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THURSDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Watching a scary movie can frighten you into selling your stocks too soon, a new study suggests.
The researchers explained that this is due to something called "social projection," in which people's own current feelings and inclinations heavily influence their assessment of others' state of mind and preferences.
This means that an investor who is scared assumes that other investors are also scared and that their fears will drive stock prices lower, prompting the investor to sell early, said study co-author Eduardo Andrade, an associate professor in the business school at the University of California, Berkeley.
"If I'm scared, I tend to project that you are scared," he said in a university news release. "If I feel like selling, I project that you are also going to sell, and that pushes me to sell earlier rather than later in anticipation of a drop in stock value."
In this study, the researchers examined whether emotions completely unrelated to the stock market could influence investor behavior. They had one group of volunteers watch horror movies while another group watched documentaries about Benjamin Franklin and Vincent Van Gogh.
After watching the movies, the volunteers participated in a stock market simulation experiment. Those who watched the horror movies were more likely to sell early than those who watched the documentaries, the investigators found.
But fear triggered early selling only when participants were told that the value of the stock was affected by other people, not when they were told the stock value was randomly determined by a computer, where social projection was not a factor.
The findings suggest that being able to control fear is beneficial for investors.
"Generally speaking, those who made more money were those who decided to stay longer in the simulation game," Andrade said.
The study is published in the November issue of the Journal of Marketing Research.
More information
The U.S. National Library of Medicine has more about mental health.


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Cincinnati Reds Hand The All Stars A Twenty To Eight Defeat In Return Game
Bohne, Pinelli and Jennings hit homers
Sammy Bohne Pleased the Fans With a lot of Comedy Around Second Base and
October 9, 1924
Cincinnati Reds Hand The All Stars A Twenty To Eight Defeat In Return Game
Bohne, Pinelli and Jennings hit homers
Sammy Bohne Pleased the Fans With a lot of Comedy Around Second Base and Shortstop
Reds 20, All Stars 8. Yes they got revenge.
Those fighting Reds who wound up the national league in fourth place came back to the local park Wed. afternoon and staged a comeback. They lived up to their reputation as sluggers and pounded the offerings of Weaver and Jennings for twenty hits and as many runs. Two home runs, one triple and a flock of two baggers and singles coupled with some ragged playing by the All Stars produced the twenty runs. Weaver and Jennings pitched fairly good ball and especially Jennings. In the seven inning[s] Jennings worked the Reds only scored in three innings and in one of these they would not have scored had the locals played perfect ball.
No one expected the All Stars to defeat the Reds again and everyone was satisfied with the game yesterday. The Reds gave a fine exhibition of how baseball is played on the main line, both in the field and at the bat. Rube Benton was on the mound for the Reds, and pitched a nice game, he was touched up for eleven hits, but nine of these were in the last three innings when he eased up a bit. The veteran southpaw had plenty of stuff on the ball, showed the local fans why he is still in the big show.
The Reds went right out and scored four runs in the first inning, they came right back with four more in the second and with four in the fourth, five in the seventh and three in the ninth. Behen and Pinelli hit for the circuit, while Bressler slammed out a triple. The All Stars scored in the fourth when Jennings hit one of Rube's offerings into the river and made the circuit. Hits by Weaver, Eddy, Williams and a base on balls gave the locals one in the sixth. In the eight five runs were shoved over the plate on hits by Williams, Jennings, Camper, Prince and a couple of errors. The Locals scored their last run in the ninth on hits by Williams, Jennings and a low throw by Critz. A fast double play Critz to Bohne to Bressler ended the game.
Sammy Bohne made a hit with the crowd by his comedy work both in the field and at the bat, he kept up a lively line of chatter with the fans all the time. It was worth the price of admission just to see him perform and every one was well pleased with the final game of the 1924 baseball season in Welch.
Score by innings:
Reds........440 400 503 - 20 20 4
All Stars..000 101 051 - 8 11 5
Batteries: Reds, Benton and Hagrave. All Stars, Weaver, Jennings and Walton. Umpires, Donohue and King.

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Their policy on permissible trim tab "slop" percentages is interesting and should be sobering to builders.
Maybe we can find some more specific info on a drilled hole near the edge of a curved form on a critical control surface component, that is absent of any protective redundancy....
SheepdogRD wrote:Dave Krall CFII SEL SES wrote:Do you have the chapter and verse in AC 43.13 for trim tab bellcrank hole placement and drilling?
Please understand, Dave, I wasn't taking a shot at you with my comment; I was pointing out that the RES guidelines are for punching, not drilling. And I was reiterating advice that's been given to me by several aircraft builders whose approach I respect: "Check AC 43.13; it's the bible." This is my first aircraft project, and I learn a lot every time I open the "bible".
So I looked in the bible, and I find AC 43.13 is oriented to inspection and repair, not design. Initial design is up to the manufacturer. AC 43.13 says, in 4-60a(2), when repairing aircraft after an accident or in the course of a major overhaul, to "inspect all highly-stressed main fittings, as set forth in the manufacturer's instruction manual." So, even for repairs, it returns the repairman to manufacturer specs.
In fact, I was surprised to read last night that welding over a worn bolt hole isn't approved. In 4-60a(4) it says "Elongated or worn bolt holes in fittings, which were designed without bushings, are not to be reamed oversize. Replace such fittings, unless the method of repair is approved by the FAA. Do not fill holes with welding rod." Still, I don't think that comment was aimed at simple tab holes; instead, it's focused on "elongated or worn bolt holes in landing gear, stabilizer, interplane or cabane-strut ends".
