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Skillz December 2010 Winning Entry - Technical
Winning Technical Entry for The Nightmare Before Charlie Brown's Christmas submitted by Ron Bowes et al (Forgive copy and paste formatting results):
| The Nightmare Before Charlie Brown's Christmas |
Submission by:
- Ron Bowes
- Mak Kolybabi
- Andrew Orr
- Russ Tait Milne
of SkullSpace Winnipeg (http://skullspace.ca)
| 1) What was the purpose of Jack's commands shown above? |
* dhclient
Jack used dhclient to obtain an ip address from the network. Interestingly,
the DHCP offer and acknowledgements are seen at 1:44:50 UTC, but the
request, which should have been broadcast at approximately the same time,
isn't present. One second after receiving the DHCP address, the router at
10.10.10.1 sends a single ping to Jack's newly obtained address, which he
responds to. That's also unusual behaviour.
* ifconfig
Jack runs ifconfig for one of two reasons:
1) To determine the subnet mask for the network he connected to. Since Jack
knows that the main VoIP server is somewhere on the same subnet as he
plugged into, thanks to the contract he found, he might want to find the
subnet mask to determine exactly which hosts to scan. In this case, since
the subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, he'll scan the full class c address
2) Jack may also run ifconfig to check what his MAC address is
(00:50:56:10:10:55). If this is the case, then it's the first evidence
we have that Jack is planning on performing an ARP poisoning attack.
* msfconsole
Run Metasploit console.
* use auxiliary/scanner/sip/options
Use the auxiliary module called "scanner/sip/options", which will attempt
connections to all hosts on port 5060 with an OPTIONS request.
* set RHOSTS 10.10.10.1-254
Jack wants to scan the subnet that he's connected to, since he knows that's
where the VoIP server is located.
* run
Run the SIP scan. He discovers that one server, 10.10.10.77, is running
SIP, and that it's Asterisk PBX 22.214.171.124.
* use auxiliary/scanner/sip/enumerator
Next, use the auxiliary module scanner/sip/enumerator, which scans a SIP
server for numeric username/extensions using OPTIONS/REGISTER commands.
* set RHOSTS 10.10.10.77
Jack now knows exactly which server he's attacking
* set MINEXT 1000
* set MAXEXT 1100
Jack is only interested in common extensions - 1000 to 1100. This may be a
guess on his part, or be based on a range implied by something written or
displayed on Lucy's phone.
* run
Perform the enumeration. Based on the server's logs, this happens at
1:45:10 UTC and takes less than a second.
* exit
Leave Metasploit console.
| 2) What was Jack's big plan? |
From a high level, Jack discovered that Charlie Brown and the gang were
missing the point of Christmas - senseless commercialism. So, being the good
guy that he is, he decided to help them realize that they weren't acting like
good Americans, and therefore were helping the terrorists.
To do this, he needed to do two things:
1) To send a message to Lucy, pretending to be their ruler, Charlie Brown,
telling her what Christmas was really about.
2) Ensure that Charlie Brown didn't show up and ruin the charade.
To make this happen, Jack had to take a number of actions:
* Find the SIP server, which he uses Metasploit for.
* Bruteforce an account on the SIP server (he gained access to 1005 at
approximately 1:46:16 UTC, according to the server logs).
* Use ARP spoofing to monitor RTP traffic on the switched network until Lucy
calls Charlie Brown (the ARP spoofing starts at 1:46:35 UTC, the call
happens at 1:47:19 UTC).
* After the call is established, monitor it until just the right time, then
inject a message to Charlie Brown telling him to stay home because nobody
likes him (the injection happened at 1:48:05 UTC). It's odd that he didn't
inject a message to Lucy at the same time, but that may indicate a
limitation of the tool that Jack's using.
* Wait until Lucy tries to call Charlie again, and redirect her to the
extension that Jack has previously gained access to (she calls Charlie back
at 1:49:08 UTC).
| 3) What tools and techniques could Jack have used to implement the whole |
| attack, particularly the ability to listen to conversations in real |
| time, and to inject his message with precision? Please be specific and |
| chronological. |
Obviously, he used Metasploit to find the VoIP server, and we already know
the commands he used for that. The other tools he may have used are:
* SIP Bruteforcing
It is difficult to determine which tool was used for SIP bruteforcing,
since we have only logs and not packet captures from the Asterisk server.
However, the most obvious tool for any bruteforcing is thc-hydra.
Each account had 106 guesses performed against it. Since thc-hydra can try
the blank password and the username as the password first, that means that
the dictionary contains either 104, 105, or 106 passwords. Since no
dictionary I've ever seen is that small, and Jack was likely in a hurry, it
is likely that he generated his own dictionary that's a subset of a larger
There are two likely dictionaries that Jack may have used to generate his
* Metasploit's "data/wordlists/unix_passwords.txt" list, since we know
that Metasploit was installed and handy.
* John the Ripper's password.lst, since most security folks have john
installed and it's probably the best list.
The password for 1005 was guessed on the 20th try, according to the log. That
means that the 18th, 19th, or 20th password in the list was the key. That
gives us:
* Metasploit: ashley, qwerty, 111111
* John: summer, internet, service
Since 111111 makes sense for a password on a phone, my guess would be that
Jack used hydra with the following command:
$ seq 1000 1005 > ./usernames.txt
$ head -n106 /pentest/exploit/framework3/data/wordlists/unix_passwords.txt \
> ./passwords.txt
$ hydra -L ./usernames.txt -P ./passwords.txt -f -v 10.10.10.77 sip
That series of commands would generate the exact traffic that we see -
guessing usernames between 1000 and 1005, performing 106 guesses per host,
and stopping after the first valid combination is found (1005:111111).
* ARP poisoning
At 1:46:35, an ARP poisoning attack starts. Every 2 seconds, an unsolicited
ARP response is seen. This makes it possible to monitor and inject into
VoIP calls.
