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Lincoln painted red and white ahead of Imps' open top bus parade
Thousands of people are expected to line the streets this evening to show their support for Lincoln City Football Club and its successes in the 2016/17 season.
An open-top tour bus parade has been organised for the team, its staff and supporters from 6.30pm on May 2.
Red and white streams of bunting are already lining the streets in the city centre and banners have been put up above the city's historic Guildhall.
The three-mile route, which has now been extended and will be a continuous loop around the city, will see the bus of team members and staff set off from Sincil Bank before travelling down lower High Street, onto Wigford Way, along Newland, over the University Bridge, onto Tritton Road and down Dixon Street before heading back onto High Street and towards the football ground.
Free parking will be on offer at council car parks in the city from 4pm, as well as on the South Common and St Marks Shopping Centre.
The route
Details of the city council car parks offering free parking from 4pm on the day of the event can be found online here.
People can also get involved in the action on social media by using #ImpsParade.
The city council has also shared the following event guidelines:
- If you are attending the event, please allow as much time as possible to get into the city
- It is essential that visitors to the event keep on the correct side of any safety barriers, and follow the instructions of both the police and the stewards to ensure this is a safe event
- No roads will be closed for this event, so can all supporters please ensure they remain on the pavements
- The route is a 'loop' and the bus will not be stopping
- Although fans can view the event across the whole route, some great areas to view the parade include High Street between Tentercroft Street and Wigford Way; Tritton Road and
- Dixon Street
- Although the parade starts and finishes at South Park Avenue there will be no access to Sincil Bank football stadium
- If you are not attending the event, be aware there is likely to be severe traffic congestion in the city this evening. Please avoid the city centre if at all possible during this event
- If you work in the city but are not intending to stay for the event, please leave at you earliest convenience to avoid getting caught in traffic


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Certain readers of this blog are fascinated by the whole Havasu connection. I get accused of being a co-ed, GGW, or a desert rat. I've been asked if I wear pasties and get drunk on a boat in the lake every time I am there. The answer to all of the above is no. I am not. But some of my very favorite people own a gorgeous home and a restaurant/bar in Lake Havasu City. We go there to get away from it all. And by getting away from it all, I really mean getting away from IT ALL.
The food at Stearn's is damn good. It ain't organic, low fat, raw or tofu based. But is is consistently good. I wrote an exhaustive entry in 2008 about the food. Use the search function if you want a blow by blow. I am too lazy today to make a link. Maybe I will do it tomorrow.
I adore the signage about the restaurant. This is for the little girls' room.
And this is for the boys'.
This houses the toilet paper, ain't it grand?
And the patrons both manage to keep their sharpies in their pockets and the verbiage on the chalkboard clean. Nice.
It's arty in there, partially due to C's artsy fartsy beautiful photo skills, mad skills. And these posters which harken back to the day of Carbon and Smart Brown Handbag shows at The Viper Room, Three Clubs, The Bargain Clown Mart, the Garage, and anywhere else they might have been playing.
Live. At the Garage. Celebrating Sulfur.
I have heard Stearns throws a mean Superbowl party.
Flick likes his beer. Stearns is more of a Beam and coke guy.
Look out when C starts knocking back the tequila. Everyone is in for a good night.
I am in awe of how handy Flick is. He made these light fixtures by hand from some stuff he found at the hardware store.
He aged both the light fixtures and the corrugated metal ceiling coverings by throwing acid on them and burying them in the dirt for a piece. Both members of this couple are kinda artsy fartsy. Flick might just be a little...well, you know.
Stearns' dad, Papa Stearns, spent some time in Lake Havasu City living in a trailer and helping the boys put together the interior. I think they all did a great job. The seats are comfy and you can push aside the tables to make room for dancing.
The boys also added some quality TVs for watching sports. I spent an inordinate amount of time in this bar last summer watching the French Open. And drinking their Bacardi.
Even though this post is not about the food, per se, we did snarf down a fair amount of their food President's Day weekend. One brunch started with their delicious Bloody Mary's for almost everyone. C had a Bloody Maria, natch.
I indulged myself in their biscuits and gravy. Were they as good as they look? Better.
J had to help me with this monstrous sized portion.
And no discussion of Stearns would be complete without mention of the ubiquitous fried pickles. Pickle my dickle.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Stearns 2009
Posted by Food, she thought. at 8:54 AM
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the celery looked like a little cactus in your bloody mary. :)
- February 22, 2009 at 9:53 PM
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I especially loved the snippets at the end of Demon & Deanna, Amy & Joke, Steel and Eloise, and lastly ... Shakes & Daniella. It was nice to see these couples again and get a glimpse into their lives. Still sex driven, still hard-core alpha's, still strong & stubborn ladies, and even a baby born too!
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As co-chair of the firm's Corporate Immigration Practice Group, Bahal has extensive experience in corporate immigration and employer compliance issues, including IRCA, I-9s, Social Security mismatch issues visas and permanent residence applications (i.e., green cards), representing immigration clients across the United States and at Consulates worldwide. In the course of her career, Bahal has represented a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 500 clients to small, privately held corporations to health care and nonprofit organizations across the country.
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The funerary monuments and memorials in the Church of Ireland (Anglican) Cathedral Church of St Patrick, Armagh, include fine works by celebrated sculptors including Bacon, Chantrey, Farrell, Marochetti, Nollekens, Roubiliac, Rysbrack, and others, yet are not widely known. Professor Stevens Curl's book describes and illustrates all of them, providing information about the artists and their subjects, thereby filling an unaccountable gap in the literature.
Funerary monuments in churches often add richness and interest to interiors, and in this respect Armagh Cathedral is no exception: its collection of memorials deserves proper recognition. This is the rationale for Professor Stevens Curl's study, which provides for the first time a comprehensive guide to these remarkable survivals, some of which are world-class in terms of excellence.
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Note the word "impressive" so we're not looking at world-changing, most legendary or anything else - just the one that we thought was the coolest. Perhaps it should read "Most AWESOME Piece of Technology" but anyhow...
Here we are and Day Nine takes us into the core of the fiction, what was the bit of tech that made you "Ooooh" and "Ahhhh" the most during the last 49 years? Maybe it was the phaser, the transporter or perhaps those cute and cuddly Exocomps from The Quality of Life. Perhaps you're a fan of Borg nanoprobes and their ability to assimilate or heal - or whatever Brannon Braga wanted them to do that week. You might even think the Enterprise grappler was forward-thinking.
