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PKC (Public Key Cryptography) was one of the greatest inventions in the history of cryptography dating back before the birth of Christ. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) came about as a means to distribute public keys from centralized CAs (certificate authorities) that act as TTP (Trusted Third Parties). While there are many ways to distribute and verify public keys of a certain entity, PKI is the most elegant and scalable because the CAs can authenticate without actually being involved in the actual authentication transactions. PKI was envisioned to bring PKC to the masses and revolutionize the world of communications. Although this has happened to a limited extent with E-Commerce and on a small and fragmented level with large corporations and government organizations, it has not come anywhere close to it's true potential. Other than E-Commerce sites that have largely standardized on expensive x.509 certificates from companies like Verisign, you have a hodgepodge of private internal Certificate Authorities that facilitate secure communications within their own organizations but stop at the organization's border. One corporation's private CA is worthless to another corporation and vice versa under the current PKI design because no one wants to give the root authority to some outside entity. As a result, the current success of PKI is severely hampered because of it's pricing when using public CAs or lack of compatibility with private CAs. Adding to the confusion is the fact that PKC and PKI are very complex and obscure concepts that even the technically savvy sometimes fail to grasp. Marketing material is littered with accusations that PKI and PKC is too complex or even weak and the media soak it up like fine wine because they don't know any better. Even for those of us who realize the importance of PKI are forced to constrain our deployment because of the $200 to $700 price tag per certificate. Given these challenges, PKI cannot and will never reach it's full potential.
The existing PKI CA model
PKI is a system designed to function on one level, where all trusted Certificate Authorities function as gatekeepers of the entire kingdom. Although PKI has a hierarchy of root CAs, intermediate CAs, and issuing CAs, that hierarchy was put in for scalability considerations. Subordinate CAs are only subordinate in name, but they are not subordinate in function. No matter how far down the chain of command, the CA has the exact same issuing power as the root CA on the top of the pyramid. This has guaranteed that only a few companies issue all of the public certificates in the world, and they're not about to grant other entities root signing capabilities for financial and for security reasons. A quick scan at one's own default CTL shows that there are over 20 root CAs, some of which most of us have never even heard of. The likeness of a compromise in our public CA system grows proportionally to the number of root CAs there are, because any compromise in one root CA is a compromise in the entire system. At the same time, there are too few CAs to bring any kind of real competition to facilitate reasonable prices. The challenge is, how do you increase the number of CAs to increase supply but at the same time reduce them to reduce the odds of a compromise. This is the challenge I seek to answer in the remainder of this paper.
When one really thinks about it, the duty of root CAs is actually much easier than the duty of our global root DNS servers. This is because CAs only have to issue the certificate to a user once and never need to participate in future authentication transactions. A root DNS server on the other hand not only has to set up an entry for the domain but also need to field global DNS requests for that entry for the life time of that domain. The only costly and time consuming thing for a CA to do is to perform the initial verification and maintain CRLs (Certificate Revocation Lists) for miss issued certificates and certificates with compromised private keys. Even so, initial verification can be done relatively inexpensively by PKI enabled notaries and they shouldn't need to be done every year or even every other year. Miss issued certificates should be at the expense of the CA, and lost private keys should be charged separately to users who loose them since that would only be fair.
DNS: A parallel universe
Imagine a world where DNS had evolved the same way as PKI, where each and every DNS server in the world was authoritative for "." any domain, sub-domain, and host name in the entire world. In this "Twilight Zone", all public DNS records could only be served by root-servers such as "A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET". If you wanted a DNS record for "www.your-domain.com", or any other host within your domain, you had to pay Verisign $500 to get it registered with the Internic so that they can enter the DNS entry for for you. For a typical domain with 30 public DNS entries, a company would either decide to go without or fork out $15,000 to Verisign for all 30 public DNS entries. Sure you can have your own private DNS servers with unlimited free DNS entries, but their dominion won't stretch beyond the corporate LAN and WAN. No other companies would ever trust your DNS servers because that would empower you to be a root DNS server for their company.
As ridiculous as this sounds, this lack of granularity isn't a joke in our universe for PKI. We live in this strange world where you buy certificates by the host, where issuing power is root or nothing so nothing is what we're forced to live with. We learn to do without PKI except where we absolutely must have it for applications such as E-Commerce, and sometimes we even sacrifice security by using pre-shared static keys because PKI costs too much. The question that I must ask is, how do we get out of this crazy predicament? There must be a better way!
PKI: A parallel universe
Meanwhile, in a different parallel universe where events have gone right for both DNS and PKI. PKI thrives everywhere like DNS and is almost taken for granted. The familiar scene of my alternate self registering a domain called LANArchitect.net is about to take a surprising turn. Not only does the InterNIC add an entry in the ".com" DNS root servers that point to his authoritative DNS, a central PKI certificate authority for ".com" issues a certificate for his LANArchitect.net's domain level root CA which can only issue certificates for LANArchitect.net. To pay for these two services, an online payment of $120 is made for a five year registration in DNS and PKI. To obtain a medium level rating for LANArchitect.net's domain level root CA, a quick trip to the PKI enabled notary with $60 would suffice for the next 5 years. Once the medium level rating for his authoritative CA is obtained, he turns around and creates some subordinate Issuing CAs all rated less than or equal to the authoritative CA for LANArchitect.net. Armed with a PKI that is now trusted to grant globally trusted certificates for LANArchitect.net, certificates are issued for all of his publicly exposed servers to enable SSL or TLS. He even issues certificates for his DNS servers to enable DNSSEC and SMTP servers for SMTP-TLS and SMTP-AUTH capability. If this had been an organization with users in it, an unlimited number of certificates can be issued to each member of the organization to enable digital signing and encryption for the entire work force. These publicly trusted client side certificates can now even be used as credentials for E-Commerce sites or any other website that requires authentication. A level of PKI deployment never dreamed of in our world is attained here because domain level PKI CAs are now globally trusted to issue certificates for their domain for nothing more than the cost of operating a few CA servers.
