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Rohit Sethi is Director of Professional Services at Security Compass.
Insecure applications cause most data breaches, which is one reason an entire industry of products and services has cropped around application security. Yet despite all the attention, application security problems still prevail. One reason for this is that building security-in can be laborious. For example, one of the first security concepts most developers learn about is input validation -- filtering user-created or user-influenced data in order to prevent attacks. Specifically, security experts often teach developers to filter all input using a white-list approach, which means that developers must map out every single character that the application will accept prior to deploying that application. Developing such a list isn't impossible, but it is time consuming. Given the pressures of time-to-market, even security-aware developers often develop software with obvious, easily-preventable security flaws. In this article, I propose one big step that the developer community can take to help most web application developers build more secure software -- secure the frameworks that these applications are built upon.
Frameworks that provide security features by default can significantly reduce, although not eliminate, the burden of building security features from application developers. Developers, in turn, have a more realistic chance at building secure applications within tight timelines. Security professionals will rightly point out that no matter how secure the framework is, developers can and often will continue to introduce other security vulnerabilities. Still, creating secure-by-default frameworks can substantially reduce a number of common but dangerous vulnerabilities thereby reducing risk. A few popular frameworks have already begun to take steps in this direction. For example, the Python-based Django web application framework features out-of-the-box Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) protection. ASP.NET provides a feature to automatically encrypt and sign client-side state stored in ViewState. Many enterprise applications, however, are built on Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE). These applications are typically complex and deployed on physically disparate tiers. Unlike .NET or Django, Java EE is a set of specifications rather than a single code base and runtime. Adding systematic protection to the framework is far from simple. For example, the Servlet specification defines the minimum behavior of a Servlet container, but individual implementations such as Tomcat, WebSphere, and WebLogic also feature additional proprietary features (see the Open Source Application Server Comparison Matrix).
The Java community recently had to change the core Servlet specification to add support for the httponly cookie flag. Each individual Servlet container will need to add this feature comply with the new Servlet specification. In addition, many of the common features we expect from large enterprise applications such as Model View Controller (MVC) are not explicitly defined as part of the core Java EE specification. Organizations around the world have built their own proprietary libraries to support this behavior, while others have adopted open source alternatives such as Apache Struts or Spring. Such heterogeneity obviates centralized security features. For example, how can we change the default behavior of Java EE applications to automatically escape web output, thereby significantly reducing risk of Cross Site Scripting (XSS)? The answer, unfortunately, is that we cannot. Unlike ASP.NET, most Java EE applications do not use one single set of tag libraries on one single Servlet container/application server. In fact, many applications do not even use tag libraries, instead opting to create presentation tier logic with raw Java in Java Server Pages (JSPs) or Servlets. As a result, even if security aware developers were to augment a common tag library with output encoding, they would only make a small dent in the total number of Cross Site Scripting vulnerabilities.
Many application security experts attempt to address the security shortfall by educating developers on vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses. Developers who understand the risks presented by security flaws can fix their applications. In other words, instead of changing the entire Java EE framework to be secure by default we are securing applications one at a time. The problem is that we are making slow progress. Many development shops do not have the budget or even motivation to learn security much less change the way they develop software to include security activities. Moreover, many of these activities such as threat modeling add to project duration and are thus fundamentally at odds with the business motivator of being first-to-market. Make no mistake, developer awareness of security is a fundamental requirement to building more secure applications (see Rob Cheyne Pushes Developer Security Awareness) and secure web application frameworks will not remove this burden. Developer education, although necessary, is not sufficient to help close to gap of application security. To this end, volunteer developers from the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) began work on the open source Enterprise Security API (ESAPI). ESAPI helps developers prevent security vulnerabilities in Java and other languages. ESAPI represents a major step forward in web application security because it gives developers the tools, not just the knowledge, they need to build more secure applications. ESAPI is great for securing individual applications. Unfortunately, ESAPI does not, by itself, make web application frameworks secure by default. There is a void between secure development libraries like ESAPI and the default behavior of popular web application frameworks like Struts and Spring. The Security Analysis of Core J2EE Patterns Project attempts to fill that void.


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Story highlights
- Already-useful smartphones are conquering new territory, most notably the wallet
- Phones can replace your credit card, driver's license, transit pass, keys, coupons and more
- The Google Wallet app went public September 19 for Nexus S smartphones
- Some say phone-wallet technology is promising but must become easier to use
Here's a Googley vision for the future:
"We definitely hope one day you can walk out of the house with your phone in your hand -- and nothing else," said Marc Freed-Finnegan, the company's product manager for Google Wallet. It aims to digitize everything in your pockets in coming years by collapsing all that paper, plastic and metal into one device: the smartphone.
The idea of using the mobile phone as a credit card, driver's license, transit pass, digital coupon collector, house key, hotel key, corporate ID and more probably sounds pretty sci-fi-futurey. But it's almost practical when you consider the history of the smartphone.
Since the Apple iPhone debuted in 2007 (it's considered by most tech analysts to be the first true smartphone, running apps and functioning as a pocket computer), technologists have been cramming ever more functionality into these Swiss Army Knife-like gadgets.
Our phones have replaced many other once-common tools, from GPS devices (remember those?) to handheld gaming consoles, point-and-shoot cameras, calendars, notebooks, newspapers and portable music players.
Now they're conquering new territory, most notably the wallet.
From there, who knows? Analysts expect phones to get so smart that they could delay your alarm clock if an airline delays your morning flight. Apple's new "humble personal assistant," named Siri, is a step in that direction. And technologists are working on phone prototypes that could be built into clothing, could project their screens on your skin or, in the way-off future, would have flexible and stretchable screens.
"Mobile phones are definitely becoming a center of all of our lives, I think," Freed-Finnegan said. "When you're carrying around this small computer, you can do all kinds of things with it."
The phone-as-wallet trend started in South Korea and Japan about five years ago, and it's been talked about in the U.S. for some time. But it only became a reality September 19, when the Google Wallet app went public for Nexus S smartphones on Sprint's network. That's a relatively small subset of people (Google wouldn't say how many), but the company says it's just an early implementation of what's to come.
Here's how it works at checkout:
Instead of pulling out a credit card to pay for your purchase, you get out your phone. Then you tap it on an NFC reader (these are becoming more common in stores and are usually labeled "PayPass" along with a little radio-wave icon) to log the payment. You have to enter a PIN for security.
Google Wallet currently works only with Citi MasterCard. Google also has a prepaid card of its own that you can load up with money from a bank or credit card account.
