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Post Marketing Commitment Glossary1
Adverse event – Any untoward medical occurrence in a patient, clinical investigation subject, or consumer following administration of a medicine. The event need not necessarily have a causal relationship with the treatment or usage.
Arm – Any of the treatment groups in a randomized trial. Most randomized trials have two "arms"; some have three or more. Open-label studies have one arm.
Baseline – Information gathered at the beginning of a study from which variations found in the study are measured; a known value or quantity with which an unknown is compared when measured or assessed; and/or the initial time point in a clinical trial, just before subjects begin receiving the experimental treatment being tested.
Blind – A randomized trial is "blind" if subjects and study personnel (investigators, nurses, companies) are not told which arm of the trial the patient is in. A clinical trial is "blind" if subjects and study personnel are unaware of whether they are in the experimental or control (placebo) arm of a study. Blinded studies are used to prevent bias.
Centralized Authorization Procedure (CAP) – A regulatory approval procedure within the European Union (EU). Under the centralized procedure, companies submit a single marketing authorization application to the European Medicines Agency. Once granted by the European Commission, a centralized (or 'Community') marketing authorization is valid in all European Union (EU) and EEA-EFTA states (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).
Clinical trial/Clinical study – A research study to answer specific questions about vaccines, new treatments, or new ways of using known treatments. Clinical trials (also called medical research and research studies) are used to determine the benefit/risk profile of new medicines or treatments. Carefully conducted clinical trials are the fastest and safest way to find treatments that work in people.
Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) – The CHMP is responsible for preparing the European Medicine Agency's opinions on all questions concerning medicinal products for human use and plays a vital role in the marketing procedures for medicines in the European Union: In the 'Community' or 'centralized' procedure, the CHMP is responsible for conducting the initial assessment of medicinal products for which a Community-wide marketing authorization is sought. The CHMP is also responsible for several post-authorization and maintenance activities, including the assessment of any modifications or extensions ('variations') to the existing marketing authorization.
Control group – The standard by which experimental observations are evaluated. In many clinical trials, one group of subjects will be given an experimental drug or treatment, while the control group is given either a standard treatment for the illness or a placebo.
Dose ranging study – A clinical trial in which two or more doses of an agent (such as a medicine) are tested against each other to determine which dose works best and is least harmful.
Double-blind study – A clinical trial design in which neither the participating subjects nor the study staff knows which subjects are receiving the experimental medicine and which are receiving a placebo or another therapy.
Drug-drug interaction – A modification of the effect of a medicine when administered with another medicine. The effect may be an increase or decrease in the action of either substance, or it may be an adverse event not normally associated with either medicine.
Efficacy (of a medicine or treatment) – The ability of a medicine or treatment to produce a result. A medicine passes efficacy trials if it is effective at the dose tested and against the illness for which it is prescribed. In the procedure mandated by the FDA, Phase 2 clinical trials gauge efficacy, and Phase 3 trials confirm it.
Endpoint – Overall outcome that the protocol is designed to evaluate. Common endpoints are efficacy endpoints, treatment outcomes, severe toxicity, disease progression, or death.
Epidemiology – The branch of medical science that deals with the study of incidence and distribution and control of a disease in a population or sub-population. Epidemiological studies can also be designed to evaluate medicine safety.
European Medicines Agency – The European Medicines Agency is a decentralized body of the European Union (EU) with headquarters in London. Its main responsibility is the protection and promotion of public and animal health, through the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human and veterinary use. The European Medicines Agency is responsible for the scientific evaluation of applications for marketing authorization for medicinal products for the EU/European Economic Area (the centralized approval procedure).
Follow-up Measure (FUM) – Follow-up Measures are post-approval commitments to be submitted by the marketing authorization holder (MAH) to the European Medicines Agency and the Rapporteur within an agreed timeframe, as detailed in the Letter of Undertaking prepared by the MAH. FUMs can be required for any marketing authorization. FUMs can be requested at the CHMP opinion in relation to the initial marketing authorization application or at the CHMP assessment of any additional data/applications submitted.
Inclusion/exclusion criteria – The medical or social standards determining whether a subject may be chosen to enter a clinical trial or epidemiologic study. These criteria are based on such factors as age, gender, type and stage of disease, previous treatment history, and other medical conditions.
Independent Ethics Committees (IEC) – See Institutional Review Board
Indication – A valid reason to use a certain test, medication, procedure, or surgery. The FDA strictly regulates indications for medications available in the U.S. including the specific information under the "Indications and Usage" section of each medicine's full U.S. Physician Prescribing Information.
Informed consent – A process by which a subject voluntarily confirms his or her willingness to participate in a particular trial, after having been informed of all aspects of the trial that are relevant to the subject's decision to participate.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) – An independent committee of physicians, statisticians, researchers, community advocates, and others that ensures that a study is ethical and that the rights of study participants are protected. These are known as ethics committees or ethical review boards in the EU. All clinical trials must be approved by an IRB/Ethics Committee before they begin. Every institution that conducts or supports biomedical or behavioral research involving human participants must, by federal regulation, have an IRB that initially approves and periodically reviews the research in order to protect the rights of human participants.
Letter of Undertaking – This is a letter from the MAH in the EU which specifies the post-approval commitment including a brief description of the commitment and the anticipated date of the submission of the required data. The Letter of Undertaking must be dated and signed by the MAH (or by the person authorized for communication on behalf of the MAH).
Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) – This is an EU term and is an application to the relevant health authority within the EU, for example the European Medicines Agency, for approval to market a medicinal product.
Marketing Authorization Holder (MAH) – This is an EU term. The MAH is the company in whose name the marketing authorization has been granted. This party is responsible for all aspects of the product, including quality and compliance with the conditions of the marketing authorization.
New Drug Application (NDA) – This is a US term. It is an application for a license to market a medicine for a specified indication, submitted to the US FDA after clinical trials have been completed.
Open-label study – A study in which doctors and participants know which medicine or vaccine is being administered.
Outcomes studies – Studies of the end results of particular health care practices and interventions, including effects that subjects experience and care about, such as change in the ability to function. For subjects with chronic conditions, where a cure is not always possible, end results may include quality of life measures, mortality (death), or morbidity (complications).
Pharmacokinetics – The processes in a living organism of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of a medicine or vaccine.
Phase of study – Studies are conducted in phases of development. Click for definitions of Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3. Phase 4 refers to studies conducted after license approval, and may include post marketing commitments.
Placebo-controlled study – A method of medicine investigation in which an inactive substance (the "placebo") is given to one group of subjects, while the test medicine is given to another group. Results obtained in the two groups are then compared to see if the investigational treatment is more effective in treating the condition.
Post Approval Commitments (PACs) – In the EU PMCs are sometimes referred to as Post Approval Commitments.
Postmarketing Commitment (PMC) – Any study,clinical trial or other activity that an applicant has agreed, in writing, to conduct after the approval of a marketing or licensing application or further application/submission (that is not a PMR).
Postmarketing Requirement (PMR) – This is a US term. Any study, clinical trial or other activity that an applicant is required to conduct after approval of a marketing or licensing application or supplement. Studies or clinical trials may be required under PREA, the Animal Efficacy Rule, accelerated approval, and/or FDAAA.