There are many tools that can be used for ARP poisoning. The first one that
comes to mind is Ettercap, but since that may be backdoored we assume that
Jack is smart enough to avoid it. Also, Ettercap's traffic doesn't match
what is seen in the packet log.
The ARP poisoning messages occur every 2 seconds until the end of the packet
capture. At 1:25:06 UTC, Jack sends an ARP request for the router's address.
A tool that exhibits identical behaviour to this is arpspoof, from the
dsniff project. arpspoof would have been run as follows:
# arpspoof -t 10.10.10.77 10.10.10.1
* VoIP sniffing
At 1:47:19, Lucy, at the Theatre, calls Charlie Brown. Because Jack was
able to inject a message at the right moment (well, 10 seconds after the
right moment), we can deduce that he was either listening in real time,
or very nearly real time. We found several tools that could monitor and
replay VoIP calls after the fact, but very few that could play them in
real time.
ucsniff, a tool written by Viper Labs, can monitor SIP/RTP traffic for voice
(and video!) in realtime. The commandline we used for this is the following:
# ucsniff -G
which opens up the GUI version. After beginning monitoring, the calls
can be monitored in real time.
* VoIP injection
At 1:48:05 UTC, Jack injects a message to Charlie Brown. We found a number
of tools that could inject pre-recorded messages, but only a couple that
actually worked. Since Jack doesn't mention any details of the conversation
in his message, it's safe to assume that the message is pre-recorded.
The best (working) tool we found was RTP InsertSound v3.0, from Hacking VoIP
Exposed (David Endler & Mark Collier). It would be run with the following
# rtpinsertsound -b 10.11.11.22 ./messagetocharlie.wav
This will wait for VoIP traffic going to 10.11.11.22, which we know is
Charlie's address. When it detects the traffic, it will ask Jack to press
'enter' at the right moment. Jack continues listening to the call and,
when the time is right (1:48:05 UTC), he inserts the message.
* VoIP redirection
At 1:49:08 UTC, Lucy at the Theatre attempts to call Charlie. Jack responds
with 301 Moved Permanently, telling her to call 1005 instead (the number
Jack had bruteforced earlier). We found a tool called redirectpoison,
from Hacking VoIP Exposed, that performs this attack. The command that Jack
would have used is:
# redirectpoison <interface> 10.11.11.33 5060 '<sip:firstname.lastname@example.com>'
Which would redirect any calls originating from Lucy at the Theatre
(10.11.11.33) to the extension that Jack had cracked, 1005.
* VoIP calling
At 1:49:08 UTC, Lucy calls Jack at 1005. Since Jack had previously
determined the password for that account, he doesn't need any special tools
to take calls. Any VoIP client will do what he needs.
| 4) How could Linus have defended the infrastructure against Jack's |
| tactics? |
* Better passwords
It took Jack 20 attempts to bruteforce the password for extension 1005. This
indicates that the password was far too simple. Linus should have implemented
a password complexity policy, but the fact that it has to interface with the
phones might make that unreasonable, and other alternatives might be
investigated like two-factor authentication or VPNs.
* Two-factor authentication
Having a token with a changing password on it would have made this attack far
more difficult for Jack. Of course, with Lucy's track record, she probably
would have left her token on the desk, making the attack once again possible,
although more difficult, since he would only have been able to use Lucy's
account and not 1005.
Additionally, using certificates for authenticating the phones would have
made Jack's password-guessing attack almost impossible.
* Account lockout
If accounts were locked out after a certain number of login attempts, and
that number was less than 20, Jack would not have been able to bruteforce the
login for extension 1005.
* Login delays
If there was a delay between login attempts, Jack's attack would have taken
longer, giving Linus more time to respond.
* Intrusion Prevention
Since Linus has Snort installed on the VoIP server, and the Snort
installation detected a likely attack, having Snort actively block the attack
would have prevented Jack from performing an obvious password-guessing
* Isolated server
A large part of this attack was possible due to Lucy's phone being on the
same subnet as the Asterisk server. Even if all of the above changes were
made to the password authentication, Jack still could have pulled off the
entire attack (although in a somewhat more complicated fashion).
* Protection from ARP spoofing
Since Linus knew that putting Lucy's phone on the same network as the VoIP
server was a risk, he could have lowered the risk by ensuring that the router
had a static ARP entry for the VoIP server.
Requiring devices to authenticate to the switch before opening a port would
have prevented Jack from accessing the network at all. This is assuming that
Jack could not simply disconnect and reconnect Lucy's phone and record the
* Secure SIP and SRTP
By using encryption on the SIP/RTP traffic, Jack wouldn't have been able to
listen in, inject messages, and redirect phonecalls.
* Using SIP clients with REINVITE
By using REINVITE, the last SIP call between Lucy (at the Theatre) and
Charlie would have happened directly, without being routed through the main
SIP server. That would prevent Jack from hijacking it.
| 5) How can Linus set things right? |
I'm not 100% sure on what kind of answer is expected on this question, so I'm
going to have some fun with creative writing. Enjoy!
Thanks to Linus's mistakes, and Jack's ambitions, there are a number of
problems in Charlie Brown's world that have to be resolved.
First, the children almost missed the school play in order to buy more presents
and spread commercialism. Although the story doesn't specifically say this
happens, we know that the children will listen to their ruler, Charlie Brown,
and do what he says. In normal cartoon fashion, Linus would scramble down to
the Walmart, find the kids, and bring them back just in time for the play to
start. The curtain would rise, and nobody would be on stage. The parents would
be whispering to each other with their usual trombone voices. Then, at the last
minute, the first child would come on stage and Christmas would be saved!
Second, the children need to get rid of Jack Skellington. The most obvious way
to do that would be to call upon the Great Pumpkin, who is known to be The Great
Protector of Charlie Brown's world.
