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I retired in April 2005. I started doing genealogy in August 2005. It all started with my wife, Dianne,(Dianne E. Smith) and her interest. I've enjoy traveling to many cemeteries. Dianne would say, "My best friends were all cold". She passed away, November 12, 2007.
I have since married Bonnie (Snow) Johnson in 2009. I told her I would do my best NOT to let grass grow under her feet. Together, we enjoy "grave searching" for others as we can.
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Walter Guptill
RE: Dennison Marker Photos
My pleasure, let me know if I can be of any further assistance. I'm regularly in the town offices, libraries and cemeteries of the midcoast area!
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Hi John my name is Jessica i live in Unity Maine, I saw you were looking for Fredrick Burrill 1816. I did not find his stone in the Pond cemetery. But the other day i was in the Webster cemetery and found a Betsy Burrill Wife of Benjamin Burrill Borne abt 1813 Died 1888.I dont know if thats of any interest to you but i figured id pass it along.I have only been through 1/2 of webster Cem. so i might find some more Burrill's ?
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I have fixed the problem with Mary Roberts. Thanks for the catch.
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Birth date on stone is 1856 you have 1875
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I see you listed Hosea Smith in the Butterfield Cemetery in Prentiss ,Maine . I have been photographing the cemetery and have not run across him I guess my question to you is did you actual see the stone? and could you point me in some direction as to what part he is in? Trying hard to find it but to no avail.
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Thank you, John and Bonnie, for the transfer. I'm going to start working on Robert's profile this afternoon.
By the way, I cannot count the times I have used Diane's quote, "Some of my best friends are cold." Too, too funny. Her memory lives on.
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Firefighters from three different towns battled strong winds and freezing conditions Monday in an effort to put out a fire that tore through a farmhouse in Mechanic Falls.
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Surplus Property is defined as property which is in excess of the needs of a department and is not required for its foreseeable need.
The property may be used or new, but possesses some usefulness for the purpose for which it was intended or for some other purpose. This includes scrap, which is material that is damaged, defective, or deteriorated to the extent it has no value except for its basic material content.
The final step in the procurement cycle's disposition of the item is when it is no longer useful to the department. Timely identification of the surplus and obsolete material is essential to an effective disposition program.
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Drug Dogs and Traffic Stops
I work patrol, and typically get most of my drug arrests from vehicle stops, whether it's from "plain smell" upon making contact with the driver, or getting consent from the operator/owner. I also have an interest in joining my department's K9 unit so I've been studying case law recently.
I came across two cases that seem to contradict each other and I was wondering if I could get a better answer from a canine officer with experience on the subject.
According to "United States v. Stone 866 F.2d 359, 364 10th Cir. 1989", there is no expectation of privacy in the odors emanating from a vehicle. Thus, a sniff incidental to a traffic stop, and not supported by reasonable suspicion or probable cause, is limited to the exterior of the vehicle.
According to "United States v Morgan 270 F.3d 625, 631 8th Cir. 2001", a drug detector dog may be called to the scene of a traffic stop when an officer has reasonable suspicion to believe the car is carrying illegal drugs.
It seems to me that "US v Stone" states that you do not need reasonable suspicion or probable cause to request that a k9 sniffs a vehicle, but "US v Morgan"seems to state that an officer does need reasonable suspicion.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I think US v. Morgan is referring to the fact that you are detaining a person longer in order to wait for a K9 to arrive on scene. In which case, you would need RS that there are illegal narcotics present.
The U.S. Supreme Court has never established what reasonable time is when conducting traffic stops. Your initial stop for a simple traffic violation can escalate to drug arrest easily, so long as you can document the reasonable suspicion, odor is sufficient reasonable suspicion, inconsistent answers from the driver and passenger can be reasonable suspicion. You are conducting an investigation and having a K-9 unit do a cursory check is part of that investigation. Be prepared to put in writing what you felt were reasonable suspicions and probable cause for the investigation and arrest.GOD IS A NINJA WITH A SNIPER RIFLE, WAITING TO TAKE YOU OUT.
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I believe this is correct. You can't detain someone longer than reasonably necessary, especially waiting for a K-9 unit to show up. The first thing out handlers ask us is: How many tickets do you have to write? At least 1, sometimes two, gives us time to write while K-9 responds. Our problem is that we're county and the 3 or 4 K-9 units that roll around all tend to linger in the hot zones and don't venture out much. So, sometimes they're 20 minutes out and it exceeds the time limit set by the state attorneys for a "reasonable" time for a traffic stop.
Our whole deal here is that once you get a car stopped and think you're gonna need a K-9, get one started and start writing. Another deputy can come out and ask for consent while I'm writing my tickets but I cant put my ticket book down during all that to start a vehicle search. Apparently the attorneys will throw it out with a quickness. So, basically, it never hurts to have a couple violations.
02-18-2011, 01:33 PM #5"The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep." -Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Thanks for the replies everyone.
I'm pretty sure this is correct. No RS is required to have a K9 sniff the exterior of a vehicle UNLESS the duration of detention (the traffic stop) is extended. The Morgan ruling essentially limited suspicionless exterior sniffs to the time it takes the initial officer to finish writing the ticket(s).
Another question while I'm thinking of it at the moment. Do occupants of a vehicle have to be outside of it when a K9 conducts an exterior sniff, or can they remain inside?
02-18-2011, 05:49 PM #7"The sheep generally do not like the sheepdog. He looks a lot like the wolf. He has fangs and the capacity for violence. The difference, though, is that the sheepdog must not, can not and will not ever harm the sheep." -Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
If you smell drugs in the car, you can search it. If you have no odor you can smell, plain view, or otherwise but can articulate reasonable suspicion you can wait for a dog. The issue has been what is reasonable for the time of detention. Looking over the case law it can be 15 minutes or 2 hours. Its all in your articulation and the circumstances behind the time delay. Reasonable suspicion is of course nervous behavior, prior history, area of the stop, and on and on. Its all about whether you can articulate your reason and have valid reasons for your concerns. Of course if the dog is present you can run any car you like as long as it doesnt appreciably lengthen the traffic stop. This would be having the dog working with you or actually being the handler. Ill look for my case law and reference this with actual opinions from the court so it isnt just some dude told me and you can read the law yourself.
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Thank you all for explaining this. I'm a soon to be handler and this has been very helpful.
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Would someone walk me through how you handle a stop if you are the K-9 officer and you made the stop, let's say you do not have enough to justify ARS but just a good hunch that they are holding and you are just fishing. Trying to get some ways to handle this situation, thought about having my backup write the warning/citation, ect. while I conduct a walk around. I am trying to avoid having to end the stop and make it a consensual encounter and ask for consent to further prolong the stop. A supervisor is suggesting that I write more cites, trying to work all this out time wise.
2nt Time there are opinions out there stating as long as it doesnt apppreciably lengthen the stop then the length of detention is irrelevant. The extra 2 minutes it takes to run your dog doesnt appreciably lengthen the stop according to the case I read. However you would need to establish a pattern of running every car or every 3rd car or something so its not just seen as profiling. I just love how the courts have shifted from are they guilty to should we have caught them. It seems guilt is no longer questioned, its whether some technicality can keep them out of trouble.
Read this 1st: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/script...=543&invol=405
Any Officer who really does study case law to be better in his job can find a lot of useful cases simply by taking a circumstance and entering it into google. Remember you courts only have to follow higher courts in their district. For instance in Oklahoma we have District Court, Oklahoma Court of Criminal appeals, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. Any other appellate court or state courts rulings are Dicta and can be considered but do not have to be. Anything in the chain I mentioned must be followed by those courts within that circuit.