I have to backtrack to an answer from earlier in the challenge for my choice on this one and it's the seldom-seen (two episodes) and blatant plot-device that was the holo-communicator. First seen in the brilliant For the Uniform and last seen in Dr Bashir, I Presume?, the holo-communicator took the holodeck to a new level where those static viewscreen conversations could be brought to life and help bring more energy to a scene. In the case of For the Uniform it's there so the conflict between Sisko and Eddington isn't just head-shots on the Defiant viewer and it works extremely well, making their conversations carry just that bit more edge which helps power a great episode.
As explained in the Deep Space Nine Companion Gary Hutzel explains that it was ditched because it was expensive to shoot and just looked like the guy had beamed in. I have to agree that it just looked like Eddington, Odo or Sanders were standing in a blue-edged box on the bridge and not like a hologram at all. A great and cool idea but something that was, perhaps rightly, consigned to the bin pretty quickly since it also might have caused unforeseen story problems in the future. There was a reason Gene Roddenberry chose to communicate via the viewscreen y'know!!!
Fan of the holo-communicator or would you rather have Chang's cloaking device?
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In a courtyard in the old city of Damascus a group of intellectuals and foreign diplomats sits down to lunch.
It's three in the afternoon, and they're in no particular rush. On the table there is wine from Lebanon and fruit from local groves.
The talk is of change in the Middle East. Syria's one party state, led by Bashar al-Assad, has begun to show some tolerance of dissent. But such tolerance has its limits. In this country there are still red lines most people just don't cross.
"There are two taboos," says Sami Mubayed, a political writer. "One is sectarian affairs. And the other is the President of the Republic. These are two red lines that nobody can cross."
They're worth a test. So I approach the host of the lunch, a prominent lawyer and reformer, and ask her if she feels able to criticise the president openly and even call for his resignation.
"I don't believe that my president should step down," she says. "I care because he's my schoolmate and I do really like him and his wife very much. I hate - and I'm sorry to use this very strong word - I hate the old guard."
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At night I head into a crowded backgammon hall in central Damascus to meet the prominent dissident Yassin al-Haj Saleh. Mr Saleh is a writer who has spent 16 years in Syrian jails for opposing the regime. For now, he is out of prison, and he is keen to hack away at this country's hidden restrictions.
"No one is completely safe in Syria," he says, "but perhaps I can express my opinions and ideas more freely than at any other time before."
I ask him how he recognises the limits to his opinions when he writes: "We have flexible red lines, but people are now trespassing these red lines. I don't respect them because if you live under them you will always be like this."
A day later I head off to another lunch, this time in the dusty town of Suweida, an hour's drive from Damascus. A young doctor has just finished his two years of military service and his family's gathered to welcome him back. I'm shown into the main room.
"We're not friends with Blair. Tell him not to come here," says one of the family, with a smile.
The many failings of foreign leaders appears to be a safe topic for small talk with an outsider. But the mood changes when I speak to the doctor and try - as delicately as I can - to edge my way towards Syria's red lines.
"Do you think the current government is on the right track?" I ask.
"I think it's trying to be on the right track," replies my host.
"What more should it do?" I press on.
"This is something difficult to talk about with guests that we meet for the first time," the doctor says.
Touchy subject
At this point the doorbell rings and the doctor gets up. Then he comes back, and sits down, looking uncomfortable.
"I wanted to apologise for the what I just said," he continues. "I want to clarify one thing: I think that the internal problems that we are facing in this country should be internalised until they're solved."
It didn't come as a surprise. All over Suweida there are reminders that the regime is nearby. On street corners and buildings there are portraits of Bashar al-Assad and his late father.
Inside a roundabout, stands a giant statue of the president's late brother Basil, on horseback. In this town and in this country you are never more than a few streets away from the face of the leader and his family.
A little later on, after lunch is over, the mood in the doctor's family home cheers. And the conversation stays well clear of Syrian politics.
In this one-party state there are those who are now able to chip away at Syria's red lines. But the boundaries still exist. And in the dusty corners of Suweida, never far from the gaze of the leader, people still prefer to watch what they say.


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Good Bugs
By Karen Weiland, Advanced Master Gardener
Not all bugs are bad guys. Some are beneficial pollinators and natural enemies of insect pests in our gardens. Many of the crawly, flying critters in our gardens work day and night crusading against evildoers like the beetle larvae, whiteflies, scale, caterpillars, grubs and aphids.
Predatory insects are those that eat other insects. The predators that deserve a welcome mat at the garden door include ladybugs, daddy longlegs, green lacewings, ground beetles, wasps and praying mantis among others. Speaking of praying mantis, did you know that it is among the few insects that can rotate their heads so they can literally look over their shoulder, which makes them an extremely effective predator.
There is another group of insects called parasitoids that lay their eggs on pests and after the eggs hatch, the larvae burrow into the host and eat its tissues from the inside out. Parasitoids are usually very small and include many species of tiny wasps and flies. These good bugs can be attracted to the garden by planting native flowering plants which will provide an alternative source of food if the bad bugs are scarce. Ha, imagine that, a garden with very few bad bugs!
Attracting good bugs starts with good gardening practices. The use of chemical pesticides will kill the bad bugs, the downside is that it will also kill the good bugs. There are companies that specialize in biological pest control. You can purchase eggs or larvae of good bugs at nurseries or from mail-order companies. Planting flowers that offer yummy pollen and nectar such as goldenrod (Solidago), coneflower (Echinacea), milkweed (Asclepias), sunflower (Helianthus), Coreopsis and Aster are a good way to attract beneficial bugs to your garden. Some insect good guys also like to dine on the blooms of herbs such as cilantro (Coriandrum sativum), lovage (Levisticum officinale), dill (Anethum graveolens) and parsley (Petroselinum crispum) and freshly harvested herbs from your garden will give your foods a great flavor boost. Ladybugs will feel invited to spend the winter if you provide an area planted with ground covers such as English Ivy or vinca.
Practice good sanitation by removing diseased plant parts. Many diseases and some insects stick around on infected plants during the winter only to infect new plant growth in the spring.
Learn how to recognize the difference between beneficial insects and insect pests….then tread carefully. The next time you meet up with a creepy, crawly it just might be a garden superhero standing guard, ready to protect your veggies from the bad bugs.
As always, Happy Gardening!
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Lawrence Ma, the President of the Diamond Federation of Hong Kong, China, was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses in 2003.
