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September 26, 2006 4:00 AM PDT
Telecoms feel the pretexting heat
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A U.S. House of Representatives panel said Monday that it has asked the chief executives of six major telecommunications companies to testify in its probe of the legally questionable practice of "pretexting," which involves tricking a business into disclosing information by posing as someone else.
The move--coupled with recent revelations that HP employed private investigators to obtain the phone records of journalists and board members--puts more pressure on mobile and landline phone companies to demonstrate that they have sufficiently stringent security mechanisms in place.
HP was able to penetrate many companies' private databases with apparent ease: AT&T, Cingular, T-Mobile and Sprint Nextel all leaked information about their customers, government investigators or the companies themselves have confirmed.
A CNET News.com e-mail survey of nine major mobile and landline providers showed that only two, Qwest and Sprint Nextel, would answer a list of questions in order to let customers evaluate the effectiveness of the security measures they had in place. Another four companies said they take customer privacy seriously and have reasonable mechanisms in place. T-Mobile, Boost Mobile and TDS Metrocom did not reply at all.
Sprint Nextel said its customer service representatives would not divulge information to a caller who had provided a Social Security number, the maiden name of the customer's mother, the customer's name and the customer's address and phone number. Qwest, on the other hand, said such information would be sufficient to access a customer account.
How safe is your phone bill?
Hewlett-Packard's investigation of boardroom leaks revealed how easy it is for your phone records to be obtained through "pretexting." We surveyed major telecommunications firms to find what consumer safeguards they have in place; following is an excerpt from our questions:
Is a Social Security number, mother's maiden name, customer's name and customer's address and phone number sufficient for account verification over the phone?
Do you permit customers to create passwords to replace the use of Social Security numbers and mother's maiden name for verification?
Under what circumstances do you allow someone claiming to be a spouse or family member or employer of the account holder to access account information?
Do you keep records of logins on your Web site so that you can go back six months later and identify potentially fraudulent access?
How long do you keep records of individual calls made by customers? (That is, after they're no longer needed for billing or dispute purposes.)
Do you offer customers the option to not keep records of individual calls, even if that means they'll no longer be able to dispute individual charges?
Do you permit customers to "flag" their accounts to require a higher degree of identity verification?
Do you have a system in place to flag "weak" passwords (like the customer's first name) and prohibit them from being used on your Web site?
Both Sprint Nextel and Qwest said they encourage customers to add passwords to their account that customer representatives would require in subsequent calls. Verizon and Cingular also said passwords were permitted, while AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon Wireless refused to comment on whether passwords were permitted for greater security.
Not one company said it offered what some privacy advocates have suggested (click for PDF) as a solution: keeping no records of individual phone calls. In other words, phone access would be treated as a flat-rate utility, probably in exchange for a higher monthly fee. (Depending on the jurisdiction, limited data retention may be required by law.)
Some telecom providers appear to have bolstered their security earlier this year after pretexting became the subject of congressional hearings and private lawsuits unrelated to HP's current woes. AT&T said last week that in a memo to its call centers it put in place additional verification requirements, though the company would not detail those measures. Cingular said it no longer permitted its representatives to divulge records of phone calls over the phone to customers.
The HP investigators who placed pretext calls used remarkable ingenuity in extracting information from the telecommunications companies--this technique of getting people to divulge confidential information is broadly known as "social engineering."
Dawn Kawamoto, one of three News.com reporters who have learned in recent weeks that they were pretexted, has been told by government investigators that HP obtained her mobile calling records from Cingular and her landline records from AT&T.
Because Kawamoto had placed a password on her Cingular account, HP had to resort to a ruse that some would call ingenious, according to a government investigator.
A woman pretending to be a Cingular sales representative, Kawamoto said, called Cingular and falsely claimed that, "I came into the Cingular store and had lost my phone. 'I' showed her my photo ID and gave her my SSN and said that 'I' needed to have my password deleted. As soon as (Cingular) deleted it, they went onto the Cingular.com Web site and set a new password."
In addition to Friday's hearing, the House subcommittee has asked HP's outside investigators--Joe Depante, owner of Action Research Group in Melbourne, Fla., and Ron DeLia, operator of Security Outsourcing Solutions in Boston--to appear on Thursday. DeLia was sent a subpoena on Monday.
