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I need to explain SQL injection to someone without technical training or experience. Can you suggest any approaches that have worked well?
The way I demonstrate it to complete non-techies is with a simple analogy.
Imagine you're a robot in a warehouse full of boxes. Your job is to fetch a box from somewhere in the warehouse, and put it on the conveyor belt. Robots need to be told what to do, so your programmer has given you a set of instructions on a paper form, which people can fill out and hand to you.
The form looks like this:
A normal request might look like this:
The values in bold (1234, B2, and 12) were provided by the person issuing the request. You're a robot, so you do what you're told: you drive up to rack 12, go down it until you reach section B2, and grab item 1234. You then drive back to the conveyor belt and drop the item onto it.
But what if a user put something other than normal values into the form? What if the user added instructions into them?
Again, the parts in bold were provided by the person issuing the request. Since you're a robot, you do exactly what the user just told you to do. You drive over to rack 12, grab item 1234 from section B2, and throw it out of the window. Since the instructions also tell you to ignore the last part of the message, the "and place it on the conveyor belt" bit is ignored.
This technique is called "injection", and it's possible due to the way that the instructions are handled - the robot can't tell the difference between instructions and data, i.e. the actions it has to perform, and the things it has to do those actions on.
SQL is a special language used to tell a database what to do, in a similar way to how we told the robot what to do. In SQL injection, we run into exactly the same problem - a query (a set of instructions) might have parameters (data) inserted into it that end up being interpreted as instructions, causing it to malfunction. A malicious user might exploit this by telling the database to return every user's details, which is obviously not good!
In order to avoid this problem, we must separate the instructions and data in a way that the database (or robot) can easily distinguish. This is usually done by sending them separately. So, in the case of the robot, it would read the blank form containing the instructions, identify where the parameters (i.e. the blank spaces) are, and store it. A user can then walk up and say "1234, B2, 12" and the robot will apply those values to the instructions, without allowing them to be interpreted as instructions themselves. In SQL, this technique is known as parameterised queries.
In the case of the "evil" parameter we gave to the robot, he would now raise a mechanical eyebrow quizzically and say
Success! We've stopped the robot's "glitch".
One of the easiest ways to illustrate the problem behind SQL-injection is to use an image like this. The problem is the receiving ends ability to seperate data from command.
Here's a real-world non-technical analogy.
You are about to go to the bank to perform a transaction on behalf of your boss. Your boss gave you an envelope with instructions for the cashier.
The instructions read:
You leave the envelope out of your sight for a few minutes while you go to the bathroom. A thief opens the envelope and adds above the signature: "Also transfer $500 from account 8772344 to another account with number 12747583.".
Now the full message reads:
The cashier checks your identification and verifies that you are an authorized person for the account in question and follows the instructions in the letter.
Your boss is the legitimate program code. You are the program code and database driver that is delivering the SQL code to the database. The letter is the SQL code that is being passed to the database. The thief is the attacker. The cashier is the database. The identification is typically a login and password to the database.
If you're really explaining to your grandmother, use writing a paper check as an example. (In the USA) back in the day, you'd write the dollar amount numerically in one field, then you'd write the same thing in words. For example in one field, you'd write "100.00" and in the second, longer field, you'd write "One hundred dollars and zero cents". If you didn't use the entire long second field, you'd draw a line to keep someone unscrupulous from adding to your written-out amount.
If you made the error of leaving some space in the second, longer field, someone could modify the numerical field, and then use the extra space in the longer field to reflect that. The modifier could obtain more money than you intended when you wrote the check.
SQL injection is the same thing: an error that allows unscruplous people to modify an entry field so that more information comes back to them than the original programmer intended.
The idea that first came to mind was to explain it in terms of a Mad Lib. The stories where words are left out, and to fill in the blanks you ask the group for words of the types indicated and write them in, then read the resulting story.
That's the normal way to fill out a Mad Lib. But what if someone else knew the story and what blanks you were filling in (or could guess)? Then, instead of a single word, what if that person gave you a few words? What if the words they gave you included a period ending the sentence? If you filled it in, you may find that what was provided still "fits", but it drastically changes the story more than any one word that you'd normally fill in could ever do. You could, if you had space, add entire paragraphs to the Mad Lib and turn it into something very different.
That, in non-techie terms, is SQL injection in a nutshell. You provide some "blank spaces" for data that will be inserted into a SQL command, much like words into a Mad Lib. An attacker then enters a value that isn't what you expect; instead of a simple value to look for, he enters a piece of a SQL statement that ends the one you wrote, and then adds his own SQL command after that as a new "sentence". The additional statement can be very damaging, like a command to delete the database, or to create a new user with a lot of permissions in the system. The computer, not knowing the difference, will simply perform all the tasks it is commanded to do.
I would explain it as being like telling a cashier that the customer is always right and they should do whatever they can to meet the customer's need. Then since there are no checks about the reasonableness of the request, when a customer comes in and says they want the entire store for free, the cashier loads all the inventory in to their truck for them.
It isn't a perfect explanation, but it gets the idea that the code is being told to do whatever the user puts in and then the bad guy uses that instruction to make off with the goods.
I guess it really depends what kind of a point you are trying to get across.
I think you can get the best effect with just demonstrating the attack. Write a harmless looking web formular and show the result of the query using the user input. Then after entering your own prepared input, your audience will have an "aha-experience" after finding passwords in the result. I made such a demo page, just click the "next arrow" to fill in a prepared input.
P.S. Should you write such a page on your own, be very careful that you do not allow testers to get unwanted privileges. Best is when you alone will run the demo on your local system with the lowest possible database privileges (not all kinds of attacks should be possible, it's just a demo). Make a white-list of allowed expressions.
It all depends on the degree of non-technical you're talking about here, but I would usually describe SQL injection to business people something along the lines of -
"a weakness in how some websites handle input from users (e.g. where you put your name into a registration form) which can allow an attacker to get access to the database storing all the user information for the site"
if they want a bit more detail than that.
"Some web applications don't correctly separate user input from the instructions for the database, which can allow attackers to instruct database directly, through the information they fill in the website form. This can allow the attacker to read other users' information out of the database, or change some of the information in there."
Another great way of explaining someone about anything (including SQL Injection) is by the help of cartoon characters and framing a story around them.
According to me, this is the best picture available on internet, explaining it in a pretty nice way.
Source: http://xkcd.com/327/
Explain it easy as:
The system can take requests with data from any user to do something with it.
The system itself has functionality to operate like delete oder change data.
An attacker tries to run any of these functions to gain or destroy something.
Therefore the attacker puts valid commands into the requests.
The system runs these commands, executing whatever the attacker wanted.
The database is like a magical genie (or, Oracle) that grants wishes. We've told our genie to only grant a maximum of three wishes, but if we don't verify what people wish for, then someone would easily outsmart it by asking for something clever like "a hundred more wishes" or "everyone else's wishes".
Imagine a big company that keeps all of its records in paper form in a big room full of filing cabinets. In order to retrieve or make changes to files someone will fill out a simple fill-in-the-blanks form and then that form will be sent to a clerk who follows the instructions on the form.
For example:
Normally this would become something like this:
But in the hands of an unscrupulous person, maybe this form could be used for other purposes, for example:
By pretending that their name also includes other commands they can hijack the fill in form, and if the clerk has not been trained to handle these sorts of things then maybe they will simply execute the instructions without thinking about it, and hand over all of the credit card information to a user.