Linus, the one who knows the truth about the Great Pumpkin would have to summon
him. I'm not sure what the ritual entails, but I suspect it's blood sacrifice.
There is definitely more to it than waiting in a field.
Anyway, the Great Pumpkin, knowing that the children are in danger, would show
up and have a climactic fight with Jack Skellington. I'm picturing the battle
at the end of The Matrix, where the giant pumpkin jumps inside Jack Skellington
and makes him explode.
And finally, Linus has to resolve the problems caused for Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown is known to have low self confidence coupled with high
self hatred, and the combination of that and Jack Skellington's insult may have
been enough to push Charlie Brown over the edge.
I imagine Charlie Brown climbing to the top of the highest building in the town
and standing at the edge. Linus would burst out the door and yell for him to
STOP! Charlie, sobbing, would go over all the horrible things that have
happened to him, and Linus would be forced to try and talk him out of doing
something horrible.
Finally, Charlie would remember Lucy and the football, close his eyes, and
jump. But, like everything else, Charlie would screw it up and end up landing
on an awning which, according to the Mythbusters and Indiana Jones, could
potentially save somebody from falling to their death.
So Charlie Brown would be saved, Skellington would be defeated, and everybody
would rejoice!
CISSP, MCSE, CSTA, Security+ SME


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Originally Posted by Riverdance
As I said before, after last weeks game at FedEx, there was a "Giants Suck" chant in the Parking lot. We hate you almost as much as Dallass.
no one gives a ****
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LOL, I dont give a chit if a bunch of New Yorkers on the internet dont like me.
Cool story, though.
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Discussion in 'Great Skate Debate' started by Sugar, Feb 11, 2013.
You haven't looked at some of the "faking it" posts about Virtue/Moir at 4Cs, have you?
If your guess is true, he makes me feel terrible. The man who said it didn't know Joannie's situation at that time? Awful comment even if the person dislikes her
I've also seen a great deal more vigourous defence of V/M than I have of Plushenko.
Thanks for the video. The short version is that the commentator said he doubts Plushy's had the surgery since none of the Israeli clinics that had been asked, can locate him.
I don't think it's "can locate him". I think it's "refuse to locate him". The clinics aren't about to jump up and down and say "oh yes, Plushenko is here!". They have patient confidentiality to maintain.
If I were any clinic and whether or not Plushy were there, I'd ask what is your relation and if they said none or media, I'd say this is confidential. Likely what happened.
Yep. That's what I meant.
But it's rather stupid. Any journalist worth their salt would know that you can't just ring up a hospital and say you're looking for someone, and expect them to tell you...
Maybe 'the Israeli media' was masquerading as Queen Elizabeth or Vladimir Putin to ask for inside information of Plushy Middleton but failed. So they wrote there was no such operation and hospital and the Eurosport commentator has read about the story in The Sun.
You know, that incident was the first place my mind went when this all blew up.
There you go
Oh, thanks - I didn't think to use that spelling (for those who don't read Hebrew, the article spells his name as Plushchenko), so nothing came up when I searched. That explains it
They don't seem to find the whole thing suspicious, though. Did the local Russian-language media report anything of that sort?
I come cross this article which gives some possible explanations for the reason why Israeli bloggers try to spread the rumours.
Journalists shouldn't just be free to investigate, it's precisely their job to do so, to confirm the stories they report, to double check official statements, to draw their own conclusions. That's why journalist stories are meaningful.
Journalists aren't entitled to unrestricted access to every type of information. But since piecing informations up is an important part of a journalist job, they have their ways to do so, and they learn how to best protect themselves from breaking laws in the process (not that the process doesn't carry risks).
The Pope's (the pope's!) private letters and documents have been published in books and papers, and not a single journalist has had troubles with the law.
Being a public figure doesn't mean that confidentiality laws do not apply to you, but it certainly means that your privacy expectations should be lower.
Of course being a public figure is a choice.
If one doesn't like the high profile of what he/she does, then by all means may he/she feel free to do something else.
I think that's the core issue of this news.
A few days ago I was reading that the Sochi Olympics are going to be the most expensive in history. The piece went on saying that a few russian papers closed right after they wrote on how constructions and dumpings are conducted, saying things that were not along the lines of official statements (terrifying things).
Then I read Plushenko is taking a sports journalist to court, in a country that's known for not having a free press or fair courts, right before the Olympics.
These two piece of news together do not paint a nice big picture.
You are worried about Plushenko's privacy, I am most concerned about is the kind of life an average person has in a country with no free press and no right to justice.
I think Plushenko's not helping the issue, and I think that whatever reason he may have, or whatever case he may make are far less important than helping his country on the two most sore issues it has.
I didn't wish to comment in other other way on the case: I said that's less relevant than worrying about press and courts in Russia, in my opinion.
Plushenko could have ridiculed the journalist's work by simply producing a doctor note: "The guy had surgery".
A threat of any sort is less effective on the journalist's reputation, and unfortunately more harming under different points of view.
While discussing the specifics of why a country's press freedom declines, Trasparency International have mentioned in the past that law suits against journalists are a contributing factor. It doesn't really matter if the suits are legally sound, nor if they result in a victory/partial victory of the plantiff.
Law suits take time and respurces, laws are complex, results are often uncertain: all those reasons can scare journalists, even those that are trying to to their job at the best of their abilities and in good faith.
It's a matter of opportunity: in my opinion, lawsuits against journalists should be carefully pondered, and should be the very last resort in case of serious harm. That is even more true in the russian scenario.
I bet if you were in bed after disc surgery and someone even here anonymously called you a liar, let alone on eurosport , you would jump all over and wouldnt think how to save Russian's freedom of speech issues.. You sound like Plush is taking to courts any journalist who writes sth bad about him, and I m sure there are quite few journalists who do him no favor there. But thats not the case of freedom speech, he is a public figure, he has lots of sponsors, he is Sochi Ambassador and the said journalist was talking crap.
