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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
First Time Remembered
I was a late bloomer. Most people experience this rite of passage well before their 28th birthday.
Not me.
I'm not quite sure how I'd avoided it for so long. I was a normal, healthy, active girl.
Al would shake his head in exasperation whenever the time seemed near and I'd perform my much practiced technique to ensure it did NOT happen to me;
Scream. Flail. Run.
In that order. Worked every time.
Ever patient that Al;
"Just calm down. Relax. Don't freak out. Nothing bad will happen."
"Says you. It has happened to you countless times with your method. I'm gonna stick to scream, flail, and run thank you very much."
We'd been together three years when the day finally came. A beautiful late Spring day on the old dairy farm. Digging and weeding and mowing and planting and just loving up our little patch of earth as best we could.
I love me the sight and smell of a hard working man. Covered in dirt and smelling of fresh cut grass and sweat. I'd had enough of admiring Al from across the field and started making my way toward him.
Long grass tickling my bare feet and legs. The wind tossing around sounds of birds and bugs and rushing water. It was quite the romantic little scene as I skulked on over to my man.
And then it happened. It. Happened.
Before I could execute my patentend scream, flail, run, maneuver it was already happening.
I'd heard many a tale about how badly it can hurt, but I was unprepared for the sensation;
"Motherfucker! Motherfucker. Mother! Fucker!!!"
Dramatically grasping the insulted body part whilst hopping about shrieking obscenities.
As Al rolled around the grass in full hysterics at my display.
"I knew it would hurt but holy old fuck, I didn't expect it to hurt THAT much! FuckFuckFuckFuck!!!"
Still jumping and flailing and crying as much with laughter as with pain.
I dared take a gander at the affected area, still in agony;
And plucked the bumble bee out of the tip of my toe.
And that my friends, is the tale of the first time I got stung by a bee after 28 years of...not being stung by any bees.
I still check the Red Dress Club prompts every week.
This week was a fill in the blank:
The first time I ________-ed after _________-ing.
This was the first time that popped into my head.
And? A big fuck you to whoever told me that bumble bees don't sting.
And? A bigger fuck you to the yellow jacked hive I stepped on just days after the bumble bee incident. I couldn't count how many times I got stung.
43 comments:
It's official. I have a dirty mind. And thanks for letting me know that bumblebees can sting.ReplyDelete
Haha I enjoyed this! Great writing! And I always end up cursing too.ReplyDelete
Excellent double entendre!ReplyDelete
It's not the size of the stinger etc. etc...
Hilarious. And you know what? Right after you wrote that you'd been stung by a bumblebee, I thought "bumblebees don't sting!" -- and then, of course, was chastised rightly.ReplyDelete
You're funny.
Yellow jackets are vicious and they can sting and sting and sting without dying. I think they're just vindictive. A couple of years ago my son was running a cross country course that unfortunately passed right by a yellow jacket hive and the bees were not happy. About half the runners got stung so when the girls ran the next race they had to change the course. My son was stung about eleven times.ReplyDelete
28? Damn you were a stinger tease!ReplyDelete
I wonder how many little bees and such thought they'd be getting their stingers into you, only to have you shut em down at the last minute.
Blue Stingers abound!
My daughter was stung by a wasp for the first time at her BIRTHDAY PARTY. What an injustice, right?!ReplyDelete
Oh, brilliantly done. Absolutely brilliant. I knew there was a twist coming, there had to be . . . but you still caught me.ReplyDelete
Does it make me a victim if I tell you my first time was when I was 8, at my aunt's pool?
HAHAHAHA! That would hurt, especially in your toe.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 21, 2011 at 1:09 PM
May the person who talked you into thinking that a bee sting doesn't hurt get stung on the tip of every finger and once in the ass.ReplyDelete
I love that all of us with dirty minds were led somewhere else at the start of this story.
I love that you waited til halfway through before allowing nature images come to mind.
And the cursing? I believe that is what i've said exactly each time I have been stung.
Great response to TRDC prompt this week!
So, what you're saying is it's not the size of the prick but the sharpness that counts?ReplyDelete
I've only been stung once. I think we all remember our first.ReplyDelete
This was brilliant :)
I spent my childhood stepping on bees and hobbling around for days after. They always got me right on the ball of my foot too, the bastards. Worse than the hurt was the itching while it healed.ReplyDelete
And then there was the time I SAT on a wasp...my teenaged pride was even more tender than my ass.
- AnonymousJune 21, 2011 at 5:40 PM
Ha!Somehow I *knew* you weren't going where I thought you were going.ReplyDelete
PS One time I stuck my hand in a wreath to adjust it and got stung underneath my fingernail. OUCH.
I love the way you set this up!ReplyDelete
Hey, at least you went 28 years before it happened. That's pretty good if you ask me. :)
I walked into a hornet's nest when I was 2. After that, bee stings were nothing.ReplyDelete
Good setting us up for the sting, literally!
When I was six years old, I was at the fair with my family. I was eating a hotdog, and a wasp landed on the foil wrapper. I panicked, and threw the hotdog, wrapper and all, as far away as possible. Fucker crawled off the wrapper and onto my finger, where it stung me. I cried so hard, my dad had to take me home.ReplyDelete
First and only time I've been stung. It left an impression. Bees of any kind? Assholes, all of 'em.
"I got stung by a bee after 28 years of...not being stung by any bees" So funny!ReplyDelete
My husband stepped on a yellow jacket hive, and he got stung about 10 times. Ouch!
I have never been stung.