Or, alternately:
Which has similarly dangerous potential.
The trick with SQL injections is making sure that your code is smart enough to be able to ensure that users can't change the intent of the commands you are sending to the database and are unable to retrieve data or make changes which they should not be permitted to.
Sometimes hackers will put computer / programming commands into boxes on the internet to trick the website into doing something it shouldn't. Therefore we check the information entered on websites for what might be a "Command."
... who are you explaining this to anyway?
If you don't need to do it fast and have a piece of paper available, just demonstrate the entire thing. SQL is pretty similar to natural language, so just take a simple query and demonstrate the attack:
"$id gets replaced by whatever is visible here points to URL parameter. Normally, this is a number like
"Now, if someone puts more than just a number there, it also gets included. For example, if someone puts in there
"Can you see where this is going? Now, on this system, it is also possible to issue multiple commands, called queries, if you just separate them with a semicolon. Can you guess what happens if someone puts in
"The actual command is
SQL injection is where a malicious user is trying to get information out of a website that they are not authorized access to.
This is a like like interrogating another person, where the interrogator is the malicious user and the person being interrogated is the website.
Things the interrogator might do are:
Some weaknesses person being interrogated may be:
Things to note are there are better interrogators than others and some people will talk right away while others may never.
Well explaining with a technical analogy is fine but I would sound a little long and lame.
I would just explain it's matter of strict paperwork or requirements to limit abuses in administrations and finances.
If it's done in a strict enough manner, you have less evil fishes able to pass through the net.
I would use a simple drawing with some very simple pseudo code with boxes and arrows, and explain the robots and box analogy.
My approach for a non-techie:
Everyone is probably used to use keys and locks so it should be easy to understand and from my perspective it is a good analogy to an SQL injection.
I think the simplest, clearest and funniest example is from "The Simpsons": Bart's prank calls:
How is this a good analogy? An "name" which is carelessly repeated without checking causes unintended behavior.
YouTube link to a compilation of those phone pranks to help pick the most suitable example.
It always depends on the person listening to you but this is how I would explain it to him/her -
Imagine when you're sending a telegram with a message like --
and someone who has no good intentions that was able to access your telegram would intercept and replace the highlighted words with --
Hope it helps! :)
Here's my attempt:
Replace "site" with "house" and "attacker|hacker" with "burglar".
SQL injection is the result of leaving the windows open(*with a huge neon light saying "OPEN") of a house while you have 10" thick stainless steel front and back doors.
The burglar wants to break in and steal your stereo system, but first, he needs to figure out how to break in, he sees that the doors are virtually impossible to break, however, on further investigation he sees that the windows are opened. He can't steal your furniture(not in one piece at least), but he can steal your stereo system, laptop, PC, etc.
*) a bit dramatic, I know (:
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Prime Minister Netanyahu has returned to Israel and President Obama is headed for Iowa. We can probably anticipate a cooling-off period. Sooooo this is the end of the series.Restive Commonweal commentors who found some posts closed have written to tell me that they have more to say. Rather than opening those comments, here's an open thread. Post what you have to say. Remember: Not too long; not too apocalyptic; go light on the trash.I will not respond, but I will delete. And remember to read Ha'aretz, the Israeli newspaper that allows discussions more far-ranging than almost anything published in the U.S. http://www.haaretz.com/
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Row? What row?http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1159155.htmlAnd who pays? In cash? Not Israel - US of A.In blood? Not Israel. Take your pick - maybe Gaza? West Bank? Lebanon? Iran?Armaments are for killing.
Thanks, Ms. Steinfels - appreciate these threads and the updates.
God forbid the Israelis should trouble the ever-docile nation of Iran!Here's that power's leader in action three weeks ago:http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/ahmadinejad-calls-911-a-big-..."Perhaps concerned that his repeated suggestions that the Holocaust might not have happened have become less shocking over time, Irans president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, upped the ante on Saturday, telling intelligence officials in Tehran that the destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, was staged.In remarks reported by IRNA, an official Iranian news agency, and translated by Reuters, Mr. Ahmadinejad said, The September 11 incident was a big fabrication as a pretext for the campaign against terrorism and a prelude for staging an invasion against Afghanistan.
Same old stuff out of Ahmadinejad and not really relevant to the fractious relationship growing between Israel and USA.The essential problem is how much Netanyahu really wants peace (and, correlatively,) how vital Middle East peace is to peace in the region and the world prospects.(Footnote: if we wanted a thread on Ahmadinejad, it should be about his new relationship with Karzai and what that means.)
During the Arafat years, I remember hearing a now ridiculous sounding soundbyte that the Palestinians have "maps that show Palestine stretching all the way to the Mediterranean". This fairly lame horror story was meant to quell any American opposition to actions such as the machine gunning and bulldozing of a refugee camp in Jenin.Even if such maps existed (and I have no reason to deny their existence), they would not have been merely aspirational, but fantastical given the political realities on the ground.However, evictions, bulldozers, and new settlements are not aspirational, but provocatively operational. And the medieval siege of Gaza? Israel usually claims to be employing some kind of "tough love" strategy regarding Palestinians but this last decade looks more like enthusiastic ethnic cleansing.When even Thomas Friedman, the most starry eyed neocon of them all, writes recently that Israel is "driving drunk in Jerusalem", you know they must have had one too many.Any country that worries about a "demographic time bomb" is driving an ideological Toyota. It seems to me that either a nation promotes universal human rights among all its people and builds up an education and welfare system to that end, or that nation will always perceive itself as having to violently fend off the barbarians at the gate.
Every relationship has strengths and weaknesses, Bob, and you can't get a fair assessment if all you want to focus on is the negative. My post was a direct response to Sister Mary's, which suggests that Washington continues to arm Jerusalem for no good reason. Actually, there's no coincidence that the US has three Iranian-backed groups on its list of designated terror organizations: Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. And thanks for bringing up Afghanistan! That's some much needed big-picture thinking and another reason why Washington hasn't dumped our useful - if occasionally fractious - ally in the Middle East:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870340980457514372043049777...'s more background from the Council on Foreign Relations, all part of the regional political equation that Netanyahu surely gets fresh updates on every day. http://www.cfr.org/publication/9362/#p5
CH: that CFR link doesn't seem to work.
Sorry to hear that, Margaret. On the West Coast, it opens directly onto the list of terror organizations sponsored by Iran and specific acts of terror linked to the state. These include Hezbollah's 1988 kidnapping and murder of US Marine Colonel William Higgins in Lebanon, the bombings of Jewish cultural centers in Argentina in 1992 and 1994, and the Khobar Tower bombings as noted in this three week old lawsuit: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jZA7kapIdZ4I5Kh6GEAs1I... lawsuits seek damages from Iran for terror acts(AP) Mar 1, 2010NEW YORK Families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and a 1983 bombing of U.S. Marines in Lebanon are seeking to hold Iran accountable in separate legal actions.A lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan seeks to enforce a $2.6 billion judgment against the Islamic Republic of Iran awarded by a federal court in Washington, D.C. That award stemmed from claims Iran was involved in an October 1983 bombing that killed 241 servicemen at a U.S. Marines facility in Beirut.Lawyers for families of victims of the 2001 terror attacks are seeking to force the government of Iran to pay damages for supporting terrorism.No lawyers have represented Iran in the actions.
Tried it in two different browsers; probably being filtered by the Iranians!--or who knows, maybe the Chinese.
