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This piece was originally published at The Christian Post on 7/12/12. I am reposting it in view of The Justice Conference Portland proceedings and its rightful emphasis on loving solidarity with people in their suffering. The "voiceless" have voices. Are we listening?
Sometimes I hear people say we are to be the voice of the voiceless. I certainly appreciate their commitment to advocating for those on the margins. Still, "the voiceless" do have voices. I don't need to speak for them; rather, I need to listen to them, echo their call, and amplify their voices where needed so that others don't drown out their voices with their rebuttals. Only as we move in this direction will we be able to move beyond the wall that separates those on the margins and us in the presumed middle.
My Japanese wife gently challenged me not too long ago: "I'm looking for white men (like you) to hand the microphone to those of diverse ethnic backgrounds, sit down, and take notes." She added that, "White men often like to pass the microphone around amongst themselves." My wife's not saying white men like me have nothing to say, or that we should stop speaking, just that we need to be intentional to make sure we are listening to others, too. She is calling for mutual respect and authentic relationality that involve give and take among all participants.
How often do you find a pastor or missionary from Africa or elsewhere having the opportunity to speak in a church when he or she visits? It happens, but not nearly enough. When Westerners, Americans especially, visit countries in Africa, they are often asked to speak their very first Sunday, and regardless of their "status" back home. There are many reasons for such different practices; one of the likely reasons is America's (and white people's) place of prominence in the world and also a sense of our own importance.
Recently, I wrote a post on "Passive Racism" and spoke of my need to become an active ethnic relationalizer rather than a passive racist/racialist. The active form of listening noted in this article is essential if we are to move beyond the passive form of racism/racialization noted there.
Listening well is one of the necessary qualities for becoming an active ethnic relationalizer. But it is hard for me. I like to be heard. I like to hear my own voice. Wouldn't it be wonderful, if I wanted to hear other voices more than my own? The desire to listen to others, especially of diverse ethnicity, and take them more seriously than one's own voice reminds me of Paul's words in Philippians 2:3-4: "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others." I have hope that I can become more interested in others, including those on the margins, based on Jesus being marginalized for you and me, and the comfort God's Son in the Spirit provides each of us:
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind… In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death — even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:1-2, 5-8)
Those who have experienced God's comfort will comfort others. We all need to experience comfort. If we are not comforted in our times of distress, we will not comfort others. If we don't sense anyone is listening to us, perhaps we won't listen to others. God listens to us, and so we can listen. Perhaps you feel like me at times. I have often felt like a stranger inside and outside the church. My voice often appears strange to others, including the issues I am discussing in this post. But God listens to me, often responds to me in a still small voice, and always welcomes me home. I know he extends that vital concern for you as well.
God doesn't only listen to you and me. God also listens to others. God listens to the heart cries of the broken and contrite in spirit (Psalm 51:17). God listens to the needy (Exodus 3:7-10; Job 34:28; James 5:4). Whether we are talking about children in slums in India, refugees and migrant workers of various ethnic backgrounds across the land, or men and women on the margins in our faith communities, we need to be sensitive. We need to listen to their voices, if we expect God to listen to us in our times of need (Proverbs 21:13). And we are all needy in one way or another to varying degrees all the time.
Given God's comfort and listening ear, you and I can enter into the pain and listen and respond to others who cry out from the margins in churches and society at large. We need still small voices, still hearts, and bigger ears to listen so that we can really hear the "voiceless' voice" and learn to speak like them, not for them.


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Sunday, 19 July 2009
A suitable lock for a lady
Despite being very happy with my new Pashley Poppy, I did suffer from a touch of bike envy when I passed this rather lovely cream shopper last week. What also took my fancy was the bright pink 80's style lock. It's made by Raleigh so as soon as I got home I phoned them up to see if they still stocked them, thinking they could be a perfect addition to our online shop Cyclechic.co.uk.
Unfortunately Raleigh no longer make them. It seems in this day and age when bike theft is rife, it is no longer acceptable to sell pink locks. They now have to be boringly black, tough and serious looking, no feminine or fun locks allowed. But as we girls know it is possible to be beautiful and strong so why are there no bike locks that encompass these two qualities. Would a liberty print look wrong on a D Lock or painted polka dots perhaps? I don't think do. If anyone has a stylish lock or knows where I can get one from please let me know?
8 comments:
- kerri ní dochartaigh said...
aw this is the same wee ralaigh compact as i have! that lock is sooo cute! want it! xxx
- 24 July 2009 at 16:59
- Caz said...
You lucky thing - I adore that bike x
- 24 July 2009 at 19:15
- Miss. Poppy said...
I've just bought myself this wonderful snake bicycle lock. I bought it in red and yellow and it clashes beautifully with my blue Pashley Poppy!
available on line
- 5 August 2009 at 18:47
- Nemo said...
Check out these coloured bike locks, just one draw back their US sites, I could'nt locate any UK sites, you could try Amazon?
- 6 August 2009 at 12:03
- Lara said...
I thinkt that discout cycles do pink locks...
- 6 August 2009 at 17:04
- heatherjayne said...
I use 2 purple bike locks from Decathlon. They come in a set with an also attractive silver chain and... well an ugly red one but the others are good!
Not exactly bright pink but still quite nice - the purple's much brighter than in the photo!
Also, the Octopus chain of stores sell the snake bike locks. There aren't many stores about but there should be a website by the end of the year!
- 19 August 2009 at 16:30
- Peter Kanssen said...
My son's school has these as one of their things to buy with School rewards system points
- 8 October 2009 at 18:29
- sophie said...
I have the bijke in the photo and what to sell it! Are you interested?
- 22 March 2010 at 13:42

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Head is a no-budget, atmospheric, hippie horror flick directed by Robert Altman protégé Alan Rudolph (Choose Me, Trouble In Mind). It tells the blood-curdling tale of a longhaired, dope-smoking rock band that gets involved with occult forces in the desert of Southern California. This is the dark-side of the other Head, the silly one starring The Monkees. This is what might have happened had the Monkees gone to Joshua Tree instead of a Hollywood backlot and eaten 14 pounds of peyote followed by Jimson weed smoothies.
While there's nothing really scary in Head, it does build up an eerie sense of dread and manages to capture the vibe of the Aquarian Age in demise - when the flower children started turning to seed. While watching the movie, it's hard not to think of Spahn Ranch and Manson's family of hippie psychos.
It has a suitably creepy electronic score by Harold Budd who would later make a name for himself in the avant-garde music world.
Originally titled Head, the distributors changed the title to Premonition and later to Impure so as not to be confused with the Monkees' film. I like the confusion.
Turn up the quality to 360dp and the visuals are pretty good. Audio is very good.


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Shinke's Tauren (1-12) Guide
I was not sure what I wanted to put here, so my introduction is based on Jame's leveling guide introduction.
This guide is made for FAST leveling through the use of Optimized Quest Circuits. With this guide, questing will be very efficient and you'll not waste any second running around and trying to figure out in which order to do your quests. Follow each instruction carefully and you will see for yourself. The quest choices and order to do them are optimal so that you run as few as possible while doing the most possible, turning several quests at the same time. It will be like grinding, because you'll be killing stuff almost non-stop, besides you'll also be completing a bunch of quests at the same time!