Hope you find something helpful with this.
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Would You Rent a Nana?
Rent-A-Grandma promises " mature women over 50 years of age." Grandmas can be hired as a:
- Nanny (OK, I can see this working)
- Household Maintenance Staff (Not sure about this)
- Large Estate Management Staff (or this)
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- Elderly Caretaker (I thought this was Rent a Grandma, not Rent a nurse?)
- Party Helper (What kind of parties? How often and who cleans up?)
I'm not sure how well the president of this company knows nanas. He said, "Women in their 50's don't text or tweet while they're watching your kids." (Obviously they haven't met many modern nanas)
Rent-A-Grandma's website promotes the grandmotherly image with a list of folk remedies for insomnia, toothaches, pink eye and other ailments, as well as tweeting sayings and advice from grandma. Most recently grandma tweeted, "Growing older is merely a matter of feeling your corns rather than feeling your oats."
I can't help it. After reading this and visiting their website I felt like I had been stereo-typed and I didn't like it. The grandmother they describe was more like "my" grandmother. Today's grandmother is not always the "stay home and knit while I bake a batch of homemade cookies" type of nana.
Right now this company is only in California but it may expand and become a national chain.
If you are interested in renting yours truly please call for an appointment several months in advance and don't expect me to clean or cook. If I want to do that I can stay home!


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One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
by Dr. Seuss
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Illustrations
How It All Goes Down
Flip open to any given page in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. Tell us, what are you going to see? (We'll give you a hint: it's not necessarily a fish). What you're looking at is a kooky, crazy, magical world. Seuss isn't going for realistic here. He's trying to create images that tap into your imagination—images that let your mind do the work.
What do we mean by that? Well, when you go through the pages of One Fish Two Fish, you'll find yourself encountering creatures and images so odd and whimsical that you'll wonder if you've dreamed them up yourself.
It's as though someone sat down the inner five-year-old in all of us and asked, "If you could make up any fun animal, what would it be?" And then that person (all right, all right, it was Seuss) went ahead and illustrated and compiled all of these childhood dreams into one place.
Plus, if we know one thing, it's that Theodor Seuss Geisel knew how to tailor an illustration to an overall message. His years as a commercial and advertisement cartoonist are proof enough of that fact (source). So what's his message in this book? The illustrations of One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish are all about whimsy. He uses rudimentary colors and fantastical visuals in order to create for the reader the experience of childhood and all the awesome imagination that goes with it.
Though the illustrations and text may portray the kookiest of the animal kingdom, the use of color in this book is decidedly unkooky. In fact, it's quite basic. Most colors are primary—red, yellow and blue. There are some variations on these three colors—a lighter shade of pink for the Yink's drink of ink—but color is always used as a solid without shading or mixing.
Seuss kept it simple. In the same way that the text uses short and sweet words to tell a story, the color usage remains as rudimentary and almost childlike as possible. That's to say, if you only had one of those sad 4-pack crayons that they give out your friendly neighborhood Sizzler, you could still do a decent job of coloring in this book.
The simplicity of the colors in the book allows for the reader's imagination to really let loose. Not only do the ink drawings to stand out all the more against the solid color backgrounds, those solid color backgrounds also give a whimsical depth to the images. With the simple use of color, there's more room to get lost in the fun cartoony drawings and to fill in the blanks with the reader's own imagination.
Don't Make a Face… Or Do
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Okay, so there aren't any lions, tigers, or bears in this book. But there are a whole lot of other creatures, and they've all got distinct characteristics. So we should probably be singing, Goxes and Wumps and Gacks, oh my!
Yep, these aren't just nameless, faceless creatures. True to Seussian form, the illustrations of all the creatures in One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish are rich with faces and expressions.
For example, the bad fish that we're introduced to at the beginning looks quite mean, and pleased with himself as he slaps another fish. His eyebrows are furrowed and he has a malicious grin on his face. And as for our friend Ned, his expressions grow increasingly grumpy and frustrated as the story progresses.
The illustrations zero in on facial expressions in order to lend personality to all of those silly critters, so that they can stand out from the crowd even more than they already do. Every creature has a story, and more often than not, you can read it in their face.
As for the facial expressions of the non-creatures in the book—the children—we could sum them up in two words: content and delighted. We know—we wish we always looked that pleasant, too. With the children, their facial expressions further the idea of them as little explorers who are open to and excited about all the new things that they're seeing.
Drawing Within the Lines
Close your eyes and think of a classic Seuss illustration. Do you see lots of shading, collages, or anything 3D at all? Probably not. The Seuss illustrations we know best are line drawings that sketch out the forms and expressions of the characters, but not much else. The drawings are done with dark, thick lines that emphasize shapes and silhouettes—not details.
Art in Action
In the book's illustrations, the characters are typically in the midst of doing something. If these were photos, we would call them candid shots and they would be a far, far cry from a cheesy and posed school photo.
There are fantastical images, such as the children (and some friends) riding on the back of a seven-humped Wump that spans two whole pages. There are also two images of the Nook walking about with a cookbook hanging from a hook attached to his hat—one of him pattering along happily, and one of him in front of a fire attempting to cook, with a concerned expression on his face.
The illustrations tell a story. And before you say duh, hear us out. You might read this book as a litany of creatures and not much else, but each creature, as shown through the images, has his own story. From driving fish to ink drinking and winking Yinks, almost all the creatures are in the middle of getting somewhere or doing something exciting when we see them. They're busy bees, and we're tired just watching 'em.


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Machine's Eye View of Poultry and Produce - At the Instrumentation and Sensing Laboratory (ISL), a team of scientists—led by Yud-Ren Chen and including biophysicist Moon Kim, agricultural engineer Kuanglin Chao, and visiting scientists from around the globe—design the portable inspection devices.
Assessing the Risk, Retail Meat Analyzed - ARS scientists and colleagues have completed a study looking into sources of exposure to a microscopic parasite. The study provides the first risk assessment of the likelihood of exposure to Toxoplasma gondii—a common parasite worldwide—by ingestion of raw or undercooked meat.
Advances in Protection Against Listeria - Fresh-cut fruits come with particular quality and shelf-life challenges. For example, food-contaminating microbes on a peel or rind's surface can piggyback onto a cutting knife and be dragged into the fruit's flesh.
Understanding Beta-Carotene Better - Carotenoids are fat-soluble pigments responsible for many of the colorful hues of plant leaves, fruits, and flowers. They also act as biological antioxidants, protecting cells and tissues from damage caused by naturally occurring oxygen free radicals in the body. And they've been linked to enhancing immune system function, protecting from sunburn, and inhibiting development of certain cancers.
Better Living Through In-Depth Food Analysis - More than 90 percent of folks in the United States get inadequate amounts of vitamin E from their diets, according to the Agricultural Research Service. We know this because surveyors query people about what they've eaten, and then other research nutritionists translate "foods eaten" into "nutrients consumed."
Sustainable Farming
No Shortcuts in Checking Soil Health - A relatively new long-term experiment at Beltsville, Maryland, has shown that organic farming can build soil organic matter better than conventional no-till farming can.
Socking It to Strawberry Root Rot - Who'd have thought that compost-filled filter socks could substitute for the banned soil fumigant methyl bromide? But tests have shown that planting strawberries in these flexible tubes significantly reduced incidence of black root rot and increased yields 16- to 32-fold.
Tough Trees Finding smart plantings for urban spaces - Life on the street…it can be a rough existence. Even for trees. Leafy city dwellers face a variety of assaults—from daily foot traffic pounding their roots, to extreme weather events such as limb-busting ice storms and debilitating drought, to the soot and salt that all urbanites must tolerate.
