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Peanut growers from throughout the Southeast, Virginia-Carolina and Southwest production regions are encouraged to participate in the Farm Press Peanut Profitability Award for 2003. The awards program is entering its fourth year, already having honored three classes of winners.
"Peanut growers who consistently find innovative methods of improving production efficiency are deserving of special recognition," says Farm Press Publisher Mike Gonitzke. "So, Farm Press, in cooperation with the Southern Peanut Growers Conference, has established this award. Since the program's inception in 2000, the Peanut Profitability Awards have honored nine deserving winners.
"In the past year, U.S. peanut growers have faced severe weather problems, uncertain market conditions and a complete overhaul of their crop's government program. But I'm confident there are growers who have faced these challenges and will be deserving of this prestigious award."
The awards are based on production efficiency, honoring those growers who produce the highest yields at the lowest cost per acre. Awards are presented to growers from the Southeast Region, including Alabama, Georgia and Florida; the Virginia-Carolina Region, including Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina; and the Southwest Region, including Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
Winners of the 2002 awards were honored for production efficiency achieved during the 2001 growing season. They included Jamie Lee, Courtland, Va., Virginia-Carolina Region; Jeff and Jerry Heard, Jr., Newton, Ga., Southeast Region; and Chuck Rowland, Gaines County, Texas, Southwest Region.
The winning nominations for the 2003 awards will be based on production efficiency during the 2002 growing season. Winners of the 2003 awards will receive an expenses-paid trip for two to the Southern Peanut Growers Conference in Panama City, Fla., set for July 2003. They also will receive limited-edition signed and numbered prints from noted watercolor artist Jack DeLoney.
In addition, the winners are featured in special Peanut Profitability issues of Southeast Farm Press and Southwest Farm Press.
Acting as Program Advisor for the Peanut Profitability Award is Marshall Lamb, economist with the National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga. Lamb, who was instrumental in the creation of the awards program, has designed a nomination form to be used by growers in determining production efficiency.
"While achieving consistently high yields and grades is important, it's only part of the equation to maximizing profits. The elements of production cost and price are equally important factors," says Lamb.
The grower nomination form for the Peanut Profitability Award is very extensive, notes Lamb, and considers both fixed and variable costs.
"We've had nominees in this program who had higher yields than most, but they did not correctly manage their cost structure. We're looking at per-unit costs, and how effectively farmers manage their cost structures," he says.
The awards program, he says, is based on a producer's entire peanut operation. "We're not talking about small plots in select fields. Rather, we look at the overall management of these growers. This includes yields, costs and marketing management for the entire farm, and most of our winners come from sizable farms," says Lamb.
Assisting with the awards program is an Advisory Board comprised of Extension peanut specialists, county agents, economists and commodity group officials from the major peanut-producing states. They help to distribute nomination forms within their respective states and educate potential nominees about the program.
Farm Press editors, working with Lamb, select the regional winners from the pool of state nominees. Members of the Advisory Board, along with Lamb, are charged with periodically reviewing the awards program to insure consistency.
Data entered on a farmer's nomination form, notes Lamb, should be based on an entire farm operation and not on individual farms or small plots. Actual per-unit costs and returns information will remain confidential to Lamb and members of the Advisory Board.
Growers may submit their nomination form directly to the National Peanut Research Laboratory, or they may submit it to their county Extension agent, peanut specialist or economist. The deadline for all nominations is April 15, 2003.
Growers can access the nomination form via the Internet at southeastfarmpress.com and southwestfarmpress.com. In addition, it can be linked from various commodity group Websites. To receive a hard copy of the form, call Farm Press headquarters at (662) 624-8503.
While recognizing deserving growers is important, it's only one part of the program, says Gonitzke. "A second major component of the Peanut Profitability Program is education. Southeast Farm Press and Southwest Farm Press accomplished this in the past year by publishing more than 60 articles on peanut production efficiency. It also is our hope that farmers from throughout the Peanut Belt will learn from the production practices of growers who receive the award."
Farm Press will continue to publish articles in the coming year focusing on peanut production efficiency. Each article will bear the Peanut Profitability Program logo so that it can be recognized easily by readers.
Another part of the education component, says Gonitzke, is an annual grant made to the American Peanut Research and Education Society on behalf of the Peanut Profitability Program.
The 2003 Peanut Profitability Award Program Officials and Advisory Board
Program Coordinator
Paul L. Hollis, Editor, Southeast Farm Press
166 North Gay Street
P.O. Box 1415
Auburn, AL 36831-1415
(334) 826-7451
Program Advisor
Marshall Lamb, Economist, USDA
National Peanut Research Laboratory
1011 Forester Drive
Dawson, GA 31740
(229) 995-7417
Advisory Board
Lower Southeast
Nathan B. Smith, Agricultural Economist, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service
Rural Development Center
15 RDC Road
P.O. Box 1209
Tifton, GA 31794
(229) 386-3512
John Beasley, Agronomist, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service
Rural Development Center
15 RDC Road
P.O. Box 1209
Tifton, GA 31793
(229) 386-3430
Tim Hewitt, Agricultural Economist, University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service
3925 Highway 71
Marianna, FL 32446
(850) 482-9904
Dallas Hartzog, Agronomist, Alabama Cooperative Extension System Wiregrass Research & Extension Station
Highway 134 East
P.O. Box 217
Headland, AL 36345
(334) 693-2010
Upper Southeast
David Jordan, Crop Science Extension Specialist, North Carolina State University
4207 Williams Hall
Box 7620
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
(919) 515-4068
Bob Sutter
North Carolina Peanut Growers Association
P.O. Box 8
Nashville, NC 27856-0008
(252) 459-5060
Charles Swann, Agronomist, Virginia Tech
6321 Holland Road
Suffolk, VA 23437
(757) 657-6450
Russell Schools
Virginia Peanut Growers Association
103 Triangle Court
P.O. Box 356
Capron, VA 23829
(804) 658-4573
Dewitt Gooden, Extension Peanut Specialist, Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service
2200 Pocket Road
Florence, SC 29506
(834) 669-1912 Extension 203
Robbie Blount
Southwest Texas Peanut Growers Association
P.O. Box 252
Seminole, TX 79360
(915) 758-2050
Ron Sholar, Agronomist, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service
