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SSL - Client Authentication
JDK Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes © Dr. Herong Yang
Character Set and Encoding
Socket Communication
Document Object Model (DOM)
XSD Validation in Java
XSL - Transformer in Java
JCA - Private and Public Key Pairs
JCE - Secret Key
SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
SSL - Client Authentication
... Table of Contents
Sample programs listed in this chapter have been tested with JDK 1.5.0.
What is SSL Client Authentication
As I mentioned earlier in this book, the SSL handshake process is
following the following sequence:
Client Server
Client Hello -->
<-- Server Hello
<-- Server Certificate (optional)
<-- Server Key Exchange (optional)
<-- Certificate Request (optional)
Certificate -->
Client Key Exchange -->
Certificate Verify -->
Change Cipher Spec -->
Finished -->
<-- Change Cipher Spec
<-- Finished
Two identity authentications may happen during this process:
1. Server Authentication - Server program must have access to the server's
"full" certificate, which contains the server's identity, public key and
private key. During handshake process, the server will extract the server's
"public" certificate and send it to the client. On the client side,
the client program must be able to authenticate the server's identity by
validating the server's "public" certificate.
One way to identify the server's identity is to install server's "public"
certificate to client program as a trusted certificate.
Server authentication seems to be always required.
2. Client Authentication - This is the 100% mirror process of server authentication.
However, client authentication is optional for SSL communication.
Preparing Certificates for Client Authentication
JDK "keytool" seems to be a good tool to generate and manage certificates.
So I will "keytool" to generate and manage "full" and "public" certificates
for both server and client sides. Let's see what I did on the server side first:
>keytool -genkey -alias server_full -keypass ServerKey
-keystore server.jks -storepass ServerJKS
What is your first and last name?
[Unknown]: my.server.com
What is the name of your organizational unit?
[Unknown]: My Unit
What is the name of your organization?
[Unknown]: My Home
What is the name of your City or Locality?
[Unknown]: My City
What is the name of your State or Province?
[Unknown]: My State
What is the two-letter country code for this unit?
[Unknown]: US
Is CN=my.server.com, OU=My Unit, O=My Home, L=My City, ST=My State...
[no]: yes
>keytool -export -alias server_full -file server_pub.crt
-keystore server.jks -storepass ServerJKS
Certificate stored in file <server_pub.crt>
>"send server_pub.crt to the client side..."
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After three months of dating, country singer Taylor Swift and New Moon star Taylor Lautner have split, UsMagazine.com has learned.
"It wasn't really developing into anything, and wasn't going to, so they decided they were better as friends," a source close to Swift, 20, tells Us. "There was no chemistry."
The pair — who met on the set of the romantic comedy Valentine's Day — first sparked rumors of a romance when she hugged him at her October 9 concert in Rosemont, Illinois. They have since been spotted on several wholesome dates — like their frozen yogurt date at Menchie's alongside Swift's mom earlier this month — and have each coyly alluded to their relationship on separate Saturday Night Live hosting gigs.
Team Jacob fans are probably jumping for joy to hear this news. Read more over here.
MTV.com has confirmed that Taylor and Kellan will attend the People's Choice Awards!
Taylor Lautner and Kellan Lutz will attend the People's Choice Awards on January 6. According to CBS, the show will air live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, with Queen Latifah hosting and performing at the show.
Lutz will join Lautner, who is up for Favorite Breakout Movie Actor. "Twilight" snagged nods for Favorite Movie and On-Screen Team for Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner. Stewart and Pattinson are also nominated in the Favorite Movie Actress and Actor categories. It has yet to be confirmed if Pattinson and Stewart will appear on the show.
According to IMDB, here are some release dates:
Argentina – 30 June 2010
Brazil – 30 June 2010
Egypt – 30 June 2010
Kazakhstan – 30 June 2010
USA – 30 June 2010
Netherlands – 1 July 2010
New Zealand – 1 July 2010
Finland – 2 July 2010
Norway – 2 July 2010
Turkey – 2 July 2010
UK – 9 July 2010
Germany – 15 July 2010
Bryce Dallas Howard shared a very funny conversation about Rob to NYMag.com, when a reporter asked about his hygiene.
"But what does he smell like?" we inquired. "Actually, he's incredibly hygienic," Howard insisted. "He told me this story that made me crack up. He was like, 'Oh, I have to go to the dentist.' And I was like, 'Oh no, what happened? Just a check-up?' And he was like, 'No, I chipped a tooth.' And I was like, 'How?' And he was like, 'Flossing.' Who does that? I don't even floss. So he's hygienic. Trust me."
On Friday, Entertainment Weekly will have 5 exclusive facts from Chris' list. Two of the five include the following:
– Hidden wolves – Look for an upside-down engraving of a wolf in the shot of the bowl in which Carlisle burns his first aid equipment; on Jacob's t-shirt when he meets Bella in the school parking lot for the first time; and a wolf trinket on the dream-catcher that he gives her.
– We did a little trick when Edward gets out of Bella's truck and they're arguing. We wanted to show Edward moving impossibly quickly, so we put Rob right next to the camera but out of sight, and used a double dressed like Rob in the driver's seat. When Edward gets out, it's the double, and then Rob steps in front of the camera and it looks as if he's got there faster than humanly possible.
Now available, THE TWILIGHT SAGA iPhone Application will have an additional 5 exclusive facts from Chris' list. Two of these five facts include the following:
– You can see Volterra's tower and the red-cloaked revelers from the festival of San Marco on the cover of Bella's copy of Romeo and Juliet when she wakes up in her bedroom.
– In the wolf-fight, we purposely knocked over the camera when the wolves tumble towards it; you can also hear the microphone thumping, as if an actual on-set animal had run into thecamera and boom.
CANCUN follows an out-of-place college kid who travels with a girl to Cancun on a break. While there, the girl and her friends are taken hostage by a drug cartel and he is forced to save them.
The film is being designed to allow Lautner to use his martial arts skills, some of which he recently showcased on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.

