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Vegas For People Who Break ThingsThu 31 July 2014 by Wesley
Black Hat USA and DEF CON are coming up next week and I am excited, and so should you, if your thing is breaking things. I'm looking forward to presenting, seeing some good technical talks, and meeting with folk I only get to see once a year. I always come home with a pile of things that I want to learn more about and hack on, for projects both personal and professional. In this post, I'd like to share some of the things that I'm looking forward to next week, within my interests of offensive security and reverse engineering.
I'll be speaking about reverse engineering malware (with a POS malware case study) at DEF CON, and I'll be in attendance at Black Hat USA as well. I'll be attending with about 5 other Mississippi State University faculty, students, and staff, and there ought to be at least a few alumni there that we'll be hanging out with. If you see me, or someone else in MSU gear, say hi and hang out for a while! We'll have quite a presence across both conferences.
The following is based on what I can figure out about the scheduled talks from their abstracts. A trick that I recommend is to flip through slides/whitepapers on the conference CD/DVD (if provided) for talks you want to attend to make sure they're at the technical level you are seeking. This might help you decide which talks you want to catch live, and which you'll be willing to wait on for a recording.
So what're my recommendations for those into (or getting into) vulnerabilities, exploits, reverse engineering, and related deep-technical areas? There's a lot more than I'm listing here that are likely very good talks (and a LOT of collisions in time-slots that leave us stuff to watch once videos are available) but here's a few that I'm really looking forward to...
Black Hat USA 2014
Wednesday, August 6
- (10:14 - 11:15) Cellular Exploitation on a Global Scale: The Rise and Fall of the Control Protocol - Mathew Solnik & Marc Blanchou.
- Reverse engineering baseband, over-the-air code execution, and tools for testing? Sounds like fun to me.
- (11:45 - 12:45) A Survey of Remote Automotive Attack Surfaces - Charlie Miller & Christopher Valasek.
- Miller and Valasek are very good at what they do, are excellent speakers, and always have something new and interesting for the rest of us to learn from. Their talk on automotive security last year was great, and I'm sure this will be as well. Ilja van Sprundel's Windows Kernel Graphics Driver Attack Surface also looks good at this time slot (and perhaps a bit more practical for some folks' every day work).
- (14:15-15:15) Flip a coin between Tarakanov's Data-Only Pwning Microsoft Windows Kernel: Exploitation of Kernel Pool Overflows on Microsoft Windows 8.1 and Lehmann/Sadeghi's The Beast is in Your Memory: ROP Attacks Against Modern Control-Flow Integrity Protection Techniques. This is why you buy (or wait for) the conference videos.
- (15:30 - 16:30) Collin Mulliner's Finding and Exploiting Access Control Vulnerabilities in Graphical User Interfaces sounds like it discusses bugs similar to those I was finding in SCADA HMI software, which ought to be interesting.
- (17:00 - 18:00) I'll probably find myself in Julian Cohen's Contemporary Automatic Program Analysis talk, but pretty much all of them in this time slot look fascinating.
Thursday, August 7
- (9:00 - 10:00) No question about it, Nohl and Lell's BadUSB - On Accessories That Turn Evil, is going to be very interesting. Braden Thomas' Reverse-Engineering the Supra IBOX: Exploitation of a Hardened MSP-430-Based Device is something I'm looking forward to digging into as well. MSP-430s are fun.
- (11:45 - 12:45) I don't know a lot about Wang and Gluck's RAVAGE - Runtime Analysis of Vulnerabilities and Generation of Exploits, but it sounds very interesting, and I intend to learn :)
- (17:00 - 18:00) I love Capstone, so I'm looking forward to Quynh Nguyen Anh's Capstone: Next Generation Disassembly Framework talk, though our transition from Black Hat to DEF CON may not put me in the building at this time.
There's usually some interesting tools being presented in the Black Hat Arsenal area. I'm looking forward to learning more about Snoopy, talking to Kyle Maxwell about Maltrieve, congratulating Michael Ligh on his new book, and checking out Mike Warner's Zig Tools. Wandering around this area and learning about some tools I was previously unaware of was a highlight of last year's Black Hat for me, so I'll probably find myself there if I'm at a loss for what talk to go to (or not in the mood to sit).
There's an alternating-years electronic/non-electronic badge thing now, and we're on an electronic badge year, which is very exciting for folk like me. It also means, on Friday, going to the opening Welcome & Making of the DEF CON Badge with Dark Tangent and LosT is a must, if for no other reason than to get a few pointers on what's going on with the badge this year. May spend some time hacking on it, if I can find something to do with it that fits my interests/skill-set.
As for the rest, DEF CON always has some fun talks, but I'll be spending a good bit of time checking out the various villages (Hardware Hacking, ICS/SCADA, Wireless, and Lock-picking, mostly), meeting with friends and peers, and a bit of time shopping for weird gear in the Vendor area.
Friday, August 8
- (12:00 - 12:30) I have been following Philip "Soldier of Fortran"'s entertaining tumblr for a while now and I'm very excited about seeing his talk From root to SPECIAL: Pwning IBM Mainframes. It's a whole different world of computers I'm unfamiliar with breaking :)
Saturday, August 9
(13:00 - 13:45) - Obviously I'll be at my own Instrumenting Point-of-Sale Malware: A Case Study in Communicating Malware Analysis More Effectively in the DEF CON 101 track, and I would encourage you to be there as well! After this, I'll be talking to/hanging-out-with anyone interested in some Q&A regarding my talk, and generally making friends.
(16:00 - 16:45) - Pickett's Abusing Software Defined Networks discusses some attacks on protocols that I'm not very familiar with, so I'm looking forward to picking up some new skills.
