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One of the enduring hot-button issues in our culture (and every other culture) is sexually explicit material. Everyone has an opinion on what we, as a society, ought to allow—and what should be prohibited.
Everyone has an opinion, but not all opinions are formed through sound reasoning. More often than not, our opinions are visceral responses to things that frighten us, or that we don't understand. And if we don't like it, don't understand it, or it puts us off, why, that's reason enough to have it banned!
It's no surprise that people on both ends of the political spectrum can comfortably join forces in a pogrom against porn. It's the great boogieman, after all: the corruptor of youth; that which erodes family values and degrades human sexual expression. What's not to hate about porn?
I suppose if all that were true, there wouldn't be a multi-billion dollar industry cranking out everything from soft-core erotica to extreme hardcore. But there is, and it reflects the simple principle of supply and demand. If so many people honestly believe that sexually explicit material is bad for us and our society, why the huge demand?
Case in point—19-year-old Alex from Indianapolis writes:
Hey Dick,
I noticed from your bio that you are a pornographer. How do you justify that? Isn't pornography basically an insult to human sexuality? How do you square that with being a sex therapist and believing, as you say, that you affirm the fundamental goodness of sexuality in human life, both as a personal need and as an interpersonal bond?"
Wow, Alex! You actually took the time to read my bio? I'm impressed! You bring up a very interesting point, albeit with a bit of a jab. You're right; I have been a pornographer. If that's the only word you can come up with to describe what I did at Daddy Oohhh! Productions. I like to think that the adult material I produce is not in conflict with my basic, overall philosophy about human sexuality. (By the way, thank you for quoting it as accurately as you did.)
Admittedly, porn is a thorny issue in our sex-negative culture. Lots of people are hostile to the notion that there could actually be something uplifting and life-affirming about the depiction, in any medium, of sexual behaviors. Lots of people believe that even nudity, let alone full-blown sex, is bad and that it corrupts the consumer, especially if the consumer is a youth. I don't happen to share that perception. But this is such a touchy subject for most that it's very difficult to have a civil discourse about the place pornography has in our (or any other) culture. Since we find it so difficult to talk about sexual issues in the public forum, it's no surprise that pornography—i.e., the public exposure of sexual things—continues to be the big, bad boogieman for even otherwise enlightened people.
I hasten to add that, for the most part, the adult entertainment industry richly deserves the dubious reputation it has. There is an enormous amount of content in the marketplace that degrades, dehumanizes and exploits. And I'm not just talking about the stuff that doesn't suit my tastes. Because there's a lot of good stuff out there that doesn't particularly appeal to me.
Therefore, I caution you in your youthful zeal not to reject everything that depicts sexual behavior as worthless just because a good portion of it is indeed shameful junk. That would be like discarding all religion because a good portion of its practitioners degrade, dehumanize and shame those who don't share their belief system.
You apparently also think there is an inherent contradiction between being a sex therapist and a pornographer. I don't agree. For nearly 30 years, I've been involved in all sorts of cutting-edge sex education and sexual enrichment projects. So why not attempt to bring a fresh, healthier perspective to adult entertainment? Sounds like the perfect role for a sexologist to me.
Humans have been depicting sexual behavior, in one fashion or another, since we were able to scratch images on the walls of our caves. Some of these depictions are intended to titillate, others to educate, even others to edify, but all are expressions of the passions of the person who scratched, painted, wrote or committed to film (or videotape) the images they did. I think that if you were really interested in getting to know my thoughts about pornography, you'd do well to check out some of my work. And let's not forget that in more sex-positive societies than our own, sexual practices were and are integral parts of worshiping the deity.
Porn, like most forms of human expression, has both gold and dross. And just maybe, we need the crap in order to appreciate the treasures. Also, today's porn may be tomorrow's art. Ask Henry Miller or Anaïs Nin. A lot of stuff that hangs in the Louvre museum today was, upon its creation, considered scandalous and pornographic as well. Happily, we, along with our perceptions, evolve.
The definition of what is 'pornographic' changes with the times. Community standards also play a part. A lingerie catalog that showed women in bras and panties might be "pornographic" in one place, but no big deal in another.
I argue that there is a purpose to sexual depictions, pornographic or not. Otherwise, why would these depictions be so pervasive and appear in every culture? And it's not just because it's art. Most pornography is decidedly not art. So if it's not art per se, what is it? Most pornography is simply designed to arouse sexual desire. And that, generally speaking, is a really good thing. It's precisely this pursuit that probably brought you, young Alex, to me in the first place. Am I correct?
Sexual desire can stimulate an array of thoughts and behaviors from tender, intimate and passionate to raw, fierce and cruel. The mood of the consumer also plays a part. If your libido is raging, you might find a certain depiction stimulating, while the same depiction can cause disgust when your hormones are more in check. Porn tends to imitate what people fantasize about, rather than what actually happens in the lives of most of us. As a result, nearly everything is exaggerated in pornography: body parts, sexual situations, as well as sexual responses. Everything is staged and a lot is faked. Exaggeration is a time-honored way of calling attention to something that is otherwise pretty commonplace…you know, like sex.
In the end, Alex, you will have to decide for yourself what merits pornography might have in our culture. I suggest, however, that you approach porn with a slightly more dispassionate eye than you are currently using. You may find that it has something to teach you about yourself, your culture and the history of humankind.
Good luck!


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What's the obsession with racing?
This question came to me on a mountain bike trip to NZ back in Christmas. As I sat there at the trail head and observed the constant flow of people of all shapes, sizes and ages come to ride the magnificent trials of Rotorua it struck me that Lyrca, GPS devices, and type-A personalities were absent. No one looked like a "racer".
As I looked into it a bit more that evening I couldn't find much detail on racing in the region apart from a handful of significant events. It seemed that fun ruled the roost in this particular town and over a beer or three with a local who works in the industry, they fessed up that it's hard to get the people of that region to come to a race.
I have also travelled far and wide with my bike and I have had similar experiences, especially in Europe. Most people I run into hardly ever race and instead preferred an adventure with friends. Racing seemed less of a priority.
But Australia seems to be different. One quick look at the Flow calendar and other online resources shows a schedule of weekend racing that could keep you busier than a one-legged man in an arse-kicking contest. Race after race, after race, after race; it's endless. If I had enough money and time I could buy a van and race every weekend of the year and never see my friends and family again.
This race culture also manifests on the trail and social media. Australian mountain bikers seem obsessed with adding data collectors to their handlebars to monitor and share every millimetre of trail and aching heartbeat. My Facebook feed is filled with people telling me how far and fast they're ridden and boasting of a KOM they've claimed on a 100 meter section of trail. I don't get the same from my overseas Facebook friends, I just get photos of epic trails, views and beers.
The addiction to Lycra (the budgie smugglers of MTB) is also an anomaly, and that image too just says "race". Image is important, and in the same way a neck tattoo says, "I will punch you if you look at me again," wearing Lyrca conveys the message that "I am here to race, perform, and my shaven legs will give me a 2.4 second advantage over the 80km race I am training for – now get out of my way."