503 Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078-6028
(405) 744-9616
Floyd McAllister, Roosevelt County, N.M., Extension Agent
705 E. Lime St.
P.O. Box 455
Fort Portales, NM 88130
(505) 356-4417


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Melon really isn't in season yet, but, I wanted some anyway. I cut up a cantaloupe and honeydew, and, it didn't seem very sweet. So, I added some fresh lime juice, a pinch of salt (brings out the sweet), and a light drizzle of honey.
Boy did that do it. It wasn't sugar sweet, but, naturally sweet (if that makes any sense).
I put some fruit on the bottom and a then topped with some vanilla yogurt and granola. A few strawberries on the side and the best part, my son James brought me a scone from The Bread Smith, YUM.
Now, ready to start the day. I have some tag I will be playing this afternoon -- yeah -- will you be it???
Enjoy your family and most of all, Enjoy the Day.

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Research in our lab focuses on the emergence of collective pattern from individual behavior. We are using social insect colonies as a model for complex systems in general, and employ a combination of empirical studies and theoretical approaches. Such studies have implications for our understanding of general principles of distributed problem solving in engineered systems, biological networks, human societies, cellular interactions, etc., but also in explaining the diversity of behaviors in social insects.
1. Collective problem-solving strategies
The main theme of our research has been to discover which organizational strategies social insects use, and why these have evolved. Answering this 'why' question here means studying the benefits and costs (i.e. the adaptive function) of different strategies in different social and environmental contexts. Examples are strategies used in search, communication, task allocation, and collective decision-making.
2. Efficiency, flexibility, and robustness in complex systems
A central theme across evolutionary biology is that efficiency (optimized function under a defined set of circumstances) may trade off against flexibility (robustness to change or noise). Organisms as well as organizations, including insect colonies, thus need to balance efficiency and flexibility, e.g. when employing specialized or generalized workers. We have studied which traits at both individual- and group-levels contribute to flexibility and robustness, and under what conditions they are likely to evolve. Central topics are learning and cognition, specialization and division of labor, and 'personalities' and behavioral syndromes.
3. Evolution of complexity
Many biological innovations involve the evolution of increased complexity, generating systems of interconnected parts, sophisticated internal organization, and ecological success. Social insect colonies are one example of such evolution towards complexity. But what factors actually promote the evolution of more complex systems? Central topics here are colony/group size and sophistication of individuals vs groups.
4. Applying insights about complex systems across disciplines
Insights gained about insect colony organization can be applied to other complex systems, from distributed computing to human organizations. Vice versa, concepts and methods derived from computing, economics, systems biology, or ecology can be generalized and applied to understand biological systems, including colony organization.
5. Developing research infrastructure
We are helping to develop and distribute a software that can function as a computer-automated tracking tool for videos of moving ants or other objects, the ABCTracker. We have also developed R packages and articles discussing analysis methods, and developed online resources for junior scientists (including students).


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Government of Sindh province has announced the jobs in Works and Services Department jobs for the years 2016. We are providing here the complete information about the works and services department Sindh jobs 2016. Initially there was one Department namely Public Works Department (PWD) and it consisted of Irrigation Department, Building Department, Roads Department and Public Health Engineering Department.
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We are changing Mamona starting to use OpenEmbedded (OE – http://www.openembedded.org/) that is a great build system.
There are at least 4 good reasons to use openembedded:
- Avoiding monkey work – OE uses bitbake to build the packages. BitBake is a simple tool for the execution of tasks. It is derived from Portage.
- Avoiding monkey work – OE already has a lot of package descriptions.
- Community interaction – OE has a great and active community.
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Actress Amy Poehler is hosting a fundraiser for Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn) in Los Angles on April 24, according to a fundraising email sent out by the Franken campaign.
Both Poehler and Franken are former "Saturday Night Live" actors and writers. As the trend goes, the Franken campaign is raffling off tickets to the fundraiser for a few lucky supporters who donate a minimum of $5 to the senator's reelection bid.
The "Parks and Recreation" actress isn't the only celebrity Franken has enlisted to help out in his reelection campaign. MinnPost reports the Franken campaign also raffled off tickets to Franken fundraisers featuring Conan O'Brien and Jon Hamm, as well as singer Paul Simon. However, the Simon fundraiser was cancelled due to the government shutdown.
Franken has brought in many donations from entertainment personnel and SNL alum this election cycle, including contributions from Lorne Michaels, Lily Tomlin, Buck Henry, Steve Martin, Will Forte, Tim Meadows, Kevin Nealon, Blythe Danner, Carl Reiner, Kevin Kline, Jane Curtin and Ed Harris, according to FEC reports.