Mr. Ma has been chairman of the Hong Kong Diamond Importers Association and Hong Kong Diamond Bourse since 1998 and 1999 respectively. To consolidate the resources and to better serve the diamond community in Hong Kong, he merged the two diamond associations to form the Diamond Federation of Hong Kong in 2000, and became the founding chairman of the federation.
Mr. Ma was invited to assist in the formation of the Shanghai Diamond Exchange and was elected vice chairman of that exchange in 2001.
Aged 53, Mr. Ma is the second generation of a diamond wholesaler and jeweler. Together with his brothers Michael and Max, he has developed his company into a diversified business structure ranging from diamond wholesaling, jewelry manufacturing, as well as jewelry and Italian-gold wholesaling, and a wide array of jewelry retailing.


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MPLS – Multi-Protocol Label Switching
MPLS is usually classified as a 2.5 layer protocol because it operates between layers 2 and 3 of
When a packet gets in a Provider Edge (PE) router, coming from an IP routed network, it's then classified into a Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC) depending on its characteristics to receive a label. Once it has a label the MPLS routers (LSR) will forward the labeled packet through Label Switch Paths (LSP) according to the labels it has. The forwarding decision was made before the LSP was created, hence the routers won't look at the packet's IP header details to forward it, only at the labels in the MPLS header.
The figure below shows how MPLS process and forwards a packet. When it gets in the MPLS domain, the first PE router pushes a label (according to the FEC), the next one swaps the
MPLS header
The MPLS header goes between Layer 2 and Layer 3 headers. The header is 32 bits long with the following fields:
- Label values: where label number goes
- Exp (Experimental bits): field used to CoS (Class of Service)
- S (Bottom of the stack bit): when set to 1 means that the current label is the last one
- TTL (Time to Live)
- Core MPLS Network: the network, such as a backbone, where MPLS runs
- FEC – Forward Equivalence Class: Based on the packet's characteristics, such as destination IP, QoS, next-hop, etc., MPLS bundle some packet types in a set to whose it will give the same treating, usually associating those packets to the same label os LSP.
- LSR – Label Switch Router: routers in the MPLS network able to forward packets based on labels. LSR routers are used in the core of the network. This is also a P device; see below.
- LER – Labeled Edge Router: routers used at the edge of the MPLS network, between the MPLS and the IP network. It works as an ingress or egress router pushing or popping labels. LER devices are also PE routers; see below.
- LSP – Label Switch Path: is the path in the MPLS network a packet uses to reach the destination. Even if a packet run across the same routers on its way back, it uses a different LSP, so that LSPs are unidirectional.
- LDP – Label Distribution Protocol: LDP is the industry standard protocol for MPLS label distribution. It runs on multicast (18.104.22.168 – all routers) and uses 646 UDP port. Once it discovers a neighbor, it brings a TCP connection on 646 port up.
- TDP – Tag Distribution Protocol: TDP does the same as LDP, but is Cisco proprietary. It runs on broadcast and uses 711 UDP port. Once it discovers a neighbor, it brings a TCP connection on 711 port up.
- P – Provider Router: routers in the core network, not connected to any client device. It is also an LSR device; see above.
- PE – Provider Edge Router: routers at the edge of the core MPLS network; these routers have at least one interface connected to a P router and at least one interface connected to a Customer Edge router (CE). PE routers as also LER devices; see above.
- CE – Customer Edge: routers connected to a PE router external to the MPLS network. CEs do not receive labels through the links to the PEs; they are out of the MPLS domain.
- Ingress of Egress LSR: they are the PE routers because they are ingress or egress for the MPLS network. They receive a common IP packet from outside MPLS network, insert a label and forward to the MPLS network. When they are at the end of a packet's path in the MPLS network, they perform the inverse.
- PHP – Penultimate Hop Popping: this feature, when configured in the penultimate router (a router connected to an MPLS edge router), makes the router to pop the label of a packet before to forward it to the edge router. This feature reduces the processing required by the edge router; if it receives a packet with an MPLS label, before the popping operation, it will execute a label lookup.
- MPLS-TE – MPLS Traffic Engineering:
- MP-BGP – Multiprotocol BGP: It is a BGP feature that expands BGP to support and distribute in parallel, but yet separately, different address-families (IPv4 and IPv6 unicast, multicast, VPN) rather than only IPv4 unicast. So, why is it here? Because this feature enables L3 VPNs in an MPLS network.
- David Bombal on Youtube:
- GTA UFRJ – Conceitos MPLS
- My Notes On Routing Protocols
- Perguntas mais freqüentes sobre MPLS para iniciantes


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The morning is pure
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Spreading her rays to all cares
In every background and backdrops
Emotions running high
Sending me to places I can handle not
Ecstacy so powerful
Anarchy it's only for ruin
Happiness and joy in measures
In receipt of sheer emotions
Gasping for survival in territories they know not,
But she got the gun
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They turned to me in oblivion
Because I raised the backdrop high
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Yet I got the bullets, six rounds
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I don't know about you, but summer months to me mean entertaining, hanging out with friends, and an undying devotion to everything red, white, and blue. I absolutely love the festivities surrounding the 4th of July, and I made this simple, cute cake that you can easily whip up before a big bbq or party. This 4th of July Polka Dot Cake is simple, easy, and so cute! You can have it decorated in under 10 minutes, even as a newcomer to fondant!
You'll need:
-Decorators Preferred Fondant
-Wilton red-red food coloring
-Wilton Royal Blue food coloring
-foodprep gloves or plastic baggies
-Wilton circle fondant cutter (or a mason jar)
-any large frosting tip
-chilled cake
-2 cups buttercream icing
First, you need to start off with a fondant covered cake.
You'll need to start out with a cake that has been covered with fondant- or you can also use my method for creating a faux fondant look out of store bought icing. For complete information on how to add fondant to a cake, please check out my detailed instructions here!
Once your cake is covered,
First, we need to color the red and white fondant.
Grab about 1/4 cup of fondant, and roll it into a ball. Wearing gloves (or put the fondant into a plastic bag, and squeeze the bag to knead the fondant without staining your hands), add good coloring and start kneading it into the fondant. Add more coloring to get a deeper color as needed.
When fondant is the color you'd like, roll it out on the fondant prep/measuring mat. If fondant is extra sticky because of food coloring, sprinkle a bit of powdered sugar onto it and knead it in.
Roll out a circle of fondant to your desired thickness with a fondant roller. The roller helps fondant not stick like it might to a rolling pin- and really helps you control thickness. If you've had problems rolling fondant in the past using a rolling pin, you need to try fondant rollers!
I prefer slightly thicker fondant for simple designs like this.