Oops, sorry, that's Criag's link.
Batya Gur was an Israeli detective novel writer and a literary critic for Ha'aretz. That paper no longer honours the link, but I can recall reading it when it was published in 2003. Gur died in 2005. This incident is non-sensational in that no one dies, but it is still sadly typical, and the question about the society these events are forming, and have formed, is still relevant.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++The Glittering Edge of the BootBy Batya Gur - Ha'aretz, September 12, 2003The three women soldiers who detained an old Palestinian on the main street of the German Colony in West Jerusalem didn't hit him; they didn't spit at him or kick him or shove him against a wall with the butt of a rifle, but there was something in the behavior of these three girls, border policewomen in uniform, detaining an old Palestinian on a narrow stretch of a main street in Jerusalem that made me pause, look at them for a moment, go on walking, then retrace my steps. There was something I couldn't overlook and then go about my business. What was it that drew me back there? It was something undefined and awful; an evil, whose ripples forced me to return and take a second, more focused look at what was happening: The old man, a tall Arab of about 70, wearing a traditional white keffiyeh and with an expression of disorientation and meek acceptance on his face, was standing on the narrow part of the sidewalk, his back to the stone wall of the old German cemetery, whose iron gates are always locked, and the three Border Police soldiers were leaning on the banister separating the sidewalk from the road. One of them was holding the documents the Palestinian had handed them - he came from Hebron and had no permit to be within the Green Line (1967 border) - and was talking on her mobile phone about personal matters, while the two others chatted and laughed, going on with their personal affairs. This went on for a long while. I had seen them standing with him about half an hour earlier, on my way to the neighbourhood grocery store. The soldiers were having a good time. And the old man stood there helpless, his face expressing the knowledge that he would have to wait until they finally decided to pay attention to him. I spoke to them about respect and civility; I told them he could have been their grandfather. I asked them to identify themselves. They refused. This was not one of the greater and more visible evils that take place around us daily, nor was it a disaster, only an insidious and consuming evil, one that is hard to pinpoint and define in words. I do not see the horrors that take place at the checkpoints every day. I know very well that such an act by a woman like me, someone who avoids any political activity or any consistent struggle for human rights, is actually a sentimental act. Such a trivial act of protest is a bit like sweeping the path to my own private garden, but what the words and eyes of this soldier with a blond ponytail and a pierced tongue reflected was not easy to sweep away; it was the glittering, sharp tip of a force of nature: the destructive power that has been penned up in the all-powerful authority of 18- and 19-year-old men and women. This power which we, the Jewish citizens of the state of Israel, have put in the hands of our children, the second and third generation of a very long occupation. From the moment the soldiers opened their mouths at me ("Why? Who the hell are you?" said the one with the pierced tongue, who wasn't wearing a badge, as required by law, in answer to my request for identification) the hidden plot of our lives, a plot that is engraved in us, was exposed suddenly in its full banality and in its truth: I found myself saying that I refuse to feel like a German walking past an abused Jew in Nazi Germany and turn away indifferently or fearfully. "You're calling us Nazis!" shrieked the soldiers, and within a minute this word became a precious possession upon their lips. They rejoiced in their justice and I could already imagine all the self-righteous people gloating over the use of this word. At the same time I could not but see the incident with the old Palestinian through this prism. This is the prism through which I saw a young woman, who could have been my daughter - in looks and in age - acting with the total conviction of being right. From where she stands there is no crack through which she can see that the person she had detained is a helpless, 70-year-old man who could be her father, her uncle or her grandfather. She could not even see that I could have been her mother. From that moment on I was arrested for disturbing a policewoman in the line of duty: "Move it lady, get in the car," yelled the pierced-tongued girl with victorious glee. That tiny stud, that shining metal bead, which in any other context would have been mischievous coquetry, became the glittering tip of total corruption. Because what this young woman has not grasped is that this uniform symbolizes a society and a nation, a responsibility and a duty. The glittering bead at the tip of her tongue, combined with the uniform, attest to the complete opposite: For her the uniform was a permit to do whatever she wanted. The glittering tip of her assaulting tongue is the tip of what we have become. Time and again, every day and every hour, we see how we have turned our children into soldiers in hobnailed boots. It is not political stances we're talking about here; and not Peace Now or peace talks; but about the image of man and his dignity. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/339474.html
Sister Mary:72 hours before the three female soldiers asked the Palestinian man to show them his paoers, a terror bombing killed 2 young Israelis and wounded 40 more in the exact same part of Jerusalem. If you read this CNN transcript, I think you'll see why their superiors ordered them to tighten up on security in the German colony that day. http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/09/bn.07.htmlMAJOR EXPLOSION ROCKS WEST JERUSALEMAired September 9, 2003 - 16:40 ETJUDY WOODRUFF, CNN ANCHOR: We want to bring everybody up to date on that bombing, terrorist bombing, in Jerusalem. It happened just moments ago. With us on the phone is CNN's Samson Desta. He's a producer.Samson, you are at the site in west Jerusalem. Tell us what you are seeing.SAMSON DESTA, CNN PRODUCER: Extremely loud noise here.The police are pushing us away from the scene. There appears to have been an explosion at a cafe. This is cafe Hillel. It's at the German Colony in a Jewish neighborhood. I'm just arriving. And I have seen a number of people that have been pulled out of this cafe on a stretcher. I have seen one person that appears to be dead, a person that seems covered from head to toe now. And it appears that that person is dead. But I have seen a number of injured people, a number of people with blood on their clothes. And, also, there are a number of people that are walking around dazed. They are crying. And some of them are screaming hysterically. And, again, this appears to have happened just some 15, 20 minutes ago. And I can tell you, there are a number of medical services here, a number of police here. And they're trying to clear the scene at this point, but it is a chaotic scene -- Judy. WOODRUFF: Samson, the neighborhood is where there are small cafes. This is late at night, an area that Jerrold Kessel told us is frequented by young people. DESTA: I'm sorry, Judy. I cannot hear you. It's extremely loud here. Can you please repeat that? WOODRUFF: We're told that this is an area where many young people would come together late in the evening.Understandably, we're having a little trouble with the audio there. We're talking with CNN producer Samson Desta on the site of this large explosion, terrorist bombing in Jerusalem, west Jerusalem. Again, at least two are dead, at least 40 wounded.
Craig,Where is the date in Batya Gur's comment that indicates any relevance time-wise to the explosion you detail?If you have travelled with Palestinians in the West Bank in recent years you know full well that such administrative harassment is not uncommon. "Internationals" are checked - Palestinians are often refused, even with the fully correct documentation for their journey.
Let's watch Mr. Hanley go into orbit!Here is a July 2009 interview with Charles Freeman in SURSIS, a Saudi-American Information publication. Freeman, as you may recall, was deep-sixed for a position in the Obama Administration because of his critical and reasonable views of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Here he is reflecting on the role of the Arab world in that process. Among other posts, he was U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia (yes, Mr. Hanley we have diplomatic relations with those people)."Israel has certainly not recently been prepared to do anything to end that lack of acceptance by its neighbors. But Israel absolutely requires such acceptance to guarantee its existence as a state in the Middle East over the long term. So this is a major problem. It is pretty clear that the present government of Israel believes it doesn't need political acceptance from its Arab neighbors because it has the drop on them -- military superiority -- and a continuing blank check from the United States. So, in its view, it doesnt really have to compromise on the issue of a Palestinian state."I would say the Netanyahu government has not just zero credibility on this in the region and more broadly in the international community, but it has actually less than zero credibility. Thats because almost everybody believes it is acting insincerely and in a deceptive fashion. So in this context to ask the Arabs to do something for Israel just seems quite unrealistic."The interview has other prescient observations by Ambassador Freeman: http://www.saudi-us-relations.org/articles/2009/interviews/090728-freema...