Domain level root CAs
A domain level root CA server is just like an authoritative DNS server for a domain. In the case of DNS, the authoritative DNS server is only authoritative for the domain it was assigned to, whereas the domain level root CA is only authorized to sign certificates for it's corresponding domain. Under the existing PKI system, signing privilege is root or nothing. Either the CA is completely trusted to sign for anything under the sun, or it is not trusted sign anything. Under this new proposal, the root CAs will not be issuing host, code signing, or email certificates. That function is best handled by an organization's own internal CAs. Internal IT are the most qualified people to be issuing those certificates because they are the ones most familiar with their own employees, not some external organization thousands of miles away. Unlike the current situation, a miss issued certificate can only hurt the domain that miss issued a certificate and not some other organization. Of course PKI can still be outsourced, but I would venture to guess that most companies would prefer to keep that function internal. The master root CAs should never be issuing email, host, or code signing CAs, just like the global root DNS servers don't issue host level DNS entries. Verisign should never have been in the position of miss issuing that Microsoft code signing certificate in the first place.
A central authority similar to the InterNIC would simply sign a certificate with the domain name and public key of the domain level root CA using simple email verification. Such a basic level of certification should only entitle the company to do basic email encryption and signatures, but should not be trusted to sign code, host E-Commerce applications, or run financial transactions. The basic certification level is for small organizations or personal domains that only need the most common and basic capabilities of PKI. Additional verification and binding of information such as Business name, License, address, phone, Biometrics of the domain administrator and/or the CIO and other executive officers could boost the trust level of the certificate to a very high level of trust. Cryptographic modules that are FIPS 140-2 level 2 or above to protect private keys would put the final touch and should be mandated if a company is going to be running E-Commerce or doing code signing. Since common sense dictates that you wouldn't trust any offspring certificate more than you trusted it's parent's certificate, it is imperative that you get a maximum trust rating for your domain's authoritative CA. Once a domain level root CA is created, a company or organization can issue as many PKI certificates to their own domain as they please. ISP's can offer certificates to their subscribers either as a free benefit or they can charge some extra money for the service.
Typically, a PKI is not really expensive to run under any circumstance, even if Intermediate CAs and Issuing CAs are created. Smart cards are dirt cheap and even Cryptographic Modules aren't expensive for most company to bear. In the past, building your own PKI meant the "P" really stood for private and it was difficult to make a good business case to have one because of it's limited compatibility outside of the company. There was just absolutely no way you where going to get your business partners or customers to put your CA in their root CTL (Certificate Trust List) because that would mean they are trusting you to sign everything under the sun. Under this new PKI proposal, they automatically trust you to sign for your own company just like they currently trust your authoritative DNS server for records within your domain. All the wonderful technology such as S/MIME, IPSEC, SMTP-TLS, SMTP-AUTH, SSL-SMTP, SSL-IMAP, SSL-POP3, and anything else that needs strong authentication and encryption can now instantly flourish under a uniform PKI environment. Any number of sub-domain level CAs can be created if the organization is large enough to justify it, and they wouldn't need to go back to the global ".com" root certificate authority. Sub-domain CAs would only be signing authorities for their particular sub-domain, and it would empower corporate head quarters to delegate limited signing functionality to their smaller sub-divisions.
One of the most heavily criticized components of the current PKI infrastructure is it's lack of a good CRL system. Under this new distributed and delegated PKI model, root level CAs will not need to worry about distributing CRLs for the end hosts and end users since they wouldn't be issuing those certificates in the first place. The only thing that the root level CAs should worry about is CRLs for top level domain CAs that were compromised or miss issued. This instantly makes the new PKI model infinitely more scalable, because CRLs can be a much higher burden than the act of issuing the original certificates. The host level and end user CRLs would actually be handled by their respective domains, and most organizations would be very prompt about posting CRLs because they are the one's that should be liable for stolen certificates if they don't post the CRL within a reasonable amount of time. I propose that the CRL process should be simplified by making a more rigid standard. CRLs should be signed and posted via HTTP at a standardized URL such as http://crl.your-domain.com. All applications that use this new PKI should check for new CRLs deltas at that standardized URL from their respective domains CRL servers. The CRL work load would be evenly distributed among the entire Internet, rather than just Verisign and the other 20 or more root CAs. The new CRL system should be fully dynamic and always up to date, and it should be completely transparent to the end user.
Ultimately, this reduces the number of certificates that need to be registered and purchased from the Internet's root CA to just 1. Because the bulk of Certificate issuing and CRL work is now delegated to each domain, the number of root CAs can be effectively reduced to just 2 entities and not the current 20 or more. This not only solves the problem of too many root CAs to have to protect, but it also solves the scarcity problem and virtually removes all cost barriers. Once this new PKI model is adopted, the only cost of publicly trusted certificates would be the cost of operating a domain level PKI and the cost of a single root certificate. For a typical company that would issue 1000 certificates to their users, servers, and other devices, they could easily save themselves $200,000 a year! Obviously, most companies would have simply gone without PKI as they do now and sacrifice strong authentication and encryption for budgetary constraints. Under this new PKI model, PKI can truly reach it's full potential!
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I had always intuitively wondered about getting your own Certificate Authority to sign for your own domain from the moment I first started learning about CAs and PKI, but I was shocked to find that no such technology exists! In the SPAM research paper I wrote, I faced extreme opposition from the email administrator community because of my call to use PKI to end SMTP spoofing. I had no idea that PKI was such a hated technology because of the cost factor. This is what motivated me to develop my intuition into a proposal to create a new PKI. If someone else has already submitted a proposal that calls for this very same thing, I hope someone will bring that to my attention and I'll realign my support for that proposal instead if nothing in this paper is original. I just can't believe it wouldn't have already been adopted.
