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Using Helm and Dynamic PersistentVolumes with Multi-AZ PKS on vSphere
So, you've installed PKS and created a PKS cluster. Excellent! Now what?
We want to use helm charts to deploy applications. Many of the charts use PersistentVolumes, so getting PVs set up is our first step.
There are a couple of complicating factors to be aware of when it comes to PVs in a multi-AZ/multi-vSphere-Cluster environment. First, you probably have cluster-specific datastores – particularly if you are using Pivotal Ready Architecture and VSAN. These datastores are not suitable for PersistentVolumes consumed by applications deployed to our Kubernetes cluster. To work-around this, we'll need to provide some shared block storage to each host in each cluster. Probably the simplest way to do this is with an NFS share.
Common datastore; NFS share or iSCSI
In production, you'll want a production-quality fault-tolerant solution for NFS or iSCSI, like Dell EMC Isilon. For this proof-of-concept, I'm going to use an existing NFS server, create a volume and share it to the hosts in the three vSphere clusters where the PKS workload VMs will run. In this case, the NFS datastore is named "sharednfs" 'cause I'm creative like that. Make sure that your hosts have adequate permissions to the share. Using VMFS on iSCSI is supported, just be aware that you may need to cable-up additional NICs if yours are already consumed by N-VDS and/or VSAN.
Workstation Prep
We'll need a handful of command-line tools, so make sure your workstation has the PKS CLI and Kubectl CLI from Pivotal and you've downloaded and extracted Helm.
PKS Cluster
We'll want to provision a cluster using the PKS CLI tool. This document assumes that your cluster was provisioned successfully, but nothing else has been done to it. For my environment, I configured the "medium" plan to use 3 Masters and 3 Workers in all three AZs, then created the cluster with the command
pks create-cluster pks1cl1 --external-hostname cl1.pks1.lab13.myenv.lab --plan "medium" --num-nodes "3"
Make sure you're logged into the Kubernetes cluster. In PKS, the easiest way to do this is via the PKS cli:
pks login -a api.pks1.lab13.myenv.lab -u pksadmin -p my_password --skip-ssl-validation
pks cluster pks1cl1
pks get-credentials pks1cl1
kubectl config use-context pks1cl1
kubectl get nodes -o wide
Where "pks1cl1″ is replaced by your cluster's name,"api.pks1.lab13.myenv.lab" is replaced by the FQDN to your PKS API server, "pksadmin" is replaced by the username with admin rights to PKS and "my_password" is replaced with that account's password.
- Create storageclass
- Create storageclass spec yaml. Note that the file is named storageclass-nfs.yml and we're naming the storage class itself "nfs":
kind: StorageClass apiVersion: storage.k8s.io/v1 metadata: name: nfs annotations: storageclass.kubernetes.io/is-default-class: "true" provisioner: kubernetes.io/vsphere-volume parameters: diskformat: thin datastore: sharednfs fstype: ext3
- Apply the yml with kubectl
kubectl create -f storageclass-nfs.yml
- Create a sample PVC (Persistent Volume Claim). Note that the file is names pvc-sample.yml, the PVC name is "pvc-sample" and uses the "nfs" storageclass we created above. This step is not absolutely necessary, but will help confirm we can use the storage.
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim apiVersion: v1 metadata: name: pvc-sample annotations: volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class: nfs spec: accessModes: - ReadWriteOnce resources: requests: storage: 1Gi storageClassName: nfs
- Apply the yml with kubectl
kubectl create -f pvc-sample.yml
If you're watching vSphere closely, you'll see a VMDK created in the kubevols folder of the NFS datastore
- Check that the PVC was created with
kubectl get pvc
kubectl describe pvc pvc-sample
- Remove sample PVC with
kubectl delete -f pvc-sample
- Create storageclass spec yaml. Note that the file is named storageclass-nfs.yml and we're naming the storage class itself "nfs":
- Configure Helm and Tiller
- Create Service Account for tiller with
apiVersion: v1 kind: ServiceAccount metadata: name: tiller namespace: kube-system --- apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1beta1 kind: ClusterRoleBinding metadata: name: tiller roleRef: apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io kind: ClusterRole name: cluster-admin subjects: - kind: ServiceAccount name: tiller namespace: kube-system
- Apply the service account yml with Kubectl
kubectl create -f rbac-config.yml
- Initialize helm and tiller with
helm init --service-account tiller
- Check that tiller is ready
helm version
Look for a version number for the version; note that it might take a few seconds for tiller in the cluster to get ready.
- Create Service Account for tiller with
- Deploy sample helm chart
- Update helm local chart repository. We do this so that we can be sure that helm can reach the public repo and to cache teh latest information to our local repo.
helm repo update
If this step results in a certificate error, you may have to add the cert to the trusted certificates on the workstation.
- Install helm chart with ingress enabled. Here, I've selected the Dokuwiki app. The command below will enable ingress, so we can access it via routable IP and it will use the default storageclass we configured earlier.
helm install --name dokuwiki \
--set ingress.enabled="true",dokuwikiUsername=admin,dokuwikiPassword=password \
Edit – April 23 2019 – Passing the credentials in here makes connecting easier later.
- Confirm that the app was deployed
helm list kubectl get pods -n default kubectl get services -n default
From the get services results, make a note of the external IP address – in the example above, it's 126.96.36.199
- Point a browser at the external address from the previous step and marvel at your success in deploying Dokuwiki via helm to Kubernetes!
If you want to actually login to your Dokuwiki instance, first obtain the password for the user account with this command: kubectl get secret -n default dokuwiki-dokuwiki \ -o jsonpath="{.data.dockuwiki-password}" | base64 --decode Then login with username "user" and that password.
