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ALMA -- Alma College leaders have approved the planning stages of an $18.7 million proposal for facility improvements.
The institution's Board of Trustees approved the pre-construction phases of a gymnasium and convocation center, renovations to the Hogan Center and a series of academic space improvements during a Saturday meeting.
Before construction can begin, officials must collect funds. The board then must approve building the structures.
Campus leaders say they can afford the multimillion-dollar improvements -- including an upgrade to a facility that essentially would serve as an alternative gymnasium -- despite shaky economic times thanks to a supportive community and sound financial planning.
Trustees plan to borrow up to $13 million in bonds but hope to raise $9 million in private donations.
''We have a significantly low debt load compared to many of our peer institutions,'' Alma President Saundra Tracy said.
Renovation of the Hogan Center -- the college's athletics facility -- costs $12.6 million and includes construction of an adjoining gymnasium and convocation center that would provide a home court for men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, and would serve as the primary venue for commencement, convocations, major speakers, concerts and other campus events.
Once foundation members collect $3 million, Tracy said, crews would begin work on the gym first.
Officials say plans remain in the early stages but the center could seat up to 2,000 people, 500 more than the existing Cappaert Gymnasium. By comparison, Central Michigan University's Rose Arena seats 5,500 event-goers, and SVSU's O'Neill Arena in the Ryder Center seats 4,000.
Alma's proposed $4.5 million in academic space improvements include development of high-tech classrooms and music practice rooms, renovation of office space in the lower level of the library and improvements to other academic spaces in the Swanson Academic Center, Dow Science Center and Kapp Science Laboratory Center.
Student life and administrative facility renovations totaling $1.6 million would support upgrades to the Reid-Knox Administration Building, Student Services Center, residence halls and Wilcox Medical Center.


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The Mets have until 11:59 Monday night to offer free agent Oliver Perez salary arbitration -- a no-brainer for the franchise.
At the very least, Ollie signs with another team and the Mets get that club's first-round draft pick and a supplemental pick after the first round. (Last year, the Mets swiped Penn League phenom Brad Holt as a sandwich pick when Tom Glavine bolted for the Bravos).
It's a fairly mandatory move considering the Mets would surrender their first-round pick if they sign one of the market's top free agent closers.
And, as per the rules of arbitration, if Perez doesn't find a contract to his liking elsewhere, he returns to New York for a year and a judge decides his salary.
Not so much for the other arbitration-eligible Mets who filed for free agency:
Luis Ayala, Pedro Martinez, Moises Alou, Damion Easley, Tony Armas Jr., Orlando Hernandez, Ramon Martinez, Trot Nixon, Ricardo Rincon and Matt Wise.
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Travis Pastrana Signs with Subaru for 2014 Global RallyCross – and They Can Have Him
We knew months ago that Travis Pastrana and the Chrysler Group would not be working together in 2014 in the Global RallyCross Series but with Pastrana's new baby at home and the Nitro Circus Tour taking up much of his time, it seemed that Travis was leaving rally racing altogether. However, Pastrana posted a picture […] More »
Dodge's Best Global RallyCross Finish of 2013 is Bittersweet
Last week, Travis Pastrana and Bryce Menzies took to the Global RallyCross track for the last time of the 2013 season and while they had their best combined outing of the year – the results were bittersweet. As reported on Friday, Dodge will not participate in the GRC in 2014 and while it could just […] More »
The Dodge Dart Rally Program is Dead and I'm Pissed About it.
I originally sat down to write a piece about how Travis Pastrana and Bryce Menzies had their best outing of the 2013 Global RallyCross season last night at the season finale in Las Vegas but a more crucial piece of news has derailed my intentions. During last night's broadcast, an interview with Travis Pastrana revealed […] More »
Things Get Worse for the Dart RallyCross Teams in Charlotte
The Dodge Dart race teams of the Global RallyCross series took to the Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway this past weekend with their "normal" drivers in place and the hopes of great things but in the end – the race went just as poorly as the rest of the events this season. Even with […] More »
Another Blah Weekend for the Dodge Dart Global RallyCross Program
The Dodge Dart Global RallyCross teams took to the track yesterday as part of the Los Angeles X Games but as has been the case all season – there wasn't much to cheer about for rallycross fans who bleed Mopar blue. Travis Pastrana was back in his #199 Dart, joined by Bryce Menzies and while […] More »


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Store Spotlight: Seek the Unique
One of my favorite things to do on a Saturday is to visit local Portland stores. I get to see parts of the city that I don't usually visit and often times these small stores have the best stuff. Not to mention, shopping locally is near and dear to my heart.
Anyway, last weekend I hit up a new (well, it was new to me) Portland store. It's called Seek the Unique and they certainly have some lovely goods. It's a smaller shop, but it's worth a trip. I managed to snap a few photos during my visit and I of course had to share what I found….
Good stuff, eh? For you Portland folks, Seek the Unique doesn't appear to have a website, so in case you wanted to swing by for a visit, they are located right by Rejuvenation, at 931 SE 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97214. And for you out of towners, hopefully these pictures will do this place justice.
As for my personal favorite pieces…I'd take the wood coffee table and the white dresser any day – they both are just bleeding with character. LOVE.
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Peter Robert Dooley, age 80, passed away on Saturday, November 16, 2013.
He was born in Milwaukee on December 29, 1932 to the late Thomas and Mildred (Dyskow) Dooley. Peter grew up in Milwaukee, where he was a frequent winner of the Milwaukee Journal Art Contests before entering the United States Marine Corps in 1952 where he studied journalism until 1956. He was employed by the Sauk Prairie Star and Community Publications before deciding to become a fulltime watercolor artist. While working for the Sauk Prairie Star he met Loretta Roessler and they married April 28, 1973. He studied art at Edgewood College and developed his talent, capturing moments of life and painting them into beautiful landscapes, seascapes, trains, and more. Peter loved fishing, being outdoors and the continual search for the perfect new car.
He is survived by his wife Loretta; 2 sisters, Barbara Meyer and Mary Andresek; 2 brothers, Thomas (Judy) and Michael (Sharon); 2 sisters-in-law, Maxine Hambrecht and Bernadine "Corky" McFarlane; other relatives and many friends.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his in-laws, Adolph and Genevieve Roessler; brothers-in-law, Hal Hackl, Bruno Meyer, August Andresek, Del Hambrecht, Dick Mabbott, and Jim McFarlane; sisters-in-law, Mary (John) Flauger, Joan (Rodney) Premo, Mercedes (Hilary) Mack, Donna Faye (Sylvester) Statz, and Polly (Russ) Mallon.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, November 20, 2013 at 11:30 am at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, 115 Madison St., Sauk City. A visitation will be held from 9:00am until 11:15am at HOOVERSON FUNERAL HOME, 251 Water St., Sauk City. Burial will follow in St. Aloysius Cemetery, with Military Rites accorded by Lachmund-Cramer VFW Post 7694.


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PSA: Samsung Exynos Family Of Phones (SII And Note) Brick Bug
There has been a brick bug going around some Samsung phones that you should be aware of. Many Exynos-based Samsung phones (international I9100, Sprint D710, AT&T I777, Note N7000) were shipped with a vulnerable flash storage controller firmware. If improperly called on, some partitions of the storage chip would lock up and will be unable to be used. Often, this is the /data partition, but the /cache, /system, and even kernel are vulnerable too. This will brick your phone, to the point where even the famed JTAG (device that will unbrick the deadest of phones) will not work. It will be unrecoverable.
First of all, how do you know if your device is vulnerable. Chainfire created a simple app to tell you. Download the free APK here. If it says you're safe, great. If it says you aren't, keep reading. You can make sure you're safe.
