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Before I start ranting on respecting your cabbage, I need to thank many of you who read this column. The French Onion Soup recipe that I offered in February has evidently become a huge hit, and several hundred of you emailed me to tell me how wonderful the recipe is. I loved the photos and the stories that you shared. I've always thought my job was first to get you in the kitchen, and second to supply you with a great taste experience once you stood facing the stove. Thank you for applauding those efforts with your words.
Now cabbage. Being of Scots-Irish stock, I enjoy the chance to celebrate the heritage of Ireland every March. And yes, I love corned beef especially when paired with some form of cabbage. It might be sauerkraut on a Rueben, or coleslaw alongside a corned beef hash cake, but more than anything, I want it to taste like cabbage. The pungent earthiness of cabbage is perfect beside the brine-driven acidity of corned beef, or corned ham for that matter. What I don't want is cabbage braised with corned beef, which dilutes the flavor of the beef and the cabbage. I want cabbage that's bright, flavorful and stands on its own.
"Now Fred," you might reply, "we know you love your Aunt Janice's pork-laden cabbage; it's your first stop at the family reunion table." All true. Pork, however, doesn't kill that pungent earthiness of cabbage the way corned beef does. "Yes," you might say, "but it appears that you've goosed up your cabbage quite a bit." True again, but with flavors that keep cabbage as cabbage and add a sweet roundness to the dish. I didn't say that cabbage doesn't need a little help. This is a cabbage taste that will grace more than just a St. Paddy's Day table, which, by the way, melds perfectly with the corned beef's salty acidity and plays well with roast chicken, pot roast, grilled pork, and one of my favorite cool-month dinners, pinto beans and cornbread.
My cooking vessel of choice is a slow cooker. The process brings out the essence of the cabbage slowly and intensifies the result. You could do this in a pressure cooker as well for about 45 minutes, or even braise the dish in a 300-degree oven for 3 to 4 hours, but the slow cooker is so easy, just like the recipe itself.
The pancetta, which you can get at any grocer's deli counter, adds a twist, but it could be replaced with bacon or left out for a vegetarian version. The chicken stock seasoning is in the soup aisle. If you use your slow cooker to prepare your corned beef, you can make the cabbage up to 3 days in advance. Refrigerate and bring to a simmer before serving. At the store or farmer's market, look for a head of cabbage with tight leaves that feels heavy for its size. I hope you will give this a try with your Irish celebration. I think you'll find your whole plate will be livelier. Now, as far as the green beer …
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Cabbage and Tomatoes
8 cups cabbage, chopped in large chunks, about one head
2 cups chopped onion, about 2 large
2 (14.5-ounce) cans stewed tomatoes
1 (10.75-ounce) can condensed tomato soup
1 1/4 inch slice pancetta
2 teaspoons dried parsley
2 teaspoons dried thyme
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 tub or packet of chicken stock seasoning or 1 block of chicken bouillon
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon celery seeds
Kosher salt to taste
COMBINE all the ingredients except the salt in your slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours but no more than 8. The cabbage should be meltingly tender. Salt to taste and serve.
Yield: 8 servings.
Serve with: Braised corned beef brisket for St. Patrick's Day, but this cabbage is great alongside roast chicken, grilled pork chops or a pot roast. With pinto beans and cornbread, it will take you back to the Old South in a hurry.
To drink: Maybe a Guinness, a light bodied red wine or a sauvignon blanc.


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There are still about 1,000 people still in the dark in Hampton County, but many people are celebrating a lot of things Friday: the sun, Valentine's Day and the fact that they finally have electricity again.
Tree limbs still lay scattered along the roads leading into the quiet town of Brunson.
You'll see even more sitting in the front yards, and even in through the houses.
"A lot of elderly out here who can't do all this work so we've been going door-to-door asking if they need help. All the surrounding areas, they pretty trashed," said freelance tree remover Benjamin Crapse.
The storm knocked out the power and phone line from Chloe Bishop's house on Wednesday.
"And I'm on oxygen so it's been kind of rough making sure I had oxygen, but my pastor let me use his generator," said Bishop.
Bishop's 76-year-old landlord, Robert Belger, is waiting for SCE&G to turn off service so he can put the power line back.
"Hopefully it'll be today, but we not absolutely sure," said Belger.
For those who have gotten their power back, they say it's changed their perspective.
"It was only a day and a half but you don't realize how much electricity means to you until you don't have it," said county resident Vickie Reynolds.
And they say the next time this happens, they'll prepare in advance.
"Oh absolutely, I'll be watching the weather if they start talking about it dipping down in the South like that again," added her husband, Ronnie.
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Tyreke Evans doesn't remember his former teammate Sergio Rodriguez when questioned by a Spanish journalist on Spanish players after saying some things about Pau Gasol. Ouch. Guess Sergio made not much of an impression in Sactown. Oh well Sergio, you'll be remembered in Portland. Maybe in New York. Or Madrid. Or... "Sergio Rodriguez played in 39 games for the Sacramento Kings, averaging 13.3 minutes and 6.0 points per game. Basketballvalue.com confirms that Tyreke Evans and Rodriguez were, at times, on the court together."