Edit – 04/23/19 – Login with the username and password you included in the helm install command
- Update helm local chart repository. We do this so that we can be sure that helm can reach the public repo and to cache teh latest information to our local repo.
- Additional info
- View Persistent Volume Claims with
kubectl get pvc -n default
This will list the PVCs and the volumes in the "default" namespace. Note the volume corresponds to the name of the VMDK on the datastore.
- Load-Balancer
Notice that since we are leveraging the NSX-T Container Networking Interface and enabled the ingress when we installed dokuwiki, a load-balancer in NSX-T was automatically created for us to point to the application.
- View Persistent Volume Claims with
This took me some time to figure out; had to weed through a lot of documentation – some of which contradicted itself and quite a bit of trial-and-error. I hope this helps save someone time later!
PAS with NSX-T Tip: use a fresh IP Block
I've fought with this for an embarrassingly long time. Had a failed PAS (Pivotal Application Services) deployment (missed several of the NSX configuration requirements) but removed the cruft and tried again and again and again. In each case, PAS and NCP would deploy, but fail on the PAS smoke_test errand. The error message said more detail is in the log.
Which Log?!
I ssh'd into the clock_global VM and found the smoke_test logs. They stated that the container for instance {whatever} could not be created and an error of NCP04004. This pointed me to the Diego Cells (where the containers would be created) and I poked around in the /var/vcap/sys/log/garden logs there. They stated that the interface for the instance could not be found. Ok, this is sounding more like an NSX problem.
I ended up parsing through the NSX Manager event log and found this gem:
Ah-ha! Yup, I'd apparently allocated a couple of /28 subnets from the IP Block. So when the smoke test tried to allocate a /24, the "fixed" subnet size had already been set to /28, causing the error.
Resolution was to simply remove all of the allocated subnets from the IP block. This could have been avoided by either not reusing an existing IP Block or using the settings in the NCP configuration to create a new IP Block with a given CIDR.
NSX-T 2.2 – Error 100 when trying to enum Firewall Rules
After upgrading to NSX-T 2.2, my environment began throwing this error in the GUI when I tried to navigate to the firewall section or any router. In addition, the nsx-cli shell script for cleanup was failing every time with a similar firewall-rule-related error.
Searching for a bitm I stumbled onto KB 56611: Upgrading NSX-T manager from 18.104.22.168 to 18.104.22.168 reports "General Error has occurred" on Firewall's General UI section.
Down at the bottom of the KB, it essentially states that if you've already upgraded to 2.2 from 2.1, you'll have to replace a jar file in order to resolve the problem. Oh, and you have to open a ticket to get the .jar.
So, if you run into this – and you receive the nsx-firewall-1.0.jar file – here's the steps for resolution:
- SSH into the NSX Manager as root (not admin)
- Navigate to /opt/vmare/proton-tomcat/webapps/nsxapi/WEB-INF/lib
- Copy the existing nsx-firewall-1.0.jar file elsewhere (I copied it to home and SCP'd it out from there)
- Copy the new nsx-firewall-1.0.jar file into this folder. (I put it on an local webserver and pulled it down with wget)
- Change the owner of the jar to uproton:
chown uproton:uproton nsx-firewall-1.0.jar
- Change the permissions to match the other files:
chmod o-r nsx-firewall-1.0.jar
- Reboot the NSX Manager
- Enjoy being able to see and edit firewall rules again!
PKS and NSX-T: I did everything wrong
I've fought with PKS and NSX-T for a month or so now. I'll admit it: I did everything wrong, several times. One thing for certain, I know how NOT to configure it. So, now that I've finally gotten past my configuration issues, it makes sense to share the
pain lessons learned.
- Set your expectations correctly. PKS is literally a 1.0 product right now. It's getting a lot of attention and will make fantastic strides very quickly, but for now, it can be cumbersome and confusing. The documentation is still pretty raw. Similarly, NSX-T is very young. The docs are constantly referring you to the REST API instead of the GUI – this is fine of course, but is a turn-off for many. The GUI has many weird quirks. (when entering a tag, you'll have to tab off of the value field after entering a value, since it is only checked onBlur)
- Use Chrome Incognito NSX-T does not work in Firefox on Windows. It works in Chrome, but I had issues where the cache would problems (the web GUI would indicate that backup is not configured until I closed Chrome, cleared cache and logged in again)
- Do not use exclamation point in the NSX-T admin password Yep, learned that the hard way. Supposedly, this is resolved in PKS 1.0.3, but I'm not convinced as my environment did not wholly cooperate until I reset the admin password to something without an exclamation point in it
- Tag only one IP Pool with ncp/external I needed to build out several foundations on this environment and wanted to keep them in discrete IP space by created multiple "external IP Pools" and assigning each to its own foundation. Currently the nsx-cli.sh script that accompanies PKS with NSX-T only looks for the "ncp/external" tag on IP Pools, if more than one is found, it quits. I suppose you could work around this by forking the script and passing an additional "cluster" param, but I'm certain that the NSBU is working on something similar
- Do not take a snapshot of the NSX Manager This applies to NSX for vSphere and NSX-T, but I have made this mistake and it was costly. If your backup solution relies on snapshots (pretty much all of them do), be sure to exclude the NSX Manager and…
- Configure scheduled backups of NSX Manager I found the docs for this to be rather obtuse. Spent a while trying to configure a FileZilla SFTP or even IIS-FTP server until it finally dawned on me that it really is just FTP over SSH. So, the missing detail for me was that you'll just need a linux machine with plenty of space that the NSX Manager can connect to – over SSH – and dump files to. I started with this procedure, but found that the permissions were too restrictive.