Australia is the only place I have ever seen such an addiction to racing. Do we all have something to prove? Were our childhoods that bad that we need pain of 100km racing to erase our memories? Is it just race promoters trying to make a buck or two? Does anyone actually think that wearing Lycra helps convey a good message?
Can't we just ride for fun and back of the racing a little (and wear less lyrca)? I can bet you will have more fun not having to think of your calorie intake and what power watt measuring tool to get next.

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More questions about Maria Hutchings's CV [updated]
12:28 pm - February 26th 2013
Political Scrapbook has revealed this morning that, despite presenting herself as an experienced business woman, Eastleigh Tory candidate Maria Hutchings has never been a director of a limited company.
But there's more – this is Hutchings' current Linkedin profile:
Company and Internet searches for 'Panacea Marketing and Communications', the 'business' for which Hutchings has ostensibly been working for the last nine years have, so far, turned up absolutely nothing.
Not company registration. No website. No email addresses and no references to any such business anywhere on the internet.
Nothing. Nowt, Zip. Nada. Fuck all.
[UPDATE: To clear up one point from comments, I can find nothing to connect either Maria Hutchings or 'Panacea Marketing and Communications' with the similarly named Panacea Marketing Ltd, which is based in Warwickshire and which most certainly is a genuine company with its own company registration, website, etc. Unless documentary to the contrary emerges it sees safe to say that Hutchings does not appear to have any connection with Panacea Marketing Ltd whatsoever.]
[UPDATE 15:00 – Oliver Duggan (@oliduggan) has managed to contact Ri5, one of the two clients listed under 'Panacea Marketing and Communications' and they have confirmed that the did use a 'Panacea Marketing' at an unspecified date prior to 2010 and that Hutchings was indeed the consultant that undertook the work.
As Ri5 have been around since at least 2000, that's one verified piece of actual business in a 6-7 year period between 2003 and 2010 and, again, I can find nothing to link Ri5 directly to Panacea Marketing Ltd of Warwickshine, so 'Panacea Marketing' here may very well be no more than 'Maria Hutchings, trading as…'
As for Equazen, there is a possible connection there going to back to the incident in which Hutchings sandbagged Tony Blair on national TV, as Equazen are/were in the fish oil supplements business. According to Skeptical Voter, Hutchings did get her face into the papers – well, the Daily Mail – way back in 2006, with claims that Fish Oil supplements had improved her son's autism. This doesn't appear to have helped Potters Ltd, the company behind the Equazen brand in the UK, very much as both it and Equazen UK Ltd are currently listed as 'non-trading' and the registration on the Equazen website, which is still going, is currently held by a German company.]
However, and this is much more interesting, Hutchings' current 'employer', Anglo Scottish Employer Benefits Ltd is a new business, which was only registered in June 2012, so there is as yet no financial information for this company or any details of its trading activity.
Anglo Scottish Employer Benefits Ltd has the same registered office address as another company with a very similar name, Anglo Scottish Employee Benefits Ltd – both operate from Highfield Lodge, Burlesden.
Anglo Scottish Employee Benefits Ltd, was first registered in 2006 but company records show it to be a non-trading company. In fact, those same records show that company has never traded since it was first registered.
Both companies have the same two directors/shareholders – John Alexander Gordon Milne (age 77) and John Milne (age 43) which rather suggests that they're father and son.
And, by what I am sure is nothing more than a complete and utter coincidence, the name of the Chairman of the Eastleigh Conservative Association, as of this article about Chris Huhne's speeding ticket problems in May 2011 is…
Writing in Eastleigh News, John Milne – the Conservative Party Chairman for Eastleigh- speculated that Mr Huhne was only waiting for his first anniversary as a secretary of state to pass before resigning as this would enable him to leave with a ministerial pension.
In which case it seems reasonable to ask whether Anglo Scottish Employers Benefits Ltd is actually a trading company, given that Maria Hutchings currently claims on her Linkedin profile that she works for the company as its 'Commercial Director'.
Well this is getting even more interesting…
As you can clearly see from her LinkedIn profile, Hutchings cites October 2012 as the start of her 'employment' with Anglo Scottish Employers Benefits Ltd.
See if you can guess when the domain name for Hutchings' campaign website was registered before you scroll any further…?
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Good spot. She is just another worthless tory puppet drone for the rich.
I would guess that it's a recently launched trading brand of Anglo Scottish Financial Services. That was the name of Milne's IFA firm, which has been around for ages. Unfortunately ASFS was one of the IFA firms that got caught up in the collapse of Burns-Anderson plc, the network which it was part of, and so at present "Anglo Scottish Financial Services" does its business off Milne's personal FSA registration (the website says that ASFS is an appointed representative of Sesame plc, but the FSA Register gets it right – Milne himself is).
This and the reasons for the Eastleigh byelection will fuel the perceptions of those who don't belong to the political classes that those who do are a bunch of self-serving charlatans. Recap this Guardian report from 2009:
Public funds totalling £500 million a year are being spent on an army of at least 29,000 professional politicians in the UK, according to new figures.
The figures, for the financial year 2007-08, come from freedom of information requests by the BBC asking about councils, devolved assemblies, Westminster and the European Parliament.
Compare that figure of 29,000 professional politicians with the size of the electorate at c. 45 millions.
I should clarify, for the avoidance of any doubt, Hutching's 'Panacea Marketing and Communications' is NOT the same business as Panacea Marketing Ltd, which is based in Warwickshire.
There is, so far as I can see, no connection whatsoever between the two.
And in another complete and utter coincidence that's wholly unconnected to anything else already disclosed, it turns out that the domain name for Hutchings' "Vote4Maria" campaign website was registered on 4 October 2012.
And in another complete and utter coincidence that's wholly unconnected to anything else already disclosed, it turns out that the domain name for Hutchings' "Vote4Maria" campaign website was registered on 4 October 2012.
The week it became clear that Vicky Pryce was running a marital coercion defence, massively increasing the likelihood that Huhne would go down. Am I missing something? Because it seems that as the most likely candidate for a by-election that suddenly looked very likely to happen, registering a website would be a fairly obvious first step.
Tim, don't think you're missing anything. Not at all suspicious to me.
It may also have something to do with the Tories' own selection process. She didn't exactly go well last time, so maybe there was some move to replace her.
Getting a website going as if you were already the candidate might be a sly move.
Obviously, I don't know anything about the internal selection procedures, so don't quote me on this.
The greatest political operator of all time, Lyndon Johnson, was a professional politician.
The ridiculous thing about this is the implication that business people are somehow special. We're all supposed to gaze in awe at them while listening to their dazzling insights.
Fair play – we used to do this all the time. If you've got Tories who've got spare houses, spare businesses, spare anything really, well – it'd be daft not to use them, eh? It is a bloody contact sport after all, let's not start getting precious about it. It's not like they're registering dead voters now is it??
