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Nuclear Safety:
DOE's Investigation of Phosgene Gas Contamination Was Inadequate, but Experts Conclude That Worker Safety and Facilities Are Not Threatened
GAO-07-712: Published: May 31, 2007. Publicly Released: May 31, 2007.
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More than 700,000 tons of uranium are stored at two Department of Energy (DOE) sites where uranium enrichment took place and where two facilities are being constructed to treat depleted uranium. Some of the storage cylinders for uranium came from the Army more than 50 years ago and may originally have contained phosgene, a toxic gas used as a chemical weapon in World War I. In September 2005, DOE's Inspector General issued an alert warning that residual phosgene, if present, could threaten the safety of people and the treatment facilities. GAO was directed to review DOE's investigation of possible phosgene contamination of uranium storage cylinders. GAO consulted a panel of experts to assess the adequacy of DOE's investigation and whether possible phosgene contamination could threaten the new treatment facilities under construction.
According to members of GAO's expert panel, although DOE adequately demonstrated that the public would not be harmed if small amounts of phosgene escaped from the storage cylinders, it neglected to explicitly document its analysis of worker safety in its investigation of possible phosgene contamination. DOE's regulations and guidance call for thorough safety analyses of newly identified hazards, such as possible phosgene contamination, to protect workers and the public. Yet DOE assumed, without explicitly documenting, that existing worker safety procedures were adequate to protect workers from the possible presence of phosgene. After GAO identified the need for DOE to support this key assumption, DOE provided supplemental information on worker safety; GAO's panel agreed that this supplement sufficiently supported DOE's position. In addition, although DOE's guidance calls for independent review of investigation results, DOE officials supervising the phosgene investigation also served as reviewers. This lack of independent review may have contributed to weaknesses in the investigation. The experts GAO consulted agreed that, for two reasons, the facilities under construction in Ohio and Kentucky would not be threatened by possible phosgene contamination of uranium storage cylinders. First, at the start of treatment operations, cylinders containing depleted uranium will be placed inside pressure vessels designed to withstand and contain any leak from a cylinder. If phosgene were present, it would not affect either the pressure vessels or the treatment facilities. Second, during subsequent steps, any phosgene that may be processed with the depleted uranium would be destroyed by the extreme heat and water vapor applied during the treatment process.
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Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In November 2010, the Department of Energy (DOE)issued new guidance on developing technical safety requirements for nuclear facilities--DOE G 423.1-1A "Implementation Guide for Use in Developing Technical Safety Requirements." This guidance described the process for conducting safety investigations of potentially unsafe situations at DOE's nuclear facilities. The guidance provides for independent reviews of technical safety requirements and stipulates that "Individual reviewers should not review their own work or work for which they have direct responsibility."
Recommendation: To ensure the comprehensiveness and technical adequacy of investigations of potentially unsafe situations at DOE's nuclear facilities, the Secretary of Energy should ensure that safety investigations benefit from a review process that includes reviewers who are sufficiently independent of the investigations being done.
Agency Affected: Department of Energy
Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: In November 2010, the Department of Energy (DOE)issued new guidance on developing technical safety requirements for nuclear facilities--DOE G 423.1-1A "Implementation Guide for Use in Developing Technical Safety Requirements." This guidance described the process for conducting safety investigations of potentially unsafe situations at DOE's nuclear facilities. The guidance states that independent reviews should be conducted of safety investigations and that these reviews should include objective reviews of "unresolved safety question determinations; proposed tests and experiments; procedures; programs; facility changes and modifications; technical safety requirements changes; facility operation, maintenance, and testing; DOE and industry issues of safety significance; and any other safety-related items."
Recommendation: To ensure the comprehensiveness and technical adequacy of investigations of potentially unsafe situations at DOE's nuclear facilities, the Secretary of Energy should ensure that safety investigations benefit from a review process that provides objective evaluations of the methodologies being used and the findings and conclusions reached.
Agency Affected: Department of Energy
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Apr 27, 2015
DOE Loan Programs:Current Estimated Net Costs Include $2.2 Billion in Credit Subsidy, Plus Administrative ExpensesGAO-15-438: Published: Apr 27, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 27, 2015.
Apr 22, 2015
Department of Energy:Management of Excess UraniumGAO-15-475T: Published: Apr 22, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 22, 2015.
Apr 15, 2015
National Nuclear Security Administration:Observations on Management Challenges and Steps Taken to Address ThemGAO-15-532T: Published: Apr 15, 2015. Publicly Released: Apr 15, 2015.
Mar 23, 2015
National Nuclear Security Administration:Reports on the Benefits and Costs of Competing Management and Operating Contracts Need to Be Clearer and More CompleteGAO-15-331: Published: Mar 23, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 23, 2015.
Mar 19, 2015
DOE Facilities:Better Prioritization and Life Cycle Cost Analysis Would Improve Disposition PlanningGAO-15-272: Published: Mar 19, 2015. Publicly Released: Mar 19, 2015.
Mar 2, 2015
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board:Improvements Needed to Strengthen Internal Control and Promote Transparency [Reissued on March 2, 2015]GAO-15-181: Published: Jan 20, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 19, 2015.
Feb 25, 2015
DOE Real Property:Better Data and a More Proactive Approach Needed to Facilitate Property DisposalGAO-15-305: Published: Feb 25, 2015. Publicly Released: Feb 25, 2015.
Dec 16, 2014
Nuclear Regulatory Commission:NRC Needs to Improve Its Cost Estimates by Incorporating More Best PracticesGAO-15-98: Published: Dec 12, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 16, 2014.
Hanford Cleanup:Condition of Tanks May Further Limit DOE's Ability to Respond to Leaks and IntrusionsGAO-15-40: Published: Nov 25, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 16, 2014.
Dec 11, 2014
DOE and NNSA Project Management:Analysis of Alternatives Could Be Improved by Incorporating Best PracticesGAO-15-37: Published: Dec 11, 2014. Publicly Released: Dec 11, 2014.
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Glee Football Player Adult Mens Costume
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Every gentleman you see will gladly give their heart to you when you decide to wear the Heart Breaker Adult Women's Costumes. This black, red and gold dress is fit for royalty and features an attached petticoat and heart details on the skirt and collar, complete with a detachable black and red…
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…Baby adult womens costume. The red, stretch knit corset-styled dress of this sexy womens costume features ruffle and bow detailing and an organza-ruffled skirt with metallic heart print. Removable and adjustable shoulder straps, matching wings and a bow and arrow complete this red-hot cupid costume.
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Virgina Cavaliers Football Uniform Child Set
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…emerge from the shadows, a vision of grander stuck for eternity in another time. Find out on Halloween when you don the amazingly detailed adult men's Corpse Count costume and stroll amongst the living. A tip of the hat to the ladies and perhaps one will wish to join you for the evening or forever.
Ted Movie Adult Men's Costume Kit
…was a lonely child, who dearly wished for his new Christmas gift, a large teddy bear he names Teddy ("Ted"), to come to life to be his friend. Make friends when you create your own version of Ted in the officially licensed Ted Bear Movie adult men's costume kit - you never know what might come to…
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…be two sizes too small but you will live large in this officially licensed Dr. Seuss Grinch Who Stole Christmas costume. Steal all the attention in this highly detailed costume which is great for holiday parades, pageants and pictures - it even includes the character mask and faux fur Grinch gloves.
