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The grsecurity project, hosted on https://grsecurity.net, provides various patches to the Linux kernel which enhance your system's overall security. grsecurity also ships with PaX which provides the most advanced memory protections of any OS. PaX invented ALSR and shows that it is only the tip of the iceberg. The RBAC Mandatory Access Control system of grsecurity was the inspriation for SELinux and AppArmor.
In short, a Linux kernel hardened with grsecurity is the most hardened kernel you could have. Not even OpenBSD has all the hardening features it provides. A comprehensive list is maintained on the grsecurity features page itself. However, the grsecurity Wiki is often out-of-date. The best way is to simply read the help text in the kernel config.
Arch has all the utilities and kernel packages you need to run a grsecurity hardened Arch Linux system in the AUR. Arch even has a script called linux-pax-flagsAUR which will make using PaX as painless as possible by setting all of the PaX flags for you.
You can install the kernel either from a binary repository or - if you want more control - manually from the AUR.
- 1 Build Options
- 2 Install binary kernel packages
- 3 Build kernel from AUR
- 4 Build Kernel without the AUR
- 4.1 PaX
- 4.2 Filesystem Protection
- 4.3 Kernel Auditing
- 4.4 Process Restrictions
- 6 Using linux-pax-flags AUR Package
- 7 Tips and Tricks
Build Options
There are three ways you can install a Grsecruity hardened kernel in Arch. The first is by adding a repository to install the binary kernel. The second option is to build it from the AUR package. The third option is to patch and build the kernel all by hand.
Your best bet is probably to use the binary Grsecurity kernel repository. If you have the time, build the AUR package yourself for added security. You would really never want to build and maintain the kernel outside the package management system. That text is just their for completeness and may be removed.
Install binary kernel packages
Add the Arsch Arch Linux Repository to your package sources and install the kernel with
pacman -Sy linux-grsec (or the PaX only kernel with
pacman -Sy linux-pax). Finish by adding the new kernel to your bootloader menu (with
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg for example) and reboot.
After configuration of grsecurity sysctl options, set
/etc/sysctl.conf, so no hardening option can be deactivated later (even by root).
Build kernel from AUR
To build the AUR package we will follow this general game plan. First, download all needed files and check GPG signatures. Second, configure kernel and compile. Third, copy a backup of these files to the Root users home folder. Forth, install utilities needed for PaX and RBAC. Fifth, install the kernel package. Sixth, run linux-pax-flags to poke security holes in applications that will not run without them. Finally, reboot into your hardened system.
Download Files
Download the packages linux-grsecAUR Or linux-grsec-ltsAUR
Kernel linux-3.X.tar.xz and current patch-3.X.X.tar.xz also the .sign signature files for each. kernel.org
Download the current grsecurity patch and Signatures grsecurity Test Or grsecurity Stable for LTS kernel
Verify The GPG Signatures
With the .sign files in the same directory as the file it is a a signature of, verify the signature like so...
$ gpg2 --verify linux-3.10.tar.sign
Setup Build Environment
Unpack the linux-grsec.tar.gz and copy all the files into it
$ tar xzf linux-grsec.tar.gz $ cp ~/Downloads/linux-3.10.tar.xz ~/linux-grsec $ cp ~/Downloads/patch-3.10.9.tar.xz ~/linux-grsec $ cp ~/Downloads/grsecurity-2.9.1-3.10.9-201308202015.patch ~/linux-grsec
Change into the build directory
$ cd ~/linux-grsec
Build the Kernel Package
It is going to take a long time to build the kernel because it is based on the default Arch kernel config with has about ten times as make modules enabled then your system actually needs. However, it is a known working config and to eliminate any more variables it is advisable to just live with the extra build time.
Build the package
$ MENUCONFIG=2 makepkg
You should be dropped into the ncurses GUI now. Navigate to the grsecurity settings to verify the configuration and/or change things as needed. These setting can be found in
Security options ---> Grsecurity ---> Customize Configuration --->
For both Desktops and Servers after you are sure you will not need to change any of the Grsecurity settings with sysctl, disable
Sysctl support found in
Sysctl Support.
If this kernel is for a Server also enable
Disable privileged I/O found in
Memory Protections.
All other setting should be optimal as they are, so now exit out of the ncurses GUI config and Save. Now the package should start to build. If all goes well you will have two .pkg.tar.xz packages one for the kernel and one for the kernel-headers.
Make a Backup
Keep all linux-grsec.tar.gz files along with the grsecruity patch and compiled packages in the Root users home folder. That way you can roll back if needed. Every time a new grsecurity patch is release you will not be able to download outdated patches every again.
# mkdir /root/3.10.9 # cp -r /home/USER/linux-grsec /root/3.10.9
Install PaX and RBAC Utilities
The AUR has three utilities you will need to install. They are paxctlAUR, gradmAUR, and linux-pax-flagsAUR.
For simplicities sake I will assume you are using yaourt to install package form the AUR, however any other way of installing these packages will work as well.
$ yaourt -S linux-pax-flags paxctl gradm
Set PaX Flags
Use the linux-pax-flags program to configure all the PaX flags for troublesome programs. More information can be found in the Using linux-pax-flags AUR Package section.
# linux-pax-flags
Install Hardened Kernel
Now that all the needed utilities are installed and the system is configured for PaX, install the hardened kernel and headers.
# pacman -U /root/3.10.9/*.pkg.tar.xz
Finish by adding the new kernel to your bootloader menu (with
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg for example) and reboot.
You should now be in your hardened system. Just make sure to run
linux-pax-flags after every time you update your system or install a new program and you should have a trouble free experience.
Build Kernel without the AUR
Throughout this document we will talk about kernel configuration using the kernel variables like CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PAX_NO_ACL_FLAGS. These are the variables that the kernel build process uses to determine if a certain feature needs to be compiled.
When you configure your kernel through make menuconfig or similar, you receive a user interface through which you can select the various kernel options. If you select the Help button at a certain kernel feature you will see at the top that it lists such a kernel variable.
You can therefore still configure your kernel as you like - with a bit of thinking. And if you cannot find a certain option, there is always the possibility to edit /usr/src/linux/.config by hand :)
Of course, to be able to select the various grsecurity kernel options, you must enable grsecurity in your kernel. See default grsecurity kernel configuration
Fighting the Exploitation of Software Bugs
PaX introduces a couple of security mechanisms that make it harder for attackers to exploit software bugs that involve memory corruption (so do not treat PaX as if it protects against all possible software bugs). The PaX introduction document talks about three possible exploit techniques:
- introduce/execute arbitrary code
- execute existing code out of original program order
- execute existing code in original program order with arbitrary data
One prevention method disallows executable code to be stored in writable memory. When we look at a process, it requires five memory regions:
- a data section which contains the statically allocated and global data
- a BSS region (Block Started by Symbol) which contains information about the zero-initialized data of the process
- a code region, also called the text segment, which contains the executable instructions
- a heap which contains the dynamically allocated memory
- a stack which contains the local variables
The first PaX prevention method, called NOEXEC, is meant to give control over the runtime code generation. It marks memory pages that do not contain executable code as non-executable. This means that the heap and the stack, which only contain variable data and should not contain executable code, are marked as non-executable. Exploits that place code in these areas with the intention of running it will fail.
NOEXEC does more than this actually, interested readers should focus their attention to the PaX NOEXEC documentation.
The second PaX prevention method, called ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization), randomize the addresses given to memory requests. Where previously memory was assigned contiguously (which means exploits know where the tasks' memory regions are situated) ASLR randomizes this allocation, rendering techniques that rely on this information useless.
More information about ASLR can be found online.