Yes, the campaign website on its own is just prudent advance planning.
But the website and a job helpfully supplied by the chair of her CA. That's all rather Dunny-in-the-Wold.
And let's not forget that her opening campaign gambit was 'a local candidate you can trust'.
Oh, rilly?
As you say, DtP, it's a contact sport.
So the neo-collectivists are upset about a fake job used for the purposes of vanity? Now you know how we feel.
You don't need to be a director of a limited company in order to be a business man or woman. Many if not most businesses are sole proprietorships or partnerships – not limited companies.
And whilst the Tory candidate may be a useless piece of whatever – does it not trouble folks on here that the Labour candidate was disappointed that a terrorist bomb failed to kill the democratically elected prime minister of the UK. How on earth did the Labour leadership allow such a non democrat to be their candidate?
Personally I would like none of the main parties in this particular election to get any votes whatsoever.
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If you're troubled by O'Farrell's comments then you're obviously not old enough to remember the 1980s.
O'Farrell has done nothing more than express in print what millions of people felt about Thatcher at the time.
Dear Unity,
On the contrary I was of age in the 80s and very anti-Thatcher. However I would never have condoned or supported or been sympathetic to terrorists blowing up a democratically elected prime minister, even one whose policies were anathema to me. I do not believe "millions of people" thought like O'Farrell & there is no getting around the profoundly anti- democratic nature of his comments (not to mention how infantile they are)which make him unfit really to run for public office. In defending O'Farrell you are effectively suggesting it was alright for the IRA to try & blow up Thatcher & following on logically that would make you comfortable with the deaths that did take place & Mrs Tebbit becoming disabled. I now understand that his views on the Falklands are just as appalling – apparently he wanted the Argentinians to win the war -i.e a supposed left of centre social democrat/socialist supporting a right wing fascist dictator.
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The Frazier History Museum
Through June 16
There are myriad exhibits celebrating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. But "Spirits of the Passage: The Story of the Transatlantic Slave Trade," at the Frazier History Museum, has taken a different tack, looking at the business of slavery before, during and (somewhat) after the Proclamation.
Using maps, dioramas, informative panels, audio stations and artifacts in 4,000 square feet of gallery space, the special exhibit tells this story. The show is curated in partnership with the Mel Fisher Maritime Museum in Key West, Fla., so many of the original objects, such as shackles and other hardware of the slave trade, have been recovered from sunken slave ships discovered by the famed explorer.
The show opens by explaining the politics and culture of western Africa before the Europeans arrived to trade in raw materials, luxury items and, eventually, human beings. Focusing almost exclusively on Congo, Dahomey (Benin) and Calabar (Nigeria), we're told how these African empires were primarily polytheistic, fought and traded with one another, formed alliances, arranged marriages and, yes, took slaves among themselves as spoils of war. Among the notable objects here are two hand-carved Mbari figures and a headdress made of glass beads and cotton.
When the Europeans showed up, they brought Christianity with them—the Congo king converted in 1491—and a strong need for cheap labor to work the lands in the New World. In 1493, Pope Alexander VI divided the world between the Spanish and the Portuguese, with the latter given the rights to all the African continent had to offer, including the slave trade.
The museum hits its stride when it gets into the details of human trafficking. What's refreshing about this exhibit—and makes it well worth seeing, no matter how uncomfortable it sometimes may make you feel—is the curators' dispassionate examination of the slave trade. Was it horrible and cruel? Of course it was. But rather than look at slavery through the 21st-century prism of a more enlightened society, this exhibit presents the facts, stripped of any moral or political commentary, and looks at the business of the slave trade.
It explains that the Americas were not the only world market for slave labor in the 15th and 16th centuries. The exhibit, using maps, journals and ship logs, shows how Muslims sold Christians—an estimated 1.5 million Europeans—into slavery in North Africa.
Another central theme is that slavery was not a product of bigotry, but of business needs. Europeans required vast amounts of cheap labor in the Americas. Ship captains needed a well-paying cargo to haul back to the Americas after having delivered sugar and tobacco to Europe. And African kingdoms—themselves teeming with slave labor and very much active participants—needed a place to get rid of the strongest and most unruly among the slave class, lest they foment rebellion.
The commercial mind-set of the endeavor is explained best in a panel about Capt. James Smith, one of the few slavers convicted of violating U.S. and international law. When asked in 1857 why he continued to haul slaves from Africa to the sugar plantations, he simply said: "My brig cost $13,000 to fit her out completely. My last cargo to Cuba was worth $220,000."
One display case, called "The Price of a Life," brings the whole business down to a microeconomic scale, and features perhaps the most disturbing artifacts. Using historical prices in Calabar in 1699-1700, and objects recovered from a shipwreck, it explains exactly what a human life was worth. An iron bar, about 12 inches long by 2 inches wide, brought nine to 13 slaves at market; a four-pound pewter basin, 10 to 14 souls; and a gun, only 1½ to 2½ permanently indentured servants. There are also weights and measures from about 1700 that were used to sell human beings by the pound.
The slavers tried to keep their costs of business down, feeding the slaves just enough to keep them healthy for the auction block in the Americas. And while most every ship had a doctor, he wasn't there to heal the sick—30% or more of the slaves died en route. Rather, he was there to write up the death certificates so the ship's owner could file his insurance claims.
England, at the center of the slave trade for decades, is estimated to have profited the most. And while there was a strong abolitionist movement in England, it was the Industrial Revolution, and its mechanization that did away with the need for vast amounts of cheap labor in the colonies, that eventually turned England against the slave trade. The museum notes that the slave trade was abolished in the English colonies in 1807 and in the U.S. in 1808; slavery itself was outlawed by England in 1838 and by the U.S. in 1865.
All of this is told chillingly well here. There's a re-creation of a slave ship's hold, complete with a display of shackles. But, as a panel explains, it is impossible to give visitors a real sense of what it was like because the decks of slave ships, containing anywhere from 200 to 500 people, were often no more than a now inconceivable 18 inches high.
Mr. Yost is a writer in Chicago.
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Here in California our new governor has declared an end to our drought...for the moment anyway. We've had a wet winter with huge snowfalls in the
mountains and wild rainstorms at lower elevations. That got me thinking about the many faces of water. For this week's Assignment, send in your
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Three women's rights and health groups today commemorated Women's Equality Day by releasing a scorecard rating the Bush administration on global women's issues. The Global Women's Issues Scorecard on the Bush Administration was unveiled at a press conference in Washington, DC this morning featuring leaders of the three groups: Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority; Jodi Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE); and June Zeitlin, executive director of the Women's Environmental and Development Organization (WEDO). "When women are equal and women are empowered, we are a safer, more secure, and more prosperous world," said Zeitlin.
