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Student Success Resources
This page lists resources to help students get the most of their time as a college student: whether it's guidance on selecting classes to balance CORE and major requirements; getting information on how to be a better student (improving note-taking, test-taking, writing skills); or students looking to take advantage of some of the unique college experiences, such as an alternative break trip or undergraduate research.
Within Loyola:
|ACE Advising
|1-on-1 Academic Advising, Master's Mentor, or ACE Coach: meetings available with ACE staff. To request Academic Advising, use WCOnline and select "ACE Advising Appointment Calendar: in the dropdown menu.
|Academic Advising and Support Services
|Lots of information about stress busters, study strategies, time management, test taking, reading, and note-taking.
|Alternative Break Immersions
|Alternative Break Immersions are short trips over Winter, Spring, or early in the Summer break periods where students can serve and be immersed in communities locally and abroad to better understand the social justice mission of Loyola
|CAS: College of Arts and Sciences
|Information about major and minor degree requirements for the degrees through this college at Loyola
|Career Development Center
|Starting your first day as a Loyola student, helps students and alumni find internships and jobs, determine what career path interests you, career fairs, and resume assistance, among other services. Lots of resources to explore, including job guides and sample resumes.
|Understanding CORE Requirements
|What the CORE requirements are, and which specific knowledge areas are waived depending on your specific major. Lots of information to explore to understand what it takes to fulfill your graduation requirements.
|CTAE: Center for Tutoring and Academic Excellence
CTAE offers group tutoring, supplemental instruction, academic skills workshops, and teaches Univ 112-Strategies for Learning, a one-credit course where students assess their academic skills and become strong, effective learners in college. The center provides a space where learning dialogue can take place and where minds work together, across divides, to achieve academic success and sustain academic integrity.
|International Programs
|Information on studying abroad in over 55 countries (including financial assistance), in one of Loyola's flagship programs in Rome, Vietnam, and Beijing, or J-term or summer programs.
|LUROP: Loyola Undergrad Research Opportunities Program
|Explains why research experience as an undergraduate is so important for graduate school and job searches, how to get involved in research, and sometimes get paid for it. Application deadlines vary by program.
|Off-Campus Student Life
|An office dedicated to meeting the unique needs of Loyola students who commute to campus, whether they live at home with their family or in an apartment nearby campus. They sponsor many programs to help these students get better connected with each other and Loyola University Chicago.
|Services for Students with Disabilities
|Serves students with disabilities by creating an accessible learning environment and educating the campus community.
|STARS Mentors (Students Together Are Reaching Success)
|Small group mentoring for helping first-year students adjust to Loyola University Chicago and college life, particularly to assist students of color and first-generation students, make the transition to college
|Study Abroad PPT
|Click here to download a PowerPoint Presentation made by both ACE staff and Office of International Programs Staff about how to finance a study abroad experience!
|Time Management Tips
|Time Management Tips: Some time management tips for students to improve how they spend their time.
|Blank Schedule
|Time Management - a blank schedule that a student can use to track how they spend their time.
|Time Management Info
|Time Management Presentation: a session we present to help students realize the importance of using time wisely and set a schedule.
|Wellness Center
|Information and assistance on all topics related to mental or physical health from sexual assault support to managing allergies. Can be especially helpful for managing anxiety and stress as related to being a student.
|Writing Center
|An on-campus resource where students can meet with peer tutors for assistance in brainstorming, organizing, and drafting academic assignments
Beyond Loyola:
|Education Quest- Transitioning to College
|A non-profit organization dedicated to providing information and resources for helping students be successful in college. Information specifically on making the transition from high school to college, including advice on how to study, how to select a major that fits you well, and how to avoid excessive debt in school.
|Hints on How to Succeed
|A condensed two-page guide with basic information on how to manage your time, studying in general, preparing for exams, presenting college level homework and writing assignments. A great resource for incoming students!
|Learning Styles Survey
|Online survey to gain awareness about how you best learn, so that you can utilize that approach in your studying
|Learning Styles Explained
|Information, academic strategies, and study tips for students to identify and excel with their own learning style, whether you are a visual learner, a tactile/kinesthetic learner, or an auditory learner.
|Did I Plagiarize?
|A flowchart that guides students through a series of yes/no questions to find out if they may have inappropriately used another individual's work as their own, which is plagiarism. Addresses proper citations in writing, the importance of using original ideas in writing, not using your own work for two different courses without citing yourself.
|Can I Use That Picture
|A flowchart that guides students through a series of yes/no questions to find out if they are within the guidelines for copy right, fair use, and public domain to have permission to use a picture.
|Time Management Info
|A Powerpoint presentation by ACE about why it is important to value your time, how to prioritize what you value in how you spend your time, develop a schedule to maximize your 168-hours each week, and apps that can help.
|The Time You Have
|A three-minute YouTube video that helps students put into perspective the time we all have to make the most of life.
|What can I do with this major?
|Information for students who are considering various majors. Especially useful with academic advising for first- and second-year students who are exploring their interests and preparing to declare their major.
|informational resources for students with disabilities about transitioning to college, succeeding in college, and planning for after college


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Wilshere is set to feature for Arsenal Under-21s after having been out with an serious ankle injury for 14 months.
Wenger said: "It is another important step, but he has not played for 14 months so we have to calm your impatience a little bit.
"It is fantastic for him. When you are at that age and are out for such a long time, that is absolutely massive to take."

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Kim Kardashian's Sex Tape Partner Isn't Proud Of Brawling With A Rapper…
In the role of Larry Merchant is a TMZ photographer. Starring as Victor Ortiz is the world famous "Ray J." And as Mayweather-by-default, we have rapper Fabolous. »
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1985: "Robert Randolph" on the birth certificate, but he'll go by "Randy." That's the original plan. Named after his grandfathers. Then Dad starts having doubts. He's a Robert too—doesn't want his son to be Little Bob or Bobby like he had been. So one day, it just hits my parents. "David Andrew." David Matthews. Dave.… »
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Kurt Cobain often spoke of being terrorized by jocks in high school, as if to certify his poetic loserdom. These days, anyone with a camera handy at Lollapalooza or Pitchfork can create his very own hipster version of Straight Cash Homey. What happened in between? Duh, the Internet. What ever happens to anyone these… »
Not long ago, Butthole Surfers frontman Gibby Haynes appeared at a comedy showcase, along with a prop he referred to as his "negro baby doll leg." Things went south from there. »
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For a second, last night's Cardinals-Reds "brawl" was pretty exciting, but only in the sense of "Oh, this'll be good." And then it wasn't good. For this reason, it deserves to be mocked. With video! Three times! »
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That blurry behemoth of a man is future-Hall-of-Famer-turned-amateur-concert-photographer Randy Johnson at Lollapalooza this weekend. He was there to shoot Soundgarden for his own edification because that's what he does now. »
Wrigleyville, the neighborhood around Wrigley Field, has long been known for its "scene." Want to meet the future ex-Mrs. Malcolm? That's the place to go. Well, Wrigleyville has a new sight attracting the hordes: this dancing guy. »
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In sports, everyone is a winner — some people just win better than others. Like weird, wonderful ol' Bill Walton, at last healthy again and back to doing the thing he does best: being ridiculous in public. »
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Three students 'pioneer' summer program at JAX Genomic Medicine
For decades, the Jackson Laboratory's Summer Student Program has provided high school and undergraduate students a hands-on summer of science under the mentorship of top-shelf researchers at the Bar Harbor campus. Now, as the Laboratory expands into Connecticut with The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, its longtime commitment to student education it is following suit.
This year, the JAX Summer Student Program has supported three students at JAX Genomic Medicine on the campus of the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington.
"These students are pioneering the Summer Student program at JAX Genomic Medicine," says Tom Litwin, vice president for education at the Laboratory. "They are the first to test out the idea of an intercampus program."
The students, all residents of Connecticut, are:
- Jacqueline Duhl (not pictured), 19, of Woodbridge, who is about to enter her junior year at the University of Pennsylvania. Her summer placement was in the laboratory of Yijun Ruan, Ph.D., where she studied DNA transcription factors and their effects on protein bonding.
- Jared Gravely, 17, of West Hartford, who will enter the UConn Honors program as a freshman this year. Gravely worked in the laboratory of bioinformaticist Jeffrey Chuang, Ph.D., comparing the accuracy of accepted methods for determining the purity and heterogeneity of tumor samples.