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On this day in 1702, The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
The paper was first published by Edward Mallet:
The paper consisted of a single page with two columns. Mallet advertised that he intended to publish only foreign news and would not add any comments of his own, supposing other people to have "sense enough to make reflections for themselves."
The paper lasted until 1735 the paper when it was merged with the Daily Gazetteer.
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North Carolina officials are backing off plans to tax certain mental health treatment administrators to draw down more Medicaid money from Washington.
That means the General Assembly must locate $60 million in savings elsewhere.
Gov. Pat McCrory's budget and the Senate spending proposal for fiscal 2015 would have directed what are called local management entities to pay a 3.5 percent assessment on services. The assessment is already required of hospitals and helps bring in more Medicaid dollars.
McCrory said Tuesday that's not an option anymore after his administration received guidance from federal regulators last week. A federal inspector general's report also says a similar managed-care tax for Medicaid in Pennsylvania appears impermissible.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Little Big Burger - Portland, OR
Just a picture posting. I had just finished lunch elsewhere and had planned to stop in but the meal was a whole lot bigger than anticipated so I sadly passed on this one. Little Big Burger was voted the best burger in Portland, probably due in part to its ubiquity, low prices, and good quality.
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For decades, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been pressing the FDA to do a better job of regulating the food supply. These days, the GAO is dealing with produce safety. It worries that the FDA has no formal program in place to protect the safety of fresh produce when it is so obvious that such a program is needed. The GAO also scolds the FDA for not keeping up with monitoring of food labels. The FDA has too much to do and not enough resources. But, says GAO, the FDA would do better if it took this watchdog agency's advice–but it doesn't. Why not? The GAO doesn't say so, but it's politics, of course. The food industry is ever vigilant against regulation. This stance goes against the food industry's best interest, in my view. Yours?
GAO: FDA must do better on produce safety and food labeling
Although I would LIKE to see improved safety activities, I worry that the food industry has a monopoly of sorts. That is, relatively few of us have the time/strength/land/knowledge/motivation to produce all our own food. Most of us rely on the convenience of going to the store and dumping a bunch of stuff in our cart and leaving with our haul in a matter of minutes. Thus, they know we will buy whatever they put out, and not boycott often enough or long enough to make a financial difference to them. So, I bet they reason we are a captive audience of sorts, thus why should they spend more time/effort/money to improve labeling or safety activities.


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In order to promote economic growth and sustainable development an effective state should be able to mobilise revenue, borrow prudently, plan and manage the spending of public money in an effective and efficient way and to account for the use of funds and the results achieved. Sound public finance management (PFM) contributes to these outcomes through its elements of transparency, participation, responsiveness, oversight, accountability and predictability. These are elements of good public financial governance (GPFG) - a prerequisite for a state's economic and social development and a focal area of CABRI's work.
In this regard, CABRI, the African Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (AFROSAI) and the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF), have jointly produced a research study on GPFG with the support from the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH), German Technical Cooperation.
The Status Report on GFG, which covers several important areas relating to GPFG such as tax governance, budget preparation and execution, debt management, external audit and legislative oversight of public finances was presented and discussed in a stakeholder conference in Tunis in November 2010. The status report underwent an extensive reviewing process and is available for download from the CABRI website (see below).
This Status Report underpins a Declaration on Good Public Financial Governance which was presented at a High Level Side-event during the 47th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank in Arusha, Tanzania for consideration and adoption by African Ministers of Finance. A report on the proceedings of the High Level side event can be viewed here.


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What if i just dont turn 17?
batman hockey tape is literally on everything I own now
My kitty April, yes those are traffic cones on my bed posts, I added a lot more posters, unmade bed(typical) and Tumblr!!!
Christmas dress
big bang theory socks
My phone says Feliz Navidad
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Such is customer service in the new digital age of transparency that Random House is offering refunds on "A Million Little Pieces" to people who purchased direct from the publisher. (According to the Reuters report.) This after a TheSmokingGun.com report -- and much discussion of it in countless blog entries and news stories -- that casts serious doubt on the alleged memoir's veracity. It's a testament to lessons learned by Dell and Kryptonite Locks -- when the word-of-mouth turns against you, respond, act, do something. Because stonewalling doesn't work any more.
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The Patriots Day Parade was a gift to the city from Laguna Beach Daughters of the American Revolution, and the chapter continues to reward the youth of our city who demonstrate their love of country and service to the community.
Throughout the years, the Patience Wright Chapter has funded scholarships for graduating Laguna Beach High School seniors who demonstrate good citizenship. Last year, the chapter recommenced honoring students in the fifth to eight grade as well.
This month, two scholarships and 36 awards were announced at the second annual D.A.R. Student Awards, held at the Presbyterian Church, according to a press release issued this week.
Rickie Scott was the recipient of the D.A.R.'s Good Citizen of 2012-2013, the group's highest honor for graduating senior. Jackson McKay Pries was awarded the D.A.R. American History Scholarship for Laguna Beach High School. Both received $500 checks.
"This came at a time when scholarships were not being handed out, so I was surprised," Scott said.
She shouldn't have been. Her record is impressive.
Rickie is president of Club R.O.C (Righteousness on Campus), one of the largest and most active groups at the high school, and of the LBHS Make a Wish Club, which raised $4,000 under her leadership to grant the wish of a terminally ill teenager. Off campus, Scott volunteers at the Friendship Shelter.
She also participates in the dance program at the school.
Rickie has traveled in South America to help at children's charities, where the skills in Spanish she began to perfect at Thurston Middle School came in handy.
She will attend Randolph College in Lynchburg, Va.
"I am hoping to double major in English and global studies and minor in dance," Rickie said.
Jackson was selected for his award by his counselors and teachers for his passion for American history as well as his intention to serve his community and society in the future.
Last year, he was honored as D.A.R. Grade 11 Good Citizen.
Jackson will major in history at UC Santa Barbara.