After thinking about it, I suspect they're concerned about embrittlement, because brittle metal can crack and then fail suddenly, rather than showing wear, which is easier to spot in a preflight or condition inspection.
For something like the tab, where we need to redesign because the hole is simply too big and/or too far from the edge to fit the non-standard clevis, we become aircraft manufacturers. We have to do what we think will work.
Over the years, what works has been codified in engineering guidelines. For instance, boiler design guidelines kept getting tighter and more specific until boilers stopped blowing up, but there were a lot of boiler explosions until they figured out what worked.
While AC 43.13 may be the bible, it seems to be mute here, so it appears that I've referred you to a dead end. No chapter, no verse. But Steve said the magic words:stede52 wrote:I'm just telling you what will work for that thickness of steel, you can do whatever you wish.
Right now, if I can't find a clevis that works better, my plan is to trim the front of the tab a bit so it fits the RAC clevis, and see if I can find -- or machine -- a bushing so the RAC pin fits the hole. Ideally, the tab would be L-shaped, so the end could be rounded. We're the designers, now, so we can do what we think will work.


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Please follow my daily journey, and broaden your blog-reading horizons.
Today I stop over at author James Knapp's delightfully irreverent blog, Oneiros. You'll laugh. I promise. Even if it's just at the sight of my disembodied head hurtling through space.
Then I visit my good friend, thriller writer Robert W. Walker, over at the ACME authors blog, for what may be the most creative interview I've ever done.
And remember; as with the many other fine blogs I've visited, if you're enjoying what you read, offer to trade links with these bloggers and post comments about how cool they are.
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FORT BRAGG, N.C. - On his two deployments to Iraq with the 18th Airborne Corps, Spec. Jon Michael Cripps spent more time keeping the Army's computers running than he did in combat, but he can't forget what he heard.The constant roar of generators along with the hum of computer servers and the high-powered air conditioners required to cool them damaged Cripps' hearing and left an intermittent ringing in his ears. "You think about maybe getting wounded in battle, getting those kinds of scars," Cripps said after his annual hearing test at a health center on post recently. "Losing your hearing is just not something you think about." But it's a widespread problem that affects the quality of service members' lives now and will worsen in decades to come. And it's largely preventable. At least a fourth of soldiers who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan show some hearing loss, Army audiologists say, and even those who don't deploy often are exposed to constant or concussive noises in their work or training that can cause hearing loss or tinnitus, a ringing in the ears. As they grow older, their normal, age-related hearing loss will compound the problem. Among veterans, tinnitus and hearing loss are the most common service-connected disabilities, with more than 1.5 million veterans receiving compensation for those problems at the end of 2011. Of about 805,000 veterans who began receiving disability compensation that year, nearly 148,000 were for tinnitus or hearing loss, according to a recent VA report. By comparison, the next most prevalent disability was post-traumatic stress disorder, for which about 42,700 veterans began receiving compensation in 2011. The military tries to prevent hearing loss among active-duty soldiers, and for those who find themselves straining to hear years after they're out of service, the Veterans Administration provides hearing aids. At both ends of the spectrum, audiologists find resistance among those they're trying to help. "For us, a lot of the work is in education," said Capt. Latisha Scott, an Army audiologist at Fort Bragg. "Having the equipment to prevent hearing loss is not the problem. It's getting the soldiers to buy into using it." Scott says she - and other specialists the Army has hired in recent years to combat hearing loss - are working against outdated ideas that hearing protection is uncomfortable, unnecessary, or looks silly. "Hearing loss used to be kind of a badge of honor," Scott said. "If you had hearing loss, you had heard the guns of war. Your loss of hearing was your proof." For several years, each branch of the military has taught its members what causes hearing loss and tinnitus and drilled the lesson that once hearing is damaged it can almost never be repaired. Most hearing loss and tinnitus in the military are noise-induced, specialists say. Depending on their jobs, service members may be exposed to the constant noise of machinery, engines or airplanes or to sudden loud sounds such as artillery and mortar fire or the explosion of a roadside bomb. For reasons not fully understood, not every soldier exposed to the same level of noise will experience a problem. In the Army, all soldiers must have an annual hearing test, and those deploying are tested before they leave and after they return so there is a record of any change. To speed the process, clinics across Fort Bragg are set up with chambers where six to eight soldiers can be tested at a time. During busy deployment cycles, hundreds of soldiers may be tested each day. If the test indicates hearing loss, the soldier is scheduled for a retest, in case the problem is a temporary issue such as fluid in the ear. If further testing shows a permanent loss, the soldier meets with Scott or another specialist to discuss the extent of the damage and ways to prevent it from getting worse. In some cases, the loss may make it necessary for the soldier to be reassigned to another job, something Scott says most soldiers will do nearly anything to avoid, including starting to wear protection. "You have to look at the whole picture," she said. "Are you becoming a safety hazard to yourself and others because you can't hear well enough? Can you effectively do the job?" Just as important, she said, is understanding that with noise-induced hearing loss, returning to the same environment is likely to cause additional damage. "You're 21 years old and in the Army now," Scott tells some of those soldiers. "But what about later, when you're married and you can't communicate with your spouse or your kids? It becomes a quality-of-life issue." Part of Scott's job is to go from the clinic to the places on post where soldiers train or work and teach them about hearing conservation. She takes along her "tackle box," filled with hundreds of pairs of different types and sizes of earplugs for which the Army pays from a few pennies each to about $12. When they come into the Army, soldiers are issued a set of earplugs, but if they lose that set, many soldiers never bother to replace it. Scott hands out new ones like candy. Even the best-fitting earplugs, though, only block about 23 decibels of sound, and hearing loss can occur at 85 decibels. An M16 generates about 155 decibels; an IED up to 170. To counter one reason soldiers say they don't wear protection, the newest generation of rubber plugs Scott hands out feature a toggle in the end that can be opened manually - with the plug still in the ear - to allow for normal conversation. A sudden loud noise automatically closes the flap. Soldiers in Special Forces and certain other units are outfitted with high-end electronic headphones that protect against noise but can amplify desired sounds, such as a whispered voice, and can be connected to military radios and other devices. They cost the military up to $700 a set. Spec. Cripps says most of his damage is to his left ear, and the ringing he hears is not bad enough to keep him awake at night. At 34, he can't hear certain high-pitched sounds such as a fan or water running somewhere in his house. He says he hears everything his son and daughter say, and most of what his wife tells him, "unless it has to do with the trash or the dishes." Cripps admits he often did not wear the ear protection he was issued while he was in Iraq, for the same reason other soldiers don't. They worry earplugs might dull their senses, saving their hearing but maybe costing their lives. "You want to hear the whistling of the mortars," Cripps said, "before you hear the boom." Mickey Bullock heard the boom more than once when he was in the service. Bullock, of Battleboro, volunteered for the Navy in 1955 as a way to travel, and once he got out of boot camp, he says, he was on one ship after another. He spent more than a year on the USS Macon, a heavy cruiser built in 1943, decommissioned, then put back into service in 1950 at the start of the Korean War. Bullock was on the boilermaker crew, helping to supply steam for the engines. It was a clattering, hissing workplace. But Bullock figures most of his hearing loss came from two instances when he was asleep in his bunk and missed the call to battle stations. The 16-inch guns went off practically in his ear. "The noise, it was just beyond anything," Bullock said. It was a week before he could hear people talk again. Over the years, Bullock's hearing slowly worsened, "until finally, it got to the place where I couldn't hear nothing." In mid-2012, he sought help from the VA, which has become the nation's largest consumer of hearing aids in recent years as policy changes have allowed it to provide devices to nearly every veteran who needs them at little or no cost. Bullock used the VA Medical Center in Durham, which outfitted more than 2,500 veterans with hearing aids in 2012. Bullock had no idea how much hearing aids had changed. Once clunky, blunt instruments that amplified all sound, today's models are smaller and more sophisticated. They're digital, can be synced with Bluetooth devices and, most important, can be fine-tuned to amplify only sound in the frequency ranges where the wearer has hearing loss. Starting last year, the Durham VA began to make those kinds of adjustments from 100 miles away. Patients in Eastern North Carolina can travel to the VA's Audiology Clinic in Greenville, and technicians there put a tiny microphone into the patient's ear to test the level of sound a hearing aid transmits. The sound shows up as a graph on the computer screen of Dr. Nancy Jones, chief of Audiology and Speech Pathology, in Durham. That graph is overlaid on one showing Bullock's hearing loss, and Jones amps the sound up or down in the specific frequencies where Bullock needs it. Bullock and the doctor talk over a web cam. "I've been doing this for a year, and it still blows my mind," said Jones, who started doing audiology at the VA when hearing aids were adjusted with screw drivers. The majority of the Durham VA's hearing loss and tinnitus patients are Vietnam War-era vets, but the audiology section has patients who served in World War II all the way up to the most recent conflicts, and during periods of peace in between. If they went outside the VA, these veterans could expect to pay up to $7,000 for hearing aids, a cost rarely covered by insurance. Noise-induced tinnitus, like hearing loss, is usually irreversible and can be frustrating for active-duty soldiers and veterans. Sometimes described as "the candle in the lit room," tinnitus is most bothersome when its sufferer gets into a quiet place. Military and VA audiologists teach patients ways to manage tinnitus, such as using other sounds to mask the ringing or roaring, and avoiding medications and loud environments that make it worse. For some tinnitus patients, a hearing aid can help. Getting a hearing aid can be an emotional experience for people who have gradually lost their hearing and may not even have realized how much they were missing. Hearing loss often correlates to feelings of loneliness, isolation and depression. Reconnecting to the world can be a revelation. Jones often sees tears at the first fitting - sometimes from the patient, sometimes from the family member who accompanied them to the appointment. When they leave, patients often try to thank VA staff for giving them the devices. Jones sets them straight. "We like to say, 'You paid for them. We're just delivering them.' "
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You might remember a week or so ago that I wrote about the computer models predicting an outbreak of very cold weather around the beginning of December.
Forget about it.
The king of weather for the eastern United States is a low pressure system off the Pacific Coast. It's called a positive East Pacific Oscillation (EPO) -- one of the many ingredients that goes into creating our weather. Here's what it means.
The positive EPO tends to send Pacific air masses into the central and eastern part of the country. For the most part, the atmospheric flow is zonal -- sort of like a flat west-to-east line. There are some wrinkles, of course, but you get the basic idea. When that happens, our weather tends to be mild.
The pattern hasn't been exactly west-to-east in recent weeks, because a northwest flow has delivered some chilly air into the Carolinas. But the positive EPO has prevented the really cold air in Alaska from descending southward. High temperatures are below zero this week in Fairbanks.
Several factors are needed for wintry weather to develop in the Carolinas. They include a negative North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and possibly a strong high pressure system near Greenland. That tends to send the really cold air into the eastern part of the United States. Add a stormy pattern, and you get snow, sleet and freezing rain.
