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Security responsibilities with custom commands
As the author of a custom search command, it is your responsibility to follow best security practices when developing custom search commands. This topic includes information about writing high-quality, secure custom search commands.
Custom search commands run with the same permissions as splunkd on the search heads and indexers of a Splunk software deployment. Custom search commands do not run in a sandbox. Consequently, the security of your deployments depends on the security of your custom search commands.
Validate search results
First and foremost, you should consider data coming from search results as untrusted user input. Search results might contain arbitrary strings. If you use these strings unescaped or without validation within your program, you might unwittingly introduce critical security vulnerabilities.
For example, if you pass an unvalidated field from a search result as the argument to a shell command, unescaped semi-colons might allow malicious individuals to run arbitrary programs on a Splunk deployment. It is your responsibility as a search command author to validate input and avoid code injection and path traversal vulnerabilities, for example:
- Code injection vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection
- Path traversal vulnerabilities, such as allowing user data to reference arbitrary file system paths
Use role-based access control
By default, custom search commands are available to any user who is logged in. It is a good practice to restrict access search commands by user roles.
Some search commands might be written to perform privileged maintenance actions, such as a command to "purge the database cache". Only users with special privileges should be allowed to use these commands.
You can use the role-based access control features to restrict permission to run search commands. You can restrict permissions to specific users or roles.
For example, you have a custom search command called "launchmissiles" that you want only users assigned to the "admin" role to be able to use. In this situation, you would follow these steps:
- Create a
default.metafile in the
metadatadirectory in your application.
- In the
default.metafile, add the following content:
[commands/launchmissiles] access = read : [ admin ], write : [ admin ]
readaccess specifies who can run a custom search command. The above example limits
readaccess to the
adminrole. You can specify access to other roles, such as the "power" role, or a new role that you define in the
writeaccess only to the "admin" role. No other role should have
See About users and roles in Securing Splunk Enterprise.
Avoid using the local file system
Avoid accessing or modifying the file system as much as possible. Any code that you write which accesses the file system might contain bugs that allow malicious individuals to exfiltrate data from a Splunk deployment. A bug could allow a user to read data from indexes that the individuals are not permitted to search.
Unconstrained file system access might lead to severe challenges when trying to deploy a custom search command in a search head cluster environment. For example, if you edit a
.conf file directly in your custom search command, those changes would not be replicated to the other members of a search head cluster. You should always use the Splunk REST API to interact with
.conf files or other knowledge objects. If you need to permanently persist data from a custom search command, use the REST API to write to the KV store or to
.conf files.
Temporary directories
If you must use the file system, for example to spill data from memory to disk, create a temporary directory under the
dispatch directory for the search. Use a secure directory creation method, such as the
tempfile.mkdtemp() function in Python. The
dispatch directory is automatically purged by the Splunk software after a search expires.
- For custom search commands that use the Version 2 protocol, the dispatch directory is in the
dispatch_dirattribute of the
searchinfoJSON object that is sent with the
getinfoaction from the Splunk software.
- Do not use
$TMPDIR, or any similar strategy to find a temporary directory to write files to. Remember that the maximum length of a path on Windows is 260 characters.
Custom search command example
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 6.3.0, 6.3.1, 6.3.2, 6.3.3, 6.3.4, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.3.7, 6.3.8, 6.3.9, 6.3.10, 6.3.11, 6.3.12, 6.3.13, 6.3.14, 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.4, 6.4.5, 6.4.6, 6.4.7, 6.4.8, 6.4.9, 6.4.10, 6.4.11, 6.5.0, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.5, 6.5.6, 6.5.7, 6.5.8, 6.5.9, 6.5.10, 6.6.0, 6.6.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.3, 6.6.4, 6.6.5, 6.6.6, 6.6.7, 6.6.8, 6.6.10, 6.6.9, 6.6.11, 6.6.12, 7.0.1, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5, 7.0.6, 7.0.7, 7.0.8, 7.0.9, 7.0.10, 7.1.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, 7.1.5, 7.1.6, 7.1.7, 7.1.8, 7.1.9, 7.1.10, 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.2.10, 7.3.0, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3, 7.3.4, 7.3.5, 7.3.6, 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5, 7.0.0, 7.0.11, 7.0.13, 7.0.2


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If there's anything that years of playing dress-up have taught me, it's that there will always be an argument in favor of splurging on a fabulous new outfit for a special occasion. But with Derby right around the corner and a checking account that's not so easily convinced, I recently found myself facing a dilemma: should I really spend money I don't have to look fantastic and just hope I back the winning horse to bail me out? Tempting as this plan seemed, I didn't feel prepared for the month of ramen noodle dinners that would surely await me when it didn't pan out. So I decided to make my own luck, and headed out on a mission to put together a Derby look that's trendy, flattering and fun, without breaking the bank.
First I considered my budget: $50 seemed reasonable to spend on one full head-to-toe look, especially if I could get pieces that I'd wear again. I decided to start at a few favorite local thrift stores. Not only do secondhand shops offer drastically lower price tags than most retailers, but as an added bonus there's the thrill of the hunt – one can often uncover beautiful, unique items in great condition, simply by taking the extra time to search. I made a list of the kinds of pieces I was looking for ahead of time to keep myself focused, allowing for two different looks (fun and flirty, and classic and elegant) since I had no way of knowing what would be available so close to Derby.
I began at the largest thrift store in my radius, the Nearly New Shop (located inside the Mid City Mall on Bardstown Road), and worked my way through two others – Urban Attic (also on Bardstown Road), and All For One (on Douglass Boulevard). At each store I made a point to check every dress rack, regardless of size indicators, knowing that garments can often be misplaced. I also refused to discard any dresses I liked based on dress size since that number can mean little, especially on clothing manufactured by different brands, several years apart. This was how I discovered my favorite piece, a lavender Nannette Lepore wrap-front dress with pockets, which only cost me $6! Even though it was outside my usual size range, once on it was easily adjusted to fit perfectly. I applied that same philosophy to shoes, trying on just about everything and ending up with two adorable, great-fitting pairs to show for it.
Once I'd established a couple of basic looks with my core pieces, I headed to Mall St. Matthews to pick up some accessories. At Dillard's, I tried on some amazing hats and fascinators but couldn't work them into my limited budget. By moving over to the juniors department, however, I found the perfect alternative: an understated, whimsical flower headband. My jewelry came from Claire's and Forever 21, where I chose inexpensive statement necklaces for maximum impact, and smaller stud earrings to keep things balanced. For the finishing touch, I picked out easily totable (and cost-effective) wallet-sized purses: one at Forever 21, and the other secondhand at Hey Tiger on Bardstown Road.
By the end of the day, I had two fun, unique Derby looks, ready to wash and wear, having spent less than $100. And with an extra outfit and a little more cash to spend, I may have found the perfect excuse to check out Oaks day as well!
Secondhand Shopping Tips
- Shop early and often: The further away from the occasion you are, the more time you'll have to really look … and the pickier you can afford to be!
- Go prepared: Decide on a theme or look ahead of time, but wait until you've found one standout, central piece before you choose a color palette to coordinate accessories.
- Stick to the plan: When everything is less expensive, it's easy to forget that it can still add up. Look for specific pieces and respect your budget.
- If you can't do it right, do something else: Don't waste your time trying to duplicate a specific piece you can't afford (like, say, a Derby hat). Consider other kinds of pieces that could look just as great, or better.