Genetic Evaluations Help Breed Better Bossies - Scientists recently added calf survival as a genetic evaluation trait to a series of calculations that leads to what's called "Lifetime Net Merit." This genetic index for a bull predicts the profitability of his daughters.
Honey Bee Genetics Vital in Disease Resistance - As pollinators and food providers, honey bees are a key beneficial insect. They pollinate about 130 fruit, vegetable, nut, ornamental, and fiber crops in the United States. In all, their efforts contribute about $15 billion annually through improved crop yield and product quality in the form of larger or more appealing fruits. Sale of hive products—honey, wax, pollen, royal jelly, and even venom—generates hundreds of millions more.
Uncorking Genetic Bottlenecks in Soy - Soybeans are second only to corn as America's most widely grown crop, with nearly 76 million acres planted in 2006. That's because the nitrogen-fixing legume, which originated in Asia, is incredibly versatile.
Insect Pests
A Tiny Menace Island-Hops the Caribbean - USDA scientists have joined a multinational effort to stop a tiny mite that may create big problems in and near this hemisphere's Tropics.
A Natural Insect Attractant From Catnip - Discoveries in science can occur where and when least expected. For chemist Kamal Chauhan and entomologist Jeffrey Aldrich, an important finding came when they were testing a new compound for its potential as an insect repellent.
Weed Control
Seeds of Knowledge, New online guide helps identify the world's seeds and fruits - Federal inspectors are at the front lines of the battle against these invasives. Stationed at ports around the country, they stand ready to screen incoming plant materials for possible unwanted stowaways. But trying to identify hundreds of unusual seeds and fruits—from as far away as Asia, Australia, or Central and South America—is a daunting task.
Animal Health
Curbing Coccidiosis in Chickens, A Fine-tuned Approach - Each year, U.S. poultry producers raise about 7 billion broilers. They use a combination of antibiotics and vaccines to protect these birds from infectious diseases. Antibiotics are critical to ongoing efforts to fight off diseases and infections; they have been able to kill or stop growth of many different kinds of protozoa and parasites as well as bacteria.
Plant-Produced Protein Eases Dairy Cow Infection - ARS researchers have developed a new approach to thwart bacteria that cause coliform mastitis, an inflammatory udder disease of dairy cows.


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I can ping the ps3 (got a new slim today) but PMS can't connect to it. I have tried the new beta and the 1.10.5 version. When i try to have no forced network cards it seems that it is choosing the wrong ip all the time. A 10.X.X.X something. And it is saying that the server is ready and should be showing up, of course it do not work. When i try to force to the PS3 ip, i get a unable to bind error all the time.
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PIEDMONT -- The Bay Area's Jeremy Lin shook up professional basketball when he catapulted on the national scene in 2012 during a record-setting stint on the New York Knicks.
"Naturally, everyone loves a winner, but Jeremy was very much the underdog when he started in the big leagues of the NBA," said Angela Hom, a member of the Piedmont Asian American Club. "A coach remarked about how Jeremy didn't fit the basketball mold. He was playing a professional sport where there really wasn't a breakout Asian-American basketball athlete."
The club joins the Piedmont Appreciating Diversity Film Series Committee in offering two free screenings next week of "Linsanity," the 2013 documentary that follows the 6-foot-3 Palo Alto High School graduate's ascendance into the NBA after playing for Harvard University.
The movie will play March 19 at the Ellen Driscoll Theater in Piedmont and March 22 at the New Parkway theater in Oakland.
The 25-year-old son of Taiwanese immigrants and former Golden State Warrior is the first American of Taiwanese or Chinese descent to play in the NBA. After his attention-getting season with the Knicks, he signed a three-year contract with the Houston Rockets.
"The amazing thing about the film is how it makes you question the stereotypes of Asians as being nerds or passive, or people who study hard and are good at math but are not good at sports," said Julie Chang, a member of the film committee. "Jeremy Lin had to fight upstream against negative stereotypes and racist comments about his ability to excel at basketball. This was in college basketball and after he graduated from college."
The film by Chinese-American director Evan Leong also explores the role Christianity plays in Lin's life.
"This is a hot topic and one that I hope is brought up," Chang said about the post-film discussion.
Hom said the film should appeal to viewers even if they are not basketball fans.
"Simply put, it's about Jeremy Lin's passion for his sport and his ability to overcome adversity, whether being sent down to the D-League after playing a few games in the NBA or being taunted on court for being Asian-American," Hom said. "Pardon the pun, but he bounced back."
What: Piedmont Appreciating Diversity Film Series Committee's showing of "Linsanity"
First showing: March 19 -- 6:30 p.m. reception, 7 p.m. screening and 8:30 p.m. discussion, Ellen Driscoll Theater, 325 Highland Ave., Piedmont
Second showing: March 22 -- 3 p.m. screening and discussion, The New Parkway, 474 24th St., Oakland
Cost: Free
Details: www.diversityfilmworks.org or www.linsanitythemovie.com


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Dallas ISD's plan to pay for ACT and SAT exams could cost $900,000, trustee says
Soon after Dallas ISD Superintendent Mike Miles arrived, he proposed that the district start paying the fees for students to take the ACT and SAT college entrance exams.
About 75 percent of Dallas ISD's seniors took either the SAT or ACT last year, but the district would like to see 100 percent. To encourage that, Miles has proposed that Dallas ISD pay the fees, which range from $35 for the ACT to $50 for the SAT.
Of course, paying the exam fees would cost Dallas ISD money. Now we know how much. At a Texas Senate Education Committee hearing this week, Dallas school trustee Mike Morath told lawmakers it would cost $900,000.
He said the amount includes the fees to pay for the SAT, ACT, the Accuplacer and some Advanced Placement exams.
DISD students' scores on the ACT and SAT are bad. The average ACT composite score is 17.2 — below the state's average of 20.8, according to district data. The average combined SAT score on the math and reading portions is 863. That's 110 points below the state's average.
Miles told principals in August that the district will also invest in ACT and SAT prep classes to motivate more students to take the tests. However, Miles believes that with more students taking the test, the scores will decrease.
"I'm OK with that. We need to get a real read of where our kids are," Miles told principals during a training session. "Then we need to build that baseline."
Matthew Haag writes about the Dallas Independent School District. Follow @matthewhaag on Twitter, @DallasISD_News on Twitter and the Education Blog on Facebook.
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Everyone wishes to have beautiful hair that is smooth and silky. But it is seen that hair easily turns rough and coarse, owing to many reasons. Heredity and improper hair care are the two major factors which results in the formation of rough hair.
In order to change the texture of hair and to make it smooth, one can follow many salon treatments. But it is seen that most of these treatments make use of chemicals which can cause damage to your hair in the long run. Also, the commercial conditioners and hair conditioners available in the market usually fail to rise to the required level of expectations.
But you needn't lose hope as there are other alternatives which you can try out, so as to soften your hair. Using homemade hair softeners is one such option which allows you to deal with dry and rough hair. These natural hair softeners will allow you to soften your hair, without making any compromises on its health.
Do read on to discover the easy ways of preparing 3 such homemade hair softeners.
Rosemary Hair Softener
The properties of rosemary make it an important component in preparing hair softeners. In addition to improving your hair texture, rosemary also lends a pleasant fragrance to your hairs. Also, prolonged use of rosemary will help in darkening your hair and combating grays.
In order to prepare the hair softener, one should mix around 25 drops of rosemary essential oil to half a cup of vegetable oil. Massage this mixture of oils generously onto your hair, leave on for half an hour and rinse off thoroughly. By resorting to rosemary hair treatment at least once a week, you can very well soften your hair and improve its texture.