The Minnesota Senate race is likely to be competitive, as it was in 2008 when Franken ousted Sen. Norm Colman by a little over 300 votes. Top Republican candidates include financial executive Mike McFadden and Minnesota state Sen. Julianne Ortman. Franken currently has a campaign war chest of $2.7 million.


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In 2004 Germaine Greer, formerly professor in the department of English literature and comparative studies at the University of Warwick, published a work titled, Whitefella Jump Up!
Robert Manne
This said Australia should adopt Aboriginal language, customs and religions and revert to a hunter-gatherer society, although it would be hard on the kangaroos, lizards, dugongs and the last rare small mammals to be chased for food by 23 million people, however inept at tracking, spear-throwing and desert-survival these might be.
A leading academic theologian, Dr Peter Adams, principal of Ridley College, the main Anglican theological college in Victoria, demanded that "all non-Aboriginal Australians [that is, 97.5 per cent of the population] should be prepared to leave the country if the indigenous people want that", and that such artefacts of civilisation as houses, churches, colleges, parks, courts, hospitals and roads were no more than stolen property.
Another Australian academic, Robert Manne, an associate professor of political science — voted the country's most influential public intellectual in a newspaper poll — said of the allegedly "enchanted world" of pre-European Australian Aborigines: "Anthropologists discovered not an Edenic but an enchanted world, in the technical sense of the sociologist Max Weber. They discovered an intricate social order in which, through the kinship structure, every human being had a precise and acknowledged place."
A society in which "every human being had a precise and acknowledged place" was one of the things Hitler attempted to achieve. It sounds an excellent recipe for stagnation and universal unfreedom, like the insectoid Selenites of H.G. Wells's The First Men on the Moon; the alphas, betas, gammas and epsilons of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; or the inner party, outer party and proles of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
We know Aboriginal society — sometimes called a "gerontocracy tempered by anarchy" — was frequently homicidal and accorded no rights to women and children, while adolescent males who in tribal life failed a series of progressively harder initiation-tests were regarded as non-people and dealt with accordingly.
I have already mentioned that the possibility of upward and downward social mobility appears necessary for progress.
Mr Manne continued his description of "a world that was filled with economic purpose, leavened with playfulness, joy and humour, soaked in magic, sorcery, mystery and ritual, pregnant at every moment with deep and unquestioned meaning".
Is this academic and noted "public intellectual" actually saying that a way of life "soaked in sorcery" was desirable? What can one do but throw back against this, across 25 centuries, the words of Xenophanes:
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning, All things to us, but in the course of time Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
Prominent in Manne's lengthy list of hatreds is the idea or argument that Western life is "better" than Aboriginal life, and the notion that the best realistic solution to the problems of Aboriginal life is that they be assimilated. He categorically denounces the policy of assimilation as a failure, associated with the despised (by him) Liberal politician Sir Paul Hasluck.
In Manne's writings, no figures are given of the number of Aborigines and part-Aborigines who have successfully completed a Western education and secured employment. These people, once they are successful, tend to become uninteresting and "drop off the radar".
While Manne offers little or nothing in the way of positive prescriptions, he appears, as the quotation above indicates, to laud the tribal lifestyle, and denies Hobbes's description of life in the "state of Nature" as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short". This, be it remembered, is the writing of a tenured academic in a department of politics, holder of one of the cushiest jobs in the Western world.
The idyllic nature of Aboriginal existence is questioned by obvious mathematics, apart from the fact that practically all Aborigines reject many or all aspects of tribal life for Western technology when a choice is offered them.
Aborigines inhabited the continent of Australia for 40,000 years or more. They had only the most primitive methods of birth-control and practically no natural enemies. They were at the undisputed top of the food-chain, and were not at risk from predators like African lions, leopards, hippos and hyenas. They developed great hunting and gathering skills.
Yet by the time of European settlement they numbered less — probably much less — than a million: estimates vary from about 100,000 to about 750,000. The precise figure does not matter to make the point. This population could only have been so limited by an enormously high death-rate.
While we do not know the exact number of Aborigines in Australia at the time of white settlement, we can guess that the population was small, not only because a hunter-gatherer life imposes a very low limit on the number of people the land will support, but also because few bones or other Aboriginal remains were found once settlement got under way and large areas around Sydney, Melbourne and elsewhere — the most fertile and well-watered parts of the continent — began to be cleared.
Professor Geoffrey Partington has written on various fallacies used to explain Aboriginal school-children's academic backwardness: "A typical euphemism is that the curricula of schools that Aboriginal children attend are irrelevant to their true needs and that the teaching methods are alien to their Aboriginal identities. Here are the words of two supposed experts."
Michael Christie claimed: "All Western notions of quantity — of more or less, or numbers, mathematics and positivistic thinking — are not only quite irrelevant to the Aboriginal world, but contrary to it…. A world view in which land, spirit beings, people and trees are all somehow unified does not lend itself to scientific analysis."
Stephen Harris held that Western science must remain alien to Aborigines as long as they were educated in traditional methods, because it is "directed at controlling nature", whereas "in contrast Aborigines try mostly to leave the environment alone, and fit in with what is happening in nature".
He warned that "aspects of Western education such as what we call 'critical thinking' perhaps should not be taught as a universally good way to think", since this might result in "unwittingly widening any generation gap and undermining Aboriginal ways of thinking and problem-solving".