- Get creative! Especially if you've got sewing or safety pinning skills, think about how potential purchases can be altered. A handbag with a tacky nylon strap can easily become a cute little clutch with the help of some scissors. And if you screw it up,well, at least it was only $3.
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Going to the Indigo League, Ash, Brock and Misty encounter Otoshi, who wants to have a battle, but the stakes are the Gym Badges. Though Ash wins, Otoshi did not have Gym Badges because Team Rocket stole them. Though they encounter James and Meowth, they reply Jessie stole the badges. Worse yet, Otoshi's Marowak abandons him for not finding the badges. Ash, Misty and Brock go to get Otoshi's badges and get Marowak back for him.
Episode plot
Ash went to Professor Oak to ask for training, since he hasn't done a lot of it. Oak tells him to quit, surprising Ash, but then responds he should to the Indigo Plateau to train there. Ash and Pikachu run out and Delia gives him the bag. Misty and Brock are thankful to her for the hospitality, while Oak tells Ash to give his best at the League. The heroes wave goodbye to them, as they go to the Plateau.
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Marowak is mad and Meowth translates Marowak does not want to be his Pokémon, as this incident happened before the League and now he wants to part ways, as Marowak rejects Otoshi. Otoshi shakes Meowth for this act, so the heroes decide to get the badges so Marowak returns to Otoshi. Jessie has disguised herself not to be recognized by Meowth and James. Jessie spots a boy and they show each other the badges they have. James spots Jessie and knows that behind the disguise it is her, as he has been disguised several times to know her. She points at a direction, distracting the boy and goes to take the badges, but a smoke bomb is thrown and explodes. James chants the motto and Jessie does so as well and undisguises herself.
The boy runs away, making Jessie sad she didn't get his badges. James and Meowth tell her she disgraced herself, but can get the badges. Suddenly, the heroes appear. They demand Otoshi's badges, but Jessie responds they will get if they win the battle. Otoshi goes to the battle, choosing a Doduo against her Arbok. Marowak comes to a field and sees some trainers training with their Pokémon for the League. Marowak recalls its adventures with Otoshi, then decides to go back to Otoshi. Arbok damages Doduo and when it seemed Jessie was going to get it (as she threw her Poké Ball), it gets repelled by Marowak's bone.
Otoshi calls Doduo back. Arbok charges with Double Edge, while Marowak uses Focus Energy and repels it using Bone Club, then uses Bonemerang to knock it out. James sends Weezing, but gets electrocuted (along with Arbok) by Pikachu, so Team Rocket retreats to the balloon. With Marowak's Bonemerang, the balloon explodes, Team Rocket blasts off and Misty gets Otoshi's badges. Otoshi thanks Marowak, who promises to return to him. Misty gives the badges to Otoshi, who is grateful. Brock lets Ash know that even if they are late for the League, he knows he helped someone who needed help.
During the sunset, Brock spots the Indigo Plateau, making Ash glad, as they all run downhill to that location.
- This episode title is based on the song of the same name by George Thorogood and the Destroyers.
- This episode features clips from "Showdown in Pewter City", "The Water Flowers of Cerulean City", "Electric Shock Showdown", "Pokemon Scent-sation", "The Ninja Poke-Showdown", "Haunter vs. Kadabra", "Volcanic Panic" and "The Battle of the Badge" not in this order.
- Who's that Pokémon?: Moltres.
- This episode was banned in South Korea due to the usage of smokebombs.
- Pikachu's Electric attacks shouldn't have worked on Marowak due to it being a Ground type.
Dub differences
- When Brock looks at all of James's items, instead of a Pokémon card collection which appeared in the original version, photos of James are shown in the dub. The card on top is Dark Primeape from the Team Rocket expansion. The dialogue referring to them has changed accordingly.
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"Face it, you just don't like what I have to say."Why does it have to always been about what your opponents "like", Linus? Sometimes people don't agree with your reasoning.anastasios
Yes. Sorry.Heresies against the Faith must be stopped at any cost.
I'm with the camp of 13 million Americans that believe politicians are, or are controlled by, Reptilians. I think only monks can solve this problem. It doesn't seem right that they prefer to ignore it.
Hi Linus,I can always tell when you are in attack mode because instead of paragraphs you write short sentences with spaces in between anastasios
Linus,More than one person wondered why you brought up that man's ethnicity, so it wasn't silly for the concern to exist. However, I did give you the opportunity to clarify your position before I rushed to judgement, for what it is worth. I am not sure if you responded publicly as I was out of town, but one of your supporters private messaged me in your favor and I found his explanation that you allegedly gave to him to be satisfactory which is why we did not pursue this.anastasios
Seriously, though, that was the culture back then. Violence in our day and age has no place, and we conduct ourselves in a more somber manner. Sobriety is a value that is respected in Christians.The Fathers may have been right doctrinally but is it perhaps conceivable that they pushed some people away by their rough style? I would say, "it's conceivable." Not all of the Fathers acted that way anyway. So it seems to me to be a cultural thing.
Are we using headgear, or just cups & mouthpieces?
It's things like this that confuse me. If God is never changing and the Holy Spirit was guiding the Church and the Holy Fathers - then why did these violent things occur? Why was it accepted back then yet not now? Has God and the Holy Spirit changed his way of doing things of handling those whe attack the Church? Did Constantine REALLY have a vision of Christ telling him to put the CROSS of emblem? How can this be true?Curiouser and curiouser.
No cups...
Make Love Not War, Dude!
a minute, aren't you the guy who was calling for church-sanctioned violence against the heretics?
The effect may be the return of this forum to what it was before.
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!" (Probably way before your time)
Anastasios,Since you're here, and since this thread was originally about the state of the fourm, how close are you guys to a solution?
Who are you to give sanctimonious pastoral advice to Linus, me, or anyone else?Demetri
Elisha:Well I guess all the Orthodox leaders (at least in the US) have sucumbed to Ecumenism while Linus alone holds fast to the Orthodox faith. It sounds like you are the biggest candidate here for ROAC.
Elisha: No, I don't assume so - I know so that the rites and praxis are similar. And I have followed the threads enough to know that you just refuse to even try and look at the issues w/o bias and with any sort of an open mind or charity.
Elisha: I think everyone here, and most especially Linus could do with a good dose of Fr. Seraphim Rose. I'm no disciple - I just appreciate his love for everyone. To quote him, "I myself fear the cold hearts of the "intellectually correct" far more than any errors you might find (in Augustine). I sense in these hearts a preparation for the work of the Antichrist (whose imitation of Christ must also extend to "correct theology". I feel in Augustine the love of Christ." (from a letter of his in 1981)
mourad:Linus7,as a matter of fact, however, inasmuch as Fr. Seraphim was, and in a good sense, 'hyper-orthodox' why did he never write regarding the unoffical meetings held by the joint commission?
mourad: Another thing you gotta keep in mind is the fact that when it comes to WCC, many many Overseers and priests do keep away since Theology seems secondary there. But when you read the minutes of the unoffcial and official dialogues, somehting beautiful is there, THEOLOGY is discussed in an atmosphere i am sure most of us would have liked to see all ecumenical councils discussed in. Please remember, i am a person totally unwilling to compromise truth. I know what monophysitism is, and i know i am not a monophysite (not just on the Eutychian level) but on all levels.Praying that you be praying for me,in Christ's Love,mourad
Way to go, Elisha. Just keep going after Linus7.Sorry I was working yesterday while he was he was mugged here for holding views not popular but more prevalent than you might think.The ideas being imparted in one seminary or jurisdiction do not necessarily follow at others - for sure they do not.Who are you to give sanctimonious pastoral advice to Linus, me, or anyone else?Demetri
Who besides me remembers when this was the deadest forum (the one with the least activity) on this web site?The thing seemed not to move for months at a time.