Security policy for the new PKI
Once a company gets a certain level of a certificate, all future certificates must be issued at the same security level as a matter of policy. The name space root CAs should not issue some other joker a basic level master certificate when the company has already obtained a maximum level certificate for their domain. Additionally, a company could opt to lock the domain such that no other master domain certificate could be issued for the next 5 years until their current certificate has expired. If by chance they loose their domain's master certificate or it was compromised for some reason, an even more extreme verification process should be required to unlock the domain.
To further protect against social engineering attacks, the root CAs should only issue one certificate for the domain level root CA at any given time. If a high-tech thief comes along to request a new certificate and they manage to falsify their credentials and convince the root CA to grant them someone else's domain level root certificate, the existing certificate for that domain should automatically be revoked. The rightful owners of the domain level certificate would immediately know someone had stolen their domain level certificate because their own domain level root CA would cease to function within 2 days due to the fact that it had been revoked as a policy of the 1 certificate per domain policy. In such an event, the name space root CA would have to be insured to pay for all damages for the lost productivity and time it takes to redeploy all of the companies certificates. The higher the level of certification, the higher the damages. See the end of this paper titled Digital Notaries for how maximum level certificates are obtained.
Essentially, a system that requires redundant maximum verification to two separate entities just once every 5 years for an entire domain is much more secure than a system that requires low to medium levels of verification for each and every host every year. It will also be less of a hassle and it will be much cheaper than the current system.
Another concept I would like to implement under this new PKI model is sterile subordinate CAs whether they are peer level domain or sub-domain CAs. What I mean by sterile is that subordinate CAs of a domain or sub-domain should not have the ability to give birth to other CAs. Only the domain root level CA which is in a protected offline environment can do that. A simple generational time bomb value could be granted by the global root CAs as requested from the customer. A large enough enterprise could request a numeric value of "2", so that their domain level root CA could issue one additional generation of non-sterile subordinate CAs but their time bomb value could be decremented to 1. That subordinate domain could in turn issue other sub-ordinate issuing CAs who's time bomb value would be "0" so that they cannot reproduce any more CAs. Only sterile CAs should ever be exposed as issuing CAs, because the last thing you would want is some one to steal a subordinate CA certificate for a rogue CA. I also think that E-Commerce , code signing, and financial transaction certificates should only be issued from the offline domain level root CA because of their high target value. Exposed issuing CAs should only be permitted to issue regular host and email certificates.
The new certificate structure
The structure for this new PKI model will include a field that for CA certificates that define what domain the CA is allowed to issue certificates to. The top level domain CA will only be issued by the root CA responsible for the correlating ICANN domain name space, and sub-domains CAs will be handled by the top level domain root CA. It will also include the generation time bomb which most organizations will request to be 1, which permits their domain root CA to only create sterile issuing CAs. Most organizations will only want one offline root level CA to have to guard, and it can create more than enough issuing CAs for just about any size organization. The other import fields that need to be modified with more strict certification requirements should be for E-Commerce, Code signing, and financial transaction servers. This is because using these types of certificates should carry legal liabilities if the proper security measures are not taken and CRLs are not posted in a timely manner.
Bryan Olson on Usenet was kind enough to point out that the actual mechanism for enabling this proposal is already in RFC 3280 under 184.108.40.206 "Name Constraints". Bryan also pointed out that this is already being used in some places, but that it wasn't being used in SSL certificates probably because there wasn't much profit in it. But that is exactly my point! The business model of PKI is killing PKI, because if you applied that same model to DNS, it would also be at the same pathetic level of deployment as PKI. This paper proposes that we eliminate the cost barrier of PKI such that it mirrors DNS at the global level, not only in cost but also in deployment.
The new global PKI hierarchy
The new hierarchy would be vastly superior to the current flat model where everything is root. We would simply create a hierarchy that follows the ICANN domain name space structure and create a pair of independent root CAs for each domain suffix. I don't believe there is a need have a master "." root CA and have everything else chain off of that, there is no need for that extra overhead and security risk. Each entity such as ".com", ".us", ".ca", ".net", ".gov", and all the other domain name spaces would all have their own pair of root CAs organizations, and ".com" would obviously be the largest. Although this could eventually result in nearly one hundred root CAs (not including subordinate issuing CAs), it would still be a lot more secure than our current set up. This is because only 2 entities would be responsible for a certain domain. If some 3rd world countries root CAs are compromised, it will not affect the ".com" space or any other domain name space other than their own.
To handle the disastrous situation where a root CA's private keys are
compromised, a panel of the larges name spaces could be formed to handle
revocation and redistribution of replacement root certificates to the world.
Since a revocation of a name space root CA is not to be taken lightly, it
should require the unanimous digital signatures of all the panel's members.
The panel should be comprised of the major root CAs such as ".com", ".net",
".edu", ".fr", "uk", and all the other major countries. In the event
that a panel member itself suffers a loss of a private key, signatures for
the other panel members should suffice. This would empower each name
space to elect and control it's own PKI Certificate Authority


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Theatre Review: "'night, Mother"
September 25, 2013
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In Marsha Norman's emotionally charged "'night, Mother," Jessie, daughter of Thelma "Mama" Cates, has moved in with Mama after her painful and unwanted divorce.
It's clear the two have fallen into a routine of humdrum daily tasks and Jessie has become complacent and disenchanted with her life as it stands. Jessie's dissatisfaction comes to a head when she announces calmly to her mother, after asking where her deceased father's gun is kept, that she intends to commit suicide that evening. The rest of the play exposes the series of events that led up to Jessie coming to the conclusion that she can no longer go on.
The play, directed by David Emerson Toney for Firehouse Theatre Project, stars Catherine Shaffner and Kimberly Jones Clark as mother and daughter, Thelma "Mama" Cates and Jessie Cates.
"'night, Mother" is a short play with a run time of about 90 minutes and only two cast members. I will admit when I read the description of what I was about to see, I was pretty sure I was in for one depressing evening, but Norman's script is brilliant. The feeling of the play is quite dark with the subject of suicide being hotly debated throughout; between a mother who is fighting for her daughter to stay alive and a daughter who's decision to end her own life appears to be quite finite.