Homemade Hair Softening Rinse
Another homemade hair softener which is seen to give quick results can be prepared by using apple cider vinegar and lavender. Apple cider vinegar helps in balancing the pH levels in the scalp, thereby controlling excessive oiliness. The action of vinegar also helps in removing the unwanted build up of dirt and residues from the hair and the shaft.
The properties of lavender help in nourishing the hair from the root and will also provide it with a moisturizing effect. Also by using lavender, one can very well mask the strong smell which is given out by vinegar. Thus the combined action of lavender and apple cider vinegar is sure to leave you with tresses that are smooth and shiny.
As the first step in the preparation of the hair softener, one has to boil 4 cups of water. Remove the boiling water from the flame and to it add 3 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar and stir intensely. Following this, do add half a cup of dried lavender to the solution and continue stirring. In order to allow the lavender to steep completely, cover the vessel and make sure it remains untouched for 3 to 4 hours. After the stipulated time period, strain the solution so as to remove the lavender and store it in an air tight container. The homemade hair softener thus prepared should be used to rinse your hair after shampooing. To increase the effectiveness of the hair softener, you can allow the lavender to steep overnight.
Aloe Vera And Grape Fruit Softener
A quick recipe for an effective hair softener involves blending grapefruit pulp and Aloe vera gel to form a smooth paste. This paste is to be then applied on your hair and is to be washed off after half an hour. Using this homemade hair softener at least twice a week will provide you with long lasting results. So without delay, go ahead and try out the above said homemade hair softeners, so as to make your hair smooth and beautiful.


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The Morning Leverage: Some Senior Financing From Levine Leichtman
Top stories in this morning's LBO Wire:
Some firms offer senior financing. Levine Leichtman Capital Partners is offering financing for seniors. Michael Wursthorn reports that the Beverly Hills, Calif., firm has acquired SH Franchising, also known as Senior Helpers, which provides personal care, companion care and customized disease care for patients with Alzheimer's and other types of dementia.
And Gores Group is also making an investment in the health-care space, Jonathan Shieber reports for LBO Wire. The firm has agreed to buy Therakos, a developer of immune cell therapies for T-cell lymphomas, from Johnson & Johnson's Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics. Read the full story here (subscription required).
More stories available to LBO Wire subscribers: Victory Park Capital has received approval from the Small Business Administration for its license as a Small Business Investment Company…Lexington Partners plans to hold a first closing next month for its Lexington Middle Market Investors III fund, which has a $750 million target…and Searchlight Capital Partners is replacing Goldman Sachs Group as the largest shareholder in Integra Telecom.
(LBO Wire is a daily newsletter with comprehensive analysis of all the investments, deals, fundraisings and personnel moves involving private equity firms. For a two-week trial, visit our homepage, scroll to the bottom and click "try for free.")
Elsewhere on the Web:
Private equity investors in China are finding fewer opportunities and smaller returns, Dow Jones Newswires' Prabha Natarajan reports.
Warburg Pincus is targeting investments in Brazilian infrastructure service providers ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, according to Bloomberg News.
Orix and Macquarie Group are the leading candidates to acquire Rabobank's Robeco unit, Reuters reports.


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Oedipus the King
by Sophocles
Oedipus the King Power Quotes
How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Line). We used Francis Storr's translation found on Project Gutenberg.
Quote #1
Monster! thy silence would incense a flint.
Will nothing loose thy tongue? Can nothing melt thee,
Or shake thy dogged taciturnity?
Thou blam'st my mood and seest not thine own
Wherewith thou art mated; no, thou taxest me.
And who could stay his choler when he heard
How insolently thou dost flout the State?
Well, it will come what will, though I be mute.
Since come it must, thy duty is to tell me.
I have no more to say; storm as thou willst,
And give the rein to all thy pent-up rage.
Yea, I am wroth, and will not stint my words,
But speak my whole mind. Thou methinks thou art he,
Who planned the crime, aye, and performed it too,
All save the assassination; and if thou
Hadst not been blind, I had been sworn to boot
That thou alone didst do the bloody deed.
Is it so? Then I charge thee to abide
By thine own proclamation; from this day
Speak not to these or me. Thou art the man,
Thou the accursed polluter of this land.
Vile slanderer, thou blurtest forth these taunts,
And think'st forsooth as seer to go scot free.
Yea, I am free, strong in the strength of truth.
Who was thy teacher? not methinks thy art.
Thou, goading me against my will to speak. (339-357)
Oedipus's arrogance as king prevents him from heeding the prophet's advice, and instead leads him to attack Teiresias.
Quote #2
Offspring of endless Night, thou hast no power
O'er me or any man who sees the sun.
No, for thy weird is not to fall by me.
I leave to Apollo what concerns the god. (374-378)
Teiresias suggests that earthly power is irrelevant in the face of divine influence.
Quote #3
Sirrah, what mak'st thou here? Dost thou presume
To approach my doors, thou brazen-faced rogue,
My murderer and the filcher of my crown?
Come, answer this, didst thou detect in me
Some touch of cowardice or witlessness,
That made thee undertake this enterprise?
I seemed forsooth too simple to perceive
The serpent stealing on me in the dark,
Or else too weak to scotch it when I saw.
This _thou_ art witless seeking to possess
Without a following or friends the crown,
A prize that followers and wealth must win. (530-545)
Because of his status and haughtiness, Oedipus assumes that all accusations against him are false and must be intended as a threat to his power.


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Eric Cantona Eric Cantona Dec 29, 2010 05:55 Flag
Same old ...
Another 2 points dropped but then pretty diabolical decision - Bowyer yards offside.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
All the diabolical decisions Manu usually gets away with at OT...U were due one of these...
Another weak ineffectual performance...can't get an away win.....Rooney can't score to save his hyde...If I were Fergie I would put a grannie behind the goal...he would be sure to score!!
Well, that's what the problem with 1-0 scorelines, they tend to become 1-1, all it takes is one crazy moment. United did create chances in the second half. If only Berba's shot had gone in instead of hitting the post. First half, we were cr@p though. Fair result in the end.
United only had themselves to blame for defending a 1-0 against Brum, why?
But the 'goal' was both handball and offside, how can the officials miss both?
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jim, u give the officials too much credit.
they missed mendes shot which was about 3 yards over the line.
utd fans always say it evens it self up when decisions like neville not getting an obvious 2nd yellow happen.
i still think u are overall the best team in england so will end up winning the league. but i still think u should have a goal pocher upfront with a bit of pace.
berb & rooney are good players but i still think all the play is ahea of the opposing defence. theres no fast striker with good movement making runs behind the defence which stretches them, pulls them out of position etc.
rooney was poor attacking wise. his best moments were in his defensive side.
so when u have rooney deep or back defending, that just leaves berb on his own upfront. & he isnt the most mobile or pacy foward.
i would have thrown on hernandez a lot earlier to try & kill the game. 1-0 is always dodgy especially away to brum.
u edged it & deserved to win...just. BUT then so do most teams who end up losing or drawing away to brum.
i dont think gibson stamped his mark on the game enough.
looks a bit lightweight for utd. but then again he is still developing. i can see him at a mid table prem team eventually.
why not loan gibson instead to give him match time to develop?
or maybe u should have loaned gibson instead of clevearly out to wigan?
would clevearly done any better than gibson tonight?
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I know this is unfair, but when I saw Gibson's name among the starters today, I had a bad feeling about this one.
Le Professeur Le Professeur Dec 29, 2010 06:13 Flag
I've got no complaints about the goal, we get our fair share.....although it was clearly a foul on Rio!
