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Next State Meeting
Feb 14, 2005

MONTANA WINTER FAIR 
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January 26-30, 2005 Lewistown, MT http://russell.visitmt.com 800-406-8841 Come have some fun during the chilly winter months at the only winter fair in Montana. The Montana Winter Fair is a state winter fair consisting of a livestock show, horse show & sale, and bull expo. Wait there's more; a draft horse and pull contest, youth livestock events, fiddlers contest, art swap and shop, youth educational events, commercial exhibits, farm forum, death by chocolate competition, chili and cinnamon roll bake off, photography, quilts and leather working divisions, farm equipment displays, stock dog trials and clinic, cowboy church, a free Sunday breakfast and lots of great Central Montana scenery. 

The hypodermic needle was invented in 1853. It was initially used for giving injections of morphine as a painkiller. 
Physicians mistakenly believed that morphine would not be addictive if it by-passed the digestive tract. 

How do you fix a woman's watch?
You don't. There is a clock on the oven.

Harley-Davidson has created a new section on its Web site dedicated to women who would rather ride their bike than sit on the back of one.
The section is called "Women and Motorcycling." The section includes information on learning how to ride, as well as a history of women and motorcycling.

In 1765, the sandwich was invented by John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, who gave the food its name. The Earl used to order roast beef between pieces of toast for a snack while he was at the gaming tables, it allowed him to keep one hand free to play while he ate.

MSN's Hotmail service, which has almost 200 million users worldwide, has dumped McAfee as its antivirus partner in favor of rival Trend Micro. 

According to Microsoft, e-mails and attachments sent or received by any of Hotmail's 187 million Web mail customers will be scanned in real time by Trend Micro's antivirus software beginning Monday. 

Hotmail's antivirus service was previously provided by McAfee and the reason for the change is unclear. 
However, Martin Hoffman, chief executive of Ninemsn, which operates Hotmail in Australia and is half owned by Microsoft, said in a statement that Hotmail will be able to provide a "safer online experience" using Trend Micro's products because they provide "deeper antivirus protection."

Microsoft is investigating reports of a new Internet Explorer flaw that puts people with the most secure version of Windows at risk of phishing attacks. 

The software giant said Friday that it is looking into reports from security company Secunia and others that a vulnerability in IE6 enables scammers to launch a phishing attack against PCs loaded with the latest security updated version of Windows, Service Pack 2, and older versions of the operating system. Phishing attacks typically use such fake sites, which look like legitimate sites of companies such as banks, to try to con people into handing over personal information such as credit card numbers. --ZDNet


The Mozilla group expects to run a thank-you ad in the New York Times by Christmas as new market share numbers showed continued progress against Microsoft. 

The Mozilla Foundation, an open-source group founded by Netscape Communications to develop its browser and spun off last year by AOL Time Warner, has been executing an unorthodox, volunteer marketing campaign. To mark last month's official launch of the Firefox browser, the group planned to take out a full-page New York Times ad thanking financial contributors 

Using a 'If you can't beat them, join them' strategy, Canada's federal prison system is considering providing tattooing lessons and tools to its convicts. Corrections Canada officials are considering the measure in move to curb the spread of diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday. "Inmates are already tattooing with makeshift needles," Corrections Canada spokesperson Dennis Finlay told CBC News. "The danger is that they share these tattoo needles by using them on a number of inmates. That's what's causing the spread of infectious diseases in the institutions ... At least this way, the needles will be safe." Finlay said HIV and hepatitis C infection rates are 10 to 30 times higher among convicts than they are for the general population. 

WELLAND -- A former member of the Niagara Hells Angels chapter has been arrested after he tried to intimidate a 22-year-old rookie police officer, said Niagara Region police. Police arrested a 45-year-old Welland man Thursday and he was later taken to hospital after complaints of chest pains. 

The arrest followed an incident in which a man went to the Port Colborne police detachment and confronted a young officer in the parking lot, police said. 

After identifying himself as the Angels' former sergeant-at-arms, he allegedly made a number of veiled threats in an attempt to threaten and intimidate the officer over a minor traffic enforcement matter, said Const. Rick Geady. 
Richard Ward has been charged with one count of uttering threats