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The conversion of landfills' natural gas to energy is an emerging alternative fuel industry. With an increasing need for more energy sources, LFG fuel is both a practical and promising option. It provides a new fuel resource as well as a solution to the problem of increasing waste production in the United States, which currently fills over 2,000 landfills around the country.
The convenience of landfill gas containment is one of its most positive attributes. Not only is LFG readily accessible, but its removal from landfills is a benefit to the environment. Landfills contain a variable mixture of organic gaseous compounds, some of which are contaminants and are occasionally radioactive. The heterogeneous nature of landfills makes them unpredictable, which adds an extra layer of difficulty to processing the desired gases. One particularly problematic gas is sulfur, the source of landfill gas odor.
Landfills produce large amounts of gases that are hazardous when they are released into the air. Fires, environmental contamination and even explosions can occur around landfills. For these reasons, certain state regulations require the periodic testing of the gas to ensure safety. By removing the gas entirely from the landfill, dangers can be avoided altogether. In this way, the utilization of LFG is the solution to an environmental safety problem and to the country's current alternative fuel problem.
The PDC is one of the only landfill gas testing facilities in the northeast, offering its customers the convenience of a laboratory close by and rapid turn-around for results. Our laboratory is equipped with sophisticated gas chromatographs (GC's), capable of precisely determining the identity and quantity of each chemical component present in the sample. The PDC's analytical laboratory can help you meet the requirements of state Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) regulations for your landfill. Our laboratories also offer LFG testing to facilitate the production of fuel at LFG burning plants.
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The Leader as a Master Mechanic
It is amazing how many times a thought can come to you in an unlikely place, or at an unlikely time.
The master mechanic has many different sizes of wrenches in their toolbox. Would a master mechanic use a standard American wrench on a metric nut? I think not. Would the master mechanic use a ball peen hammer when a rubber mallet was called for? I sure as heck hope not.
So it must be with the leader and their utilization of team members. Think about the members of your team (department). Are there those who are quiet and reserved? Are there those who are outgoing and gregarious? I would imagine you have some of each in your organizational toolbox. Here is where the master mechanic analogy comes into play.
Let us say that you have to decide who will deliver a series of public fire prevention training sessions. Would it be better for you to select the quiet and withdrawn person? Or would you want an outgoing people-person member of your team to conduct those classes? All things being equal the answer seems to be fairly obvious. You would want to have the classes taught by someone who likes to interact with people.
This presumes that you have trained your staff in ways that emphasizes their strengths and minimizes their weakness. Here is where the master mechanic concept comes to the fore again. The wise mechanic keeps their tools in working condition. The wise mechanic knows the value of their tools and does not abuse them. They insure that the tools are cleaned after use and placed back in the proper place in their toolbox.
Think back to that time when you tossed a wet wrench back into the toolbox without drying and oiling it. What did you find when next you wished to use that tool? If my experience is any guide at all, you will find a rusty wrench that is not up to the task for which you have chosen it. This lack of the proper tool at the appropriate moment hinders your ability to get the job done in a timely fashion.
So too is it with the people who make up your organization. Let me offer another view of the example given above. Let us say that you choose to give the task of teaching the public education classes to someone who is not comfortable interacting with people. What might the consequences be for you, that person, and your organization?
In the first place, that individual will probably not do the best possible job. This could lead to a mental letdown that can have long-term consequence for that person. The unhappy person could possibly become a drag on your team. Their attitude has the potential to affect the attitude of other team members who might come to fear you. They would see what you had done to one person and begin to wonder and worry about whether you might do the same thing to them.
Another possibility is that this situation could also lead to a group of unhappy customers. They might begin to make your life difficult. They could go to your supervisor and ask that pressure be put upon you to do a better job in selecting speakers and educators. That puts the pressure on you.
What have you done? You have created enemies. Sun Tzu wrote centuries ago that the making of unnecessary enemies was an action that a wise warrior should not take. These enemies could act in one of two ways. They could attack you. They could seek to undermine your team.
As a matter of fact, it could become even worse than that. You enemies might decide that it would be advantageous for them to form alliances. They could then conspire against you. It that case, you would then be battling a growing array of forces, not really knowing when or where the next would occur. All because you failed to act as the master mechanic would. These travails will dog your life simply because you chose the wrong tool for the job.
How might you avoid the hazards of selecting the wrong tool? My answer to you will be simple indeed. However implementing my suggestions will be difficult, in that they will require you to devote time to becoming a proactive leader. My suggestions might also require you to change your way of leading, and we all know how hard it is to change.


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Whenever I've had the opportunity to visit the V&A Museum I always visit the glass gallery. I arrived a little early on the day that I met Kate and Karol-Ann so that I could spend some time there again. I love the staircase in the gallery and, while I prefer contemporary glass, I love that they have an extensive collection of glass from all eras. Here are a few photos that I took.
Colorbox 1 - 5
Jun Kaneko
Klaus Moje
Lino Taglipietra
Colin Reid
I didn't get the date on this one but it's a very early piece that I think fits into comtemporary glass perfectly.
Close up of a glass basket c. 1890
This last photo gave me a good laugh. Do you remember Visions cookware? I had a set and I LOVED it. Of course, being glass, it all broke. The last piece I had was a small saucepan that I used often. Recently when Chris was visiting/caring for his Dad he saw that there was a collection of Visions saucepans in the kitchen. No one cooks much there anymore so he bought one of the small saucepans back for me. I was thrilled.
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Chicago White Sox's Josh Phegley (36) is tagged out at third base by Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Friday, Aug. 23, 2013. (AP Photo/ Paul Beaty)
With the Texas Rangers' 2013 season long-gone in the rear-view, let's take a look at some of the season's defining moments, both good and bad, in a season that ultimately fell short of the Rangers' expectations.
Moment: The Rangers were red-hot in August and built their division lead to six games heading into the season's final month, but it could've easily been more, and it was obviously wasn't enough. The Rangers lost series on consecutive weekends to close out August to two of the worst teams in the American League in the Chicago White Sox and the Minnesota Twins.
When/Where: Aug. 23-25/Aug. 30-Sept. 1; Chicago/Arlington
What: The Oakland A's had a boar of a schedule in August, while the Rangers was lined up as a gift from the baseball gods. The Rangers did their part to take advantage of the soft August schedule, finishing the month with a 20-7 record, but it could've easily been more. The Rangers swept the Houston Astros prior to the series in Chicago, and swept the Seattle Mariners before hosting the Twins. It's hard to place emphasis on games in August during a 162-game season that ended up being 163 games, but it's easy to look back those two series as being a key reason the Rangers didn't make the postseason.
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What would you do if an earthquake hit and you had to shelter in place for up to a week without power, electricity, and telephone services? Agree on a plan of action with your closest neighbors, build a kit and have a system ready to survive and thrive. Wanna learn how? Plant to attend the COPE meeting this Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. at DeTurk Round Barn. January 17th, Thursday at 6:30 p.m.- COPE (Citizens Organize to Prepare for Emergencies) Meeting. The West End and St. Rose neighborhoods will be joining together to prepare for disaster! Let's be ready to work together to survive....Read More
What's up in Railroad Square?
Railroad Square is our own historic downtown with local shops, restaurants and businesses owned by people we know! In some cases the same family has run the business for generations. (It is no wonder that some of us rarely bother traversing through or around that great obstruction of a building that divides downtown Santa Rosa!) Here's the latest: FYI- SMART Rail work will close 3rd (at RR tracks) from 9th to 11th, 6th Street (at RR tracks) from 16th- 18th Press Democrat October 12th, Friday- The Blues Broads, The Coahoma to Sonoma All Stars (Blues, Rock & Roll) $20 Advance/$22...Read More
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text: The final toll of the 9.O earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan on March 11 is impossible to pinpoint. Massive life loss, towns destroyed, a nuclear threat, it goes on and on. In addition to that devastation, the time-honored, ancient Japanese sake industry has been severely damaged – the earthquake wiped out some sake breweries and damaged many others. Entire sake breweries disappeared in the wake of the multiple disasters. While the destruction to the sake industry was by no means the worst that Japanese industries have suffered, there has been extensive damage and some loss of life. The worst-hit breweries are located in Miyagi prefecture, the epicenter of the earthquake, as well as in Iwate and Fukushima – the location of the seriously-damaged nuclear power plant. Among the list of badly-damaged breweries are Suisen from Iwate prefecture, which was entirely destroyed with the loss of some 11 employees, and Hakurakusei in Miyagi prefecture, which was not hit by the tsunami but was destroyed by the earthquake. The number of sake breweries in the three prefectures, many of which produce some of Japan's highest quality, aromatic, elegant sakes, total over 1OO. Although reports and updates of are slowly coming in, it is safe to assume that the vast majority of these 1OO-plus sake breweries have been damaged in some way by the earthquake and tsunami – 3O breweries are already confirmed to have suffered some type of damage. The real extent is still unknown since electricity and telephone network coverage is currently minimal in these provinces. According to Kenichi Ohashi, a Master of Sake based in Tokyo, the damage to the breweries is just one part of the challenges ahead for Japan's sake industry. In common with every Japanese industry, the real challenge to sake will be getting the businesses working again in the coming months, with lack of raw materials, fuel, transportation, and infrastructure, he said. There is also the possible nuclear fallout. It's unknown if the radiation will move to the water but the tsunami also spread chemicals and raw sewage to water sources used for production. Some of the sake producers simply will not be able to restrict pollutants. The reality is, the Japanese sake industry may never be what it once was.