The groups selected issues important to women globally and rated the Bush administration's rhetoric on the issues, as well as the current reality. For example, the Bush administration received a "B" on its rhetoric about Afghan women, but received an "F" for the reality. "A year ago President Bush declared that women's rights had been restored in Afghanistan and that girls had returned to school," said Smeal. "Last week we learned that because of the worsening security situation in the country more girls' schools have been set on fire by fundamentalist extremists. Because the Bush Administration refuses to support expansion of international peace troops beyond Kabul, girls' schools are under attack, regional warlords are able to impose Taliban-like restrictions, people who speak out for women's rights and human rights receive threats, and many women still wear the burqa out of fear." The administration received incompletes for both rhetoric and reality on the passage of the Convention to End all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the International Women's Rights treaty, because of its inaction on the issue. Last summer, the 1979 treaty passed for the first time out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but it has not yet been brought up for a vote by the full Senate. If there was a vote, says Smeal, CEDAW would pass. "What Senator in what year wants to go down in history being opposed to basic equality for women?" she said.
Other issues included international family planning; Bush's HIV/AIDS initiative; women in Iraq; and the impact of agricultural subsidies on women in developing countries. "Women here and around the world heard the Bush administration's rhetoric and it gave them hope," said Zeitlin. "But women are waiting for the reality to see [if] the administration can deliver on women's rights." Regarding the grade of "F" the Bush administration received for the reality of international family planning, Jacobson emphasized that so-called pro-life groups should not be celebrating. "I'm not really clear on the definition of 'pro-life' if that doesn't mean concern about the 600,000 women who die each year from complications of childbirth," she said.
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THUMBS UP: Congratulations to the Sertoma Club for selecting former mayor Carl "Red" Wyczawski for its Service to Mankind award.
It has been quite a while since Wyczawski left office, but it is certainly worthwhile to recognize the long service he provided to the city in his years as mayor, as well as his enthusiastic support for local sports teams, and for New Ulm in general.
Trail challenges
THUMBS UP: Recreational trails seem to be a little like sports arenas. There's bound to be opposition and criticism while they are being planned and built, but once they are there, they prove to be real assets.
The Department of Natural Resources held an open house in New Ulm this past week to spread word about the proposed Minnesota River State Trail, which would extend from Ortonville, way on the western border of the state, and follow the Minnesota River to LeSueur.
There is a lot of planning, a lot of routing and a lot of work to be done before this project is completed. It would provide a great opportunity for New Ulm and other area towns along the river to attract travelers, bikers and hikers, and provide an excellent opportunity for local bikers and hikers.
Of course, there are concerns by landowners along the potential route about loss of land and easy access to their land for trespassers and vandals.
It is good to hold meetings like this to get the issues out in the open and make sure the project works for everyone.
Hope and horror in Cleveland
THUMSB UP: The story of the three women in Cleveland, kidnapped and held captive for more than a decade, is at once inspiring and horrifying. It is a happy ending to a terrible situation that one of the women, Amanda Berry, was able to escape her bonds and gain freedom for herself and her fellow prisoners. It inspires hope for others whose children have gone missing that they may someday return alive.
But the revelations of the sexual abuse and torture that their alleged captor, Ariel Castro, inflicted upon them are horrible. They endured ten years or more of captivity and isolation. Castro is accused of fathering a daughter with one of his victims, and causing another to suffer five miscarriages after repeatedly impregnating her.
It may take years of intensive therapy for the three women – Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus – before they can fully recover from this horror. We wish them all the best.


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Kim Boylan has achieved many of the major milestones we associate with the American Dream: She got married, bought a house and has settled into a career she hopes to stay with until retirement.
She's happy to have reached those goals, but Boylan can't help but feel some regret. That's because it's taken her so long to get there.
"At 45, I feel like all of this should have happened when I was 30," she said. "I just kind of feel like I'm 15 years behind."


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A Taliban Massacre Jolts Heart of Kabul
Attack Fuels Fears of Widespread Bloodshed Ahead of Election
KABUL—The four men sat down for dinner, ordered juice and then excused themselves to the bathroom. There, they extracted tiny pistols from the soles of their shoes, and, after returning to the restaurant of Kabul's most luxurious hotel, started shooting patrons point-blank.
The first target was the Afghan family of Sardar Ahmad, a 40-year-old Afghan journalist with Agence France-Presse, the government said. The gunmen shot dead Mr. Ahmad, his wife, his 5-year-old daughter Nilofar and 3-year-old son Omar. His youngest son...


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Microsoft, Yahoo And Real Sued For Failing To Get All Necessary Licenses For Music Stores
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It's pure speculation until more details come out, but one imagines that the licensing deals with the record labels included some sort of assurances that the publishing rights were covered as well -- and for songs whose publishing rights were covered by the major record labels, that's probably the case. But for songs where the publishing rights were owned by independent companies -- such as MCS Music America, the claim appears to be that the publishing rights were never cleared -- and thus, Microsoft, Yahoo and Real were streaming/downloading music to which they only held some of the rights. Yikes.
Most of the complaint details which songs were offered without (allegedly) having secured all the rights. And, of course, the publishers are claiming that every time a song was streamed or downloaded, it counts as a separate act of infringement. If the court agrees, this could represent a massive liability for Microsoft, Yahoo and Real, given the fines we all know can be issued over a single instance of infringement.
That said, this is yet another example of the convoluted house of cards that copyright has become. The idea that you can license a recording, but then need to get a separate license from a totally different party for the rights to the "underlying composition" (and don't get us started on the need to make sure you're covered for reproduction, distribution and performance rights -- three separate issues under copyright law), and you begin to get a sense of the problem. Basically, every time some new technology or innovation comes along, the copyright holders run to Congress to slap on another right, rather than actually innovating on the business model side. And on top of it, when new technologies like the internet come along, it's not at all clear which rights really apply and who controls/owns what rights. Suddenly, you have a massive mess for a company trying to do something as simple as let people listen to music. Just for that, you get a massive lawsuit like the following:


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This is a guest post by Holy Paladin and Disc Priest blogger Ambrosyne of For the Bubbles
By the time I dinged 80 with my paladin, I was about ready to throw in my hat. "This is insane!" I huffed. "I feel as if Blizzard hates holy paladins."
This is likely an exaggeration, but I'm a dramatic soul. Regardless, let's take a look at what pushed me to this point.
Aoe damage. Wrath instances seem to have a lot of it. Sometimes it's just masses of mobs, some of which inevitably peel off try to eat the overzealous mage. There's also cleaves and whirlwinds and poisons thrown everywhere and rain of fire and blizzards and mojo puddles…
Sometimes it seemed as if taking heals off the tank for even a heartbeat resulted in a wipe. Most instances ended up sending my mind into chaos. Peeking into it you might have seen something like this:
"Aaaah! Poisons everywhere I need to cleanse them!â€Â
â€ÂOH MY GOD THE TANK IS DYING!â€Â
*heals the tankâ€Â
"OH MY GOD THE DPS IS DYING!â€Â
*heals the DPSâ€Â
"OH MY GOD THE TANK IS DYINGâ€Â
The only good thing to come out of this (aside from the fact that I decided to roll a priest) was that I learned very quickly to make the most out of a holy paladin's limited arsenal.
