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Cadalyst Labs Review: Alias StudioTools 1331 Jan, 2006 By: IDSA ,Mike Hudspeth
The perennial preference of industrial designers gets even better.
Progress. Everyone Wants it. Politicians campaign on it. Successful products foster it. People say you can't stop it. So we might as well enjoy it! Alias has just released its latest version of Studio Tools, v13. With a mature product, the challenge for software designers is to make it easier to use without decreasing the power and functionality. There are always new features to add, but in the end it comes down to interface. The road toward progress is littered with software that was new and different, even better than anything else available, but that never succeeded because of a clunky interface. Alias, being a smart company, has watched such programs fall by the wayside and has learned from their mistakes. It has continually tried to improve its program, and StudioTools 13 is its best effort yet. For current users, this is a great release that will help you do what you've been doing with much greater ease and flash. New users just might find that their lucky number is 13.
Alias is aiming its products at what it calls the visually intelligent business—an organization that values being visually connected. Alias says successful companies are those that use design to develop product uniqueness, which it maintains brings market leadership and ultimately profit. Whether you agree or not, one thing is undeniable: Alias is a successful company. Almost every production automobile in the world is at least touched by one of its products at some point in its development. You can't argue with numbers. There has been much discussion of Autodesk's purchase of Alias. Though there's a certain amount of overlap between the two companies' products, as of this writing no major changes to the software have been made. On closing the deal in January, Autodesk said it plans to continue the development and support of Alias products. Its top priority is to link the existing products of both companies to increase interoperability and improve data management. Whatever happens, we hope that Alias will continue to provide tools to facilitate the design process for its customers.
Figure 1. RKS Guitars uses Alias StudioTools to design its classic guitars. Read the full story online at www.cadalyst.com/rks/.
For those who are just looking for the first time at Alias, it offers a suite of products designed to handle various tasks. DesignStudio (for fast concept creation), Studio (concept creation and production modeling), SurfaceStudio and AutoStudio (optimized for the automotive industry) are Alias' comprehensive industrial design products. Other modules are available, but these four do the lion's share of what most people are looking for. Visit the company Web site for full details.
Alias StudioTools 13
Workflow Interfaces
Separate workflow interfaces let users view and access only the commands that are active and make sense for what is being done. Workflow shelves organize design tools (figure 2). The Paint shelf includes tools for 2D image construction. It's basically a paint program. The Modeling shelf lets users construct 3D wire frame and surface models. The Visualization shelf is for viewing and rendering models in spectacular detail. Users can easily make their own customized shelf—a great way to create a workflow for individual users. Shelves can be organized with dividers, grouping tools together however it makes sense. It's also easy to create cascading menus that put a huge number of commands at users' fingertips.
Figure 2. Customizable workflow shelves give Alias StudioTools users access to just about any tool needed.
Dynamic Duo
Dynamic shape modeling is Alias' name for global shape modeling, which allows users to manipulate the entire model at once, or at least big chunks of it, by pushing and pulling to stretch and shape the model (figure 3). This allows very rapid design iterations.
Figure 3. Dynamic shape modeling lets users make wholesale changes to a model while maintaining surface continuity and model integrity, so edits go much faster.
There are two ways Alias StudioTools 13 lets users dynamically alter a model: with the lattice rig and the transformer rig. With the lattice rig, users can deform large portions of the model, or the whole thing, by creating a box around what needs to be changed. The designer edits the box, and the model goes along for the ride. It's similar to moving the poles on a spline. The transformer rig is more accurate. It works with existing and proxy surfaces to drive and constrain deformations, so users can chose exactly what to change and what to leave alone.
Symmetrical sketching is a great time saver—it lets users design a piece of a model and have it duplicate either by mirror or radially. The radial symmetry is really something to see (figure 4).
Figure 4. Don t model each mark on this watch—symmetrical sketching speeds model creation by letting users model like members only once.
High-quality renderings are one thing. To render interactively—that is to say, close enough to real time to not slow the designer down—is a whole new world. Obviously the computer's horsepower plays a role. Screen grabs can now be used because the quality of what is on screen has improved so much. Models will go from real to hyper real (figure 5).
Figure 5. As in prior versions, StudioTools 13 provides some of the industry s best rendering capability.
As a side note, I'm happy to see that Alias StudioTools 13 makes good use of 3Dconnexion SpaceBall support (www.3Dconnexion.com). This input device can really save time for a designer.
Some of the Other Modules
Alias Image Studio, Alias' high-end rendering package, uses premade materials and environments to make it easier for beginners to look like experts, and experts to work faster. Output can also be made into QuickTime VR and movies.
Have you ever played that game in a newspaper or magazine where you have to spot the dozen of so differences between two pictures that, side by side, are almost identical? Or have you ever had two images that look the same, but you know one is more recent than the other? PortfolioWall, Alias' design presentation program, now has a neatlittle feature that compares images, making it easy to see what may have changed.
Best to Date
Alias StudioTools v13 is the best version to date. It's easier to use than ever, looks better and delivers more power. Having basically real-time rendering is a massive plus! If you're in the market for a high-quality concept modeler that will fit right into your workflow, you need to look at Alias StudioTools 13.
About the Author: IDSA
About the Author: Mike Hudspeth
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New eyeglasses allow you to adjust prescription yourself
(Phys.org) -- A new kind of eyeglasses is now available from a British company that allows the wearer to adjust the prescription anytime, anywhere, via small thumb-dials on the sides. Called, Eyejusters, the glasses make use of a technology called a Slidelens, which very aptly describes how these glasses do their magic. Each lens is actually two lenses that have slightly different shapes; turning the thumb-dial causes one lens to move slightly left or right and that changes the focal point for the wearer. The lenses are moved until the person doing the focusing finds the sweet spot; which is exactly how users focus a pair of binoculars.
The web site for the Eyejusters says their main market is the developing world, where a lot of people with vision problems cant afford to see an eye doctor, much less the glasses that would be prescribed. Eyejusters solve both problems; when ordered, they come with an eye-chart that can be used to help discern if a persons vision can be corrected with Eyejusters (the power range is from +4.5 to 0 D (positive) and 0 to -5.0 D (negative)) and to figure out which version they need (for near or far vision correction).
The glasses were developed by four guys; Dave Crosby, Owen Reading, Richard Taylor and Greg Storey, who found a common interest in self-adjustable glasses and in the process created a company to fulfill the goal of providing low cost eyeglasses to the millions of people the world over who cannot afford a traditional pair. Their secondary market is for people who could use adjustable glasses for other than general use purposes, such as reading, working on a computer, knitting, i.e. for people as they get older and find they have trouble focusing while performing different tasks.
The Eyejusters, which come with detachable thumb-dials also come with a plastic case and special cleaning cloth. The cloth can be used to clean both sides of both lenses because the outer lens can be hinged down for easy access. The Eyejusters also offer UV protection, which has been incorporated to help prevent eye damage from the sun, another common problem in underdeveloped countries.
Another interesting aspect of the adjustable glasses is that it appears with a little tweaking, they could be used to perform self exams in more developed countries. By adding a digital display, the wearer could work out their own prescription and send it to a company that sells traditional eyeglasses, sidestepping an expensive trip to an ophthalmologist.
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6 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS PLANHave you become aware of The Nutritarian diet plan by Dr. Joel Fuhrman? It is method of eating where counting calories in fact doesn't count. Dr. Fuhrman created the entire plant based eating strategy as a means to aid individuals concentrate much more on being healthy in contrast to reducing weight. The diet regimen additionally assists in avoidance of many kinds of diseases, consisting of heart problem, cancer, type2 diabetes mellitus, among different autoimmune illness. How is the Nutritarian diet regimen different from comparable plant-based diet regimens?
There is a very fine line between 6 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS PLAN and other whole plant based diets. However, the Nutritarian diet was created to show people a better way of optimizing their intake of whole foods that have disease-fighting properties. Moreover, the diet also includes various sources of fat (nuts, avocadoes, and seeds), unlike other plant-based diets. 6 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS PLAN is also not fully vegan and includes some wild fish as well as fish oil for their essential fatty acids, DHA and EPA. Specific plants and vegetables such s beans, berries, orange and yellow veggies, onions, tomatoes and salads are encouraged in Dr. Fuhrman's Nutritarian diet.