"He reads books about American presidents like other kids collect sports information," said his mother Lynn Pries, an architect. "It's just natural for him."
It was the essay he wrote about how he was inspired by the great men of American history and his history teacher Kristin Cowles that earned his award from the D.A.R.
His community service included working with foster children at Olive Crest and in orphanages in Mexico.
Jackson has also played competitive volleyball since he was 12 and has been on the winning team in two Junior Olympics.
Excellence in American History and Social Studies were presented to 18 fifth-grade students.
From El Morro Elementary School, recipients are Jack Guenther; teacher Jennifer Chen; Eva Becker, Connor Fink and Emmalisa Randrup, teacher Melissa Martinez; Allison Mays, teacher Greg Togawa; and Gabe Tacklind, Caden Capobianco and Macy Michael, teacher Jay Williams.


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Everything You Need to Make a Superb BLT
It is high tomato season, so any rational bacon-loving person is making (and devouring) juicy BLT sandwiches. We've talked about BLTs quite a bit this week (love the idea of a BLT party!) so we're closing the week with a roundup of resources for making the very best BLT you can eat. From our favorite lettuce, to the best way to store half a tomato, to six great gluten-free sandwich breads, here are resources galore to help you make a superb BLT tonight.
The two recipes pictured above, by the way, are from Martha Stewart:
• Winter BLT Sandwiches
• Savory French-Toast BLT
Now, let's make a BLT.
First, let's talk bread.
• Make a Sandwich Loaf out of No-Knead Bread
• The 6 Best Gluten-Free Sandwich Breads
• The Perfect One Slice Sandwich Bread
• Quick Tip: Slice Loaves of Bread Before Freezing
...maybe you toast it?
• Kitchen Hack: Make a Toaster Bag Out of Parchment Paper
• 10 Best Uses for Your Toaster Oven
• How to Clean the Toaster
• Good Product: Wooden Toaster Tongs
Then comes mayo:
• How To Make Mayonnaise: The Video
• Two Vegan Mayonnaise Recipes
• What is Kewpie Mayonnaise?
• Hellmann's vs. Homemade Mayonnaise
The tomatoes should be super-juicy:
• Tomatoes Are Here! Are You Getting Any?
• The Best Place to Store Tomatoes...and Why
• Farmers' Market Report: Tomatoes
• How Should I Store Leftover Tomato?
...and the lettuce super-crisp:
• Why You Should Eat More Iceberg Lettuce
• Why This Is Our Favorite Lettuce
• Good Eats: Little Gems Lettuce
• From the Farmers' Market: Black Lettuce!
Last but not least, the BACON:
• How To Make Perfect Bacon in the Oven
• Best Methods: Three Ways to Cook Bacon
• Does Bacon Really Make Everything Better?
• Vegetarian (Except for Bacon)
And now, put it all together:
• Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato: How Do You Make Your BLTs?
• Craving: BLTs (with REAL Tomatoes!)
• Feed a Crowd: Throw a BLT Party
• Casual Entertaining: BLTs for Dinner
Or put a new spin on things:
• Re-Inventing a Summer Classic: Bacon, Lettuce, and...?
• The Ultimate Colorado BLT
• Recipe: BLT Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette
• Strange Food Combos: Would You Put Cheese on a BLT?
No bacon? Try one of these tomato sandwiches instead:
• The Perfect Tomato Sandwich
• Fried Green Tomato Sandwich
• Tomato Mozzarella Sandwich
• A Smoky "BLT" for Vegetarians
How do you like your BLTs? And are you planning on eating one soon — loaded up with fresh summer tomatoes?
(Images: James Merrell/Martha Stewart; Martha Stewart; Emma Christensen; Jess via Board Game Geek); Faith Durand; Michael Durand; Elizabeth Passarella; Laure Joliet; Martha Stewart; Liz Vidyarthi; Faith Durand)
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Good post. My favorite: country bread not toasted, butter lettuce, homemade mayo, lot of tomato, and not very crispy bacon.
I'm having one for dinner!
Also, the bacon in that first picture is WAY too cooked for my taste - I like it slightly crispy but not dry like that.
Everything you need? Um, bacon, lettuce, tomato. And bread. The name says it all.
Love the BLT obsession this week! I remember reading that for the BLT party people may get backed up at the toasting station. We use the oven broiler to toast several slices at once. This may heat up the kitchen, but it is very time efficient. If it's a party you can always ask your friends to bring a couple of extra toasters too.
Add a sliced avocado to take it WAY over the top....BLAT all the way, baby !
BLTA (avocado) all the way. Or BLTTA (turkey and avocado) for a super stuffed sandwich. Must be on super grainy toasted bread to make it perfect (at least for me).
Hellman's mayo a must! A BLT made with summer tomatoes is my all time favorite thing to eat. When I was a kid, my father would make BLTs for the entire neighborhood with the tomatoes from his garden. In August, there was always a line around the block for my Dad's BLTs!!


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More information is revealed regarding to a shooting that happened in Atlantic City last week.
Police now say a 19-year-old woman suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound in her apartment on the 3500 block of the boardwalk Thursday night.
Originally the woman and her boyfriend told police that two men broke into the apartment and that they were responsible for the shooting.
Police have charged the woman's boyfriend, 22 year-old Saboor Dennis, with tampering with evidence and causing false public alarm.
Additional charges are pending the outcome of an ongoing investigation.
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Abstract. The results of a field campaign carried out from early spring through to the late summer of 2000, in Bristol, England, are presented. Continuous measurements of over 40 hydrocarbons have been made at an urban background site, located at Bristol University, for approximately nine months using a GC-FID system and for a selection of halocarbons for approximately one month using a GC-ECD system. In this paper we present the time-series of the nine halocarbons and selected hydrocarbons. Daytime and night-time hydroxyl radical concentrations have been estimated based on the diurnal variations of a selection of the measured hydrocarbons. The average summer daytime concentration of OH was found to be 2.5×106 molecules cm−3 and the night-time concentration to be in the range 104 to 105 molecules cm−3. In addition, the role played by certain VOCs in the formation of ozone is assessed using the POCP (Photochemical Ozone Creation Potential) concept.
