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Idaho Gov. Butch Otter's 2013 State of the State Speech
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The following is a word cloud a text transcript of Idaho Gov. Butch Otter's 2013 State of the State speech, delivered Jan. 7.
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Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Honorable Justices, my fellow constitutional officers, distinguished legislators and members of my Cabinet, honored guests, friends, my family and our First Lady, my fellow Idahoans. Thank you for inviting me to provide my perspective on where the past year has taken us and where we should go from here.
Before I begin, please join me in paying tribute to Colonel Jerry Russell, who's retiring as Idaho State Police director after a distinguished career in law enforcement; and also to Donna Jones, our dear friend and former legislator who stepped down as State Controller to focus on recovering from a terrible car accident in 2012. They have my sincere thanks and deep regard for their years of dedicated service to the people of Idaho.
I also want to congratulate all the members of this 62nd Idaho Legislature on your election. Thank you for your public service. It's an honorable pursuit, and I appreciate your willingness to take it on.
My congratulations as well to the Legislature's newly elected leadership teams - House and Senate, Republican and Democrat. Thank you for stepping up to the challenge of constructively channeling the civic virtue within your respective caucuses into public policy that reflects the will of your constituents, the directives of our Constitution, and the better angels of your own conscience.
As many of you know, March 4th of this year - 2013 - marks the 150th anniversary of Idaho officially becoming a U.S. territory. President Abraham Lincoln signed the act of Congress just two months after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, and eight months before speaking some of the most cherished and timeless words in American history at the site where thousands of Americans lost their lives in battle - Gettysburg.
I'm sure many of you also know that the new Idaho Territory was created by carving out areas from other newly formed jurisdictions. That made for a geographic hybrid, and in a wartime wilderness Idaho was left to create its own identity and its own way forward.
It was the birth of Idaho's fierce independence and steadfast commitment to individual liberty that remain defining qualities of our state and our people. Now most of us live in relative comfort and plenty - the frontier tamed, the desert abloom, our state and the world seemingly filled with marvels our pioneer forefathers never imagined. But the search for our own identity and way forward continues.
Idaho is a work in progress, and what's past is prologue. No less today than in 1863 - and in many ways more than ever - WE citizens of Idaho have the opportunity and indeed the obligation to chart a path forward reflecting our independence, our self-reliance and our love of liberty. We are the products of the "new birth of freedom" that Lincoln proclaimed at Gettysburg.
Today I'd like to talk with you about how we use that freedom to advance our shared goals and values.
That involves thinking about public policy and the proper role of government in terms of the next generation - not just the next election - in order to build a more responsible, sustainable and inclusive future.
We all want an Idaho where government wisely uses the people's resources to provide the public services and infrastructure needed for our citizens' safety, health and security. We all want an Idaho where government encourages the creation of career opportunities and ensures citizens can prepare for those careers right here at home.
We all want an Idaho where government works fairly and effectively to improve public efficiency, transparency and what the Founders called the "general welfare" of the people.
We all want an Idaho where government promotes and protects equal justice under law while carefully, consistently and fiercely safeguarding individual and private property rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
And as other institutions, states and nations struggle and often fail to find fiscal balance, we all understand that our responsibilities must be met within the people's means. I hope you share my commitment to ensuring that our State government never grows as fast as our economy and the people's ability to pay for it.
So with that as a starting point, I am submitting a budget recommendation today calling for a 3.1-percent increase in General Fund spending. That reflects slow but steady growth in our economy - an estimated 5.3- percent revenue increase for fiscal year 2014.
It also reflects great uncertainty due to irresponsible federal leadership, and our continuing need for caution and prudence in the collection and expenditure of the people's hard-earned dollars. But I am pleased to report that I've done as promised and brought you a General Fund budget recommendation that is structurally sound, with no one-time revenue used for ongoing financial obligations.
Like you, my highest priority remains public schools. You will find that my budget recommendation includes increased funding for K-12 education. However, I do NOT seek to simply revisit issues related to school improvement that were raised in the recent election. Instead, I've asked the State Board of Education to assemble a broad cross-section of stakeholders to study the message voters sent us and identify elements of school improvement on which there is broad agreement.
I'm convinced that acting too quickly or without due deliberation will generate needless distraction from our goals of improving efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability in our education system. There was no electoral mandate for the changes we proposed on November 6th. But I also heard no clarion call for the status quo.
What I heard was dissatisfaction with the process and a plea for more collaborative leadership. We must respond with appropriate sensitivity and care.
Let me say it again: I am neither calling for nor expecting major school improvement measures this year. But I believe there are areas in which we can make progress, and I encourage you and all citizens to engage in that public discussion. It's our very best chance to strengthen the foundation of our future.
Likewise, it is with our future in mind that my budget recommendation for fiscal 2014 builds on the great work you have already done in starting to refill our rainy day accounts. As you know, we are putting a total of almost $71 million in the Budget and Public Education stabilization funds by the end of this fiscal year.
For next year I'm calling for that effort to continue as a hedge against national and global economic and fiscal uncertainty. The Great Recession showed us beyond any doubt the value of maintaining a healthy financial reserve. As much as any other factor, it set Idaho apart from most other states in response to tough times.
We must exercise foresight and frugality while working to sustain and grow our economy. Building up our rainy day funds provides the kind of budget stability that Idaho taxpayers need and expect. Budget stability and fiscal responsibility also are key parts of our State efforts to promote economic development and job creation. They are essential to enabling existing businesses to grow and new enterprises to make their home here, as well as advancing the kinds of public-private partnerships that will be an increasing part of America's 21st century social dynamic.
Neither government nor business alone can provide all the ingredients necessary for progress. We must leverage our limited resources toward realizing unlimited opportunities together. That's the idea behind IGEM - the Idaho Global Entrepreneurial Mission, which you created last year. You will hear much more about its work as the IGEM Council reports to the germane House and Senate committees.
But I can tell you that never before have our three research universities worked together more collaboratively or been more committed to finding common ground and mutual benefit with our business leaders. Together with the Idaho National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies - and given time and our sustained support - they will nurture a rising tide of economic activity that will lift all our boats.
Meanwhile, Commerce Director Jeff Sayer, Labor Director Roger Madsen and the State Board of Education, our universities and our community colleges are preparing our workforce, encouraging our employers and putting the right policies and programs in place for a more prosperous Idaho.
At North Idaho College, new President Joe Dunlap is using a $3 million federal grant to create an aerospace center in Coeur d'Alene to meet the workforce demands of a growing industry in the Panhandle. It's a watershed event for the region. Such employers as Empire Aerospace, Tamarack Aerospace and Quest Aircraft are building a critical mass of manufacturing, service and support operations. Growing a highly skilled northern Idaho workforce will help advance that process.
At the College of Western Idaho, President Bert Glandon is working with the Idaho Technology Council on developing an industry certified software developer program to help address a chronic shortage of qualified workers for the growing technology sector here in the Treasure Valley. CWI also recently opened an impressive Professional Technical Education center in Nampa to help meet rapidly expanding employer and student needs.
And at the College of Southern Idaho, new and growing businesses like Chobani and Glanbia have President Jerry Beck working to accommodate the workforce needs of the Magic Valley's rapidly expanding value-added industry by building an $8.5 million Applied Technology and Innovation Center.
I would be remiss today if I failed to extend my gratitude to the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation for its continued generous financial support of Idaho education. It most recently granted $5 million to the University of Idaho and Northwest Nazarene University to establish technology learning and innovation centers for teachers.
That's a godsend for our efforts to improve and expand technology in Idaho classrooms, and I'm confident it will result in development of more educators like Katie Pemberton of Canfield Middle School in Coeur d'Alene. Many of you know that Katie is our 2013 Idaho Teacher of the Year, and she's earned that recognition in part by making technology a cornerstone of her math classes at Canfield.
Such responsive, forward-looking people and programs are helping lift our statewide economic activity to almost $58 billion a year. That's up from about $51.5 billion just a few years ago. And that puts achievement of my Project 60 economic development goal well within reach, and soon.
But $60 billion a year isn't a finish line; it's only a benchmark. Let me tell you just how committed many of our Idaho entrepreneurs are to seeing that milestone in the rearview mirror.
Doug Sayer of Premier Technology in Blackfoot recently made a simple but profound change in the way he does business - shifting to Idaho suppliers for a greater share of everything he buys for his company's operations. And he did it without sacrificing quality or profitability.
Now he's challenging other Idaho business leaders to join him in that endeavor. Doug is working with the Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry and other organizations to spread the word, and I've agreed to help by issuing a challenge of my own to Idaho businesses: Make it a priority to invest here at home. Join Premier Technology and others in devoting a greater percentage of your supply-chain purchases to Idaho vendors.
That step alone can help ensure we're providing Idaho enterprises with every possible chance for success, and creating more Idaho jobs in the process. This goes well beyond the Buy Idaho organization that's still flourishing more than 25 years after I helped start it. And it's especially gratifying to see a grassroots initiative from our responsible and engaged corporate citizens and employers.
