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Worth reading: h+ Magazine is featuring a piece by well-known wearable computing pioneer Steve Mann on the concept of sousveillance. It begins:
When Canadian police tasered Robert Dziekanski –- a man who had arrived in Vancouver International airport in October 2007 from Poland – it was not the surveillance cameras that helped bring the incident to light. It was witness Paul Pritchard who captured the killing on his camera phone. Dziekanski was tasered at least twice and then beaten by police.
This is but one example of citizens capturing their ordinary day-to-day life activities and uncovering crimes that have previously escaped capture by surveillance that looks only "from above."
Sousveillance is a form of "reflectionism," a term that describes the use of technology to mirror and confront bureaucratic organizations.
Sounds good. Now we need to look at the hard questions: where does one person's 'right to sense' interfere with another's right to privacy, where do we draw that line, and how will it be enforced? Tough questions, but we need to take them on now. If you find examples of work on this, please let us know here at OpenSourceSensing.org. —Chris Peterson


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The National Library of Scotland has a new dedicated Post Office Directories page on its website at www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office. There are 287 directories currently available from 1774-1911, about a third of those digitised for the Internet Archive project, with the rest soon to follow. At the moment they can be browsed or downloaded in PDF format only - a new search facility will follow later in 2011, with each name indexed by the first three letters on each page (i.e. PAT for PATON, PATERSON etc).
Also from the National Library:
There will be a Discovering Family History Workshop on January 10th at 2.00pm, at George IV Bridge, Edinburgh.For more see www.nls.uk/events/readers-workshops#genealogy.
There will also be a Building the Bell Rock Lighthouse Treasures Display from January 12th - February 28th 2011 at George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. See www.nls.uk/exhibitions/treasures#bell.
Finally, 18,000 Scottish maps from the library's online collection have also now been made available at the ScotlandsPlaces website at http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/.
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The Scottish GENES blog has now ceased publication - for continuing Scottish news please refer to its sister blog, British GENES, at http://britishgenes.blogspot.com. The Scottish GENES posts will remain online as an archive of Scottish genealogical news from 2007-2011. Alba - agus Scottish GENES - gu bràth!
Sunday, 26 December 2010
Scottish Post Office Directories on NLS website
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Emma Stone has refuted suggestions she was drunk when she presented an Oscar at last year's Academy Awards.
"The Help" star took to the stage with Ben Stiller at the 2012 ceremony to present the Best Visual Effects honor to the team behind "Hugo," but Stone's giddy demeanor prompted rumors she had too much to drink before her big moment.
However, Stone is adamant she was simply playing for laughs, and didn't get drunk until after she stepped off stage.
She tells W magazine, "We pretended that Ben had been to the Oscars many times and I was this really overly enthusiastic Oscar presenter. I was very excited, and he was not… A lot of people thought it was something else: When I came offstage, they were saying, 'You were so drunk!' And I wasn't. Not until after."
Stone recently teamed up with this year's Oscars host Seth MacFarlane to announce the 2013 nominees on live TV.


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Are there other ways to get chlamydia?
I recently found out that I have NGU (NonGonococcal Urethritis), and my partner said that the nurse who tested him said that I will have Chalymdia. I was tested on Dec 14, 2005 and all my test came back negative. I`ve had one other partner since then, and I only slept with him one time and that was January 16, 2006. I know it only takes one time to catch an STD, but my recent partner just found out April 6, 2006 that he had NGU, so my question is how long does it take for a person to give another person chlamydia? I would think if I`ve been infected for 3 months my partner would have gotten it before April 6. My other question is this can you get chlamydia other than from having sex, because I was told from more than one medical professional that there are other factors that can cause chlamydia. Is that true?
Chlamydia trachomatis infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. One large study found that 4% of women aged 18-26 are infected with Chlamydia, and other studies have found up to 9% prevalence in the female population. Unfortunately, most chlamydia infections are asymptomatic. Up to 70-80% of women don't know they have chlamydia, and almost 50% of men also don't know they carry the infection. Thus, it transmits to other sex partners with relatively high frequency.
Women who have symptoms from chlamydia may experience cervical infection, urethral infection and pelvic inflammatory disease; these are characterized by burning with urination, thick vaginal discharge and possible fevers. In women, chlamydia infections, especially when untreated, can lead to infertility and other long-term complications. Men who have symptoms usually experience burning with urination and penile discharge. Chlamydia infection in men typically does not lead to long-term consequences.
Risk factors for acquiring chlamydia include young age (it is most common in young adults and adolescents), multiple sexual partners, inconsistent use of condoms, and a history of previous sexually transmitted disease. All women under the age of 25 who are sexually active should be screened for chlamydia infection every 6 months to one year. It is important that you discuss this with your doctor.
As mentioned above, most men and women don't know they have chlamydia infections until they are tested for it, and it may never cause any symptoms. For this reason, all sexual partners should be treated presumptively for chlamydia if one partner has been diagnosed.
Chlamydia can cause other types of infection as well, including eye infections, pneumonia, and genital ulcers. However, NGU (non-gonococcal urethritis) / sexually transmitted genital infection is the most common infection caused by chlamydia, and the most common STD overall. When you acquire a new sexual partner, it is important to use a condom during intercourse to prevent acquiring Chlamydia, and to prevent spreading it to others.
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Bassist, composer, educator and actor John Brown is a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and currently resides in Durham, NC. He is a graduate of the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. John currently serves as Director of the Jazz Program and Associate Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University, and he has served on the faculties of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Central University and Guilford College (Greensboro, NC). He has been performing professionally since his teens, and has performed internationally with artists like Wynton Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, Delfeayo Marsalis, Elvin Jones, Nnenna Freelon, Cyrus Chestnut, Diahann Carroll, Rosemary Clooney, Nell Carter, Lou Donaldson, Slide Hampton, Nicholas Payton, Frank Foster, Larry Coryell, Cedar Walton, Fred Wesley, Bernard Purdie and Mark Whitfield, as well as giving regular performances as a substitute with the North Carolina Symphony since 1992. He has performed for President Barack Obama, and at major national and international venues and festivals in Asia, Europe and South America.
John has a GRAMMY nomination for his performance and co-writing on Nnenna Freelon's 1996 Concord release, Shaking Free, and he served on the Jury Awarding the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Music. He has also produced and performed on recordings for Nnenna Freelon, Linda Lavin and a host of others. The film One Night in Kernersville (documenting the first recording session of John's Big Band) won "Best Short Film" at the Full Frame Film Festival, "Best Cinematography" at the Charlotte Film Festival and is now being shown on the Documentary Channel. He actively performs and records internationally as a sideman and a leader, produces recordings and gives education residencies across the nation. He also directs an all star youth jazz ensemble, is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild and is a YAMAHA Certified String Instructor and serves on the Board of the Duke Cancer Patient Support Program. See videos, hear music and learn more at jbjazz.com.