Pregnancy registries – Surveillance studies that enroll pregnant women after they have been taking medicine and before the birth of the baby. Babies born to women taking a particular medicine are compared with babies of women not taking the medicine. Usually, evaluation of a large number of pregnancies is needed to determine the potential effect of the medicine on the babies.3
Quality of life trial – Exploration of ways to measure comfort and quality of life for individuals with chronic illnesses.
Randomization – A method based on chance by which study subjects are assigned to a treatment group. The method minimizes differences among groups by equally distributing people with particular characteristics among all trial arms.
Rapporteur/Co-Rapporteur – Members of the Committee for Human Medicinal Products (CHMP) appointed to co-ordinate the evaluation of an application for approval of a medicinal product submitted via the Centralized Authorization Procedure in the European Union (EU).
Sample size – The number of patients or experimental units required for a trial.
Side effects – Any undesired action or effect of a medicine or treatment. Negative or adverse effects may include headache, nausea, hair loss, skin irritation, or other physical problems. Experimental medicine must be evaluated for both immediate and long-term effects.
Single-blind study – A study in which one party, either the investigator or subject, does not know the medication being taken by the subject.
Specific Obligations (SO) – This is an EU term. Specific Obligations relate to the post-authorization phase of a medicinal product and are specific to marketing authorizations granted under exceptional circumstances (as defined in the EU legislation). Exceptional circumstances marketing authorizations are granted due to limited efficacy and/or safety data on the product being available at the time of the CHMP opinion because:
- The indications for which the product in question is intended are encountered so rarely that the applicant cannot reasonably be expected to provide comprehensive data or;
- In the present state of scientific knowledge, comprehensive information cannot be provided or;
- It would be contrary to generally accepted principles of medical ethics to collect such information.
The fulfilment of SOs forms the basis of the annual-re-assessment that takes place at the anniversary date of the Commission Decision granting the exceptional circumstances marketing authorization.
Statistical significance – The probability that an event or difference occurred by chance alone. In clinical trials, the level of statistical significance depends on the number of subjects studied and observations made, as well as the magnitude of differences observed.
Study endpoint – A primary or secondary outcome used to judge the effectiveness or safety of a treatment.
Surveillance study – A study designed to obtain additional safety and/or efficacy data. These studies may be clinical trials or non-interventional, and are often conducted as a post marketing (Phase 4) activity.
Toxicity – An adverse event produced by a medicine that is detrimental to the subject's health. The level of toxicity associated with a medicine varies with the condition for which the medicine is used.
Variation application – This is an EU term for an application to change an aspect of the labelling of an authorized medicinal product (i.e. the summary of product characteristics and patient information leaflet). For example a change to add a new indication for use of the product, a line extension or some new safety information.
1 Clinicaltrials.gov Glossary, http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/info/glossary.
2 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/outfact.htm.
3 U.S. FDA Guide to Pregnancy Registries, http://www.fda.gov/womens/registries/general.html.
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This Web site contains information about Pfizer's post marketing commitments for pharmaceutical products in the US and for medicinal products approved via the CAP in the EU. The post marketing commitments listed here include pre-clinical, clinical and epidemiological studies or testing and for the EU other activities agreed to by Pfizer (including its group companies/subsidiaries) and the FDA or European Medicines Agency, and are used to gather additional information about the safety, efficacy, or use of approved Pfizer medicines, or help ensure their safe use. This Web site provides the current status of Pfizer post marketing commitments listed on the FDA Web site. It includes post marketing commitments established for Pfizer medicines in the US since August 1, 2000 and for EU medicinal products approved via the CAP. New post marketing commitments will be added to this Web site as they are established.
This Web site does not contain technical chemistry, manufacturing and control (CMC) commitments, or commitments for medicines for which a Pfizer group company is not the license holder. Information about Pfizer's post marketing commitments is believed to be correct at the time that the information is posted, and is subject to change as progress is made in fulfilling the commitments.
This Web site is updated monthly. The status of post marketing commitments shown on the FDA Web site may differ from information displayed on this site, due to differences in the timing of updates made to the FDA Web site. The number of commitments on the two sites may also differ, due to the frequency of such updates and/or due to multiple reporting of single commitments on the FDA Web site.


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Farm Bill Highlighted on CBS Evening News on Christmas Day
On Christmas Day, the stalled Farm Bill was highlighted on the CBS Evening News.
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Farmers will also feel the impact if lawmakers fail to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff. A multibillion dollar aid bill may be a casualty of the stalemate. The ripple effects would be felt far from the fields. We asked Anna Werner to look into that.
ANNA WERNER, CBS CORRESPONDENT: Eagle Lake, Texas depends on rice. It`s been grown here since the 1800s. Drought is usually the biggest threat, but the nervous talk in the drugstore now is about Congress.
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Harvard improved to 6-0 with a pair of convincing victories over No. 20 Notre Dame and Towson (Kevin Burns).
SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The Harvard men's swimming and diving team won 16-of-19 events, including eight of 10 on Saturday, to remain unbeaten on the year with wins over No. 20 Notre Dame and Towson at the Shamrock Invitational. The Crimson took down the Fighting Irish by a score of 264-100, and topped the Tigers by a score of 314-52.
Harvard also posted two pool records at the Rolfs Aquatic Center, a 27 year old facility that opened in 1985. The victories improve the Crimson to 6-0 in 2012-13 with a 4-0 record against Ivy League opponents.
The meet started quickly for Harvard as Jack Pretto, Chuck Katis, Oliver Lee and Chris Satterthwaite won the 400 medley relay in a pool record time of 3:17.66. From there, the Crimson went on to record back-to-back victories in the 200 back and 50 free.
Christian Yeager captured the 200 back in 1:48.28 with Tyler Rocca coming in second with a personal best 1:48.97. Lee touched first in the 50 free, posting an NCAA 'B' standard time of 20.14.
The 100 breast went to Notre Dame's Christopher Johnson in a pool record 54.17 while Chuck Katis, who entered the meet unbeaten in the event, placed second in a 'B' standard time of 54.73. Harvard went on to win the remaining events, however, beginning with a 1-2 finish in the 100 fly by Jacob Luna (49.95) and Lee (50.11).
Chris Satterthwaite led a dominant performance for Harvard in the 200 free as the top five finishers each wore Crimson. Satterthwaite touched the wall in 1:40.05 with Zachary Walters (1:40.24), Greg Roop (1:40.29), Kyle McIntee (1:40.53) and Griffin Schumacher (1:40.59) each finishing close behind.
Mike Mosca posted his fifth consecutive victory on the one meter with a score of 359.70, more than 30 points better than Nick Nemetz of Notre Dame who took second with a 328.30. In the 400 IM, Christian Carbone set a Rolfs Aquatic Center record with a time of 3:52.34, setting a personal record and eclipsing the NCAA 'B' standard in the process. Katis (3:56.62), Yeager (3:58.09) and Michael Gaudiani (4:00.79) placed second, third and fourth in the event, respectively.
