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A tale of two campaigns from first-time candidates for California governor:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 2003: "Join Arnold"
In Schwarzenegger's first ads, the movie star railed against the political establishment, saying he could bring "big change," fresh perspective and business sense to the state Capitol: "We see an education system that is last in the country. We just see things declining and declining and declining. I will go to Sacramento and I will clean house."
Meg Whitman, 2010: "A New Kind of Leader for a New California"
In her first ads, the former eBay CEO promises that "we can fix California, no question about it. It's going to take a different style of leadership, it's going to take a different approach, but we can make California great again."
On politicians:
Arnold: "The people are doing the job, the people are raising their families, but the politicians are not doing their job."
Meg: "The professional politicians have been fighting in Sacramento for years, and the state is in the worst shape that I've seen in the many years that I have lived in California." She adds, "The professional politicians in Sacramento can't see past their differences long enough to save the state they love."
On spending:
Arnold: "We don't have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem."
Meg: "We have a spending problem of epic proportions."
Secret weapon:
Arnold: "It all comes back to discipline."
Meg: "I am a big believer in focus."
I haven't heard a Republican make an honest and fair statement in a year now. And I mean that. I haven't seen it in any forum. Privately, and quietly, Republican policy wonks are lamenting the complete lack of seriousness in anything that the party leadership has to say about anything. They know that the Republicans are in no condition to govern.
And, honestly, that is the biggest threat facing this country. Bigger than the threat of terrorism or a nuclear arms race in the Middle East is the threat that the American people will tire of the Democrats and have no alternative but a bunch of Steve Kings and Michele Bachmanns with the temperament of John McCain and the foreign policy objectives of Bill Kristol. That's a recipe for the end of the world as we know it. And you know it.
[S]everal weeks into the new year… Meg Whitman's statewide TV ad campaign… began devouring the political landscape. The eBay billionaire's campaign for governor has turned into a political phenomenon, the likes of which the Golden State has never seen… Like it or not, the result is indisputable: More than two months before the primary and seven months before the general election, Whitman has grabbed California's attention… In the first 2½ months of this year, the Whitman campaign spent $27.2 million -- more than $4 a second. At that pace, in the time it takes to read this sentence aloud, the campaign will have spent another 50 bucks…. Her face, her voice, her views have become part of the state's zeitgeist and a significant part of the California economy.
How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn't recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht… The... anger... gathering today is illogical, given that what the right calls "Obamacare" is less provocative than either the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or Medicare… [T]he health care bill is not the main source of [right-wing] anger and never has been... The real source... is the same kind of national existential reordering that roiled America in 1964… [R]ight-wing extremism… predates the entire health care debate. The first signs were… shrieks of "traitor" … at Palin rallies… Rick Perry's kowtowing to secessionists... in Texas to the... brandishing of assault weapons at Obama health care rallies… to "You lie!" piercing the president's address to Congress…. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House -- topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman -- would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority... When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan "Take our country back!," these are the people they want to take the country back from. ... They can't. Demographics are avatars of a change bigger than any bill… [B]irths to Asian, black and Hispanic women accounted for 48 percent of all births in America in... 2008. By 2012, the next presidential election year, non-Hispanic white births will be in the minority... [And Rich hasn't even mentioned all the happy white hippies, queers, and race-traitors like me! --d] The Tea Party movement is virtually all white. The Republicans haven't had a single African-American in the Senate or the House since 2003 and have had only three in total since 1935. Their anxieties about a rapidly changing America are well-grounded. If... Republicans... want to replay the petulant Gingrich government shutdown of 1995… as John McCain has vowed… that's their right... (and a political gift to the Democrats). But they can't [?] emulate the 1995 GOP by remaining silent as mass hysteria, some of it encompassing armed militias, runs amok in their own precincts. We know the end of that story… A Quinnipiac poll... found that 74 percent of Tea Party members identify themselves as Republicans or Republican-leaning… [and I daresay many others among them like to fancy themselves "libertarians," which means, as it always does in the US at any rate, that they are de facto Republicans lying to others and possibly to themselves about the fact that they are de facto Republicans --d] After the Civil Rights Act of 1964... responsible leaders in both parties spoke out [against the] violence…. Yet no Republican or conservative leader of stature [?] has taken on Palin, Perry, Boehner... who have been stoking these fires for a good 17 months now… Are these politicians so frightened of offending... the Tea Party-Glenn Beck base that they would rather fall silent than call out its extremist[s]...? [I]f GOP leaders... are afraid of these forces, that's the strongest possible indicator that the rest of us have reason to fear them too.
Education. Health care. Two of the most important pillars of a strong America grew stronger this week... These achievements don't represent the end of our challenges; nor do they signify the end of the work that faces our country. But what they do represent is real and major reform. What they show is that we're a nation still capable of doing big things. What they prove is what's possible when we can come together to overcome the politics of the moment; push back on the special interests; and look beyond the next election to do what's right for the next generation.
A new Bloomberg Poll finds that more than 90% of Tea Party backers say the United States "is verging more toward socialism than capitalism, the federal government is trying to control too many aspects of private life and more decisions should be made at the state level." At the same time, 70% of those who sympathize with the Tea Party "want a federal government that fosters job creation."
Democrats shouldn't expect much cooperation from Republicans the rest of this year, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned Monday. McCain and another Republican senator decried the effect health reform legislation has had on the Senate, a day after the House passed the upper chamber's bill. GOP senators… caution that the health debate had taken a toll on the institution, warning of little work between parties the rest of this year. "There will be no cooperation for the rest of the year," McCain said... "They have poisoned the well in what they've done and how they've done it." …
"In my opinion, the institution of the Congress has been fundamentally harmed," said Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), pointing to the process Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) used to craft the final health bill.
"For someone who campaigned on 'Country First' and claims to take great pride in bipartisanship, it's absolutely bizarre for Senator McCain to tell the American people he is going to take his ball and go home until the next election. He must be living in some parallel universe because the fact is, with very few exceptions, we've gotten very little cooperation from Senate Republicans in recent years.
"At a time when our economy is suffering and we're fighting two wars, the American people need Senator McCain and his fellow Republicans to start working with us to confront the challenges facing our country -- not reiterating their constant opposition to helping working families when they need it most."
Do you mean it, when you say that you're genderqueer? If you do that's fine, but nothing you've said prior to this has suggested that to be the case to me. I bring it up because appropriation of gq identities by cisgender people is actually something of a problem. You're not engaging in busted behavior here, but if you are cisgender I'd appreciate it if you'd find another way of phrasing what you're getting at in the future. If I'm wrong on that count, you can just ignore this comment, I don't want to police your identity or anything.