I can't understand Fergie, Gibson and Giggs were knackered 2nd half, yet he made no further changes than bringing on Fletcher until we conceded!?
Fergie's tactical ineptitude decisions cost us this game, simple as that.
Goal shouldn't have stood, but I'd say they deserved a point in the end.
Tactically we were set up wrong and too negative for a Prem game for my liking. I hate the 4-5-1/4-3-3. Rooney on the left and Giggs on his opposite flank was all wrong. Rooney was useless from the left and would have been better central partnering Berba in a 4-4-2 formation. I would have liked to have seen Obertan given a chance on the right wing. If not him, play any of Fletcher, Gibson or even Hernandez out of position there.
Another 2 points dropped late away from home in a game we should have seen out, and yet we're still back on top with games in hand!
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giggs 2 games in 2 days at his age?
u can forgive officials for tricky decisions they get wrong BUT blatant ones are hard to take.


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A long skinny dick or the opposite of a chode.
I'm gonna get my bickle out.
I'm gonna get my bickle out.
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An middle aged or older man obsesed with a much younger woman.
The old guy in the office down the hall is one of Nira's Bickles.
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A bum tickle.
When one person tickles another persons bum.
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I really enjoy a good bickle from time to time.
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Taking a motorcycle off the computer screen and into real life is a difficult process, and we always enjoy seeing an insight to that undertaking. As such, we present to you some wireframe drawings of the 2010 Aprilia RSV4 R to drool over. On a side note if you're in the market for an RSV4, these images are the perfect template for designing your own bike paint scheme. Photos after the jump.
2010 Aprilia RSV4 R and RSV4 Factory MSRP Pricing Revealed – Headed to US Dealerships Soon
Piaggio dealers meet this week in LA, and the news coming from the meeting is that the 2010 Aprilia RSV4 R and RSV4 Factory are already on their way to dealer floors. Also leaked from the meeting are the bikes' MSRP pricing. The RSV4 R will start at $15,999, while the RSV4 Factory will set you back an additional five grand, or $20,999.
With Marco Simoncelli having obligations in Estoril, British Superbike racer, Leon Camier, will be filling in for the injured Shinya Nakano at Magny-Cours this weekend. Camier will get to ride the Aprilia RSV4 Factory alongside Max Biaggi as World Superbike wraps up it season with its second-to-last stop of the year at the French Magny-Cours race track.
If Aprilia had any idea how popular the RSV4 R launch would be, we think they would have done it sooner. Anyways, you wanted it, and now you got it. More shots of the "base" model RSV4 both in the studio and in action from its premiere at World Superbike's stop at the Imola circuit.
We particularly like the look the Aprilia is bringing to the RSV4 R, very reserved large single-color paint schemes. There's something to be said about the minimalist approach when it wraps up an intricate machine like the RSV4. Check out the video after the jump as well.
The Aprilia RSV4 hasn't even reached dealers in the US yet, and there's already speculation for what's to come next year. With BMW finally spilling the beans on its pricing structure for the S1000RR, it should seem clear that Aprilia is going to have a lot of trouble hocking the long awaited RSV4 at the likely $6,000 price surplus that the RSV4 is going to have over the Japanese and new BMW.
To combat this, there is speculation starting to go around that Aprilia will release a "base" model (they don't like calling it a base model, but that's what it is) later in 2010, in order to compete with the cheaper models. Rumors peg the base model price to be about $4,000 less than the Factory model, which is due to come out later this year.
If you have any hopes of seeing Aprilia in the upcoming Moto2 series, you may have to be get over them if early reports are to be believed. While official word is expected later this August, it would appear that Aprilia will not develop a custom chassis and compete in the Moto2 series, which is scheduled to replace the 250GP next year.
Jorge "Aspar" Martinez had been linked to the team earlier as possibly being on board with the Italian company to continue his involvement in the middle-tier GP series. This rumor now seems to be denied, as there has been no movement in the Aprilia camp towards developing a chassis around the Honda CBR 600cc powerplant the new series is slated to use.
It is a well established fact that all bad things either come from German or Florida. In an effort to fix this rule of thumb, German design agency Zoom has invisioned a "hobby racer" that the firm hopes to build after securing financing. Called the Rih (arabic for wind), the concept bike will incorporate a few very interesting technologies (like lungs), while at its core, there is an Aprilia RSV4 motor.
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The Aprilia RSV4 is set to go on sale soon this summer in Europe, and later in the year here in the US. As such, details about the bike are starting to emerge, as well as a plethora of promotional materials. Continue reading for the official technical specifcations of the RSV4, and pictures from its press only track debut.
Ever wonder what a World Superbike contender looks like with its clothes off? Well here you go: Max Biaggi's Aprilia RSV4 a la mode. In the details we can see the amazing number of data acquisition points that Aprilia, and likely other manufacturers, are using. Other points of interest are the CNC markings on the casings, and the styling to the carbon fiber tail. We can't wait for this bike to come out at the end of the year!
There's lot's of news surrounding the Aprilia RSV4 this week. Those wishing to reserve an RSV4 in the UK can login to rsv4aprilia.com and register to take first delivery of the V4 monster, but must then pay a deposit at their local Aprilia dealer. Also Piaggio Group USA President and CEO Paolo Timoni has revealed that future RSV4 owners can expect to see the bike go officially on sale in the US in the last quarter of 2009.
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Hey!!! My name is Chelsea Morgan. I am a folk/country/pop singer/songwriter from Western Australia. I love to travel and share my stories and inspirations through song. I couldn't do it without my ever-evolving band, The Woven Soles, as we gig around the country.
Some say that it's my deep passion for people and my curious nature that fuels my songs. I'd have to agree. Yes, I was that kid who always asked "But why?" And I still am!
I try to keep my song writing raw, honest and open and often talk about topics in my songs that others wouldn't necessarily talk about but can all relate to: - fragile, sensitive, deep, sexual, angry, bold subjects and situations. I don't have an answer for why I do that; it's just what flows out of me.
I try to pour energy into every song I write, making each song a life force of its own. Whether I strike a nerve with you through my music - or put you at ease - the stories are ones that will make you think. And as human beings, that's what we are good at.
We are touring around country Vic and Western Aus, so keep your eyes peeled! You will see us around!
Anyway, have a look around on our website and get to know our music...You might just like what you hear! www.chelseamorganmusic.com
If you do, grab an album and help support Australian, independent music!
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Cassegrains Oyster and Wine Festival on Australia Day, 2014: Port Macquarie, NSW
"Chelsea Morgan was simply wonderful! Her powerful and melodic voice entertained the 3000 strong crowd and proved to be the hit of the festival. Chelsea is a gifted songwriter with a commanding presence who is clearly right at home on the big stage" - Simon Leigh (Entertainment Promoter for NSW Central Coast)


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The Cremation of Sam McGee
by Robert Service
The Cremation of Sam McGee Theme of Perseverance
The speaker of "The Cremation of Sam McGee" shows a lot of guts in sticking to his promise. It would have been easy for him to just dump Sam's body after he died, or at least to bury it fast and get on with his life. But he takes his promise seriously, and turns Sam's cremation into a kind of mission. Even when the weather and hunger and exhaustion stack up against him, he keeps going and gets the job done. He's like a sled-riding Nike ad!
Questions About Perseverance
- Do you admire the way the speaker sticks to his promise? Would you have forgiven him if he'd given up on the plan to cremate Sam?
- What do you think makes him keep going? Is it fear, guilt, love, a sense of honor? What clues do we get?
- Do you think Sam is less determined than the speaker? Does the poem make him seem weak?