Some reviewers say the service is clunky.
"Other forms of payment are easier and quicker," said Jeff Blyskal, a senior editor at Consumer Reports, who tested Google Wallet in San Francisco.
"I don't think the Google wallet or any of these digital wallets are going to replace your leather wallet," he said. "I just don't think it will happen."
The phone-wallet technology is promising and probably will be a significant part of the mobile future, but it has to get easier to use, said Will Stofega, director of mobile device technology and trends at IDC, an analyst firm.
"I think the phone as wallet is a good place to start, and one of the things that has to happen is it has to be easy ... and it has to be accepted all over," he said.
Google says Google Wallet will continue to develop. The company hopes that, at some point, this smartphone app will carry loyalty cards and digital coupons so someone could just tap their phone and, all at once, also get discounts from a grocery store loyalty program or spend a Groupon deal they had in the queue.
In the longer term, the company and others hope to jam the rest of the contents of your pockets -- identification cards, transit passes, keys and the like -- into your phone, too. The details are far from worked out, but a phone with an NFC chip could be used to unlock doors and to identify a person. (Here's one reason Google Wallet isn't all that popular yet; only a handful of smartphones in the U.S. have such a chip in them, including the Google Nexus S and two BlackBerry models, which don't work with Google Wallet.)
For a hotel key, a clerk could transfer a key permission to the guest's phone upon check-in. Then the phone would communicate with a door lock in the same way it would with a cashier: by passing identifying information back and forth and unlocking the door.
Lots of hardware and industry standards might need to be changed to make something like that happen. And there will probably be security issues as well.
Even more complicated would be the phone-based drivers' license, since state governments would need to approve that. Google said there would obviously also have to be some form of authentication technology employed so the digital license couldn't be faked. That's a long way out, Freed-Finnegan said.
But the company thinks the digital wallet is a smart place to begin.
"We're really just getting started," he said.

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The syndrome is characterized by high fever, stiffness of the muscles, altered mental status (paranoid behavior), and autonomic dysfunction. Autonomic dysfunction alludes to defective operations of the components of the involuntary (autonomic) nervous system, leading to wide swings of blood pressure, excessive sweating and excessive secretion of saliva.
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The Detroit Shock announced today that the team has signed free-agent guard Nikki Teasley to a seven-day contract.
Teasley, a 6-foot-0 point guard, started 10 games this season for Atlanta, averaging 3.9 points, 1.7 rebounds and 3.5 assists in 23.4 minutes per game before being waived on July 3. After missing the 2008 season following the birth of her daughter, Teasley re-signed with the Dream on January 12, 2009. Teasley is a six-year veteran and two-time WNBA All-Star.
Originally selected with the fifth overall pick in the 2002 WNBA Draft, Teasley spent her first four seasons in the league with the Los Angeles Sparks, where she hit the game winning shot in the 2002 WNBA Championship. She was named the MVP of the 2003 WNBA All-Star game, and has career WNBA averages of 8.4 points 3.1 rebounds and 4.9 assists per game.
Teasley takes the roster spot of Barbara Farris, whose seven-day contract with the Detroit Shock expired on August 16.


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Justin Bieber might be trying to win back Selena Gomez.
Did this politician really just call Latinos "wetbacks?!"
J Lo's mama didn't raise no fool! Why the sexy mami is asking for a prenup.
According to this study Latinas enjoy this sexual activity most!
Is there trouble in paradise for love birds Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendez? Rumor has it Rachel McAdams may be making a come back.
Shakira joined the cast of The Voice this week and killed! She handled all those other guys and stuck to her Colombian roots. We can't wait to see what she has in store for this season!
Salma Hayek, Beyonce, and Gucci have all teamed up in an effort to helpmuejeres all over the world.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Jim Flora's Coda
In 1943, four years out of the Cincinnati Art Academy, and one year after docking on the east coast, Jim Flora was named Art Director of Columbia Records. His boss, Alex Steinweiss (inventor of the illustrated album cover), had enlisted in the Navy. One of Flora's first directorial fiats was to launch Coda, a monthly new release booklet. Along with catalog details on fresh Columbia platters, Coda contained artist profiles, historical vignettes, and -- most pertinent -- an abundance of Flora visual chicanery. Coda ran from 1943 to 1945, after which it was replaced by The Disc Digest. By then, Flora had been promoted to Advertising Manager, and later to Sales Promotion Manager, positions which afforded him little opportunity to draw. This was a source of creative frustration; Flora was not born to be a bureaucrat. In 1950, having reached his limit of what he called "endless meetings, endless memos, and wrestling with budgets," he resigned, and "bitten by the bug of wanderlust," drove to Mexico with his family in a Hudson sedan. They lived south of the border for a year and a half, mostly in Taxco, amid what he called "picturesque ruins."
After his return to the U.S. in 1951, Flora embarked upon a freelance career in commercial design. One early client was his former employer, Columbia, who hired him to revive and illustrate Coda. A fish-eyed, sax-wailing St. Nick graced the cover of the December 1952 edition. The following year, Flora began designing LP covers for RCA Victor. The Santa handing out those plum assignments was RCA AD Robert M. Jones -- the man who had replaced Flora as Columbia AD in 1945.
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Jim Flora's CODA leaflets were my primary design inspiration for my first Record Changer magazine covers and the doodads I put inside the covers. Later, his personal friendship and the films we did together were a further inspiration. Jim was an original, one-of-a-kind graphic artist, and I am by far not the only one wh wasinspired by him.- Gene DeitchReplyDelete
And I confess to being strongly influenced by Flora, as well as by you, Mr. Deitch! I bought your Cat on a Hot Thin Groove book as soon as it was published and couldn't put it down for months. (My wife wants a word with you, by the way.)ReplyDelete
Irwin, Leif—thank you for giving us some more insight into Jim Flora and his wonderful work this week! Looking forward to seeing more.