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DISC1 Tied to Motivation, Oxidative Stress in Mice
July 16, 2013. Truncating both copies of the disrupted in schizophrenia 1 (DISC1) gene in mice impairs cognition and motivation, and leads to signs of oxidative stress in the brain, according to a study published July 8 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Led by Akira Sawa and Michela Gallagher, both at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, the study delves into the effects of truncated copies of DISC1, which are proposed to interfere with normal DISC1 function. Mice homozygous for this putative dominant negative form (DN-DISC1) had problems adapting their behavior to changing conditions, were less likely to work for reward, and showed signs of oxidative stress in prefrontal cortex.
The results link DISC1 to the realms of motivation and behavioral flexibility, which are compromised in psychiatric disorders. Because DISC1 features as a player in neurodevelopment and synapse function (see SRF related news story), it may not be a surprise that it influences disparate domains of brain function. The same group, however, previously reported subtle phenotypes in mice heterozygous for DN-DISC1 (see SRF related news story), and so they set out to look at homozygotes. The DN-DISC1 model introduces a truncated form of the protein that mimics a product of the DISC1-disrupting chromosomal translocation found in a Scottish family beset by mental illness. Sawa and colleagues have proposed that this truncated DISC1 would bind normal DISC1 and prevent it from doing its job.
The study also suggests calming oxidative stress as a therapeutic approach for psychiatric diseases. Oxidative stress results when cells are overwhelmed by reactive oxygen molecules, and this condition can do some lasting damage in non-renewing neurons. Evidence for oxidative stress in schizophrenia comes from animal models (see SRF related news story) and from the decreased numbers of parvalbumin-containing interneurons found in schizophrenia. These fast-spiking, metabolically hungry neurons may be especially vulnerable to oxidative stress (see SRF related news story).
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First authors Alexander Johnson and Hanna Jaaro-Peled compared homozygous DN-DISC1 mice that resulted from breeding the heterozygous DN-DISC1 mice. Wild-type mice that were not littermates served as controls. As a first test of cognitive function, the researchers tested mice on reversal learning, which relies on the orbitofrontal cortex and measures how well the brain can change to a new set of rules. For example, the mice learned that poking their nose to the left would get them a sucrose reward, while poking it to the right would not. When the researchers switched the rules so that poking to the left gave no reward, but poking to the right did, control mice updated their behavior to the new rules, but DN-DISC1 mice initially did not.
Further testing suggested that this impairment stemmed from problems with connecting information about the value of a reward to behavior. For example, the researchers decreased the value of a food reward by letting the mice eat that food before the testeffectively ruining their appetite for that food. When they did this, the DN-DISC1 mice continued to press a lever associated with the food with gusto, as much as another lever that delivered a food they had not been fed ahead of time. In contrast, control mice scaled back their responses to the devalued food lever. This suggests a problem in getting the value of an outcome to shape behavior in DN-DISC1 mice.
Understanding how information about outcomes guides behavior also enters into the domain of motivation, and here the researchers also found differences in DN-DISC1 mice. When more effort was required to get a reward, this increased pleasure-related licking to that reward in control mice, but not in DN-DISC1 mice. This again suggests a disconnect between the value of something and its effect on behavior, which can be taken as a sign of reduced motivation. In another test, the researchers made it progressively harder for the mice to get their reward: Mice initially received sucrose after making 20 licks at an empty well, but the requirement gradually ratcheted up to 300 licks. Though the DN-DISC1 mice showed a normal preference for sucrose, they licked half the number of times controls did over the course of this test. Eventually, all DN-DISC1 mice (compared to half of the controls) quit licking altogether before the test was completed.
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The researchers then examined the prefrontal cortex for signs of oxidative stress. They found increased 8-oxo-dG staining, which marks spots of oxidative damage in DNA, in the orbitofrontal cortex in DN-DISC1 mice relative to controls. Another sign came in the form of the enzyme glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH): Under conditions of oxidative stress, GAPDH binds to a protein called Siah, and together they travel to the nucleus to spur a cascade of events. The researchers found a 10-fold increase in GAPDH-Siah binding in DN-DISC1 mice compared to controls. This increase occurred in prefrontal cortex, but not striatum, a brain area that interacts with prefrontal cortex. Although DN-DISC1 heterozygous mice have a reduced number of parvalbumin-containing neurons (see SRF related news story), the researchers did not report any pathology related to these neurons in DN-DISC1 homozygous mice.
The researchers mention they have developed inhibitors of the GAPDH cascade, but they do not test them in this study. If quelling oxidative stress normalizes cognition and motivation in these mice, this may pave the way for new therapeutics for psychiatric disorders. For now, it seems DISC1 has added a few more things to its bag of tricks, and future experiments will have to detail how DN-DISC1 expression leads to oxidative stress in prefrontal cortex.Michele Solis.
Johnson AW, Jaaro-Peled H, Shahani N, Sedlak TW, Zoubovsky S, Burruss D, Emiliani F, Sawa A, Gallagher M. Cognitive and motivational deficits together with prefrontal oxidative stress in a mouse model for neuropsychiatric illness. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jul 9. Abstract


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The 5 Hardest, Most Pointless World of Warcraft Achievements
#2. Insane In The Membrane
Cypress Hill! Ha ha! Remember, like I said, just sigh and move on here. This achievement means you've raised your reputation with the 8 most useless factions in the game. This is how factions work:
(1) Blizzard installs them as an official faction in the game, which means they get a name and a little progress bar in your reputations page.
(2) Blizzard implements some things you can do to improve that reputation, like quests, or items you can turn in, or something.
(3) Blizzard creates rewards that you get for having a certain reputation level, and puts a quartermaster in the game you can buy these rewards from.
There are a few factions in the game where they basically got to step 1, then when it came to step 2, implemented one thing you could do to increase that reputation, and then forgot about adding any more, and just really never got around to step 3 at all. So the lack of attention to step 2 means you can only increase your reputation at a snail's pace for those factions, and the lack of a step 3 means you get nothing for doing it except people shaking their heads sadly at you.
So the developers thought it would be funny to give out an achievement for getting max reputation with all of these factions, which one person has calculated would take approximately 360 hours of playing time, time that can't be spent killing bosses, getting gear, or achieving any game goals, never mind time you could spend with your family or exercising.
In return, not only do you get the achievement, but also a title that can appear at the end of your name.
So yeah, totally worth it.
#1. Scarab Lord
Back in about 2005-2006, they introduced a new zone, Ahn'Qiraj, and were determined to make every single player appreciate all the work they had put into it by making it a pain in the ass to open.
First, the entire server, tens of thousands of players, Alliance and Horde, had to gather tons of random items for the "war effort," including bits of cloth, scraps of leather, random fish, and a ton of things suspiciously similar to what you find in hoarders' houses.
While the peons of the world were doing that, the top guilds were racing in their own way to become the official gate-openers.