Friday's final event also went to the Crimson as Schumacher, Zachary Walters, Lee and Satterthwaite combined for a 'B' standard time of 2:58.81 in the 400 free relay.
Action resumed on Saturday and it was business as usual as the Crimson picked up wins in the 200 free relay and 100 back. Schumacher, Will Brophy, Lee and Satterthwaite turned in a time of 1:20.11 to capture the relay event, while Rocca led a 1-2-3 finish in the 100 back with a time of 50.78. Luna (50.90) and Pretto (50.92) finished second and third, respectively.
Notre Dame's Zachary Stephens won the 200 breast in an NCAA 'B' standard time of 1:59.65, just ahead of Katis who touched the wall in 1:59.96. Harvard got back on track in the 100 free with Lee (44.50) and Satterthwaite (44.78) going 1-2, and in the 200 fly Carbone (1:48.29 PR), Luna (1:48.68) and Lim (1:49.16) went 1-2-3.
After a win by the Fighting Irish in the 500 free, the Crimson rallied to win each of the last four events beginning with Pretto, Katis, Lee and Schumacher combining for a time of 1:29.89 in the 200 medley relay.
Mike Mosca turned in yet another win on the three-meter diving board as his score of 393.05 was more than 50 points better than the second-place finisher, Ted Wagner from Notre Dame. Katis followed with his first individual win of the weekend in the 200 IM (1:50.18) and Satterthwaite, Katis, Schumacher and Walters wrapped up the meet with a time of 6:40.00 in the 800 free relay.
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America was an exhausted nation in 1947 and Kennan's ideas helped President Harry Truman mobilize a war weary population for long-term struggle against Soviet expansionism. Ostensibly, Kennan wanted to firm America's resolve against the Soviets but the greatest legacy of "containment" is that almost sixty years later the world is still spinning.
Today, civilized nations of order desperately need a credible strategy that firmly stands up to the challenge posed by radical Islam without igniting another world war. As Bob Herbert sagely wrote in the New York Times yesterday,
"There is no grand solution to the centuries-old problems of the Middle East. As with the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, you try to keep things as cool as possible, step by sometimes agonizing step. It may not be pretty, and it will surely be frustrating. But if the conflict, however aggravating, can be kept cold as opposed to hot, you're ahead of the game."The lynchpin to any containment policy against radical Islam is a rapprochement between Israel and the international community. Hezbollah's aggression inside Lebanon and Israel's heavy-handed response illustrates that a long-term rapprochement must be initiated forthwith. Unless the schism between Israel and the civilized world that includes the Western Alliance and hopefully emerging moderate voices in the mid-east is healed, there will be more conflicts like Lebanon that can spin out of control.
Tactically, Israel was responding to incursions inside their borders and the kidnapping of their soldiers. When viewed in that context Israel's response is morally reprehensible and strategically stupid.
"War is politics by other means" as the brilliant Prussian General Claus Von Klauswitz once postulated. Hezbollah appears to be achieving their political aims even as Israel overwhelms them militarily. Hezbollah is a political idea that simply can't be wiped out or "degraded" militarily.
Their enemies understand that Israel is a first class military power, which can't be defeated in conventional warfare. So instead Hezbollah has successfully provoked Israel into a conflict that undermines their moral standing in the world. Innocents are dying on both sides with nothing good being accomplished. The cause of peace has not been advanced. Only more innocent blood has been spilled.
But Israel is not an evil country in spite of vile Anti-Semitic diatribes on the blogosphere or the international community. Israel is also not stupid. I am opposed to how Israel handled this crisis and disgusted by the loss of innocent life in Lebanon. But I can also understand why Israel was compelled to respond as they did.
This was not about their two kidnapped soldiers. Israel's response was due to radical Islam on their doorstep. Both Hezbollah and Hamas are proxies for a lunatic regime in Iran on record for supporting Israel's destruction. Iran is a formidable adversary that has gained substantially from the Iraq War. Israel's number one ally, the United States is overextended and their influence in the region severely diminished.
Meanwhile, under Iranian direction Hezbollah and Hamas have demonstrated the ability to penetrate Israeli territory, commit acts of terrorism and they now possess sophisticated missiles that target Israel's cities. In that context what is a disproportionate response? The United States responded to 9/11 by knocking off two governments in Afghanistan and Iraq. And Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11!
Too many of Israel's critics dismiss their loss of life as simply not comparable to the blood spilled in Palestine or Lebanon. Fair enough but Israel is a small population and a few deaths are keenly felt and any democratically elected government is compelled to demonstrate resolve when their citizens are murdered.
So Israel is encircled and from their perspective the international community is hostile to their existence and indifferent to their loss of life. Israel regards the international community as largely Anti-Semitic and unsympathetic to its struggle of preserving their democracy in a despotic and hostile neighborhood. The Europeans for example are distrusted by Israel for their historic Anti-Semitism and feckless pattern of portraying Israel as morally equivalent to terrorists.
Hence, when Israel is confronted with radical Islam at their doorstep they're convinced that other than a weakened United States they have no friends. There is no coherent international effort to isolate radical Islam. They see no alternative other than to crush those dedicated to their destruction with overwhelming force. In the Israeli mindset, it's them or us and we're on our own. In fairness to Israel their perspective is not without merit. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan recently condemned Israel and only grudgingly acknowledged Hezbollah's culpability.
To the world at large Israel is an inflexible nation that pours kerosene on fire. As far as much of the world is concerned Israel sets impossible conditions for peace with Palestinians. Israel claims it wants to do business with a moderate civilized society but makes it impossible for one to emerge as the Palestinians struggle to live under a humiliating and oppressive occupation. Israel claims it prefers moderate elected governments in the Arab world but undermines Abbas in Palestine and with military power brings the democratically elected government in Lebanon to its knees. Israel drops leaflets warning the Lebanese of bombings to come but destroys the infrastructure required for them to safely escape violent death.
Hence, Israel is viewed by much of the world as an obstacle to peace. I consider myself a friend of Israel. I'm Jewish and proud of my heritage. But even friends of Israel must be intellectually honest and acknowledge that a legitimate critique of their policy is in order. Their heavy- handed treatment of the Palestinians as well as their killing of innocent life in Lebanon has strengthened Islamic fascism. It may not be fair given my country's transgressions and ill-advised military ventures in recent years but I expect more of Israel anyway.
Either way the civilized world and Israel are disappointed in each other and have let each other down. So how do we move forward? The first step is for the civilized world to accept that Israel shares their humane values and objective for stability. The world and Israel both lose if they're working at cross purposes against radical Islam. Meanwhile, Israel must adjust their strategic posture from unilateralism to coordination with the international community against radical Islam. Otherwise, their divisions will continue to be exploited by Islamic fundamentalists and eventually an act of terrorism will engulf the world in unremitting conflict.
There may be an opportunity to salvage something positive from the horrific loss of life these past two weeks. Israel has signaled their willingness to accept an international peacekeeping force serving as a buffer on the Lebanese border. That is a major leap for Israel given their suspicion of the international community. The international community should seize this opportunity to earn Israel's confidence and in return enlist their cooperation to coordinate their policies instead of Israel's historic unilaterism that can be disproportionate.