- The poem tells us that these men came up north to hunt for gold. Does that make them seem more greedy than brave? Does it change your feelings about them?
Chew on This
Over the course of the poem, perseverance becomes a tool that helps the speaker to survive his ordeal and maintain his sanity.
The poem makes a comparison between Sam's weakness and the speaker's strength as a way of emphasizing the importance of perseverance.


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Edit: Oh wow! That was fast! Thank you for the help!!
Old: So.. uh, I noticed that I was unscouted, or I thought I was, and for some reason I had the option to scout myself(which is funny), so just for kicks I scouted myself and it actually followed through most of the way until the message read 'this person is already scouted'. Ok, but... for some reason my art doesnt appear scouted anymore? I am so confused, please help me out on understanding what is going on here. @_@
Could this be some kind of glitch? I am a little worried.
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I see your problem. Let's see if this works. (I'll try and scout you, because it says you're not scouted to me as well.)
This is such a bummer, it wont let me accept it. ;_; Thank you though, i really appreciate the help. Maybe I need to contact a mod?
2014-05-22 04:34:51
Something similar just happened to me.
Yea, its really odd, I cant imagine what caused it. Someone kindly fixed it for me after I posted in the art forums, maybe try the same if its still happening.
2014-05-23 05:02:08
Is it fixed yet? This bug came up so suddenly for a lot of ppl...
Was fixed for me! And yea, I guess it wasnt just me, thankfully.


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Barlow's Christmas in the Village
The Barlow Area Christmas in the Village will hold a Christmas in July event July 19 and 20. Bargains will be offered at The Village Crafts & Decor in Little Hocking, Dunham Square on Ohio 339, Hickory Grove Market, the Silver Moon Diner, White Oak Pharmacy and Seamans General Store. At the Barlow Library, there be 20 vendors and a tag sale from 9 to 3 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 20.
For information: www.BarlowChristmas.com
Barlow Twp. trustees to meet Monday
The Barlow Township Trustees will hold a special meeting at the Township Hall at 567 Warrior Drive, Vincent at 8 a.m. Monday. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss/decide on improvements to Cherry Street.
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The Fire/Water departments will be flushing the water distribution system on Marietta's west side next week, starting Tuesday. Affected areas are: Harmar Hill, Ohio 676 to the Washington County Career Center, Gilman Street to Oak Grove, Oak Grove. Areas adjacent to the above noted areas are also included.
For problems with discolored water, flush your cold water spigot for 15 minutes or until the water clears up. Persistent problems should be reported to the water plant at 374-6864.
Marietta FFA and Alumni Tug Pull
The Marietta FFA and Alumni Tug Pull will be held at 5 p.m. July 20 at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Concessions are available.
'Biologist for a Day' at wildlife refuge
The Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge will hold a "Be a Biologist for a Day" program for children ages 6 to 15 at 1 p.m. July 24. The program will include a wildlife hike, a science experiment, live turtles and more. A water bottle, bug spray and closed toed shoes are recommended. The free program will be held at the Visitor Center located at 3982 Waverly Road in Williamstown and is approximately two hours long. This is a family activity and a parent or guardian is required to be present. In the event of bad weather, call or check the refuge's Facebook page to find out if the program is canceled.
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Press Release: Queen Join Adidas to Celebrate Team GB
Queen Join Adidas to Celebrate Team GB
Lend their song "Don't Stop Me Now" to Recognise Team GB Champions
Rock group Queen, whose songs 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are The Champions' have provided the musical backdrop to many of the London Games events – it was revealed today 'We Will Rock You' has been played no less than 505,998 times (approximately) during these past two weeks – have now joined in the congratulations for Team GB by lending their song 'Don't Stop me Now' for a special celebration video produced by team wear sponsor Adidas.
In the video produced yesterday, and now going global across the internet, Olympic medallists Sir Chris Hoy, Jessica Ennis, Victoria Pendleton, Louis Smith and Pete Reed are joined by a number of other athletes from Team GB in their own version of Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' celebrating the success of London 2012, introduced and faded out by that other great British champion David Beckham, OBE.
Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor tonight joined some of the UK's biggest names in the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony giving a fully live performance of their London Games favourite 'We Will Rock You' as well as remembering their late, great singer Freddie in a special tribute on film.
The Games now move on to Rio, and one can only speculate how the band will feature there, bearing in mind their iconic status in the country after their legendary opening to almost half a million fans at the original Rock in Rio Festival in 1985. Roll on Team GB in Rio!
Join in celebrating Britain's achievements at the London Games by watching the video below or at www.youtube.com/queenofficial.
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The 17-year-old was arrested after the SUV car he was driving hit two minor girls, killing the youngest girl on the spot.
Aurangabad: Hours after senior NCP leader Abdul Qadeer Maulana's 17-year-old son was arrested on Wednesday after the SUV car he was driving hit two minor girls and their uncle, killing the youngest girl on the spot, Aurangabad Police Commissioner said the ownership of the SUV is in dispute.
"The vehicle has been registered in the name of a person from Jalna and HDFC loan account says the vehicle has been purchased by a company from Jalna where the juvenile's elder brother is a partner. We have to collect all the documents to come to a conclusion of real owner if the vehicle accordingly action will be taken," said Sanjay Kumar.
Three others, including a five-year-old girl have been seriously injured in the incident. The children were walking with their uncle when the teenager hit the trio before ramming into another vehicle and a shop. The CCTV footage showed that it was Maulana's teenage son at the wheel of the SUV.
The incident occurred on Tuesday morning. According to police, the minor boy was behind the wheel at the time of incident, while car driver Mohammed Amar Chaus, was seated beside him.
The two-year-old deceased, and her three-year-old sister Sayali were on their way to a temple along with their uncle, Shirish Sonawane when they were hit by the car near the Hudco TV Centre chowk, senior inspector Pratap Baviskar of Cidco police station said.
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Inside Veer Variation From 3 Back Pistol
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The diagram below shows our inside veer concept with a lead back. The read for the QB is the exact same as inside veer. He is reading the C gap defender. If the C gap defender comes upfield, the QB will give the ball. If the C gap defender squeezes and chases the dive back, the QB will pull the ball and get downhill.
After installing the Veer Option with a lead back from our two back pistol look, we installed it from the 3 back look. In the 3 back look we are able to create a numbers problem for the defense. Because we are balanced, the defense must balance. Because they must balance, they can't get more than 5 1/2 defenders to either side of the ball. The minute we step off the midpoint, we can get six defenders to the playside. The defense doesn't know if we are reading frontside or backside, causing them further conflict. To give us another blocker, we bring the backside back to lead the ball carrier.
The backside back is key to our success. He is going to read the playside defensive end, the same player the QB is reading. If the playside read squeezes and chase the dive back, the backside back (Y in diagram below) will work off his outside hip and lead the QB. This allows us to handle a gap exchange by the defense. Essentially, we are putting two players on the playside inside backer to backside or middle safety.
If the read player runs upfield, the backside back will work inside the read to block the most dangerous man. This will be the playside inside linebacker, or the backside or middle safety. The diagram below shows the defensive end running upfield.
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Its goal had been to reach 300,000 files by year's end, but at press time MD: Pro already had accumulated more than 331,000 files in its database.
The buzz around MD: Pro
In recent weeks, MD: Pro has attracted the attention of security luminaries, including Bruce Schneier, who referenced it in his popular blog.
Anthony Aykut, managing director of Frame4 Security Systems, the Netherlands-based security firm that runs MD: Pro, said since its debut six months ago, the response has been immense. "People are just realizing we are not just another [virus exchange] shop, so the interest is increasing by the minute," he said. "We never realized security companies were so malware-hungry."
