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NeatSuite SMB, English, Win32, 11-25 users
Trend Micro NeatSuite SMB, WIN: English 1user(s) English
The official marketing text of Trend Micro NeatSuite SMB, WIN: English 1user(s) English as supplied by the manufacturerNeatSuite for Small and Medium Businesses, a comprehensive security suite, delivers enterprise-caliber antivirus, content security and anti-spam technologies in a single purpose-built package. This powerful solution set empowers business owners to deploy and manage an effective end-to-end antivirus and anti-spam strategy with limited IT investment. NeatSuite for Small and Medium Businesses minimizes the Internet threats that can infiltrate via open communication channels necessary to do business - Email (SMTP, POP3), Web access (HTTP), and File download (FTP). Leveraging Trend Micro's industry-pioneering technology, NeatSuite for Small and Medium Businesses offers complete gateway, e-mail, server and PC protection in one, easy to manage package. Its single point of management and intuitive interface facilitates easy installation, configuration, and administration thus reducing the total cost of ownership.
Purpose-built Antivirus, Content Security and Anti-spam
- Eliminates the complexity of choosing and deploying multiple combinations of products for gateway, desktop, and server level security
- Lower Total Cost of ownership - Single package reduces initial purchase cost and dramatically increases the lifetime value of your security investment
- Simplifies management tasks with an intuitive user interface, and single web based management console
- Guided installation wizard reduces guesswork during deployment
Comprehensive Protection
- Integrates antivirus, antispam, and content filtering into a single end-to-end solution that provides protection at the gateway and includes the networked desktops, file servers, and Microsoft Exchange mail servers
- Designed to prevent viruses, worms and spam from entering your network through vulnerable Internet gateway access points and further eliminate such threats that arrive at desktops or servers via the web and file sharing
- Scans unprotected protocols, including SMTP, HTTP, FTP, and POP3, that may carry malicious payload
- Locks down desktop antivirus to prevent employees from tampering or disabling protection
- Scans suspicious web programming codes such as Java scripts and applets
- Tracks and logs Internet usage, facilitating easier monitoring and enforcement of resource use policies
- Blocks unwanted or suspect file types embedded in emails, such as VBS, SHS, JS, CGI or DLL files
Heuristic Anti-spam Engine
- Combines high performance heuristic anti-spam engine with spam signature database and 'approved' and 'denied' sender lists to yield accurate detection and low false positive rates
- Designed to block emails that are considered spam or tags them for filtering
Designed for Fast and Easy Installation
- Installs remotely and transparently to networked desktops, file servers, and email servers
- Simultaneously installs on multiple PCs and servers, saving time and effort
- Automatically removes existing, unwanted antivirus products from the desktop
Automatic Transparent Updates
- Maintains up-to-date virus protection automatically, without user intervention
- Automatically performs hourly virus update checks through TrendLabs™
- Fast update process mitigates the risk of potential outbreak
Virus Outbreak Monitor
- Proactively monitors network and system activities for early warning on new, unknown threats
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Damage Clean-up Capability
- Helps automatically clean and restore infected systems to original state, reducing system downtime, and clean-up efforts
- Removes virus remnants from computers and reduces the chance of re-infection
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A post modern posse of men/women/hermaphrodites who revel in the joy of being absolutely nothing special.
Jesus Christ I'm tired of The Super Duper League of Barely Average Individuals people. They annoy me endlessly what with their love of Walt Whitman poetry and crying.
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Brendon Ayanbadejo has not gone unnoticed in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl.
His support of the LGBT community has placed the Baltimore Ravens linebacker and special teams ace under a bright spotlight, with everyone from Rush Limbaugh to ESPN's Mark Schlereth bandying about his name. And the attention has only intensified in recent days in the fallout from anti-gay statements made by 49ers cornerback Chris Culliver at Tuesday's media day.
Ayanbadejo, a 1994 Santa Cruz High graduate, welcomes the chance to share his views with the world. But make no mistake, he is in New Orleans -- where the Ravens will clash with the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday -- to do one thing and one thing only:
Win a championship worthy of absolving him of all the ones he just missed.
"We're playing in the Super Bowl and planning on winning that championship," he said. "I'm chasing that dream that I've had ever since I was a little kid."
Ayanbadejo started fantasizing about lifting the Vince Lombardi Trophy shortly after he moved to Santa Cruz from Chicago in 1985. Not even 10 years old at the time, he thought he would climb to the top by stacking up the hardware from all his other athletic championships. But they've been so sparse that Ayanbadejo, now 36, made most of the ascent by pulling himself up through strength and determination. Never drafted, he played five years in the Canadian Football League and overseas before scratching his way onto his first NFL roster as a special teams player (alongside his older brother, Obafemi) for the Dolphins in 2003.
In fact, Ayanbadejo only recalls winning just one end-all, be-all championship in his all of his athletic career. It was a Little League title he won with Obafemi at Harvey West Park when he was 12.
"I haven't won a championship since that," said Ayanbadejo, discounting the NFC championship he won with the Chicago Bears in 2006 and the AFC championship he just won with the Ravens as mere hurdles to the Super Bowl title. "My senior year (of high school football) we lost -- we were second in CCS. The Rose Bowl we lost. The Super Bowl ... This is a chance to redeem all those losses collectively, to win the Super Bowl.
"I've got about five losses rolled up into this one (game)."
Ayanbadejo and the Bears lost the 2006 Super Bowl to the Colts, 29-17. While playing his senior year for UCLA in 1998, the then-No. 5 Bruins lost the Rose Bowl to No. 9 Wisconsin. A year earlier, the Bruins missed out on playing for the college football championship because of a regular-season loss to Washington State -- a loss which Ayanbadejo personally blames himself for because the belt loop of receiver Chris Jackson's pants slipped through his fingers as Jackson made the game-winning touchdown catch from quarterback Ryan Leaf.
But the deepest scars come from the Cardinals' loss in the 1993 Central Coast Section championship.
"It's a game I'll never forget losing," Ayanbadejo told the Sentinel in a retrospective article in 2007. "It was our one chance at perfection."
It was Ayanbadejo's senior year, and the Santa Cruz team that produced five NCAA Division I and two NFL players, entered the CCS championship undefeated. But whether the Cardinals underestimated opponent St. Francis of Mountain View or overestimated their own talents, it didn't matter by halftime. They trailed 28-0, a hole too deep to climb out of, and Ayanbadejo, a 16-year-old senior, and his teammates lost their chance to win the school's first section crown, 35-20.
Reggie Stephens, a former NFL player and teammate of Ayanbadejo's at Santa Cruz, admits he dwells on that loss even more than when the Giants team he played for lost the 2001 Super Bowl to the Ravens, which featured Ayanbadejo's older brother, Obafemi.
"It's still a bitter taste in your mouth," Stephens said. "If he wins this game, he can put those other games to bed because this is the ultimate goal of a championship you would want to win."
As any good mother should, Rita Sanford said Ayanbadejo doesn't need to win the Super Bowl to validate himself as a football player. She pointed out that he has collected heaps of accolades, starting with being named the Sentinel's Defensive Player of the Year in 1993 through his time at Cabrillo College (Coast Conference South Defensive Player of the Year in 1995), UCLA (first-team all-Pac-10 selection in 1998) and the NFL (three Pro Bowls, in 2006, '07 and '08). It's a considerable cache for a boy who forged his football permission slip because Sanford wanted him to focus on his studies, not sports.
His brother, Obafemi, agrees.
"This is his cherry on top of his sundae," he said. "His sundae is ready to go -- it had chocolate, three different kinds of ice cream and sprinkles. It's a great sundae already.
"But," he added, "this will make it legendary. This will make the story. Hopefully he gets it."