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OpenStack Essex: the last mile
At the time I'm writing this, we have final release candidates published for all the components that make up OpenStack 2012.1, codenamed "Essex":
- OpenStack Compute (Nova), at RC3
- OpenStack Image Service (Glance), at RC3
- OpenStack Identity (Keystone), at RC2
- OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon), at RC2
- OpenStack Storage (Swift) at version 1.4.8
Unless a critical, last-minute regression is found today in these proposed packages, they should make up the official OpenStack 2012.1 release tomorrow ! Please check out those tarballs for a last check, and don't hesitate to ping us on IRC (#openstack-dev @ Freenode) or file bugs (tagged essec-rc-potential) if you think you can convince us to reroll.
Those six months have been a long ride, with 139 features added and 1650 bugs fixed, but this is the last mile.
OpenStack developers meeting at FOSDEM
Next week, the European free and open source software developers will converge to Brussels for FOSDEM. We took this opportunity to apply for an OpenStack developers gathering in the Virtualization and Cloud devroom.
At 6pm on Saturday (last session of the day), in the Chavanne room, we will have a one-hour town hall meeting. If you're an existing OpenStack contributor, a developer considering to join us, an upstream project developer, a downstream distribution packager, or just curious about OpenStack, you're welcome to join us ! I'll be there, Stefano Maffulli (our community manager) will be there, and several OpenStack core developers will be there.
We'll openly discuss issues and solutions about integration with upstream projects, packaging, governance, development processes, community or release cycles. In particular, we'll have a distribution panel where every OpenStack distribution will be able to explain how they support OpenStack and discuss what we can improve to make things better for them.
And at the end of the session we can informally continue the discussion around fine Belgian beers or their famous Carbonade !
Making more solid OpenStack releases
As we pass the middle of the Essex development cycle, questions about the solidity of this release start to pop up. After all, the previous releases were far from stellar, and with more people betting their business on OpenStack we can't really afford another half-baked release.
Common thinking (mostly coming from years of traditional software development experience) is that we shouldn't release until it's ready, or good enough, and calls early for pushing back the release dates. This assumes the issue is incidental: that we underestimated the time it would take our finite team of internal developers working on bugs to reach a sufficient level of quality.
OpenStack, being an open source project produced by a large community, works differently. We have a near-infinite supply of developers. The issue is, unfortunately, more structural than incidental. The lack of solidity for a release comes from:
- Lack of focus on generic bugfixes. Developers should work on fixing bugs. Not just the ones they filed or the ones blocking them in their feature-adding frenzy. Fixing identified, targeted, known issues. The bugtracker is full of them, but they don't get attention.
- Not enough automated testing to efficiently catch regressions. Even if everyone was working on bug fixes, if half your fixes end up creating a set of regressions, then there is no end to it.
- Lack of bug triaging resources. Only a few people work on confirming, triaging and prioritizing the flow of incoming bugs. So the bugs that need the most attention are lost in the noise.
For the Diablo cycle, we had less than a handful of people focused on generic bugfixing. The rest of our 150+ authors were busy working on something else. Pushing back the release for a week, a month or a year won't help OpenStack solidity if the focus doesn't switch. And if our focus switches, then there will be no need for a costly release delay.
Acting now to make Essex a success
During the Essex cycle, our Project Technical Leads have done their share of the work by using a very early milestone for their feature freeze. Keystone, Glance and Nova will freeze at Essex-3, giving us 10 weeks for bugfixing work (compared to the 4 weeks we had for Diablo). Now we need to take advantage of that long period and really switch our mindset away from feature development and towards generic bug fixing.
Next week we'll hit feature freeze, so now is the time to switch. If we could:
- have some more developers working on increasing our integration and unit test coverage
- have the rest of the developers really working on generic bug fixing
- have very active core reviewers that get more anal-retentive as we get closer to release, to avoid introducing regressions that would not be caught by our automated tests
…then I bet that it will lead to a stronger release than any delaying of the release could give you. Note that we'll also have a bug squashing day on February 2 that will hopefully help us getting on top of old, deprecated and easy fixes, and give us a clear set of targets for the rest of the cycle.
That's on our ability to switch our focus that hinges the quality of future OpenStack releases. That's on what we'll be judged. The world awaits, and the time is now.
Virtualization & Cloud devroom at FOSDEM
The Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting, or FOSDEM, is an institution that happens every year in Brussels. A busy, free and open event that gets a lot of developers together for two days of presentations and cross-pollination. There are typically the FOSDEM main tracks (a set of presentations chosen by the FOSDEM organization) and a set of devrooms, which are topic-oriented or project-oriented and can organize their own schedule freely.
This year, FOSDEM will host an unusual devroom, the Virtualization and Cloud devroom. It will happen in the Chavanne room, a 550-seat auditorium that was traditionally used for main tracks. And it will last for two whole days, while other devrooms typically last for a day or a half-day.
The Virtualization and Cloud devroom is the result of the merging of three separate devroom requests: Virtualization, Xen and OpenStack devrooms. It gives us a larger space and a lot of potential for cross-pollination across projects ! We had a lot of talks proposed, and here is an overview of what you'll be able to see there.
Saturday, February 4
Saturday will be the "cloud" day. We will start with a set of talks about OpenStack, past, present and future. I will do an introduction and retrospective of what happened last year in the project, Soren Hansen will guide new developers to Nova, and Debo Dutta will look into future work on application scheduling and Donabe. Next we'll have a session on various cloud-related technologies: libguestfs, pacemaker-cloud and OpenNebula. The afternoon will start with a nice session on cloud interoperability, including presentations on the Aeolus, CompatibleOne and Deltacloud efforts. We'll continue with a session on cloud deployment, with a strong OpenStack focus: Ryan Lane will talk about how Wikimedia maintains infrastructure like an open source project, Mike McClurg will look into Ubuntu+XCP+OpenStack deployments, and Dave Walker will introduce the Orchestra project. The day will end with a town hall meeting for all OpenStack developers, including a panel of distribution packagers: I will blog more about that one in the next weeks.
Sunday, February 5
Sunday is more "virtualization" day ! The day will start early with two presentations by Hans de Goede about Spice and USB redirection over the network. Then we'll have a session on virtualization management, with Guido Trotter giving more Ganeti news and three talks about oVirt. In the afternoon we'll have a more technical session around virtualization in development: Antti Kantee will introduce ultralightweight kernel service virtualization with rump kernels, Renzo Davoli will lead a workshop on tracing and virtualization, and Dan Berrange will show how to build application sandboxes on top of LXC and KVM with libvirt. The day will end with another developers meeting, this time the Xen developers will meet around Ian Campbell and his Xen deployment troubleshooting workshop.
All in all, that's two days packed with very interesting presentations, in a devroom large enough to accomodate a good crowd, so we hope to see you there !
Ending the year well: OpenStack Essex-2 milestone
2011 is almost finished, and what a year it has been. We started it with two core projects and one release behind us. During 2011, we got three releases out of the door, grew from 60 code contributors to about 200, added three new core projects, and met for two design summits.
The Essex-2 milestone was released last week. Here is our now-regular overview of the work that made it to OpenStack core projects since the previous milestone.
Nova was the busiest project. Apart from my work on a new secure root wrapper (detailed on previous articles of this blog), we added a pair of OpenStack API extensions to support the creation of snapshots and backups of volumes, the metadata service can now run separately from the API node, network limits can now be set using a per-network base and a per-flavor multiplier, and a small usability feature lets you retrieve the last error that occurred using nova-manage. But Essex is not about new features, it's more about consistency and stability. On the consistency front, the HA network mode was extended to support XenServer, KVM compute nodes now report capabilities to zones like Xen ones, and the Quantum network manager now supports NAT. Under the hood, VM state transitions have been strengthened, the network data model has been overhauled, internal interfaces now support UUID instance references, and unused callbacks have been removed from the virt driver.
The other projects were all busy starting larger transitions (Keystone's RBAC, Horizon new user experience, and Glance 2.0 API), leaving less room for essex-2 features. Glance still saw the addition of a custom directory for data buffering. Keystone introduced global endpoints templates and swauth-like ACL enforcement. Horizon added UI support for downloading RC files, while migrating under the hood from jquery-ui to bootstrap, and adding a versioning scheme for environment/dependencies.
The next milestone is in a bit more than a month: January 26th, 2012. Happy new year and holidays to all !
Improving Nova privilege escalation model, part 3
In the previous two posts of this series, we explored the deficiencies of the current model and the features of an alternative implementation. In this last post, we'll discuss the advantages of a Python implementation and open discussion on how to secure it properly.
Python implementation
It's quite easy to implement the features that were mentioned in the previous post in Python. The main advantage of doing so is that the code can happily live inside Nova code, in particular the filters definition files can be implemented as Python modules that are loaded if present. That solves the issue of shipping definitions within Nova and also the separation of allowed commands based on locally-deployed nodes. The code is simple and easy to review. The trick is to make sure that no malicious code can be injected in the elevated rights process. This is why I'd like to present a model and open it for comments in the community.