Citation: Rivett, A. C., Martin, D., Gray, D. J., Price, C. S., Nickless, G., Simmonds, P. G., O'Doherty, S. J., Greally, B. R., Knights, A., and Shallcross, D. E.: The role of volatile organic compounds in the polluted urban atmosphere of Bristol, UK, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 3, 769-796, doi:10.5194/acpd-3-769-2003, 2003.


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Length of unemployment and psychological distress: Longitudinal and cross-sectional data
AbstractData are presented from the second stage of a longitudinal study of unemployed young people, when their ages ranged from 19 to 24 yr. Data from the first stage, when their ages ranged from 16 to 20 yr, had provided support for a curvilinear hypothesis relating psychological distress or affective well-being, to unemployment duration. According to the curvilinear hypothesis, distress peaks at around 6 months and declines thereafter. In the present study three target groups were distinguished: those unemployed for 3 months or less, those unemployed from 4 to 8 months, and those unemployed for 9 months or more. On most of the dependent measures the 3 month, and 4-8 month groups did not differ, but the 9 month group was significantly worse off than either. It is concluded that the relations between length of unemployment and psychological distress, or well-being, are different in teenagers and young adults. Possible explanations for the differences are discussed.
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Just got this email from a mate.
Well I have tickets in what has proven to be a superb spot and you wont believe it.
Wednesday I go to check everything out, walk the circuit (about 200 miles in a steaming heat mate, its a long tight hot circuit) and the cops just ignored me and lots of locals just walking what is already a closed off circuit to pedestrians but still open to traffic so squeezed between railings with no footpath and trucks missing me by inches! Then into the paddock and the pit garages!!! A guy (Ozzie from North Queensland) said he took loads of photos at waist high of the Ferraris; of the pit crews and then got some of Jenson Button poncing about for a Honda advert. NO SECURITY.
Now to the Grandstand. Mate I can walk up top (Im 5 rows from top which is highest grandstand Ive seen) and look over the top to see three other bends and out front Im looking down onto T17; the harbour straight; T18 and into the harbour itself AND THERES ONLY ABOUT 2 BOATS BOTHERING TO HAVE A NOSE nothing like Monte Carlo or Valencia. This is unbelievable and surely will change for next year.
Any way thats not the best. To get to my Grandstand we all wander through from the back under the grandstand and thats the garages for the other cars, Aston Martins; Porsches etc. So you just chat to the pit crew, unlike European Supercup races I dont know any of the drivers, then the cops come and hustle you to one side as their feature practice session starts and they all start up and go out driving over our feet, its like the old days when I was racing but with 100,000 people AND THATS JUST FOR THE FRIDAY PRACTICE, THEY SOLD OUT IN MARCH AND HAD TO BUILD EXTRA AREAS TO RELEASE MORE TICKETS.
Sunday will be hectic. OK, ready? - Thats still not the best bit remember the good old days when you could view around the track and from bridges? Well same here but better. The track goes under and sort of inside the Grandstand Im in!!! I didnt realize until I walked down you can literally just stand above the cars as they drive under you no fancy fencing, nothing. You can stand inside the grandstand on the first floor and the cars go right under you, 10 foot below and you can lean over and slap Kimmis helmet (if youll excuse the expression). Needless to say the noise is phenomenal. Its where Alonso spun so the burned rubber just literally wafted up to us 10ft above and my ruddy battery had gone flat so I couldnt take a picture.
Anyway tonight for final Quali I will be on the Singapore Flyer which is like a bigger London Eye. Its right by our grandstand so I can watch the last half hour from there. They were selling GP specials for about $300 but believe it or not I just wandered along to the tourist office last week and bought a standard $29 ticket for the last flight at 8.30 (between practices) then exchanged it at no cost on line for the 10:30 flight. Beaut.
I used my press pass for the Singapore Motorshow to go the day before it opened to the public and although press days are always good and I got lots of freebies (some of which I left on the bus) the show itself is tiny compared to UK or even Melbourne. However I made a couple of good contacts with good blokes including an Italian who runs a car design mag and went to Coventry University and the main press film cameraman for Asia who is a Brit.
On Monday Im having lunch with Ian de Cotta who is sort of the James Allen of Asia being the Motor Sport editor for Media Corps and hes been talking to all the guys, not just the drivers but he also interviewed Jackie Stewart and Sterling Moss (Two Sirs) so Im hoping to enjoy that and also hes spent many years researching for his book Singapore Grand Prix (50 Years In The Making and its sold out. Luckily hes signed a copy for me before they go into a re-print so its a first edition and I should pick that up then
Lots of Indians here supporting Force India and I assumed they would be from Chenai as the IT sector there have lots going here but so far theyve all been from Bradford!
This should be a good race... Just checked out the F1 website, and the cars look ace under the street lights
what time is it on?
Qualifying is around 2pm I think.
Night race - blaaaaaaah. After what they did to Lewis over Belgium, I've lost all interest in F1.
The only thing that will entice me back is naked female pit crews....
Congratulations must go to Toyota for managing to sneak Jarno Trulli in a milk float in to the race, under the noses of the FIA.
Everyone has praised the facilities at the Singapore track but the one thing they seemed to be short of was blue flags
Or did bernie really think the novelty of night racing really would compensate for 60-odds laps of a processional 'race'....thank god for the safety car and the ferrari mechanics having another frank spencer moment is all i can say, otherwise it would have been the most boring race since the the michelen cars were withdrawn from the indy grand prix a few years ago.
Sure seeing the sparks fly from the rear of the cars was cool and the singapore landmarks lit up at night was a unique backdrop.....but that is ultimately style over substance....di montezamalo was right, street circuits are a major letdown, it's only the drivers and the playboy tax exiles who still reckon monaco is the jewel in the F1 crown. Spa and imola have long since surpassed monaco as a proper racing circuit.