So the app told you that you are, like me, vulnerable to the brick bug. What's next? Well, this section deals with rooted users. This bug may and DOES affect unrooted users, but there is little they can do besides avoid factory resetting their phone (this is known to brick). So, for rooted users, proceed at your own risk. Here is what causes the brick bug, straight from prestigious developer Entropy:
"This bug requires three things for you to be in danger, and ALL of these conditions must be met for danger:
1) A defective eMMC chip/fwrev that is unable to handle eMMC ERASE commands (command 38) properly. (I'll provide a link with more detail on the nature of the bug later) – This condition is the one Chainfire's new app checks for. By the way, M8G2FA fwrev 0×11 (seen on some Kindle Fires) is also suspected of being defective.
2) A recovery binary that attempts to erase partitions when formatting them. Most ICS recovery binaries fit in this category, most Gingerbread recoveries do not attempt to perform an erase operation so are safe. Note that also, an affected update-binary in a ZIP could be a cause of problems too. (e.g. flashing a firmware that has an ICS update-binary and formats the partition could cause a problem even with a "safe" recovery.) So a kernel can be repacked with a "safe" CWM (such as the most recent CF-Root releases) but it will still only be partially safe.
3) A kernel that allows attempts to erase a partition to actually happen. (as opposed to reporting "not supported" and doing nothing.) – A common way of rendering a kernel safe is to remove MMC_CAP_ERASE from the capability flags in drivers/mmc/mshci.c"
So for those who met #1 and are still reading, what do the others mean? #2 talks about recovery. If you are running Gingerbread, your recovery won't be able to cause a brick by itself. However, if you're running ICS, ICS recoveries do allow it (a nandroid restore or a factory reset may brick). So if you are running any ICS build, you may be in danger. But even if you are running a safe recovery, an unsafe ROM installer script may call on the unsafe actions and brick your phone. So make sure the ROM zip itself is safe. Before flashing anything, ask the dev if it is safe. And devs, address this issue in the first post please.
#3 refers to the kernel. Even if you flash an unsafe ROM on a Gingerbread kernel, the kernel won't allow the actions to run. So if you're running a Gingerbread kernel, rest easy. However, most ICS kernels do allow these actions. Again from Entropy, here is a list of kernels and kernel sources that are safe and unsafe:
- All GT-I9100 ICS leaks and official releases are SAFE (MMC_CAP_ERASE not present)
- All kernels based on GT-I9100 ICS Update4 sources are SAFE (MMC_CAP_ERASE not present) – This includes all CM9 nightlies for SGH-I777, GT-I9100, and GT-N7000, all GT-I9100 custom kernels I am aware of, and all SGH-I777 custom kernels I am aware of
- All GT-N7000 ICS leaks are UNSAFE
- All GT-N7000 ICS official kernels are UNSAFE
- All kernels built from the GT-N7000 sources are UNSAFE unless the following condition is met:
- MMC_CAP_ERASE is removed from the capability flags in drivers/mmc/host/mshci.c – check the kernel features for this. Franco.kernel R3 and later and all Speedmod ICS releases are SAFE due to this.
- All SHW-M250S/K/L ICS kernels are suspected to be UNSAFE
- All SHW-M250S/K/L ICS source releases as of this date are UNSAFE (SHW-M250L Update4 was the cause of the SiyahKernel 3.1rc6 incident. Other Siyah releases are SAFE)
- All SPH-D710 ICS releases as of this date are UNSAFE – Rumor has it that the official OTA may have a fixed kernel, but it is recommended to consider this kernel UNSAFE until source code is released and can be reviewed.
- The SGH-I777 UCLD3 leak is UNSAFE, as is most likely every other leak for that device. Fortunately nearly everyone is using I9100 Update4-based custom kernels.
I9100 users are safe, as their source code and ROMs are completely safe and their kernels do not allow the conditions for the brick bug to be met. They do not have MMC_CAP_ERASE, so they are safe. Many others are not. Most custom kernels for the AT&T Galaxy SII I777 are based on I9100 source code, so they should all be safe. Still, be careful. So if you're running a safe kernel, no unsafe recovery or ROM can brick your phone. Note users have a lot to be worried about, and need to be very careful. Make sure to ALWAYS run a safe kernel, I'm sure you can find one. And Sprint SII D710 users are the most unsafe, as they can't do anything to stop it. Tread carefully, and you may have to give up ROM flashing for the time being.
If you're worried (as you should be), hit all the source links for some both detailed and easy reading. Keep yourself safe, and always make sure what you're flashing is safe. As an I777 user, I immediately brought this up to our devs, and they (including Entropy) have confirmed that our development is currently safe, for the most part. Please do the same with yours. Just don't flood any threads, search and make sure it has been brought up. Good luck.
Entropy's Analysis On Different Phone Models, Less Technical Writeup Of The Brick Bug By sfhub, Technical And Detailed Explanation And Discussion Of Brick Bug By sfhub


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Kerr: Master of the press, rod and reel
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Kerr's memorial observation began at 2 p.m. at the 50-year-old bait and tackle shop at 121 Bunyan Ave. in Berthoud, continued at Welch Reservoir and concluded at the American Legion hall in Longmont.
Kerr's passing caught The Eye because of his role with the origins of this newspaper. Kerr spent much of his early life running a press, including the one that printed this publication. Kerr was pressroom foreman at the Longmont Times-Call for many years. He knew ink and paper, press speeds and blanket rollers very well. He disliked editors who missed their deadlines.
His avocation became his vocation after leaving the pressroom. He found a home at Bennett's, selling bait and tackle, and The Eye is sure he also provided advice on the second best fishing spots in the region – we suspect he reserved the best fishing holes for himself and his friends.
Before the memorial service, the bait shop was to conduct its annual fishing day for handicapped children from the Loveland area – an activity in which Kerr always participated.
"I've been at this store 38 years and have met just about all the fishermen around here – but Don Kerr is one of the few people I ever learned from," Todd said. "As good a pressman as he was, he was an even better fisherman."
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right, my pump is getting on a bit and needs replacing, any direct fit recomendations?
a uprated bocsh one or walbourgh(or what ever it is) or just a new std item?
right, my pump is getting on a bit and needs replacing, any direct fit recomendations?
a uprated bocsh one or walbourgh(or what ever it is) or just a new std item?
Has Furburger got is faset(spelling?) pump still
i had his intank walbro, think he's still got the external one for sale
does it have the jic connections or can normal fuel hose be used?
im after one that uses normal fuel hoes as i cant affort the jic connectors and hose, yet
cossie or peugeot
any specific ones?
its got normal fittings iirc - well, the one he gave to me had anyway.
actually i need a new pump too. looking on a few american sites for walbro pumps (cant find a uk distributor) but damn im getting confused as to what i need. can anyone shed some light as to a decent model number and correct fittings for the GSi please?
saphire cossie, i've got one on my nova, near enough a straight fit, and a very good reliable pump
yeah all 2 and 4wd pumps are the same
do not get an escort cossie pump tho, should have said, it is not the same and is not actually that good!
escort is in tank is it not??
yeah think so, they didnt bother doing it properly i hear. low flow and poor reliability once pushed power wise.
yeah, all the escort owners i know mod the tank and swap for a sapphy one lmao
cavs are external tank though
wtf lmao read on J, we have sussed that and all sierra cossie pumps fit fine
i think its all the 'bigger' pugs that have high flow pumps, never tried fitting them to a cav tho, so you takes your chances there boyo
ah yea didnt read it right, so nerrr
nerr? what you mean nerr, i aint the blind one lmao
that was my test to see if you really are sober, would seem that you are, well donelmao
well i am only on my 1st of the day
give me 20 mins lmao
back to the subject in hand
would a 3psi 55 litre per hour Facet pump do for 20xe?
unless it was on carbs tho i should add lmao
whats wrong with it? too low pressure? too high pressure?
too low pressure, not enough flow!
if it ran at 200 l/hour and 3 bar it might do


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Warrant lead singer Jani Lane died at the age of 47 in Los Angeles. As of yet, no official cause of death has been determined.
