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Two Rivers boys basketball standout Brett Linzmeier poses for a prep profile portrait on Wednesday, Jan. 02, 2013, at Two Rivers High School in Two Rivers. Matthew Apgar/HTR Media
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All-time team sports achievement:
"When we won conference and regionals my sophomore year."
All-time individual achievement:
"Scoring 1,000 points as a junior."
No. 1 athletic goal:
Play college basketball
Brett's thoughts
"As a team I think we started off pretty slow but we had two tough games early. As of right now, I think our 67-48 home win against Algoma is what we expect the rest of the season to be like, playing with communication on defense, moving the ball well on offense and getting the ball to the shooters. For myself, I need to distribute the ball better to my teammates. Individually, I hope to become the all-time leading Two Rivers scorer."
Coach Fredrikson's thoughts
"Brett is a remarkable young man and a basketball player. His innate basketball skills along with his outstanding work ethic have made him one of the best basketball players ever in Two Rivers. His understanding of the game, how it should be played, and the intensity he brings has made him a floor leader all four years in high school. Brett's scoring accomplishments in the game are remarkable considering he is a very unselfish point guard yet has led the team in scoring each year and is on schedule to break the all-time scoring record for Two Rivers Basketball. While being a scoring leader he has also led the team in defensive steals the past two years. He is a complete player. He plays with passion because he respects the game. Brett's high level of competitiveness has made him a leader on the team. He is a second year captain who leads in spirit and play on the floor. He always demands 100% from himself and teammates around him respond. It has been a privilege to coach him as he not only is extremely talented but a very coachable young man. I am confident he will play and be very successful at the next level."
Brett's favorites
Sport: Basketball
Pro/college athlete: LeBron James
Pro/college team: Miami Heat
Musical artist or group: Drake
Song of all time: Headlines
TV show: Sportscenter
Movie: Tommy Boy
Class: Sports and Entertainment Marketing
Food: Tacos
Saying or piece of advice: "You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take."
Hobby: Playing video games
What if ...
You could be any celebrity on earth for a week. Who would it be? LeBron James
You could listen to a song minutes before the biggest athletic event of your life to get you hyped. What would it be? "Kyoto" by Skrillex
You could meet one famous person, a non-athlete, who would it be? Nicki Minaj
Quick Q&A
Who inspires you most? My Dad
What is your dream vacation destination? Hawaii
Who's the toughest opponent you have ever faced? Bronson Koenig
What's your No. 1 pet peeve? "People who are constantly unhappy."
What do you want to do for a living? "I'm not 100 percent sure yet, but I know it involves marketing."
Why are sports important to you? "They build a sort of desire and mental toughness in me that can only be achieved through hard work."
Which Facebook friend has the most interesting status updates and best photos? Austin Gordon
What's your strength as a person? "Being able to talk and connect with pretty much everybody."
What do you still need to work on? "Being patient."
Do you have any pre-game rituals? "I listen to music while getting taped up."
Top person you follow, or would follow, on Twitter? "Packers o-lineman TJ Lang, because you can always get a humorous rise out of him."


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Assessment of leg ulcers is complex and should include examination of the wound and consideration of underlying causes, comorbidities and their psychosocial impact.
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Are you interested in venous leg ulceration? Boost your knowledge by taking our online learning unit Venous Leg Ulcer Management now. Find out more.
In this article…
- Key components of assessment in patients with leg ulcers
- The importance of thorough assessment to gain a full picture
- The impact of living with leg ulcers
Irene Anderson is principal lecturer, tissue viability, and reader in learning and teaching in healthcare practice, University of Hertfordshire.
Anderson I (2012) Multidimensional leg ulcer assessment. Nursing Times; 108: 13, 17-20.
Assessing patients presenting with a leg ulcer is like doing a multidimensional jigsaw puzzle, in which all the pieces need to fit together to make a whole picture that has depth and meaning. This enables rational clinical decisions to be made with patients, according to their capability and agreement to be involved.
This article highlights some of the key features of leg ulcer assessment, drawing on recommendations in national guidelines.
A priority in assessing a leg ulcer is to establish its underlying aetiology. The majority are venous (Moffatt et al, 2007) but this cannot be assumed until the assessment has been completed. The key aspects of assessment are outlined in Box 1.
Keywords: Leg ulcer/Assessment/Wound
- This article has been double-blind peer reviewed
- Figures and tables can be seen in the attached print-friendly PDF file of the complete article.
Box 1. Assessment
● Present medical condition
● Past medical history
● The underlying disease
● Wound status
● Vascular status
● The impact of this condition on the patient
It may not be possible to complete an assessment at a single point in time and patients may be unable to give a full history, perhaps because of poor memory or communication problems. In such cases, it is important to gather information from a range of sources such as clinical notes, referral letters, results from any investigations and from carers and family where possible.
Present medical condition
People with leg ulcers often have other conditions that may complicate assessment and management. Comorbidities each have specific impacts on patients' lives, and a long-term condition such as leg ulceration adds to this burden.
Margolis et al (2004) investigated comorbidities in patients over the age of 65 with venous leg ulcers, and found conditions included anaemia, osteoarthritis, asthma and depression. These are not necessarily related to the ulcer but each has its own additional effect on the patient so the assessment has to identify every factor (Moffatt el al, 2007). Ulceration and comorbidities may result in depression and anxiety, which can significantly delay ulcer healing (Finlayson et al, 2011), and the conditions themselves can affect important factors such as mobility.
An increasing challenge is the rising number of people with obesity, which adversely affects many aspects of health including cardiovascular disease, mental health and mobility (Goldie and Brown, 2012a). Key to managing obesity is assessing patients' motivation as well as their practical and emotional needs so they can be helped to reach achievable goals (Goldie and Brown, 2012b).