The Fathers may have been right doctrinally but is it perhaps conceivable that they pushed some people away by their rough style? I would say, "it's conceivable." Not all of the Fathers acted that way anyway. So it seems to me to be a cultural thing.
Demetri,If Linus wouldn't: keep posting in a tone as if his opinion is that of all EOxy and he alone interprets the Fathers correctly, continually misrepresent what the other person is saying and most importantly, doing all of this in such a haughty tone, I wouldn't keep "going after" Linus. Nevermind the fact that he has twice as many posts as the next non admin. He's almost (especially of late) as bad as romanbyzantium! If several people have told someone that what they wrote was inflammatory and/or rude - the it is! The problem is with the person who wrote what was perceived as inflammatory/rude.
Elisha: It sounds like you are the biggest candidate here for ROAC.
Elisha: Get over it. He never implied anything of the sort. You are the one who is always on the attack and always with haughty, negative tone. It amazes me how everyone but you realizes it.
Linus,<...snipped....>Why are you even a member of the Ecumenical patriarchate when you hold such views? I would think you would be happier in the end in one of the Greek Old Calendar Churches. But that's your business I guess. Still, I wonder what your reasoning is.anastasios
Linus,It's true that St Maximus was alone. But so were the heretics such as Nestorius, who thought that he alone was right. Playing the isolation game is a very precarious game to play. That's why God gave us bishops who are usually right. Not always, but usually. We laypeople need shepherds to guide us.anastasios
I'm not having any luck turning up more than one Will in St. Matthew's Gospel.
All of those verses which assert both the complete humanity and divinity of our Lord contain the teaching of Chalcedon in seminal form.Of particular interest is Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane on the night He was betrayed, in which He petitioned His Father, "Not as I will, but as You will" (Matt. 26:39).Naturally.
If our Lord Jesus Christ had but one will - the divine will - such a prayer would make no sense.Likewise, if the will comes from the person and not the natures, then there are three separate wills in the Holy Trinity.
Rustaveli -I made that statement because I was hoping we could limit the EO-NC conflict to one forum and not let it expand into several others, that's all.Regarding the two wills of our Lord, how do you interpret Christ's words in Matthew 26:39:". . . not as I will, but as You will" ?
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greetings followers of the patron saints of suffering.
life has been busy with getting married and issues of life that have kept me away from posting for a few months. it may be in a limited capacity but i hope to be chiming regularly again. here's my 3 game take:
after these last two losses i think many sunshiners are seeing that there is something inherently wrong with this team no matter what players are on the field. my beef before this season was "shake it up dammit, at least let's not keep losing the same friggin way." i praised the viking organization for the team transition and at least trying to reshape a team (similar to this one) with a modicum of defense. the results there are questionable but i still give their front office props for deciding to try and at least not keep repeating a pattern of failure by the same means.
what do we see here?
-brooks is what he is- a combination of out of the hat highlight plays and a staple for nfl follies. the pile of good stats cannot erase his propensity for critical errors. the national press has even picked up on his laughing and joking on the sidelines after screw-ups and in losses. i would like to see him and the coaches say they are going to make use of his legs like culpepper did after 2 bad weeks.
-i think deuce still has more than what we have seen. i think i could run a defense against this bland non-creative running game plan. many of his runs do look kinda slow motion though with that bent over stance.
-the receivers are good enough. a blossoming henderson would be a tremendous boon. i have seen the first signs of life in conwell this year since he has been here. the drops last week were disappointing but it is good to see him in the gameplan at all.
OL- gandy is still aging but at least not being penalized like last year. bentley and guards haven't been opening enough holes for deuce. jammal is the real deal and is here as long as we can keep him signed. pass protection has been erratic imo.
-the DL line, i have been asking where is the vaunted pass rush. yes some sacks last week but i am not seeing the expected pressure from our high profile DEs. the holes opened up in the middle when it is 3rd and 2ft leaves me shaking my head.
-LB: what LBs?? we might need to try some new defense. maybe a 5/6 with no LBs. it may be an improvement. i thought this may have been the worst unit in the nfl before the season. they have done nothing to dimish that. watson may have some talent to play outside. beyond that they are all role players at best. have you ever seen so many arm tackles, or er, attempted arm tackles?
DB- mackenzie is a gambler but i like what he brings. smith is in a similar mold, i do like the thought of him at SS better. he can hit on the runs. please get well soon fakhir. the explotation of craft with no help is painful to watch. we appreciated ya while you were here jay. a smart player like you might have a future in coaching. well, let's see if bullocks was worth taking over corey webster, kevin burnett, odell thurman, channing crowder, etc.
K- carney is still keepable for an old fart. berger still looks all-pro to me.
KR- thanks for the memories beerman. i won't be surprised to see donte have a couple of return td's. neither surprised if they are also called back for penalties.
Coaching- i thought new coaching could be good but i wasn't on the hang haz train. now i just think it is time. too much of the same thing, over and over. venturi sucks as bad as ever. why not stack the box and say you are gonna have to throw to beat us now. sad thing, it gets stacked sometime and still run over.
Front Office- i have been and am still on the run loomis out of town bandwagon. we need a football guy there, not a glorified beancounter.
Owner- national articles coming out how the other owners even think little of the old man. i only hope rita can be better.
Outlook- i have watched the saints since the flea ran back the first kickoff so i have to have hope. i am all for success in any shape, form, or fashion. what i think would be worst is a 9-6 wildcard with elimination in the first game. enough that the current regime might be kept again. with the shizophrenic personality of this team proven by history under haz anything from 4-12 to 12-4 is still possible. more likely? 8-8. i have my 4pack for the BR games. it'll be fun to drink beer in tiger stadium win or lose.
Silver Lining- i hope the hurricane tragedies prompt getting a new stadium and longterm security for the saints in louisiana rather than departure. Love Dem Saints! Fock Slimey Profiteering Owners! (80mil to 700mil investment return is enough doncha think?)
Excuse the length. Just the I'm back post.
well wishes to pak and all who have suffered loss in these past weeks.
Kells, you know you're my ace man. Welocme back, and congrats on the nuptials. Good post. Hope to see you around more.
Bengals | Thurman Named AFC Defensive Rookie of the Month
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Mark Curnutte, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, reports Cincinnati Bengals LB Odell Thurman was named the AFC Defensive Rookie of the Month for September. Thurman led the Bengals with 26 tackles, and made 14 solo tackles, one interception, one pass defensed and one forced fumble.
I thought I had posted that he could very well become the defensive rookie of the year, but I cannot find the post to save my life. But hey, linebacker wasn't really an area of ne.......scratch that. X(
granted that jammal is the real deal and a keeper for 10+ years... but you can only wonder how the D would have looked with derrick johnson AND odell thurman onboard.
a whole lot better LT, a whole lot better.