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"This is a whole new ball game. Highly recommended."—Dr. Stewart D. Friedman
Adviser to Jack Welch and Former Vice President Al Gore on Work/Family Issues
Director of the Work/Life Integration Project, The Wharton School
"It's about time this book was written. It is a long-overdue manifesto for the mobile lifestyle, and Tim Ferriss is the ideal ambassador. This will be huge."—Jack Canfield
Co-creator of Chicken Soup for the Soul®, 100+ million copies sold
"Stunning and amazing. From mini-retirements to outsourcing your life, it's all here. Whether you're a wage slave or a Fortune 500 CEO, this book will change your life!"—Phil Town
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Rule #1
"The world is changing and our outlook needs to change with it, because old models don't cut it anymore. This book will cause you to question everything — read it!"—Blake Ross
Co-founder of Firefox, downloaded by more than 300 million people worldwide
"Timothy has packed more lives into his 29 years than Steve Jobs has in his 51."—Tom Foremski
Journalist and Publisher of SiliconValleyWatcher.com
"The 4-Hour Workweek is a new way of solving a very old problem: just how can we work to live and prevent our lives from being all about work? A world of infinite options awaits those who would read this book and be inspired by it!"—Michael E. Gerber
Founder & Chairman of E-Myth Worldwide and the World's #1 Small Business Guru
"Thanks to Tim Ferriss, I have more time in my life to travel, spend time with family and write book blurbs. This is a dazzling and highly useful work."—A.J. Jacobs
Editor-at-Large, Esquire Magazine, Author of The Know-It-All
"If you want to live your dreams now, and not in 20 or 30 years, buy this book!"—Laura Roden
Chairman of the Silicon Valley Association of Start-up Entrepreneurs
Lecturer in Corporate Finance, San Jose State University
"Tim is Indiana Jones for the digital age. I've already used his advice to go spearfishing on remote islands and ski the best hidden slopes of Argentina. Simply put, do what he says and you can live like a millionaire."—Albert Pope
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"This engaging book makes you ask the most important question that you will ever face: What exactly is it that you want out of work and life, and why? Tim Ferriss is a master of getting more for less, often with the help of people he doesn't even know, and here he gives away his secrets for fulfilling your dreams."—Bo Burlingham
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Author of Small Giants: Companies That Choose To Be Great Instead of Big
"Reading this book is like putting a few zeros on your income. Tim brings lifestyle to a new level — listen to him!"—Michael D. Kerlin
McKinsey & Company Consultant to Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund
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"Part scientist and part adventure hunter, Tim Ferriss has created a road map for an entirely new world. I devoured this book in one sitting — I have seen nothing like it."—Charles L. Brock
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Former CFO, COO, and General Counsel, Scholastic, Inc.
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"Outsourcing is no longer just for Fortune 500 companies. Small and mid-sized firms, as well as busy professionals, can outsource their work to increase their productivity and free time for more important commitments. It's time for the world to take advantage of this revolution."—Vivek Kulkarni
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Credited as the "techno-bureaucrat" who helped make Bangalore an IT destination in India
"Tim is the master! I should know. I followed his rags to riches path and watched him transform himself from competitive fighter to entrepreneur. He tears apart conventional assumptions until he finds a better way."—Dan Partland
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Financiers to innovators including Hotmail, Skype, and Overture.com
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… But even more than that, it challenges the reader to seriously consider an essential—yet rarely asked—question: What do you really want from life?"
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"Tim has done what most people only dream of doing. I can't believe he is going to let his secrets out of the bag. This book is a must read!"—Stephen Key
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7 ways budget cuts will hit national parks
By Christopher Dawson, CNN • Updated 20th May 2013
Road-tripping to a national park makes for an easy -- and spectacular -- summer getaway. While all the U.S. national parks will be open this summer, forced federal spending cuts mean reduced programs and facility access.
The National Park Service has cut 5% from its 2013 budget. The parks will be open and ready for summer visitors, according to Park Service spokesman Mike Litterest, but these changes are likely:
staff and programs
The Park Service will hire approximately 1,000 fewer seasonal employees to provide programs and staffing during the peak summer season. With fewer park employees, visitors may notice delayed road and park openings, reduced hours of operation, fewer program offerings and longer wait times at entrance stations.
Shorter seasons
Several parks, especially those that close in the winter, have delayed their reopening due to a lack of crews to clear the roads. Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, for example, opened two weeks late this spring to reduce snow plowing costs, and some secondary roads will reopen only as snow melts. At Acadia National Park in Maine, the winter closure of park facilities was extended by an extra month. Similar delays have happened in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah and Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
Selected facilities will not open
Portions of a number of parks will not open as a cost saving measure. In Washington state, for example, Mount Rainier National Park will close the Ohanapecosh Visitor Center due to reduced staffing. At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, six interpretive sites in the park will remain closed, including the Declaration House, where Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence. And on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee, 14 restrooms along the 444-mile parkway will be closed two days per week, and four will be closed for the entire 2013 season.
Closed selected days
A number of national parks will close for one or more days a week. This includes the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site in Missouri and Ohio's James A. Garfield National Historic Site, which will close on Sundays and Mondays, as well as on all federal holidays. Other examples include the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site in Virginia, which will close on Mondays, and the visitor centers at Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota, which will be closed two days a week.
Fewer campgrounds
Along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia and North Carolina, the Otter Creek, Roanoke Mountain and Crabtree Falls campgrounds will remain closed through the summer; an additional four picnic areas and three visitor centers will not open this year. Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee is closing three remote campgrounds and two picnic areas this summer. At Grand Teton National Park, several campsites and restroom facilities will not open this year.
Fewer ranger programs
Many national parks are reducing the number and schedule of park ranger programs this summer. At Yosemite National Park in California, all programs at the park's Mariposa Grove are cancelled; the Shark Valley Visitor Center at Florida's Everglades National Park is eliminating 60% of its programs due to staff reductions; and Petersburg National Battlefield in Virginia is cutting its offerings by more than half.
Curtailed maintenance operations
Visitors may also be affected by a reduction of routine maintenance. Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park will delay hiring a park electrician and seven seasonal guides, resulting in the closure of the most remote sections of the cave. Trails damaged by high water in Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park in Hawaii will remain closed due to lack of staff to repair boundary fences and other areas. And at Glacier National Park in Montana, reduced seasonal hiring at the end of the summer will result in less maintenance, mowing, rock removal, patching, striping and shoulder dressing along the Going to the Sun Road and other main park roads.
To find out how your visit might be affected, check the
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Nation's largest single-site kidney transplant chain, underway at UAB, on "Nightline" tonightWritten by Tyler Greer
Since December, 21 living donor kidney transplants that have taken place at UAB are connected as donors "pay it forward" for a recipient to keep the chain going, and more transplants are scheduled for July.
Biomarkers and new treatments for glaucoma are topics for the April 15 lecture.
Proceeds from the event will be used to fund grants for young cancer researchers at UAB to jump-start their research.
Tickets are $10 for the Taste For a Cure wine event on Friday, April 4.
The UAB Comprehensive Cancer will hold its first communitywide conference for young cancer survivors ages 15-39 on March 15.