Tobon et al (2008) reviewed literature on obesity, nutrition and venous disease and identified low levels of zinc, protein and vitamins A and C in affected people. Patients' weight, build and nutrition are therefore important assessment factors alongside existing medical conditions.
People who inject drugs into their legs often have leg ulceration, and sometimes multiple ulcers. Injecting into the veins can cause venous scarring or blockage of the vessel lumen from thrombus formation. The damage can extend to muscle and nerves as well as cause lymphatic blockage (Pieper et al, 2007). It is therefore important to ensure a full patient assessment takes into account the presenting signs of venous insufficiency, ulceration and other wounds such as abscesses.
The substances being used and method of drug delivery are important, as well as patients' psychosocial circumstances (Devey, 2010). People with such damage to their legs can be in severe pain and this may prevent them mobilising and impair ankle flexibility, which will adversely affect venous return (Pieper et al, 2007).
Assessing patients in these circumstances can be challenging and care must be taken to work with them in a non-judgemental way.
Past medical history
Previous ulceration, leg surgery or other trauma, varicose veins and deep vein thrombosis are linked to ulcer development (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, 2010; Royal College of Nursing, 2006).
Hypertension, cardiac events, stroke and intermittent claudication (ischaemia) can indicate a compromised arterial status, providing clues to a possible arterial aetiology. However, SIGN (2010) guidelines caution that the apparent absence of such symptoms may not indicate the absence of arterial disease, illustrating the need for a comprehensive and detailed assessment.
Assessing for underlying disease
Baseline assessment, including blood pressure, urinalysis, weight, blood screening (according to local guidelines/protocols and patient presentation), is the starting point for clinical assessment (RCN, 2006).
Mobility and the patient's ability to flex the ankle joint needs to be assessed because ankle flexion activates calf muscle movement, which is relevant to reducing venous hypertension in venous disease (Vowden and Vowden, 2007).
The shape and appearance of both legs should be visually assessed. Oedema is a feature of venous disease (Anderson, 2006); measuring the circumference of the lower leg at the ankle, gaiter area and calf can help to determine the extent of oedema in the limb and whether it is increasing or decreasing. The time of day and physical activity before assessment should be recorded. For instance, oedema may be less evident first thing in the morning but may have increased significantly by the afternoon when the patient has been standing or sitting for some time, or may change if the patient's legs have been elevated (Anderson, 2006).
There will be some oedema with arterial disease and it usually presents as dependent oedema. This is oedema that forms around the ankle when the leg is in a dependent position for a period of time.
It is also important to recognise that there are many causes of oedema apart from vascular disease, such as lymphoedema, and cardiac and renal problems (Moffatt et al, 2007). This reinforces the importance of building all the elements of the assessment into a full patient picture.
In venous disease, venous hypertension causes leakage of red blood cells from capillaries and their breakdown causes tissue staining called hyperpigmentation (Moffatt et al, 2007). Other visual clues related to venous disease include ankle flare caused by dilated capillaries and varicose veins (RCN, 2006).
Varicose eczema is very common in venous disease and the skin will be dry and flaky. Assessment should identify the history of the skin condition and any factors that soothe or exacerbate. Acute flare-ups of varicose eczema may necessitate the short-term use of topical steroids (Cameron, 2007). If the condition is assessed as persistent and complex, or if there is evidence of allergies or sensitivities, the patient may need to be referred to a dermatologist (SIGN, 2010).
Assessment of the leg may identify lipodermatosclerosis, where the underlying tissue becomes fibrosed, making the skin feel hard and woody with an indurated skin surface. The fibrotic tissue leads to changes in the limb shape. The leg loses its normal profile where the circumference of the lower limb increases to the calf. Instead, the calf enlarges and the lower leg shape is likened to an upside-down champagne bottle (Moffatt et al, 2007). The shape can be further distorted by ankle oedema.
In arterial disease, the leg may be shiny and hairless, feeling cool to the touch. There may also be trophic nail changes. The leg may appear to be dark red (dependent rubor), pale or cyanosed. If the limb becomes paler when elevated, this is a sign of poor arterial flow. Patients may report that the distance they can walk before feeling pain is decreasing, which can be a sign of intermittent claudication (Moffatt, 2001).
Wound assessment
Wound assessment should note the site, size, depth and location of the wound.
The type of tissue in the wound bed is recorded. A framework such as TIME (Fletcher, 2007) could be useful to determine the tissue (T) in the wound, the presence of infection or inflammation (I), the exudate (M, moisture) level and the wound edges (E), and any evidence of epithelialisation. Other tools to aid wound assessment include the Applied Wound Management tool, comprising continuums for exudate, infection and healing (Fletcher, 2007). These tools can help to structure the assessment, focusing assessors on important aspects of the wound (Fletcher and Anderson, 2011).
Infection will delay wound healing and cause pain. Sometimes, cellulitis or erysipelas can occur in the leg, caused by Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus spp. Erysipelas usually has a rapid onset with red margins and blistering, while cellulitis has a slower onset, with less defined margins and is less likely to cause blistering (Seal et al, 2000).
Photography is extremely useful in the assessment of the leg, skin and wound, provided that the pictures are of good quality and taken in reasonably consistent conditions of light, position and distance to allow changes to be tracked over time. Patients need to give consent for this and secure processes for storage of patient data are necessary.