I began to use the term genderqueer as a designation in 1992 [added, in case anybody's interested: this was when I was working on my MA thesis in the Philosophy Department at Georgia State on connections between queer theory and technocultural theory of the time] -- but I was rather late to the party in discovering the term cisgender just two years or so ago.
I always used the term "genderqueer" as a political/ disciplinary designation indicating my commitment to gender studies over just "women's studies" as a way of affiliating with anti-patriarchal/ queer work in the academy and activism but also in my own selfhood.
If genderqueer has acquired a fixed connotation in intersex/transsex communities and activism and criticism I won't use it anymore, knowing how terms alter in usage over time after all and also knowing how key practices of identification/ dis-identification are to the dignity of queerfolks under compulsory heterosexuality and patriarchy in general -- although I don't think the charge of "appropriation" seems exactly appropriate given the actual chronology involved here!
Given that I disapprove both the sexual and gender binaries as absurdly inadequate taxonomic gestures in the face of the vicissitudes and varieties of gendered and queered morphological/ identificatory/ dis-identificatory practices, and definitely I disapprove any hierarchization of sex-gender or gender-sex (given that either term can assume foundational force in projects of policing the other term into a falsifying stability), I must say that I am a bit anxious about some aspects of this admonition.
When "cisgender" is explained to me as, say, a designation of one who comfortably inhabits a birth-assigned gender I have to say that term "comfort" is awfully freighted in my view. I would not claim to "have" an intersex body and I am not in transition in ways that take up the legal-medical complex, and I strongly agree that it would be wrong to imply otherwise since I don't, but I hesitate to affirm that this is tantamount to "comfort," especially given the life-enabling irony, to say the least, with which I have long inhabited the sex-gender norms in which I am presumably most legible, to the extent that I am. Heck, that's why I've been queer rather than gay or whatever since '92.
Is there a worrisome restabilization of sex-gender vocabularies inhering in the very notion of "cisgender" on the usual construal? Given the comfort-in-discomfort and the desired-undoing-of-doing-gendered-desire that I have long regarded as an emancipatory queer-transsex continuity I wonder if "cisgender" risks wrongly assimilating some varieties of queer selfhood to heteronormativity.
The link you offered me is plenty to make me stop using the designation, simply because I do not want to contribute harm to the folks testifying to harm by my use of it -- these things matter to me -- but I must say that there are lots of assumptions about the motives, history of the term and its assumption by some queerfolks and its various freightings that don't exactly ring true in light of my own experiences (very much including decades of affiliation/ interaction with lgbtipqq folks and communities and colleagues), and while I strongly sympathize with the aspiration to "recognition" through a policing of the term -- especially where recognition names specifically the vitally important legal-medical choreographies in the face of profoundly precarious selfhood-practices -- I am also suspicious of the gesture of policing around negotiations of sex-gender systems whenever it becomes too unironic or naturalizing or castigatory.
I'm not using 'cisgender' here in the sense of birth assigned gender-comfort, which would make it something like a synonym for cissexual. Rather, cisgender is properly used (in my opinion and in the opinion of some others I am frequently in conversation with) as the opposite pair of genderqueer, which is to say someone who is cisgender is someone to a binary gender description is apt for. This isn't the same as compliance with or comfort with the binary gender as a construct across the whole of society (many people with what can be described as binary genders understand the harmfulness of the gender binary), but rather a matter of personal positioning with regard to the gender binary.
This is separate from transsexuality, with which you've confused the issue slightly. While you are correct in observing that the sex/gender distinction is a slippery and often unhelpful distinction, the key distinction is that transsexuality is marked by a dissonance with the body, and a corresponding dissonance with social aspects of inhabiting a body that society insists on nonconsensually assigning a sex-gender to. Measures can be taken, in this case, to render the proper sex-gender of the individual legible, as long as the transsexual history is not known. If a transsexual history is known, then this becomes grounds for ignoring the actual sex-gender of an individual. This is pretty much the defining oppression of transsexual individuals within the kyriarchy.
On the other hand, genderqueer (in the more modern usage) signifies individuals for whom their true sex-gender can never be made legible, due to the way that the legibility of sex-genders for cisgender individuals is built upon the gender binary: an individual can be legible as one or the other of the binary genders, but if you are neither then your true gender is unknowable within the context of current society.
These are not exclusive categories: there are genderqueer people who are cissexual and there are genderqueer people who are transsexual, which roughly translates into a distinction of whether or not the dissonance that one experiences is rooted in the body or not.
You raise the issue of queered gender expression and it's legibility in society, and there's something there, certainly, but it's of a different nature, which is to say that being a different sort of man renders you illegible in certain ways, registering instead as a man who is doing it wrong, more or less, but you maintain a basic acknowledgement of 'man'. This is different from a situation in which being recognized as 'man' is actually an act of misgendering and activates a dissonance. The issue for genderqueer people is when being recognized as 'woman' is also dissonant.
Which is not a perfect description of how genderqueer people relate to the gender binary (and in fact, my own personal relationship to the gender binary is fairly complicated and doesn't look very much at all like what I've described here, but is similar in that it generates a similar dissonance as I try to position myself within and with respect to the gender binary), but it gives an idea of the distinctions I am making, and of the areas of experience sketched out by these words.
That said, from what you've said your usage here has been not at all appropriative, and I believe you on that. This usage of the word, while I don't know the exact history of it, is certainly much more recent a coinage than 1992. Your worry that by labeling cisgender individuals as cisgender we risk erasing the complexity of the lived experiences being subsumed under that label is misplaced, and is actually a version of an argument that has been mobilized against cisgender/cissexual frequently and from many different quarters, and which results (I would say) from a confusion of categories. Gender is different from gender variance is different from transsexuality is different from genderqueer. Being cisgender says nothing about and individual's positioning with regard to these other categories.
Please be careful in your explorations of cisgender/cissexual as a term in this way. As part of the project of decentering the experience of being cisgender/cissexual they are absolutely vital, and they are subject to frequent attack in a way that comparable de-centering terms (white, heterosexual, etc) are not. (These attacks take several forms: One is the one you've raised here, more commonly given by certain types of radical feminists who argue that women are not allowed to be at ease with their bodies/genders under Patriarchy, and thus cannot be labeled cisgender/sexual. Another very common attack, which I don't think you would ever be in danger of using, is that cissexual/gender is "too academic", despite the fact that it has seen very little uptake in academic writings so far and is in fact a product of the community). I say this to you because I have a certain amount of good will towards you built up over the lengthy period I have been reading your blog. Most people I would shut down much more harshly on this matter.