Survey responses
AT&T: Would not answer survey; offered the following response instead.
AT&T is committed to customer privacy--including the security of our records that contain customer information such as calling records. We are pursuing pretexters in civil courts and through cooperation with law enforcement officials on potential criminal charges.
We are continuing to review our internal practices and are always looking at ways to improve the security of these records, even as wrongdoers are always looking for ways to get around our safeguards. We operate in an evolving environment and we face a need to strike the appropriate balance between sufficient security measures and the desire of our customers for fast and ready access to information about the products and services they purchase.
As part of this process, we have recently implemented additional practices designed to strike that balance. For example, we have increased security requirements for obtaining call details and we now require that the customer provide very detailed information from their bill before we will provide any calling information to the customer over the phone.
Additional processes and practices are under review or in the implementation process. For obvious reasons, however, we believe it inappropriate to publicly identify those procedures--that would simply play into the hands of those who seek to get around them.
BellSouth: Would not answer survey; offered the following response instead.
In response to your questions, I can only provide you with the statement below. Thanks for your interest, and best of luck.
BellSouth has always maintained a strong policy that ensures that our customer service representatives are speaking to legitimate customers. In light of recent security issues in the industry and beyond, BellSouth has reinforced this policy with our customer service departments. Due to issues of customer privacy, we are not at liberty to disclose further information regarding our customer security processes.
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- This is exactly what happens
- This is exactly what happens when your frontline customer service people are the cheapest available; unable to adhere to even the simplest standards for security, and are lead by CxO's who are not qualified to pour rainwater out of a boot with instructions written on the sole.
Congress needs to make pretexting a felony, and not exempt government agencies or their sock-puppet contractors. Further, the penalty has to make the practice not worthwhile. Perhaps, if convicted, one should have to register with the local authorities as a privacy predator, a security-oriented offender or some such.
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- You got it....for the most part
- I think you have hit the nail on the head, in stating that pretexting should be made a felony. Take the profit out of it, and you just might be able to drive the right behaviour.
With regards to the frontline reps being the cheapest available, you may be right to a point. Just remember "you get what you pay for". Everybody wants cheaper rates and expect premium service, it doesn't work that way.
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- Nothing so remarkable at all
- While the acts outlined do fall within the context of "social Engineering" the public would be best advised that there is nothing so "ingenious" about the methodologies applied at all!
The successes are merely due to the money hungry, overly competitive service providers bending common sense, and in some cases their own rules and the laws, to please everyone/anyone.
The businesses that are customers of the comm services, paying for employee accounts, expect to be able to do whatever they want, whenever they want. Of course personal and private rights are heedlessly trampled to appease any request, whether they appear to putting safeguards or security proceedures in place or making that big generalized statement about all that they do (lol), they do nothing serious or carefully. This is knowing where the almighty buck comes from and nothing more. Ingenious social engineering is creating the expectaions that you have no rights or alternatives. Who are you to be asking about their policies, processes and standards?
While for the sake of the common good and security there should be unfettered access to say an employees desk drawers, in so much as in the case of a dangerous substance or article, known or unbeknownst to the desk's resident, so that we may all be protected. Rifling through a desk drawer to ascertain if an employee has money problems for the sake of an "investigation" in to some fraud, is definitely not!
Our businesses are unable to make reasonable quality distinctions and what should be obvious is that they absolutely need to be controlled, regulated and monitored. They have shown remarkable vindictive, malicious and dictorial proclavities in the past, the present and, even if regulations are imposed some years hence [after years of debate and readings in the House, etc etc etc,] the future.
No there is nothing so "ingenious" in all this at all and any good investigator will tell you as much. Ingenious is how, year after year, nothing is really done to get a handle on business practices, while the rest of the world laughs at the antics of politicians and businesses a like. We think we are the international trade and commerce powerhouses but are more likened to school yard bullies globally.
There are far more realistically Social Engineering techniques - one of them is deluding employees into imagining that businesses have their best interests at heart.
The only reason there is security and the pretense to privacy is that it is just another marketing ploy, a bullet on their brocher.
All businesses, whether it be the vast, nefariously gleaned informational 'tanks' in level 3c at HP, their chattle's personal information, or the the private customer accounts at a comm service, manage their informational holdings in a set of self serving "policies" skipping the philosophies in a 'duty of care'.