Norman's characters are very well-developed, highlighting the contrast of Mama who is seemingly content with the simplicity of her life and Jessie who has never been able to find satisfaction.
Shaffner and Jones Clark have excellent chemistry, which is paramount for such a somber production. Jones Clark is methodical and serious as Jessie, as she walks her mother through every detail of taking care of the house after she "goes." Shaffner gives a magnificent performance as Mama pushing herself to the limit and fully committing to her character's heartbreak.
The set by Edwin Slipek is very simple, bright and open with a cozy farmhouse feel to it. The openness of the set provides a perfect view of all of the action on stage. Joey Luck's technical direction is very strong; I was impressed by the clarity of the sound on opening night. Rounding out this impressive production is the precise direction of Toney who ensures his actresses make full use of the stage and props creating a show that is dynamic and fast paced; a feat which could have been challenging with such a small cast.
"'night, Mother is playing at Firehouse Theatre Project through October 19th.
www.firehousetheatre.org for information
Jen Maciulewicz is theatre critic for GAYRVA.com and is a Richmond local. Jen attended VCU and holds a B.S. in Anthropology. She has starred as Reno Sweeney in Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" and attended VCU's School of Music. Follow Jen on Twitter at www.twitter.com/jenlaumac.
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PART A (5×4=20Marks)
1. State and explain law of gearing?
2. Explain the term virtual number of teeth in helical gears and derive the expression?
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3. Discuss bearing characteristic number and bearing modulus as applied to journal bearing?
4. Explain the importance of ray-diagram in gear box design?
5. What are the factors affecting the stiffness of machine tool structures?
Part B : (20×4=80Marks)
Module – I :
6. Design a journal bearing for a centrifugal pump for the following conditions Journal diameter = 75mm
Speed of the journal = 1140 rpm
Load on the journal = 11500N
7. Select a single row deep groove ball bearing for a radial load of 4000N and an axial load of 5000N,operating at a speed of 1600 rpm for an average life of 5 years at 10 hrs. per day. Assume uniform and steady load?
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8. A pair of helical gears 23º helix angle is used to transmit 25 KW at 3000 rpm from the pinion shaft with a velocity ratio of 3:1.The static strength of the gear material can be taken as 75N/mm2. Number of teeth on the pinion is 24.Find the module pitch,face width and axial thrust developed on the shaft for 20º full depth involute teeth and check the design against static strength considerations?
9. A 35 KW motor running at 1500 rpm drives a compressor at 720 rpm through 60º bevel gearing arrangement. The pinion has 24 teeth. The gear material can be taken as cast steel. Face width can be taken as 1/4 of the slant height of pitch cone. Design the gear pair for 20º stub teeth system?
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10. A six speed gear box is to be designed for transmitting 8 H.P with speed ranging from 600 rpm with common ratio as 1.25. Select the optimum ray diagram and hence calculate the gear sizes. Calculate the shaft sizes and sketch the gear box?
11. Design the headstock of a lathe having nine spindle speeds ranging from 50rpm. The machine capacity is 6KW, with common ratio as 1.5. Show the layout of gearbox and connection to the motor?
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13. a) Discuss the methods of improving stiffness of machine tool structures?
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When I was a kid, I couldn't stand seafood. Maybe it has something to do with growing up in sunny Southern California, then moving to this little coastal town at the age of 9 where everything was about seafood. It was kinda like a seafood immersion program...and I balked. Fast forward about 10 years, while in college, I started enjoying some shellfish dishes here and there, then slowly worked my way up to salmon, halibut, crab, lobster and even...*gasp* scallops! I still don't like a strong fishy flavor, but I do love me some good seafood! When a customer of my dads brought by some of his fresh caught Coho Salmon, we were thrilled!
My husband is a culinary genius (I may have mentioned this before). Seriously, our kids' classmates are always asking, "Is your dad a chef?" because, well, you should see some of the lunches they get! Gourmet meets convenience! Again, genius.
Here is how this salmon titillated our taste buds: (I just wanted to say titillated!)
Glorious salmon, Cilantro, fresh (organic) Lime and Sal Con Limon (lemon salt) and garlic (oh wait, I forgot to put the garlic in the picture *forehead slam)
Dice up your cilantro and garlic
Tear off some sheets of aluminum foil and lay out on your counter. Sprinkle some lemon salt, lime zest, cilantro and garlic in the center of one sheet.
Lay your gorgeous salmon on top of the seasonings.
Sprinkle some more on top.
Squeeze some fresh lime juice over your salmon.
Then start folding: Bring the sides of your foil in to meet in the center (they should overlap).
Then fold the top over the center...
And fold the bottom over the top to make a nice little pouch. Then flip your pouch over into the center of another foil sheet (so the seams are on the bottom) and fold again - so you have 2 layers of foil pouching.
Then place in a preheated 350 degree oven for about 7 min (or until fish is flaky and moist).
For our side dish, we sauteed broccoli and cauliflower (OH YUM!).
Spray a saute pan with PAM (or use a tsp or two of olive oil)
Sprinkle lightly with this - it's divine, but strong (and high in sodium), so use accordingly.
Add lots of pepper, ya know, if you're like us. We like hair on our chests.
Plate salmon and veggies together and enjoy!
I sprinkled my salmon with a little low sodium soy sauce and Truvia (for a teryaki-like flavor) - it was AMAZING!
Cilantro Lemon-Lime Salmon and Veggies
12 oz Salmon (fresh caught if you're lucky!)
1/4 cup Cilantro, chopped finely
1 heaping tsp Garlic, pressed (you can add to taste, we used about 1 tsp on each pouch)
1 Lime, zested and juiced
1 tsp Sal Con Limon (lemon salt)
Preheat over to 350 degrees.