- Sophie deBruijn, 16, of Westport, a senior at Staples High School in Westport. DeBruijn worked on identifying and testing for genetic markers that track the early development of ovarian cancer.
The students lived at home with their families and spent their days working alongside JAX personnel in the day-to-day operations of the research environment.
"They were all wonderful," Duhl says of Raun and his laboratory staff. "They were so welcoming and patient, willing to teach me everything. They treated me as an absolute equal. I never felt like a burden, and I looked forward to going into the lab every day."
The students interacted regularly via teleconference with their peers and program leaders in Maine, and with the exception of Duhl, travelled to the Bar Harbor campus this week to present their final scientific papers. (Duhl started and completed her summer session earlier than the other students so she could begin a semester studying marine biology in Australia.)
While student scientists have been drawn to the Bar Harbor campus since the Laboratory's founding in 1929, the new JAX Genomic Medicine site offers them a unique research experience. There, JAX genomicists are building research collaborations with clinical counterparts, bringing genomic discovery closer to the patient-care setting. This environment offers Farmington-based students the possibility of rubbing shoulders with clinical researchers at area health care institutions. And the evolving partnership with UConn and the UConn Health Center promises an environment enriched by additional research and academic activities.
Next year, Litwin expects to place up to 15 students at JAX Genomic Medicine, with housing available at UConn's main campus in Storrs. He stresses that the 10-week Summer Student Program will remain a single, integrated program that offers each student the opportunity to spend a season in the company of distinguished scientists and peers with similar interests. But now, that opportunity can be realized at two sites instead of one.
"We'll be seeing a regular flow of participants back and forth between the campuses," he says. "Our summer students will get to see the whole spectrum, from pure research to applied translational studies. This is an opportunity to show them a range of career paths in scientific research."
The Summer Student Program, funded by grants and private philanthropy, attracts bright young scientists from around the country. In Bar Harbor, the students are housed at Highseas, the Laboratory's oceanside estate, and receive a modest living stipend. Students also benefit from the supportive culture of the Laboratory community and, in Bar Harbor, from the surrounding natural beauty of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. The program is highly competitive – for the 35 Bar Harbor slots available in 2013, Litwin's office fielded close to 700 applications.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 1999 Army Gen. Omar N. Bradley
Aug. 16, 1949, to Aug. 14, 1953
Bradley was known as the "GI's General" during World War II because of his concern for the ordinary soldier.
Bradley graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1915 and served in numerous command positions in Europe during World War II, culminating in command of the Twelfth Army Group in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany -- the largest combat command in U.S. history.
In 1949, Bradley was named the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During his tenure, U.S. military attention focused on rebuilding the nation's defense posture as part of a strong allied "collective security" strategy during the Cold War. Following the 1949 signing of the North Atlantic Treaty, Bradley had a key role in the military's initial steps to implement it. During the same period, the peace treaty with Japan restored sovereignty to that country, and the United States signed mutual security pacts with Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
In 1950, the U.S. military mobilized to fight in the Korean conflict, and Bradley provided key military advice during the conflict.
Adm. Arthur W. Radford
Aug. 14, 1953, to Aug. 15, 1957
A 1916 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Radford served in World War I and World War II in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. He became the second chairman after serving as commander in chief Pacific and U.S. Pacific Fleet during the Korean conflict.
During his tenure, the Joint Chiefs of Staff engaged in carrying out the "New Look" defense program of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. This program involved a broad reconsideration of U.S. security policy, with increased reliance on modern weapons coupled with a reduction in military manpower. Under Radford's direction, implications of "New Look" were worked out in terms of strategy, force levels, nuclear weapons development and military assistance to allies.
Major U.S. military crisis operations during the period included the 1954 evacuation of more than 30,000 refugees from North and South Vietnam, the 1955 evacuation by the Chinese Nationalists of the Tachen Islands near Formosa and the 1956 evacuation of U.S. citizens from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Syria during the Suez Crisis.
At the same time, the United States was instrumental in establishing the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, a collective defense system to prevent communist expansion into Southeast Asia. Plans drawn up by the Joint Chiefs of Staff resulted in the new unified Continental Air Defense Command in 1954, and planning was completed for the North American Air Defense Command in 1957.
Air Force Gen. Nathan F. Twining
Aug. 15, 1957, to Sept. 30, 1960
A 1918 U.S. Military Academy graduate, Twining served in both the Pacific and European theaters during World War II. His command of Aircraft, Solomon Islands was one of the first Combined Air Commands in U.S history to have tactical control of all Allied and U.S. Army, Navy, and Marine air forces in the area. A few days after he assumed command of the 20th Air Force in 1945, 20th Air Force aircraft dropped the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima. Following the war he served as Chief of Staff of the Air Force prior to becoming the third chairman.
During his tenure, the "New Look" defense program of the Eisenhower Administration continued. In 1958, after White House consultation in which Twining participated, President Eisenhower ordered U.S. forces into Lebanon. During the 1958 Taiwan Crisis, the U.S supported the Nationalist Chinese as they resupplied the islands of Quemoy and Matsu under bombardment by the Communist Chinese.
In the same year, major changes were made in the organization of the U.S. military, including the operational chain of command, following enactment of the Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1958. Twining took a leading role in explaining the proposed changes to Congress and in the final implementation of the reorganization.
Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Oct. 1, 1960, to Sept. 30, 1962
During his career, Lemnitzer earned a reputation as an able negotiator and military diplomat, and as a skilled planner.
A 1920 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, he served in the North African and European theaters during World War II. Following the war, he served as the senior Army member of the Joint Strategic Survey Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and as head of the U.S. Military Committee Delegation in London, which planned for the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He served during the Korean conflict as the commander of the 7th Infantry Division and later served as commander in chief of the United Nations Command. He was Army chief of staff prior to becoming the fourth chairman. Following a two-year tour as CJCS, Lemnitzer became supreme allied commander, Europe.
During his tenure, Lemnitzer led the effort to improved Joint Staff capabilities for study and analysis support required by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. His tenure spanned an intensive effort to design facilities enhancing the National Command Authorities' command and control of U.S. military forces.
The U.S. forces and alliances in Europe were strengthened after the Soviets erected the Berlin Wall in 1961. Also, U.S. leaders became increasingly concerned with problems in Southeast Asia. In 1961, U.S. Strike Command was created and combined the combat ready forces of the U.S. Strategic Army Corps and the Air Force Tactical Air Command under a unified command.
Army Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor
Oct. 1, 1962, to July 2, 1964
A 1922 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, Taylor assisted in the development of the first U.S. Army airborne divisions during World War II. He served in several command positions in the European Theater during the war.
After serving in the Korean conflict, he was Army chief of staff from 1955 until his retirement from active duty in 1959. In 1961, Taylor was recalled to active duty by President Kennedy to serve as military representative to the president. He then became the fifth chairman. While Taylor served as chairman, President Lyndon B. Johnson selected him to be U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam. Taylor retired and assumed the post in 1964.
During Taylor's tenure, basic U.S. military strategy shifted from modern nuclear weapons as the major war deterrent, sometimes referred to as "Massive Retaliation," to one of "Flexible Response."
This change was a reaction to the growing threat of conventional and limited communist "wars of national liberation," and Taylor was one of the principal architects of the doctrine. During this period, U.S. military attention focused on discussions of NATO strategy, communist insurgency in Southeast Asia (South Vietnam in particular) and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Taylor had been chairman less than two weeks when U.S. authorities obtained the first definite evidence that the Soviet Union was secretly establishing missile sites and developing an offensive nuclear weapon capability in Cuba. Representing the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Taylor was a member of a small group of officials that the president summoned daily to advise him during the crisis.
Army Gen. Earle G. Wheeler
July 2, 1964, to July 1, 1970
During his tour of duty as chairman, Wheeler was drawn more extensively into consultation with the president in a system established by Presidents Johnson and Nixon.
A 1932 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, Wheeler served in the European Theater of World War II. Following the war, he served in various assignments in Europe and the United States. In 1962 he became the Army chief of staff prior to becoming the sixth chairman.
Wheeler was chairman for six years, longer than any other chairman. Statutory provisions set the term at two years with one reappointment. However, President Johnson asked him to accept reappointment in 1968 for an additional year and President Nixon took the same action in 1969.