- Use concourse pipelines This was an opportunity for me to really dig into concourse pipelines and embrace what can be done. One moment of frustration came when PKS 1.0.3 was released and I discovered that the parameters for vSphere authentication had changed. In PKS 1.0 through 1.0.2, there was a single set of credentials to be used by PKS to communicate with vCenter Server. As of 1.0.3, this was split into credentials for master and credentials for workers. So, the pipeline needed a tweak in order to complete the install. I ended up putting in a conditional to check the release version, so the right params are populated. If interested, my pipelines can be found at https://github.com/BrianRagazzi/concourse-pipelines
- Count your Load-Balancers In NSX-T, the load-balancers can be considered a sort of empty appliance that Virtual Servers are attached to and can itself attach to a Logical Router. The load-balancers in-effect require pre-allocated resources that must come from an Edge Cluster. The "small" load-balancer consumes 2 CPU and 4GB RAM and the "Large" edge VM provides 8 CPU and 16GB RAM. So, a 2-node Edge Cluster can support up to FOUR active/standby Load-Balancers. This quickly becomes relevant when you realize that PKS creates a new load-balancer when a new K8s cluster is created. If you get errors in the diego databse with the ncp job when creating your fifth k8s cluster, you might need to add a few more edge nodes to the edge cluster.
- Configure your NAT rules as narrow as you can. I wasted a lot of time due to mis-configured NAT rules. The log data from provisioning failures did not point to NAT mis-configuration, so wild geese were chased. Here's what finally worked for me:
Router Priority Action Source Destination Translated Description Tier1 PKS Management 512 No NAT [PKS Management CIDR] [PKS Service CIDR] Any No NAT between management and services [PKS Service CIDR] [PKS Management CIDR] 1024 DNAT Any [External IP for Ops Manager] [Internal IP for Ops Manager] So Ops Manager is reachable [External IP for PKS Service] [Internal IP for PKS Service] (obtain from Status tab of PKS in Ops Manager) So PKS Service (and UAA) is reachable SNAT [Internal IP for PKS Service] Any [External IP for PKS Service] Return Traffic for PKS Service 2048 [PKS Management CIDR] [Infrastructure CIDR] (vCenter Server, NSX Manager, DNS Servers) [External IP for Ops Manager] So PKS Management can reach infrastructure [PKS Management CIDR] [Additional Infrastructure] (NTP in this case) [External IP for Ops Manager] Tier1 PKS Services 512 No NAT [PKS Service CIDR] [PKS Management CIDR] Any No NAT between management and services [PKS Management CIDR] [PKS Service CIDR] 1024 SNAT [PKS Service CIDR] [Infrastructure CIDR] (vCenter Server, NSX Manager, DNS Servers) [External IP] (not the same as Ops Manager and PKS Service, but in the same L3 network) So PKS Services can reach infrastructure [PKS Service CIDR] [Additional Infrastructure] (NTP in this case) [External IP]
Replacing the self-signed Certificate on NSX-T
Ran into a difficulty trying to use the self-signed certificate that comes pre-configured on the manager for NSX-T. In my case, Pivotal Operations Manager refused to accept the self-signed certificate.
So, for NSX-T 2.1, it looks like the procedure is:
- Log on to the NSX Manager and navigate to System|Trust
- Click CSRs tab and then "Generate CSR", populate the certificate request details and click Save
- Select the new CSR and click Actions|Download CSR PEM to save the exported CSR in PEM format
- Submit the CSR to your CA to get it signed and save the new certificate. Be sure to save the root CA and any subordinate CA certificates too<. In this example, certnew.cer is the signed NSX Manager certificate, sub-CA.cer is the subordinate CA certificate and root-CA.cer is the Root CA certificate
- Open the two (or three) cer files in notepad or notepad++ and concatenate them in order of leaf cert, (subordinate CA cert), root CA cert
- Back in NSX Manager, select the CSR and click Actions|Import Certificate for CSR. In the Window, paste in the concatenated certificates from above and click save
- Now you'll have a new certificate and CA certs listed under Certificates. The GUI only shows a portion of the ID by default, click it to display the full ID and copy it to the clip board
- Launch RESTClient in Firefox.
- Click Authentication|Basic Authentication and enter the NSX Manager credentials for Username and Password, click "Okay"
- For the URL, enter https://<NSX Manager IP or FQDN>api/v1/node/services/http?action=apply_certificate&certificate_id=<certificate ID copied in previous step>
- Set the method to POST and click SEND button
- check the Headers to confirm that the status code is 200
- Refresh browser session to NSX Manager GUI to confirm new certificate is in use
I was concerned that replacing the certificate would break the components registered via the certificate thumbprint; this process does not break those things. They remain registered and trust the new certificate
Resolutions for 2018
If I put it here, I'm much more likely to follow-through. Like many, I work best under some pressure. Here is a list of what I want to do differently (with regard to technology) next year.
- Do more blogging. I can make a ton of excuses for not blogging as much this year. I love sharing what I've learned; the more new stuff I learn, the more I share. So….
- Do more for NSX for vSphere and NSX-T. I feel strongly that SDN is critical to the future of how datacenters operate. NSX is the logical leader in this space and will only grow in interest. There is still a tendency to replicate what was done with pre-SDN technology and I'd like to see modern ways to solve problems while finding and pushing the limits of what can be done in SDN.
Do more with containers and PKS. The technologies that Pivotal provides are cutting edge. Already and continuing, containers and applications-as-code methods are growing and will define the datacenter of the future. Just as a few years ago, we stopped thinking of hardware servers as single-purpose, we'll embrace multiple workloads within a VM.
- Do more coding. I love concourse and pipelines, but have a lot to learn. Let's find the limits of BOSH and pipelines. Can we not only deploy, but automate the operation and maintenance of a PaaS solution?
- Do more coding. I feel that as we move to "applications-as-code", it's important to understand what that means to developers and operators. What sort of problems become irrelevant in this approach? What molehills become mountains?