I once got stung in between my fingers. Hurt like a son of a bitch.ReplyDelete
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.ReplyDelete
While I could sense that we weren't going to get a dirty post here, I wasn't sure what to expect. I'm sorry you got stung, but it made for good blog fodder, and that's good, right?
It's stunning how much it hurts. I had a bee fly up my dress and sting me on the ass when I was outside my college dorm. There was a LOT of flailing.ReplyDelete
You're just plain naughty.ReplyDelete
Nothing is safe from you.
On the toe? Ouch. That just sucks. And yellow jackets? ugh.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2011 at 8:24 AM
I've NEVER been stung by a bee. So I'm shuddering now with this clever recounting. Of course, now that I've said this in print, I'm sure I'll be stung shortly...ReplyDelete
Nicely played. Nicely played indeed.ReplyDelete
Love the set up and the mystery of it all! :)
Don't feel bad.ReplyDelete
I pretty much did scream, flail and run to avoid sex.
With no cool bee-twist.
I know. So sexy, right?
But I got over it.
I once had a bunch of bees try to build a hive in my car... had to have someone smoke them out. Other than that, I kind of like bees. But so far, I'm going on 46 years without ever having been stung by a bee. I'm sure I will not like them so much if that happens.ReplyDelete
Ouch! But well written! :)ReplyDelete
That was fun! I knew for sure you couldn't be talking about what it sounded like you were talking about at the point you described hopping around "grasping the insulted body part"...but just couldn't stop the imagery.(Love the name of your blog too.)ReplyDelete
Well, that was good.ReplyDelete
Your set up was brilliant. It's great isn't it, knowing most of the world will immediately think, sex!
And ouch ouch ouch. I've never been stung and let's hope that cherry is never popped.
Yay to Sprite's keeper to beating me to the "prick" joke.ReplyDelete
My Owen got stung by a yellow jacket. On the face. Fucker followed him into the house, where I was comforting him, and stung him on the face again.
I got stung by a big fat bumble bee when I was like 6. Maybe 5. Stepped on the little bugger and it hurt. So. Bad.ReplyDelete
You totally had me going. You little minx you. I thought you were going to say you had The ButtSex in the field.
- AnonymousJune 23, 2011 at 2:19 PM
I love your writing. Truly.ReplyDelete
Ah, when it rains it pours. The hive incident should take care of stings coming your way for life though.ReplyDelete
This is fucking AWESOME! I mean, not that you got stung...eh, you know what I mean.ReplyDelete
And for the record? I have only been stung ONCE. In 7th grade on my thumb.
Since then? Screw relaxing. I run like hell.
Well led. The set up is great, all full of *portent.*ReplyDelete
And I left giggling.
OF COURSE MommaKiss had the same idea I had.ReplyDelete
BTW...I can't believe I'm writing this to be seen publicly: I almost wrote about butt sex and oral. IN.THAT.ORDER.
Not cool, NOT COOL.
being stung by a bee can hurt more than what i thought you were going to describe.ReplyDelete
This is great. Thanks for the laugh!ReplyDelete
you crack me up. I was stung for the first time a few months ago. In M.'s room, one was on his carpet. How random.ReplyDelete
My sister got nailed on one eyelid by a bee and the other one by a horsefly, at the SAME TIME. We were walking past a blackberry patch that had a bees nest & horsefly(dragonfly??) nest side by side.ReplyDelete
as usual, you are too damn funny. love your first story, although bee stings are an emeffer for sure.ReplyDelete


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|The Pieta Com. by Water-Lilly-Love at Deviant Art
your child's body stretches out on your lap a pietá
as you remove the thorned crown of thoughts and prayers
blood slowly crawls down the leg of your chair
then drop by drop marks your vigil on the floor
visitors pass your silence answers their questions
the outside darkness fills the window pane
the Senator's secretary says
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Genealogy on a Shoestring by Cathy Burnsed, LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library – Woodville Branch
Most people have heard of Ancestry.com; that may be the reason your patrons showed up, having received a DNA kit as a gift. But how can you help the new genealogist who doesn't have access to a paid account to Ancestry? And what if your library doesn't, either?
Some of the best known websites for genealogy require a paid subscription, but there is also a lot of free information online. I'm going to highlight some of the biggest free websites, but there are many more resources out there. Knowing how to find them is the trick!
Sites that Organize the Internet
http://www.cyndislist.com organizes thousands of genealogy and history websites by topic. I like it because Cyndi thinks like a librarian.
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Main_Page is the Research Wiki for FamilySearch.org. The availability of genealogy information in places around the world is given in research guides specific to the county level in the United States. This is the place to go to be pointed to local government offices who can be contacted for questions about records, which may or may not be online.
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search is the catalog of the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Searchable by surname, subject, and place, you can view the book, microform, and digital holdings of the largest genealogy library in the world. Some digital holdings are viewable from your home computer; others can only be accessed through a Family History Center associated with the LDS church. These centers are manned by knowledgeable volunteers and open to everyone.