Harris asserted: "Aborigines do not encourage young people to ask why things happen — they are expected to believe the religious history of how they happened…. If Aboriginal people learn a lot about industrial scientific questioning and start asking for proof for things believed inside their culture, then Aboriginal world view is undermined."
One Aboriginal teacher with whom another specialist in indigenous education, R.G. Smith, worked, refused to use a computer because it was "Balanda stuff" (Balander being a corruption of "Hollander"), and another woman colleague scorned a "rather sophisticated new telescope" acquired by the school, because "she wanted to teach her children Aboriginal science, not Balanda astronomy".
R.G. Smith lamented that mainstream education "in its formalising and timetabling of educational processes, its preoccupation with literacy and largely mainstream concepts and skills, repudiates much of the current Aboriginal world". Out with literary, numeracy and science that do not feature much in "the current Aboriginal world"!
Very few indigenous people will ever become physicians, airline pilots, plumbers, electricians and mechanics without an early introduction to modern knowledge.
The brutal treatment of women in Aboriginal tribal life horrified even the hard and savagely-disciplined convicts and marines of the first settlement at Sydney. One young marine officer (later General), Watkin Tench, wrote: "[Women] are in all respects treated with savage barbarity…. They meet in return for submission only with blows, kicks and every other mark of brutality."
Tench also ridiculed the Rousseauean concept of the Noble Savage, remarking: "I wished that those European philosophers, whose closet speculations exalt a state of nature above a state of civilisation, could survey this phantom, which their heated imaginations have raised. Possibly they might then learn, that a state of nature is, of all others, less adapted to promote [human happiness]."
This is despite the fact that there can also be a strong element of humour and self-awareness in Aboriginal culture. The violence and apparent callousness of tribal life was, before being apparently exacerbated by government policies, forced on them by their non-technological existence.
Policies of integrating Aborigines into the general community or equipping them to survive in the modern world have been damned as being, among other things, "assimilationism", like some kind of totalitarian ideology.
Conservative columnist Andrew Bolt remarked of Manne's enthusiasm: "How could our top intellectual so praise a society in which the strong ruled the weak, infanticide was common, death-rates by warfare horrific, life expectancy low and bashing of women — as measured by the fractured skulls since found — astonishingly high?"
Hal G.P. Colebatch, PhD, is a Perth author and lawyer. This article is an extract from his book, Fragile Flame: The Uniqueness and Vulnerability of Scientific and Technological Civilization (2013), which includes endnotes and references, and is available from News Weekly Books.
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Every morning before I head off to work I drink a cup of tea. This is rather boring, so this morning I played around with different posts for the maintence corridor scene.
They are all very 5-minute first pass and I will probably not implement anything in UDK but I got a few favorites.


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Welcome › Forums › DSC (Desired State Configuration) › Partial configurations and credentials?
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November 1, 2016 at 5:15 pm #56629
I was thinking of using DSC to manage DFS. I already have per node configurations setup on a pull server. These configurations were generated with configData so that I have a MOF per DFS server. In that configData is the PKI info for encrypting credentials per node (although really it's the same AD DFS admin creds). I was thinking of using partial configurations to simply the DFS DSC management (one mof etc etc), but since I need credentials I'd have to distribute a cert to all my DFS servers. That seems clunky. Thoughts?
On another note, I also find it a little weird with my code below to have configData that only works / makes sense with a single node named localhost.
$configName = 'DFSConfig' $configPath = "c:\dsc\configs\$configName" $certPath = "c:\dsc\certs\$configName.cer" # make a dir for our config path if (!(Test-Path -Path $path)) { New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $path } Configuration $configName { param ( [Parameter(Mandatory)] [pscredential] $Credential ) Import-DscResource –ModuleName 'PSDesiredStateConfiguration' Node $allnodes.nodename { file MakeMeSomeDFS { Destinationpath = 'c:\DFS.txt' Ensure = 'Present' Type = 'File' Contents = 'wow' PsDscRunAsCredential = $Credential } } } $ConfigData = @{ AllNodes = @( @{ Nodename = 'localhost' CertificateFile = $certPath Thumbprint = (Get-PfxCertificate -FilePath $certPath).Thumbprint } ) } # credential used for the configuration $cred = Get-Credential -UserName 'ad\AccountWithRightsToManageDFS' -Message 'pw plz' # run the configuration with our configData and credential & $configname -OutputPath $path -ConfigurationData $ConfigData -credential $cred # change the name of our mof from localhost to our configuratoin name Move-Item "$path\`localhost.mof" "$path\$configName.mof" -Force
November 1, 2016 at 5:22 pm #56630
Distributing certs to all of your nodes would be a requirement – but if it's clunky, then you should step back and look at your total PKI picture. It _shouldn't_ be clunky; the ability to distribute certificates should be a core competency, at this stage in the game. So I'd look at ways to make that non-clunky. Having this as a core competency – like patch management or user management – will benefit your infrastructure in a lot of ways.
November 1, 2016 at 5:28 pm #56633
Don, Thanks for the speedy reply. PKI is definitely a core competency of mine (specifically windows certificate services). I guess what I was asking was is it legit to have all my DFS servers use the same cert? I guess it really doesn't matter. Perhaps I'm stuck thinking with a basic "secure the MOF" mentality of each node has their own cert etc etc. Thanks!