Sadly, the New York Times reports that while numerous nations favor an international force in theory there is reluctance to commit:
"The United States has ruled out its soldiers' participating, NATO says it is overstretched, Britain feels its troops are over committed and Germany says it is willing to participate only if Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that it would police, agrees to it, a highly unlikely development."Obviously the world today does not have statesmen such as Churchill and FDR. The real obstacle is weak leadership from Washington. America is still haunted by its participation in a multinational force after Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Furthermore, President Bush has no political capital with an international community he's disrespected for five years and an American public he lied to about Iraq. His administration is incapable of persuading a weary and increasingly isolationist American public to participate in such a force or to heal the breach between Israel and the international community.
This is unfortunate. An Israel that is convinced there is an international community that has its back against radical Islam will be less inclined to respond to every provocation with overwhelming force. An international peacekeeping force that even includes Arab nations can preserve stability, build political bridges between Israel and the world and further isolate the Jihadists.
It might also be something to build upon and utilize in the Palestinian territories. The Palestinian Authority is not capable of policing against terrorism and the presence of the Israeli military only serves to poison the atmosphere. A multinational force in the territories that earns both the confidence of Israel and the Palestinian population may allow the Palestinians to better develop a civil society that facilitates a two state solution.
Most importantly, the flame of radical Islam won't be continuously fed and better contained. Part of the price for this is that Israel will have to accept that when terrorist incidents take place they can't simply respond unilaterally and inflame matters. Israel will have to compromise and accept that they're part of an international effort.
As for the international community there must be an understanding that stability and order come with a price as well. That price is resources and people put in harms way to prevent a wider conflict from engulfing the planet. If the world doesn't want Israel to act against terrorism then an alternative mechanism of enforcement must be in place. There will setbacks and miscalculations. The learning curve will be steep.
No country can undertake this alone but America will have to take the lead. The contradictions of interests among nations as diverse as Russia, Egypt and Israel are immense. Integrating such a coalition into a containment policy against radical Islam will require tremendous skill, persuasion, patience and resolve.
All fires burn out eventually if they're contained and not fed. It may take decades but a global strategy of containment is far better than a "global war on terror" which might result in Armageddon. Hopefully, the next American president will have strategic thinkers such as George Kennan in 1947 who has given the matter some thought.
ADDENDUM: I cross posted this topic on the European Tribune community blog and their comments are interesting and provocative. One person even compared me to Joe McCarthy! They also went off on all sorts of tangents. Click here to review their comments. European Tribune is a terrific community blog and excellent information source regarding European politics. But only there could I be compared to Joe McCarthy!


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It's been a while since I've done a Screw You! post…
Well, here it is. This one is dedicated to Skin Deep, a beauty salon based in Didsbury, Manchester.
I got the £2 for £20 worth of treatments for Skin Deep, via Wahanda on the 19th July.
So for a week after the voucher arrived in my mailbox, I tried calling the salon a few times. The first few times the line just rang and rang – the second time the line rang, then went to "This line is not in use".
There was only ONE phone number for the beauty salon so I was a little bit confused as to why the line would be out.
I contacted Wahanda, who immediately forwarded me their email address so I could contact them that way.
This was on the 28th July – I got an immediate response from someone called Paul Senior- their Managing Director, saying that their phone line is working and that he would call me later on in the day at a suitable time. I of course emailed back to confirm this would be fine…
But the phone call never came.
I then sent another email with suitable times and dates (it was literally like, ANY day after a certain time) but I never got another response to my emails.
So I was back on the phone. I made about 16 phone calls – the phone no longer said there was an error, but still no one was answering the phone. I was trying in the morning, in the afternoon, then during the evening. You know when you sit by the phone and just call and redial? It was like that.
I got in touch with Wahanda again – who throughout all of this have been extremely prompt and efficient with helping me.
Then a member of Wahanda got in touch with (on the 10th August) the salon for me and I was told to expect a call later on that day.
Now – to be fair I did get a missed call that day, but when I listened the voice message that was left for me, it was some burly bloke saying "Ey up chuck, its Dave. Give me a call back soon, Trev, hope you're ok." – So I will presume that wasn't the salon.
So back to calls. On the 12th August I made ELEVEN CALLS throughout the morning. I am not kidding. It hit voicemail over and over. Finally someone answered the phone!
I tried to book an appointment for a Dermalogica facial………
I was told (get this) that the therapist was going on holiday and they would be getting a replacement in "next week" and that they didn't know what hours or days the stand in would be doing so they would have to call me back later on….
Did that phone call come?
Of course not!
What kind of beauty salon signs up for a hugely popular beauty deal and doesn't have the staff to cope with the inevitable rush of people booking treatments?
What kind of beauty salon doesn't have prompt, organised cover for when staff are going to be absent? And why is there only one therapist present that can do something as popular and basic as a facial anyway?
Moreover, what kind of beauty salon takes around 40 calls before they actually answer and speak to you? Why are they making it so difficult to just make a simple appointment?
A really, really, really lame one.
Sick of chasing them up now, so I give up.
But Skin Deep Beauty Salon in Didsbury Manchester? You seriously, seriously suck balls.


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Simon Cowell's "The X Factor" won't officially launch stateside until the fall of 2011, but the British music mogul is already reportedly recruiting judges.
There's already been talk of Paula Abdul possibly appearing on the show, but Simon might also be bringing over an import.
The Hollywood Reporter noted on Monday a longstanding rumor – that Simon is hoping to bring sometime girl band star Cheryl Cole, who judges on the British version of the show, to his American version.
Cheryl, a beautiful brunette 26-year-old was actually discovered on a British reality show – "Pop Stars: The Rivals," where she was put together with a group of girls to form the band Girls Aloud.
Her band shot to fame in the UK, a la the Spice Girls, and recently Cheryl launched a solo career in her native England.
Like Victoria Beckham, with whom she's friends, Cheryl is married to a British soccer star – Ashley Cole.
If Cheryl does decide to head stateside, she will come with some "X Factor" experience. More than just critiquing the contestants like they do on "Idol," the "X Factor" judges are paired up with several of the final contenders for mentoring purposes, something with which Cheryl has experience.
The only problem Americans may encounter with the brunette might be understanding her accent. She hails from Newcastle, in the North of England, a city known for its heavy British tone.
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Rockies' Nolan Arenado 8th in MVP vote; why I voted him 3rd
My BFFs on Twitter had a grand time bashing me for my NL MVP voting. That's fine, we're all entitled to our opinions — even beat writers who cover the Rockies.
Like everyone else, I voted for the Nationals' Bryce Harper as my No. 1. The 23-year-old's incredible season made him the youngest unanimous MVP in baseball history.
Harper beat out fellow finalists Paul Goldschmidt of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Joey Votto of the Cincinnati Reds for the award. He tallied 420 points to finish 186 points ahead of Goldschmidt, who finished second. Please remember that we cast our votes before the three finalists were revealed.
Colorado third baseman Nolan Arenado finished eighth, about where I thought he would finish. I knew he wouldn't make the top five, though I believe he should have.
For the record, Arenado was third on my ballot. I was one of four writers to pick him third. Why did I do it?