Get a grip bernie, how many more billions do you need ?? How about giving something back to the fans who have to put up with ITV's p****poor coverage of the grand prix. And enough with the chicanes already, if your going to have these rubbish street circuits then atleast have the grace to provide atleast one or two bit of high speed seat of the pants corners instead of trying to sanitise everything.


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Robert Bailey is a former Yahoo Inc. executive now running a different kind of Silicon Valley start-up: Lotus Vodka. Last fall, he played host to Founders Brunch in the San Francisco high-rise where he has a luxury condo, spiking the event with some of his new company's product. One taste and well-known Silicon Valley financier Jeff Clavier was hooked. He took a small stake in Lotus Vodka and began introducing Bailey to his network of venture capitalists and businesspeople.
Fresh-faced entrepreneurs Jia Shen and Lance Tokuda were running out of money to fuel their start-up when, in February 2006, they landed a Founders Brunch invitation from venture capitalist Saar Gur. They pitched their business to anyone who would listen, even planting themselves in front of the eggs to get attention. They hit pay dirt with Internet entrepreneur and investor Ariel Poler who, in turn, introduced them to other financiers.
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Events like Founders Brunch feed the gravitational pull of Silicon Valley. Even as technology makes it easier for innovation to bubble up anywhere, the region has retained its monopoly on geeks with good ideas. Symbiotic circles of people and companies help spawn innovation and keep the region awash in money.
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Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) has performed very well lately, with shares up by around 30% year-to-date. The last time I wrote about Seagate was in late January, and I wrote about how undervalued the company was at the then-current share price of around $36. Fast-forward about six months, and while it appears that I was correct on a short-term basis, I'm in this game for the long haul! With the company set to report earnings on Wednesday, July 24, now may be a very opportune time to revisit Seagate and see whether it is still a bargain ahead of earnings, or whether investors should take profits and look elsewhere.
A bit about Seagate…
One of the world's largest makers of hard drives, Seagate released the first 5.25" hard drive in 1980, with a whopping 5 MB (yes, that's megabytes!) of capacity. The company has evolved with the technology, and has done very well, announcing in March that it had shipped its 2 billionth hard disk drive.
Seagate has been an industry leader over the years, being the first to introduce high-speed hard drives to break the 7,200 (in 1991), 10,000 (in 1996), and 15,000 (in 2000) rpm benchmarks. More recently, the company has been breaking capacity records and in late 2011 introduced the first 4 TB single disk hard drives.
The main concern in regards to Seagate's future is the transition to solid-state storage, but Seagate seems to be emerging as an industry leader in this area as well. While the majority (around 80%) of Seagate's sales comes from traditional hard drives, this is a legitimate cause for concern, but I think that traditional hard drives will rule the market for a few more years, at least until solid-state drives become a bit more cost-efficient. Seagate has been a pioneer so far, producing the first hybrid drive and now has a complete lineup of hybrid and fully solid-state drives. However, it is the uncertainty of the future of this sector that has caused Seagate to trade at a very attractive value in the past.
The numbers still look good
Even after the incredible gains of not only this year, but the past few years (Seagate trades as low as $2.98 per share in 2009), Seagate still looks very cheap. Shares trade for just under 9 times 2013's expected earnings of $5.29 per share, which has been revised upward since my last article on the company. The consensus calls for earnings to grow to $5.46 and $5.84 per share in 2014 and 2015, respectively, but this is a very loose usage of the word "consensus." Analysts are very much in disagreement when it comes to Seagate's future, with estimates varying widely. For example, in 2015, analyst estimates range from a low of $4.13 per share to a very bullish prediction of $7.43 per share.
It is this uncertainty that is causing Seagate to trade for such a low P/E. Additionally, Seagate is one of the best dividend payers in the tech sector, currently yielding 3.2%. The company also has an aggressive share repurchase program that has been a huge driver of value. In fact, since 2010, the total number of outstanding shares has dropped from 514 million to 358.6 million, a staggering 30% reduction in just three years.
Looking at the alternatives
There are many players in the hard disk and storage business, but only a few with the size and products to make a reasonable comparison to Seagate. Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) and SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) are two that have gone about adapting to the changing computing environment in different ways.
Western Digital is roughly the same size as Seagate in terms of market cap and became the world's largest manufacturer of traditional hard disk drives after acquiring Hitachi Global Storage Technologies last year. The company trades at an even cheaper valuation of 8.4 times this year's expected earnings, but I prefer Seagate for two reasons. First, Western Digital pays a much lower dividend yield of 1.43%. Second, I really like Seagate's history of innovation. In terms of the quickest, biggest, and best hard drives, Seagate tends to get there first, which is huge in the technology sector.
SanDisk is about the same size, but has a much different product line. SanDisk designs and develops flash memory products only, such as SSDs, memory cards, flash drives, and more. As there is much less concern about the future viability of SanDisk's products, shares trade at a higher (but still reasonable) valuation of 13.5 times 2013's earnings. This is not quite an apples-to-apples comparison, but I wanted to mention one of the pure flash-memory plays to show the power of market uncertainty when it comes to valuing companies.
Buy, sell, or hold?
Although it is not quite the bargain that it was six months ago, Seagate is still a very good value, and is absolutely the best-in-breed when it comes to traditional hard disk drive manufacturers. While it is completely reasonable for those who have held through all of the recent gains to sell some of their position and take profits, Seagate should provide great returns for its shareholders for years to come and deserves to be owned.
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I LOVE NEW YORK launches the "Foliage Photog of the Week" social media campaign to promote tourism this fall in New York State using #NYLovesFall
Albany, NY (September 10, 2014) - Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced this season's first I LOVE NEW YORK fall foliage report, which charts color foliage conditions across the State, is available beginning today and will be updated every Wednesday through the end of autumn. Additionally, I LOVE NEW YORK is introducing a complementary "Foliage Photog of the Week" social media campaign that will select and promote one photograph each week through November that is tagged using #NYLovesFall to promote autumn tourism in New York.