How A Holy Paladin Can Cope
Beacon – Sweet, so I can heal TWO targets at once with a semi-expensive spell that only lasts a minute! Sadly a group has five people in it, but we do what we can.
Don't get me wrong, I love beacon. I just wish I could make it magically expand to the entire group.
In a five man you'll often beacon the tank while topping off the DPS. This works fine, except on longer fights where beacon seems to eat up your mana, and on fights where the tank is taking really heavy hits. Beacon alone will not keep the tank up.
Sometimes I'll beacon myself while healing the tank, if we're talking something really not fun like the mojo puddles in Heroic Gundrak.
Learn to predict incoming damage – This is easiest if you run with the same tanks all the time and come to know their gear and play style, but just being familiar with their class and the boss can be enough. When I deemed it 'safe', I would judge for haste, toss a holy light on the tank so that he was at full, and then quickly throw Flashes at the DPS to keep them alive. They might not have been at full health, but they were still alive. If I guessed correctly, by the time I cycled back to the tank he was a bit lower on health but in no danger of dying before the next Holy Light. If I had to, I let the rogue die. Sorry man (I'm kidding! I let the DPS warrior die).
Sacred Shield – In most cases, you don't need to be afraid of rage or mana starving the tank. The additional flash of light crits are great, and the damage absorption means you have less to heal! Don't be afraid to toss it on yourself, either, if you have the bad tendency to get healer tunnel vision. Or if there are mojo puddles. I hate mojo puddles, by the way.
Grab the Holy Light glyph – The splash heal sure as heck can't hurt.
Holy shock – It's expensive, it has a cool down, but as an "oh no!" button, it's great. I have an oh no macro set up for casting divine favor, holy shock, and then flash of light.
Be adaptable – Don't get your mind stuck on 'spamming flash of light' or 'spamming holy light'. Read the situation and use what's best. In a raid, forget the meters. Healing meters suck. You know what a holy paladin on top of the meters is a lot of the time? OOM.
Have patience. A lot of my problems resolved once I started picking up some gear out of the very same heroics that were making me weep. There seems to be a gear plateau for the holy paladin at 80, beyond which things become manageable again. Trust me! If you raid, that too will make your life easier. You have someone else healing and as a single target healer this is where you shine. I just love healing Patchwerk. I look forward to it every week. It's like Blizzard gave me cookies for being a holy pally!
Discipline priests, I have not forgotten you! You too are considered primarily single target healers, and hey, I have one too. What, I was frustrated with single target healing so I rolled another one? Yes! Guess what: you are not as limited as you think.
If the occasional tossed renew (no, they're not that efficient for you; yes, they're still useful in a pinch) and a bouncing prayer of mending isn't enough, don't forget prayer of healing. If it's on cooldown, use inner focus first! I sometimes save inner focus just for PoH. Use your bubbles and borrowed time to your advantage.
Hopefully my experiences, as frustrating as they were at the time (and still are-I'm looking at you, mojo puddle), allowed me to share some useful information with you. Stick with it. All of Azeroth needs you!
Happy healing!
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Viv Albertine confirmed for Woodland Library
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For the uninitiated Viv Albertine is one of a handful of original punks who changed music, and the discourse around it, forever. After forming The Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious in 1976, Viv joined The Slits and made musical history as one of the first generation of punk bands.
In her own words Albertine describes the early Slits "performances" as just that; "We all play at different speeds. Ari screams as loud as she can, I thrash at my guitar, Palmolive smashes the drums – the stage is so big and Tessa's so far away, I can't hear what she's doing… We all play the song separately, we know we should play together, but we can't." As John Peel said, "Their inability to play coupled with their determination to play [and] the conflict between these two things was magnificent."
The music was core but at the same time it existed as a conduit for 4 girls to rail up against the established norm, chew it up and spit it out onto an unsuspecting country; with the Slits it wasn't just the "establishment" being trampled underfoot, it was music art, fashion everything and everyone.
This unruly display of self belief made some of the deepest cuts down the established musical vein. In her new memoir Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, Albertine gives an account of the Punk era through the eyes of one of the most glamorous, uncompromising and iconic figures of the time
Expect Abertine to talk to the End Of The Road festival crowd as frankly as she does throughout her book. She is a must if you want to hear the story of what it was like to be a girl at the height of punk: the anarchy, the drugs, the sex, the tours, the hard lessons learnt and what is left after you've set the world on fire.
More Information: End Of The Road
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kilroy, what kinds of jobs are most of your fellow grads getting? I applied to PSU Dickinson but I'm worried about being stuck in Harrisburg or Reading forever. I'm on their waitlist, so we'll see what happens, but I have this theory that in a tiebreaker, choose the school with the more prestigious undergrad, because that will help guide the rep of the law school in the future. If I get into PSU it will probably ocme down to them or Rutgers-Camden.


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Philadelphia teens started hoppin' to the beats of American Bandstand back in September of 1952. Local disc jockey Bob Horn hosted both the radio and television show, the former featuring popular records of the day, and the latter boasting the added visual of local teenagers dancing to the songs. A young Dick Clark soon took over radio duties, and when Horn ran into legal troubles in 1956 after getting arrested for driving-under-the-influence, 26-year-old Clark was tapped as Bandstand's new television host:
With some prodding by Clark, American Bandstand went national on ABC on August 5, 1957 and remained on the air (either in network or syndicated form) through October of 1989. For years, appearing on Bandstand marked THE right of passage for up-and-coming musicians. Here's a peek at the Beach Boys' first appearance on the program in 1964:
Unlike most other shows of its day, Bandstand consistently catered to teens and young adults. Dick Clark explained how music was selected for the show:
Here's to 55 years of droppin' in on all the music they play on Bandstand!
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On Tuesday, voters resoundingly opted to raise the wage by $1 through a ballot question and tie future increases to the consumer price index. The measure succeeded by a margin of over 20 percentage points.
Through aggressive advertisement and outreach efforts, a coalition of business groups around the state had pressed hard to defeat the wage hike, claiming it would hurt small businesses and force employers to reduce hours and ultimately, cut jobs.
Today, Sweeney said he was "insulted" by those repeated claims, chalking them up to nothing more than scare tactics from the business groups. He said he remembered similar false rhetoric regarding the fight for paid family leave several years back that he says never panned out.
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So this film won't claim any long-view authority on its subject, or attempt any final judgment. We want to explore the complexities and challenges of transparency in the information age and, we hope to enliven and enrich the conversations WikiLeaks has already provoked."
Golden Globe nominee Benedict has already had an impressive career to date, so it is of no surprise that he has been noted as one of the hot acting picks for 2013.