PaX kernel configuration
The recommended kernel setting for PaX is:
# # Security options # # # PaX # CONFIG_PAX=y # # PaX Control # # CONFIG_PAX_SOFTMODE is not set CONFIG_PAX_EI_PAX=y CONFIG_PAX_PT_PAX_FLAGS=y CONFIG_PAX_NO_ACL_FLAGS=y # CONFIG_PAX_HAVE_ACL_FLAGS is not set # CONFIG_PAX_HOOK_ACL_FLAGS is not set # # Non-executable pages # CONFIG_PAX_NOEXEC=y CONFIG_PAX_PAGEEXEC=y CONFIG_PAX_SEGMEXEC=y # CONFIG_PAX_DEFAULT_PAGEEXEC is not set CONFIG_PAX_DEFAULT_SEGMEXEC=y CONFIG_PAX_EMUTRAMP=y CONFIG_PAX_MPROTECT=y # CONFIG_PAX_NOELFRELOCS is not set # # Address Space Layout Randomization # CONFIG_PAX_ASLR=y CONFIG_PAX_RANDKSTACK=y CONFIG_PAX_RANDUSTACK=y CONFIG_PAX_RANDMMAP=y # # Miscellaneous hardening features # CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_SANITIZE=y CONFIG_PAX_MEMORY_UDEREF=y CONFIG_KEYS=y # CONFIG_KEYS_DEBUG_PROC_KEYS is not set CONFIG_SECURITY=y CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM=y CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=m CONFIG_SECURITY_ROOTPLUG=m
If you are running a non-x86 system you will observe that there is no CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PAX_NOEXEC. You should select CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PAX_PAGEEXEC instead as it is the only non-exec implementation around.
Controlling PaX
Not all Linux applications are happy with the PaX security restrictions. These tools include xorg-x11, java, mplayer, xmms and others. If you plan on using them you can elevate the protections for these applications using chpax and paxctl. You can find they on AUR.
You can also use pax-utils, which is a small toolbox which contains useful applications to administrate a PaX aware server. Find it on AUR.
Interesting tools include scanelf and pspax:
- With scanelf you can scan over library and binary directories and list the various permissions and ELF types that pertain to running an ideal pax/grsec setup
- With pspax you can display PaX flags/capabilities/xattr from the kernel's perspective
Verifying the PaX Settings
Peter Busser has written a regression test suite called paxtest. This tool will check various cases of possible attack vectors and inform you of the result. When you run it, it will leave a logfile called paxtest.log in the current working directory.
# paxtest Executable anonymous mapping : Killed Executable bss : Killed Executable data : Killed Executable heap : Killed Executable stack : Killed Executable anonymous mapping (mprotect) : Killed Executable bss (mprotect) : Killed Executable data (mprotect) : Killed Executable heap (mprotect) : Killed Executable stack (mprotect) : Killed Executable shared library bss (mprotect) : Killed Executable shared library data (mprotect): Killed Writable text segments : Killed Anonymous mapping randomisation test : 16 bits (guessed) Heap randomisation test (ET_EXEC) : 13 bits (guessed) Heap randomisation test (ET_DYN) : 25 bits (guessed) Main executable randomisation (ET_EXEC) : 16 bits (guessed) Main executable randomisation (ET_DYN) : 17 bits (guessed) Shared library randomisation test : 16 bits (guessed) Stack randomisation test (SEGMEXEC) : 23 bits (guessed) Stack randomisation test (PAGEEXEC) : No randomisation Return to function (strcpy) : Vulnerable Return to function (memcpy) : Vulnerable Return to function (strcpy, RANDEXEC) : Killed Return to function (memcpy, RANDEXEC) : Killed Executable shared library bss : Killed Executable shared library data : Killed
In the above example run you notice that:
- strcpy and memcpy are listed as Vulnerable. This is expected and normal - it is simply showing the need for a technology such as ProPolice/SSP
- there is no randomization for PAGEEXEC. This is normal since our recommended x86 kernel configuration did not activate the PAGEEXEC setting. However, on arches that support a true NX (non-executable) bit (most of them do, including x86_64), PAGEEXEC is the only method available for NOEXEC and has no performance hit.
Filesystem Protection
Fighting Chroot and Filesystem Abuse
Grsecurity2 includes many patches that prohibits users from gaining unnecessary knowledge about the system. This includes restrictions on /proc usage, chrooting, linking, etc.
Kernel Configuration
We recommend the following grsecurity kernel configuration for filesystem protection:
# # Filesystem Protections # CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC=y # CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_USER is not set CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_USERGROUP=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_GID=3 CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_ADD=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_LINK=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FIFO=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_MOUNT=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_DOUBLE=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_PIVOT=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_CHDIR=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_CHMOD=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_FCHDIR=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_MKNOD=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_SHMAT=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_UNIX=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_FINDTASK=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_NICE=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_CAPS=y
Triggering the Security Mechanism
When you are using a kernel compiled with the above (or similar) settings, you will get the option to enable/disable many of the options through the /proc filesystem or via sysctl.
The example below shows an excerpt of a typical /etc/sysctl.conf:
kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_sysctl = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_caps = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_execlog = 0 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_restrict_nice = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_mknod = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_chmod = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_enforce_chdir = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_pivot = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_chroot = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_fchdir = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_mount = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_unix = 1 kernel.grsecurity.chroot_deny_shmat = 1
You can enable or disable settings at will using the sysctl command:
(Toggling the exec_logging feature ON) # sysctl -w kernel.grsecurity.exec_logging = 1 (Toggling the exec_logging feature OFF) # sysctl -w kernel.grsecurity.exec_logging = 0
There is a very important sysctl setting pertaining to grsecurity, namely kernel.grsecurity.grsec_lock. When set, you are not able to change any setting anymore.
# sysctl -w kernel.grsecurity.grsec_lock = 1
Kernel Auditing
Extend your System's Logging Facilities
grsecurity adds extra functionality to the kernel pertaining the logging. With grsecurity's Kernel Auditing the kernel informs you when applications are started, devices (un)mounted, etc.
The various Kernel Audit Settings
The following kernel configuration section can be used to enable grsecurity's Kernel Audit Settings:
# # Kernel Auditing # # CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_GROUP is not set CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_EXECLOG=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RESLOG=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_CHROOT_EXECLOG=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_CHDIR=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_MOUNT=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_IPC=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SIGNAL=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_FORKFAIL=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TIME=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PROC_IPADDR=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_AUDIT_TEXTREL=y
Process Restrictions
Executable Protection
With grsecurity you can restrict executables. Since most exploits work through one or more running processes this protection can save your system's health.
Network Protection
Linux' TCP/IP stack is vulnerable to prediction-based attacks. grsecurity includes randomization patches to counter these attacks. Apart from these you can also enable socket restrictions, disallowing certain groups network access alltogether.
Kernel Settings
The following kernel settings enable various executable and network protections:
# # Executable Protections # CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_EXECVE=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_DMESG=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDPID=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TPE=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TPE_ALL=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_TPE_GID=100 # # Network Protections # CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDNET=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDISN=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDID=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDSRC=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_RANDRPC=y # CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SOCKET is not set
Role Based Access Control
There are two basic types of access control mechanisms used to prevent unauthorized access to files (or information in general): DAC (Discretionary Access Control) and MAC (Mandatory Access Control). By default, Linux uses a DAC mechanism: the creator of the file can define who has access to the file. A MAC system however forces everyone to follow rules set by the administrator.
The MAC implementation grsecurity supports is called Role Based Access Control. RBAC associates roles with each user. Each role defines what operations can be performed on certain objects. Given a well-written collection of roles and operations your users will be restricted to perform only those tasks that you tell them they can do. The default "deny-all" ensures you that a user cannot perform an action you have not thought of.
Configuring the Kernel
The recommended kernel setting for RBAC is:
# # Role Based Access Control Options # CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_ACL_HIDEKERN=y CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_ACL_MAXTRIES=3 CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_ACL_TIMEOUT=30
Working with gradm
gradm is a tool which allows you to administer and maintain a policy for your system. With it, you can enable or disable the RBAC system, reload the RBAC roles, change your role, set a password for admin mode, etc.
When you install gradm a default policy will be installed in /etc/grsec/policy. Please see in AUR for gradm package.
By default, the RBAC policies are not activated. It is the sysadmin's job to determine when the system should have an RBAC policy enforced. Before activating the RBAC system you should set an admin password.
# gradm -P admin Setting up grsecurity RBAC password Password: (Enter a well-chosen password) Re-enter Password: (Enter the same password for confirmation) Password written in /etc/grsec/pw # gradm -E
To disable the RBAC system, run gradm -D. If you are not allowed to, you first need to switch to the admin role:
# gradm -a admin Password: (Enter your admin role password) # gradm -D
If you want to leave the admin role, run gradm -u admin:
# gradm -u admin
Generating a Policy
The RBAC system comes with a great feature called "learning mode". The learning mode can generate an anticipatory least privilege policy for your system. This allows for time and money savings by being able to rapidly deploy multiple secure servers.