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Three prep tennis teams from across Catawba County are in the 2A and 3A dual team playoffs.
Newton-Conover and Bandys qualified from the CVAC, while Hickory made the 3A playoffs.
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association released the pairings officially on Monday.
Weather has forced several changes in the prep sports schedule around Catawba County today. Below are all postponements:
Prep baseball
Bunker Hill at Bandys, ppd., 7 p.m. Tuesday
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Many 'watermen' steer from amidships with a 'stick - tiller' leaving the wheel alone/vacant.
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Lady Gaga + Beyonce Lead the Forbes World's Most Powerful Musicians 2013 List
Who run the world? Girls! At least in regards to the Forbes list that counts down the Most Powerful Musicians in the year 2013, where Lady Gaga and Beyonce sit at No.1 and No.2, respectively.
Lady Gaga Doesn't Like Her Collabo With Cher
It's a clash of the divas, sort of. Remember that collabo between Lady Gaga and Cher, where two generations of pop divas collided in what we thought would be an instant and epic classic?
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DJ and producer Zedd is becoming a music star in his own right with 'Clarity, but he's also in a good position for having worked on tracks for Lady Gaga's upcoming 'ARTPOP.' He promised it's not an EDM record and is confident that people will dig the musical magic that he and the Mother Monster made.
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Lady Gaga may have made her "soft" return to the stage by performing with jazz musician Brian Newman in NYC earlier this month, but the Mother Monster's next big gig will be with her 'Telephone' partner Beyonce!
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Lady Gaga had to bail on a grand scale world tour after an injury that required hip surgery, but she's getting right back on the performing horse.
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She's the Godmother Monster now! Elton John has revealed that Lady Gaga is not only the godmother to his firstborn, Zachary, but she is also the godmother of his second son, Elijah. Those are two lucky little boys.
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By Deja Vue Designs on September 28, 2012
Today….I'm gonna talk to Y'all about the creative process….no pictures….just words.
Yesterday I was visiting with a dear….very creative friend of mine (Cheryl Lewis). I was telling her how certain members of my family just didn't "get it"….She's really creative in her own right….and when she tells me something….I really respect it. She inspired me to write this.
Many people….go out….shop….and realize the value of artwork. These folks usually have a fair bit of talent themselves…and know what goes into most pieces of art. For anyone who dosen't realize it (talented or not, and I believe EVERYONE has a talent!!!)….let me explain….
When looking at art….try to look a little deeper than how simple it looks…..look at all the parts…pieces…paint and supplies involved…not to mention the time it took to do all the work. Artists of ANYKIND have to search…find…and haul home all the components and sometimes wait on the other components to show up. We work hard in the heat…in the cold and all times in between to come up with our artwork….not to mention….the most important portion….our minds.
The mind is the part that most people don't understand….or VALUE!!!!!
When you copy someone's art….you're STEALING….no other way to say it….it's THEFT!!!….now…don't misunderstand me inspiration is one thing….copying verbatim is another. In photography and art on paper, music and many other arts…there are copyright laws in existence to protect them….pitiful….but it does exist. That's because it is WRONG!!!
Enough of that soapbox…..my point….the next time you're looking at things that people have created…think about the hours spent combing places….that includes the gas to get there…and back. The time spent dragging it home….cleaning it…repairing it…and focusing on what it needs to become…whether it's changes purpose…or just gets redecorated. The expense of the supplies used. Then try to imagine how much time it took….LITERALLY!!! Now….add all that up…Take that price….add rent on a building….or booth….and the time it might spend there. Take what that piece costs and subtract what you think those supplies, gas, rent, and tools cost…..then divide what's left by what amount of time you think it took that person to do all the above….usually it's less that $2-3 bucks an hour..IF THAT!!!! Then answer these questions…..
1. Would I appreciate being paid that hourly wage for my time?
2. Would I like people to come along and try to steal my job?….or get paid for my work?
3. Would I like someone to take something I worked hard to accomplish?
4. Do I really want to get paint under my fingernails? Grease in my hair? ruin my clothes? and scratch up my vehicle to drag something home?
5. Can I find that same something anywhere…and all the components….and supplies, labor and time for the cost?
Probably NO to everyone of them!
I'm not judging anyone…..just food for thought!
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KANSAS CITY, MO. — It took only a single term for Roy Blunt to become more than just a congressman from small-town Missouri.
Just that quickly, the former history teacher — born in Niangua, population 494 — was on his way to becoming the consummate Washington insider.
A decade later, hes the Republican candidate for Missouris open U.S. Senate seat, running against Democrat Robin Carnahan. One recent poll gave Blunt an 11-point lead; another showed the race tied.
But even as surveys show voters this year might be hostile to incumbents, Blunt appears to have suffered little political fall- out as a practitioner of a style of politics the public professes to detest.
Whats unusual is heres a guy who understands how the levers of special-interest power work, and hes being very successful in a period when the public wants to throw the bums out, said Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, a nonpartisan group that pushes government openness.
Blunts reputation as a Washington insider already is a campaign issue. Carnahan began airing new attack ads this week calling her opponent the very worst of Washington.
Hes gotten too cozy with the lobbyists, Carnahan said recently in Kansas City. Hes the top recipient of lobbyists campaign contributions in all of Washington, and I think hes forgotten who he works for.
But when asked to point to specific examples of wrongdoing, Carnahans campaign drew a blank.
Thats a good question, Carnahan aide Mindy Mazur said.
Blunt declined to address Carnahans charges, saying only: Robin Carnahan doesnt want to talk about the issues Missourians care about, like jobs and the economy, because she knows her positions are out of touch with Missouri families.
Blunt was elected in 1996 and quickly became steeped in the culture of Capitol Hill. He developed strong ties to the lobbying industry. Former aides work for influential firms in a revolving door common in the nations capital.
He has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from major corporations and trade groups, used their corporate jets and pushed legislation that critics contend benefited his donors and family members.
Indeed, Blunt is married to a prominent Capitol Hill lobbyist. One of his sons is a Missouri lobbyist. His clients have included some of his fathers top political donors, including Philip Morris and AT&T.
Another son, former governor Matt Blunt, is a senior adviser to two prominent D.C. lobbying firms. One is headed by former attorney general John Ashcroft, himself a former governor and senator. A vice chairman at the other firm is Gregg Hartley, Roy Blunts former chief of staff.
Blunt has accepted contributions from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose political corruption case helped knock the GOP out of power in 2006.
Some of Blunts aides also enjoyed perks courtesy of Abramoff, including free concert tickets. Some even became ensnared in the ensuing Justice Department investigation. The probe sent the lobbyist to prison on corruption charges and tarred the reputations of political players on Capitol Hill.
But Blunt spokeswoman Burson Snyder, who responded to most of the issues raised in this story by critics, points out: Roy Blunt never met Jack Abramoff.
Still, Carnahans campaign is betting that Blunts insider credentials will catch up with him and eventually count more with voters than her affiliation with President Barack Obama.
George Connor, a Missouri State University political scientist, isnt so sure.
Even though Roy Blunt might be the prototypical Washington insider, thats still preferred over (House Speaker Nancy) Pelosi, (Senate Majority Leader Harry) Reid and Carnahan, Connor said. That seems to be the way this campaign is shaping up.
Carnahan has held elective office since 2004 and also has served in the federal government. She comes from one of Missouris most prominent political families, including a governor and a U.S. senator. The Kansas City Star will examine her record in a future story.