Proposed security model
The idea would be to have Nova code optionally use "sudo nova-rootwrap" instead of "sudo" as the root_helper. A generic sudoers file would allow the nova user to run /usr/bin/nova-rootwrap as root, while stripping environment variables like PYTHONPATH. To load its filters definitions, nova-rootwrap would try to import a set of predefined modules (like nova.rootwrap.compute), but if those aren't present, it should ignore them. Can this model be abused ?
The obvious issue is to make sure sys.path (the set of directories from which Python imports its modules) is secure, so that nobody can insert their own modules in the process. I've given some thoughts to various checks, but actually there is no way around trusting the default sys.path you're given when you start python as root from a cleaned env. If that's compromised, you're toasted the moment you "import sys" anyway. So using sudo to only allow /usr/bin/nova-rootwrap and cleaning the environment should be enough. Or am I missing something ?
Insecure mode ?
One thing we could do is check that sys.path all belongs to root and refuse to run in the case it's not. That would tell the user that his setup is insecure (potentially allowing him to bypass that by running "sudo nova-rootwrap –insecure" as the root_helper). But that's a convenience to detect insecure setups, not a security addition (the fact that it doesn't complain doesn't mean you're safe, it could mean you're already compromised).
Test mode ?
For tests, it's convenient to allow to run code from branches. To allow this (unsafe) mode, you would tweak sudoers to allow it to run $BRANCH/bin/nova-rootwrap as root, and prepend ".." to sys.path in order to allow modules to be loaded from $BRANCH (maybe requiring –insecure mode for good measure). It sounds harmless, since if you run from /usr/bin/nova-rootwrap you can assume that /usr is safe… Or should that idea be abandoned altogether ?
Nothing beats peer review when it comes to secure design. I call all Python module-loading experts and security white-hats out there: would this work ? Are those safe assumptions ? How much do you like insecure and test modes ? Would you suggest something else ? If you're one of those that can't think in words but require code, you can get a glimpse of work in progress here. It will all be optional (and not used by default), so it can be added to Nova without much damage, but I'd rather do it right from the beginning :) Please comment !
Improving Nova privilege escalation model, part 2
In the previous post in this series we explored the current privilege escalation model used in OpenStack Compute (Nova), and discussed its limitations. Now that we are able to plug an alternative model (thanks to the root_helper option), we'll discuss in this post what features this one should have. If you think we need more, please comment !
Command filters
The most significant issue with the current model is that sudoers filters the executable used, but not the arguments. To fix that, our alternative model should allow precise argument filtering so that only very specific commands are allowed. It should use lists of filters: if one matches, the command is executed.
The basic CommandFilter would just check that the executable name matches (which is what sudoers does). A more advanced RegexpFilter would check that the number of arguments is right and that they all match provided regular expressions.
Taking that concept a step further, you should be able to plug any type of advanced filter. You may want to check that the argument to the command is an existing directory. Or one that is owned by a specific user. The framework should allow developers to define their own CommandFilter subclasses, to be as precise as they want when filtering the most destructive commands.
Running as
In some cases, Nova runs, as root, commands that it should just run as a different user. For example, it runs kill with root rights to interact with dnsmasq processes (owned by the nobody user). It doesn't really need to run kill with root rights at all. Filters should therefore also allow to specify a lower-privileged user a specific matching command should run under.
Shipping filters in Nova code
Filter lists should live within Nova code and be deployed by packaging, rather than live in packaging. That allows people adding a new escalated command to add the corresponding filter in the same commit.
Limiting commands based on deployed nodes
As mentioned in the previous post, nova-api nodes don't actually need to run any command as root, but in the current model their nova user is still allowed to run plenty of them. The solution for that is to separate the command filters based on the type of node that is allowed to run them, in different files. Then deploy the nova-compute filters file only on nova-compute nodes, the nova-volume filters file only on nova-volume nodes… A pure nova-api node will end up with no filters being deployed at all, effectively not being allowed any command as root. So this can be solved by smart packaging of filter files.
Missing features ?
Those are the features that I found useful for our alternative privilege escalation model. If you see others, please comment here ! I'd like to make sure all the useful features are included. In the next post, we'll discuss a proposed Python implementation of this framework, and the challenges around securing it.
Improving Nova privilege escalation model, part 1
In this series, I'll discuss how to strengthen the privilege escalation model for OpenStack Compute (Nova). Due to the way networking, virtualization and volume management work, some Nova nodes need to be able to run some commands as root. To reduce the effects of a potential compromise (attacker being able to run arbitrary code as the Nova user), we want to limit the commands that Nova can run as root on a given node to the strict necessary. Today we'll explain how the current model works, its limitations, and the groundwork already implemented during the Diablo cycle to improve that.
Current model: sudo and sudoers
Currently, in a typical Nova deployment, the nodes run under an account with limited rights (usually called "nova"). When Nova needs to run a command as root, it prepends "sudo" to the command. The nova packages of your distribution of choice are supposed to ship a sudoers file that contains all the commands that nova is allowed to run as root without providing a password. This is a privilege escalation security model which is pretty well-known and easy to audit.
Limitations of the current model
That said, in the context of Nova, this model is very limited. The sudoers file does not allow to efficiently filter arguments, so you can basically pass any argument to the allowed command… and some of the commands that nova wants to use are rather open-ended. As an example, the current nova_sudoers file contains commands like chown, kill, dd or tee, which are more than enough to compromise a target system completely.
There are a couple other limitations. The sudoers file belongs to the distributions packaging, so it's difficult to keep it in sync with the rest of Nova code when someone wants to add a privileged command. Last but not least, the same nova_sudoers file is used for any type of Nova node. A Nova API server, which does not need to run any command as root, is still allowed to run all the commands that a compute node requires, for example. Those other limitations could be fixed while still using sudo and sudoers files, but the first limitation would remain. Can we do better ?
Substitute a wrapper to sudo
To be able to propose alternative privilege escalation security models, we first needed to be able to change all the "sudo" calls in the code and make them potentially use something else. That's what I worked on late during the Diablo timeframe: creating a run_as_root option in nova.utils.execute that would use a configurable root_helper command (by default, "sudo"), and force all the existing calls to go through that (rather than blindly calling "sudo" themselves).
Thanks to the default root_helper, everything still behaves the same, but now we have the possibility to use something else, if we can be smarter than sudoers files. Like call a wrapper that will do advanced filtering of the command that nova wants to use. In part 2 of this series, we'll look into a proposed, alternative Python-based root_helper and open discussion on its security model.
OpenStack Essex-1 milestone
Last week saw the delivery of the first milestone of the Essex development cycle for Keystone, Glance, Horizon and Nova. This early milestone collected about two months of post-Diablo work… but it's not as busy in new features as most would think, since a big part of those last two months was spent releasing OpenStack 2011.3 and brainstorming Essex features.
Keystone delivered their first milestone as a core project, with a few new features like support for additional credentials, service registration and using certificate-based SSL client authentication to authenticate services. It should be easier to upgrade from now on, with support for database migrations.
Glance developers were busy preparing significant changes that will land in the next milestone. Several bugfixes and a few features made it to essex-1 though, including the long-awaited SSL client connections. It also moved to UUID image identifiers.
The Nova essex-1 effort was mostly spent on bugfixing, with 129 bugs fixed. New features include a new XenAPI SM volume driver, DHCP support in the Quantum network manager, and optional deferred deletion of instances. Under the hood, the volume code was significantly cleaned up and XML templates were added to simplify serialization in extensions.
Essex-1 was also the first official OpenStack milestone for Horizon, also known as the Dashboard. New features include a instance details page, support for managing Nova volumes and a new extensible modular architecture. The rest of the effort was spent on catching up with the best of core projects in internationalization, developer documentation, and QA (frontend testing and JS unit tests).
Now, keep your seatbelt fastened, as we are one month away from essex-2, where lots of new development work is expected to land !
Essex Design Summit: the waiting list is open
The 200 open seats for the Essex Design Summit were all registered in less than 9 days ! If you missed the boat, you can still register on the waiting list at http://summit.openstack.org.
For the last seats we need to give priority to existing OpenStack developers and upstream/downstream community members, so the waiting list will be reviewed manually. You will receive an email if you get cleared and get one of the very last seats for the summit.
Sometime next week, the website should allow registered attendees (as well as attendees on the waiting list) to propose sessions for the summit, so stay tuned !