Hope to see you next year!
Removing NSX-T VIBs from ESXi hosts
I'd wanted to revert my environment from (an incomplete install of) NSX-T v2.0 back to NSX for vSphere v6.3.x, but found that the hosts would not complete preparation. The logs indicated that something was "claimed by multiple non-overlay vibs".
I found that the hosts still had the NSX-T VIBs loaded, so to remove them, here's what I did:
- Put the host in maintenance mode. This is necessary to "de-activate" the VIBs that may be in use
- Login to the host via SSH
- Run
/etc/init.d/netcpad stop
/etc/init.d/nsx-ctxteng stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-da stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-datapath stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-exporter stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-hyperbus stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-lldp stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-mpa stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-nestdb stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-platform-client stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-sfhc stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsx-support-bundle-client stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsxa stop remove
/etc/init.d/nsxcli stop remove
- Run this all in one line; note the the order of the vibs is important
esxcli software vib remove -n nsx-ctxteng -n nsx-hyperbus -n nsx-platform-client -n nsx-nestdb -n nsx-aggservice -n nsx-da -n nsx-esx-datapath -n nsx-exporter -n nsx-host -n nsx-lldp -n nsx-mpa -n nsx-netcpa -n nsx-python-protobuf -n nsx-sfhc -n nsx-support-bundle-client -n nsxa -n nsxcli -n nsx-common-libs -n nsx-metrics-libs -n nsx-nestdb-libs -n nsx-rpc-libs -n nsx-shared-libs -n nsx-python-gevent -n nsx-python-greenlet
- reboot the host


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We want to allow endpoints in the network to get streams via pure multicast but most sources do not provide this and stream as http. A headend is needed to connect to the services and transcode from HTTP to RTP to let it be multicast in our network. Doing this is expensive on data so only the streams that are being received to shall be transcoded. So how to detect receivers:
When a receiver opens or closes a multicast group that system can send IGMP or MLD. The headend shall detect these and starts or stops a stream depending on when the receiver count on that stream is zero or not.
The reception of a group number can then be mapped to a stream by the headend. As common formats are MP3, AAC and OGG, plus video go outside the codecs specified in RTP, we also send need to SAP packets at the destination enclosing the additional data needed, and this is also where to include the stream metadata from ICY.
It is important to notice that we cannot tell if we will be served a stream or HTML, XML, redirect, m3u playlist or other assorted random things via HTTP until we have parsed the response headers!
This is why we pass the descriptor to the transcoding application after a stream is detected, since the transcoding app mainline might or might not like to implement all of the above.
Why send to the RTP group rather than
FF0X:0:0:0:0:0:2:7FFE? We don't know what codec the source will pick before we open the stream, and SAP would scale better doing it one by one.
I have used FFmpeg for the headend, FFplay for the client, with experimental alterations as needed: Here are the issues encounted, addressed or not:
|ICY StreamTitle
|ICY StreamUrl
|HTTP icy-name
|Offset into current song, possibly determned by new ICY metadata
Whilst the preferred method to issue multicast addresses is to supply the intended ingress/egress interface with % notation, if the app does not support that it may look in the regular routing tables, thus ip -6 route show table local | grep ^ff00 gives:
Interface first is picked for multicast, and might not be wanted. This list is reorganised based on restarts.
smcroute is chosen as it does not depend on correct use of IGMP for IPv4 or MLD for IPv6 for multicast forwarding to function. I generally do on-demand multicast.
apt-get install smcroute sipcalc
To assure us that both ethernets get equal multicast preference even in the presence of any kernel faults, multicast addresses originated remotely are carved out of the main routing table, though for now multicast destinations we originate locally has routes installed there until kernel forwarding for that is fixed.
This let the sonos controller on Android mobile phones aand tablets find the zoneplayers
I use smcroute to flood uPNP between IEEE802.3 int0 and IEEE802.11 ext0 networks, these are bridges to allow ebtables to function, they have 1 interface so do not need STP
So ping 22.214.171.124 produces connect: Network is unreachable
However ping -I int0 -r -b 22.214.171.124 produces responses or nothing if no device answers the request.
Some UPNP systems like Sonos also uses local broadcast, so we convert them to multicast using linux DNAT and now they can be forwarded to the other networks on our site.
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i int0 -d 255.255.255.255 -p udp -m multiport --dports 1900,6969 -j DNAT --to-destination 184.108.40.206 iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i ext0 -d 255.255.255.255 -p udp -m multiport --dports 1900,6969 -j DNAT --to-destination 188.8.131.52
It may also be needed to disable IGMP controlled multicast filtering in the bridges used as the implementation may be broken and prevent multicasting functioning properly.
echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/net/int0/bridge/multicast_snooping echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/net/ext0/bridge/multicast_snooping
If system is a border firewall, we also need ip6tables rules to let smcroute pass, here are examples, notice the input and output interface is the same.
ip6tables -A FORWARD -s 2001:db8:1337:2::/64 -d ff00::/8 -i int0 -o int0 -j ACCEPT ip6tables -A FORWARD -s 2001:db8:1337:1::/64 -d ff00::/8 -i ext0 -o ext0 -j ACCEPT
We also add some static groups in casts()
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John NORUM: guitars
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John NORUM: guitars
John LEVEN: bass
Mic MICHAELI: keyboards
Ian HAUGLAND: drums
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4 comments:
- CSA Brent said...
hehehehe! What a cute, little Jimmy. He's so snuggly...I try to enjoy his little moments as much as I can, as he is our last little one...and growing bigger all the time!
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- Madison McShinsky said...
He looks soo big! I hope plans work out this summer and we both get to go to Oregon so we can all play!