Sites that Offer Free Data
https://www.accessgenealogy.com/ is a growing site with online data from around the US. Take a look and see what you can find!
http://www.archive.org is a site you may have run across before, the Internet Archive. They have tons of digitized books, including old county histories, which are fully keyword searchable. They also have all of the US Federal Census microfilms through 1930 scanned and available here, though not indexed.
http://www.archives.gov is the home of the United States National Archives. They have a lot of finding aids although very little of their information has been placed online so far. This is where to go when people want military records. The 1940 census is available here, as well.
https://www.familysearch.org/ also has searchable databases of names gleaned from various records as well as family trees. Use caution when recommending this to beginning researchers since there are a lot of undocumented family trees with conflicting information and it could easily become overwhelming.
http://www.findagrave.com is an online cemetery database. Some names have additional information added, such as photos (of headstones and/or the person), obituaries, and family information.
https://books.google.com/ Don't forget about Google Books, which has millions of books fully keyword-searchable, though most will need to be purchased or interlibrary loaned in order to read the full content.
http://www.genealogycenter.org/ is the website for the 2nd largest genealogy library in America, located at the Allen County Public Library in Indiana. The site is not limited to Indiana information and also offers an email Ask a Librarian service.
https://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/passenger has 65+ million passenger records of people who passed through the Port of New York and Ellis Island between 1820-1957. You can view the ship manifests with a free account.
http://fultonhistory.com/ is an astonishing one-man venture: Tom Tryniski of Fulton, New York, has single-handedly scanned and made available online over 44 million pages of newspapers from the US and Canada…and it's growing every week. The website can be tricky to navigate and is prone to periods of downtime, but well worth exploring.
https://www.raogk.org/ is a directory of volunteers who perform Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness by looking up records in specific locations around the world. Some offer courthouse research, obituary lookups, or headstone photos. There is also a Research Guide providing information about what kinds of records are available in different localities.
http://www.usgenweb.org/ is the launchpad for the USGenWeb Project, a collection of websites independently created and maintained by volunteers. Each county in the US has a website that is linked from each state's website. The content of these sites varies wildly, depending on the ability of the volunteers running them, but you may find information here that isn't available anywhere else. The http://www.worldgenweb.org site lists other countries with similar projects.
Other Things You Can Do
There are many other resources and outside organizations you can recommend to your patrons, in addition.
Genealogists love talking with other genealogists. Your community may have a genealogical or historical society with regular meetings. Provide contact information to your patrons, and, if your library has meeting space, consider reaching out and offering it to these societies.
Make a point of finding out about the genealogical holdings of libraries and archives around you. For example, even though my library system doesn't, the State Library and Archives of Florida offers patron access to Ancestry.com and has many newspapers from around the country on microfilm. Genealogical libraries within a few hours' drive can be a nice day trip for a researcher.
Don't forget about your local Family History Centers. They are not restricted to members of the LDS church and usually have very knowledgeable volunteers who can help anyone use their resources.
There are countless Facebook groups for genealogy. City, region, state-specific, obituary lookups, cemetery photos, DNA, adoption help, etc. A good group for beginners is simply called Genealogy. Most people in these groups are very helpful. Some offer to look things up for others using resources available to them or help brainstorm when someone can't read old script. There's even a very talented group of volunteers who edit scanned photos to fix blemishes, creases, or sometimes even draw two people together to create a portrait where there wasn't one before.
Obituaries from other libraries can often be obtained through a reference request, but libraries have varying policies on how to go about requesting them. Some require ILL requests for the microfilm, while others will scan and email you an obituary. If your library's policy is not already on your website, please consider doing so. Also, consider adding your library's genealogy/obituary policy/information to the Ask a Librarian Knowledge Base, so that librarians around the state are better able to point patrons to your resources.
Subscription Sites for Your Library to Consider
If you sense continued interest from your patrons and are given the opportunity, here are some popular databases or services to which libraries can subscribe:
African American Heritage through ProQuest
America's Genealogy Bank through NewsBank
Heritage Quest through ProQuest
Newspapers.com through ProQuest
Best wishes in the new year with your patrons' newfound interest in genealogy! Anything that brings patrons to (or back!) to the library is a good thing!


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Mr. Brown's Retirement
By Katie Haley, J1 student
The rule following and detention loving teacher, Mr. Brown, has announced he is retiring. Mr. Brown has taught at AHS for a long time now, being known for teaching forensics and anatomy. Mr. Brown helps his students prepare for the outside world and college level classes and is someone who the AHS family will miss dearly.
Mr. Brown announced he was retiring about a month ago. "I want to retire because I am past the retirement age and I believed I can no longer reach my fullest potential every class." He has always had a passion for teaching, he even was a teacher's assistant in college. For the first five years of his career he taught at St. Francis and came to AHS for an interview because he had only heard great things about the school. He got hired and started what would become a long journey as an AHS teacher.
When Mr. Brown retires, he will be moving onto the next chapter of his life. During his free time, he will continue to play very bad golf and, you guessed it, ride his bike for many miles. On a more serious note, he said that, "I want to become a trainer for people who are addicted to the drug called Narcan, better known as heroin." And yes, students need to continue to wear their lanyard and buy those ugly plain colored shoes, because Mr. Brown will still be giving detentions outside of school if he runs into you. Always keep an eye out for that maroon colored, Ford Escape, with many bumper stickers on the front, and the bike rack on the back, because he will see you!
Senior, Bailey Binkley, loves Mr. Brown and will never forget the lessons he has taught her. She thinks Mr. Brown shows a great example for other teachers on how to set rules and has taught Binkley how integrity matters and that she can't get away with anything. "He wants his students to be the best versions of themselves. The AHS community will miss him and never forget his ways," said Binkley.
Senior, Taylor Warfield, said Mr. Brown helped her prepare for college and has taught her how important it is to prepare for test. Warfield is planning on becoming a nurse and is currently taking Mr. Brown's anatomy class. She said one of the ways Mr. Brown has taught her to remember material is by marching around the class room and mentioned that AHS alumni have emailed Mr. Brown and told him without his class they would be far behind in their college class. "Mr. Brown has taught me that college professors will not hold your hand, you must be independent and stay on top of your work," Warfield said.