Lay out 4 sheets of heavy duty aluminum foil (approx. 12" long). Sprinkle some of your cilantro, lime zest, garlic and lemon salt down, then lay the salmon fillets (we had 2 each) on top of the seasoning. Sprinkle more of the seasonings on top of the salmon then squeeze some lime juice over the fish. Wrap your salmon up tightly into a pouch (see instructions above), flip pouch over onto new foil sheet and wrap again.
Broccoli & Cauliflower Saute (we used frozen veggies)
1 1/2 cups Broccoli (florets and/or stems)
1 1/2 cups Cauliflower
Pepper (fresh cracked) to taste
Johnny's Seasoning Salt to taste (doesn't take much!)
Spray a stainless steel (or pan of choice) pan with PAM and set heat to medium. Place broccoli and cauliflower in the pan and season to taste. Saute until slightly wilted and warmed through. Add PAM as needed.
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Can I just begin by saying, Wow?!? XD THANK YOU SO MUCH, everyone who loved/reviewed "Keep Your Finger On The Pulse." Know why I'm thanking you? Not only because those reviews made my day(s), but also because, you guys are what inspired me to write a companion piece. The other side of Esposito's sick day. ^^ (I thought about just uploading this as a second chapter of "KYFotP," but I decided I like these better as a matching pair of stand-alone oneshots. Kinda like a certain cop duo. ;) )
So. Let's see what was going on around the same time that Espo was doped out on Ny-Quil. Since the first oneshot started out from Esposito's POV, guess whose POV this one starts with. ^^ Yep, the other partner. (If you were thinking Lanie, just wait, I'm getting there. xD )
Without further ado, as Castle would say. ^^ Enjoy.
Along with the myriad of things there were to love about New York City, there was an accompanying list of things to hate, and the latter list was scary-long. Like, longer than your arm. As in, for a totally non-biased example, the wack-job who'd decided it would be a good idea to murder his ex-wife by dragging her through the Hudson, poison his boss, then carefully scrap all the evidence and come up with phony-but-plausible alibis, making it impossible to convict him. For every respect-earning tramp and troubadour out there just trying to make a name for themselves, there was some jerk-off who was just plain inconsiderate.
In short terms, all of that meant that Detective Kevin Ryan's morning had just gotten a lot longer. Especially since his partner---in both police work and low-stakes bets over Monday night Madden---had decided to take a mental health day…. All right, just a health day. Whichever way you spun it, the stack of folders on Ryan's desk wasn't getting any shorter.
"How goes the valiant solo mission, Detective?"
Ryan turned around in his chair, switching his caffeine-enabled ice-blue gaze from the seven-zillionth page of Folder One to the face of Det. Kate Beckett. Both her polka-dotted 'Innocent Bystander' mug and her slight sisterly smirk were ever-present.
"Less than valiant. I almost feel bad for monopolizing the gaiety," Ryan deadpanned.
"I take it our suspect's got an elusive rap sheet?"
"Oh, he'd make Houdini wanna take notes."
"Hang in there," Beckett offered with a hint of a smile. "I'll make sure Esposito knows exactly what he's missing out on."
"And suffers?" Ryan and sarcasm were clearly good pals.
"I think it'll do the job," Kate returned. Giving him a pat on the shoulder, she made her way across the bullpen to interrogate a witness.
That was Kevin's universal cue to get back to working, and he did, for about three more hours. Okay, so it was possible that half of one of those hours was spent standing at the cappuccino machine with Castle, debating whether or not their suspect had a psychopathic obsession with Sid Vicious…and then just debating Sid Vicious. A power-glare from Beckett got everybody back on track real well.
The clock spun as usual. Sometime after the little hand hit the 'eleven' and Ryan's hand started twitching, another familiar figure showed up next to his desk. Ryan didn't look up, for fear of having the same effect happen to him that happened to vampires in the daylight. "If it's more death, leave a message after my suicidal shrieking," he said.
He looked up after a smack grazed the back of his head, though. "Easy, Scream, I'm just here for your keys."
Ohh, mild abuse aside, now he was intrigued. Kevin looked up from his work and spun around in his chair, crossing his arms and giving Lanie The Violent M.E. an amused half-smirk and turn of the eyebrows. "You need my keys," he repeated.
"Just the one to Esposito's apartment---I know you two got that whole little 'Odd Couple' thing goin' on. Hand over, please."
This just kept getting better and better! "Why would you need a key to Espo's apartment?" His quick-spreading grin spoke volumes about how much he wasn't going to let her off that easy.
Lanie crossed her arms right back, her face saying something between 'just throw me a bone, here' and 'don't make me kill you, whiteboy.' "Beckett needs somebody to run him a copy of our poison vic's tox report. Okay?"
"And this 'somebody' is you."
"You got a problem with that?"
"Why do you need the key? Can't you just press the buzzer?"
"The buzzer'll wake him if he's asleep."
"Aww, that's sweet! How maternal."
"I will smack you."
Ryan shook his head, milking the moment. "I'm sorry---did I hear you ask me for my keys? What? Ohhh, that's right, I don't think I did."
The 'don't make me kill you' look was getting stronger. "May I please borrow the key to Esposito's apartment?"
"All right, that was a good start…now, I'm thinking, how about…'Can I please borrow your keys to the apartment, O Illustriously Brilliant Sir Ryan.'"
The M.E. hit the bottom of the patience barrel. "I got your 'Sir Ryan' right here if you don't hand me over the keys."
Ryan decided against extending the banter, fun though it was, and reached down to the hook under his desk for the key to his precinct locker, doing so with a shrug. Hey, if he were the one hacking up corpses for a living, he'd want to get out once in a while too. No matter how useless the errand.
"My locker, 2-4-1," he explained. "Keys are in my left coat pocket." He dangled the locker key from its ring on one finger, shaking said finger out a bit when Lanie snatched it off.
"Thank you. I'm not gonna find any sappy 'love notes' from Jenny in there, am I?"