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The decision to give this year's Stirling Prize to Zaha Hadid's Evelyn Grace Academy is met by shock, surprise and even anger
George Ferguson, former president of the RIBA:
'This is an appalling result and the worst decision since the Magna Centre beat Girmshaw's Eden Project to win the Stirling Prize in 2001. It's a great big own goal. It is also the worst possible message to send to [education secretary] Michael Gove. In fact it reinforces his case. A good school is one that can be replicated. But this can't. It's a one-off. The prize [has become] an award from architects for architects. It makes me angry.'
Russell Brown of Hawkins Brown:
'Zaha's scheme is an icon and seems less about place. It is not the message that the RIBA should be sending out about educational buildings. There is a political agenda in the judges nominating a school. It is a sad state of affairs that user-driven architecture is worth commenting on by the judges. A scheme is only architecture when it satisfies it's occupants
Rab Bennetts of shortlisted practice Bennetts Associates:
'When the Stirling winner was announced there was a palpable sense of shock across the room. We hadn't expected to beat the velodrome, but I had Zaha's school down as the least likely to win. However overall a great night and we're really pleased for RSC [the winner of the RIBA client of the year award]. And the theatre came across well in the film.'
This year the Stirling Prize did not go to the best building
Stephen Hodder, a previous Stirling Prize winner and the RIBA Vice-President Nations + Regions:
'The Stirling Prize is about the building which has made the greatest contribution to architecture not about making a political statement. There has already been a well-made rebuttal of Michael Gove's stance on architecture and it was not necessary to use the Stirling Prize to reiterate the same message. This year the Stirling Prize did not go to the best building.'
Flora Samuels, the head of the University of Sheffield's School of Architecture:
'There was a collective groan at the announcement of the Zaha school as winner. However it does warrant visiting in person and following the comments of the users and judges, it appears there is more to the icon than meets the eye.
'It's a shame that the Sarah Wigglesworth's Sandal Magma building wan't nominated - it is just a damn good building. Although there has been a good winner this year, the shortlist is actually rather narrow, with the North remaining significantly underrepresented. Interesting also that despite female architects, it remains notably masculine architecture which prevails. Is that really what we want the architecture of today to be? Where are the maternal counterpoints to a paternal architectural dialogue?'
It was the biggest surprise since Magna beat the Eden Project
Robert Kennett of Eric Parry Architects:
'I was not expecting Zaha to win and the decision by the judges to select Zaha two years in a row marks a return to showy iconic designs. The choice of the project seems to go against the media representation of the prize this year, being about user and client. Having said that the building is 'heroic' and a masterful architectural vision. It would be interesting to see how much consultation the design team actually did with the users.'
Paul Finch, deputy chair of the Design Council:
'It was the biggest surprise since Magna beat the Eden Project, but the jury was obviously impressed by the lifting of the spirits the school brings about, and the ingenuity of a diagram that combines four schools onto a single tight site. It was an unusual brief, had the help of a generous budget, and would be better regarded as a high quality one-off than a repeatable model. One must accept that the jury are the only group that saw all the finalists and respect their judgement. The three finalists I have seen, Hopkins' Velodrome, AHMM's Angel Building and Benett's RSC, are hugely sophisticated and I imagine will have an effect as great as the school - but in their own unique ways.'
John Tuomey of shortlisted practice O'Donnell + Tuomey:
'Of course we were sorry to lose when each of the judges told us later that we came a very close second to the school. The great thing about the RIBA Awards scheme is that the buildings are visited at every stage in the process and not judged on a photographic image. The judges took their task seriously. And the RIBA knows how to throw a party. It was a spectacular night.'
Holly Porter, founding director of Surface to Air Architects:
'It is great to see Zaha win and ARK are a great client. This is a message to Michael Gove that design actually matters. Good clients understand that and see top-end architecture as an educational instrument.'
Mike Taylor of shortlisted practice Hopkins:
'We were obviously disappointed to not win the Stirling, not least because we had a lot of people rooting for the velodrome and right now we feel a bit like they have been let down. But you go into these events knowing any one of the shortlist can win - otherwise it wouldn't be much of a prize would it? Compared to the other shortlisted schemes we at least have the Games to look forward to. You can't ask for much more than that.
We did the correct thing putting the velodrome in for the Stirling this year
We did the correct thing to put it in this year because the velodrome is now finished, the track has been tested by the best riders in the world and was given a very positive response. The velopark is an ongoing project which will take years to develop and since we designed it to inspire future generations of cyclists you could be waiting around a long time to measure that success. We tried to make the building as elegant and efficient as a bicycle to generate a piece of architecture we could all be proud of in 2012 and that is hopefully already evident.'
Simon Allford of shortlisted practice AHMM:
'We are gutted not to win and others are too. But to get on the shortlist, effectively for a third year in a row, is a mark of our consistent quality.
With regard to Zaha, it is a great to see a building in a tough part of London making a difference.'
Perhaps the era of the Starchitect is not quite dead
Kevin Singh, head of Birmingham School of Architecture:
'Even though I'd have put money on a velodrome victory I certainly got a feeling in the room that it wasn't going to win once the films started. The [BBC Culture Show] film they showed with the kids eulogising about the school was very powerful. I'd suggest the judges decided that architecture is for people after all. I'm not sure if the building 'has done the most for British Architecture in the last year' but it is clearly inspirational to the kids who go there. As for Zaha, well it's like buses, you wait ages for a Stirling Prize and then two come at once.'
Adam Clark of Halliday Clark:
'I'm glad a school as won at last, particularly for the irony factor of the alleged comments of the Education Minister over the last year or so. It is unfortunate the school was built to much higher cost indices that we are allowed to play with on any of our Academies and particularly in the light of the new short timescale and low cost era of schools. Still, while I am not always a fan of Zaha's work, she will always cause debate. Perhaps the era of the Starchitect is not quite dead.
It's Chipperfield that should feel hard done by, not Hopkins
Alan Dunlop of Alan Dunlop Architects:
'The Evelyn Grace Academy solves many of the problems of its own making. The spaces look cold and clinical and the running track absurd. Like much of Hadid's work it's a clever piece of product design, not architecture. Unlike the Eden project though, the velodrome was not the deserved winner. Chipperfield's Folkwang Museum is exceptional. The AJ's features editor Rory Olcayto is right, Chipperfield does architecture better than any of his contemporaries, which seems to be his Achilles heel. Excellence is expected in his work and as a consequence, perversely taken for granted by the judges. It's Chipperfield that should feel aggrieved and hard done by, not Hopkins.'
Chris Brown of developer Igloo:
'The result was quite a shock. The national judging panel didn't expect Evelyn Grace to be the winner. The public didn't expect it to be the winner. So it is hard to understand why it was the winner. Transparency would be nice and educational - knowing why that building was chosen over the others. As a client it would help me, because the decision makes me feel stupid.'
The Zaha school has both initial and slow burning potential
Roger Zogolovitch, director of Lake Estates:
'If it is correct that the velodrome didn't win because it had not been finished in the sense that it hadn't been tested or properly used, then why was it on the shortlist? The velodrome won the public vote yet this result makes the public feel as though the architecture is elitist and the judges operating under a different rule system. We all need to know that the public is our customer.'
Mary Bowman of Gustafson Porter:
'The Zaha project was a well-deserved win. Design should always be about the end user and while the velodrome was beautiful, Evelyn Grace is more inhabited and is a good building - whether it is iconic or not. The judges all spoke about the context of the building so even among the iconic designs, there was closer attention paid to how the building is situated, which is a really good thing. A building's life is much longer than it's initial impact, and it seems that the Zaha school has both initial and slow burning potential.'