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Brainstorming, Code Pink style:
Riding to the National Press Club to see Mitch McConnell, working
on a simple messaging chant about the stimulus. NTodd talks too much,
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Like people, dogs have brain areas that respond to voices
MRI study may help explain how pups understand human communication
Borbala Ferenczy
By training pooches to lie absolutely still in a brain scanner, scientists have begun revealing the mysterious inner workings of the canine brain. Like their human companions, dogs use certain parts of their brains to detect voices, researchers report in the March 3 Current Biology.
What's more, dog brains, like people's, react to emotional cues. A playful yip, pleading whine and aggressive bark elicit varying levels of activity in a certain brain region. Human laughs or cries have similar effects on dogs' brains, functional magnetic resonance imaging shows. The results might help explain how dogs sense their owners' emotions.
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Claw, Antlers craze sweeps Lone Star State
If a Rangers player gets a hit, his teammates will hold up their hands, form a claw and wave as a sign of congratulations. That's the "Claw." Then there's the "Antlers" -- both hands held up to the ears, palms outstretched. It represents a deer and is given to any player who uses his speed. More >
Rays fans squeeze into and around Trop
Unlike Games 1 and 2 at Tropicana Field, the scene outside the stadium for the ALDS clincher between the Rays and the Rangers was considerably different. More >
Kinsler caps stellar ALDS with homer
The last ball Ian Kinsler hit in the ALDS landed in the left-field seats at Tropicana Field, securing the Rangers' 5-1 victory. More >
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The Rangers are moving on to face the Yankees in the AL Championship Series starting on Friday night at Rangers Ballpark. Even though Cliff Lee won't grace the mound again until the show moves to Yankee Stadium for Game 3, his presence is everywhere. More >
Hamilton feels the burn of special bubbly
When they Rangers wrapped up the American League Division Series with a 5-1 victory on Tuesday, they eventually made their way to the clubhouse to pop open the traditional celebratory beverage. More >
CompleteLee! Road to LCS for Texas: 5th gear
The Rangers, with some incredibly daring baserunning and the mastery of pitcher Cliff Lee, are in the American League Championship Series after beating the Rays, 5-1, in Game 5 of the AL Division Series on Tuesday. More >
Ryan revels in Rangers' breakthrough
Nolan Ryan's deep satisfaction on Tuesday night at Tropicana Field, having watched Cliff Lee pitch and will his Texas Rangers to the franchise's first postseason series triumph, came through loud and clear in his soft-spoken words. More >
Running Rangers beat Rays at their own game
Slow-footed catcher Bengie Molina stole his first base in more than four years on Tuesday night, but that was nothing compared to the baserunning daring-do by three of his Rangers teammates. More >
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Once the bell rang for the playoffs, the Yankees returned to their usual tricks, making quick work of the Twins in the ALDS and waiting to learn that they would be playing the Rangers in the ALCS, which opens Friday in Arlington. More >
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While Monday was an emotional day for Bobby Cox, it was as well for his players, whose outpouring of respect and admiration was fitting for a man who'd done everything there is to do as a manager. More >
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Cody Ross was surprised to end up with the Giants after being claimed on waivers, but he has made the most of his new situation, coming up huge in the biggest of spots to put his team in the NLCS. More >
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Madison Bumgarner certainly made himself right at home on the grand stage of pitching in a clinching playoff game in the Majors. He earned the victory with six sharp innings of work against the Braves. More >
Wagner's illustrious career comes to end
Billy Wagner will head back to his family in Crozet, Va., without the World Series ring that he chased for the past 15 years and with the memories created this summer, when he spent the final season of his remarkable career playing for the same Braves organization that he loved so much during his childhood. More >
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The decision to leave in Derek Lowe, who lobbied to Bobby Cox to stay in the game, may have been the undoing of the Braves in Game 4. But up to that point, the veteran's performance was one that kept Atlanta in the NLDS against the Giants. More >
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It had all been nearly effortless for Derek Lowe as he picked the ball up off the Turner Field mound to begin the seventh, but things took a game-changing turn. More >
Errors figure prominently in Braves-Giants set
When two teams combine for 10 errors in four games, well, that's not good. That's the total for the Braves and Giants in their just-concluded National League Division Series on Monday -- three by San Francisco, seven by Atlanta. More >
Emotional Cox bids farewell to managing
When the end came for Bobby Cox as a big league manager Monday, he choked up during his final press conference and had to stop in mid-answer to some less-than-memorable question. More >
Giants' Ross is Braves' pain; epic career over
In the series' fourth one-run affair, Cody Ross homered then drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh, sending S.F. to the NLCS with a 3-2 win over Atlanta in Bobby Cox's final game. More >
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In addition to all the drama, take a minute to be thankful that the right team -- the Giants -- emerged victorious, setting up a sensational NL Championship Series. More >
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Amputees, Border Angels, Salvation Mountain, tugboats, S.D. River homeless, S.D. Bay anchorages, food trucks, metal finders, Coronado lifeguards, art restorers, least terns
Stephen Dobyns 8:30 a.m., July 20
Pasaje Foreign Book, off Constitución between Third and Fourth Streets, Baja
Aha. There he is. Right down the pasaje. Willy Clauson. He's sitting under a way-big vaquero hat, smoking a cigar and playing his guitar in front of his museum. Song's "Adelita," about the Mexican Revolutionary gal who's still such a heroine. A pan in front of him says, "Tips appreciated."
Love Willy. Also kind of hold him in awe. He's a folksinger. World class. He lives down here in Tijuana. He was just a kid in Veracruz when he discovered "La Bamba." He slowed its tempo down and adapted its words and created a certified U.S. folk hit. Then Ritchie Valens made it an all-round classic. Fifty years later, Willy's still at it. "If I don't make up three songs a day," he says, "I start worrying." But he has to keep earning money. That's why he's outside the museum (where he gives lessons, guides tourists, holds musical events), earning a spare penny or two singing.
"I was thinking of getting something to eat," I say.
"Well, my friend, I've just had some albóndigas at the Hidden Outpost. The Rocha family. Wonderful. About $4, except I pay by the month. Come."
He walks me down the pasaje, Rodriguez Passage, one of those shopping arcades between Revolución and Constitución, and through to this little eatery that opens out onto the arcade next door, Pasaje Foreign Book, which is where the old Foreign Club of the Errol Flynn era was. Now it's got a Caliente betting palace in it.
His "Hidden Outpost," Puesto Escondido, is exactly that, tucked away in this space between the two pasajes. It's nice. Cream walls, brown tile floor, and a cream tile-topped counter with about eight stools, plus three or four tables, and a roll-up metal front.
But we've come in the back way. "This is Margarita," Willy says, stopping by a middle-aged couple at a rear table. "And her husband Manuel. He's the chef. You could have albóndigas, but they also do a beautiful shrimp dish. Uh, I've got to get back."