Sunday, August 10
- (13:00 - 13:45) - Shane Macaulay's Weird-Machine Motivated Practical Page Table Shellcode & Finding Out What's Running on Your System looks like it'll really scratch that memory analysis itch. Plus all you have to do is bring weird machines into a discussion to catch my interest.a
There are a lot of good-looking talks across all of the days on surveillance/counter-surveillance that I intend to see, as schedule and mood allows. I have not yet looked at the various village schedules to see how that impacts what I'm up to either.
It's really looking to be a fantastic week for offensive security and low-level reverse engineering geeks, and I think that I'm going to be watching a lot of the talks I miss on video later. I'm also very much looking forward to meeting some of my readers and friends in the infosec community while I'm there, so get in touch!

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Since 1994, The Perlman Music Program has been recognized as a world-class program that brings together exceptionally talented young musicians to study in a rigorous, but non-competitive, atmosphere. This program is the realization of Toby Perlman's long-time dream to offer a nurturing environment to young musicians as a way to help them develop not only musically, but personally—to enrich their talent, build confidence, and strengthen respect for themselves and others. This unique music program combines educational and performance opportunities while fostering the individuality of each student's talents in support of the development of the whole person. For more than 15 years, The Perlman Music Program has drawn students from all over the world. Students participating in the PMP Sarasota Winter Residency previously participated in a six-week PMP Summer Music School or two-week PMP Chamber Music Workshop on Shelter Island in New York, and many have performed in multiple concert appearances. Past residencies have included Israel and China and a variety of concert engagements, including performances for the Kennedy Center Honors, Live from Lincoln Center (TV broadcast), Mostly Mozart Festival at Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For more information, visit www. perlmanmusicprogram.org.
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Retailer Gap (GPS) said late Thursday that its first quarter profit was 71 cents a share compared to 47 cents a share in the prior year period. The company had previously reported that net sales were up 7%, to $3.73 billion.
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I have recorded and am watching Hillary Clinton testifying on Benghazi, Libya.
The movie's really cool. If you suspend your belief, you can actually imagine the United States Senate is doing something important in this picture.
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One for the Money (2012). Okay, I'm not a Katherine Heigl fan, but I've been reading the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum books for a while now. I wanted to see how the movie compared to the book. It was enjoyable, and Heigl did a decent job portraying Plum. Too bad I don't think there will be any others since the movie bombed.
The Black Cat (1934). Karloff the Great and Legosi on the screen together again! This was Universal's biggest grossing movie for 1934, and one of the first movies to have a soundtrack for the entire movie. One of the leads, David Manners, was in Dracula and the Mummy, but got bored with acting and quit the business shortly thereafter. I thought about this while watching: Karloff is described as a devil cultist. For the 1930s, that's pretty bold since thinking was a lot more stringest then than today. It doesn't delve too deeply into the subject matter, but still that's pretty bold.
Full Metal Jacket
Well...sort of. After boot camp, this movie really tanks IMO, so I go on to other things. It's as if it's two separate movies. I always wonder what Kubrick was thinking....
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
It kind of reminds me of when I'm watching movies on TV and I fall asleep watching one movie and wake up while a different movie is playing. However, I don't initially realize that it's a new movie, so my mind, still in a half-asleep state, starts working overtime trying to reconcile what I saw before taking a nap with what I'm watching after the nap. This actually happened last Sunday when I fell asleep watching a movie about nuns (with Audrey Hepburn) and woke up watching a movie about a Navy cargo ship during WW2.
Anyways, I watched Django Unchained last Friday night. Pretty good movie. Kind of a revenge flick like Inglorious Basterds, but with almost a self-parodying level of graphic violence. It did bring up some interesting questions about slavery.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
As for myself: Trouble with the curve. The baseball part was sort of an anti Moneyball type thing. I thought Clint and Amy were great but come on, Justin Timberlake was a flame throwing pitcher? Maybe they could cast him as a Greg Maddux type but not a guy who could throw 100.
Black Sunday and Two-Minute Warning. My Super Bowl weekend viewing tradition continues. I really enjoyed this year's Two-Minute Warning viewing.
Argo. A good solid movie. It was a fast two hours.
I've watching a bunch of good classic films on TCM. I just watched Whatever Happened to Baby Jane yesterday, which is pretty creepy considering when it was made. I think there are some scenes that are only scary because the movie is in black and white. It would lose so much impact if it was in color.
Also, The Bride of Frankenstein which is the first time I've seen it since I was about 10 years old. I definitely did not remember the whole blind monk scene, but I now know exactly what they were spoofing in Young Frankenstein. I'm not sure if that scene was supposed to be touching or frightening in Bride, but I kept finding myself laughing at it because of Mel Brooks's parody version.
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Fully serviced apartment in Galatasaray (3rd floor)
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It features all services and utilities to make you feel at home: LCD satellite television, wi-fi internet connection, A/C in all rooms, central heating, telephone, hairdryer, fridge, dishwasher, microwave and electric oven, cooker, kettle, coffee-maker, toaster and cooking utensils. A washing machine, a tumble-dryer, the iron and ironing board are located in the basement of the building and available for sharing.
Cleaning and changing of towels and bedlinen every 3 days and all consumptions are included.
House rulesOur premises are smoke-free and, regrettably, we cannot accept pets.
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We were very happy with the apartment. The location is perfect for anyone who goes to Istanbul to party :-) many bars are just around the corner. Also many good restaurants are nearby.
The apartment is very well equipped (washing machine, dryer, etc). WiFi was working perfectly all the time. It has two floors with two bathrooms. Also, which is very important in Istanbul, the apartment is located in the area which does not require walking up or down any hills. I would definitevly book the same apartment again.