6 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS PLAN Before and After effects/Weight Loss
All plant- based diet plans will probably lead to weight loss, and nutritarian is not any different. Since they focus on low -calorie, high fiber meals, you should be able to drop off a few pounds within several days. You should be able to see the Nutritarian diet before and after photos on the web just to have a glimpse of the diet's role in weight loss.
The 4 Tenets of the 6 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS PLAN
The foundation of 6 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS PLAN is based on four major principles; Nutrient density, Nutrient adequacy, Hormonal favorability and Toxic avoidance. Nutrient density simply means that the diet is not based on the number of calories but the quality of calorie intake. Kales and spinach top this list whereas sugary processed products like candy or soda contain a low nutrient density. Dr. Fuhrman's Nutritarian diet emphasizes on the essence of getting enough vitamins, zinc and iodine in your diet: also known as nutrient adequacy. Another important tenet in the Nutritarian diet before and after indulgence is the need to maintain hormonal balance. For instance, fibrous foods suppress the insulin-like growth factor (insulin growth factor activates cancer cells in the body). On the other hand, animal products such as meat and dairy can raise insulin growth factor which is why Dr. Fuhrman's diet does not have animal products. Toxic avoidance is only possible if
processed foods and animal products are eliminated. The Nutritarian diet comprises of whole, plant foods aimed at helping the body eliminate dietary toxins.
In a Nutshell…
If you have ever had the nutritarian diet before and after every meal you must include salad. In simpler terms, this diet may not be a walk in the park, but it's a healthy eating plan that's worth exploring. Start changing to vegetable-filled dinner, meatless lunch and within a few days your body will get used to it. Remember to speak to your doctor about 6 WEEK WEIGHT LOSS PLAN. Some foods like beans and onions may not go really well with your stomach. However, your body's digestive enzymes may help ease the discomfort. Lastly, always be conscious to your body's response and consult your doctor before starting a new diet.


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The deploy plugin is primarily used during the deploy phase, to add your artifact(s) to a remote repository for sharing with other developers and projects. This is usually done in an integration or release environment. It can also be used to deploy a particular artifact (e.g. a third party jar like Sun's non redistributable reference implementations).
As a repository contains more than the artifacts (POMs, the metadata, MD5 and SHA1 hash files...), deploying means not only copying the artifacts, but making sure all this information is correctly updated. It's the reponsibility of the deploy plugin.
To work, the deployment will require:
The information will be taken from the implied (or specified) pom and from the command line. The settings.xml file may also be parsed to retrieve user credentials.
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General instructions on how to use the Deploy Plugin can be found on the usage page. Some more specific use cases are described in the examples given below. Last but not least, users occasionally contribute additional examples, tips or errata to the plugin's wiki page.
In case you still have questions regarding the plugin's usage, please have a look at the FAQ and feel free to contact the user mailing list. The posts to the mailing list are archived and could already contain the answer to your question as part of an older thread. Hence, it is also worth browsing/searching the mail archive.
If you feel like the plugin is missing a feature or has a defect, you can fill a feature request or bug report in our issue tracker. When creating a new issue, please provide a comprehensive description of your concern. Especially for fixing bugs it is crucial that the developers can reproduce your problem. For this reason, entire debug logs, POMs or most preferably little demo projects attached to the issue are very much appreciated. Of course, patches are welcome, too. Contributors can check out the project from our source repository and will find supplementary information in the guide to helping with Maven.
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Keg Man
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Kristian Nairn - Hodor
The Lost Soul
When Halloween season rolled around I knew I had to get out and create something creepy. I contacted my friend Alora, who is always up for a good photoshoot idea. When I pitched the idea of a lost soul in the forest, she was immediately on board! We spent a couple hours getting her makeup and costume just right, then another 3 hours in the woods shooting various poses and scenes. This one was by far my favorite. Alora floating, like a possessed... lost soul in a haunted forest.
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Wednesday Addams, all grown up.
Model: Alaina Walker
Copyright 2014 - Thorpeland Photography
The Perfect Model - A family photo session.
Portraits: Bad Santa's
This portrait will always make me laugh. I had the honor of working with the guys and gals from Dirtbag Charities to photograph their "2017 North Texas Beerds" calendar featuring guys from many local breweries. It was a ton of fun!
Copyright Thorpe Griner
Boss Man
At number 14 of the "best of" is another portrait. It also turns out to be from another roller derby team photoshoot. This time The Elm Street Nightmares came to me with the idea for a creepy styled photo, with each of them wearing costumes or carrying props involving something which gives them nightmares. Now, I'm not sure what Joel... their coach, has nightmares over. But this portrait was by far one of my favorite of the year.
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CHARLOTTE, NC—Accepting his renomination at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden countered recent Republican criticisms by asserting that most Americans were indeed better off than they were four years ago, but he acknowledged that life still paled in comparison to that one "killer fucking" summer in 1987.
Dressed in a slightly ripped Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt, Biden tapped the top of an Icehouse tallboy, cracked it open, and then informed the 20,000 people in attendance that while the economy is no longer hemorrhaging jobs as it was in 2008, nothing, "not even that little trip I took to Thailand in '92," could ever live up to the unforgettable months of June through August 1987, when "the skirts were short, the brews were cold, and you couldn't walk 2 feet without stepping into some grade-A tang."
"Things are definitely better today than back in '08, but is this the summer of '87? Not a fucking chance," said Biden, reminiscing about his "prime seed-spreading days," when he was a carefree 44-year-old senator cruising the Delaware boardwalks in acid-washed Jordache jeans and his pink Sonny Crockett blazer. "Oh, man, that summer was one hell of a ride. I'd take off the T-tops, pack a cooler full of happy juice, and drive down the strip blasting G N' R."
"And it seemed like every night ended with a little skinny-dipping with one of those hot-to-trot lifeguards," continued Biden, making sure to reiterate that he was "tan from head to toe." "Didn't matter if they were legal or not. No one cared back then."
Biden, who reportedly hitchhiked to the convention and almost didn't make his speech on time because of some business he had to take care of in Greensboro, briefly touched upon how the economy had been moving in the right direction in recent months. However, he emphasized the nation would never see another string of weeks like the run in 1987 when he got "totally blitzed" on his buddy Blaze's deck nearly every night, tore donuts in the Food Lion parking lot after hours, and scored some "primo" seats for Great White's Once Bitten… Tour in Atlantic City.
In addition to the "all-night fiestas," Biden noted that the summer also included a welcome share of mellow nights spent passing a few jays around a beach bonfire with some "real laid-back compadres."
"The babes back then were a sight to behold," said Biden, recalling one particular "fiery redheaded number" named Starla who "showed [him] a thing or two" about where to get hot and heavy on the beach without the cops noticing. "They were everywhere—rollerblading in their tight little frosted jean shorts and bikini tops, or kicking back beachside with Van Halen's 5150 blasting on the boombox. And with my Trans Am purring, I had the pick of the litter."
"You could almost see their panties getting soaked when I'd rev the V8," Biden continued. "Drilled a few holes in the muffler to get that rumble that really gets their juices flowing. Wasn't exactly street legal, but it got me down and dirty more times than I can count."
While the vice president repeatedly referred to the summer of 1987 as "bitchin'" and "badass," he admitted the period was not entirely without hardship. Explaining that everyone "played it real damn loose back then," Biden said he had a brief HIV scare and things were definitely touch-and-go for a while.
Assuring delegates the incident blew over and it had been "smooth sailing" ever since, Biden informed the women in attendance that he was "100 percent clean and mean down there" and that they were all free to inspect for themselves.
"Nothing will ever match '87, but that shouldn't stop us from at least trying to relive some of that magic," the vice president said before draining his third beer of the evening and tossing the crumpled can on the stage. "So if anyone out there wants to keep that spirit alive, I'm declaring it ladies' night over at Rico's Cantina on Caldwell, and the Cuervo's on Uncle Joe."
Added Biden, "God bless you, and God bless the United States of America."