Channel 1 provided videos and interviews from doctors to prove Plushenko had surgery. But that does not prevent Zhurankov from saying in his opinion there was no operation. Plushenko is not the one destroying journalist reputation.
To point out defects on construction or corruptions and got banned is one thing, to slander a well known sportsman's reputation is another. If you think these two types of journalists are at the same level, you are insulting the real journalists.
Lawsuit maybe a bit extreme, but the whole thing is not Plushenko's fault. He is in a very difficult time and got stabbed from the back, maybe in your opinion he should just smile and allow himself bleeding to despair. Because he is a wealthy man and Russia has problem of free speech.
The comment was made after Plushenko and his wife made public various medical details. It is not their responsibility to provide these, or any other details nosy people are interested in. However, it was the responsibility of the person making the allegations that Plushenko was faking the injury to prove his case. Which he didn't. You appear foolish for suggesting otherwise.
For the last time: being a journalist is not free reign to publish or say anything you please about anyone in existence, famous or not. If you want to allege something happened, back it up with solid evidence. If you can't do that, don't be surprised if there are financial and professional consequences. People have a right to privacy and medical confidentiality - even famous people! - and this is something you seem blithely unconcerned about. The public does not have a right to know Plushenko's medical business. Period. Even if he does get public funding, government employees are paid from taxpayers' money, too - so what? Does did mean their rights should be waived?
I'm sure if you were in Plushenko's position, you'd be ever so understanding and ready to turn the other cheek.
And when a journalist writes obvious rubbish, that hurts all journalist everywhere. Where is your concern for the harm this journalist did by writing obvious garbage with pretty much no research behind it that makes it seem like journalists are liars who will say anything to sell their stories?
And I say that telling people in a country that has issues with a free press that they have to lay down and take it whenever a yellow journalist write lies about them because somehow this will help create a free press is naive at best.
In other words what you're saying is that Plushenko should let the whole issue drop just because there is no freedom of speech in Russia? A slanderous remark that reflects negatively on his reputation is unimportant in this framework? That's ridiculous.
So, since Plushenko is obviously going to win this case (he is Putin's friend) what will happen to the journalist?
He looses his job and has to pay thousands for Plushenko? Or even goes to jail?
I don't know if it was already posted here for this interview ... : http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/587425
"The surgeon who operated Plushenko: The operation is called Eugene PR? I'm shocked!" - Translator google
In the article above the surgeon mentiones another patient - a diver Gleb Galperin. The name doesnt mean much to me, but am quite sure he was diving after the surgery . The doctor says Pluschenko has a 90% chance to recover should he follow the reccomrndations . He can start training off ice in march and 3 months after the surgery be back on the ice. The doctor couldnt predict whether Pluschenko will win in Sochi
During my years in research I spent a lot of time in the OR and if a surgeon was caught doing an interview while the patient was under waiting, it would have been an incident report. There were several occasions when the surgeon was late and the patient spent a long time under anesthesia, all resulting in incident reports. You really want to minimize the time under anesthesia.
Unless the reporter is literally walking with the surgeon to the OR while interviewing, this is rather
Galperin is a beautiful diver.
Plushenko said he doesn't need money, but thinks Zhurankov should learn that with freedom of speech comes responsibility.
Yes, he doesn't need money but is he still going to claim it?
Does it matter?
Seems to me like there's an awful lot of people trying to make Plushenko the villain here.
Yes it does matter because I am interested to know what kind of punishment the journalist will have? I don't know anything about Russian court system but I suppose it's pretty tough.
My opinion - the guy spoke way out of line, if he really thought P's surgery was a sham he should have investigated further before saying anything and if P wants to sue to defend his name then I think he should. Look, lots of folks have said lots of things that are not in praise of his skating and like most performers/competitors he let's most of it go by (as is right). But this is different. I support him absolutely.


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kaffe fassett, valori wells, amy butler, and traditional patterns. and i like to design my own things as well.
I love Toni Whitney and McKenna Ryan (I enlarge her patterns for easier use).
I also like The Country Quilter, Pine Meadows, Brandywine, Bee Creative and so many more.
I also use wood carving and stained glass patterns by L Irish and Paned Expressions and am now using a lot of photos for patterns. So little time.....
Dereck Lockwood's Bargellos! And if you need to make the pattern larger or smaller, he'll personally help you resize it! Very nice person.
I love Amy Butler and Kate Spain for their beautiful modern fabrics and cute patterns. Also Heather Bailey and Sandy Henderson.
I like Jenni Beyer her designs I just love
Wonderful thread. I will look up each and every one of these designers. I actually got motivated to start quilting after looking at some of Jane Sassaman's fabric and quilts. I love a wide variety of fabrics and colors but especially like bright bold colors and designs. I also like Alexander Henry, Tina Givens and Valori Wells.
Nancy Halvorsen comes to mind... love her soft, dreamy colors and quaint designs.
Bonnie K. Hunter at Quiltville.com. Love her patterns and clear instructions.
Barbara Brachman has done an incredible job with Civil War era quilts (with some history thrown in, even).
Carol Doak's paper piecing patterns... wonderful! Great instructions and patterns.
Georgia Bonesteel... what can I say?
Eleanor Burns - who could get along without Quilt in a Day? (not that I ever quilted one in a day, mind you, but I keep hoping!)
Debbie Beaves.
I tend to lean toward traditional prints and patterns... avoid cartoons and other proprietary prints and other such cutesiness like the plague. If I put that much work into something, I want it to be a classic, not outdated next year. Also not terribly fond of graphics, at least the bolder ones... not a Riley Blake fan. Ditto for Kaffe Fassett.