UAB pediatric residents hosting runWritten by
The goal of the Spring Scramble 5K is to raise funds to support the Children's of Alabama Center for Weight Management.
Proceeds from the Fiesta Ball are used to fund a competitive grant award for a young cancer researcher at UAB to jumpstart his or her research.
The Mike L. Jezdimir Transverse Myelitis Foundation supports TM research at UAB in eight disciplines.
The public debate, "High vs. Low Carbohydrate Diets for Cancer Control and Overall Health," will take place from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. March 27 at the UAB Alumni House.


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Woman Stabs Boyfriend Following Heated Argument
Wednesday evening Sioux Falls police were dispatched to a report of a stabbing. When officers they arrived they found Jay C. Johns with a stab wound to his leg. He was transported to Avera Hospital where he was treated and released for a stab wound to his leg.
Investigation into the incident revealed that Johns was stabbed by his girlfriend, Mrytle Blacklance after an argument.
Blacklance was arrested and lodged at the county jail for Domestic Aggravated Assault.


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Byron Leftwich knows no one is giving him much of a chance.
The Steelers are 0-4 against the Ravens without the injured Ben Roethlisberger, who is not going to play Sunday night because of a dislocated rib and sprained shoulder.
But the Steelers backup remains confident in his own abilities, as do the players around him.
"I know they're saying, 'Hey, man, they got a backup quarterback playing Sunday night against the Ravens' and we understand nobody's giving us a shot," Leftwich said, via Alan Robinson of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "That's OK."
While Roethlisberger is clearly their most important piece on offense, teammates are rallying behind Leftwich, with center Maurkice Pouncey saying: "I think we'll do a great job with him. People are making this out to be bigger than it's going to be."
Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Leftwich was "fully capable of running their whole package," though there are significant differences.
First and foremost, what Leftwich lacks in mobility he makes up for in arm strength.
"Probably about 20-25 miles per hour," wide receiver Mike Wallace said of the difference between Roethlisberger and Leftwich. "Byron's ball comes out a lot faster. I like Byron's ball. Ben has a nice soft touch on it, you just pluck out of the air and keep rolling. Byron, you definitely got to brace yourself because it's coming."
How well they're able to adapt to the difference will determine whether the naysayers are right.


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DAC Collection Artist Information
Alberto Giacometti
Swiss painter, sculptor, and printmaker, born France
Brief biography, in most instances from the Union List of Artist Names® Online:
Giacometti was a Swiss artist who is best known for his lanky sculptures of solitary figures. At a young age it became apparent he was extremely adept in the fine arts. Encouragement from his father, Giovanni and his godfather, Cuno Amiet (both painters) lead him to pursue an artistic career. Between 1922 and 1925, Giacometti studied at the Académie de la Grande-Chaumiére in Paris. His brother Diego was a furniture designer as well as Giacometti's model and studio assistant; his brother Bruno was an architect.
Artist ID number in the Union List of Artist Names®: ULAN 500118871.
The ULAN link above leads to a cataloging authority record at the Getty Research Institute.
Objects related to Alberto Giacometti:
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I've even had people give me different formulas, such as:80% of your GCWRorGVWR - GVW = hitch weight, GCVWR - GVW - ppl&cargo = trailer gross weightor 10-20% of GVWR
In travel trailers, it should be no less than 10% of trailer weight, that is critical for trailer stability. It can be as much as 15-16% but that not critical. Axle loading is not usually a factor in TTs -- the weight distributing hitch distributes the tongue weight to all truck axles.
I notice that the 2004 Trail Lite brochure gives a hitch wt of 271lbs for a 3987lb total dry weight (model # 8263s). This would be only 6%. About that same percentage for several 2004 models, naturally one I was considering...Should I avoid the 8263s because of this? Thanks.-Eric
Another point - most of the pickup tow ratings assume 60 sq. feet of combined truck and trailer frontal area. That's about the size of a horse or utility trailer. A 8 ft wide x 12 ft. high RV trailer has 96 sq. feet frontal area - over 50% more than what the tow ratings assume.More frontal area = more wind resistance, which means you need more horsepower to move it down the road. A truck that's towing at it's maximum rating doesn't have much power left to pull that big sail down the road.
...I don't have time for a detailed answer right now, but basically we assume that most trailers will be loaded to or close to its GVWR....
This raises an interesting question. I am a "pre-newbie" i.e., I am just starting to look and will almost certainly rent before I buy. I know some will discount the importance of the numbers, but I am extremely conservative and if the numbers don't look good I will shy away. I have been researching lightweight (up to 7000# GVWR) TTs and have complied manufacturer specs for about 100 models of interest in a spreadsheet. I have seen some models (e.g. Cruiser Fun Finder X-210) with a CCC actually higher than the UVW (3505# vs 3495#). I can't imagine loading 3500# fluids/options/gear in a 3500# UVW / 7000# GVWR trailer. So does this mean the frame, suspension, and tires are unnecessarily stiff? Does this make for a harsh and bouncy ride that will pound on the structure and contents? In my 100 TT sample the average and median CCC to GVWR ratio is only 35%. Should I be concerned about this?
Hi all, I've been missing being able read all the ? and answers but I've been a busy girl! House is empty, and renters moving in! I'm now living in my 5er! Will take off on the 20th for Holiday, Florida for a brief visit with aunt and cousin then on to Fort Pierce for 13 weeks. I'm psyched! Now for my ? Tow vehicle Ford F250 V10 4wd Tow Rating 12,500Trailer 30' fifth wheelGVWR 12,000Had the whole thing weighed last Sat and I think everything is good but with the pin weight and axle weight etc. I'm confused all over again. I went with a truck driving instructor who said they won't let you unhook from the trailer and weigh them seperately so I'm relying on my panel of experts for the final approval or I start pitching stuff out the door of the trailer! Here are the results:Steer axle 4,360Drive axle 5,580trailer axle 9,580 (no propane and no water)Gross Weight 19,520 Help!Thanks
Otrider: check your rear (drive) axle GAWR, which should be on a plate attached to the driver's door post or on a sticker in the glove box. It needs to be less than the actual 5580 lbs you weighed, preferably with some extra margin since the weight will surely go up when you add some water and the inevitable extra goodies.
Apparently, Carl, he did not unhitch the trailer. The weight given would appear to be trailer axle weight with the king pin still resting on the truck. Since we don't know what either the truck or the trailer weighs by itself, we can't calculate all the weights or know if he is within the 12,500 lb tow rating (whether with ort without a safety margin).