With Warrant, Lane wrote several Top 40 hit singles: "Heaven," "Down Boys" and "Sometimes She Cries." He also wrote their signature tunes "Cherry Pie," "I Saw Red," and "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
NJ.com user Dagmar Crow was reminiscing about Lane:
Last night, my hubby and I were looking up all of the bands we grew up with back in the 70's and 80's on YouTube. We compared drumming techniques from all different drummers, who played best lead guitar, & other stuff like that. Also, who could hit the highest note; a lot of the 80's singers were phenomenal. And, of course all the bands we listened to when we got together(and we still do) and Warrant was one of those high on the list. We specifically sought out Warrant, the band as a whole, and critiqued Jani Lane with admiration. Passionate singer! From the ballads to rockin' "Uncle Tom's Cabin". And, today Jani Lane is dead. Just last night listening to them and talking about him, and them, as a group; you can imagine that it was somewhat of a shock! It makes me so sad. A prayer of comfort goes out...
More on Jani Lane's death and the comments.
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[7.5/10] An immediate chuckle came by way of Torn the Fuck Aparts bio: What were you expecting with a name like Torn the Fuck Apart? Smooth jazz? Its a good thing when the band in question is in on the joke, and it appears Kansas Citys Torn the Fuck Apart are. Even a casual perusal of the bands Facebook page reveals the overuse of the word fuck, which means these guys are either a rowdy bunch, or just bunch of regular dudes with potty mouths. Either way, from the cartoonish cover art to their even more hilarious name, TFA are going to at least get some heads turned their way. Obviously, the band plays brutal death metal with gore and anti-religion-inspired lyrics. A voice clip introduces each song, most of which tackle sodomy in the church ranks, no doubt a hot topic in DM. Its what youd expect from a band like this, however, this five-piece has some grasp on the technical aspects of death metal. Lightning fast guitar pings and Unique Leader-ready drumming is what these guys do best, even getting down with some major balls and chunk on the title track and Gods Blood Turned Black, along with a quick jabs of melody on Our Serpent Savior and the instrumental Purgatorium. And dont worry about trying to decipher what vocalist J is singing about he gurgles his way through the albums ten tracks like he was force-fed broken glass. Had to get at least one Cannibal Corpse reference in
Presently unsigned, a band like Torn the Fuck Apart (it never gets old typing that, by the way) would be a quality addition to the Razorback Records roster, or even another small gore-based death metal label. Attempts at shock aside, theres some meat on the bones of The Dissection of Christ, proving these guys have the bite to back up their blasphemous bark. www.tornthefuckapart.com
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WEST SPRINGFIELD – Advocates for a proposed $800 million casino on the Eastern States Exposition fairgrounds here want a hearing with the state Department of Environmental Protection to contest a finding by the state that ponds near a proposed parking area may be subject to flooding.
Hamilton Hackney, an attorney with Greenberg Traurig in Boston, requested the hearing July 18 on behalf of the Eastern States Exposition and Hard Rock Hotel & Casino New England. He is appealing a recent decision by the Springfield office of the state Department of Environmental Protection.
If ponds are subject to flooding, that could increase the amount of area for which developers would have to provide compensatory water storage space to make up for any loss of flood storage capacity, according to Briony Angus, the Tighe and Bond project manager working on the project for the exposition.
She said the appeal concerns a technical matter that will not affect the design of the project or its parking area.
"We are working our way through a very complex issue with the Conservation Commission and the state Department of Environmental Protection," she said Thursday.
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino New England would like to build a destination resort casino complex on land at the fairgrounds near Circuit Avenue that would include a 12-story hotel, a parking deck, a Hard Rock Cafe, shops and restaurants.
The DEP determined the land in question may be subject to flooding. Exposition officials had requested the DEP overrule a May 16 decision by the local Conservation Commission to not make a determination whether there is land bordering the ponds subject to flooding. The Conservation Commission cited lack of information provided by the exposition as its reason.
Hackney argues in his request that land ruled possibly subject to flooding must be determined to be that way based on inundation from natural bodies not man-made storm water management systems as he says is the case with the ponds. He further states that land possibly prone to flooding around the ponds should not be subject to the Wetlands Protection Act because they are part of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers local flood protection project done more than 50 years ago, which predates enactment of the state law.
Hackney also stated that the Conservation Commission should have given the exposition an opportunity to submit more information before rejecting its application to determine wetlands boundaries.
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WEST SPRINGFIELD – Advocates for a proposed $800 million casino on the Eastern States Exposition fairgrounds here want a hearing with the state Department of Environmental Protection to contest a finding by the state that ponds near a proposed parking area may be subject to flooding.


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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Summer Solstice began today at 6:51 a.m. The longest day of the year, it is being celebrated from the ancient site at Stonehenge to Times Square where hundreds participated in a yoga marathon that is being live streamed live.
Staten Island can celebrate this sun-conscious time of the year on Sunday, June 22, with a rare chance to gaze directly at the sun, something that is extremely dangerous without the right equipment.
Joe DiNapoli, a mail carrier by day and amateur astronomer by night, has that equipment and as always is eager to provide adults and children with the opportunity to explore the heavens. He organizes the Amateur Astronomers Association (AAA) of Staten Island monthly stargazing in Gateway National Recreation Area in Great Kills.
He is offering the public viewing as part of International Sun-day, a global observation of the power and importance of the sun, something "people on Earth take it completely for granted and rarely ever learn anything about it."
Among all his nifty telescopes, he has an h-alpha scope, a filter that lets in one wavelength of the sun's light.
"An h-alpha scope shows the chromoshere, which is above the surface, kinda like our atmosphere. This area is hotter than the surface and is where the prominences are visible as they are ejected and usually drawn back onto the surface," explained DiNapoli in an e-mail.
A prominence, according to the Enchanted Learning site, is an arc of gas that erupts from the surface of the Sun. Prominences can loop hundreds of thousands of miles into space.
Sounds pretty amazing to be able to see.
DiNapoli will get started at 1:30 p.m. at the St. George Ferry Terminal near the pedestrian plaza.
Below is the Livestream of the event in Times Square. If it is not streaming the event, clips can be here.


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So you have an ugly recliner? Is it ugly enough to win you a new one? Let's let AGN Facebook followers decide.
We all know how much dad loves his La-Z-Boy, so just in time for Dad's Day, we're hosting the Ratty Recliner Roundup for a chance to swap his shabby old chair for a new one.
To enter, just snap a picture of your old recliner and email it to email@example.com by midnight on June 10 with a short snippet about why you think dad deserves a new place to kick his feet up.
We'll post the pictures in an album on our Facebook page and the one with the most Facebook "likes" by noon on June 15th wins a $500 gift certificate to La-Z-Boy of Amarillo to go toward a brand new recliner for your favorite guy!
Ready? Picture now, catnap later. Go!


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The proposed fare and toll hikes announced yesterday by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey got a chilly reaction from state, county and city officials.
Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said "working families" would suffer from the proposed hikes.
"With the uncertainty of the global economy, it is going to be the average resident who bears the brunt of this," Healy said yesterday.
State Sen. Brian Stack, who also serves as the Union City mayor, said he opposes the fare and toll hikes.
"During this economy the Port Authority should be looking at ways to encourage mass transit," said Stack spokesman Mark Albiez.