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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- India's top law enforcement official Thursday said suspicion points "unmistakably" to a Pakistani link to the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
India's Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has continued to suggest Pakistani involvement in Mumbai.
His Pakistani counterpart, however, repeated assertions that India has yet to provide the country with any evidence of the connection.
Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram told India's parliament that investigations into last month's attacks in the country's financial capital were still not complete.
"I am, however, able to say that the finger of suspicion unmistakably points to the territory of our neighbor, Pakistan," he said. "The interrogation of the captured terrorist has yielded valuable material evidence. The origins of the 10 terrorists who entered India have been established conclusively."
The captured suspect was the only one of the 10 gunmen to survive the attacks, which left more than 160 people dead in three days of sieges around Mumbai.
"Abundant" evidence has also come from the inflatable rubber dinghy and the hijacked fishing vessel used by the gunman to reach Mumbai, as well as the bodies of the dead gunmen, Chidambaram said. It had allowed investigators to "reconstruct the sequence of events from the origin to the targets," he said.
Pakistan's interior minister told reporters in Islamabad, meanwhile, that Pakistan had yet to find any links between Pakistani militant groups and the Mumbai attacks.
Rehman Malik said, however, that Pakistan's investigation was continuing and that the country would present any evidence it finds to the international community. He said an offer for a joint investigation with India was still on the table.
"We have made some arrests and we continue to make arrests," Malik said. "We will extend full cooperation to bring these culprits to justice."
Meanwhile, Hafiz Saeed -- the founder of the militant Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) group blamed by India for the attacks - has been placed under house arrest at his residence in Lahore, a senior Pakistani government official trold CNN.
A magistrate Thursday ordered the captured suspect, Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, to be held for another 14 days, at which time he will have a court appearance, the police press office said. The suspect currently has no lawyer.
Chidambaram also called Thursday for a sweeping overhaul of the country's intelligence and counterterrorism agencies after the massacre in Mumbai, declaring the country was in "the eye of a storm of terror."
"All aspects regarding intelligence are under my examination," Chidambaram told India's parliament. "Some changes have already been made, and more are under way."
Chidambaram took office when his predecessor resigned after the attacks. He said India's police, military and intelligence-gathering agencies would be restructured to enhance security, and that the government would ask lawmakers for tougher measures to battle extremist groups.
"Given the nature of the threat, we cannot go back to business as usual," he said. "In the next few weeks and months, it will be my endeavor to prepare the country and the people to face the challenge of terrorism."
The home minister said he had found failings in the way Indian agencies handled intelligence. Vague or imprecise intelligence reports were often deemed "not actionable," and responsibility for acting on intelligence was diffused among a number of agencies.
In the case of the Mumbai attacks, Chidambaram said, departments failed to follow up on crucial intelligence.
The heads of India's coast guard and naval intelligence had received reports of a suspected LeT vessel attempting to enter Indian waters, he said. The coast guard tried and failed to locate the vessel, while the navy found the vessel was in Pakistan's territorial waters. Without more information, however, the navy took no further action, he said.
Chidambaram did not say whether a follow-up of the reports could have prevented the attacks.
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11 Sept 2012 (AP) It had been a calm day in Aleppo's Shifa Hospital, said Dr. Osman al-Haj Osman, his face etched with exhaustion from just three hours of sleep. Then, a man burst in bearing the shrieking bundle of a 6-year-old girl who'd had a machine-gun bullet rip through both her knees.
Two months into the battle for Syria's largest city, civilians are still bearing the brunt of the daily assaults of helicopter gunships, roaring jets and troops fighting in the streets.
Shoving aside the orderlies and armed rebels milling around the cramped lobby Tuesday afternoon, the man deposited Fatima Qassem onto a gurney as a nurse swooped in and began cutting away the blood-soaked bandages on her knees.
A doctor reached in and pulled out an inch-long fragment of metal. There was a gush of blood. Large sections of bone and muscle were missing from the back of her knee.
She cried out plaintively for "Baba," because the man who brought her was not her father — just someone who had rushed her across town to the hospital. The family was hopefully on its way.
There was a piercing scream as the nurse picked her up again, jostling her awkwardly dangling legs and carrying her around a narrow corner into a small operating theater. Her cries subsided into a steady moan.
Her father, Abdu Qassem, came in 15 minutes later, his shirt covered with blood, probably from carrying his daughter out of the car, and frantically asked the orderly behind the desk how she was doing.
Qassem said they had been driving through a neighborhood when their car was raked by machine-gun fire from government troops.
In the operating room, Fatima's crying grew muffled as an anesthetic was administered and her mouth went slack. Osman cleaned the blood away from the wound and tried to find a way to repair the damage.
Just a few feet away from the commotion, on the next bed, a nurse calmly bandaged the hand of a stone-faced rebel who was oblivious to the stricken child nearby.
A tiny boy walked in and stared with curiosity at the blood and ruin of Fatima's legs before a nurse suddenly saw him and ushered him out. It was Osman's 4-year-old son, Omar.
When Osman started pulling all-day and all-night shifts during Syria's civil war, his wife and two children moved into the hospital so that he would actually get to see them.
"He plays between the wounded. It's a great upbringing," Osman joked in the few calm moments before another patient was carried in. He spoke in English — a language he said he learned from watching the Fox Movie Channel on satellite TV. Perhaps another joke.
The 30-year-old doctor estimated that 80 percent of the patients are civilians, wounded by falling buildings and exploding shells from the constant bombardment that government forces mete out to the parts of the city outside their control.
On Tuesday, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported shelling in several areas across Aleppo that killed more than a dozen and collapsed a three- story building in the nearby neighborhood of Haideriya.
Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad have been increasingly relying on the government's artillery and air power to fight the tenacious rebels who so far refuse to be dislodged from Aleppo.
The city is Syria's commercial hub, and its middle and upper classes were bastions of support for Assad. If the rebels took such a key city, it would give them a quasi-capital to complement the large swaths of territory they control in the north, up to the Turkish border.
Osman said the rebels he treats mostly have gunshot wounds from the ubiquitous snipers scattered over the many front lines.
The hospital itself has been hit directly twice by shells, demolishing two of the upper floors. Bombs fell nearby several times, spraying the entrance with shrapnel and debris.
The hospital has a staff of only five doctors and no surgeons, so difficult cases are often farmed out to other facilities, including a hospital in the town of al-Bab, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) to the northeast.
While there are enough drugs in the hospital so far to deal with the daily violence — which on Monday killed 25 and wounded dozens in shelling believed to be in retaliation for the rebel capture of an army barracks — the staff is overstretched.
"What day is it? I don't know. What time is it? I don't know," Osman said, adding that he goes to sleep at 4 a.m. and wakes up at 8 a.m. — unless he's roused earlier for an emergency.
"My life is just the wounded and the dead," he said.
Outside the hospital, in the surprisingly bustling neighborhood of Tareeq al-Bab, there is the sound of gunfire. A helicopter gunship is lazily circling the neighborhood and rebels on the roofs of the apartment buildings are futilely emptying the clips of their inadequate Kalashnikovs into the sky.