Willy takes off to guard the museum, and Manuel points me toward the front counter. I hoist myself aboard one of the stools. Gal named Lizbeth brings up fork and napkin and a little printed paper menu. It's dated today. "A new menu every day," says this guy on the next stool, looking up from his phone. I notice he's on it full-time, scribbling as he listens, ripping off little pages, going to the next call. Name's Manuel, too. Manuel Jr. So he's, what? Taking orders?
He nods. "Ninety percent of our business is para llevar — takeout."
I check out the menu. I see Willy's albóndigas al chipotle at the top of today's menu, 39 pesos, maybe $3.50. Fajitas with chicken breast is the same price. Pretty much everything has this 39-peso price tag, except for tortas, with chicken breast or ham and cheese. They're 27 pesos, say $2.25. I really want to try the chilaquiles with chicken breast or carne asada. Chilaquiles always used to be known as the "poor man's dish" because it was just leftovers tossed in with spare bits of tortilla. Nowadays, it's a sophisticated mix of tortilla strips, sauce, a meat, cheese, maybe some chorizo, all sautéed or even sometimes baked together. And Willy had been making good sounds about the sauce. Hmm. On the other hand, along with tacos and caldos (soups), they've got camarones empanizados.
"Is that the shrimp dish Willy was talking about?" I ask Manuel Sr. "No," Manuel says. "Willy loves the camarones del chef. It's not on the menu today, but Vida the cook can make it for you."
He says they're both 45 pesos. About four bucks.
Well, if it's good enough for the guy who discovered "La Bamba…" I order that. And get a pleasant surprise. First, you get a molcajete — the traditional black Aztec volcanic rock mortar bowl — filled with chips and salsa. Then, included in the deal, there's a soup and an agua fresca, either a red jamaíca (hibiscus) or a milky horchata-type. Turns out today's is cebada — barley. I get that, and it tastes a little like vanilla. Then Lizbeth brings a bowl of "sopa de caracol." It's a beef-tomato broth with conch shell-shaped pasta floating in it.
While I'm slurping that, I sniff delicious aromas from where Vida's clanking away at the stove. She has some oniony-garlicky thing going. Then she tosses on a bunch of shrimp. Now it's cheese. She whacks it all onto a nice flowery china plate loaded with brown rice, adds an avocado salad, and presto! Plus a round box of hot tortillas. I can't believe it's all for four Washingtons.
But the killer comes in the taste. This is sophisticated stuff. Man, with that melted Monterey Jack cheese on top, salsa, rice added in, and a bit of the avocado from the salad, it's too much. I guess it's Manuel's garlicky secret. Also, can't quite guess what the crunchy stuff with the shrimp is. Whatever, ¡qué sabroso!
"Our family comes from Mazatlán," says Manuel. "I've been a waiter for years. I always dreamed of having our own restaurant. I found the food around Revolución was really bad. So I have tried hard here. But we have to sell a lot, because our profit margin is very slim."
He says a huge Chinese restaurant is going up across the arcade. It'll stretch all the way from Revolución to Constitución. He looks a little worried. "I think we'll be okay," he says. "Or, we can always go back to Mazatlán."
So, hey. This beautiful lost corner of really good cooking at really good prices may not last. Best git down here, while the gittin's good.
The Place: Puesto Escondido, Pasaje Foreign Book, off Constitución between Third and Fourth Streets, Tijuana. Tel 011-52-664-685-1415
Type of Food: Mexican
Prices: albóndigas (meatballs), 39 pesos, about $3.50 (depending on exchange rates); fajitas with chicken breast, $3.50; tortas (e.g., chicken breast, ham and cheese), $2.25; chilaquiles with chicken breast or carne asada, $3.50; two tostadas, $3.50; fish tacos, $3.25; caldo tlalpeño soup, $3.25; camarones empanizados (breaded shrimp), $4; camarones del chef (chef's recipe shrimp with melted cheese), $4
Hours: 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. daily except Tuesday
Bus: Mexicoach from San Ysidro
Nearest Bus Stop: Mexicoach depot at Seventh and Revolución, downtown Tijuana


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LONDON, March 28 (UPI) -- Arctic Monkeys, The Rolling Stones and Mumford & Sons are to be the headlining acts at the Glastonbury Festival in England on the last weekend in June.
Arctic Monkeys will play Friday, the Stones on Saturday and Mumford and Sons on Sunday.
About 135,000 people are expected to attend this year's sold-out event, which will also feature performances by Kenny Rogers, Public Enemy, Primal Scream, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Elvis Costello, Professor Green and Dizzee Rascal, the BBC said.
Rita Ora, Jake Bugg, Rufus Wainwright, Billy Bragg, Portishead, Smashing Pumpkins, The XX, The Lumineers, Alabama Shakes and Foals are also part of the lineup.
"We've tried or talked about getting the Rolling Stones to play Glastonbury throughout my entire life -- I can't remember a year it hasn't been wished upon," Glastonbury organizer Emily Eavis said. "It is such an honor to have them. I get the sense they are excited too; there's been a real buzz about it from both camps."
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DENVER - Stephen Curry had 30 points and 13 assists and the Golden State Warriors handed the Denver Nuggets their first loss at home in more than three months, a 131-117 stunner Tuesday night that evened their playoff series at a game each.
Jarrett Jack added 26 points, Harrison Barnes 24 and Klay Thompson 21 as the sixth-seeded Warriors wrested homecourt advantage from the NBA's best home team in the series that shifts to Oakland for Game 3 Friday night.
"We are a very good shooting basketball team," Warriors coach Mark Jackson said. "We've got guys that can knock down shots. You talk about Klay Thompson and Steph Curry, in my opinion, they're the greatest shooting backcourt in the history of the game."
The third-seeded Nuggets were an NBA-best 38-3 at home during the regular season but needed Andre Miller's last-second shot to beat Golden State by a basket in the opener and extend their franchise-best winning streak to 24 games.
The Warriors became the second road team to win the postseason following Chicago's win at Brooklyn on Monday.
With Golden State losing All-Star power forward David Lee to a torn hip flexor and the Nuggets getting top rebounder and energizer Kenneth Faried back from a sprained ankle, this one looked like a mismatch.
And it was, only not the way the Pepsi Center crowd anticipated.
"We're a resilient team, said that all year. When guys go down, other guys step up," Curry said. "We showed that tonight. Big road win for us. We've got to go home and protect our homecourt."
Even without their All-Star, the Warriors outrebounded the Nuggets 36-26 and shot a sizzling 64.6 percent, a franchise playoff record.
"We didn't do much of anything very well," Nuggets coach George Karl lamented. "I don't think I ever coached a game when a team got three 35-point quarters, maybe in my career. Ever."