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Re: Terrorist Bombing at Mahabodhi, Bodhgaya
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:05 pm
So what? Seriously, if Muslims really are more violent than other religions, what do you propose to do with that information? What conclusion can be drawn from that, that Muslims have more ticks in the category of "bad" than others? And as compared to who? Buddhists, Western governments, Christians...or what? Seems like a pointless exercise to me - if such a definitive pattern exists much more than Muslims than with others, what do you think we should do about that, particularly as Buddhists?Will wrote:Start around 600 CE by counting & comparing Buddhist vs Muslim violence - see which group has the pattern of violence against those outside their religion.gad rgyangs wrote:i guess you don't read the news much:Karma Dorje wrote:Another example that the first refuge of Islam is violence. Religion of peace, my ass.
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This is a quick and easy slider that will satisfy your urge for buffalo chicken, without all the mess of frying. Pair with arugula, dill pickles and blue cheese dip and you have a perfect spicy chicken with cooling blue cheese dip; the perfect combo of hot and creamy.
This recipe will make approximately 8 sliders, enough for 4 people
- Packets of chicken cutlets (ie: tenders) – enough for 8 sliders
- 1 bottle wing sauce or hot sauce (use mild wing sauce if you don't like heat)- 2 cups or more (enough to coat chicken in bowl and reserve some for basting on grill afterwards)
- 1 package of dinner rolls or "slider" buns
- 1 jar sandwich dill pickles
- 1 container of pre-washed arugula
- Blue cheese dip (see recipe below)
Preparing/Grilling Instructions:
1. Give the tenders a quick drizzle or olive oil, and a dash of salt and pepper. Add enough sauce to coat all the tenders in a medium-large size bowl. Let them marinate at least 15 minutes in the fridge.
2. Prepare the grill for medium direct heat, about 400 degrees, while the chicken is marinating; meanwhile- make The Blue Cheese Dip.
Blue Cheese Dip:
- 12 oz. container sour cream
- 4 oz. container blue cheese (the better the cheese, the better the dip)
- 2 tblsp minced garlic
- 1 tbls spoon dry mustard
- Freshly ground black pepper and sea salt- to taste
Combine all ingredients and store in refrigerator.
3. Grill tenders on direct heat for 3 minutes per side or until thermometer reaches internal temp. of 165 degrees. Baste with additional wing sauce.
4. Serve tenders on buns with blue cheese dip, arugula, pickles and extra wing sauce. Serve with additional arugula on the side and blue cheese dip as the dressing.
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Evan Thomas Leaving Increasingly Empty Newsweek
In your trendy Tuesday media column: another big name leaves Newsweek, ProPublica's employees are shockingly well-compensated, magazine trends examined, more freelance payment fuckery, and OK! is not OK!
- Evan Thomas, Newsweek's most prominent journalist, is leaving the magazine in the wake of its sale to old rich man Sidney Harman. Thomas is going to teach and write books and he says his departure's not connected to the magazine's sale, okay, whatever. This can only bode well for Fareed Zakaria's parking space prominence.
- ProPublica's top editors and reporters make loads of money! Led by editor in chief Paul Steiger, who makes damn near $600k. It's kind of funny because ProPublica is a nonprofit and all, but who are we to judge how they waste their money, not having donated any to them?
- Today in magazine companies not paying freelancers in a timely manner: Lockwood Publications, "publisher of Tobacco International and other nicotine- and caffeine-related trade magazines." Uhh let's see hmmm PAY THEM IN CIGS AND COFFEE. Done, next.
- What trends are being spotted in the magazine circulation field, these days? Well, celebrity magazine sales are down, while food magazine sales are somewhat less down, but one thing everyone can agree on is putting women over 40 on magazine covers now is the "thing."
- Late pass from yesterday, but this Ad Age piece on OK! Magazine is worth reading just for the chance to reflect on what a disastrous investment OK! Magazine has proven to be thus far. "We thought we were going to create a cultural phenomenon," says one surprised exec. Could Americans be slightly less stupid than suspected?


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You have probably heard and maybe even embrace that money can't buy happiness. I've said so myself numerous times.
But behavioral scientists and researchers Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton argue this is not exactly true. Money, if you spend it right, can buy happiness.
So what's the right way?
"Shifting from buying stuff to buying experiences, and from spending on yourself to spending on others, can have a dramatic impact on happiness," Dunn and Norton write in "Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending" (Simon & Schuster, $25). Dunn is an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. Norton is an associate professor of marketing at the Harvard Business School.
Truthfully, I needed a break from all the dreary talk about the federal government shutdown and concern the country might default. So "Happy Money" is the Color of Money Book Club selection for this month.
I'm always trying to find research that looks at how people can do better with the money they have. I plan to use this book in my financial classes, where folks believe that if they just made more money, their level of happiness would increase. They could afford to buy better stuff, a larger home or cooler car. Yet studies show that more doesn't increase your long-term happiness.
Dunn and Norton strive to show how to spend money in less typical but more pleasing ways. They offer five principles you can use to buy happiness:
• Buy experiences. As frugal as I am, my husband and I decided many years ago to set aside two weeks a year, every year at the same time of the year, to take a luxury vacation with our children. My oldest has gone off to college, but she still wants to be included on these family vacations. As Dunn and Norton write: "Research shows that experiences provide more happiness than material goods in part because experiences are more likely to make us feel connected to others."
• Make it a special treat. Don't overindulge yourself, the authors say, because "abundance, it turns out, is the enemy of appreciation. This is the sad reality of the human experience: in general, the more we're exposed to something, the more its impact diminishes."
• Buy time. If you can afford it, you might decide you'd rather hire someone to cut your grass than do it yourself. You might spend a little more on an item rather than drive across town to save 10 percent. I'm a reformed bargain shopper. I realized I was wasting a lot of time going from store to store trying to save money. "We too often sacrifice our free time just to save a little money," the authors write. "Many of use wish we had more free time to do more of what we love."
• Pay now, consume later. "Consuming later provides time for positive expectations to develop," Dunn and Norton write. Paying for a vacation in advance may help you enjoy it more because by the time you take the trip you won't be so focused on the cost. At the same time, fight the power of now. This is especially true when it comes to paying with plastic. In one study cited by the authors, 30 people were asked to estimate their credit card expenses before opening their monthly bill. Every participant underestimated how much he or she had spent on credit by an average of almost 30 percent.
• Invest in others. I generally hate spending money. But when I helped a friend's daughter by buying her books for college, I was elated. I was investing in her education, and that was an awesome feeling. My husband and I often get teased for our frugality, but we counter by telling people we are cheap for a purpose. We like spending money when it makes a difference in someone's life. Dunn and Norton say their research shows that spending even small amounts of money on others can make a difference in your happiness level.
I love the five principles of happy money because they aren't about getting more money but getting more out of the money you have. Let me leave you with this from Dunn and Norton: "Before you spend that $5 as you usually would, stop to ask yourself: Is this happy money? Am I spending this money in the way that will give me the biggest happiness bang for my buck?"