We actually have a negative NAO now, but the positive EPO is overwhelming it -- blocking the cold air from coming south.
In addition to the positive EPO, we're also in a decidedly non-stormy pattern. Rainfall this month is more than 2 inches below average.
So how long will all this ask?
As usual, the computer models disagree. But based on the many forecasts I've read in the last day or two, there seems a consensus that we'll stay mild through at least the first half of December.
In other words, the start of winter has been postponed.
Then again, December is typically not a big month for snow and ice in the Carolinas. That happened in 2010, but it's unusual. Most years, January and February are the real wintry months.
We need a change in the non-stormy situation. Rainfall is badly needed, but there aren't many signs of that changing within the next 10 days either.
In the immediate future, this mild pattern means we'll be flirting with 70 degrees early next week.
CHILLY NOVEMBER: We're approaching the end of what has been a chilly month in Charlotte. The average temperature for November is 3.2 degrees below average, which makes this among the 15 coldest Novembers since records started being kept in Charlotte in the 1870s.
Sunday morning's low of 21 degrees marks the earliest it has been that cold in four years. Charlotte had a record-breaking low of 13 degrees on Nov. 22, 2008, and it dropped to 18 degrees a few days earlier. That month was 5.7 degrees below the average.
Temperatures the next few days will be around average, and it's doubtful that we'll see any more 20s in the remaining days of the month.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Winter weather postponed ... but for how long?
You might remember a week or so ago that I wrote about the computer models predicting an outbreak of very cold weather around the beginning of December.
13 comments:
- Anonymous said...
- November 27, 2012 at 10:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
I had no problem understanding. There's probably a sandbox nearby if you want to stick your head in it and not learn anything new.
- November 27, 2012 at 10:24 AM
- Anonymous said...
Why exactly is rainfall "badly needed"? I understand we're over 2 inches short for Nov, but why is that a bad thing?
- November 27, 2012 at 11:29 AM
- Anonymous said...
So basically the whole article comes down to the last sentence, "temperatures the next few days will be around average", but we can't really predict much more than that (because we did a couple weeks ago and were wrong).
Hmm... Thanks??
- November 27, 2012 at 12:04 PM
- Anonymous said...
@anonymous 11:29:
Let's see, why is no rain a bad thing? Do you like to drink water? Do you like to bathe? Do you think that water comes from some never ending source?
And to all the other responses, you do realize that weather is not an exact science, don't you? Humans really have only been studying weather for less than 80 years. There is a lot to learn.
Thanks for the article Steve. I have been curious about the NAO and what effects Sandy had on that. I guess that if it did, it wasn't enough to open the gates from the north.
- November 27, 2012 at 12:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Let's see, why is no rain a bad thing? Do you like to drink water? Do you like to bathe? Do you think that water comes from some never ending source?
Uhhhhh, we're TWO INCHES behind for THIS MONTH. That's it. It's really not that dire, is it? Is rain really "badly needed" in Charlotte right now?
I understand rain is needed -- or this would be a desert! But rain isn't "badly needed" every time we fall a tiny bit behind a meteorological average for a short timeframe.
- November 27, 2012 at 12:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have this feeling that despite all the forecasts for a cold and snowy winter in the Northeast US (except the National Weather Service), we will see a warm and snowless winter. Perhaps a few storms that produce a little snow for the I95 cities if it manages to get cold enough.
- November 27, 2012 at 12:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
I really hope it snows this winter. I would love to get a little use out of the sleds we bought last year.
- November 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM
- Anonymous said...
Mecklenburg County is 523 sq mi (2.19e+12 sq in)
times 2 inches down(for the month, nevermind the year)
= 4.38e+12 cubic inches
converted to gallons
= 18,961,038,961 gallons.
Give or take. Just saying... 2 inches doesn't seem like much, but it is.
- November 27, 2012 at 2:21 PM
- John said...
Anonymous 12:26 PM...
I suggest you keep your day job, whatever that is. Monthly rainfall measurements are cumulative. It's not just about 2 inches... the local area is currently in a "Moderate DROUGHT status". Check out http://www.ncdrought.org/
I have family who are fire fighters and they are worried about fires with all these dry leaves on the ground. Yeah, it's a big deal.
- November 27, 2012 at 3:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
"Just two inches isn't a big deal"? Your wives have been trying to not hurt your feelings.
- November 27, 2012 at 4:56 PM
- Anonymous said...
Did no one understand the comment, "2 inches doesn't seem like much, but it is". Explaination, the person is saying that despite the small amount it still is a "BIG DEAL". Therefore, why spout unwarranted gibberish?
- November 28, 2012 at 8:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
Well to me it's a professional and understanding answer it makes sense...I Live in E.Pa and our winter last year was anything but..
- December 4, 2012 at 10:57 PM


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The intent of MySQL injection is to take over the website database and administration to steal information. A common open source database like MySQL has been used by many website developers to store important information such as passwords, credit cards, usernames, personal information and administrative information.
This is a serious form of hacking that affects a lot of websites nowadays. You can easily spot it in Google search results with a warning sign: "This site may harm your computer" or when you are visiting the site "Malware detected" in browsers such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.
MySQL is popular because it is used in conjunction with PHP, the most popular server side scripting language. We also know that PHP is the primary language of Linux-Apache based servers that dominate the Internet. So this means that PHP can be easily exploited by hackers just as spyware is in Windows.
The hacking starts with inputting malicious code into an unsecured website form (via drop menu forms, search boxes, contact forms, inquiry forms and check boxes). Other advanced forms can be injected via session–related URLs, but this topic is beyond the scope of this article. (For details of this process, please refer to the flowchart on the next page).