Ryan's expression said he was not amused at the sarcasm. The coroner's said otherwise. "No, I think all she did today was pack my lunch and cut the crust off my sandwich in little heart shapes."
Lanie gave him a look, shaking her head and chuckling to herself as she walked away. "Got a Supermom girlfriend and still leaves the house lookin' like that."
Needless to say, Kevin's next bout of procrastination with Castle at the coffee machine was not over Sid Vicious, but over exactly what was wrong with this tie.
The following day, everything, of course, was back to normal. Everybody was back where they had to be, the normal pecking order of business was restored, certain detectives stopped complaining about their doubled workload, and this case, like all the others, was brought to a close, closing the work week along with it.
Like every Friday night, the Soho House on Ninth was almost as jumping as some of the hottest clubs in the district, but with half the bass reverb, and a lot fewer high-school kids trying to sneak in past the velvet ropes. On top of that, they served an appletini that packed a wallop. Smooth, but just strong enough to fuzz the edges of whatever problems you had that week.
The drink must have been taking its effect on the M.E. already, because she had to snap her gaze to attention when she heard, "Lanie."
Kate Beckett sat across from her, as she did every Friday night---at least, every Friday night that the psychos decided to stay home and play Yahtzee. It was a 'best friend' thing; as was the look on Beckett's face as she leaned forward a bit, forearms resting on the edge of the table, fingertips keeping a loose hold on her condensing glass of Jack and Coke. "What's with you? You okay?"
Was she okay. Well, that was a matter of debate. Her mental health could probably use a checkup. "Me? Girl, please. Why wouldn't I be?"
A smirk grazed Kate's lips. "Maybe because you've been staring into space for the last five minutes."
"It has not been five minutes."
"So I rounded up. Sue me."
"Kate. C'mon."
"Lanie. C'mon. Tell me."
Oh, just tell her? Just let her know what was going on in that screwed-up head of hers? Psh. Like it was that easy. How was she supposed to do that? How was she supposed to look her best friend---a savvy, take-no-prisoners, point-running cop---in the eye, and just casually blurt out that maybe she couldn't stop thinking about one of her best detectives? Who also happened to be like an older brother to said cop, by the way, to make things even more festive. Mm-mm, nuh-uh. There were so many ways for this situation to bring the Awkward into the workplace, it was best to just squash it now. And not ever say anything about it out loud.
After that good long contemplative pause, Lanie set her martini on the table. "What do you think of Esposito?"
….That was NOT supposed to come out! Next time, order a virgin….
Kate's already-wide eyes bugged, and she practically spat her latest sip of cocktail onto the Formica. "As in…Esposito? My Esposito? The…one…we…know?"
Ohh, the ship for regretting that question had so already sailed. Lanie rolled her eyes. "No, Jennifer Esposito---I'm really missing 'Samantha Who' and my TiVo's just not gettin' it like it used to."
Now it was Kate's turn to roll her eyes. "Oh, forgive me for spazzing out a little when you randomly ask about one of my detectives. What about him?"
"Just…what do you think of him?"
'Confused' would be a good way to describe Kate's current expression, but she decided to at least humor the question. "Well, he is on my squad, I think that pretty much indicates a good opinion, yeah."
"Yeah, but I mean…" Okay, okay, the grave was dug…time to just jump in and settle down for a nice long nap. "He's cute, right? You think?"
"He's c---?!" Somebody should have had a bet going on whether Kate's eyes could have gotten any wider or not. They would have lost a lot of money. Would have been nice if it was Castle. "I…guess…? Lanie, what is going on with you?" The detective dropped her voice to a hushed whisper across the table, as if she somehow thought the entire precinct was listening from the surrounding tables. "Are you thinking of dating Esposito?"
Apparently, Lanie was subconsciously looking for any sign at all that this was crazy---hoping the universe would squash the option for her so she didn't have to face it---because the look on her face was almost pitifully hopeful, as she said, "You don't think it's a good idea, right?"
"I…I…don't know! I mean, have you thought about this? What, how? What brought this on?"
"I don't know!" Exasperated, the coroner threw her hands up from the table. "Love to find out, but I don't know. Not that there's anything to not know. Or know. 'Cause I'm not saying there's even anything to know, you know?" Anyone who was rambling less might have noticed Kate's eyebrow crawl up in amusement. "All I know is, he may have made his…interest known, in the past, but I called him on it."
"You turned him down."
"Well…yeah." She said it like it was the most obvious option in the world.
Her shock wearing off and her amused smirk returning, Kate ticked off the facts one by one, finger by finger. "Let's see: you said he's interested in you. You're obviously interested in him," she stated, moving right along and cutting off Lanie's protests before they caught volume, "since you're zoning out and acting like a flustered teenager. It's not like you're seeing somebody---"
"Oh, thank you."
"---since we both know you're as perpetually single as I am, and Esposito hasn't had a date since the Bar Crawl incident in January."
Lanie wrinkled an eyebrow. "How'd you know that?"
"I have my sources."
"Detective Ryan?"
"Slip him a tenner and he'll squawk like a parrot---the point is, Lanie, why not go for it?"
"Oh, like you 'go for it' with Castle?"
The M.E. knew she had a checkmate there, even if Kate rolled her eyes and kind of her entire head, the way she was doing now. "Oh, please. Castle is so not the same thing."
"Look, before we get into your hundredth denial-dance here---"
"It's not denial…"
"---can we just drop the subject? Please? Just forget I said anything."
Kate shrugged amicably, sitting back in her intended chair-sitting position and wrapping a slim hand back around her Jack and Coke. "Okay… But, can I get a last word on the subject, here?"
Lanie gave her a look, but with a gentler voice. Or maybe just worn-out. Or maybe anticipating a hangover. "What."
"He's a great guy. Those are kind of a dying breed."
What a way to sum up the problem. Maybe it was a detective thing. The M.E. thing, on the other hand, was to poke at it until you decided for yourself what it meant, and Lanie gave Kate a deadpan expression. "I know. And thank you. Now shut up."