Very nice but there is a bar at street level. Join them or ignore :)
great location with lively street bar next door, clean and spacious apartment, great and fun host.
great place, wonderful terrace, definitely worth the price, perfect location, very clean, even water was in the fridge and raffi was very sweet too. ... i will tell this place to everyone who wants to stay in istanbul :)
just at the weekends there is loud music in the streets, but who goes to istanbul to sleep?..
The description of this "duplex" corresponds to the reality, to a very substantial negative factor: it is just not right at the "Istiklal Caddesi", but below the famous "Flanniermeile", ie, there are several meters steilab by a "bar district" to run (taxi not possible). to reach this apartment. And being adjacent to the nightlife club "tektekçi". And there is already late in the afternoon "off the post." Great music, indoor and outdoor, adventurous guests, plenty of alcohol, it is sometimes even a glass or a bottle to the ground: pure noise! "Bars" garbage outside the front door, smell of urine, in between really cute cats, away thrown food scraps are there plenty on the pavement around underneath the-barred apartment window, stand and sit the club guests well into the dead of night, The-anyway just narrow- Fenstschlitz bedroom is on the lower level walkway. "Live is Life ... Nanananana!" So, from a total of 6 nights booked was a night * s sleep on a Sunday night. For Sunday the club "closed" is! Conclusion: Istanbul again. Also in this apartment when they would then be in a different area. Thus, this address is an absolute "no go"!
Die Beschreibung dieser "Maisonette Wohnung" entspricht der Realität, bis auf einen sehr wesentlichen Negativfaktor:
Sie liegt eben nicht direkt an der "Istiklal Caddesi", sondern unterhalb dieser berühmten "Flanniermeile", d.h., es sind etliche Meter steilab durch ein "Kneipenviertel" zu laufen (Taxi nicht möglich!)., um diese Wohnung zu erreichen. Und die liegt unmittelbar neben dem Nightlife-Club "tektekçi" . Und da geht schon spät nachmittags "die Post ab". Tolle Musik, drinnen und draußen, lustige Gäste, Alkohol reichlich, es fällt auch schon mal ein Glas bzw. eine Flasche zu Boden: Lärm pur!
"Kneipen"-Müll vor der Hauseingangstür, Uringeruch, zwischendrin wirklich niedliche Katzen, weg geworfene Essensreste liegen dort auf dem Straßenpflaster reichlich herum
Unterhalb des -vergitterten-Wohnungsfensters stehen und sitzen die Clubgäste bis in die tiefe Nacht hinein; Der -ohnehin nur schmale- Fenstschlitz des unteren Schlafzimmers liegt auf Gehweghöhe.
"Live is Life...Nanananana!"
Also, von insgesamt 6 gebuchten Nächten gab* s eine Nacht Schlaf- von Sonntag auf Montag. Denn sonntags ist der Club "closed"!
Fazit: Istanbul-immer wieder. Auch in dieser Wohnung, wenn sie dann in einer anderen Gegend läge. So ist diese Adresse ein absolutes "No go"!
Very nice apartment with everything you need. Two beedrooms and two seperated bathrooms, one living room with built-in kitchen, so plenty of space.
The location of the apartment is ideal, very central and close to the Istiklal street. Just a ten minte walk to the Taksim Square or Tünel, where you can find plenty of restaurants, bars and shopping opportunities. It might get a little bit noisy on the weekends due to the bars, but that was no problem for us.
There's also a taxi stand next to the flat and it's also just a 10-15 minute taxi drive to Sultanahmet, the historical centre.
Raffaela is a very, very nice and helpful host with good advices and tips for Istanbul. Also the e-mail correspondence was exemplary. Many thanks again for that!
So we wouldn't hesitate to book the apartment again!
During the day the neighborhood was quiet, but from the evening there was a lot of noise. The apartment is situated in the centre of Beyoglu, and normally that's a good thing. But in the weekends we really couldn't sleep of the noise of bars and dancings. The kitchen was nice, but not equipped enough. Only 2 fires for cooking and not enough pots and pans too cook. So we just used the kitchen one time. The fourth floor is really very high. Perhaps this apartment is ok for a young couple who wants a vacation full of music and dancing.
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MADISON -Dr. John A. Szweda, 86, passed away on Sunday, November 25. Born on November 19, 1926, in Chicago Illinois, to John and Aleksa Szweda, John was the youngest of their ten children. After serving in the Asian theater during World War II, John earned a medical degree at Loyola University in Chicago. Dr. Szweda practiced medicine in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, from 1952 until his retirement in 1992.
He is survived by his five daughters, three sons, fifteen grandchildren, and beloved wife of sixty years, Alice.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Peter Catholic Church, 5001 N. Sherman Ave., Madison, at 1:00PM on Saturday, December 1, 2012, with Monsignor Charles Schluter presiding. Burial will be at St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Cemetery.


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Hyeyoung Lee and Kurt Esslinger, PC(USA) Young Adult Volunteer coordinators in Daejeon, Republic of Korea, offer this prayer for PC(USA) members to use during the the season of prayer called for by the statement on the Peace of the Korean Peninsula. It is posted here with their permission.
God of the universe, God of the nations,
The people of the Korean Peninsula are crying out,
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They no longer wish to have resources diverted from life toward death,
They no longer wish to live in fear of the ...
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Today, during the weekly chapel service at the Church Center for the United Nations, the Presbyterian Ministry at the United Nations, along with the Mennonite Central Committee UN Office, and the United Methodist Women, honored the international effort to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula with scripture, song, and prayer. Together we petitioned God to lead the Korean Peninsula away from war and to bring reconciliation, peace, and unity so that the people can return to functioning as one country after almost 70 years of division. Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the Armistice ending the fighting ...