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Follow Friday - 31 Dec 2010
My recommendations this week. As usual, I normally pick one or two good posts from my week's readings, or left from the prior week! Hope they are useful or at least interesting to you, as well! If it is your first visit, even better! ;-)
I have previously mentioned posts by Dan Curis - Professional Personal Historian. This week I am recommending his "My Top 10 Posts of 2010." I'm pretty confident there is something useful for just about everyone in this list.
Have a Great New Year!
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By Chris Wright
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has written a book and, from the sound of the quotes that have been drip-dripping for the past few days, it's exactly the kind of book that you'd expect – namely, 300 pages documenting his innate greatness and comprehensively listing all the people he wants to kick into the middle of next week.
Sadly, Ibra's tome is not going to be translated into English for some reason, so we thought we'd bring you the best quotes that we've heard translated from the Swedish vernacular since 'Jar Är Zlatan' (I Am Zlatan) started circulating last week…
1. "I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
"The bike got stolen outside of the Rosengård swimming baths and Dad went there with his shirt open and sleeves rolled up. He's the kind of person that says: 'No one touches my kids! No one takes their stuff'. But not even a tough guy like him could do anything about it. Fido Dido was gone, and I was crushed."
2. "I felt like crap when I was sitting in the locker room with Guardiola staring at me like I was an annoying distraction, an outsider. It was nuts. He was a wall, a stone wall. I didn't get any sign of life from him and I was wishing myself away every moment with the team."
3. "Then Guardiola started his philosopher thing. I was barely listening. Why would I? It was advanced bullshit about blood, sweat and tears, that kind of stuff."
4. "Jose Mourinho is a big star…He's cool. The first time he met [my wife] he whispered to her: 'Helena, you have only one mission. Feed Zlatan, let him sleep, keep him happy!' The guy says what he wants. I like him."
5. "Mourinho is Guardiola's opposite. If Mourinho brightens up the room, Guardiola pulls down the curtains and I guessed that Guardiola now tried to measure himself with him."
6. "An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team."
7. "Lionel Messi is awesome. He's unbelievable, but I don't really know him. We are totally different. He came to Barça as a 13-year old. He's raised in that culture and has no problems with that 'school' shit. In the team, the play is all around him, pretty naturally actually. He's brilliant, but now I had arrived [at Barca] and scored more goals than him."
8. "It was a childhood dream [to play for Barca] and I was walking on air. It started well but then Messi started to talk. He wanted to play in the middle, not on the wing, so the system changed. I was sacrificed."
9. "I barely yelled at my teammates any more. Something had happened, nothing serious, not yet, but still. I became quiet and that's lethal, believe me. I have to be angry to play well. I have to scream and shout. Now I kept it in."
10. "I asked for a meeting with Guardiola – for a discussion, not an argument. I said I was being used in the wrong way and that they shouldn't have bought me if they wanted another type of player.
"I told him what a friend had said to me – 'you bought a Ferrari but drive it like a Fiat'. The chat seemed to go well but then Guardiola started to freeze me out."
11. "I would walk into a room; he would leave. He would greet everyone by saying hello, but would ignore me. I had done a lot to adapt – the Barca players were like schoolboys, following the coach blindly, whereas I was used to asking 'why should we?"
12. "At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous – it was no one's business what car I drive – so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene."
13. "(Guardiola) was staring at me and I lost it. I thought 'there is my enemy, scratching his bald head!'. I yelled to him: 'You have no balls!' and probably worse things than that.
"I added: 'You are shitting yourself because of Jose Mourinho. You can go to hell!'. I was completely mad. I threw a box full of training gear across the room, it crashed to the floor and Pep said nothing, just put stuff back in the box. I'm not violent, but if I were Guardiola I would have been frightened."
14. On reports of 'excessive behaviour' following Juventus' 2005 title win: "It was the fault of David Trezeguet, who made me do one drink of vodka after another. I slept in the bathtub. Now I hold my vodka much better."
15. When asked about Mario Balotelli's recent tomfoolery: "I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house."
(The last two quotes are lifted from a Gazzetta interview with Ibra conducted during his promo tour – though the questions were based on excerpts from the book)
While we're pretty sure 'Jar Är Zlatan' must touch on other subjects (surely there's at least one chapter dedicated to Gerard Pique?), it certainly seems that at least 80% of the book is just full-on Pep-bashing which, in theory, should make for a decent read.
And remember kids! Only set off fireworks at kebab stands!


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A new study by Wellesley College neuroscientists is the first to directly compare brain responses to faces and objects with responses to colors. The paper, by Bevil Conway, Wellesley Associate Professor of Neuroscience, and Rosa Lafer-Sousa, a 2009 Wellesley graduate currently studying in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program at MIT, reveals new information about how the brain's inferior temporal cortex processes information.
Located at the base of the brain, the inferior temporal cortex (IT) is a large expanse of tissue that has been shown to be critical for object perception. This region of the brain is commonly divided into posterior, central, and anterior parts, but it remains unclear as to whether these partitions constitute distinct areas. An existing, popular theory is that the parts represent a hierarchical organization of information processing, a notion that has previously been supported by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in monkeys. For their study, Conway and Lafer-Sousa used non-invasive fMRI to measure responses across the brains of rhesus monkeys to a range of different stimuli and obtained responses to images of objects, faces, places and colored stripes. "The technique enabled us to determine the spatial distribution of responses across the brain, and has been useful in figuring out how the visual brain is organized," Conway said.
Conway, a visual neuroscientist and artist, examines the way the nervous system processes color using physiological, behavioral, and modeling techniques. Conway and Lafer-Sousa assert that color provides a useful tool for tackling questions about processing in the IT region, as it has little "low-level" feature similarity with shapes (psychological work shows that color can be perceived independent of shape) -- therefore any relationship between color-responsive and shape-responsive regions should reflect fundamental organizational principles.
"Shape and color are both properties of objects and are processed by the parts of the brain known to be important for detecting and discriminating objects. However, the way this part of brain is organized has not been clear, for example, is color computed by different parts of this region than those that compute shape?" The answer to this question, Conway said, has deep implications for understanding the general computational principles used by the brain and how the brain evolved.
"Our work showed that, to a large extent, color and faces are handled by separate, parallel streams, and that these pieces of information are processed by connected, serial stages," Conway said. "One can imagine the processing as an assembly line, where some aspect of faces -- and some aspect of color -- is computed first. The output is then sent to another region downstream that makes a subsequent computation."
They hypothesized that the earliest stages in color processing involve detecting and discriminating hue, while the later stages compute color-memory association. For example, the brain may first compute that yellow is diagnostic of banana, then later, color categories are recognized; for example, limes, grass, and fern leaves are all "green."
"The most striking aspect of the study is what it reveals about the precision of the organization of the brain. We often think that because the brain consists of billions of neurons, that at some level it must be quite variable how the neurons are organized," Conway said. "The study shows that there is a remarkable precision in organization of the neural circuits for high-level vision, which will make tractable many questions bridging cognitive science and systems neuroscience."
As a visual artist, Conway said the aspect of the research he finds most satisfying is the beauty of the organizational patterns that, he said, are "clearly are the result of a set of underlying organizational principles." He continued, "It is interesting to think that the brain reflects what artists have long recognized: that color and shape can be decoupled, each represented somewhat independently -- think of color monochromes versus black-and-white line drawings. The neural architecture provides a reason why this is effective or possible."
The researchers note that it remains unclear whether the organizational principles found in humans apply to monkeys, an important issue that bears on cortical evolution. However, their results suggest that the IT comprises parallel, multi-stage processing networks subject to one organizing principle.
The work for the study began in 2008 at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The paper, "Parallel, multi-stage processing of colors, faces and shapes in macaque inferior temporal cortex" is available now in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
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After lifting off the plaster caps from last year, excavators went to work on the new sauropod. Luis is particularly interested in the creature's huge vertebral column for inclusion in the Museum's new dinosaur hall.
This large new sauropod is not the expedition's only focus, however. A separate arm of the team branched out to excavate one of this year's new finds—an articulated sauropod tail, found several miles away.