During Wheeler's tenure, the Vietnam War was the primary concern from 1964 until 1970, when gradual troop withdrawals began. Other crises included the Dominican Republic in 1965, the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War and the North Korean seizure of the USS Pueblo in 1968.
In 1968, Wheeler established the office of the assistant to the chairman for strategic arms negotiations, and that office became the focal point for military assistance in the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks.
Adm. Thomas H. Moorer
July 1, 1970 to July 1, 1974
Starting with the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where he was stationed, Moorer held various dangerous commands and assignments as a naval aviator during World War II.
After the war, he served in various staff and fleet assignments. In 1962, he became the commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet and, subsequently, the first naval officer to command both the U.S. Atlantic and Pacific fleets. He also served as NATO's supreme allied commander Atlantic and commander in chief of the U.S. Atlantic Command. He became chief of naval operations in 1967 and from that position was nominated as the seventh chairman.
His term as chairman encompassed the final stages of U.S. participation in the Vietnam and the eventual U.S. withdrawal. U.S. forces had been reduced by over 20 percent under the Vietnamization program when Moorer took office; nevertheless, some of the conflict's most intensive U.S. air operations and naval gunfire missions of the conflict occurred during his tenure. The Paris Peace Talks finally led to the war's end in 1973.
Middle East tensions from 1970 to 1973 frequently involved Moorer in National Security Council meetings of the crisis- monitoring group called the Washington Special Actions Group.
Air Force Gen. George S. Brown
July 1, 1974, to June 20, 1978
Gen. George S. Brown flew B-24s in World War II's European Theater and received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions during the famous low-level bombing raid at Ploesti, Romania. During the Korean War, he served as Fifth Air Force director for operations in Seoul.
He was promoted to general during the Vietnam conflict, held several command positions and then headed the Air Force Systems Command. In 1973, he became Air Force chief of staff and from that the eighth chairman.
Brown, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and the National War College, had previously served on the Joint Staff as commander, Joint Task Force II, a weapons testing unit, and as an assistant to the chairman.
As chairman, Brown strove for increased efficiency and combat readiness despite a constrained U.S. military force structure under the unified and specified commands, and worked to improve crisis management and command and control of those forces.
Military operations while Brown was chairman included the 1975 evacuation of U.S. and foreign nationals from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Saigon, South Vietnam, just prior to their fall to communist forces; the 1975 recovery of the merchant ship SS Mayaguez from hostile Cambodian forces; the 1976 evacuation of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals from Beirut, Lebanon; and the increased military alert of U.S. forces in South Korea following the murder of two U.S. Army officers.
Air Force Gen. David C. Jones
June 21, 1978, to June 18, 1982
Volunteering for the Army Air Corps shortly after Pearl Harbor, Jones received his commission and pilot wings in early 1943. During the Korean War, he flew more than 300 hours on combat missions against North Korea. In 1968 he served in South Vietnam as deputy commander for operations and later as vice commander of the Seventh Air Force.
As chairman during the turbulent post-Vietnam years, he advocated increased emphasis on the combined capabilities of U.S. combat forces. In his last year, Jones extensively examined the joint organization and proposed changes to the National Security Act to strengthen the quality and timeliness of military advice and improve the readiness and effectiveness of combat forces. This prompted the most active debate on U.S. military organizational issues since the 1950s, when Eisenhower proposed to strengthen the joint system.
When Jones retired, his eight-year tenure on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, four as Air Force chief of staff and four as chairman, was the longest in history and included service to four presidents and defense secretaries.
Army Gen. John W. Vessey Jr.
June 18, 1982, to Sept. 30, 1985
Vessey received a battlefield commission at Anzio Beachhead in Italy in May 1944 after fighting in the North African campaigns with the 34th Infantry Division and rising through the enlisted ranks to first sergeant. His experience in troop units, combat leadership and career- long concern for the well-being of troops earned him the nickname "A Soldier's Soldier."
He was promoted to general in 1976 to command the U.N. Command and U.S. Forces Korea. In 1978 he became the first commander of the Republic of Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command. From his next post as vice chief of staff of the Army, Vessey was appointed the 10th chairman by President Ronald W. Reagan.
Vessey served as chairman when the United States was strengthening its forces and alliances to answer a continuing Soviet military build-up. It was also a time of wars and instability in the Third World and growth in state-sponsored terrorism worldwide. Under his leadership, the Joint Chiefs of Staff helped the president and defense secretary strengthen every facet of the U.S. armed forces.
New unified commands were established for Southwest Asia and for space. The Strategic Defense Initiative was started. Modern, long-range theater nuclear systems were deployed to NATO to answer the Soviet SS-20 deployment. Amid controversy, U.S. forces were used to pursue security interests in Central America, Lebanon and Grenada. Fundamental improvements were made in war planning, in the functioning of the Joint Staff and in the use of the unified and specified commanders in force planning and budgeting.
Adm. William J. Crowe Jr.
Oct. 1, 1985, to Sept. 30, 1989
A son of the American prairie whose grandfather made the 1889 "run" into the Oklahoma Territory, Crowe graduated from the Naval Academy in 1946 with the war-shortened Class of 1947. He entered the submarine service, eventually commanding the submarine USS Trout.
Gaining a reputation as a political-military specialist, Crowe held a variety of policy jobs in the Pentagon, as well as commanding the U.S. Middle East Force in the Persian Gulf. He became the NATO commander in Southern Europe in 1980 and then took over as commander in chief, U.S. Pacific Command, in 1983.
In 1985, President Reagan nominated Crowe the 11th chairman. He had no sooner assumed the position than Libyan state-sponsored terrorism challenged American interests around the world. At the same time at home, Crowe was coping with a far-ranging reorganization of DoD, one that greatly strengthened the role of the chairman as the principal adviser to the president, defense secretary and National Security Council. The underlying legislation also mandated closer coordination between the individual services, a goal of Crowe's for many years.
However, it was in U.S.-Soviet relations that Crowe made his most lasting contribution to the search for peace. He and his Soviet counterpart, Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, were architects of the 1989 Prevention of Dangerous Military Activities Agreement, designed to lessen tension and the prospects of conflict between the militaries and superpowers. Crowe and Akhromeyev exchanged historic visits to each other's countries, and the threat of the Cold War declined.
Army Gen. Colin L. Powell
Oct. 1, 1989, to Sept. 30, 1993
Powell was the 12th chairman. He was the first ROTC graduate, first African American and youngest officer to assume the position. He also was the first chairman to serve an entire tour under the sweeping terms of the Goldwater-Nichols DoD Reorganization Act of 1986.
An Army Ranger, veteran of two tours in Vietnam, former White House Fellow, military assistant to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, commander of U.S. Army V Corps in Europe, former national security adviser to President Reagan, and commander in chief of Forces Command, Powell brought extraordinary credentials to the chairman's position.
During his tenure, U.S. forces deployed more than two dozen times. Among these were Operation Just Cause in Panama, where U.S. forces captured dictator Manuel Noriega and brought him to justice; operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in Southwest Asia; and Operation Sea Angel, where U.S. forces delivered humanitarian relief to a flood- ravaged Bangladesh.
At the same time that U.S. service members were responding to multiple crises spawned in the Cold War's wake, the military underwent the most significant restructuring in almost half a century. To drive this massive reshaping, Powell devised a National Military Strategy, helped manage a reduction in the size of DoD and redirected American security policy from a Cold War focus to an emphasis on regional and humanitarian crises. His tenure saw more change in the world than that of any other chairman.
Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili
Oct. 25, 1993, to Sept 30, 1997
Shalikashvili was the 13th chairman and served during a time when a lean, ready and superbly trained military performed at an unparalleled level of peacetime activity.
He served 39 years in key command and staff positions, including commanding general, 9th Infantry Division (Mechanized); deputy commander in chief, U.S. Army, Europe; commander, Operation Provide Comfort; assistant to the chairman; and commander, U.S. European Command and supreme allied commander, Europe. Shalikashvili was the first naturalized American, first draftee and first Officer Candidate School graduate to become chairman.
His tenure was marked by the use of U.S. forces in 40 joint military operations. These included nontraditional peacekeeping and humanitarian missions such as participation in NATO peace efforts in Bosnia-Herzegovina; restoration of democracy in Haiti; the enforcement of U.N.- mandated sanctions against Iraq; and various humanitarian efforts.