My thanks to them for advancing this proposal, and for working to see that its promise is realized. There's another investment that Idaho taxpayers are making in job creation. It's called the Hire One Act, which you approved at my request in 2011.
We'll soon see how many employers took advantage of the income tax credit it provides for creating new jobs as those businesses start filing their 2012 tax returns. But a number of companies already have told us that the terms and conditions of qualifying for that incentive are too complex and onerous to be the useful tool we'd hoped in economic development.
So I'm bringing you legislation this year to address those concerns and reflect our changing conditions and needs. It simplifies, clarifies and streamlines the law so that our local and state economic development experts can maximize its potential for growing our workforce and our tax base.
In addition, my new Hire One More Employee or HOME Act recognizes the special needs and our special responsibility to veterans - including the brave men and women returning home from the Global War on Terror, whose unemployment rate is much higher than the overall percentage of jobless Americans.
That's a national disgrace, and our State agencies are working together to focus public attention and address the problem through the Hire One Hero program. My new legislation is intended to provide one more reason for employers to consider veterans, besides their skills, training and work ethic. Beyond a 4-percent income tax credit for each new employee they hire, it also would add $1,000 to the employer's tax credit for each of those new employees who also are veterans.
Tragically, some of our Idaho heroes don't come home. In 2012, we lost:
-- Lance Corporal Kenneth Cochran of rural Canyon County.
-- Sergeant Daniel J. Brown of Twin Falls.
-- Specialist Chris Workman of Rupert.
-- Specialist Cody Moosman of Preston.
-- Specialist Ethan Martin of Bonners Ferry, and
-- Private First Class Shane Wilson of Kuna.
And yes, we still await the release from Taliban custody and pray for the homecoming of Bowe Bergdahl. Please join me in honoring the valor and sacrifice of these Idaho war fighters, and in reaffirming our own commitment to protecting and defending the American and Idaho way of life.
For those Idaho veterans now returning to civilian life, even our difficult job market is substantially better than it was a year ago.
Our unemployment rate has fallen more than 20 percent in the past 17 months. And while growth has been limited, our economy IS recovering from the loss of more than 50,000 jobs during the Great Recession.
One significant sign of recovery is Idaho's first reduction in unemployment insurance rates in several years. It will result in about $50 million in savings to Idaho employers in 2013 alone. That will give those businesses more flexibility to invest in capital improvements, expansion, and we hope even more job creation.
Career and economic growth opportunities are also at the heart of the work being done by my Leadership in Nuclear Energy or LINE Commission. Contrary to what you might see in the news, its work is not about making Idaho the nation's nuclear dumping ground.
Rather, it's focused on assessing our long-term options for securing, enhancing and leveraging work being done at the Idaho National Laboratory and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies.
To do otherwise ignores the existing impact and the enormous untapped potential of those operations and their private-sector spinoffs - not just in eastern Idaho, but throughout our state and the entire region. I am as committed as ever to enforcing the terms of our 1995 agreement with the federal government to get all nuclear waste out of Idaho by 2035.
But the Yucca Mountain facility in Nevada may never open, leaving fulfillment of the agreement at the mercy of the feds' failure to secure a permanent waste repository. That leaves the matter of preparing for an uncertain future to us.
A 30-day public comment period on the seven key questions raised by the LINE Commission ended last Friday. A final report will be submitted to me by January 31.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Pro Tem, I encourage you to add hearings on that report to your busy legislative agenda in order to broaden and advance the discussion.
Of course, your agenda already includes discussions on eliminating the personal property tax - which nearly everyone agrees is an unfair drag on our economy. I believe we now have consensus that accomplishing that should be a priority for this legislative session. The question is how.
As you know, personal property tax receipts are a significant part of how some of our counties pay for public services. Whether the tax is eliminated all at once or phased out over a few years is less important to me than an exit strategy that considers our counties' financial stability.
That isn't necessarily about using State revenues to make counties "whole." In fact, my preference is granting local-option taxing authority that enables county voters to decide for themselves how to address their most pressing needs. However, I also have set aside $20 million in my budget for easing counties' transition. I look forward to hearing your debate and considering your alternatives.
Like our counties, our State has the right and we certainly have the responsibility to keep as many options as possible open to the people. That's part of the dynamic behind my recent decision to pursue a state-based health insurance exchange rather than defaulting to total federal control of that process.
Rejecting the opportunity to assert ourselves will result in an unresponsive, one-size-fits-all federal exchange wreaking havoc on some of America's most reasonable costs of coverage. At its core, this is a matter of state's rights.
You all know how I feel about Obamacare. I will continue encouraging and supporting efforts by our Idaho congressional delegation and many others to repeal and replace the law. But the fact remains that for now and for the foreseeable future it is the law.
And as responsible elected officials we're sworn to uphold the rule of law - not just those laws that we support. So I urge you to look beyond the important work of changing a misguided federal law to the essential task at hand for those of us in this chamber today - preserving for Idaho citizens the option of having a voice in how one element of that law is implemented.
I soon will be introducing legislation affirming my decision.
My door is open to discussing the challenges and our shared frustrations, and Department of Insurance Director Bill Deal is ready to answer your questions and explain the process. I'm grateful to Bill and the working group that he led on this issue, including Senator John Goedde, Representative John Rusche and Representative Lynn Luker.
The other Obamacare provision I want to address briefly today is Medicaid.
As you know, the U.S. Supreme Court exempted states from the mandate to expand Medicaid eligibility to more low-income adults. But that leaves us with both a question and an opportunity: What will federal Medicaid changes mean for our own Catastrophic Health Care or "Cat" fund, and is there a better way forward for Idaho?
Health and Welfare Director Dick Armstrong led a Medicaid working group I assembled last summer that included Representative Fred Wood, Senator Patti Anne Lodge and Senator Dan Schmidt. They did a great job of analyzing this sensitive issue and developing a thoughtful recommendation.
It sets some specific and significant conditions on expanding coverage for the working poor in Idaho. They include a greater focus on personal accountability and steps for encouraging preventive measures and healthy behaviors.
In addition, the working group called for basing incentives for Medicaid reimbursements not on the number of patients a provider sees but rather on how successfully they keep people healthy. As you'll hear in a moment, we have some pretty good ideas about that kind of managed care model.
But there's a lot more work to do, and we face no immediate federal deadline. We have time to do this right, and there is broad agreement that the existing Medicaid program is broken. So I'm seeking no expansion of those benefits.
Instead, I'm asking Director Armstrong to lead an effort to flesh out a plan for changing Idaho's system with an eye toward the potential costs, savings and economic impact. I hope to return in 2014 with specific proposals based on that work, and I encourage all Idahoans to get involved with this process.
Now, putting aside our federal challenges, I'd like to update you on what the State of Idaho is doing to help achieve our own goal of more affordable, accessible health care for all our citizens.
First, here are some scary numbers: Idaho has the sixth-oldest physician workforce in America, and we rank 49th in the nation for doctors per capita. That's a formula for trouble unless we step up our efforts to get beyond the 20 medical school seats available for Idaho students each year. It's the same number available to us since 1972, when Idaho's population was less than half the 1.5 million people we have today. You will find in my budget recommendation two proposals for improvement.
One would fund rural rotation training for each of the 24 participants in the Internal Medicine Residency program at the Boise VA Medical Center. The federal government pays for student costs in other aspects of the program, but not rural rotations. We know that internal medicine residency graduates are twice as likely to practice primary care if they have a rural training experience.
In fact, a recent national study found that rural training is the only kind of residency program that increases the number of new physicians entering the primary care field. Besides giving us a better chance of keeping these doctors in Idaho after their residency, the rural training itself provides direct care to more than 25,000 Idaho citizens - including 1,500 Idaho National Guard members who returned from deployment a little over a year ago.
My second budget recommendation calls for funding five additional seats in the WWAMI collaborative medical school program at the University of Washington. Those extra seats would go to students in the Targeted Rural and Under-Served Track or TRUST program, designed to turn more Idaho students into Idaho physicians.
Like the rest of my budget, both these requests deserve your strong support.
Before I leave the topic of health care, let me tell you a little about a program for which there is no General Fund request but which could have a major impact on how we administer Medicaid in the years to come. It's called the Idaho Medical Home Collaborative, and it was established by my executive order in September 2010 to implement a patient-centered model of care.
That involves improving accountability by building personal relationships between medical home physicians and their patients - a new approach to the old-fashioned idea of making health care decisions a more personal process.
Starting this month, 23 organizations will participate in a pilot program involving 290,000 patients. It will test medical home theory in urban and rural areas and in medical practices large and small. All three of Idaho's private health insurers are participating, as well as Medicaid. I look forward to watching the progress of our Medical Home Collaborative in improving care and holding down costs for Idaho patients.
There is another population of Idahoans for whom "care" is a matter of public safety. We all saw just a few weeks ago the terrible impact on a community and a nation when mental illness leads to tragedy.
Cost is just one of the enormous barriers to effectively addressing the challenges of protecting the public from those whose illness leads them to commit unspeakable acts. Those challenges deserve our earnest discussion. But we also must act where and how we can to reduce the risk.