Ayanbadejo didn't sign a three-year contract extension with the Ravens last March to add cherries. All he wants to add is a championship. And he knows that, at 36, he may not have another chance -- just like he didn't have another chance at a CCS title or a Rose Bowl crown.
So, he says he's not letting himself get distracted or caught up in the political and media whirlwind that has followed him to New Orleans.
"I have broad shoulders," he said. "But this is the Super Bowl and there's a time to focus on football and it's in the forefront at this time."
"More than anything, this is an opportunity for redemption," he added. "I'll have eternal greatness if I'll be a Super Bowl champion. It's something they can never take away from me."


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If you are any good at reaming barrels, and promise to return a reamer in the condition it was lent, I have an extra 308 reamer i'll loan you for shipping costs.
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Okay, I've read all the 308 conversion threads and MG47 threads over and over. I still have a couple months until I can get back in the shop, but here is what I am planning:
A Belt-fed, AK out of a Yugo RPK kit in .308, using the original finned RPK barrel just reaming the chamber.
I have got SS's MG-47 plans, an RPK I cut to 19" to make a carbine that I am not particulagly pleased with, an MG3 FT and TC on order, a good source for 308, and the desire to use disentigrating links.
I need a chamber reamer and a spare 1,000 hours. The question is, and I have found some folks that WANTED to do it, but what results have you had with reaming out the x39 chambers to .308. I know the whole .308 vs .311 issue and I am okay with that for a "proof of concept" build. I got the RPK kit a year ago with a shot out front couple of inches anyway so it is a good candidate.
Thoughts? Has anyone tried this yet?
If you are any good at reaming barrels, and promise to return a reamer in the condition it was lent, I have an extra 308 reamer i'll loan you for shipping costs.
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Well, thanks for the offer, but I have yet to ream a chamber, so I would have to either send out the barrel, or abide by the "you break it, you buy it" policy (which I most certainly would). Either way, I am looking at late December at the soonest to get started. What brand are you using and what do you think of them?
I have used several reamers from different manufacturers, and haven't had a really bad one yet. Because of my lack of negative experiences in chambering barrels I cannot really say that i dislike any one brand.
When it comes time to do it, if you decide to have it done by somebody else, give me a shout.
Thanks, I will probbably take you up on that offer. As for the rest of the project, I see very little that will have to change from SS's original design. I'llbe doing it with spade grips (it's a CA thing) I am thinking:
1. stronger return spring and bigger ejection port
2. venting the gas tube to slow the bolt due to the impulse from the higher chamber pressure/ more gas.
3. position feedtray a little furthur back (I was thinking about 12mm) from the breach to give the round more distance to align and not have as sharp an angle (am I off on this one??)
4. thicker steel for reciever and after it works, weld it all up so if something catastrophic happens the path of least resistance is up through the feed tray and top cover.
Another "FOR THE RECORD" - my .308 build shoots custom loads that are loaded primarily for accuracy. These loads are lighter than factory surplus ammo. I would say that all of this surplus ammo people are buying would be too hot for my build, and I would not recommend it for other builds. Did the Yugo 308 builds have the same bolt? Yes. Is this a Yugo RPK? That would be the best place to start because visually the bolts are identical.
That said...
From my own personal experience with my .308 conversion, I would consider the AK gas port too large - you'll beat the rifle to hell and back! Therefore, you could either
a) drill more vent holes on the gas tube
b) drill a smaller barrel, more in the size like on a FAL gas port.
"B" ovbiously assumes a new barrel, which I think will be better. I would not recommend plugging, then re-drilling the gas port. The gas port plug would be nothing more than a threaded insert, and would need to either be welded on, or a tapered fit at the outside edge like a cut-down bolt head, so that it would not "walk" down into the barrel and block it. That would be bad.
A tapered fit at the outside edge would assume you would cut a notch into the barrel for this extra material to reside, so that you could actually reinstall the gas port back onto the barrel.
Drilling more vent holes in the gas tube seems to be a far easier ordeal. You'll obviously be bleeding a great deal of gas away from its intended job - pushing the bullet down the barrel - so performance may be lackluster.
If you leave the port as-is and "simply" rechamber, if it works, it will not work well because the sheer amount of recoil energy will literally beat the gun apart. The rivets on the rear stock tang/trunion will be peened out from the excess force applied against them. The axis pins may also peen egg-shaped due to the excess force of the bolt carrier when cycling the action.
On my .308 conversion build, I cut 4 extra gas ports on my gas tube and that toned it down enough to work.
Moral of the story -
1. Pookie recommends a .308 barrel for .308 bullets.
2. "IF YOU MUST" - Pookie recommends drilling extra gas ports in the gas tube.
3. Welds have no place on an AK receiver. Use a milled receiver if you want extra strength. Or reinforcement bars like HK did on their short-lived HK-21 model.
4. Pookie recommends caution - you are pushing really high pressures with a .308 and I would not want to see you blow parts of the kit into your face!!!
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That is what I am thinking about and discussing here before I get started.
Yes, it is a Yugo "finned" RPK kit with the "bigger" bolt and bulged trunion.
I planned on doing exactly what you are saying on the ported gas tube. I was actually thinking of drilling several holes in it (what is the hole setup you used to get yours finctioning properly?) and then sleeving the gas tube with a sleeve that slid over the ports to be adjustable so i can start with the most holes and least gas inpulse, then slide the sleeve over it to get to the right combination of gas venting and impulse to operate the gun.
As for the chamber reaming, that is why I am looking for someone who has done it. I heard a few folks mentioning doing it, but I couldn't find the updates (that might be a bad sign) I REALLY want to use that big, fat Yugo finned RPK barrel though. it is one of the coolest looking barrels out there.
And on the ammo, yes, I shooot my own reloads that I load light anyway. Still in the research/brainstorming phase though. Thanks again for any input.
It is using one of the YUGO RPK kits like this one with the big heavy barrel. (Photo shamelessly stolen from a gunbroker ad, but I bought two of these from this guy, so I doubt he'll mind).
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The receiver on the MG47ES is 1/8" thick v.s. .039 on a standard AK receiver. I don't think you need to go any thicker than 1/8". G3 receivers are no where that thick although they are deeper. My ES with a RPK front end weighs about 14 lbs. with a 1/8" thick receiver.
Thanks, I had re-thought that after my original post, but never edited it. I think once I get it going I will replace most of the screws with rivets/ weld to get the strongest reciever possible. I'll still keep some as screws for tweaking/ replacement etc. My whole thought process is ensuring that if there is a chatostrophic failure it goes up, through the top cover. The only ones I have seen personally were on M2 and due to headspace issues and that shouldn't be a problem with this. Really, I can't see any way, if you do it right, that this could be any more prone to disaster than a standard 308 SA rifle.
I am still looking for someone that has successfully re-chambered a x39 RPK barrel for .308. The lack of response leads me to believe that either it is a briliant, cutting edge idea, or those that have, are currently no longer able to type.
Either way, after the Wife and the Dogs, I miss my shop horribly.


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Recently I read a definition about the town I grew up in. I didn't know whether to laugh or get pissed so I'll just write this. Southlake was once four communities. Lonesome Dove, Whites Chapel, Jellico, and Union Church were separate small unincorporated communities of pioneers from the early 1840's until 1956 - four years after Grapevine Lake was completed. The town was named for its geographical location to the man-made Grapevine Lake: and man called it Southlake - and it was good. There is a Northlake, Texas also. It is in Denton County, North of Flower Mound, West of Argyle and is served by Northwest ISD. Southlake Carroll schools are great. In the last 5 school years there has only been one drop out. People move from elsewhere to join our football team (jeopardizing our chance at a title), but we still do well. Yes, we are wealthy. Most of us are "New Money". There are some "Old Money" families, but not many. Yes, the Jonas Brothers do have a house in Westlake - a town of about 400 people, served by Carroll Schools and mostly considered a neighborhood of Southlake. Some of the guys are d-bags, but most of them aren't. There are a lot of "Southlake Moms" who have never worked a day in their lives yet still cannot cook, but there are also a lot of Working Moms also. "Southlake Girls" can be coke whores and sluts, but a lot of them are really smart and genuine. In reality, Southlake is diverse in its own right and has been the home of many successful people.