To use the learning mode, activate it using gradm:
# gradm -F -L /etc/grsec/learning.log
Now use your system, do the things you would normally do. Try to avoid rsyncing, running locate or any other heavy file i/o operation as this can really slow down the processing time.
When you believe you have used your system sufficiently to obtain a good policy, let gradm process them and propose roles under
# gradm -F -L /etc/grsec/learning.log -O /etc/grsec/learning.roles
Audit the
/etc/grsec/learning.roles and save it as
/etc/grsec/policy (mode
0600) when you are finished.
# mv /etc/grsec/learning.roles /etc/grsec/policy # chmod 0600 /etc/grsec/policy
You will now be able to enable the RBAC system with your new learned policy.
Tweaking your Policy
An interesting feature of grsecurity 2.x is Set Operation Support for the configuration file. Currently it supports unions, intersections and differences of sets (of objects in this case).
define objset1 { /root/blah rw /root/blah2 r /root/blah3 x } define somename2 { /root/test1 rw /root/blah2 rw /root/test3 h }
Here is an example of its use, and the resulting objects that will be added to your subject:
subject /somebinary o $objset1 & $somename2
The above would expand to:
subject /somebinary o /root/blah2 r
This is the result of the & operator which takes both sets and returns the files that exist in both sets and the permission for those files that exist in both sets.
subject /somebinary o $objset1 | $somename2
This example would expand to:
subject /somebinary o /root/blah rw /root/blah2 rw /root/blah3 x /root/test1 rw /root/test3 h
This is the result of the | operator which takes both sets and returns the files that exist in either set. If a file exists in both sets, it is returned as well and the mode contains the flags that exist in either set.
subject /somebinary o $objset1 - $somename2
This example would expand to:
subject /somebinary o /root/blah rw /root/blah2 h /root/blah3 x
This is the result of the - operator which takes both sets and returns the files that exist in the set on the left but not in the match of the file in set on the right. If a file exists on the left and a match is found on the right (either the filenames are the same, or a parent directory exists in the right set), the file is returned and the mode of the second set is removed from the first set, and that file is returned.
In some obscure pseudo-language you could see this as:
if ( ($objset1 contained /tmp/blah rw) and ($objset2 contained /tmp/blah r) ) then $objset1 - $objset2 would contain /tmp/blah w if ( ($objset1 contained /tmp/blah rw) and ($objset2 contained / rwx) ) then $objset1 - $objset2 would contain /tmp/blah h
As for order of precedence (from highest to lowest): "-, & |".
If you do not want to bother remembering precedence, parenthesis support is also included, so you can do things like:
(($set1 - $set2) | $set3) & $set4
Using linux-pax-flags AUR Package
The linux-pax-flags program is what makes using PaX on Arch Linux easy as pie. When you run this program it will set the PaX flags for all the problematic programs for you. However, if you use some uncommon program it may have problems forcing you to set the paxctl flags yourself. You will most likely see something like
Denied RWX in journalctl. That means you will need to disable MPROTECT for the program
paxctl -cPEmRXS /usr/bin/bla
After you find what PaX flags need to be set post a comment on the linux-pax-flags AUR package so it can be added.
More extensive documentation of the linux-pax-flags utility is to be found on its man page.
Tips and Tricks
Because you will not be able to change the PaX flags for a running program, and that the vast majority of programs which would need them are graphical, it is strongly advisable to not use a Graphical Login like GDM or KDM. Instead simply have the system drop you to a console to log in and use
startx. Then you will have a chance to set the PaX flags before anything starts. For the same reasons it is strongly advisable to update your system and run
linux-pax-flags right after boot, before running
Grsecurity will harden /proc and /sys so your normal user will no longer be able to see the network status, becuase of this non of your desktop network monitors will work. Instead just install terminal based monitoring programs, such as nmon or nload and run them as root, or as a user in the proc-trusted group.


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By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The tens of thousands of participants at the annual March for Life in Washington Jan. 25 demonstrated just how determined they are not only by showing up in such large numbers on a bitter cold day but by continuing a 40-year tradition of protesting the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion. "Forty years ago, people thought opposition to the pro-life movement would eventually disappear," Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley told the crowd assembled on the National Mall for a rally prior to the march along Constitution Avenue to the front of the U.S. Supreme Court. He noted that Nellie Gray, founder of the annual march who died last year, "was not going to allow that to happen" nor was the pro-life movement. "The march grows stronger every year," said the cardinal, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Pro-Life Activities. Many speakers praised the resiliency of the crowd, braving a cloudy 20-degree day and standing on snow dusted ground, but they also spoke of the pro-life movement getting re-energized by young people who are becoming the movement's new torchbearers. Hundreds of high school and college groups were scattered in the rally crowd, their members texting, taking pictures and creatively protesting by wearing pro-life stickers on their faces and carrying placards in the backs of their jackets. Their placards did not have jarring images or messages but predominantly took a gentler tone such as: "Abolish Abortion Courageously" or "I am the pro-life generation." Jeanne Monahan, new president of the March for Life Education & Defense Fund, is 40 -- just as old as the movement protesting the 1973 Supreme Court decision. Monahan praised Gray for her long dedication to the cause and several speakers also credited her for getting the pro-life movement on its feet with the first march and leading each one until her death. During the rally, a video tribute to her was shown on the giant Jumbotron. This year's rally did not include speeches by dozens of politicians. Nine legislators were announced and only a handful spoke. U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., co-chairman of the House Pro-Life Caucus, told the crowd: "Know this, the pro-life movement is comprised of noble, caring, smart and selfless people. It is an extraordinarily powerful, non-violent, faith-filled human rights struggle that is growing in public support, intensity, commitment and hope." Another new aspect at this year's rally was more use of social media technology, with speakers prior to the rally's start urging participants to tweet about the rally and follow March for Life on Facebook. One tweet read to the crowd, which drew a lot of cheers, was from Pope Benedict XVI, which said: "I join all those marching for life from afar, and pray that political leaders will protect the unborn and promote a culture of life." Rueben Verastigui, youth activist, had a message for the crowd's youths. "You can't just sit around waiting for change to happen have to get up and make it happen." He told them to be involved in pro-life work in their schools and that even if they feel they are alone they should remember this experience. "Look around, we are not alone. We are not the future of the pro-life movement; we are the pro-life movement." But that message could apply to any age. Mary Salmon, who has been coming to the march for the past 15 years, said she is energized by the march to continue her work in crisis pregnancy centers. Salmon, a parishioner from St. Andrew's Parish in Clifton, Va., said the pro-life movement cannot just keep responding to opposition they face but need to take the lead. "We have to do something more," she said.


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Consumer prices took their biggest upward jump in 17 years last month, a surge that highlights the squeeze on America's standard of living and the difficult policy choices facing the Federal Reserve.
Fed officials are walking a fine line – and at the moment they'd rather not be forced to focus on inflation as their top priority. They're also trying to revive a moribund economy and prevent a crisis in the financial industry from growing more severe.
Even as consumer prices surged 1.1 percent in June alone, some other news this week gives the central bank some leeway to balance those competing goals. Oil prices, which have been the big driver of inflation around the world this year, fell dramatically.
After trading at about $147 per barrel, oil dived below $134 Wednesday morning. The change stems partly from higher-than-expected crude-oil inventories, announced by the Energy Department, and partly on other factors such as signs of economic weakness.
Still, after a two-day drop, it's too early to say that oil prices are at a turning point. And inflation indicators remain higher than the Fed would like.
"It's a major concern," says Michael Cosgrove, who publishes the EconoClast, a market newsletter in Dallas. "What they're hoping is that the commodity prices start to drift lower later this year. If that happens, then that will go a long way toward resolving the inflation issue." US workers and consumers have been squeezed this year by a combination of fast-rising prices and an economy that's barely growing – with the number of jobs actually falling each month.
As of June, consumer prices have risen by 4.9 percent in the past year, the highest 12-month inflation rate since 1991.
"The troubling part was not so much the headline [inflation number]," says Jay Bryson, an economist at Wachovia Corp. in Charlotte, N.C.
While the overall rate is what burdens consumers, the bigger worry for Fed policymakers was a sign that higher oil prices are feeding into a more generalized rise in prices.