More than a quarter of the inmates in our State prison system have some level of mental illness. Many can be housed safely within appropriate settings in our existing facilities. But others need higher levels of care, more treatment and more intensive intervention for their own safety and that of others. That's why I support the Department of Correction's request for permission to issue $70 million in bonds for a 579-bed secure mental health facility at the prison complex south of Boise.
Correction Director Reinke has discussed this proposal with some of you. Now he stands ready to make his case for reauthorizing the previous request you approved - which would have built a smaller facility at the same cost.
No one likes spending money on prisons or inmates. But public safety is increasingly compromised by our inability to provide secure housing and appropriate treatment for mentally ill offenders. So I appreciate your careful and considered attention to helping us avoid more costly measures being imposed by federal courts.
We're all painfully aware of the damage that federal court rulings can do to our traditional industries and our Idaho lifestyle. We need look no further than the Endangered Species Act to see the essential conflict between federal and state priorities - especially when it comes to our natural resources.
Even putting aside wolves and grizzly bears, there's no doubt that the threat of federal edicts on sagegrouse, slickspot peppergrass, woodland caribou and other species have a profound impact not only on public policy here in Idaho but also on how our farmers, ranchers and others can pursue their livelihoods.
We are working proactively to avoid worst-case scenarios and to assert our rights as a state. However, this past year we reaped the whirlwind sown by federal neglect and mismanagement of our public lands.
Wildfire suppression costs alone approached a quarter-billion dollars - not counting huge impacts on the environment, public health, property, and the unrealized benefits of healthy, actively managed forests and rangeland.
Then there was Anne Veseth, a 20-year-old Lewis-Clark State College student from Moscow. Ann was killed in August while working as a seasonal firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service in Clearwater County.
We owe her and thousands like her a fighting chance while protecting our forests and rangelands. That's why my budget includes a $400,000 request to help create four more volunteer fire protection associations like the one formed by Mountain Home-area ranchers last summer.
Nonprofit groups like theirs can assist the BLM, Idaho Department of Lands and rural fire districts in fighting and maybe even preventing catastrophic wildfires on the nearly two-thirds of Idaho land "managed" by the federal government.
Another example of our Idaho preference for actively managing our precious natural resources is the newly revised State Water Plan being submitted for your approval this session. It's the first update since 1996, and it reflects use of the latest technology in better evaluating our needs and the status of our water supplies.
Just as importantly, for the first time the plan is about more than our goals - it also includes strategies and milestones for executing our management policies and evaluating their effectiveness. It goes to the very heart of the data-driven policy making I've been promoting throughout my administration.
My thanks to Water Resources Director Gary Spackman and members of the Water Resource Board, the water-user community and the public at large for participating in this important work. It will help guide how we use, protect and replenish our water supplies for a more sustainable future.
Of course, our best chance for sustaining our Idaho way of life is an engaged public.
During the past year I've conducted Capital for a Day in communities throughout Idaho, from Nordman to Victor and Ashton to Fruitland. I've met with hundreds of individual citizens of every age, education, occupation and political view - including many legislators, and I thank you for participating in those open community forums.
What all of the people I've met at Capital for a Day have in common - and what they share with those of us in this chamber - are civic virtue and a deep commitment to retaining and building on what is great about Idaho.
That greatness plays out not only in what makes the headlines or the evening news, and certainly not only in what we do here, but more fundamentally in what our people do in their own lives and communities.
I was proud to note that Idaho recently was ranked as second only to our neighbor Utah for the rate at which our citizens volunteer to uplift and improve the lives of others. More than a third of us gave of ourselves in 2011, and we as a state contributed an estimated $1.4 billion worth of service.
I'm confident that level of personal philanthropy continued and even grew in 2012, and that we'll keep paying it forward in 2013 and beyond - because volunteering and taking care of our own is in our DNA. It's who we are. It's who you are, and I'm proud to join you in pressing ahead toward an ever-brighter and more hopeful future for us all.
Thank you for your time and attention. I wish you all the best in your work here, and may God continue to bless Idaho and the United States of America.
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Date: 1959-1964
Vitals: Rod Serling's anthology series was shoddy, cheap, uneven — and the biggest blast of sci-fi to hit the American mainstream in the history of television to that point. Stories by Ray Bradbury, Ambrose Bierce, Richard Matheson and a host of others (plus a fistful of scripts from producer-host-hack Serling) all wormed their way into our hearts and minds, by way of ... The Twilight Zo ... Oh, I just can't.
Famous Names: Rod Serling (Creator/Writer/Host); Stars who spent time in the Zone include Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Dennis Hopper, William Shatner and many more.
Crunchy Goodness: 4
Sequels: A 1983 movie, a 1985 TV re-launch that ran for three seasons and a single-season TV run in 2002.
Bang for Your Buck: No, not every episode's a keeper, and even Serling would admit that. But when Twilight Zone episodes work, they still have big-idea power nearly 50 years later. ...
Deadliest Spoiler: It's a cookbook! He breaks his glasses! She's not ugly, but everyone else is! The spaceship's from earth! And many, many more.

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Addison Reed didn't start throwing a cutter until about a month ago, when White Sox bullpen coach Juan Nieves was playing around with his pitch grips and had him throw it. The rookie right-hander broke out about three or four during his scoreless seventh in Friday's 3-2 loss and liked the results.
"I've liked it ever since I threw it for the first time in the 'pen," said Reed. "It's a pitch that is still developing, but I feel pretty good about it. It's not that much different from my slider, grip-wise and the way you throw it."
Reed had been focusing on refining his changeup during the early portion of Spring Training. But he stuck to fastballs and cutters in retiring the Rangers' Yorvit Torrealba and Ian Kinsler on fly balls and catching David Murphy looking. Reed does plan to work the changeup back into rotation this season.
"Once I start seeing teams more often," Reed said. "That way they aren't just sitting on the two pitches. They see I have that third pitch and I can throw it for a strike."
Other White Sox links:
- Robin Ventura says he won't stop Alejandro De Aza from trying to steal bases. I wish he would. I absolutely hate CS and De Aza's SB numbers aren't that great anyway. He certainly is no Jerry 'I'll give you 100 steals' Owens. :p
- Jon Greenberg say the Sox lowered ticket prices. He gives a 28.7% average.


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Many Native American peoples share a belief that they emerged from the earth. For the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, after they emerge they meet the caretaker of the earth who instructs them to honor Mother Earth by taking care of her. They are instructed to walk to the world's farthest corners, to learn the earth with their feet and to find their Center Place.
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Odds and Ends II
October 9, 2010
I don't know why I feel compelled to apologize when there's a lengthy gap between posts (hey, it's not like you guys are paying for this stuff). But I feel guilty in spite of myself. Anyhow, there will be a lot of new content coming here soon, particularly in the DVD and book review categories. In the meantime, as has become the custom when I'm busy, I'm going to vamp for time by redistributing some links.
Like everybody else in the movie-and-TV blogosphere, I felt like the Grim Reaper was punching me in the face all last week. Actually, it goes back a little further: First we lost Kevin McCarthy and Harold Gould, both on September 11. McCarthy was one of my favorites, underrated in particular as a villain, and yet doomed to be remembered mainly for one role, his atypical starring turn in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Here's a sentence from the penultimate paragraph in the Los Angeles Times obit for McCarthy: "He was a founding member of the Actors Studio." Talk about burying the lede.
Gould was one of those all-purpose character players who always seemed to me to be doing the same thing (which was: not very much) no matter what kind of part he was playing. I don't think Gould ever surprised me. Judging from the tributes, Gould had a lot of fans, and more power to them; but every time he made an entrance, I always felt a twinge of regret that the producer hadn't cast a more exciting actor. We all have a few actors who make us feel that way, I'd wager. I remember, back when I was a college student and had discovered Pauline Kael for the first time, feeling relieved by her irrational, unfair hatred of Hume Cronyn, who she singled out for ridicule every time she reviewed one of his films. Not that I had a problem with Cronyn – I don't – but because I'd been waiting for permission to write about actors in that way, with the gloves off. Sorry, Harold.
Then there were Arthur Penn, one of the last of the important live television directors (more on him in a separate post to come); Tony Curtis, who did some significant television work on The Persuaders and Vega$ as his movie career began to decline; and Art Gilmore, a legendary narrator and voiceover artist who, like a lot of voice artists, enjoyed a secondary career as a character actor. Gilmore was one of Jack Webb's repertory company, and when I was fourteen or so, I (like all teenagers) spent a lot of time trying to distinguish him from Clark Howat and the other blandly authoritative actors who played police lieutenants or captains all the time on Dragnet and Adam-12.