They first had to pick an official ribbon-cutter in the guild to put all their efforts behind, and went on a crazy quest line involving clearing dungeons, killing bosses, going on scavenger hunts, and gathering 16,800 items dropped by monsters that players couldn't kill alone.
One down, 16,799 to go.
Whole guilds would spend days killing those 16,800 creatures and handing the loot to their designated star player, who, at the end of all this, would get the key, which was a scepter, because you know, fantasy world.
Once the whole server finished hoarding enough "war effort" items, and at least one person had a scepter, that person would go open the gate, and often enough, crash the server thanks to the ton of looky-loos gathered to see the event.
The gate-opener would then get the title Scarab Lord, as would anyone else who happened to have the scepter and was able to go click the gate within 10 hours of the opening without getting caught up in the server crashing, which considering the incredible timing needed, was usually nobody else.
So getting the title means you can walk around cities with people whispering to each other, "That guy is a Scarab Lord. There's only like one per server!" and then some of those people might care.
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Many of the high-gravity commercial beers I taste end up coming off as boozy. What kinds of ingredients or processes will limit this flavor? I want to brew a big beer, perhaps in the 1.100 neighborhood, but I'm concerned about boozy flavors.
As alcohol levels rise in a beer, eventually you can taste it. There is just no way around that part. However as a brewer you do have control over some of the less desirable tasting higher order (molecularly complex) alcohols.
The best way to control the levels of these types of flavors is to pitch plenty of yeast, ferment on the cooler side (that also means starting fermentation on the cool side), provide plenty of oxygen up front, and be patient with the process.
The patience probably being an oft overlooked part of the process. It might take a couple months to wait out a proper fermentation.
Your yeast choice is somewhat style dependent, but look for one that attenuates really well, and plan to ferment on the cooler side of its acceptable range.
How do you feel about sour beers? I was just reading on The Mad Fermentationist that sour beers often mask their alcohol content with their other pungent aromas and flavors. And since they attenuate more than a normal brew, you get more alcohol for the same starting gravity, so take that into account as well. A 1.080 sour that gets down to 1.005 should be about the same alcohol as a 1.095 normal beer that only gets to 1.020
Beyond the sour idea, I'd suggest massive oxygenation, cool fermentation and stepped simple sugar additions. So buy an aeration system, make sure you can ferment in a controlled environment, and add simpler sugars after the primary is down with malt to get that last percent or two of alcohol without stressing out the yeast. Oh, and use a high-gravity strain of yeast as well, like WLP099 or Wyeast 3787 Trappist.
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I do not trust any RAID types for home use. I've got 2 Terabytes of Data that I want to copy (duplicate) to about 4-6 drives for redundancy so that I will never lose these pics and videos I've created of my family. I know that 100% failure prevention is impossible. And yes I know the obvious "copy to many sources such as online storage, DVDs, etc.".
However let's get back to hard disks for now. I am not focusing on anything else for this thread.
So I do not trust RAID for home use, and so if I am going to copy new pictures or video to a primary disk, it would be nice if I could find some kind of controller card that would essentially do a copy on demand to the other drives so that I'd have complete duplicates of anything I do to my primary drive.
My understanding is that RAID 1 does this but then you still have the problem of it being a RAID issue...that you're still being dependent on an array which is not what I want.
I merely want the action of RAID 1 (meaning I write to disk A, write the same to disk b, c, d,.etc.) without the reliance or dependency on any stupid failure prone array.
I think ideally if I can set up a box, put about 6 drives in it and somehow maybe get a couple of controller cards that when I write to a designated drive...or delete, or whatever, it duplicates that action realtime to the other x drives.
Anyone seen anything that can do this such as a card (I want to build my own box and drives, etc. to do this) outside of something like this: http://www.aleratec.com/alhddcrhadid.html or this http://www.abcusinc.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=HDD but I want to do it myself over a controller card(s) in my own box that I will be building?
Obviously a RAID controller card is not what I'm after here. I'm after hopefully a card that allows me to plug in lets say 4 drives internally to it and somehow it duplicates from a designated primary drive to the other 3. I'm not sure if such a thing exists.
Basically I want to build my own server doing what that box does...and put an ASUS board in it, etc. I want complete control over this but I need to find some sort of plan using a card or something that does this duplication without the raid array dependency.


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In a lacklustre display, Brazil edged past Japan 3-2 at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in their final Group D match. With the Brazilians already through to the next round and Japan headed for home, the South Americans found themselves twice behind only to rebound with two quickfire goals in the final period to seal the win.
Japan quickly capitalised on a sluggish opening from the Brazilians, who had already stamped their place atop the group, scoring through Shusei Yamuchi to open the first period. However, Andre was able to pull one back for Brazil, lobbing the ball over Japanese goalkeeper Shingo Terukina.
An uninspired Brazil again found themselves a goal behind in the second period as Masayuki Komaki converted from the spot.
Unwilling to drop the final match of the group phase, Brazil upped the pressure in the third period and took less than one minute to find an equaliser. Benjamin, with only Terukina to beat, coolly chipped home to level the score before combining with Andre, who scored his second just two minutes later with a fine volley.
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Some of the children in the Morehouse Parish 4-H organization have proven they have what it takes to succeed in rodeo events.
"Hard work, practice and determination lead to District Competition, State Competition and some will go on to Southern Regional Competition in Perry, Georgia," according to Livestock Club volunteer Jody Straughn.
The Livestock Club meets with children in 4-H at the Morehouse Activity Center on Monday nights to help those who are interested in rodeo event activities.
"They practice speed events and roping," said 4-H Youth Development Agent Jennifer Moran. "The Livestock Club's intention is to get children in 4-H involved with horses."
On June 25 and 26, eleven Morehouse Parish 4-H children went to District 4-H Show at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in Monroe. 4 -Hers receiving ribbons included:
• Andrea McCaffrey - 7th in AOB Gelding Halter
• Michael Mattice – Blue Ribbon in Breakaway Roping and Team Penning
• Emily Riley – Purple Ribbon in Barrels, Blue Ribbon in Stake Race and White Ribbon in Pole Bending
• Kody Boatright – Purple Ribbon in Stake Race and Pole Bending and Blue Ribbon in Barrels
Tanner Crooks – Blue Ribbon Stake Race, Pole Bending and Barrels
• Alfroncius (Fig) Dowels Jr. - Blue Ribbon in Barrels, Breakaway Roping and Tie Down Calf Roping
• Chelsea Hunter – Blue Ribbon in Pole Bending and Barrels
• Luke Thrash – Blue Ribbon in Breakaway Roping and Team Penning
• Dani Anderson – Purple Ribbon in Barrels and Stakes and Red Ribbon in Pole Bending
• Taylor-Brooke Gunter – Red Ribbon in Stake Race and White Ribbon in Barrels and Pole Bending
• Maci Herrington – Blue Ribbon in Stock Horse Pleasure, Red Ribbon in Western Horsemanship, Western Riding Barrels, Stake Race and Pole Bending and Gold Medal in Horse Bridling Demonstration.
Eight of these 4-Hers moved on to State Competition on July 10-14 at the Ike Hamilton Expo Center in Monroe. Placing at the State Level included:
• Kody Boatright with 7th place in Pole Bending
• Andrea McCaffrey with 8th place in AOB Gelding Halter
• Emily Riley with 7th place in Stake Race
• Michael Mattice with 3rd place in Team Penning
• Dani Anderson with 1st place Barrel and Stake Race and High Point for Sr. Division High Speed Events
• Alfroncius (Fig) Dowels Jr. with 1st place in Tie Down Calf Roping
• Luke Thrash with 3rd place in Team Penning
Four of these Morehouse 4-Hers qualified for Southern Regionals in Perry, Georgia during the first week in August.