Hey, Me again, I just re-read the responses to my initial questions. I can and will take the truck down and weigh it. That would be easy, I can do that before I go. Thanks,Pam
Given the truck's GVWR of 9400 lbs and a tow rating of at least 12,500, we can safely estimate that the GCWR is at least the sum of the two: 9400 + 12,500 = 21,900.
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yes, mr. bigglesworth, it is freaking freezing outside. i know that because, like you, i had to walk outside to get into the office today. we therefore need not discuss (over and over again) that yes, it is cold outside. it is winter in d.c.; cold weather is neither unexpected nor a mystery. and on that note, when you only wear leggings with a short jacket and say things like, "i wish i wore warmer clothes" you open yourself up to my response of, "you mean like PANTS?" you are running around outside wearing what amounts to longjohns but thinner. and, if i can see not only your pantyline but the print on your thong, you might want to rethink what you consider "professional" and "office approrpiate" wear.
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David Hookes Memorial Shield
Dulwich Cricket Club was delighted to host a very special cricket match last week when the Great Britain Transplant X1 played the Australian Transplant X1 in a one day international cricket game. The match played last week was also timed to coincide with Organ Transplant awareness week.
The limited overs match was played for the David Hookes Memorial Shield which was won by the Great Britain X1. The day was sponsored by Dulwich member, Matt Johnson. Matt manages CAM Specialist Support.
All the players involved in the game have received life changing, and very often life saving, organ transplants that have transformed their lives. The players include some who have endured thrice weekly dialysis and those who have received donated hearts, kidneys, lungs and livers. The "transplant players" have been given the chance to continue playing the sport they love through the generosity of their donors.
The tourists asked to play at Dulwich as David played for Dulwich in 1975 before becoming a State player. He played 23 Test Matches, was Chairman of South Australia and then became manager of the Victorian State Side. David died in tragic circumstances in January 2004 and donated his organs, helping to save or dramatically improve the lives of 10 recipients.
His widow, Robyn, who travelled from Australia was present at the match. She is the Director of the David Hookes Foundation which has the objective of increasing the number of organ donors: increasing the public awareness of the need for organ donors and educating families to support the decision of their loved one to donate organs.
John Soldan, who was the captain of Dulwich in 1976 when "Hookesey" played at Dulwich, was instrumental in arranged the match. John was privileged to receive a special tribute from a tearful Robyn Hookes who presented John with a cricket jumper from David's last test appearance for Australia. The whole day was very special to all the participants and the host club with even the English weather allowing a full game.
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Massive hardcore talent Restrained rolls into the new year with a huge two-tracker release on Neophyte Records! His guns fully blazing, title track "How I Roll" is a true hardcore slammer. Diesel's vocal support in "Concrete Jungle" turns the second track into absolute mayhem, making this EP a must-have for every passionate hardcore lover!


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The tweet, posted last night, is wordless and includes only a link to this image. Whether or not the tweet is in reference to Duke Nukem Forever is unknown at this point, but recent rumors about the videogame-turned-punchline indicate we'll find out for sure soon.
In early August, speculation that Borderlands developer Gearbox Software had taken the reins on Duke Nukem Forever began to surface. The game was so close to completion, the story went, a playable demo would be available by the end of the year.
Asked about the rumor, Gearbox studio head Randy Pitchford declined to comment, but he couldn't help saying he would "better clarify the situation" at the Penny Arcade Expo -- which just happens to be kicking off tomorrow in Seattle.
Duke Nukem Forever has been in development since 1997 (that's not a typo). Here's what Broussard had to say in 2006 when 1Up interviewed him about the game:
GB: You know, we've been so busy on Duke Forever for so long that we can't really see past just finishing this game, but you never can tell when it's done, you know, what you want to work on next.
1UP: Wait, wait. You guys are working on Duke Forever?
GB: [Laughs] And ever and ever.
1UP: And when's that due out again?
GB: [Laughs] I think it'll be out when pigs fly.
Sharkey says: The timing of the elements -- Gearbox rumor, PAX, Broussard's tweet -- makes me think this could be real. But we've heard Duke Forever is on the way countless times in the past 13 years. The only way I'll ever believe it at this point is when we actually see it. And even then I won't be so sure.


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Last night was the Los Angeles premiere for Deathbowl To Downtown at the DGA theatre in Hollywood. For those that dont know, Deathbowl To Downtown is a documentary on the evolution of street skating in the NYC (you may have seen the feature in our August 2008 issue). Directed by Coan Nichols and Rick Charnoski and narrated by Chloë Sevigny, the documentary is a history lesson for those who think that Zoo York is just a skateboard company. It's probably cliche to say that we need to know our history, but it's true. To give respect to our past is our way of living the present. Although street skating did not start in New York City, a culture in skateboarding did, that today still strives strong and nowhere else in the world exists. From the days of the original Zoo York Crew, to the evolution of Shut Skateboards, to the creation of Zoo York skateboards and the transformation of New York City, this film is a time capsule for all skateboarders—plus we get to see old Gonz footy that just makes you want to go mob the streets. Just go see the film and feel the passion. R.I.P. VAN WASTELL.


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Sneakernet SVNAugust 18, 2008
Over the past three months I've gotten myself used to checking all my projects into a pair of Subversion repositories, one for personal projects and another for all my client work. In both cases I'm the only person using them, so neither are your typical SVN use case scenarios, but I'm still finding my system enormously handy for a few reasons:
- I work off two computers during any given week, and though I've been good about keeping them synchronized, I have had the occasional few hours of work wiped out by a wrong-direction file transfer. Plus the mental overhead of manually keeping track of which files have changed meant I didn't do it as often as I should.
- I have at least three copies of my work on hand, which means I'm well situated if any one or two copies crap out on me, or get stolen, or whatever.
- I can revert to a previous version of my work if I ever realize down the road I needed something from a file I deleted three months ago. This one is mostly theoretical for now, as I haven't had to do it yet, but it's nice to know the option is there.
But here's the twist: my repositories exist on USB keys. I decided against storing them on a server, so I needed some other way to create relatively portable repositories. USB drives fit that bill. Now there are two immediate flaws with this setup:
- Security
- A USB key is a physical object that could wind up in someone else's possession, through theft or carelessness or any other reason. I don't want anyone else having access to work in progress or my personal files.
- Data Loss
- Also through losing the key, or through physical damage, my work could disappear.
The second point is relatively easy to shrug off: I have the master files in three locations, it's just one of those that I'd be losing. Okay, so I'd also lose the change history, but in my mind the most important piece is the current master copy of the files, which I'd have safely backed up in two other places. So, while being forced to recreate the repository wouldn't be ideal, it also wouldn't be a huge hardship.