Everything described in this guide can be done solo (beside when I say otherwise). You can, of course, follow this guide while duoing, grouping, it's not a problem, it works too.
You'll realize that I grind a few bars here and there, but that's merely so you're able to accept quests I want you to do before heading back into town! (Ex. Breaking Sharptusk, it requires you to be level 3 and if you don't grind, you'll be about 6 bars from level 3.)
DISCLAIMER: This guide does NOT take into account tradeskills, class specific quests or PvP. It's 100% focused on getting the most experience possible in the shortest possible time while doing a lot of quests and enjoying as much content as possible. Any race/class combination can do this guide. Any complaints about PvP, tradeskills, or class specific issues will be ignored.
Basic Rules
- Spend your talent points so that you kill things as fast as possible. (e.g: Priest should specialize in Shadow Talents, Warriors in Arms/Fury, etc.
- Don't waste your time trying to find groups for questing, you can solo everything that is described in this guide unless I say otherwise. Only group with someone when it's not gonna be a waste of time (e.g: meeting the person at the other end of the zone to show him the way to where your quest is, that is a waste of time)
- Try to always log out in an inn or in one of the major cities when you take a break.
- When I say you should make an inn your new home location, it's for a good reason, and it will save you much time.
- Make sure you ALWAYS use a coordinates addon, I use coordinates to keep from hogging up the map with numbers, and it will make your life 100 times easier!!
Useful Addons
To get the most out of my guide, you should get an addon which displays coordinates, because I use them to describe locations in my guide (x,y). You can use any addon you like, but here's a very simple one I use.
- DMiniCoords - A simple box which displays coordinates, left-click it to move it where you like.
Below is a list of other addons Jame uses, this is 100% optional though, it's mostly for people who are curious to know which addons Jame uses:
- Bartender4 - A great action bar addon.
- X-Perl UnitFrames - Very nice, highly customizable unit frames.
- Quartz - The best casting bar addon out there, imo.
- Scrolling Combat Text - I just don't like the default UI Floating Combat Text.
Side Note: In case you don't know how to install add-ons, simply download an addon from one of the links above and unzip it. Then drag the unziped folder in your Addon folder (full path is c:\\Program Files\\World of Warcraft\\Interface\\Addons). Then, restart World of Warcraft and it should be working.
If it isn't working, you might need to log out to your character selection screen and click on "Addons" in the lower-left corner. Tick the box that says "Load out of date Addons". Re-launch WoW.
Color Code
- Quests
- Items
- Locations
- Quest Objectives to kill
- NPCs
- Locs
The Guide
Level 1 - 6
- Talk to Grull Hawkwing (44,77).
Accept The Hunt Begins and then go southeast of the area.
Kill Plainstriders until you loot 7 Plainstrider Feathers and 7 Plainstrider Meat.
Run back to Camp Narache, turn it in, and accept:
- The Hunt Continues
- Your Class Quest
- Sell junk so you have at least 10 Copper for your first skill. Talk to your Class Trainer, turn in the quest and train your skill.
Talk to Chief Hawkwind and accept A Humble Task.
- Go to (50,81) and turn it in at Greatmother Hawkwind.
Accept A Humble Task (part 2).
Click the Water Pitcher on the fountain.
Grind on Plainstriders until you are 650xp or more than 73% into level 3.
Run back to Camp Narache and turn in the quest.
Accept Rites of the Earthmother.
Accept Break Sharptusk! back in Camp Narache. Note: If you didn't grind you won't be able to accept this. Go grind!
Sell junk and repair. Hunters make sure to stock up on Ammunition.
- Go south to (44.88).
Kill Mountain Cougars until you loot 10 Mountain Cougar Pelts.
Run to (42,92) and talk to Seer Graytongue.
Turn in Rites of the Earthmother.
Accept Rite of Strength.
Grind to level 4 on your way back to Camp Narache.(44,77)
Turn in The Hunt Continues
Accept The Battleboars.
Sell junk, repair, get skills.
- Go east to (53,81)
Kill Battleboars while running towards the Brambleblade Ravine, collecting8 Flanks and 8 Snouts.
- Go to (58,85) and enter the Brambleblade Ravine.
Kill Quilboars on your way to the tent at (64,77).
Kill Sharptusk. Loot his head.
Run to the cave at (63,82) and on the inside is a Dirt-stained Map. Right-click it to accept Attack on Camp Narache.
Make sure you have 12 Bristleback Belts. If not, kill Quilboars until you do.
- Use your Hearthstone to Camp Narache.
Turn in all quests.
Accept Rites of the Earthmother (Part 2).
- You should be close to level 6 now.
Sell junk / repair.
- Follow the road out of Camp Narache to (38,81) and speak to Antur Fallow.
Accept A Task Unfinished.
Grind to 6 while following the road to Bloodhoof Village.
- Talk to Innkeeper Kauth.
Turn in A Task Unfinished.
Make Bloodhoof Village your home.
Sell junk and repair.
Get spells / abilities. Also, consider picking up the First Aid profession
Level 6 - 10
- Talk to Baine Bloodhoof
Turn in Rites of the Earthmother.
- Sharing the Land
- Rite of Vision
- Dwarven Digging
- Accept Poison Water from Mull Thunderhorn (48,60).
Talk to Zarlman Two-Moons (47,57)
Turn in Rite of Vision and accept part 2.
- Talk to Ruul Eagletalon (47,62).
Accept Dangers of the Windfury.
Talk to Harken Windtotem (48,59)
Accept Swoop Hunting.
Talk to Maur Raincaller (47,57)
Accept Mazzranache.
- Now we are going to start questing. While on this run make sure you do the following, whenever you see them:
Just kill these when you see them, whenever they come up during the run.
- Kill Trophy Swoops for 8 Quills.
- Prarie Wolves for 6 Paws.
- Plainstriders for 4 Talons.
- Go to (52,70) and kill the Palemane for Sharing the Land.
- At (33,41) kill Harpies for 8 Windfury Talons.
Then go to (31,50) and kill Dwarves to get Broken Tools for Dwarven Digging.
- Then go to (59,62).
Accept The Ravaged Caravan from Morin Cloudstalker.
Go to (54,48) and click on the Crates to turn it in.
Accept the second part.
Run back to Morin Cloudstalker (59,62).
Turn it in.
- The Venture Co.
- Supervisor Fizsprocket
- Grind to level 8 if you aren't quite there yet.
- Go back to Bloodhoof Village and turn in all the quests and get all the followups.
Sell junk / repair / train skills
- Go to (53,67) and cleanse it using Thunderhorn's item.
Run back to Mull Thunderhorn (49,60)
Turn in both quests.
- Go to (47,57) and drink Water of the Seers in your backpack, then follow the wolf spirit.
- Turn in Rite of Vision (33,36) when the spirit stops.
Accept Rite of Wisdom.
- Continue to (59,25) to Lorekeeper Raintotem.
Accept A Sacred Burial.
- Go to the Ancestral Spirit (61.5,21.0.).
Turn in Rite of Wisdom .
Accept Journey into Thunder Bluff .
Kill 8 Bristleback Interlopers nearby.
Once done speak to Lorekeeper Raintotem (59,25) and turn it in.