I'll be hosting a live online discussion about "Happy Money" at noon Eastern on Oct. 31 at washingtonpost.com/discussions. Dunn and Norton will join me to answer your questions. Every month, I randomly select readers to receive copies of the featured book donated by the publisher. For a chance to win a copy of this month's selection, send an email to email@example.com with your name and address.
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FTP Load Balancing on ACE in One-Arm Mode Configuration Example
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The goal of this document is to configure an ACE Module or ACE 4710 to perform FTP load balancing in a one-arm topology. It will cover the basics of the FTP protocol, and explain why specific configuration elements are necessary to allow FTP to function.
FTP Protocol Basics
FTP is a protocol which allows client PCs running FTP client software, to transfer files to and from a remote FTP server. An FTP session is itself composed of two TCP flows, each with a very specific role. The first flow is created as the user initiates the FTP connection to the server. It is used to pass FTP commands (such as GET, PUT, etc) back and forth between the client and server, and is known as the control channel. This flow is always sourced from the client PC, with the destination being the FTP server (generally TCP port 21), never the other way around. The next TCP flow is known as the data channel, and it is created when data needs to flow between the client and the server (file copies, directory listings, etc). This flow can be established in either direction, depending on whether ACTIVE FTP or PASSIVE FTP is being used. To establish the data connection during an Active FTP session, the server initiates the TCP connection to the client PC. To establish the data connection during a Passive FTP session, the client initiates the TCP connection to the FTP Server. It is important to note that when an FTP session authenticates properly but then hangs on directory listings or file transfers, generally some piece of network equipment is preventing the data channel from being properly established.
Clients will establish an FTP control channel connection with the VIP configured on the ACE. Once established, the ACE will forward the control connection to one of the configured real servers. The ACE will inspect the commands being sent through the control connection, and will take action as necessary to ensure the data connection can also be established between the client and the server in the appropriate direction when necessary. Generally this will involve performing NAT on the IP addresses embedded within the FTP control channel messages, as well as opening any necessary ports in the ACE access-lists. The ACE will also source nat the request as it is passed to the real server. This will ensure that the server response is sent back to the ACE, rather than being sent through the MSFC, bypassing the ACE completely. Only the TCP port for the control channel must be explicitly permitted in the ACE access-list. The TCP port for the data channel is dynamically assigned by the client or server (depending on which FTP mode is used), and ACE will open a pin-hole in its access-list to allow traffic through to the real server on this port.
The ACE configuration is performed in a layered fashion, making the order it is built in important. Each configuration step builds upon the previous step; the order this document will follow is outlined below.
- Configure a management policy to allow admin access to the ACE
- Configure access-list to permit traffic into the ACE from the client facing interface
- Define real server addresses (create the rservers)
- Group rservers together (create a serverfarm)
- Define the virtual address (VIP)
- Define how traffic is to be handled once it is received (L7 policy-map)
- Associate traffic handling policy with VIP address (multi-match policy)
- Create VLAN interface and net-pool, then apply service-policy, access-list, and management policy to it
- Add a default route
To begin the configuration, configure a management policy-map to allow all types of management access to the ACE. This policy will be applied to the necessary interface in a later step.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# policy-map type management first-match remote-access ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap-mgmt)# class class-default ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap-mgmt-c)# permit
Next configure an access-list to permit the desired traffic to enter the ACE. Before the traffic can reach any configured virtual servers, it must be permitted by an access-list. Note: While this example shows a "permit any any", it is recommend ACLs be used to only permit specific traffic through the ACE.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# access-list everyone extended permit ip any any ACE-1/onearm(config)# access-list everyone extended permit icmp any any
The ultimate goal of this configuration is for ACE to distribute FTP connections to a group of real servers. The ACE must have each of these real servers configured as rservers, so that it knows each of their IP addresses. Note that unlike previous SLB products, a TCP/UDP port is NOT specified during this step; it will be defined when the rservers are added to a serverfarm.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# rserver host lnx1 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# ip address 192.168.5.11 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# inservice ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# rserver host lnx2 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# ip address 192.168.5.12 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# inservice ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# rserver host lnx3 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# ip address 192.168.5.13 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# inservice ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# rserver host lnx4 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# ip address 192.168.5.14 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# inservice ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# rserver host lnx5 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# ip address 192.168.5.15 ACE-1/onearm(config-rserver-host)# inservice
The rservers must be grouped into a serverfarm, accomplishing two things. It allows the whole group of rservers to be attached to any load balancing actions with a single command, and it provides an opportunity to define the port on which the rservers are configured to accept traffic.
|In this example, no port is configured on the rservers. This instructs the ACE to inherit the port from the virtual server which will be defined in a later step.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# serverfarm host ftp ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host)# rserver lnx1 ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host-rs)# rserver lnx2 ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host-rs)# rserver lnx3 ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host-rs)# rserver lnx4 ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host-rs)# rserver lnx5 ACE-1/onearm(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice
In order for the ACE to accept traffic on a virtual server IP, it must be configured using a class-map. In this example the VIP address is configured to accept traffic on TCP port 21, the standard port for FTP control channel connections.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# class-map match-all slb-vip ACE-1/onearm(config-cmap)# 2 match virtual-address 172.16.5.103 tcp eq ftp
Once the ACE accepts traffic destined to the virtual address, it must be told how to handle the traffic. This is accomplished by configuring an L7 policy-map. In this example the policy-map is configured to match all traffic (class-default matches anything), and to send it to the ftp serverfarm.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# policy-map type loadbalance first-match slb ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap-lb)# class class-default ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap-lb-c)# serverfarm ftp
The final "glue" which ties all of the previous steps together, is the multi-match policy. It can contain multiple class references; each would be configured with a different VIP address. In this case only one class is referenced, instructing the ACE to only accept traffic destined to the single VIP address. The class reference also references the L7 policy-map, and a command to put the VIP in service.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# policy-map multi-match client-vips ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap)# class slb-vip ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap-c)# loadbalance vip inservice ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap-c)# loadbalance policy slb ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap-c)# inspect ftp
At this point the traffic handling logic is completely defined within the configuration. The final step is to apply this logic to the interfaces of the ACE. The following steps create the one-arm VLAN interface, and apply the multi-match policy and access-list to it. A NAT pool is also added to the interface, to allow the ACE to source nat the client requests.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# interface vlan 50 ACE-1/onearm(config-if)# description "Client-Server VLAN" ACE-1/onearm(config-if)# ip address 172.16.5.5 255.255.255.0 ACE-1/onearm(config-if)# nat-pool 5 172.16.5.200 172.16.5.209 netmask 255.255.255.0 pat ACE-1/onearm(config-if)# access-group input everyone ACE-1/onearm(config-if)# service-policy input client-vips ACE-1/onearm(config-if)# service-policy input remote-access ACE-1/onearm(config-if)# no shutdown
Next, apply the nat-pool which was configured. The nat-pool is applied to the class reference within the multi-match policy. This instructs the ACE to source NAT all client requests destined for the VIP address.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# policy-map multi-match client-vips ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap)# class slb-vip ACE-1/onearm(config-pmap-c)# nat dynamic 5 vlan 50
The last step is to add a default route. This allows the ACE to be reachable from remote networks, and allows the ACE to return traffic to distant clients.