However it's that first point that concerned me more. I had to get a little more proactive about securing the USB key, but luckily OS X makes that fairly simple to accomplish. Using the built-in Disk Utility (
Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility) it's easy to create an encrypted disk image that protects its contents from prying eyes:
- Open Disk Utility, hit the "New Image" button.
- Give the image a name; I'd highly recommend naming it differently from your USB key to avoid confusion.
- Select your USB key from the left hand device listing.
- Select a size that will fit on your key. For an 8GB USB key I went with a 7.5GB disk image to account for byte count differences, though I probably could have gone a bit higher.
- Set encryption to AES-128.
- Leave format as "read/write", then hit Create. Enter your password when prompted, and verify it. Do not lose or forget this password.
- Wait; it will take quite a while to write a large disk image over USB.
What you've created is a secondary virtual disk on the USB key, but this one's encrypted. 128 bit AES isn't uncrackable, but if it's secure enough for classified government documents, it's good enough to render the disk image useless to virtually anyone who doesn't have your password.
Now to use this image you first need to manually mount it by inserting the key, then double-clicking on the image that sits on the key. You'll know it's mounted when you see two drive icons in your Mac's device listing, one for the physical USB key and one for the virtual disk image.
Once the encrypted image is mounted you can read and write files inside of it like you would any other disk, so this is where the repository goes. I took the easy way out and just grabbed the latest beta of Versions and used it to set up my initial repository by pointing it at a master copy of my project folder on one computer, and then checking out the repository on the other computer.
And from then on it's SVN as usual; my projects are kept up to date on both systems, and I can make changes on either end with the confidence that I'm not going to lose critical data. And this have been an extremely useful system for me, as evidenced by the fact I'm still using it religiously three months later. But there are a few minor quibbles I should point out.
I do have to keep swapping the USB key back and forth between machines (hence the term Sneakernet in the title of this post). I also need to hit eject twice every time I want to remove the USB key: once for the disk image and once for the USB key itself. I wouldn't have to do this if I hosted the repository on a server somewhere.
I also need to remember to keep the key with me when I'm likely to require it; having it on my keychain was working fine for that… up until the metal clasp broke. But I'm also finding the process of checking in my work is making me more aware of when one computer or the other is out of date, and usually when I grab the MacBook to go work in a cafe or elsewhere I'll remember that I need the USB key with me. So far so good, but I can at least see the potential for this being a problem now and then.
And finally, a USB key is limited in space; I've been checking in all my work, from HTML and CSS to PSD and AI files. Some of these are many megabytes in size, and the space requirement for multiple revisions is not insignificant.
While I can foresee the need to maintain the repository down the road by trimming the oldest revisions to free up space, I haven't had to cross that bridge yet. And I also half suspect that simply moving the repository to a larger USB key will be the path of least resistance, as larger capacities are introduced and prices come down.
Hi Dave, that's an interesting system. I'm a little unclear on why you don't use a central server. For me, a major benefit of the central server is the fact that if I need to work on the code on a completely different computer, it's accessible (I just check it out from the server).
If I were you, I'd be deathly worried I'd lose the key! That's all your backups.
What made you shy away from keeping the repository on a server?
I've never used subversion (used alienbrain briefly, I assume it's similar). and If i read this right you're keeping all your files on the USB key?
how big is that USB key? my working clients folder is huge!
I've recently started checking stuff into an SVN repository too! I haven't been at it as long as you have, but I'm really enjoying it. I ended up putting my repos on the PC that I don't use very much since I bought a mac - it was much easier than I thought, (click my name above and scroll down for a full description).
One note - I recently had to go back to an older revision, and it is a bit of a pain in the behind. Also, I have been having problems with Versions if I have to do anything out of the ordinary, (like go back to an older revision).
In the end, I am enjoying my SVN server. I am now collaborating with someone on a project using it and it works extremely well.
I wonder if anyone offers colocation for USB keys?
@Daryl - I thought it was clear in the post, but I have a backup of the current work in three different places including the key, so I'm not at all worried about losing it.
@Josh - Initially the main reason for not going with a server is because I still intend to get the hell off Dreamhost one day and I only want to set up a remote repository once. Then when I thought about the times I don't have wifi USB started making sense, and now that I have it all in AES-128 I'm thinking I'm more secure this way anyway.
@Andrew - One's 8GB, one's 4GB. I archived a bunch of non-active work before the first check-in, so at the moment it all fits comfortably.
Cool idea… I've been looking into setting up an SVN repo for my work as well but the logistics have been holding me back; your way would definitely solve some of the problems I've been thinking about. I'm planning on setting up a collocation server though, which might make keeping a repo on a live server less of a chore… still an interesting alternative though.
I've also been hearing a lot about Git these days and how it treats even your local copy as a repository, with version history etc. That would be another potential solution, but as far as I can tell, there's not much Windows or Mac support for that version control system.
You might want to look into Git. I've converted from SVN and it's pretty straight-forward, most of the Rails community has now moved onto it.
It's a distributed VCS meaning you can commit changes locally and then 'sync' with a centrally stored master copy. It also seems to be *much* faster at pushing changes over the wire.
I use http://github.com for all my source code needs… it really is rather splendid.
Very cool. I've been meaning to start using SVN (currently I just use my IDE [Aptana Studio] and my server to upload/download projects). I'm in the same situation (I'd be the only one to check anything in or out of the repository), but it would still be useful for the same reasons that you mentioned.
Using a server instead of USB drive would be easier of course, but I can understand your desire to set up a remote repository only once
@cam c.
Distributed version control (like Git) is really nice. Both Mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ and Bazaar http://bazaar-vcs.org/ are good systems with good windows support. I personally use Bazaar.
Seconding the DVCS recommendation. It sounds like the lack of a centralized server would really benefit you in this case where there's a portable setup and there might be a case where multiple repos exist and need to sync from one another without necessarily having the centralized one available. Git can be built on Macs, and there's a msysgit port available on Windows that's fairly usable.
For a Subversion user, though, I'd recommend Mercurial. It's roughly equivalent to Git in terms of features (notable exception: ability to rewrite history as easily), but the command set is much closer to SVN and works better on Windows/Macs because it's written in Python. It's also, like many (all?) DVCSes, much faster than SVN.
Uh oh, you've mentioned VCS in public Dave, these days that always results in a chorus of "use git! no, use bzr! no, use mercurial!" :)
But none of these DVCS have nice GUI apps like Versions, which sounds like it's important to you.