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November 1, 2016 at 6:18 pm #56639ParticipantTopics: 0Replies: 7Points: 0Rank: Member
I struggle with this too.
I originally set up my nodes to each have a unique cert via a cert auto-enrollment GPO, which I would each export to the config authoring node and then list in my config data.
But I found that this was a little too clunky just like you said, mainly because this method requires keeping track of all the node names and thumbprints in your ConfigData.
For now I've settled on pretty much exactly what you're doing here with the single DSC cert.
I like this method better because it doesn't require your node to be within the scope of your PKI.
This also saves you from having one huge directory with all the required certs, which to be honest is a nightmare.
Finally, I also think (just my opinion) that this method better exemplifies the DSC "cattle vs pets" mantra, as you don't need to worry about the specific nodename and thumbprint in your ConfigData...But I'd really like to hear more thoughts on all of this
November 1, 2016 at 6:58 pm #56642
single DSC cert
Can you expand on that? Do you use: (this question doesn't matter, just curious)...
1) a single cert on the target node with its public key on the authoring node
2) a single cert on the authoring node with its key pair on the target node
No doubt you've read this, but more on that here: Certificate creation.
In either case, are you doing this across all your nodes in that all your nodes could potentially decrypt the credentials from MOFs that might not necessarily be applicable to them?
November 2, 2016 at 2:16 pm #56696
So, let me offer an observation.
Encryption works by one machine – in this case, the authoring node – using a public key, from a certificate, to encrypt data. The corresponding private key, on the node, is then the only thing which can decrypt that data. By using a single certificate, you're essentially making the private key broadly available, and much more easily compromised. A _single node_ running a piece of malware could be used to decrypt ALL DSC credentials in your environment. This is, to put it mildly, a Bad Idea. This is a cyber punch in the face waiting to happen; you might as well just call it quits and use clear-text credentials in your MOFs. This is literally like having a single Domain Admin account, with a bunch of people who know its password.
I realize that deploying certificates, tracking their thumbprints, and using them in configuration data blocks on a per-node basis is hard. Security is almost always hard. That's what I mean when I say, "you need to make this kind of certificate management a core competency." You can't – pardon the language, here – half-ass this. If you're going to, at least know in your soul that you're _not_ creating a secure, safe environment. Tell your boss that you're not. Make sure everyone in the company has bought off on a poor, single-certificate-based approach – don't let this be a secret that only you know, because it's going to bit you in the butt one day.
And my concerns here aren't theoretical – I've seen it happen. There's malware out there specifically designed to do exactly this – grab a certificate, knowing it's used far too broadly. Once your certificate is compromised, your entire environment becomes easy pickings.
November 2, 2016 at 5:36 pm #56720
Don, while I'll always have an opinion, I don't think I'd ever challenge your observation let alone your advice. Both are always welcome :). // steps back slowly and bows down //
Since it is my intent to use partial configs shared amongst servers of similar roles (as to me that's a benefit of partials) I don't see an option that would allow me to use a single certificate. This is not to say that I am going to use the same cert that I would use for DFS credentials also with something else. Again, not arguing here... But now I'm curious if my use of partials is correct or if when partials are used with credentials I'd be better off using a MOF/configuration per node. I totally understand the security risk, one server get's popped turns into a set of credentials that work on a group of severs (in addition to some nasty rights in AD 'Dfs-Configuration').
This is a great discussion, interested in your additional thoughts.
November 2, 2016 at 7:10 pm #56723
Well, the idea is, if you're using certificates to encrypt credentials, you want a unique MOF per node. If you're using partials, then each node gets a unique set of partials just for itself. I get why you'd want to avoid that, because *messy*, but that's the intent, more or less.
However, I'm opposed to partials for a number of reasons ("The DSC Book" dives into why), and this'd be one of them. I'd rather modularize my config scripts and produce one MOF per node, period.
However, some of what you're running into is the whole "dumb pull server" problem, which is why GitHub.com/powershellorg/tug is trying to be a thing. With that, you could very conceivably generate MOFs on the fly. E.g., node asks for MOF, you look up the thumbprint that the node was assigned (in a database), you dynamically generate the MOF using that certificate's public key. So you don't have MOFs lying around – you're making them intelligently as you go. I just need some time (and help) getting Tug finished for that kind of thing to be straightforward.
And following that same thought, the pull server could then easily combine multiple "partial configurations" on-demand – essentially giving you the upside of partials, but ultimately producing one MOF server-side and delivering that to the node. The world is your oyster, etc.
November 2, 2016 at 7:12 pm #56725
And BTW, this whole thing is another reason I think partials, as a feature, weren't well thought-out :(. There wasn't a lot of architecture-level thinking about how this'd be used in conjunction with stuff like certificates. I get the upside of modularizing complex configs, but delivering multiple MOFs to the nodes winds up not working out in all but the simplest scenarios.
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My rating: 5 of 5 stars
WOW! What a great book!!!
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LOVE this book!
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The sexual tention was too intense to be a teen book - but 27 is too close to my age and I couldn't picture myself going through these kinds of changes - Maybe that's why it was so cool :)
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Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and his wife Brody Dalle have celebrated the birth of their second child.
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We got us a very handsome red-headed baby boy – Orrin Ryder Homme born on Friday the 12th of August, 7 lbs.