Colleagues from both parties said Blunt has remained attentive to the needs and conservative pulse of southwest Missouris 7th Congressional District. They describe him as friendly, even-tempered and open to compromise.
He has the ability to move the ball down the field, and part of that is building relationships, said Kenny Hulshof, a Republican and former U.S. House member.
He called Blunt the savviest politician he has met.
Just two years after he was elected, Blunts star was on the rise. House Majority Whip Tom DeLay plucked him from obscurity to become chief deputy whip, whose task is to count Republican votes.
But by 2006, his close association with DeLay and a cloud of GOP scandals would hinder Blunts rise in the House leadership when he lost a contest to become majority leader.
Guilt by association, said Rep. John Shimkus, an Illinois Republican elected with Blunt in 1996.
Early on, however, Shimkus said that unlike other freshmen, Blunt was ready to play at the big-league level.
I was trying to find the bathrooms, Shimkus said. He hit the ground running.
With Republicans eager to forge a deeper alliance with Washingtons lobbying industry, Blunt became a pivotal player in the K Street Project, an effort to cement the connection between Capitol Hill, special interests and campaign money.
Under Blunt and Republican leaders, lobbyists became part of the legislative equation. Blunts office became the nerve center of an outreach campaign to K Street that brought corporate interests to the table.
We formalized the process of reaching out to them, Hartley told Bloomberg News in 2006. You could talk to Tom or Toms people, or Roy or Roys people. It was all the same.
During the 2003 vote on the Medicare prescription drug program, when Blunt had moved up to majority whip, he set up a war room for lobbyists in his office to help pass the bill.
Not all members of Congress carry water for special interests quite as obviously as Blunt has, said Allison of the Sunlight Foundation. He kind of made an art form of it.
The conservative magazine The Weekly Standard said at the time that Blunt may be the most influential Republican no ones ever heard of.
Blunt followed DeLay up the ladder. When the Texas congressman became majority leader in 2002, Blunt became majority whip. When DeLay stepped down in 2005 after his indictment in Texas for campaign law violations, Blunt replaced him again temporarily, while still holding onto his whip post.
DeLay still faces charges in Texas. The Justice Department, meanwhile, has dropped its own corruption investigation of DeLays connection to Abramoff.
Though allies politically, DeLay and Blunt had contrasting styles. DeLay was known as the hammer for his combative brand of politics. Blunt employed the soft sell.
Their political action committees shared offices on Capitol Hill. A former DeLay congressional aide directed both of their PACs. He was later indicted along with DeLay in the Texas case.
Blunt and DeLay also shared an aggressive approach to fundraising.
Case in point: a 2000 money carousel the two orchestrated that, according to The Associated Press, funneled political donations secretly collected for presidential convention parties to some of their own pet causes.
DeLays group transferred $150,000 to one of Blunts PACs — Rely on Your Beliefs — which then donated $100,000 to the Missouri Republican Party.
The state GOP began spending big money to boost the ultimately successful campaign of Blunts son Matt, then running for secretary of state.
The Missouri Ethics Commission later fined Blunts PAC $3,000 for improperly concealing its fundraising.
Snyder said that the Missouri GOP, and not Blunts PAC, decided how the contribution would be spent. She said Blunts PAC had made regular donations to the state party over the years, and the 2000 donation was not unusual.
Blunts ties to Abramoff also have generated criticism. Six months after Blunts promotion to chief deputy whip, Abramoff contributed $5,000 to his newly formed leadership PAC. In all, Abramoff donated $8,500 to Blunt between 1999 and 2003.
He also included Blunt on a short list of power players designated as FOO — friends of the owner — who were to dine for free at his restaurant near Capitol Hill.
Snyder said that Blunt never accepted free meals and never knew he was even on the list.
He also never took money from the Indian tribes seeking gambling casino licenses who were Abramoffs clients and whom the lobbyist was accused of defrauding. Snyder said Blunt opposed Indian gaming.
But in 2003, Blunt signed two letters to Interior Secretary Gale Norton urging her to support the casino concerns of a Louisiana tribe that was an Abramoff client.
A week after the second letter, also signed by DeLay and then-House speaker Dennis Hastert, Blunt received a $2,000 donation from Abramoffs lobbying firm.
Asked about the letters in 2006, spokeswoman Snyder said Blunt signed them because a Louisiana colleague asked him to.
The notion that there is some sort of quid pro quo here is absurd, she said.
After Abramoffs downfall, Blunts PAC contributed an amount equal to what it received from the lobbyist — $8,500 — to charity, Snyder said.
Connor of Missouri State University said: One couldve accused Congressman Blunt of guilt by association. He became very close to what we might call the wrong people.
Blunt also has faced criticism that his legislation rewarded political donors and helped family and close friends.
One episode occurred not long after he was chosen as majority whip in 2002. Blunt tried to slip an amendment for tobacco giant Philip Morris, a political contributor, into a bill establishing the Homeland Security Department.
The amendment, according to The Washington Post, was crafted to protect the company from competition from contraband cigarettes and Internet sales of tobacco products.
Snyder said the bill was needed because the government had become concerned that cigarette smuggling was helping finance terrorism.
The Philip Morris lobbyist at the time was Abigail Perlman, a close friend whom Blunt married the following year after divorcing his first wife. Andrew Blunt, the congressmans son and a lobbyist in Missouri, also worked for the company.
Prior to the tobacco amendment, executives for Philip Morris and two of its subsidiaries, Kraft Foods and Miller Brewing Co., donated more than $30,000 to Blunts PAC, according to campaign finance disclosure records.
The Miller PAC also had donated $10,000 to another Blunt committee set up to collect unregulated donations known as soft money. The year before, Philip Morris donated $100,000 to the same PAC.
DeLay and Hastert killed the amendment once they learned of it. Blunt said at the time that he got the idea from a similar Senate bill.
Shimkus of Illinois was critical of Blunt then.
Im a Christian, Shimkus said. I believe in sin and salvation and grace. Were not perfect. There are hiccups along the way. You have to weigh the good with the bad. Youve got to consider the whole portfolio. Thats what voters do.


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Spending some time at the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve was unlike any city experience I've had yet. Only a short drive up 17th Street from the Mission and, all of a sudden, you're in the woods. It really is an escape — it's dense, it's lush, it's everything! But it was also confusing (not in a bad way). Rather than entering the trail from the wooden staircase as outlined on Yelp, we (Ilissa, Dom and I) made our way through an unmaintained area full of poison oak. We laughed at the thought that of all the adventures, we might get poison oak on an urban hike. We also didn't study the map close enough and, after completing our hike through the right most section of the map ("Woodland Canyon"), we let the road that separates one section of the reserve from the next deter us, thinking we must have reached the end. How big can a reserve in the middle of the city be? Apparently, big! If we would have crossed the road, we have found that the trail continues. In the end, we only explored about a third of the reserve. Note to self: when urban hiking, don't let roads trick you into thinking it's the end of the hike. Crossing roads are a part of the urban trek.
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Sunday, September 14, 2014
Let's Kayak
Ilissa and I have a mini list of city adventures going and, with the perfect weather yesterday, we decided to do the one that involved water. As someone who has never kayaked before, I was a little intimidated by the bay waters. I'm sure you get the idea. There are cargo ships out there! Scurry. So, we went with the easiest route that City Kayak outlined for us, which involved looping around Pier 40, going past the ball park, and under two bridges to the house boats that line the channel. We only made it past the first draw bridge before our allotted rental time was up and we had to turn back. All the more reason to try this again and make it to the house boats!