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Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW)
Subsidy Approval: EFAW Course is approved by Cyprus Human Resource Development Authority (CHRDA / ANAΔ) for subsidy / grant aid, which is available to companies who meet the criteria for eligibility of such grants. Kalliopi First Aid Training offers assistance in the subsidy application process.
Approved Trainers: Kalliopi First Aid Trainers / Assessors are certified by Cyprus Human Resource Development Authority (CHRDA / ANAΔ), to provide First Aid Training Programmes and satisfy the criteria for subsidy / grant aid.
Language: This course can be taught in either Greek or English.
Who Will Benefit: This course is available to small, medium or large size companies or individuals who work or aspire to work in the following industries: Hotels, Banks, Gyms, Public Swimming Pools, Supermarket & Shopping Centres & Malls, Schools & Universities, Health Clinics, Stadiums, Airport terminals, Bus Stations, Private or Municipal Lifeguards, exhibition spaces or any place frequented by general public.
Course Aims: To enable participants to attain the skills and knowledge needed to perform effective First Aid in the workplace.
Information: The EFAW training programme is approved and fully complies with the Cyprus Government Legislation which is in accordance with the latest (2015) European Resuscitation Council (ERC) Guidelines.
Course Includes: 6 hours of practical and theoretical First Aid & CPR training and assessment; Certification in EFAW; Training Materials; Manual & Examination; Assessment; Registration and Wall Certificate.
Course Objectives: This course is designed to train and educate participants to understand the role of the First Aider and acquire knowledge in the techniques of confidently administering First Aid in the workplace. It aims to train participant to assess and act safely in an emergency and administer appropriate first aid. This course also covers first aid procedures using basic life support techniques and Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
Course Program:
|1 Instructor per max. 15 students
|Knowledge Development:
|1 Oral Resuscitation mask for each student
|Understand the role of the first aid responder
|1 Manikin per 4 students
|Identify importance of protection from cross infection
|Latex or medical gloves – 1 pair per student
|Identify information for accident report inclusion
|Classroom audiovisual equipment
|Identify first aid equipment for a named situation
|Cleaning & Medical materials (dressings etc.)
|Scene & Safety Assessment
|Emergency assessment and appropriate action
|Provide First Aid for an unresponsive casualty (including epilepsy)
|Demonstrate Recovery Position
|Manage a casualty experiencing a seizure
|Recognise the requirement for & administer CPR
|Identify signs & symptoms of cardiac arrest and manage casualty
|Recognize & administer first aid for choking
|Demonstrate how to control severe bleeding
|Treating minor injuries (cuts/bruises/burns/splinters)
Certification: After successfully completing all elements of the course, participants will be certified for EFAW for 3 years.
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African American speedskater Shani Davis, Team USA, won his second gold medal last night in the 1,000-meter.
Shani became the first African American to win an individual Winter Games event four years ago.
Last to skate, the Chicago native had just the fifth fastest time with 400 meters remaining, 0.26 seconds behind the Korean. But he exploded on the final turn and, with the sold-out crowd at the Olympic Oval roaring, came home with the day's best time.
This brother is making Black History! Congrats!
Hey, perhaps someone should foward this info to the NHL and let them know that recruiting more brothers for hockey teams might be a great idea.
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- Performed opening and closing duties to include cash/credit procedures and facility cleaning.
- Scheduled receptionist coverage and assisted in personnel actions supporting salon human resources.
- Performed payroll actions supporting ten employees.
- Interacted with Army/Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) management for facility operations.
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Certain exercises and stretches can aggravate clients' nerves – but some simple postural adjustments can be all it takes to reduce risk of neural tension and discomfort.
I remember long ago when I started out in the fitness industry, completing my ACHPER course and wearing my leg warmers in the 80's (yes there's a vision!), I learnt about how to stretch a muscle. One of the favourites to include in fitness classes was a hamstring stretch. During my classes I would do a straight leg hamstring stretch and tell the participants to flex the foot or pull their toes towards them to increase the hamstring stretch. I thought I was challenging my class to increase their range of motion and give them a better class as a result. Little did I know that while doing this stretch I was increasing the neural tension in the leg. I never considered whether a class participant could have had a past hamstring tear with neural adhesions, or whether they could be an office worker with a history of low back pain and weak pelvic stability causing piriformis to spasm and increase neural tension. I never asked anyone about their history of lumbar spine disc injuries causing an increase in neural tension… so much to learn!
When I think back to the stretches I was instructing, I could have made a lot of my clients feel worse, as opposed to challenging them to increase a stretch. Participants would routinely comment to me at the end of class that they felt a sharp pull in their calf muscles or behind the knee and did not achieve a stretch in the hamstring muscles. Have you ever heard this from clients or participants? If so, read on.
You've got some nerve…
Let us recap some anatomy of the nervous system. There are two main components to the nervous system: firstly, Central Nervous System (CNS), comprising mainly of the brain, brainstem and spinal cord; and secondly, the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS), which connects the spinal cord with our limbs and organs. When we stretch the arms and legs within an exercise session, we are mainly putting tension on the PNS. However, we must remember the CNS and the PNS cannot be separated and are one continuous structure within our bodies. Anything we do with our arms and legs can also be felt elsewhere in the body.
Nerves are not elastic and therefore do not respond well to static stretching. Nerves are more like a tight piece of thick string that, if stretched under static load, will become irritated. Do not push through the hamstring stretch if you feel a pull in the calf muscle. In addition, they do not respond well to compression. So if you think that using a foam roller to apply super hard pressure to your sciatic nerve will help to ease pain, think again! Rather than being put under prolonged stretch tension or directly compressed, nerves need a pathway free of pressure to travel through the body and ensure we are pain-free and functioning optimally.
Getting on clients' nerves
Clients with irritated nerves may vocalise a feeling of having ants crawling up their skin, water moving on their skin, or an increased awareness of a particular part of the body. They may report tingling or pins and needles in a particular area, or a localised numb feeling or loss of sensation. As symptoms worsen, they may report a shooting or electrical pain, hot pain, or stabbing pain that is very sharp in quality. A physiotherapist can do a specific neural assessment that may also reveal additional nerve symptoms, such as loss of reflexes or overactive reflexes, or reduced strength and control within a certain group of muscles that correlate to a particular level of neural compromise.
If your client has these severe symptoms, they must be referred onto a health professional for further diagnosis of the origin of their pain before continuing with their exercise program.