The best anybody shot against Denver during the season was 54 percent, by the Los Angeles Lakers way back on Nov. 20, and the most points the Nuggets had allowed was 126 at San Antonio on Nov. 17.
Ty Lawson and Corey Brewer each scored 19 points for Denver and Andre Iguodala and Miller both had 18.
Lee led the league in double-doubles with 56 and had another before getting hurt in the fourth quarter of the series opener on Saturday. He was averaging 18.5 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3.5 assists.
The Warriors were 3-18 without Lee over the last three seasons, but Jackson mixed and matched his lineup to make up for his All-Star's absence on this night, when Lee cheered on his teammates from the bench.
The Nuggets were hoping the return of Faried would help them reverse their 10-point disadvantage on the boards in Game 1. But he was rusty and the same problems that plagued Denver in the opener - missing too many open shots, getting outmuscled on the glass and giving up open 3s - haunted them once again.
Curry scored 15 points in the second quarter and hit four jumpers during a 14-5 run the Warriors used to grab control and take the air out of the Pepsi Center as they cruised into halftime with a 61-53 lead that would never be threatened in the second half.
Curry swished another sweet jumper to start the third quarter and the Warriors opened up a 17-point lead they would stretch to 20 in the fourth quarter.
The Nuggets pulled to 76-69, but Thompson hit a 3-pointer from the right corner and Curry a 3 from the left to make it 82-69. Both were wide open as Denver's defenders were again running ragged trying to keep up with the Warriors, who handled the altitude just fine.
Every time the Nuggets made a run, the Warriors had an answer, whether it was Curry's jump shots or reverse dunks by Barnes.
Denver got its deficit down to 115-105 but this time it was Jack's turn to make a wide-open 3 with the Nuggets defenders scrambling around.
Faried finished with four points and two rebounds in 21 minutes.
The arena was half-empty by the time the horn sounded, a solitary fan yelling derisively, "Tacos!" when Evan Fournier's free throw fell through the hoop to give the Nuggets 110 points, the magic number for a promotion in which fans get discounted tacos.
Notes: The Warriors shot a sizzling 61 percent in the first half, when they outrebounded the Nuggets 21-14. ... The Nuggets' last loss at home was 112-108 to the Washington Wizards on Jan. 18. ... Denver had just eight fast-break points, compared to Golden State's 14.


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"It's unlike any other program in the world," said Trentman. "Everyone has a different clock. It may take one guy 12 months and another 15 years. You can't come up with a compact formulas of recovery."
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He came to Norman after serving 10 years as assistant athletics director/media relations at Illinois State. He built ISU's radio network into the largest in its history and helped negotiate the most extensive local television package at the school. He also negotiated radio contracts that doubled the number of ISU women's basketball games on radio and added women's volleyball to the sports receiving live radio coverage.
Prior to his time at ISU, Mossman served as director of sports information at Kansas State. While at K-State, the Wildcat stop was twice voted the top stop on the Big Eight Skywriter's Tour (in 1989 and 1990). He hosted the Jack Hartman Television Show in 1986 and was a color commentator on the Wildcat Basketball Network from 1984-91.
Several of his publications have won awards from the College Sports Information Directors of America and he has supervised a number of other CoSIDA publication and writing award winners. His Sooner bowl guides were judged best in the nation among all postseason guides for 10 consecutive years (2001-2010). OU has led or shared the lead for award winners in publications in Division I for three consecutive years and led all divisions once.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — After three successful seasons, the Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State will no longer participate in TerraCycle's Candy Wrapper Brigade. The decision to close the candy wrapper collection program is effective immediately.
"I want to congratulate the members of the Green Team here at the center for their good work on this project, and thank all of our partners on campus and in the community," said George Trudeau, director of the Center for the Performing Arts. "But the circumstances have changed, and it is time now for the volunteers to move on and consider other ways to help the environment."
TerraCycle provides waste collection for hard-to-recycle materials and turns the waste into affordable green products. As part of its Candy Wrapper Brigade program, points were awarded for each wrapper collected. The points were used to make contributions to nonprofit organizations and to cover the cost of shipping the wrappers for recycling.
"Last fall, we were notified that TerraCycle had lost its corporate sponsor for the Candy Wrapper Brigade and would have to discontinue points for charitable purposes and shipping stipends," said Shannon Bishop, chair of the Center for the Performing Arts Green Team. "We extended the service for one more semester, hoping that TerraCycle would resume the program. We were able to do that with the help of our friends at the UPS Store across from Wegmans, who helped offset the cost of shipping."
Bishop said the candy wrappers came in part from concession sales in the lobby of Eisenhower Auditorium, but also from individuals, churches and schools in Centre and surrounding counties.
In the three years since the center began its program, more than 30,000 wrappers were sent to TerraCycle and kept out of landfills. The program had also earned points used to provide clean water to developing countries, meals to people in need, and school supplies for displaced and at-risk children. The collection also supported the National Wildlife Federation Adopt-a-Wildlife-Acre program. With the points redeemed from candy wrappers collected in summer and fall 2013, the center was able to provide 81 students with supplies and help protect 2,664 square feet of wildlife land.
"We didn't want to abruptly end our program and disappoint our friends, so we continued for one extra semester. But TerraCycle is not reviving the Candy Wrapper Brigade program, so we've decided to close the program here at the center as well," Bishop said.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. --- Jessica MacConnell (Cary, N.C.) scored three goals on four shots, and Olivia Gudewich (Frederick, Md.) added a game-high three assists to pace the Lees-McRae College women's lacrosse team on Tuesday evening, as Queens University of Charlotte outscored the Bobcats by an 8-3 margin in the second half to hold on for an 18-8 victory in Conference Carolinas play.
Queens (6-8, 3-1 CC) held a 48-17 advantage in shots in the contest, including a 24-12 margin in the first half, while Lees-McRae (3-5, 0-3 CC) scooped up 19 ground balls and converted 18 clearing attempts. The Royals controlled 19-of-28 draws on the night, while converting 21-of-24 clears and recording 42 grounders.
MacConnell led the way for the Bobcats with three goals, as Gudewich added two tallies and a game-high three assists. Katelin Rooney (Naples, Fla.) chipped in a goal and an assist, while Jenah Tracy (Naples, Fla.) and Jessica Travers (Asheville, N.C.) each posted a tally. Nicole Dupont (Fort Myers, Fla.) recorded five ground balls, as Mia Emmerson (Orlando, Fla.) made 16 saves between the pipes.
Jena Ready paced the Royals with seven goals and two assists, while Brittany Barnwell and Brittany Larranaga added four and two strikes, respectively. Arika Zimmerman posted game-highs of six ground balls, six draw controls, and five forced turnovers, as Danielle Horoschak and Jordan Borrosh combined for four saves.