Intent on providing for American security well into the 21st century, he established Joint Vision 2010, a framework to exploit technology for effective joint warfighting. Shalikashvili's relationship with European leaders enabled him to forge close ties with countries in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union through the Partnership for Peace Program and to lay the foundation for the incremental enlargement of NATO. He reopened dialogue with China and provided innovative direction for U.S. military modernization.
Army Gen. Henry H. Shelton
Oct. 1, 1997, to present
Shelton is the 14th chairman. Born in Tarboro, N.C., in January 1942, he earned a bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University and a master's from Auburn University. His military education includes the Air Command and Staff College and the National War College.
Commissioned an infantry second lieutenant in 1963 through ROTC, Shelton spent the next 24 years in a variety of command and staff positions in the continental United States, Hawaii and Vietnam. He served two tours in Vietnam and commanded the 82nd Airborne Division and XVIII Airborne Corps. In 1994, while corps commander, Shelton led the joint task force that conducted Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti. In March 1996, he was promoted to general and became commander in chief of the U.S. Special Operations Command.
Shelton accepted a second term from President Bill Clinton in July 1999.
[These biographies were prepared by the Joint History Office.]


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Port of Corpus Christi to vote on lease for $750M iron plant
CORPUS CHRISTI - Port of Corpus Christi commissioners could vote Tuesday on a long-term lease with an Austrian steel-maker planning a $750 million iron processing plant on the north side of Corpus Christi Bay.
The lease is a key step, together with regulatory clearance and several economic incentives under review by area governments, toward construction of the plant, expected to employ about 150 people.
It will use natural gas to reduce iron ore into raw materials used in high-grade steel making. The company sought to expand its western footprint because of the market's cheap natural gas supplies and political stability, company officials have said.
Voestalpine would lease about 486 acres, including 11 acres of submerged land, for 50 years, with two 15-year extension options, according to the proposal. Plans call for the company to build a 1,060-foot dock. The property is between Portland and Ingleside in the La Quinta Trade Gateway.
The base rent is $3 million. In the sixth year, Voestalpine will pay $1,365 per acre with negotiated increases for the rest of the lease term. The port also will earn 40 to 75 cents for each metric ton of cargo moved in and out of the property — at least $2.1 million beginning in 2017, according to the proposal.
It has provisions to reduce the size of the lease area if Voestalpine doesn't fully use it.
Port commissioners meet at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Congressman Solomon P. Ortiz International Center.


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I need this field to be displayed in a simple grid.
You can't do that as a SalesLogix calculated field.
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If you haven't had the pleasure of seeing THE LAST OF SHEILA, you're in for a treat! I have a VHS copy of the film, and I think you'll enjoy it; it's kind of like ALL ABOUT EVE on a boat with a body count. I assure you I mean that as a compliment! :-) Hope you'll enjoy it on March 31st!ReplyDelete
Eve, I loved your awesome fact-filled review! Raquel also had some issues on the set of CANNERY ROW and was replaced by Debra Winger. I think Raquel subsequently sued the studio and won for wrongful termination. I'm curious to see the LAST OF SHEILA again and will be watching its TCM premiere. It's been a couple of decades since I saw it and I don't recall liking as well as SLEUTH or DEATHTRAP. But, as a middle-aged movie buff, I've discovered that movies I initially dismissed have sometimes evolved into favorites later in life.ReplyDelete
I have not seen the film, LAST OF SHEILA. I will be watching for it..ReplyDelete
I am unfamiliar with this pic, but you have given me something to look for. The cast is amazing, and the filming looks good. If the story fits the rest, it will become a regular on TCM. I'll set the DVR!
Many of the pictures of the 1970s are shot with the flat, high key lighting style of television. I think the mystery genre does much better in the darker 'film noir' tones, evident in later movies like Body Heat.
Now a question...wouldn't you love to have time and money enough to go around devising games for your friends?!? Maybe that's why we love Hollywood so much.
One of my absolute favorite whodunits (featuring not just one, but TWO excellent denouements). Brilliant dialogue and superb characterizations (including Coburn at his best Charming Viper self). The true mystery is why movie audiences didn't immediately take this film to heart.ReplyDelete
I'm with Allen Hefner -- what fun to cruise around in limousines, probably drinking chmapagne and having a cleverly planned treasure hunt. Ah, the life of the rich and famous! This movie sounds right up my alley, Eve, and I have not seen it either. Sondheim and Perkins msut had had a ball thinking these things up. One of my very favorite movies is the original Sleuth (Rick mentioned Deathtrap, which I also like).
It sounds like the would have been better off filming in Alaska -- sinking yachts, Arab terrorists, not good. And, I wonder if Dyan's agent punished her for her caricature, maybe by charging her 20% instead of 10.
Your research and background facts are impeccable, as always. You have created a new obsession for me in wanting to find this film!
A superlative review Patty of a film I am sad to say I watched many years ago during its initial release in theaters and have not seen since. Believe it or not I purchased the film on DVD a few years ago and have not watched it. The screen writing team of Sondhiem and Perkins was an oddity but the Edgar award they won seemed to validate the quality of their work. I am a sucker for who done its and this is definitely a film that deserves more attention.ReplyDelete
Here's more...from what I understand, the Sondheim/Perkins New York games ended with bottles of champagne (and yes, I would love to ride through Manhattan in a limo with a map as I solved a mystery and had a bottle of champagne in my near future).
I guess "Sheila" seems to me a bit like a cross between "All About Eve" and "Sleuth" - what I distinctly remember about it is that there was a moment (as in "Sleuth") that deeply 'creeped me out.' A little scary.
I agree with Michael W that James Coburn was at his "charming viper" best in this movie - and he was soooo good at that...
I suspect that Sue Mengers was OK with Dyan C's take on her - Cannon was hilarious and sexy, if ribald - could have been much worse with a different actress and a darker take.
My sources: "Split Image - the Life of Anthony Perkins," Time Magazine - July 1973, Vanity Fair 2009, 2010 interview w/Stephen Sondheim...
I saw THE LAST OF SHEILA in 1973...enjoyed it...but it has become so anachronistic...plus I grew tired of subsequent HERBERT ROSS PIX...SONDHEIM & PERKINS in the same room or limo probably violates some old morality clause...lol!!!ReplyDelete
Eve, an excellent and thoroughly enjoyable take on a film I saw years ago on television, probably on a sick day from high school. I seem to remember that I missed the beginning, but the plot has lingered and I look forward to the chance to watch the film again. I agree with Becky that your background and research is excellent and fascinating, giving the film a flamboyance and intrigue very much of the time period. Sondheim and Perkins, the Riviera, the movie industry and terrorists; I had forgotten how terrifying and thrilling life was in the 1970s.ReplyDelete
Glancing at TCM's schedule for the evening of March 31 again I noticed something very interesting - the first "employee pick" of the evening will be "All About Eve" at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific, followed by "The Last of Sheila"...that should be fun...& a bumpy night, indeed!ReplyDelete


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Simplicity turned out to be so much harder than it looked: I saw a lady on Sunday who had a lovely & very simple necklace made up of three gold bars. I wanted to make something similar, but had neither the skill nor the equipment required to cast my own gold bars.
However, I had some gold vinyl on hand (thanks to my mother):
At first I thought I might just roll it or fold it. That failed to give it any weight at all, and that's a pain in a pendant: it doesn't hang right if it doesn't have enough weight to it.
So I cut some pieces of leather cord:
Then, I used some double-sided sticky sheets:
I cut shapes and attached one side to the back of the vinyl, then just rolled it around the cord. I pinched the tops closed & pierced them with an awl so I could put a ring through it:
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Indonesia's population is around the 237 million mark, with the ratio of men to women slightly skewed in favor of the former, the Central Statistics Agency announced on Thursday at the end of its ambitious census.
"There are still some data trickling in, but I figure it won't go beyond 238 million," said Rusman Heriawan, chairman of the agency known as the BPS.
The census, conducted every 10 years, officially ended on Wednesday, but the agency still has to process the data. It claims to have accounted for "100 percent" of Indonesian and foreign nationals living within the country's borders.
"We're trying to speed up the number-crunching so that we can submit the final report to the president in time for him to present it to the House of Representatives," Rusman said.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is expected to announce the official results in his Independence Day speech on Aug. 17.