- Go to Thunder Bluff to the Forge at (39,55) and destroy the Prospector's Picks here by clicking on them.
- Go to (69,51) and talk to Cairne Bloodhoof.
Turn in Journey into Thunder Bluff
Accept Rites of the Earthmother.
- If not level 10, grind to it. Train skills / sell junk / repair. Do your class quest.
Underneath trees, loot 2 Ambercorns.
Loot 2 Well Stones near the Well at (53,64).
Make sure you have finished killing:
Trophy Swoops for 8 Quills.
Prarie Wolves for 6 Paws.
Plainstriders for 4 Talons.
Level 10 - 12
- Hearth to Bloodhoof Village.
Talk to Skorm Whitecloud (46,60)
Accept The Hunter's Way.
- Turn in Dwarven Digging and Thunderhorn Totem.
Accept Thunderhorn Cleansing.
- Go to (48,60) and speak to Baine Bloodhoof. Turn in Sharing the Land.
- Go to the Water Well at (44.5, 55.5) and use it to cleanse the totem in your inventory.
- Go to (45,16) and kill Flatland Prowlers until you have 4 Claws. Also, look for Arra'chea for his Horn. I found him at (49,19)
- Go to (61,47) and you should see the Venture Co. Mine.
Kill 14 Workers and 6 Supervisors.
Take a right at the first intersection and you should see Fizsprocket, kill him.
- Go to (59,62) and turn in The Venture Co. and Supervisor Fitzsprocket.
- Go to (49,60) and turn in Thunderhorn Cleansing
Accept Wildmane Totem.
Go to (69,51) in Thunder Bluff and turn in Rites of the Earthmother.
- Go to (46,60) and turn in The Hunter's Way.
- Go to (38,60) in Thunder Bluff.
You should see Eyahn Eagletalon.
Accept Preparation for Ceremony.
- Go behind Thunder Bluff and kill Windfury Matriarchs and Windfury Sorceresses until you have 6 Azure and 6 Bronze Feathers.
Run back to (38,60) and turn it in. Sell junk, repair, get new skills.
- Run back towards Bloodhoof Village, make sure you kill Prarie Alphas along the way until you have 8 Teeth.
- Go to (49,60) and turn in Windmane Totem.
- You should be level 12 now, if not grind to it then run into the Barrens following the path to Camp Taurajo.
So you've completed my guide! I hope you enjoyed it! TAURENS FTW! You can continue with Guide to The Barrens (12-20). Find the Tauren "Getting to Crossroads" section and go from there! I'm pretty sure I didn't steal any quests from that guide, but if I did, I apologize! IF I missed anything, had a typo anywhere, please comment and let me know! Thanks for using my guide! Bodyfat ads. Total turn offs!
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Good luck.
Submitted by Brune on Sat, 2009-03-14 04:51.
Good luck.
Lvl 1-6, Step 1. Talk to
Submitted by Revelia on Sun, 2009-03-08 13:07.
Lvl 1-6, Step 1. Talk to both Grull Hawkwind and Chief Hawkwind, Then kill Plainstriders while making your way to the well. That way you don't have to go forth and back twice, and you gain xp at a faster rate.
Bad Coords in 6-10 Step 14
Submitted by FurySpec on Fri, 2009-02-27 05:49.
In step 14 of the 6-10 section, you wrote:
Go to the Ancestral Spirit (60,52).
60,52 is the Venture Co. Mine. The Ancestral Spirit is 61.5, 21.0. The map is correct, but there are so many steps in that section that I couldn't be bothered to scroll up. I'd suggest splitting this section into two, divided at step 8 where we ding level 8 and return to Bloodhoof Village.
Other than that, everything looks great so far. Thanks for putting this together!
Great Guide, One More Note on Coords
Submitted by FurySpec on Fri, 2009-02-27 22:33.
Finished the 1-12 guide this morning. My time wasn't too impressive, but that's not your fault; I'd never played a Tauren or a Druid before, nor had I even played a Horde character beyond level six. A good portion of my time was spent raising money for decent bags.
I found one other questionable set of coordinates, this time in the 10-12 section, for the quest Thunderhorn Cleansing:
4. Go to the Water Well at (49,60) and use it to cleanse the totem in your inventory.
The Thunderhorn Well is north of town, at (44.5, 55.5). (49,60) is in Bloodhoof Village, near the quest giver.
Also, I don't know if this would disrupt anything else, but you might be able to save some time by combining "The Hunter's Way" and "Wildmane Totem," since the Prowlers and Alphas are in the same area (as far as I can tell, they share spawns.)
I found the guide to be
Submitted by TzTz on Tue, 2009-02-24 16:32.
I found the guide to be really effective up to level 6. Then we go hunting swoop plainstrider and prairie wolves. The problem is that there are only about 4-5 swoops around the area you mention, while we have to kill 8. I'm grinding there for 30 minutes now and still haven't finished this quest. Maybe It'd be more effective to do it besides while going ahead with the guide? There are many swoops at other locations. I just don't know about follow ups right now. Maybe you have a reason to put us through this ^^. But it's guid besides that. You could also mention to pick up first aid in the inn, i think it's quite useful for leveling.
Thank you for this. I found
Submitted by Kostada on Tue, 2009-02-10 00:47.
Thank you for this. I found that the old Tauren guide lacked quality, unlike this.
Comment me on my blog. http://kostada.blogspot.com/
Numbers are much clearer
Submitted by Benhir on Mon, 2009-02-09 13:33.
Numbers are much clearer now, pure yellow numbers over a light green image is kinda hard but, with the outlined numbers you make things look clearer and better
Nice work!
Submitted by Veggeh on Thu, 2009-02-05 20:24.
Very nice guide, includes all the quests. Only things I can point out are:
Between Step 16 of the 6-10 circuit and Step 8 of the 10-12 circuit, unless I've missed it, I can't see anything saying to look for Arra'chea, the kodo involved in the quest.
Also, maybe point out an optional part to kill Ghost Howl, a rare wolf mob who drops an item with a quest start, turned in at Skorm Whitecloud for a nice green item I believe. So long as the player doesn't go out of their way to pick him up, it's a nice bonus if he's seen.
We have a professinal job right here.
Submitted by Benhir on Wed, 2009-02-04 19:04.
Many thanks to Shinke, this was a guide that really needed to be done (since the other one was outdated-even though the quality was good) and you have brought us a very good job. This area is particular to me, because it is very well done quest-wise, but I never like to run across those vast camps and plains... a true anticipation of Barrens!
While I'm talking about Barrens, I would like to know if anyone is planning a revamp of that guide, since it was published almost 2 and a half years go with small revisions made in march 2007. It is a very good guide indeed, but I think (and I'm pretty sure of this) that Blizzard has changed a lot about questing, routes and drop rates during this years.
Very well done.
Submitted by Romgar on Wed, 2009-02-04 13:55.
Very well done.
Looks much better than the
Submitted by Jame on Wed, 2009-02-04 03:56.
Looks much better than the one we currently have, good job.
It could be improved further though:
- 1. Try to lower the amount of steps per circuits, so that only 3-5 max steps appear on each map. If you put more steps on a map, people have to scroll back up to see the map after every step past the first 5 one. Best is 3-4. 5 is ok.