Queens jumped out to an early 4-0 lead before the Bobcats answered, cutting the advantage to 4-1 on MacConnell's first strike of the day at the 19:52 mark. Travers and Gudewich would each add a goal over the next 10 minutes, as the Bobcats closed out the first half strong with two late strikes, trimming the margin to 10-5 when Gudewich fed Tracy with 16 seconds left on the clock.
MacConnell carried the run into the second half, cutting the lead to 10-6 with her second strike of the evening at the 29:13 mark. Queens responded with five straight goals, pushing the advantage to 15-6 on a goal by Nicole Forgione with 20:43 left on the clock.
Rooney and Gudewich answered quickly for the Bobcats, trimming the margin to 16-8 on Gudewich's second goal at the 11:30 mark. The Royals would quell the rally with two quick strikes, equaling the final margin of 18-8 following Ready's seventh with 10 minutes left on the clock.
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The Hope College Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland will continue its tradition of showing contemporary independent films with "Get Low" on Monday-Saturday, Nov. 1-6, at 7:30 p.m.
The "Washington Post" has said, "With its rough-hewn poetics, suspenseful momentum and dashes of humor, 'Get Low' offers a shot of simple joy during cinemas most torrid season. It's as soothing and pure as the sweetest water from the deepest well." The "Huffington Post" has described the movie as "a soulful film with a wicked wit. It leaves you with a sense of completeness that few films inspire."
Spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party--while he was still alive--the film is a morality play about the steep price that guilt is capable of exacting on a tortured soul consumed with overwhelming regret.
Robert Duvall plays the main character, Felix "Bush" Breazeale. "Get Low" is directed by Aaron Schneider, who makes his feature debut after winning the Academy Award for his short, "Two Soldiers," and written by Chris Provenzano ("Mad Men") and C. Gaby Mitchell ("Blood Diamond'). The behind-the-scenes team includes Emmy Award-winning cinematographer David Boyd, A.S.C. ("Deadwood"), Academy Award-nominated production designer Geoffrey Kirkland ("The Right Stuff," "Children of Men") and twice Oscar-nominated costume designer Julie Weiss ("Frida," "Twelve Monkeys").
"Get Low" is rated PG-13 and is 100 minutes in length.
Tickets are $6 for regular admission and $5 for senior citizens and children, and will be available at the door. Updated information may be obtained by calling the Knickerbocker Information Line at (616) 395-7403 or visiting www.hope.edu/arts/knick.
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Bill Gross: Right on Bonds – Wrong on Stocks
Legendary bond investor, Bill Gross, just released his investment outlook for March. As always, it's a loaded read.
Some have been hailing it as a warning against a bubble in high-yield corporate debt, which Gross expresses concerns about. But as you'll see in a moment, the argument is more nuanced than that.
He also uses that information to conclude that we're in store for years of low-equity returns – which is off point altogether.
First, let's start with the bubble…
Gross' Bet on a Baby Bond Bubble
Gross uses a recent speech by Fed Governor, Jeremy Stein, to investigate the question: "How can we tell when prices have reached a bubble level?"
The asset in question is high-yield corporate debt.
Now, it's clear that "high yield" has become "not-so-high yield." In the search for income, investors have bought up corporate bonds, driving prices up and yields down.
But while yields are lower than normal, we haven't quite reached bubble territory.
Since 1996, high-yield (or junk) bonds, have returned about 5.99% more than government bonds, according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master II Index.
That average also includes the highly skewed period of 2008, when the spread reached as high as 22%.
Today the spread is down to 5%. Bubble territory? Not so much.
However, it is likely that bonds need to fall from here. So I'll give him that much.
But his outlook on stocks is another story…
Why Stocks Should Still Rule the Day
Gross takes it a step further, citing a chart by the always-insightful Bianco Research. It shows the correlation between yields and equity prices.
Keep in mind that the yield line on this is inverted. So the chart suggests that if yields on corporate bonds rise (as we are predicting), then stock prices will fall.
Makes sense. You see, during times when money leaves corporate bonds, it can be a flight to safety that would end up in Treasuries. That money would similarly leave stocks, which backs up Bianco's findings.
But here's where I see the error.
That means stocks can also rise during periods of flat or rising yields.
If you extend the timeframe on that chart (as I've done below), you can see that while the correlation does hold true sometimes, it also clearly breaks down at other times.
The key to this anomaly? Risk.
Each time this has happened in the past, it's been during periods of rising risk appetite among investors: after the 1998 Asian fiscal crisis, during the dot-com boom and during the subprime boom.
Yes, two of those scenarios were the building of bubbles. But all of them correlated with times when the investors' hunger for risk rose substantially.
Why does this happen?
Well, when money leaves bonds during periods of heightened risk appetite, it goes into stocks. So in these scenarios, stocks don't fall when corporate bond yields rise, as Bianco's research suggests.
And I've been arguing that we're undergoing the same thing right now. The risk-on/risk-off trade is dissipating. The financial crisis is over. The European crisis is (mostly) resolved.
Simply put, the stock market is booming because investors aren't afraid to take reasonable risks.
So far, this high-risk capital has been funneled into bonds because they have offered the highest return available for a while. That's why corporate bonds are likely priced too high at this time. Prices will fall and yields will rise.
Only this time around, that money will flow into stocks, not Treasuries.
Bottom line: Don't consider this bond mini-bubble to be a bad sign for stocks. I consider it just the opposite.
Ahead of the tape,
Matthew Weinschenk


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Mark Wahlberg is now officially a high school graduate after heading back to school at the age of 41.
"The Departed" star's troubled teenage years led to him quitting his studies at 13, but he returned to class last year and received his diploma in June.
Wahlberg admits he wishes he had focused on his education the first time round, insisting resuming classwork in his forties was tough.
He tells People, "I didn't want the kids saying, 'You didn't do it, so why do I need it?' They are all wanting to do things in their future that require an education."
"It's also a huge sense of relief. I wondered, 'Why didn't I do it when I was there?' It's so much harder at 41 going back and trying to do all these difficult tasks."
Now the star, who hired a math tutor to help him study in between takes on his action movie Two Guns, is looking into enrolling into higher education courses.
He adds, "I would love to go to USC (University of Southern California) and study film. I don't want to become a veterinarian or anything, (I want to study) things that further my career and broaden my horizon."


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Once upon a time in New York City, there was a down-on-his-luck actor named Reeve, who was talented and gorgeous in that dreamy, broody sort of way that makes all the women swoon. But show biz is a rough biz – he lost out on a part in a big film, and now his day job hours have been cut too. What's a handsome young thing in need of a role to do?
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"Practice kiss," she said slowly, then nodded quickly. "Right. Of course. Like a stage kiss. Like actors. So of course we'll stage kiss."
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I prepared stuffed Poblano peppers in three steps. First, I cooked balsamic shallots until they were very soft and turned almost into a compote. Then, I cooked ground beef in chipotle fig sauce and mixed in plump and chewy farro berries. The last step consisted of stuffing the beef mixture into halved Poblano peppers and baking in the oven until golden.