Abu Hassan, who was once a carpenter, sells vegetables on the street facing the hospital because there is no other work. He navigates the tortuous jigsaw of rebel- and government-controlled neighborhoods every day.
"When we are under bombardment, the water and electricity can be cut for days," he said, explaining that if he had the money, he would try to follow the hundreds of thousands of other Syrians who have fled for the border. Since the uprising against Assad began 18 months ago, activists estimate that at least 23,000 people have been killed.
The streets between the shattered apartment buildings are choked with garbage that can no longer be collected.
Although meat is scarce, residents of Aleppo are eating adequately, said Alaa Mursi, gesturing at the eggs, chickpeas, tomatoes and other produce being sold. Many, however, are surviving on handouts.
"People give us food to eat," he said. "There are rich people who distribute food for us."
Just a few blocks away is the neighborhood of Hanano, on the city's edge, where the rebels began their assault two months ago. The streets are largely deserted because most residents were recent immigrants who could flee to relatives in the comparative safety of the countryside.
A few men lounge in the shade of a scraggly tree in the otherwise grim vista of cheaply built concrete five-story buildings.
Overhead is the whirring noise of a jet's engines — a mundane sound in the West that can mean sudden, inexplicable and random death in Aleppo.
"We are afraid to stay in the houses, so we hang out on the street," said Abu Alaa, a jovial 30-year-old who hasn't worked in months. "We sent our families to the countryside and we stay here to look after the place, in case of thieves."
The sound of the jet suddenly builds to a crescendo and there is a muffled crump, mercifully in the distance. Another airstrike. The men gesture in the direction of the explosion and say that just this morning, a bomb fell a block away, killing a woman.
"We can't sleep here during the night or day," said Abu Abed, who looks much older than his 40 years. "In the morning, it's the jets. In the afternoon, it's the helicopters. And at night, it's the shelling."
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Okay, we need this, so sit down and deal with it:
Here are some pictures of chubby puppies.
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There, don't you feel better now?
Awwww! Widdle puppies! The silly grin on the last one has got to be my favorite.
In the interests of furthering puppy cuteness, I hereby briefly delurk to offer two youtube links featuring baby French bulldogs.
As my friend said, there's so much less face there than I was expecting.
I was at the Guiness and Oyster festival yesterday and dog watching. (More a dog person, than a people person.) One Bernese Mountain puppy just made me want to die of its cuteness! God I miss my Paczki who passed of old age! (Dobbie/Lab)
So what do you think of chubby cats? I've got one. His name is Chomsky (that do says a little about my political stand to of course)
People are constantly complaining about how fat he is. I have wondered from time to time if weight in animals is the same as for humans. That when they can live inside a house and have all the food they like they're gonna put on some half pounds. And even if they live longer then cats in the wild people will still say they're unhealthy. Cause people today in the "modern" world can't tolerate fat. Not even in cats.
And since I thought he was unhealthy as he was chubby I thought I needed to put him on a diet… so now he has binged.
And the first thing people comment on when they see him is his fat. Brings some resemblance huh? :D
now that above message wasn't posted to someone special, i just thought about it before and as you showed chubby puppies i thought i might as well bring it up
AAAAHH! I'm ded – teh cute done killed me. Call Fr. Tom and have him come over to do last rites.
Did I tell you about my ninja dream in which I THOROUGHLY kicked the ass of some people who had stolen and killed some puppies?
Oh, man, I love puppies. Puppies puppies puppies!
As a Cute Overload fan, this is greatly appreciated. AAAAWWWWSOME!
Puppies are cute, but I'm more of a cat person. Hubby and I are owned by 2 kitties, a fuzzy orange one he got from a farm who is called Fat Cat (originally named Scruffy but Fat Cat fits him better, he weighs about 16 lbs). Then there is Slick (originally named Boots, he's orange with white feet), who is short-haired and really slick. He also weighs about 16 lbs, in spite of the fact that he's had all but 7 teeth removed and will only eat dry cat food. He was a shelter kitteh. Fat Cat sleeps on my husband's pillow, wrapped around his head, and Slick sleeps on the foot of the bed or on the floor or wherever else he happens to find comfortable at the time.
The only dog I ever owned was a German Shepherd/wolf mix, and while he was good with women and some men, he hated other dogs and the only cat he tolerated was my Shadow (a Russian Blue that he grew up with).
AAA! Stealth Puppies!
I made a noise similar to wibblewibblewibblepubbiesawwwwwww and am now sitting here in a bleary puppy-based haze.
Puppies are cute…….awwww. Now how about some kitten pics? Kittens are cuter! So sez me. ;)
My cats often make me think about weight politics. Kinda funny. Both eat the same diet, get the same amount of exercise, but one is slim and one is fat. Luckily my vet (so far) hasn't tried to push me around about the weight issue – but even if it comes to that, I'm NOT putting Tubby Tabby on a diet! The very fact that they live the same lifestyle is pretty well living proof that physical size is NOT about lifestyle! (In fact, Tubby Tabby is the strong, powerful one, who usually does the chasing when they play.)
Now bring on those kitten pics, please!
DAWWWWWWW… They're freaking cute! ^_^
Fillijonk and Dorianne and vesta44: I like the way you're speaking. It was so sad when I was at the wet and the "nurse" their giving Chomsky his shots said he definitely needed to lose weight. She was – I think – fat herself and I felt so sad for her.
Even more so for the nurses on the public clinics here. There was a huge campaign over them some years ago with posters saying: "are you overweight?" and how bad it was for you. I saw a fat nurse working there and I felt so so so sad. How awful to need to help people there with weight and be fat oneself. Gah! The world so needs HAES!
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! KITTENS!!!! Thanks, Kate!
You wouldn't ban me for my, er…animal orientation, would you??
klara – yeah, it must be especially hard on fat nurses to see that stuff…..after spending two weeks in the hospital this year, I learned that nurses (including the fat ones, yup) already do more physical labour than most people I know! And in my area, they are all on twelve hour shifts. What other evidence does the anti-fat brigade need?
"a balanced diet and regular exercise will not produce long-term weight loss in most people. So as long as we keep the focus on weight loss instead of behavioral changes and health benefits, we're barking up the wrong tree"
Amen, amen, amen!!!!!
So. CUTE!!!
(And the purebred thing doesn't bother me, because when I see a dog who's obviously a certain breed, I know I can't make assumptions about how the dog was bred or how the current owner got it. I have a Rottie myself, but i got her from a shelter after her previous owner ditched her.)
I had a fat-acceptance moment with a friend's puppy the other day. The puppy was absolutely adorable, and so round and fat the cuteness was almost unbearable. I said something about it, using the word "fat," and the friend was a little put out because she thought I was criticizing! I reassured her that I meant it in the most positive sense (see unbearable cuteness), that her puppy was obviously the picture of health, and besides, normal growth patterns include cycles of fattening up and then growing bigger. Another friend piped up saying, "oh, I didn't know that!" I guess my mom didn't either when she put my sister on a diet at age 10. That was just puppy fat too.
I am not a dog person, but my god, those are cute! And the last one especially looks like it's getting such joy out of life.