I love bashing Southlake and all of it's residents even though I know next to nothing about the town.
by gingeravenger July 29, 2011
South Lakes: where white people are the minority.
by anon. November 23, 2004
"Only in south lakes are you able to walk through the green subschool at any given time and smell alcohol, tobaco, atleast two different illegal narcotics AND all eight scents of axe trying to cover it up"
dude1:"sh!t my allergies are acting up i can't smell anything.."
dude2:"Yo just walk through green on your way to DriversED"
dude2:"Yo just walk through green on your way to DriversED"
by GotJesus? April 26, 2005
South Lakes High School is where they are so poor they can't afford doors and the principal doesn't even speak english.
Be careful not to lean on the walls in South Lakes, you may fall through them.
by Spaz May 03, 2004
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City in Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex; Popular for lively town square; City High School recently won State Championship- Several wealthy cities surround the community such as: Colleyville, Grapevine, and North Richland Hills
Southlake and Colleyville share many similarites. Colleyville is prime example of what Southlake is most like. Shopping; Town Square & Village, High Schools; Dragons & Panthers
by William Deforge October 08, 2005
A very stereotyped place whom contains a few people like the stereotype that run around other cities like Grapevine and Keller to brag about their wealth and ruin it for the other 97.68% of Southlake's population. On other hand, Southlake's Town Square now has a curfew because jealous punks from those cities come to Town Square and cause knife fights...thanks a million.
by The Hoopla March 24, 2008
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Where blue lines stop bullets, there are four colors that disignate who you are, murals are everywhere, and no doors are nice. Better and nicer then Herndon.
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At least one victim from Colorado Springs
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A Ft. Carson soldier accused of sexually assaulting children and downloading and sharing child pornography confessed to the crimes, according to arrest records.
Colorado Springs Police say there are at least four victims and could be more.
Specialist Joe Alfred Garcia, 30, was arrested on charges of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust/pattern of abuse on October 2, 2013. Garcia was living on Welch Circle, near Airport and Murray in Colorado Springs.
CSPD says the investigation into Garcia began with a call from Homeland Security Investigations in Boston about a case involving possession of child pornography. Investigators said they found explicit photos of five young girls linked to Garcia. Police said a white sedan was visible in one photo and they were able to track the vehicle's owner and the location where the picture was taken-- inside Schoefield Barracks, an Army base in Hawaii.
After police contacted Garcia, they say he admitted to sexually assaulting a 6-year-old girl on multiple occasions and taking video and photos of the assaults. Police said Garcia also admitted to assaulting a girl in Hawaii.
"We rarely saw him. He barely came out," said a neighbor of Garcia's who didn't want to be identified.
She and other neighbors said they never expected an arrest like this to happen where they live.
"It's peaceful," she said. "There's rarely any bad things going on here. It's just a nice neighborhood. You would never imagine those types of people here."
Garcia was with the Warrior Transition Battalion at Ft. Carson. He was originally from Pasadena, CA and had been with the military for more than five years.
A joint investigation was launched involving the Army Criminal Investigation Command, Homeland Security Investigations, law enforcement in Hawaii, and the Colorado Springs Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children unit.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call the Colorado Springs Police Department at 719-444-7000 or Pikes Peak Area Crime Stoppers at 719-634-STOP (7867.)


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In a recent article on the growing threat of software product liability for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Lawrence Levy and Suzanne Bell noted, "As society increasingly relies on software to perform critical functions in everything from manufacturing to life-support systems, the risk that an error in a software program will lead to economic loss, property damage or personal injury increases."
One of the big questions surrounding software liability, however, is whether computer software is a good or a service. That's important, Levy and Bell say, because "the sales of goods, but not of services, are subject to the damages and warranty provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code." The courts, however, are now beginning to consider cases involving not only the software itself, but also significant maintenance and support services, and this is likely to impact more and more organizations.
In the meantime, Jack concluded, software vendors aren't likely to change the way they develop, test and deploy their products. "I've been beating that drum for 15 years," he said. "I don't believe legislating software assurance is going to work. I need corporate citizenry to step up to the plate and take responsibility for what they put into their software."
About the only thing government agencies can do is manage their risks. The fast pace of software adoption has all but rendered the government's approach to software security certification and accreditation obsolete. In fact, "the old certification and accreditation process has been gone for three years now," said Ron Ross, a senior security official at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, during the same forum.
NIST, which sets the security standards for government agency information systems, has moved to a risk management framework that calls on agencies to perform real-time network monitoring to identify attempts to exploit hardware and software vulnerabilities. About 10% of attacks will get through defenses no matter what, Ross said.
If you know that your system can withstand a cyber-attack and that malware can't spread through the network and bring you down, he added, authorizing officials should be in a better position to accept a certain degree of risk. However, most federal agencies' inability to replace legacy systems due to lack of funding and cultural inertia makes it difficult to manage all the risks associated with so much software.
The challenge is only getting greater for CIOs like Jack as government agencies expand their networks into the cloud and extend their services to mobile devices. While those moves hold the promise of new and greater efficiencies, they also add more layers of software and the inevitability of more software patching.


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6th round: Ricky Wagner OT Wisc- Big guy who did not perform well at the Senior bowl but Wisconsin has put out some good OL recently and he was rated much higher than this before the Senior bowl. I like the value in the 6th
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SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. - The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency spent Monday on Boone Lake turning old Tannenbaum into a terrarium.
For years, the TWRA has been recycling used Christmas trees and turning them into fish habitats. "It's perfect," said Russell Young, with TWRA. "They're already cut, they're available and it's better than grinding them up."
Over the years, as the water levels in the likes rise and fall, the reservoirs lose their natural woody debris where fish tend to spawn, grow and feed. "Smaller fish tend to congregate around those. Then bigger fish gather around the smaller fish so it's a food chain," said Young.
TWRA workers refurbish the fish attractors every four to five years by anchoring down the trees in tire piles, which were installed more than 25 years ago. "We've tried everything over the years and it's hard to beat a tree," he said.
But the underwater havens don't just help the fish, they also become a hot spot for fisherman. "We try to use an existing point as a reference line and try to keep them below that point so we don't create any boating hazards."
However, the TWRA is facing some new concerns. Two years ago, they had about 5,000 trees donated. But last year they only had 3,000 donated. Young is afraid it's because less people are buying real Christmas trees. "Due to the economy, I believe a lot of people went to artificial trees."
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Rapid7 Acquires Metasploit
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Vulnerability management vendor Rapid7 has purchased the popular open-source Metasploit penetration testing tool project and named Metasploit founder HD Moore as chief security officer of the company.
Moore, who is synonymous with the Metasploit Project , will continue as chief architect of Metasploit in his new role at Rapid7, and with an initial team of five Rapid7 researchers dedicated to the open-source project, some of whom already have been regular contributors to Metasploit. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Both Moore and Rapid7 say they are well aware of previous open-source and commercial marriages that have gone south, however, such as the Nessus scanning tool, which went from an open-source to a proprietary, closed-source license under Tenable Network Security. They say they are focusing on the open source community to leverage Metasploit. "Our goal is to make sure we improve the open-source" element, Thomas says. "Metasploit will remain open source."
Today HD Moore and Rapid7 announced that Rapid7 has purchased the Metasploit Framework Project. The speculation around this has taken the pentest and vulnerability scanning community by storm. After talking with some colleagues I have come up with the following, here's some things you should know:
First, be happy for H.D. Moore. He is one of the hardest working exploit devs and project managers in the world. Not only HD, but Egypt as the first paid core dev for the project. Congratulate them. Bravo.