On these expeditions, everyone shares the hammer and chisel duty, but there are specialized roles. Doug Goodreau, the Dinosaur Institute Senior Preparator, is the crew chief, managing resources both human and non-human. He figures out who has what skills, how they can be teamed so those skills can be taught and shared, and all the logistics of equipment. Sometimes that means renting jackhammer or an air compressor. Sometimes that means driving into town and hiring a couple of guys to help with some lifting.
But there's another side of Doug: He has a night job as a freelance embalmer, specializing in the reconstruction of severely traumatized human remains at mortuaries throughout L.A. So as the bones are extracted, Doug is also charged with using polymer-based glue to keep them together—strengthening the specimens on site so they can be transported safely.
Dinosaur Institute illustrator Stephanie Abramowicz maps the quarries. She runs strings over the dig pits north and south, east and west, from a high point called the datum. That mark that will be there when the team returns next year, and it will guide their resumed excavation. But back at the Museum, the maps will be used when the specimens are curated, articulated, and written about, so that paleontologists will know where the bones were positioned in relation to each other. Without Stephanie's maps, the bones have no data, no context—they're just objects.
Curatorial Assistant Paige Johnson has organized the expedition, and somehow controlled the flow of colleagues and visitors coming in from all over the world to this remote spot. She manages the budgets; sweating the amount of money the team spends for provisions, for instance, or the right U-Haul rental deal.
Aisling Farrell is a former Dino Institute stalwart who's now a curatorial assistant at the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, and is here as a consultant. She has been in the field with Luis many times, she knows all the sites, she has an uncanny sense of direction, she loves prospecting and she never tires.
Susan Russak became a Natural History Museum docent in 2004, and then one day the NHM Volunteer Coordinator invited her up to the fourth floor paleontology lab. "I walked in, and that was it," Susan says. This is her third expedition in Utah.
The scientists from the American Museum have known Luis for years and been in the field with this team many times. They remark often—unsolicited—how impressive Luis' team is, how well its moving parts work, and how much fun they are, even under pressure.
So though there were many strong impressions during the trip, the overriding one was the focus of the paleontologists—and the way the desert seemed to unexpectedly feed their energy. One factor was the pressure of big excavation goals coming up against a ticking clock of limited trips and budgets. There's also the single-mindedness that comes when the cell phone doesn't get a signal and there's no TV for miles. But there was something else kicking around out here too, some kind of mojo, for lack of a better word, radiating out of the sage-brush dotted desert stretches that themselves, aren't outwardly kinetic.


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Bond girl Berenice Marlohe has played down reports she branded 007 star Daniel Craig "boring", insisting he has huge charisma.
The French actress hit headlines earlier this year (12) when she reportedly stated she believed her Skyfall co-star was "very boring" until they met, but Marlohe has now spoken out to insist she was wrongly quoted.
She tells British magazine You, "I was misquoted. What I said was that sometimes very good-looking men lack personality. But when I met Daniel I saw such a beautiful and bold human being. Daniel has beauty but he also has charisma and a great sense of humour.
"I think what I was trying to say is that women are not always so attracted to the physical appearance of a man, they are attracted to the magic they have inside. Daniel has magic inside."


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Edited by David Ahl, published 1976
Table of Contents (brief | detailed)
Cover - 2nd edition
Cover - 1st edition
Title page
About the Editor
Copyright information
Preface to the 2nd Edition
Volume 1 Cover Art
Table of Contents
Birth of a Magazine
A Computer in the Classroom?
Is Breaking Into A Timesharing System a Crime?
Where Are We Going?
Computers in Education
What's Wrong With the Little Red Schoolhouse?
How to Cope With Your Computer
Recent Trends in Mathematics Curriculum Research
Exper Sim: Experimental Simulation
Monty Python meets Monte Cristo or French Disconnection
IFIP Conference Report
The Parable of the Horse
Technical Transport Problems
Conduit Documentation Guideline
Statewide Pools May Not Yield Expected Results
Adding up calculators
Hard Core CAI
PLATO IV System Progress Report on Field Testing
TICCIT System Progress Report on Field Testing
PLANIT: The Portable CAI System
A Computer Career for You?
Career Education. Will It Last?
1974 Data Processing Salary Survey
Key to Your Future?
Profile of an Industry
Computers and the Weather
Computer Simulation of the Atmosphere
Weather Forecasting Applications
Relativity for computers: All arithmetic
Mr. Spock's 7th Sense
Satellites and computers help manage Earth's Resources
Programming and Languages
Structured Programming
On Computer Languages
Toward a Human Computer Language
Learning about Smalltalk
Eclectic Programming Languages
"Very Good. Please Continue." A New Approach to Testing
Computer Impact on Society
The Computer Threat to Society
Digital Calculators - Then And Now
The Computer: Threat to Society?
Putting Teeth Into Privacy Legislation
Industry Leaders Testify at Government Privacy Hearings
Record-keeping in the Space Age
How One Computer Manufacturer Looks at the Data Privacy/Security Issue
Survey of Public Attitudes Toward Computers in Society
NBS Privacy Conference
How Much Privacy Should You Have?
Memoirs of an Ex-Social Security Number Giver
Crime, Cops, Computers
Prosecutor Management Information System
A Computerized Criminal Justice System
Embezzler's Guide to the Computer
Credit Card Crooks
Waiting for the Great Computer Rip-Off
Computer Abuse: The Need for a Rational Perspective
Doomsday, Says MIT Computer, May Be Just 100 Years Away
Why Supermarkets Are Going Bananas Over Computers
Community Memory: A Public Information Network
The Fascinating Computer
Turning On With Computer Art
New Communications Media
Computer Cartoons
Building a Computer of Your Own
Daddy and His Computer
The Life and Times of Multivac
Time and Again, and Overtime
Poems by Peter Payack
Cat face ASCII Art
We're Losing Our War Against Computers
Genesis Release 2.5
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Fractionated People
Test For System Analysts
Confess: A Humanistic Prescriptive Computer Program to Decrease Person to Person Interaction Time During Confession
The Guinness Book of Computer Records
Trots and Bonnie
Draw the Bug From the Computer and Win Prizes
Nicholas Copernicus
Evelyn Roth
Nolan Bushnell- Father of PONG
PILOT 73 Information Exchange
Playing PONG to Win
CoEvolution Quarterly
Introducing Computer Recreations Corp.
Your Own Computer?
Lies, Lies, Lies
Creative Computing Compendium
Flying Buffalo
Cows and Computers
Compleat Computer Catalogue
A National Computers in Education Conference?
Public Access Questionnaire
Still a Few Bugs in the System
Students Stuff the Contest Box
Computer-Generated Super-8 Movies
NSF Awards
Hewlett-Packard's Computer Curriculum Project
Can You Solve The Energy Crisis?
Good Things From Oregon
Sexism in Computers
Computers Help Watch For Corn Blight
Problems for Creative Computing
Tac Tix and the Complications for Fallibility
Puzzles and Problems for Fun
Palindromes: For Those Who Like to End at the Beginning
Computing Factorials Accurately
Puzzles and Problems for Fun
AEDI, MUTAB, NEDA, and SOGAL
Puzzles and Problems for Fun
Reading, Writing, and Computing
Probability and Compounding
Doubling Up
Puzzles and Problems for Computers and Humans
Pythagorean Triples
Pocket Calculator Tricks
Puzzle: People and Cabins and Thinkers' Corner
Activities to Begin With
Turtle Geometry Without Hardware
The 10 Cent Computer and Other Games
Beginning with BASIC
Odd or Even? and Cryptic Puzzle
Alphabet Statistics
Programming Problems to Start With
Sports Special
So You Think You Know BASIC?
You Don't Need a Computer for These
Learning, Innovation, and Animals
Computers in the English Curriculum
Surveys, The Census, and Privacy
Life Auction
Computers in Road Building
What Do You Value?
Fairy Tales Can Come True...It Depends on You
You Are A Businessman
Technology... Doomsday For Individualism?