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this is one I did recently, dudley vs chun-li is a horrible matchup so was quite proud of it even though I basically did exactly the same thing both rounds
lol that chun was mauled.
Yeah I played on xbox and PC.
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New announcer to old
Some stages songs. This one was tekken 5's moonlight wilderness.
Intro screen to say "arcade edition" after saying SSF4.. just like the arcades
Arcade block sound. It sounds... thumpier. I like it.
That guy costume would be nice if his face wasnt fucked up and didn't have weird wires floating around.
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I remember that she said somewhere in the books that she prefers playing chaser over playing seeker, if that helps.
I remember that she said somewhere in the books that she prefers playing chaser over playing seeker, if that helps.
Ginny only played Seeker when Harry was "unavailable" and she always said that she preferred to play as Chaser. I'd say that she was a Chaser. I'm not certain that JKR ever made it clear. Professional Quidditch player is all she said, I think.
Personally, I don't think that Ginny has the patience to be a great Seeker, I think that she needs to be in the rough and tumble and scoring goals.
I think you'd have a harder time arguing that she became a Seeker. She wasn't that good at it. Certainly Harry notices that she misses a catch in one of the matches in OOTP and thus Gryff could have won by more points.
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I strongly agree. Everything in the books points to Ginny wanting to follow a career as a chases and not a seeker.
Ginny did say somewhere in the books that she would prefer to be a chaser than a seeker, and while she was a decent seeker she was definitely better as a chaser.
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Bootstrapping is the process of building up functionality of the system until all Ruby code can be executed. There are seven stages to the bootstrap process:
VM: The virtual machine is able to load and execute bytecode, send messages (i.e. look up and execute methods), and all primitive functions are available, but not yet hooked up as Ruby methods.
The Class class has to be manually set up this early in the process by setting its class to be itself and its superclass to be Module. In addition to Class and Module, a couple of other base classes are created here including Object, Tuple, LookupTable, and MethodTable.
Now that classes can be defined, 35 or so built in classes are told to initialize themselves, symbols for top level methods (:object_id, :call, :protected, etc) are created, basic exceptions are defined, and primitives are registered. Finally IO gets hooked up. Also at this stage, several fundamental Ruby methods are bound to primitives.
At this point there is enough defined behavior to begin to load up the rest of the runtime kernel which is all defined in ruby. This has to be done in several passes as the language grows.
alpha: This starts the loading of Ruby code. The ability to open classes and modules and define methods exists. The minimum functionality to support the following methods is implemented in kernel/alpha.rb:
attr_reader :sym attr_writer :sym attr_accessor :sym private :sym protected :sym module_function :sym include mod
Also, it is possible to raise exceptions and cause the running process to exit. This stage lays the foundation for the next two stages.
bootstrap: This stage continues to add the minimum functionality to support loading platform and common. The primitive functions are added for most of the kernel classes.
platform: The FFI (foreign function interface) system is implemented and Ruby method interfaces to platform-specific functions are created. Once this is set up, platform specific things such as pointers, file access, math, and POSIX commands are attached.
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delta: Final versions of methods like #attr_reader, etc. are added. Also, implementation-specific versions of methods that override the versions provided in common are added.
loader: The compiled version of kernel/loader.rb is run.
The final stage sets up the life cycle of a ruby process. It starts by connecting the VM to the system, sets up load paths, and reads customization scripts from the home directory. It traps signals, and processes command line arguments.
After that, it either runs the script passed to it from the command line or boots up the interactive ruby shell. When that finishes, it runs any at_exit blocks that had been registered, finalizes all objects, and exits.
The files in the kernel directories bootstrap, platform, common, and delta, implement the respective bootstrapping stages above. The order in which these directories are loaded is specified in runtime/index.
When an rbc file is loaded, code at the script level and in class or module bodies is executed. For instance, when loading
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the call to #attr_accessor will be run. This requires that any code called in script, class, or module bodies be loaded before the file that calls the code. The kernel/alpha.rb defines most of the code that will be needed at the script or module level. However, other load order dependencies exist between some of the platform, common, delta, and compiler files.
These load order dependencies are addressed by the load_order.txt file located in each of the kernel/** directories. If you modify code that adds a load order dependency, you must edit the load_order.txt files to place the depended on file above the file that depends on it. Also, if you add a new file to one of the kernel directories, you must add the file name to the load_order.txt file in that directory. These files are copied to the appropriate runtime/** directories during build. During each of the bootstrap stages above, the VM loads the files listed in load_order.txt in order.
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Constantia Wine Route
Constantia Valley is the oldest wine-growing area in Southern Africa and features superb wine estates, fantastic shopping opportunities and a variety of excellent restaurants.
Located at the centre of the Cape Peninsula, the Constantia Valley stretches up the south-east slopes of the Table Mountain National Park and is just a 10-minute drive from Cape Town's city centre.
Since the days of governor Simon van der Stel (late 1600s), Constantia Valley has been famous for its superb wines. Today a number of South Africa's finest vineyards can be found in the valley, including Groot Constantia, +27 21 794 5128, Buitenverwachting, +27 (0)21 794 5190, Constantia Uitsig, +27 (0)21 794 6500,Klein Constantia, +27 (0)21 794 5188, and Steenberg, +27 (0)21 713 2211, to mention just a few.
The area is steeped in history and is home to some of the best examples of Cape Dutch architecture. The largest wine estate, Groot Constantia, is home to Van der Stel's original manor house museum and is an excellent example of this architectural style.
Indulge in wine tasting and cellar tours at the wine farms and buy your favourite tipple directly from the estate. There are numerous award-winning restaurants in the Constantia Vineyards.
However, if you're not going the gourmet route there are many other options, from pub and grub spots to fish cafés and delis. A fun option is to organise a private picnic on one of the wine estates.
If you're a keen shopper, there is a lot on offer in the Constantia Valley. Numerous farm stalls offer fresh produce, organic jams and the specialities of the area. There is also a choice of lifestyle and décor shops as well as jewellery shops and art galleries.
Groot Constantia Wine Museum is open daily from Monday to Sunday, except on Christmas Day and Worker's Day. Visit the museum, which is open Monday to Sunday from 10h00 to 17h00, cost: R20 for adults, R10 for pensioners and students, kids under 18 visit free of charge. Cellar tours run hourly between 10h00 and 16h00 and it costs R33 per person for a three-hour tour. Wine tasting take place daily: May to November 10h00 to 16h30; December to April 09h00 to 17h30, cost of R22.
- Phone: +27 (21)762 0687
Llandudno and Sandy Bay
Only 18km from the Cape Town city centre, an arc of fine white sand gives away the secluded location of one of Cape Town's most beautiful beaches, Llandudno.
Wine farm restaurants, Morgenster olive oil
Enjoy a drive to a tasting experience with a difference, learn to cook African style and wash it all down with some delicious wine.
Helderberg Wine Route
The Helderberg region has its own wine route which incorporates more than 20 wine estates.
Simon's Town
This pretty coastal town is South Africa's main naval base and consists of lovely Victorian buildings, quaint streets and walkways and a fascinating history.