Mr. Brown has left a mark on AHS and will always be remembered. As a college prep high school, he has gone over the top to make sure his students are prepared for the challenging classes students will take in college and outside world problems they will face during adult hood. Mr. Brown may seem like a tough teacher, who follows the rules, but behind that disciplinary exterior, he is a great teacher who wants the best for his students and will continue to shine his light outside of AHS. We will miss you Mr. B!


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Our Work in EWCSD
Ensuring that ALL 8800 of our students are prepared for success in high school and beyond is our ultimate goal in the East Whittier City School District. Our dedicated support staff, teachers, administrators and Board of Trustees work tirelessly day in and day out to achieve our vision of "Opening the Door to Every Child's Future." In order to make this commitment a reality we are focusing all we do on teaching our students the 21st Century Skills of Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, Communication and Community.
Our focus this year is centered around the idea of refinement. We will use this year as an opportunity to refine the amazing programs we already have in place and find even more ways to capitalize on the expertise of our teachers, classified staff and administrators to realize our goal of "Opening the Door to Every Child's Future". Additionally we want to encourage and embrace the creativity and innovation of our students, staff and community members. If you have any ideas to harness innovation please do not hesitate to share them with us so that we can continue to explore different ways to challenge ourselves, our students and our community to meet the demands of a 21st Century Society.
We are so proud of the community of learners we have in East Whittier. There is so much to celebrate in our amazing District. Please check out our various social media links and hashtags to follow our team's phenomenal work to support ALL students as we engage our students, staff, parents and community to continue to ensure that EWCSD stands out as a shining example for other districts.
Welcome to another great year in East Whittier!
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Peeping Tom in Oakland Hills upsetting neighbors
OAKLAND, Calif. - A nocturnal peeper has an Oakland woman at her wit's end and about to stage a citizen's arrest.
The prowler has been caught on her surveillance system three times in two weeks, and he may have been peering in windows in her neighborhood for years.
"I know he's watching at night," said Hannah Kirk, "and I don't like it, but he's definitely watching when I come and go."
Kirk has lived in the Maxwell Park area for six years.
It is well-maintained, with neighborhood watch signs visible and an active community association.
"Can you believe this guy?, said Kirk, showing KTVU her security footage, "and then he just strolls out like no problem."
Kirk has installed motion-detection lights and cameras in strategic locations, but nothing seems to deter the man.
He makes a beeline for a large window at the rear of her house, and even with the shades down, will spend a half hour or more peering inside.
Kirk believes he's been prowling her property for years, but she has video proof he was there two weekends in a row, and this past weekend, two consecutive nights.
After spotting him Saturday, Kirk posted the surveillance images on the social network "Next Door" and dozens of outraged neighbors responded.
Some people came over to string wire and a "video surveillance" warning sign, but the next night, the peeper climbed right over them.
"They put up all chicken wire all over and he still he went through like it was nothing," said Kirk.
The man sometimes enters and exits through a side gate, and makes his way down Kirk's driveway to the street.
In recent weeks, two other women in the same neighborhood have also captured images of a man, who appears to be the same individual, invading their backyards.
In one video, he scaled a six foot fence and only fled after lights came on and the woman inside the house saw him and started screaming.
Kirk has mapped out the occurrences and shown Oakland Police her video, but was told their response is limited.
Trespassing isn't a violent crime, she was informed, and investigators need his identity in order to pursue a case.
"Catch him is the only thing I can do," said Kirk. "I need to catch him so I can get his name so I can file a restraining order against him."
Now a group of neighbors are planning to stake out the hallway at the rear of Kirk's home, and the next appearance he makes, intervene and detain the man in a citizen's arrest.
"What worries me about this guy is how he's cruising around in the middle of the night, obviously with a lot of free time," said neighbor Brian DiGiorgio, "and so what is the point and where is it going to lead?"
DiGiorgio has been in the neighborhood less than two years, and hadn't heard the recurring peeper stories until now.
He is dismayed at the lukewarm police response.
"When I think about Walnut Creek or Lafayette or other places I have experience with, it wouldn't be a "do it yourself" initiative to find somebody like this," said DiGiorgio.
The man on the surveillance systems appears to be white, middle-aged, stocky and balding.
"I don't know if anything will stop this guy, chicken wire, razor wire," said Hannah Kirk ruefully.
She feels she must try, especially with two small children at home.
"He seems to be watching when we come home, looking in my window, multiple occasions, and several nights in a row," said Kirk, " so I don't want this escalating any further, it's extremely unsettling."


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As this is my first Splunk blog post, I'll keep this short.
This post has to do with moving raw packets around the network and analyzing their contents. In fact, not IP packets at L3, actually Ethernet frames at Layer 2.
Occasionally, engineers have a need to capture and inspect raw packets. This is usually done in the case where you don't necessarily trust what's going on with a given application (say a web server, or a DNS server) and you'd actually like to see what's going over the wire, rather than what the application is telling you from its log. The use case could be one of fault isolation, troubleshooting, or an actual malicious event sourced by a human or a piece of mobile code.
In any event, the goal is to capture a bunch of packets to look inside them at the application-layer message that's contained inside them. (One-packet exploits are rare these days.) An admin wants to read the messages passing between the applications so he can determine if something amiss is occurring.
In the old days where we used ethernet hubs, it was easy. You plugged a "packet sniffer" into any port on the hub and you told it to capture packets. The hub would broadcast all ethernet frames to every port, so the sniffer could capture it.
The "sniffer" could be hardware or software. Software included built-in utilities like tcpdump (on *nix) or EtherPeek, which was succeeded by Ethereal, which became WireShark. (The classic 3-pane viewer). Software based products put the physical interface into "promiscuous" mode, which caused the interface to capture and retain ethernet frames not actually addressed to the MAC address of that device.