Certainly I will be careful about my terminology here -- I actually have a lot of ethical and political commitment around such care in general, and alerting me to my obvious ignorance here is quite enough to change my behavior. I'm happy to be alerted about such mistakes and confusions because I'm eager to learn while at once not invested particularly in declaring myself "learned." To be honest this attitude has always been tied very closely to my own experience and practice of my queer selfhood and desire.
That said, do you really mean to say that "radical feminists who argue that women are not allowed to be at ease with their bodies/genders under Patriarchy, and thus cannot be labeled cisgender/sexual" are necessarily engaging in "attacks" of a kind that may need "harshly" to be "shut down"?
I will confess I don't yet grasp completely how the supplement (if that's what is afoot here at all, I'm not yet clear about it) of cissex and cisgender to the categories sex and gender is doing different work from their queering in earlier "queer theory" interventions and in the context of intersex and transsex activism of the last twenty years or so with which I am at least somewhat familiar and invested.
If it does not try your patience too much I would honestly welcome more clarity about your claim that "gender is different from gender variance is different from transsexuality is different from genderqueer." I find that very interestingly provocative, but I'm not sure of what the differences actually consist from category to category in this formulation. I hope that question doesn't induce eye-rolling -- I know being asked to explain something the millionth time to some clueless person can be a trial.
I regard gender as an abyssal performative that is differentially substantiating but never securing. This makes me wonder about your assignments to some negotiations of sex-gender system(s) as straightforwardly "apt," "proper," or "true."
Now, I would be the last to deny the valorization of some normative practices and morphological signatures nor the compensatory costs imposed in the precarity and abjection of so many queer lifeways otherwise. However, since for me "the body" is always the "socially legible body" and such legibility is always an abyssal performative in regard to that which is posited as its sex and its gender and the regulatory relations obtaining between them I do have a committed politics around refusing to grasp too readily any claims about "experiences... rooted in the body or not." Given that, I also do not yet adequately understand the political claims being made here in relation to more familiar arguments and positions I have already been deeply invested in (just call me Grampy McArtfag!) that would facilitate non-abject radically democratizing lgbtipqq agencies -- that's lesbian-gay-bisexual-transsexual-intersex-punk-queer-questioning, in case you're curious about the alphabet soup.
Your comments may indeed be the intervention that causes me eventually to junk or radically transform those commitments in favor of different ones, but I just don't know yet.
But when I say "I do not understand" do please hear just that in what I am saying. I think you are raising questions which my usage has indeed signaled I needed to be alerted to. Again, I appreciate that very much.
I hope the clumsy efforts that likely proceed from the work to understand will not seem too reactionary nor cause harmful humiliation in conversational partners. I hope you will believe me when I say I certainly have intended no attack on queer allies through my customary theoryhead interventions or terminological usages, and I hope that the moratorium I will immediately issue myself in respect to the "genderqueer" term until I understand much better the current politics of these usages will go some way to reassuring you about that.
I will say, though, that even a cursory glance at the popular and academic usages connected to these terms still seems to suggest some of this is in real flux right now and hence generosity about intentions is probably a good idea until a person reveals themselves upon further exploration to be a real asshole around the issue (as, in my experience, assholes usually do without too much prodding).
Thanks for all this, you've given me a lot to think about and you've already changed my tune.
[T]he signature of Barack Obama's rallies was the "Yes, We Can!" chant from his supporters… House Minority Leader John Boehner's floor speech opposing health care reform contained the following… "No, you can't.... The answer is no.... No, you cannot... No, you cannot... Hell no, you can't!... Hell no, you haven't!" Yet, once the key votes had been cast, enacting the most sweeping expansion of the social safety net since the passage of Medicare, the joyous Democratic caucus erupted in the signature "Yes, We Can" chant…
Thus, we close the book on an era of endless onslaught on liberal ideology that began on election night in 1980. For thirty years, liberals were on the defensive. Today, we are back on the offensive. Republicans will have to adjust to an entirely new paradigm… [A] huge percentage of what future congresses will do will be to provide oversight and adjustments to the health care system. The government will be constantly looking for ways to make health care plans more consumer friendly and less costly to the budget…
The longer it takes the Republicans to realize this, the more credit the Democrats will get for having passed these reforms. When Republicans complain about the mandate and score political points, the Democrats will offer to create a public option as the only solution to the problem. They are trapped…
We do live in a different country today than we did yesterday. It's a country that has no use for the old Republican Party.
Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. It's hard to exaggerate the magnitude of the disaster. Conservatives may cheer… they'll compensate... with a big win in the November… But… It's a good bet that conservatives are over-optimistic about November – by then the... immediate goodies in the healthcare bill will be reaching key voting blocs…
[T]he blame for today's disaster attaches to conservatives and Republicans ourselves. At the beginning of this process we made a strategic decision… we would make no deal with the administration. No negotiations, no compromise, nothing... This would be Obama's Waterloo... [W]e went for all the marbles, we ended with none. Could a deal have been reached? Who knows? …the gap between this plan and traditional Republican ideas is not very big. The Obama plan has a broad family resemblance to Mitt Romney's Massachusetts plan [and to] Republican counter-proposals to Clintoncare in 1993-1994. Barack Obama badly wanted Republican votes for his plan. Could we have leveraged his desire[?] … Too late now…
No illusions please: This bill will not be repealed. Even if Republicans scored a 1994 style landslide in November, how many votes could we muster to... charge seniors more for prescription drugs? How many votes to re-allow insurers to rescind policies when they discover a pre-existing condition? How many votes to banish 25 year olds from their parents' insurance coverage? And even if the votes were there –- would President Obama sign such a repeal?
We followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat. There were leaders who knew better… But they were trapped. Conservative talkers on Fox and talk radio had whipped the Republican voting base into such a frenzy that deal-making was rendered impossible. How do you negotiate with… somebody whom your voters have been persuaded to believe wants to murder their grandmother? … [O]verheated talk… mobilizes supporters –- but by mobilizing them with hysterical accusations and pseudo-information, overheated talk has made it impossible for representatives to represent and elected leaders to lead. The real leaders are on TV and radio, and they have very different imperatives from people in government. Talk radio thrives on confrontation and recrimination. When Rush Limbaugh said that he wanted President Obama to fail, he… omitted to say… what is equally true… that he also wants Republicans to fail. If Republicans succeed –- if they govern successfully in office and negotiate attractive compromises out of office –- Rush's listeners get less angry. And if they are less angry, they listen to the radio less, and hear fewer ads for Sleepnumber beds…. [T]oday's defeat… is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more disappointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on television and radio. For them, it's mission accomplished. For the cause they purport to represent, it's Waterloo all right: ours.