More Advanced Activities
The Automobile and Air Pollution
Computer-Based Experiments in Cognitive Psychology
People-picture of megalopolis
The JOURNALISM Programs: Help for the Weary Writer
Shorthand Instruction via Computer
A Universal Word Game in BASIC
Dynamic Modeling Using Fortran IV
Call for Games
Hunt The Wumpus
Depth Charge
Not One
Civil War
Rabbit Chase
Magic Square
ASCII art of Mr. Spock
Super Star Trek
Book and Game Reviews
Education and Ecstasy
Man and the Computer
Survival Printout
Equations: The Game of Creative Mathematics, Instructional Math Play, On-Words
On-Sets game
Space Hop: A Game of the Planets
BASIC in a Flash
II Cybernetic Frontiers
The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education
Computers in the Classroom
Learning for Tomorrow: The Role of the Future in Education
Electric Media
Computers and Young Children
Computer Poems
Background Math for a Computer World
The Electronic Brain: How it Works
Six Books on Computer Literacy
Computers: Tools for Today
Computers and Society
Getting Started in Classroom Computing
Computers and You
Computer-Assisted Instruction Project Final Report
Snobol: An Introduction To Programming
Business Data Processing I
How To Survive in Your Native Land
The Digital Villain: Notes on the Numerology, Parapsychology, and Metaphysics of the Computer
Databanks In A Free Society: Computers, Record-Keeping and Privacy
The Terminal Man
The Electronic Criminals
Freedom's Edge: The Computer Threat To Society
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Eco-Spasm Report
Computers in Society: The Wheres, Whys, and Hows of Computer Use
Principles of Systems
World Dynamics
Reviews of 34 Books on BASIC
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"After you've locked your keys in your car what else is there to do?"
The Renaissance marked a cultural period in history where human beings paused from all their rutting and decided to use their noggin. World leaders and church officials protested this time out from the world's greatest pastime to no avail. Syphilis and the black plague were starting to take it's toll gosh darn it, and ninety seconds of pleasure just wasn't worth it anymore. What do you mean your sister told you it lasted ten seconds?! No, it was at least sixty.
Italian Renaissance[edit]
Italy is where the Renaissance started with Galileo's ascent up phallic symbols to drop his iron balls, and Pico de Gallo of the Medici gang talking smack with Niccolo Machiavelli. Other east/west coast factions also got into the act thus propagating the creation of new artful ways to taunt or otherwise demean rivals. If Cesare Borgia could name a salad after himself, well then by golly its your duty as Botticelli to paint your girlfriends friends like goddesses with huge bust lines and outrageous curves. Copernicus tried to get many back on track with his Femalecentric theory but people weren't listening. Chicks like Isabella d'Este were paying the bills and if the lady wants a painting by Titian and Da Vinci then she gets it. The Vitruvian Man was a popular courtier of the period, with his theory that people secretly own a second pair of arms and legs.
Competition between artists and patrons thrived. The bulges behind fig leaves of statues increased until artists lost track of what they were hiding in the first place. Is it a twig and berries, or is it the whole tree? Celibacy started to catch on and the Renaissance spread throughout Europe.
Cliff Notes Section[edit]
The Renaissance occurred between the periods of the Sacrificed Ages and the Reformation block of fire. All you need to really know is that printing, a few smart guys paid by smarter women accelerated the cultural course of humankind.
Copycat Renaissances[edit]
Not to be outdone by their Italian counterparts, men with exotic sounding names answered the call of the Renaissance and also, according to my writing guide, the cliché. The Shakespeares, Keplers, and Van Der Weydens of the world took this opportunity to further distance themselves from the Smiths, Joneses, and Johnsons of their neighborhoods. Motives change but the bottom line was that everyone wants to get
laid paid. Whether it be Milton writing episodes of Paradise Lost, or Jan Brueghel the Elder teaching his son how to exploit wealthy patrons- "Yes, its supposed to look like a bunch of wilted flowers sitting perfectly still."
An upstart named Erasmus began to criticize the Catholic Church for its excesses. Especially when he was making two florins an hour sweeping up for King Charles. Erasmus was famous for the motto of the European Renaissance- "In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King, and the two eyed man gets all the chicks."
Renaissance in the New World[edit]
A "Renaissance" in the new world consisted mostly of bad art. Pillaging and conquering by our friends the Spaniards also took place in Central America. Whatever was left unraped they wrapped up to go for later raping. Pizzaro, Cortez, and others made Charles V a billionaire with all the loot and booty they could steal from the Incas, and Aztecs. Royalties would later be paid to the Mexican government for use of those names on several football teams.
Mexican Renaissance Festival[edit]
|Human history and prehistory
|↑ before Homo (Pliocene)
|see also: Modernity, Futurology
Today the Renaissance is celebrated in many corners of the world at your local flea market, oft termed the "Mexican Renaissance Festival". Some consider this nomenclature offensive, but those people aren't shopping for a suitcase the size of a fridge ($30) or a Manchester United soccer jersey ($35). A popular place to let your kids wander free while one considers a tattoo, an airbrushed t-shirt, or both for those who wish to splurge and spend fifty bucks. Some of the most popular MRF's are held in Los Angeles where gangs reenact rivalry on the Iberian peninsula.
Examples of classical Renaissance art and culture[edit]
Raphael... One of the greatest painters and architects of the Renaissance era. His green pigmentation is due to leprosy.


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An open and frank debate about BDS against Israel in Australia is long overdue. Crikey blog This Blog Harms invited five people to write 1000 words on the issue. This is my contribution:
The logic of… boycott, divestment and sanctions… (BDS) didn't appear to me immediately. When my first book,… My Israel Question, was released in 2006, the issue was barely raised, despite Palestinian civil society… launching its call in 2005… "against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights."
The vast majority of Israeli Jews claimed to be in constant fear of Palestinian terrorism despite living relatively free lives in a society that increasingly made Palestinians invisible. Palestinians under occupation were disillusioned with their leaders and after more than a decade of fruitless negotiations with Israel, the Oslo period, longed to be free.
But now, with Israel a state that even more brazenly boasts a… fundamentalist… Jewish minority as representing true Zionism, BDS is an essential tool to harm Israel's economic and moral fibre.… In the words… of American Jewish dissident Philip Weiss, founder of the website… Mondoweiss, "Israel isn't good for the Jews anymore." Most importantly, Palestinians under occupation are making this call, not a Diaspora attempting to impose a distorted vision onto them.
BDS is a key weapon to de-normalise the relationship between both the globalised economy and Israel and the constructed emotional ties that allegedly bond Israel and the West. Witness Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard… recently tell… an event sponsored by National Australia Bank that, "We are two countries separated by distance, but united by values. Liberal democracies that seek freedom and peace."
An… ever-expanding… 44-year-old occupation is a strange way to crave freedom and peace.
It is the only the New South Wales Greens who are brave enough, despite a year of intense… Murdoch media bullying… and Jewish community pressure, to… maintain in principle support for BDS… and examine ways to "actively support the [Federal] Australian Greens position, including that the Australian government… halt military cooperation and military trade with Israel." This is a proudly BDS position, wherever the Greens call it this or not.
Israel/Palestine is not a balanced conflict, with two equal sides fighting over land, rights and dignity. It is,… writes leading Israeli publisher of… Haaretz, Amos Schocken, "a strategy of territorial seizure and apartheid. It ignores judicial aspects of territorial ownership and shuns human rights and the guarantees of equality enshrined in Israel's Declaration of Independence."
Although he doesn't mention BDS, it is impossible to undermine daily, creeping oppression with yet more "negotiations" between Israel and the Palestinians while Washington remains… Israel's lawyer.
BDS is the non-violent weapon wielded to show Israel and its global backers that business as usual is unacceptable.
BDS makes many Jews distinctly uncomfortable, with wild claims that this is exactly the same tactics used by Nazis in Germany in the 1930s against Jewish businesses. It is nothing of the sort. Jews are not being targeted but businesses that directly support the Zionist state or receive funding from it. Israeli chocolate shop Max Brenner is a… legitimate target… because it proudly supports the IDF, an army complicit in daily human rights abuses.
Zionist cheapening of anti-Semitism has become endemic from… seeing Nazis in inner Sydney… protesting outside Max Brenner to… American critics of neo-conservative… plans to bomb Iran.