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Vpstart Crow Red vs. The Wolf and Shakespeare's ClownsBy Laura & Mike Clark • May 9th, 2008 • Category: Reviews
Listen to our review of Vpstart Crow's production of Red vs. The Wolf and Shakespeare's Clowns [MP3 4:13 1.9MB].
Vpstart Crow
Cramer Center, Manassas, VA
$12/$6 Student/$30 Family
Through May 18th
Laura: This is the ShowBizRadioReview of Red vs. The Wolf and Shakespeare's Clowns, performed by Vpstart Crow in Manassas, Virginia. We saw the preview performance on Thursday, May 8, 2008.
Mike: Red Vs. The Wolf is a play by Judy Wolfman. It retells the story of Little Red Ridinghood, but from the wolf's point of view. Shakespeare's Clowns is a play aimed at youth. Many of Shakespeare's comedies feature clownish characters. Shakespeare's Clowns takes a tour of the Rude Mechanicals, Dogberry and his constables, and other well known comic figures.
Laura: I enjoyed Red Vs. The Wolf. I thought they did a good job. When the show opens on Friday and there are a few more people other than the parents of the kids, I think the actors can draw on some more energy. Then I think they will interact and come alive. I think they all did a good job. Megan Graves as Red did a good job with her overacting and big sweeping gestures. I liked the expression on her face especially when she was telling all the forest creatures to get the heck out, that she was having to go to Grandma's house. I thought she played that really well.
Shakespeare's Clowns I enjoyed, but I'm not sure it would appeal to a young audience. Sword fighting is a crowd pleaser at any age, but I think some of the dialog got lost on the younger kids.
Mike: Red vs. The Wolf is definitely aimed at the younger children. It was a cute retelling. I liked the wolf. He could maybe have been a little more fierce in the first telling of the story of the stereo type that he's fighting. The Wolf was played by Ray Bracken. I liked his costume. The costumes for the animals could maybe have been done a little differently. For example the Wolf could have had a black nose with whiskers drawn on and maybe some fangs to make him more fierce for the first telling of the story. Then in the retelling of the story from his point of view make him more different from the original character. Yes he was more kind and got back at the stage manger, but I did not feel there was a big enough difference between the two different versions of the Wolf.
Shakespeare's Clowns did not work at all for this show or Red vs. The Wolf. I think it was a poor decision to do a kid's show, such as Red vs. The Wolf which is aimed at youngsters under seven or eight and then Shakespeare's Clowns which is aimed at youth. I would say middle to high schoolers would get it. It is an introduction to Shakespeare, but putting the two together did not work for me at all.
It seemed that Shakespeare's Clowns was trying to educate the audience on parts of Shakespeare, but there were still a lot of things that they did that were a part of Shakespeare, but were not explained. I got confused a couple times with some of the action happening. The kids that were there for Red Vs. The Wolf were totally bored. There were some sword fights and things during Shakespere's Clowns, but it wasn't enough to keep their attention for the whole 36 minutes of that show. So I question the decision of using these two shows together. I think individually they would have been fine for a different audience. Shakespeare's Clowns I can see being done at a school with a captive audience. Red vs. The Wolf would be a perfect Summer production for midmorning (such as 11 o'clock and then a one o'clock show). It was 37 minutes as well. I just question the decision of doing these two shows to kick off the VpStart Crow season.
Laura: Red vs. The Wolf and Shakespeare's Clowns are playing through Sunday, May 18. Fridays at 7. Saturdays at 3 pm and 7 pm and Sundays at 3 and 7 at the Cramer Center in Manassas, Virginia.
Mike: Both shows together with an intermission ran about an hour and forty minutes.
Laura: And now, on with the show.
This article can be linked to as: http://washingtondc.showbizradio.com/goto/2278.
Laura & Mike Clark started ShowBizRadio in August 2005 because they love live theater. They each have both performed in and worked behind the scenes in DC area productions, as well as earned a Career Studies Certificate in Theater from Northern Virginia Community College. Mike & Laura are each members of the American Theatre Critics Association, and Mike is a member of the Online News Association.


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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
the honeymoon edition - part two - Maui (part 2)
Ok.. where were we... beautiful sunset off our lanai at our condo The other big thing we did on Maui was drive the Road to Hana. Here is a little info about Hana: The Hāna Highway is a 64.4-mile long stretch of road which connects Kahului with the town of Hāna in east Maui. Although Hāna is only about 52 miles from Kahului, it takes about 2.5 hours to drive when no stops are made as the highway is very winding and narrow and passes over 59 bridges, 46 of which are only one lane wide. There are approximately 620 curves along Route 360 from just east of Kahului to Hāna, virtually all of it through lush, tropical rainforest. Many of the concrete and steel bridges date back to 1910 and all but one are still in use. It was a beautiful drive. We saw so many waterfalls, a black sand beach, a red sand beach, we tried several different "best banana breads on the island", we ate coconut candy and got coconut icecream. And we made it to Hana! But we didn't make it to the 'seven sacred pools'. They advise you to leave Hana at a certain time so you don't have to drive those windy roads in the dark, but we did not, and so we had to drive at night. pics from the day: an old lava tube cave we explored (140 feet back). We also went in a lava tube that was about a mile long and it used to even be a fall-out shelter for the Hawaiians, that was pretty cool It was a long busy day, but a good one.