That said, anyone using SVN and willing to use a command line should take a look at SVK (1). Like the DVCS mentioned it allows offline commits and has better merge than SVN itself. SVK uses the SVN 'filesystem' for it's storage format, so you can still use GUI tools to look at your repository, just don't use them to work on the repository.
With SVK you'd keep the main SVN repository on one of the machines and use SVK to keep a copy of that repository on your usb key. You'd commit changes to the usb key then at a later point push changes back to the main SVN repo.
This way you'd have a single master repo in a safe place, that can be backed up with all your other stuff (repositories do get corrupted sometimes!), but are still able to commit changes whilst away from the 'main' machine or a network connection.
Because you keep your original SVN repo you're also in a position to just revert to SVN alone if you decide you don't like SVK.
(I know git does a lot of this stuff too, but it's commands are quite different from svn, harder to learn I think.)
Another advantage to having a physical USB key nearby is reduced latency times; storing files remotely often incurs a serious time overhead when browsing and checking out of the repository. My employer's SVN server takes about 15 minutes to pull down a new export of at least one of its projects (that's "only" 150M). I imagine such a task would take 30 seconds with a direct connection.
That said, our SVN server is an old P4 somewhere in Moscow.
Using an USB stick as SVN repo too here. Not using an encrypted disk image on it though (that, and the fact that my main machine still is my XP box … recently switched over).
Never would've thought about it; Just ingenious!
I do have a suggestion for you that will eliminate the double-eject requirement.
1. Back up the data on your encrypted volume.
2. Install TrueCrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org)
3. Wipe the USB key
4. Use TrueCrypt to make the whole USB key one encrypted volume.
5. Put your data back on this volume
Now, you still need to do an extra step when you mount the USB key (mounting it via TrueCrypt), but you don't have to double-eject.
This also has the following advantages:
* You can select the crypto algorithm (though I agree that AES-128 is plenty)
* TrueCrypt is available for Windows too, so your image is portable to OS X, Win2000, XP, and Vista.
Interesting alternative. I can't imagine dragging the drive back and forth.
I actually have the "server" portion set up on my Mac and then I can check things out locally (the usual) or over the network to another machine. I found the hardest part was getting svnserve setup in Leopard. Maybe someday I'll add in a sync/backup of the repositories to a remote location, but for now my local backup is sufficient.
I'm with Darren with using TrueCrypt but I'm not 100% sure it works on Mac's. If you want the "ultimate" in encrypted UBS keys check out IronKey (https://www.ironkey.com/).
I've been doing this myself for a while, for all of the same reasons. For my setup I added a linux box to house the repos and then hooked everything together with a Hamachi VPN. I suppose you could do the same by leaving the USB key in one of the machines and making it the server.
Like you, I just adopted Subversion for all my client work, even though in most cases I'm the only one accessing it. I'm using Dreamhost as the Subversion server. It's a bit slow for big commits, but has worked well for me. I also like Cornerstone very much.
The one piece of the puzzle that bothers me is that Subversion doesn't support the resource forks of Mac files. Not an issue mostly except for Applescripts which come back into the working copy as 0 byte files. My workaround is to always include a ZIP version of any Applescript that has to be refreshed as the script is updated. The 0 byte file can be deleted and replaced by the version protected inside the ZIP file.
Two more issues: When your files grow your stick will not only be to small, it will also become to slow. Data transfer is usual about a fifth of i.e. USB drives.
And a pretty cool solution to encryption: There are drives with build in finger print readers! Encryption is done by the hardware inside of this drives, independent from your OS.
Anyway, I prefer to use a https-svn repository on the net (for reasons already mentioned here).
Hi Dave,
just use Assembla.com it's free and they provide SVN, even with Trac integration. But I prefer keeping all my docs under Google Documents.
Like other commentators, I would strongly recommend a server if you're using subversion. The centralized repository method just really lends itself to a server. I tried the SVN + USB route and gave up after I lost one drive, then accidentally broke another, then kept forgetting to bring my USB drive with me. You may not be worried about losing your revision history, but it's still a pain to create a new repository from the working copy.
If you're using a USB drive I'd encourage you to consider a distributed system like git or Mercurial. Then, your entire repository (history and all) will be in three places. And git makes it really, really, really easy to create new branches to try out ideas.
I tried the two computer thing for a while, and it began to become a real pain in the butt trying to keep everything synchronized. I eventually realized it was just easier to use my
notebook solely.
Why don't you use DropBox instead? SVN can be useful for projects with multiple contributors, and for some other more robust features, but DropBox has a lot of the bases covered (including version control).
I work on 3 different computers, all linked up via my 50gb DropBox account. I save active projects directly to my DropBox, in their own respective folders. The files are saved locally to my HDD, so they're quick to work with. When saved, they are uploaded to the Amazon S3 cloud in the background, and then pushed to the other 2 computers.
Everything is seamless. I don't have to worry about uploading, or checking files in or out, or taking a USB key with me. Files are simply automatically synced up. It has been a lifesaver, because otherwise working on the same projects on 3 different computers (both Windows & OS X) would be a bitch!
Three reasons for using Git came to mind when reading your post:
a) History. This is stored in each repository on each machine, so you don't lose this if your USB key goes missing.
b) File size. Git can diff binaries, not just text, so when you save multiple versions of a PSD file, it will only save the actual changes.
c) Offline. Since each copy is itself a repository and your 'server' isn't on a USB key, you could leave your USB key behind when you go to the cafe, commit your changes locally, and push/pull them when you return to your desk.
There is a bit of a learning curve, and you would have to replace Versions with GitX (http://gitx.frim.nl/), but it does solve a few of the issues you mentioned above.
(P.S. There is a 5px notch out of the right column of your template in Chrome)
I'm setting up my USB key now. Excellent idea, perfect for my needs. One question: Since you wrote about this, have you run out of space? If so, I'm curious to know how you dealt with that.


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Minecraft Pickaxe Bottle Opener
For your brewing station
- Tap that (beer... with your pickaxe).
- Sturdy metal pickaxe looks like the one in game
- Snazzy conversation piece for your home bar
It seems like everyone who is anyone is doing home brewing lately. So we thought we'd set up a home brewing station. We've got our brewing stand, our cauldron, glass bottles, water bottles, nether wart, glowstone dust, redstone dust, fermented spider eye, magma cream, sugar, glistering melon... wait, what? We can't make beer from those ingredients? What the heck? We were really looking forward to Golden Carrot Beer granting us night vision. Dangit.