Constantia Wine Route
Constantia Valley is the oldest wine-growing area in Southern Africa and features superb wine estates, fantastic shopping opportunities and a variety of excellent restaurants.
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A Tour of U.S. National Parks
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Yosemite National Park
Yosemite was established in east-central California in 1890, with Mount Lyell as its highest peak. The 1,200-square-mile wilderness park is best known for its waterfalls, deep valleys, rolling meadows, and giant sequoia trees. Yosemite's beauty attracts millions of visitors every year, creating the need for increased protection of its natural state. In the 1970s, the National Park Service began to encourage visitors to walk or use public transportation in the park. Cars were banned from areas of the park and public transportation was implemented in the valley.
Fun Fact: Almost 95% of Yosemite is designated wilderness, meaning Congress granted a special distinction for its protection from further development.
Photo source: Carol M. Highsmith
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When I create (try to create) a ComboBox in WiX, the box receives its initial value from the corresponding property's value set earlier in the .wxs-file. This far, everythings goes as planned. When I try to change its value graphically, it displays no available list items. I have not found any necessary or relevant attributes etc in the docs that I haven't used, but also I'm quite noobish on WiX so maybe have missed something obvious. The code is below:
<Property Id="LANGUAGE" Value="Swedish" />
... cut ...
<Control Type="ComboBox" ComboList="yes" Property="LANGUAGE" Id="languages_combo" Width="..." Height="..." X="..." Y="...">
<ComboBox Property="LANGUAGE">
<ListItem Value="Swedish" />
<ListItem Value="English" />
I want to be able to select "English" instead of "Swedish" in the drop-down, but that option is not available (and not "Swedish" for that matter - even that's the default value). Any suggestions how to solve this? I have searched the net without success, so I guess it's so basic no one has run into the same problem :-)
If it helps, here is the compilation:
candle test.wxs
light -ext WixUIExtension -sice:ICE20 test.wixobj
Attempts made by me:
- Adding Text="..." to the ListItems does not help.
- Replacing "ComboBox" with "ListBox" (and removeing attribute ComboList) displays the options/ListItems, but unfortunately ListBox is not the control that I want.


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To the editor:
In a world where few people care about their friends or neighbors, I have known a woman in Piney Fork who has given and donated to the people she knows repeatedly.
Recently, I became a widow, and the loss was devastating, as I was also losing my home, along with a dear friend who lost her husband a few weeks after I lost mine.
In fact, we would both be on the street and members of the homeless. Who would care in the world of today? Who would we call for help?
Then, we thought of a friend, Cricket Hauber, a lifetime kind of a friend who has helped a lot of people make it through tough times.
There was one phone call - a happy voice on the other side with a "good morning" response, and we had a home again. We could both start our lives over. We could learn to survive the way she did all of these years.
A patient and caring person is just what we both needed, and that is exactly what we found.
In surprise to her, I want to give her my sincere thank you from me and all the other friends she has helped.
Because of Carol, we have a home, a new life and a beautiful town in a country setting to live in.
We will learn how to stack wood for the winter, how to garden in the spring and summer and how to can and freeze foods in the autumn.
We will learn so many things from her rural sort of life that we have never done before.
Thank you, our friend, for all of these years of loving people with such a big heart.
Sandy Rigby
Piney Fork


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We just received our first batch of Samyang 7.5mm lenses so here's a very quick couple of test panoramas for you:
Both examples shot with an Olympus E-P3 on a Nodal Ninja 3 Pano Head with the T-30 adaptor. I turned off Image Stabilisation and shot at f/11 for both examples. Focus was set to just a tad back from infinity. Stitching in PTGUI Pro 9.1 Beta2 and test web pages also made from PTGUI.
Shooting sequence was 4 around @ -15 degs plus 1 up @ 90 degs.
You can download the source files (which include the original images from camera, the stitched equirectangular and the PTGUI project files) here:
http://www.360tacticalvr.com/showcas...ion/source.zip (76.8 MB)
http://www.360tacticalvr.com/showcas...ide/source.zip (78.9 MB)
You can also see photos I took of the camera with both Black and Silver lenses mounted, along with shots of the E-P3 and lens mounted on the Nodal Ninja 3 used to make the panos here:
(Note: I just spotted something strange on the ceiling of the "reception" shot. Looks like PTGUI has done something odd with the tiles...)


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Dear Editor:
There is a series on TV thru Easter Sunday that is tremendous. It is called "The Bible" and it airs every Sunday night from 8:00 pm till 10:00 pm on the History Channel. It is being written and produced by Roma Downey (Touched by an Angel) and her husband. I watched last Sunday and it is presented in such an interesting and informative manner. It is so colorful and fast moving and really keeps your attention for the full two hours. I hope you and your children will sit down every Sunday for this series. I know you will learn so much.


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During some basic RHEL training, I came across this blurb:
Although it's possible to create more, RHEL will recognize only up to 16 partitions on any individual SATA, SCSI, PATA, or virtual hard drive.
That sentence seems to conflict with itself. If RHEL can't recognize more than 16 partitions, why would I ever want to create more than 16?


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I was wondering if anyone has used the LAS2OGR tool? I heard about this from a previous post. The webpage gives the usage: http://www.liblas.org/utilities/las2ogr.html
las2ogr -i mydata.las -o points.shp -f "ESRI Shapefile"
But I am wondering what I run it in? I am on a Windows & box with FWTools 2.4.7 and it is coming up as an unrecognized tool. When I open OSG4W (gdal 1.9.2 released 2012/10/08) las2ogr is not listed in the tool set. Where should I be accessing this from? Do I need to download a specific .exe or .dll and save it to the GDAL folder?
Any help would be appreciated.


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Bb Learn - Developing Learning Activities
Developing Learning Activities
Effective learning activities establish student motivation to learn, encourage course participation, provide frequent feedback, and allow for checks for understanding. Such activities should also be developed in the context of the learning objectives of the course and the ways such objectives are assessed. We'll look at the following:
Discussions: For example, the integration of discussion board activities can encourage student participation by modelling the social learning of a traditional classroom. Discussions can be set up as a conversation, inquiry, debate, or instruction. The type of discussion depends on the primary purpose for the discussion.
Assignments: Assignments allow students to demonstrate what they have learned. Online assignments provide you with an opportunity to present a clear prompt and a comprehensive description of expectations. Model assignments can be linked to these prompts, and a rubric can be included too. Setting up due dates for online delivery can also be very flexible, allowing for shorter turnaround of assignments and a shorter feedback loop.
Tests: Another example of learning activities are tests, in which students can confirm their emerging understandings, check for misunderstandings, and be motivated to go further when feedback is included to acknowledge achievement. All of these activities are easily accomplished with Bb Learn tools.
Brookfield, S.D. and Preskill, S. (2005). Discussion as a way of teaching: Tools and techniques for democratic classrooms. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.


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text: Here is one for St. Patrick's Day that kids will love. Here is a simple tutorial on "how to draw a clover for kids", step by step. The clover is a grassy looking plant that can be found in fields all over the world. Since St. Patrick's Day is around the corner, I thought that this would make an exciting and bright lesson that can be enjoyed by artists of all skill levels. If you would like to see something else on Dragoart that you haven't seen before, just let me know. Adios people and enjoy drawing a clover of your own.


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The F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health has devoted extensive resources to understanding the demographic, economic, and health care infrastructure issues of rural Texas, and rural West Texas in particular.