- 2. Which program do you use for your maps? Your numbers would look much better if you would add a "drop shadow" effect and "contour" effect to them (like I do on my maps). I use Photoshop, but you can also do this with a free program called GIMP.
Besides that, it's perfect. (Can't judge the efficiency of the circuits, but I'll just trust you on that)
I'm working on a guide for
Submitted by Jiyambi on Wed, 2009-02-04 20:34.
I'm working on a guide for how to do just this, but at the moment school is taking over all my free time, especially this week. So the release date for my guide probably won't be until sometime after next week. Sorry
In the mean time, just google it. That's how I found out, and believe me its a bit complex. Same goes for adding an outline around the text. I mean, come on GIMP - just make it a text formatting option!
You can add drop shadows by
Submitted by Jahwo on Wed, 2009-02-04 14:46.
You can add drop shadows by rightclicking your selected text, go to filters->lights and shadows->drop shadow.
or something like that, because I have the german version
if you want a contour you probably have to do it somewhat like Anti told you, with new layers and stuff... =/
Hello, I can't really
Submitted by Anti on Wed, 2009-02-04 12:39.
I can't really comment on the guide as I haven't played a Tauren.
But using GIMP....
again to be honest i'm sure their is an easier way (as im a photoshop man) but you could always duplicate your text layer, select the layer that is underneath (the original text layer) change the colour to black, then using the move tool, and the arrow keys, move the lower layer slightly down and to the left to give the drop shaddow look. Simple yet effective, but again there is probably a better way to do it, i'm just not up with the Gimp =)
DMiniCoords for 2.4.3
Submitted by krusz0n on Sun, 2009-07-05 22:26.
Guys i realy need DMiniCoords for 2.4.3 cant fint anywhere ;/ only 3.1 + versions ;/ could use fast help. Thx in advance.


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Visit over?: Tulane beckons, students balk
In late August, UVA welcomed them with open arms: more than 150 university students, many of them freshman, displaced from their Gulf Coast schools by Hurricane Katrina. Now, after a semester as "visiting students," taking classes and making friends, some of those students want to remain at UVA. But the welcome mat, it seems, is no longer out.
"We're here, we're settled in, we love it, and we want to stay," says Stephanie Swisher, who started her first year in college at Tulane in August– only to be evacuated from New Orleans and forced to leave her belongings in her dorm room just before the mega-storm hit.
UVA's student council agreed that Swisher and several other first-years should be allowed to apply as mid-year transfer students. On November 1– deadline day for transfer applications– council unanimously passed a resolution asking that UVA make an exception to its rule requiring transfer students to have completed two semesters of college work.
"This is the university that they call home," says student council rep Catherine Tobin. "We're not asking for guaranteed admission, but they should be given the chance."
But UVA administrators say the offer UVA made to the refugee students– to come for one semester, tuition free– is the one that stands.
"When they arrived in late August, I gave them a letter saying 'We're glad you could be here, you're coming as a visiting student for one semester,'" says Dean of Admissions John Blackburn. "If their school reopens, we expect them to return." At press time, Tulane, Loyola, Dillard, and Xavier in New Orleans had publicly announced plans to reopen in January.
To Swisher, UVA's transfer policy seems "kind of unfair."
Though Blackburn says transferring mid-year into UVA is highly competitiveas many as 300 students compete for "25 or 30" spots– Swisher says she and her fellow Tulane students deserve special consideration.
"We feel like we should have the upper hand because we are students at UVA right now," she says, citing her involvement in UVA's intramural basketball league and the A's she's earning in her classes. "They don't have to predict anything about us," she says.
Imagining herself back at Tulane, she sighs. "I applied mostly for the city and surroundings," she says, "and it's not the same as when I applied."
If UVA won't let her apply to transfer, Swisher, a Richmond native, fears she and other students will be forced to return to Tulane, where she'll then begin planning to transfer somewhere else.
"We're going to be frustrated, unhappy, and far from home," she says. "We'll spend a semester in a new place and then get uprooted again."
Blackburn says he understands displaced students'– and their parents' concerns, but he believes UVA has an obligation to the colleges from which these students came.
"It could be the death knell for some of these schools if they don't get their students back," he says, citing layoffs at Gulf Coast schools including Loyola and Tulane. "If we keep some students here, we may be severely criticized by national organizations."
Though the student council resolution was unanimously supportive of the Tulane students, the Cavalier Daily's lead editorial on November 3 backed Blackburn's position.
"UVA and all colleges and universities with visiting students from the Gulf Coast and New Orleans must not bend their rules for visiting students until they meet the requirements for transferring," the paper said, citing fairness to other prospective transfer students as well as the needs of the Gulf Coast schools. "The last act of generosity we can take is to give the stricken schools their students back."
Tulane is clearly looking on the bright side and hoping students will return.
"Anecdotally, the vast majority of students have indicated that they're going to return," says Tulane spokesman Mike Strecker, who guesses as many as 90 percent of students will come back. In early November, the school began hosting students who returned for a visit to see the campus and speak to administrators about the school's future.
"We think students should do that before they make a decision," says Strecker, pointing out that through his own office window on Tulane's campus, "it doesn't look like anything ever happened."
Swisher, who traveled to New Orleans the first weekend in November to see the campus and retrieve belongings, says the school is still undergoing repair, including mold treatment in her dorm. But she expects all the buildings to be ready when classes resume January 17. She listened to a speech by Tulane President Scott Cowen and spoke with many professors. Even so, she didn't change her mind about returning to the Crescent City.
"All the big buildings are fine, but I still want to transfer," she says. Of UVA, she adds, "This is what I know, and what I like. I'm comfortable here."
Swisher says she's hoping Dean Blackburn will have a change of heart and consider her transfer application, which she was completing at Hook press time. If he doesn't, she and other students will have another chance to apply next fall, after they've met the coursework requirements.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg presided over the wedding, an occasion rife with the theatrical flourishes dear to the couple, both opera lovers. Mr. Bloomberg, arriving with his companion, Diana Taylor, said before the ceremony that he was not nervous. ''I don't have to do a lot,'' he said. ''It's sort of reading, and hoping that nobody objects.''
Nobody did. Ronan Tynan, the Irish tenor, sang at the reception and dinner for 400 guests, who included Yogi Berra, Henry A. Kissinger, Beverly Sills, Vera Wang, Donald H. Trump, former Gov. Hugh L. Carey, Barbara Walters and Joseph Volpe, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Several members of the Giuliani administration also attended, including Thomas Von Essen, the fire commissioner; Howard Safir, the police commissioner; and Cristyne L. Nicholas, former press secretary.
The best man was Mr. Giuliani's son, Andrew, 17. Donald Stish, Ms. Nathan's father, gave the bride away. Whitney Mayer Nathan, 18, Ms. Nathan's daughter, was the maid of honor. ''Deliver Me,'' sung by the soprano Sarah Brightman, introduced the first dance.
The evening's fairy tale extravagance was reflected in the wedding décor and the bridal gown. Ms. Nathan wore a made-to-order oyster-colored satin dress with a train accented by Swarovski crystals and pearls. Mr. Giuliani wore a custom-tailored suit by Brioni. All that was lacking was the horse-drawn coach.Continue reading the main story
The wedding was a metaphor for a relationship more romantic than either had previously let on. Ms. Nathan, 48, the managing director of a philanthropy that raises money for the Twin Towers Fund, maintains an office in the same Times Square building where Mr. Giuliani operates a consulting business. Though they often work and travel together, they have maintained a profile so discreet that even now they refuse to reveal just how and where they met. But in an interview before the big day, they shared some details about their courtship.