The malicious code will then be transported to the MySQL database and hence "injected." To see how this works, first consider the following basic and normal MySQL SELECT statement query:
SELECT * FROM xmen WHERE username = 'wolverine'
This query will ask the database with the "xmen" table to return a certain piece of data in the MySQL for the username "wolverine."
In the web forms, a user will enter wolverine , and then this data will be passed to the MySQL query, resulting in the above statement.
If the input is not validated, a hacker can craft the input in such a way as to gain control of the database, for example setting the username to:
You may think having the normal PHP and MySQL syntax to process inputs is safe because every time they may enter malicious codes they will get an "Invalid query" message, but it is not.
In reality there are a lot of smart hackers, and they can easily work on this. Once there is a security breach, correcting this will become difficult. It involves cleaning the database and revamping the administrative access.
{mospagebreak title=The Flow of User Input (Without Validation)}
If you are a beginner in MySQL and PHP, it would be useful to illustrate the flow of user information. Please check the screen shot of what will happen if the user input is not validated:
You can observe that even after the database or malware clean up, as long as the website form input is not validated, we will see re-infection of the website. Two common misconceptions of MySQL injection attacks are as follows:
The webmaster thinks that malware injection can be cleaned up using anti-virus or anti-spyware software. It cannot be cleaned up in this way because this type of infection exploits the weaknesses of MySQL databases. It cannot simply be removed by any spyware or anti-virus program.
MySQL injection is a virus infection as a result of having copied infected files from another server or outside sources. It is not. This type of infection is a result of having someone type malicious codes into any unprotected forms in the website, and then gaining access to the database. Virus infection as a result of a MySQL injection can be cleaned by removing the malicious scripts and not by using anti-virus programs.
Flow of User Input (With Validation)
It is highly important to back up a clean database and put it outside the server. It is very easy to export a set of MySQL tables and save it to your desktop, for example. Double check to make sure the database contains the exact and clean entries that you expect.
Then go to your server and temporarily shut the forms input first. This means the form cannot accept data to be processed; this will also mean that your website will be shut down, too.
Then start the clean up process. First, on your server, clean up any mess left by the MySQL injection. Change all database, FTP and website passwords.
In the worst-case scenario, if you clean up late, you can double check for any backdoor programs running on your server. These backdoor programs are some form of Trojan installed by the hacker. Remove it completely and change all the FTP permissions to something for which hackers cannot simply write a file to any directory. Scan your server for Trojans and installed malware. In a truly worst- case scenario, they may be hidden.
This is when you modify the PHP script that will process the form data. A good principle to prevent MySQL injection is: DO NOT EVER TRUST USER DATA. Remember, the Internet is a public place, and forms are exposed to all types of people, good or bad. Your form is analogous to the doors of your home, which you should be locking when you are away to prevent criminals from entering.
User input validation is very important to prevent MySQL injection and to make sure that all inputs that go to the database are sanitized and will not cause database errors or infection.
Below is what happens to a validated user input:
In the above example the data will not be forwarded to the MySQL database without first verifying that the user input is valid. Designing a filter to screen out user input depends on your application, but I will outline helpful tips below:
If the input to a form is numeric, then you can validate if it is a number by just testing if it is equal or greater than 0.001 (assuming you do not accept a zero).
If the input is an email address, then it will validate if the characters are only a combination of allowable characters like "@", A-Z, a-z or some numbers. A quotation mark is not acceptable in an email address.
If the input is the name of a person or a username, then it will validate if it does not contain any illegal characters such as ' ' and * which are malicious characters that can be used for SQL injection.
{mospagebreak title=Validating Numeric Input}
The script below validates whether the input is a valid number from 0.001 to infinity. It's worth noting, however, that in a PHP program you can even allow a certain range of numbers to be used. Using this validating script ensures that input to that form is a number and nothing else.
Suppose that in your program there are three numeric variables; you will need to validate them, and we will name them num1, num2 and num3:
//Validate numerical input
if($_POST['num1'] >= 0.001 && $_POST['num2'] >= 0.001 && $_POST['num3'] >= 0.001)
The AND condition can be extended to accommodate more than three numbers. So if you have 10, you will just need to expand the AND statements.
This can be used to validate a form that accepts only numbers, such as contract numbers, license numbers, telephone numbers, etc.
{mospagebreak title=Validating Text and Email Input}
This will be used to validate form input such as a username, first name and last name of the person, as well as the email address.
//Validate text input
if (! preg_match('/^[-a-z.-@,'s]*$/i',$_POST['name']))
if ($empty==0)
The good thing about this validation script is that it will not accept blank input. Some malicious users also manipulate database by entering a blank input. In the above script, it validates only one text variable, "$name." This means that if you have three text variables, you can make three validating scripts for each of those variables, to make sure every variable is clean before it goes into the database.
Want stronger protection?
If you need stronger protection you can validate the user input using the above scripts and mysql_real_escape_string ; this will offer secondary protection in case the above validation scripts fail due to some reason. Discussing this feature is beyond the scope of this article and you can read useful resources on: http://www.php.net/mysql_real_escape_string
However, before you can use this feature, you must be connected to a MySQL database, or else it will return an error. Some really talented hackers can play around with mysql_real_escape_string, which is why it is highly recommended to have a double filter in your scripts (validating scripts + mysql_real_escape_string ) to make hacking much more difficult.


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Inception Media Group also plans to increase the number of online and broadcast media channels it distributes throughout Europe.