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King Sombra is arguably the darkest and evilest villain in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. He is known to be a Unicorn who's heart is as "black as night". Sombra does not show any compassion towards anyone and he refuses to ally with others, unlike the other villains in the series. Sombra is shown to be very sadistic as he appears to take delight in seeing others suffer. This is shown when Sombra uses his dark magic to show others their worst fears and he mind-controls his slaves to do his own bidding. He will even go as far as to enslave and corrupt children, such as Flurry Heart in the Season 9 premiere and when he corrupted a filly while conquering the Crystal Empire. Sombra even threatened to harm Flurry Heart unless Cadance and Shining Armor surrender to him, though this is only implied.
King Sombra enslaved the Crystal Ponies and ruled over the Empire one thousand years ago. Before he was defeated by Celestia and Luna, Sombra cast a spell on the Crystal Empire and the Crystal Ponies which causes the Kingdom to disappear into thin air for thousands of years. When the Empire returned, Sombra attempts to retake the Empire, while the ponies were cursed by Sombra to have amnesia. The Crystal Ponies fear King Sombra and his reign, as one of the Crystal Mares does not want to remember Sombra's reign. It is unknown if Sombra has ever punished his slaves for their disobedience, or if there has been any disobedience from his slaves at all. Sombra even refers to the Crystal Ponies as his "Crystal Slaves". Though it was not seen in the show, it is implied that Sombra may have also killed Queen Amore so he can take over the Empire.
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It is unknown why and how King Sombra became evil in the TV series, but he is shown to be a sadistic, cruel, and heartless villain with no redeemable qualities whatsoever. In the non-canonical IDW comics, that version of Sombra had a backstory and has redeemable qualities.
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The TV Series version of Sombra hardly has any redeemable qualities. In the Season 9 premiere, Sombra briefly was honorable, as he stated he admired the fact that the Mane Six came to fight him with nothing but their wits, showing that he shows very small respect to the Mane Six for being worthy adversaries. However, this could also be false as he also called them foolish for thinking they have a chance against him and only said that he admired their courage mockingly instead of literally.
Other than that, King Sombra has no redeemable qualities whatsoever. However, in the IDW comics, that version of Sombra actually does have mitigating factors.
Difference between the Show and Comics
In the non-canonical IDW comics, Sombra appears to be more sympathetic and redeemable as he had a childhood friend, Radiant Hope. Unlike TV Sombra where he is willing to murder anyone who stands in his way, Comic Sombra is incapable to bring himself to kill Amore. Comic Sombra turns Amore to crystal and non-fatally shatters her instead. He also turned Celestia and Luna to stone instead of killing them and he still is shown to care for Radiant Hope, which led to his redemption. But again, this PE proposal is only for the canonical TV series version of him instead of the comics, so these do not count.
Despite Friendship is Magic's target demographic, the MLP franchise itself has had pure evil villains before, such as Tirac in G1 and Cosmos in the IDW comics. Due to all the atrocities, King Sombra has committed and the fact that he barely has any redeemable qualities whatsoever, I say it's a yes. Despite the fact that Sombra is overconfident and arrogant, that still doesn't reduce his chances of being pure evil; lots of villains like that were approved as pure evil. It should rather increase his chances of qualifying. What do you all think? Should King Sombra count as a purely evil villain or do you all think he is not qualified enough? Leave me your votes in the comments down below.


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I love you, Katie!!! I know you're a wonderful mommy and Karis knows it too!ReplyDelete
Maybe that should be the definition of feminism, the choice to do what your heart tells you to do, whether it is work outside the home or stay home and raise your own children. I follow your blog 'cause I am a friend of NanaReplyDelete
Yes, it is an important question!! I waited until I was 30 before I had my first child. Luckily, I _did_ ask myself that question before she was born - I trained as a laboratory scientist, so it was either work or no work; part time was not an option in my field. (sigh) Also luckily for me, my husband could earn enough money to support us (though, of course, not in as grand a style as if we had two incomes).ReplyDelete
Hard, hard choices that every woman has to face. Some women have husbands who can be the caretaker (might even be better at nuturing than the Mom is; I know a couple like that:)...some need to be out and about, not at home, for mental stimulation. No matter what choice a woman makes, it is difficult (and we always try to second guess ourselves and wonder if we've chosen the best for our children:).
YOu are a brave woman to blog about this issue - not many young women give it enough thought! Blessings on you and your family.
:) Linda
It is a tough question.ReplyDelete
I chose to have my kids early-ish ( I was 23 when my eldest was born). I had no "career" path as such and like you had no plans to let someone else look after my children. As my children are getting older and my youngest will be off to school next year, talk about returning to work has happened, but if i'm honest, it terrifies me. I've been a mum full time, longer than any other job I've had.
Tara, thanks! Love you too!!!ReplyDelete
Kathy B, I love your definition of feminism and agree! I hope I'm able to communicate that to Karis as she grows up.
Linda, thank you for your kind words and for sharing your story!
Vicky, Good luck with your decisions coming up! I guess the difficult decisions never do go away, do they? Keep us posted!
Like we always say, God has a way of working things out in their own time. Trust, trust, trust that He has you in His hands and will not only take care of Karis, but also you and Rustain. XOXOXOXOReplyDelete


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Show me you kitchens! (post #50914)
So, I bought a house :-)
Great old hardwood floors, original UNPAINTED wood trim throughout, 10' cielings, and enough space for my son to grow and me to have a real painting studio again AND a separate sewing and craft room.
Built 1922, but the last kitchen reno must have been in the early 1960's at the very latest.
But that's great-- it helped keep the price down, and now i finally get to design whatever I want!
No pictures to post, but here's some current stats:
-narrow layout: 15' x 9' (can you believe this is a huge improvement over my old smaller kitchen? lol)
-hideous medium dark wood panelling obviously applied over the old walls, with touches of typical wallpaper of the era- green/brown/yeller kettles and coffee pots.