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
Out & About in the Bay Area
One of the reasons that makes San Francisco, Part II so different than the Part I of my early twenties is that I am afforded the luxury of having my car in the city (thanks, Dom!), off the street and in a garage! I'm sure anyone who has lived or lives in a city as dense as "the city" will understand how awesome this lifestyle of having a car here is. It means I can go to Target whenever, drive to work if I want to splurge on all-day parking (I just did that on Friday for my first time - it was worth the splurge!), meet friends in the East Bay, go to Palo Alto when I crave suburbia, and take day trips to explore the surrounding area. When I lived here before, I could only go as far as BART and Muni allow unless friends rented cars, but now I can make it a point to explore a bit more.
Here are scenes from recent outings:
Pacifica is pretty and so close!
As is Point Reyes.
And, Tilden in Berkeley.
Can't wait for more end-of-summer adventures!
Here are scenes from recent outings:
Pacifica is pretty and so close!
As is Point Reyes.
And, Tilden in Berkeley.
Can't wait for more end-of-summer adventures!
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
New Life Chapter + Kauai Dreaming
Did I mention I moved to San Francisco (again!), started a new job, and turned 30? In an effort to make a real go of a new chapter and stick with my New Year's resolution of saying 'yes' to all new opportunities and possibilities, I took on a new job, freelance work, and school. It's been busy around these parts! I'm learning a lot and feeling really positive with my life's direction. As luck would have it, the second I started my job was the second I caught the travel bug. A homebody by nature, I've never experienced this feeling before, but I keep dreaming about a big trip. It will have to wait because I've only accrued 20 hours of vacation time! For now, I'll keep sourcing the internet for pretty pictures and keep looking at old travel photos like these ones from Kauai this past September. I never understood why people always keep going back to Hawaii like there's no other island on the planet, but I get it now, I can't wait to go back!
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Last month, I had the opportunity to leave California for the first time in too long and go to Hawaii for a wedding. As someone who has never been to Hawaii, you can imagine how in awe I was the second I landed on the island of Kauai. It really is a paradise. Some highlights include:
Stopping at view points on the drive from the airport to the hotel. Every twist and turn along the highway was an adventure from the start.
Peering past the tall grass and foliage that line the Kalalau Trail to see the blue.
Lava rocks!
No big deal, but Dom took me on a helicopter ride! I pushed through the motion sickness and took as many pictures as possible of the Na Pali Coast, the most dramatic coastline I've seen yet. With most of the island inaccessible, it was nice to have the chance to see it all from above, a new perspective of the world I could get used to.
Stopping off at one of the fruit stands along the main highway to drink a mid-day smoothie.
The event of the century and the reason why I went to Kauai took place in the botanical gardens.
Another pretty scene in the botanical gardens and the site of the wedding ceremony.
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The U.S. Justice Department has charged members of the Chinese military with allegedly engaging in economic espionage against American companies. It's the first time that the United States has leveled such charges against agents of a foreign country. But with the accused in China, is this more bluster than bombshell? Or are actual prosecutions possible?
A federal grand jury empanelled at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (where most of the target companies are located) returned an indictment against five members of a Chinese military unit in Shanghai, accusing them of conspiring to hack into the computer systems of six American companies. Among the companies were Alcoa, Westinghouse Electric, and U.S. Steel. The named defendants serve (or served) as officers of Unit 61398 of the 3rd Department of the People's Liberation Army. The defendants often went by their hacker handles, which are mentioned in the indictment. For example, Wone is also known as "UglyGorilla." Each of the defendants was charged with 31 counts for alleged offenses between 2006 and 2014.
If convicted, they would face decades in prison—if they were within reach of U.S. law.
As with any foreign prosecution, the key questions here center on jurisdiction and extradition. The United States generally has clear authority to prosecute within its borders, but that authority is less clear when defendants move outside the U.S. As commerce collapses these borders, prosecution of a trade secrets case can get a lot murkier. The arrest warrants (which were unsealed on Sunday) went out on May 1, and defendants are not in custody, nor do they appear to be represented by counsel.
U.S. officials have already acknowledged that the defendants are at large in China, and it would seem unlikely that the Chinese government would voluntarily hand them over to U.S. authorities. The United States has no extradition treaty with China.
Still, the United States has a few options on the table for actually prosecuting. If the defendants travel to the United States, authorities could try to apprehend them at a port of entry, but it's incredibly unlikely the defendants would make such a move. Another option is to work with local law enforcement in a country with whom the United States has an extradition treaty in hopes of catching a defendant who moves across their borders. Although U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. seemed to acknowledge the unlikelihood of a perp walk for the five accused, the indictment should send a powerful message that any such acts of economic espionage will not be tolerated..
"This administration will not tolerate actions by any nation that seeks to illegally sabotage American companies and undermine the integrity of fair competition in the operation of the free market," Holder said. "This case should serve as a wake-up call to the seriousness of the ongoing cyber threat."
China's Foreign Ministry countered that the U.S. government "fabricated facts" in the indictment and denied that Chinese government, military and "associated personnel" have ever "engaged in theft of trade secrets or participated in such cyber activities." Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Qin Gang asserted that, contrary to U.S. claims, "China is the victim of U.S. theft and cyber-surveillance."
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Educating our youth is the cornerstone to productive future generations of Americans and equipping them to compete in a globalized market. We must make a national commitment to education by strengthening our public K-12 schools, fully funding special education, and modernizing our classrooms. At the same time, we must enhance the ability of students to afford and attain higher education, and make sure that we have the best trained, most qualified teachers in the world.
I am proud that in the 111th Congress, we are working with a President who shares this commitment. In fact, President Obama already demonstrated his commitment to education for the 21st century, when he signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law on February 17, 2009. This law creates a $53.6 billon state stabilization fund to help states prevent cutbacks and layoffs in our public education system, and create jobs by modernizing schools and colleges and universities.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act also provides a $500 increase for each Pell Grant scholarship recipient in the next school year, benefitting up to seven million students. In addition, this vital legislation creates a new $2,500 tuition tax credit to help an additional four million students' families pay for college.
In 2008, my colleagues and I passed the new GI Bill for the 21st Century, which restores the promise of a full, four-year college education for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. These benefits, which started August 1st, are available to an estimated 2.1 million veterans. This year, Congress also extended those college benefits to all children of fallen soldiers since 9/11 (with no minimum military service needed to qualify).
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I'm missing the mark. I can see it…but it's just out of my reach.
Beautifully cut up fruit triangles and crust-less bread in the lunch boxes.
Getting the kids to school on time.
Putting neat bows in the girl's hair everyday.
Making sure my son's clothes match when we're out.
Baking daily.
Having a perfect home.
Finding stability and routine in my varied life.
Everywhere I look, I see lines. Lines everywhere, and I can't measure up. There are too many and it hurts to stand on my toes so much.
Where do the lines come from?
The Media? Friends? Family? School?
Yes, sometimes, but mostly the lines come from me. Me trying too hard. Trying to be perfect. To somehow measure up to the invisible lines I see everywhere.
I can't measure up, but I can do what is right. Right for my kids. For my husband. Right for me. For my life circumstance. Right for my heart. For my Faith.