Several well-known vendors are among its 20-50 paying customers, though Aykut declined to identify them. He said most are trying to develop homegrown firewalls and other defenses for their IT environments and need malware samples for testing.
MD: Pro offers a tiered access system. Basic Level 1 access is free and includes read-only access to the database and limited downloads. Level 2 access allows subscribers to download most files and costs between $953 per month or $10,478 per year. Level 3 offers unlimited access to those willing to pay as much as $1,588 per month or $17,145 annually.
When someone asks for a subscription, Aykut said the requestor's human resources department is contacted to ensure that the malware samples are to be used for legitimate purposes. Since a company's HR department is brought into the process, Aykut said he doesn't worry about malicious people with deep pockets subscribing to MD: Pro posing as legitimate security professionals.
The open door
Aykut said there's a good reason for the high price and the thorough vetting -- it's designed to keep the bad guys away.
"We made a distinct choice to only cater to paying customers who are in the security sector," Aykut said. "The people involved in this project feel that disclosure is good, but when it comes to live malware, we don't feel comfortable putting this out on the Web. By making people pay, it keeps most if not all of the malicious intent outside the gates."
But full-disclosure advocates say such limitations only hurt the good guys, who need all the intelligence they can get to build defenses and stay on top of the digital underground.
"If malware is infesting the network you're defending or it's about to, you want to quickly be able to analyze the malware during the initial infestation and figure out what its capabilities are and how to defend against it," said Danny Quist, co-founder of Offensive Computing, a malware database with looser access restrictions that makes specimens freely available via a blog and search engine.
The merits of full disclosure
While he admires MD: Pro's size and scope and its desire to keep the bad guys out, Quist doesn't believe such safeguards are reasonable when there are many security professionals in need of fast, hard intelligence who can't always afford to buy a subscription.
He said the closed source, highly vetted lists are what prompted him and others to create Offensive Computing in the first place.
"We looked for a resource to help [security professionals] and we determined that this simply wasn't available," Quist said. "The files available were very limited and often missing key bits of information necessary to protect a network."
When contrasting that with the way malware authors communicate, Quist said, "we found that the defensive side was much more exclusionary. We want to bring the openness that the academic research community adheres to into malware research."
But, Aykut said, the dangers of cyberspace are growing more unpredictable and nobody can say for sure which scraps of malware the bad guys will collect and use in their effort to develop new attacks. That's why MD: Pro access will remain restricted.
"If you have 350,000-plus malware files and tools that can significantly alter what's there, it would be irresponsible to make it available to everyone," he said.
IT pros prefer open access
IT administrators interviewed for this story largely agreed with Quist's philosophy, but they're not sure such efforts are necessary. The most dangerous attackers will write their malicious code from scratch and won't be interested in a database of already-created malware anyway, they said, so it's best to give security professionals quick and easy access to malware samples that can aid in the fight. However,
And if they do want to play with older malware samples and can't get past MD: Pro's vetting process, they're crafty enough to find specimens someplace else.
"The way I see it, the bad guys will find a way to get this information no matter what, so it may as well be made available to the good guys," said Diane McQueen, a systems engineer for Plano, Texas-based Perot Systems Corp. "The hackers and hacker-wannabees are not going to stop what they're doing just because a site like MD: Pro isn't available to them. I'd bet my bottom dollar that the black hackers of the world don't even need this site."
Pete Stagman, IT manager for Dedham, Mass.-based Boston Home Infusion Inc., which provides healthcare services to roughly 13,000 homebound patients in New England, said he's more afraid of the person who doesn't need sites like MD: Pro or Offensive Computing to come up with something really nasty.
"Script kiddies don't come up with the original ideas, they just take someone else's work and modify it a bit," he said in an email exchange. "That's a nuisance, but because the code is similar to some other code, it's more likely that it will be caught by an already existing scanner, or that it won't take much work to modify an existing scanner or cleaner."
Despite criticism from the full disclosure advocates, Aykut said his company will press on with efforts to grow MD: Pro. At this point, he said the progress has exceeded his expectations.
"The ultimate goal is to build MD:Pro into the single resource for the antimalware industry," he said. "Not just as a file repository, but a huge, living, learning medium for malware research professionals."
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Wolisso The Digital Unify Program of STMicroelectronics Foundation has achieved a new positive result in Ethiopia and more precisely in Wolisso.
The Foundation has set up a computer learning center in the Saint Gabriel Primary School, run by Daughters Mercy and of the Cross in the town of Wolisso.
The lab will allow the delivery of Computer Literacy classes as per the Digital Unify program to school staff, students and the local community.
The Computer training center consists of 11 PCs, hardware and software, a printer and projector, the internet connection will be WiFi via satellite.
One computer will be equipped with webcam for didactical activities and web conferences from which all the students in the lab can benefit.
The lab will provide computer literacy and training to school staff and students during school hours and to the local community in the afternoon and evenings.
In the week-end the lab will serve as open local kiosk.
Important partners for the implementation of this project are the MLFM (Movimento per la Lotta Contro la Fame nel Mondo) and METID (Metodologie e Tecniche Innovative per la Didattica) that have already cooperated with us in carrying out a our mission in Congo.
DU Ethiopia program has trained over 2550 trainees as of Q4Y12. In 2013 the program has officially ended.


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|The Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival
Howard County Fairgrounds
West Friendship, Maryland
May 7-8, 2005
Now in its 32nd year and attracting more than 60,000 visitors and almost 260 vendors, the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival is a Mecca for fiber lovers.
Held the first weekend of May at the Howard County Fairgrounds, the event is one of the most venerable sheep and wool festivals in the country.
Vendors occupy four barns, two buildings, and an enormous main exhibition hall, with every extra available space taken by tents. Another four display barns are temporary home to farms bringing sheep for sale and competition. Vendors wait years for a chance to exhibit here.
People come from all over the country for this festival, and groups in nearby cities, including Philadelphia and New York, organized carpools and rented tour buses for the event. Unable to miss a good fiber gathering, I flew down from Maine for the event.
Getting Ready
Pre-festival excitement was palpable. In the KR Forum, we had daily—and sometimes hourly—weather updates and lengthy threads about which vendors were must-sees, how much money to bring and in what form, what time to arrive, how to negotiate with family members, which food vendors were safe, how to deal with bathrooms, and what kinds of clothes to wear—to name a few. There was even an official Pity Party for Forum members who couldn't attend the festival.
|The fairgrounds officially opened at 9 a.m. on Saturday. By 8:30 a.m. traffic was already backed up all the way to the highway. Cars streamed into the large grassy fields that border the fairgrounds.
|You could feel the collective excitement of knitters, spinners, weavers, and other fiber lovers in their element.
|The scent of fried foods and charcoal soon filled the air, and you could hear the first of what was an endless stream of announcements over the PA system.
Repeat visitors were on a serious mission, rushing to their favorite destinations while their mind was still clear. Lines formed almost instantly by all the women's bathrooms. Another line, several dozen people deep (at right), formed outside the festival T-shirt and souvenir barn.
|Soon enough, the festival stupor took over and the crowd, packed hip to hip, slowed to a bovine pace.
|The Fleece Frenzy
For spinners, the real gold was to be found at the fleece area, where hundreds of fantastic fleeces from all sorts of sheep breeds were carefully bagged, sorted, graded, judged, and piled atop table after table.