The so-called core rate of inflation, with food and energy prices stripped out, rose 0.3 percent for the month. Rising oil prices have been a global phenomenon, driven largely by demand in emerging markets, that the Fed has little control over. But if last month's rise in the core rate persists, it would be a sign of a widening inflation problem, Mr. Bryson says.
"You're looking at a 3.5 percent [annual] core inflation rate, which is way too high for the Fed's liking," he says.
So far, prices for one of the key costs businesses face – labor – show little sign of spiraling out of control.
Because wages aren't rising very fast, that also limits the ability of businesses to pass along price hikes.
But the rising cost of energy has to be paid by someone, and energy-intensive businesses have been raising prices. Consider the automotive industry, now hit by a mix of sagging vehicle sales and rising prices. Automotive News recently found that:
•Polypropylene, a resin commonly used in plastic parts, has gone up in price by 45 percent in 18 months.
•Tire prices are up 20 percent in three months.
•A type of steel used to make bumpers, wheels, and frames has doubled in price since December.
Basically, consumers and businesses alike are adjusting to a new era in which energy costs more. Even with this week's easing, analysts don't foresee a return of cheap oil.
Whether it's a family budget or a business plan, a larger share of expenses now goes for fuel, leaving less for everything else.
Europe now appears to be joining the US in an economic slowdown, with some risk of recession on both continents. Both the Fed and the European Central Bank thus may stay "on hold" for some time and see if inflation pressures ebb due to a slack economy.
Whether formally a recession or not, that will also curb economic growth somewhat in nations such as China, economists say.
"Eventually the emerging market economies will feel the slowdown in the developed economies," Mr. Cosgrove says. But this doesn't mean energy demand in those nations will stop growing, so he sees the fundamental price of oil staying near $100 per barrel.
"At that level there's plenty of incentive to produce oil. And on the demand side there's still ample incentive to use less," he says.
Even if oil prices merely flatten out, that would do much to control the overall inflation rate, according to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Many economists expect the Fed's next move on interest rates to be upward but that the boost may not begin until some time in 2009. More bad readings in the core inflation rate could change that outlook, but for now the Fed appears focused especially on what it calls the downside risks to economic growth.
In recent days, Fed officials and the US Treasury have had to focus on trouble in financial markets, with investors worried that mortgage-related losses have compromised many banks and other firms. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, firms central to the mortgage market, are in "no danger of failing," Mr. Bernanke said Wednesday according to the Associated Press. But he said that "weakness of market confidence is having an effect" on these firms, making it more difficult for them to raise new capital to cover loan losses.
As the Treasury seeks approval from Congress to offer a financial lifeline, the Fed has also been offering to lend money to the firms if needed. Such moves have become central to the Fed's efforts to ease the financial crisis.
"They don't believe they need to cut [interest] rates further at this point," says Bryson, but they may not raise rates soon, either.


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Some of the out-of-the-box apps on Windows Phone don't see updates too frequently. Sure, you've got Xbox Music picking up some improvements with GDR2. But other than that, most apps don't see refreshes or updates until the next version of Windows Phone hits. Which is why there are popular calendar apps in the Windows Phone Store. One of our recent favorites, Super Calendar, just picked up an update. Let's check it out.
We first took a look at Super Calendar a few weeks ago. We liked that it now was full of features and flexibility, something that can't really be said for the default calendar app. What's version 1.2 bring to the table? This is what:
- New live tile styles
- Live tile settings page
- Choose live tile background
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- More live tile customization options
- Use of standard app bar
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The app was solid before this latest update, but all the different ways to customize the Live tiles makes it even better. Setting the background from one of your photos is just one little touch to use Super Calendar to make your Windows Phone more personal.
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Editor's Note: Where's the Silent Majority?
November/December 2003
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For more than 1,000 days HIV prevention and care initiatives have been held hostage by the federal government. This national crisis has caused great distress to those of us on the front lines of the AIDS movement. Highly successful HIV prevention strategies targeting individuals and communities most severely impacted by HIV have been under constant scrutiny from the government. While thousands of individuals become infected with HIV and nameless others living with HIV and AIDS struggle to access a bankrupt healthcare system, the government continues to mischaracterize scientific facts to bolster political agendas in areas ranging from abstinence education and condom use to missile defense.
I for one am fed up watching advances in science and healthcare initiatives spiked with politics to justify conservative policies. I am sick and tired of seeing appointments to key scientific advisory committees given to people with political, rather than scientific credentials. AIDS is a complex disease that requires a sophisticated response. There are still far too many men, women and children who do not have access to comprehensive health care and lack adequate insurance coverage, too many are living with untreated mental health illnesses, too many are homeless and hungry, and far too many of them are still living in fear and isolation as the stigma attached to HIV disease continues to permeate families and communities nationwide. Diverting AIDS dollars to promote an ideological agenda and ineffective programs is a waste of scarce resources, and more importantly, a waste of lives.
But what is even more troublesome is the economy within the AIDS movement. Too many of us have become too comfortable with our "AIDS jobs," our "AIDS stipends," and our "AIDS subsidies." Once upon a time, working for a community-based organization was about local volunteerism; about giving back to the community that had supported you in one way or another at one time. If you got paid to do this work it was a nice bonus. Yes, as we grow older our perspectives on life also changes, however, working at a community-based, non-profit organization is still about giving back, and sometimes giving back means sacrifice and doing without. While the non-profit arena brings a "relaxed" work environment, it's not glamorous. The hours are demanding, the job expectations are often unrealistic, and for the most part the pay sucks. I've seen many friends struggle with the decision of moving from the non-profit to private workforce during the last couple of years. But it's a decision we all have to eventually face.
This problem also extends into the community of individuals who survive and thrive because of "AIDS stipends." Far too many of us have become accustomed to, too dependent upon the benefits ... the vouchers, the subsidies, the pantries, the AIDS Drug Assistance Programs, Medicaid and Medicare. We expect these benefits to continue rolling in month after month, indefinitely. And if there's a problem with delivery, we expect someone else to handle it.
Well, for those who haven't been paying close attention, the economy sucks big time and the government is cutting back on the Ryan White CARE Act and all the programs that have "supported" us over the last decade. Reports indicate that 43.6 million U.S. citizens were uninsured in 2001. That figure is up 2.4 million from the year 2000. Today more than 35% of Americans live without insurance. This condition has been brought on by higher unemployment rates and health care costs that continue to skyrocket. Small not-for-profit and for-profit businesses are making difficult choices of passing on escalating insurance premiums to employees or canceling coverage all together. As a result many individuals are making difficult decisions to live with an untreated illness, like HIV, or racking up bills they will never be able to pay.
While many of us have been asleep at the wheel, during the last three years, nearly three million domestic jobs have been lost and the number of men, women and children living below the poverty level continues to climb. Georgia, which already has a struggling ADAP, is looking at a 10% cut in HIV/AIDS funding for fiscal year 2004 and 2005. South Florida has seen its waiting lists expand as the number of HIV/AIDS patients seeking assistance grows faster than the federal Ryan White grants. An increase in domestic AIDS spending proposed in an amendment introduced by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) failed in Congress in September. With an increasing number of HIV-positive individuals unable to afford the skyrocketing costs of antiretroviral therapy and management medicines, the planned domestic spending for HIV/AIDS care in 2004 displays a disturbing lack of concern for individuals living with HIV and AIDS in the U.S.
Far too many of us spend too much time making obscene references to being the "core" group of this organization or that movement; or pointing fingers and accusing "others" of taking their slice of the pie. Well, it doesn't matter if you're a gay man, a single mother of four, or a clean and sober ex-offender -- it's five minutes to midnight, Cinderella. And it ain't gonna be pretty at half past the hour. If you thought the last three years were tough, you ain't seen nothing yet.
The bottom line is that with cuts and flat funding for Ryan White CARE Act programs, an increasing number of uninsured, underinsured and poor individuals living with HIV will have reduced access to care and treatment.
Somewhere out there I know that there's a silent majority in this struggle against AIDS; a majority that feels the pinch of the economy, that questions the government's AIDS policy and wants to change the status quo. Unless more of us are willing to speak up and take action, in 2004 and beyond, community-based organizations will be expected to provide the same services with less funding and individuals living with AIDS and families impacted by HIV will be forced to make ends meet with less assistance.