Forget perfection Kelly. Don't try and please everyone. DO what is right. Be the best you can be.
When your best isn't good enough: Stop.
Be the best you can be and do what is right; that's the line to aim for.
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· Parking: Boston Common Garage
· Restrooms available onsite
A new series debuting in Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's 2013-2014 season. An expansion of CSC's longstanding American Voices, TITR is a script-in-hand reading series presented without common theatrical elements like sets or costumes. These pared-down readings uniquely engage the audience by immersing them in the immediacy of the text and the actors's performances, allowing one's own imagination to take creative flight.
A favorite script-in-hand reading series, Law and Leadership each bring together local, state and national lawyers and judges and renowned business leaders with some of Boston's best local acting talent to perform Shakespeare plays each season. Each performance is followed by a panel discussion addressing questions and themes in the text that resonate for these professionals within their modern fields.
CSC's touring initiative to local parks brings free outdoor theater to neighborhood venues and under-served communities. Past seasons have included: Shakespeare on Love, a collection of love scenes complimented with popular music performed by CSC Apprentices and Bard Over Broadway a new Shakespeare-inspired musical-theater review performed in collaboration with The Boston Conservatory.
A Boston tradition since 1996, CSC has been presenting fully-staged productions of Shakespeare plays free-of-charge to Boston audiences.
Sponsored by New England Conservatory and the Free For All Concert Fund, Commonwealth Concerts is a series of pre-show concerts featuring a wide range of musical styles before performances of Shakespeare on the Common.
Special events--including our Annual Gala--held throughout the year to raise funds to support all of CSC's FREE programming.
King Lear
July 22 - August 9, 2015
Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common
*Tuesdays - Saturdays @ 8pm
*Sundays @ 7pm
*Matinee: Saturday, July 25th @ 3pm
Romeo & Juliet
May 21 - May 30, 2015
The Strand Theater, 543 Columbia Rd, Dorchester, MA
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Run Time: 90 minutes, no intermission.
Wheelchair Accessibility: Please note that there is no elevator access at the Strand Theatre, however wheelchair seating is available on the Mezzanine or Orchestra levels. When purchasing tickets, please indicate your needs for wheelchair accessible seating and House Management staff will be happy to reserve appropriate seating for you and your guests.
ASL Interpretation: There will be an ASL Interpreted performance on May 30 at 2pm. If you require seating in the ASL Interpreted viewing section, please see an usher the day of the performance and they will happy to show you and your guests to appropriate seating.
This performance of Romeo & Juliet is part of our Shakespeare OFF the Common project, an innovative three-part arts program created in collaboration with the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events to foster community interaction, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts "Our Town" program.
Friday, September 19, 2014 7:30 pm 1 hour 30 minutes
Fenway Park, 4 Yawkey Way, Boston, MA
TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE, and can be purchased at redsox.com/shakespeare, by calling (877) REDSOX-9, or by visiting the Fenway Park ticket office. Fans with disabilities can call (877) REDSOX-9 to purchase accessible seating. The Red Sox' TTY number for hearing-impaired fans is (617) 226-6644.
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company will kick off its 20th anniversary season on September 19, 2014, with a once-in-a-lifetime gift to the City of Boston — Shakespeare at Fenway. This is a first-ever event of this kind to be presented at a major league ballpark.
Directed by CSC's Founding Artistic Director Steven Maler, CSC will bring a starting line-up of local and national celebrities to the iconic ballpark for an evening of famous scenes from William Shakespeare's plays.
"All Star" tickets grant preferred seating and cost $35 each. A limited number of special "MVP" tickets, featuring priority seating and access to an exclusive post-performance reception with the cast, support the next 20 years of CSC's service to the community and are currently available for $125 each.
TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE BUT GOING FAST and can be purchased at redsox.com/shakespeare, by calling (877) REDSOX-9, or by visiting the Fenway Park ticket office. Fans with disabilities can call (877) REDSOX-9 to purchase accessible seating. The Red Sox' TTY number for hearing-impaired fans is (617) 226-6644.
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Top 10 arenas in the country
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Sometimes the venue that a team must play in can be as big a factor as the team it's playing against.
From the Cameron Crazies to the rowdy Irish faithful inside the Joyce Center, college basketball's spirit and tradition rests largely within its arenas and particularly in its student sections.
And while each gym differs in size, look and ambiance, only some can make you feel as if you're part of the action.
Once again, choosing which ones to keep on and off of this list did not come without struggle. There are only 10 spots, and there are more than 10 great arenas in college basketball.
Yes, I realize that North Carolina's Dean Smith Center, Michigan State's Breslin Center, Oklahoma State's Gallagher-Iba Arena, Louisville's Freedom Hall, Arkansas' Bud Walton Arena, Syracuse's Carrier Dome, Washington's Bank of America Arena, Illinois' Assembly Hall, Butler's Hinkle Fieldhouse, Florida's O'Connell Center, Southern Illinois' SIU Arena, Gonzaga's McCarthey Athletic Center and UC Santa Barbara's Thunderdome were left out.
They're all great atmospheres for watching a game, too.
But if you're more than just the average NCAA basketball fan, these 10 stadiums are ones that you've got to visit before you die.
Honorable Mention: Louis Brown Athletic Center, Rutgers
Piscataway, N.J., isn't a city to write home about, but "The RAC" is one of the loudest and most
intimidating environments in college basketball. The fans, for one, are right on top of the players, while the actual structure of the building (in the shape of a condensed tent) might contain more sound than a private concert hall.
10. Pauley Pavilion, UCLA
With 11 national championship banners hanging from the rafters, it's hard to leave the Bruins' long-standing arena out of the conversation. And while Pauley won't exactly look the same after its $185-million facelift, it will always be remembered for showcasing some of the game's greats — Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton and Gail Goodrich to name a few — during their time in Westwood.
9. Kohl Center, Wisconsin
There's a reason why the Badgers are one of the best home teams in the nation, and it's largely due to the fact that "the Grateful Red" remains one of the most passionate student sections in all of college basketball. In fact, between the 2001 and 2007 seasons, Wisconsin managed to lose only 11 times while compiling 125 wins at the Kohl Center — that's what you call home-court advantage.
8. McArthur Court, Oregon
It's been a few years since the Ducks were considered a national power, but "Mac Court" (also known as "The Pit") still knows how to pack a punch. The maple floor, in particular, bounces under the weight of the student section, which completely surrounds the court, while the buildings' outdated configuration has the fans nearly hovering over the players.
7. Edmund P. Joyce Center, Notre Dame
The Irish historically are known as a football school, but the basketball program has witnessed some major landmarks inside the Joyce Center, including the end of UCLA's NCAA record 88-game winning streak. Nowadays, the arena and its boisterous fans provide a significant home-court advantage for Notre Dame, which rattled off 45 straight wins at home before losing to Big East foe Connecticut last season.
6. University Arena, New Mexico
There really isn't anything else like "The Pit" in college basketball. With the court submerged 37 feet below grade level, Joe Boehning's architectural experiment during the 1960s has since produced one of the most hostile environments to play in over the last 40 years.
5. The Palestra, Penn
The Quakers might not exactly be high profile, but they do play in the Cathedral of College Basketball. With only 8,722 seats and the stadium's bleachers hugging the court, things can get pretty noisy in this historic University City arena, especially when the Big 5 schools go toe to toe every fall.