And a huge thank you to all those like Janet Wickell on About.com, who bring us pattern libraries. What a tremendous gift! (And she's by no means the only one - just the one whose name popped into my mind at the moment.)
Here I have to mention Jenny Doan at Missouri Star... her video tutorials are the "bestest".
[QUOTE=jcrow;5830253]I can tell you one I don't like and why. Kaffe Fassett. All his fabrics look like bedspreads that are in the cheap motels ----
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#1 Fri 16 Feb 07 2:18pm
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Recipe for tortellini filling
Im going to attempt to make fresh tortellini but Im after ideas for fillings. Any recipes would be appreciated!
I do have jamies italy book and tobys italy book which ill have a look at, but thought i would ask here too.
I have most of my recipes on the computer, so I usually forget that I have cookbooks, not good I know!
#2 Fri 16 Feb 07 3:43pm
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Re: Recipe for tortellini filling
I live in Bologna, the place were the tortellino burn.javascript:emoticon('')
- farina: 800gr.
- uova: 8
- polpa di maiale/PORK:150 gr.
- polpa di vitello/BEEF:150gr.
- salsiccia/SAUSAGE: 100 gr.
- prosciutto crudo/PARMA HAM:100 gr.
- mortadella:50 gr.
- uovo/EGG: 1
- parmigiano grattato/:150 gr.
- pane grattugiato:1/2 spoon
- burro: 30 gr.
- sale: q.b.
- noce moscata: q.b.
I think that would be difficult to find all ingredients in australia.
Anyway the important think is to prepare a good hit quality broth/brodo.
Carots, onion, meet, water, salt...and leave on the fire almost 2 hours.
see for the method
Sorry, for my umble english...and good luck!!
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Re: Recipe for tortellini filling
stega.. your english is alot better than my italian but between the two of us i might help to tanslate a bit.
- farina: 800gr. (flour probably pasta flour would be best)
- uova: 8 (eggs)
- polpa di maiale/PORK:150 gr. (ground/minced pork)
- polpa di vitello/BEEF:150gr. (ground/minced beef )
- salsiccia/SAUSAGE: 100 gr.
- prosciutto crudo/PARMA HAM:100 gr.
- mortadella:50 gr.
- uovo/EGG: 1
- parmigiano grattato/:150 gr. (grated parmesan)
- pane grattugiato:1/2 spoon (italian style bread crumbs.)
- burro: 30 gr. (butter)
- sale: q.b. ( salt ) qb means quanto basta..
- noce moscata: q.b. ( nutmeg) just enough or to taste
link to a recipe for an italian style breadcrumb
http://184.108.40.206/search?q=cache:ATV … &gl=ca
It sounds like a great filling, it seems like it would make alot though. It should be good to freeze if you do them up individual on a tray first then put them in a freezer bag after they have frozen.
I think i will try this recipe myself soon.. will tell you how it turns out.
this weekend i will be making some gnocchi but may sometime in the next few weeks.
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#4 Sun 18 Feb 07 9:07am
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Re: Recipe for tortellini filling
stega, this seems yummie. Though the site is in Italian, but very nicely demonstaring how to make tortellini. Maybe I try. I have friends in Bologna, but I can tell, that pasta is really most fantastic in that city!
#5 Sun 18 Feb 07 10:18am
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Re: Recipe for tortellini filling
Thankyou for the recipe and thankyou for the translation
I forgot to mention that Im looking for mainly vegetarian recipes, you know the usual cheese and spinach type fillings. I have gone off meat lately for some reason.
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Re: Recipe for tortellini filling
any vegetarian ones with herbs?
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"In or around June 1995 human character changed again. Or rather, it began to undergo a metamorphosis that is still not complete, but is profound — and troubling, not least because it is hardly noted. When I think about, say, 1995, or whenever the last moment was before most of us were on the Internet and had mobile phones, it seems like a hundred years ago. Letters came once a day, predictably, in the hands of the postal carrier. News came in three flavors — radio, television, print — and at appointed hours. Some of us even had a newspaper delivered every morning."
So begins a recent essay in the London Review of Books by Rebecca Solnit, an American writer interested in how technological changes affect human consciousness. Not long ago, she notes, those mail and newspaper deliveries punctuated the day like church bells. You listened to the news when it was broadcast, and time passed in fairly large units, not in milliseconds and constant updates.
Since most everyone listened to the same news sources, discussions of current events occurred under the overarching sky of the same general reality. Today we're free to pick our way among hundreds of competing blogs and information processors, to find a slant that suits our preconceptions. We can fill our heads with entertaining diatribes by well-paid radio, TV and Internet pundits before lamenting with like-minded friends about how dysfunctional and disjointed politics has become.
In that simpler time, writes Solnit, "Phones were wired to the wall or if they were cordless, they were still housebound. The sound quality was usually good. On them people had long, deep conversations of a sort almost unknown today, now that phones are used while driving, while shopping, while walking in front of cars against the light and into fountains. The general assumption was that when you were on the phone that's all you were."
But little by little, all of that changed, culminating in today's commonly heard cell phone cry: "You're breaking up!" Letters have morphed into emails, which at first seemed almost magical, splicing together the intimacy of thoughtful reflection with the speed of telegraphs, but which have since devolved into texting and slowly turned into semiliterate group chatter.
Obviously, many good things have come about with the new technologies. Social changes can now evolve more quickly, and with the involvement of millions of citizens. Facebook helps far-flung families stay in touch, and may help reconnect old friends. Brain-numbing math calculations are now accomplished in the blink of an eye. Messages flash across continents and oceans at the speed of light. Smart phones and tablets connect their users to a prodigious stockpile of information 24/7. And yet ...