Sylvia Dunkley, Lord Mayor of Sheffield:
'The Zaha scheme makes efforts to tackle the problems of social deprivation in Brixton, much like some of the BSF schemes in Sheffield. It is of the utmost importance that grand architectural schemes integrate with their local community, which it appears the Zaha scheme does.'
Richard Hassell of Lubetkin Prize-winning practice WOHA:
'When it comes down to it the jury has to pick the building which has particular relenvace to the issues of the day. Evelyn Grace is a wonderful school, and not just a backdrop to teaching. It is something that challenges the standard.'
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Speaking as a relative outsider: watching the Stirling Prize on TV this evening, not having had any prior inkling of who and whose building had won, there was no doubt in my mind that Zaha Hadid's Grace Academy stood out a mile. This is a building solely about user and client. Brixton was sorely in need of something to feel proud of – that it is a showy piece of architecture is an asset in this instance. In any case, what could be more showy than a velodrome for the 2012 Olympics?
Strange responses, for a structures interested Geologist I found the whole experience better this year than most years, but then as Will said some decades ago maybe the flow of water down the channels created has made the old guard either tired, or coated in something that needs renovation? Much of my Wales site and Scotland is coated in summer drought things needing renewal of the rock, so that we envisaged in 1974 is now all Biology and I know that sensation myself, so did Ezekial and Job, scraping about the place for ideas, good to see some planning and architecture in operation. As I noted to Kevin it may depend on speeches after dinner, or before dinner, the latter allows a captive audience which is that we did to students, speeches that are short (EG Bowen, or The Rector before Sunday Lunch for ladies with burning chickens), the former tends to be satiating alike John and the description of the marriage at Cana in Galilee, anyway we seem to have the best until last as I noted once to Ann trying to ram mathematics into an acceptable hydrology and I start to defer to young talent alike JLo, I am getting too old for the Conservative revival again, they did that last time and we need ambassadors in touch with people's homes and life works. Mind you the structures are much the same and the Ergonomic rules the day, so we end up back with Frank Lloyd Wright and pianos in studios, Central American or New York transposed, desert or particulate delivered, pre-built Graham 1971 or the lost causes of student revolt, we are some way behind some good designers and at least that showed in the RIBA Stirling, potential. Mike Stagg Hydrology soils Geology
It is extremely disappointing to see an award, the opening address of which cited a new confidence of architects to design sustainable buildings rooted in their sense of place, and the need to demonstrate the value of architecture/ architects to inspire and deliver exceptional quality within the rigorous restraints of an increasing unstable economy, end with this result.
Watching this year's Stirling from both sides of the fence, from the event itself and then BBC2's televised programme last night, it is incredible to witness how easy it is to mislead the viewer through biased representation. If only all nominees were as competently presented and fully explained as the Brixton Academy!
While buildings, such as the Velodrome, are naturally showy 'iconic' pieces of architecture they represent a refined balance of design, economic and sustainability issues absent from this year's winner. At £3,000 p.m2 how can the selection of zaha's over-budget, egocentric mega structure be seem as anything other than a misguided ode to BSF's unfortunate demise?
Of course Zaha Hadid is going to be the front-runner for any prize named after James Stirling. If the architectural community had wanted to reward self-effacing excellence, it would have named its award the Pevsner Prize. (Hmmm, there's an idea.)
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It's not personal but I detest the evasiveness, censorship, and false accusations that are so frequently made by online young earth creationists against people who are pro-science ie they accept the scientific consensus instead of loudly proclaiming it to be a 'Lie'.


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Four Possible Trumps
It's hard to know what to expect from a President-Elect who's promised a lot of things he can't possibly have meant. On the one hand, maybe he did mean them, in which case, dear God. But on the other, surely not. This leaves a lot of middle ground for wild speculation, which I now intend to provide.
Also this election has reminded me that however far-fetched I think I'm being, it's not far enough. So here are four possible Trumps.
Benevolent Dictator Trump
Beholden to no-one, President Trump dispenses with political bickering, cuts away swathes of bureaucracy and red tape, and replaces it with simple, direct, effective solutions that no-one tried before because they were so caught up in politics or not wanting to offend anyone or reading books or something. I think that's right.
Trump crafts an unpredictable yet nimble, energetic, and effective administration, unafraid to make unpopular decisions so long as they're right. It is happy times for everyone who agrees with Trump's version of right, which is everyone, by decree of a new federal law. Protesters and other unpatriotic unAmericans are taken to the desert to toil to build a statue of Trump so high it can blot out the sun.
Term limits are abolished. In his eleventh year of rule, a small band of protestors vandalize the statue by blasting off the toupée and are shot on live national television, their remains displayed outside the city gates. God-Emperor Trump dies peacefully in his sleep in his twenty-third year of rule, surrounded by concubines. After a week of national mourning, the nation descends into bloody civil war as various full- and half-blooded Trump offspring lead armies in a battle for control of their father's empire. Dragons return. Ivanka rides one.
Robber Baron Trump
By the time he waves goodbye from the chopper, Trump has vacuumed so much money from the American public that he and his family are the wealthiest people in modern history, richer even than he claims to be today. A drip-feed of revelations of fraud, embezzlement, and cronyism on an unprecedented scale hound him, along with persistent talk of federal prosecution, but none of it goes anywhere, dissipating like waves against the rocky shore of Trump's now-impenetrable empire of lawyers, cash, and paid-up influence.
Weakened by pillaging, the welfare system faces a short-term credit crunch, leading to riots among the poor and unemployed. This is held up by Republicans as proof of the fundamental non-viability of the welfare state and the need to abolish it altogether, a view supported by low-skilled male white voters who are shortly to become unemployed themselves as the shock of decreased government spending rolls through the economy. California and Texas secede and close their borders. Nevada falls to roaming biker gangs. The Trump family acquires Manhattan at market-bottom prices and builds a wall around it, a real one, not just a fence.
Capitalizt Trump
With a businessperson's win/lose perspective on the economy, Trump abolishes regulatory authorities, slashes taxes, eliminates labor laws, privatizes public bodies, and ushers in an ultra-capitalist paradise in which corporations are free to do whatever the hell they feel like. It is a rich, refreshing new world for the already-wealthy, who find an ever-expanding array of services aimed at them, while the poor die of easily-preventable diseases or in back alleys after muggings gone bad on their way home from one of their three-dollar-an-hour jobs.
Employment becomes so critical to survival that people revert to the ancient practice of calling each other by their occupation rather than their surname. A shoe company deliberately incites a violent riot to promote a new brand of sneakers. A plucky government agent… ah, you know what, just read the book.
By mortgaging its future, the US is temporarily awash with cash, creating a false dawn that ushers in a second Trump term. He exits office just as the economy begins to run off the cliff. Via a running commentary of tweets, he blames his successor for the ensuring collapse, depression, and takeover by Chinese real estate speculators, labeling all of the above "sad!"
Commander-in-Chief Trump
Trump has always been a big believer in the "speak loudly and carry a big stick" approach. To date, his sticks have been lawyers, but starting January 20, 2017, they are stealth bombers and 7,100 nuclear warheads. Carrying his philosophy into office, Trump rattles a few sabers before going ahead and invading someone. It's an irresistible dynamic: The benefits of military action are largely personal (status, pleasure of defeating an opponent) while the costs are born by an American public and purse he's only borrowing and is allowed to hand back in any condition.