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Fantasy outlook: Cam Newton
Should fantasy owners follow Marty Hurney's lead and take a chance on Cam Newton in drafts this year?
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Draft countdown: Pick No. 1
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Readers believe Panthers will select QB Newton
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After WR Armanti Edwards' very disappointing rookie season, the Panthers' decision to trade their 2011 second-round pick to take him in the third round last year has been second-guessed.
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Panthers CB Marshall hoping for chance to hit open market
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Compensatory picks awarded; Panthers lead with three
The NFL announced the 2011 compensatory draft picks for April's NFL draft, and the team with the No. 1 pick, the Panthers, received the most with three.
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The Panthers have announced they've made a move at defensive tackle, signing free agent Dwan Edwards and waiving last year's third-round draft pick Terrell McClain. Terms of Edwards' deal were not immediately available.||||||| Edwards played the last two seasons with the Buffalo Bills after spending six years with the Baltimore Ravens. The 6-foot-3, 301-pound Edwards has played in 85 games with 45 starts during his NFL career.
A person familiar with the move says the Buffalo Bills have released Edwards. The person confirmed Edwards' release on Friday, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the team hasn't made an announcement. Edwards is an eight-year NFL veteran, and preparing to enter his third season with Buffalo.||||||| Edwards was a two-year starter as a defensive end with the Bills, but was preparing to play a backup role at tackle position after the team switched to a 4-3 lineup this season. He had two years left on the $18 million contract, and scheduled to make a $4.1 million base salary this season.
Edwards is done for the season after being placed on injured reserve Thursday because of a hamstring injury.||||||| Edwards signed with the Bills this past offseason as a free agent, and had started all 11 games. He was injured in Sunday's overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Edwards has signed a four-year contract with the Buffalo Bills.||||||| A person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press early Wednesday morning that the contract potentially is worth $18 million. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal has not yet been announced by the Bills. Edwards is a six-year NFL veteran, who played his entire career with Baltimore. He missed the entire 2008 season with a neck injury, but bounced back last year, with 56 tackles and two sacks in 18 games, including playoffs.