Although it is unwise to base an aetiology diagnosis on ulcer appearance, some wound characteristics may help towards building the patient picture. Venous ulcers tend to be shallow, with ill-defined edges and sited in the medial part of the gaiter/ankle area, although this does vary and ulcers due to problems in the small/short saphenous vein can appear on the lateral aspect of the ankle (Carr, 2008). Arterial ulcers tend to be smaller and deeper with defined edges, described as "punched out", and can often be necrotic (Moffatt et al, 2007). It is potentially dangerous to base a diagnosis on appearance but a clear description helps to create an overall picture.
Vascular assessment
An important part of the structured assessment of patients with leg ulceration is vascular assessment. The use of hand-held Doppler ultrasound to determine the ankle brachial pressure index must be part of patient assessment to help confirm or exclude peripheral arterial disease (SIGN, 2010; RCN, 2006). Although just part of a wider assessment, it is an important test and must be carried out by suitably trained and skilled practitioners.
On the basis of the assessment findings, or if healing does not occur as expected, further tests may be needed. A colour duplex scan can be extremely useful to determine the specific areas of the limb that are affected by venous and/or arterial problems (Thrush and Hartshorne, 2005). This helps the vascular team to decide whether patients could benefit from surgical intervention.
The Venous Forum of the Royal Society of Medicine recommended referring patients with venous insufficiency to vascular surgeons (Berridge et al, 2010). Criteria for referral include signs of significant venous disease and/or a healed ulcer and those with active ulceration. People with bleeding varicosities and superficial thrombophlebitis should also be referred. These recommendations are relatively new and assessors should consider how they can be incorporated into leg ulcer assessments.
The impact of leg ulceration
Leg ulcers can have a devastating effect on people's lives, affecting daily activities, sleep, mental health, appetite and mobility (Ebbeskog and Ekman, 2001). In addition, malodour and poorly controlled exudate can lead to stigma and social isolation (Rich and McLachlan, 2003). Patients' experience should be recorded and ongoing assessment must monitor the effects of treatment on these factors to ensure it is not exacerbating them.
Pain is a major issue for patients with leg ulcers, regardless of aetiology. Pain varies and is often combined with:
- Heaviness and discomfort from oedema and skin conditions;
- Ischaemic pain from peripheral arterial conditions;
- Pain related to infection, rheumatoid arthritis or sickle cell disease;
- Pain related to procedures such as wound cleansing, dressings and compression therapy (Briggs and Closs, 2006).
The assessment must lead to intervention and outcomes so it is vital that contributory and relieving factors are explored in detail to allow for pain-reduction interventions and ongoing evaluation of their effectiveness.
Social support networks correlate positively with lower recurrence rates (Wissing et al, 2001). Social isolation and loneliness may be difficult to deal with; while it is outside nurses' remit to address these directly, assessing and discussing these with the person affected must be handled with sensitivity and compassion (RCN, 2006).
Practitioners should discuss assessment findings, as well as previous health and ulcer-related experiences, with patients. Those with a recurrent ulcer may have found compression bandaging difficult to tolerate previously. Nurses should find out why and try to offer something different, such as beginning with reduced compression and gradually building up the pressure according to tolerance, or using a different system of bandage or hosiery (Moffatt et al, 2007).
Assessment is never a one-off process. A full assessment takes time - perhaps one and a half to two hours - and some aspects may be explored over a period of time. Evaluation of interventions is ongoing, which makes assessment an inherent and skilled part of management.
The initial assessment picture serves as a benchmark and enables changes, both positive and negative, to be monitored. Early intervention is crucial to minimise harm to patients and only an excellent record of a thorough and systematic assessment will enable subtle changes to be identified.
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Cameron J (2007) Dermatological changes with venous leg ulcers. Wound Essentials; 2: 60-66.
Carr SS (2008) Diagnosis and management of venous ulcers. Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy; 20: 1, 82-85.
Devey T (2010) Using an outreach service to meet the needs of users of intravenous drugs with leg ulceration. Nursing Times; 106: 20, early online publication.
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Anyone who claims to have never listened to RB1 either by choice or default is, well, very untruthful to put it mildly. It has been said before and I will say it again - Botswana is Toyota country. Of the next 10 vehicles that will pass by any road you are currently traversing, it is impossible that a Toyota of any kind would not be among them. And that is a dare, provided you are in Botswana.So when you are a manufacturer of anything and your goods are more popular than yourself, a firm favourite of war lords, taxi operators and the Botswana government, then you know you are on point. But therein lays the catch, the fly in the ointment of an otherwise fine brew.
Well, Toyota has just that very annoying mosquito and it is in the form of their design language. Of late Toyotas seem bland at best and staid with seemingly no inspired outputs within their ranks whatsoever. Yes, they are selling units by the droves, but so are Mazda and Ford, Nissan and Chevrolet. Yes, they rely on their history and reputation as a sure bet against these other players but that alone won't convince everyone who is willing to part with their hard earned mullah. Let us take a quick lesson with something that all of us use day by day; cellphones. Back in the 1990s Nokia was a giant personal phone maker. It was rolling out stuff that was both durable and reliable and it looked like nothing could stop them. Nobody knew about iphone or how good Samsung would turn out to be, never mind Blackberry, but right now they are the respective leaders of the handheld phone with Nokia trailing far below, especially with the youngsters who are the ones that use this stuff a lot.
So history therefore teaches us that an enviable reputation is a good place to start, but what good is a strong foundation when you don't build on it? You cannot go around boasting that I have laid the best foundation around while at the same time you haven't or aren't busy building a house. Things have changed dramatically in the last decade. You have manufacturers like Kia all of a sudden being seen as 'stylish' and 'well-made'; words you wouldn't have previously imagined to be uttered in relevance to Kia, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.