Now is the time, more than ever, that the voices of men and women living with and impacted by HIV and AIDS must be heard on a local, state and national level. You can no longer afford to sit on the sidelines and expect someone else to do it for you or to give it to you. It's time to put an end to the "gimme syndrome" and the "pity party."
What can you do? What should you do? Get involved. Organize. Strategize. Mobilize. Vocalize. Vote.
I challenge each of you to become involved in the AIDS movement -- to further the ability of people living with HIV to have access to the services needed to live healthy and productive lives and maintain the personal rights and liberties that many of us take for granted. In the words of Margaret Mead, "never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world ... indeed it's the only thing that ever has."
Be Strong. Stay Safe.
Charles E. Clifton is Executive Director/Editor of Test Positive Aware Network.
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I was sent a copy of America at Home to review--it's a beautiful book with interesting photographs in the tradition of National Geographic or the Day in the Life series and there are some fun things about it (such as being able to order a custom cover using one of your own photographs) but the thing I found most interesting were the scattered statistics outlining the "typical" American.
It made me wonder how well you or I fit that profile so if you're game, here is some of the data America at Home cites, take the polls and see how you fall in the demographics. If you're not an American, who cares? Play along anyway and see what happens--answers are absolutely anonymous, have no fear.
1. Eighty percent of married men say that if they could go back to their wedding day they would marry the same woman over again. Only 50 percent of married women would do the same.
2. Not counting weddings and funerals, 38 percent of Americans attend religious services at least once a week.
3. There are approximately 6,000 marriages every day, with more than half of these couples living together before the Big Day.
4. American women with children under the age of 6 spend an average of one and one half hours a day watching television. Men without children spend an astounding 4 1/2 hours per day.
5. Today, the average new single-family home is 2,349 square feet. In 1950 it was just 983 square feet.
6. Americans spent some $41 billion more than they earned last year, with an average of nearly 13 credit cards per household.
7. The majority of Americans live their lives within fifty miles of the place they grew up.
8. The median sales price of new houses sold in September 2007 was $238,00 compared to $23,400 in 1970.
9. Every morning American children head off to 124,100 schools. Eighty-six percent attend public schools.
10. More than 93 percent of homeowners consider their neighborhood safe, and 78 percent are not afraid to walk alone at night.
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I have chosen these two conditions specifically because each contains within it's possible aetiology a cluster of causative and potentiating factors and conditions which are remarkably similar. FMS and CFS(ME) also have a wide range of identical symptoms ranging from fatigue through impaired cognitive and memory functions, to muscular pain, digestive disturbances, headaches and sleep disturbance.1,2,3
By virtue of their ill-defined natures these conditions have become a refuge, one could say a dumping ground, for a host of undiagnosed and apparently undiagnosable health problems.
The majority of medical practitioners seem either to be unaware of the reality of the causes, nature and appropriate care of such problems or are openly disbelieving as to their very existence. These are often patients dubbed 'heart sink' because of their emotional effect on the doctor, as the patient enters the room, yet again clutching a list of symptoms and requests for help.
All too often classified as 'neurotic' with their symptoms ascribed to 'depression', this is a truly miserable population of people, who often feel profoundly misunderstood by those around them (sympathy is finite and six months into such conditions it is often in scant supply from friends and family) as well as let down by the medical profession who is either disinterested, dismissive or perfunctory in its prescribing of antidepressant medication.
To have to endure this sort of emotional and social isolation as well, as the cluster of demoralising symptoms with which they are burdened, is clearly enough to depress anyone, and it is the experience of most practitioners and therapists involved in working with such patients that any apparent depression is usually a result, rather than a cause, of their problems.
In the alternative and complementary health field a veritable industry has emerged which treats such problems with varying degrees of success using a range of approaches and methods - sometimes suitable and sometimes not. All too often what is on offer addresses such patient's needs only partially, with predictably disappointing results.
There are no simple answers to conditions where causes lie in a mix of nutritional deficiencies, acquired toxicities, bowel dysbiosis, inadequate stress coping abilities, sensitivities and allergies, inappropriate or excessive medication, inadequate sugar control mechanisms, hormonal imbalances, poor posture and breathing dysfunction, current or past viral, parasitic, yeast or bacterial infections, impaired organs of digestion and elimination, emotional distress..... and more. There are certainly no magic bullets which can remedy a situation which may have taken many years to evolve.
These are a growing army of these walking wounded, the 'vertically ill' who are too sick to function adequately but are commonly not quite sick enough to become 'horizontally ill', actually bed bound, although this is all too often an outcome in severe examples.


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Hotels in Noida
Noida sits on the border of Delhi and is one of the fastest growing cities in India.
Standing for the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, Noida was conceived in the 1980s to absorb the growth and development of Delhi. It was one of the first planned cities of its kind.
Located on the Delhi Metro and just 20 minutes drive from Connaught Place – the heart of New Delhi – Noida is an ideal place to stay for business and leisure travellers.
Given a Special Economic Zone status, Noida fast became an attractive town for businesses looking to escape the congestion and steep rents in Delhi.
Many multinational firms have flocked to set up their outsourcing centres in Noida and it has also become a hub for the production of automobile spare parts. Noida Film City has attracted many national and international news channels and television studios.
Its good transport links, low pollution levels and new residential complexes have attracted many middle class Indian residents as well commuters to Delhi and the surrounding industrial towns of Greater Noida, Ghaziabad and Gurgaon.
Noida's many park and good plant cover make it a pleasant city to visit.
When to go:
The best time to visit Noida is from November to March.
- Invest in some art at the fashionable Stupa Art Gallery, which stocks established and up-and-coming artists. It has many excellent exhibitions.
- Take a tour of Noida Film City and witness the magic of movie making first hand.
- Spend a day at Great India Place Mall, a theme park and shopping mall.
- Go dancing at one of Noida's many nightclubs.
- Explore some of Noida's more traditional markets, such as the Atta Market.
- Wander around the Red Fort (Lal Quila), which represents the splendour of the Mughal Empire. It was built in the 17th century by Shah Jahan as the palace of his new capital, which would be the seventh city of Delhi.
- Jump on the metro to visit the World Heritage-listed Humayun's Tomb, built in the 16th century by the Persian-born wife of the second Mughal Emperor, Huamayun. It is a fine example of Mughal architecture.
- Don't miss Qutb Minar in Delhi. The red sandstone minaret, reaching over 72m into the sky, is the world's tallest brick minaret and was completed in 1386.
- While you're in Delhi, visit the magnificent Jama Masjid. Completed in 1658 it is the largest mosque in India.
- Take in a round of golf at Greens Golf Resort.


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Abbeyfield Monmouth is upheld and supported by a team of experienced staff, including devoted house staff, a dedicated Area Manager, a skilled maintenance engineer, a professional off-site administrative team and a board of specialist trustees.
Our home is run by a House Manager, Deputy Manager, Kitchen Assistant and a Domestic Assistant who ensure the home is clean, comfortable and safe and that the meals we provide are varied, nutritious and enjoyable. They also make every effort to make residents feel welcome and supported whilst ensuring they are as independent and self-sufficient as possible. Our staff will take the time to get to know each resident and ensure they have enough time to give them the attention they need. Our House Manager checks on the residents every day and can help assist them in an emergency so that they can feel safe, secure and comfortable. The House Manager will also build lasting relationships with residents' families, doctors and any other external agencies to ensure their physical, emotional and spiritual needs are upheld.
Our Area Manager, maintenance engineer and off-site administrative team work closely with house staff and residents to help support the running of the home and maintain the high standards of accommodation and service that we offer. Our Area Manager and administrative team provide valuable professional support for many business functions such as customer services, sales, purchasing, payroll, human resources, marketing, fundraising and development. Each member of staff, on-site and off, is a specialist in their role and receives regular training, development and support to ensure residents get the best possible care and support available. Our board of trustees contribute a wealth of experience and expertise to the running of Abbeyfield Wales and are legally responsible for the governance of the society.
Integral to Abbeyfield Monmouth are the volunteers who dedicate their own time to support our residents and who bring an incredible range of skills and experience to the home. We benefit greatly from the invaluable hours that our volunteers invest in organising activities and events, helping to run and maintain the home and ensuring it is a stimulating and warm environment. Despite their varied backgrounds, our volunteers have one fundamental thing in common – a desire to help and support older people to live a good life.