-kitchen cieling has been lowered to maybe 8 or less
-top and bottom ovens built into wall (actually, wall bumps out to accomodate them) with separate cooktop jutting out in the "L" counter that bisects kitchen leaving narrow passage into second half.
I've tried searching the posts here at CT as i know some of you have reno'ed your kitchens in recent years, but i'm not seeing many pictures. As a very visual person, I need pictures to get me started. Please post pix of your favorite kitchen features, or links to helpful websites. A friend is bringing me an Ikea catalog when she comes back from Boston, and in the meantime I've been drooling over their stuff online.
I also welcome ALL advice!
Who knows, once I have a decent kitchen, i may actually start reading more of the cooking threads and forget the political ones! :-)
Congratulations! You might find the kitchen forums on GardenWeb helpful. I know that Aberwacky spent a lot of time there before she had her kitchen built. There are lots of pictures of her kitchen (it's large) as well as MarieLouise's, which is smaller but beautifully done.
ooo! thanks!
You're very welcome -- I'm only sorry that I cannot post links to the threads. Finding them may also be a challenge, but maybe not -- with this search function, it's hard to say.
BTW- sorry about the typo in the title; up ealry and excited, typing while the coffee brewed.
And, the general style i like is clean lines, no molding on cab doors, blonde wood. Am considering a bamboo floor; are they good for kitchens?
First, congratulations on your new house! Next, we put bamboo in the kitchen, dining room, breakfast room, guest bath, pantry, entry hall, and laundry, and we love it! I was a bit worried because some people said it shouldn't be put in a wet area, but we've had no problems with it anywhere. My kitchen is probably 20' x 12', so is quite a bit larger, although still not huge. I kept the original oak cabinets, but definitely changed out the outdated hardware. Took down the yellow gingham wallpaper and the imitation tile backsplash and the heaven-only-knows-what countertop. Painted the walls, put in small slate for the backsplash, and granite for the countertops. Changed out the sink and put in a 48" Dacor stove, rather than a cooktop and wall ovens. Put in a new dishwasher and used the fridge I had brought from Texas. Might not be to everyone's taste. but I'm perfectly happy. I have pictures, but also posted about it while we were doing it.
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can you link to the posts? would love to see the pix.
in menatime, what is your color scheme? what is your new backsplash? lighting?
I'm thinking bamboo floor, blonde wood cabinets, and a pale pale green for all painted areas; a bit warmer than sage green. Raise the ceiling back to 10' and add can lights over sink and work areas may need to lower the cieling a bit under 10' to conceal lights).
I'm not going to go for granite or other pricey countertops; they are lovely but in my budget, the money needs to go elsewhere and it's a relatively easy upgrade if I or a future owner wants them down the line. I haven't looked yet, but am shopping for something mid-price for countertops. Anyone have anything besides formica that they like?
From what I've read recently, there are many new and beautiful laminates around now. What I cannot tell you is the price -- it's possible that some of them are very expensive, but they may still be affordable for you.
I know Marie Louise considered Formica but ended up using Corian with an integrated Corian sink. We had Corian for fifteen years and never had a moment's trouble with it.
Granite has come down so much in price that I cannot tell you which would be more expensive. Still, I understand that lots of the granite out there is of inferior quality and much is not technically granite but lesser stone which has been "treated", whatever that may mean.
Agree that you should live w/it awhile before changing. Something else to keep in mind. Since your house was built in 1922, odds are HIGHLY likely that the floor in your kitchen is wood. Even more likely, since it IS a kitchen you may have maple or walnut (or even cooler maple & walnut striped!) flooring underneath the lineoleum.
I would suggest trying to remove some lineoleum (in an inconspicuous spot) to see if that's the case. My kitchen is also a galley and when I finally removed the hideous split pea soup green tiles, LO I have maple floors! Refinished them & my kitchen is a nice cobalt blue & white instead of split pea green EVERYWHERE.
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okay, using keywords granite countertops and "From: Madmom", i have found many discussions on kitchen renos. Thanks! still not seeing any pix though- are they out there?
Here are a few pictures of the finished kitchen. Sorry, but I uploaded the wrong picture of the sink, taken before the backsplash was put in. Also, you can see the old handles, etc., in the second picture, and the new ones in the third. Third picture also shows the bamboo flooring.
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Oh, lovely! thanks so much for digging those up (and what a lovely view thru the window!).
Any lessons learned during the process?
Definitely get lots of estimates! We got estimates from half a dozen cabinet people, including the man who referred to me as "little lady" and all but patted me on the head while telling me I wouldn't understand math, the woman who misread 3/4" as 34 inches, the people who were so sweet, but had ugly countertops, the lady who gave me a great price but neglected to mention $17,000 in installation costs. In the end, I kept the countertops I had, took down one to make room for my megastove, and was a happy camper. I know you don't have that option, but definitely check around, and don't take someone's experience for granted. Just be sure you know what you want. When DD redid her kitchen, she bought stock cabinets from Lowe's, put pretty handles on them, and used Formica countertops. It looks nice, and looks like it is about twice the size it was...so check that, also.
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MM, why does your kitchen always look like it belongs in Architectural Digest?? Your choice of colors pretty much mirrors my choices - Earth tones and natural textures and surfaces.
As soon as I can figure out how to get pix off my #&@^!@ Blackberry, I'll upload 2 pix of the new shower we just had done. It's pretty much the same tile as you have in your backsplash but smaller. I love those colors! The slate looks so beautiful as light hits it. The tile guy also used the slate mini tiles as a border around the bathroom and it ties the whole room together.