Suffice it to say their first encounter was momentous. ''It was the thunderbolt,'' said Mr. Giuliani, 58, a reference to the description the novelist Mario Puzo used in ''The Godfather'' to characterize the moment when Michael Corleone first spied Apollonia, his Sicilian bride-to-be. ''Our attraction was instantaneous. There was almost something mystical about the feeling.''
Ms. Nathan interjected: ''Rudy truly is a romantic. . . .''
''It must be all those operas,'' Mr. Giuliani chimed in, finishing her thought. He recalled the exact words Ms. Nathan uttered when they met, after he asked her about her political leanings. ''Unlike you, I have always been a Republican,'' Ms. Nathan told the mayor, a Democrat until he switched parties in 1975.
Ms. Nathan was quick to confide that she, too, had been lovestruck from the first. ''After our third meeting, I called my mother and told her, 'This is the guy,' '' she recalled. ''We simply were two people in love -- never mind the extracurricular stuff that went on around us,'' she added, an allusion, perhaps, to the to-do surrounding Mr. Giuliani's separation and divorce from Donna Hanover.
A little before 9 last night, the couple stepped out of Gracie Mansion to meet reporters. Across East End Avenue, a passer-by shouted, ''Way to go, Rudy.''
The bridegroom said, ''I would like to introduce my wife, Mrs. Giuliani, and you can see how fortunate I am.'' The bride thanked ''the people of New York,'' and the couple kissed on the lips before returning to the party.
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|2011-04-06, 23:10
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Aww, I must study. Been a while since I read #TMOHS Think I left
off on #TSOHS(7) since I dislike reading for a period of time on a #laptop.
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|2011-04-11, 19:25
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Anyway, I saw in this thread somewhere about reading the light novels on an iPhone. You can download an application that I use, Dropbox, a really useful online file hosting/syncing program. Both the iPhone app and the online registration are free. The app conveniently allows you to "favorite" any file you like so that you can access it and read it on your iPhone when you're offline.
|2011-04-13, 23:53
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It's Imouto-chan from an alternate universe where time runs differently/she's the older sibling/whatever.
Imagine that that's already been revealed to be the case, then go back and read exactly how Kyon describes how she seems familiar to him when he's talking to her over the phone, and tell me it doesn't seem like an obvious foreshadowing...
|2011-04-14, 00:56
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Unfortunately, it'll either be a somehow younger parallel Sasaki(meaning it was inevitable that Kyon would answer a call from Sasaki), parallel older Miyokichi(explaining why some random character has a full name when Kyon doesn't even have a surname yet), or an alternate version of someone from Kyon's past we haven't met. I was going to include "younger parallel Mikuru" as an option, but that'd only cause problems.
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Kyon's name is one of the most well-kept secrets in SHnY. A more well-kept secret than his name would be only... Kyon's sister's name.
But I wouldn't be surprised if in the last novel there was a dialogue between Haruhi and Kyon like this:
Haruhi: By the way, Kyon, you've never told me your real name.
Kyon: Hm, and why do you want to know this now?
Haruhi: I was just asking, you don't have to tell me if you don't want it, silly.
Kyon: It's Watanabe Tomoya.
Haruhi: Watanabe... Tomoya? Such a common name! That's not funny at all! I, as the leader of the SOS Brigade, order you to change it to something more interesting!
Kyon: You wish! That's been my name my whole life, there's nothing wrong with it! Do you think you can simply go and start changing people's names now!?
|2011-04-17, 13:58
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Kneel Before Your King!
Haruhi's right... Tomoya is such a generic name, he should change it to something cool... something like... um... Daiuchuu Ginga... hm... no, still lacking something... I know! ETHANOL!
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Haruhi knows his real name; at least, she's heard it before. Right at the beginning, during introductions right before Haruhi went, Kyon went. And his name was probably involved.
This scene was merely not told in its entirety to the audience.
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|2011-04-17, 23:09
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We see him standing up and introducing himself, but we don't hear him speaking the introduction--instead we hear his narration while the introduction is muffled to near-inaudibility--we can hear that it's his voice talking in the background but not what he is saying besides the last sentence saying "yoroshiku na" (nice to meet you). It's clear enough that he introduced himself to the class despite the audience not getting to hear his full name.
|2011-04-18, 00:54
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Anime aside, his introduction to the class is similarly glossed over in the novel. But as intelligent as Haruhi is, no way she doesn't know his real name. All of the SOS-dan do, certainly, even if Haruhi's the only one who heard his no-doubt "Kyon"less introduction. The absence of his real name is far too obviously an artificial plot device, suggesting that his name is used a fair bit more than is implied.
|2011-04-18, 02:21
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Tanigawa claims it isn't important, but sometimes I wonder...
|2011-04-18, 06:24
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Hong Kong Shatterdome
OTOH, it's kind of deranged that Haruhi wouldn't know Kyon's name. They know he has a real name. Haruhi and Mikuru never bother to call him it.
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The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.
Over the course of one week, you will comprehensively explore physical sensation through five core-competency areas of study including movement, music, anatomy, science and philosophy. This joyful journey into the self is instrumental in helping you develop body knowing by learning to listen, interpret and consciously respond to the information your body communicates to you via sensation. Enroll in an upcoming training today, and positively shape the way you feel, look, think and live.
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In 1989 my sister invited me to attend a Women's Weekend event on Drummond Island, Michigan. I knew in the middle of my first Nia class there was something very unique and special about Nia. When we were guided to turn and lift our arms into the air I sensed my chest opening and my spirit soaring. It was both exhilarating and life changing in ways I could not have predicted in that moment. When I returned to Chicago I couldn't shake it off. Colors were brighter, the city sounds were louder, my senses were heightened, a new aliveness had awakened within me! I wanted more. I had a strong urge to tell people about it. I felt like it was needed, important and had huge potential to help so many people. There were no Nia classes in the city of Chicago at that time so I signed up for the next White Belt Training a few months later. I was born with an entrepreneurial spirit and strong passion for movement, music and fashion! The signs began to show up early in my life. By the age of 4 or 5 I was practicing dance moves with my little sister, dressing up in floor length gowns (which were my mom's night gowns!), setting up chairs for my parents and older siblings who paid a nickel for these musical song and dance productions. Playing, having fun and expressing myself through music and movement lit me up. With Nia, here it was again, my passions knocking on my front door, the opportunity to do what I love… as an adult this time! I began sharing Nia as a teacher in 1999 while working a full time job. I began creating my sacred livelihood by integrating more and more Nia while simultaneously disengaging from my previous career.
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In 2006 I embraced Nia as my personal fitness, lifestyle practice and full time career. Throughout the years my classes and events have been featured in Today's Chicago Woman", The "Chicago Tribune", Channel 2 "On Call with Dr. Michael Breen", Metromix CLTV Chicago and on "Fox News Chicago". As a Nia Trainer and Black Belt Teacher I bring a creative, gentle approach to sharing Nia that encourages and empowers others to seek and express their own individuality. I am inspired by Nia and its potential for helping individuals of all ages and backgrounds create healthy lives full of joy, self-awareness and connection.