Our caring staff and volunteers organise a variety of social activities and outings throughout the year for our residents, which range from daily coffee mornings to day trips. We often enjoy fetes and garden parties in the summer and festive activities at Christmas.
Every year we take part in Abbeyfield Week – a week when we open our doors to the local community to show off what's on offer at Abbeyfield. We celebrate this by hosting events such as fetes, tea parties and garden parties, to which residents, their families and the public are invited. We also take part in Abbeyfield's annual Coping at Christmas Campaign when older people, who would otherwise spend Christmas alone, are invited to join us for the festive period.
Our residents often enjoy days out and visits to other Abbeyfield homes but when they prefer to stay home we still like to find entertaining things for them to do, such as listening to music, watching movies, documentaries and live performances, playing games or simply chatting over a cup of coffee with a slice of cake.
We like to make a big fuss for residents' birthdays; we decorate the house with balloons and banners and always host a tea party so that the residents and their families can get together to celebrate with cake, cards and presents.
We celebrate all of the public holidays and commemorations throughout the year with a themed activity, party or tradition - our favourites are Easter and Christmas. At Easter we host an Easter bonnet competition when residents create extraordinary and extravagant Easter bonnets and, at Christmas, we enjoy a traditional Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, a glass of wine and some mince pies, whilst listening to carols.
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Now that the Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge website feels like letting me accessing it again, I've translated the summary of the second episode. Also, there are some new Shingeki no Kyojin tweets that came in before and after its airing today.
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There are new tweets on the Twitter pages for Karneval, Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge, and Shingeki no Kyojin.
There's also some new information on Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge's website, but right now the page does not seem to want to load for me. I'll be putting up those translations as soon as I can access the site again.
In other news, Suisei no Gargantia was picked up by Crunchyroll for streaming. Shingeki no Kyojin will be airing in 2 hours and 14 minutes as of this posting, and has not yet been picked up by any streaming site.
Today's update includes new tweets for Karneval, Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge, and Shingeki no Kyojin.
Today the Karneval website added a news announcement and an episode 2 summary. Also, there are new tweets for Karneval, Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge, and Shingeki no Kyojin.
As a side announcement: Karneval and Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge have both been picked up for streaming. Karneval is being streamed by Funimation, and Crime Edge by Crunchyroll under the title "The Severing Crime Edge". They're also both latecasts, unfortunately…
Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge also a couple items to its website before airing. In the meantime, Karneval slipped in one more tweet.
Dansai Bunri no Crime Edge's episode summary page.
So, Karneval added a bunch of new stuff to its website right before the anime broadcast started, including finally opening up the Story page. See below for the translations.


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Ethical Dilemmas and Nursing Practice5e Anne J. Davis RN, PhD, DSc (hon), FAAN Marsha D. Fowler, PhD, MDiv, MS, RN, FAAN Mila Ann Aroskar, EdD, DSc (hon) Since the first edition of this important book published in 1978, the limits of health care have expanded, and the types of ethical dilemmas facing nurses have increased. This new edition presents the pros and cons of current and classic issues that result in ethical dilemmas faced by nurses every day. Using a principle-based theoretical framework, which is the framework used by health science professionals, these chapters present the most current issues confronted by our health-care system. Case studies in each chapter bring these issues alive, and the discussion questions provide a framework for reflection. New: Chapter on human genome mapping, including a discussion of the policy debate (Pearson Health Science logo)Deborah Fowler is the author of 'Ethical Dilemmas and Nursing Practice (5th Edition)', published 2009 under ISBN 9780130929730 and ISBN 0130929735.[read more]
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I swear the way a person acts comes from their blood just like blue eyes or red hair. My family is living proof. I've been faithful to Marie ever since I saw her on the laundromat steps. Marie's a born run-around. And this kid, who I might as well say now isn't mine, can't be kept in a yard with a fence.
He's only two, and I watch him every second, but all I have to do is go inside for a beer and when I come out, he's headed down the road on the other side of a chain-link fence and the gate's still closed.
I don't know how he does it. Houdini, maybe. J.B. knows all about Houdini– says the magician swore he was going to come back from the dead. I ain't particularly superstitious, but I've had to light out after that kid before he gets to the highway too many times not to start to wonder.
If anybody could have reproduced Houdini, though, it's Marie. Heck, maybe he's just following her, going where she went down the road in her black fake sealskin jacket, short so it hikes up around her waist, red mini-skirt, and her high-heeled boots, with that red hair of hers bobbing up from her head with every single high step and the big gold hoop earrings catching the sun and glittering it back at us in the yard.
When she left yesterday morning– around 10 or so– I was just getting my first beer. The kid'd gone through two diapers. Marie did one and I did the other 'cause she was putting on her makeup.
"Goin' shoppin'," she called to me.
I picked up the kid off the bed and ran in the living room where she already had one boot out the front door. I had to take the diaper pin out of my mouth after I very nearly stuck my tongue on it trying to get the question out.
"Where you goin'?" I said.
"Sally's," she said, "then I don't know." She came over and took the kid from me. "You be good to the old man," she said to him, "'cause I want everybody to be in a real good mood when I come home." She nuzzled his fat little neck and bit his ear with her lips. He laughed and batted her earring, his diaper half off. She propped him on the floor, pulling his diaper up under him, and took my shirt front in both her hands.
"A real good mood," she said, kissing me on the mouth and rubbing just enough of her body against me to make me think after that I should have laid her down on the rug right then. She's the only woman I know that can make faithlessness feel so god-awful good. You know, when she got out the gate, she never did once look back.
Lucky for me she'd looked back once in her life. More than two years ago, I guess it was now, J.B. and me had been at the hardware store getting the fittings for the sauna hut we were putting up in my backyard. Me and J. B. are both of us long haul truckers and while we're on the road, we think up the craziest projects to do around our mobile homes when we get back. We try to surprise each other with a wilder notion every time. Or, anyway, we used to.
I haven't done that many long hauls ever since that day I was talking about when me and J.B. were coming out of the hardware and Marie was coming down the laundromat steps across the street. She had this huge pregnant belly on her, and a wicker basket full of clothes in front of it. She turned around to look back inside for some reason or other, and she lost her balance and started to come tumbling down the steps. I was across that street before she had a chance to realize she was facing impending disaster, and I caught her, one arm on either side of that belly, and she flailed into my arms instead of taking a belly-flop onto the sidewalk.
I'd seen Marie before, when she wasn't knocked up. I've seen plenty of women with big pregnant bellies, but I had never before that day seen one sticking out of a black leather mini-skirt. I know she didn't get that skirt at J.C. Penney's. She must have made it herself, sewing one of those pieces of stretch cloth where the front zipper used to be.
Like I said, ever since that day at the laundromat, I haven't done too many long hauls. First, I was sticking around to take her to the hospital. Then, when motherhood had slowed her down some and she was sitting around a lot, dreamy and smiling, with a tit out, waiting for that little sucker to wake up and take hold again, I started going on the road again. Once, though, when I got back from Kansas, I found the baby squalling in its crib and Marie nowhere to be found. She was just over to Sally's for a second, she said, after she had come barreling in the door and straight into my back where I was leaning over to pick up the kid.
I had my other arm up to pop her one, but she had black running down her face from crying and she took the boy out from my arms so fast I would have ended up knocking him to the floor if I had hit her. Beside, I haven't never hit a woman, never mind hit the only one I've ever loved– I mean really loved.
"Maybe you should pop her more," J.B. says. He's over to the house this morning, 24 hours after Marie took off. He's given me this very same advice repeatedly in the two years since the laundromat.
"Lost a whole god-damn day of work and looks like I'll have to call in again today," I say.
"Reckon Flordon's will have to get them another big, tough, long-hauler to deliver them pansies."
"Fuck off, J.B. This boy'd probably have died of neglect if I hadn't taken up local delivery."
"Jack, I ain't mindin' your business–"
"When hell freezes, you ain't mindin' my business–"
"Pop her, I say."
"So she'll sit still all of five seconds? I can't raise my hand to the kid, even. Speakin' of that devil, where is he?"
Me and J. B. tear out of the screen door and down the concrete block steps. J.B.'s seen him vanish too, more than once, and I don't need to tell him what the problem is.