Best be aware what ingenious is.
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- We already have an easy solution......
- Force companies not to keep customer data longer than 3 days. That way, even if the account is accessed, not much damage can be done. And it can provide a benefit to the company, by optimizing server and storage space. I know that law enforcement agencies will howl, but if they are able to obtain a warrant, then the company could store informaiton on that person to satisfy the warrant. Otherwise, everone's information gets deleted!
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- We already have an easy solution......
- Force companies not to keep customer data longer than 3 days. That way, even if the account is accessed, not much damage can be done. And it can provide a benefit to the company, by optimizing server and storage space. I know that law enforcement agencies will howl, but if they are able to obtain a warrant, then the company could store information on that person to satisfy the warrant. Otherwise, everone's information gets deleted!
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- Congress "Investigates" pretexting???
- Is this congressional Investigation good or is it a case of kettle calling pot black; how about the tactics of opposition research investigators; how about the tctics of investigative reportors, which always involvle some of lying, or pretending or pretextng??? Perhaps the telecoms should only mail out "reqests for records" replies to an accounts billing address, not just hand them out willy-nillly.
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- It's just wire fraud, nothing new
- Why all this noise over "pretexting"? It's just run of the mill wire fraud. Charge them, prosecute them and penalize them. The laws and infrastructure for this already exist. This shouldn't be an issue. It's the same old story, the government won't enforce the laws they have, so they need to pass more?
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This is Casey Laughman, managing editor of Building Operating Management magazine. Today's tip is that energy-saving UPS systems and DC power can help solve energy issues in data centers.
New UPS systems and high-voltage power supply are the two major trends in infrastructure design and engineering to reduce power consumption. DC power is a rare solution in the United States today, but worth considering the potential benefits and risks to save energy.
Manufacturers have modified the designs of new UPS systems with an "energy-saver" operating mode, which increases their power efficiency by approximately 90 percent while operating at any load. Owners have been cautious to adopt this new operating mode until the new systems prove themselves, but more owners are willing to consider it today.
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High-voltage power supply is an effective way to cut capital costs and power requirements, and it is an idea whose time has finally come. Running at higher voltages not only reduces the capital cost of wiring as the system uses fewer, smaller wires, but at higher voltages, the current is lower, so less energy is lost through the wire. One downside is the fact that high-voltage computer equipment is still a custom order even though it is more available.
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Seismic Risk Important Consideration in Data Center Design
This is Casey Laughman, managing editor of Building Operating Management magazine. Today's tip is that seismic risk needs to be a consideration for data centers.
Earthquakes in Colorado and along the Eastern seaboard are reminders that seismic risk isn't simply an issue for California. What's more, good seismic design means strengthening both structural and non-structural components, such as fire sprinklers, emergency power and emergency communications. Structural components have received the lion's share of the attention in the past, but in recent years, non-structural components have been the subject of increasing focus.
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Leading companies are coming around to the use of new HVAC technologies and operating procedures such as air-side economization, evaporative cooling, and operating the data center under a wider range of temperatures.
An air-side economizer intakes outside air into the building when it is easier to cool than the air being returned from the conditioned space and distributes it to the space; exhaust air from the servers is vented outside. Under certain weather conditions, the economizer may mix intake and exhaust air to meet the temperature and humidity requirements of the computer equipment.
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Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans goes through relationships faster than we go through packets of Slim Jims, but it looks like this gal is currently single … well, kinda.
Jenelle kicked off 2013 by splitting up with her husband, Courtland Rogers (who she's filed several assault charges against). Almost immediately she jumped back into the arms of her ex-fiance, Gary Head, but Gary then broke up with Jenelle while she was in rehab.
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I've written before that I think Bishop Thomas Paprocki is a rockstar. Here's one of the reasons why:
A charity hockey game with Bishop Thomas Paprocki will be played at 7 p.m. Monday at Nelson Center.
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I'd hate to face-off with a bishop!
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You know, it would only take a small strip of white hockey tape to turn that neck guard into a clerical-collar neck guard. Could be useful for a little extra witness to his vocation — and maybe for a little extra intimidation to those who fire 90+ mph slapshots at His Excellency . . .
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Fr.Joan is.And he needs a hair cut.