U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, meanwhile, called the proposal an "assault" on New Jersey commuters.
"These increases are disproportionately punitive to New Jersey residents and fundamentally unfair. Even toll increases half of this size would be unacceptable," he said in a statement.
Commuters also expressed their disapproval.
"It's ridiculous. You can barely afford it now," said David Malterre, 35, a chef who regularly uses the Holland Tunnel to commute to Brooklyn.
The plan has some support. The Port Authority yesterday released a number of endorsements, including several from labor unions that say the hikes would pay for much-needed infrastructure projects.
"This move will help improve the region's transportation infrastructure and will bring about significant economic development and employment opportunities for carpenters in both New York and New Jersey," said Northeast Regional Council of Carpenters Executive Secretary/Treasurer Michael Capelli.


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Bayonne seniors interested in taking a two-hour boat trip up the Hudson on July 27 can register for a lottery to win a spot on the boat ride.
The city's Division of Recreation is holding a lottery at City Hall, 630 Avenue C, on July 21 to allocate 230 tickets provided by the County of Hudson.
Bayonne residents, age 60 and over, can register for the lottery on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m., until July 19, at the Bayonne Recreation Division at City Hall, Room 13.
The lottery drawing will be held at the Recreation Division on July 21 at 10 a.m. and winners will be notified by telephone. For information, call (201) 858-6127.


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Music definatly , but it depends who you listen to, as my name suggests i am a musician and i was professional for a few years. Any good music with a straight 4/4 beat (eg) alot of steriophonics or manic street preachers generaly rock music and keep your pace right by making sure your right leg hits the ground every time the snare drum is played. Stay away from dance music its too hard to run to caus you cant keep in time to it plus you will probably have a headache by the time you stop running , also stay away from anything with a 3/4 beat this is a waltz so unless you want to dance down the road or have a very peculiar run its no use.
To help the uneducated musicians and maby help with there running a 4/4 beat is beat that has 4 beats to a bar ie (1234) (1234) listen to the drums and if you are counting right the snare will come in on the 4 of the beat this is when your leg should be making contact with the ground. I can recommend a great song to listen to its "Times like these by the Foo Fighters " . Hope this helps a bit just remember it has to be some form of rock music its yer only man and it helps keep you going and remember if you need to stop for a breather dont do it till the song stops that way i find i am always pushing myself that little bit extra
And avoid "Golden Brown" by the Sranglers. It's in 7/8 I understand. LOL!
GR. V interesting post, I notice you don't mention bpm though. Often wondered about a playlist that greadually increased bpm to aid a fast time? Surely the 120bpm dance music "standard" must have some foundation in heart rate whilst boogying on down? Just a thought.
May 2001, Blackpool beaverbrooks 10 k fun run. I've spent the previous 10 weeks honing my 12 or so tracks that will see me across the line in less than an hour. No. 1 John Lee Hookers"Boom Boom Boom" No. 2 "Sweet home Alabama" Lynard Sknard, No 3 "Copperhead road" Steve Earle & so on, culminating in guns n roses, black sabbath & finally AC/DC to see me over the line. All is going to plan at the 5 K point, a nice bit of U2 "beautiful day" that will be followed by the clash "Londons burning" (the point where I pick the pace up!). The turnaround spells disaster, blazing sun, no air, legs turn to jelly. The Sony walkman feels like a lead weight attached to my shorts, sweat is pouring from me in torrents, my only thought is the work load of the night ahead. As Mc Donalds & the clash converge I realise that I've nothing left, all those hours of training, starting slowly then picking up the pace & finishing in heavy metal glory (easy!), it's all gone wrong. Walking now, I hand the Sony to the missus & stumble over the line in a dispirited 1:04. The last time that I have listened to music for running inspiration!
Since then I've progressed to sub 45 10 k's & I am generally a lot fitter than back in 2001. I do use an arm radio to listen to the football on an easy few miles on a Saturday afternoon, but I will never use the distraction of listening to music whilst I train. Even over 15 mile plus runs, I find that a varied & undulating route will keep me more focused than a run listening to my ipod.
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well each person have their own reasons for listening to music while training.. helps relieve bordom, helps motivation what ever the reason the fact is they are out running.
The negative, they put up a do not disturb message especially during races ..
I find that beats to go with my heart rate/breathing rate are better than those to match my stride cadence.
So something like Golden Brown by The Stranglers would be perfect!
One of my favourite all-time tracks to run to is "Heart in a cage" by The Strokes. It's about mental enough to make me run like the wind, whatever stage of a run i'm at.
See, there are occasions when an absolute stormer of a song - something that makes you feel you can fly - works far better than silence. I ran for the first time to the new Vampire Weekend album the other day- just an easy 3 miles, and for the middle mile, which was off road and undulating, I threw myself across the ground because the music was all consuming, I couldn't hear my breath...it was awesome..
When I reached the final mile (the road home) I turned the music off and trundled home.
So that's definitely a case of music getting the blood up, in a good way
Just be careful about running along to Radiohead or Massive Attack, that's what I say...
I once stopped to help a woman who had been mugged. I don't think I would have heard her asking for help if I had had my music on as she was sitting on a bench next to the path and too shaken up to actively stop me.
Also, last week my partner came off his bike in a remote location - he was okay and able to help himself - but again it got me thinking - what if someone had been injured, was out of sight and was calling for help. When I asked him what would have happened if he hadn't been able to move, he said he would have just shouted as it was a popular mountain biking area and someone was bound to come by soon. But it got me thinking and I do feel that its important for cyclists, hikers, runners, horseriders and everyone else who helps to keep paths and bridleways active and open to look out for each other.
Personally I am really into music and do get an enormous lift when I hear certain tracks on my ipod during a run.
I find that I can be going through a bit of a tough period, feeling all in, with miles to go but if the right tune comes on I instantly feel physically fresher, mentally brighter and the pace picks up almost effortlessly.
However, I have ditched the ipod for most runs now as I feel that the effect is too strong. I really had to ask, who is meant to be in control, me or the ipod? I found that my pace was being controlled by my reaction to the track being played, rather than any mental discipline on my part.
Runs that were meant to be, say 13 miles "easy" pace, were turning into 7 miles tempo pace (due to excess motivation from the music) followed by a very knackered 6 miles limping home after the excess effort early on.
I'd say music can help, but its a double edged sword.
Stick the rocky balboa sound track on and anyone will increase their speed, with that on in your ears you will be on course for a 2.5 hour marathon, you have seen them on the TV, Paula Radcliffe has Balboa running along side her all the way!!
On a more serious note, if you find running so unpleasant that you have to resort to the means of taking your mind off it, then perhaps it just isn't the sport for you.
Good point I saw earlier in the thread. I's not as though it is forced on anyone is it?? 'Oh god I have GOT to do that 10k charidee run next week - how the hell am I going to get through it without music??
Why not do a nice sponsored walk instead? (actually - what happened to the good old sponsored walk?)
I always run with music, unless I'm either running a race or at night (although it depends where at night).
All my training's done at 5:30am when all I can hear is my own heart beating, I find music is a huge motivator, I've tried it without and I just can't get into my stride without it.
I don't with music. I have no doubt, though, that a suitable selection of favourite motivational choons can help greatly with motivation and all the rest of it, particularly on longer runs.
But for me there is a serious downside too. Firstly, the loss of "engagement" with the world around you - be this shunning the sheer pleasure and peace of immersing yourself in a beatiful place while running, or choosing to shut yourself out of the atmosphere and camaraderie of a race or event in favour of music. Secondly, and probably most importantly, I just think it's potentially compromising your safety and, occasionally, the safety of others.
For me it's safety over entertainment any time
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How much of everything are you eating?