Hardware included tools like the eponymous Network General's Sniffer or the Shomiti.
But either way, the "packet sniffer" would grab the Ethernet frames at L2 and put them in a buffer. Then the analyst could click through the packets, and the tool would decode them at L3,L4 and L7. Modern versions of Wireshark allows you to "Follow TCP stream" and reassemble the entire packet session between two endpoints and pull out and reassemble at L7. (Sadly, it doesn't do the L7 decode when you do this.)
Fast-forward to today.
Packet Replication Technologies
Sadly, switches no longer broadcast ethernet frames. They cache the L2 MAC addresses observed on each physical port, and only forward Ethernet frames to the port where they see the transient MAC assignment. So if you want to capture ethernet frames on a modern, switched network, you now have three options:
- Use a physical ethernet Tap
- Use a "SPAN" or a mirror port on an existing switch
- Use a dedicated packet mirroring switch or a device like a Gigamon
Each of these options have Pros and Cons:
1. A physical Ethernet tap is designed to simply replicate the physical layer of 802.3 ethernet and replicate it to two destinations. Because each ethernet cable has both a send and receive path, you generally need TWO outbound paths for the replicated streams, one for each direction. These are available for electrical or optical interfaces, and at differing ethernet speeds and configurations. But since it's a physical mirror at Layer-1, you need to have the exact same technology on the mirrored side as the original physical ethernet. So if the original link was a 1G optical short-haul single-mode fiber, that's exactly what both copies (in both directions) must look like. On the up-side, these devices are usually very low failure, so most used in situations where you don't want to have to worry about redundancy or failure modes. Generally Ethernet Taps would be located between the highest level switches and the enterprise router, where the highest concentration of traffic would be found.
2. A SPAN port was a concept coined by Cisco used on Catalyst switches (Switched Port ANalyzer) for mirroring packets to a port for monitoring purposes. It is software configurable, and you can set a single port to receive any packets sent or received on any "monitored" port. Generally the SPAN port has to be the same physical and logical characteristics of the monitored port. The SPAN port cannot be used for inbound traffic at all, effectively dedicating it for monitoring purposes. Different switches implement SPAN ports different ways — some only allow a single port to be monitored at a single time, some allow multiple ports to be funneled into a single SPAN monitoring port, etc. But the term "SPAN port" has become synonymous with "port mirroring for monitoring purposes".
3. Dedicated packet mirroring devices exist (such as Gigamon, NetOptics, and Anue) whose entire mission in life is to make copies of IP packets. The flexibility they provide is far better than that of typical mirroring ports on a switch. They can generally groom traffic from one physical topology to another, merge and split streams, funnel many small streams to one large stream (e.g. 10 x 1G to 1 x 10G), even filter at L3/4. For flexible packet monitoring, these devices are always the way to go.
No matter what packet mirroring options you pick, you still need a device to capture or otherwise analyze the packets. Modern options include: IDS/IPS devices, DLP device, Security analytics devices, or simple packet capture devices.
There are many hardware and software options in each of these categories. Simple packet capture options still include Wireshark and TCPDump, as well as more sophisticated options from NetWitness, Riverbed, NetScout, Narus (where I came from), Niksun, Endace, and others. This is where the Splunk Universal Forwarder and Stream comes in.
The hardware options simply plug into the monitored port (from one of the three monitoring options above) and start capturing packets. The software options generally have to be configured on a multi-homed machine: one physical interface dedicated to capturing the monitored traffic (in-band), and one for communicating with the sniffer software itself (out-of-band).
The Splunk App for Stream
The Splunk Universal Forwarder with Stream can be configured to act as a software-based packet sniffer and capture and decode packets. What Stream does is the following:
- Put the interface in promiscuous mode (which requires it to be run as SUID root by the way) and monitor all incoming traffic.
- Capture the packets in a temporary buffer
- Reassemble the application-layer data stream for all packets captured
- (optionally) Decrypt the transport layer if encrypted (SSL/TLS) and we have the certificates
- Automatically recognize the application-layer protocol (HTTP, SMTP, SQL*Net, etc.)
- Parse the application-layer for important known protocol-specific elements (we'll call that "Application-layer metadata", or simply "metadata")
- Extract those protocol-specific elements, format into structured JSON, and send to your Splunk Indexer
What Stream does NOT do is:
- Capture and index RAW PACKETS
So for an administrator that's trying to debug what's going on in his network, or a security analyst trying to investigate an existing intrusion or attack, Stream is really perfect!
Rather than looking at the packet for a single email, or single HTTP session (as you can in Wireshark), with Stream you can examine literally thousands or millions of such sessions at the same time using searches into the Stream metadata. For forensic analysis, Stream is incredibly valuable to the analyst. You can see patterns and anomalies at the application layer that you may not be able to see if you were just looking at the application-layer logs. And because the packets are always the ground truth of what's going on in the network, you can always rely on the data in the packets — unlike application logs. ("If the application is under attack, how can you rely on it to reliably log its data?")
Stream and Cloud
One final note, while we've been mostly exploring the use of Stream with the Universal Forwarder in a "stub" mode, where it's connected to the network through a mirrored port or network tap ("out-of-band").
But one further feature of Stream is that it's designed to work "in-band" on the actual running interface of a server. This is incredibly valuable because it means you don't actually have to deploy any infrastructure to monitor traffic to your hosts. You simply drop the UF + Stream onto those hosts (generally servers) and you're off to the races! Stream will monitor the traffic into/out of the primary interface and then use that same interface to communicate back to Splunk Indexers. (Which means Stream will see its own traffic, interestingly enough).