Things are getting pretty heated in the Capitol with crowds of anti-Reform/Tea Party activists going through the halls shouting slogans and epithets at Democratic members of Congress… [A] few moments ago in the Longworth office building, a group swarmed a very calm looking Henry Waxman, as he got on the elevator, with shouts of "Kill the bill!" "You liar! You crook!" ... Just after Frank rounded a corner to leave the building, an older protest[e]r yelled "Barney, you faggot." The surrounding crowd of protest[e]rs then erupted in laughter.
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The answer to the Fermi Paradox may simply be that we aren't invited to the party because so many humans are boring assholes. As one small evidence in this matter it is noteworthy that so many humans would appear to be so flabbergastingly immodest and immature as to think it a "paradoxical" result to discover the Universe is not an infinitely faceted mirror reflecting back at us on its every face our own incarnations and exhibitions of intelligence.
[W]e can spend a trillion dollars and cover thirty million uninsured Americans and the effect on the budget will be to save $1.3 trillion over the next twenty years… [That's] what the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says the health care bill will do. According to DCCC chair, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, those numbers mean that the health care bill is the biggest deficit reduction bill since Bill Clinton's 1993 Economic Plan. That bill, known as the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, didn't win a single Republican vote in the House or the Senate. In fact, the Senate vote was 50-50 and vice-president Al Gore cast the deciding vote. Notice, also, that it was a budget reconciliation bill, which is why it could pass with only 51 votes…. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are the two presidents to enact major budget reduction legislation… [T]he Democrats have a good record on budgets while, despite their rhetoric and branding, the Republicans have a disastrous record.
Dennis Kucinich just made it official: He's voting for the Senate bill, making him the first member to go on record flip[p]ing his vote from No to Yes. "In the past week it's become clear that the vote on the final bill will be very close," Kucinich, who voted No last time because of the lack of the public option, said at a presser moments ago. He acknowle[d]ged that he'd be voting "not on the bill as I would like to see it, but as it is." ... "However, after careful discussions with President Obama, Speaker Pelosi" and others, Kucinich said, "I've decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation." … Kucinich… recognized how difficult Obama's challenge is. "I left [a meeting with Obama] with a real sense of compassion for our president and what he's going through," he said. "We have to be compassionate towards those who are called upon to make decisions for this nation. It's not an easy burden that he's taken up." … Kucinich said that ultimately he couldn't escape the argument that "something is better than nothing." ... "People are looking for some hope that maybe something can be changed," he said, suggesting that… passing reform is essential in order to prove to Americans that government is not entirely dysfunctional. Kucinich conceded that… failure would be a threat to Obama's overall agenda. He said he has "a real desire for our president to succeed," adding that "one of the things that bothers me is the attempt to deligitimize this presidency."
"All liquored up on sake" ... "a suicide run" ... bizarre invocations of assassination. Threats of civil (or perhaps not so civil) disobedience against new Health Care laws. The Republican rhetoric sure is heating up as momentum gathers for a final vote on Health Care Reform. But there's no missing that it's the intensity of desperation… Republicans… have argued that if Health Care Reform is unpopular now (which it is by a marginal and decreasing degree) it's not going to get more popular once the Democrats pass it in the face of popular opposition… [S]ome Democrats probably even believe [that]'s true. Yet the available polling and historical evidence all suggests that it's flat wrong… [S]ince the Dems got back on track toward passing Reform, they haven't taken any hit in the polls. Indeed, support for the Democrats and Reform itself are both rising… [This] confirms the… lesson of 1994. For all the rise in right-wing militancy, discontent over guns and other wedge issues, and even with all the structural threats to Democratic rule, what really killed the Dems was that at the critical moment they flaked. President Clinton bet his whole presidency on grand promises about Health Care Reform. His party controlled the entire federal government (though the control was more illusory than today), and they didn't deliver anything. Impotence isn't just demoralization to supporters and enlivening to political opponents. For a big swath of the public, policy proper in its specifics is always in competition for a more elemental desire for effective and efficient government… [G]iven the choice of an effective manager who we don't particularly like and an incompetent, I think most of us would prefer the former. Passing Health Care Reform won't save Democrats… [t]hey're going to have a very hard November. But there's little doubt that passing will improve their prospects politically… perhaps by quite a lot… Republican leaders get that, which is why they're pulling out all the stops for a final push to stop it.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said "Nancy Pelosi… has got [Democrats] all liquored up on sake and you know, they're making a suicide run here… This makes no political sense [to] take a bill the American people dislike ... pass it along party lines, using gimmickry to get it passed[.]"
Gov. Mark Sanford's (R-SC)… released a statement earlier saying that today -- March 15 -- is the day Julius Caesar was murdered, sometimes known as the Ides of March. The day is usually associated with a sense of foreboding, and Sanford warned the public to be wary of health care reform. Trent Lott agreed today on Fox News: "Shakespeare warned us to beware the Ides of March. That's today, and I have a very ominous feeling about what's fixing to happen on health care votes."
As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement is the tale of an average citizen in action. "I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you," she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama's "hard-left agenda." But Thomas is no ordinary activist. She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and she has launched a tea-party-linked group that could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court. In January, Virginia Thomas created Liberty Central Inc., a nonprofit lobbying group whose website will organize activism around a set of conservative "core principles," she said. The group plans to issue score cards for Congress members and be involved in the November election, although Thomas would not specify how. She said it would accept donations from various sources -- including corporations -- as allowed under campaign finance rules recently loosened by the Supreme Court. "I adore all the new citizen patriots who are rising up across this country," Thomas, who goes by Ginni, said on the panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference. "I have felt called to the front lines with you, with my fellow citizens, to preserve what made America great."