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Monday, December 29, 2014
the honeymoon edition part two - Maui (part 1)
After a week in Kauai, Doug and I were ready to move on to the next island - Maui! We mostly enjoyed the low-key way of life on Kauai, but were ready for a little more activities and were hoping maybe it would be a little sunnier too. We got in in the evening, and went out to dinner. Doug's dad said he had to try poi, so he did. It is a paste made out of the taro root, and it pretty much tastes like nothing, with a smeck of a fruity/grape taste. Meh. At least we can now say we tried it! Hawaii does have this thing called a shaved ice, which is almost like a snowcone. But instead of grainy ice, it's really smooth like snow. And they put these delicious concentrated juices on top (as opposed to a snowcones sickly sweet HFCS flavors). Our friends had been here on their honeymoon and someone gave them a giftcard which they forgot to take, so they gave it to us. Yes! We went there 3 times :) You can also pay a little extra for this delicious blob of super creamy coconut icecream at the bottom. Of course I had to have it. Tasty! This cool banyan tree in Lahaina is the largest tree in Hawaii. It is actually one main tree trunk, and the branches send down viney things that turn into another trunk. Pretty cool. So that main trunk in the middle is the 'mother trunk' and those other trunks you see are just supporting trunks that grew later. We loved Maui, but it was not relaxing really at all. In Kauai we woke up early because of the roosters, and on Maui we woke up early because all the excursion/event things we wanted to do were on the other side of the island so we had to wake up early and drive over there. We did 3 main things: watched a sunrise over the volcano, we drove the road to Hana, and we went snorkeling to Molokini. The morning of the sunrise, Doug and I woke up at 2:30am. The sun was set to rise at 5:30 and we had to drive way over to the other side of the island. We got there with plenty of time and bundled up because it was very cold and windy! Doug was reading in the guidebook it said "it will make you weep". We did not weep. But it was beautiful, and a good memory, and we had fun sharing the experience with lots of random strangers. That was actually funny. We were sitting up there and it's getting closer and closer to sunrise and then still people are trying to drive up the road to the observatory. The parking lot was full and there was a line of about 75 cars lined along the side of the road. But no, car after car kept driving past that line thinking that surely there'd be a parking spot left. Nope. So then we'd all watch them drive slowly and swervingly in reverse all the way back down again. Then one car parked but kept their lights on down there right in everyone's view of the sunrise. So one guy was like, 'alright everyone, on the count of 3!' and then all of us sitting up there yelled at that guy to 'turn off his lights'. It was pretty funny. Since we were up so early and on the other side of Maui, we saw a bit more of the volcano/crater. This sign in the bathroom made me laugh, it warns you not to fill up your water bottle with toilet water. Honestly, it never crossed my mind to do that! Had this been a problem for them!!? Doug by the crater And then we did two things I had been reading about and really excited to see. A lavender farm, and a goat dairy farm. I guess it wasn't the season for lavender, so it wasn't really all blooming. But we learned about some plants and ate these super delicious lavender scones. The tour guide lady made me this bouquet from the trimmings from along the tour Next stop was the goat dairy farm tour. I had been excited about this for weeks. But when we got there, I was crushed to learn they stopped the part of the tour where you could milk the goats. Noooo! Doug with the horns of their oldest goat we did get to feed the goats some grass and feed goat milk truffles! we tried pink peppercorn and chipotle chocolate. tasty I don't know if I had just overly high expectations, but the tour was not that great. Doug and I still had fun, but I didn't really learn anything. This guide had only been there for 2 months and it was obvious. I felt bad him though because me or this other lady on our tour would ask a question, and he would almost never know the answer, or once answered something so unbelievable the other lady was like 'that's impossible'. I did end up writing to the farm later about how disappointed I was learning more about goats on wikipedia than on their tour. Which they didn't even respond to! Disappointing again. Anyway. I didn't plan to open my own goat dairy farm (although maybe I'd like to have one goat one day??) but I love tours and learning stuff, and it was a bit too casual (and inaccurate) for my tastes. geez, I'm getting tired of writing, looks like this Maui post is going to have to be continued!
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Friday, December 26, 2014
merry belated Christmas!
(Doug almost had his face scratched off for this picture) Doug and I had a great first Christmas! We spent Christmas Eve with my parents, enjoyed the candlelight Christmas Eve service, and then Christmas morning slept in, had a delicious breakfast with mom and dad, and opened presents. Later we skyped with my sister and her husband, and then my brother and his family. It was nice. Then we headed over to Doug's parents. We ate some more, and relaxed. Then Doug and I went to see Unbroken. It was pretty close to the book, and well acted. A couple days before Christmas Doug took me to one of my favorite restaurants MEX for dinner. He brought his own candle to make it a little more romantic :) I love this salad and get it every time. Kale, bibb lettuce, yellow beets, brown rice, pepitas, avocado, goat cheese, and honey-cumin dressing. YUM. After dinner he took me for a drive to look at Christmas lights and to the outdoor mall to walk around a bit before it started to drizzle. The candle made the drive more romantic too, haha. Merry Christmas to you and your family as you celebrate the Savior's birth!