"Fine." Beckett lifted her glass for a sip to hide her spreading grin.
Despite herself, Lanie smiled a hint too. "Oh---and, Detective? You bring up a word of this to anyone in the precinct, and I have ways of making sure you end up on my table. Case closed."
Indeed. The coroner brought the martini glass back to her lips. Yep…next time, definitely ordering non-alcoholic….
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Teriyaki Salmon With Marmalade Butter
READY IN: 2hrs 26mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 ounces butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons orange marmalade
- 8 (4 ounce) boneless salmon fillets, not steaks
- 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil
- 1⁄2 cup soy sauce
- 1⁄2 cup dry sherry or 1⁄2 cup rice wine
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon grated gingerroot (about 1-inch piece)
- 6 tablespoons orange zest (about 3 large oranges worth)
- 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
- 2 tablespoons honey
Directions See How It's Made
- Make the marmalade butter by thoroughly combining the butter and marmalade — a stand mixer with a paddle is ideal. Roll the butter in parchment paper into a 1½" wide log and store in the refrigerator to harden.
- Heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the garlic, ginger root and orange zest and cook two minutes.
- Add the soy sauce, wine, sesame oil and honey and cook until the alcohol has evaporated. Sniff the fumes to determine this. If the fumes irritate your nose, there is still alcohol present. Cool completely.
- Pour marinade over the salmon and refrigerate for at least two hours.
- Broil or grill the salmon for three minutes per side and top with the marmalade butter.


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1. When my younger brother and we started going to our native village, Kabhistalam, it struck to both of us that while Kunja [ Athan Manni ], Sampath and his wife, Padma were very warm, hospitable and responsive; we needed our own private space at our native village.
2. During one of our such visits, Sri Rangan told me that a odd piece of land measuring 4000 sq feet located across Gajendra Pushkarni in Agarahara in Kabhistalam was available for Rs 85,000/- or so immediately and was a good opportunity to work towards our dream of owning our own ancestral home at Kabisthalam.
3. The seed money of Rs 80,000/- came from an unexpected source, our nephew, Sri Kandadai N Srikant of T N Nagar!! And the gruhaprevesam was solemnized in Sept 2008 to synchronise with Maha Samprokshinam of Sri Jenbakavalli aka Ramavalli Thayar samedha Lord Adimoola Gajendra Varadaraja Swamigal @ Kabhistalam [ later held in a hurry on 07 May 2009 ].
4. The home as depicted by ASR Nilayam consisted of a large hall, a separate ladies room with attached bath, small Perumal sannidhi and a a decent kitchen and a big portico all set to vaastu principles as the site was south facing.
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S……….. Our fathers' name was Sri Sowmyanarayana Iyengar.
R……….. Our mothers' name was Smt A S Rajalakshmi.
[ It did evoke a strange but powerful memories of the time when we were brought up at Nagpur !!].
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Lezgian "Sadval" movement leader Nazim Hajiyev killed
YEREVAN, MARCH 21, ARMENPRESS. Nazim Hajiyev (born 1944), leader of the Lezgian nationalist "Sadval" movement, was killed in Makhachkala.
"Armenpress" reports, citing TASS, Hajiyev's body was found in his apartment with multiple knife wounds last night.
It is noted that "Sadval" movement activist Ruslan Magomedrahimov was murdered on March 24, 2015. No official information on the results of the investigation has been published.
"Sadval" is coordinating the liberation struggle of the Lezgian people of Azerbaijan, which is why it was declared "separatist" or "terrorist" in Azerbaijan.
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Dollhouse Drama – Suspicious that Dee Dee has not entered his lab even once on a particular day, Dexter shrinks himself and enters her room to spy on her to see what is she doing. He soon becomes an unwilling character in Dee Dee's doll story, but believes the story to be real, due to the shrinking's side effect that makes him confuse reality and fantasy.
Krunk's Date – While the Justice Friends are fighting Comrade Red and his gang (the communist equivalent of the Justice Friends), Krunk falls in love with his equivalent in their gang, She-Thing (Kath Soucie).
The Big Cheese – Dexter invents a device that will allow him to learn for the next day's French test while he is asleep, but it malfunctions, causing it to repeat only a single phrase: Omelette du fromage (which is an incorrect and meaningless translation of cheese omelette) throughout the night. As a result, he wakes up in the morning speaking nothing else butOmelette du fromage. Strangely, this makes him a celebrity overnight, although when he tries to enter his lab later, he is unable to say the password, causing his lab to self-destruct as a security measure.


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Giant Factory Team at EWS Rotorua
A wet and wild start in New Zealand
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Off-season laps Down Under
Could this be 'The Bike That Downieville Built?'
From moto to XC to enduro and fatherhood
Bikes, rally cars, motos. The Deckerator has it dialed
A purebred XC steed that slays tight-and-twisty trails
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Phil Davies confirmed his resignation as director of rugby at Leeds an hour before the start of play yesterday. Having been in post for 10 years, Davies, who missed out on the Wales coaching job last week, believes it is time to move. Where to is unclear.
"It is after much soul-searching and discussion with the Tykes and my family that I have decided to resign," said Davies. "I have had a wonderful decade in Yorkshire and the Tykes will always be close to my heart. I'm utterly convinced that they will bounce straight back up to the Premiership, stronger than ever."
The club's chief executive, Gary Hetherington, acknowledged Davies' contribution and added: "There is always disappointment at a time like this. But we now enter a thorough review of our coaching and playing personnel, and that process is ongoing."
With a vacancy at Llanelli, where Davies spent most of his playing career, and maybe the job of Wales forwards coach coming up, too, Davies may well return to the Principality.