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So here's what we WON'T be doing . . . Taking pictures of dead loved ones and posting them on social media for the world to see.
I understand that death is a part of life. I have zero fear of it. When I was a kid, my grandmother lived across from a gorgeous cemetery. Some little girls have their weddings planned from A to Z. I had my funeral and headstone planned. So death does not scare me one bit.
I spend inordinate amounts of time on Facebook. I like to keep up with friends and family and share laughs and all that jazz. I'm scrolling down my timeline one day and I see a picture that struck me as odd as hell. Was this a picture of a person sleeping? Ok, that's mildly funny. If the person had their mouth open and/or had a mustache drawn on, it may have been really funny. But no. This wasn't a normal slumber. THIS was a dirt nap. Like, knocked out, down for the count, deader than a doornail -- DEAD.
Perhaps YOU can help me to understand what the hell would possess a person with any sort of logical sense to just up and take pictures of the dead. Who are you showing them to? Why do they want to see them? I mean, I always giggled when people went up to the deceased and gave the body a once-over and said things like, "She sure looks nice. Just like she's sleeping." or "She looks just like herself," or, and even better, "This is the best she's ever looked!" Well then. I've said all of them. But what I didn't do was whip out my digital camera and make sure to capture with the accuracy of 16 megapixels, to be disseminated amongst others. What do you even label that album on Facebook? Where do those pictures go in the family album?
Here's the deal, if you take pictures of me at my funeral, I promise I will come back and haunt you, Thriller style. I will come back as a well-dressed, dancing zombie and I will scare the living hell out of you. This, I promise you.
I'm also tired of seeing the deceased immortalized on t-shirts, keychains, bumper stickers, and car windows. Who said this was ok? More than disrespectful, it's tacky as hell. So please, in your grief, do not go to Cafepress or Zazzle and get anything made up in remembrance of me or anyone else.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Rest in peace . . . maybe?
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- GiselleNovember 21, 2012 at 1:15 PM
I saw a picture on FB of someones mom who had died a couple of days before her latest grandchild was born and in the picture one of her offspring was holding up a cell phone with the babies picture on the screen next to the deceased womans face in the casket...o_O No!ReplyDelete
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With the final act nearing an end, there is clearly a right answer for the league.
Seattle group officially increases bid for Kings based on $550-million valuation
The owner hoping to bring back the Sonics is raising the stakes.
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The Sacramento contingent is shifting the focus of its efforts.
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Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson still confident prospective Kings owners will deliver Maloofs strong offer
The mayor maintains his stance on the investors proposing to buy and keep the team in Sacramento.
Sacramento investors now bidding on Kings general partnership, not 7-percent stake in bankruptcy
Spotlighting another change in the prospective ownership group bidding on the Kings.
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Background on Sorghum Beer
By William Brand
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006 at 12:59 pm in Uncategorized.
In my column today (Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006, Oakland Tribune) I wrote about a new, gluten-free beer for people with an allergy to gluten in wheat, oats, rye and other cereal grains.
It's Dragon's Gold**** from the Bard's Tale Beer Co. in Lees Summit, MO, brewed under contract by Gordon-Biersch in San Jose, CA. It's made from malted sorghum, which a source at Gordon-Biersch tells me, contains no detectable gluten.
While researching sorghum beer, I discovered that beer made with sorghum is very popular in Africa, it's been brewed by Africans for hundreds of years. Most African sorghum beers, known as "opague" beers are brewed using wild yeast, can be somewhat sour and have a shelf life of only days. Sorghum, by the way, is a tropical grass that originated in Africa, it's now grown in warm areas around the world.
Here's a bit of info with links to my sources:
First, did you know…"Benjamin Franklin is credited with introducing broomcorn to the United States. While traveling in Europe, Franklin was impressed with a small broomcorn broom he used to clean his hat. He found a few seeds attached to the straw, and took them with him when he returned to Philadelphia. He planted the seeds and initiated an industry. Arcola, Illinois is known as the "Broom Corn Capital of the World." Since the late 1800's, area farmers grew the sorghum used in the broom industry. The broom corn is processed in Arcola and brooms sold across the country. Arcola holds an annual Broom Corn Festival each September."
Source: Southwest Biotechnology and Informatics Center.