Military adventures in Asia, the Middle East, and Alaska breed a host of new enemies for America, ensuring the need for ever-more defense spending and a twitchy, paranoid, nationalistic voting public. Trump exits office calling his military record his proudest achievement, despite the loss of several million citizens on the east coast after an incident that looked a lot like a biological attack but officially was just a bad flu season. Via a running commentary of tweets, he blasts the new President for weakness as she attempts reconciliation with foreign powers. Much of the Western hemisphere is annihilated in a nuclear exchange started by a relatively small rogue nation that nobody was paying much attention to. Trump relocates to Australia and begins to hoard water, leading to a Mad Max scenario where he is killed in a car chase after the escape of one of his breeders.
That's what I've got for now. I mean, there are other possibilities. But these feel the most likely.


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JA Frate embraces four core values that guide our growth and success.
Customer Focused
Customer Service isn't a department, it's an attitude.
Tim Gieseke, our JA Nationwide Logistics Coordinator was in the middle of giving blood one Saturday morning when our customer Chemtool called needing drums shipped out that day. Tim came into the office, found a carrier to pick up that day and deliver their product direct to Maine. Mission accomplished, happy customer!
Do what is right, not what is easy.
Doug asked us to take a pay cut after the 9/11 tragedy and the loss of two big customers in 2001. We all stood behind him during this rough time agreeing to take the 10% cut for the good of the company. Thankfully within a few months the company was getting back on track but it took a few years to start growing again. I hadn't thought about it for years until he presented me and everyone still with JA a check reimbursing us for the missed income from five years prior at the annual Christmas party.
"Integrity starts with small details and daily actions but sometimes can best be summed up by how a man handles the tough times." Joe Rhamey, Driver at JA Frate
Team Before Self
If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together.
Driver 85 John Baumstark was making a delivery to one of our customers on a warm summer day when he discovered that they had a policy of no shorts allowed. Rather than call dispatch, tell them he was unable to make the deliver, then have to send another driver out, John took it upon himself to solve the problem. He drove to the nearest gas station and offered the clerk $10 to borrow a pair of uniform pants. John then made the delivery and promptly returned the pants!
The best is yet to come.
Many years ago, the team would rotate who worked Friday night. On one particular Friday night, driver 6 Jeff Jennings received a call from Flying Tigers at around 10:00pm. They had a hot shipment that needed to be picked up and driven directly to the ports in Charleston, South Carolina.
Jeff had the shipment picked up by midnight that evening and with the help of his co-driver they were able to get the shipment delivered on time and were escorted to drive the mine sweeping generator they were carrying directly onto the ship.
It is this kind of can-do optimism that our employees display every day that continues to drive our success today!


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Lung plethysmography is a test used to measure how much air you can hold in your lungs.
Pulmonary plethysmography; Static lung volume determination; Whole-body plethysmography
You will sit in a small, airtight room known as a body box. You will breathe or pant against a mouthpiece. Clips will be put on your nose to shut off your nostrils. Depending on the information your doctor is looking for, the mouthpiece may be open at first, and then closed.
You will be breathing against the mouthpiece in both the open and closed positions - they give different information to the doctors. As your chest moves while you breathe or pant, it changes the pressure and amount of air in the room and against the mouthpiece. From these changes, the doctor can get an accurate measure of the amount of air in your lungs.
Depending on the purpose of the test, you may be given some medication before the test.
Let your doctor know if you are taking any medications, especially ones for breathing problems. You may have to temporarily stop taking certain medications before the test.
Wear loose clothes that allow you to breathe comfortably.
Avoid smoking and heavy exercise for 6 hours before the test.
Avoid heavy meals before the test. They can affect your ability to take deep breaths.
The test involves rapid and normal breathing, and should not be painful. However, you may feel short of breath or light-headed. You will be monitored at all times by a technician.
The mouthpiece may feel uncomfortable against your mouth.
If you have trouble in tight spaces, the box might make you anxious. However, it is clear and you can see outside at all times.
The test is done to see how much air you can hold in your lungs during rest. It can help your doctor determine if a lung problem is due to damage to the lung structure, or a loss of the lungs' ability to expand (get bigger as air flows in).
Normal values depend on your age, height, weight, ethnic background, and gender.
Abnormal results point to a problem in the lungs. This problem can be due to a breakdown of the lung structure, a problem with the chest wall and its muscles, or a problem with the lungs being able to expand and contract.
Lung plethysmography will not find the cause of the problem. However, it will help the doctor narrow down the list of possible problems.
Although this test is the most precise way to measure how much air you can hold in your lungs, it is not often used because of its technical difficulties.
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New Epson Classroom Projectors Answer Changing Classroom Technology Needs
Look out for two projector series from Epson designed for the K-12 classroom. The Epson® PowerLite® S17, X17, and W17 are said to be bright, easy to use and affordable even with HDMI connectivity and optional wireless connectivity. The other series includes the Epson PowerLite 97, 98, 99W, 955W, and 965 classroom projectors with advanced network connectivity
Epson projectors use 3LCD, 3-chip technology, and Epson claims that their projectors offer three times brighter colors than leading competitive projectors using the new color brightness specification. For more information on this, see Evan's article entitled ANSI Lumens vs Color Light Output:Technical Issues and Competitive Debate.
The the PowerLite S17, X17 and W17 are classroom projectors available in SVGA, XGA and widescreen WXGA resolutions and include HDMI connectivity to for high-quality video and audio. They provide wireless functionality with an optional network module that Epson sells separately and with the free Epson iProjection app, allow an instructor to project content from a mobile handheld device.
The PowerLite 97, 98, 99W, 955W and 965 series projectors offer a higher level of sophistication in terms of audio and networking choices. Catering to the BYOD(Bring Your Own Device) trend in many of the nations classrooms.With the new moderator software incorporated into these projectors, teachers can present up to four different device screens to the class in order to acheive a new level of collaboration possibilities.


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July 9, 2009
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The Obama Administration sent a strong message to the nation today that it is time to start planning and preparing for the fall flu season and the ongoing HIN1 flu outbreak and that the federal government is prepared to commit resources, training, and new tools to help state and local governments and America's families get ready.
White House Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan joined with delegations from 54 states, tribes and territories today at the H1N1 Influenza Preparedness Summit at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland to kick-off the government's nation-wide fall flu preparedness efforts.
"The President and the administration are actively engaged in combating the spread of the H1N1 virus and are developing a nationwide action plan that builds on the efforts and lessons learned from this spring's initial onset to prepare for the possibility of a worsening fall outbreak of the virus," said White House Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan in his address to Summit participants.
Over the course of coming weeks and months, we will move aggressively to prepare the nation for the possibility of a more severe outbreak of the H1N1 virus," said HHS Secretary Sebelius. "We ask the American people to become actively engaged with their own preparation and prevention. It's a responsibility we all share."
"The federal government is working together with its federal, state, local and tribal partners to develop a nation-wide plan to combat the H1N1 flu that incorporates the lessons we learned this spring. The H1N1 Summit will allow us to continue this aggressive preparation for all possible H1N1 virus outbreak scenarios to ensure that we are doing everything possible to keep our country safe and healthy," said Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano.
"Effectively dealing with a potential H1N1 outbreak requires all of us--parents, educators, health providers, and local, state and federal governments--working together on our emergency management plans. Today's Flu Summit is an important step in that direction. Our primary goals at the Department of Education are the health and well being of students, faculty, and staff, and ensuring that, in the event of any school closures, the learning process will continue, " said Education Secretary Duncan.
Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley moderated a Governors panel with participation via videolink from Governor Jim Douglas of Vermont, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, Governor Mark Parkinson of Kansas, Governor John Baldacci of Maine and Governor Jodi Rell of Connecticut.
"When responding to a national pandemic or a national recession, the basic principles of smart government remain the same – to increase efficiency, openness, and transparency in everything we do. Today's summit illustrates our collective commitment to that goal," said Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley. "The experience in the spring taught us that while earlier pandemic flu planning efforts were effective, there are also areas for improvement. Effective response requires accurate and timely information that is as close to real time as possible. We share the commitment of the Obama Administration to constantly monitor, evaluate and improve these processes as we continue to lead the world in emergency preparedness."
Throughout the one-day Summit, administration officials laid out specific ways that states and local governments could start their planning and preparation efforts and announced new programs and resources to help state and local governments, the medical community and every day America prepare for H1N1 and the fall flu season.
First, HHS will make available preparedness grants worth a total of $350 million. These grants were funded by Congress in the latest supplemental appropriations bill and they will give state and local public health offices and health care systems valuable resources to step up their preparedness efforts.
Second, the federal government will centralize communications about H1N1 and seasonal flu on the federal government's new website www.flu.gov. This one-stop comprehensive site brings together flu-related information from across HHS and other federal agencies. The expanded site builds on the pandemic planning information long presented on pandemicflu.gov, and incorporates information about the novel H1N1 flu as well as the seasonal flu.
Finally, HHS is launching a new PSA campaign contest to encourage more Americans to get involved in the nation's flu preparedness efforts by making a 15-second or 30-second PSA. Officials at the Summit stressed the idea of "shared responsibility" when it comes to combating the flu and the goal of the new HHS PSA campaign contest is to tap into the nation's creativity to help educate Americans about how to plan for and prevent the spread of HINI influenza. HHS will organize an expert panel to evaluate submissions and will present the best PSAs back to the public so everyone can vote on their favorite submission. The winning PSA will receive $2,500 in cash and will appear on national television. Contest details as well more information about the larger effort to plan and prepare for the flu season are available at www.flu.gov.
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RTPrimerDB is a public database for primer and probe sequences used in real-time PCR assays employing popular chemistries (SYBR Green I, Taqman, Hybridisation Probes, Molecular Beacon) to prevent time-consuming primer design and experimental optimisation, and to introduce a certain level of uniformity and standardisation among different laboratories.
We strongly encourage researchers to submit their validated primer and probe sequence, so that other users can benefit from their expertise. The database can be queried using the official gene name or symbol, Entrez or Ensembl Gene identifier, SNP identifier, or oligonucleotide sequence.
Different options make it possible to restrict a query to a particular application (Gene Expression Quantification/Detection, DNA Copy Number Quantification/Detection, SNP Detection, Mutation Analysis, Fusion Gene Quantification/Detection, Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)), organism (Human, Mouse, Rat, and others) or detection chemistry. Data submission is allowed after free registration whereby you obtain a login name and password.
Currently, 7963 real-time PCR assays for 5686 genes are available, submitted by 206 people.
Last submission: link
- PATTYN, F., SPELEMAN, F., DE PAEPE A. & VANDESOMPELE, J. (2003). RTPrimerDB: the Real-Time PCR primer and probe database. Nucleic Acids Research, 31(1): 122-123. [Download]
- PATTYN, F., ROBBRECHT, P., SPELEMAN, F., DE PAEPE A. & VANDESOMPELE, J. (2006). RTPrimerDB: the Real-Time PCR primer and probe database, major update 2006. Nucleic Acids Research, 34(Database issue): D684-688. [Download]
- LEFEVER S, VANDESOMPELE J, SPELEMAN F, PATTYN F. (2008). RTPrimerDB: the portal for real-time PCR primers and probes. Nucleic Acids Research, Oct 23. [Epub ahead of print] [Download]


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Owen Holland
Robot Man
Illustration: Max Rose
Owen Holland's robot is not cute. With its single, squidlike eye, bone-white thermoplastic skeleton, and coils of exposed mechanical viscera, the thing looks like the top half of a zombie Cylon. Asimo would run from it; a Roomba would hide under the sofa. But while his bot may not be making trade show appearances anytime soon, Holland believes it will be able to do something much more impressive: think.
When it comes to artificial intelligence and robotics, think is a slippery term. "In what is essentially an engineering discipline, talking about machine consciousness isn't going to get you very far," the psychologist turned roboticist says from his lab at the University of Sussex. "But I'm at the end of my career, and I don't give a toss." His Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot (get it? "ecce robot"?) aims to shed light on cognition with an "anthropomimetic" physical structure that matches ours, down to vertebrae, muscles, and tendons. ECCErobot's floppy body "has no intrinsic stiffness," Holland says. "If we turn the power off, it would collapse in a heap just like you would." And that's the idea—figure out how to control that system and you've probably learned what the brain has to do to control the human body.
To that end, this year Holland plans to upgrade ECCErobot with tension sensors to give it proprioception—the ability to tell where its body parts are—and a Kinect to give it depth perception. The point is to allow better interaction with the environment, which, according to Holland, is what underpins cognition.
So, time to welcome our new robot overlords? Not so fast. ECCErobot might eventually be able to wheel into a room, see a ball rolling atop a table, and pick it up. "And that's only if our control systems don't crash and burn," Holland says. Still, if ECCErobot does work, its body will be so similar to ours that cognitive comparisons will be inevitable—and logical. Let's just hope ECCErobot's descendants get some external upgrades—the thing looks like a frakking toaster.—John Pavlus
Brian McConnell
Space Cowboy
Illustration: Max Rose
Sending humans to another planet—according to conventional wisdom—would be uncomfortable, expensive, dangerous, and (at present) technologically unfeasible. But telecom entrepreneur Brian McConnell thinks he has a solution: Just add water.
Writing in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, McConnell, an engineer and space enthusiast, says his water-powered "spacecoach" could get astronauts to the Martian moon Phobos for less than $1 billion, using existing technology. The cheapest estimates for manned missions to Mars run in the range of $30 billion—roughly twice NASA's yearly budget—a literally astronomical price tag compared with a robot or orbiter. But in space travel, weight equals cost, and to keep astronauts alive and get them home you have to send along a lot of drinking water, which is really heavy. And so is chemical rocket fuel to power a craft through the vastness of space. "It's a very expensive undertaking," McConnell says. "It has a very hard time getting off paper."
McConnell's plan solves the fuel problem. In space, ships don't need instantaneous power to accelerate. They can pick up speed over a long time, which means they can use the economical electrothermal propulsion regularly employed for maneuvering in Earth orbit. These engines superheat gas with microwaves and push it through a nozzle to create thrust. The fuel? Water, which pays for its weight by keeping a garden alive, slaking the thirst of astronauts, providing a shield against the radiation of deep space, and eventually getting used for thrust. (Enough to last the whole trip would be stored frozen in the hull.) A smaller rocket gets the spacecoach to orbit, and the water drive takes over from there. It's all relatively simple off-the-shelf technology.