Rusman said the monthlong census had been the most ambitious yet, employing 600,000 people canvassing the 65 million households countrywide and asking a wider range of questions than last time, including about members of extended families and home-ownership status.
The census is also aimed at evaluating the country's progress toward achieving the United Nations-mandated Millennium Development Goals.
However, the procedure was plagued by multiple reports of residents refusing to meet with census takers, particularly among apartment dwellers in major urban areas such as Jakarta, Rusman said.
To overcome this, census takers had to extrapolate their data from information provided by building managers.
The final data revealed a marginally higher number of men than women.
"The difference is quite slim, but it's tangible," Rusman said, adding that gender distribution varied by province.
East Kalimantan has more males than females, Rusman said, while the reverse was found in West Sumatra. He attributed the latter to the high rate of transmigration by men in search of work elsewhere in the country.
This year's population census is the sixth held by Indonesia since independence. Previous censuses were conducted in 1961, 1971, 1980, 1990 and 2000.
According to the results of the 2000 census, the country's population was 205.1 million, making Indonesia the fourth-most-populous country after China, India and the United States.
Java, with an estimated 124 million people, is the most populous island in the country and also the world.
Much of Indonesia's population is concentrated in the two main western islands of Java and Sumatra, while resource-rich islands further east such as Papua, Maluku and Sulawesi are more sparsely populated and, by extension, less developed.
The transmigration program, under the late president Suharto, was conceived to even out population density.


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I always had similar thoughts in the arcade as a kid, climb through that little hole, into the machine and a soft wonderland of stuffed toys, cheap watches and fake aluminum jewelry. Good job little Lisa, Beau, Dolly or whatever your name is. You've made arcade loving children, and adults, proud.
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In one day last month, the Yankees made two moves that cemented their status as favorites in the American League East. Trading for right-hander Michael Pineda and signing Huroki Kuroda accomplished something else, too. The moves erased an issue about the back of the club's rotation that had festered since last year.
The rest of the division has not been so fortunate. The other four clubs will enter spring training dealing with with at least one key issue. A team-by-team look:
Their lineup remains as potent as any, their upgraded rotation is as deep as any in the AL and their bullpen is led by the greatest closer ever. Yes, it's good to be a Yankee.
But if you want to find a situation that's not all that great, check third base. Alex Rodriguez is 36 and in decline. He hasn't enjoyed a true A-Rod season since 2008 and is coming off his most injured-filled, frustrating year. A-Rod was sensational last spring and enjoyed a solid start to the regular season but a right-knee injury led to surgery that cost him six weeks and sapped his power. A-Rod hit only three homers in his final 171 at-bats, including the playoffs. "We never really got him back truly healthy," manager Joe Girardi says.
A-Rod and the Yankees hope an off-season trip to Germany for Orthokine therapy — a blood-spinning treatment — works as well for him as it has for Kobe Bryant. Encouraged enough by A-Rod updates, Girardi insists he hasn't lowered his expectations for A-Rod, though the manager is considering dropping him to fifth in the order.
"We expect him to be 100 percent when he comes into spring training," Girardi says. That would be nice, considering A-Rod has six years and $153 million (not including incentive bonuses) left on his contract.
Red Sox
Forget the holes in the back of their rotation and the questions at shortstop and left field. The Red Sox have a wealth of talent to make up for such shortcomings. But do they have the mindset to rebound from their September breakdown and the resulting changes?
How they handle the fried-chicken questions certain to bombard them through spring training should tell us. They should not blame the media. They should not get all defensive. They should not pretend like what happened in 2011 won't matter in 2012.
The Red Sox need to deal with their failures straight on. Admit their mistakes. Admit their embarrassment. Handle this the right way and they use last year's collapse as motivation for this year's success.
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Though the Red Sox have done little to improve the roster, they made one strong move: They hired Bobby Valentine. He brings a fresh perspective that comes from not managing in the majors for 10 years. Based on the energy and enthusiasm he has shown this winter, Valentine also should be able to provide a fresh perspective to a team that had grown too comfortable under Terry Francona.
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— The top remaining free agents
For a club whose success has been built on pitching and defense, the Rays are leaving themselves vulnerable at a critical position: catcher.
John Jaso and Kelly Shoppach did not fully deliver on expectations but at least they were known commodities after two years of splitting the job. But Jaso was traded to the Mariners and Shoppach hooked on with the Red Sox.
Now the Rays are set to go with a combination of career backup Jose Molina and two rookies, Jose Lobaton and Robinson Chirinos. Lobaton enters spring training as most likely to start but he hasn't shown much as a hitter and lacks experience with Rays' pitchers. Because of Lobaton's defensive edge, Chirinos needs a strong spring to make the club.
Molina, 36, can't be counted on for regular duty because he has not caught more than 57 games in any of the past three years. He was added for his off-field guidance as much as for what he can do on the field.
"He's going to help our young guys in receiving and game-calling so he's going to be a big aid," manager Joe Maddon says.
Blue Jays
For much of the off-season, the Blue Jays teased the baseball world with their supposed interest in adding an impact player. But the best they did was trade for one closer, Sergio Santos, and sign another one, Francisco Cordero, to a team friendly one-year, $4.5 million deal.
Their lineup today looks essentially the same as last year's, which leaves them with a familiar concern: Finding a lead-off hitter. The most likely candidate, speedy Rajai Davis, lost his starting job when the Blue Jays traded for Colby Rasmus. No one else fits the mold.
Shortstop Yunel Escobar is likely to get first chance because of a .369 on-base percentage in 2011. "You can say that Yunel is not your prototypical leadoff guy because he doesn't steal a lot of bases, but he does get on base," manager John Farrell says. Another possibility is second baseman Kelly Johnson, who had a .364 OBP but stole only three bases, the same as Escobar.
If the season opened today, the Orioles' DH would be Wilson Betemit, a career .269 hitter without much power. But make no mistake, their biggest issue remains the same as it has been for virtually their entire 14-year run of sub-.500 seasons. That would be pitching. Notably, starting pitching. Orioles starters posted a 5.39 ERA last year, last in the majors by more than half a run.
An already shaky rotation became even more uncertain Monday when the Orioles traded their only established starter, Jeremy Guthrie. Now they will enter spring with all five spots essentially up for grabs between no fewer than seven candidates.
The key is the development of the club's homegrown youngsters. Brian Matusz, Zach Britton, Jake Arrieta and Brad Bergesen all have shown signs of being able to win in the majors but have not been able to establish much consistency.
The Orioles have added Japan League exports Tsuyoshi Wadi and Wei-Yin Chen, whose signings were not accompanied by Yu Darvish-like hype for a reason. The lefties don't merit such expectations. Wade, 30, went 16-5 with a 1.51 ERA last year with a fastball that never reached 90 mph, according to fangraphs.com. Chen, 26, touched 90 mph on occasion on the way to going 8-10 with a 2.68.
Jason Hammel, acquired in the Guthrie deal, also will compete for one of the five spots. He made 26 starts for the Rockies last year before being demoted to the bullpen.


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Wayne Allen
PDT Staff Writer
When the Scioto County Courthouse was completed in May of 1927, Henry Bannon, chairman of the courthouse committee was quoted in the Daily Times as saying, "It has up-to-date offices, a modern and sanitary jail, a beautiful law library and dignified courtrooms which represent justice."
In the spirit of restoring the courthouse to the standards of Bannon and to better represent its spot on the National Register of Historic Places, the Scioto County Commissioners met in special session Tuesday morning and passed a resolution authorizing the expenditure of $99,990 to replace the roof of the courthouse.
The failing roof — which has been in disrepair for years — caused the top floor of the building to be practically vacant since the Scioto County Jail relocated to its new location in April of 2006.
On Tuesday, the commissioners awarded the roofing replacement project to Five Star Commercial Roofing, out of Hartford City, Ind.
"They have done some work for other companies in the area and we've heard nothing but good things. They (Five Star Commercial Roofing) have offices in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and in Florida," said Mike Crabtree, Chairman of the Scioto County Commissioners.
Crabtree said the scope of the work includes the installation of a seamless roofing system that is expected to last 20 years.