Despite these smears, BDS is… growing globally… because Israeli actions against Palestinians inside Israel proper and the occupied territories is becoming more repressive and outwardly racist. The litany of… exclusionary legislation… before the Israeli Knesset, some of which are being pushed by so-called "moderates", rises weekly. BDS sends a message to these Israelis and Diaspora supporters who either remain silent or simply mouth platitudes about a two-state solution. It is designed to make blind backers uncomfortable and defensive.
It's being grimly amusing to watch liberal Zionists in Australia and beyond… express displeasure with BDS, arguing it is too inflammatory and extreme and ostracises potential allies inside Israel (namely Jews, as Palestinian allies are less important in their worldview). In fact, the opposite is true and BDS forces two-state advocates and fence-sitters to explain how their sclerotic process will do anything to advance peace in the Middle East.
BDS is the enemy of the status-quo and liberal Zionists in Australia, including Monash University's… Mark Baker… and… Philip Mendes, are paralysed in wishfully thinking the Israeli government will suddenly believe the Palestinians are worthy of being given a state. They recoil at BDS because they despise one part of an outcome that aims to bring true democracy for all citizens inside Israel and Palestine – the… one-state solution… – something a two-state result can never achieve. If not BDS to tell Israel that its Western-backed racism and occupation is illegal under international law, then what tactic? They have no answers, and desperately cling to an emotional claim as post-Holocaust children. This is no way to ensure rights in the 21st… century, if it ever was.
BDS isn't the answer to all the Palestinian needs. It is one part of a bigger struggle currently underway inside Palestine itself and the Palestinian Diaspora; a worldwide campaign that doesn't rely on leaders to beg Israel for scraps or a state or rights. Popular, non-violent resistance, BDS and readdress for Palestinian refugees are… key initiatives… that must be supported to liberate both Palestinians and Israelis.
BDS is causing economic and sociological harm to the Zionist state, and this is something to celebrate. Were enlightened citizens of the world during South African apartheid asked to feel sorry for whites that ruled the blacks with an iron fist? Of course not, and BDS doesn't aim to comfort the jarred nerves of Israelis or Diaspora Zionists.
It is about addressing a decades-old matrix of control that has only survived because of Diaspora Jewry funding and morally arming the Zionist state.
Antony Loewenstein is a Sydney-based… independent journalist and author… who has written for The Guardian, Haaretz, The Nation, Sydney Morning Herald and many others. His two best-selling books are My Israel Question and The Blogging Revolution. He is currently working on many projects, including a book about vulture capitalism, a book on the Left in contemporary politics and another title on Israel/Palestine.


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Think you can guess the No. 1 threat to the security of your stored data? If you said hackers, or even trouble-making insiders, you'd be wrong. While malicious threats are an ongoing concern, it's your well-meaning employees who are more likely to unknowingly expose your company's stored data through, say, a file-sharing network or a misplaced laptop.
In fact, a recent Ponemon Institute study found that negligent insiders are by far the biggest threat to data security, accounting for 78 percent of all breaches.
[ Frustrated by your PC support? You're not alone. Get answers from Christina Tynan-Wood in InfoWorld's Gripe Line blog and newsletter. ]
In this special report, you'll learn the latest techniques for protecting stored data within company walls as well as stored data that flows freely in and out of your organization on laptops, tapes and other movable media.
And don't forget to take the Storage Networking Industry Association's storage security self-assessment quiz and test how well your stored data is protected. Plus, brush up on storage terms with SNIA's online glossary and resource guide.
Data breaches, unfortunately, have become a way of life for corporate America. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), 2008 saw a 47 percent increase in documented data breaches from the year before. And those are just the ones that made the news, says Craig Muller, an identity theft expert and founder of Identity Doctor in Irvine, Calif. "I get e-mails constantly telling me of breaches," he says.
The public is definitely feeling the pain. In a 2008 study by the Ponemon Institute in Traverse City, Mich., over half (55 percent) of 1,795 adult respondents across the United States said they'd been notified of two or more data breaches in the previous 24 months, and 8 percent said that they'd received four or more notifications.
But companies are still not sure how to protect themselves. In a Ponemon survey released last month, only 16 percent of the 577 security professionals who responded said that they were confident or very confident that current security practices could prevent the loss or theft of customer or employee data.
One way to gain confidence is to examine actual breaches and learn from them. Here's a look at five common types of breaches, with advice about how to avoid similar mishaps.
1. Stolen equipment
In May 2006, personal data on 26.5 million veterans was compromised when a laptop and a storage disk were stolen from the home of a subcontractor working for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Both items were recovered, and arrests were made. The FBI claimed that no data had been stolen, but the incident prompted sweeping reform at the VA. However, in January 2007, another breach occurred when a laptop was stolen from an Alabama medical facility, exposing personal data on 535,000 veterans and more than 1.3 million physicians.
Costs: By June 2006, the VA was burning through $200,000 a day to operate a call center to answer questions about the breach. It also spent $1 million to print and mail notification letters. It was given permission to reallocate up to $25 million to pay for those costs. Class-action lawsuits were also filed, including one demanding $1,000 in damages for each person affected. After the 2007 breach, the VA set aside an additional $20 million for breach-related costs. And the department recently agreed to pay $20 million to current and former military personnel to settle a class-action lawsuit.
Blinders: Lost or stolen equipment accounts for the largest portion of breaches -- about 20 percent in 2008, says the ITRC. According to Bart Lazar, a partner in the Chicago office of law firm Seyfarth Shaw, incidents involving lost or stolen laptops make up the majority of data-breach cases he works on.
Eye-openers: Lazar recommends restricting the placement of personal identifying information on laptops. For instance, don't tie customer or employee names to other identifiers, such as Social Security or credit card numbers; alternatively, you can truncate those numbers. Also, consider creating your own unique identifiers by, for example, combining letters from an individual's last name with the last four digits of his Social Security number.
Second, require personal information on laptops to be encrypted, despite the potential cost ($50 to $100 per laptop) and performance hit that involves, says Lazar. This needs to be accompanied by consciousness-raising, says Blair Semple, storage security evangelist at NetApp Inc. and vice chairman at the Storage Networking Industry Association's Storage Security Industry Forum. "I've seen situations where people had the capability to encrypt but didn't," he says. "Scrambling the bits is the easy part; it's the management and deployment that's hard."
Third, Lazar recommends policies requiring very strong passwords to protect data on stolen devices.
2. Insider theft
In November 2007, a senior database administrator at Certegy Check Services, a subsidiary of Fidelity National Information Services, used his privileged access to steal records belonging to more than 8.5 million customers. He then sold the data to a broker for $500,000, and the broker resold it to direct marketers. The employee was sentenced to over four years in jail and fined $3.2 million. According to company officials, no identity theft occurred, although affected consumers received marketing solicitations from the companies that bought the data.
In another high-profile case, a 10-year veteran scientist at DuPont downloaded trade secrets valued at $400 million before leaving the company in late 2005 to join a competitor in Asia. According to court records, he used his privileged access to download about 22,000 document abstracts and view about 16,700 full-text PDF files. The documents covered most of DuPont's major product lines, including some emerging technologies. The scientist did this while in discussions with the competitor and for two months after accepting the job. He was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, fined $30,000 and ordered to pay $14,500 in restitution.
Costs: In DuPont's case, the estimated value of the trade secrets was more than $400 million, although the government pegged the company's loss at about $180,500 in out-of-pocket expenses. There was no evidence that the confidential information was transferred to the competitor, which cooperated in the case.
According to Semple, theft of customer information is nearly always more costly than theft of intellectual property. In Certegy's case, a 2008 settlement provided compensation of up to $20,000 for certain unreimbursed identity theft losses for all class-action plaintiffs whose personal or financial information was stolen.
Blinders: Nearly 16 percent of documented breaches in 2008 were attributed to insiders, says the ITRC; that's double the rate of the year before. One reason for this increase is that employees are being recruited by outsiders with ties to crime -- a trend that accounts for half the insider crimes committed between 1996 and 2007, according to the CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
Insiders commit crimes for two reasons, CERT says: financial gain (as in the Certegy case) and business advantage (as in the DuPont case). In the latter, criminal activities usually start when the employee resigns, CERT says, but the thefts typically occur after they depart, having left secret access paths to the data they want.