HDM and Rapid7 have stated that "Rapid7 is 100% committed to keeping the project open source and the community development model." This buyout is not so much of a buyout, it's a corporate backing of MSF and HD's vision of the project. For now (or "anytime soon") the BSD 3 License will not be going anywhere. MSF will be sticking with Ruby and Rapid7 has no plans, for now, to corporatize MSF. Rapid7 wants to take the MSF brand and stand behind it.
There is some worry about community submissions to MSF now that it is owned by R7. Rob Fuller (mubix) gave a pretty straight forward answer to that in reply to Sourcefire's VRT blog:
"For those not happy that the development for or submission of your ideas / exploits to the Metasploit project now that those submissions will also go to Rapid 7 are seriously underestimating the fact those all those companies were pulling that information already."
What does it mean for R7's NeXpose Vulnerability product?
Well, it's really about extensibility and market share . Adding the exploit database from MSF to NeXpose gives a far better risk rating to the product by adding a way to validate vulnerabilities and rate them by current known exploit code. They also gain the name, rights, branding, and developers for the MSF project which all funnels into Rapid7 corporate brand. As R7's new CSO HD Moore brings his talents to the R7 table. In addition R7 does not just offer vulnerability management solutions but also penetration testing solutions, which is a market they have fought to be in for a while. Now they have legs to stand on, so to speak, when battling dominant market competitors like CORE , SAINT, and ImmunitySec.
Catch an exclusive interview with HD and R7 on the Risky Business Podcast =)
Heres a pretty complete article roundup on the buyout:
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Playboy.com's WWE Diva Week: Maria Kanellis
Playboy.com's WWE Diva week concludes today with the 2007 photo shoot and interview with diva Maria Kanellis, fan favorite and stone cold fox.
The celebration of RAW's 20th Anniversary continues with WWE Diva Maria Kanellis' 2007 pictorial. To catch up on Playboy.com's WWE Diva week, in which we've brought back such famous Playboy photos and interviews with Chyna, Torrie Wilson and Christy Hemme, click here.
This one's my favorite: Marla Kanellis says, pulling aside her tight jacket to reveal a small brown dot on a gorgeous shoulder. The WWE RAW star is talking about the freckles sprinkled all over her body — and the games people play with them. 'Every single time, a guy will say he'd like to connect the dots," she explains with a mischievous grin. "How adorable is that?"
As the auburn-haired beauty pulls her jacket back on, we wonder aloud how long a session of connect-the-dots would last. "It depends on the evening," she says coyly. "We could get at least two hours out of it, but all night long would work too."
Maria is World Wrestling Entertainment's kinder, gentler star — sort of. Onstage the 26-year-old's sweet temperament and girlie-girl looks make her a fan favorite, but she has yet to win a title fight, and she's taken a few hard knacks from bigger, badder wrestlers. "I'm still getting my butt whupped," she allows, "and still learning. My next goal is to become the women's champion, even if only for a day." An intense look sweeps over her face. The girlie-girl thing goes only so far.
Today Maria is visiting WWE's New York outpost in midtown Manhattan, causing a commotion the instant she enters the elevator. In some parallel universe her attire may be work-appropriate. After all, she's wearing a fitted jacket, tailored black pants and high-heeled pumps that could conceivably hang in an executive's closet (if the executive were really hot). But the corporate look is subverted by Maria's revealing bodice and single black lace glove.
Wrestling fans met the Illinois native in 2004, during the RAW Diva Search competition. Soon she was backstage, interviewing RAW wrestlers in her cute and clueless style. (Note: the hot but ditzy act? Don't buy it. More on that later.) But what Maria really wanted was to wrestle, so she spent one and half years in Kentucky, working on her chops (and drops and kicks). The process of learning how to "whup butt," as she puts it, looks a lot like getting your butt whupped. Blood and bruises are common. If you can't bear to see your pretty face out of joint, ladies, wrestling's not for you.
Maria whips out her iPhone to show us a photo of herself sporting a very bloody lip. "I landed face-first while wrestling Beth Phoenix. The crowd thought I might win that one," she sighs. "I thought so too. Didn't happen."
Read the rest of Maria's interview on Page 2.
When Maria takes the stage for WWE RAW it's to the tune of Zebrahead's "With Legs Like That." With her red-tinged hair tousled, green flecked eyes pleading and pert lips always slightly apart, she seems larger than her lean five-foot-seven frame. And though she looks almost fragile next to other WWE women, there is no doubt this girl can take care of herself.
The source of her beauty is hard to place until Maria describes her background as "half Greek, half hillbilly," she says with that irresistible grin, "I'm a little Grecian goddess hillbilly." She grew up in blink-and-you'll-miss-it Ottawa, Illinois. She says her dad possesses a "Greek temper" that can manifest itself when "fans show up at my parents' house and he answers the door with a shotgun, just like when I was in high school." Growing up, she was known as a lead foot. "In high school I drove a 1994 Camaro Z28 with a stick shift. It was a sassy grass green, and it invited attention. I got stopped nine times," she says, batting her eyes, "But I got off eight."
Her enthusiasm for cars remains unabated: "I got an Ashton Martin Vanquish up to over 100 miles an hour on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive." She's especially fond of Dodge Vipers. "They're mean," she says, "which is why I like them. They're sort of like that bitchy girl you just gotta love."
Maria lives outside Chicago, but she's on the road 300 days a year, hitting arenas around the U.S., Europe and the Middle East. Last December she made her second visit to Iraq with the WWE. She has also been to Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Her younger brother served in Iraq. "We have a lot more stuff to talk about now," she says.
It's impossible not to note the contrast between Maria's bumbling TV persona and her steady focus in real life. No hair twirling, super quick with a comeback – she's hardly the ditzy chick she plays on TV. Maria grins knowingly, "Everybody has ditzy moments," she says, "and it's a play on that. But you can fake a lot of stuff when you act like you don't know better. Girls do it all the time."
Nor is she high maintenance. Her lone requirements are Starbucks and a gym. She's happier with her body today than ever. "Appearing in Playboy is my little party to myself for becoming a woman," she says. "I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm going to do what I believe rather than what somebody else says I should."
Here's something we've always wondered: Do female wrestlers have catfights off-screen? "Actually, I work with the most extraordinary women in the world," she says, "strong, unique and gorgeous. And they're not afraid to get their hands dirty." Considering what they wear in the ring – and what gets torn off – how do they avoid wardrobe malfunctions? "Boob tape!" she trills. "Our secret. The Tiggers are crazy sometimes. Mine are all-natural, so they move around a lot."
Huge grin. "I call my boobs Tiggers because they bounce and bounce and bounce." Then she demonstrates, bouncing in her chair. "Hey, Tiggers!"
On the WWE website, Maria writes a column about the seven dos and don'ts of fashion. She's game when we ask her to apply the idea to romance.
How should a guy approach her? "Do give me your name and be genuine. Don't give me a line. Don't say: Nice shoes. Wanna fuck?'" She pauses. "Though I might laugh. It depends on how serious you are. Give me a good joke and I'll talk to you all night long."
What should a guy wear on a date with Maria? "Do wear a belt and shoes that match and jeans that fit your butt. Don't wear white socks – unless that's all you're wearing." She laughs suggestively.
And if a guy should find himself, shall we say, in the ring with her? "Do go behind," she says with a hearty laugh. "Hair pulling is good, biting is fine, but don't make me feel stupid. If you're better at something, that's cool – teach me."
On March 30 expect to see Maria on pay-per-view in WrestleMania XXIV in front of 70,000 fans in Orlando's Citrus Bowl. "I'm really hoping to have a title match," she says. "I've never won one. That's okay. You'll see. I want to win a title." Fierce grin. "You'll see."