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Residential Faculty - Urban Horticulture
Office: TC 50 - Room: TC 422
This program is part of the Applied Sciences and Technology Department.
Picture planting the rose garden you helped to design as part of a larger urban renewal project. Or installing a landscape in your client's backyard in time for her daughter's upcoming wedding. Imagine working on a team that's studying the impact crops cultivated in a downtown area have on a local community. This is Urban Horticulture.
The Urban Horticulture program at MCC prepares you for a career in wholesale or retail nurseries, landscape design and construction companies, or landscape management firms. You will also be prepared to work for a government agency involved with the technical phases of the urban horticulture industry. In the program, you'll learn all about the design, planning, and management of landscapes and how to develop horticulture in urban spaces, parks, and private residential spaces. Design and horticulture awareness are essential components of the program.
Interest in gardening has increased in recent years and is expected to continue growing. The number of professional buildings, shopping malls, and homes needing new or updated landscaping should also increase.
Skilled nursery workers who have good communication skills may become supervisors. Those who specialize may advance to managing their department. Continuing education in horticulture may also help nursery workers advance.
Urban Horticulture professionals:
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3.5: Mineral Identification
Can you identify this mineral?
Check out the mineral above. How would you figure out what kind of mineral it is? By color? Shape? Whether it's shiny or dull? Are there lines (striations) running across the minerals? This mineral has shiny, gold, cubic crystals with striations, and smells like sulfur. What is it? In this lesson, we will discuss how to identify a mineral as one would "in the field," that is, without using fancy lab equipment.
How Are Minerals Identified?
There are a multitude of laboratory and field techniques for identifying minerals. While a mineralogist might use a high-powered microscope to identify some minerals, or even techniques like x-ray diffraction, most are recognizable using physical properties.
The most common field techniques put the observer in the shoes of a detective, whose goal it is to determine, by process of elimination, what the mineral in question is. The process of elimination usually includes observing things like color, hardness, smell, solubility in acid, streak, striations and/or cleavage.
Check out the mineral in Figure above. What is the mineral's color? What is its shape? Are the individual crystals shiny or dull? Are there lines (striations) running across the minerals? In this lesson, the properties used to identify minerals are described in more detail.
Color, Streak, and Luster
Color may be the first feature you notice about a mineral, but color is not often important for mineral identification. For example, quartz can be colorless, purple (amethyst), or a variety of other colors depending on chemical impurities Figure below.
Purple quartz, known as amethyst, and clear quartz are the same mineral despite the different colors.
Streak is the color of a mineral's powder, which often is not the same color as the mineral itself. Many minerals, such as the quartz above, do not have streak.
Hematite is an example of a mineral that displays a certain color in hand sample (typically black to steel gray, sometimes reddish), and a different streak color (red/brown).
The streak of hematite across an unglazed porcelain plate is red-brown.
Luster describes the reflection of light off a mineral's surface. Mineralogists have special terms to describe luster. One simple way to classify luster is based on whether the mineral is metallic or non-metallic. Minerals that are opaque and shiny, such as pyrite, have a metallic luster. Minerals such as quartz have a non-metallic luster. Different types of non-metallic luster are described in Table below.
|Dull, clay-like
|Like resins, such as tree sap
|Soft-looking with long fibers
Specific Gravity
Density describes how much matter is in a certain amount of space: density = mass/volume.
Mass is a measure of the amount of matter in an object. The amount of space an object takes up is described by its volume. The density of an object depends on its mass and its volume. For example, the water in a drinking glass has the same density as the water in the same volume of a swimming pool.
Gold has a density of about 19 g/cm3; pyrite has a density of about 5 g/cm3 - that's another way to tell pyrite from gold. Quartz is even less dense than pyrite and has a density of 2.7 g/cm3.
The specific gravity of a substance compares its density to that of water. Substances that are more dense have higher specific gravity.
Hardness is a measure of whether a mineral will scratch or be scratched. Mohs Hardness Scale, shown in Table below, is a reference for mineral hardness.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_scale, Adapted by: Rebecca Calhoun, License: Public Domain)
With a Mohs scale, anyone can test an unknown mineral for its hardness. Imagine you have an unknown mineral. You find that it can scratch fluorite or even apatite, but feldspar scratches it. You know then that the mineral's hardness is between 5 and 6. Note that no other mineral can scratch diamond.
Cleavage and Fracture
Breaking a mineral breaks its chemical bonds. Since some bonds are weaker than other bonds, each type of mineral is likely to break where the bonds between the atoms are weaker. For that reason, minerals break apart in characteristic ways.
Cleavage is the tendency of a mineral to break along certain planes to make smooth surfaces. Halite (Figure below) breaks between layers of sodium and chlorine to form cubes with smooth surfaces.
Halite has cubic cleavage.
Mica has cleavage in one direction and forms sheets (Figure below).
Sheets of mica.
Minerals can cleave into polygons. Fluorite forms octahedrons (Figure below).
Fluorite has octahedral cleavage.
One reason gemstones are beautiful is that the cleavage planes make an attractive crystal shape with smooth faces.
Fracture is a break in a mineral that is not along a cleavage plane. Fracture is not always the same in the same mineral because fracture is not determined by the structure of the mineral.
Minerals may have characteristic fractures (Figure below). Metals usually fracture into jagged edges. If a mineral splinters like wood, it may be fibrous. Some minerals, such as quartz, form smooth curved surfaces when they fracture.
Chrysotile has splintery fracture.