PT's Top Tips for optimal nerve function
- The first thing to remember, when you instruct a client to stretch, is that you are increasing the tension, pull or static stretch on every structure that limits movement at a particular joint in a particular direction (i.e. hip joint flexion). The structures responsible for increasing tension and reducing range of motion within a stretch could be muscle, nerves, veins, arteries, fascia and connective tissues, joint capsules, ligaments and so on. Be aware that you are not only stretching one muscle when you give a stretch.
- Secondly, all of us are made differently, with unique tissue extensibilities and genetic makeup, and, therefore, we will all feel a stretch differently. There is no advantage in doing a hamstring stretch when the problem limiting an increase in range of motion is pins and needles in the foot and no stretch in the hamstring. Always ask your client where they are feeling a stretch and what the stretch feels like to them. This may shed some light on whether they are feeling the muscle stretch correctly.
- Third, bear in mind that the nervous system is a continuous system throughout the body. Therefore, your body posture, head position, foot position or hand position can actually make your nerves become more irritable within a given stretch. It is important to take note of the posture of your client when they feel any nerve symptoms, and to make sure you avoid this body posture within a given exercise session. For example, a client may say they get tingling in their hands when they do a pec stretch at 90 degrees of abduction. But it may be the fact that their head is turned away or laterally flexed from the shoulder they are stretching, which increases neural tension in the median nerve in the upper body, resulting in the tingling sensation in the hand. Returning the head to a more neutral position, and making sure there is a slight bend in the elbows, may be enough to decrease the pull on the nerves. Be aware of the whole body posture when performing stretches.
10 common mistakes that may increase neural tension
The following behaviours during a workout may increase neural tension, so familiarise yourself with the solutions and educate your clients about how a simple change in posture can help reduce this risk.
- Cervical flexion, i.e. looking at the floor when performing exercises (cervical plexus tension)
Solution: Keep neck in neutral forward looking position
- Pulling the scapula/shoulder girdle down and back excessively when doing upper body exercises (cervical plexus tension)
Solution: Perform correct backward tilting of the scapula without excessive depression of the scapula during upper body exercises.
- Sitting on a hand to perform a neck stretch and/or pulling the neck with the other hand (cervical plexus tension)
Solution: Very gentle movements of the cervical spine, don't hold a stretch longer than 5 seconds for the cervical spine and never sit on the hand to pull down the shoulder or pull the head in the opposite direction.
- Tilting the head away from an arm when you are stretching (cervical plexus tension)
Solution: Keep head looking straight forwards or towards the hand/arm you are stretching to reduce neural tension. Relax the opposite arm by your side.
- Straight leg hamstring stretches (sciatic nerve tension)
Solution: Perform bent knee hamstring stretches with a relaxed ankle. Bring the knee in toward the chest as far as possible before attempting to straighten the knee. This way the proximal or upper hamstring will have more of a stretch sensation and the neural tension behind the knee will reduce significantly.
- Excessive wrist flexion with upper body weights (median nerve tension)
Solution: Keep wrists neutral and not flexed when performing rowing or lat pulldowns to reduce the tension on the forearm or wrist flexors, thereby helping to offload the median nerve in the carpal tunnel.
- Bilateral (both arms) doing pec stretch position (brachial plexus tension)
Solution: Perform upper body stretches one arm at a time with neck and head in a neutral position, and relaxed shoulder position.
- Sitting in a 'C' curve or rounded spinal position (slumped rounded kyphotic posture) to do weights, i.e. seated leg press (spinal cord tension)
Solution: Ensure your client is not doing leg weights in a seated position, rather do standing or upright functional leg strengthening exercises. Make sure their posture is in a more neutral spine position and not a rounded sitting posture.
- Rounded lumbar spine in deadlift posture (sciatic and spinal cord tension)
Solution: Make sure knees are slightly bent to reduce tension. Keep lumbar spine in neutral position and slightly lordotic posture. Don't tuck chin in to chest – rather keep a slight gap between chin and chest.
- Sit and reach test position – worst combination of bilateral straight leg stretch with rounded posture and cervical flexion! (spinal cord flexion)
Solution: If you are sitting in a long sitting position, sit on a block to reduce slump of the lumbar spine, bend your knees slightly or place a towel under your knees and keep your spine and head as upright as possible. This will reduce pull and tension on your nerves.
When I reminisce about my aerobics days in the 80's, I wish I had more awareness of what structures I was affecting with my stretches and exercises. It is important to remember that you are not only working muscles, but all the other structures that work in unison with the muscles, including the nervous system.
Of course, if there are neural symptoms which worsen during a session, you must always stop the exercise and refer the client to a health professional for diagnosis. Never push through the neural symptoms – respect the nerves!
- Shacklock M (1995) Neurodynamics. Physiotherapy 81: 9-16. 2.
- Shacklock M (2005) Clinical Neurodynamics: a new system of musculoskeletal treatment, Elsevier, Oxford, UK
Merrin Martin, BAppSc (Physio), BSpSc (Ex.Sc) is the founder of Active Anatomy Physiotherapy & Health Professional Workshops in Sydney. An experienced physiotherapist, exercise scientist, health educator and clinical Pilates instructor, Merrin is a highly respected expert in exercise rehabilitation. activeanatomy.com


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Not your mama's gym class
Physical education teachers are using innovative ways to battle the obesity crisis
Jacque Wilson | 1/30/2014, 10:40 a.m.
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If there's one thing Pomeroy is pumped about, it's using technology in his class. The self-proclaimed Twitter fanatic has reached out to PE teachers all over the world to bring new ideas to his students.
Pomeroy's class uses iPads to analyze their archery or free throw techniques. With an app called Coach's Eye, they record videos of their shot, then play it back while discussing their form. Pomeroy has also split his class into groups to create their very own workout videos -- recording these at home is easier for some students than performing live in front of their peers, he says.
Many schools provide pedometers and heart rate monitors for students, Vaandering says. When she taught elementary PE, she encouraged her students to increase the number of steps they took during every class.
"You'd see their little feet moving while we're giving instructions because they want to get more steps," she says with a laugh.
Pomeroy has taken technology even further, using it to connect his students with others across the globe. In one instance he teamed up with a PE teacher in the United Kingdom to pull off an international dance team competition via Skype. Another time, his students gave jump rope lessons to their peers abroad.
"Sometimes for phys ed, you just need to get out of the gym," Pomeroy says.
Perhaps one of the biggest differences Vaandering sees in students today is high levels of stress. An overemphasis on standardized tests and budget cuts has removed important stress outlets such as art class and PE in some schools, she says. A few districts in Oregon have even cut recess for elementary school.