Somewhere in there came (or rather went) Joe Mantell, famous for a pair of best friend roles: he was the sidekick to both Martys, Rod Steiger on television and Ernest Borgnine in the film, and then to Jack Nicholson's Jake Gittes in Chinatown. He delivered iconic lines in both but managed to remain anonymous, as only character actors can. A lot of people seem to remember Mantell for a tour-de-force in a Twilight Zone I always forget, "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room." When I sought him out for an interview around 1998, he was more like a crabby man in an Encino bungalow. Mantell talked to me on the phone, reluctantly, for a few minutes, but clearly did not care to reminisce. There's a modern character actor with a similarly ferrety face named Michael Mantell, who I always took to be Joe Mantell's son, but the obituaries seem to have disproved that hypothesis.
Finally there was Stephen J. Cannell, one of the most prolific TV producers of all time. I'm aware that Cannell has a few credits with some heft to them (The Rockford Files, of course, and one friend of mine swears that Wiseguy, which I've never seen, is a masterpiece), but basically I thought of him as Aaron Spelling with a little more of an edge. The Los Angeles Times reports that Cannell had a "golden touch" (I would've said, "golden tan") and that he produced 1,500 television episodes and wrote 450. I'll buy the 1,500 but can anyone point me toward a list of 450 produced Cannell teleplays? I'm also dismayed to learn that I've been mispronouncing Cannell's name for decades (it rhymes with "flannel"). That's going to take a long time to re-learn. Anyway, Lee Goldberg has a short but warm reminiscence on his blog.
Lost amid all the high-wattage names was a belated report of the death of television writer-director Clyde Ware, who is probably best remembered as a prolific Gunsmoke contributor for a couple of years around the time the long-running western series shifted to color. Ware also wrote a Man From U.N.C.L.E. that became the second episode to be expanded into a feature film (The Spy With My Face), and two exceptional Rawhides from the revisionist Bruce Geller-Bernard Kowalski season. Later in his rather unpredictable career Ware did stints as a story editor on Bonanza and a producer-writer on Airwolf. Not long after he was established in the business, Ware turned auteur, writing and directing the made-for-television movies The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd, with Martin Sheen in the title role, and The Hatfields and the McCoys. Prior to that Ware made a pair of independent feature films, both starring Sheen, that I've always wanted to see: No Drums, No Bugles and When the Line Goes Through. I believe these were both released on VHS decades ago, but apart from that they're among the many American films of the 1970s that have fallen into utter obscurity.
The only obituary for Clyde Ware appeared in Variety, an important source for that kind of information that has fallen off the internet-aggregation site radar since it began partially firewalling its content earlier this year. Variety ran the obit on September 16 and as of now the Internet Movie Database still hasn't recorded Ware's death, or updated his birthdate (to December 22, 1930; Ware had successfully subtracted six years from his age in all the reference books).
I must give a shout-out to Tom B. of the Boot Hill blog, which was the first place to reproduce the text of the Ware's Variety obit – in violation of copyright, I suppose, but in compliance with today's netiquette, like it or not. For over a year now, Tom B. has been archiving death notices of anyone who ever worked on a motion picture western. And since almost everybody who worked steadily in the movies prior to 1980 passed through a western at some point, Tom's blog has become a handy general reference for movie fans and historians. It's a great example of a specialist's narrow interest taking on a value beyond its original domain. For instance, it's only due to the Boot Hill site that I've learned today of the death of Anabel Shaw, a minor ingenue of the forties and fifties. I only vaguely remember Shaw from a small role on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, but it seems that she also had a key supporting role in Joseph H. Lewis's astonishing film noir from 1949, Gun Crazy.
CBS's repurposing of the title of its towering sixties legal drama The Defenders to a bland-sounding new legal drama starring Jim Belushi this season made me mildly grumpy. But since it gave Sara Fishko's WNYC radio show an excuse to devote a program to the real The Defenders, all is forgiven. Excerpts from Fishko's interviews with Defenders vets David Rintels, Ernest Kinoy, and Ellen Rose (a secretary in the Defenders office who married its creator, Reginald Rose, during production) are here.
Kliph Nesteroff, who wrote a great piece on Al "Grandpa Munster" Lewis that I linked to a while ago, is back with another amazingly well-researched story, this one on the politics of the writing staff of Laugh-In. I know even less about Laugh-In than I did about Al Lewis – I've only seen a few clips here and there – so this was an even more fascinating read. Nesteroff's argument is that, in contrast to the outspoken The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Laugh-In was a totally unthreatening show, an establishment-friendly outpost that appropriated the look of the counterculture as "smoke and mirrors" to conceal its lack of political commitment or, indeed, even a covert right-wing agenda. The evidence that Nesteroff marshals, especially regarding Laugh-In head writer Paul Keyes, is jaw-dropping.
And yet Laugh-In retains a reputation as a politically relevant program. That's probably one of those canards that proves very obviously inaccurate whenever anyone who actually sits down and studies the facts, but remains enshrined in the historical record thanks to lazy journalists and historians. Sort of like that nonsense about how Reagan "won" the Cold War – a lie that comes to mind because it seems particularly central to the beliefs of one idiot who litters my comments section with a litany of retrograde conservative talking points any time I write something even tangentially political. I'm guessing this graph means we'll be treated to another dose of the same.
My own review copy must have gotten lost in the mail, but ever since the entire Thriller series came out on DVD last month, bloggers Peter Enfantino and John Scoleri have been reviewing an episode a day in a conversational, Siskel-and-Ebert-style format. There are sixty-seven episodes of Thriller, the terrific Boris Karloff-hosted anthology of crime and gothic horror stories that ran from 1960 to 1962, and as of this writing the pair are about halfway through. It's a neat idea that has drawn some overdue attention to Thriller in the pop-culture blogosphere.
Initially, reluctantly, I wasn't going to link to their blog because most of Enfantino's and Scoleri's dispatches struck me as jokey and not very insightful. But then they had an even better idea, which was to intersperse their episode critiques with interviews with the many historians and other Thriller enthusiasts who contributed audio commentaries to the DVD set, and those posts are worth reading. They offer some very frank examples of the minutiae of creating supplementary materials for DVDs, and of the almost insurmountable challenges that prevent these extras from being as good as they should be. The interviewees thus far are Steve Mitchell, Gary Gerani, David J. Schow, Larry Blamire, Alan Brennert, and Lucy Chase Williams.
The extras on the Thriller set are copious and worthwhile. But they are still limited in value, largely because only a few of the surviving participants were called upon to participate. (They include Richard Anderson, Patricia Barry, Beverly Washburn, and Arthur Hiller.) The executive producer William Frye and a key writer, Donald Sanford, are both still living but neither is in evidence on the DVDs. Frye, who lives in Palm Springs, told me recently that he was available for interviews, but not over the phone (which is why you haven't heard from him yet in this space).
The interviews conducted by Scoleri and Enfantino shed some light on the reasons behind the obvious omissions in the Thriller extras. Apparently Image Entertainment, which released the DVDs, gave the extras producers, Steve Mitchell and Gary Gerani, only three weeks to get everything together. From what I've heard over the years, that is a typical scenario. If you think about this too hard, you'll start to weep for all the priceless documentation that could've been added to the DVDs of your favorite shows if the corporate types at the top actually gave a damn.
These interviews have a significance beyond Thriller. They're a snapshot of a fin de siecle moment, as the dominent mode for home video is shifting from DVD to internet streaming, and the whole idea of supplemental material (and for that matter, acceptable image quality) are going the way of the dodo. Maybe I'm just projecting, but the interviewers' comments seem suffused with awareness that they're participating in the end of an era.
Corrections Department, Part 5.1: Matt Zoller Seitz has a pair of articles on Salon in which he nominates the twenty best television pilots, ten dramas and ten comedies. They're structured as slide shows, which is irritating, but it's worth clicking through twenty times to see Seitz's choices. Most of them are predictable, but Seitz's arguments are persuasive. Although this criterion remains implicit in the text, Seitz only showcases pilots for series that were artistically and/or commercially successful. I'm tempted to respond, at some point, with a list of great pilots for lousy shows: things like The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters or Crime Story or Flash Forward, which set up a promising premise that the producers and writers couldn't figure out how to sustain.
I've praised Seitz's work here before and so I hate to have to point out a major error in his piece. Contrary to the headline, Seitz has come up with a list of nineteen pilots and one premiere episode. Out of Seitz's twenty selections, the most inspired may be Sam Peckinpah's mournful, short-lived The Westerner, which ran for thirteen weeks in 1959. The pilot for the series was called "Trouble at Tres Cruces," and as was common in the days of the dramatic anthology, it was broadcast as an episode of The Zane Grey Theater in the spring prior to The Westerner's fall debut. But the "pilot" that Seitz describes at length is not "Trouble at Tres Cruces" but the first regular episode of The Westerner, "Jeff."
Referring to a television show's debut as its pilot is a kind of lazy shorthand that drives me up the wall, sort of like when a journalist attends the "taping" of a show that's being shot on film (instead of, you know, tape). But, as we see here, the pilot and the first episode of a series are not always one and the same. Remarkably, Seitz's review of the non-pilot of The Westerner has gone uncorrected on Salon's website (and unnoticed among the more than one hundred reader comments) for more than two weeks. Early television history has become the province of obsessives, I guess, and copy editing is even deader than DVD extras.


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Welcome NY Times Readers!