Marco Rubio was barely solvent as a young lawmaker climbing his way to the top post in the Florida House, but special interest donations and political perks allowed him to spend big money with little scrutiny…. Rubio's high-roller political spending belies his image as an outsider riding a wave of antiestablishment fervor and gunning to knock off Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination… "Having expenditures in the tens of thousands of dollars to pay off credit cards, it's clear to me… [t]he Rubios were living off it,'' said state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, a strong Crist supporter…. In December 2002, Rubio was a 31-year-old political hotshot set on becoming speaker of the Florida House. Rounding up support from legislators across 67 counties is no easy task for a young lawyer and local government lobbyist with a net worth of negative $103,000…. So Rubio did what many aspiring Florida legislative leaders do -- he created a political committee, Floridians for Conservative Leadership, to "support state and local candidates who espouse conservative government policies," according to IRS records. But for 2003, the committee spent nearly $150,000 on administrative and operating costs and $2,000 in candidate contributions. Over 18 months, only $4,000 went to candidates other than Rubio, while similar political committees gave tens of thousands of dollars to candidates… Rubio's wife, former Miami Dolphins cheerleader Jeanette Dousdebes, served as the committee's treasurer. In reports filed with the state, Rubio and his wife failed to disclose more than $34,000 in expenses over an 18-month period…. "[Rubio]'s playing fast and loose with the rules,'' said Ben Wilcox of Common Cause Florida, a government watchdog group.
In the wake of the implosion of nearly all sources of American authority, this new decade will have to be about reforming our institutions to reconstitute a more reliable and democratic form of authority. Scholarly research shows a firm correlation between strong institutions, accountable élites and highly functional economies; mistrust and corruption, meanwhile, feed each other in a vicious circle. If our current crisis continues, we risk a long, ugly process of de-development: higher levels of corruption and tax evasion and an increasingly fractured public sphere, in which both public consensus and reform become all but impossible.
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Ocean view from every room! And a great value for your next vacation. This large house is in a beautiful neighborhood and has a private pool, new stainless steel appliances and a huge lanai with one of the best sunset views in Kona. The amazing lanai is comfortable to enjoy 24 hours a day. It is never too hot, or too cold and there's usually an ocean breeze. More than just chairs and loveseat, It has a bistro table for memorable and romantic sunset dinners. Other amenities include two 50 inch plasma televisions, wireless Internet, cable TV, DVD players, propane BBQ, bath towels, beach towels, beach chairs, beach umbrellas, wet suits, pool toys, countless pairs of fins and dive masks, body boards, golf clubs, new high capacity washer and dryer, coffee maker, rice cooker, crock pot, blenders, port-a-crib, high-chair, stainless steel kitchen appliances, over 2 sets of dishware, pots and pans, electric grill. There is also a 2 person kayak with paddles and life vests for the more adventurous guests (with the right rental vehicle). Upstairs is a California King bed in the Master bedroom, and a queen bed in the second bedroom. Downstairs is 2 Queens in one room and a California King in the other.
One of the best features of the house is the cool breeze that usually moves through the house. Check out the guest reviews to see what others have enjoyed most.
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We are Jon and Jackie. The house used to be Jon's residence. He was a pharmacist in Kona for years. Now we live in Montana and we usually only get to dream about Hawaii. When we are there, you will likely find Jackie working in the yard. She landscaped the entire yard, planting nearly everything that is there. We know quite a bit about the Big Island, and try to get back when possible to visit our wonderful friends there. We have many reliable contacts that keep everything working right. We want your experience to be so great that you recommend our house to your friends for their next vacation.
We also want to mention that in this era of online scams, we will never ask you to wire funds. If you get that request, you are not dealing with us. Aloha.
Jon Berman purchased this house in 2010
Where do I start? Jon and Jackie were the most attentive, thoughtful and responsible owners I have ever dealt with on VRBO...and there have been ALOT! I stayed at this BEAUTIFUL home for a little over 2 weeks with my wife, 2 young children (6 & 4), sister and parents and we could not have been happier. Plenty of space, a great layout giving everyone the privacy they needed and absolutely every ammenity you can think of. The kids loved the pool (and so did we) and the home's location in a very nice, quiet neighborhood close to Kailua-Kona, with all the stores, activities and restaurants located there and nearby, made it the perfect vacation home. A little side note to explain the service provided by the owners: We had the pleasure of meeting Jackie at the beginning of our stay, for she had been in town taking care of some things with the home and was still in the area when we arrived. When she stopped by the house on her way to the airport we spoke with her for a while and mentioned a couple of things. 1) Our concern at the ease of access to the pool from both lower level bedrooms (one of which was the kids' room) through the slider doors that did not have any childproof security. 2) Along with the numerous books provided at the home, my mom asked if there was a bird guide, due to the numerous colorful visitors we saw on a daily basis...Jackie regretfully said there was not. The NEXT DAY I received an email from Jon informing me that he ordered a couple of different childproof security mechanisms for the slider doors and that they were being shipped. We received the package with security bars that worked great for childproofing the slider doors and.....a Hawaiian bird guide book! Very unnecessary, as it wasn't a complaint on our behalf, but like I mentioned earlier, was extremely attentive, thoughtful and responsible. Thank you Jon and Jackie for you and your home making our vacation a true paradise. Hope to see you again in the future!
From the moment we arrived to the day we left there was nothing but excitement and joy. To see all of Hawaii thru our grandkids eyes and the love they had for the house and pool.Thank you for sharing your house with us it is just beautiful.It was located so close to all our activities and had everything we needed and what we bought we added to their collection.
Incredible property! Amazing value! Great location! Everything you need is included, from water shoes and fins to snorkels and a kayak. The perfect house for your family's Big Island vacation. Our group of 9, including ages 7-64, had more than enough room. Thank you!
The pictures of this home are very accurate but do not do it justice!! This home is outstanding. There is nothing missing! There is everything you could want!! We were a family of 5 with 3 kids under 13 and they loved it! The view is fantastic, the gardens are beautiful, the house is in a great neighborhood, its close to the main hwy but far enough away you don't hear it, its peaceful, the town of Kona is close....quite frankly its perfect! I did not want to leave!! I HIGHLY recommend anyone stay here!!
From the moment we inquired about this house to the day we received our deposit back, Jon and Jackie are by far the BEST owner we've ever come across in our 7 years of renting from VRBO. We truly felt that they really do want you to have a wonderful and memorable vacation in their Kona home and that is exactly what we did for 10 days. We stayed in their home August 12-21, 2014 right after the hurricanes passed by and I believe that it was a little bit more hot and humid than usual because of that. Having the portable fans going and the having the windows and doors open helped a lot as there is no central A/C available. The pool was a bit too cold for me but my husband and kids enjoyed it. Everything about this house is even more beautiful in person compared to the pictures posted on the website. Everything that you can possibly need is available in their home. It is very spacious that the bedroom with the two beds downstairs was left untouched :)). Our most favorite spot was the Lanai, of course! Who wouldn't with that view....We enjoyed our morning walks and felt very safe in this friendly and quiet neighborhood and what a workout that was. Thank you, Jon and Jackie for making your home available for us. We truly enjoyed our stay in the Big Island.