"There is a growing demand among digital retailers for content suppliers to provide a steady flow of quality films and entertainment programming across all platforms," said Inception Media Group evp of operations Burgess Wilson. "While large distributors and studios negotiate their own direct deals, smaller distribution companies and independent producers generally require a champion who can represent and distribute their content to the various digital retailers and broadcast media platforms. Inception is perfectly positioned to be that champion."
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It's amazing what a difference a bridge makes.
Before the Sundial Bridge, Redding for most travelers was a faceless, drive-by blip on Interstate 5 midway between Sacramento and the cool, piney promise of Oregon.
Now, thanks to the vision of famed Spanish architect-engineer Santiago Calatrava, it's a put-on-the-brakes, get-out-the-camera destination for visitors from all over the world.
"Very seldom do I walk on the bridge and not hear a foreign language being spoken," says longtime resident Bob Warren, who led the regional tourism bureau when the bridge was in the design and construction phase.
"In America, there aren't so many people who follow architecture," he adds, "but in other countries, it's common for people to be phobic fans of a particular architect, and to travel to see their work."
Since it opened to almost universal "wows" in 2004, the one-of-a-kind pedestrian-and-bike span over the Sacramento River has become much more than a magnet for Calatrava groupies. It's also a focal point for Redding, a gathering spot for families and the gateway to an expansive trail system that woos cyclists and hikers from throughout California and beyond. "The bridge has become an icon that our city is identified by," says Krista Buckle of the Shasta Cascade Wonderland Association. "It's a great selling point, very beautiful and unique."
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Few would disagree. The 700-foot-long structure, decked with translucent glass that casts dapples on the river below, is a functional piece of public art whose 217-foot angled steel pylon functions as a gnomon, making it in essence the world's largest sundial. At night, with its 14 white suspension cables lit from below and glowing surrealistically against a black sky, the assembly resembles a giant harp -- or maybe a spaceship, or a stylized dinosaur spine.
To celebrate the bridge's first-decade anniversary, Redding is hosting Celebrate 10, a June 20-July 4 fest that will encompass everything from a troupe of "vertical dancers" performing acrobatic feats while suspended from the pylon, to family float trips on the river and special exhibits at the Turtle Bay Exploration Park, a museum and arboretum complex spanning 300 acres on either side of the bridge.
That the bridge exists at all is a tribute to visionary planning and close collaboration between the city and the McConnell Foundation, a local philanthropic organization that footed most of structure's $23.5 million tab.
In the early 1990s, the city and foundation determined that they wanted a bridge connecting the two Turtle Bay campuses. Neither was interested in an ordinary concrete span. "With taxpayer money, you get a Caltrans bridge. That's not what we envisioned," notes John Mancasola, vice president for the foundation.
What they ended up with was something no one could have envisioned.
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Initial plans for a bridge did not involve Calatrava -- or a budget anywhere near what his aesthetic vision eventually would require. But when the bridge-design committee came to an impasse over concepts solicited from other architects, Mancasola and a colleague tracked down a phone number for Calatrava's headquarters in Switzerland. No one could have been more surprised when the architect himself answered the phone.
"Redding, California?" Calatrava had never heard of it, but he was intrigued. On his first visit, Mancasola recalls, the charismatic Spaniard immediately drew a connection between "the blue mountains of Redding" and his home region of Catalonia.
Still, controversy dogged the project from the start. Some residents complained that modern Spanish architecture had no place in a town like Redding. Others insisted that a covered-bridge type structure would better reflect the city's lumber and railroad heritage.
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Construction on the Sundial Bridge began in 1999, and with it began five years of engineering and fabrication challenges. Calatrava despised concrete; his design was a curvilinear creation of steel, granite, porcelain and glass. In order to protect sensitive salmon-spawning habitat, the bridge reared above and across the river without touching it. And the decision to have no piers in the water bumped up the cost considerably, Mancasola says.
But when the Sundial Bridge opened July 4, 2004, even the naysayers were star-struck. The tourists started coming, and a decade later they haven't stopped -- and neither have the locals.
As Calatrava puts it succinctly in the documentary "Angle of Inspiration" (available on YouTube), "A bridge makes different a place."
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More guest posts are coming, but I wanted to take a moment to post some numbers and some thoughts.
So far this month, I've sold over 18,000 ebooks on Kindle.
When I include Smashwords, Createspace, and Barnes and Noble, my income for January will be about $42,000.
Last January, I made $2,295 on Kindle, and I was amazed I could actually pay my mortgage on books NY rejected.
"Amazed" is no longer strong enough a word.
In just 12 months, I've seen a 2000% increase in income. And ebooks are still only 11% of the book market.
What happens when they're 15%? 30%? 75%?
And yet, I still see some writers clinging to the notion that getting a book contract with a Big 6 publisher is the way to go.
But money isn't the only reason ebooks self-publishing is preferable.
Back in 2004, when my first novel, Whiskey Sour, was released in hardcover, my publisher forbade me from doing booksignings. In order to have an official signing at a bookstore, the publisher is required to pay coop. Since Whiskey Sour was a hardcover, and I was a no-name, they didn't want to pay coop to bookstores because it wasn't cost-effective. Even $50 in coop would mean I'd have to sell about 15 books for the publisher to break even. Newbies simply don't sell 15 hardcovers a day at a single location. Very few books--bestsellers included--sell 15 copies a day from a single location.
This irked me, because I'd already set up signings, and because I felt as if I was being prevented from doing my job. One bookstore was especially upset, because the manager was a big fan of the book, and he'd been talking it up to his customers. He begged me to at least drop in and sign stock.