Adam Liptak of the NYT has scooped my McDonald vox populi column and I can't thank him more for doing so.
WASHINGTON — Mike Sacks likes to be the first person in line for big Supreme Court arguments, and he was feeling pretty confident when he arrived at the court Monday morning around 8, 26 hours before the court would hear a big gun-control case.
To all the readers directed to F1@1F from Mr. Liptak's story, please enjoy your stay and be sure to subscribe!
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As a Chicagoan I am keenly interested in this case. Today's Sun-Times profiles the plaintiff, Otis McDonald, who has been victimized several times at his Morgan Park home. I live on the other side of town from him, but robberies and personal attacks are up significantly in my neighborhood and will likely intensify, as the weather gets warmer.
Please share your experience in the courtroom. The newspaper article said you have been to a number of oral arguments in landmark cases. Were you present for the arguments in the DC handgun case? If so, how were things the same or different? Based on your experience today, does it seem likely the justices will decide the same way or differently?
Many here in Chicago would like the same freedoms available in other parts of the country.
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RFID System
Part of the bigger project more or less everybody is working on.
Motion Sensing Camera
To keep track of what my dog and cat do during the day.
Bloomington Crime Stats
I've scraped a bunch (12,000+) of local crime reports and geocoded them. Now need to open that up to Bloomington/the world.
FM (or AM) radio
Get a radio station up and running which will broadcast lots of text-to-speech goofiness, but preferably some useful info too.
Warning Light/Siren for Work
Hooks up to Nagios feed via the serial port. Displays Red/Green/Yellow light depending on current summary of how all the servers are doing. May add a fire alarm or such, if I feel like getting fired sometime.
Audio with Arduino
Get the Arduino to make all manner of freaky noises. May end up as a workshop at some point.


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Crowds of costumed Mummers are beginning to line the streets of Philadelphia for their annual New Year's Day parade up Broad Street.
Just hours after the opening of the new year, throngs of the sequined and brightly attired participants are pouring out of vehicles along Broad Street in south Philadelphia on Tuesday. The parade is a century-old tradition featuring elaborately festooned musicians, comics and other performers.
Broad Street, the city's main north-south thoroughfare, is lined with extra trash and recycling bins for the parade, which attracts thousands of people every year.
Breaking news and the stories that matter to your neighborhood.
One group set to perform is the Fralinger String Band, which had some of its props damaged in a warehouse fire last month. The band says it was able to save most of its props and is ready to perform.


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SOE Live
Learn more about content and AI in EverQuest Next through this video
In the video below, the EverQuest Next development team discuss the upcoming MMORPG's AI and "a life of consequence."
SOE Live headlines
Airdrops in H1Z1 explained, PlayStation 4 version confirmed
With gamescom 2014 winding down in Germany this weekend, it's time to turn some attention to SOE Live which is going on in Vegas at the moment. Below, you will find some new information regarding Sony Online Entertainment's zombie MMO, H1Z1.
DCUO team excited over transition from PS3 to PS4
DC Universe Online's executive producer Larry Liberty has told Shack how excited he is for the game's transition from PS3 to PS4.
DC Universe Online: team up with Wonder Woman this fall in Sons of Trigon
Sony Online Entertainment has announced the next chapter in the DC Universe Online story – Sons of Trigon.
EverQuest Next works on older PCs, needs to be "kickass" before PS4 release
EverQuest Next was announced during SOE Live yesterday, and while currently only slated for PC, it may eventually make its way onto PS4.
PlanetSide 2's Hossin video and details revealed during SOE Live
PlanetSide 2's next content update, the swampy continent of Hossin, was revealed to the public at SOE Live yesterday, and TenTonHammer was there to grab some details regarding its battle island, Nexus, which is playable at the fan event.
Dragon's Prophet releases in Europe and North America in September
Dragon's Prophet was given a release date by Sony Online Entertainment and Infernum Productions last night during the annual SOE Live fan event.
SoE Live: stream brings all the action live
Sony Online Entertainment's annual event SoE Live is happening right now; watch the major presentation live right here.
SOE Live tickets go on sale
Sony Online Entertainment has announced tickets have gone on sale for the event formerly known as Fan Faire. Now dubbed SOE Live, the event will take place at Bally's Las Vegas October 18-21. An all-access pass will run you $139, but you can get it at a discount for $119 if you register before August […]
Sony Online Entertainment's Fan faire is now SOE Live
I sure hope you haven't started screen printing your shirts for the October Fan Faire, because Sony Online Entertainment has pulled an artist-formerly-known-as on it.
SOE Live latest
Learn more about content and AI in EverQuest Next through this video
DC Universe Online: team up with Wonder Woman this fall in Sons of Trigon
EverQuest Next works on older PCs, needs to be "kickass" before PS4 release
PlanetSide 2's Hossin video and details revealed during SOE Live
Dragon's Prophet releases in Europe and North America in September


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Stage 1 Mapping for your 2008 WRX with OpenSourceThis particular map is designed for the 2008 WRX with the following mods:
-Stock Airbox with K&N Part # 33-2304 or -AEM Cold Air Intake Part #21-478WR
Additional Information
Further instructions will be provided upon receipt of your new map. This will include details and proper map break-in procedures/tips. Target Boost is 14.00psi in 4th gear which will taper down by redline. 3rd gear will see around 13.50psi. Air Fuel Ratios should be around 11.0:1 during spool, 10.8:1 in mid, and 10.6-10.8 by redline.
The AEM CAI map may see upwards of 14.5psi in 4th gear and is tuned up to 15.
This map was originally designed for 93oct gas but can run on 91oct as well (RON+MON/2). It has been properly detuned to allow variances in octane down to 91 with optimal performance. While minute gains can be achieved through additional fuel reduction, it was found to be negligible to create a separate 93oct map.
Copyright 2009 XPTTuning.com. All Rights Reserved.
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FOR526: Memory Forensics In-Depth
Mon, April 7 - Fri, April 11, 2014
Having an understanding in memory forensics is so curcial in today's environment where encryption and other privacy concerns leave little on disk - memory is the catch all!
The breadth of knowledge combined with in-depth understanding makes this course exciting for all security professionals.
Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) professionals view the acquisition and analysis of physical memory as critical to the success of an investigation, be it a criminal case, employee policy violation, or enterprise intrusion. Investigators who do not look at volatile memory are leaving evidence on the table. The valuable contents of RAM hold evidence of user actions as well as evil processes and furtive behaviors implemented by malicious code. It is this evidence that often proves to be the smoking gun that unravels the story of what happened on a system.
FOR526 Memory Forensics In-Depth provides the critical skills necessary for digital forensics examiners and incident responders to proficiently analyze captured memory images and live response audits. The five-day course uses the most effective freeware and open-source tools in the industry today and provides a deeper understanding of how these tools work. It is a critical course for any serious DFIR investigator who wants to tackle advanced forensics, trusted insider, and incident response cases.
Just as it is crucial to understand disk and registry structures to substantiate findings in traditional system forensics, it is equally critical to understand memory structures. Having in-depth knowledge of Windows memory internals allows the examiner to access target data specific to the needs of the case at hand.
There is an arms race between analysts and attackers. Modern malware and post-exploitation modules increasingly employ self-defense techniques that include more sophisticated rootkit and anti-memory analysis mechanisms that destroy or subvert volatile data. Examiners must have a deeper understanding of memory internals in order to discern the intentions of attackers or rogue trusted insiders. This course draws on best practices and recommendations from experts in the field to guide DFIR professionals through acquisition, validation, and memory analysis with hands-on, real-world, and malware-laden memory images. FOR526 Memory Forensics In-Depth will teach you:
- Proper Memory Acquisition: Demonstrate targeted memory capture ensuring data integrity and combating anti-acquisition techniques.
- How to Find Evil in Memory: Detect rogue, hidden, and injected processes, kernel-level rootkits, Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL) hijacking, process hollowing, and sophisticated persistence mechanisms.
- Effective Step-by-Step Memory Analysis Techniques: Use process timelining, high-low level analysis, and walking the Virtual Address Descriptors (VAD) tree to spot anomalous behavior.
- Best Practice Techniques: Learn when to implement triage, live system analysis, and alternative acquisition techniques, and how to devise custom parsing scripts for targeted memory analysis.
Remember: Malware can hide, but it must run. This "malware paradox" is the key to understanding that while intruders are becoming more advanced with anti-forensic tactics and techniques, it is impossible for them to hide their footprints completely from a skilled incident responder performing memory analysis. FOR526 will ensure that you and your team are ready to respond to the challenges inherent in DFIR by using cutting-edge memory forensics tools and techniques.
Course Syllabus
FOR526.1: Foundations in Memory Analysis & Acquisition
Alissa Torres
Mon Apr 7th, 2014
Simply put, memory analysis has become a required skill for all incident responders and digital forensics examiners. Regardless of the type of investigation, system memory and its contents often expose the �first hit��the evidential thread that, when pulled, unravels the whole picture of what happened on the target system. Where is the malware? How did the machine get infected? Where did the attacker move laterally? Or what did the disgruntled employee do on the system? What lies in physical memory can provide answers to all of these questions and more.