"Nearly everyone I know," says Solnit, "feels that some quality of concentration they once possessed has been destroyed. Reading books has become hard; the mind keeps wanting to shift from whatever it is paying attention to to pay attention to something else. A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium ... Time no longer comes in large, focused blocks, but in fragments and shards. We're shattered. We're breaking up."
It's hard, now, to be with someone else wholly, uninterruptedly, and it's hard to be truly alone. The fine art of doing nothing in particular, also known as thinking, or musing, or introspecting, is now regarded as a void, to be filled up with sounds and other entertainments.
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Read that post, and the progressions RGIII has to go through on the Robinson TD. Robinson is not his quick read, and he also looked off defenders in the process. So what you just asked for, I showed you. Again, don't take it so personal... lol.
so not only is he working through progressions, he's letting longer plays develop. If you're not impressed with that, while a rookie, and attribute it to just "first read college ball", then you're just ignoring what is in front of you.Quote:
Here is when it gets fun! This "College Offense" is supposed to be 1 read which makes it easy on the QB. The critics like to say "Robert Griffin III is not being asked to read the field like other QBs" etc. I have news for you, Kyle Shanahan has designed an offense that is more in-depth than your typical "college offense".Following the PA fake Robert Griffin III puts eyes on his first read in the progression. At this point Hankerson and Robinson are being passed to safeties.
The in cut by Hankerson invites the far safety to bite on the route, this pulls him out of deep coverage.With no threats in the flat The CB carried Robinson to the safety.The near hash safety is still in no mans land.
Robert Griffin the III knows he has the Robinson route but stays with his progressions. I think this is significant because it shows maturity as a passer. Griffin could have sat and waited for Robinson to come open and let it rip but he stayed within the offense and took the route when he should have.


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In Djibouti, journalist defiant despite revolving jail door
Online journalist Houssein Ahmed Farah spent more than three months in jail in Djibouti before an appeals court finally released him in November--after his defense requested bail three times, Houssein said. His crime? Officially nothing. "It appears to have been an arbitrary arrest because there is still no evidence on file," Houssein told me. He said he was accused of distributing identity cards for the opposition, but he has not been charged with a crime.


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Discussion in 'General Chevy & GM Tech Questions' started by Pikey, Aug 29, 2012.
I have a code that is for airbag sensor 1 on my 05 yukon xl. Is that the driver or passenger side?
It may not be either one. There are other sensors on the vehicle... On the seat rails among other places. I think I would let the dealer fool with that... Otherwise, it's time for a shop manual!
Yea air bag codes make me skittish which is why I always let a dealer mess with them.
Last year I watched an ambitious mechanic at an independent shop blow the bags in a new Cadillac CTSV because he didnt properly protect against static electricity while messing with a sensor, theres something like 8 or 9 bags at a cost of a couple thousand dollars for all of them. The car owner and shop owner got in an argument over who was responsible for the replacement cost.
Just reaffirmed my impression that somethings are better off left to the dealership even if you dont like dealing with them, if they screw up during the trouble shooting it out of their pocket not yours.
I did some research and discovered that it was the driver side. I found the part for $75. Disconnected the battery, touched the positive and negative cables together to drain any remaining charge, Then I let it sit for 30 minutes. It took 5 minutes to change the sensor and all is well.
Awesome. Glad it worked out!
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Girl which drives my friend crazy, but is ugly as poop but has a big junk in the trunk. my friend this he still has a chance, so because of that he doesn't what to talk to any other girl. ladies please don't be a white spot.
by zoltean May 31, 2008
coward,chicken shit, If you look at the top of chicken shit there is always a white spot but bottom line it is still chicken shit.
Its sad that every time we have to deal with this chicken shit he runs for the hills. Would use white spot in the place of chicken shit.
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Discussion in 'The Coffee Shop ~ Chit Chat' started by CarpenterGuy, Sep 30, 2008.
So how's everyone's day been? I'm bored.
check pm...
my day's been one of the more negative ones of the weeks past. I'm getting frustrated at myself for not knowing more in an automotive sense than I do.
I nkow how you feel. My uncle could take apart a car and put it back to gather with his eyes closed and it frustrates me how he can hold so much knowledge...and how the heck he knows it.
I constantly see ppl on tv (granted it's TV-easy... but still!) either taking a car and totally take it apart and rebuild in a few days' time or completely scratch-build projects one bolt at a time....
......and I have trouble changing an O2 sensor.
Nevermind that, I have problems diagnosing a highway lurching suburban!
lol i think it's all staged. Every bit of it is staged. There's no way in an 8 hour day you can strip down and rebuild a car in a couple days
Foose wouldn't lie to me...
my day has been good.. it looks like im going to need another day added to this week so i can get everything done :lol:
and i saw a 45 second engine swap (this including drving the car 15 feet) with 3 guys
yeah those drag car motors get fully rebuilt between races. that always has amazed me.
That's rediculous
and thats why they get paid more money than i make in a year
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Ever figure out if shipping to Cali is ok?
OK: I sent Money order out today. If it turns out I can get more, I'll send another MO.
Thanks again!!
I know it's a lot of work packing & shipping. Especially for us crippled up old farts!! Heh..Heh
I owe you one!!
" Save a tree...........Eat A Beaver!"
I seldom talk to liberals.............................. But when I do, I order fries............
Ever figure out if shipping to Cali is ok?
I haven't yet Mr posthmous,,, I was hoping Bellson or jrs would chime in sense there up on ,, what's going on in that area. But it looks like 12 bucks.
And no problem Bradrock, I'll hook ya up with another 100 if you want, to bad I sent yours and coils out yesterday.
Good news Bradrock,, I was able to intercept the package just before it went on the truck, you got 200 on the way instead of 100.
The shipping was double what I expected 12 bucks,,, but what ever. Yup you guys will get it cheaper than what I did,, life is good for you guys. But I quoted what I did,, so it is,, what it is. Enjoy
Ive been googling, and it looks like as long as it is not shipped USPS (duh) then its ok to my pos. Bellson or anyone else know anything different? Thanks!