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Pehrson said that one of his goals is to help promote and support local businesses. "I hope to meet all the local businesses and see what the city can do to help them."
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The contrast gives the shawl a little pizzazz around the edges and frames the lace patterns nicely; the barberpole-like stripes where the edging joins the body ease the transition. It looks funky in a good way, I think. (I hope.)
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Working in physics: Making the switch to teaching
Becoming a physics teacher is not just an option for new graduates. Tom De Trafford explains how he traded in his career in finance for teaching.
There is something incredible about working with young people and giving them the skills and confidence to do something that they have never done before. For physics teachers, the ultimate challenge is to help those students who believe that physics deals with some mysterious, incomprehensible world to realize that it actually governs the world in which they live. If you can get just a few of these students to understand the relevance of physics to their lives, then you have achieved something important. It was this challenge that led me to switch careers midstream and retrain as a physics teacher.
When I finished my degree at Oxford University in 1991, I knew that I wanted to be based in London and earn enough to afford an extravagant lifestyle. These criteria led me away from science and technology into the world of finance, analysing the alcoholic drinks market at the investment bank BZW. As a young person, this was a wonderful place to be, with opportunities to travel and meet interesting people. But ultimately I realized that it was not the life I wanted. This dawned on me while I was eating a fantastic steak with a good wine at the Savoy but trying to justify a market forecast for the drinks firm Guinness that I knew would ultimately turn out to be incorrect due to factors I would never be told.
It was at this point that I moved to South Africa, where there was a demand for investment analysts with experience of European markets to help raise funds in the post-apartheid era. Although I loved working in Africa, it became clear to me after a few years that I wanted to move out of finance. On my return to the UK, I therefore got a job for a company that specialized in video-on- demand technology, albeit in a commercial position. As I sat through meetings, I discovered that I was much more interested in the technical part of the discussions and that what I enjoyed most was describing how technology works.
Taking the plunge
By the time I realized that the video-on-demand company was not going to offer me a long-term career, I had two small children and the priorities that I had used to launch my career were irrelevant to my lifestyle. It was then that I considered a more radical career change: retraining as a teacher. It took some time for me and my family to agree that this was the right decision, but the more family-friendly hours and the opportunity to work outside large cities were major plus points.
Next I had to decide how to train and what type of school to teach in. Having left London for a village in Cambridgeshire, I decided to apply for the Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) at Cambridge University. I was keen to obtain a recognized qualification and receive a good training that would give me confidence in my new career. The main alternative to the PGCE would have been an on-the-job training route called the Graduate Teacher Programme, where it is possible to earn a salary while training (see "Those who can, teach physics").
The year of training was a humbling lesson in starting at the bottom, as I realized that teaching was a totally different skill to anything I had done before. The bulk of the course was spent working in two different schools. In the first I spent a lot of time observing classes and teaching parts of lessons. At the second school it became more serious and I was given a relatively full timetable to teach, although there was always support near at hand. A real treat was the weeks spent at Cambridge University with a combination of lectures and classes. Sitting back and letting someone else do the teaching was always enjoyable, and the quality of the discussions was excellent.
The teaching life
Since I completed my PGCE in 2004, I have been teaching physics at Comberton Village College, a rural comprehensive school that draws students from the villages around Cambridge. We attract pupils with a wide range of backgrounds, including the children of leading Cambridge professors. The school takes great pride in ensuring that all students are given the best chance possible.
Each class I teach is different, with its own problems and rewards. It is often the students who are hardest to teach that I get to know best and develop the closest relationships with. Ironically, this is a result of all the time I spend outside of normal lesson times discussing my expectations for their behaviour. There are also students who never fail to inspire me with their new and interesting ideas about science, which, although not always fully thought through, can reveal an approach that I had never considered.
Switching to teaching has been one of the most rewarding and worthwhile decisions I have ever made, but it has certainly not been an easy option. On days when I am teaching large and demanding classes with no free periods I feel that I am working harder than in any of my previous jobs. Compared with even the most difficult audiences I faced in the City, a large group of 15-year-old students is far less forgiving. However, I can also say that I never find myself sitting around wishing for the end of the day. As a teacher, you must plan your lessons carefully to ensure you get things right most of the time, but when you do the rewards are enormous.
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About the author
Tom De Trafford is a physics teacher at Comberton Village School, Cambridgeshire, UK.
This article originally appeared in the April 2007 issue of Physics World
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Barbara Walters has spoken of her shock upon discovering Lindsay Lohan would be sitting for an interview with Jay Leno after pulling out of a TV interview with her last week.
The troubled actress agreed to sit down for a candid talk with Walters on "20/20″ but axed her appearance at the last minute.
Lohan's team then booked the star a slot on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on November 20, and Walters has now admitted she was stunned by the turn of events.
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She told her "The View" co-hosts, "My interview with Lindsay is canceled. She has new PR people, (a) very well known group who we do business with all the time… (I ask) 'Why is it cancelled?' 'Lindsay isn't up to it.' Well, she has a lot of problems and it was just one more and I said, 'Poor girl, you know I hope when she feels like it we'll do it.'
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Injecting the Python Interpreter Via GDB
Recently I was evaluating the security of an application sandbox and I needed a way to inject some kind of interface into the sandboxed application in order to explore the possibilities available from that context. The main objective was to be able to easily explore file and system call access to determine what was allowed/denied. I decided the most suitable interface I could use for this exploration would be the Python interactive shell.
The first step I needed to take was to get the Python library (libpython) loaded into the address space of the target application. The easiest way that I could think to do this was to utilize the call command in the Gnu Debugger (GDB). GDB's call command performs a debugee procedure call by injecting a new thread into the debugee and controlling the startup state. Since GDB already performs the necessary steps, I could take advantage of this by issuing the command:
call (int)dlopen("/usr/lib/libpython2.7.dylib")
This causes GDB to create a new thread and call the dynamic linker function dlopen() to load a shared library. Because I was testing this on Mac OS X, I specified the default path to the libpython dynamic library. On other UNIX based platforms this path would be to an .so library. On Windows libpython is a DLL .
This same functionality can be achieved on Windows using the LoadLibrary() function instead of dlopen(). Windbg also supports debugee procedure calls with the .call command. Obviously for the call to dlopen() to succeed, the platform you are using must have debug symbols for the libraries you are calling into. Otherwise, GDB does not know what address the function is at. Depending on the situation, it might be useful to use the dynamic linkers configuration variables to force the load of a debug build of the necessary libraries.