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Start: Friday, August 23, 2013 - 12:00 pm
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1. Re: BrowserLab - issue from DW CS5Mark_Rausch Mar 30, 2012 10:32 AM (in response to Prangne)
Hi Prangne,
I'll contact you via a PM here on the forums.
2. Re: BrowserLab - issue from DW CS5Mark_Rausch Apr 3, 2012 3:56 PM (in response to Mark_Rausch)
I sent the PM to you on the 30th but haven't heard a response back. Have you received it, do you still have the same issue?
3. Re: BrowserLab - issue from DW CS5Prangne Apr 3, 2012 6:25 PM (in response to Prangne)
Mark - thanks for your follow up. Same isssue. I need to get your guidance regarding finding the 'hosts' file - in order to try to clear it.
I'm running on Mac - OS10.6 / DW CS5
I also read a reference somewhere that the BLab/DW plug in was about to be dropped by Adobe? - in which case is this a moot point?
4. Re: BrowserLab - issue from DW CS5Mark_Rausch Apr 4, 2012 10:31 AM (in response to Prangne)
Hi Prangne,
I've sent you instructions and a link in a PM to help you find and edit that file. Follow those instructions and then close and reopen DW and find and click on the CS Live menu button... do you see a normal menu, or does it contain an error message? If you see a normal menu, try your test again with BrowserLab. If you see an error message, take a screenshot of it and post it here please, there's another step I can have you try.
FYI, this is not a moot point, we're not dropping support for this integration, at least in existing copies of CS5 & 5.5. Do you know where you read that? If you can point me to it that would be great.
5. Re: BrowserLab - issue from DW CS5ssklnd Aug 14, 2012 6:32 AM (in response to Mark_Rausch)
Why don't you guys simply post the solution?
That'd be great^^
Thanks in advance
6. Re: BrowserLab - issue from DW CS5AllDayDev Aug 15, 2012 1:44 PM (in response to ssklnd)
We've determined that there are two possible causes to this issue:
- The software is not properly activated.
- You (or an administrator) have disabled Internet access for Adobe online services.
To check if access to Adobe online services have been disabled on your computer, see this article: Disable access to Adobe CS service extensions
If that is not the issue, then the cause has to do with activation. Te resolve the issue, perform the steps in the solution of this article: http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-network-issues.html


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Secure Sockets Layer Persistence Configuration Example
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This document explains why Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) persistence (stickiness) has historically been widely used, why it is no longer a recommended configuration, and how to configure it on the Cisco® ACE Application Control Engine Module if SSL stickiness is absolutely required in spite of its limitations.
How SSL Stickiness Works
SSL was developed to provide a mechanism to encrypt data sent between a client and a server. It is often used to encrypt HTTP traffic, providing a secure mechanism for users to submit credit card information to e-commerce sites and to allow for secure transmission of other sensitive information. When a client initiates an SSL (HTTPS) connection to a web server, the server provides an SSL session ID to the client (a new ID or a resumption of an existing ID). This session ID is passed to the client in clear text, making it visible to network devices and easily readable in packet captures. When the same client initiates subsequent connections to the web server, it supplies the SSL session ID to identify itself. SSL stickiness on any load balancer (such as a Cisco Content Services Switch [CSS] or Cisco Services Module) functions by inspecting the SSL session ID as it is being set by the server. The load balancer creates a sticky entry tying a specific SSL session ID to the specific real server that was chosen by the load-balancing algorithm. By doing this, the load balancer is able to recognize a known SSL session ID in future connections and direct the flow to the correct real server.
Why Many Customers Use SSL Stickiness Historically, when deploying a secure (HTTPS) web application using a load balancer, SSL stickiness has been a popular method for providing client persistence. Sticking based on client IP does not accurately identify a specific user, since Network Address Translation (NAT) is commonly used to reduce the usage of IPv4 addresses on the Internet. NAT causes multiple clients to use the same source IP address, leaving the load balancer with no way of distinguishing them from one another when sticking based on client IP. This behavior is commonly known as the mega-proxy problem, as it creates the possibility that thousands of users will be identified by the load balancer as a single user. Sticking them all to a single real server could quickly oversubscribe its resources. The following figure illustrates the mega-proxy problem.
Traditionally, load balancers have not provided the ability to decrypt (terminate) SSL flows, which means there was no way for a load balancer to inspect the encrypted HTTP data as it passed through. This eliminated the possibility of using the load balancer to stick based on an HTTP cookie, since the cookie is hidden within the encrypted data. These limitations left SSL session ID stickiness as the only suitable choice for many end users. Even after migrating to newer equipment, many end users have not changed their sticky configuration and may not be aware of the limitations of SSL stickiness.
Limitations of SSL stickiness
Although web browsers implement their own suite of SSL capabilities, the behavior differs slightly from browser to browser. The way a browser handles SSL session IDs can have a detrimental effect on the usefulness of SSL stickiness. For example, Internet Explorer version 5.x will force a renegotiation of the SSL session ID every two minutes. Each time this occurs, the client reconnects using a blank SSL session ID, leaving the load balancer with no ability to identify the client and potentially causing the flow to be directed to a different real server. This means that, in effect, users of Internet Explorer 5.x can expect to be reliably "stuck" to a server for only two minutes. This behavior is documented in the Microsoft knowledgebase.
- Internet Explorer Renegotiates Secure Sockets Layer Connection Every Two Minutes:
SSL session handling in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 has been improved so that they retain the SSL session ID for at least an hour using their default configurations. There are, however, other actions that can cause Internet Explorer 6 and 7 to force a renegotiation. Clicking on embedded links that generate pop-up windows before the parent page is fully loaded can force a renegotiation. Users have also reported similar behavior when clicking on links that open new tabs within the browser. This behavior is also documented in the Microsoft knowledgebase.
- You experience connection problems when you use Internet Explorer to browse through pages on a secure Web site:
Internet Explorer's inconsistent behavior serves as a warning that SSL stickiness relies on obedient behavior by the client browser to function properly. Since application developers and network administrators cannot guarantee that all clients are running a specific browser or version, and since servers can also become the culprits in forcing session ID renegotiations, SSL stickiness is generally deemed unreliable.
Better Alternatives to SSL stickiness
Clearly the developers of SSL implemented the session ID with good intentions, but due to browser behavior it has proven not to be a reliable means of identification. Since all other information that could be used to identify the client is encrypted within the SSL flow, it would be beneficial for a load balancer to decrypt the flow and inspect the underlying HTTP data. In the past few years nearly all load balancers have evolved to include either a built-in feature or an add-on option to decrypt SSL flows. This ability is typically referred to as SSL termination, as the load balancer becomes the final destination of the encrypted data.
By decrypting the SSL flow, the load balancer gains the ability to inspect the HTTP data as if it were a normal, nonencrypted flow. Most load balancers are able to identify a client either by looking for a cookie that was set by an application (such as JSESSIONID) or by inserting their own cookie into the response being sent to the client. By using a cookie insert, the Cisco ACE devices can inject a cookie into server responses, to help ensure client persistence to an application instance.