"That's so not in line with brain research and what science tells us about a child's learning (process)," Vaandering says. "In reality there needs to be a balance and a respect for the whole child."
Some schools are getting the message that stress reduction is an important part of a child's overall well-being. They're incorporating yoga and meditation, Muller says, while educating the mind, body and spirit.
In health class at Dwight-Englewood, students are offered the opportunity to use apps like Calm.com, which provides a soothing screen and sounds in timed blocks to calm the mind.
"It's amazing how much better you feel after two minutes," Muller says.
What you can do
Parents play a big role in their children's success at school, Vaandering says, whether it's in math class or gym class.
"It really is important to do family activities," she says. "Enjoying each other's company, going hiking, playing pickleball on the weekend."
Pomeroy agrees. "You can make such a great connection with your kids through physical activity."
What does your family do to stay fit? Share your tips and learn from other parents on Friday at 1 p.m. ET with @CNNHealth and celebrity trainer David Kirsch. Use the hashtag #FitFamilies to join in the conversation on Twitter.


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A Strategy for Afghanistan
The Obama administration faces dilemmas familiar to several of its predecessors. America cannot withdraw from Afghanistan now, but neither can it sustain the strategy that brought us to this point.
The stakes are high. Victory for the Taliban in Afghanistan would give a tremendous shot in the arm to jihadism globally -- threatening Pakistan with jihadist takeover and possibly intensifying terrorism in India, which has the world's third-largest Muslim population. Russia, China and Indonesia, which have all been targets of jihadist Islam, could also be at risk.
Heretofore, America has pursued traditional anti-insurgency tactics: to create a central government, help it extend its authority over the entire country and, in the process, bring about a modern bureaucratic and democratic society.
That strategy cannot succeed in Afghanistan -- especially not as an essentially solitary effort. The country is too large, the territory too forbidding, the ethnic composition too varied, the population too heavily armed. No foreign conqueror has ever succeeded in occupying Afghanistan. Even attempts to establish centralized Afghan control have rarely succeeded and then not for long. Afghans seem to define their country in terms of a common dedication to independence but not to unitary or centralized self-government.
The truism that the war is, in effect, a battle for the hearts and minds of the Afghan population is valid enough in concept. The low standard of living of much of the population has been exacerbated by 30 years of civil war. The economy is on the verge of sustaining itself through the sale of narcotics. There is no significant democratic tradition. Reform is a moral necessity. But the time scale for reform is out of sync with the requirements of anti-guerrilla warfare. Reform will require decades; it should occur as a result of, and even side by side with, the attainment of security -- but it cannot be the precondition for it.
The military effort will inevitably unfold at a pace different from the country's political evolution. Immediately, however, we are able to make sure that our aid efforts, now diffuse and inefficient, are coherent and relevant to popular needs. And much greater emphasis should be given to local and regional entities.
Military strategy should concentrate on preventing the emergence of a coherent, contiguous state within the state controlled by jihadists. In practice, this would mean control of Kabul and the Pashtun area. A jihadist base area on both sides of the mountainous Afghan-Pakistani border would become a permanent threat to hopes for a moderate evolution and to all of Afghanistan's neighbors. Gen. David Petraeus has argued that, reinforced by the number of American forces he has recommended, he should be able to control the 10 percent of Afghan territory where, in his words, 80 percent of the military threat originates. This is the region where the "clear, hold and build" strategy that had success in Iraq is particularly applicable.
In the rest of the country, our military strategy should be more fluid, aimed at forestalling the emergence of terrorist strong points. It should be based on close cooperation with local chiefs and coordination with their militias to be trained by U.S. forces -- the kind of strategy that proved so successful in Anbar province, the Sunni stronghold in Iraq. This is a plausible approach, though it seems improbable that the 17,000 reinforcements President Obama recently committed are enough. In the end, the fundamental issue is not so much how the war will be conducted but how it will be ended. Afghanistan is almost the archetypal international problem requiring a multilateral solution for a political framework to emerge. In the 19th century, formal neutrality was sometimes negotiated to impose a standstill on interventions in and from strategically located countries. This provided a framework for defusing day-to-day international relations. (Belgian neutrality, for example, was not challenged for nearly 100 years.) Is it possible to devise a modern equivalent?
In Afghanistan, such an outcome is achievable only if its principal neighbors agree on a policy of restraint and opposition to terrorism. Their recent conduct argues against such prospects. Yet history should teach them that unilateral efforts at dominance are likely to fail in the face of countervailing intervention by other outside actors. To explore such a vision, the United States should propose a working group of Afghanistan's neighbors, India and the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. Such a group should be charged with assisting in the reconstruction and reform of Afghanistan and establishing principles for the country's international status and obligations to oppose terrorist activities. Over time, America's unilateral military efforts can merge with the diplomatic efforts of this group. As the strategy envisaged by Petraeus succeeds, the prospects for a political solution along these lines would grow correspondingly.
The precondition for such a policy is cooperation with Russia and Pakistan. With respect to Russia, it requires a clear definition of priorities, especially a choice between partnership or adversarial conduct insofar as it depends on us.
The conduct of Pakistan will be crucial. Pakistan's leaders must face the fact that continued toleration of the sanctuaries -- or continued impotence with respect to them -- will draw their country ever deeper into an international maelstrom. If the jihadists were to prevail in Afghanistan, Pakistan would surely be the next target -- as is observable by activity already taking place along the existing borders and in the Swat Valley close to Islamabad. If that were to happen, the affected countries would need to consult each other about the implications of the nuclear arsenal of a Pakistan being engulfed or even threatened by jihadists. Like every country engaged in Afghanistan, Pakistan has to make decisions that will affect its international position for decades.
Other countries, especially our NATO allies, face comparable choices. Symbolically, the participation of NATO partners is significant. But save for some notable exceptions, public support for military operations is negligible in almost all NATO countries. It is possible, of course, that Obama's popularity in Europe can modify these attitudes -- but probably to only a limited extent. The president would have to decide how far he will carry the inevitable differences and face the reality that disagreements concern fundamental questions of NATO's future and reach. Improved consultation would ease this process. It is likely to turn out, however, that the differences are not procedural. We may then conclude that an enhanced NATO contribution to Afghanistan's reconstruction is more useful than a marginal military effort constrained by caveats. But if NATO turns into an alliance a la carte in this manner, a precedent that can cut both ways would be set. Those who tempt a U.S. withdrawal by their indifference or irresolution evade the prospect that it would be the prelude to a long series of accelerating and escalating crises.