Now that I had the Python interpreter embedded into the address space of the target application, the next step was to get my own Python code executing. Again this could be easily achieved from GDB using the call command. When you are embedding Python in any application the first step is to call Py_Initialize(). The Py_Initialize() function creates the building modules in the Python namespace, as well as setting up the appropriate module search paths. The call to this function from GDB looks exactly like you would expect:
call (int)Py_Initialize()
With the Python namespace established, the only thing left to do is to execute a Python string. One easy method of doing this is to use the PyRun_SimpleString() function. This function takes a character string argument and compiles and executes it as Python code.
As you can see from the example below, we can verify that PyRun_SimpleString() has been successful by calling os.getpid() in python and comparing it with the process ID (pid) from a bash shell debugee ($$).
[nearchib@needle:~]$ gdb /bin/bash GNU gdb 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1820) (Sat Jun 16 02:40:11 UTC 2012) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. (gdb) r Starting program: /bin/bash -[nearchib@needle:~]$ Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. 0x00007fff9189fffa in read () (gdb) call (int)dlopen("/usr/lib/libpython2.7.dylib") Reading symbols for shared libraries . done $1 = 1123568 (gdb) call (int)Py_Initialize() $2 = 1985151592 (gdb) call (int)PyRun_SimpleString("import os\nprint os.getpid()") 39776 $3 = 0 (gdb) c Continuing. 5 -[nearchib@needle:~]$ echo $$ 39776
While this worked great for a console-based application where we are directly in control of stdin/stdout, it's less than ideal for a GUI-based application or a server. I decided the solution was to create a Python bindshell similar to what would be used in an exploitation scenario.
For the most part the code was fairly straightforward, although there were a few ugly hacks involved. I have included the entire code listing in the appendix to this post below; however, I will briefly run through how I went about this.
Basically, I used some pretty standard socket server code that utilizes the socket library. Calling bind()/listen() and accept() to bind a socket to a port, listen for a client to connect, and generate a new handle for the newly connected client.
Once the socket was set up, the next step was to create an instance of the code module and utilize the InteractiveInterpreter method to provide a nice Python shell. Typical invocation of this method will simply read from stdin and write to stdout; however, a different approach was used since I needed to bind this to a socket. The InteractiveInterpreter method accepts an argument readfunc, which allows us to specify a function for performing a read of the user input rather than just using raw_input (the default). I then created a function that reads from the socket (after converting it to a file using the makefile() method) using the readline() method. Doing this caused my Python bindshell to half work. Input was read from the socket; however, the output from the executing code would still go to the client. To work around this I needed to redirect writes to stdout through the socket. Because my interpreter was in the address space of another program that I was inspecting, I did not want to just dup2 stdin, as doing this would redirect the debugee's output through the socket too. To work around this I had to modify the stdin object in the python namespace to write to the socket. Unfortunately this was not a simple case of swapping the stdout object with the socket object because the socket object does not have a write() method, which is what is used by the code module to perform output functionality. At first I tried using the filehandle that I created with the makefile() method of the socket; however, this did not end up sending the output to the client. To combat this I created my own class (wsocket) that wrapped the socket object and provided a write() method that passed the data through to the send() method of the socket. I then replaced the stdout object in the Python namespace with the wsocket instance. This caused the bindshell to work as expected, as you can see below (using the netcat (nc) command to connect to the shell on port 55555):
-[nearchib@needle:~/code/pyject]$ ./pybindshell.py -[nearchib@needle:~]$ nc localhost 55555 Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 20 2012, 16:23:33) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple Clang 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-418.0.60)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. (InteractiveConsole) >>> a = 1 >>> a 1 >>>
Now that I had a working Python bindshell, I needed to inject it using the GDB commands from earlier. I decided that, rather than implementing a whole series of calls to the Python framework, I would simply encode the entire program into a single line and use PyExc_SimpleString() to execute it.
I made a tiny Python program using the base64 module, which read the whole file in, and b64 encoded it (shown below):
import base64 print base64.b64encode(open("raw","r").read())
In order to decode and execute this at runtime, I needed to use the following code.
"import code\nimport base64\ncode.InteractiveInterpreter().runcode(base64.b64decode('"
This code simply takes the base64 encoded output, decodes it back to ascii text, and passes it to the runcode() method of the InteractiveInterpreter to be executed. With this in mind the final command that I sent to GDB is:
call (int)PyRun_SimpleString("import code\nimport base64\ncode.InteractiveInterpreter().runcode(base64.b64decode( 'aW1wb3J0IHN5cwppbXBvcnQgY29kZQppbXBvcnQgdGhyZWFkCmltcG9ydCBzb2NrZXQgIAppbXBvcnQgb3MgIAoKZ2xvYmFscygpWydzb2NrZmQnX SA9ICIiCmdsb2JhbHMoKVsnc29jayddID0gIiIKCmRlZiByZWFkX2NtZCh2YXIpOgoJc29ja2ZkID0gZ2xvYmFscygpWydzb2NrZmQnXSAKCWdsb2J hbHMoKVsnc29jayddLnNlbmQodmFyKSAKCXJldHVybiBzb2NrZmQucmVhZGxpbmUoKQpkZWYgd3JpdGVfY21kKHNlbGYsIGRhdGEpOgoJZ2xvYmFsc ygpWydzb2NrJ10uc2VuZChkYXRhKQpjbGFzcyB3c29jaygpOgoJZGVmIF9faW5pdF9fKHNlbGYsIHNvY2spOgoJCXNlbGYuX19zb2NrID0gc29jawo JZGVmIHdyaXRlKHNlbGYsIHRleHQpOgoJCXJldHVybiBzZWxmLl9fc29jay5zZW5kKHRleHQpCmRlZiBiaW5kX2lhcHMoKToKCXBvcnQgPSA1NTU1N QoJc29ja2ZkID0gc29ja2V0LnNvY2tldCgpCglzb2NrZmQuc2V0c29ja29wdChzb2NrZXQuU09MX1NPQ0tFVCAsIHNvY2tldC5TT19SRVVTRUFERFI gLCAxKQoJc29ja2ZkLmJpbmQoKCIiLHBvcnQpKSAgCglzb2NrZmQubGlzdGVuKDEpICAKCWNzICwgY2FkZHIgPSBzb2NrZmQuYWNjZXB0KCkgIAoJC glnbG9iYWxzKClbJ3NvY2tmZCddID0gY3MubWFrZWZpbGUoKQoJZ2xvYmFscygpWydzb2NrJ10gPSBjcwoJc3lzLnN0ZG91dCA9IHdzb2NrKGNzKSA KCWNvZGUuSW50ZXJhY3RpdmVJbnRlcnByZXRlci53cml0ZSA9IHdyaXRlX2NtZAoJY29kZS5pbnRlcmFjdChsb2NhbD1sb2NhbHMoKSwgcmVhZGZ1b mM9cmVhZF9jbWQpCnRocmVhZC5zdGFydF9uZXcoYmluZF9pYXBzLCgpKQppbXBvcnQgdGltZQp3aGlsZShUcnVlKToKCXRpbWUuc2xlZXAoNSkK'))")
This worked perfectly and allowed me to easily inject the interpreter; however, it would leave the GDB session blocking and unusable. I decided it would be more useful to have a working GDB session, which would make it possible to explore the address space while using ctypes from the Python shell to create API stubs for executing functionality in the debugee. The problem though, was that if I pressed ^C (control C) to interrupt the execution of the call command, GDB shut down the Python code that was executing. To get around this, I created a thread inside my Python bindshell, and executed the InteractiveInterpreter inside it.