And a bit of a question – I was at the vet's the other day (I am owned by the clumsiest, bossiest, puffiest cat in existence), and they had a poster up on ideal weight in cats and dogs. For both, they said that you should be able to see the ribs. Is that accurate? It sounds kinda unhealthy to me, but I'm not a veterinarian…
Oooooo, puppies, I want a puppy :(
Alix, I've heard the "should see ribs" thing in regards to pets, but the only pets that look okay to me seeing ribs are dogs such as grayhounds and whippets and such. Any other dog looks starved if their ribs are showing.
My kitties all free feed both the food I put out and any wildlife they can catch and they all range in sizes. Scrapper cat has gotten massive lately, but it is all muscle and I KNOW the vet would have I hissy fit if they weighed him. He's almost as heavy as my Maine Coon Rum Tum who weighs in at close to 20 lbs. Several years ago when I was still in the diet mentality, I decided my females needed to go on diet Iams. End result, they gained weight and poor Adric, my male kitty almost starved to death. No more dieting for my fur kids.
"I was at the vet's the other day (I am owned by the clumsiest, bossiest, puffiest cat in existence), and they had a poster up on ideal weight in cats and dogs. For both, they said that you should be able to see the ribs."
I'm not a veterinarian or anything, but that sounds a bit weird. As someone who watches those 'animal cops' type of shows, whenever they picked up abused or abandoned animals, they'd comment on how the ribs on the animal were showing and how bad that was. I agree with JeanC that dogs a la The Greyhound may be a healthy with their ribs showing, but smaller, stockier dogs such as Welsh Corgis probably wouldn't be.
Old thread, but what the hell:
"Yeah, the Frenchies are adorable but they have a lot of health problems, as most purebreds do."
I love what you normally have to say, FJ, but this statement lacks the usual kind of rigour you grant to your regular blogging. Yes, some pure-bred dogs are "puppy-farmed" in appalling conditions and have had shocking breeding. Yes, there are certainly some breeds, like bulldogs, who have been bred over decades beyond good anatomical functionality, or are so in-bred that they have certain health problems pretty much endemic to the breed.
However, to claim that *most* pure-bred dogs have health problems (and contrasting that by implication to mutts) is a bit of a step too far, I think. I haven't studied up on it, but I'm pretty sure the chasm is not as yawning as people might believe, and there may not even be a chasm with regard to relative healthiness levels between mutts and purebreds.
Those pure-bred puppy farmers who don't care what syndromes the parent animals are passing to their offspring are at least somewhat offset by the thousands of responsible breeders who simply won't breed from a dog if there is any question of a genetic weakness. And being a mutt does not confer immunity to inherited problems – there is no such thing as "hybrid vigour" within a breed. Pure-bred German Shepherds and Labradors are at risk of hip dysplasia – so too are German Shepherd/Lab crosses, or mutts that have inherited the gene.
If I was concerned solely about good health for a dog, I would most definitely get a pure-bred one from a responsible breeder with good documented genetic lines who has a track-record of good practice. Pound dogs from unknown parents and backyard breeds that you find in the local rag are *more* likely to have health problems than responsibly-bred purebreds. Of course, pound dogs deserve rescue and all the love that you can give them, despite any potential health issues. And even if a pure breed has significant recognised problems, if the breed authorities themselves are attempting to deal with them (and I will admit that a few have been *slow* to do so), then even those "risky" purebred dogs are worthy of our love and care as well.
Gah, there is no such thing as "hybrid vigour" within a SPECIES.
But there really really are a lot of problems with purebred dogs – especially the Kennel-club certified show-dog type dogs. So many breeds of show dogs are not bred for functionality (as in able to walk without pain, as in bred without predictable genetic problems) but bred to a standard of … I don't know – decorativeness? Hence the problem of bulldogs having their snouts bred out of the line until they're completely flat-faced and suffer from their palates being crowded down their throats. Other problems include Rhodesian Ridgebacks being bred for more and more prominent ridges despite the fact that the ridges are associated with (dermal sinusoid?) a disease that leaves the spinal cord open through the skin. Many King Charles Cavalier spaniels end up with brains too big for their skulls, and die in agony. German Shepherds are bred for weak back legs because judges at dog shows like to see them shimmy.
This is not the result of puppy mills – this is the result of fashion in dog breeding. Bulldogs had longer snouts a hundred years ago – but snouts weren't as cute as the flat-faced look, so the dogs were purpose -bred and the snouty puppies killed so as not to sully the line. Same with the Ridgebacks – ridgeless puppies are culled at birth in order to keep the bloodlines pure.
Sorry – I know this was an OT and OTT rant – but I really feel strongly about this issue. I've never been a great fan of eugenics, whether in people or in puppies.
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What security technology do you need that you can't get today? Here's your wish list.
What security technology do you need that you can't get today? Here's your wish list.
Necessity is the mother of invention. The wheel was invented to make movement easier. The Romans invented the arch to support large, heavy structures. Samuel Morse invented the telegraph for fast communication across vast distances. The list goes on.
Security technologies and processes are also born of necessity. Marcus Ranum commercialized the firewall because enterprises migrating to the World Wide Web needed network-layer access control. Peter Tippett pioneered AV technology because PC users were getting hammered with boot-sector viruses. Marty Roesch developed Snort because enterprises needed a flexible IDS sensor to detect the things firewalls can't stop.
Security practitioners run into necessity all the time. Like craftsmen tinkering in workshops, they discover what's missing in their toolboxes and improvise solutions to new problems and tasks. Eventually, improvisation is translated into new standards, technologies and products.
Information Security wanted to know what new technologies, protocols, standards and processes you--the security practitioner--yearn for to make your job easier. What doesn't exist today that you wish you had? Here's a sampling of the "wishes" you want to see come out of security workshops and policymakers' offices.
Making ISPs Responsible for Security
Who's in the best position to deal with security threats and events other than the people handling the traffic--the Internet service providers? Readers wish ISPs were mandated to secure their backbones and networks, and guard against Internet-borne attacks--worms, spam and bots--so enterprises won't have to.
Many ISPs filter for viruses, worms and malicious traffic, and others are beginning to provide AV scanning for e-mail and malicious traffic traveling over their pipes, sparing their customers that burden. But there's no requirement--yet.
Some readers wish that the government would require ISPs to take responsibility for security. They'd also like to see offshore traffic enter the U.S. through specific points, allowing the government to monitor all incoming traffic for security compliance and providing control over unregulated traffic.
The benefits of regulated ISP security are obvious: greater control over traffic flow, the blocking of malicious traffic before it hits PCs, and reduced theft of bandwidth and resources. As one reader states, "Trying to fix these problems at the individual computer level will never work, because users will never be able to update and patch their computers effectively."
Cyber DNA
Despite the availability of digital certificates, PKI and complex authentication schemes, security experts say there isn't a ubiquitous technology that can guarantee a person isn't a hacker.
E-commerce and B2B transactions depend on irrefutable identification of the person using the machine. Certificate authorities are expensive, difficult to manage in broad deployments and lack accepted standards. And, biometrics isn't feasible because of the expense and limited installment base. Instead, enterprises must rely on conventional authentication schemes (passwords, tokens and certificates), which aren't necessarily bad or unreliable. But they aren't foolproof, either.