Sorghum beer in Africa from Business Africa…
SABMiller's new clear sorghum beer
Lynn Bolin
Wed, 02 Feb 2005
SABMiller, one of the world's largest brewers, has launched a new brand of clear sorghum beer, Eagle, which is aimed at helping African sorghum beer drinkers move up the beer ladder to clear lager by bridging the gap between the two.
The new brand was unveiled at a presentation on Wednesday by SABMiller's managing director for the Africa and Asia division, Andre Parker.
It has already been launched in Uganda, and is set to be launched in Zambia on April 1, as well as in Zimbabwe.
Looks like a normal lager
According to Parker, Eagle is a sorghum-based beer, but instead of the usual cloudy appearance, it is a look-alike to normal lagers, with the same alcohol level as well.
It is positioned to take advantage of the trend among African consumers to move to drinking clear beer as they move up the income scale…
…In Zambia, sorghum beer has a 60 percent share of the overall drinks market, with clear beer and carbonated soft drinks commanding only 20 percent each.
SABMiller already has a 50 percent share of the sorghum beer market via its Chibuku brand, and boasts 100 percent of the local clear beer market. Castle Lager is the largest brand in the country.
A tasting in Toronto of a South African sorghum beer with interesting comments about apartheid…
"Sorghum beer is generally only served in black bars, or black areas. Apartheid extended to the world of beer as the whites in South Africa drank the European-style brews of SAB, and blacks were allowed only to drink sorghum beer, at least until 1962.
Today sorghum beer still holds a strong market amongst the Zulu population of the region. Though commercially produced, they still maintain traditional methods. They are made from sorghum, not barley, and are not hopped. Fermentation is short, and finishes up after bottling. Some brands are packaged in milk cartons, which leak, and others in plastic bottles, which have a "breathing" mechanism in the top to allow fermentation gases to escape."
From Zulu Kingdom… The Zulu Beer Trail..
"The national drink of the Zulu people."
"Traditional beer brewing has been part of the Zulu culture for hundreds of years and still forms part of their heritage today. The "mild" sorghum beer is the national drink of the "African" people."
Handbook of Brewing (Food Science and Technology) by William Hardwick
Excerpt – on Page 41: " … beer brewed in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In South Africa, the Bantu tribes brewed a grain-based beer called kaffir or sorghum beer, after the grain employed in its brewing. Both sorghum beer and bouza are still brewed in rural Africa. …
And finally, there's another sorghum beer being made commercially in the U.S. It's New Grist, made by Lakefront Brewing in Madison, WI. This excerpt comes from Ratebeer.com.
Find out more about New Grist from the brewery.
Commercial Description:
An all-sorghum beer. New Grist, a beer for Celiacs brewed from sorghum and gluten-free yeast grown on molasses. New Grist is the first "official" gluten free beer in the U.S., although it cannot technically be called "gluten-free" until established governmental guidelines are determined for all products claiming "gluten-free" status. In the interim, this Celiac-safe beer can be called "barley-free," and is a welcome product to those who need to live on restricted diets due to intolerance to gluten, a protein found in common brewing grains such as barley, wheat, rye, oats, spelt, kamut and triticale.
And, for the technically minded, The Journal of Food Technology in Africa has a discussion about the yeast used to make Opague Beer (beer made with sorghum). Check out this link.
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(Alliance, OH) Walsh performed extremely well at the John Homon Invitational, held at the University of Mount Union today. The Cavs had three individuals place first, as well as the 4x100m relay team.
Carly Adams (Sr., Louisville, OH/HS) won the 400m (1:01.64). Erica Ruddock (Fr., Wadsworth ,OH/HS) took first in the high jump (4-10.25) and Leah Beatty (Sr., Enon Valley, PA/Mohawk) won the hammer (142-05). Erin Peskura (Fr., Strongsville, OH/HS), Liz Broome (Jr., Doylestown, OH/Chippewa), Larissa Ziegler (So., North Ridgeville, OH/Elyria Catholic) and Erica Hicks (Fr., Garfield Heights, OH/Trinity) won the 4x400m in a time of 50.99).