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Adirondack Region, N.Y. - Fall in the Adirondack Region of Northern New York offers one of the longest fall foliage seasons in the country as well as a variety of scenic tours that explore the history and beauty of the region's mountains and lakes.
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Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Fort Ticonderoga will be offered on Thursday, September 18 with Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH). Fort Ticonderoga is one of the oldest and most significant military fortresses in America's history. Guided tour scheduled for 10 am - 4 pm. Lunch included. Cost is $65 for non-AARCH members.
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Greene County, N.Y. - Autumn in the Catskills offers an exciting variety of fall festivals and events ideal for a weekend getaway or day trip just two hours north of New York City and three hours west of Boston.
Explore scenic, winding roadways in the mountains, and enjoy a variety of cultural festivals that celebrate the region's unique history and colorful landscape, offering something exciting for everyone to enjoy, including:
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Fulton and Montgomery Counties participate in the CNY Fresh marketing campaign, a 10-county regional project designed to highlight the agritourism opportunities throughout all of Central New York. CNYFresh.com has become a tourist destination focused on the many flavors of our region by creating themed packages and itineraries, highlighting agricultural businesses and event listings.
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Neighborhood Campaign Encourages Exploration of Attractions, Shops, Restaurants, Hotels, Restaurants and More
New York, N.Y. (Sept. 3) - NYC & Company, New York City's official marketing, tourism and partnership organization, today announced the Meatpacking District as the next Neighborhood x Neighborhood feature. Owing its name to the many New York City meatpacking plants that once called the neighborhood home, the Meatpacking District has retained its historical character and cobblestone streets. Now known for its fashionable shops, quality restaurants and trendy nightlife scene, the cutting-edge neighborhood is conveniently accessible by the 1, 2, 3, A, C, E and L subway lines. For more information on all there is to see and do in the Meatpacking District, visit nycgo.com/nxn.
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New York, N.Y. - Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced that the Museum will launch today its flagship smartphone app-titled simply The Met-developed exclusively for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This free digital resource is the easiest way to see what's happening at the Met every day, wherever you are.
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Chapter 73 Reviews
Chapter 7
There were several ways Artemis could have interpreted the situation. One, he could have called Colfer and apologized. While he was at it, he would invite the author over for tea and cookies and completely halt any criminal activities from that day forward. Needless to say, that was the last thing he would have done. Another thing he could have done was to punch the wall in frustration, but he knew the wall would win, and he wasn't one for emotional outbursts.
Three, he could hack various fairy websites and find out as much information on Argon as possible. And that was just what he did.
Artemis had read through the first few pages of Colfer's fourth book, 'The Opal Deception', when he noticed the name J. Argon popping up again and again. At first he thought it was another ploy by Colfer to trick him. He quickly realized that this character was very real. Paranoid, slightly self-absorbed, and considered himself smarter than Opal Koboi. If Artemis didn't know better, he'd swear this character was based on Foaly.
He shook the thought from his mind. Foaly certainly had his issues, but the only person, fairy or otherwise, that could act like Foaly was the centaur himself. Argon definitely didn't seem like the annoying type. Plus he was married, even if it would be short-lived.
Artemis would forever have trouble accepting the fact that he had been wrong. For now he decided to give his sleep-deprived mind a break, and sent the computer into standby mode. He refused to shut the computer off, having calculated that as often as he used the machine, it was much more economical to put it in a power-saving mode than to waste energy turning it on and off all the time. It saved money, and if Artemis were ever to achieve his goal of restoring his family to billionaire status, then even a small amount such as that would be important in the long run.
So he put the computer into standby mode and stumbled back to his room, falling asleep the second he fell on the bed. Just outside, Butler walked by, completing his nightly rounds, and smiled. "Goodnight, Artemis," he whispered softly, closing the door and cutting off all sources of light. Artemis was left alone in the darkness, dreaming of ways to get back at Colfer for making a fool out of him.
Colfer checked his emails the next day with a small smile. The fans had received 'Opal Deception' better than he had thought. Most of their emails were positive, with the occasional idiot flamer who couldn't even spell 'shoes'. Then he clicked on one that made his blood nearly freeze. It was from Artemis Fowl. A very angry Artemis Fowl.
Like your millions of other fans, I recently picked up a copy of your latest story in my series. I found the name J. Argon to be a recurring factor in the book. At first, as I'm sure you are aware, I did not believe it was real. You should know that my opinions have changed.'
Colfer's smile grew. This was mildly unexpected.
'Don't get any ideas. You should also know that making a fool out of me was not a wise choice. I officially take my previous offer and turn it into a demand. I will not allow you to continue publishing these books. You may certainly try, but you should know that I will make it as difficult as is humanly possible, and then some. Normally I would elaborate on this, but knowing the lack of security on the Internet, I will refrain from any mention of my other resources. Naturally you should already know what I'm talking about. By the way, I'd advise you not to leave your house for the purpose of further research for the next few days. My new security team, consisting of various members of Butler's family, will not hesitate to follow my orders.
Remember, Mr. Colfer. Gold is power. And I have plenty of it.
Artemis Fowl'
Colfer stared blankly at the computer's glowing screen. His face's pallor almost matched it perfectly. He decided to stop answering his email for a while, contemplating Artemis's message. 'But I have to keep writing! Didn't he hear a word I said last time?' Colfer massaged his forehead. This was quite a dilemma. Maybe he should listen to Artemis this time around. He didn't exactly want to find out what the mastermind's orders were.
Then he felt his author's instinct kick in with more than a little Irish stubbornness. Artemis Fowl was not going to keep him from doing his job through to the end, no matter how long it took. Now all he had to do was convince him of this, and his problems would be over.
Artemis gripped the armrest of the leather chair, trying to control his anger.
"You want me to do what?" he asked, keeping his voice steady.
"You have to understand, Artemis. This is for your own good. All we want you to do is to go back to school and get a real education."