While Toyota is busy building nondescript people movers like the Avanza, people are looking elsewhere for inspired wheels, for something with a bit of zest to it, something that looks more interesting (in a good way) and that won't make people mistake your pride and joy car for a government CTO issued vehicle. Toyota seems to want to revive itself from its slumber though because recently they worked in partnership with another Japanese car-maker Subaru to produce a lightweight affordable sports car;
one for Toyota and the other for Subaru, named the Toyota GT 86 and Subaru BRZ and hoping to inject 'fun 'in their offerings. To be honest, Toyota more than Subaru needs massive doses of fun to stay relevant in the ever growing fashion conscious atmosphere.
The buying age has gone way down and at the age that the youths are buying cars, it is quite obvious that the youth will be looking for something even more youthful that will appeal to them. It seems Toyota has been paying attention because they revealed an edgier and much more youthful looking Corolla concept at the recent Detroit motor show in the US. The car previewed what will hopefully be the next Corollas but as we all know how cautious Toyota is with their design language, the whole thing might just turn out to be a teaser that just doesn't deliver. But the first signs are good and if much interest is shown, could be the blue print of the next Corolla.
As it stands, the 'Furia concept' as they called it is a design that is merely there to gauge the public's reaction to the new styling and the design could ultimately get incorporated into the next Corolla or get dropped, but like I said, it all depends on how slacked people's jaws will be by it. But either way, Toyota needs to update its bread and butter model if it intends to stay relevant to the ever growing youthful market because the young at heart are flocking to Mazda 3s, Ford Focuses, Fiestas and Hyundai Elantras. But it is risky to mess with what is arguably the bestselling car in the world; according to 24/7 Wallst, from 1966 to this day, 37.5 million Corollas have been sold."It sends a clear message where we're going in the future," said Bill Fay, Toyota Division general manager, in an interview after the presentation.
The news release says the car "hints at styling cues consumers can expect to see on the next generation Corolla.""It's a tough balance. How do you appeal to younger buyers without alienating your older one?" says Larry Dominique, a former Nissan executive who is now president of car value forecaster ALG Inc. "And if you make a mistake, it's very expensive to fix." Some say it's a beautiful styling, while others worry that such styling could turn off the customer base of retirees who long for the obscurity that the current car provides. But in the Furia concept you get a blacked out grille that is a bit like Toyota's current flagship models, the Lexus, and that can only be a good thing, right? Toyota is finally realising that reputation alone and reliability alone will not sell a car that looks boring. They need to add charisma and hopefully when the jury gets out about the concept, Toyota will heed their desires, fingers crossed.


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Newtown High School will welcome more than 30 winter guards this Saturday, March 1, for what promises to be the largest NHS Winter Guard Extravaganza Home Show Newtown has sponsored in recent memory.
The Winter Extravaganza will kick off at 3 pm with a performance of the NHS Winter Percussion, followed by some of the best color guards in the tri-state and New England, including Alter Ego and the University of Connecticut.
The three Newtown divisions — Juniors, JV, and Varsity — will close the show, during which seniors Hannah Godbout and Paige Thanasoulis will be recognized as Saturday will mark their final home dhow at NHS.
NHS Marching Band and Guard parents have a menu of pulled pork, kielbasa, burgers, and more food items ready to serve the well over 1,000 anticipated guests.
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Monday, December 24, 2012 12:37 PM Replyhi, I didnt understand something... so I buy $100 in stuff, and might or might not get the 50% discount and i will only know after I make the payment? thanks for clearing it up.
Monday, December 24, 2012 12:58 PM ReplyI think this is the first 'coupon' I've ever run into where you have to pay first to see if the coupon is valid. It seems like an intentional attempt to get people to pay first, and in the event they did not get a coupon spot, they might still keep the order.
I cannot think of a good technical reason why the coupon could not be validated before paying. Maybe the DX way to ensure a good count of the coupons???
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Does the "Registered Air Mail ## Package Tracking Service." - $0.01 counted too or not ?
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Need for ritonovir-booster for Reyataz with Truvada in treatment-naive person?I'm concerned about my MD's starting me on a combination of once-daily Truvada and Reyataz 400 mg without a ritonovir booster, given the reported 21% reduction in Cmax, 25% reduction in AUC, and 40% reduction in Cmin of the atazanavir in the...
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Insecure updates are the rule, not the exception
Mixed Signals
Kurt looks at the practice of code signing and examines why so few upstream open source projects actually do it.
First, the good news: Most major Linux vendors sign their software and source code packages, thereby allowing end users and administrators to verify that the code has indeed originated from the vendor and hasn't been modified or tampered with after being signed.
Most tools like Yum and RPM check package signatures by default and will refuse to install or upgrade packages unless they are properly signed (which you can override manually). So, why am I worried about upstream code signing of updates? Because very few open source projects actually sign their code properly, if at all. This means that if an attacker breaks into a distribution site, they can modify existing source code packages or upload new ones with malicious code. Users cannot easily detect a problem unless they have a copy of the code for comparison or they compare the changes in the new version against an old version. And yes, people do break into major sites (e.g., the Linode hack earlier this year) [1].
Why People Don't Sign Code
Why don't upstream open source projects sign their code properly? Doing so would allow vendors like Debian and Red Hat and end users to verify easily that the code was signed by the project in question. There are several reasons: the first is that signing code correctly, even minimally, is a chore and requires some setup. But, more importantly, it requires ongoing discipline; you must protect the signing keys forever, you must sign and verify the signed code, and you must handle key management. Additionally, code signing only proves that a file containing certain content was signed; it does nothing to attest to the quality of the code (everyone has security flaws in their software). For all you know, the upstream project has taken code contributions containing a back door.
The third and, in my opinion, biggest reason is that unsigned code and all the problems that come with it don't cost the code author anything. Virtually all the costs of distributing malicious code are borne by end users; the author rarely incurs any cost or penalty.