According to released information, Five Star Commercial Roofing will remove the existing roof and lay down a layer of starbond cold applied modified bitumen, then place a base sheet on top of that, then add another layer of starbond cold applied modified bitumen. On top of that crews will add a 14-foot poly-flex fiber membrane then another layer of starbond cold applied modified bitumen.
Crews will then add another 14-foot poly-flex fiber membrane, then another layer of starbond cold applied modified bitumen and finally apply a cover layer of Starfire Aluminum Chips. Crabtree said the aluminum chips are installed as an effort to keep the temperature of below 120 degrees. He said the current roof kept the temperature below 200 degrees.
The current roof was installed about 20 years ago and has gradually deteriorated causing damage to the fourth floor of the courthouse. The extent of the damage has made the majority of the fourth floor uninhabitable. Now, damage has begun to appear on the third floor of the building.
"If we don't fix that roof, we are going to have to issue hardhats and umbrellas to people as they come in the courthouse," Crabtree said. "We've had a problem of water getting into the fourth floor of the courthouse. Lately it's been making it's way onto the third floor in places. It really comes down to a matter of public safety."
He said once the roof is repaired, the county will have to look into the extent of the damage it has caused to the interior of the building and look at ways to fix it.
"In some of the places where the leak has been coming in, you can take your finger and shove it through the plaster," Crabtree said. "In my view, it would be irresponsible for us to let this thing go any further."
The county recently had to move the Prosecutor's Office to the courthouse annex to make room in the courthouse for the offices of Judge Marie Hoover of the Fourth District Court of Appeals. As a result, the county's general fund is paying $4,200 a month.
Crabtree said crew from Five Star Commercial Roofing can get started as soon as the county gives them the go ahead and that is expected after the measure is approved by the Scioto County Financial Planing and Supervision Commission.
He said once started, the project is expected to take about two weeks, weather permitting.
The county recently received $414,000 in revenue from the closing of the Infra-Metals property in New Boston. Crabtree said the funding for the project will come from the general fund.
"We've gotten the money from Infra-Metal and we had money left over from the debt reduction that we did not have to use. So, we've got the money to do these repairs," Crabtree said.
Originally contracted to be built for $1 million, the Scioto County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the Department of the Interior Dec. 8, 1987. It is the third county courthouse in the history of Scioto County.
Wayne Allen may be reached at 740-353-3101, ext. 228, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I have to admit it feels a little different at the end of this hockey season. Wish the boys could have gone farther in the playoffs, but they gave it a good go and we have every reason to be proud of them. This looks like the last season for a little bit and, as a fan who has seen the Blades and the Hornets, the 'Diggers and the Storm, I have one serious question plaguing me…
Can I blow up the Sports Arena?
Wait, Wait…put down that phone …this isn't a Homeland Security thing. I am talking about professional, controlled demolition of the building at One Main Street. I think a spectacular, explosive show would be the perfect demise for what one seasoned hockey traveler, me, describes as the Worst Arena in North America (WANA).
I've been to a lot of hockey games over the years, from Boston to L.A., from Montreal to Muskegon, even places where they don't speak English, like Dallas, Atlanta and Quebec. I even tracked down a game one Saturday night in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. (Why was I in Saskatoon? Because there were no hotel rooms in Regina, of course.) There is only one arena I refuse to enter ever again, and it has got…to…go. The sooner the better.
It has to go down before the Save our Team people meet up with the Kill the New Arena faction and find the greedy weasels who smell cash in the air from lawsuits, settlements or voter initiatives and save the WANA. Smart money will not start the new arena until the old is dead and gone. In the last 30 years, the New Arena myth has produced more tales than the Brothers Grimm. SeaGate, Rossford, Westgate. Each time we ended up back at the WANA — plumbing that hasn't worked since the Cuban Missile Crisis. A sound system designed by Helen Keller. Lighting that Edison would have been ashamed of.
I stopped going because we all deserved better — players, fans and media. I'm not looking for crab sushi and valet parking, but a clean, well-lighted arena with a management that cares. It has got to go before somebody claims it was a stop on the Underground Railroad.
This is not about the hockey. I saw great teams play fantastic hockey. It was the love of the teams that kept bringing me back to a worse arena than the California State Livestock Pavillion. In the 80s, when you smelled the purple haze of smoke from the last concert. In the 90s, when the roof leaked (I got rained on). Bad beer and worse popcorn, odors that cannot be duplicated, dates walking out muttering "never again." I want to exorcise everyone's bad memories with one earth-shattering KABOOM!
The WANA has survived more attempts to kill it than that Jason Krueger dude in all of them Freddy the Thirteenth movies that I never watch. Already, the Storm is gathering against the New Arena — The City will fight the County (old story). East Siders will whine about crossing the River (older story). And some lawyer will file a suit (the oldest).
I want to blow it up because I have gone there even after I knew better. I want to blow it up because the teams that played there always deserved better. I want to push the button. Here I sit, 10 fingers at the ready.
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Hi all,
Got a network at work which i want to sharpen up, as this network also includes also includes servers I want an DMZ. The Internal computers I want behind a NAT mainly because of avaible IP-space, so we are talking a 1-to-many NAT. Just for the record, inside the NAT there is no servers that will be needed from the outside, so PAT should not be needed I guess. Bridge will also be used to filter administration by MAC address, yes I know MAC can be faked, but at least its better than nothing.. ;)
{WAN}--[Router1]--[Bridge]--[Router/NAT]--{Internal LAN} [Bridge]--{DMZ}
Note: "Bouth" bridges is the same box, I just wanted to prevent missunderstanding because of uncorrect formated ASCII..
I only got three questions:
1.) Will this work? I mean, I read WAN--Bridge--NAT does not work, but seems WAN--Router--Bridge--NAT does. Please correct me if I am wrogn. And if anyone feel like it, a short explanation would be moust appriciated.
2.) Is there a smarter way doing it? Something I might missed? As I rather want a OpenBSD box for Router instead of a hardware one, this means 3 boxes.. any way I might shorten it down without loosing functionality, assumed this setup really is valid?
3.) I also want to set up a VPN between our two offices. So, again assumed the setup is valid, and I need thses three boxes, which will be the best to use as VPN? I assume "Router1" Thinking that I might mess up the Bridge by adding this to it? Again, please correct me if I am wrogn.
Thanks in advance for any help or gudiance.
- Frank


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Order of Battle: A Republican's Call to Reason, by Jacob K. Javits
How to Carry New York
Order of Battle: A Republican's Call to Reason.
by Jacob K. Javits.
Atheneum. 328 pp. $5.95.
Jacob Javits's Republicanism has confounded his constituents since he first ran for Congress in 1946. Democrats wonder how he can be a Republican, and Republicans wonder whether he really is one. Yet despite all the musings, he has won every election he has entered—and always at the head of his ticket. Javits has his varied constituencies well in hand. He manages to assure conservative Republicans that, no matter what else he may be, he is a loyal Republican. And he has little difficulty in convincing liberal Democrats that he is about as liberal as our politicians come. The formula is unbeatable.
Order of Battle is an address to the Republican party in which Javits recounts his series of victories in enemy territory—or, How to Succeed in New York Politics Without Being a Democrat. To a party that has had the distinction of losing most of its elections in most places most of the time since 1928, such advice might be worth attending. However, Javits's only counsel to his fellow Republicans is to be more liberal: on civil rights and civil liberties, on welfare legislation and economic planning, on foreign aid and the Cold War. What he is really saying is that Republican candidates represent the minority party and should therefore make a pitch for Democratic votes. Of course, this has already been done, with some success, by several of his colleagues in and out of the Senate: Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, Clifford Case of New Jersey, Thomas Kuchel of California, Mark Hatfield in Oregon. But the trouble is that all too many Republican candidates don't seem to want to win with Democratic votes. Ballots cast by Negroes, Jews, eggheads, and other unsuccessful Americans seem a trifle tainted, and any Republican who makes a pitch for them must be somewhat suspect himself. Republicans worry about the company they keep. While they realize as well as anyone that votes are weighed by quantity rather than measured in quality, they would prefer at heart to keep the club membership exclusive.
Once anyone decides to be a party man he must create for himself an image of his party that allows him to live comfortably with it. Thus, according to Javits, the Republicans are the party of Henry Stimson, Robert La Follette, Fiorello LaGuardia, and George Norris. Such a depiction is what the psychologists call "selective perception": it leaves out Karl Mundt. Similarly the Democrats become an admixture of Tammany Hall, the Ku Klux Klan, A. Mitchell Palmer, and John Nance Garner. And why not? Only if we engage in such good-humored caricatures, deluding no one but ourselves, can we vote a straight party ticket with a straight face.