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Does anyone know exactly how this happened, and ifanyone was injured? There did not appear to be any occupants of either car on the scene, giving the impression that perhaps the drivers and passengers were trapped inside.
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steveg has the right idea, I do every thing the same as he does.and my 21 frame ex' is bolted to a heavy short table the ex' has no legs.good luck rock.
steveg has the right idea, I do every thing the same as he does.and my 21 frame ex' is bolted to a heavy short table the ex' has no legs.good luck rock.
Well thanks for the replies folks. I went with Fuzzys's method as I liked the idea of being able to move the extractor around.
I took a 3/4 ply 4 by 8, cut it in half and glued it together. then added 3 large swivel casters and the with bolts and wingnuts I attached the extractor to the platform. I took it for a spin this afternoon and extracted 12 gallons.
Just as Fuzzy said it oscillated back and forth about an inch and didn't try to leave Wisconsin. Adrian.
Really? I may have to try this myself. thats if I ever catch up with all the other things I want to try myself.
There must be some sort of physics rationale as to why this works. I don't know why it worked, but it did. Adrian.
Adrian or Fuzzy can you all post some pictures of this setup. Also why 3 and not 4 casters is there any significant difference?
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If you go to post number 19 from NowThen he/she has a link to a photo or two.
As to why 3 casters... In a triangle pattern that is outside the center of gravity a 3 legged stand is ALWAYS stable on it's own. By design it cannot wobble. A 4 legged design is never actually stable because it is not possible to have all 4 legs touching at the same time. You will always get some wobble (perhaps small) from any chair on a hard surface. Any wobble at the base is magnified 2-3x at the top.
Adrian, the quicker you spin it up, the less the wobble you will get. Badly balanced loads actually work better at higher speeds with this setup.
Habutti, I've not mastered the photo posting yet, but my picture would show my Maxant on plywood like Nowthen's. I used 3 casters as Fuzzy suggested and I trimmed the plywood into a large triangle with the flat side on the front to support the bucket, and the point to the back. I left the margin of the triangle wide enough so that if I push the base against a wall the motor won't bang on it. Adrian.
I think that the stability of mine can probably be attributed to the mass of the base/platform that I use. It's heavy. The 4x4s are half-lapped at all of the joints with glue and lag screws keeping it all together. There are 4 casters with some sort of plastic tires that may take up some of the vibration as well.
The design is by accident. I use wheeled platforms like this to keep large floor fans, snowmobiles, fish houses, and other junk mobile in my barn.
My dad tells a story of how his dad made a platform for their hand-cranked extractor back the 1920s. The platform was designed so that my grandmother (think Aunt Bea) could stand on it while cranking - keeping it nice and stable.
-Phil Domeier
Fuzzy - Theory predicts your method should work, and you proved it. How about the next step for those of us that have a pipe that runs from the extractor to a tank? What do you say about 3 gentle springs , mounted in the area of the casters, that keeps the extractor centered, but still free to oscillate?
Roland - It's nice to see someone thinking outside the box, even though you missed the whole point of the coasters. Bucketing from a 12 framer got real old, real fast for me.
I can't see the springs doing anything but making it rock more. Remember the purpose of the coasters is to transfer the top heavy tipping motion (extractor walking) into linear motion on the ground.
Kinda like running and jumping on a chair without wheels. (One foot where your legs bend at the knees on the chair and the other on the top of back rest.) You can tip the chair and pivot your way down on the rear legs, if you do it right.
Now do the same thing with a chair with wheels. Now instead of just the rear legs and the ground being your pivot point, inside the center of the wheel is one and where the wheel meets the ground is another and in the case of a coaster the top directional pivot is another. This causes the chair to role forward and you to go backward and land on your head.
Note: Wheeled chair is still upright and did not tip, across the room maybe, but still upright non the less.
Putting springs on the chair with no wheels would make the initial tipping easier would it not.
If I was you I would try the springs on top of the feet of the extractor first. But what more would achieve over my original method?
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I believe I comprehend what you are describing. Please re-read my post, with emphasis on the:
3 gentle springs , mounted in the area of the casters
If the springs are JUST strong enough to move the extractor, we have gained the ability to locate the AVERAGE position of the extractor , while still allowing it to compensate for the imbalance.
To use your chair analogy, Put 3 long elastic members, like a bungee cord, on the wheeled chair, each 120 degrees from each other. Run and jump on it, from any direction. . You will roll, but be gently returned to your starting neutral position.
With proper piping, either a solid vertical pipe that enters a large funnel , or with flexible tubing, we now can have an extractor that finds it's own balance, and can be drained while running, because it's Average position is constant.
best way to keep a extrator from walking is to take 5/8 inch ply wood cut in half making two 4'x4' squares and glue them togather making it 1"-1/8 thick then mount your extractor to that. won't woble but you might get a frame blow out.
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This is what we did. The wheels lock and it stays pretty much in the same position.
I do comprehend what you envision and it might possibly work 98% of the time. But the other 2% of the time could be extremely ugly and could possibly destroy something. I will say with some certainty that the wheels will be more effective than the springs.
I must say that I have no real knowledge of mechanical engineering or spring properties so this is just my reasoning that follows.
a. The imbalance in the load imparts ENERGY to the body of the extractor as it swings around.
b. The wheels absorb the energy by moving in the direction of the force and trying to follow it around the circular path. This essentially dissipates the ENERGY.
c. A spring, on the other hand, STORES energy and returns the 50-80% of the ENERGY when the load is removed. Therein lies the problem. If you hit exactly the right speed ( matching the speed that the spring RELEASES the ENERGY) then the spring will amplify the load and tear up the extractor. This is a phenomenon known as resonance and can be extremely destructive in mechanical situations. Imagine if each spring bounce amplified the load by only 10% each rotation. It does not take long to go ballistic .
Fuzzy thanks.
It's a honey extractor not a washing machine. Do you want your extractor shouting off every time you have an unbalanced load.
I thought the main point of the casters was to make a small extractor easy to move around? If you don't intend to move it why not just bolt it down.
I haven't heard of anyone breaking an extractor because it was bolted to the ground,well properly anyway. I mean isn't that how Maxant and Dandant engineered it to work in the first place and why they use all that extra metal and those huge bearings thingy-s???
When they figure a way to spring suspend the drum of a honey extractor and end everyone's bolt down blues I'm sure they will let you know Roland. Of curse that would be more parts to replace.s
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As I stated earlier, the imbalanced load is energy. The casters convert the energy into motion. If the machine is hard mounted, the imbalance energy is still there and it is converted into HEAT in the bearings and grease thus shorting the life of the bearings.
I suspect, but may not live long enough to prove it, that the bearings in my "castered" extractor will never wear out.
If you want to hard mount go ahead -- it's your machine.
Regards -- Fuzzy
Wooden base, have one or 2 guys stand on the base. What we do every year.
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I repaired a large 70 frame extractor that was bolted to the floor, and run for extended periods unbalanced, The Stainless steel fatigued and cracked. I can see how casters, or better yet, linear ways, would allow motion in the extractor and lessen bearing wear and material fatigue.
Maxant - good idea, but I am talking of springs in the other axis, horizontal, not vertical.
Fuzzy - I an aware of the terrible destruction that can be done with resonance, and have witnessed the results of attaining harmonics. I have no fear that that will happen in this situation. I will have to do a little research and experimentation. Do I get an "attaboy" if I can make a control that measures the imbalance, and retards the rate of speed increase in proportion to the level of imbalance? In other words, is she starts a shaking, it holds that speed until the shaking goes away.
I am all about super charging my Extractor but, three casters are the price of the extractor. Tim Taylor and me have a lot in common "more power" except my stuff does not blow up on me.