Enough fat?
Are you choosing to avoid red meat/chicken?
The pain when moving/breathing says to me you should visit your doc
I have been eating as healthy as poss for two weeks now but I feel like crap!! I have eliminated grains and am eating veg,salads,cheese,eggs and fish. I have very little milk in a few small cups of tea. I have no energy and this morning I have the most dreadful pains around the ribs area at the back mostly left side. Hurts when I breathe and move, every joint seems to ache. Any ideas? I was thinking of nipping to the doctors tomorrow but not sure.
How much of everything are you eating?
Enough fat?
Are you choosing to avoid red meat/chicken?
The pain when moving/breathing says to me you should visit your doc
Only things I can think of at the top of my head: carb flu (if you went from heavy carb diet to low carb), too little fat, not enough calories, dehydration. Could you give an example of what you've been eating in a day (including any fats added)?
I usually have two eggs for my first meal either scrammbled or fried in butter, I eat one to two teaspoons ( i know its not much but it makes me heave) of coconut oil. Lots of water, fish, veg a lot of salads, some chicken also. Today I finished off some hollumi cheese which I char-grilled with a bit of cod and some brocoli, califlower and an olive oil,lemon and garlic dressing. Yesterday was salmon on a bed of salad leaves with olives,anchovey and red onion dressing. Sometimes I will snack on nuts or just a peice of chedder cheese.
Are you saying that you only have 2 eggs for breakfast.. and nothing else?
breakfast: 2 eggs cooked in butter
lunch 3 cups of lettuce, 1 cup of assorted veggies (onion, carrot, mushrooms), 2 TBS lemon and garlic dressing, 2 oz cheese, 4 oz chicken breast
dinner: 6 oz cod, 1 small sweet potato, 2 cups broccoli.
Something so we can actually get an idea of how many calories you are eating and the macros. Also, how old and tall are you? How much do you weigh? Do you exercise? If so what? All of this matters.
Do you have any health concerns? Low thyroid? Diabetes? Anything else that might be making you sick? Were you a vegetarian for 15 years? Are you food sensitive? to what?
I'm not trying to be rude but "a bit of cod" doesn't tell us jack squat.
I have a hard time seeing how any of the stuff we are talking about here would cause significant pain in the OPs ribs and joint pain.
I say a trip to the doctor is in order.
Using low lectin/nightshade free primal to control autoimmune arthritis. (And lost 50 lbs along the way )
Sorry, I am 5'6" weight 75kg and take levothyroxine because I only have half a thyroid.
My doc says I have Fibromyalgia but I am one of those who doesn't really believe this is a reall illness ( I know people will be screaming at me now but that is my opinion sorry)
I do only have eggs for breackfast as I am not really that hungry. sometimes I skip it but I have read that it is o.k. to do that.
When I say a lot of salad leaves I mean I cover my plate high with them and then put the food on top
I average around 200g of meat or fish at each meal
Around 7 forets of brocoli and the same for cali
Dressing is usually just olive oil poured into bowl about 3tablespoons, half a lemon juice and about 4 cloves of garlic.
I dont excersise at the moment as my muscles are very weak, I was going to ask in the fitness thread about the best way to start.
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"Sarah could move up," Wood said. "She has a ton of potential."
Junior Marissa Casanova returns as South's No. 1.
"She almost made it to state last year," Wood said. "She's been working hard and I expect good things to happen to her."
Casanova felt she could have made it last year until she struggled at the district meet.
"This year I definitely want to go to state," said Casanova, adding that she scores in the low 90s on her best days. "I just need to keep calm and stay focused."
Wood said senior Kaitlyn Spellman opens the season as South's No. 2, but the three varsity positions behind her and Kopta are open. Juniors Natalie Feeney and Kylie Wong and senior Mayghan Thon all return. Wood expects them to be challenged by sophomores Emily Easterday and Kelsea Haskins and freshmen Karly Easterday and Mackenzie Rill.
"There's going to be a lot of shuffling," Wood said. "I think it's pushing them to work harder. They're stressing out, but I'm loving it."
The Wolves' only loss was four-year varsity mainstay Melissa Pratt, who graduated.
Because of that, Wood feels South should be competitive in Class 4A Narrows League competition. She expects the school's toughest competition to come from Bellarmine Prep, Gig Harbor and Olympia.
On the boys side, the theme is similar.
"We're building for the future," coach Sean Duttry said.
Owen Matheson, the Wolves' lone senior, expects to move into the No. 1 spot.
"He looks really good," Duttry said. "He could challenge to go to state."
Matheson, who said he typically shoots in the mid to high 80s, said he is trying to fend off a challenge from junior Vince Bachteler for the top position.
"I have solid technique," Matheson said. "If I can just calm down and keep a level head, that will help me a lot."
South graduated a large group of seniors last year, led by Steven Wood, who advanced to state. But Duttry feels like his squad can be competitive in 4A Narrows outside of Bellarmine Prep, Gig Harbor and Olympia. He said those squads feature "college-level players."
Duttry expects the varsity lineup to be rounded out with juniors Kai DeSmet, Jaron Burbank and Derek Crenshaw and sophomore Joel Sherman. But he said a half-dozen newcomers, led by sophomores Caulin Bakalarski and Ryley Callaghan, could challenge for playing time.
"They just have to figure out how to score," he said.
Duttry said the biggest challenge his squad has encountered is the heavy March rainfall that has limited their time on the links.
"The weather has kept us off the course," he said. "I don't know if the new guys will be scoring at a consistent rate."
But if that improves, Matheson said there could be plenty of shuffling in the lineup.
"There's not going to be one standout," he said. "We're going to rely on our depth."
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In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira Fukushima (Yuya Yagira) must care for his three younger half-siblings when their mother (You) abandons them.
It's easy to overrate a film like Nobody Knows. It's easy to be blinded by the seriousness of the mournful story it tells. Nobody Knows is not the earth-shattering, perception-altering film many reviewers make it out to be, but it's an excellent film and, with the sorry state of Japanese cinema, it comes as a breath of fresh air. One of the one criticisms other reviewers have is the film's lengthy runtime. I personally don't get why people consider this a valid criticism. A lengthy runtime simply allows a film to provide greater character development, greater plot development, and greater immersion, none of which I am opposed to; yet, it's easy to see how reviewers who have all their lives suckled the teet of Hollywood and its ninety-minute rule might perceive 141 minutes as grueling.
To be fair, some scenes do outstay their welcome, but the runtime allowed director Hirokazu Koreeda, with whose work I was previously unfamiliar, to capture the children's gradual decline over a period of months. Each scene, no matter how long it lingers, drips with poignant significance and relevance to the overall plot. We see small touches like Yuki's (Momoko Shimizu) crayons worn down to the nub toward the end of the film and the perpetually deteriorating state of the children's clothes. This film is a heartbreaking slow burn, though I can honestly say that I didn't find it to be much of a tearjerker.
What impressed me most about Nobody Knows was the subtlety of it all and the beautiful restraint exercised by director Hirokazu Koreeda. There are no cheap tricks to tug at your heartstrings. The performances are all wonderfully subdued. You is perfect in her role as the children's mother, herself remarkably childlike. Her performance was the highlight of the film; of course, she doesn't stick around for very long since she winds up abandoning her children, each of them from a different father.
Once criticism is that the ending was a bit of a cliffhanger. I found myself doing research on the affair of the four abandoned children of Sugamo to find out what actually happened. What I found out was that the film is only very loosely based on the actual events and that, in actuality, things may have been even grimmer than what we see in the film. Japanese viewers may be familiar with the affair that inspired this film, but foreign (i.e., non-Japanese) viewers might benefit from a little research, if only so the abrupt ending doesn't take them by surprise and leave them hanging.