This section was designed to convince attendees of the relevance and widening application of memory forensics. It�s an easy sell in today�s world of increasing encryption, burgeoning media storage capacity, and advanced backdoor rootkits. We provide a six-step investigative methodology for both user and malware investigations that will guide an examiner through the exploration of a memory capture.
Memory forensics is the study of operating systems. Operating systems, in turn, work extensively with the processor and its architecture. Therefore, before we can begin a meaningful analysis of the operating system, we must understand how the underlying components work and fit together. This section explains a number of technologies that are used in modern computers and how they have evolved to where they are today. We also explain the virtual to physical memory translation process across the various modern system architectures.
And in the beginning, there is acquisition. Acquisition tools are easy to use but few understand the underlying mechanisms behind them. On Day One of FOR526, we acquire physical memory from a compromised virtual machine using two different methods. In comparing triage using audit collections to full memory capture, we discuss the applications of both, as well as when to use each technique in an investigation.
- Setting Up the Windows 8.1 VM and Ubuntu SIFT
- Identifying a Hidden Process with Volatility
- Live Audit Collection with Redline
- Physical Memory Acquisition Using winpmem
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Why Memory Forensics?
- Advantages of Windows
- Case Study: Hibernation File For the Win
- Types of Evidentiary Findings from Memory
Investigative Methodologies
- Use Cases for Memory Forensics
- Six-Step Process for User Investigations
- Six-Step Process for Malware Investigations
The Ubuntu SIFT Workstation
- SANS Investigative Forensic Toolkit (SIFT) Workstation Review
- Customizations for FOR526 - Memory Forensics Weapons Arsenal
- Tour: Where Are the Tools? How Do I Use Them?
The Volatility Framework
- Pros and Cons of Volatility
- System Profiling with imageinfo
- Process Enumeration with pslist and psscan
- Identifying a Hidden Process
System Architectures
- 32-bit vs. 64-bit Operating Systems
- x86, x86_64, and IA-64 Architectures
- Aspects of Virtual Memory per Architecture
- Physical Address Extensions
- Virtual to Physical Address Translation
Triage versus Full Memory Acquisition
- Benefits of Triage
- Obstacles to Triage
- Mandiant's Redline Live Collector
- Creating a Redline Analysis Session
Physical Memory Acquisition
- Obstacles to Acquisition/Anti-Acquisition Behaviors
- Device Memory
- Suspended Virtual Machine
- Firewire Acquisition
- Standalone Memory Acquisition Tools
- winpmem Practical Application
FOR526.2: Unstructured Analysis & Process Exploration
Alissa Torres
Tue Apr 8th, 2014
Structured memory analysis using tools that identify and interpret operating system structures is certainly powerful. However, many remnants of previously allocated memory remain available for analysis that cannot be parsed through structure identification. What tools are best for processing fragmented data? Unstructured analysis tools! They neither know nor care about operating system structures. Instead, they examine data, extracting findings using pattern matching. You�ll learn how to use Bulk Extractor to parse memory images and extract investigative leads such as e-mail addresses, network packets, and more.
Many forensic investigators perform physical memory analysis. But how often do you consider page file analysis to assist in memory investigations? Carving the page file using traditional filesystem carving tools is usually a recipe for failure and false positives. You�ll learn why typical file carving tools fail and how to parse the page file using YARA for signature matching. You�ll also learn how to create custom YARA signatures to detect downloaded executable files and extract them from the page file.
Most users are familiar with processes on a Windows system, but not necessarily with how they work under the hood. In this section, we will talk about the operating system components that make up a process, how they fit together, and how they can be exploited by malicious software. We will start with the basics of each process, how it was started, where the executable lives, and what command line options were used. Next we�ll look at the Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs) used by a program and how they are found and loaded by the operating system.
Many forensics investigators have used some Volatility plugins (and by now, you will have too). But what happens when there are no plugins written to perform the investigative task required? In this module, you�ll learn to use volshell to examine OS structures in memory, directly applying this knowledge to solve a real-world problem. You need to extract an executable module from memory for analysis, but the header of the module is paged to disk, concealing critical file alignment data. What do you do? You�ll learn how to examine the memory that makes up the module and extract the portions in memory to disk. Intractable problem solved!
- Unstructured Memory Analysis with Bulk Extractor
- Page File Analysis with Page Brute and YARA
- Using volshell to Dump Executable Modules from Physical Memory
- Understanding Process Relationships and Detecting Stealthy Malware through Memory Analysis
- Discovering Malware Loaded via DLLs through Memory Analysis
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Unstructured Memory Analysis
- Introducing Bulk Extractor
- Extracting Network Data from Memory with Bulk Extractor
- Finding Case Leads with Bulk Extractor
Page File Analysis
- How the Page File Works
- Using Pattern Matching to Extract Meaningful Page File Contents
- Writing YARA Signatures to Extract Meaningful Hits from the Page File
Exploring Process Structures
- Analyzing the Kernel Debugging Data Structure (KDBG)
- Analyzing Physical Memory Images � How Do the Tools Start?
- Interactive Memory Analysis Using volshell
- Processes and Process Structures
- The Process Environment Block (PEB)
List Walking and Scanning
- Why Some Tasks Require List Walking While Others Rely on Scanning
- Locating Evidence in Memory Left Over from Previous Boots
- Locating Processes Hidden by Rootkits
- Differential Analysis to Detect Rootkits and Stealthy Malware
Pool Memory
- What Is Pool Memory and Why Does It Matter?
- Pool Tags and How They Are Used by Windows
- How to Locate Pool Tags
- Pool Tag Protections
Exploring Process Relationships
- What OS Structures Keep Track of Processes
- Using the psxview Plugin for Differential Analysis
- Detecting Concealed Processes
- Process Anomalies that Indicate Malware
- Using the pstree Plugin to Enumerate Command Line Options
Exploring DLLs
- What Is a DLL?
- Inferring Functionality from DLLs
- Examining DLL Properties
- Enumerating DLL Metadata
- Enumerating DLL Imported and Exported Functions
- Understanding DLL Search Order Hijacking
- Listing DLLs Loaded into Processes
- Extracting DLLs from Memory
Kernel Objects
- Types of Kernel Objects
- Object Header Structures
- Enumerating Kernel Handle Tables
- Enumerating Recently Opened Files in Memory
- Finding Malware by Tracking Mutexes
- Extracting Memory Mapped Files from Memory Dumps
FOR526.3: Investigating the User via Memory Artifacts
Alissa Torres
Wed Apr 9th, 2014
An incident responder (IR) is often asked to triage a system because of a network intrusion detection system alert. The Security Operation Center makes the call and requires more information due to outbound network traffic from an endpoint and the IR team is asked to respond. In this section, we cover how to enumerate active and terminated TCP connections - selecting the right plugin for the job based on the OS version.
As we move into the internal structures of a process, virtual address descriptors hold the key to what is contained in the process user space memory section. Spotting injected code relies on our ability to analyze what is "supposed to be" in these sections versus what actually is there. Attendees will become familiar with dance moves like "VADWalk" and "VADdump" - spotting some DLL injection along the way.
The central theme of Day 3 is user artifact analysis, which makes it a great day to cover the registry. In file system forensics, the registry is a wealth of information on system, software, and user activity. With copies of the registry hives loaded into physical memory, we are able to achieve the same detailed analysis, including the volatile hive and keys not found on the file system. Volatility plugins designed specifically for targeting user behavior and evidence of execution are included in our practical application of registry parsing via memory.
Also in this module, you�ll learn to use the Windows debugger (Windbg) to perform memory analysis. Using the debugger, you�ll be able to dump plain text passwords that Windows stores in memory for logged-on users. Now you won�t need a GPU farm to crack passwords from dumped hashes. Why would a forensics examiner want the suspect's passwords? Because suspects (just like everyone else) reuse passwords! Remember that Truecrypt volume you found on the suspect�s machine? Or the encrypted zip file? What do you think the odds are that they used the same password (or an easy permutation) for both?