ACE-1/onearm(config)# ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.5.1
Related show Commands
The following command can be used to verify that both the control channel and the data channel were successfully established. In this example conn-id 3 illustrates the control channel being established from the client to the VIP on TCP port 21, and conn-id 19 illustrates the data channel being established from the VIP to the client on TCP port 4726. The directionality of the data channel indicates that this is an active mode FTP session. Note that normally the data channel is torn down immediately after use; in order to observe its behavior a long-running file transfer must be in progress.
ACE-1/onearm# sho conn total current connections : 4 conn-id np dir proto vlan source destination state ----------+--+---+-----+----+---------------------+---------------------+------+ 20 1 in TCP 40 192.168.5.11:20 184.108.40.206:4726 ESTAB 19 1 out TCP 20 184.108.40.206:4726 172.16.5.103:20 ESTAB 3 2 in TCP 20 18.104.22.168:2045 172.16.5.103:21 ESTAB 18 2 out TCP 40 192.168.5.11:21 184.108.40.206:2045 ESTAB
The following command can be used to observe the behavior of the FTP inspection engine. The hit count should increase over time, and dropped connections should not increment.
ACE-1/onearm# show service-policy client-vips detail Status : ACTIVE Description: - ----------------------------------------- Interface: vlan 50 service-policy: client-vips class: slb-vip VIP Address: Protocol: Port: 172.16.5.103 tcp eq 21 loadbalance: L7 loadbalance policy: slb VIP Route Metric : 77 VIP Route Advertise : DISABLED VIP ICMP Reply : DISABLED VIP State: INSERVICE curr conns : 0 , hit count : 8 dropped conns : 0 client pkt count : 169 , client byte count: 7771 server pkt count : 193 , server byte count: 12506 conn-rate-limit : 0 , drop-count : 0 bandwidth-rate-limit : 0 , drop-count : 0 L7 Loadbalance policy : slb class/match : class-default LB action : primary serverfarm: ftp state: UP backup serverfarm : - hit count : 8 dropped conns : 0 inspect ftp: L7 inspect policy : - strict ftp: DISABLED curr conns : 0 , hit count : 8 dropped conns : 0 client pkt count : 169 , client byte count: 7771 server pkt count : 193 , server byte count: 12506 conn-rate-limit : 0 , drop-count : 0 bandwidth-rate-limit : 0 , drop-count : 0
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access-list everyone line 8 extended permit ip any any access-list everyone line 16 extended permit icmp any any rserver host lnx1 ip address 192.168.5.11 inservice rserver host lnx2 ip address 192.168.5.12 inservice rserver host lnx3 ip address 192.168.5.13 inservice rserver host lnx4 ip address 192.168.5.14 inservice rserver host lnx5 ip address 192.168.5.15 inservice serverfarm host ftp rserver lnx1 inservice rserver lnx2 inservice rserver lnx3 inservice rserver lnx4 inservice rserver lnx5 inservice class-map match-all slb-vip 2 match virtual-address 172.16.5.103 tcp eq ftp policy-map type management first-match remote-access class class-default permit policy-map type loadbalance first-match slb class class-default serverfarm ftp policy-map multi-match client-vips class slb-vip loadbalance vip inservice loadbalance policy slb inspect ftp nat dynamic 5 vlan 50 interface vlan 50 description Client-Server VLAN ip address 172.16.5.5 255.255.255.0 access-group input everyone nat-pool 5 172.16.5.200 172.16.5.209 netmask 255.255.255.0 pat service-policy input client-vips service-policy input remote-access no shutdown ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.5.1


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SAN JOSE – Kings defenseman Drew Doughty can be funny and goofy and serious and analytical when speaking with reporters. He showed a different side of his personality in the hours before the Kings faced the San Jose Sharks in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.
Doughty was angry and defiant when discussing the shoulder injury that sidelined him for the final four regular-season games. He spoke in a determined tone after returning to the scene his injury, which happened during a routine check of the Sharks' Tyler Kennedy on April 3.
Doughty returned to the Kings' lineup and played in all sorts of situations, teaming with usual defense partner Jake Muzzin. Doughty played a regular shift and there was no sign of the injury that sidelined him for games against Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton and the Ducks.
"I really hate missing games, actually," Doughty said. "It sucks watching your team play and especially when we were losing three out of four, knowing I could be out there helping us win games. That's really frustrating. It sucked, but I think the coaches and medical staff made the right decision."
Doughty discounted the notion that his absence might be better in the long run, giving him an opportunity to rest and recuperate for what the Kings hope will be a deep playoff run. The final four games were inconsequential since the Kings were locked into third place in the Pacific Division.
"Even though I wasn't playing any games, it's harder mentally when you're hurt rather than when you're playing," said Doughty, a likely candidate for the Norris Trophy as the NHL's best defenseman. "It just sucks when you're not playing, bottom line.
"Trying to come back and get back into shape is tough. You're going home and you're more tired when you're hurt than your are when you're playing. Yeah, I hated it and I hope I don't have to do it again any time soon.
"I'm going to play my natural game. I love to compete. I don't like to get out-competed. So, there's no way I'm going into those corners soft or thinking I might get hurt. I'm going to be playing my exact same game as usual."
Sharks on mend
Raffi Torres returned to the San Jose lineup for Game 1 after sitting out since March 8 because of soreness in his surgically-repaired knee. Torres' participation was deemed a game-time decision, but Sharks coach Todd McLellan made the decision after the morning skate.
Meanwhile, rookie Tomas Hertl was in the lineup, too, after playing only the final two regular-season games after sitting out for three months following a knee-to-knee collision with the Kings' Dustin Brown in a game Dec. 19 at Staples Center.
Playoff history
This is the third playoff series between the Kings and the Sharks in the past four seasons. The Kings defeated the Sharks in the second round last spring in a bruising seven-game series in which the home team won all seven contests. The Sharks beat the Kings 4-2 in a first-round series in 2011.


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Death of Drew Brees' mother ruled a suicide
November 21, 2009
GRANBY, Colo. – The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.
Mina Brees, an attorney from Austin, Texas, died Aug. 7 while visiting Colorado. This week, Grand County coroner Brenda Bock concluded that she died of a prescription drug overdose and ruled the death a suicide.
Bock said Brees died while staying at the home of a friend in Granby near Rocky Mountain National Park.
It took longer than three months for a cause of death to be reached but Bock said that's typical for cases involving toxicology tests.
Relations between Drew Brees and his mother were strained at times and the quarterback asked her to stop using his picture in TV commercials touting her candidacy for a Texas appeals court in 2006.