Insider threats are among the hardest to manage, Semple says, especially when the workers use privileged access.
Eye-openers: A good precaution is to monitor database and network access for unusual activity and set thresholds representing acceptable use for different users, CERT says. That makes it easier to detect when an employee with a particular job designation does something beyond his normal duties. For instance, DuPont discovered the illegal activity because of the scientist's unusually heavy usage of its electronic data library server.
If you suspect that a breach has occurred, CERT says it's important to act quickly in order to minimize the chance of information being disseminated and to give law enforcement agencies a chance to start investigating the case.
Companies should also implement role-based access-control tools to maintain a high level of accountability over who is accessing valuable assets, Lazar says. Databases containing customer or employee information should allow very limited access. "How many people, on a daily basis, need to review Social Security numbers and addresses without permission?" he says. "Personal information should be protected at the same level as trade secrets."
Muller recommends using data loss prevention tools to restrict personal data from being e-mailed, printed, or copied onto laptops or external storage devices. Some of these tools provide alerts that inform administrators when someone tries to copy personal data and create a log file of such an event. "In a lot of cases, companies don't have proper audit trails in place," he says.
It's also important to strengthen internal controls and audit measures by, for example, implementing iterative checks on network and database activity logs, Semple says. It's not enough to keep detailed logs; you also need audit measures in place to see if anyone has modified a log or illegally accessed it. "Unless there's some way to verify the log information wasn't tampered with, it's hard to know it's of value," he says.
But in the end, technology isn't enough. "You need to find a way to ensure users you trust are worthy of that trust," Semple says.
3. External intrusion
In January 2007, retailer The TJX Companies reported that its customer transaction systems had been hacked. The intrusions -- which occurred between 2003 and December 2006 -- gave hackers access to 94 million customer accounts. Stolen information was found to have been used in an $8 million gift-card scheme and in a counterfeit credit card scheme. In the summer of 2008, 11 people were indicted on charges related to the incident, which was the largest hacking and identity theft case the U.S. Department of Justice has ever prosecuted.
Costs: TJX has estimated the cost of the breach at $256 million. That includes the cost of fixing computer systems and dealing with litigation, investigations, fines and more. It also includes payments to Visa ($41 million) and MasterCard ($24 million) for losses they incurred. The Federal Trade Commission has mandated that the company undergo independent third-party security audits every other year for the next 20 years.
However, others expect that costs may rise to $1 billion, which would include the costs of legal settlements and lost customers. According to an April 2008 Ponemon study, 31 percent of a company's customer base and revenue source terminates its relationship with an organization following a data breach. And in its recently released annual "Cost of a Data Breach" study, Ponemon found that breaches cost companies $202 per compromised customer record last year, compared with $197 in 2007. Costs associated with lost business opportunities represented the most significant component of the increase. The average cost of a data breach in 2008 was $6.6 million, compared with $6.3 million in 2007.
Blinders: According to a 2008 Ponemon study, data breaches by hackers rank a distant fifth in terms of security threats. Indeed, about 14 percent of documented breaches in 2008 involved hacking, according to the ITRC. That doesn't mean companies shouldn't be wary, however. In TJX's case, hackers infiltrated the system by "war driving" and hacking into the company's wireless network. TJX was using subpar encryption, and it had failed to install firewalls and data encryption on computers using the wireless network. This enabled the thieves to install software on the network to access older customer data stored on the system and intercept data streaming between handheld price-checking devices, cash registers and the store's computers.
Eye-openers: According to Muller, the WEP encryption that TJX used on its wireless network was insufficient -- weaker even than what many home users have. "If from the parking lot you can gain access to the database, you need a higher level of data security and data encryption," he says. TJX had also stored old account information instead of permanently deleting it, Muller says.
4. Negligent employees
The spouse of a telecommuting Pfizer employee installed unauthorized file-sharing software on the worker's company laptop, enabling outsiders to gain access to files containing the names, Social Security numbers, addresses and bonus information of about 17,000 current and former Pfizer employees. An investigation revealed that about 15,700 people had their data accessed and copied by people on a peer-to-peer network, and another 1,250 may have had their data exposed. Because the system was being used to access the Internet from outside of Pfizer's network, no other data was compromised. (Read about how to teach your employees, by job function, to guard against attacks.)
Costs: Pfizer contracted for a "support and protection" package from a credit-reporting agency, which includes a year's worth of free credit-monitoring service for those affected and a $25,000 insurance policy covering costs that individuals might incur as a result of the breach.


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As of yesterday (3/16/10), users of PubMed have more options for customizing the display of their search results using MyNCBI. According to an editor's note added to the March 12, 2010 technical bulletin:
The current default in PubMed displays multiple items in the Summary format, 20 per page, and sorted by items recently added at the top. To change this, access My NCBI, click on "PubMed Preferences," then "Result Display Settings."
"The Krafty Librarian" blog correctly points out some of the shortcomings of this system in general:
The folks over at NCBI, NLM, and everybody else tinkering with PubMed to make it "more user friendly" for average users fail to realize the name MyNCBI means absolutely nothing to the average user. The average user is used to MyCart, MyFolder, MyResults, MySaved, etc. Think Amazon.com, that is what people are used to using, not cutesy names for things like MyNCBI. They don't think MyNCBI is where they save stuff and where they can save filters for more tailored results. I think you would get more average people using the very strong MyNCBI features if you labeled it something else. Heck I would venture to guess most "average" users don't even know about filters because they are hidden behind MyNCBI.
The next step that NLM could and should take in this area is to make the system sensitive to institutional users. Every online service wants you to create your own myWhatever account: iGoogle, myYahoo!, etc. Why not allow for institutions to set the display preferences for search results? The Eccles Health Sciences Library can link PubMed search results to full-text items in its collection, but the end-user has to be trained to manually change the display settings from "Summary" to "Abstract" to see these results. This presents the user with icons that link to our collection. If a user searches PubMed from an institution such as ours it should automatically display links to full-text within our collection.


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Golden Gate Canyon State Park supports over 35 miles of multi-use trails across 12,000 acres ranging from 7,600' to 10,400'. The Burro Trail circles the southeast flank of Windy Peak, a well positioned summit in the northeast corner of the Park. Visitors will enjoy remarkable views across numerous valleys, meadows and mountain ranges, varied terrain and good wildlife viewing opportunities throughout.
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A string of rolling mountains frame the eastern portion of the Burro Loop
Panoramic views from Windy Peak (9,132')
Views of the Gore Range from Windy Peak
The Burro Trail winds through the green hillsides of Golden Gate Canyon State Park
Tall grass, mixed pine and perrenial streams make the Burro Trail rife with wildlife
Western Wallflower and other wildflowers flourish on the Burro Trail
A wet winter and healthy spring rains provide good conditions for Golden Gate's hallmark meadows
Near the Bridge Creek Trailhead, the trail ascends through a dense mixed pine forest
As the Burro Trail rises in elevation, the high peaks become visible
More views from the Windy Peak summit
The trail enters a beautiful grove of lodgepole pine before the Windy Peak split
Looking west from the Windy Peak summit


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Roger Goodell suspended Saints head coach Sean Payton for the entire 2012 season today. Of course he did. After all, what better way to get sportswriter after sportswriter to bow down in AWE of your far-reaching authority than to hand down a wildly severe punishment to someone who dares defy the commissioner's office? Look at all these fucking sheep falling in line.
The NFL has gone out of its way in recent years to protect its players from injury, but commissioner Roger Goodell took that message to a new level Wednesday.
The NFL and Goodell are not playing around when it comes to player safety. So while Payton, Williams, Loomis, Vitt and the Saints organization as a whole are all are paying a dear price, they are collateral damage to a greater cause.
The front page of FOX's NFL site:
Peter King also professed to be "stunned" by the suspension, which is perfect because Peter King is shocked by everything. Then there's Goodell's statements on the matter itself:
Clearly, we were lied to.