I asked my publisher, and they were fine with that, as long as they didn't have to pay the store.
So I visited the store, and to my dismay, the manager had ordered 100 copies.
Having worked in a bookstore before, I knew books had a limited shelf life and were returnable. Seeing that many books, knowing they'd be sent back, made me nauseous. I'd worked like a dog to land a print deal, and I knew I had to sell as many books as possible if I wanted to ever get another contract.
So I hung out at the bookstore, and greeted people who walked in, and told them about my book.
It was brutal. All I ever wanted to be was a writer, not a salesman. But I smiled, and I pitched, and I shook hands, and by the time I was done I'd been there for eight hours.
And I'd sold all 100 copies.
The district manager of the chain got wind of it, and invited me to do the same thing at other Chicagoland stores.
I did. It was an exhausting summer. Weekends were spent traveling to stores, spending hours on my feet, smiling, schmoozing, shaking hands. But I made a small impact, and handsold hundreds of books.
The next year, my publisher toured me.
For Bloody Mary, my second novel, they sent me to the West Coast. I had ten official signings. But I quickly realized what a giant waste of money tours were. Why do signings at only two bookstores in L.A. when there were 30 stores in town? Why fly from city to city, and pass up all those bookstores between cities?
So, on my own, between official signings, I dropped in 95 additional stores and signed stock.
It was eleven days of busting my ass. No sleep, constant travel, constantly being "on." But I felt it needed to be done.
The next year, for Rusty Nail, I was on the road for 55 days, and signed at over 500 bookstores. I blogged about it, day by day, but here are the final stats for that tour:
Miles driven: 11457
Books signed: 4066
Books hand sold: 214
Booksellers met: 952
Bookstores visited: 504
It remains the hardest thing I've ever done. I was so exhausted after that tour--physically, mentally, emotionally--that it took me weeks to get back to normal.
If we assume that every book I signed on that tour wound up selling (which is a big assumption,) it means for every hour I spent on the road, I sold three books.
It was the very limit of what I was capable of doing, and the best I could do was a book sale every twenty minutes.
Now let's look at ebooks.
In January, I haven't done a single bit of promotion. No touring. No signing. No interviews. I've basically sat on my ass this month.
And I've earned, on average, a dollar a minute.
In 2006, it took me almost 8 weeks to sell 4000 books.
In 2011, it took me five and a half days to sell that many. And I didn't have to drive across twenty-nine states to do it.
Now the numbers I'm quoting from the tour aren't the only books I sold during that time frame. I visited 505 stores, but there were thousands of other bookstores also selling my books that I didn't visit.
Surely there's a huge advantage to having your book in that many bookstores, right?
I just checked my last royalty statement. Rusty Nail, that book I worked so hard to promote, has thusfar earned me $42,000. This includes all of my hardcovers, paperbacks, ebooks, and foreign editions, combined.
With self-publishing, in a single month, I was able to earn the same amount of money it took me four and a half years to earn through traditional publishing.
Back in 2009, I wrote a book called Afraid for Grand Central. It was a paperback original, and I got a modest advance of $20,000. But my publisher gave Afraid a bigger print run than any of my previous books, and gave it decent support. They put an ad in USA Today. They got the book into Wal-Mart.
I did my part as well. I went on a blog tour, appearing on 100 blogs in 30 days. That was hard. I also did a real tour, and visited over 200 bookstores. That was harder.
After the tour, I wrote a follow-up to Afraid called Trapped. My publisher didn't like the book, and refused to publish it.
Last year, I released Trapped on my own, on Kindle.
In the last 68 days, Trapped has earned me over $20,000. It's currently selling over 160 copies a day.
Because this is my career, I measure my success with how much money I'm able to make. But money is only part of the equation. The amount of time invested in order to earn that money is just as important.
I'm pretty sure I'm the only author who has ever visited 100 blogs in a month, or 500 bookstores on tour, or sent 7000 letters to libraries and bookstores (each with a signed drink coaster.)
These things took a considerable amount of time to do. Time I could have spent writing more books. Hell, I could have written a book in the time it took to put stamps on 7000 envelopes. And do you have any idea how many trips it took just to get them all to the post office?
My point should be obvious. Even if you promote your ebooks online, using websites, social networks, and blogs, it takes much less than promoting print books. I used to spend about 80% of my professional time self-promoting.
I've since stopped self-promoting. I don't do public speaking anymore, even though people offer me big money to do so. I turn down several interviews a week. I don't do conferences (the last conference I plan attend is Love is Murder, Feb 4-6, so if you want a chance to meet me or hear me talk about ebooks, this will be the last time.)
I'm a writer. So I'm devoting my time to writing, and quitting all of that other stuff.
Self-publishing ebooks hasn't just made me money. It has also given me my life back. And hopefully I'll never have to do something like this again:
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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GraphicsNet is the electronic communications backbone of SIGGRAPH 2009. Its high-bandwidth infrastructure serves as the link among the many conference programs and events, and as the gateway to the global graphics community.
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For business owners or those who are self-employed, your income tax is paid in several instalments instead of a lump sum at the end of the year. This is referred to as provisional tax.
Provisional tax must be paid for individuals who owed more than $2,500 of tax at the end of the year for their previous return. It is then payable in the following year after the individual tax return has been completed. The income that provisional taxpayers often earn includes self-employed income, rental income, overseas income, or income earned as a contractor or from a partnership.