We are moving to Atlanta shortly and one of the criteria for any potential house purchase is a killer kitchen or one that needs very little "customization." And when we look at houses, the real estate agent knows we see the kitchen last. If I visit a beautiful kitchen first, the rest of the house can be falling down around its foundation and I'd shout, "We'll take it!!"
"Sandra Lee is the Culinary Anti-Christ and I am the Anti-Sandra Lee. The precious moments you may take to measure a level cup of flour are NOT wasted time!"
*You're a REAL person, eat REAL food."
Thanks for the compliment, but all good words go to Willie Ray, who cleans up after me! We also put slate in our new bathroom, along with a gorgeous tub with the water coming in from the ceiling, and a shower with 24 shower heads and a steam unit. Absolutely decadent. I wanted to use honey onyx, but he wanted slate, and I really love it. Put 6 x 6" tiles on the floor, and 1" square tiles around the tub. Added a large furniture style vanity, all carved and pretty. I love it.
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OK, I have to ask. Who is 'we'?
A merry heart does good like a medicine: Prov. 22:17
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Who is 'we'?
My boyfriend and I. (I don't dare attempt marriage again.) He's a great guy and we've been together for just over a year and a half. I met him at the last place I worked. That company has since been sold.
We have had the best time. He took me to Canyon Ranch in late July, a longtime dream of mine. He's incredible. His family is amazing. Warm, kind people.
He wanted to have his own company doing financial transaction security (as he did in the company where we both worked) but found out early on that he wasn't entrepreneurial in the sense that he didn't like "advertising himself." He's happiest as an employee. He was offered a job in Atlanta and we recently went house hunting. We should be moving within the next month or two.
I can almost taste Autumn.
"Sandra Lee is the Culinary Anti-Christ and I am the Anti-Sandra Lee. The precious moments you may take to measure a level cup of flour are NOT wasted time!"
*You're a REAL person, eat REAL food."
First off, congratulations on your new purchase! Hope you and your son have many happy years of living in this house.
Only one bit of advice, live in the house for a good six months or more, before you remodel the kitchen. Sounds awful doesn't it? You will then know more of what you want for that particular house/space, how the light affects the kitchen area, etc. Do you want to eat in the kitchen or is there a separate space for eating? Just a few questions to ask.
I have wooden counters which I love. But if you want light colored cabinets, a wooden counter would be too much of the same thing.
Good luck, this should be a fun and anxiety producing venture! Go with it.
thanks! i said all advice is welcome, but naturally i can't actually take all of it :-)
Ordinarily, i would agree with you 100% about living with iot for a while before changing it, but The kitchen currently is icky and impractical (a vent-a-hood placed so low you cannot see into a large pot on the cooktop!), and i really want to do this thing ASAP. The kitchen has enough limitations due to the size and orientation that it is pretty simple to visualize a few best re-configurations. I've been plotting for a new kitchen long enough that I have a basic idea of what i want, and i am able to see potential pretty well, so i am mentally ready to start making decisions around the closing date in a few weeks.
I'm just having fun looking at ideas and gathering momentum before we do this thing. I sort of know what I want, but there's always another excellent idea out there!
I like the idea of real wood countertops! no such thing as "too much of the same thing" in a small room, IMO. It keeps the atmosphere quiet and simple.
To answer you- the kitchen is semi-bisected and had a very small eat-in area, which is a bit of a waste since it is next to the good-sized dining room.
A north window over the sink and near the door let in a medium amount of light in the daytime. A hideous bare and old flourescent fixture in the middle of the ceiling is the only light.
Congratulations! I'm sure
Congratulations! I'm sure you'll do a great job with the revnovation.
I've done two kitchens in the last several years. The first one was in an existing house and we gutted the kitchen. The second, we built a house. I've repeated some of my favorite appliances in the second kitchen that I really liked. My second kitchen is much bigger than the first so I was able to do everything I wanted.
The last photos are features I really liked and was able to do in this kitchen - pull out drawer for baking pan storage, cabinet with dividers for baking sheet, etc storage, knife slot in the countertop, pull out wine rack, and the upper cabinet spice rack.
I can't seem to post photos, I've tried several times. So, here's the link to my webshots album.
I LOVE your kitchen!! Of course, it's bigger than my entire downstairs, I think.
I especially like the cabinet and drawer for baking sheets, etc. Brilliant!
Oooh, congrats on the new house. And, congrats on having a kitchen to remodel! :-) I'll have to take some pics, probably not until tomorrow or maybe even Monday, as I'm off to BBQ in a few minutes. But, I wanted to say that my hands down absolute FAVORITE feature in the kitchen I remodeled last year is the raised dishwasher! No question about it. Leigh did it in her kitchen and insisted I do the same. It makes loading and unloading the dishwasher soooo much easier, especially since I'm height enabled. But, even my short friends like it! The kitchen designer I worked with and even the contractor both thought I was nuts, kept asking me "are you sure you want to do this?". I am so glad I did. The counter top over the dishwasher is not a "workspace", but it's great for piling up the dirty dishes, the coffee maker is up there, when I use the food processor i have it up there, so it's still usable in many ways.
If you do search for Leigh's thread on her wonderful kitchen, you should be able to find the pics of her kitchen.
"The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too." Chief Luther Standing Bear, Lakota Sioux
"The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too." Chief Luther Standing Bear, Lakota Sioux
now, that's the sort of ingenuity i'm talking about! i'd never heard of that, but it makes excellent sense! and as you say, good place to keep the juicer and food processor. or sumpin'.
Is it a special model, or just an ordinary one mounted differently?
I'm still going to try to do the kitchen asap. I'm soliciting ideas from you guys and friends, my realtor is letting me in and we're meeting with a group of fanastic ladies over there next wednesday afternoon to brainstorm further.
Regular dishwasher, just raised up, so there's just a box under it for it to sit on. I believe Leigh's cabinet maker made a drawer under hers, for extra storage. I have since heard that some dishwashers are now coming with a drawer underneath it, so check that out.