I then issued the following command in GDB:
set unwindonsignal
Set unwinding of the stack if a signal is received while in a function that gdb called in the program being debugged. If set to on, gdb unwinds the stack it created for the call and restores the context to what it was before the call. If set to off (the default), gdb stops in the frame where the signal was received.
The result of this command was that when I interrupted the running command in GDB, the stack unwound and GDB continued as normal. However, because the bindshell was now running in its own thread, it resumed execution when the continue command was given.
At this stage I thought that I was done. However, when I injected my bindshell into the target app I received an error loading modules such as base64 or ctypes from the lib-dynload/ directory. After much searching I discovered an obscure bug report on the Python site, http://bugs.python.org/issue4434. The poster notes that he was provided with a work around:
"I have been given the following workaround: in mylib.c, before PyInitialize() I can call dlopen("libpython2.5.so", RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL);"
After reading this I modified my dlopen call to include the flag value: 9.
This is the result of the operation RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL. This left me with the following:
call (int)dlopen("/usr/lib/libpython.dylib",9)
After I made this modification it solved the above problem and the code worked fine.
To make it more convenient for me to run the code again, I created a GDB command to house the finished statements. The syntax for this is pretty simple. I created the pyject command, which takes no arguments and will simply run the commands we discussed thus far. Running the command results in the Python interpreter being injected and executed, and our Python bindshell binding to port 55555.
There are many uses for this functionality, the sandbox example is just one of them. As I mentioned previously, it's possible to craft ctypes stubs from Python to call into the APIs of the debugged process. This can be very useful as confirmation of reverse engineering practice, as well as providing a strong basis for exploration of unknown software. There have been several published tools for injecting Python into a process in the past; the reason I worked on this, however, is that it doesn't require an additional tool to inject and this technique works on multiple platforms.
To utilize the gdbinit, on a unix platform, copy it into your home directory as .gdbinit.
Appendix (Code):
define pyject echo [+] pyject - Injecting a python interpreter into the debugee.\n echo \n echo press ^C to return to gdb...\n set unwindonsignal on #RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL == 9 call (int)dlopen("/usr/lib/libpython.dylib",9) call (int)Py_Initialize() call (int)PyRun_SimpleString("import code\nimport base64\ncode.InteractiveInterpreter().runcode(base64.b64decode('aW1wb3J0IHN5cwppbXBvcnQgY29 kZQppbXBvcnQgdGhyZWFkCmltcG9ydCBzb2NrZXQgIAppbXBvcnQgb3MgIAoKZ2xvYmFscygpWydzb2NrZmQnXSA9ICIiCmdsb2JhbHMoKVsnc29jayddID0gIiIKCmRlZiByZWFkX2NtZCh2YXIp OgoJc29ja2ZkID0gZ2xvYmFscygpWydzb2NrZmQnXSAKCWdsb2JhbHMoKVsnc29jayddLnNlbmQodmFyKSAKCXJldHVybiBzb2NrZmQucmVhZGxpbmUoKQpkZWYgd3JpdGVfY21kKHNlbGYsIGRhd GEpOgoJZ2xvYmFscygpWydzb2NrJ10uc2VuZChkYXRhKQpjbGFzcyB3c29jaygpOgoJZGVmIF9faW5pdF9fKHNlbGYsIHNvY2spOgoJCXNlbGYuX19zb2NrID0gc29jawoJZGVmIHdyaXRlKHNlbG YsIHRleHQpOgoJCXJldHVybiBzZWxmLl9fc29jay5zZW5kKHRleHQpCmRlZiBiaW5kX2lhcHMoKToKCXBvcnQgPSA1NTU1NQoJc29ja2ZkID0gc29ja2V0LnNvY2tldCgpCglzb2NrZmQuc2V0c29 ja29wdChzb2NrZXQuU09MX1NPQ0tFVCAsIHNvY2tldC5TT19SRVVTRUFERFIgLCAxKQoJc29ja2ZkLmJpbmQoKCIiLHBvcnQpKSAgCglzb2NrZmQubGlzdGVuKDEpICAKCWNzICwgY2FkZHIgPSBz b2NrZmQuYWNjZXB0KCkgIAoJCglnbG9iYWxzKClbJ3NvY2tmZCddID0gY3MubWFrZWZpbGUoKQoJZ2xvYmFscygpWydzb2NrJ10gPSBjcwoJc3lzLnN0ZG91dCA9IHdzb2NrKGNzKSAKCWNvZGUuS W50ZXJhY3RpdmVJbnRlcnByZXRlci53cml0ZSA9IHdyaXRlX2NtZAoJY29kZS5pbnRlcmFjdChsb2NhbD1sb2NhbHMoKSwgcmVhZGZ1bmM9cmVhZF9jbWQpCnRocmVhZC5zdGFydF9uZXcoYmluZF 9pYXBzLCgpKQppbXBvcnQgdGltZQp3aGlsZShUcnVlKToKCXRpbWUuc2xlZXAoNSkK'))") end document pyject pyject -- Inject the python interpreter into the running process. Binds an interactive session to TCP port 55555 end
#!/usr/bin/python import sys import code import thread import socket import os globals()['sockfd'] = "" globals()['sock'] = "" def read_cmd(var): sockfd = globals()['sockfd'] globals()['sock'].send(var) # prompt return sockfd.readline() # end read_cmd def write_cmd(self, data): # print "writing %s\n" % data; globals()['sock'].send(data) # end write_cmd class wsock(): def __init__(self, sock): self.__sock = sock # end __init__ def write(self, text): return self.__sock.send(text) # end write # end class def bind_iaps(): port = 55555 sockfd = socket.socket() sockfd.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET , socket.SO_REUSEADDR , 1) sockfd.bind(("",port)) sockfd.listen(1) # got connection cs , caddr = sockfd.accept() globals()['sockfd'] = cs.makefile() globals()['sock'] = cs sys.stdout = wsock(cs) # hack much? code.InteractiveInterpreter.write = write_cmd code.interact(local=locals(), readfunc=read_cmd) # end bind_iaps thread.start_new(bind_iaps,()) import time while(True): time.sleep(5)
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Dr. Jose A. Wong - Perez
…An excellent approach…thanks for sharing it, greatly appreciated…regards from PR.
Thank you, that was an excellent article.