The Cavs received second place finishes from Katelin Smith (So., North Lima, OH/South Range) in the 100m hurdles (17.18), Kelsey Dickey (So., Cortland, OH/Lakeview) in the 3000m steeplechase (11:54.45), Evan Haney (Fr., Copley, OH/HS) in the high jump (4-10.25), Carly Walters (Jr., Twinsburg, OH/Trinity) in the 400m hurdles (1:10.94), and Kayla Braun (Jr., Hudson, OH/HS) in the javelin (105-01).
Multiple Cavs' took third place honors; Smith in the 400m hurdles (1:11.54), Broome in the 200m dash (27.33), Emily Keane (Fr., Canton, OH/Central Catholic) in the pole vault (8-02.75), and Krissy Sokol (Jr., Akron, OH/Archbishop Hoban) in the javelin (104-01). Walters, Sarah Martter (Jr., Peninsula, OH/Woodridge), Adams and Allison Swarny (Sr., Bolivar, OH/Tusky Valley) were third in the 4x400m relay (4:12.30).
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Colorado business leaders' confidence bounced back to pre-recession levels going into the first quarter of 2011, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business.
Wind turbines in Midwestern farm fields may be doing more than churning out electricity. The giant turbine blades that generate renewable energy might also help corn and soybean crops stay cooler and drier, help them fend off fungal infestations and improve their ability to extract growth-enhancing carbon dioxide from the air and soil.
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Zucchini are the David Copperfields of the vegetable kingdom.
One minute you're grazing your garden for something to pluck for dinner only to gaze upon 3-inch still-room-to-grow zucchini when BOOM! With a slight of mother nature's hand that cute little mini squash has suddenly turned into a 4-pound gargantuan with enough flesh for 324 loaves of zucchini bread or 41 stuffed zucchini boats.
That's veggie magic folks.
Or it's just one snack for a dog with a penchant for poaching whatever is closest to the edge of the kitchen counter.
It can really go either way. At least Chewy makes healthy choices when he counter surfs.
This year while my garden is biting the big one and has apparently put it's hypothetical green thumb back in its pocket, I've had to resort to visiting my friendly neighbor's garden for harvest where a plethora of cucumber, tomatoes and even an artichoke grow.
But the dominatrix of the garden is the zucchini. Did you know the best way to plant cucumbers is three plants grouped as one? Well, my friend Sherrie heeded that same advice for her zucchini plant and SHAZAM! That plant found it's steroid brethren and is producing enough offspring for my nice friend to be more than willing to share.
And now I'm sharing with you, in more ways than one.
First off, is my go-to Grilled Zucchini recipe, a standard at Casa del Larsen and a dish I can eat for breakfast (with eggs), lunch (with pasta or as the base of a sandwich on sliced sourdough that makes me beyond happy) or dinner (as a side to pretty much anything that's put into my mouth.)
- 2 large or 4 medium zucchini
- Extra virgin olive oil
- 1 ½ teaspoons oregano
- kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Juice of ½ lemon plus lemon zest
- 3 ounces goat cheese
- ¼ cup toasted pine nuts
- ⅛ cup parsley leaves
- Prepare a grill on high heat. Slice zucchini into thin strips lengthwise. Place in a shallow dish and coat with olive oil then sprinkle with oregano, kosher salt and black pepper on both sides. Allow to sit for about 10 minutes or until grill is hot.
- Grill zucchini for 2-3 minutes on each side, or until zucchini softens and grill marks appear. Remove to a platter, dress with a drizzle of more olive oil and a generous squeeze of lemon juice then top with goat cheese, pine nuts, lemon zest and parsley leaves and serve warm or at room temperature.
Who can say "no" to pinenuts and goat cheese? Together. I am certainly not strong enough.
And secondly, to celebrate the dog days of zucchini loving dogs, I joined up with a few other grill-happy bloggers for the opportunity to win your own Grill Lover prize package.
One winner will win the following:
An Amazon gift card ($225 value)
A Coleman NXT 200 Grill ($220 value)
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Deschutes Brewery, located in Central Oregon along the banks of the wild and scenic Deschutes River, has brewed a family of handcrafted ales since 1988. Starting out as a small brewpub in the heart of downtown Bend, Deschutes' first beers were Black Butte Porter, Bachelor Bitter and Cascade Golden Ale.
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- First off, their amazing support of the Beer Garden at StarCrossed last month. Deschutes provides the support from top to bottom: cups, beer, serving equipment and technical staff.
