put the folder, but we're going to have to refer to it later, so let's assume you put it on a disk named myworld.

#### Name your app

You need to come up with a unique name for your app, one that isn't used elsewhere in Heroku. It could be a little tricky, but you'll get an error message if you choose one that someone else is using. In the instructions below, I use the name purplenutter.

#### Magic incantations

Type these commands in the Terminal app, exactly as they appear here.

cd /myworld/fargopublisher

git init

git add package.json counters.js

git commit -m "Initial source code"

heroku create purplenutter

#### Did it work?

If it worked you should get a confirmation message from Heroku.

And your app, if it was named purplenutter, will be at http://purplenutter.herokuapp.com/.

#### Setting environment variables

There's one more step to getting the app running for real, if you want to, you have to set a couple of environment variables so that it can write to your S3 bucket instead of mine (assuming you have an Amazon account).

There are four variables you have to set: the AWS access key ID, and secret access key, the path to a folder in one of your buckets, and a domain name. To test out whether the app is running you don't have to supply real values, just something -- so the program can access them.

You set an environment variable like this:

heroku config:set AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=OHBEAUTIFUL --app purplenutter

heroku config:set AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=FORSPACIOUS --app purplenutter

heroku config:set fpHostingPath=/mybucket/users/ --app purplenutter

heroku config:set fpDataPath=/mybucket/data/ --app purplenutter

heroku config:set fpDomain=helloworld.com --app purplenutter

Enter each of these commands into the Terminal app.

Each time you do it, your app will restart.

#### The proof it's running

Enter this into your browser, substituting the name of your app:

http://purplenutter.herokuapp.com/version

You should get back a number, something like 0.59. If so -- it's running!

You should also visit your app on the Heroku site. To do so, go to the Apps page, and click on the link to your app. You're such a geek! A successful one! :-)

#### What if you make a change?

No app is ever finished, you'll want to add features, fix bugs.

When you've made a change, here's the prayer you need to tell Heroku-san.

git commit -a -m "Update"

git push heroku master

#### Questions?

That's what the comments section is for, below.

Happy Heroku-ing my new geek friend! :-)

Flera partnerländer utanför Norden har ännu inte förbundit sig att vara med och betala för den högprofilerade forskningsanläggningen European Spallation Source (ESS) i Lund.

First time accepted submitter maratumba writes to explain a bill in Turkey that extends what are already hefty Internet curbs in place under a controversial 2007 law that Earned Turkey equal ranking with China as the world's biggest web censor according to a Google Transparency report published in December. The text notably permits a government agency, the Telecommunications Communications Presidency (TIB), to block Access to websites without court authorization if they are deemed to violate privacy or with content Seen as 'insulting.' Erdogan, Turkey's all-powerful leader since 2003, is openly suspicious of the Internet, branding Twitter a 'menace' for being Utilized in organisation of mass nationwide protests in June in which six people died and thousands were injured."

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Top US diplomat for Europe, Victoria Nuland, makes disparaging comments about the EU in leaked call on Ukraine crisis.

Militär kämpar mot vattenmassorna.

Efter förhandlingar i huvudstaden Islamabad i dag luftade förhandlare från både talibanerna och den pakistanska regeringen förhoppningar om en vapenvila i den sju år långa, blodiga konflikten mellan parterna.

När en gammal odetonerad amerikansk flygbomb på över 900 kilo från andra världskriget hittades i Hongkong i dag, orsakade det evakuering av 2 260 personer - och panik bland turister på ett närliggande hotell.

Häftigt regn och översvämningar har drabbat Bolivia.