"I hardly see how a 'real' education will help me when I know more than the teachers," he said through nearly gritted teeth. Normally something such as school wouldn't be much of an issue. He was pretty much running the place by the end of the first week. The problem was that the edict was being issued by his own father.
"I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter. That's final." His father left the room, walking with only a slight limp.
Artemis rose and went up to his room to check his email. Maybe there was a message from a certain author he was also angry with. Sure enough, there was a reply to his email.
'Call me so we can set up a meeting. This is not something that can be solved over the less-than-secure Internet.
"It seems our author is getting a mind of his own. We can't have that, now can we?" he said to himself, sliding his cell phone out of his pocket and pressing the speed dial number. Colfer picked up after one ring.
"Yes, Artemis?" he asked, sounding annoyed. Artemis's mouth curved into a vampiric smile. Suddenly his sentence of education could prove useful.
"I'd like to meet at your house in a few minutes, if that's alright with you." On the other end of the line, Colfer went pale.
"Sure. I'll be here."
"Good." Artemis closed the phone and walked downstairs, where Butler already had the car started. This was going to be a very important meeting.
Colfer sat across from Artemis, refusing to be a part of the staring contest the young mastermind was trying to begin. He couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"You're going to do what?" he asked incredulously.
"Since you refuse to agree to my terms, I will do the one thing you can't do anything about: I'm going to go back to school and halt all criminal activities and interaction with the People for an extended period of time. You'll have no material, and I'll be able to stop worrying about you following me and writing down everything I do." Colfer sat back in his chair and tried to take it all in.
"You can't possibly, Artemis." Artemis leaned forward.
"And what makes you think so?"
"It's simple: I know your ways. You can't resist a challenge, and you feel the need to constantly be in charge of your own life. You aren't going to listen to your parents' orders to stay away from crime and go back to school. It just wouldn't be like you." Artemis suppressed a laugh.
"If you know me quite so well, you must already know that something like this already IS a challenge for me. I am willing to do anything to protect my father, even if it means giving up something I've become accustomed to. Now I have a challenge for YOU, Mr. Colfer. Do you think you can find anything to preoccupy yourself that's more fascinating than my life?" Colfer actually did smile, much to Artemis's dissatisfaction.
"You're forgetting something, Artemis. I'm an author, and you're not the only person I've ever written about. I can write about other things. So it seems the only remaining question is who will crack first? Me, or you?" Artemis folded his hands.
"Do you honestly believe it's that simple? I've monitored your book sales over the past several years. Collectively, books in a series make more than single books do, as a rule. You've made so much money documenting my life that you probably wouldn't know what to do without me. Granted, you're not the type of person who's greedy like the rest of us, but money is money, isn't it, Mr. Colfer?"
"That it is, Artemis. But I have something else you don't have: a dedication to my fans. Or, more accurately, your fans." He stood and opened the email account on his computer and scrolled through the inbox, finding Artemis at his shoulder, speed-reading them.
"I see your point."
"I don't care what you do, Artemis. You can go into hiding for all I care. But you'll be letting down millions of people."
"That hasn't stopped me before." Colfer smirked.
"Ah, but you didn't know about your book a few years ago, did you, Master Artemis?" Artemis frowned slightly.
"No, Mr. Colfer, I don't believe I did. The fact that I do now doesn't make much of a difference." He turned away and exited without warning, a plan already forming in his head. When he reached the car, Butler handed him his cell phone.
"You've got a call. It's Foaly." Artemis frowned again and answered it.
"Hey, Mud Boy. Ever heard of demons?"
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Research Interests:Our group's principal research interest is in studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying normal neural development and the perturbation of these mechanisms in disease states or by therapeutic, psychotropic drugs. We also study how these mechanisms can be harnessed for brain repair. Current research in the laboratory is focused in several areas:
Effects of drugs on the developing nervous system: Therapeutic and illicit drugs are taken by pregnant women, children and adolescents. We investigate the consequences of early life treatment with these drugs on the development of neural circuitry in rodent models, as well as sex differences and temporal windows of vulnerability for different effects. The endpoints studied include gene expression profiling (real time PCR and in situ hybridization), endocrine assays (HPA stress axis activation), behavior (measures of activity, motor skill, affect, cognition, learning and memory, social interactions), functional MRI, neurophysiology (fast scanning voltammetric measures of dopamine secretion, whole cell patch clamp) and neuroanatomical and receptor binding measures. We also study how the effects of early life drug exposure interact with those of psychiatric disease and the environment. Our work in this little-studied area promotes understanding of the behavioral effects of fetal drug exposure in humans and the development of new therapeutic strategies. We are beginning collaborative studies of antidepressant drug metabolism during pregnancy in humans.
Human disease states: We use human post-mortem tissue to study alterations of neurotrophin expression and signaling in schizophrenia.
Neurotrophins: We also study the role of neurotrophins in regulating the structural and functional development of neural circuitry. In other experiments, we manipulate neurotrophin signaling in vivo, then assay the effects on the survival of immature neurons, neuronal connectivity patterns, synaptic physiology and network function.
Brain repair: We have developed a technique that allows us to "rewire" the eye to abnormal brain targets. The resulting neural circuits can take over the neurophysiologic and behavioral function of natural visual circuits that are damaged.
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Techniques used in the lab: Neuroanatomical pathway tracing (cholera toxin, HRP, Di-I, diamidino yellow, etc.), tissue and cell culture, viral transfection, polymerase chain reaction, RNase protection assay, protein measurement (by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay, ELISA, immunoprecipitation/immunoblotting), immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy, computerized neuronal reconstruction and morphometry, time lapse video imaging, in vivo single unit neurophysiology, in vitro whole cell patch clamp recording and behavioral testing.