Javits has always been a Republican. His father was an Orchard Street janitor, who got two dollars from Tammany Hall for each vote he delivered from his tenements. "I saw at close hand the evils of the Tammany-run Democratic machine in New York City—its flabbiness, its corruption, its cynical exploitation of the needs and hopes of immigrants like my family and neighbors." Being repelled by Tammany has not made Republicans out of many New Yorkers. Yet Javits chose the Republicans and stuck with them. He voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928, not for Al Smith. He voted for Hoover again in 1932, not for Franklin Roosevelt. In 1936 he supported Landon, and in 1960 he lined up with Nixon rather than Kennedy.
Yet no matter how Javits votes in the polling booth, his voting record as a Senator hardly differs from that of liberal Democrats like Joseph Clark and Paul Douglas. On the face of it either of these men could have written Order of Battle, with only the most marginal of changes. But one thing does distinguish Republicans from Democrats, however liberal both of them may be. Liberal Democrats are essentially anti-business. They believe the values of business to be inherently corrupting and the steadfast pursuit of profit a barrier to the achievement of a rational society. Such Democrats are especially mistrustful of our large corporations, and they are at their best in conducting investigations of business skulduggery. It is here, and only here, that Javits parts company with them. He can be enlisted in liberal causes on all fronts save that which seriously criticizes the business community. For he is willing to assert, perhaps more candidly than are conservative Republicans, that theirs is "the party of business":
"Business," properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly anounce that they are indeed "the party of business."
It is not clear whether Javits, when campaigning for re-election, makes this proud announcement on Lenox Avenue or outside the gates of the U. S. Steel factories in Buffalo. But he does tell us here, using Jacques Barzun for authority, that the "businessmen" of Greece and Rome and the Renaissance were the underwriters of art, culture, and humane learning. Whether General Electric and Gulf Oil are to be cast as the new Medici is not made clear. Javits does suggest that the Republicans—"as the party of business"—can take a more effective lead in the civil rights struggle than can the Democrats.
He may have a point. What Negroes want is simply to be admitted to a society that has hitherto denied them full membership. This is the meaning of "integration." Yet Negro Americans will never be equal citizens until they can move as freely as white Americans can. No amount of civil rights bills will overcome the fact that the great majority of Negroes will continue to be ghetto-bound for many years to come. Integrated neighborhoods are out of the question for the foreseeable future because there just are not enough whites—liberal or otherwise—willing to live alongside Negroes. And so long as neighborhoods are either black or white, so will be schools and so will be people. But U. S. Steel and General Electric are in a position to do what white liberals cannot do. Being autocratic enterprises they can, without having to worry about the consequences, hire and upgrade Negroes. And these corporations, arms of "the party of business," can do more for the cause of civil rights by putting white collars on several tens of thousands of Negroes than does all the lip service of liberal Democrats who scurry back to the other side of town at night. Better and steadier jobs are not integration; but they will have to do until the day comes when white Americans are willing to have darker-skinned Americans as their neighbors. Considering that Republicans like Roman Hruska voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it may be that Republican executives at General Motors will follow suit.
In 1946 Javits agreed to serve as his party's candidate for the House of Representatives. The district, stretching from Columbia to the Cloisters, was and is a Democratic stronghold. Yet Javits won it in the four straight elections he contested—after which it reverted to its rightful owners. In 1954 he branched out to run for Attorney General of New York State and defeated a Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Jr.) by almost 200,000 votes. Javits's initial successes, first in Manhattan in 1946 and on a statewide basis eight years later, were due more than anything else to the ethnic grapevine.
I never cease to be impressed by how rapidly the word gets around. It took only a few months for the hundred thousand or so voters of the 21st district to find out that there was a new candidate named Javits running for Congress. And it took them only a few weeks to persuade themselves to vote for this newcomer even though he was on the Republican ticket. Who tells whom is not clear. But the word gets quickly relayed. And in 1954, even in the wilds of Utica and Binghamton, key voters were apprised of the Manhattan Representative who wanted to go to Albany as Attorney General. It needs no sample survey to know that Javits wins because Jewish Democrats cross over to support him. Most Jews are safely in the Democratic column and—unlike other groups—are not usually considered as a "swing" vote susceptible to wooing by a Republican. But Javits has pulled it off. I have looked at the seven Democrats he has successively defeated, and I am convinced that all of them would have compiled records just as liberal as Javits's had they been elected in his place.
We—and by this I mean virtually every New York Jew—not only vote for Javits but, more significantly, we don't even give his opponent a second look. How many would defect were he slightly more conservative, say like Kenneth Keating, is impossible to say. But I don't think many. It is still a fact in 1964 that unassimilated ethnic groups want one of their own kind in public office, and the higher the office the better. The desire for such symbolic representation is in a sense pre-political. For in settling for an ethnic emblem, voters are trading their ballot at a rate far below what they might otherwise command for it. Yet there is no calculus telling us how to compare the psychic gratifications of an ethnic victory with the political pay-offs that might be had from electing representatives not of our own origins. Considering that the Boston Irish have ended up with a Teddy Kennedy, the Cleveland Poles with a Frank Lausche, and the Chicago Negroes with a William Dawson, New York's Jews have not done badly at all.


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Molly Ringwald Talks About Her New Book, "Getting The Pretty Back"
You know Molly Ringwald as the freckled, angst-filled teenage star of the 80s. But with her just-released book, Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick, she's here to tell you she's so much more than that. She's a wife, actress, writer, and, most importantly, mom (to daughter Mathilda, 6, and twins, Adele & Roman, 10 months) – a role she loves to talk about. We caught up with her to dish about the best parenting advice she's ever received, playing the bad cop, and why she's okay disciplining other people's kids. – Andrea Zimmerman
Your book is called Getting the Pretty Back, which is all about remembering the vivacious woman from our youths. How do you get the pretty back?
I don't really love working out, [but] I stay consistent with it, because I know if my body's in shape, my mind will be in better shape; the two go together. Being in the best shape possible is important. It's easy to let yourself go and say, "Oh, I don't have time to do this or that," but it's important to make time for yourself. [Exercising] is always going to be inconvenient. I have three kids and a husband and we all have schedules, so it's never been easy to say, "Okay, I need an hour for myself." But it's really important to in order to recharge your batteries.
You say that taking that hour or two away from your husband and kids has actually made you a better parent.
I think so. We all want to be good parents, and it's easy to say, "I'm just going to live for them." Yes, my kids are incredibly important, and, yes, my kids come first, but I know that as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent [after I take time off] – I have more energy, more fun.
Can "keeping the pretty" apply to your relationship with your husband? How do you recover from marriage ruts?
Marriage is a commitment, one of the strongest commitments you can make to a person. It's certainly not easy. The people who think you get married and live happily ever after and ride off into the sunset are people who have probably never been married. It is difficult, and when you throw kids in the mix, it's even more difficult. I think [my husband and I] have gone through a lot together, and we have a commitment to working on the relationship. The key is communication.
What's your parenting style?
I'm very honest with my kids, especially my six-year-old. I'm not honest to the point where I'm talking about things that she's too young for, but I've tried to figure out a way to talk to her about difficult subjects in ways she can understand. We had a conversation yesterday about why there was war. I related it to the playground.
You talk about maintaining friendships with people that don't have children. Why is that so important to you?
It's very easy to think that our way is the only way, and it's very easy to lose who you were before you had kids. It's very important to remember that while you are a mother, that's not all you are. You're still a woman. I feel like I'm a woman, a mother, a wife, an actress, a writer, all these different things. And seeing friends or people who don't have kids allows you to access that part of yourself. Also, I don't think your friends should be abandoned because of their choice to not have children, and they shouldn't have to lose their friends, either.
Who's the bad cop – you or your husband?
I tend to be a little more of the disciplinarian. He's more of a softie. We're very different people, but I think he knows that what Mommy says is the way that it is; I don't back down.
What's your best childhood memory with your mom?
Cooking. My mom was always in the kitchen. She was a stay-at-home mom until I left the nest, so she was there a lot when I was a kid. She was also the "room mother" for all our classes at school, and she always made these incredible cookies, which were always decorated and beautiful. I remember being so proud that my mom did that.