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An Environment Canada map of Newfoundland and Labrador shows areas in red on the island where wind warnings have been issued for Tuesday.
Environment Canada has issued wind warnings for Tuesday for parts of Newfoundland, including the Northern Peninsula, the Terra Nova area, Bonavista, Clarenville and the Avalon Peninsula.
According to the weather office, a low pressure system south of Nova Scotia will rapidly deepen as it crosses Central Newfoundland on Tuesday. Strong southerly winds will develop over the Avalon Tuesday morning and spread northwestward throughout the day with gusts of up to 100 kms an hour expected along parts of the coast.
Environment Canada says potentially damaging winds are expected and is advising people to monitor weather conditions and check for updated statements.
There are also marine warnings of high seas building to four to six metres Tuesday morning.
Environment Canada's public weather warnings can be found online at http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/warnings/warnings_e.html.
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Greetings parents of UGA Miracle participants! In the coming weeks, your son or daughter will be participating in one of The University of Georgia's largest and most prestigious fundraising events- Dance Marathon 2013. Your child will sacrifice 24 hours of their weekend, February 23rd at 10 AM to February 24th at 10 AM, to celebrate the lives of and fundraise for the kids at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta through UGA Miracle.
As part of their effort, we would like to extend an offer for you to support them in this endeavor by purchasing a care package for them, which will include several things to make their Dance Marathon experience more comfortable . These care packages are a great way to show your support for the family member involved with Miracle. All proceeds will go not only to the kids at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, but also towards your son or daughter's mandatory fundraising goal as a member of our organization.
There are three sizes of bags- each with varying amounts of food and fun UGA Miracle paraphernalia- to optimize your son or daughter's Dance Marathon experience. The information and pricing of each bag is listed below:
The deadline for purchasing your son or daughter's care package is February 4th, 2013 by 5 pm EST, so make sure you act quickly. Thank you for your support of UGA Miracle this year!
For The Kids always,
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With the sacking of the Chelsea manager and the almost instant appointment of a interim replacement, the clearing of Mark Clattenburg by the FA, and the hooliganism perpetrated against Tottenham supporters by unknown assailants in Rome, this has been a topsy-turvy week to say the least.
Nobody could really have been surprised by the Di Matteo sacking. It appears that Chelsea's owner is prone to act on a whim in these situations, and simply put if the team loses a string of games in a row, it's the manager's fault, and he pays the price.
Forget the fact that the players might also be to blame since they are the trained professionals who are being paid pots of money to win games. However, rather curiously it never happens like that. Managers in the Premier League walk a tightrope every time their team goes out to play a game. The only resilient long term bosses are of course Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger and David Moyes.
When asked to comment on the sacking, the ex-Tottenham manager Andre Villas Boas commented that for him 'it was just another day in the office.'
Oh dear, what an attitude - however this might have been precipitated in part at least by the cynical way that Owners/ Directors of clubs treat their managers. It's a merry-go-round of constantly changing faces that doesn't do the team, club, or fans any good, and soon Chelsea will have run out of managers to employ.
Rafael Benitez has taken on a job that is monumental even if it is on an interim basis. I think that the next likely target, Pep Guardiola should think long and hard about taking over there next season - he is a brilliant manager but even this might not be enough to prolong his stay there, and he may also eventually become just another statistic relegated to the ever growing graveyard of former managers.
The Clattenburg affair was embarrassing because a perfectly good referee almost had his career and life ruined. The FA found, after briefing an eminent QC to review the evidence, that the referee had no charges to answer to, but that Ramires had acted in good faith when he made the allegations against him. Well, I did raise my eyebrows on this last finding, but I am quite relieved that the referee can now carry on his career. Hopefully, this sort of incident will not raise its ugly head again.
The attack on Tottenham fans by 'unknown assailants' in Rome yesterday is horrifying. It is horrifying not only for the unfortunate victims who we all hope recover to full health, but also for all English fans going into Europe to support their teams.
Two Roma fans have been charged, and that three of them might have even been 'foreigners', according to reports. This is ominous for obvious reasons but we will have to await the outcome of the police investigation before we can actually comment on who was actually behind such an awful crime.
These three events all have implications on the game itself.
The constant sacking of managers who do little wrong is worrying because it creates a perception that our managers are to a large extent commodities who can be bought and sold at the whim of the management of big clubs even if there is an employment contract in place.
The Clattenburg incident also does nothing to promote the sport. It should never have reached the stage that it did and hopefully players and Clubs will think twice in the future before putting such serious life-changing allegations forward. Racism is present in sport, not only football, and there is no room for it if it is proved.
The trouble with this type of incident is that certain people will still believe that the words were said, no matter what the FA has ruled, and that's bad for the sport as a whole.
The attack in Rome is the most frightening of all as it appeared to be well orchestrated and premeditated. Hopefully all of the perpetrators will shortly be arrested. Whoever they are.
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Recently I tried to e-mail a colleague of mine, and I got this message back from my Exchange 2010 Server:
pascal.junkemailfilter.com rejected your message to the following e-mail addresses:
pascal.junkemailfilter.com gave this error:
REJECTED - MULTI-BLACKLIST - [S=5 - cbl.abuseat.org] - BlList - X=pascal H=mail.****.com [###.##.###.##] HELO=[mail.******.com] F=[*******@******.com] T=[email@example.com] S=[RE: New Laptop]
A problem occurred during the delivery of this message to this e-mail address. Try sending this message again. If the problem continues, please contact your helpdesk.
So, I went to http:/
IP Address ***.**.***.** is listed in the CBL. It appears to be infected with a spam sending trojan, proxy or some other form of botnet.
It was last detected at 2013-07-02 18:00 GMT (+/- 30 minutes), approximately 4 hours ago.
This IP is infected (or NATting for a computer that is infected) with the cutwail spambot. In other words, it's participating in a botnet.
If you simply remove the listing without ensuring that the infection is removed (or the NAT secured), it will probably relist again.
This IP is infected (or NATting for a computer that is infected) with a spam-sending infection. In other words, it's participating in a botnet. If you simply remove the listing without ensuring that the infection is removed (or the NAT secured), it will probably relist again.
The problem is this: I have over 100 machines behind the NAT'd IP (MPLS Setup)...Is there any way to narrow down which machine(s) is/are the culprit(s)? From what I have read, the Cutwail Botnet connects outbound to various IPs, however I can not find a listing of them anywhere to be able to block them in my firewalls. I am also told that Cutwail uses random ports, so blocking 25 would not be sufficient.
The firewalls/routers that I have on each subnet (scattered across 15 physical locations in SE WI) are able to log to a syslog server, however I am not sure what I should be looking for in the syslog.
Anyone have any thoughts or ideas as to what I could possibly do to find the culprits on my network?
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Jul 2, 2013 at 10:51 UTC
you may be able to do a process list scan of each computer. According to http:/
would be suspect. these .exe's may change depending on the variant. I would open Task Manager on an infected machine and look for the oddball .exe's. http:/
Quick solution:
1. Download Hitman Pro 3.5 trial to a CD. do not run the install from network, USB or flash drive. use Read only CD-R.
2. disjoin computer from domain and reboot. Hitman Pro 3.5 trial will not install on domain joined computers. disjoin it first.
3. once booted up (off domain), open taskmanager and KILL 'explorer.exe' and 'iexplore.exe' The virus hooks into these and they need to be killed to clean the machine.
4. With explorer and IE processes killed, goto Task Manager, File -> Open, and open the Hitman Pro 3.5 install from your read only cd. Choose 'One time scan' and 'Activate Trial'. If you cannot activate the trial then reread step 2.