What users wish for is a mechanism that binds the user to the machine to form a nonreputable authentication and signing scheme that would cut down online fraud and theft.
Eliminate E-mail Anonymity
Spammers love the ease and anonymity of e-mail. They can create tens of thousands of Hotmail, Yahoo! and private domain accounts from which to launch spam.
Users wish that ISPs and e-mail vendors would require the validation of an e-mail address--marrying the account to the owner--before it becomes operational.
Eventually, this would create a central e-mail registry, which would help facilitate antispam/antifraud efforts, such as Microsoft's SenderID.
Cross-Platform Compliance Utilities
There's no shortage of tools for scanning, auditing and assessing the health of network devices. What's missing is a tool that can check all devices, regardless of their OS or vendor make, for compliance with security policies.
This cross-platform tool would check for parameter settings required by security policies, log noncompliant devices with a risk weight (green, yellow, red) and issue detailed reports to security managers.
Current tools such as FireMon claim this functionality and capability, but users insist that universal scanning and auditing tools aren't available. Once such a tool is available, users would then want common processes to conduct risk assessments and business impact analysis throughout their enterprise.
Trusted E-mail Wrappers
Encryption has long been the Achilles' Heel of antivirus technology because conventional scanners can't break through its shield. Readers wish for more than just real-time, outbound host and network AV scanning; they want to know they can trust e-mails coming from trusted domains, and they want a mechanism to convey that trust. One reader calls it a "trust wrapper."
Here's how it would work: A user completes an e-mail with an attachment. The system automatically scans the e-mail for malware, signs it with the user's key and encrypts it. The whole package is then placed in the trust wrapper that's signed with the corporate key. The wrapper tells the recipient that the sending enterprise verifies it's the e-mail's source, and that the e-mail is safe.
Of course, such a system would depend on enterprises establishing trusted relationships. If e-mail wrappers come to pass, they could cut down on AV scanning and put a dent into spam.
Real-time Security Awareness Tool
How often do you send an urgent e-mail warning against opening strange attachments, and, yet, some hapless user will open it anyway? We can put up all the firewalls we want, write policy after policy, and impose controls and rules, but ultimately our security is at the mercy of naÏve users who rarely realize the implications of their actions.
What many security practitioners wish for is an intelligent rules engine that can recognize risky or prohibited activity and pop up a dialogue box that either confirms the user's intended action or blocks the action entirely. For a greater degree of control, the system could send a message to a security manager, requesting a policy exception, such as the one-time right to transmit a .vbs script via e-mail.
Users want the system to generate reports on policy violations and warnings; it would help managers identify topics for security awareness training and identify users that cause frequent security problems.
We already have the foundation for this in several applications, such as the e-mail warning box that pops up when opening attachments. Verdasys' Digital Guardian and other DRM vendors provide warnings and logging systems for misuse of content and digital media. What security managers want is a system that's mapped to security polices and can apply those rules to nearly all user actions.
Software Deinstallation Manager
Software management and installation controls are often all-or-nothing propositions. You can lock down devices and desktops, preventing users from installing unauthorized applications, and you can use Active Directory, SMS and other tools to install applications by groups across an enterprise. What's missing is a tool that can push new software to specific devices, and then remove them once they're no longer needed.
In an enterprise with locked-down configurations, the system would allow a user to request software, have the request reviewed and approved, and then initiate the installation process.
Security managers also want the power to back out of application installations. If the user only needs a piece of software for a specific period of time, this system would know when to uninstall the app, including .dll files, registry entries and other system directory components.
A True One-Stop Shop
It's still a best-of-breed world, but security managers wish for the day when they can go to a single vendor to get what they need.
Every year, the security market goes through a round of consolidations, where large IT and security vendors snap up the smaller boutique shops to fill out their product catalog or capitalize on their technology. Despite the rapid expansion of product lines by Symantec, McAfee, Cisco Systems and others, most enterprises still go to multiple IT and security vendors to get the technologies and products they need to operate and secure their infrastructures.
Reliable Security Statistics and Metrics
Statistics and metrics will be the buzzwords of 2005 and beyond. Security managers need to quantify risk and measure effectiveness to refine their security programs and prove they're working.
But how do you measure security and risk, and how do you compare your enterprise's security performance and risk mitigation to other enterprises'? How do you demonstrate compliance requirements? Readers express a need for different kinds of metrics, baselines and guidelines across the board. Here's a sampling of what they wish for:
- Accurate baseline statistics on security incidents. Enterprises and law enforcement hold this information too close to the vest. Security managers want reliable numbers of breaches for different sized enterprises and verticals, the level of sophistication of attackers (script-kiddies vs. skilled hackers), and the cost of damages and recovery.
- Risk analysis and forecasting models. Security managers want an effective way to translate security intelligence gleaned from internal and external sources to predict future threats. This would help enterprises prepare and respond to attacks, and develop new mitigation strategies.
- Proof security policies work. You deploy all sorts of technologies and policies; you need metrics that demonstrate that the precautions and restrictions imposed by security are both necessary and beneficial.
Identity Management Tracking
Enterprise databases and directories hold an extensive amount of data on users' profiles and roles. What they don't have is a tool that normalizes that information across different identity management systems, and tracks how identity information changes over time.
Readers wish for a utility that culls this information at the time an identity is created and can compare the current profile to previous versions. They want an audit trail of what changes were made, by whom, when and why. Readers say this is essential for justifying the cost of identity management and ensuring regulatory compliance.
By setting up standards for what a user profile should look like and having mechanisms on how profiles change over time, enterprises could better ensure the integrity of their identity management scheme. Tie this concept to a certification scheme, and you'll have single sign-on, validated e-mail and other useful security measures.
Wishes Do Come True
Surprisingly, we got a lot of submissions for things that already exist, and perhaps some solutions are already in product development projects. Which of these wishes will come true? That will likely depend on necessity.
Security wizards are dreaming up new approaches and technologies all the time. They'll come up with new uses of existing technologies, such as using security information management solutions as forensics tools, or combine new technologies with existing product sets, such as adding SSL VPNs to firewalls. But real innovation will come those who devise the next revolutionary idea, just as Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman did when they devised the first public key exchange.
What affect change and innovation are consumers--the enterprise security managers--conveying their needs to vendors, and startups companies acting as the incubators of new technology. We'll be watching to see if any of these wishes do come true and what other necessities arise.
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wonky_eggs wrote:wonky_eggs wrote:And to think, by the time the five year anniversary comes I just might have posted 1,000 posts
Tada! Five years, and FINALLY 1,000 posts! *dances* How I've been waiting for this moment!
nessieq wrote: I do remember a time when the three top posters on the forum were greg, barry and Moya, however And Homer was a regular too
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Looking at my registration date, I should consider myself an oldbie, I feel like a newcomer, though
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Embattled Clippers owner Donald Sterling may be able to write off his critics, but if two state lawmakers have their way, he won't have the same option with the $2.5-million fine imposed on him by the NBA.
Two state Assembly members from Los Angeles filed legislation Tuesday that would prevent sports team owners from writing off league fines as a business expense when they file their state income tax returns.
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