A perfect example is the Social Media Widget incident [2]. The company responsible for this WordPress plugin outsourced development to a company that inserted malicious PHP code. Fortunately (as far as is known), the code inserted just displayed an ad and didn't attack the server or users' systems. The WordPress team accepted this explanation and reinstated the plugin. So, the cost in terms of money, time, and effort was basically zero for the Social Media Widget plugin.
How to Sign Code
Signing code is easy; you just use a tool like GPG and create a signature, usually external, so you have
foo.tar.gz and
foo.tar.gz.asc. You then provide the signature file, typically by putting it into the same directory or download system as the files. Then, you need to make the signing key available in a secure manner. You can get your key signed, but the chances of getting it signed by widely trusted keys (e.g., vendor distribution keys) are minimal. Your best bet is to make the GPG signing key available on the project website via HTTPS so that users have a reasonable chance of downloading it without an attacker modifying or spoofing it. Simple, right?
Well, you also have to handle key security. The signing key must be as secure as possible, which ideally means placing it on a hardware module that is external to your computer and only plugging it in and using it as needed, thereby minimizing the window of opportunity for an attacker to compromise it.
In a perfect world, your signing server is offline so that attacks cannot be launched against it. The cheapest way to put your signing key into a secure hardware module is to use an OpenPGP-compatible card [3]. These cards are not too expensive; Kernel Concepts sells them for about US$ 20 [4], and you'll also need to buy a reader. You'll also need to choose a key lifespan. Note that keys should expire. This ensures that, say, 20 years from now, when attackers can crack 4096-bit keys on their quantum-enabled smartphones, the key you created cannot be used for nefarious purposes.
Attacks Against Signed Code
So, now the code is signed, and everything is good, right? Nope. Even if packages are signed properly and clients verify the signatures properly (which won't happen unless the process is automated and fails to close when the signature is invalid, as with Yum and RPM), a number of attacks are still possible. The simplest and most direct attack is to provide older signed packages that have known security issues. This attack is especially easy if the file signature doesn't also confirm that the filename has not been changed. Do you ever read
ChangeLog or
VERSION to confirm the package version?
Another attack is to prevent any updates of software by deleting new versions, or making downloads incredibly slow, or by feeding infinitely large files to clients. Unfortunately, this approach is more effective than you'd think. For example, when was the last time your update software warned you that no updates had been installed for a few months?
Addressing such attacks is not simple and depends on the client having information available to check. For example, Yum downloads a copy of the repository data and then gets the packages, which prevents replaying of older packages (unless the user forces a downgrade manually) and also lets the client know whether updates should be available. Note, however, that if the attacker can modify the RPMs, chances are they can mangle the repo data as well.
For software that doesn't take this approach, such as WordPress, I suggest keeping a copy of the software that you download so you can compare newer versions to it and make sure that the version you're downloading is actually newer than what you have.
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KBA North America salutes its respected customer Winston Packaging, a fourth-generation family-owned printed paperboard packaging company located in Winston-Salem, NC, for its record-breaking world job production record on its KBA Rapida 106 41-inch six-color press. The record-breaking world job production record took place on August 11, 2014.
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Eaglewood Technologies, makers of the SaniloxTM Anilox Roll Cleaning Systems, has begun a partnership with Pamarco Global Graphics. Pamarco is the world's largest anilox supplier and will represent the SaniloxTM Anilox Roll Cleaning Systems throughout the U. S. and Canada.
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The jam, hosted by Grammy-winning guitarist and Asheville native Warren Haynes, has added several more supporting players: Stax Records veteran William Bell, Jimmy Herring, George Porter Jr. and Adam Dietch. They join the previously announced stars Counting Crows, Ani DiFranco and the band moe.
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FLORENCE, Ariz. - It was a day to remember. The preparations were complete. Their wedding day had finally arrived. The lovely outdoor ceremony began.
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The Norway-class USS Braveheart was on an ordinary ole patrol along the Cardassian neutral zone on that day That fateful day. Captain Ernesto Emilio Gonzalez Sanchez was captaining the arrowhead-shaped Norway class, which FYI has a shuttle bay in the stern.
He sat contemplating out his quarters windows, sipping ponderously his black tea. Black like space he reflected, piercingly. Cold, lifeless totaly pointless. The Captain wished he was back on Ourman 8s sparkling beaches with his wife, Vasquez. Yes, but such is the burden of a Starfleet officer he reminded himself. There was a surging loneliness, stirring, brewing within him whenever he thought of such things. Brewing like his tea recently was brewing.
Sanchezs door went off.
Enter, he shouted softly.
Heres the report from our scans, sir the young, fresh Ensign barked. Sanchez was stuck with an untested ship and an untested crew. Just what he needed, he thought, if they should encounter say, a Cardassian warship one armed with 2 torpedo launchers and 8 Class-IV disrupters. Frankly he was hoping for an encounter, to push the envelope of his crew and the ship. Purportedly the Norway class was extraordinarily manouverable, agile, and quite rigid.
The fresh sensor scans rezzed up on the padd. A collection of glowy blurbs in the lower left-hand corner of the screen might have meant an approaching fleet attempting to mask its warp and weapon signatures with thorium fields. Might have. But thorium was notoriously unstable. Had the Romulans mastered it? Finally? Sanchez didnt know But he wondered
Emerging in Sanchezs head was the idea that the Ensign was still in the room. Do you have a question, Ensign? Sanchez laughed.
The Ensign readjusted his stance and clearly mumbled, Will we ever see home again, sir?
Contemplatively rubbing and his beard and taking a long draught and of his tea, Sanchez mussed, Perhaps, Engisn. Maybe. If we do our jobs. Right. Dismissed.