The property was a lot like being @ home the owners tried to provide for anything you might want or need. Our children enjoyed the pool. We uses some of the beach accessories the chairs and umbrella were much appreciated. The home was the perfert size for our family. The owner's typically respond to emails promptly. I had some questions in our final days and that email went unanswered. The only other problem we had was with the freezer it seemed no matter what you did it iced over fortunately we didn't need it for much. All in all great house awesome stay beautiful island. Also the neighborhood is great, the roads are steep.
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Briana Talarico
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
"Relationships are important to me. I value my clients, and above all, I provide an emotionally safe therapeutic atmosphere. I am dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families heal and get through whatever they are experiencing by working collaboratively and being supportive. With a mixture of empathy, support, and positive energy, solutions are developed together helping to give you a life that is more fulfilled.
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"People seeking to become who they really are---that is, whole, balanced, resilient, contented---seek me out. I support kind, healthy, authentic relationship with all aspects of oneself because such relationship is key to kind, healthy, authentic relationships with others. It's also key to expressing ourselves most fully, both creatively and pragmatically. Whether working with individuals or couples, these principles apply. I try to make our work together as fun, co-creative, and as low in stress as possible. I intend for clients to leave therapy with personalized skills and skillful means for ongoing lifetime growth and resiliency.
(315) 567-4701
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Joanna Rigoli
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
"I have over 18 years experience providing individual and couples therapy in the New York Metro area and now here in the Central NY area. I treat adolescents, adults and the elderly using cognitive behavioral and insight oriented therapeutic techniques. These approaches allow me to help my clients identify the cause of the issues, gain specific techniques to alleviate stress while maintaining a solution focused approach. I teach my clients to build upon their current strengths, develop new skills, increase awareness and create positive change to improve their relationships,communication styles, self-worth and to increase their overall coping skills for long term results.
(315) 794-2163
"After many years of practice and research, I have come to the belief that a holistic approach to emotional problems best serves the client. I take into account the past history of trauma and/or abuse, one's spiritual state, and very importantly, one's nutritional status. I am a trained nutritional therapist, and also have studied for the ministry in addition to my training in counseling. I hope my clients will appreciate this all-inclusive philosophy, and will be open to exploring various areas to find a solution that will be tailored just for them. Everyone is unique!
(315) 364-0441
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Sarah Linder
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
"You may have come here because you or your loved one is experiencing some distress or life is not measuring up to what you expected or hoped for. The decision to enter into therapy often takes a lot of time and thought before taking that chance. I will be respectful of you and your situation and offer support while challenging behaviors or attitudes that may be keeping you stuck. It is an honor for me to join you in this process; my hope is that you can find peace within yourself, so that you can find peace in your life.
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Jennie Mazza Jones
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"If you are reading this, you are considering getting your child help through counseling. This can be a scary step, especially if you have never experienced it before. I specialize in working with young children utilizing a play therapy approach. When you work with me we will meet together first to identify the struggles your child is experiencing. We will then come up with a picture of what success looks like for you and your child to create a plan that takes into consideration your unique circumstances.
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Tim Quinn
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"People I work with desire to resolve; once and for all, the issues they bring to therapy. The therapies that I employ consistently achieve that end. That is to say, they result in "Personal Transformation", or your forever after perceiving and experiencing yourself and the world profoundly differently. Eventually, you will achieve the state of Equilibrium (Emotional Balance); the state of "being" from which life is best lived. Then you feel contented, be consistently able to evolve, and your life will be joyful; not only occasionally, but usually - Imagine the possibilities . . .
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David Stang
Psychologist, PsyD
"I have been in practice for 20 years. I can address a variety of problems, such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse and serious mental illness. I work with individual adults, couples and adolescents. I provide a supportive approach. I give people an opportunity to express their emotions and sort out their problems. I also provide practical coping skills as the situation warrents. I also perform diagnostic testing and evaluations. I take all major insurance.
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Brian P Mulkerne
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSWR
"My ideal client is someone I can establish a relationship with that allows us to work together. I try to help my clients to discuss and examine their issues and make choices that can help them. I am experienced in treating the emotional and behavioral disorders of children, adolescents, adults, the elderly, and the developmentally disabled. I have been effective in helping adults in emotional crisis, marital conflicts, and parenting issues. I have experience in managing the needs of a disabled child or family member, and in coping with severe illness, grief and bereavement.
(315) 541-4237
"As a therapist, I believe that change is challenging and hard for many people. My goal in working with you is to create a safe space in which you and I can build a strong therapeutic relationship. I believe that this sets the ground for creating change in your life as we work towards uncovering your strengths and encouraging you to become the creator of your own story. Whether you are struggling with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, difficult children or an unhappy relationship, I can help you dismantle from unhealthy patterns and work with you on reaching your goals.
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Kim A Guarascio
Psychologist, PhD
"I have been working as a Licensed Psychologist in the Upstate NY area for over ten years providing individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy for teens, young adults, and adults with a wide variety of clinical problems. I obtained my Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology in 2001 from the University of Akron in Ohio. I have experience in treating many clinical issues for which people seek out a therapist, such as: Relationship issues, Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, Sexual Abuse and Trauma, and Eating Disorders. My treatment approach includes assisting clients in defining and building a life worth living.
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Dominick R Nicotera
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
"I believe in many approaches concerning therapy and although I specialize in some the importance of motivation and goals for change is paramount to success of the client . I like to see that the client is working on things that are important to them and the integrity of therapy is understood and maintained. To this end periodic check ins are implemented in the treatment plan as our contractual relationship developes.
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James Brendan Ryan
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"I have over 30 years experience working with children and adolescents. I have worked in adolescent inpatient settings as a therapist and Psychologist. I have also worked with adults in outpatient clinic settings. I have had good success working with clients with anger control issues and ADHD features. I have lots of experience working with clients with depression and suicidal ideation. I have also done family therapy as well. I also have over 20 years experience coaching a variety sports at the high school level.