Other Identifying Characteristics
Some minerals have other unique properties, some of which are listed in Table below. Can you name a unique property that would allow you to instantly identify a mineral that's been described quite a bit in this lesson? (Hint: It is most likely found on your dinner table.)
|Example of Mineral
|Mineral glows under ultraviolet light
|Mineral is attracted to a magnet
|Mineral gives off radiation that can be measured with Geiger counter
|Bubbles form when mineral is exposed to a weak acid
|Some minerals have a distinctive smell
|Sulfur (smells like rotten eggs)
|Some minerals taste salty
(Adapted by: Rebecca Calhoun, License: CC-BY-SA)
A simple lesson on how to identify minerals is seen in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFVwqBuYl4&feature=channel.
- cleavage: The tendency of a mineral to break along certain planes to make smooth surfaces.
- density: The amount of matter in a certain amount of space; mass divided by volume.
- fracture: The way a mineral breaks when it is not broken along a cleavage plane.
- hardness: The ability of a mineral to resist scratching.
- luster: The way light reflects off of the surface of the mineral.
- Some minerals have a unique property that makes them fairly easy to identify, such as high specific gravity or salty taste.
- Color is not a reliable indicator of mineral type for most minerals, but streak is for certain minerals.
- Cleavage can be a unique and beautiful indicator of mineral type.
Use this resource to answer the questions that follow.
1. What color streak will pyrite leave on sandpaper?
2. What color streak would real gold leave on sandpaper?
3. List some examples of the different types of quartz.
4. What characteristic do all types of quartz share?
5. What is unique about mica?
6. What is mica used for?
7. What was azurite used for in ancient times?
8. In what colors can calcite be found?
9. What color does green calcite streak?
10. What is galena?
11. How can you tell that fluorite is not a calcite mineral?
12. How many sides does garnet have?
1. How does color differ from streak and luster?
2. How does cleavage differ from fracture?
3. What's the first thing you should do when trying to identify a mineral? What do you do if you still can't identify it?
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It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a 15-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families.
As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple shows just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
Tautly written, incredibly gripping, and told by an unforgettable narrator, The Dinner promises to be the topic of countless dinner party debates. Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.
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I love to read books set in interesting places or historical settings. I especially love mysteries and thrillers.
"A Dinner To Remember!"
When I first read the summary of this new novel, I was so intrigued that I "pre-ordered" the book before reading the first review. I am so glad that I did because it is a dinner I will never forget. I got very caught up in the story right away despite the fact that during the entire first third of the story you don't even know why two brothers, Serge and Paul, and their wives, Babette and Claire, have come together at a restaurant to discuss some terrible subject that involves their children.
This story starts with the ritzy restaurant and includes all five courses from "Apertif" to "The Tip". Paul, the narrator, has many (even too many) long-winded and disdainful thoughts about everything from the menu, to the outfits of the wait staff, to his brother and his family and politics. As more information about Paul and his family comes out, you begin to realize in horrifying degrees that all is not as it seems. The middle of the story was somewhat tedious, but the ending is so strong and sickening. It is the ultimate story of what parents will do to protect their children, no matter what they have done.
I strongly recommend this book and can't wait until more people read it so that I can discuss it with someone. The narrator did an outstanding job. I am still hearing his voice in my head as I can't stop thinking of this story. Loved it!
The audio books I get tend to be either 1) scifi or 2) things for my husband and me to listen to on long road trips--humor or history
"So funny I barely noticed the cliff"
I think I missed the meeting when my book club chose this book, so I had absolutely no idea what it was about when I downloaded it into my phone and began to listen. Within a few sentences, I found myself laughing out loud. I don't know if a person reading the book would get as much of the snarky humor inherent in this book (particularly the beginning) but it definitely comes across in the audio version as expertly brought alive by Clive Mantle. Just the way Mantle pronounces "Serrrrrrge" with a heavy, sardonic emphasis on the "r" made me laugh every time. And don't get me started on the scene in the men's room—hysterical!
The beginning chapters are a bitingly droll commentary on upper middle class life in the early 21st century. I absolutely howled with laughter at the descriptions of the pretentious restaurant, the self-important maître d' (and his pinky!) and the ostentatiously named food. Side trips into the protagonist's memories were also—at first—amusing, particularly the passage about the garden party.
Which brings me to another thing I loved about this book: the way the author described things. Like the woman at the garden party with a "voice like the sweetener in Diet Coke." I also really liked it when the author described something and then wrote something along the lines of "well, no . . . it wasn't exactly like that . . . it was more like . . ." and then went on to give a fantastic simile that left no doubt what he had in mind. In chapter 15 he gives three different descriptions of Serge's face, each one more telling than the last: "like a new car that got its first scratch," "like a cartoon whose chair has been kicked out from under him," and finally "if he wore that face asking people to vote for him, no one would give him a second look."
There is much, much more to this book, and once the action starts to heat up the comedy is replaced by a chilling look behind the scenes of these "normal" lives. Societal issues including racism, homelessness, parenting, violence and morality are presented as I have seldom encountered them before in a novel. The end . . . well, I don't want to give anything away, but it was sort of like in the Road Runner when the coyote realizes the cliff has dropped out from under him. A great listen!
"Dining at its most distubing"
At the very beginning is a scene where the diners are discussing a Woody Allen film. Although Paul liked it, he was annoyed that his brother, Serge also enjoyed the film. So he began thinking over the faults in the film, wanting to prove to his brother that it was not so good after all and therefore one-up him. The author is very adept at portraying the pettiness of social minutiae in a humorous way.
At first I thought his style was too intense for Paul, whom I believed was a placid narrator. When I realized the scope of the narrator's character, I found that Clive Mantle did an excellent job in projecting Paul's range of emotion.
I found this novel to be humorously disturbing. Paul has a twisted intelligence which inserted into the restrictive framework of society produces an internal struggle that manifests itself in ways ranging from simple contrariness to fiendishly brutal. An examination of the grotesqueness of both an abnormal psyche and modern society.
i like to read. i like to listen.