Vice Admiral Hirohito Mikado sat in seiza position, meditating through his porthole. Several scrolls, his very own work, hung from the walls. In one corner of the room was a small Shinto shrine, with several offerings having been put on it earlier that day. Captain Mikado came from a proud Samurai lineage. His ancestors had, among other things, fought with Toyotomi Hideyoshi against the Western barbarians (those white devils!), defended the peace in the Tokugawa Era, and fought the bastard American devils during the so-called World War II of ancient Earth history. Naturally Commodore Mikado was versed in the art of the sword and various martial arts jujitsu, kendo, aikido, judo,, iaido, bushido, sado, kendo He wisely got up from seiza position and shuffled meanderingly over to the replicator for some kocha, or black tea. He always drank some kocha before practicing jujitsu with his seitotachi, or students. He was there sensei, or teacher.
The Captain was permitted to wear a kimono during off-duty hours, and occasionally was allowed to emerge onto the bridge with the wakizashi, no matter how dangerous it was too weer katana on the bridge. Yes, The Ciptain though. I am proud of my rich heritage.
The low light rubbed beautifully across the deep ebony skin of Lieutenant MDinga who sat in thoughtful repose, staring out his quarters elongated window. His quarters were decorated with various symbols of uniquely African culture masks used during ritual dances, an actual spear used by the Zulu tribe against the British, a framed jazz album by Thelonious Monk In one corner was a shrine to Nelson Mandela. Normally MDinga would wake up to the sounds of the Sahara played through his rooms speaker system, eat a hardy breakfast and time permitting, get in a short workout on the holodeck. His huge, towering frame was quite threatening.
Good day, Lieutenant MDinga! a passing Ensign said in the corridor. MDinga simply replied with a piercing, barking gaze.
The Engisn nervously withdrew from the Lieutenant, trying to continue about his business as through nothing had happened. Of course, this was normal the Captain understood MDingas attitude and that it would never actually lead to violence.
U.S.S. Braveheart, main engineering
Get those plasma infusers back on line! I barked at the Lieutenant. Main engineering was a mess after the attack by the Tholians.
The brown-haired Turillian replied, by indicating with his four-fingered slate-colored hands that it was a no-go. Turrilian blood was gray.
God damn it I muttered under my breath, loudly. It was too easy to get them back on line.
Sabotage? the Turillian, name of Xindro Xynne, asked pre-emptively, mirroring my thoughts at that same instant of time.
I stabbed at the control panel by way of retort. The infusers were now shut off. If somethings wrong with them, I growled happily, I want you to find out what, Mr. Xynne.
Yes sir, he barked half-heartedly.
I needed to get to the bridge.
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Ambassador Forestkin lazily poured for himself a glass of slightly pale blue Takretyan tran-wap, the taste of which he would soon savor in his luxuriant mouth. His porthole, which was situated on deck five of the command hull of an Espresso class fast interceptor (designed a few years after the much larger and roomier Consitution class that people like Admiral Kirk would galavant around the cosmos in and shudder, thought Forestkinn disobey direct orders) afforded him a view of the black inky depths of space that were speckled with little shiny white dots, which seemed like little shiny white drops of paint that had been flung onto the canvas of space, so man could write his destiny into the vast, seemingly endless sky.
In actuality each dot was either a Federation or Romulan warship, engaged in a furious clash. Just then, suddenly and unexpectedly, a Romulan warship broke from the desperately chaotic struggle and went after the Ambassadors ship. The Ambassador could see the warship descending upon his vessel from his porthole, clearly and discernibly intent upon its prey. Discernable to the Ambassador were the warships ferocious, talon-like disrupter cannons, almost sexual in their pulsating red glow, ready to burst forth with a burst of raging power. They were Class-9 Mark-VI disintegrator-grade disrupter cannons, produced in the Omaran-sector by the Omarians. One could purchase a couple at a modest price. The Romulan warship, which was a modified Bird of Prey, released a burst of disrupter fire, singeing the hull of the Espresso class fast interceptor. Shaking wildly with the ship, the Ambassador lost his hold on his Takretyan tran-wap, the glass tumbling to the deck-plating in an über-poetic way as though it were a reflection upon the uncontrollable nature of our own lives, the liquid gushing forth from the glass, spraying on the Ambassadors immaculate, standard-issue uniform and splattering on the deck-plating, which was soon to be covered in the shattered remains of the fragile glass. The glass then smashed on the deck-plating, pieces flying up into the air and smacking the Admiral on his face. Other pieces rapped against the porthole, making a tinkling sound that was somehow audible amidst the cacophony of the ragingly ferocious battle that was transpiring just beyond the porthole
As the Ambassador like his fragile glass careened to the floor in reaction to the Romulan pummeling, he reflected introspectively about his life. He remembered his youth spent on Andor V, where his father was the Terran ambassador. He remembered his first ride in a Promellian pneumatic ornithopterix and how he could see the Terellian concussion birds winging among the orange clouds of his fathers next posting, the third moon of Organia XIV in the Beryllium Sector. The Ambassador also remembered the replicated copy of a Matisse watercolor that his wife had given him on their fifth anniversary and how they had promptly made furiously chaotic love on top of it in their borrowed Type VA long-range shuttlecraft, which traded deuterium stores for a looped-xenon regeneration unit for enhanced power consumption. And as the Ambassador was reminiscing poetically on his brief trip to the deck-plating, a Romulan torpedo modeled after the Federations newly developed quantum torpedo ripped asunder the Espresso class ships shields and pierced deck five, striking a plasma junction just outside the Ambassadors quarters. A roiling ball of liquid, gaseous flame poured into the room and charbroiled the Ambassador, a look of sad reminiscence etched onto his crisped face.