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The first five picks will determine this team's fate for the next few seasons. We have lost alot of offensive talent and our defense is getting older. I hope that McD has done his homework so this draft can turn out better then his first. My 1-6 round simple mock is:
(1) Dez Bryant (WR)- We need his skills and offensive talent.
(2) Vladimir Ducasse (OG)-Will help with the run and is an upgrade with what we have.
(2) Weatherspoon or Sean Lee (ILB)-Will fill our hole at ILB both can tackle and play the pass
(3) Carlton Mitchell (WR) or Montero Hardesty (RB)-More talent for the offense
(4) JD Walton (OC)-Will help with the run is a good center
(5) Donovan Warren (CB)-Has the skills and size to become a better then average CB.
(6) Garrett Graham (TE)-Good pass catching/blocking TE
If Dez Bryant is taken prior to our pick at #11. I would think we go with McClain at #11 then with one of our picks in the second go with the best WR available and Ducasse. The mock then continues on.


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I'm trying to get the SIP plugin installed on my phone to send a SIP REGISTER but without any luck. Everything is working fine on the emulator, but not on the handset.
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WGTS 91.9 Item of the Day: "Gifted Hands" by Dr. Ben Carson
May 13, 2011 by Brennan
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In 1987, Dr. Benjamin Carson gained worldwide recognition for his part in the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head. Such breakthroughs aren't unusual for Ben Carson. He's been beating the odds since he was a child. Raised in inner-city Detroit by a mother with a third grade education, Ben lacked motivation, had terrible grades. And a pathological temper threatened to put him in jail. But Sonya Carson convinced her son he could make something of his life. Trust in God, a relentless belief in his own capabilities, and sheer determination catapulted Ben from failing grades to the directorship of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Gifted Hands takes you into the operating room to witness surgeries that made headlines around the world—and into the private mind of a compassionate, God-fearing physician who lives to help others.
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Flash Update: Kunga Dawa, longtime student and personal assistant to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche will be joining us tonight. Kunga was with Trungpa when this Sadhana was revealed.
The Sadhana of Mahamudra, which Trungpa Rinpoche "discovered" in Bhutan in 1968, is a particular kind of text or teaching called terma. In Tibet, Chögyam Trungpa had already been recognized as a tertön, a teacher who "finds" or reveals terma, which are the teachings that Padmasambhava concealed in physical locations throughout Tibet and in the realm of mind and space. As Trungpa Rinpoche describes in Crazy Wisdom, "He [Padmasambhava] had various writings of his put in gold and silver containers like capsules and buried in certain appropriate places in the different parts of Tibet so that people of the future would rediscover them....This process of rediscovering the treasures has been happening all along, and a lot of sacred teachings have been revealed. One example is the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Another approach to preserving treasures of wisdom is the style of the thought lineage. Teachings have been rediscovered by certain appropriate teachers who have had memories of them and written them down from memory. This is another kind of hidden treasure". The Sadhana of Mahamudra is such a mind terma.
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Y Chromosome Deletion
Test Description:
Y microdeletion test is used for the detection of small interstitial deletions in the Y chromosome which have been associated with male infertility. Most frequently these deletions are observed in the euchromatic region of the long arm of the Y chromosome (Yq11). Studies have reported a microdeletion frequency of 8-20% in azoospermic and 5-10% in severely oligospermic males. The nine sites targeted in this test are areas previously found to be deleted in infertile men. This panel is estimated to detect more than 80% of the currently reported microdeletions. Eight non-contiguous sites within the long arm (Yq11) and one site in the short arm (Yp11) of the Y chromosome are tested by PCR amplification followed by gel electrophoresis. These nine sites are sequence tagged sites sY14 (SRY), sY86, sY87, sY134, sY143, RBM1, sY152, sY153 and sY255 (DAZ).
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GREENVILLE, N.C. - For internet sweepstakes cafes across North Carolina, the writing is on the wall, literally.
Closing signs are popping up at these businesses across the east to let customers know they're shutting down.
Last month, the state Supreme Court upheld a 2010 law ruling video sweepstakes machines illegal, calling the cash-prize games as the "functional equivalent of gambling."
The decision gives the cafes until January 3 to comply.
After that, the state Attorney General is leaving it up to individual law enforcement agencies to decide how they want to enforce the law.
Pitt County Sheriff Neil Elks says he plans to issue notices to business owners on the third, but he has not yet set a time line for when he will start penalizing them.
The statute says people who go against the law could face charges ranging from a misdemeanor to a felony.
It's a harsh reality for some owners who argue their cafes are not gambling operations, but rather legitimate businesses that provide entertainment.
Financially, the closures mean the loss of thousands of dollars in fees, taxes and special licenses for some cities. Not to mention thousands of people state-wide who will be left without jobs.
And while they're closing for now, most owners are already hatching a plan to side-step the law by tweaking their current software. However, most of the owners could not explicitly describe what changes to software would make the games legal.
Two out-of-state software companies that make most of the games used in these businesses have announced they plan to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. But of course, that process could take months, and there's no guarantee that the court will agree to hear the case.


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Valdosta - Two South Georgia culinary stars are helping raise money for the Second Harvest Food Bank in Valdosta.
Jamie and Bobby Deen, host of the Food Network's "Road Tasted" and sons of superstar chef Paula Deen, will headline the Empty Bowl Fundraiser Friday night.
When they're not on the road, they live and work in Savannah.
The fundraiser will feature a silent auction, entertainment and a recipe contest.
The winner gets to cook with the brothers.
All proceeds will go to the Kids cafe Program that feeds area youth. "So if they don't participate in the program, they may go hungry. So we feed them at participating sites, they get a hot meal, a serving of milk and they also get homework assistance and enrichment activities," says Shannon Zapf from the food bank.
They hope to raise 25-thousand dollars.
The event begins Friday at 5:30 PM at the James H Rainwater Conference Center.
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For On Site Opera's latest project — an adaptation of Rameau's Pygmalion performed amidst wax statues and mannequins — it tested a new kind of translation, projected not on a wall but on the lens of Google Glass.
Kentucky Opera's general director, David Roth, has renewed his contract for another five years, and Music Director and Principal Conductor Joseph Mechavich has signed a two-year contract.
Gertrude Stein was a big woman with a big ego. Her friends were big, important artists, like Picasso and Matisse. A new opera by composer Ricky Ian Gordon, best known for his acclaimed 2007 opera based on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, takes place in Paris and gets its name, 27, from the street address where Stein and Alice B. Toklas hosted many of the greatest artists and writers of the early 20th Century.


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Cake Toppers for Anniversary
Finding cake toppers for your anniversary is easy at Advantage Bridal. We offer many types of cake toppers and our selection of anniversary cake toppers is always growing! We have custom cake toppers that can be personalized for any anniversary.
We also carry milestone cake toppers. Our silver anniversary, or 25th anniversary cake toppers, are fun and festive and many are in stock and able to ship immediately.
And we don't stop there! We have 30th anniversary cake toppers, 40th anniversary cake toppers - right up the the Golden anniversary cake toppers or 50th anniversary cake toppers. Your love has withstood the years and we'd love to help be a part of your celebration with any one of our many anniversary cake toppers!
A wedding anniversary is a milestone worthy of celebration and cheer. Whether it�s your first or your sixtieth, you�ll want a special cake adorned in a way that says to the world that your love is deep and forever. Select an anniversary cake topper that demonstrates your commitment and joy.
On your first wedding anniversary, you may choose to have an intimate evening to commemorate your nuptials. Ask your baker to create a smaller version of your wedding cake so you can enjoy the flavors that sent you off into the world as newlyweds. Top the cake with a single monogram letter and you�ll have a keepsake that you can use on your annual anniversary cakes for a lifetime.
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Pathological waste is defined at LBNL as any recognizable human or animal body part and tissue. The most common pathological waste found at LBNL is an animal carcass.
Pathological waste pickup containers are supplied by LBNLs medical waste subcontractor (Figure 4-1). They are usually red, and are prelabeled with the biohazard symbol and the words Pathological Waste.
Pathological containers must be lined with a red biohazard bag before depositing waste.
4.3 Pathological Waste Disposal Procedures
The following section describes the procedures that must be followed when disposing of pathological waste.
Wear the appropriate PPE for handling pathological waste (e.g., lab coat, gloves, safety glasses).
Deposit the pathological waste into a biohazardous waste bag. Seal the biohazard bag closed (tape, rubber band, etc.) Red biohazard bags are to be used for pathology waste in areas where the laboratory waste is deposited into
containers lined with red biohazard bags. Clear biohazard bags are to be used for pathology waste in areas where the laboratory waste is deposited into containers lined with clear biohazard bags.
Label the outside of the bag with the generator's name and extension, and the date the bag was sealed.
Store the bagged waste in a freezer. This helps to minimize odors.
The morning of the pickup, transfer the waste into a pathological waste pickup container.
Fill out the Medical Waste Accumulation Log
Wash your hands after removing your gloves.
4.4 Pathological Waste Contaminated with Radioactive Material
Pathological waste that is contaminated with radioactive material (e.g., animal carcasses labeled with tritium) is not medical waste. It is regulated as radioactive waste. This waste must not be put into the pathological waste containers. Refer to LBNL/PUB-3092, Guidelines for Generators to Meet HWHF Acceptance Requirements, for proper disposal of these wastes, or contact your Generator Assistant.
4.5 Pathology Waste from a Radioactive Materials Area (RMA)
Pathology waste originating from an RMA must be below minimum detection levels for radioactivity. By signing the Medical Waste Accumulation Log, the generator is certifying that there is no detectable radioactivity in the waste. If you are unsure whether there is radioactive contamination in your medical/biohazardous waste, please contact your Radiation Control Technician.