"Thought Proving Disturbing Story of Family"
oh how i love the unreliable narrator. the narrator who at first, you kind of like, laughing at his jokes, agreeing with his commentary. the narrator you feel compassion for -- his story and opinions. the narrator that throws everything on it's head as the story progresses and makes you feel almost angry at yourself for feeling the way you did in the beginning of the novel. when the truth is actually laid out there and you see what he was saying all along.
clive mantle does a great job with this narration.
this book is DARK. i mean...like....really really dark. in a long while i haven't read anything this shocking. its full of people you won't like...full of scenes you won't ever want to read again (and won't soon forget).
i think the pacing of this novel was really well done. to use a food metaphor (this is "the dinner" after all), the unfolding of each layer of the onion brings out new facts, new understandings, and therefor new questions. there was a perfect amount of the "now" and the "before". a perfect amount of insight, introduced course by course.
***one thing i will say is that this book is NOTHING like Gone Girl. i dont know why so many people are comparing the two. i mean, i've read no less then 5 books in the past year that have so called 'twist' endings...and none of them can be compared to one another. so...if you liked GG, you may not like this...and if you hated GG, you may still love this -- so don't take that comparison as your judge. just read it.***
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Thus begins The Dinner, a novel served up in courses. The food is minimalist, overly described, and at times not especially palatable. The same can be said for this little novel where characters we may not like are thrust before us. Just as the spaces on the plates are greater than the bits of food, what's unsaid about our characters is greater than what we are told.
The Dinner is often compared to Gone Girl. Both feature people acting without conscience and narrators whose voices don't quite ring true. Most readers prefer Gone Girl for its strong narrative pacing, but I was dissapointed by GG, while I loved The Dinner. I found the characters here to be much more interesting, and I enjoyed the structure of this novel, where the current action takes place over a few hours, while recollections fill in the story.
The audio narration by Clive Mantle was masterful. One of the best out of the several hundred books I've listened to. This is one where the audio narration elevates a good book to an amazing "reading" experience.
I love books and animals.I enjoy all sorts of genres, anything from history to supernatural.
"Interesting concept, yet a miss for me"
This was an interesting book, however a few things held it back in my opinion.
The best aspect:
-I enjoyed the unreliable narrator, this gave the first person point-of-view credibility. This also gave the main character Paul, credibility.
-The author does a good job of giving the reader details of the world and it's characters. The character fixates on details that create interesting scenes in our imaginations.
-The narrator did a great job reading this book. I enjoyed his voices, accent, and inflections.
The worst aspect:
-We slowly see this family unravel, too slowly. The entire book literally takes place during one dinner. There are flashback to feed us information, but the constraint of one evening is tedious.
-A little confusing. Even though the entire book is essentially this one evening, I found myself lost in the timeline with all the flashbacks.
Overall, if you want to try something different, read this. It is an interesting book, there are great descriptions and dialogue. However, if you are like me, you might find yourself annoyed with the tedious aspect of spending nearly nine hours with this family during this meal. Although, I think the author did this intentionally to create restlessness in the reader so we understand the main characters feelings.
I have seen many reviews comparing this to Gillian Flynn's work of Gone Girl, I do not see it. The pacing and development of Gone Girl was much faster and interesting than this book.
"Loved the twists"
"Twists" isn't quite the right word. This book just went in directions I didn't expect it to go and I loved it. It sneaks up on you and before you know it, nothing is what it seems. I really liked this book. It's dark and surprising.
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"The Axis II Dinner Club"
Paul and Claire Lohman...the morally nihilistic parenting team "in comparison with whom Caligula's horse was respectable"...
What is the joke about call me anything just don't call me late for dinner? This is the exception Dinner. Paul and Claire are meeting for dinner with Pauls' brother and his wife to discuss their teenaged sons and some serious trouble. The whole story is served up in one meal; with each course, more of the story is revealed. The restaurant is one of those Bourgeoisie establishments that relishes in detailing each artistic Lilliputian course, down to the PETA approved loving care the little lamb received before it was butchered for its sweetbreads that are now served "lightly sautéed in Moroccan olive oil and presented with white currants"...the server's pinky hooked and pointing out the fine details. The incongruity of that description stuck in my mind; and as the events are laid on the table, I wondered about the ethical treatment pre-butchering, the beautiful presentation of slaughter...there's an analogy coming? a statement about brutal society mayhaps?
Koch tortures you with the details, that banal, tiresome drivel taken to the extreme, the back and forth bickering, adding a sense of taut irritation to an already tense situation--but this manipulation of the listener becomes tiresomely repetitive. Comparisons have been made to Defending Jacob, We Need To Talk About Kevin, books with the theme of parents protecting their children at all costs. But don't expect to find a likeable or redeeming quality that will allow you empathy for these parents, or even a flicker of parental love to validate the violation of truth and accountability. Koch's complete dedication to the darkness of these characters even eclipses Flynn's Nick and Amy.
If The Silence of the Lambs, Gone Girl, American Psycho, Misery, even Prague Cemetery, are considered *dark*-- Koch has succeeded in creating a darker shade of black. This one left me agreeing that cell phones should not be allowed in restaurants, and feeling that the final course here should have been served with some Pepto.
Reading allows me to travel through time; to visit the world's unique and stunning places. To become somebody I am not... It is glorious.
"Disturbing conversation = Delicious book."
This book is excellent: witty, sometimes funny, often unsettling and sometimes ghastly. The 4 dinner companions are each different and surprising and seek to hide their prejudices and animosity. The narration is very good, the plot is intriguing and the characters are twisted.