This functionality means that Stream is actually ideal for use in a Cloud environment. Because generally it's challenging to put hardware-based monitoring solutions in the Cloud, you can grab metadata with Stream simply by installing the UF + Stream on your Cloud servers. Most companies have no way to perform packet analysis on their cloud-based systems. Stream is a great answer for those environments, too.
So to summarize, SPAN ports, taps, and packet mirrors are all ways to grab packets from a network or network link. Those packets are then directed into a packet sniffer which can capture and analyze those packets. Stream turns the Splunk Universal Forwarder into a packet sniffer that can also parse and decode the packet contents, then extract metadata and push it back to Splunk indexers, where the data can be analyzed. Stream can also operate WITHOUT a mirror or tap in its "in-band" mode, by installing the UF directly on the monitored server(s).
Thanks for reading through this first huge missive. Remember when I said I'd keep this short? I lied.
Happy Splunking!


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How to Password Protect a PowerPoint 2003/2007 Presentation
Applies to PowerPoint 2003, 2007
You don't want anyone else to edit or modify your PowerPoint presentation, aha? Easy. Go and set a password to your very work now. Microsoft PowerPoint has "Password" feature that allows you to have more control on your presentation and the visitors even when you are not there. Here I will cover 2 major situations, enabling password protection in both PowerPoint 2003 and 2007.
Part 1 Password Protect a Presentation in PowerPoint 2003
Two password options are available for your PowerPoint 2003 presentation. One is Password to Open, a security feature that lets you control who has access to the presentation; the other is Password to Modify, applied when you allow others to see the presentation but prevent them from changing the presentation without your specified password. You can choose to apply either of these two password protection options, or both to your presentation.
2. Choose the Security tab at the top of the dialog box.
3. To prevent unauthorized modification, type in a password under "Password to modify", then select OK.
4. Enter a password. Re-enter your password to confirm. Select OK.
5. Go to File -> Save and close PowerPoint.
The "Password to modify" will allow anyone to open a "read-only" copy of your presentation. This means no one can make any changes to your documentation unless they know the password.
Note: You can go the extra step and require that people enter a password to OPEN the document. Simply enter a password under the "Password to confirm" dialog box. Also remember to inform those who have access to your document to select "Open read only" when they open your document to prevent confusion.
Part 2 Password Protect a Presentation in PowerPoint 2007
Though a bit different, setting password protection in PowerPoint 2007 is no less difficult than in earlier versions like 2003. The only difference is to find the "Tools" option in PowerPoint 2007.
2. In the bottom left of the Save As dialog box, click on the Tools -> General Options.
3. Now perform the same as from Step 3 in Part 1. Enter passwords for either or both of the two password options, Password to Open and Password to Modify.
IMPORTANT: You'd better copy the password(s) to a notebook, a text pad or elsewhere in case that you forget it (them) and cannot get back into your own presentation.
Related posts:
- Save your Office PowerPoint 2007 presentation in PowerPoint 97-2003 format
- How passwords work with PowerPoint Show (.pps) files
- How to send a PowerPoint presentation for review
- How to Insert Outline Text from Word to PowerPoint 2007
- How to Change Placeholders in PowerPoint 2003
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- Keep a diary/log – track what you plant and where to serve as a reference for the future as well as take pictures or walk your garden daily to spot things before they become serious
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As this conference aims to build and sustain global partnerships for learning and development, this study illuminates the need to collaborate with other nations, particularly those that intentionally recruit diverse students. This paper is part of a larger ethnographic study at Southeast University, a public research institution that intentionally recruits ethnic minority students. The participants discussed here are seven women of the African diaspora in a Diversity course and two ethnic minority professors. Data were collected through six months of participant observations, fieldnotes, interviews and various artifacts. In an attempt to humanize participants and reinforce the findings of the study, triangulation tactics were heavily exercised. Data were analyzed through three tiers of coding – open coding, then axial coding leading to emergent themes (Emerson, Fretz & Shaw, 1995).
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP) is the guiding framework for this study. CRP references "a pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes" (Ladson-Billings, 1994 p. 17-18). I analyze the use of CRP in diverse courses, specifically with minoritized populations. As the facuty attempted to be culturally relevant, Black students felt stereotyped and underserved. Their construction as course content resulted in resistance within a community of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991). Despite faculty efforts to legitimize disenfranchised aspects of Black culture, students characterized the pedagogy as a "Front Street" practice. According to the urban dictionary, "Front Street" references the involuntary exposition of an individual or communities' unfavorable circumstances or characteristics. When disparities of achievement, criminality, economics, and health were discussed, Black students felt negatively overrepresented. Consequently, their cultural competency development stalled and consciousness shifts were obscured. This project discusses potential answers to questions regarding how to critically diversify higher education and enhance the capacity of faculty to be culturally relevant.
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Best Campground: Padre Dam's Santee Lakes
Best Country Club: Carlton Oaks CC & Santee Lakes Park and Campground (Okay, I'm not sure how Santee Lakes qualifies as a country club, but it's on the list.)
Best Skate Park: Santee Skate Park
Best BBQ Restaurant: Smokin' Joe's BBQ
Best Breakfast: The Omelette Factory
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Best Business Lunch: The Omelette Factory
Best Family Restaurant: The Omelette Factory
Best Chicken Wings: Oggi's Pizza and Brewing Co.
Best Greek Restaurant: Daphne's
Best Mexican Restaurant: Marietta's
Best Medical Spa: RiverView MD Spa
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Best Swap Meet: Santee Swap Meet
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All the rooms of the apartments have an uninterrupted sea and mountain view.