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Like many food bloggers, I am frequently contacted by PR folkies asking if I'd be interesting in sampling/reviewing whichever cheese or book or knife or chocolate or whatever they are currently responsible for selling. My response is always the same: I prefer to keep my blog promotion free so, thanks but no thanks. (Can you [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agony, charity, happiness, marathon on October 3, 2011 | 27 Comments »
Yesterday I ran the Loch Ness Marathon in 4 hours 23 minutes and 27 seconds. Today I am in utter agony but am still smiling like an idiot. Many thanks to all of you who sponsored me. To date, I've raised almost £2,700 for Cancer Research UK. My mum would have been delighted. xxx
Loch Ness Marathon
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There's only two weeks left until I run the Baxter's Loch Ness Marathon. Off out this morning to run 13 miles, the last of my longer training runs, then I'll mostly be relaxing and psyching myself up for the big day. As I've said before, my main reason for running is to raise money for [...]
West Coast Sky
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Happy weekend to you all. I'm off to the Borders for a couple of days. Wanted to share this beautiful time-lapse with you before I headed off though. It was captured by a friend (who has some stunning photos here) and I can't stop watching it.
The Marathon
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged brain tumour, charity. cancer, Just Giving, marathon, running, training on August 22, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Just three months after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, my mum, Beth Harrison, died earlier this year. Though those months were horribly difficult for her, Mum faced her illness with tremendous courage and, as always, never stopped thinking of others. Just one example of this was her request that I run a marathon to [...]
Summer Plans
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Read, read, read. Just finished this. Now reading this. Looking forward to this. Any other recommendations??? Run, run, run. I'm training for the Loch Ness marathon in October… Learn to use the manual settings on my camera. Blog more. Go to Austria with my Dad. Enter the village vegetable show again. Prepare for my new [...]
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Four months after discovering she had a brain tumour, my mum died on Saturday afternoon. It's been and it continues to be a terribly difficult time but I'd like to thank you all of you who left kind comments and sent well wishes during this time. They helped.
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Wish today were a bit less aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh and a bit more like this:
Forever Ago
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Been looking through old photos a lot recently. That's me, that is. I laughed for about an hour afterwards.
Another Crocus.
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So excited am I by the entrance of flowers and buds and daylight and smells and tweeting, I've taken to singing "Spring, spring, spring, spring, spring, spring…" to the tune of Jingle Bells.


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When prostate cancer metastasis -- spreading of the cancer outside of the prostate itself -- occurs, it typically affects the structures in its immediate vicinity.
Structures very near the prostate that are likely to be involved in prostate cancer metastasis early on include the seminal vesicles, urinary bladder, and bones of the pelvis. The area nearby lymph nodes is also often affected.
Prostate Cancer Metastasis: Where Next?
Prostate cancer has a definite tendency to spread to the bones. The bones of the pelvis, upper legs, and lower spine are the most common sites for prostate cancer bone metastasis, but all of the body's bones are potential targets.
Prostate cancer can involve the liver, intestines, brain, lungs, and other tissues as well, though these are far less common than the bones.
Why Would Prostate Cancer Metastasis Be Suspected?
Prostate cancer metastasis may be suspected if you have specific symptoms. For example, new lower back pain may raise your doctor's suspicion that you have metastasis to the lower spine, or newly elevated liver enzymes may cause your doctor to suspect spread to the liver.
Additionally, PSA levels that continue to rise despite treatment, especially if they are rising particularly fast, may raise your doctor's suspicion about the possibility of metastasis somewhere in your body.
How Is Prostate Cancer Metastasis Detected?
Imaging studies are the primary tool for this discovery.
A common imaging workup would include a bone scan and a CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis. Additionally, an MRI might be done.
A bone scan results in images of the entire skeleton. Metastasis to the bone will usually show up as "hot spots" on the bone scan.
A CT scan can be used to look for metastases in the abdomen and pelvis. Prostate cancer that has spread to the liver, intestines, or bones of the abdomen and pelvis can usually be found. Additionally, spread to the lymph nodes can sometimes be detected if the lymph nodes have become enlarged.
MRIs are sometimes used if there is a question as to whether the cancer has spread into tissues very near the prostate or to see if there is tissue left behind in the prostate bed following surgery.
Govindan R, Arquette MA. Washington Manual of Oncology. 2002.
Abraham J, Gulley JL, Allegra CJ. Bethesda Handbook of Clinical Oncology. 2005.


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Heading to Jackson Falls this weekend with a partner. Gotta few spots in my car if anyone wants to split gas and/or crush with us. Looking to head out late Wed or super early Thurs (from Madison). Checking out routes in the area, might even bring the pads if there's room. Local beta would be awesome. We've got the turkey.
Weather looks great, though Saturday's high is slated to be 43F. If you haven't heard, the Ozark General Store is closed down; so if you need last-minute supplies you'll have stop somewhere else.


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eco solar vehicle: westfalia verdier
Well, with the two seater Tesla vehicle and barely any space for luggage, the Verdier solar Westfalia is looking a little nicer... and cheaper at 69K. This self sufficient green energy vehicle is worth a look for its eco sensibility.
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text: Redfoo started writing and producing his first songs with Kyle Dye around 1997 and also formed a hip-hop group with Dre Kroon. They released an album, Balance Beam in that year.The group later split up and Redfoo worked as a day trader. He also did engineering work for rapper Defari's album Focused Daily. He formed the electropop band LMFAO with his nephew SkyBlu in 2006 and their first single "I'm in Miami Bitch". They were featured on French DJ David Guetta's 2010 single Gettin' Over You, which peaked at number-one in France and the UK. They released their second studio album Sorry for Party Rocking in 2010. The album spawned worldwide hits "Party Rock Anthem", "Champagne Showers", "Sexy and I Know It" and "Sorry for Party Rocking". Redfoo also worked on songs for rapper Pitbull's album and wrote and produced three songs for pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen's second album Kiss. And he appears in the video Live My Life by Far East Movement.