"The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too." Chief Luther Standing Bear, Lakota Sioux
"The elders were wise. They knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; they knew that lack of respect for growing, living things, soon led to lack of respect for humans, too." Chief Luther Standing Bear, Lakota Sioux
First, congratulations on your house!
I'd suggest measuring every little bit of your kitchen precisely, and then booking a kitchen design at Home Depot and/or Loews. These used to be free, and likely still are. You will spend the time measuring, which you'll have to do anyway, and then about 1.5 hours with a designer. In this time you'll learn a lot about your wants and needs, and about what you absolutely cannot have without major renos. All good stuff. Then you'll have a great idea of cost and options. By going to two places, and keeping an open mind, you'll have lots more advice. The designer brings up a lot of issues you may not have considered.
We've installed two Home Depot kitchens ourselves but had our last one installed by HD. Well worth the money; beautiful finishing.
I don't know, but Ikea may do design online too, so definitely check that out. I've heard a lot of good things about their kitchens.
If money's an issue, check out more reasonable magazines (e.g., "Style at Home" in Canada vs "House and Home").
Keep us updated!
Here's our kitchen, which we designed and I built a few years ago. Sort of Shaker inspired. Cherry cabinets, soapstone counters, slate floor, Kenmore appliances, Blum slides, Brusso pulls and hinges.
Love the soapstone sink and your doggie matches the cabinets!
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I LOVE the woodgrain. It gives such depth and texture. It's a beautiful room. Great job!
I just noticed! It came with a matching dog! He's a handsome guy.
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Nicely done. I'll bet you love working in it. I love the cherry cabinets. The handles are perfect with them.
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Some pretty amazing kitchen pictures we're getting.
But I got a design question - and please don't take offense.
Why are these kitchens being built with such beautifully figured and finished woods along side of incompatible white windows, trim and doors?
To me, it says this (again I'm sorry if your fellbads are hurt): "We spent all of our money on the fancy cabinets and had to make up the difference with cheep trim, windows, and doors."
Once the DW made me put white trim in a kitchen we redid. (I fought the subject, but you all know how that turned out.) But what I did was to use solid oak for the trim, fully stained and finished, and then filled and painted white. (But the rest of the kitchen had new painted cabinets with that raw umber glazing that matched nicely with the white. And the designer brought it all together with some nice borders and curtains.)
Why oak? Because underneath the painted white trim is normally either very inexpensive fingerjointed pine, popular, or MDF. Soft woods. When one bangs into them with a chair, keys, purse, whatever, it leaves a pernament indentation. Hardwoods don't do that. (Although oak is some pretty hard stuff to properly paint white.)
Other lived in houses I've seen with white trim have these "character scars" all over. I find them quite unsightly. When we have been relocated, I always walk away from every single white trimmed house shown to us.
But what am I missing? There's gotta be some reason the rest of the world does this that I fail to understand. And I fully understand that some believe that a good paint job of trim requires more work than stain and poly. But why do it if it's gonna age 10 years over the next month?
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If you go: Learn about Bhutan
Sunday, October 10, 2004
Bhutan is easier to find on the Internet than on many maps. For general information, click www.kingdomofbhutan.com or www.bhutan.gov.bt. You can find dates of festivals worth including in your schedule.
A Google search for "Bhutan travel" produces agencies that specialize in travel there. It's best to allow 90 days lead time to make arrangements and get a visa.
I set up my trip through Jachung Travel (510-558-3403), www.jachungtravel.com) an agency in California owned by Tshering Samdrup, a Bhutanese with experience as a guide. Jachung's service was thorough and prompt, and arrangements in Bhutan were just as promised.
A deluxe option is to book a full-service tour through a U.S. outfitter. Try Wilderness Travel (800-368-2794, www.wildernesstravel.com), or Mountain Travel Sobek (888-687-6235, www.mtsobek.com).
For news of Bhutan, read Kuensel, the national newspaper (www.kuenselonline.com), or Bhutan News Online, an independent service (www.bhutannewsonline.com). For revealing statistics, try the CIA World Factbook (www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bt.html).
Good guidebooks include Lonely Planet's "Bhutan" edition and a book called "Bhutan," by Francoise Pommaret.
-- Richard Read: 503-294-5135; email@example.com.


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FYI, here are some videos we shot on May 5, 2013 during the Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys fantrip on SEPTA's Media light rail line. The fourth video was shot the day before the fantrip.
There will be another fantrip soon using car 101, which has a red overwrap commemorating 100 years of trolley service to Media PA:
Red Arrow Father's Day Charter
New Date, June 9, 2013
FPT will use the Media Centennial Trolley for a charter on Sunday, June 9. LRV 101 has been wrapped to look like it was as car 38 of the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company when the line opened on April 1, 1913.
New Date: Sunday, June 9, 2013 Father's Day will come a week early this year; FPT will do this charter a week early this year. SEPTA asked F.P.T. to move the trip up a week because of the US Open.
Departs: 11:00 AM sharp from SEPTA's 69th St Terminal
Returns: Approximately 3:00 PM
Routing: Both the Media and Sharon Hill Lines will be covered.
Equipment: Red Arrow Kawasaki LRV 101 Trolley
Fare: $45.00 a seat
Shirts, Snacks & drinks will be available on the car.
To reserve a seat, mail a check or M.O. made out to FPT, Inc. To:
Harry Donahue, 103 Mulberry Court, Morgantown, PA 19543
Need more info contact: Harry Donahue firstname.lastname@example.com Or Bill Monaghan email@example.com
Equipment and routing is subject to change.
Here is the handout from the May 5th trip. Note that the date of the June trip has been changed from the date listed there.
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