Sample SSL stickiness Configuration
Some customers may be reluctant to change to a different method due to a lack of awareness of the limitations of SSL stickiness or possibly due to a security policy prohibiting the decryption of SSL traffic on any device that is not the endpoint for communication. In such cases, the Cisco ACE can provide SSL stickiness capabilities, as the following steps explain.
Many products require a custom function to provide SSL stickiness for a virtual server. The Cisco ACE devices use generic protocol parsing (GPP) to search through the TCP connection, locate the SSL session ID, and provide client persistence.
First the Layer 3 class needs to be configured to accept connections on port 443, and the rservers need to be added to the server farm such that the Cisco ACE sends traffic to them on port 443 as well. Since the rservers will inherit the port configured on the service policy if they are configured without a port, this method will be used.
ACE-1/routed(config)# class-map match-all slb-vip ACE-1/routed(config-cmap)# match virtual-address 172.16.1.105 tcp eq https ACE-1/routed(config)# serverfarm host web ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# rserver lnx1 ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# rserver lnx2 ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# rserver lnx3 ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# rserver lnx4 ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# rserver lnx5 ACE-1/routed(config-sfarm-host-rs)# inservice
Next a sticky group is configured to parse for the SSL session ID. This allows the Cisco ACE to create a unique entry in its sticky table for each session ID it encounters. Within the TCP payload of a new SSL connection, the 44th byte is a 1-byte length field indicating how long the session ID will be. The length is typically 32 bytes, in which case the 32 bytes of data following the length field would be the session ID. The parser needs to be configured to skip the first 44 bytes and then read in the following 32 bytes as the session ID to be used in the sticky entry.
By default, the Cisco ACE parses only the TCP payload of data being sent from the client to the server (request payload). Since the session ID is being set by the server, the ACE needs to be configured to parse both the client request and the server response. This is done by adding the "response sticky" command. The resulting sticky configuration will look like the following.
ACE-1/routed(config)# sticky layer4-payload SSL_GROUP ACE-1/routed(config-sticky-l4payloa)# serverfarm web ACE-1/routed(config-sticky-l4payloa)# response sticky ACE-1/routed(config-sticky-l4payloa)# layer4-payload offset 43 length 32 begin-pattern "(\x20|\x00\xST)"
Note: The default timeout for sticky entries is 24 hours (1440 minutes). This can be changed by using the "timeout" command within the sticky group created above. In order for the payload inspection to function, you need to set an appropriate max-parse-length. This is necessary to tell the parser how much data to inspect in the payload, and by default it is set to 4096 bytes. For this configuration it should be set to 70 bytes, both for performance and to ensure that sufficient TCP data is parsed to provide the desired session persistence. Setting this value larger than 70 bytes may result in page loads that appear to hang.
Note 2: we use "(\x20|\x00\xST)" as pattern instead of just "\x20" because short "client hello" packets can otherwise lead to the pattern not to match. This will result in a connection that will time out. The \xST pattern was introduced in versions were CSCsh04655/CSCte81287 was fixed.
ACE-1/routed(config)# parameter-map type generic sslidparam ACE-1/routed(config-parammap-generi)# set max-parse-length 70
Next a Layer 7 policy must be defined that will send traffic to the new sticky group. The matching policy type for the layer4-payload sticky is "loadbalance generic," which indicates a policy configured to perform GPP.
ACE-1/routed(config)# policy-map type loadbalance generic first-match gppmatch ACE-1/routed(config-pmap-lb-generic)# class class-default ACE-1/routed(config-pmap-lb-generic-c)# sticky-serverfarm SSL_GROUP
The policy and parameter maps are then applied to the class reference within the multimatch policy.
ACE-1/routed(config)# policy-map multi-match client-vips ACE-1/routed(config-pmap)# class slb-vip ACE-1/routed(config-pmap-c)# loadbalance policy gppmatch ACE-1/routed(config-pmap-c)# appl-parameter generic advanced-options sslidparam ACE-1/routed(config-pmap-c)# loadbalance vip inservice
At this point the configuration is complete, and the Cisco ACE should be ready to inspect the SSL traffic.
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It is important to remember that the session ID itself is not inserted into the sticky table; a hash value is generated from it and is inserted into the sticky table. To test this, initiate an HTTPS connection to the VIP and use the following command to look for a new sticky table entry.
ACE-1/routed# sho sticky database group SSL_GROUP sticky group : SSL_GROUP type : LAYER4-PAYLOAD timeout : 600 timeout-activeconns : FALSE sticky-entry rserver-instance time-to-expire flags ------------------------+-----------------------------+--------------+-------+ 8340144415558738875 lnx1:0 86394 -
Use the "show service-policy" and "show serverfarm detail" commands to verify that the ACE is maintaining persistence between the client and server application.
ACE-1/routed# show service-policy detail Policy-map : client-vips Status : ACTIVE Description: - ----------------------------------------- Interface: vlan 20 service-policy: client-vips class: slb-vip VIP Address: Protocol: Port: 172.16.1.105 tcp eq 443 loadbalance: L7 loadbalance policy: gppmatch VIP Route Metric : 77 VIP Route Advertise : DISABLED VIP ICMP Reply : DISABLED VIP State: INSERVICE curr conns : 0 , hit count : 20 dropped conns : 0 client pkt count : 1106 , client byte count: 1324188 server pkt count : 343 , server byte count: 31885 conn-rate-limit : 0 , drop-count : 0 bandwidth-rate-limit : 0 , drop-count : 0 L7 Loadbalance policy : gppmatch class/match : class-default LB action : sticky group: SSL_GROUP primary serverfarm: web state: UP backup serverfarm : - hit count : 20 dropped conns : 0 ACE-1/routed# show serverfarm web detail serverfarm : web, type: HOST total rservers : 5 active rservers: 5 description : - state : ACTIVE predictor : ROUNDROBIN failaction : - back-inservice : 0 partial-threshold : 0 num times failover : 0 num times back inservice : 0 total conn-dropcount : 0 ------------------------------- --------connections-------- real weight state current total failures ---+-----------------+------+-----------+---------+--------+-------- rserver: lnx1 192.168.1.11:0 8 OPERATIONAL 0 20 0 max-conns : - , out-of-rotation count : - min-conns : - conn-rate-limit : - , out-of-rotation count : - bandwidth-rate-limit : - , out-of-rotation count : - retcode out-of-rotation count : - load value : 0 rserver: lnx2 192.168.1.12:0 8 OPERATIONAL 0 0 0 max-conns : - , out-of-rotation count : - min-conns : - conn-rate-limit : - , out-of-rotation count : - bandwidth-rate-limit : - , out-of-rotation count : - retcode out-of-rotation count : - ...skipping
While new connections are being inspected by GPP and looked up in the sticky database, they will appear as one-sided connections in the connection table, until a real server has been determined. These can be seen in a "show conn" as dashed entry pairs.