Each apartment consists of one bedroom, lounge, kitchen and one bathroom. Two of them can accommodate 2-4 persons and the rest two can accommodate 2-5 persons.


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Historic Pilgrim Baptist church will not be rebuiltBy Yolanda Perdomo
Historic Pilgrim Baptist church will not be rebuiltBy Yolanda Perdomo
In a three-story building on South Indiana Avenue, congregants of Pilgrim Baptist say prayers, sing hymns and greet one another during services. They've worshiped in the nondescript location since a fire in January of 2006 destroyed their iconic home.
The building was designed by famed architectural firm Adler and Sullivan in 1890 as a synagogue. Pilgrim Baptist took it over in 1922, and in the '30s the church became the birthplace of gospel, thanks to famed music director Thomas A. Dorsey.
Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin and the Staple Singers were just a few of the musical luminaries who have performed at Pilgrim over the years.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered sermons at the church, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Today, only a stone and brick shell still stands. On the walls, you can still see Hebrew words from its time as a synagogue and ornate carvings, a Louis Sullivan trademark. Last month, the Pilgrim church board voted to not rebuild because it's too expensive.
"We don't have 33 million dollars," said board Vice Chair Cynthia Jones, who doesn't want the exterior walls to be destroyed. "We want something that would encompass those four walls. But what that's going to be and what that's going to look like, I have no idea at this point."
White steel girders on three of the complete walls help to keep the structure steady.
But not everyone wants the gutted building to remain. Parishioner Bobby Waller is a retired carpenter and has been going to Pilgrim for more than 60 years. He says the remaining walls - which are being held in place by white steel girders - should be demolished and turned into a memorial park for people to use again.
"Right now it's an eyesore," said Waller. "I don't want my church to be remembered like that."
Alderman Pat Dowell of the 3rd Ward met with the church board in August, when they decided not to rebuild.
In a statement, Dowell said a feasibility analysis showed the cost was "prohibitive for the Pilgrim Baptist congregation."
She says the board would report back to her with ideas for a permanent solution within 90 days.
Board member Cynthia Jones won't say how much Pilgrim Baptist has from past fundraising efforts, but says it's not close to what they would need.
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NBA Schedule To Be Released This Week
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Last Updated on August 8 2018 6:24 am
The NBA schedule will be released this week, but it's being reported that the Christmas Day lineup will feature a marquee matchup between the Lakers and Warriors. The other games will have the Knicks hosting the Bucks and the Celtics and 76ers. The NBA did say that the Orlando Magic will face the Chicago Bulls and Utah Jazz in Mexico City in December.
Anthony Reaches Verbal Agreement
Carmelo Anthony has reportedly reached a verbal agreement on a deal with the Houston Rockets. The Thunder traded Anthony to the Hawks last month, but he cleared waivers and became a free agent.
Rookie Smith Suffers Fracture
Philadelphia 76ers rookie Zhaire Smith suffered a fracture in his left foot during a developmental camp in Las Vegas on Monday and will undergo surgery. It's not yet known how much time Smith might miss.
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For the first time in WNBA history, a team has forfeited a game. The league ruled that Las Vegas will be charged with a loss for its game against Washington last Friday.
Because of delays, the Aces didn't arrive in Washington until about four hours before tipoff and decided not to play because of concerns about their health and safety after 26 hours of travel.


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to my breath
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midnight blue.
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made of courage,
you fling words
off a morning cliff
before you know
if they have
wings to fly.
I want to bury my face
in your downy feathers
while you teach me
to love
like this morning rain,
early and generous,
and to receive
like thirsty ground.
Pink clover blossoms
dapple the grassy
hillside. There are
more today than even
yesterday. Everything
is finding its way
toward opening.


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1. The goalkeepers
Limerick manager TJ Ryan has handed a championship debut to Barry Hennessy ahead of Aaron Murphy, with the Kilmallock netminder stepping in for injured Nickie Quaid.
Since 2011, Quaid had enjoyed an unbroken run of championship games and that helped to provide real solidity in the Limerick defence.
With a new goalkeeper, and Stephen Walsh back in the Limerick full-back line after missing 2014, Clare will look to exploit any jitters close to the opposition goal.Source: Irish Flukey/YouTube
It's a massive game too for Patrick Kelly, Clare's 2013 All-Ireland winning goalkeeper.
Kelly was edged out for the Munster championship defeat to Cork last year by Donal Tuohy but reclaimed his place before the end of the season.
With ball in hand on at least 20 occasions per game, how the last lines of defence use it will be central to the respective gameplans.
2. Clare need leaders
Clare could be missing a third of what would be considered a first choice team on Sunday.
Brendan Bugler is suspended while Colm Galvin opted to spend the summer in Boston.
Podge Collins decided to concentrate on football only this year and Conor McGrath is set to miss out through injury.Source: MarcasOCallanain/YouTube
Cian Dillon and Conor Ryan remain injury concerns and boss Davy Fitzgerald will need other players around the pitch to step-up to the plate.
Fitzgerald needs other star names such as Tony Kelly, Colin Ryan and John Conlon to deliver big displays.
3. The midfield battle
The war between the two 65m lines, and who wins it, is a key factor in Sunday's tie.
Clare will look to pack this area with bodies but Limerick have the personnel to compete.
James Ryan, who put in a massive hit on Clare boss Davy Fitzgerald in 2012 (below), and Paudie O'Brien are listed to start in the middle.