4. Assembly Hall, Indiana
Indiana basketball might be going through some tough times of late, but it has one of the most dedicated fan bases of any Division I program. Opposing teams, particularly those from the Big Ten, can be sure to face deafening decibel levels when they come to Assembly Hall, which is what has made the Hoosiers such a tough home team — including winning streaks of 50 and 35 games — in the past.
3. Rupp Arena, Kentucky
With a capacity of 23,500, the Wildcats' home looks more like a football stadium than a college basketball gym despite remaining one of the sport's most renowned shrines. At the time of its opening in 1976, Rupp was the largest arena ever built for basketball, and it still is while leading the nation in attendance year after year.
2. Allen Fieldhouse, Kansas
When it comes to college basketball tradition, there might not be a stadium with more charisma than "The Phog." Resembling the look of an old Kansas barn, Allen Fieldhouse has been home to more than 600 victories by the Jayhawks — including 64 straight between 1994-1998 — thanks to a student section that's one of the most animated and raucous in the country.
1. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke
When you think of college basketball, you think of Cameron. Between Krzyzewskiville, the Cameron Crazies and press row on top of Coach K Court, there's really no atmosphere as intense and exciting as the Blue Devils'.
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So I havent been watching anime for almost a year now. Now thou, I really wanna continue with Bleach, which was my fav anime.
What I wonder, is when the fillers ended (read the spoiler tag and you know what I mean)
After Ichigo and the rest goes to Huelo Mundo (typo?) to save Inoue
What I wonder is the episode number the main story continues. I just hate fillers, and wherever I look no one sais whitch episode.
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Hackers Get A Taste Of Their Own Medicine, Hacked By British Spy Unit
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A unit of the UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Great Britain's equivalent of the NSA, was discovered to have conducted a cyber-attack against the hacker collectives Anonymous and LulzSec, according to documents revealed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, as reported by NBC News.
The Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), the unit within GCHQ that carried out the attacks, launched "denial of service" (DDoS) attacks as well as socially engineered communications with individuals associated with the groups.
Details of the attacks were found in documents from a PowerPoint presentation shown at a 2012 NSA conference called SIGDEV. The slideshow discusses activities conducted by the JTRIG, such as using DDoS attacks in an operation the agency unit called Rolling Thunder.
This new revelation is the first time the British spy unit, JTRIG, has been publicly disclosed, reports The Verge.
In addition to DDoS attacks, JTRIG infiltrated IRC clients such as chat rooms to identify individual hackers. The agency unit also contacted members of the group using Facebook, Twitter and other online networks to warn suspected hactivists that "DDoS and hacking is illegal, please cease and desist," The Verge reports.
According to the presentation documents, the dissuasion tactics were effective. The presentation said that 80 percent of people contacted disappeared from IRC rooms within a month of contact.
The controversial operation was responsible for the capture and prosecution of a hacker that stole 8 million identities on PayPal. It also identified members of that group who had staged attacks against government and corporate websites.
The actions taken by the JTRIG are controversial, but the operation's efforts have some justification.
"While there must of course be limitations," said Michael Leiter, the former head of the US government's National Counterterrorism Center and now an NBC News Analyst, quoted in the NBC article. "Law enforcement and intelligence officials must be able to pursue individuals who are going far beyond speech and into the realm of breaking the law: defacing and stealing private property that happens to be online."
"No one should be targeted for speech or thoughts, but there is no reason law enforcement officials should unilaterally declare law breakers safe in the online environment," said Leiter.
Some critics accuse the actions of the JTRIG as going too far. "But critics charge the British government with overkill, noting that many of the individuals targeted were teenagers, and that the agency's assault on communications among hacktivists means the agency infringed the free speech of people never charged with any crime," said the NBC article.
"Targeting Anonymous and hacktivists amounts to targeting citizens for expressing their political beliefs," said Gabriella Coleman, an anthropology professor at McGill University and author of an upcoming book about Anonymous, NBC News quoted. "Some have rallied around the name to engage in digital civil disobedience, but nothing remotely resembling terrorism. The majority of those embrace the idea primarily for ordinary political expression."
NBC News said that Coleman estimated that the number of "Anons" engaged in illegal activity is in the dozens, out of a community of thousands.
The "Anons" that were identified and even prosecuted suspected hacking measures had been used against them, NBC News reports.
"A British hacktivist known as T-Flow, who was prosecuted for hacking alongside Topiary, told NBC News he had long suspected that the UK's intelligence agencies had used hacker techniques to catch him, since no evidence of how this identity was discovered ever appeared in court documents. T-Flow, whose real name is Mustafa Al-Bassam, pleaded guilty but did not serve time in an adult facility because he was 16 when he was arrested," the report said.
"When I was going through the legal process," explained Al-Bassam to NBC News, "I genuinely felt bad for all those attacks on government organizations I was involved in. But now that I know they partake in the exact same activities, I have no idea what's right and wrong anymore."


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|This project examines plant macroremains, phytoliths and starch remains recovered from special archaeological and architectural contexts at Buena Vista (11°43'51.72"S, 76°58'5.45"W) , an inland site in the lower Chilló́n Valley of Perú́. The primary goal of this work is to evaluate the evidence for feasting at a Late Preceramic site. The identification of feasting activities provides a way of examining the social practices, ritual and political, of the people who built Buena Vista. These results can be compared to other archaeological contexts in the Late Preceramic. Consequentially, this paleoethnobotanical study provides several corollary lines of investigation. The plant remains provide significant information on the agricultural component of subsistence in comparison to coastal sites of the time, as well as evidence for the use of special or specially prepared foods in a ritual context. The materials also add to our knowledge of interregional interaction that linked the coast of Perú to the northern and eastern lowlands.
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Strawberry Shortcake
16 (2-inch) biscuits
For the biscuits:
3 cups soft white flour
1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar
12 tablespoons cold butter, cubed
2 tablespoons crystallized ginger, minced
1 1/3 cups heavy cream, chilled (more if necessary)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the strawberries:
2 pounds strawberries, hulled and quartered
1/4 to 1/2 cup sugar
1 to 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
For the whipped cream:
1 1/2 cups cold cream
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon lemon zest
Heat oven to 450 degrees. Stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar with pastry blender until lumps are removed. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until the mixture is coarsely uniform. Stir in crystallized ginger.
Combine cream and vanilla. Stir in vanilla cream with a spatula until a loose ball forms. Turn onto a floured board and knead 3 times, turning each time.
Roll out or pat into a square, 3/4-inch thick. Cut with a well-floured, 2-inch biscuit cutter. Place biscuits close, but not touching, on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Bake for 15 minutes, turning halfway through baking.
Combine strawberries, sugar and balsamic vinegar. Set aside. Whip cream with sugar, vanilla and lemon zest until soft peaks form. Serve biscuits topped with strawberries and whipped cream.
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Hi! My name is Sai Balaji and I work with Microsoft Networking Support in Bangalore. I primarily help Premier Customers resolve their real time Windows Networking issues. The 'push' that I got to write this first post of mine goes back to my own experiences with this simple and elegant component called ARP (Address Resolution Protocol). Cutting out the allusive and clichéd introductory part, let us get ourselves aligned with the agenda.
Things that you can look forward to read on this post:
DAD (Duplicate Address Detection), gratuitous ARP and Windows machines:
A case study of Windows Vista/7's gratuitous ARP Receive and Send behaviors:
Before diving into these pointers, you might want to understand about how DAD and gratuitous ARP works on a surface level.