You will need an internet connection to finish the cloud scan....
Jul 2, 2013 at 11:08 UTC
Yep, most trojans will connect out on random ports but they still send mail out to other servers on port 25. Block AND LOG port 25 for all client addresses and allow for your email server only.
Read your logs for outoing port 25 connections. If your dhcp lease time is short, increase your dhcp lease time. Otherwise whenever a lease runs out the logged ip could be invalid unless your firewall can to dns lookups against AD and log that. Even that could be wrong if DNS doesn't update (users/cellphones/devices not from your AD can be resolved incorrectly to and old reverse dns address). You have reverse dns right?
Antivirus is a must on client computers. Check your Spiceworks report on invalid, out of date, unlicensed, incorrect antivirus. Get those into compliance to up to date and correct company licensed copies. Examine Scan Error items, know what devices that are failing scans and examine them. Outside customer, contractor, and BOYD could also be a problem. Cell phones, tablets, music devices with WIFI can be a problem as well as they can be exploited. Secure your WIFI.
Upgrade that firewall to one that offers IPS/Intrusion Protection System. Some of these can detect and block connections that are known virus at the file stream level. I have a Sonicwall that does this, I've also reviewed several others that have this ability.
Last but not least, if you have dynamic DNS for your internet you could just be handed a soiled IP someone already trashed before you. Another possibility is the block list maintainers decided to add part or all of your ISP's netblock due to a spammer on your ISP's network.
Jul 2, 2013 at 11:10 UTC
Make sure only your Exchnage server can send to Port 25 on the Firewall
Check the Firewall log (or turn it on) to see who is attempting to send to Port 25
Check your Exchnage Server message transaction log for rogue email it show the originators IP
Jul 2, 2013 at 11:11 UTC
Oh, I forgot I was reading: http:/
Jul 3, 2013 at 7:22 UTC
Good tactics Justin7819 :)
Jul 3, 2013 at 8:13 UTC
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you can configure SpamAssassin to filter outbound as well if you don't want to pay for a commercial solution. Works quite well once the initial tweaking is done. Not sure you have experience with that... Else pay someone to do it for you (= hint ;-))
Jul 7, 2013 at 4:24 UTC
Make sure only your Exchnage server can send to Port 25 on the Firewall
Check the Firewall log (or turn it on) to see who is attempting to send to Port 25
Check your Exchnage Server message transaction log for rogue email it show the originators IP
And here's a how-to that helps get this done:


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Knights duel against state's best
Bremerton wrestling, shorthanded and facing some of the state's top competition, salvaged one win in four tries at Saturday's Olympic Dream Duals at the Kitsap Fairgrounds Pavilion.
The Knights lost their first three matches — 69-6 against A.C. Davis of Yakima, the eventual second-place finisher, 47-24 against Auburn-Riverside and 54-24 against Peninsula — before salvaging a 47-24 fourth-round consolation victory against Gonzaga Prep to close the day on a high note.
Central Kitsap, Klahowya, North Kitsap and Olympic joined Bremerton to represent Kitsap, which collectively failed to advance a team in the winner's bracket beyond the quarterfinals.
Central Kitsap and Klahowya earned first-round victories against Bethel and Auburn-Riverside, respectively, but then lost in the quarters.
Olympic, however, rebounded from a 39-36 opening round defeat against Hudson's Bay to win three consecutive matches en route to a share of third place with Heritage and Yelm.
Wenatchee captured the title by virtue of a 34-29 win against Davis in the finals.
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Hitting the trail
If you haven't yet experienced the Mass Central Rail Trail, your chances are expanding exponentially.
This week, a 70-foot reinforced concrete tunnel was installed beneath Charnock Hill Road to give hikers access through what had been considered one of the more challenging stages of the trail.
The tunnel, the bridges over the Quinapoxet River in Holden, and the bridge over the Quag in Sterling represent a remarkable combination of ingenuity, determination and sheer will on the part of Wachusett Greenways.
Funding for the tunnel and adjacent mile of trail is a cooperative effort between Greenways and the George I. Alden Trust of Worcester, which has offered a $100,000 challenge grant for construction of the tunnel. To meet the challenge, Wachusett Greenways has pledged to raise a matching $100,000 through its Light for the Tunnel fundraising campaign.
It's a more than worthy effort.
Contributions can be mailed to Wachusett Greenways, Box 121, Holden, MA 01520. Contact Greenways president Colleen Abrams at (508) 829-3954 with questions.


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EWING — Lions' Stadium roared with the cheers of thousands of supporters last night as the Special Olympics New Jersey 2011 Summer Games kicked off with a bang on The College of New Jersey's campus.
As the 2,500 athletes and coaches marched into the stadium, their green, blue, yellow, red and tie-dyed shirts created a rainbow effect over nearly the entire length of the football field. Fans in the crowd showed support by doing the wave, and the Olympic theme played as the athletes filed in.
Preparing for such a dramatic entrance wasn't easy.
"Right now, we're trying to keep them all together, and keep them pumped up," local training program coordinator Kathy Rhead said while preparing the Mercer County athletes for their trip into the stadium.
"The wait is a bit long for them, but it's exciting."
The anticipation among the athletes was clear, with many buzzing about the night's upcoming fireworks, musical entertainment — a Bruce Springsteen tribute band, the BStreetBand — and even the game's college campus venue.
"It's cool, it's amazing," said Mercer County athlete Sarah Griffin. "I get to sleep at a college, I'm so excited!"
And though a weekend's worth of competition was about to ensue, many of the athletes were most excited last night to see the friends they would soon compete against and the friends and the family there to cheer them on.
"I get to see my family in the stands and see all the people we're competing against," said athlete Lia Rutberg, who will represent Mercer County in the games. "I'm most excited to be with my friends."
To prepare for such an action-packed weekend, most of the athletes, such as Mercer County track and field participant John Diver, said they took off early from school and their work-training programs.
For some supporters of the games, however, the day started even before the sun rose — as early as 4:45 a.m. yesterday — when law enforcement officers from across the state began journeys that would bring the Olympic flames to the stadium.
Their run, a total of 900 miles from Bergen County to Cape May and points in between, included nearly 3,000 officers and passed through 300 communities. It culminated when the final runner, officer Bill Dika of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, handed off the torch to athlete Andi Hoz de Vila, who brought the flame to the cauldron, illuminating the stadium. The action was met with fireworks and cheers as the weekend-long event officially began.
"Every year, we try to make it bigger and better," said Marc Edenzon, the Special Olympics New Jersey president.
It was a sentiment the games' coaches supported as well.
"I love the opening ceremonies, because you get to see everybody that you don't necessarily get to see throughout the weekend," said Joanne Monaco, the Mercer County area director.
"Every year, your number of friends gets bigger."
Still, some in the crowd were nervous.
"My mom's nervous, but moms are moms," said Mercer County softball player Alex Buzgo. "I'm excited, though. I can't wait."
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Trips to the bathroom under a third grade teacher's pay-to-potty policy cost $50 in fake money. But in two cases last week, children chose to spend their classroom bonus money on treats, instead of bathroom breaks. And they wet themselves because they didn't have enough money for a trip to the restroom, according to their outraged parents in Vancouver, Washington.
As a result, the school district has removed the teacher while the school investigates these claims. This, according to a report by our sister website, Syracuse.com.
The website reported that the school investigation began after KATU.com posted a story in which Jasmine Al-Ayadhi said her 9-year-old daughter, Reem, wet herself in class as a result of the "pay to potty" policy:
"I'm so angry!" Al-Ayadhi told KATU.com. "When a child has to pay money to use the bathroom...It's inhumane. That's a health issue."