- Locating Network Connections
- Walking the VAD Tree
- Extracting Artifacts from Memory via VAD Analysis
- Diving Deep with VAD Analysis to Extract Stuxnet�s secrets
- Extracting Plain Text Passwords from Memory
- Extracting Clipboard Contents from Memory
- User Artifacts for Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) Investigations
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Network Connections
- Network Differences: XP and Windows 7
- Current Network Connections
- Finding Historical and Hidden Network Connections
- Enumerating Listening Ports
- What�s Normal in Network Artifacts
Virtual Address Descriptors
- The VAD Tree Structure
- VAD Nodes
- Walking the VAD Tree
- Finding Malware through VAD Analysis
- Extracting VAD Data from Memory
Detecting Injected Code
- Locating Injected DLLs using VADs
- Finding DLL Injection
- Finding Code in VADs
- Detecting Injected Code with Obfuscated Headers
Analyzing the Registry via Memory Analysis
- The Windows Registry in Memory
- Enumerating Registry Hive Structures
- Volatile and Stable Keys
- Registry analysis Plugins
- Malware Persistence Mechanisms
- Enumerating Services
- Analyzing the shimcache for Evidence of Execution
- Extracting Password Hashes from Memory Dumps
User Artifacts in Memory
- Evidence of Directory Traversal with shellbags
- Extracting Clipboard Contents
- Evidence of Execution with userassist
- Examining Command Prompt Use
- Parsing the Master Boot Record (MBR) from Memory
- Parsing the MFT from Memory
- Creating Activity Timelines from Memory
FOR526.4: Internal Memory Structures (Part I)
Alissa Torres
Thu Apr 10th, 2014
Day 4 focuses on introducing some internal memory structures (such as drivers), Windows memory table structures, and extraction techniques for portable executables. As we come to the final steps in our investigative methodology, "Spotting Rootkit Behaviors" and "Extracting Suspicious Binaries," it is important to emphasize again the "Rootkit Paradox." The more malicious code attempts to hide itself, the more abnormal and seemingly suspicious it appears. We will use this concept to evaluate some of the most common structures in Windows memory for hooking, the IDTs and SSDTs.
Once we have deemed something suspicious, it warrants further detailed analysis. Extraction techniques for PE executable files have already been introduced for drivers (moddump) and dlls (dlldump). In this section, we introduce two methods for extracting an executable, both making use of the PE Header in order to reconstruct the extract PE file as close as it can be to that of the original �on-disk� file. Some obstacles such as PE Corruption are discussed here, along with some advanced work-around techniques, such as dumping memory sections via volshell.
- Advanced Memory Analysis of a Rootkit
- Detecting Code Injection with Advanced Volatility Plugins
- Binary and Packed Binary Extraction with Fuzzy Hash Matching
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Interrupt Descriptor Tables
- Interrupts and Exceptions
- Structured Exception Handling
- Hooking and Inline Hooking of the IDT
System Service Descriptor Tables
- SSDT Kernel API Entries
- Hooking the SSDTs
- SSDT Validation
- Finding Hooked APIs
- Driver Stacking
- Walking the List of Loaded Drivers
- Scanning for Modules/Drivers in Memory
Direct Kernel Object Manipulation
- Unlinking from the Active Process List
- Fuzzing and Data Sanity Checks
- Using Sessions to Find Hidden Processes
- Tracking Windows Stations for Subversion
Module Extraction
- The Module Loading Process
- Extracting a Portable Executable
- Special Case Exceptions for Packed Binaries
- MemD5s of Extracted Modules vs MD5s
- Corrupt PE Headers
FOR526.5: Internal Memory Structures (Part II) and Memory Analysis Challenges
Alissa Torres
Fri Apr 11th, 2014
Sometimes an investigator's luck runs out and he or she does not complete a memory acquisition before the target system is taken offline or shutdown. In these cases, where else can system memory captures be found? Hibernation files and Windows crashdump files can be valuable sources of information, regardless of whether or not you find yourself with a current memory capture. This section covers the structure of the hibernation and crashdump files, as well as how to convert both into raw memory images that can easily be parsed using Volatility and other tools in our memory forensics weapons arsenal. In addition, we will analyze a crash dump file, discovering just how Windows responds and what information is captured when a system crashes.
This section will also present a number of challenges for the memory forensics examiner. We do not want to spoil all of the surprises by listing them in the outline, but we can give you a sense of what you will be working on. These memory images may contain some kind of malicious software or data of interest. Each challenge will provide a little information to go on. (As with real-world examinations, of course, it's never enough information!) Your job will be to determine if there is anything of interest, and if so, what it is.
- Analyzing a Crash Dump File with Windbg
CPE/CMU Credits: 6
Hibernation Files
- Saved System State
- Power Saving Feature
- Serialized Memory Image
- File Format
- Potential Vulnerability to Malware
- Decompression and Use
Crash Dump Files
- Debugging Information
- File Format
- Reconstruction and Use
Memory Analysis Challenges
- Examination of 10 Memory Images
Additional Information
Laptop Required
In the class, you will receive a USB containing the Ubuntu SIFT Workstation Virtual Machine appliance with updates and evidence files that are specific to the FOR526 Windows Memory Analysis In-Depth class. In addition, you will receive a custom Windows 8.1 x64 workstation virtual machine and license.
In order to successfully complete the exercises in the class, you can use any 64-bit version of Windows, MAC OSX, or Linux as your core operating system that also can install and run VMware virtualization products.
It is critical that your CPU and operating system support 64-bit so that our 64-bit guest virtual machine will run on your laptop. VMware provides a free tool for Windows and Linux that will detect whether or not your host supports 64-bit guest virtual machines. For further troubleshooting, this article also provides good instructions for Windows users to determine more about the CPU and OS capabilities. For Macs, please use this support page from Apple to determine 64-bit capability.
Please download and install VMware Workstation 10, VMware Fusion 6.0, or VMware Player 6.0 or higher versions on your system prior to class beginning. If you do not own a licensed copy of VMware Workstation or Fusion, you can download a free 30-day trial copy from VMware. VMware will send you a time-limited serial number if you register for the trial at their Web site.
VMware Player is a free download that does not need a commercial license. Most students find VMware Player adequate for the course.
- CPU: 64-bit Intel x64 2.0+ GHz processor or higher based system is mandatory for this class (Important - Please Read: a 64 bit system processor is mandatory)
- 8 GB (Gigabytes) of RAM minimum (We strongly recommend 8 GB of RAM or higher to get the most out of the course)
- Ethernet CAT5 Networking Capability Recommended or Wireless 802.11 B/G/N
- USB 2.0 or higher Port(s)
- 200 Gigabyte Host System Hard Drive minimum
- 100 Gigabytes of Free Space on your System Hard Drive
- The student should have the capability to have Local Administrator Access within their host operating system
- Host Operating System: Any version of Windows, MAC OSX, or Linux operating system that also can install and run VMware virtualization products ( VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion , or VMware Player )
- Download and install Winzip or 7Zip
- Microsoft Office (any version) w/Excel or OpenOffice w/Calc installed on your host - Note you can download Office Trial Software online (free for 60 days)
- Install VMware Workstation 10, VMware Fusion 6.0, or VMware Player 6.0 (higher versions are ok)
- Download and install Winzip or 7Zip
- Bring the proper system hardware (64bit/6GB Ram) and operating system configuration
- Install VMware (Workstation, Player, or Fusion), MS Office, and 7zip
- Bring the proper mandatory additional items
If you have additional questions about the laptop specifications, please contact email@example.com.
Who Should Attend
- Incident response team members
- Law enforcement officers
- Forensic examiners
- Malware analysts
- Information technology professionals
- System administrators
- Anybody who plays a part in the acquisition, preservation,forensics, or analysis of Microsoft Windows computers
You Will Be Able To
- Utilize stream-based data parsing tools to extract AES-encryption keys from a physical memory image to aid in the decryption of encryption files, volumes such as TrueCrypt & BitLocker
- Gain insight into the current network activity of the host system by retrieving network packets from a physical memory image and examining with a net- work packet analyzer
- Inspect a Windows crash dump to discern processes, process objects and current system state at the time of crash through use of various debugging tools such as kd, WinDBG, and livekd
- Conduct Live System Memory Analysis with the powerful SysInternals tool, Process Explorer, to collect real-time data on running processes allowing for rapid triage
- Use the SIFT workstation and in-depth knowledge of PE File modules in physical memory, extract and analyze packed and non-packed PE binaries from memory and compare them to their known disk- bound files.
- Discover key features from memory such as the BIOS keyboard buffer, Kernel Debugging Data Block (KDBG), Executive Process (EPROCESS) structures, and handles based on signature and offset search- ing, gaining a deeper understanding of the inner workings of popular memory analysis tools.
- Analyze memory structures using high-level and low-level techniques to reveal hidden and terminated processes and extract processes, drivers, and memory sections for further analysis
- Use a variety of means to capture memory images in the field, explaining the advantages and limitations of each method
Press & Reviews
"Very valuable for what my group is doing at JPL. With the acquisition of MIR and acquiring RAM in first response, this is exactly the skill
set we need to master." - Rick Smith, Jet Propulsion Lab
"I got everything I needed from this course and Alissa was a phenomenal instructor!" - Matt Myrick - LLNL
"Excellent information - eye opening as it applies to traditional forensics." - Greg Caouette, Kroll
"I was able to take the techniques learned in this class and break open a case I was working, before even heading home." - Anonymous
"The training opened my eyes for the need to collect memory images as well as physical images for single computer analysis such as theft of IP or other employee investigations." - Greg Caouette, Kroll
"Alissa brings memory dumps back to life." - Stephanie Denis, Canadian Police College
Author Statement
"Having the skills to conquer memory forensics pushes you into the top tier of forensics professionals out there today. File system forensics is now taught in community colleges, and as a result, new grads with entry level forensics skills are flooding the job market. Experienced professionals now need deeper technical expertise to set themselves apart from the pack and the FOR526 class delivers. We have written this class with the specific goals of creating experts, making a specialist out of a generalist. My co-authors and I, forensics practitioners ourselves, understand the types of cases and challenges examiners are up against today. As firm believers of "exposure therapy", we throw our students head-on into some of the most complex yet exceedingly more common memory forensics scenarios with the tools to get the job done." - Alissa Torres


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Investors continued to flee the stock market last week, as they digested a deal by eurozone political leaders to stabilize credit markets and strengthen the region's banking system, and received further evidence of a U.S. economic slowdown.