You can make use of this neatly written TechNet blog that talks about this: http://blogs.technet.com/b/networking/archive/2009/03/30/tcp-ip-networking-from-the-wire-up.aspx
Here is a snippet of that blog to give you an overview:
Address conflict detection (Gratuitous ARP)
ARP is also used to detect IP address conflicts. Address conflict detection is used to insure that a system that is brought up on the network or that is assigned a new IP address does not have an address that conflicts with a system already on the network.
In address conflict detection, we use what is known as a Gratuitous ARP. When a system is configured with an IP address either manually or by DHCP it will send a Gratuitous ARP to insure that another node on the network is not already configured with this IP address. In the case of a conflict the two nodes are defined as follows. The Offending Node is the node that is sending the gratuitous ARP, and the Defending Node is a system already configured with the IP Address in question. The contents of this request and how this affects the ARP cache on other systems on the network differs depending on the OS.
Observed Behaviors
First let me introduce some of the terms you might see further ahead. I just want to make sure that you get acquainted to them beforehand. The important ones, I suppose, are SHA and SPA.
In an ARP Request the fields are filled in as follows:
Gratuitous ARP Send behaviors:
When a new IP address is added to an Interface, this is how the various clients send gratuitous ARP packets for DAD.
Windows XP – Sends six gratuitous ARP packets at intervals of 1s with the IP address that it is trying to add in the SPA field and its MAC address in the SHA field.
Windows Vista/7 – Sends three gratuitous ARP packets at intervals of 1s with '0.0.0.0' in SPA field and its MAC address in the SHA field. (I will explain why this change was made in a later section)
Windows 8 – Sends three gratuitous ARP packets at intervals of 1s with '0.0.0.0' in SPA field and its MAC address in the SHA field, waits for 1 more second and then sends another gratuitous ARP packet with the 'IP address' that it is trying to add in the SPA field and its MAC address in the SHA Field. (Again, I will explain why this change was made in a later section)
Gratuitous ARP Receive behaviors:
When a gratuitous ARP packet, which contains '0.0.0.0' in SPA, is received by a Windows Client, nobody is going to make any change to the ARP/Neighbor Cache entry because it is 0.0.0.0. The whole purpose of sending out such a gratuitous ARP packet was to prevent ARP poisoning and this technique fights it tooth and nail and emerges successful.
When a gratuitous ARP packet, which contains an 'IP address' in SPA, is received by a Windows Client, this is how the Clients react to it.
Windows XP – If the SPA matches with an IP in its ARP cache table entries, it will go ahead and replace the old entry with the new one i.e. the old MAC will be replaced by the new MAC that is present in the SHA field of the gratuitous ARP packet.
Windows Vista/7 – If the SPA matches with an IP in its Neighbor cache table entries, it will 'not' go ahead and replace the old entry with the new one but changes the state of the "Neighbor Cache entry" to 'Stale'.
Windows 8 – If the SPA matches with an IP in its Neighbor cache table entries, it will go ahead and replace the old MAC with the new MAC.
All three of these behaviors hold valid for their Server equivalents as well – Windows Server 2003, 2008/R2 and Server 2012 respectively.
Keep reading for answers..
The reason for the Windows XP to Vista/7 Change:
The reason why gratuitous ARP Send and Receive behaviors were changed in Windows Vista/7 was to eliminate the shortcomings of the previous Windows XP gratuitous ARP behavior which encourages ARP poisoning.
With the new '0.0.0.0' SPA technique, gratuitous ARP works pretty well for a normal DAD scenario as the Client sends a gratuitous ARP broadcast that does not poison the ARP tables of the other machines or the ARP table of the Router interface in its same subnet. Now, if there is a defending node claiming to own this IP already, it can directly respond to this offending/problem node by sending a Unicast ARP response.
This means that there is no need for the defending node to send a new gratuitous ARP broadcast over the Network to update the clients' ARP tables, unlike XP, as the 0.0.0.0 SPA technique would not let that happen (sending side prevention) and if the receivers are Windows Vista/7, they do not replace the old MAC with the new MAC even if the SPA contains an 'IP address' (Receiving side prevention).
The reason for Windows Vista/7 to Windows 8 Change:
When I got a chance to observe the new gratuitous ARP behavior in Windows 8 /2012, I realized that it was not actually a 'new behavior' as something told me that I have seen this same behavior somewhere else in my past experience with other Microsoft products. That is when I realized that this new gratuitous ARP behavior was introduced way before Windows 8/2012.
For comprehending what I am going to say further here in this post, it is important for all of us to understand that DAD /gratuitous ARP is not something that is used only while adding an IP address to an interface from the Adapter properties or using net shell or after getting an IP address from DHCP.
There is one more component that uses DAD/gratuitous ARP. This component is very much used in almost all production environments nowadays, mainly, for making resources highly available. It is called 'Failover Clustering'. Note, I am not just referring to 'Windows Failover Clusters' but also all other products in the market that offer the same 'resource failover' features.
A 'failover cluster' case study for Windows Vista/7's gratuitous ARP Receive behavior:
I am not a Cluster expert but with my limited understanding about how a 'failover' operation works and on a very surface-level explanation, this is what happens:
When an IP resource fails over from one node (Node 1) to another (Node2), it is important that the Clients and the Routers on that subnet realize that the MAC address for that IP resource has changed from MAC1 (Node1's MAC) to MAC2 (Node2's MAC). Any delay in this process will add to the overall failover delay.
Total Failover time = Time taken when (the IP resource unbinds itself from Node1's network stack + actual resource failover time + IP resource binds itself to Node 2's Network stack +Clients ARP/Neighbor Cache tables replace MAC1 with MAC2+ Time taken by the Client Application to connect back in case the application time-out period has already elapsed).
This operation is, more or less, like adding a new IP to an interface and for all that we know, the same DAD process should kick in and it obviously does.
Windows 2008/2008 R2 Windows Failover Cluster follows a different gratuitous ARP approach for DAD as opposed to a Windows Vista/7 and Windows Server 2008/2008 R2 hosts that are 'not' Cluster nodes.
Moving further, on a failover incident from node 1 to node2, we can get a better understanding of gratuitous ARP behavior by elucidating it with an example and assuming a few key parameters:
Let us get into the core part of this scenario – The File Share resource fails and is failed over from Node1 to Node2. (Boom!)
Gratuitous ARP Send behavior in a 2008/R2 Cluster failover scenario:
Anecdotally, it is very clear that this new behavior has taken up a new synergistic approach by combining the Windows Vista/7's 0.0.0.0 SPA technique and the previous Windows XP's 'IP address in SPA' technique.
Now, looking through this new behavior from a normal DAD's perspective, it is a clear indication that the Windows 8/2012 (non-Cluster hosts) follows this same technique to achieve both DAD and MAC address replacement (For a Cluster failover scenario) intelligently.
Wow! Justice has been served by this new gratuitous ARP behavior for both DAD and 'Cluster failover' scenarios! Wait a minute, I think now comes the tricky part. What about the gratuitous ARP Receive behavior?