Al-Ayadi added that she didn't have a problem with policies that teach students the value of money, but that making students use it for bathroom breaks was outrageous.
"This is a school," she said. "This isn't a jail. This isn't a prison. We send our kids to school to learn and to get a good education."
After the KATU.com report, a second parent, Merchon Ortega, filed a similar complaint saying that her daughter, Lilliana, also had an accident in the same class on the same day, Syracuse.com wrote.
Both Al-Ayadhi and Ortega said they weren't notified about the accidents, and only found out when their daughters came home in different clothes.
Evergreen School District spokeswoman Gail Spolar told KIRO-TV that "pay to potty" is not a school policy. Teachers are left to decide how to keep students accountable for bathroom breaks on their own:
"We're never going to prevent a child who is in an emergency situation from going to the bathroom," Spolar told KATU.com. "We don't want the children to have accidents. We don't want the children to have health and safety issues and so that's part of that investigation is how the procedure is being done."
The teacher has been replaced with a substitute while the investigation is ongoing. Spolar refused to name the teacher, or give any specifics about how long the substitute's stay would be.
Both mothers want the policy stopped and action taken against the teacher, Syracuse.com reported.
So what should be done with the teacher who bartered with her third graders over trips to the bathroom and drove such a hard a bargain it resulted in some wet pants?
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Fire Glass
Channel: fucking-science
Fire glass produces more heat than real wood, and also is environmentally friendly. There is no smoke, it's odorless and doesn't produce ash. You are able to stay toasty warm without cutting down trees and the specially formulated glass crystals give off no toxic deposit.
Main Benefit: That **** looks like sorcery.
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Originally posted in my old blog February 2006. For nearly six months, Al worked in Chicago, coming home only on the weekends, while Bean and I stayed home in Atlanta.
After his week of plane rides, long days, lonely nights and job stress, he comes home and makes us his girls again. Friday night, upon his arrival, there are long hugs, long kisses, and the two of us spoon opposite sides of a mammoth bowl of hot, buttered popcorn, snuggle under a blanket on the floor and watch the highly-anticipated weekly episode of What NOT to Wear. (Highly anticipated by me, anyway. I can never be sure if his enthusiasm's for Stacy and Clinton and their weekly victim, or for the spooning and popcorn.) And then we go to bed and make like married people. I get a massage and drift to sleep in a cradle built of brown arms and gentle, frothy peacefulness.
Saturday morning Alex awakes and chatters in her room about balls, birds and babies and then practices fake sneezes for 15 minutes, before floating a tiny, delectable "Mama?" across the hall, around the corner, and up the left side of the bed where it nestles sweetly into my waiting ear. Beside me, he stirs, turns and asks the question with only his eyebrows. My eyebrows answer. He's to her door cooing in a few stumbling steps. I hear them dawn on one another again. "Dadda!" He murmurs softly to her and from my warm bed I feel their two hearts unfolding right in the center of my own. He carries his daughter, her back straight and her head held high, to our bed, a matching light glows on the faces I love more than any others. She finds Mama's mouth for a kiss...nook? she queries. I slip to the kitchen as they snuggle with books, and return with her milk. She props herself against pillows and holds the cup with one hand, the other touching his face, his arm, his fingers, until it finally finds her favorite lovey, his earlobe. I watch, not breathing, not blinking, willing my perfect silence to hold the moment still as my eyes reach out and pull it into myself forever. Milk and books and Daddy and daughter jumble together beside me for moments before some or all of them find their way downstairs, and the cheese grits ritual begins. I lie and listen. Clinking, laughing, grits in a bowl. Water in pipes. He asks and answers. She proclaims and announces. Spoons scrape bowls. I shower. Coffee drifts upstairs to flirt with me, and I shrug off mascara for my sunny kitchen.
The next hour finds the three of us at Waffle House. The sun filters through the black-screened windows and Alex's smile and giggling outshines every warm ray. She's on a Daddy high. Everyone around us gets a curly little nod of her head, a scrunchy-faced grin, a backward Queen-wave. We have the usual and she eats another breakfast with us as if the grits were yesterday. We laugh. We make plans for the day. With him across from me I am engulfed in anticipation of every next second. I am again the me only he makes me. The lines above his eyes smooth, his smile eases down from tense and pleasing to real and ... real. He is happy to be home. We run errands. She walks in the middle, a hand streeeeeeeetched up to Mama, a hand streeeeetched up to Daddy. Toes on the ground. Bouncy, happy toes.
She drifts off in the backseat as we unfold our week gone by and pull out moments and people and plans and sort through, laughing, deciding, laughing again. At home, he unbuckles and peels her out of her seat. She smooths back down against him and we stand and discuss in gestures of our eyes what to do with our sleeping Bean.
She naps. We curl together in bed with a tiny DVD player and watch episodes of West Wing. Two hours later, we awake to her chatter a second time. She announces Poo Poo as we enter her room. He is in charge! Later, clean and expectant, she rides his hip with a shoulder for reins - down the stairs, bip bop boop. Shoes on six feet, coats and the stroller, and we breathe sunlight and chilly wind into our lungs as the street becomes the playground. With Daddy's protective arms a breath away, she alights - her red shoes thump stomp slap with the sound of complete fearlessness. An hour passes as I push a hair from my eyes. The sun fades, the wind sharpens. Home glows warm. Spaghetti begets a bath which begets soft pajamas and books. She sighs as we turn off her light and now we are two again.
Sunday opens as preciously as Saturday, but with a new, melancholy melody played in the same time. But the rhythm slows as the day glides by - he is sad with a Sunday sadness - the knowing of the end that precedes his leaving by half a day. Monday wakes early and gray - he has my heart in the bag over his shoulder, and I ask God to hold him as tightly as I want to for the next week. He leaves me in the darkness. She will awake and ask for him by name, and I will muster a way to make the sun rise for her in my own sad eyes. She and I will be the only us we know until Friday brings him home again.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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Oh, Megan! This is beautiful! I just want to swim in it. Feel free to post as much as you want from your archives. I feel I get to know you a little better everytime I read.ReplyDelete
I loved this entry then and I love it now. *sniffle*ReplyDelete
That was beautiful. And the end makes me feel so glad that your family isn't apart anymore!ReplyDelete
Boo hoo! That was so beautiful! You really do have a way with words!ReplyDelete
ok, I must stop reading this stuff...not only am I sniffling but I am insanely jealous of your writing skills, sista!ReplyDelete
ok, sorry--must go read more. hee hee
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Just a small tweak in the Zenon Konopka waiver tale: Tampa Bay put him on waivers to send him to Norfolk, alright, but the waivers start at noon today and run to Monday. If he is not taken by another NHL team, then he can be sent to the Admirals.
I talked to Konopka on Saturday morning. He's returned home to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., waiting to see what happens. As one would expect of him, he remains pretty upbeat.
"Obviously, it's a little frustrating. I had a pretty good camp,'' he said. "Now it's out of my hands. I understand it. It's the business. I'm optimistic that things will change next month in Tampa (maybe needing him back).''
I asked him about his decision to play the role of agitator in camp, fighting five times in three preseason games.
"I kind of pushed the envelope as much as I can,'' he said. "They have enough skill there. I made a read on the type of player they needed. I think it's the right one.''
Lindsay Kramer


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With Feb. 5 and national signing day inching closer by the day, Texas A&M is looking to lock up any wavering or possible prospects into the fold of its impressive class. The Aggies have already enrolled multiple stars, including 5-star quarterback Kyle Allen and wide receiver Speedy Noil, but many more await printing their names down in just over a week from now.
Bleacher Report breaks down A&M's top five make-or-break prospects for this upcoming signing day and how their committing to the Aggies will impact the future of the rising program.