And they will receive ample support from wing-forwards Donal O'Grady and Paul Browne, who boast plenty of midfield experience.Source: Conor Ryan/YouTube
With Colm Galvin in America, Clare are lacking in this department and Fitzgerald will need a dynamic figure to partner Patrick Donnellan there.
Donnellan is expected to be named at midfield but Fitzgerald could consider the option of listing him at centre back, allowing the more abrasive Conor Ryan to push further forward.
4. The championship debutants
Limerick have named three newcomers in their side – Barry Hennessy, Cian Lynch and Seanie O'Brien, who has been handed a first start.
How they adapt to the white heat of championship fare will prove vital and with so many key names absent, Davy Fitzgerald will rely on some new faces in his starting line-up.
O'Brien has flirted around the edge of Limerick panels in recent years but has shown excellent form for Limerick IT in the Fitzgibbon Cup, and is a player that Fitzgerald will know plenty about.Source: kelvin lynch/YouTube
In attack, Lynch will bring a real X-Factor and the two-time Munster minor medallist was fast-tracked to the senior ranks.
Fitzgerald will hope that he has one or two aces up his sleeve and with the pick of Clare's three-in-a-row All-Ireland U21 winning teams to choose from, there's a vast reservoir of talent at his disposal to plug the gaps.
5. The goal threat
The old adage that goals win games could certainly apply in Thurles and Limerick boast an inside trio of Graeme Mulcahy, Shane Dowling and Lynch, players who know where the back of the net is.
But Clare are missing their ace goal-getter Conor McGrath, who Fitzgerald privately rates as the best forward in the country.Source: MarcasOCallanain/YouTube
David Reidy is a diminutive corner forward capable of causing the Limerick inside line plenty of problems but Fitzgerald needs a focal point in attack.
The dilemma he will have grappled with is whether to deploy Tony Kelly in attack or midfield.
Kelly also has an eye for goal but Fitzgerald will surely feel that the 2013 Hurler of the Year is needed more around the middle third, to carry the fight to Limerick.
6. Fear of failure
This is a massive game for rival managers Ryan and Fitzgerald and defeat is not an option.
Both men oversaw disappointing League campaigns as Limerick failed once again to claim promotion from Division 1B, while Clare were relegated from 1A.
Anything less than an All-Ireland semi-final appearance would represent a backward step for Limerick, who ran Kilkenny desperately close at Croke Park last August.Source: HurlingGoals/YouTube
But a championship victory of any sort would provide Clare with huge momentum, as they lost to Cork last year in Munster before Wexford knocked them out of the qualifiers.
The back door route wouldn't be the end of the world for Limerick or Clare, as the winners would still have two fences to jump before lifting the Munster trophy.
But defeat would leave massive psychological scars and the direct route is very much the way to go.
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Eloise McCain Hassell hails from Wilson, North Carolina. She is married to the Honorable A. Robinson Hassell who is employed with the American Bar Association Judicial Division (former N.C. Industrial Commissioner, former N.C. Special Superior Court Judge and former N.C. District Court Judge), and they are the proud parents of two daughters. Eloise graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a B.A. in History and from Wake Forest University School of Law with a Juris Doctor.
Eloise has served the legal profession as an Agency Legal Specialist in the N.C. Department of Human Resources, as an Assistant District Attorney in Raleigh, N.C. and as an Assistant Public Defender in both Greenville, N.C. and in Greensboro, N.C. Eloise is certified as a N.C. Superior Court Mediator (inactive), N.C. District Court Arbitrator, and in matters before the N.C. Clerk of Superior Court, as well as a Certified Postal Service REDRESS Mediator. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at Elon Law School. She volunteers as a Preceptor for Elon Law school first year students. She was awarded the 2011 Elon Law School Student Bar Association Outstanding Service to Students Award. Eloise is a former Chair of the Greensboro Bar Association's Dispute Resolution Section and former President of its Young Lawyers Section.
Eloise has received 2016 UNCG Anna Maria Gove Award for Teaching Excellence, the 2016 Excellence in Teaching Disciplinary Honors Award (from the Lloyd International Honors College), the 2003 UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, the 2006 UNCG Gladys Strawn Bullard Award for Faculty Service, and the 2014, 2010, 2006, 2002, and 1998 UNCG Bryan School Teaching Excellence Award. She was awarded the 2010 National Society of Leadership and Success (Sigma Alpha Pi) Excellence in Teaching Award and the 1999 UNCG Greek Leadership Educator of the Year Award. In 2018, she was recognized by UNCG Division of Enrollment as a Faculty Champion of Student Success, and in 2019, 2018, 2016, 2012, and 2011 she was inducted into the Greensboro Bar Association Herb Falk Society for her pro bono service. In 2019 and 2018 was included in the North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society for her volunteer legal work. She was chosen by the Greensboro Bar Association to receive the 2013 Centennial award in recognition for Outstanding and Exemplary Community Service. YES! Weekly named her the 2013 Triad's Best College Instructor.
Eloise is a member of the NC State Bar, the North Carolina Bar Association, the Guilford Inn of the American Inns of Court, the Greensboro Bar Association, and the Southern Association of Pre-Law Advisors. She is admitted to practice law in the United States Middle District, and in 2014 she was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court.


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Here are some pics from the talent contest tonight! She didn't win, but she did really awesome! The girls that won were twins that wrote their own song & music and played the guitar. They were really good. I was so proud of Molly. She was so brave, sang and danced great and looked so pretty!
Molly and her Dad before the contest: (lol, Bobby looks a little ackward, lol)
Showing off her beautiful hair that her cousin Mandy did!
On stage:
Sitting at our table:
And posing with her flowers!