This new 4th gratuitous ARP packet technique would
Windows Vista/7/2008/2008R2's gratuitous ARP Receive behavior and the hotfix:
Windows Vista/7/2008/2008R2 's TCP/IP stack is designed not to update the Neighbor Cache table when it receives the 4th gratuitous ARP packet as it would contain an 'IP address' against the SHA field. What it does is it marks the old entry as 'Stale'. Therefore, it would wait for 5 more seconds (Worst case) to probe the old MAC by sending out Unicast ARP requests and later discover the new MAC by sending out Broadcast ARP requests for that IP (Cluster resource IP) which would apparently contribute to the overall failover delay. An important thing to know about this 'probe' behavior is that it happens only when the Application layer is constantly trying to use that old MAC address and failing.
More detailed information about different states of a neighbor cache entry would be overkill for this post which you might as well have thought from the beginning.
Okay, if you are still with me and with your head is up, you would probably be thinking, "How on earth would these '5 seconds' actually pose a major threat whatsoever?"
Let us look through it. Consider this situation where we have 2 Windows Server 2008 R2 nodes that are a part of a Windows Failover Cluster. These nodes are connected to a Disk Array (Storage Cluster). Now, when the Storage controller fails over from one node to the other, it sends out gratuitous ARP packet broadcasts like any other failover operation. When the Cluster nodes receive this gratuitous ARP packet, after already going through a delay due to the failover operation from the Storage controller end, the 2008 R2 nodes would further delay by waiting for 5 more seconds (roughly). In this scenario, we are actually talking about 'High available Cluster nodes' acting as Clients. This small delay would apparently contribute to the whole threat posed against the 'High availability' feature of a Cluster.
This gratuitous ARP receive problem/issue in Windows Vista/7/Server 2008/2008 R2 has already been addressed and fixed by Microsoft with a hotfix described in the following article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2582281
After installing this hotfix and rebooting the Vista/7 Client, it would be able to replace the old MAC with the new MAC whenever it receives the gratuitous ARP broadcast packet on the fly.
Lab setup for 'Cluster Failover' for understanding Windows Vista/7 gratuitous ARP Receive behavior
Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster (2 Nodes) :
Four Clients:
Problem demonstration:
We are going to simulate a failover from Node 1 to Node2 and check when the ARP/neighbor cache entries are getting changed for the resource IP 10.0.0.6 from 00-15-5D-50-AD-09 to 00-15-5D-50-AD-0A
For doing this on a finer detail, we can use a PowerShell script to continuously monitor the Clients' ARP and Neighbor cache tables every second. In this way, we will be able to see the exact point in time when the entry gets changed from the old MAC to the new one and then compare it with the exact time when the gratuitous ARP packets hit those Clients.
Lab steps:
PowerShell Scripts:
For Windows 7 and Windows 8 Clients:
For the Windows XP Client:
Analyzing the captures and the outputs:
When the Cluster resource fails over from Node1 to Node2, it will release the IP from Node 1's network stack and adds it to Node 2's network stack.
When it binds the new IP to node 2's stack, it sends out gratuitous ARP broadcast packets as an implementation of DAD and new MAC announcement. From the network capture, we see that from 11:01:30 to 11:01:32, there are 3 gratuitous ARP packets that reach all the Clients at the same time. The 4th gratuitous ARP broadcast packet which has the SHA as 10.0.0.6 reaches the Clients at 11:01:33.
Illustration of gratuitous ARP Receive behavior of Windows XP:
The gratuitous ARP packet with SPA field set to 10.0.0.6 reaches the Client at 11:01:33.
The ARP entry is changed to the MAC address of node 2 exactly at 11:01:33.
Illustration of gratuitous ARP Receive behavior of Windows 7 (without KB 2582281)
The 4th gratuitous ARP packet reaches the Windows 7 Client at 11:01:33
The Neighbor cache entry does not change even after receiving the 4th gratuitous ARP packet at 11:01:33 and still contains Node 1' MAC. It is just marked 'Stale'. Since we did not have any application running in the background and using this Neighbor Cache entry, the entry turned to a 'Stale' state. If you like to see the state change from 'reachable' to 'stale', you need to follow this same procedure with a continuous ping in the background from this Windows 7 Client.
Illustration of gratuitous ARP Receive behavior of Windows 7 (with KB 2582281)
The Neighbor cache entry changes from node1's MAC to node 2's MAC exactly at 11:01:33.
Illustration of gratuitous ARP Receive behavior of Windows 8 / 2012
The 4th gratuitous ARP packet reaches the Windows 7 Client at 11:01:33.
The Neighbor cache entry changes from node1's MAC to node 2's MAC exactly at 11:01:
Windows Vista/7/2008/2008 R2's gratuitous ARP Send behavior
The new Windows 8/2012 gratuitous ARP behavior and the Windows Vista/7/2008/2008R2 hotfix for gratuitous ARP Receive behavior tackle the DAD and the 'Cluster failover' scenarios efficiently.
Pushing further, let us take a completely different scenario highlighting the problem with "Windows Vista/7's gratuitous ARP Send behavior".
This is the setup:
I have a machine A in 10.x.x.x subnet which has a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0. There is another machine X in 11.x.x.x subnet which has a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0. There is a Gateway which acts an internetwork for 2 subnets – 10.x.x.x and 11.x.x.x
IP address of A – 10.1.1.1
Gateway's IP for 10.x.x.x interface – 10.10.10.10
Gateway's IP for 11.x.x.x interface – 184.108.40.206
Machine X pings Machine A for the first time:
Machine X would know that 10.1.1.1 does not belong to its subnet range and therefore would send the ICMP Echo Request packet to its Gateway. The Gateway would then send an ARP broadcast for that IP (if it does not have its MAC in its ARP table already) and when it gets a response from Machine A, it would cache that MAC (MAC1) for that 10.1.1.1 in its ARP table.
Then, the Gateway would send the ICMP Request packet to Machine A's MAC (MAC1) which would respond by sending out an ICMP Reply packet. The Gateway forwards that packet to Machine X's MAC and thus, ping is successful here.
Removing 10.1.1.1 from Machine A and assigning it to Machine B on the same subnet:
Now, if I remove this IP (10.1.1.1) from machine A's interface and assign it to Machine B on the same 10.x.x.x subnet, the Windows Vista/7's gratuitous ARP mechanism would not let its Neighbors, including the Router's 10.x.x.x interface, know about the fact that 10.1.1.1 is now an IP address that should point to MAC2 and not MAC1.
Windows Clients within the same subnet would be able to recover from this state and contact the new MAC after sometime depending upon the ARP cache timeout in Windows XP Clients (2-10 minutes) and the '5 second Stale-Probe-New ARP broadcast' phase in Windows Vista/7 Clients.
However, in most of the Customer environments, the Gateways (Routers) would be configured with an ARP cache time out specified in 'hours' (The maximum that I have seen is 2 hours).
The 0.0.0.0 SPA technique for gratuitous ARP/DAD that is adopted by Vista/7/2008/2008 R2 would not let the Router know about this change. This impacts cross –subnet clients as they would not be able to contact 10.1.1.1 for at least 2 hours unless we delete that old ARP entry from the Router.
If you are assigning an IP address that was used by a different machine to a Windows Vista/7/2008/R2 machine, you need to make sure that you delete the old ARP entry manually from the Gateway/Router.
Thanks for reading patiently! I hope that this post has answered some of your questions related to differences in gratuitous ARP/DAD behavior between Windows XP, Vista/7 and Windows 8 and other 'failover delay' woes. Happy gratuitous ARPing!
- Sai Balaji
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