Provisional tax payments are based on your business profits during a certain payment period. There are a number of ways to work out provisional tax. These include:
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When you know that your income will decrease over the next year, the estimation method is used. Add up all the taxable income that you expect to receive in the next year, then work out the tax on this amount and deduct any PAYE and other income tax credits you would be entitled to.
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5. Assisted Suicide: Allowing doctors to prescribe lethal drugs to terminally-ill patients who wish to end their lives.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – After finishing off the Golden Eagle season undefeated in conference play, Tennessee Tech senior Syrym Abdukhalikov earned his third straight adidas® Ohio Valley Conference Male Athlete of the Week honor in tennis.
Abdukhalikov went two-for-two last week, as he was 2-0 at No. 1 singles and 2-0 at the No. 1 doubles spot as Tennessee Tech picked up two conference wins on the road to claim the OVC regular season championship.
Against Austin Peay, he earned his eighth win of the season with a victory over undefeated Sean Bailey. Abdukhalikov wrapped up the season with a win over Murray State's Adam Taylor. He teamed up with Alejandro Augusto to record a pair of doubles victories.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The governor of the Japanese capital resigned on Thursday after being caught up in a financial scandal just three months after he helped his city win a bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan remained committed to offering the best games and the resignation of Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose would have no impact on that.
Inose, an author turned politician who took over as boss of the capital about a year ago, was forced to resign after he received 50 million yen ($484,500) from scandal-hit hospital chain Tokushukai ahead of an election.
His explanation for the nature of the money and other details flip-flopped, drawing the focus of the Tokyo metropolitan assembly despite other pressing issues such as a budget plan for next fiscal year and Olympic preparations.
"I cannot get in the way of preparation for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, where national pride will be at stake," Inose told a news conference. "I decided that there is no way but my quitting as Tokyo governor to break the stalemate."
"I feel very sorry for the people in Tokyo and Japan. Let me offer my sincere apologies," he said, bowing deeply.
Abe, who worked with Inose to win the bid for 2020, said his resignation should have no impact on the games.
"Everyone shares the intention to host the best Olympic Games. That remains unchanged. I don't see any impact," Abe told reporters.
An election to select Inose's successor will likely be held in February, media said.
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Art in the Park, one of southern Nevada's oldest and biggest cultural events, returns Oct. 5 and 6 to Boulder City.
Since it began in 1963, Art in the Park has been the primary annual fundraiser for the nonprofit Boulder City Hospital. The event draws about 100,000 people to the town 25 miles east of the Strip, near Hoover Dam. Admission is free.
More than 300 artists sell their wares at what has become one of the largest juried art shows in the Southwest. Their works are judged in fine art, fine/contemporary craft and traditional craft categories.
This year's featured artist is Ventura County resident Ora Tamir, who chose oil paint as her medium when she was 12 years old.
"I paint by soul, never bending to trends or criticism," she said in a news release. "The painting is finished when it tells me that we have arrived."
Tamir will be displaying her works in Booths 199 and 200.
The event takes over the streets in and around downtown Boulder City. Free parking will be available on adjacent streets, but a better bet may be to pay for parking at the old Boulder City Airport at Adams Boulevard and Aspen Street and catch the free shuttle to downtown.
Art in the Park is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. both days.
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Support, education and advocacy for recipients of implantable cardioverter defibrillators.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
My heart, my data. Can I please have it now?
So why don't I have the same level of access to the data collected by my implanted device?
This inconvenient limitation became quite clear during a recent health scare that landed me in the emergency room just two days before New Year's Eve. As it turns out, my heart had suddenly developed one of the most common types of abnormal heartbeats: atrial fibrillation.
According to the American Heart Association, atrial fibrillation, or "a-fib," afflicts 2.2 million Americans. When left untreated, it can lead to heart failure or stroke.
During the incident and until my arrival at the ER and proper diagnosis, I had no idea what was going on in my heart. I could only tell by the fast pulse, breathlessness, and fluttering in my chest that something was quite wrong.
My implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), however, knew exactly what was going on. In fact, it had been busy logging the event and recording every missed beat. (The following day, the device was interrogated and a report was printed.)
What frustrates me is that I remained in the dark for hours until graciously informed by the attending physician that I had atrial fibrillation.
As well stated by Leslie A. Saxon, M.D., Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine and professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, "Being a naked patient in a room with a doctor shouldn't be the only way to get information." I couldn't agree more.
As someone with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and the son of parents who lived for years with atrial fibrillation, I should start getting used to (and prepared for) the idea of chronic a-fib.
All I need are 21st century tools to help me manage my heart disease. Having to drive to a hospital and wait for hours, just to be told what my device already knew, seems unreasonable and unnecessarily costly to say the least.
I only want the same convenient access to my device's data that I have to my dollars and cents. And I want it now. After all, isn't my heart more important than my bank account?
2 comments:
- C said...
You couldn't be more right. Why can't we interrogate our own ICDs? Informed patients, which we're encouraged to be, can elicit a great deal of necessary information from the process.
My ICD cost more than $83,000 ($62,000+ for the device, $20,000+ for leads and sheaths; cath lab, hospital, and all physician fees additional). I got a remote reading device; why couldn't I have opted for a self-interrogater? And/or paid additional? The cost of a wand shouldn't be prohibitive, and could be connected to a PC/MAC program (or, as that great entry suggest, linked to an i-phone). User permissions could be limited to ICD recipients. Why isn't this happening? Thank you for raising the idea. I feel a consumer activist urge coming on.
- January 8, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Alan Zmek said...
EXCELLENT article Hugo!!! I hope everyone who needs to, sees and listens to this.
- May 8, 2010 at 7:49 PM