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No, no effort should be required to insert a loaded magazine (or empty) into a pistol. There should be spring tension on the magazine release. Apparently your spring is missing or broken.
I am far from being an auto loader person, but I believe the magazine catch spring is a Vee shaped spring held in place by the mainspring retaining pin.
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Santa Monica, CA - August 9, 2005 - 3...2...1...FIGHT! id Software and Activision, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI) give multiplayer gaming a shot of adrenaline with the announcement that QUAKE 4 multiplayer will be unveiled at the 10th Annual QuakeCon - the nation's largest and most legendary video game festival and tournament. In addition, QuakeCon 2005 will also play host to the first showing of DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil for the Xbox video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. QuakeCon 2005 will attract more than 6,000 video game fans from around the world and is being held at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas from August 11-14.
QUAKE 4 marks the return of id's trademark deathmatch-style multiplayer formula. Online gameplay action in QUAKE 4 is based on the speed, style and overall multiplayer feel found in the popular QUAKE III Arena, and allows gamers to play in Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Arena, CTF and Tournament modes on the Strogg or Marine teams. QUAKE 4 is being developed by Raven Software in cooperation with id Software. For more information on QUAKE 4, please visit the official website at www.QUAKE4GAME.com.
Giving fans a sneak-peek at some of the most anticipated upcoming titles has become a tradition, and this year is no different. For the first time ever, QuakeCon attendees will be able to get their hands on DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil for Xbox. Co-developed by Nerve Software and id Software, DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil is a stand-alone extension of the DOOM 3 saga and delivers more terror and fast-paced action in mankind's battle to overcome Hell. The game features a fresh storyline with all-new levels, beasts and powerful weapons, including the gravity-defying "Grabber," the time-manipulating "Artifact," and the return of the double barreled Shotgun.
Both games are rated "M" for Mature by the ESRB.
About QuakeCon: Often described as the "Woodstock of Gaming," QuakeCon was created in August of 1996 by a group of friends on the IRC network's EFnet who had a desire to meet in person. Less than 100 attendees gathered at the Best Western in Garland, Texas that first year to play and talk games and compete in the first QuakeCon tournament. id Software's lead programmer John Carmack and several other id Software team members stopped by to chat with fans about DOOM, QUAKE, and the future of an up-and-coming id Software.
Now in its 10th year, QuakeCon remains true to its original mission as an event created by gamers, for gamers. Sponsored by id Software and other industry-leading software and hardware manufacturers, QuakeCon continues to be run by a dedicated group of 30 year-round volunteers and more than 200 on-site volunteers. Nearly 6,000 people attended QuakeCon in 2004, and the event has expanded to include QUAKE, QUAKE II, QUAKE III Arena, QUAKE III: Team Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and DOOM 3. For more information on QuakeCon visit the Web site at www.quakecon.org.


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Last week I captured a swarm. Within the hour it had reswarmed. Is there anything I can do to stop this happening in the future. I have heard that some beekeepers 'lock' the bees in for a day. Would this work? Any advice appreciated.
Last week I captured a swarm. Within the hour it had reswarmed. Is there anything I can do to stop this happening in the future. I have heard that some beekeepers 'lock' the bees in for a day. Would this work? Any advice appreciated.
I lock them in overnight, in a well ventilated NUC, screened bottom entrance (not screened bottom board), top screened ventilation holes. I give them a frame of honey and nectar which seems to anchor them. Some folks give a frame of brood. Of the 7 swarms caught this spring only one left, the only one I had not give a frame of food, oversight.
I am willyC, but we will put a 1:1 syrup feeder on top for them and 1/2 pollen patty inside on top of the frames. Then the next morning we open up the front and haven't lost a swarm doing this way. The only 2 swarms we lost were ones we didn't close up and started feeding immediately.
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The best thing to keep a swarm is open brood. I will bet it is >95% successful. I have used pieces of drone brood with success. If you have brood and eggs even better yet they can make a queen if they need one.
If you can position your box for the swarm to walk in on their own you will have better luck.
A drop of LGO might also help a bit.
Close them up for a short time could help(make sure they have air flow), no need to close them up when its dark they won't leave at night.
If you can find the queen cage her might help.
If the hive is too hot they could leave
I had heard that a frame of food and they can refill and swarm again.
Last edited by FlowerPlanter; 06-07-2012 at 02:14 PM.
i had three out of three stay this year with a frame of mixed brood.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
All we do is give them a frame of brood to take care of. Works very well.
So far we are two for two on using a nucleus hive (not a cardboard nuc, a standard hive) with a full set of frames, including an old brood comb.
The bees jump right in, start fanning at once, and in one case even started ro orient on the hive as soon as we closed it up.
Old brood comb, a proper hive rather than a cardboard box, and a bit of swarm lure (LGO, gremanium, and lemon oil 10:2:1) and they will very likey stay put.
This year we have been having huge swarms (six to nine pounds of bees), so you might want to take a standard hive with you as well -- hard to get six pounds of bees into a nuc!
Still, once in a while you will get one that simply won't stay put, those hopefully will find a nice place in the wild and produce another swarm for you next year.
I've only collected a few swarms, but none have left. I gathered them in a cardboard box of some type, and when I wanted to move it I closed it off, vented, etc.. Then when I hived them, I did it just before dusk.. So far so good.. Seems easier though, when they swarm into your equipment
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I have read a study that showed swarm bees given any drawn comb do not draw as much comb as a swarm that has to build everything on their own. I give only foundation, and upon hiving them I put a queen excluder on the entrance, they are not leaving without the queen. Sometimes I cage the queen, then if I want a different queen it's very easy to do.
First swarm I picked up this year I had to put them in a deep of drawn comb(didnt have any foundation ready).There were so many bees in there that I added another deep of drawn comb the next morning.Picked them up on a Sunday afternoon and by Wed. they filled both deeps full of nectar.I was afriad they would get honey bound so I added 2 honey supers.To make a long story short,within a month I had 2 capped supers of honey which I extracted and put back on. They promptly refilled them in the next 3 weeks and are still capping some.I added another super just to get the comb drawn.
it's amazing how much a large swarm can do if caught early in the main flow. i had a friend who had a similar experience to yours hemichuck.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives


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Sons and Fathers
'When [my father] was wounded at Somme he was brought home and placed in a chair outside the front door, dressed in uniform by his mother because he couldn't lift his arm...The women in the neighbourhood who had lost husbands or sons - [who had only been] told that they were missing or killed in action - queued up to ask this 19-year-old what had really happened to them...it was a horrendous thing to have to do.'
'When [I] read sentences from [Wilfred Owen's and David Jones's] poems, occasionally it sounded just like my father talking. The poetry makes me feel - because of the shared experience - very close to my father.' - John Walker
Walker associates the sheep-skull headed soldier with his father. A skull is an empty shell, a husk. Walker's soldier/father figures are physically and mentally shells of their former selves.
The artist has heard of soldiers at Verdun who bleated like sheep on the way to the front, 'lest their officers think the soldiers were unaware of their fate,' and has recalled a comparison of officers to 'Judas sheep': sheep kept to entice other sheep into the abattoir.
A sheep's skull also carries older associations with sacrificial animals, which was why early Christians chose the sheep as the symbol of Christ as a sacrifice to God, and is probably why Walker puts a figure with a sheep's skull against the background of crosses on page 25.
On the last page of Passing Bells is Walker's familiar image of himself at his easel, but this time his head is a sheep's skull too, a sign of loving identification with his father.


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No I'm not from Oz but just outside Liverpool in the NW UK.
I've been trooping for well over a year now and love the building, trooping, reaction & generally being a camera junkie and making kids cry!!!!
I've done a Biker Scout
....Commander Cody
....and coming to the end of my Stormtrooper
So what's next you ask........heh heh......that's why I'm here:fettrotj


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"You're leaving again Wednesday?" an acquaintance asked in an incredulous tone.