Damn! Said the Captain of the Espresso class ship, pounding his closed fist onto the armrest of his very comfortable captains chair, as the bridge erupted in destruction around him. The helm officer was blown across the room in a massive fireball from the EPS system. He was pulverized as his body slammed into the other side of the bridge. On screen, the Captain barked to his first officer. The viewscreen shimmered into view, revealing an exchange of throbbing weapons fire between Romulan and Federation ships. There were almost too many ships to distinguish, ships dodged in and out of view, weapons fire was frantically exchange between ships, a Bird of Prey erupted into a flaming ball of fire and careened into a hapless Federation battle cruiser of immense size. The battle cruiser lurched and turned to its side, a chunk of the hull having been bitten off by the collision, little people pouring out of the wound, tumbling off into space, never to be seen again. Clearly the emergency force fields had not been put into effect. Sparks flew across the bridge of the Espresso class ship, officers faces being crisped. The Captains countenance remained cold, hard and unmoving, like an icecube, despite the chaos erupting around him.
Captain, chortled the half-burnt First Officer from under a collapsed structural integrity beam. We have to abandon ship.
Agreed, Commander Ramirez. Your time on board the Galaxy class U.S.S. Venture has served you well in making command-level suggestions. The Captain mentally added to himself, What a shame one of Starfleets finest should die under a collapsed beam.
The Captain turned in his chair as the panels around him continued to fizzle and explode, the bridge a mess of debris, dying personnel, and spilt coffee. Computer, this is Captain Thokpok. Command self-destruct sequence 001, code A1AB. Destruct.
The First Officer, his ribcage penetrated by the tritanium beam, sputtered that he concurred and then died, a dribble of blood flowing from the corners of his charred mouth.
Self-destruct sequence initiated, the Computer announced, beginning its fateful and fatal countdown to death. The Captain stood from his chair and made his way toward the turbolift, pushing aside mounds of chunked flesh, still steaming and often pulsating with what little lifeforce remained. As the doors of the turbolift closed, the Captain could hear but only in his minds eye the pleading whines of the tortured bridge crew. Save us! He though.
Meanwhile, on board the modified Defiant class vessel the U.S.S. President Theodore Roosevelt whose motto was We walk loudly and carry a BIG stick, Lieutenant Luke Pearry had assumed command, since several exploding panels had caught the Captain in the face and back, shredding his body like so much cheese. A fine spray of blood had misted onto the viewscreen and the faces of all those around the mutilated, glass-filled corpse of the headless Captain, the stumps of his arms held up in a futile effort to protect his once beautiful face from the onslaught of shards of burst panel. You know, quipped Enginner Nicole Firebrand, a ravishing humanoid from Miris planet, its not so much the glass that killed him but the energetic plasma outburst. It actually liquefied and boiled his cerebral cortex in a matter of nanoseconds.
* * *
At least he wasnt aware of the glass then, said the Lieutenant, as he brushed a few errant fingers from the Captains chair and took his seat.
Just then Admiral Paracelsus who had escaped the destruction of the command ship in a lifeboat came on the viewscreen. Lieutenant Luke Pearry, this is Admiral Paracelsus. I am hereby giving you the field promotion to Captain of the U.S.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, to take effect immediately. As much as I a bore this battle and the grave consequences it will have on Earth-Romulan relations, I think it necessary to and then in a sudden unexpected turn of events, the Admirals lifeboat was vaporized by a salvo of Romulan fire.
Engineer Firebrand, said field-promoted Captain Pearry, target the source of that fire and lock all weapons. Were going in. His brow locked in a serious gaze.
Yes, Sir! said the hot Engineer, as she pressed the appropriate buttons. She thought mentally inward to herself, If only I could tell Lieutenant, I mean Captain, Pearry how I felt for him. Then maybe I could be pressing his buttons. But she did not let her feelings get too much in the way of her duties.
Fire! ordered the Captain. The fusillade of Mark-12 quantum torpedo fire tore the starboard nacelle off the aggressing the Romulan ship and a stream of blue, pulsating plasma flowed from the rupture. Evading the next volley of torpedoes, the Romulan ship turned around to unleash a fatal death-blow upon The U.S.S. President Theodore Roosevelt but Captain Pearry preempted the Romulans. Ramming speed! he ordered authoritatively, proud of his new field promotion but still with a reckless, boyish disregard for safety that appealed to Enginerd Visitor greatly. The Romulan ship turned to miss the oncoming Defiant class ship, causing only the nacelle of the Roosevelt to rip a massive throbbing gash into its green, ventral hull. Captain Pearrys bold, daring move aroused Engineer Firebrand, but she did not allow her romantic interest to cloud her judgment and proceeded to jab at buttons with reckless abandon.