And there's the root of the problem. It's not just that the Saints had a bounty system in place (as the NFL quietly ignores reports of the practice being widespread). It's that they dared to undermine the commissioner, who wants his control over the NFL to be total and who wants everyone to parrot the line of "player safety" in a sport that is inherently unsafe, extremely so. By getting everyone on board with this messaging, Goodell sidesteps the rather obvious conclusion that he's handing down severe punishments to avoid future litigation.
This was a punishment designed to send a message that Roger Goodell is kind of guy who likes sending messages. In the process, he's ruined the Saints' 2012 season, and he's even gotten morons like Clark Judge to demand that Sean Payton lose his job entirely.
This could've been avoided had Loomis only listened to his owner, but he didn't. So fire the guy. You heard me. Fire him. He disregarded an order from the boss, and look what happened.
Damn straight. In the NFL, if you don't do exactly as you're told, and you dare to subvert the established chain of command, well, then that earns you the death penalty. Goodell's punishment is about letting the world know that the NFL is the kind of league that keeps all its rogue elements in control. There will be no disobeying. There will be no players running amok like those spoiled children in the NBA. There will be no BAD MEN. This whole bounty system occurred not as an inevitable byproduct of hyper violent competition, but because the Saints were BAD MEN. So Goodell will rid the NFL of violence forever (You can watch again, Frank Bruni!) and absolve themselves of legal liability by disposing of all the bad men.
The NFL is a drill-sergeant father to everyone, and anyone who makes it seem otherwise pays the ultimate price. This is the kind of punishment that gets handed down with the goal of getting old white fans sitting in their rockers to nod in vigorous approval. Because thanks to the authority invested in him by God, Goodell's gonna do everything he can to make the NFL the cleanest and least violent violent sport that has ever been. And his disciples in the media are more than happy to take his shit and eat it. Roger Goodell is the commissioner not just of football, but of America's moral fiber. He's what Gregg Easterbrook would be if Gregg Easterbrook were commissioner, and he's the fucking worst.


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DCCC reserves $1.65 million from national funds, NRCC pledges $1.6 million to Bilbray
It's the end of July, and some important political races in San Diego are beginning to heat up. Two polls released yesterday started to bring both the San Diego mayoral race and the 52nd District Congressional race into focus for the general election campaign.
According to a report by Roll Call, a Washington, DC based publication, the race between Democratic Challenger Scott Peters and Republican incumbent Brian Bilbray is a dead heat with each candidate receiving 40% of the projected vote. The poll showed a significant 19% of those questioned as undecided.
In a sign of just how seriously national Democrats are taking this race, it was announced yesterday that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has committed $1.65 million to Scott Peters in his effort to unseat Republican incumbent 52nd District in San Diego. That will match the $1.6 million the National Republican Congressional Committee has committed to aid Bilbray. The NRCC has dedicated $4.7 million in total to protect seats in play in both San Diego and Sacramento.
Bilbray is viewed as one of the most vulnerable Republicans running for reelection to Congress, and the seat is viewed as one of the key races in the Democrats' longshot effort to retake a majority in the lower chamber. Redistricting has made the race particularly enticing for national Dems, since Bilbray was moved from his former 50th district where Republicans held a nearly 10 point registration advantage to a district where the Republican advantage is narrowed to three percentage points. With 27% of the district registered as "decline to state" and the polls even at 40% apiece, the race is anybody's to win at this point.
The NRCC has already reserved $1.6 million in television advertising on Bilbray's behalf, and the Peters campaign said last week that they had reserved $1.5 million in ads themselves. It is unclear as of now whether the DCCC money will be used in addition to what the campaign has already committed, or if the campaign will apply it to their already established ad buy.
Mayoral race close
As reported by the SDFP's Doug Porter yesterday, in the race to determine who will serve as San Diego's next mayor a poll released yesterday showed Democratic Congressman Bob Filner with an eight point lead over Republican City Council member Carl DeMaio.
The poll, conducted by the Democratic firm Fairbanks, Maslin, Maulin, Metz and Associates, shows Filner with a 40% to 32% advantage over DeMaio. However, the poll also showed 29% of those surveyed as undecided. With a sample size of 400, and a margin of error of over 4%, the race is a far cry from being determined. According to the survey, the polling results broke almost exactly along party lines, with the 29% undecided mirroring the 29% of voters registering as "decline to state" within the city of San Diego.
Update: The Peters campaign has informed the SDFP that the DCCC funds will be used in addition to the $1.5 million the campaign has already committed to spend on TV.


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When I first installed PAF back in the 1980s on my old CPM machine, everyone at the local Family History Center was cautiously curious. I worked in the computer industry and they wanted to see how this new-fangled computer software thing worked.
I loved PAF. It allowed me to organize my information. I probably didn't use it exactly correctly, because I typed everything into the notes field which was, thankfully, of unlimited size.
I later discovered I should have been using source fields and such, but I'm not even sure there was a source field initially.
When the Mormon Church discontinued support for PAF in 2013, I was greatly saddened, not because the software had been free and I was now going to have to purchase software, but because I knew that software so well and was so comfortable using it. I didn't want to have to take the time to evaluate and learn anything else. To me, software is only a tool and the tool I had was fine.
So, I've used it for the past 2+ years unsupported, but I know full well that with the advent of new operating systems, one day it's not going to work anymore and I surely don't want to have a crisis and have to adapt on top of a crisis situation. I knew it was better to be proactive.
Recently, I had a forced upgrade to Window 10 with the purchase of a new laptop, and I need my genealogy on my laptop. I mean, you never know when you're going to need to refer to your genealogy! If you think I'm kidding, I met one my closest cousins, Kathy, at a client site about 15 years ago (how can it have been that long???) completely by accident and yes, we compared our family trees on my laptop. I just remember wondering if our unknown "cousinhood" was the reason we got along so well. We went on to become and remain very close friends.
I evaluated several software packages, but it came down to two, Legacy and its competitor, RootsMagic. I selected RootsMagic for a few reasons.
- I asked several people with large data bases if they had problems when they converted. Specifically, anyone with large notes files, if the entire notes file came over, or they lost data. The reviews were unanimously and overwhelmingly positive for RootsMagic, with data bases far larger than mine with its 37,000+ records.
- RootsMagic had everything that I wanted but without being overly complex, cluttered or busy.
- RootsMagic was intuitive to use.
- RootsMagic felt very PAFlike to me in terms of screen layout and functions, just PAF on steroids.
- RootsMagic offers a "RootsMagic for PAF Users Guide" which made me feel better.
So, here's my last look at PAF on my computer. I feel a bit guilty, like I'm abandoning an old friend or an old car that has served me so well for a very long time.
I imported my file into RootsMagic which took an amazingly short time, so short that I was sure there was a problem. There wasn't. I checked notes, they were there. Now obviously I can't check all 37,000+ records individually, but some of the larger ones are there and intact – all of the records I checked were fine.
Here's my first look at the equivalent screen in Rootsmagic. I was very pleased to see that my all-caps first names for my direct line ancestors had come over as all-caps.
And guess what, the first I thing I see to do is something that has been bugging me forever. I discovered that my grandparents had a child that died, but when I added the child, PAF put them at the end of the list. Yes, that could have been changed, but it wasn't easy nor intuitive, so I never did.
Well, it's easy and intuitive now and I fixed it with 'move up' and 'move down' arrows. Yes, I like this software already. Little triangles pop up, discretely, if there is something you need to look at. I clicked on the one for this child.
It told me I hadn't added the sex for the child, and I hadn't because I don't know the sex of the child. Thank goodness not many of my entries have problem lists, and the ones that do are short.
But hey, look, I'm already using two new features I didn't have before. I think I like RootsMagic.
Next, I printed RootsMagic for PAF Users which equates PAF functions to RootsMagic functions in the lingo of the PAF user, and went through this document step by step.
All in all, less than an hour and I'm up and running and feeling confident. I have changed the children's birth orders in several families, edited a few things and now all I have to do is to keep myself from going back and looking at PAF, out of habit. Goodbye really needs to be goodbye. Goodbye old friend!
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