"I'm driving to Utah to spend Christmas with my family," I said. "I haven't been home for Christmas since 2004."
"Didn't you just get back from California?"
"On Monday afternoon," I said. "I went to San Francisco to run in a race, and to see my boyfriend."
She gave me the same raised-eyebrow stare that I've seen frequently lately. I got it from co-workers when I told them I had to make an early exit from the office Christmas party — the one I helped plan — so I could grab a little sleep before it was time to fly to California to run 50 kilometers in a trail race. I got it from members of the local bike club during my Tour Divide talk, when a friend in the audience forced me to admit I was training to run a winter 100-mile ultramarathon in Alaska. I got it from casual friends when I told them I would have to miss a weekend gathering because I was flying to Seattle — why Seattle? Well, because it's … there. It was too difficult to explain that we wanted to check out trails in the surrounding area, and visit friends, and also chose Seattle because it's a simpler destination for Beat than Missoula.
Much of it is difficult to explain. I've boarded a lot of planes in the past three months. I've limped around with various running injuries. My weeks are all but full with packing, unpacking, working, cleaning, errands, shoving whatever random food is on hand in my mouth, and — less frequently than I'd prefer — getting outside for exercise, usually running. My bikes hang from my wall rack like limp rags, gathering dust. An editor gave my Divide book a full read and recently returned it with all kinds of valuable criticism and suggestions, but I can't fathom where I'll find the time to return to that project. Even my blog, my last refuge, looks neglected these days. There's a brand new Fatback in my front room that I haven't even bothered to put together yet. That last sentence makes the least sense of all. But I can't help it. Life is happening much to fast.
But how can I explain it succinctly? Yes, I am dating a man who lives 1,100 miles away. Yes, our relationship is quite serious. And yes, it's complicated. Serendipity and the staggering reach of modern life brought us together despite incalculable odds. Really, what were the chances of us meeting — a Swiss ultrarunner from California and a new-to-Montana cyclist, neither of whom were looking to get into a relationship at the time?
Neither of us took it seriously until suddenly we did. I think the potential hit us both at the same time, in mid-September, about a week before our first official "date." Beat was running a six-day, 200-mile epic in Italy called the Tor des Geants, and I was in Montana, obsessively refreshing the race update Web site. We were completely out of contact for the first time since we met at the Swan Crest 100 in July, and that step back gave us both a lot of time to consider how we felt about each other. When we converged in northern Utah to run the last half of the Bear 100 together, all of those thoughts and emotions were perfectly aligned, although neither of us knew that about the other quite yet.
We still laugh about the moment we figured it out, as we jogged along a high mountain ridge as the moon cast rich blue light across the grassy slope. After hours of regaling me with stories about the Tor des Geants and the structure of quantum physics, Beat handed me the rock he carried for me a the TDG and finally asked, "Are you interested in going out?"
"Sure, that would be great," I said in a deeply fatigued monotone that struck Beat as humorous. "But, um, the Montana-California thing is a little complicated."
"It's a minor complication," Beat said, and we let the words soak in amid the stark mountain silence.
And it is just a minor complication. How to you place value on a relationship with a person who, less than one week after a 200-mile soul-crushing race, flies halfway around the world to a remote outpost in northern Utah to run another 100 miles, just to meet up with you? And then, when you crack 40 miles in to your own 50-mile run, gives up finishing well in his own just to help you hobble to the finish? How do you quantify a person's willingness to fly out to far-away Montana nearly every weekend just to spend time with you, and put in long hours during the workweek so he can afford it. How do you express appreciation for a person who not only shares your passions for the outdoors, but who relishes in big challenges and distances, with emotional and intellectual goals that align perfectly with yours. And it's not just about short-term adventures and long-term goals — this person is funny and sexy and smart and has enough fantastic ideas and outlandish ambitions to fill a couple lifetimes. How do you not fight for that with every ounce of energy, every resource you have?
So my lifestyle is a bit complicated right now. And there probably will be more plane trips, more packing, more running. For Beat and I, the little annoyances, the details of it all, are already fading into the bigger picture — drawing widening circles around that moment of perfect serendipity, in ink.
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Yay romance!ReplyDelete
Life is easy., but people make it hard..,ReplyDelete
I have been reading for a long time and don't think I have ever commented before. I have to say, I love the fact that you have fallen and fallen hard for Beat. Being married for a long, long time I know that being with someone you love while doing things together and having the same interests is the best. I never got that feeling with your previous relationship no matter the length but I totally get it with this one. I'm so happy for you and loving this "new" life you have going. Yay you (and Beat)!ReplyDelete
Jill, as a long time reader and fan of your blog, photographs, and exploits in general, I'm really happy and excited for you and Beat. Congrats, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
I knew the stars and planets would align for you in this department. Great job, beautiful beau, new extreme sport that makes your juices flow, family only a few mountain ranges away, it's a wonderful life Jill. Congratulations!ReplyDelete
I just thought I should note, my husband and I started dating 4 months after he had deployed to Afghanistan. Before he left we were merely acquaintances, then after dating for 9 months we actually got to go on our first date and now, a year later, we are happily married. :)ReplyDelete
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(04.04.11) Seedy Bah of the Colorado Rush, by way of Gambia Rush in Africa, has signed a pro contract with the Charleston Battery of the USL Pro Division. Seedy, who is 18, is the youngest player from the Colorado Rush to sign a professional contract. The Gambian joined the Colorado Rush Academy program in February of 2010 along with three country mates.
"In Seedy's time here in Colorado he has been the consummate professional on and off the field. This is a logical step for him and will undoubtedly prove to be one of many steps in his professional career. We are extremely proud of him and for our Academy to push a player on directly to the next level. I know Deco (nickname of Seedy) will do well," commented Colorado Rush Technical Erik Bushey.
Seedy recently took a few minutes to discuss his new home and being a professional athlete as he prepares for the season opener on April 9th.
Rush: What were your thoughts upon being given a pro contract?
Seedy: It was very good to be given a player contract. It is something very big for me and my family. It is something great in my life.
What did your family and friends have to say when they heard the news?
My mom couldn't believe it. It was something extraordinary, really unbelievable.
How did you end up being recognized and then signed by Charleston?
I ended up in Charleston through Seattle. I had gone to trial with the Seattle Sounders. I had done very well there but unfortunately they could not sign me. However, they did not want to release me so they helped me sign with a USL club so I could keep playing at a high level. Now if during the season they need me, they will still be able to sign me. So that is how I ended up being a Charleston Battery player.
So what do you think of your new home?
It is a good playing environment. The people are friendly. Everything is cool. I am living with two Jamaicans who are on the team. They are good guys.
What are your thoughts on your new team?
Well our team is good. We've played some MLS teams in a tournament. We lost to DC United 2-1. The second game we beat Toronto FC and in the third game we tied with Chicago Fire. So we ended up in second place for the tournament.
How have you been playing of late?
I've been playing good. Scoring goals and doing lots of work. It was hard to leave my home and friends but I want to be a pro and it was something I had to do.
Seedy's first league game is April 9th at home against Charlotte Eagles. In his short time with the Battery, Seedy has already shown his attacking prowess as he has notched several goals. As he works toward getting his first league goal, Seedy will undoubtedly have the support of the Rush Nation. Certainly his brethren in Colorado and Gambia will be following intently. Rush Soccer president, Tim Schulz added: "We are thrilled to see the first professional signing as a result of our wonderful relationship with an African Rush club. The fact that it is a Gambian player is most appropriate as without this Gambia Rush there would likely not be a Rush presence throughout Africa. I believe this will be the first of many success stories as a result of Rush Soccer and Gambia Rush."