Original postage guess for 100 was $6.00 which I included.
Actual postage for 100 was $12.00
So I was $6.00 short
Now that I'm getting 200 rounds, I figure $12.00 for that + $6.00 short on first 100
I come up with $18.00 postage due by me + $40.00 more for ammo = $58.00 I owe you.
Thanks again, Brad
" Save a tree...........Eat A Beaver!"
I seldom talk to liberals.............................. But when I do, I order fries............
No,, it's just 6 difference,, I was able to put it all together in the same box sense I caught it before it went out, I just repacked it with the extra 100 in there,,so it will all come in one box ,,at the same 11.90 something total for shipping. See way it's not a big deal. So it's only 46 total for the other 100.
Cool beans! I recently bought an MG42 belt loader & I have some belts coming from RTG. Even got a couple WW11 ammo cans also. So now I'll soon be able to try it out.
Unless maybe this ammo is too nice for that & I should save for the bolt actions.
Thanks again!! Brad
" Save a tree...........Eat A Beaver!"
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You still have any of the Yugo left brother?? If so, do you need cash, or you wanna do some tool trading? Need any more clecos? LOL.
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Everyday activities like listening to an iPod, playing loud video games and going to the movies can put your hearing at risk. Loud noises can damage the inner ear. This type of hearing loss can't be healed. But it can be prevented. Find out how to protect yourself.
Block, walk and turn—that's what hearing safety experts want you to do when you come across a really loud noise. Block the noise from entering your ears; walk away from it; and turn it down. Those are your first steps in staying safe (see "Dial It Down!").
On average, 15% of all school-age children live with some hearing loss. And it's a growing problem. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2010 found a 31% rise from 1994 to 2006 in hearing loss among kids ages 12 to 19.
A 2011 study by Harvard Medical School did not find the same significant increase. But the Harvard study found that teenage girls have more hearing problems than teenage boys. The study did not track kids into adulthood.
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Sound is measured in units called decibels. Decibel levels start at zero, which is near silence. An increase of 10 decibels means that a sound is 10 times more powerful. There are two types of harmful noises: sounds that are too loud and sounds that last too long (see "What's Too Loud?"). Both types can cause permanent damage to the sensitive hair cells in the inner ears that bring sound to the brain.
"Imagine a handful of pipe cleaners. They represent the hair cells in your ear," Andrea Boidman of Deafness Research Foundation told TFK. "Being exposed to a really loud noise is like shaking the pipe cleaners really fast. When you're done, the pipe cleaners are all bent. You can never really straighten them back to their original shape," she says. "That's like what happens with your hair cells. Once they are damaged, they never go back to being perfect again, and eventually the damage will start to affect your hearing."
Most people don't know that listening to headphones at full volume puts your ears at risk. "If your iPod is on the maximum volume, it's too loud," says Boidman. "If you listen to it at that level every day, it will cause hearing loss." Sometimes, staying safe and sound is as simple as turning it down.
What's Too Loud?
Your body might try to warn you when a sound is too loud to be safe. You're probably at risk if you have to raise your voice to be understood by someone standing nearby, if your ears hurt, or if you hear a ringing in your ears even after you get away from the loud sound. Here are more ways to know if your hearing is at risk.
120 decibels (an ambulance siren): Up-close exposure can cause hearing loss after nine seconds.
110 decibels (a rock concert): Regular exposure of more than one minute puts you at risk for hearing loss.
85 decibels (heavy city traffic): Prolonged exposure can cause gradual hearing loss.
60 decibels (normal conversation): This is considered totally safe.
(Source: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Dial It Down!
Follow these simple steps to protect yourself.
• When you can't avoid loud noises, wear earplugs or earmuffs to block out sound. Earplugs fit inside your ears, and can be almost invisible. Earmuffs cover the outside of your ears, and are available in different designs and colors.
• Set your television or stereo to the lowest volume you can hear. If you are with a person who has trouble hearing, turn on the closed-captioning service to show the words on the screen.
• If your neighbors use noisy leaf blowers or lawn mowers, close your windows and doors to block the sound. This will also protect you from the sounds of sirens and construction. Add curtains to keep out noise, or carpets to absorb it.
(Source: Deafness Research Foundation's Safe and Sound Program)
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Does anyone use localharvest.org to sell their honey? If so, how are sales going?
For those that live in Ohio, does selling on Localharvest require an Ohio packaging/food processing permit? Right now I am selling honey from my front door which does no require any permits. However, if I sell retail, I have to get permits. Localharvest showcases products for sale. My understanding is that people can purchase Honey from a member's store. Once that order is placed, it is sent to the member (me in this case) and it packaged and shipped by the member, not LocalHarvest.
Another way to put it, do I need to get a permit to sell on localharvest even though the product is packaged and shipped directly by myself?


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The Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning is a collaborative enterprise of Saint John's University and the University of St. Thomas (MN) also serving the College of Saint Benedict. After many years of fostering Jewish-Christian relations, the center expanded its mission to promote interfaith learning, friendship, and service among people of various religions. It does this by sponsoring a host of interfaith activities, including artistic performances, lectures, panels, conferences, retreats, and service programs.
By promoting interfaith learning, friendship, and service, the Jay Phillips Center is carrying out a mandate of the Vatican Council II (1962-1965) and subsequent official Roman Catholic teaching, and it is thereby supporting the Catholic identity of its host universities.
Since Vatican II the importance of interfaith dialogue has been emphasized by many church leaders, especially Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis. The council document Nostra Aetate (from its opening Latin words meaning "In our time"), issued in 1965 and also known as "The Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions," calls upon Catholics to engage in "dialogue and collaboration with followers of other religions."