Well, there's the kid at the gate, his fat little fingers through the links. He's got on this t-shirt of mine I put him to bed in and that big duck's ass of diaper stickin' out under it and this red hair like his ma only light, sort of golden– not darkened by nights in bars and strange beds– and these gray eyes big as silver dollars lookin' after where she went down the road the day before. I'm standin' around like a fool, so glad he hasn't got out, and J.B.'s the one to pick him up and tote him back inside.
The kid's asleep on the Barcalounger I pulled out for him, his bottle nipple getting mashed a little under his cheek.
"I seen worse kids," J.B. says.
"Try you one sometime," I say. I get up and dial Sally's phone again. Her trailer is four lots down and I know she's home, but probably she's what you might call occupied. I'm hanging up when she finally answers.
"I don't know where Marie's at," she says. "Yeah, she come over in the mornin' yesterday, but mornin' is one of my busy times so she left."
"Sally, I'm only going to ask this once: Did Marie do the same sorts of things you do in the daytime?"
Sally gave a laugh that sounded like glass was breaking in it somewhere. I'd wondered lots of times if I shouldn't have never introduced Marie to Sally, but Marie would have found her anyway, and Sally was all right way down inside. Well, I don't mean that exactly the way it sounds, but you know what I'm getting at.
"Marie never did take no money for it," she says. "Who you kiddin?" Don't you know how high falutin' your own wife is?" She stopped talking a second. "Marie's gone, huh? Well, bring the kid on over. I don't have any more business to transact today. You go on off to work."
"One thing I never understood, Jack," J.B. says while I'm loading the diaper bag, "was why you didn't ever look another woman over after you met Marie. You used to give it to plenty, even Sally before she went into business."
"I don't know, man. Maybe I knew Marie in some other life. Maybe it was what you call spiritual cargo."
"Karma. But if you belong to each other, that don't explain why she's always leaving."
"Maybe she don't belong to me. Maybe I just belong to her."
"So who does the kid belong to?"
I give J. B. the sort of look that would have immediately preceded me going to get the shotgun, but I never had shot anyone when I knew I was dead wrong and I'm not going to start now.
So I'm driving the truck, leaving flowers here and there. Flordon– the old man– is a pretty easy-going son-of-a-bitch. Not many florists would let someone like me deliver their posies. I got a bad knee, but it ain't generally the gimp that gives polite folks cause to pull back.
I'm big, for one thing, six foot three or so, and built like the medium-sized black bears you see at the zoo, with that color hair and almost as much of it. Then I got these spooky blue eyes from my Granma who came out of the southwest Virginia hills where they say women can still make men act unnatural when the moon is right.
I don't know what Granma did with her blue eyes. I laid a lot of women with mine. Polite folks might be spooked, but women who got or ain't got anything at home mostly took a look at these spook's eyes beaming out from under the brim of this black leather hat and I'd near have to pick them up off the floor. J.B. can witness that's no exaggeration.
But Marie didn't swoon. I ain't sayin' we didn't have our hot times in the sack. She saw the wisdom in our getting hitched, but that didn't stand in the way of our instincts. Even at the beginning, big-bellied as she was, we had a hard time keeping our hands off and nothin', not the wedding, not her size, kept us from it. We were at it dog-style the night she started having pains.
It's just that there's this look she's got sometimes like there's me on top of her, pushing in, and then there's all of a sudden some shade just beside me so that her eyes skew off a little to the side and this appetite she has for me turns– just like that– sad.
Sometimes she grabs my butt and pushes up against me harder and sometimes she grabs her hands into my black hair and I get my fingers in her red hair and we just hold our faces like that till we've got each other right there again.
Thing is, lately, it happens a lot. We're going at it and then she's looking at my temple. And when I hold her down waiting, I have enough time to get to thinking about her eyes and how they're more of a turquoise and how the kid's got more my spook's eyes– light as the sky snow falls out of. Only they aren't my eyes, unless I shoved the genes up there after the fact, you might say.
So that day I'm driving uptown to the University to deliver a single red rose to some dame in the English department. At first I'm thinking about the guy who calls in these orders, a young professor I happen to know on account of once, a long time ago, I sat in on a couple of his night classes when there were no hauls and no women to be had. It was a real bad time, but I'd told J.B. the last time we came back from a haul that I was going to get me a college diploma to hang on the wall– that was my next household project. That was where I first saw Marie.
The professor is a jerk all right, and talked about irony and black humor in the book we're reading, Naked Lunch, as if the educated classes had come up with these notions. He hadn't spent much time listening to truck-stop conversations, I could tell, like ones that have to do with how much you hate the jigs that moved into your neighborhood and then somebody who knows you points out that you been feedin' the one that married your daughter for the last year while he was out of work, and the coffee-colored baby was sitting at your dinner table, too. While the drivers are having a good laugh on you and you're claiming that your son-in-law's different, you don't need to know the word to know that that is irony.
I hand the rose to Mrs. Ragland, the secretary. And it's the very next minute I get the shock of my life cause here comes Marie jingling down the hall. Her earrings tinkle like wind chimes and her bracelets rattle and her boot heels ring on the floor. She not only makes more noise than that hall has heard in years, she's got more body parts moving. Her hair is flashing like a campfire and she swings one arm out ahead while the other one slings a purple pocketbook out behind. Her boobs and butt jiggle, mostly from those high steps she takes in her black boots. She's still got on the sealskin jacket, and under it I can see she's wearing her red mini-skirt, just like the day before. She ain't seen me yet and for one piece of a second I believe I've made her up.
It ain't all that weird to see her here. I saw her at the University the very first time, even before the laundromat. She was in the Naked Lunch class and kept everyone laughing by setting the record straight whenever the teacher got way off base. She pointed out once that that book Last Year at Marienbad had a story no matter how much the writer tried to mess it up: two dudes wanted the same broad. She always went out of the room in a gang of undergraduates and sometimes the jerk-off professor who, though they could be dense, knew quality when they saw it.
So here she comes again, as full tilt as any jingling, burning flame can travel, bang in through the door.
"Miz Ragland," she says, "where's Jerry at? I've looked everywhere– his office, his house last night."
Mrs. Ragland's got her mouth open to answer, but Marie sees me where I'm at a little behind the door. Mrs. Ragland's mouth shuts all of a sudden and I think later I might have had a fist up about chin level because I knew all of a sudden that the kid I'd been slapping diapers on the butt of and bottles in the mouth of is the son of a jerk-off.
"No," is what Marie says. Maybe she means no, I ain't believing you're here, or maybe she means it like what you'd say to stop a mad dog from charging, but what I hear isn't either of those. I hear one earring give a tiny, dying jingle. I don't pop her.
I got her by the wrist, but she ain't going to be pulled any further than into the hall. Even with her back against the wall like I get her, Marie's still not gonna give.
"I ain't your tote bag, Jack," she says.
"Maybe you ain't, Marie. Though I'd have died for you. I guess I wasn't high enough quality. Not smart enough, was that it? Well, I get this at least: the kid doesn't get out by magic, he just thinks himself out, the little professor."
"It isn't what you think? It was a student in that class. He's gone a long time ago. He was a kid hisself. Jerry– the big professor– he just tells me what books to read more."
Marie looks like she's fading against that gray wall, like that place is putting the flame out.
"Well," I say, "that's as may be. But that's my kid now." I don't know where that notion come from, but I don't mean to take it back. I leave Marie up against the wall.
I've had me a bad night where I tried to give it to Sally when I went to get the kid, and me and her had a few beers because he was still napping, but I lost all interest before anything much happened.
I didn't sleep good and I got the kid in the delivery truck with me the next day when a call comes from May, Flordon's dispatcher, that someone asked for me special to bring a tiger lily to the amphitheater at the University. I got my suspicions so I stop by home first and then go to Flordon's to pick up the flower and get my own truck, then go up to the outdoor arena where Marie and I once ate a picnic to a reggae band and she did the kid's little scanty hair in cornrows.
There's this concrete stage with tall carved doors behind it and a semi-circle of grass and rows of steps to sit on going up from the field, all in a kind of Greek style and set in the middle of these red brick buildings with white columns like an architect's hallucination. It was cold the night before and there's still frost on the grass where the shade of the back of the stage still lays on the ground. I've got the kid in one hand and the suitcase and the lily in plastic together in the other and we stop a minute at the top of the steps, looking down on the stroke of red and black on the front of the stage.