Do you see similarities between your kids and yourself as a child?
Yes! My daughter is very headstrong, especially with style and how she wants to do things. At one point she almost reduced me to tears because she wouldn't wear these expensive patent leather boots I bought her. She has a great sense of style, but it's different than what I would wear. One of the hardest things parents have to accept is that they have to let their children express themselves, to love them and allow them to be different.
You tell a funny story in your book about disciplining a group of kids who were calling your daughter names. Would you mind another mom disciplining your kids?
When I lived in France, I noticed every parent would reprimand other children just by saying, "Hey, that's inappropriate" or "Don't do that." And other parents would appreciate that. But in the United States, moms tend to say, "Hey, that's my kid, stay away." Personally, I wouldn't mind if another parent reprimanded my child if my child was saying or doing something inappropriately, especially something dangerous. But it's about how it's done. If it's done respectfully and constructively, I have no problem. If another parent is saying something abusive to my kid, that's not okay.


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Insurance Needs Approach - Types of Long-Term Care Coverage
What are the types of care?
A common misperception is that long-term care means staying in a nursing home. Today, there are other care options available. Long-term care services can be divided into two types of care: home and community care and facility care.
Here are some examples of each type of care:
|Home and Community Care
|Facility Care
Home health care
Informal (Custodial) care
Homemaker service
Hospice care
Adult day care
Residential care facilities
Nursing homes
Most LTC policies pay the insured a fixed benefit each day services are rendered, regardless of what the care costs. For example, if the fixed benefit is $150 per day and the care provider charges $140 per day, the insurance company will pay the full $140 per day.
Practice Question:
Which of the following statements about long-term care insurance policies are correct?
I. Coverage periods generally extend from two to six years, but can be lifetime
II. Long-term care policies sold today must be guaranteed renewable.
III. A long-term care policy with a long probationary period will have a lower premium than one with a shorter probationary period.
IV. Premiums for a long-term care policy are based solely on the insured's age, health and the type of benefits provided.
A. II and IV
B. I, II and III
C. IV only
D. I and III E. I, II, III and IV
Answer: B
All are correct statements except VI. Premiums can also be based on the length of coverage (five years, lifetime), amount of benefit per day, cost of living riders added to the policy, and many other factors. Health and Property Insurance


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Last night, Star Trek into Darkness premiered in Berlin, Germany and photos of the event have been released.
In attendance were J.J. Abrams, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, and Alice Eve.
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Last night, Star Trek into Darkness premiered in Berlin, Germany and photos of the event have been released.
In attendance were J.J. Abrams, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, and Alice Eve.
A new Star Trek into Darkness TV ad shows some new material.
The short ad, barely over half-a-minute in length, mostly shows previously-seen scenes, but new material features Kirk/Pike and Kirk/Marcus.
For fans attending the first US IMAX showing of Star Trek into Darkness, a free giveaway will accompany the movie.
IMAX will be giving away posters to fans attending the May 15th 8 PM Star Trek into Darkness showing.
In a short clip, Carol Marcus introduces herself to James T. Kirk.
There are slight spoilers below the cut.
A new clip from Star Trek into Darkness features Scotty.
The short clip, barely over a minute in length, shows some new footage from the film.
There will be twenty conventions, shows or appearances in May and June that feature actors of interest to Star Trek fans. This listing of conventions and shows features actors from all of the televised series and several of the Star Trek movies.
There will be eleven conventions or appearances in May, beginning with Texas Frightmare Weekend, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency DFW Airport in Dallas, Texas on May 3-5. In attendance at the Texas Frightmare Weekend will be Jeffrey Combs and Denise Crosby.
A trip to Tokyo to promote Star Trek into Darkness showed Benedict Cumberbatch that he is now recognizable world-wide.
Like others before him, Cumberbatch is having to adjust to both the good and the bad of being famous.
Today is the premiere of Star Trek into Darkness in Germany, and some of the Star Trek actors took part in a photocall yesterday in Berlin ahead of the event.
The actors in attendance at the China Club in Berlin included Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Zoë Saldana and Alice Eve.
Another snippet from Star Trek into Darkness is available for eager fans.
The clip, just less than a minute-and-a-half in length, features Kirk and Harrison.
When Shakaar, who is now First Minister of Bajor, arrives on the station and begins to court Kira, Odo finds it difficult to concentrate on his job protecting Shakaar.
In a new sweepstakes offered by Amazon Prime and EPIX, one lucky fan will be able to attend the Los Angeles premiere of Star Trek into Darkness.
The prize includes two passes, travel and lodging, cash and more!
A new clip from Star Trek: The Video Game, courtesy of moviefone, includes a cut scene and an in-depth look at the Gorn.
The cut scene features Kirk and Spock and includes a risky mind-meld.
The fan restoration of the original series Galileo shuttle is almost finished.
Trek fans Adam Schneider and Alec Peters have been working on the restoration of the twenty-foot-long, nine-foot-tall shuttle for months after the shuttle was purchased at auction last July.
CBS Home Entertainment has made a preview of the Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 4 Blu-ray release available on YouTube.
Season Four of The Next Generation will be released on Blu-ray this summer.
A new music project from William Shatner will include music from Billy Sherwood, formerly of the rock bank Yes.
Shatner's last music project was 2011's Seeking Major Tom, which also included a Yes alumnus.


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I Love Money 2 doesn't premiere for over a month (Feb. 2), but all this week we're offering you a sneak preview of its cast of 19 Celebreality all-stars. We've already showed you the Charm School ladies who'll be competing for the cash and before that, the familiar male faces from multiple VH1 spin-offs. To complement yesterday's man-candy of Buddha, Onix, 20 Pack and It, we're showing off today a group of sexy ladies we've dubbed "the new girls." Before 2008, these girls hadn't come near VH1. By the end of Money 2's run, we expect to feel like we've been watching them forever…
You may remember her from: Flavor of Love 3
You may remember her for: Her reindeer fetish; The Heelys she used to zip around the mansion; Intimating that she and Flav did it in a rapping challenge ("Keep s*** on the low, you know what I know!"); Being one of the few girls from Flavor of Love 3 to admit that she was physically attracted to Flav; Her dearly departed weave.
Our prediction: If Money 2 was shot in the same house as the first season, there's a lot of space for our favorite reindeer girl to get her skate on. We're excited to watch Prancer gone wild!
You may remember her from: Flavor of Love 3
You may remember her for: Getting booted from FOL3 for a phone call gone awry that she said was "Just a, uh, guy!"…who was looking for money?; Her eternal struggle to prevent her weave from getting weet; Being a "pretty girl wanting to do pretty things" (seriously; direct quote); And, let's be honest: her 34DDDs. (Don't hate us for knowing that — we wouldn't if she weren't proud enough to have bragged about it!)
Our prediction: Myammee will rock swim caps like Megan rocked bikinis. We can't wait to see her head in a thong!
You may remember her from: Flavor of Love 3
You may remember her for: Being upfront about appearing on Flavor of Love to further her career (to the point of self-sabotage); Being upfront about how unattractive she found Flav; Maybe conducting an interview with her radio station while on the show?
Our prediction: Some post-show beef with Buckwild sets up a battle of the counterparts very nicely. Otherwise, let's hope for Ice's sake that she plays her cards a little bit closer to her chest.
You may remember her from: Real Chance of Love
You may remember her for: Being accused of industry-chickery (what she really wants to do is make-up!); Denying a fake caller's advances, which led to Real and Chance's fake bar brawl that led to their fake arrest.
Our prediction: She "failed" the no-snitching challenge, which says a lot about her ethics, but also her inability to work under pressure (at least given the confines of the challenge). Do ethics have a place on I Love Money, anyway?
You may remember her from: Real Chance of Love
You may remember her for: Her Real-and-Chance-endorsed grown-and-sexiness; Her child-obsession; Her frequent tears that came from being targeted by the other girls; Her frequent gymnastics.
Our prediction: Milf often seems like the house punching-bag on Real Chance of Love. It'll be great to see how she operates in an environment where she isn't competing for a man. As long as she's tumbling, we're watching. Seriously…she's really underrated!
Check out more shots of the new girls below and don't forget to check back tomorrow when we unveil more I Love Money 2 cast members.
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