President Obama said Tuesday night that he "will not allow terrorists to plot against the American people from safe havens halfway around the world." Whatever strategy his team selects needs to be pursued with determination. It is not possible to hedge against failure by half-hearted execution.


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Dependent's Day, the first feature film from Michael David Lynch, is not at all what I wanted it to be. It is, in fact, a completely different beast, a beautiful, writhing, angry, sensational beast. It's not what I wanted, but it was entirely what I needed - a mirror, in a way, and even more so, a needle.
Cam is having a difficult period - he's not the bread-winner in his family, and is actually dependent on his girlfriend. As a guy who's been there, it can be tough, not only with the weight of societal norms holding you down, but the personal pressures that can come with being the ride-along. That can be a terribly difficult position, and it can drive you nuts. Cam is, in a word, determined, and if I was allotted another word, funny. He's smart, really smart, but he's also focused, and his dream and drive to be an actor leads him away from the role he really wants - to be THE MAN. I've been there, and not just in the ballpark, in that very seat on the third upper deck, looking down on where the real game is played. It's a tough view, and what Dependent's Day showed was so real, if a bit abstracted to make it work within world of Film. The 'throw it against the wall and see if it sticks' method of finding a path that allows you to come to your dream? Yeah, I've used it. The floating between things that aren't really what I want to be doing as a way to get towards what I DO want? I've done that more times than I care to admit. This movie became deeply personal because I knew what that was like, and that's where I have to talk about Joe Burke. He's amazing. Lynch described his performance as a 'tour-de-force' and he's not wrong. This is an easy role to mess up, to lose the nuance, the humanity, the honesty. He pulls it off, and the way he paces his delivery, the perfectly timed pauses, they perfectly give the film the ideal form to hang the entire movie on.
But it's not all him.
The cast is brilliant, and so obviously comfortable with one another and the scenario. There's a poker game in the film that has the feel of a regular game the director played in that they just happened to pop a camera in on one afternoon (and it wasn't!) and there's the interaction between Cam and his girlfriend which is so natural, and honest, and also a bit painful. I've been both of those figures, and that's not an easy place to be, on either side.
There will be a natural comparison to Arrested Development's Tobias Funke, and his dream of being an actor that runs through the entire series. Dependent's Day isn't merely a riff on that (even if Burke does have a David Cross-ian delivery at a few points in the picture) but an exploration of that idea in the light of a real human being who is not only good hearted, but smart enough to want to make the change in his life for the good of everyone, not just for his own damn self. And THAT is the needle I needed. The idea that some times, in those hard days, you're not gonna make it in the hunting-gathering sense, but you can always better yourself as a person, always move towards Nirvana as a Hippy ex-professor of mine would often say. Cam grows, at times against his will, and when you find yourself identifying with a character as strongly as I did with Cam, then you're being given hope. Hope in the form of a tough poke in the ass, but hope none the less.
Dependent's Day is a wonderful film. Really well-made, dark, funny, smartly-paced, and full of nuance and impact. It's the kind of film you want everyone to see.
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Untitled, from the Jirrawun Suite
Paddy Bedford
circa 1922 - 14 Jul 2007
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The Jirrawun Suite is a unique collection of 23 drawings and paintings by three prominent Gija artists - Hector Jandany, Paddy Bedford and Rusty Peters. The works were made in Melbourne in 1998 where the artists had access to a studio prior to an exhibition. These are seminal works on paper in gouache and pastel created by the Jirrawun artists in the early days of the establishment of the corporation by Freddie Timms. As such, they capture the energy of the period and are a strong affirmation of Gija culture and pride.
Paddy Bedford was born at Bedford Downs station southwest of Warmun (hence his name) and worked as a stockman on several Kimberley stations before eventually moving with his family to Warmun. As a senior law man Bedford has been involved in painting as part of ceremony all his life. He began painting on canvas for exhibition after the establishment of Jirrawun Aboriginal Art Corporation in 1997. It is an indication of his aesthetic vision and ability that he has captured the attention of the art world and is represented in several major collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In these paintings on paper Paddy Bedford uses colours such as bright red, yellow and blue that are not part of his usual palette as he generally paints with crushed ochres, the natural pigments of the east Kimberley, which have a much more subdued quality.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2002
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watercolour on white wove paper
37.0 x 44.0 cm image/sheet (irreg.)
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Signed c. verso, pencil "PB". Not dated.
Purchased 2002
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© Estate of Paddy Bedford
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Russell Storer, Paddy Bedford, Sydney, 2006, 119 (colour illus.), 164 (colour illus.). 1998.06


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Friday, May 06, 2011
Creative Delicious Dishes in Fingers
These adorable handmade kawaii Japanese sweets decor rings by SouZou Creations. Souzou Creations were really creative when making these sweet rings. They are something worth seeing! It seems that minimized copies of Japanese meals were attached to the wearer's fingers, lovely and funny! Some rings are small and simple but others are big enough and feature a whole table board with a few dishes on it!
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Unread mail bothers me
I realized today that it really bothers me to have unread mail in any of my mailboxes. I have two main e-mail accounts that I use constantly throughout the day, and sync them OTA on my mobile phone. If I look at my phone while out and about, I just have to go through any unread mail, file away things I will keep, reply to what needs a reply, and delete or process any spam messages. I wonder if there is a name for this disorder?
Pasting links from OWA
I deal with Good support now and then for various technical issues with their mobile e-mail solution (Goodlink). Today it appears they sent out a survey request to all of their customers, but I had to chuckle a little when I read the message and found they had pasted in the survey link through OWA. If you read below, you will find the actual URL is missing the first h in the (http), and the actual linked URL is an Exchange OWA redirect link. This happens when you copy a link from OWA and paste into another message. By default in OWA, links point to the Exchange redirector and then take you to the link specified at the end of the redirect URL.
I run into this issue myself from time to time and forget about this until I get a reply back to something I sent out with a complaint that the URL I sent does not work. To get around I usually paste the link into notepad so I Can get a plain text copy of the link, and then I remove the Exchange redirector part. I then paste in the plain text link which most e-mail programs and even OWA convert to a hyperlink automatically for you.
I'm not trying to gripe about this flub, but find it humorous that such a mistake can be made by anyone and its nice to know I'm not the only person out there who forgets about this from time to time and sends out links that don't work. Now naturally a technically apt person could easily extract the correct link and get where they need to go, but the average person is going to reply and complain that you sent them a bad link. Not just that, but now we all have the OWA logon link to their Exchange mailboxes. (Don't worry Good (motorola), I've hidden the actual OWA Link for your privacy) 🙂 (NOTE: I did receive a correction email from them shortly after receiving the message below).