The white slashes of her legs are crossed over each other. We go down and walk the field to her.
"Well, hon, I guess I get the message," she says, looking at the suitcase. "I was thinking me and the kid might stick around a while more, but I see you got other ideas." She takes the suitcase and the flower at the same time but in different hands. "I'll just be sure the right stuff is there."
I almost didn't let her take the suitcase, but my mouth didn't feel ready to make any explanations, so I just let her open it.
"What's this shit?" she says. She's looking at my clothes in the suitcase and a little pile of the kid's shirts on one side, with his Keds on top, soles up. "Whoa, buddy," she says.
"I won't wait at home for you anymore, Marie," I say.
"Well," she says and I can see she's considering this. I close the suitcase and turn around with it and the kid to start back to the truck. Marie's as fast at thinking as she is at everything else, but I'm really not waiting this time, not seconds.
"Hey," she says, "wait."
I stand in the middle of the grass, hanging onto the kid. Marie bounces up to us at a jog. "I got my best clothes already on," she says. I don't say anything. She does her hand through her hair. "Who the hell is the traveler in this family anyway?"
She gets the kid by his other hand. She's stepping high and fine, with her hair flashing and her earrings sounding clear in the cold air and this tiny smile at the corner of her eyes.
The kid he's picking up his baby cowboy boots too, so that his behind is doing the same side-to-side swish Marie's is, only packed in diaper and rubber pants under his overalls. Marie flashes one blaze of a look back. I got to take some big fast steps to catch the kid's hand again.
I can't say nothing as we step out across the frosted field, so I just tip my hat to them sideways as we go together.


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Year after year, fishermen are asked to follow rules that boggle the mind and empty the treasury. It is one of the most impenetrable briar patches of science, politics and bureaucracy that can be imagined.
I have never seen former New Bedford Mayor John Bullard look so downcast as he did last Thursday at the special meeting of the New England Fisheries Management council in Wakefield.
Bullard, who now heads NOAA fisheries in the Northeast, was trying to break the news gently that what the council is about to do with quota allocations wasn't going to be easy.
Someone in the room full of 150 people, mostly fishermen and their families, had asked him to "do the right thing" when it comes to issuing allocations.
"Doing the right thing is going to be very, very hard," Bullard said repeatedly speaking slowly in a low voice. He didn't get specific, but everyone in the room knew what he meant: This wasn't going to be pretty.
Peter Shelley, senior attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation, made it clear what he and other environmentalist groups were expecting from the council: "You all swore an oath to uphold the Magnuson-Stevens Act," he reminded them darkly before sitting back down to a chorus of boos and hisses.
Shelley apparently didn't have it in him to acknowledge what the fishermen were telling the council: After following the council's draconian rules for years in order to rebuild the fishery, they were being repaid by being forced out of business.
Year after year, fishermen are asked to follow rules that boggle the mind and empty the treasury. Any reporter covering fisheries management will tell you it is one of the most impenetrable briar patches of science, politics and bureaucracy that can be imagined.
Heading to the meeting Thursday in a van along with a half-dozen fishermen, the conversation made it plain that simply obeying the rules about catch limits and days at sea and all the rest requires extraordinary effort on the part of a fisherman. I understood about half of it.
And for all of that, once they are done paying for the marine disesel fuel, the food, the insurance, the mortgage on the boat, the sector management and the quota allocation that was bought from someone else just to be able to fish, all too often crews are arriving back in port with nothing to show for it. They catch fish, all right. But after expenses there's not a nickel to put a fish on a plate at home.
Over and again fishermen from up and down the Northeast coast told the council the same story: Cut us any more, and we're not leaving the dock next year. Why would we? We're borrowing money now just to keep working.
And yet the allocations for next year are out, and they cut some groundfish species by as much as 75 percent. The prediction, unchallenged by anybody, was that almost all of the smaller boats, those less than 50 feet, will be put out of business next year, which starts May 1.
Boats less than 50 feet will not be able to cover their expenses, which will affect mostly ports other than New Bedford.
But New Bedford fishermen, too, are asking how they are expected to keep going out to sea, risking their lives, when they could be safe at home collecting unemployment insurance.
Richie Canastra, who owns the seafood display auction, told the council, "No one here is making any money. This is their last hurrah."
Yet despite the disaster declaration made in September in the Northeast fishery, these fishermen are expected to bear the brunt of sharp cutbacks all by themselves.
Unlike farmers in the Midwest, there are not enough of them to compel Congress to pay them annual stipends not to fish. There are no crop subsidies on the ocean. Disaster declarations are apparently meaningless.
And through it all, NOAA is basing its decisions on the scientific work of the research vessel Bigelow, without the input, assistance or coordination with fishermen. The Bigelow misses a lot, and even NOAA admits that the trawl gear is sometimes all wrong for the species being regulated, mainly yellowtail flounder.
And it's that science that drives NOAA's decisions. There's talk of new surveys, but that's not going to happen until late next year, if we can believe the council's scientists. They're going to wait for a fishing science convention in Boston next summer to maybe give them a clue.
Meanwhile, fishing families are awaiting a council decision about what to do next. The council, duly threatened with a lawsuit by Shelley, punted the issue until the end of January, giving them time to consult with the NOAA mother ship on their legal options.
Merry Christmas.


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The AAFP once again is calling on CMS to fully incorporate the patient-centered medical home, or PCMH, into an initiative designed to foster the creation of qualified nonprofit health insurance plans in every state and the District of Columbia.
The Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan(www.gao.gov), or CO-OP, program resulted from passage of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The program provides loans to help generate consumer-governed, private, nonprofit health insurance plans that can compete in the individual and small-group markets. One of the goals of the program is to create at least one qualified nonprofit health insurance plan in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The Affordable Care Act directs HHS to consider plans that demonstrate private support, are ready to expand statewide and employ integrated care models.
"The AAFP strongly urges CMS to fully incorporate the patient-centered medical home concept into the CO-OP program," said (then) AAFP Board Chair Lori Heim, M.D., of Vass, N.C., in a letter(3 page PDF) sent last month to CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D. "As CMS evaluates CO-OP grant applications, we urge the agency to consider that the reduction in the growth of health care costs, decreased mortality rates, and improved participation in preventive and screening services are some of the many benefits of the patient-centered medical home."
In the letter, which constitutes the Academy's response to the proposed rule from CMS(www.gpo.gov) on the program, Heim also noted that changes to antitrust regulations and to Stark self-referral regulations need to be explored to allow physicians, especially those practicing in small- and medium-sized practices, to fully participate in the CO-OP program.
"CO-OPs, as designed, should significantly increase competition through self-regulation of price gouging by facilities, health systems, labs and (sub)specialists while promoting patient-centered care," said Heim. "The AAFP believes that physicians need clear guidelines on how to satisfy (Federal Trade Commission) policy as greater integration is pursued."
Antitrust laws should not create barriers that inhibit clinical integration, she added.
The AAFP also urged CMS to specify that CO-OP operational boards place primary care physicians in the top leadership positions to ensure that CO-OPs are primary care-driven. "Significant and equitable representation from primary care and specialty physicians in a CO-OP's administrative structure, policy development and decision-making processes will help to ensure the program's success," said Heim.
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A winner was selected from 66 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
We are two guys from Louisiana Living in Northern California. We are looking to start a cajun catering company in the wine country. We need a logo that reflects our Louisiana heritage in a down to earth way that still has class. We would like to use a fleur de lis. We like the idea of using New Orleans style ironwork and french quarter street lamps. Cooking utensils and cookwear seem to work as well. Very rustic, very simple, very beautiful and fun. "Louisiana Legacy" and "Cajun Catering" should appear in the logo and be prominent. NO CARTOONS! Let's have some fun!!
Louisiana Legacy Cajun Catering
We want you to use your artistic license. Just think "Old world New Orleans".... Jazz, Zydeco, Michelopoulos, Dixieland, George Rodrigue, just do some research!!
- Real rustic cast iron New Orleans.
- Fleur Di Lis
- Simplistic Class
- Down to Earth
- Fun
- check out http://www.dirtycoast.com
- Michelopoulos
- Cartoons
- No Animals (aligators, crawfish, etc)
- No Cliches
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