It is important for community leaders, educators, policy developers, economic development professionals, and rural advocates to be aware of the needs facing rural communities as well as the opportunities that abound.
West Texas and much of rural America demonstrate four prevalent population trends:
- The rural population as a whole is growing slowly, but its relative share of the overall total population has dropped markedly.
- The rural population is declining in West Texas counties not adjacent to metropolitan areas.
- The demographic profile of West Texas is changing dramatically.
- Declines in population are associated with factors of economic hardship that are worsening.
|Per Capita Income
|% Poverty, All Ages
|% Poverty, with Related Children
|% Poverty, over Age 65
|West Texas
|West Texas Border
Source: Most recent data available. Income information from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2002 data. Poverty data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2000 Census.
Source: The Texas Challenge in the Twenty–First Century: Implications of Population Change for the Future of Texas prepared by the Center for Demographic and Socioeconomic Research and Education. http://www.txsdc.tamu.edu/
Limited Access to Health Care
Limited access to care is exhibited by the fact that, in West Texas, there are 27 counties that have one or no physician. Nine counties have no primary care physician, no nurse practitioner and no physician assistant. An additional 37 counties have no hospital, and 19 have no pharmacist. Fifty–four counties are designated as primary care health professional shortage areas, and 80 are classified as medically underserved and have limited access to public health services. As in much of the nation, public health infrastructure has declined in recent years. The Texas State Office of Rural Community Affairs has determined that 75% of rural Texas hospitals reported financial losses for the past year.
|Ratio of primary care doctors
|Ratio of physician assistants
|Ratio of nurse practitioners
|Ratio of pharmacists
|Ratio of RNs
|Ratio of LVNs
|Texas, 2005 (2000)
|68.5 (56)
|14.7 (11.9)
|17.7 (24.4)
|73.7 (74.1)
|628.6 (603.4)
|269 (280.9)
|West Texas, 2005
|West Texas Border, 2005
Source: U.S and Texas data from HRSA Bureau of Health Professions (most recently reported, 2000), West Texas and West Texas Border data from Texas Department of State Health Services, 2005.
Health Care and Economic Development
Health care is a major economic driver in rural areas. In communities that still have a local hospital or nursing home, health–related businesses are often the larger employers. One rural physician can generate more than five full–time jobs and $233,000 in local economic activity. For every health care dollar generated locally, an estimated 1.5 dollars are brought into the community economy. Therefore, out–migration from rural counties is a major contributor to loss of revenues, and 70 to 80% of out–migration is due to availability of care issues (Texas Department of Health, 2001; Texas State Office of Rural Community Affairs, 2001).
Throughout West Texas, low population density is a challenge; it is difficult to maintain health care services if there is not enough population to support a physician's practice. While the general population is affected by limitations in access to care, those most impacted are people with special health care needs: the elderly; the poor; the homeless; mothers, children and adolescents; those living with chronic diseases and disabilities; and agricultural workers (Lishner, 1996: Rickets, 1999; US AHRQ 2002).
The TWITR Project
The Telemedicine Wellness Intervention Triage and Referral Project (TWITR Project) is a Telemental health model demonstration project focused on middle to high school students in three West Texas independent school districts. The three-part project includes:
- Identification by Telehealth assisted screening of high risk teens that demonstrate risk behaviors likely to end in an encounter with the juvenile justice system. The primary purpose is to find teens who could potentially benefit from community mental health services, academic and mentoring resources, and to identify and refer to care, those teens who may be a danger to themselves or others. Teens will be informed and engaged with the TWITR Project using peer-developed social media messaging and programming in three school districts (Plainview, Lubbock and Abilene). These three schools reflect small, medium and large rural and urban schools in Texas. The schools have been selected because they have significant numbers of teen referrals from the school system into the Texas criminal justice system.
- Ongoing training for School Resource Officers (aka School Police) will be provided via the Bexar County Probation Department's nationally recognized Children's Crisis Intervention Training (CCIT). CCIT is Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE) sanctioned and comes with a year's worth of police CEUs and a TCLEOSE Mental Health Officer Certification. Our long term goal is to work with staff from the Bexar County Judges' Children's Diversion Initiative to develop a train-the-trainer model that could be replicated, by CCIT alumni police and SROs, and our mental health professionals via telemedicine.
- Formulation and dissemination of model policies that decriminalize student non-violent behavioral health issues and impart a graduated sanctions model to avert relatively minor infractions from the juvenile justice system. These will be based on model policies developed from a previous Governor's initiative in Waco and incorporate community engagement principles and practices developed by the Wellness Engagement and Development Center of Angelo State University (San Angelo). These two components together have been shown to dramatically reduce engagements with the juvenile justice system in Texas.
Study on Arsenic in Ground water
Exposure to arsenic is linked to many diseases. Most Americans in rural areas use groundwater for drinking, which may contain arsenic above the currently allowable level, 10 µg/L. Geographic Information System (GIS) has been used to interpolate an arsenic level surface based on existing data from wells with known arsenic concentrations. Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW), Kriging Gaussian and Kriging Spherical interpolations are among the most commonly used interpolation techniques. However, their accuracy is unknown. We used the leave-one-out-cross-validation technique to compare their accuracy in estimating groundwater arsenic concentrations in >8,000 wells in Texas provided by Texas Water Development Board. We found that the degree of correlation between GIS-estimated and measured groundwater arsenic concentrations was marginally (p=0.054) higher with Kriging Gaussian (r=0.7784) than IDW (r=0.7460) interpolation for wells in the southwest part of Texas Panhandle, a hot-spot for arsenic. However, the correlation was significantly (p<0.004) better with IDW (r=0.6950) than Kriging Gaussian or Kriging Spherical interpolations (r=0.6682) for wells in whole Texas.


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I asked How to detect if a date is within this or next week in Java? but the answers were confusing, so now I think if I can find the past Sunday and the coming Sunday, any day in between is this week, and any day between the coming Sunday and the Sunday after that is next week, am I correct ?
So my new question is : How to get the past Sunday and the coming Sunday in Java ?


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Pallab Sanyal is an associate professor of information systems at the School of Business at George Mason University. He received his PhD in information and decision sciences, and MBA in management of information systems and finance from the Carlson School of Management at University of Minnesota. He also holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Indian Institutes of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India.
His primary research interest lies in understanding how people make decisions in complex economic institutions and how the decisions are influenced by the design choices of the institutions. His research has been published in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), and the Journal of Operations Management (JOM) among other outlets. He has presented his research at many international conferences, including ICIS, WISE, WITS and INFORMS-CIST. At WITS, his papers were twice nominated for the best paper award. Sanyal's dissertation research won the Design Science Research Award from the INFORMS Information Systems Society. He has also received the best reviewer award from the Information Systems Society and Information Systems Research (ISR). In 2014, Sanyal was nominated for the Mason Emerging Researcher Award at George Mason University.
Sanyal teaches IT management, data mining, networks and security, and database management to Executive MBA, MBA, and undergraduate students. He teaches both traditional face-to-face as well as fully online courses. He has received multiple teaching awards at University of Minnesota, and has been nominated for multiple teaching awards at George Mason University. In 2014, Sanyal received a George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award.
Prior to joining academia, Sanyal worked as an information technology (IT) consultant for nine years—in India, Singapore, the UK, and the US. His industry experience includes programming, systems design and implementation, project management, and business analytics.
Sanyal is a member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS), and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).