Having spent the last few weeks trying to avoid the relegation trap-door, Leeds will need to bolt the exit door if the departure of Justin Marshall is not to be the catalyst for a mass exodus. However, with Marshall released from his contract to sign for the Ospreys, Leeds will not only save £150,000 on his salary but will hope to keep the outstanding scrum-half Danny Care. The England Under-19 international, and the England Under-21 No 8 Jordan Crane are wanted by Harlequins and Northampton. Andre Snyman is on his way home to South Africa, where he hopes to make the Springbok squad in time for the World Cup. The props Kees Lensing and Rayno Gerber are also rumoured to be on their way, as are the Scots, Gordon Ross and Gordon Bulloch.
There are signs that the whole Headingley edifice is crumbling, so if Leeds are to spend only one season in National League One, as Quins did, they will need recruitment plans in place quickly. Davies' assistant, Daryl Powell, will take over until a successor is found.
With so much uncertainty off the field there was plenty more pain on it as Gloucester consigned them to a fifth consecutive defeat. The West Countrymen are pushing for a play-off semi final place to go with their Heineken Cup spot for next season.
Tom Biggs raised Leeds' hopes with a super try, but touchdowns by Mike Tindall, Andy Hazell, Peter Richards and James Simpson-Daniel, with four conversions and a penalty by Ryan Lamb, won the game for Gloucester.
Leeds: Try Biggs; Conversion Ross. Gloucester: Tries Tindall, Hazell, Richards, Simpson-Daniel; Conversions Lamb 4; Penalty Lamb.
Leeds: R de Marigny; A Snyman (D Doherty, 49), C Bell, C Jones, T Biggs (L Blackett, 63); G Ross, M McMillan (D Care, 49); M Shelley (capt), R Rawlinson (G Bulloch, 51), R Gerber (M Cusack, 34), C Murphy, T Palmer (K Myall, 40), S Morgan, N Thomas, J Crane.
Gloucester: O Morgan (L Mercier, 71); J Simpson-Daniel, M Tindall (capt; J Bailey, 42-48; 51), A Allen (H Thomas, 71), M Foster; R Lamb, P Richards; P Collazo, M Davies (O Azam, 53), J Forster (A Balding, 53), J Pendlebury, A Brown, L Narraway (A Eustace, 70), A Hazell, J Forrester.
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Rui Q.,Academy of Armored force Engineering |
Wang H.-Y.,Academy of Armored force Engineering |
Wang Q.-L.,Academy of Armored force Engineering |
Guo J.,North China Institute of Science and Technology |
And 2 more authors.
Binggong Xuebao/Acta Armamentarii | Year: 2015
For the study of steering performance of tracked vehicles under skidding, a steady-state steering model of tracked vehicle, which takes the skid and slippage of tracks and centrifugal force into consideration, is established to improve the simulating accuracy of the tracked vehicle steering model. Expressions of driving force and braking force of outside track and inside track, and steering resistance torque of tracked vehicles are derived using shear stress-shear displacement relationship model, respectively. According to force and torque equilibrium theory, the steering dynamic equations of tracked vehicle are established and solved by iterative algorithm. Taking a certain type of tracked vehicle with the integrated transmission device as the object, the accuracy of steering model of tracked vehicles is verified by comparing the experimental and calculated results. The rules of changing the kinematics and dynamic steering performance of tracked vehicles with turning radius and running velocity are deeply studied based on the steady-state steering model of tracked vehicle. The results show that the influence of the steering centrifugal force on steering performance increases significantly with the increase in running velocity and the decrease in turning radius. ©, 2015, China Ordnance Society. All right reserved.
Research on the acquisition of steering performance parameters of armored vehicle based on experiments
Rui Q.,Academy of Armored force Engineering |
Wang H.,Academy of Armored force Engineering |
Wang Q.,Academy of Armored force Engineering |
Wan L.,China North Special Vehicle Research Institute |
And 2 more authors.
Jixie Gongcheng Xuebao/Journal of Mechanical Engineering | Year: 2015
Experimental research on steering characteristics is an important technical method for the analyzing of steering performance and validating of steering theory of tracked vehicles. In view of the absence of accurate and efficient steering test means for tracked vehicles, experiment approach of overall steering performance parameters have been given an overall analysis based on the relationships among steering kinematics and dynamic parameters. Experiment method of actual steering radius of tracked vehicle is proposed according to the GPS-based steering track test instrument. With the combination of National Instruments measurement system, memory revolving speed and torque tester and GPS-based steering track test instrument, uninterrupted experiments of multiple steering radiuses for steering kinematic and dynamic parameters has been implemented, and the test efficiency and precision of the steering performance parameters have been improved significantly. The usage of test equipment and the process of test data have been depicted in detail, and the critical question of truncation and synchronization of experimental data measured from multi-set of test instrument have been resolved. Test results are analyzed and compared with calculation results of theoretical model. The research provides an important technical method for steering performance test and theoretical model validation for tracked vehicles. ©, 2015, Journal of Mechanical Engineering. All right reserved.
Analyzing and testing verification the performance about high-speed tracked vehicles in steering process
Wang H.,Academy of Armored force Engineering |
Wang Q.,Academy of Armored force Engineering |
Rui Q.,Academy of Armored force Engineering |
Gai J.,North China Institute of Science and Technology |
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Jixie Gongcheng Xuebao/Journal of Mechanical Engineering | Year: 2014
In order to analyse the kinematical and dynamic character parameters of steering process of high-speed tracked vehicle, the calculation model of kinematical and dynamic character parameters of acting force, turning resistance moment, turning radius, turning angular speed between tracks and ground is built, considering the influence of steering centrifugal force, the slipping of track-contact-ground. The analysis results show that steering centrifugal force has the some influence to the steering performance, the acting forces for out and inner tracks decrease along with the turning radius gradually in slipping steer situation. Compared to the calculation results based on traditional steering theory, which the turning radius is about 1.5 times, and the turning angular speed is 67% in slipping steer situation. Tracked vehicle testing results show that steering model established in this paper considering slip steering is accurate, which agrees with the actual turning process well, those research works provide the theoretical supported on the design of the new steering mechanism and the steering process control. ©2014 Journal of Mechanical Engineering