I'm a mom of a busy 10 year old daughter, manage a demanding career and depending on my morning read during my commute to improve my happiness!
"An interesting read but not the best"
This book takes place over a dinner hosted by a famous politician for his wife, brother and sister-in-law. It's narrated from the brother's point of view. The family keeps up pretensions all while a dark secret slowly emerges over the course of the evening. It has some humor, it's well written, the narrator is good, and the plot is unique and fresh, but it was just not that entertaining or thought provoking.
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STARKVILLE – Tobias Smith can play one more season of college football if he wants to.
The Mississippi State offensive lineman has been granted a sixth year of
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Smith, who signed with State in 2008, has seen his career interrupted several times by injuries.
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Hi everyone,
In todays newsletter (January 17th) is a layout that Amy Flanagan did part of which I would like to scraplift. The part I would like to copy is her frame for her picture. I bought the shape and have everything else but I am not able to do it. I am assuming she worked with the shapes? How did she cover up the holes? When I clip a photo to the shape or to the shape of the paper from CRO Feeling grateful the background of the paper comes thru the holes.
Any help would be appreciated.
I work on a PC and have CS5 extended.
Scraplift Something From The Newsletter
Started by tessa5500, Jan 17 2012 11:36 AM
6 replies to this topic
Posted 17 January 2012 - 11:36 AM
Posted 17 January 2012 - 01:35 PM
I think she used the square orange matte from CrackleNSpice- if you look carefully, the edges are not the same as the shape with the holes
Posted 17 January 2012 - 02:03 PM
I have Crackle n Spice and I checked the orange matt. I am not sure that this is it because it still has holes where the background shows thru. Also, the points on the edge go outwards where the points in the newsletter layout go inwards.
Posted 17 January 2012 - 02:11 PM
You can send a PM to Amy (Mimes) to ask her how she created the frame. Just go to her profile page here and click on Send me a message under her profile picture. HTH
Posted 17 January 2012 - 07:57 PM
HI Tessa - I just got home from work and I"m looking at my layout in a minute so I'll send along what I did in a few. Thanks for the compliments on my layout!
Posted 18 January 2012 - 08:03 AM
Another great example of how wonderfully giving our creative team is. They are always ready to help.
Posted 22 January 2012 - 11:38 AM
Tessa, I sent you a pm a few days ago. Please let me know if you have anymore questions.
Thanks again for your kind comments on my layout!
Thanks again for your kind comments on my layout!
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text: Thanks for the additional information on obedience ring vs. field, that's a big help. I am already using "here" for field heeling, it seemed natural to me. We are preparing both dogs for master tests this year: once we got that done I will switch the emphasis to the higher level obedience classes and then move on to agility. I think we could say nothing at all and still get the job done when hunting. Regardless of what we're doing, I get comments all the time from people who are watching us who say "we have a lab at home, but they sure don't know how to do THAT!" Wish more people would train their dogs, I think most people underestimate what the average dog is capable of. My standard response, of course, is that they need to get a chessie, LOL.


text: I know we are all gearing up for the fall season. here in new york the hunting time is sun up till sun set. in the spring it's sun up till noon . i know that some of the states have an all day spring season. i was wondering if you do how do you like it. how do the guys here form new york feel would you like to see a sun up till sun set spring season . i my self are of two minds about it


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This is a good anime/manga to watch/read if you're looking for a good laugh, or if you like the gender bender theme. I find this anime/manga to be interesting.The plor focusing around a boy who has developed a phobia of the opposite gender, thus every time he gets too close to, or touches girls, he has a nose bleed. The daughter of the school he attends promises to cure his genophobia in exchange for not revieling that her butler who is expose to be male is actually a female. A funny storry ensues as they try to cure his phobia. I recommend this to anyone who likes a good comedy, romance and somewhat... See full review
From watching this anime, I have discovered a story of sexism, and hiden gender that will capture you're interests. This story revolves around a male teacher wanting to teach at an all girls school. is application is denied because he is male, but the owner of the Inn he he stayng at helps him with this problem by disguising him as a women. What unfolds is a hilarious turn of events as the male teacher tries his best to conciel the fact that he is disguised as a women, teaching the all female students of the school, and proove his point that either male or female, a teacher is a teacher. I reccomend this... See full review


text: What type of fans do you use when dog is in a crate in car/truck at training days or hunt test? How do you power them? Any other favorite cooling remedies? Unusually hot summer here in Maine, and my old cheap plastic fans that use D batteries just quit after 3 years


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By Lena Mitchell/NEMS Daily Journal Corinth Bureau
CORINTH – Alcorn County supervisors on Monday finalized appointment of five members to the Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau/tourism council board of directors.
The designee for the county-appointed seat is a county employee, and it must be determined if a county employee can hold the position.
The five board members jointly appointed by the city of Corinth and county were approved during a special Corinth board meeting on Jan. 4, and the county affirmed those appointments Monday. They are:
• Luke Doehner of General's Quarters Inn, term ends October 2016
• Russell Smith of Russell's Beef House, term ends October 2016
• Danny Timmons of Little Foods, term ends October 2014
• Pauline Sorrell of CB&S Bank, term ends October 2013
• Billy Taylor of Taylor's Fish and Steak, term ends October 2013
• City appointee Laura Alford, term ends October 2016
The nominee for the county appointment to the tourism board is Sandy Mitchell, an employee of the Alcorn County Natural Resource Conservation Service.
District 4 Supervisor Gary Ross questioned whether a county employee is eligible for the appointment, but she was confirmed pending clarification of the question by board attorney Bill Davis, and her term would expire October 2015.


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By NEMS Daily Journal
Erika Sisk, a freshman from Oxford, is taking the Ohio Valley Conference by storm.