Nostra Aetate claims that the Church is "ever aware of its duty to foster unity and charity among individuals, and even among nations," and it challenges Christians to "acknowledge, preserve, and encourage the spiritual and moral truths found among non-Christians" while at the same time "witnessing to their own faith and way of life."
Remaining deeply committed to the enhancement of Jewish-Christian relations, the Jay Phillips Center is now equally committed to its expanded mission of carrying out the wider interfaith mandate of Vatican II as an essential feature of Catholic identity--and therefore of the identity of its host institutions--and as an indispensable means of strengthening the fabric of community.
The Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning was established in 1996 by bringing together Saint John's University's Jay Phillips Chair in Jewish Studies and the University of St. Thomas' Center for Jewish-Christian Learning.
The Jay Phillips Chair, named after the Jewish philanthropist who endowed it, was established in 1969 upon the recommendation of Fr. Colman Barry, SJU president from 1964 to 1971. Rabbi Nahum Schulman served as the chair's first occupant until 1983, followed by Rabbi Michael Goldberg (from 1983 to 1985), Rabbi Mark Verman (from 1987 to 1993), and Rabbi Barry D. Cytron (from 1996 to 2009). A national search for a new occupant of the chair will be conducted in the near future.
The Center for Jewish-Christian Learning, endowed by a number of Jewish and Catholic benefactors led by Sidney R. Cohen and Thomas P. Coughlan, was established in1985 upon the recommendation of Msgr. Terrence J. Murphy, president of the University of St. Thomas from 1966 to 1991. Rabbi Max A. Shapiro served as the center's director from its beginning until his retirement in 1996.
Arthur E. Zannoni served as the center's associate director from 1985 to 1991, followed by Karen L. Schierman who continued in that role after the 1996 reconfiguration and renaming of the center. Among his many services to the center, Zannoni edited the first seven volumes of the Proceedings of the Center for Jewish-Christian Learning. Sr. Mary Christine Athans, B.V.M., professor emerita of church history at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, was closely associated with the center from its beginning, and she served as editor of volumes eight to eleven of the center's Proceedings.
Under Rabbi Shapiro's guidance and upon the recommendation of Fr. Dennis Dease, president of the University of St. Thomas from 1991 to 2013, and Br. Dietrich Reinhart OSB, president of Saint John's University from 1991 to 2008, the collaboration between the University of St. Thomas and Saint John's University brought about the jointly sponsored Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning in 1996. Rabbi Barry D. Cytron served as the center's director while also holding the Jay Phillips Chair in Jewish Studies until his retirement in January 2009. Throughout Rabbi Cytron's tenure as the center's director, John Merkle and Karen Schierman served as associate directors of the center.
Under Rabbi Cytron's leadership, the center began to extend the scope of its interfaith work beyond Jewish-Christian relations. In 2007 Rabbi Amy Eilberg became a consultant to the center and initiated its Interfaith Conversations Project to engage adult members of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim congregations in interfaith learning and activities.
At the request of Edward Phillips and Dean Phillips, grandson and great grandson respectively of Jay Phillips, and upon the recommendation of Fr. Dennis Dease, president of University of St. Thomas from 1991 to 2013, and Fr. Robert Koopmann OSB, president of Saint John's University from 2009 to 2012, in 2009 the center expanded its mission to promote interfaith learning among people of various religions and was given its new name to reflect its expanded mission.
In February 2009 John Merkle was appointed interim director of the center and in August 2009 he was appointed the center's director. Karen Schierman continued in her role as the center's associate director until her retirement in May 2010. In June 2010 Lois Dament became the center's administrative assistant at St. Thomas, Carol Johannes assumed the same role at Saint John's, and David Jordan Harris became the center's interfaith arts special consultant. After winding down her Interfaith Conversations Project in June 2011, Rabbi Amy Eilberg became the center's special consultant for interfaith conversations beginning July 2011. In June 2011 Hans Gustafson became the center's assistant director and in June 2013 was named its associate director.


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Interesting perspective on the global economic crisis from Moscow today.
MOSCOW – If you're inclined to believe Igor Panarin, and the Kremlin wouldn't mind if you did, then President Barack Obama will order martial law this year, the United States will split into six rump-states before 2011, and Russia and China will become the backbones of a new world order.
The prediction from Panarin, a former spokesman for Russia's Federal Space Agency and reportedly an ex-KGB analyst, meshes with the negative view of the United States that has been flowing from the Kremlin in recent years, in particular from Vladimir Putin.
Putin, the former president who is now prime minister, has likened the United States to Nazi Germany's Third Reich and blames Washington for the global financial crisis that has pounded the Russian economy.
Wow. That is a lot to digest on a Tuesday morning. Drawing analogies between the US and Nazi Germany is completely absurd and sounds like an inflammatory ploy for attention. Add to that the assertion that Obama will declare Martial Law and you are really stirring the pot. After all, many Americans are worried that the Obama Administration will be coming for their guns as it is. With talk of Martial Law, that fear will only grow.
So, it this new world order, the US will somehow divide into six states and Alaska with all of her resources will return to Russia. That one sounds like a plea for Russian Nationalism and a rallying cry for a people that live in a state who has collapsed. Not really surprising that they would want to drag us down to their level.
China and Russia will become the backbone of the new world economy. Think about that one for a minute, two communist or former communist powers leading the world. If that were to happen, you would see two things right away. First, we would likely see a decline in the world's population as all the led-tainted products from China spread out throughout the world. Secondly, you could say goodbye to any world aid efforts from the dominant powers. Let's face it, neither country thinks much of those outside of their boarders. Come to think of it, doesn't one of them have a giant wall….
The last time our country was attacked and threatened by a foreign power, we rallied together and came out stronger then before. Perhaps comments like Mr. Panarin's will help to wake this country up and get us to realize that we are under constant attack and we all need to pull together and fight for our nation.