• Prof. Bryan Kolb (University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada) – long-term effects on brain development of fetal exposure to antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs
• Prof. Susan Andersen (McClean Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) – long-term effects on brain development of fetal exposure to antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs
• Prof. Todd Gould (University of Maryland School of Medicine) – effects of fetal antidepressant exposure on brain development
• Prof Margaret Fahnestock (McMaster Universtiy, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - Altered neurotrophin signaling in schizophrenia. Neurotrophin signaling in visual system development
• Prof. Jean-Francois Bouchard (Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) - Netrin signaling in CNS development
• Prof. Patricio O'Donnell (University of Maryland School of Medicine) - whole cell patch physiology
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BS and MS in electrical engineering, PhD in Neuroscience, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Faculty member at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lausanne (Switzerland); Yale Medical School and Harvard Medical School before joining the University of Maryland Medical School in 1993.
Selected Publications
Milstein, J.A.*, Vinish, M.*, Adle, T., Robson, S., Enos, J.K., Fomum Mugri, M., Kolb, B. and Frost, D.O., Peripubertal olanzapine treatment induces deficits in social interaction and working memory in rats. Submitted for publication. (*indicates equal contribution to the research).
Vinish*, M., Milstein, J.A.*, Swanson, T., Carroll, C., Enos, J.K., Elnabawi, A. Kolb, B. and Frost, D.O., Peripubertal olanzapine treatment alters the development of cortical circuitry and dopamine receptor binding. Submitted for publication. (*indicates equal contribution to the research).
Vinish, M., Milstein, J.A., Bailey, A., Kolb, B., Cheer, J.F. and Frost, D.O., Peripubertal olanzapine treatment alters conditioned increases in response salience and alters dopaminergic function in the nucleus accumbens. Manuscript in preparation.
Marchese, M., Garzon, D., Roberts, R., Fahnestock, M. and Frost, D.O., Transcript-specific alteration of hippocampal BDNF mRNA expression in schizophrenia, Manuscript in preparation.
Ghose, S., Gao, X.-M., Roberts, R.C., Tamminga, C.A., Frost, D.O., Schizophrenia-associated increases in BDNF mRNA in specific populations of hippocampal dendrites, Manuscript in preparation.
Frost, D.O., Gibb, R. and Kolb, B., Trick or Treat? Neurodevelopmental Consequences of Pharmacotherapy for Affective Disorders, Neuropsychopharmacology, 35(1), 344-345, 2010. PMID: 20010711
Frost, D.O., Cercio Page, S. Carroll, C. and Kolb, B., Early Exposure to Haloperidol or Olanzapine Induces Long-Term Alterations of Dendritic Form, Synapse, 64, 191-199, 2010. PMID: 19862684
Halliwell, C., Comeau, W., Gibb, R., Frost, D.O. and Kolb, B., Factors influencing frontal cortex development and recovery from early frontal injury, Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 12, 269-278, 2009. PMID: 20477557
Rodger, J. and Frost, D.O., Effects of trkB knockout on topography and segregation of uncrossed retinal projections, Exp. Neurol., 2009, 195, 35-44. PMID: 19283373
Turner, C.A., Calvo, N., Frost, D.O., Akil, H. and Watson, S.J., The fibroblast growth factor system is downregulated following social defeat, Neurosci. Lett., 2008, 430, 147-150. PMID: 18061349
Frost, D.O., Tamminga, C.A., Medoff, D.R., Caviness, V.S. Jr., Innocenti, G.M. and Carpenter,W.T. Jr., Neuroplasticity and schizophrenia, Biol. Psychiatr., 2004, 56, 540-543.
Pollock, G.S., Robichon, R., Boyd, K., Kerkel, K.A., Kramer, M., Lyles, J., Ambalavanar, R., Khan, A., Kaplan, D.R., Williams, R.W. and Frost, D.O. TrkB receptor signaling regulates developmental death dynamics, but not final number, of retinal ganglion cells, J. Neurosci., 2003, 23, 10137-10145.
Pollock, G.S. and Frost, D.O., Complexity in the modulation of neurotrophic factor mRNAs by early visual experience, Dev. Br. Res., 2003, 143, 225-232.
Tamminga, C.A. and Frost, D.O., Changing concepts in the neurochemistry of schizophrenia, Am. J. Psychiatr., 2001, 158, 1365-1366.
Frost, D.O., Ma, Y.-T., Hsieh, T., Forbes, M.E. and Johnson, J.E., Developmental changes in BDNF protein levels in the hamster retina and superior colliculus. J. Neurobiol., 2001, 49, 173-187.
Pollock, G.S., Vernon, E., Forbes, M.E., Yan, Q., Ma, Y.-T., Hsieh, T., Robichon, R., Frost, D.O., Johnson, J.E., Modulation of BDNF mRNA and protein levels by early visual experience and diurnal rhythms. J. Neurosci., 2001, 21, 3923-3931.
Frost, D.O., Boire, D., Gingras, G. and Ptito, M., Surgically-created neural pathways mediate visual pattern discrimination. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci., 97, 11068-11073, 2000.
Frost, D.O. and Cadet, J.L. Effects of drug-induced neurotoxicity on development of neural circuitry: A hypothesis. Br. Res. Rev., 34 (3), 103-118, (2000).
Bhide, P.G. and Frost, D.O., Intrinsic heterogeneity of retinal ganglion cells in their potential to form thalamic connections. J Comp Neurol. 1999, 411, 119-129.
Ma, Y.-T., Hsieh, T., Forbes, M.E., Johnson, J.E. and Frost, D.O., BDNF injected into the superior colliculus reduces developmental retinal ganglion cell death. J. Neurosci., 1998, 18, 2097-2107.
Bhide, P.G. and Frost, D.O., Axon substitution in the reorganization of developing neural connections. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1992, 89, 11847-11851.
Bhide, P.G. Frost, D.O. Stages of growth of hamster retinofugal axons: Implications for developing axonal pathways with multiple targets. J. Neurosci., 1991, 11, 485-504.
Métin, C. and Frost, D.O., Visual responses of neurons in somatosensory cortex of hamsters with experimentally induced retinal projections to somatosensory thalamus. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 1989, 86, 357-361.
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