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A Phoenixville man was arrested for DUI and drug charges last weekend after a traffic stop yielded a glass pipe in his car, Schuylkill Township Police are reporting.
Scott Matthew Patrick, 26, faces charges of careless driving, disregarding his traffic lane, possession of drug paraphernalia, and five counts of DUI stemming from the September 30 incident.
According to court documents, Patrick was traveling westbound on the 1200 block of Valley Forge Road at 3:09 a.m. that morning when he, at least twice, swerved across the double yellow line and into the oncoming lane. Police pulled him over (a second vehicle was pulled over as well, but the driver was sent on his way) and noted he had bloodshot eyes and smelled like alcohol.
Patrick failed a field sobriety test and a Breathalyzer test and was placed into custody on suspicion of DUI. When police searched his Honda Accord, they found a glass pipe, commonly used for smoking marijuana, in his center console.
Patrick was taken to Phoenixville Hospital to have blood drawn for testing and released to his spouse. He faces preliminary hearing on November 8.


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"Bovatec is an ionophore feed additive that has demonstrated efficacy as a performance enhancer, improving the rate of gain in dairy heifers," says Mark LaVorgna, global director technical services, Alpharma. "In pasture-grass diets, Bovatec enhances growth rates in most any type of pasture forage. Now, by offering it in a block, we are making it easier for producers to deliver Bovatec to heifers on pasture."
Bovatec can increase daily gains of pasture-fed cattle by as much as 0.12 lb. to 0.18 lb. per head per day. The Bovatec 2.2 block is recommended to be placed near watering or resting areas for best intake.
"The block form of Bovatec 2.2 is compact and easy to handle, and allows managers to monitor consumption patterns in the field," notes Dale Blasi, Extension specialist–beef cattle nutrition and management, Kansas State University. "Delivering supplements to pasture cattle can be logistically challenging, particularly in extensive settings. The salt content in Bovatec 2.2 encourages intake, and the convenience of the block saves time and labor."
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Faster network speeds are better, right?
LTE Advanced is coming soon to the Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphone, offering double the downlink speeds of LTE (Long Term Evolution).
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But U.S. carriers still have to upgrade LTE networks to operate with LTE Advanced, and their plans to do so are vague.
Even if U.S. networks were completely LTE Advanced-ready, some analysts question whether buyers would pay much more to upgrade their smartphones for a model with the LTE Advanced speed advantage. There's unlikely to be the same scramble for LTE Advanced as there was for LTE-ready smartphones such as the iPhone 5, which provide 10 Mbps or more on LTE downlinks on average, boosting previous speeds by three times or more over 3G, analysts said.
One analyst is especially skeptical of LTE Advanced's value. LTE Advanced in a smartphone or tablet "is not important to the user, especially in the U.S. where carriers have been marketing LTE or 4G for years now," said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner. "The novelty has worn off. To tell customers that LTE will be even faster ... is nice, but not life changing."
Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates, said consumers don't understand what LTE Advanced is. "Will users actually see that much improvement? Will they notice anything all that different in their user experience? For most, probably not," Gold said Tuesday. "Carriers [and manufacturers] are really trying to find advantage to keep the market excited about their networks. Will users buy into it? Remains to be seen."
JK Shin, co-CEO of Samsung Electronics, said Monday that the Galaxy S 4 with LTE Advanced capabilities will go on sale in South Korea in June and with wireless carriers in other countries later on. He said that a three-minute download of a movie using existing LTE technology would take just over a minute to download over LTE Advanced.
Of the four largest U.S. wireless carriers polled on Monday, T-Mobile USA said it was planning on LTE-Advanced network support, although it has not announced a schedule.
Verizon said it plans three network improvements that will support LTE Advanced, some of which will be ready and "invisible" to customers later this year.
Sprint said it has already deployed some elements of LTE Advanced, but didn't elaborate on a schedule or other details. The carrier said LTE Advanced will give customers greater speed, capacity, improvements in video quality and will help lower Sprint's costs to keep unlimited data plans.
AT&T is also expected to move to LTE Advanced, but didn't respond immediately to questions about timing.


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Anyone else REALLY wanting to wait until September to deliver?
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|Sun, 08-19-2012 - 3:45pm
As uncomfortable as I am, sometimes I do think that I'd like to have this little one anytime. It has been torture to walk, roll over in bed, etc. since 27 or 28 weeks, but I know she needs to bake a lil longer. I was just thinking last night about how quick this pregnancy has been, and I'm not ready to NOT be pg anymore! This probably isn't our last, but it still makes me sad to get to the end of the pregnancy. I do love being pregnant, no matter how uncomfortable I am. Plus, I flexed a whole lot of $$ for delivery that doesn't start until Sept. 1st. So, if I have the baby before then, I'll more than likely lose it!
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|Sun, 08-19-2012 - 6:19pm
After all the threats of Delivery since 26 weeks.....I was SURE he was coming anytime. Then at my Appt. Thursday.....I decided, I wanted him to stay put a week or so longer...so he could get bigger and I could TRY to get some sleep. Alas..he arrived THAT night! LOL.
Go figure..these babies have their own agenda's!
|Sun, 08-19-2012 - 8:49pm
I have a scheduled c/s and as it creeps closer, I get more and more sad. But not sad. If that makes sense.
|Sun, 08-19-2012 - 9:59pm
I don't want to go too early because of my maternity leave. I only get 6 weeks, then he's going to be going to work with me. The longer he's in here the closer we are to the holiday time off (Thanksgiving and Christmas). Having a newborn at the office is going to be a challenge and I look forward to that paid vacation time. He starts daycare in January.
Plus, we still don't have a name so he can take his time. Oh, and I'm terrified of the big life change that having a baby is!!! We tried for 8 months for this baby and I'm very happy... but right now things are pretty easy - just me, DH, and my sweet 4 year old. Life's about to get a lot more complicated! lol
|Mon, 08-20-2012 - 9:59am
Oh man, I am so ready for this baby to get here...I feel like I have been pregnant forever and sometimes I feel like the baby just will never come. I had been hoping to give birth by today, which is DH's first day of class -- obviously that didn't happen! The thought that I could still go another FOUR WEEKS is so hard to accept! I am just trying to take it one day at a time, and focus on all the good things about going for longer...especially since this will be our first child, these are our last days of living with just the two of us, enjoying our childless lives. But I am so impatient to just not be pregnant anymore, I have to really remind myself to focus on those benefits while I can!
|Mon, 08-20-2012 - 12:08pm
I'm with Lawswife. I'm over this pregnancy, ready to get my body and emotions back. This one has hit me so much harder than all of my other 3 and I'm just exhausted. I'm ready to meet her and move on with the next chapter in our lives. Watching our kids grow up. Early on, I was on the fence about the permanency of having my tubes tied (as this was meant to be our last). I signed the papers at my last appointment with no regrets, lol. I also have no doubt that these little ones have their own agendas, regardless of what we want, lol.
|Thu, 08-23-2012 - 4:37pm