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Daniel Silverman
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSWR, ACSW
"I enjoy working with people regardless of race religion, lifestyle or past. The ideal client is a willing participant and open to making changes that lead to higher life satisfaction. I am best suited for people that want an honest, real life and solution focused approach. Please see my website www.silvermanlcswr.com for more information.
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Lynn Tomaino
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
"Most people contact me when they are overwhelmed by feelings and symptoms. Changing your thoughts and behavior will change your feelings and eliminate your symptoms. Cognitive therapy helps you do this. I also explore your past and help you understand how it impacts on you in the "here and now". But, I do not help you use the past in order to blame others or make excuses. Instead, I link it to your present thoughts and behavior to help you change,to feel better and to take control of your life. This problem focused, short term therapy is extremely effective.
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Alkira Marriage & Family Therapy, PC
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"Are you wishing that you can change your relationship? Do you feel anxious or down, struggling with your marriage or children, thinking that it's time to talk to someone but you're not sure who?Imagine that you have a caring person to help you talk through your problems, listen, and talk to your partner and/or your child. This person is compassionate. Knowledgeable. Fair. Specializes in relationships. And knows how to help you when you feel far away from everyone. The Marriage and Family Therapists at Alkira specialize with couple and parenting relationships, and can help you.
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Jill Weldum
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, CCPT
"Are you wondering what has happened to your relationship? Has your life slowly turned into something unfamiliar? Have things happened in your life you didn't expect? Are you feeling overwhelmed, and don't know where to turn? I provide a comfortable, nurturing environment for us to talk about whatever is concerning you. I specialize with couples, individuals, and families with young children, and I can pull from a variety of treatment approaches to tailor to your specific situation. You'll be speaking with an experienced, compassionate, and intelligent therapist, who will quickly help you make changes and feel better.
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Theressa McMorris
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
"Life is hard. Relationships are hard. Sometimes we try as hard as we can only to end up in the same place we always end up, whether it be with your self or a loved one. You are not alone. Getting unstuck is a challenge. I suppose it is not unlike getting a car unstuck. You try all that you can to get traction but sometimes you just have to call someone who can pull you out.
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Teresa Mary Pascarella
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"I have over fifteen years of experience working with children, adolescents and adults struggling with issues related to anxiety, oppositional defiance, depression, attention and focus difficulties, self harm, broken families. Many symptoms can be resolved by learning relaxation exercises, building strengths, learning distraction activities and improving communication skills. Academic and work challenges can be resolved by learning how to obtain the appropriate assistance and skills necessary to survive in today's world. Support networks are included in therapy sessions to ensure support between sessions. I accept many insurance plans and will work with your primary care provider if desired or necessary to optimize your care.
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Dara Shipman
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"Relationships can be difficult and change is hard. I think the uncertainty of life can be unsettling. Sometimes it's worth reaching out for a little bit of help. Pain, loss, anxiousness, and hopelessness can be overwhelming. You don't have to move through it alone. You can attend therapy individually, with a partner, or family to create the change you desire in your life. I can help by providing culturally sensitive guidance and a safe space for you on your path to healing.
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a machine-readable medium that stores instructions for use in routing a packet, the instructions for causing the machine to:
review a destination address of a packet received at a private network interface of the gateway; and
route the packet to a private client connected to the private network interface of the gateway when the destination address of the packet corresponds to a public address of the gateway.
17. The article of
18. The article of
19. The article of
20. The article of
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23. A system over which packets are transported, comprising:
a private network;
a public network; and
a gateway between the private and public network, wherein the system reviews a destination address of a packet received at a private network interface of the gateway and routes the packet to a private client connected to the private network interface when the destination address of the packet is a public address of the gateway.
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[0001] This invention relates to routing packets, and more particularly to proxy-less packet routing between private and public address realms.
[0002] Routing packets involves transferring packets (i.e. pieces of information) between computers in a computer network. A packet includes a data field and an address field. The address field specifies a destination address for which that packet is intended. The address field also specifies a source address from which the packet originated.
[0003] Computer networks include computers having a private address and/or a public address. Computers having a private address are in a private network and considered part of a private address realm. Typically, a Request for Comment 1918 (�RFC 1918�) standard defines reserved private IP address spaces in the private realm. Computers having a public address are in the public network and considered part of the public address realm.
[0004] Computers in a private network are able to route packets to other computers within that private network using the private address realm. Computers in the public network are able to route packets to other computers within the public network using the public address realm. Computers in private and public networks are only able to transfer packets between each other through a gateway between the networks.
[0005] Network Address Translation (�NAT�) is a protocol that enables Internet Protocol (�IP�) computers in a private address realm to transfer packets with IP computers in the public address realm.
[0006]FIG. 1 is a view of a private network and public network.
[0007]FIG. 2 is a view of a packet.
[0008]FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of a process for addressing packets.
[0009]FIG. 4 is a flow diagram of a process for routing packets.
[0010]FIG. 5 is a view of the IP layer in a private network for implementing processes of FIG. 3 and FIG. 4.
[0011]FIG. 6 is a view of computer hardware used to implement one embodiment of the invention.
[0012] Like reference symbols in the various drawings indicate like elements.
[0013] Network 10 (FIG. 1) includes private network 12 and public network 14. Private network 12 is considered a private address realm. Public network 14 is considered a public address realm.
[0014] Private network 12 includes private clients, here computers A and B, and gateway 16. Public network 14 includes public clients, here computer C and also gateway 16.
[0015] Private clients A and B share a private addressing scheme known only to members of private network 12 (i.e. the private addressing realm). Each private client has its own private IP address. Here, private client A has the private IP address of PrA and private client B has the private IP address of PrB.
[0016] Here, private network 12 also includes a private registry 32. Private clients (e.g. A or B) register an IP addresses in private registry 32 so that applications running on other clients may locate the registered private client.
[0017] Public client C has a public addressing scheme known to all members of network 10 (i.e. the public addressing realm). Each public client has its own public IP address. Here, public client C has a public IP address of Puc.
[0018] Here, public network 12 also includes a public registry 34. Public clients (e.g. C) register an IP addresses in public registry 34 so that applications running on other clients may locate the registered public client.
[0019] Gateway 16 has a private network interface 15 and a public network interface 17. Private network interface 15 has at least one private address, PrG, and public network interface 17 has at least one public address PuG. Here, gateway 16 also has a processor 62 (FIG. 6) for executing various instructions and tasks such as routing packets.
[0020] Packet 20 (FIG. 2) includes information 22 intended for a particular client, for example private client B, and address field 24. Address field 24 includes destination address 26. Destination address 26, which is PrB in the present example, directs packet 20 to intended client B. Here, address field 24 also includes a source address 28, for example PrA, to identify the originator of packet 20, here private client A.