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Monday, December 22, 2014
life lately
All my studying paid off!! I'm so glad since that test was crazy and I seriously felt like I studied all the wrong stuff the last 3 weeks. So, WHEW!! On Friday I walked in the graduation ceremony. Here is me with my friend Ashley. I love this girl, she's like 10 years younger than me, but we get along good, she's so sweet, and going to be an amazing nurse. a bunch of us from our class decorated our hats (mine was upside-down, whoops!) so cute, Doug helped me decorate. Today Liz and I went and stood in line for 2 hours to be the first hundred people in line at a new restaurant, and we won free tacos for a year! So that's cool. The line for free stuff was not the nicest assembly of people though, this guy was calling some lady fat. So rude, who does that?! But 2 free tacos for a week, pretty cool, except I see it's dine-in only so a little less likely to happen all that often. Tonight I'm hosting book club, and soon Christmas and New Year's and applying for jobs!
Monday, December 15, 2014
cookie break
With my exam just days away, I am in desperate need of a cookie break. I remembered this reaaaaally good chocolate chip cookie recipe I made last fall, so I went to my trusty favorite recipes binder and thumbed through my recipes, once, twice, more and more frantic, where was it!?! And then I remembered, I think I used the link from my phone and had not printed off the recipe because I had no printer ink at the time. Noooooooooooooooo! Luckily my googling skills and impeccable blog reading memory (this good memory only applies to blogs unfortunately), I recognized the recipe after just opening 4-5 tabs. So now I just need to convince Doug to stop at the grocery store on his way home for bread flour and cake flour, and then I'm in business! Although still only halfway in business as these cookies need a rediculously long refrigeration period. (2-3 days?!?) but they were very good. And how could one not wait after reading the author describe it as: Chilling. This is key — KEY! — to cookie texture success. The reason is that letting the dough rest allows all the eggs and the butter and the liquids to ooze and soak and hydrate into all the dry goodness. 24 hours is minimum, 36 is preferable (and noticeably better). Also, the flavor gets crazy! Deep, caramel-y, toffee-y, and they bake up so much more deliciously brown. Plus, it lets the outside get crisp and crackly and keeps the middle almost underdone when you pull them out — they set up and turn into soft, chewy heaven. You just have to. Soft, chewy heaven?? Who says no to that. This time I'm printing it off, and linking it here in case anyone else finds themselves in a situation where they need a delicious cookie.
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Friday, December 12, 2014
the honeymoon edition - part one - Kauai
well now that I've been home from the honeymoon for about a month, maybe it's time I write a little about it! For our honeymoon Doug and I chose to go to Hawaii. Neither of us had ever been there, the weather is supposed to be pretty steady year round, and we just wanted to go there. A couple friends of ours went there on their honeymoon and couldn't say enough good things about it, so that also sealed the deal. We chose Kauai to be the first island to go to. We had heard that it was pretty low-key, and laid-back and that sounded perfect after weeks of wedding planning craziness, and finishing up school. A couple days after the wedding, off we went! (I still find uploading pics to blogger to be tedious and time-consuming and I have to get back to studying! So these will most likely be the highlight pics :)) In general, we really liked Kauai. We stayed in a condo up on the Northshore, and used our trusty AAA tourguide book and went on mini excursions everyday. We saw a lighthouse/ bird sanctuary we walked on the beach and saw a 'spouting horn' Doug loved driving the Wrangler, we had 3 total during our trip. We liked this little city called Hanalei, they had good food, cute shops, a delicious fresh juice shack, and pretty beaches. One of those beaches was in the movie South Pacific where the lady sang about washing a man out of her hair. On this island we had 2 pretty big day trips. The first one was a hike along the Napali Coast. This could have been a one-way 11 mile hike that later we found out people just live out there in the wilderness... no thanks... my aunt also told me later a part of the trail is just a foot or so wide over a cliff with no rope or anything and people do fall off. We just hiked 2 miles along the coast, and then we hiked another 4 mile round trip in towards the middle of the island to a waterfall. The trail was steep, rocky, muddy, and in parts completely covered in ants. We were sore for days afterwards, but it was beautiful. (the view back at the Coast, after hiking 8+ miles we walked another mile on the beach to get to a place with excellent snorkeling. Doug snorkeled a bit but I was cold and a party poop and did not!) The other really cool thing we did on Kauai was drive through the Waimea Canyon. It was said that this is the Grand Canyon of Hawaii, one thing is for sure, it is very beautiful. waterfall off the cliff the guidebook describes it as 10 miles of gorges cut into the plateau, it looked like it went on and on. Planes flying through the canyon looked like little toys Another lookout, this time out towards the bay. When we got to the lookout it was covered in fog. Doug told a tourist who walked up that "he just mist it". Hardy har har. So we went back to the car and took a look at the map of where to go next, and noticed it looked like it was clearing up. We walked back over and were rewarded with that view! more canyon The canyon was on the southwest side of Kauai, but you couldn't continue driving up because of the sea cliffs. So we had to drive all the way back around and up. This was a view on the way home. We really liked Kauai. A couple downsides, it wasn't really super sunny there. (Maybe it was just the time of year?) This island has a mountain in the middle with the world's wettest spot. And it did rain a bit everyday. I guess I had just imagined laying around in a bikini all day getting brown, but it wasn't really sunny or hot enough. The other crazy thing about Kauai is that years ago a hurricane came and I guess it freed chickens from a chicken farm. Since there are no predators on the island the chickens have taken over. So bright and early every morning around 5:30am Mr. Rooster was outside our door waking us up. So we didn't really get to sleep in much. (one more fun fact, on Kauai wild boar outnumber people 4 to 1!) In general, we really liked the island, got a chance to kick back and relax, and when the week was up we were ready for a little more busyness and adventure on Maui. To be continued....
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