Before the festival
By Sunday afternoon
|After waiting 40 minutes in line for my chance to get a gorgeous blue-ribbon fleece when the sale opened, an unscrupulous (and unapologetic) spinner behind me jumped the fence at the last minute and grabbed it first.
|Hand-Dyed Heaven
Hand-dyed yarns were everywhere. As in previous years, the Persimmon Tree Farm (below left) and Brooks Farm Fiber (below right) booths were instantly swarmed with customers who, by the second day, had picked the vendors clean. (I was happy to see that the addition of a Web site with online shopping hadn't lessened the sense of urgency at the Brooks Farm Fiber booth.)
Persimmon Tree Farm's colorful yarns and delicately blended spinning fibers, picked clean
An equally empty Brooks Farm Fibers
|Tess' Designer Yarns had a stunning display of hand-dyed silks, bouclés, wools, ribbons, superbulkies and other yarns, all sorted by colorway. Even on Sunday afternoon, the booth had a constant line at the check-out table.
|I was happy to see that the Dyed Dreams dynamic duo of Roz Houseknecht and Janet Stollnitz was back for another year, with a booth exploding with riotous-colored hand-dyed yarns in both standard and novelty form, including a truly striking silk chenille.
|Botanical Shades (formerly Tregellys Fiber Farm) had a beautiful rainbow of wools that had been dyed using only natural botanical dye extracts.
|Other notable hand-dyed resources were Wool in the Woods and Koenig Farm.
The Spin Phenomenon
Spinning played a big role at the festival, and fibers—from raw fleeces to cleaned, dyed, and combed top—were everywhere.
|A few of my favorites: the Drafting Zone (301-464-5738), for its lovingly prepared, beautifully dyed, and yet reasonably priced rovings; and Firesong Fibers, whose gorgeous hand-dyed Bluefaced Leicester/mohair spinning fibers (shown at right) are always sold out by Sunday.
|And finally, there's no describing the pure magic of Levin & Raja's Border Leicester fleeces, which are impeccably clean and ready for spinning. Levin happens to be Betty Levin, the author of several popular books for young adults. They only sell their fleeces here, and once they're gone, they're gone.
|An exciting new addition this year was our very own Spirit Trail Fiberworks, which was invited to attend the festival with only three days' notice. Besides offering hand-dyed yarns, Jennifer Heverly's booth had the most impressive selection of spinning fibers from rare and endangered sheep.
|Tool Time
From shears and electric fencing to drum carders and wheels, tools play an equally important part in the festival.
|I especially enjoyed having the opportunity to try out all sorts of otherwise hard-to-find spinning wheels including the Vermont Wheel, pictured here (only 12 or so are made each year).
|From Browser to Blanket
As in previous years, we had a casual Knitter's Review lunchtime reunion on Saturday. Some 50 people dropped by our little picnic blanket over the course of several hours for lunch and a chance to meet face to face.
|Across the fairgrounds on an equally grassy slope, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (seated behind the person standing) was meeting with fellow bloggers and signing copies of her book. I stopped briefly and we compared sunburns.
A Time for Learning
Although many people come to the festival just for the shopping, there's a well-developed curriculum of classes both before and during the event.
|Judith MacKenzie McCuin (at right) taught an in-depth workshop on how to spin three very different types of yarn. In another room, Nancy Bush taught Estonian lace-knitting techniques.
|Shorter pre-festival workshops covered such topics as painting yarn and blending colors in handmade felt. During the festival, three-hour classes took place on such topics as spinning with Leicester Longwool, spinning a superfine gossamer thread, and knitting with Estonian color inlay.
Attendees who hadn't preregistered for those classes could drop in for a free Sunday hourlong workshop on—of all things—creating fishing flies entirely of wool. Who knew?
More than a giant shopping mall for fiberholics, the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival is very much an agricultural event. Running parallel to the fiberarts workshops were extensive workshops for current and aspiring shepherds on such topics as management tips for profitable sheep production, the journey of Leicester Longwools to the United States, the history and future of the show ring, how to market rare breeds, and how to make lamb sausage for home use.
Skein and Garment Competition
|As usual, the skein and garment competition showcased a mind-boggling array of fiber feats, including this fishbowl in which everything but the glass itself was made from felt.
|These ribbon-winning socks by Shelia January had extra significance for me because I got to see them in progress at the Knitter's Review Retreat last fall.
|Animal House
In the livestock barns, the farms and breeding associations each had their own cheering section, with signage reminiscent of high-school pep rallies and science fairs. On one wall was a banner that read, "Karakul sheep rock!" while on another, "There's a lot to like about Lincolns."
|Here's where people with children tended to congregate. Small tables held displays explaining the history and characteristics of the breed. And everywhere you looked, people were reaching to pet a sheep—myself included.
|By Sunday afternoon, most of the sheep were pooped. Festivals can be very draining for sheep, which is why many farms leave their most prized animals at home.
It's worth it to stay at the festival on Sunday until closing time if only to watch the parade of sheep going back to their trailers for the trip home.
|Meanwhile, as some adults staffed the booths, wrangled the sheep, and shopped the aisles, their children could be found taking turns rolling down this grassy slope.
|Although the deep-fried Twinkies were noticeably absent from this year's festival, we still found ways to indulge in delicious deep-fried treats.
|And then, almost as quickly as it started, the festival was over. Passing trucks and vans with bleating sheep inside, I felt exhausted but energized by so much beauty, creativity, kindness, kinship, and inspiration.
Until next year!
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Jil Evans, "Breaking Light #5," 2011, oil on canvas, 72 x 84 inches. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the MMAA
If you've not yet stopped by Knight Arts grantee, Minnesota Museum of American Art's new Project Space in Lowertown, this Friday evening's pop-up program offers a perfect excuse to do so. Artist and filmmaker Kristen Lowe will be on hand to discuss the making of her documentary, still in progress, "Painting the Place Between." Her film takes viewers behind the scenes of the artistic process, following four Minnesota artists — Betsy Byers, Jil Evans, Holly Swift and Andrew Wykes — as they aim to render on canvas the distinctive regional landscapes in and around Cannon River, Northfield, the Temperance River and the Boundary Waters.
Betsy Byers, "Convergence," 2012, oil on canvas, 72 x 72 inches. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of MMAA
By Lowe's reckoning, translating a sense of these locales into paint on canvas isn't about documentation so much as it is old-fashioned visual storytelling: taking an inchoate, personal sense of place and making it visible, a process inflected at once by the long historical tradition of landscape painting and the artist's immediate response to what's seen and felt on location. According to project notes, through the "physicality of the painted surface — the 'place between' the artist, us and the landscape — these artists shape a vision of our natural space as mediated by the artist's subjective experience."
Her aim in capturing this creative process on film, Lowe writes, is to show "the painters confront three levels of conflict: the unpredictable weather in Minnesota, the time demands of painting in our want-it-now culture and [their] internal struggles and doubts — all the things the audience doesn't see in a finished exhibition…."
Andrew Wykes, 12 Hours of Sunset, 2010, acrylic and oil on canvas, 24 x 24 inches. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the MMAA
Speaking of which, in a related exhibition by the same name, on view in the Project Space through mid-February, you can see a sampling of work by the artists featured in Lowe's documentary, as well as a selection of regional landscapes by artists included in the MMAA collection — George Morrison, David Rich, Phyllis Wiener and others.
Phyllis E. Wiener, Colors from the Coast, 1972, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches. Gift of Phyllis E. Wiener. Courtesy of MMAA
"Painting the Place Between," an exhibition co-curated by Kristen Lowe and MMAA Curator of Engagement Christina Chang, will be on view through February 17. Lowe will be on hand to talk about the film and preview clips this Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. in the Project Space, The Pioneer Building, 334 N. Robert St., St. Paul. For more information on this and other MMAA pop-up programs this month, visit mmaa.org/pages/January2013.
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