[0021] Network Address Translation protocol (�NAT�) is a protocol that allows private clients A and B to transfer (i.e. route) packets with public client C. NAT accomplishes this by modifying (i.e. translating) the source IP address and/or ports of outbound packets transmitted from a private network to the public network. NAT maintains these modifications in a manner (e.g. a table) which enables the gateway to de-multiplex address information from inbound packets from the public network received in response to the outbound packets so that it may route the inbound packets to the appropriate private address. Heretofore, NAT required proxies (i.e. application specific software) or application level gateways (ALG) for those applications that embed IP addresses in application packets. ALG modify IP addresses and/or port in such embedded application payloads to comply with NAT requirements.
[0022] Realm Specific Internet Protocol (�RSIP�) is a protocol that enables clients in the private address realm to perform Host-NAT. Host-NAT implies that each private client (e.g. A) of private network 12 requests and obtains a public IP address from gateway 16, here PuG, to use instead of its own private IP address (e.g. PrA) for all applications. Here, functions of NAT and RSIP are combined in processes 30 and 40, described below, to help complete address determination issues in an application-independent (i.e. proxy-less) manner.
[0023]FIG. 3 shows process 30 for implementing private to public addressing in an application independent (i.e. proxy-less) manner. Process 30 runs for example on private client A and queries (301) gateway 16 to obtain the public address, for example PuG, of private network 12. In response to query (301), a network 12 protocol stack, for example stack 65 (FIG. 6) on gateway 16, returns (303) the public IP address PuG of private network 12 and reserves PuG, in for example RSIP mapping table 67 (FIG. 6), for use by an application X running on A. After receipt of network public IP address PuG, process 30 registers (305) PuG with private and public agents such as private registry 32 and public registry 34 (FIG. 1) as the source (i.e. return) address for private client A. Finally, process 30 un-registers (307) PuG with private and public agents, such a registries 32 and 34, and un-reserves PuG once application X running on private client A is finished.
[0024]FIG. 4 shows process 40 for routing packets 20 without proxies. Process 40, here implemented by processor 62, reviews (401) destination address 26 of inbound packet 20 received at private network interface 15 of gateway 16. Process 40 determines (403) how to route inbound packet 20 based on that review (401).
[0025] If destination address 26 of packet 20 is public address PuG of gateway 16 process 40 reroutes (405) packet 20 to the private client that reserved PuG in process 30. Here, a RSIP mapping table 67 created in process 30 is consulted to determine which private client reserved public address PuG. If public address PuG has not been reserved (e.g. if a mapping is not found) then packet 20 is dropped.
[0026] If destination address 26 of packet 20 is the private address PrG of gateway 16, then process 40 pushes (407) packet 20 up stack 65 to be used by gateway 16. If destination address 26 of packet 20 is a private address in the private address realm and not the private address PrG of gateway 16, then the packet 20 is routed (409) to the private client specified by the private address. If destination address 26 of packet 20 is a public address in the public address realm and not PuG forward (411) packet 20 on interface 17 of gateway 16 to public network 14. Additional packet processing (not relevant in this context) may occur before packet 20 is forwarded.
[0027]FIG. 5 shows an example of protocol layers for implementing process 30 and 40. Local applications X and Y here run on private clients A and B respectfully. To send a packet 20 (i.e. process 30) application X obtains a private IP address, here PrA for client A, at IP layer 54. The IP layer 54 negotiates with NAT/RSIP layer 56 to secure a public address of private network 12 from internal network interface 15. NAT/RSIP layer 56 returns secured public address, for example PuG, to IP layer 54 for use as a source address 28, (provided the particular address field 24 of packet 20 has a source address 28) and/or to be stored in registries 32 and 34 and NAT/RSIP mapping table 67. NAT/RSIP layer 56 may also modify the source port obtained in TCP/UDP layer 52 according to NAT/RSIP protocol before packet 20 may be routed by gateway 16 to its destination address. The modification of the source port will also be stored in NAT/RSIP mapping table 67.
[0028] Similarly, to receive a packet 20 (i.e. process 40) at internal or external interface 15 or 17 addressed to the public address of private network 12 (i.e. 405), for example PuG, NAT/RSIP layer 56 is used to obtain the private address, for example PrB, which reserved public address PuG. Once private address PrB is obtained, packet 20 may be routed to its intended destination client, here application Y running on private client B.
[0029]FIG. 6 shows a computer 60 serving as a gateway 16 for routing packets 20 according to processes 30 and 40. Computer 60 includes a processor 62, a memory 64 including executable instructions 61, a protocol stack 65 and a mapping table 67, and private and public network interfaces 15 and 17. Processor 62 executes computer instruction of RAM (not shown) to implement processes 30 and 40.
[0030] Processes 30 and 40, however, are not limited to use with any particular hardware or software configuration; they may find applicability in any computing or processing environment. Processes 30 and 40 may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of the two. Processes 30 and 40 may be implemented in computer programs executing on programmable computers that each include a processor, a storage medium readable by the processor (including volatile and non-volatile memory and/or storage elements and input and output devices.
[0031] Each such program may be implemented in a high level procedural or object-oriented programming language to communicate with a computer system. However, the programs can be implemented in assembly or machine language. The language may be a compiled or interpreted language.
[0032] Each computer program may be stored on a storage medium or device (e.g. CD-ROM, hard disk, or magnetic diskette) that is readable by a general or special purpose programmable computer for configuring and operating the computer when the storage medium or device is read by the computer to perform processes 30 and 40. Processes 30 and 40 may also be implemented as a computer-readable storage medium, configured with a computer program, where, upon execution, instruction in the computer program cause the computer to operate in accordance with processes 30 and 40.
[0033] A number of embodiments of the invention have been described. Nevertheless, it will be understood that various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. For example, gateway 16 may have multiple public and private addresses for routing packets between private and public networks. Moreover, processor 62, stack 65 and table 67 need not be located on gateway itself, but may be positioned else where in the network. Accordingly, other embodiments not explicitly described herein are also within the scope of the following claims.
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We seem to have a lot of new people lately, and I am only trying to help them find their way to the place that will give them the best information on their questions.
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I appreciate your suggestions and your appliance and kitchen comments. I originally found the appliance forum by googling 'appliance ratings.' I only found the other forums when some helpful poster (it might even have been you) pointed them out. I just found out about Hot Topics this week.
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