Sure, for all its streamlined elegance, McConnell's design is optimistic, to say the least. But undaunted, he plans to launch an X Prize-like competition, funded by Laminar Research, to improve the technology and raise awareness. Because with space travel, the hardest part of the journey is the first step (except for all the other parts).—Mario Aguilar
Marla Spivak
Bee Queen
Illustration: Max Rose
If you can't beat the diseases and pests that are killing bees, build a better bee. That's the notion behind the work of Marla Spivak, an entomologist at the University of Minnesota. She bred a strain of pollinating bee that fights varroa, a parasite linked to widespread bee deaths. With colony losses fluctuating around 30 to 40 percent every year, scientists and commercial interests are desperate for anything that'll help these pollinators thrive.
Spivak's breakthrough was literally cool. She used liquid nitrogen to kill a handful of baby bees inside their wax-sealed hexagonal cells. And then she waited. In some colonies, bees would never uncap the cells and clean them out. But in particularly neat-freak colonies, the corpses were gone in 24 hours or less. That's the trait she selected for, eventually coming up with a line she dubbed Minnesota hygienic. In colonies of Minnesota hygienic bees that get invaded by varroa—an eight-legged mite that drinks bee blood and lays its eggs inside cells—the bees uncap and clean out the cells containing infected, sick pupae before baby mites grow and reproduce—a contraceptive counterpunch.
Commercial beekeepers were reluctant to select for the trait themselves, though. Then, during a presentation, Spivak had "an aha! moment at the same time as a well, duh moment," she says. She had to work with breeders in the field. So she left her lab to work in California—hub of the commercial beekeeping industry—for three years.
These days, breeders are using her freeze-kill method to rear hygienic strains. And Spivak, a MacArthur "genius grant" winner, has dispatched a former grad student to identify 2,000 potential breeder colonies. The goals: separate the robust from the sickly, and breed from hives with the highest level of hygienic behavior and the lowest level of disease. Spivak today concentrates on an antimicrobial resin called propolis that wild bees shellac onto the inside of their hives as a sort of collective immune system—maybe pointing the way to an even better bee.—Kirsten Traynor
Ed Adams and Dan Miller
Snow Bombers
Illustration: Max Rose
The best way to learn about snow avalanches? Trigger some. That's the approach employed by Ed Adams and Dan Miller, civil engineers at Montana State University who ski into the backcountry to test new avalanche-prevention methods… with explosives. Many ski patrollers already blow up snow that looks avalanchey, but they don't always do it well. Bomb the wrong spot and a slope stays primed to slide. Avalanches on supposedly slide-controlled slopes have buried at least 26 people in the US since 2008, killing seven of them.
Adams and Miller know about the danger firsthand. Adams spent a few postgrad years ski-bumming in Utah before getting his engineering doctorate at MSU (while shredding the sick slopes of nearby Bridger Bowl). And Miller, a Montana native, pretty much grew up on skis before taking charge of supersonic ground tests for the US Air Force. After witnessing some of Adams' early tests, which included barricading himself inside a shack and then triggering an avalanche on top of it, Miller figured he could switch gigs and help out. "It was a 'don't try this at home' sort of thing, but I like to think we were being safe about it," Adams says.
Their tests today are much less primitive. They're trying to understand hoar, frozen dew layers that can shatter when buried under snow, triggering an avalanche. Ordinarily, ski patrollers destroy hoar with direct detonation. Miller thinks a better approach is to use shock waves to compress the entire snowpack. He uses a microphone and accelerometers to measure his test blasts. (Sometimes with a crash test dummy for vérité.)
In general, the duo has found that blast size matters less than bomb placement. Air trapped inside snow acts like a shock absorber. Mounting a charge on a bamboo pole, Adams and Miller found, gives the blast time to expand, creating a wider and deeper compaction. And canyon walls make good amplifiers. "We consider this figuring out the fundamentals," Miller says. "No one is looking at this." Plus, any day you ski a double black diamond while setting off bombs is a good one.—Ben Paynter
Wes Jackson
Green Thumb
Illustration: Max Rose
For 10,000 years, humans have drained aquifers, poisoned land and sea, and eroded once-fertile plains into wastelands—all so we can grow food. Plant geneticist Wes Jackson wants to reverse all that. His plan: Reboot agriculture by domesticating perennial crops.
Nearly all the problems of traditional agriculture, Jackson says, stem from the fact that grain crops are annuals—they grow, make seeds, and die in a single year. Replanting every season tears up the ground and disrupts delicate soil ecosystems. But don't blame Big Agriculture or the high-input, high-yield Green Revolution of the 20th century. Blame the Neolithic brainiac who first saved a handful of seeds and poked them into the ground instead the stew pot.
The first farmers domesticated annual grains (wheat, corn, barley) and pulses (lentils, peas). They had the biggest seeds and highest yields, but they're parasites, returning little to their environment. It's perennials that build extensive root networks and healthy soil, conserve water, and recycle nutrients. (After harvest in the fall, they grow again from their roots in the spring.) Natural systems function best when diverse species live together. Yet we blanket the Midwest with crops of genetically homogenous corn—and we plow, spray, and fertilize the heck out of them. It's a system that modern agriculture can't sustain, says Jackson, "but without a new green revolution, we'll destroy our soil trying."
So for the past three decades, Jackson has been looking for alternatives. His Land Institute, in Salina, Kansas, is now a booming research center with half a dozen PhD scientists, a new tornado-proof seed-storage facility, seed-sorting robots, and research plots. Newly domesticated Kernza, a perennial relative of wheat, should be farmer-ready within a decade, Jackson says, and perennialized sunflower-Jerusalem artichoke hybrids are undergoing work to improve yield. Illinois bundleflower, a native legume, may be one of the first new legumes to be domesticated. After all, what's 30 more years of effort compared to 10,000 years of toiling in the fields? —Thomas Hayden
Zhenan Bao
Skin Jobber
Illustration: Max Rose
You gotta have thick skin to survive in this crazy world—but that skin has to be sensitive, too. Robots and prosthetic limbs have the first part solved, with shells of titanium and carbon fiber. But the second part? No artificial coating can compare to real skin.
Chemist Zhenan Bao aims to fix that problem. She's working on "pressure pixels" made of stretchable, microscale organic field-effect transistors—building 40 years of advances in silicon chip design and nanofabrication into a flexible sheet. Last year, her team at Stanford University sandwiched finely textured sheets of a polymer called polydimethylsiloxane—PDMS, for short—between flexible electrodes. Apply pressure and the PDMS compresses, causing a measurable change in capacitance, the ability to hold an electrical charge. As a result, her material can theoretically detect pressures as faint as 3 pascals—roughly equivalent to the footfall of a housefly—and can do it quickly enough to "feel" each foot falling.
"Mimicking skin function will still take a long time," Bao says, but several other groups are trying to tackle the problem, and new approaches are beginning to emerge. There's no shortage of possible uses, like prosthetic hands sensitive enough to manipulate small objects, artificial skin-graft material for burn victims, or remote-control surgical tools that let surgeons feel—not just see—the guts they're exploring.
The coolest part is that there's no reason to stop at simply replicating skin. "We could integrate any kind of function beyond what skin already has," Bao says. How about chemical sensors—gunpowder-sensing gloves for enhanced TSA gropes, anyone? Or biological probes to detect infections at prosthetic limb attachment points? And, yes, the potential applications for telepresence sex are self-evident.
For now, Bao and other groups are focused on developing new sensing materials and increasing signal-processing capability. Full integration with the human nervous system is "still very far out," Bao says, "but with the technology being developed, you can see them converging."—T.H.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.