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- Creation Date: 1895
- Subject Date: 1895
- County: Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis
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- Local Code: Neg. No. 166
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Fabre Montmayou Gran Reserva Malbec 2009
Malbec from Argentina, South America
Winemaker's Notes
Red color with shiny violet tones. Very complex and elegant bouquet. Plenty of wild red fruits like blackberries and cherries, licorice and delicate hints of flowers. On the palate, the wine shows a remarkable balance with very elegant, silky tannins. Drink now through 2017.
Fabre Montmayou's Gran Reserva is the most "modern" bottling produced at the winery in terms of style, sourced from very ripe grapes and aged in new French oak. From 103 year old vines this dense, lusty bottling is sure to turn heads.
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The Wine Advocate - "All of the following red wines were produced with native ferments. The 2009 Malbec Gran Reserva was sourced from 103 year old vines and aged for 12 months in new French oak. Smoky oak, game, lavender, black cherry, and blueberry inform the nose of a layered, plush, flavorful wine with superb volume and length for its modest price. It has enough structure to evolve for 1-2 years and will provide enjoyment through 2019."
Fabre Montmayou Winery
Hervé Joyaux Fabre, owner and director of Fabre Montmayou, was born in Bordeaux, France to a family of wine negociants. When he arrived in Argentina in the early 90's looking for opportunities to invest in vineyards and start a winery, he was impressed by the potential for Malbec in Mendoza, and shocked by the number of neglected top notch old vine vineyards available for purchase. At this time pulling out old vines and replanting with new higher yielding more predictable clones was all the rage. Hervé Fabre knew he needed to act immediately. Within months he purchased the first of what would be many old vine, high elevation vineyard sites under his control - An impeccable 37 acre spread in Vistalba planted with original rootstock Malbec vines in 1908. Shortly after, Herve built a Chateau style winery on the property and continued purchasing old vine parcels throughout the country. A Patagonian winery was constructed in the Rio Negro region ten years later. At present the family owns 217 acres of vineyard land in Mendoza (Vistalba, Compuertas, Tupungato) and 122 acres in Patagonia (Allen, General Roca). All wines are estate grown, farmed using traditional methods without the use of herbicides, and fermented with native yeasts. View all Fabre Montmayou Wines
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Finding Your Passion: Remarks by Secretary Arne Duncan at the Benjamin Banneker High School Commencement
Good afternoon, students, parents and teachers.
I am here today to celebrate your success and Banneker's success. They often say that success has many parents.
Your success is earned, first of all, from your hard work and perseverance -- qualities that are in each of you -- and so I begin by saluting you, the class of 2010.
May 28, 2010
Prepared for Success: Remarks by Secretary Arne Duncan at the Clark Montessori Junior High and High School Commencement
Congratulations to the Class of 2010all of your hard work has paid off. Thank you not just for your commitment to earning your diploma but for committing to go to college.
I want to especially thank Principal Rupa Townsend, who is doing a great job, and all of the teachers and parents and friends who helped these graduates every step of the way.
May 26, 2010
International Engagement Through Education: Remarks by Secretary Arne Duncan at the Council on Foreign Relations Meeting
Thank you for inviting me to join you today. It is a pleasure to have the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with this distinguished group.
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Thank you, President Moore, for that generous introduction and for this honorary degree, which I will treasure. I feel so honored to share the stage today with distinguished artists and great leaders like Vicki Kennedy, Professor Chinua Achebe, and Roz Chast.
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To our graduates and to their families who supported them every step of the way, congratulations, I am honored to be with you today.
May 8, 2010
It is a pleasure to be here today to do something which I think we do too little of in the field of education—and that is to celebrate success.
May 3, 2010
Thank you for that gracious introduction President DeGioia—and thanks to Parenting magazine for sponsoring not only this special event but for honoring the critical importance of parental involvement in our nation's schools.
April 30, 2010
I have a confession to make tonight. I am getting impatient with talking about "islands" of educational excellence. If no man is an island, no school should be either.
April 21, 2010
President Obama and I believe that every child deserves a world-class education. When the president says every child, it is not just rhetoric--he means every child, regardless of his or her skin color, nationality, ethnicity, or ability. The truth is, however, that virtually everyone professes to believe that all children deserve a world-class education.


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