The 5-foot-6 Murray State guard was named OVC Freshman of the Week in women's basketball on Monday – the fifth time this young
season that she's earned the weekly honor.
Sisk is second on the team in scoring (12.0) in 16 starts for the Racers (9-7) and is fifth in the league in steals (2.3 per game).
Last season, Sisk averaged 22.6 points per game points to lead unfeated
Oxford (33-0) to the 5A state championship and was a Daily Journal All-Area selection.


text: When making friction calls I would use spring clamps when gluing my soundboard on the pedestal. I had problems with the soundboard cracking or sometimes the soundboard sliding over making contact with the side of the call. I turn a jig on the lathe that fits over the soundboard and keeps it away from the side of the call and allowing you to get the soundboard centered perfectly each time you glue it on the pedestal. I have attached a few photos. Hope this helps some of you all. Stoner


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Due to the significant number of people who have been using the UPC bar code on coupons to commit coupon fraud your coupons now look a bit different when you print them.
If you pull almost any coupon out of your book/envelope/binder you will notice the coupon most likely has two types of bar codes on the bottom. One is the UPC code (it usually starts with a 5) and a longer more complicated one. It's called a DataBar code. The UPC code is going away and the DataBar is now going to be the new normal. Retailers that scan the DataBar will experience automatic expiration date checking, a reduced need for bypass codes that don't require product validation, reduced cashier intervention, improved scan rates and increased speed of checkout.
"The DataBar barcode contains much more information than a UPC code does. For example, it accommodates longer manufacturer identification numbers, which check to see if you purchased the correct item. Also, since there is minimal human readable text, this means the end of barcode decoding" (source).
Because these DataBar codes are more complicated it will be harder for people to cheat the system. That's the good news.
The bad news is, many stores haven't prepared their cashiers for the changes. Stores have known for a while this change was coming (it was approved January 1) so they have already upgraded their computer systems. Walmart and Target cashiers have to use the hand held scanner in order for it to work- sliding the coupon the way they normally do it will not read it. If the store that you are in will not accept the coupon, ask them to use a hand scanner or manually type in the code.
Please remember to be patient with your cashiers and store managers- often times they were not given the correct information. But trust that these printable coupons are not fradulent- Coupons.com, RedPlum and The Coupon Network have all switched over to the new codes.
Thanks A Frugal Chick!


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The tent is hung and the gear is stored. Another camp out in the books and sealed in the memories of our Scouts… and leaders.
This weekend was our annual Webelos Woods Camp out. Every year we put together a nice event, when I say we, I mean the Troops of the District under the direction of a Webelos Woods committee, during the event the Webelos are encouraged to bring mom or dad and camp with a Boy Scout Troop. Sometimes Webelos dens camp alone, but more often than not the Webelos hook up with a local troop or a troop that they are looking into.
This year we had three Webelos dens camp with our troop. It amounted to a big crowd of plaid wearing, high energy, super scouts.
Needless to say we had a blast. I am extremely proud of the Troop. They started the weekend Friday night by helping the Webelos and their parents get their tents set up. They cooked all the meals for their patrols and invited the Webelos and their parents to eat with them too. They all ate well.. I ate with the patrols too this weekend.
Saturday was a busy day, the boys from the troop provided guides to make sure the Webelos got around to all the stations and earned their beads. They did archery, bb guns, fire building, some pioneering games and of course a visit to their hosts for some awesome cooking.
Noah and Cameron, and Lucas were stand outs this weekend.. they were extremely helpful and helped make the weekend a success for the Webelos.
One of the best parts of the weekend was this morning when James, our Chaplains aide did a fantastic Scouts Own service… totally off the cuff. The whole camp was in attendance. He talked about the choices we make in our lives and that by making the choice to stay in Scouting… we make our lives and the lives of people around us better.
I thought his message was spot on.
We sang a song, he invited me to do a Scoutmasters minute, and we closed with prayer. It was a real nice service.
It was nice to hear the comments about how prepared he was and that he represented our troop well.
The Webelos Woods Committee had asked if we would provide a Chaplains Aide to do the service, we agreed.. they were happy to see the results.
So it was a great weekend that showed us the future of our programs. The Webelos are there and are interested in coming up to the Troop.. I can't wait to get them on the trail to new adventures.
Have a great Scouting Day!


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I'm fairly sure its already been released to reviewers, which is why most of them know specs.
The Vram and bit-bus will make this card perfect for multimonitor setups and 1440p
From what I have read AMD's eyefinity is much better than nVidia
I for one am happy that one of our own is gonna try it out.
love it. That being said, my next card will be a nVidia because it seems like every friggin' game I try to play has problems with AMD's architecture for the first month or so. That's obviously hyperbole, which is why I said that's how it feels. Frustrating.
quote:maybe 1 from newegg and 1 from amazon/tigerdirect/other?
Do I need to use 2 separate credit cards or just 2 separate addresses/accounts?
Has anyone ever purchased something that is limited to 1 per customer?
Do I need to use 2 separate credit cards or just 2 separate addresses/accounts?
I've had that issue at some small eshops. I made two accounts with two different addresses and two different credit cards. Had one order ship to home and one ship to work. Used same name.
This is what I will do.
Just never ordered more than 1 of a product that was limited to 1 per costumer.
The final specifications of the GeForce GTX Titan show that the GPU consists of 7.1 Billion transistors and 2688 Cuda cores which core frequency maintained at 837 MHz and a 876 MHz boost frequency. The card would have a 6 GB GDDR5 memory clocked at 6 GHz effective frequency running along a 384-bit interface and furthermore would feature a TDP of 250W, just what we have been mentioning in our previous articles.
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