U.S. stock mutual funds lost $3.1 billion during the week ended July 3, according to the Investment Company Institute. Investors have now withdrawn money from the stock market for 19 of the past 20 weeks.
While investors initially cheered the "breakthrough" deal struck by European leaders aimed at easing the recapitalization of banks, they soon resumed caution as many of the details have yet to be finalized, and implementing the plans could prove politically difficult.
Investors were also spooked after a report showed that U.S. manufacturing slowed sharply in June to a level that indicates the sector is now contracting, marking the end of almost three years of growth in domestic manufacturing.
Since the beginning of the year, investors have pulled more than $53 billion from U.S. stock mutual funds. By comparison, these funds brought in $6.4 billion during the first five months of 2011 and lost just $18 billion during the first five months of 2010.
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Every passenger is accounted for after a boat carrying 30 people capsized near San Francisco's Pier 45 Saturday afternoon, according to public safety officials.
A total of eight people, ranging from five adults to three children, were transported to local hospitals with varying degrees of injury, but everyone is expected to survive, according to public safety officials.
A 4-year-old child, who was previously listed in serious condition, was pulled from the water and found to be unconscious, but a good Samaritan and public safety crews were able to initiate CPR before sending the child to a local hospital, Giselle Talkoff from the San Francisco Police Department said.
A second child was also listed in critical condition, Bob Postel from the San Francisco Fire Department said. The rest of the transported passengers reported to be suffering from hypothermia-related injuries after floating in the cold water.
Rescue crews and helpful bystanders spent roughly 30 minutes plucking the boaters from the water after the vessel, which has been identified as 34-foot-long boat named "Khaleesi," began to take on water. Some of those passengers onboard were reportedly trapped underneath the boat's hull, according to witnesses.
PIER 45 BOAT CAPSIZED WITH ABOUT 30 JUV ON BOAT SOME ARE TRAPPED UNDER THE HULL. USCG BOAT/HELIO/DIVERS EN ROUTE. pic.twitter.com/KnEKFVgpjx— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) October 8, 2016
Fellow boaters jumped into action and provided any aid they could while rescue crews arrived on scene.
"There was just a ton of people in the water," witness David Griffiths said. "We just started throwing life rings."
Another good Samaritan reportedly dove in the water and freed a father and his child who were both trapped inside the vessel's cabin.
Despite the serious injuries and frantic ordeal, Postel said the capsizing could have resulted in a much worse outcome.
"This could have been really, really catastrophic," he said. "For this to have the outcome that it did, is really a lot of good fortune and good luck."
Postel credits the U.S. Coast Guard, local police and fire agencies, and good Samaritans for assisting in the rescue. Public safety officials also noted that several emergency crews were in close proximity to the boat because of the ongoing San Francisco Fleet Week festivities.
The boat did submerge completely and authorities are conducting an investigation into what caused the vessel to sink.
This is the second time in five weeks that a boat has capsized in the Bay. Back in September, a catamaran took on water and sent all 16 passengers into the water. No one was injured during that accident.
EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this story reported that a 5-year-old child was found to be unconscious after being pulled from the water. That child is 4 years old after clarifications were made.


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Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington thought Nick Tepesch had a pretty good start -- well, except for five batters in the first inning.
Tepesch gave up a three-run homer to Anthony Recker during a five-run burst with two outs in the first, but he lasted six innings for the Rangers in an 8-4 loss to the New York Mets on Sunday.
"It took him six hitters to get the one out we needed," Washington said. "But he hung in there."
The latest news from around North Texas.
Lucas Duda had an RBI double and Juan Lagares a run-scoring single in the Mets' biggest opening inning of the season. New York then got only one hit off Tepesch (3-4) until Kirk Nieuwenhuis led off the sixth with a long ball to right field.
Holding the Mets gave the Rangers a chance to get back in the game against Zack Wheeler (4-8).
Robinson Chirinos hit his second homer of the series, a solo shot in the fourth, and Texas added three more to pull to 7-4 within the first three batters of the eighth.
Alex Rios hit his first homer in 46 games leading off, Adrian Beltre singled and Leonys Martin had a two-run drive before the first out against reliever Gonzalez Germen.
Jeurys Familia cleaned up for Gonzalez by getting the final two outs in the eighth and closer Jenrry Mejia pitched the ninth.
The Mets needed five relievers to help send Texas to its sixth loss on a seven-game road trip that ended Sunday.
"It's nice that they started to swing and able to get the ball in the air and start finding the fences," Washington said. "Now, we've got to start doing it with runners in scoring position so we can put up some crooked numbers."
Wheeler had his second straight solid outing in an up-and-down season to help the Mets win for just the third time in 11 games. The lanky right-hander lasted 6 1-3 innings and gave up a run and six hits.
It was Wheeler's first victory in his last 10 home starts. He is 1-6 over that span.
"We've got a young pitcher on our hands who's going to be really, really good," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "Zack gets better each start. Today his velocity was consistent throughout the game."
A day after Texas rode Chirinos' three-run shot in a four-run first for a 5-3 victory, Recker put New
York up 5-0 with a flyball that down the left-field line.
"To put up five in the first inning is pretty cool," Recker said.
Tepesch, whose start was pushed back twice last week and pitched nine days ago, was hurt by two walks in the first.
Curtis Granderson walked leading off and, after Duda drove in his 12th run 15 games with a two-out double, Nieuwenhuis was walked to extend the inning for Lagares. Ruben Tejada walked after Recker's homer. Wheeler then struck out.
But Tepesch settled until Tejada had a one-out double in the fourth. In six innings, Tepesch allowed six runs and five hits. He walked four and struck out four.
"Just tried to get back to just commanding it down in the zone and making good pitches down in the zone," Tepesch said of rebounding from the first.
The 25-year-old Tepesch got his first big league hit in his fifth career at-bat, sending a bouncer past diving shortstop Tejada leading off the fifth. Tejada robbed Tepesch of a hit in the third inning with a diving catch.
Tejada had an RBI single in the eighth to give New York a four-run lead.
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This past Tuesday I was invited to attend the Coca-Cola Live Positively Awards, held during the 2010 Olympic Games at the BC Media Center in Vancouver.
"Live Positively" represents The Coca-Cola Company's philosophical approach to building sustainable communities through initiatives that protect the environment, conserve resources and enhance the economic development of the communities where it operates. The Live Positively concept grew from the recognition that sustainable growth for The Coca-Cola Company is integrally connected to both its business and its marketing success, as well as its societal role.
The Coca-Cola Company is honouring individuals, families and organizations with the Coca-Cola Live Positively Award during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Each recipient was chosen because of his or her efforts to turn their passion for improving the well-being of Canadians into important changes that have positively impacted their local communities. With a focus on either active living or environmental sustainability, each recipient has a unique and inspirational story to share.
The following were honoured on Tuesday afternoon:
Jennifer Heil & Dominick Gauthier – on behalf of B2ten:
B2ten is a not for profit organization that supports Canadian elite athletes so they may succeed at the highest level of international competition. For more information, visit http://www.b2ten.com/.
Sami Jo Small:
Sami Jo is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and the 2009 recipient of the Athletes CAN Leadership Award. Sami Jo is also the co-founder of the Canadian Women's Hockey League. Her commitment to sport and her involvement in developing the Canadian Women's Hockey League has helped create a forum for women across the country to participate in our nation's sport at an elite level.
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Jennifer Lawrence Throws Party to Benefit Little Girl With Leukemia
The Lawrence family must be full of big hearts! Jennifer Lawrence and her brother Ben threw a block party to help out a little girl with her recovery from a tough battle against leukemia.
According to 14news.com, Hadley Mercer is from the actress' hometown of Louisville, Ky., where she lives with her parents and two older sisters. At just six months old, Hadley was diagnosed with leukemia, and has since undergone chemotherapy treatment and a bone marrow transplant. The good news is that Hadley recently celebrated her first birthday — in remission!
Though her fight with cancer is over, she's still in the hospital dealing with complications from the bone marrow transplant. In honor of Hadley, and to help her parents pay their medical bills, J. Law and her brother Ben threw a block party on June 21 to help raise money for the family.
Ben helped organize the party through the company he co-owns, Louisville Geek. He revealed there were several goodies set up for auction, including 'Hunger Games' and 'American Hustle' memorabilia signed by his sister, and a trip to a private island in Belize arranged by Jennifer.
The 'Hunger Games' star, who also visited Hadley in the hospital, seems to have a soft spot for the little girl. Way to be a sweetheart, Jennifer!
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