The turbolift doors to the shuttlebay shot open. Kthunk!!! Captain Thokpok stumbled into the shuttlebay as the ship lurched. The forcefield in the shuttlebay was flipping on and off, letting air out in short bursts, forcing Thokpok to hold his breath in a valiant effort to reach the shuttle, which seemed at least three Vulcanian spurjball fields away. Thokpok tensed his muscles like a Burjhphanian tiger-bat and pressed on. The shuttle was now in sight, and Thokpoks fears were temporarily allayed. The shuttle was made of a glimmering, coruscating metal called Duramniufortisteel, an alloy of Duramniamite and Fortisteelium, 59% of the former, 42% of the latter. It was an old, Type IIC medium-range shuttle capable of planetfall or, with the addition of a warpsled, interstellar flight. The accommodations were somewhat cramped, and the replicator had a limited menu, but at this point Thokpok didnt really care. He initialized the thruster system of the shuttle, skipping the systems check of EPS, phaser, life-support, and impulse systems. It wasnt procedure, but his life was on the line. Suddenly, in an unexpected turn of events, a bulkhead above the hangar door exploded and came crashing down in front of the magnetic-lock field. He was traped! In a courageous move, in the space of a few seconds, he calculated the energy output of the EPS conduit that he knew ran behind the right wall of the hanger, determined that it was sufficient to blast the debris out of the way if he could create a radionized pocket of plasma by firing the phasers on the shuttle for 2.518 seconds in a continuous burst. He fired phasrers! The pocket was created and the debris cleared. Just as his shuttle burst forth from the hangar bay, a fireball exploded forth from the hangar, charring the surrounding hall and initiating a chain of events that would lead to a chain reaction that would destroy the ship. Explosions rippled across the hall of his ship, enveloping all the remaining crew members who remained aboard. In a guilty stupor for not having gone down with the ship and for allowing his crew to be crisped like bacon by the rupturing EPS conduits that surely would have exploded throughout the ship and then die in searing hot pain, Thokpok atomized his head with a personal phaser, type III, on the highest setting. His shuttle then careened out of control into the navigational deflector of the U.S.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, severely crippling that ships capabilities.
* * *
Aboard the U.S.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, Captain Luke Pearry and Engineer Firebrand were tossed about like rag dolls as the shuttle collided with their navigational deflector.
* * *
Daringly, getting up from the floor-plating to which he had been thrown, the Captain said, Quick, Engineer, we havent much time. We have one shot at destroying the enemy before we explode. Any ideas?
I know, we can use an inverse tetryo-gravitic field to collapse the quantum singularity energy-drive matrix of the surrounding Romulan ships. To do so, Ill first have to cross-connect the ODN with the EPS manifold. Its a risky move, but I know a man (a sexy man, she thought inside herself to her brain) such as yourself can do it.
Yes, you are right, I have balls I can do this. The Captain preceeded to create the inverse tetryo-gravitic field that would collapse the quantum singularity energy-drive matrix of the surrounding Romulan ships.
All right, now that thats taken care of, lets escape before the warp core breaches. Come on, you can come with me Engineer, the Captain said in a husky, deep tone that implied his deep, hidden, secret desires that dwelled within him ever since he laid his luscious eyes upon the Engineer.
They were the only two crewmembers left alive on board the Roosevelt, which was already being ripped asunder around them as they raced through the debris-filled corridors, dodging gas jets and bursting EPS manifolds. Fortunately there would be a plasma-burn treatment kit in the lifeboat, along with some ham sandwiches and some airline style sleeping masks.
Enginneer Visitor thrust out her arm and slammed the door-open button with her closed fist, breaking the emergency glass and smacking the button in one daring blow. To say the least, the Captian was impressed, and perhaps a little enticed. The door flew open as the ship rocked, registering the simultaneous destruction of all surrounding Romulan ships. The plan had worked, but the Roosevelt was about to go herself. The ship was tossed like a rag doll as container after container of highly unstable warp plasma exploded, melting the surrounding superstructure.
In you get! said the Captain, pushing the Engineer in, which afforded him a rare opportunity to brush his hand across her derrniere. Something he would soon be doing again in another context, and soon.
Both of them now safely inside the lifeboat, the emergency bolts blow and the small, cube-shaped vessel is thrown clear of her exploding mothership, the Defiant class U.S.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Well remember her, the Engineer thinks to herself, letting a single tear flow down her sensuous cheek.
The battle had been won. The few remaining Fed ships were patching there wounds and withdrawing as best they could to the nearest starbase. But the Engineers thoughts could only turn to other matters. Of a more personel nature. Captain? She sheepily asked. Would it be a breach of protocol for me to engage your thruster?
The End of Part I
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Gazing as the stars flew past his observation lounge window, Commander Elias Sanchez, pensively looking as he once looked pensively at a dying Klingon who had just assaulted his family on Tereeza Prime some years past, stared out the porthole at the streaming white dots probably type 3 white dwarves such as those in the Terkeelian Expanse where the Commander had spent his second training cruise as a second year cadet.
The devilishly attractive Australian science officer, Lieutenant Commander MResh Logran, a half-Tyneelian of advanced though still highly attractive to human eyes years. Entered the room.
Sir, the fleet is assembled. Jested the chiseled-faced MResh, who had just last year had been put in a situation that had put all his abilities to the test, his abilities that had until this incident lacked the sense of being second-nature to him, due to a lack of experience, a situation where the Captain of his ship had been killed by an exploding panel in a row with a KTinga class attack-cruiser, armed with fore and aft torp launchers and two disrupter cannons, where due to his Captains death he was forced to take command and destroy the aggressing ship, using all the abilities available to his aged Connie training cruiser, crewed almost entirely by green cadets.
The fleet, which had assembled for a hit n fade attack on the Romulan Shipyards in the Moldon sector, the shipyards which had been putting out ships at a rate far abover any other known Romulan shipyards and thus qualified as a primary targert, consisted of a wide array of ship classes, but primarily was made up of Akira-class torpedo cruisers with 12 duranium-polyethylmodisulfide class VIII torpedo bays, 2 starboard and port and 4 each fore and aft, recently refitted Sovvy-class [Nemesis style, yall! w00t], Spectre-class destroyers outfitted with 1000 Megawatt shields quite capable of withstanding a barrage from a ship the likes of the Akira-class, and 3 wings thats 12 ships per wing of Sabre-class scout craft, the purpose of which would be to engage any gaurding ships the shipyards, thus allowing the destroyers, torpedo ships, and Sovvys to blast apart the shipyards with impunity, destroying the ships.
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