Dear Valued Motorola Good Technology Group Customer:
Thank you for your recent inquiry into our support team. We appreciate the opportunity to serve you, and help you and your company meet your mobile messaging needs. To gauge the level of support you, and other customers are receiving, and to better understand where our strengths and weakness are, we are asking for your help.
By clicking on the following link and taking a brief six question survey, you will help us gauge the level of support we are providing our customers. This will allow us to know where our strengths are, and where we need improvement:
ttp://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=maskedsurveyidforprivacy <https://nosy.notmotorola.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=maskedsurveyidforprivacy>
Please spend the two minutes it will take to respond to the survey questions so we will know how to better serve you in the future.
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I ran into an interesting issue today, something that is an old leftover from early mail systems.? I was trying to e-mail my hosting provider back on a support ticket I had opened with them, but when I replied I got a bounce message saying my mail was rejected with the following message:
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Open Source Anti-Spam for Exchange
I have been a long time user of GFI software, relevant to this post is their Mail Essentials for Exchange package. I find it to be a very powerful and easily setup anti-spam system for Exchange. I have had very little trouble with it, and it is packed with useful features. However, recently I had some configuration issues with my spam setup, with rollernet really, not even an issue with Mail Essentials, but it got me thinking about my spam filtration system.
I am now on a quest to find an open source anti-spam solution for Exchange. I'm open to Linux based solutions as a gateway of sorts, but would prefer something that resides on the Exchange server running under Windows. Don't get me wrong, I have a great respect for SpamAssassin and other gateway type spam fitlers, but it gives the end user a much better experience if the anti-spam software can interact with the user, especially if it integrates with Outlook.
Surely there must be some kind of solution out there I could try. At the very least I might install a few different packages under Linux and route incoming mail through them, and from there go to Exchange for evaluation. I can use server virtualization to allow for an easy evaluation of various types of configurations. ASSP I hear is very good and there was one other package that I found last night that sounds promising. I think it could be beneficial to have an additional layer of spam protection at the gateway level before GFI gets the messages and does its thing. My only concern is false positives. Lots of services and companies on the internet today do NOT have the proper DNS/MX confiugration and even at a more basic level don't have their network setup right. All these network issues can have a major impact on e-mail deliverability. Its always a risk then when dealing with spam filters that you may block legitimate messages. I am always watching spam logs to ensure that I keep an eye on how the system is doing. If web services and companies would do a little work to get their sytems in compliance with RFS's for SMTP and DNS, and setup the proper network configuration and mail server options, it would be a much better world for mail delivery without false positives.
Exchange diagnosis
Server: Event ID 9646 (user exceeded maximum of 32 objects of the type session). Event ID 1021 (unable to connect…error 0x4de)
Client/Outlook: Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The Microsoft Exchange server computer is not available. Either there are network problems or the Microsoft Exchange server computer is down for maintenance. OWA would work ok when logged on as either the user or an Exchange admin account.
Google searches of the events and error messages yield very little help. A second round of google searching and pressing further through the search results yielded a page from MS indicating to ensure that the user had "view information store status" rights granted at the server or mailbox store level. This lead me to a diagnosis of permission problems on the mailbox.
Proceeded with treatment by administering re-application of full mailbox permissions for the user and ensuring "view information store status" was selected in the allow column. Attempting to open outlook again immediately after still yielded errors as described in the symptoms. It wasn't until a few minutes later when about to attempt a different method of treatment that the solution was revealed. Before trying to create a whole new information store and move the user for testing, I decided to open outlook again. This time, it opened no problem and did not give any errors or show any signs of a problem. Apparently the original solution was the correct solution and the treatment was correct, I just didn't wait long enough for the change to take effect. Further attempts to work on the problem would have been useless as the issues was already fixed, I just didn't know it yet.
NoSpamToday – SPAMLOGS missing subject fix
Over the weekend I got an e-mail from Dennis Heidner who wrote SPAMLOGS for NoSpamToday. In version 3 of NST, the log parser "spamlogs" quit outputting the subject line of messages in the parsed log output. Dennis has corrected this in an updated version which should be available soon on the byteplant contributions area on their website. I have tested the new version and found that it fixes the problem. Dennis has also added some functionality to check for AUTH Attacks. SPAMLOGS conveniently checks for AUTH attacks and outputs the number of attacks per IP at the end (last column) of the spamlogs csv output.
SPAMLOGS is a must have for parsing the NST spamassassin log file, it turns the jumbled and confusing log file output from NST/SA into a readable and useful .CSV format. Combine his software with the automation utility or scheduled task, and it makes managing the mail logs much easier.
Problems with Category Access
I've been running 0.8.2 of the category-access plugin by David Coppit for a few weeks now and its been working fine on the web interface of WordPress. I've been busy lately and haven't had a chance to post anything to my blog in a while, so I hadn't used any of my windows apps to post to WordPress. Upon trying I found that I got some error messages relating to XML parsing.
w.bloggar and blogdesk would generate this error:
"Unable to parse the XML response. Parser Reason: Only one top level element is allowed in an XML document."
BlogJet would generate this error:
Invalid payload received from xml-rpc server. Please check your host and page settings for this account. Server said: ",br/> Fatal Error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/myaccountname/public_html/mybloglocation/wp-content/plugins/category-access.php on line 373
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Disabling the category-access plugin corrected the issue and I was then able to blog with my windows apps. I sent the information to David via e-mail and also made a post on the wordpress forums to help anyone else that might be using category-access. Its a great plugin and does exactly what I want, with only a few minor things lacking. For now I've left the plugin disabled, but plan to re-enable if David comes up with a fix.
Category access 0.8.2 beta
I got an e-mail from David Coppit who created the Category Access plugin for WordPress. I'm happy to report he has or is in the process of updating his plugin for WordPress 2.3. I got a copy of the beta from him and it works great! So keep an eye out on the WordPress Codex site and David's site if you use or may want to use this plugin. Make sure if you are running WP 2.3 that you get the latest version once he releases it.
e-mail equation
I wrote this little mathematical equation at the office during a joke about an e-mail rule for incoming messages that ask questions… I know its not as funny without knowing the circumstances of the joke, but the formula is good, so I had to post it…
Solve for X (where options are IGNORE/DELETE/REPLY)
IF nQ = > 2 THEN X
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