ACE-1/routed# show conn total current connections : 5 conn-id np dir proto vlan source destination state --------+--+---+-----+----+--------------------+------------------+------+ 21 1 in TCP 20 126.96.36.199:8431 172.16.1.105:443 ESTAB 7 1 out TCP 40 192.168.1.12:443 220.127.116.11:8431 ESTAB 15 2 in TCP 20 188.8.131.52:5829 172.16.1.105:443 ESTAB -- - - -- -- -- -- -- 21 2 in TCP 20 126.96.36.199:1786 172.16.1.105:443 ESTAB 7 2 out TCP 40 192.168.1.11:443 18.104.22.168:1786 ESTAB
- Although the Cisco ACE Module can provide effective SSL persistence based on session ID , SSL stickiness is not recommended due to the numerous limitations that can break client persistence. The recommended approach is to use SSL termination in conjunction with HTTP cookie stickiness to help ensure application persistence per unique user session.
- SSL stickiness relies on the use of servers that support session ID reuse. Some servers or appliances will send the client a blank session ID during the server hello, or will set a new session ID at the start of each TCP connection. These situations will cause SSL stickiness not to function. Additionally, when a server does not support session ID reuse, SSL performance will be degraded. Each SSL handshake is very CPU intensive on the server. By supporting session ID reuse, the server and client establish subsequent SSL connections without having to perform another SSL handshake.
- SSL stickiness is supported only on SSLv3 and TLSv1 sessions. The reason for this is that SSLv2 places the session ID within the encrypted data, making it impossible for the ACE or any other device to inspect it.
show running-config
logging enable access-list everyone line 8 extended permit ip any any access-list everyone line 16 extended permit icmp any any parameter-map type generic sslidparam set max-parse-length 70 rserver host lnx1 ip address 192.168.1.11 inservice rserver host lnx2 ip address 192.168.1.12 inservice rserver host lnx3 ip address 192.168.1.13 inservice rserver host lnx4 ip address 192.168.1.14 inservice rserver host lnx5 ip address 192.168.1.15 inservice serverfarm host web rserver lnx1 inservice rserver lnx2 inservice rserver lnx3 inservice rserver lnx4 inservice rserver lnx5 inservice sticky layer4-payload SSL_GROUP serverfarm web response sticky layer4-payload offset 43 length 32 begin-pattern "(\x20|\x00\xST)" class-map match-all slb-vip 3 match virtual-address 172.16.1.105 tcp eq https policy-map type management first-match remote-access class class-default permit policy-map type loadbalance generic first-match gppmatch class class-default sticky-serverfarm SSL_GROUP policy-map multi-match client-vips class slb-vip loadbalance vip inservice loadbalance policy gppmatch appl-parameter generic advanced-options sslidparam interface vlan 20 description Client Side ip address 172.16.1.5 255.255.255.0 access-group input everyone service-policy input client-vips no shutdown interface vlan 40 description Default gateway of real servers ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 service-policy input remote-access no shutdown ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 172.16.1.1


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|2009-04-13, 11:28
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
I'm new and stuff so...XD - To all RP fans!
Hey, I'm new here, and I'm just really looking to get involved in a forum again, since it's been such a long time
oh and also, if anyone here is an RP fan, come visit www.onepiecepiratesrpg.createforum.com
it's a brilliant site with friendly staff, i reckon y'all should try it out! its not gonna hurt to try! XD
|2009-04-13, 17:47
|Link #8023
Junior Member
Hello my name is Charly Junior I am From france.. I am 19 years old and I like alot of things but my favorite thing of all is anime/Manga. I do like to do other things like hanging out with friends and going to the mall. I do Enjoy reading but thats Beside the point.
You could call me A Anime Fan thats what one of my friends one day told me. I am not a geek like live,breath, and go to sleep with anime.. Yes anime Does Interest me alot but I do other things even tho my Extrernal hard-Drive say's otherwise. My External hard drive is holding 36Gb Of anime/manga out of 250Gb's. I like everything from Macross frontier to Neo Angelique ~Abyss~.... I do have My favorites Anime like naruto,Sekirei,Bleach, sharman king,To love-ru.
I do enjoy hanging around Forums esp Anime.. So please private message me if you would like. I do enjoy talking to new people and seeing how they react to certan animes that i Might not like or I might like and they do not. Please dont be shy and hope to Talk with you all very soon.
Hope to get to know everyone better here. I'll treat everyone as they treat me .
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|2009-04-13, 19:49
|Link #8024
Rock on ^^
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UAE
Age: 33
WElcome kiroisenko and my other fellow new guys.
|2009-04-14, 02:50
|Link #8025
Junior Member
Hey my name is Joe, I am 17 years old and I live in the center of England, although I wish I didn't :P. I have recently discovered anime and manga and now I'm hooked!! None of my friends like it and I'd really like to discuss it with someone so this forum looks good
Nice to meet you all
|2009-04-14, 15:53
|Link #8027
being 1 with 0
Hiya^^ new here~
The name's Marisa hailing from the US of A!
I watch alot of anime from Akikan! to Zoku Sayonare Zetsubou Sensei. xD
I'm always up for new series to watch and open to any genre.
Also I'm a big yaoi fangirl!
I hope to make tons of friends and enjoy my stay here as well. <3
|2009-04-14, 20:30
|Link #8028
「Darkly Charismatic 」
Join Date: May 2008
Location: The Lounge
Welcome to AnimeSuki!
For any questions you might have, please refer to Here
And some more information can be found Here
If you have time, please check them out so you can start having fun on the forums!
Well then, welcome and I hope you enjoy your stay!
|2009-04-14, 23:17
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
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Age: 30
Hello! I am aneroph. I am a college student with a minor in Japanese and a major in Computer Science and Engineering. I love anime and pretty much all things Japanese so hopefully this forum will help qualm my need to discuss anime.
|2009-04-15, 12:01
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Princess of Geass
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Britannia
Age: 26
|2009-04-15, 18:11
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Planet Earth
Hello! I am still a high school student and come from Croatia I didnt watch many animes but they almost all seem to fascinate me.
I am 17 years old, obviously love everything about anime and glad to be here
and in addition hopefullly find new friends.
|2009-04-15, 23:59
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Far in the Gerudo desert
Hey. I'm new. I like it here. I like comedy anime, or shows along the lines of Kino's Journey. Oh cat-girl maids with glasses pawing at each other.... you know how that is. I also like puzzle, stealth, and fighting games. Ninja Gaiden, Tales, Legend of Zelda, and Splinter Cell are some of my favorite series. I like listening to Amon Tobin, QOTSA, MSI, J5, The Misfits, The Pixies, and Radiohead amongst others.
Pleased to meet you. :]
|2009-04-16, 01:57
|Link #8035
Hello, my name is Cirrostratucat. Just call me Cirro or Cat or whatever you like
I'm not really good at english and i've known animesuki for quite sometimes now. Finally gathered my courage to try to join in this loveable community. I really like this place, i love anime, manga and games. But most of my time i spend on watching anime and reading manga, so game probably on my bottom list, though i DO love galge/eroge
|2009-04-16, 07:03
|Link #8038
KISEKI da yo!!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Nadesico-C
And welcome to animesuki to all of you ^^
|2009-04-16, 13:48
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: OZ
Howdy folks!
The name's BOFH. A typical technogeek, fairly new to fansubbing.
Not really into anime, prefer fansubbing Jpop PVs (on my third PV project now).
I hope to master Aegisub someday; meanwhile, we can have fun. Ne? ^_^
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To enter, tell me either what you might do with the charm packs or what you love about Spring.
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