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Canutillo school board to begin process of terminating superintendent's employment
Internal audit finds evidence of grade-level, student placement manipulation at CISD
CANUTILLO, Texas - A three-page internal audit packed a damaging blow to Canutillo Independent School District Superintendent Damon Murphy.
Just after 11 p.m. Thursday, Murphy received a notice of intent of the Canutillo School Board to suspend him without pay, pending discharge, and notice of intent to ultimately terminate his contract.
After a three-hour closed door session, nearly the entire CISD school board voted in favor of the motion, with the exception of Laure Searls, who opted to abstain for what she called a lack of information.
Board member Sergio Coronado said it was, "The saddest thing I've had to do as a board member."
Through tears, Murphy apologized to the board and embraced them, before leaving CISD headquarters without comment.
A culmination of interviews, emails, and raw data laid out in the audit revealed that transcripts and classification processes of Canutillo students showed evidence of tampering.
Auditor Hector Rodriguez's conclusion reads: it appears that the superintendent directed two administrators to avoid subpopulations and actions were taken by the administrators to ensure subpopulations were not created. in addition, many mid-year grade reclassifications were made to promote 10th graders to 11th graders, resulting in the avoidance of the 10th grade accountability testing.
Murphy was visibly shaken by the results of the audit, which he said he was hearing for the first time as Rodriguez read his findings aloud to the CISD school board during the Thursday night special meeting.
"I am flabbergasted about it," said Murphy during the meeting. "i would encourage the board to give me some time to look into it, so I really don't have a comment."
The audit revealed Murphy directed the former Canutillo High School principal Jim Fry to avoid creating Limited English Proficiency (LEP) subgroups and Special Education director Janine Hammock to avoid creating Special Education (SPED) subgroups in middle schools.
The results of 10th-grade state-standardized exams are held up to Federal accountability standards. 50 or more students within a subgroup must be enrolled at the time of testing for that particular subgroup to be counted in federal progress measures.
"I've never been asked to do anything that pushed me to do something that was on the outskirts of questionable," said Fry following a May presentation from the CISD administration regarding transfer credits and student cohorts.
According to CISD board president Armando Rodriguez, the district did not have an internal auditor in place in May, but he said, when the district its current auditor in June, he immediately began investigating the district's student placement process.
According to the audit, approximately 66 students were reclassified out of the 10th grade mid-year, during the 2011-2012 school year. Data analysis reavealed around 62 percent of all grade reclassifications for that school year were students who were reclassified out of the 10th grade. Auditors believe it was all done to avoid a tenth grade federal accountability year testing.
"Do we know this hurts students," asked Searls. "During a job interview no one asks if you passed the TAKS or AYP. They want to know if you graduated high school."
In April, EPISD revealed that a federal investigation had uncovered a four-year-old email from Murphy's account that gave principals and administrators a directive to make incoming foreign high schoolers and high school freshmen be placed in ninth grade even if they deserved to be placed higher than the ninth grade.
"I have no comment about what happened two years ago in a different district. I have no idea what Dr. (Terri) Jordan put forth in that press conference," Murphy told ABC-7 in May at a Canutillo ISD board meeting.
"Ladies and gentleman, that is a stunning and deeply troubling directive from a former top official of this school district," Jordan said in a statement in April, while she was interim superintendent of EPISD. "The email directive from Murphy is especially troubling when considered in light of the district's own internal audit and the ongoing federal investigation into whether students were improperly retained in ninth grade or promoted to the 11th grade to avoid being tested in 10th grade and counted as part of the school's rating Adequate Yearly Progress under the federal No Child Left Behind education law."
EPISD's former superintendent, Lorenzo Garcia, this year, pleaded guilty to steering an expensive, no-bid district contract to his then mistress. He also pleaded guilty to manipulating the district's test scores by not allowing who he perceived as low performing students to enroll or forcing them to skip or be held back a grade. Garcia would get bonuses when the district met state and federal standards that included passing the tests.
Murphy, who has worked in the education field more than 20 years, worked at EPISD for four years as Associate Superintendent for Secondary and Priority Schools.
As of late Thursday evening, Board President Rodriguez, said Murphy's termination would be discussed during an upcoming board meeting, but could not give a specific date. Under state, law Murphy has the right to appeal the board's decision.


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Major Rally in Times Square Calls on Hershey Company to Stop Using Child Labor Chocolate
With World Day Against Child Labor right around the corner, students and concerned consumers gathered today in front of the Hershey Store in Times Square to call on Hershey to "raise the bar" by eliminating exploitative child labor from its cocoa production supply chain.
New York City – June 8, 2011 – With World Day Against Child Labor right around the corner, students and concerned consumers gathered today in front of the Hershey Store in Times Square to call on Hershey to "raise the bar" by eliminating exploitative child labor from its cocoa production supply chain.
Human rights activist Kerry Kennedy also spoke at the rally. She was joined by Lee Cutler, secretary treasurer of New York State United Teachers Union, as well as students, teachers and musical performers from the New York City area.
"The illegal use of child labor in chocolate production by Hershey and other chocolate-makers must stop," said Kerry Kennedy, president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. "With this rally in Times Square, we are making sure that these companies hear that chocolate produced by children is a crime."
A decade after major chocolate companies including Hershey agreed to eliminate abusive child labor, forced labor and trafficking from their supply chains, these abuses continue on West African cocoa farms. Hershey is lagging behind its competitors in implementing policies to end these abuses in its chocolate products. Families who grow cocoa also live in poverty due to unstable cocoa prices. Students and consumers are calling on Hershey to take stronger action to end these labor rights violations and to start using Fair Trade Certified cocoa, which also guarantees farmers a stable price and additional funds for community development projects.
"The people at today's rally represent the tens of thousands of consumers across the country who expect the companies they purchase from to care about the people who are at the very source of the products we buy" said Green America Fair Trade Coordinator Elizabeth O'Connell. "We are sending Hershey the message that it needs to make larger commitments to remove forced and child labor from its chocolate products."
Global Exchange Fair Trade Campaign Director Adrienne Fitch-Frankel said: "So many of us associate Hershey with sweet childhood memories. The remarkable youth turnout at today's rally shows that youth in the United States are outraged that, for a countless number of their peers in Africa, recollections of Hershey and childhood will mean bitter memories of exploitation in the cocoa fields."
International Labor Rights Forum Campaigns Director Tim Newman said: "As World Day against Child Labor approaches this weekend, Hershey continues to lag behind its competitors in independently certifying that its cocoa is not produced by abusive child labor and forced labor. After ten years of broken promises, it's time for Hershey to make firm commitments to sourcing Fair Trade Certified cocoa."
The "Raise the Bar, Hershey!" campaign is organized by the non-profit groups Green America, International Labor Rights Forum, and Global Exchange. Over 30,000 consumers have taken action by sending e-mails, postcards, petitions, and making phone calls to the company asking it to end child labor. Campaign supporters across the country are joining the rally in solidarity by taking part in a national call-in day to Hershey headquarters (http://www.raisethebarhershey.org/take-action-call-hershey) and also through twitter by using the hashtag #HersheyGoFair.
For more information on Hershey's corporate social responsibility record please read Time to Raise the Bar: The Real Corporate Social Responsibility Report for the Hershey Company. To read this report visit: http://www.raisethebarhershey.org.
To read why one local student is attending the rally today, please see this article by Ariana Taveras, a student in the class of 2012 at the Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ariana-taveras/why-i-am-marching-at-hers_b_871973.html.
GREEN AMERICA is the nation's leading green economy organization. Founded in 1982, Green America (formerly Co-op America) provides the economic strategies, organizing power and practical tools for businesses and individuals to solve today's social and environmental problems. www.GreenAmerica.org.
GLOBAL EXCHANGE is a membership-based international human rights organization dedicated to promoting social, economic and environmental justice around the world. www.GlobalExchange.org
THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM is an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide. www.LaborRights.org