Your home brewing station is of course, making delicious beer and cider (and maybe a side of regeneration potion). Hang this trusty pickaxe on the wall and you'll always have the right tool for cracking open a brew and tasting your handiwork. This officially licensed Minecraft Pickaxe Bottle Opener is as hefty as it is handy!
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Trim excess fat from chicken parts and cut breasts in half so that all the pieces will cook in roughly the same amount of time. Season the chicken generously with salt and pepper. Heat vegetable oil in a large, oven-proof pot (such as a Dutch oven) over medium-high heat. Brown chicken on all sides, about 5 minutes per side, then set aside on a plate and reserve. Add the onions and garlic and cook a couple minutes to sweat them down a little. Add the ale and deglaze the bottom of the pot. Add the tomato paste and canned tomatoes and stir well until tomato paste is dissolved. Add carrots, thyme, and plums. Return the chicken to the pot along with any reserved juices. Gently submerge the chicken pieces by nestling them into liquid (this will cook them evenly without drying them out).
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January, 2009
In the early 1950s, a chance discovery helped transform schizophrenia from mystical affliction to medical disorder. French psychiatrists discovered that chlorpromazine, a drug used to make surgical patients less anxious, also relieved the symptoms of psychosis. The subsequent discovery that chlorpromazine targeted a brain messenger molecule called dopamine kicked off a large research effort into dopamine dysfunction in schizophrenia.
A half-century later, another avenue of research has yielded exciting results. Two recent studies—one a clinical drug trial and another a basic science study in laboratory mice—have helped turned the focus to a different messenger molecule, or neurotransmitter, called glutamate. In September 2007, researchers at Eli Lilly published a study showing that an experimental compound that inhibits glutamate signaling was able to reduce psychosis.1 Although the trial awaits confirmation, and it remains to be seen whether this particular compound will be any more effective or have fewer side effects than the older drugs, the results validate the basic neuroscience research and purposeful drug development that offered up the first successful new drug target in more than half a century.
Reinforcing this new emphasis on non-dopamine causes of schizophrenia, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, reported in December 2007 that interfering with glutamate signaling in their mouse model also disrupted brain cells that use yet another neurotransmitter, this one called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).2 The fact that the GABA cell alterations mimicked those seen in schizophrenia may help to unite two prominent, and competing, theories of schizophrenia causation.
Although chlorpromazine (later sold as Thorazine in the United States) rescued schizophrenia sufferers from failed treatment strategies such as electroshock therapy, induced insulin shock, and frontal lobotomy, it did not restore full functionality to patients, as disabling cognitive and motivational symptoms persisted. Indeed, even today researchers are only in the infancy of understanding a disorder that was reported in historical texts as early as Pharaonic Egypt.
An important turning point in understanding psychotic disorders came around the turn of the twentieth century, when the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin distinguished two types of disorders featuring delusions, hallucinations, and other thought disruptions. The major distinction between "dementia praecox" and "manic depression," Kraepelin postulated, was that although people with manic depression (now called bipolar disorder) might experience psychosis during manic periods, they return to relatively normal cognitive function when they come down from the mania. For people with dementia praecox, later termed "schizophrenia" by Kraepelin's countryman Eugen Bleuler, psychosis is an ongoing state, often accompanied by profound deterioration in the ability to process information or interact socially.
The modern diagnosis of schizophrenia requires the persistence of psychotic, also called "positive," symptoms for at least six months, without evidence of mood cycling. However, psychosis is not the only symptom of schizophrenia. Most people with the disorder also exhibit poor working memory (information stored temporarily during a task) and are unable to quickly recognize new situations and rules, an ability termed cognitive "flexibility." These cognitive features contribute greatly to the chronic disability of most patients, as does a third symptom domain, that of "negative" symptoms. Negative symptoms describe aspects of normal behavior that are subtracted by the disease process—typically motivation, the display of emotion, or the desire to interact with other people. Thus, the most severely afflicted find themselves in a constant state of confusion about the events going on around them, without the capacity to have normal social interactions.
The work of the German classifiers and their contemporaries had no direct benefit for people with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Indeed, the next half-century saw some horrifically misguided attempts to alleviate the suffering of patients and their families. Treatments such as the surgical disconnection of major brain pathways with frontal lobotomy were the result of physicians' moving forward with slim scientific evidence.
Finally, in the second half of the twentieth century, antipsychotic drugs provided a logic and a strategy for looking for chemical or structural changes in the brains of people with schizophrenia. If a single molecule—chlorpromazine—could reduce and in some cases eliminate the complex manifestations of schizophrenia, then it stood to reason that there was a chemical imbalance in the brain.
The Swedish scientist Arvid Carlsson had discovered dopamine in the early 1950s, and a decade later he and his colleagues determined that antipsychotic drugs worked by blocking dopamine from attaching to its receptor molecules. This finding dovetailed with another serendipitous finding: as early as the 1930s, it had been noted that amphetamine could cause psychosis. Amphetamine and other psychostimulants, it turns out, boost the activity of dopamine. Thus, the "dopamine hypothesis" of schizophrenia was born.
For the next several decades, researchers focused on trying to understand how dopamine systems were disturbed in the disorder. However, despite some significant refinements to chlorpromazine, especially reductions of some side effects, this line of research has been disappointing. According to Joseph Coyle of Harvard University, one of the first schizophrenia researchers to turn their attention to glutamate, 70 to 80 percent of patients with schizophrenia treated with dopamine drugs remain profoundly impaired by cognitive and negative symptoms. Moreover, neither a clear understanding of how blocking dopamine receptors curbs psychosis nor any new molecular targets have emerged from this line of research. Most psychiatry researchers are currently of the opinion that the dysfunction of dopamine neurotransmission in schizophrenia results from, or compensates for, a more fundamental or "upstream" disturbance of the nervous system, perhaps in glutamate signaling.
While the public has had many opportunities to learn about the important role of dopamine in the brain, especially in regard to Parkinson's disease and the rewarding effects of sex, drugs, and chocolate, glutamate remains relatively unknown. In fact, it is the most common neurotransmitter in the brain and the signaling molecule of choice of the powerful pyramidal neurons. So named for their shape, these cells send information shooting around the cerebral cortex and other brain areas that control behavioral functions, rapidly combining sensory input with stored information and emotions.
One reason for glutamate's anonymity in the public mind is that its status as a neurotransmitter was demonstrated only some twenty years ago. Researchers had long known that it was abundant in the brain, but it is involved in numerous other cell activities as well. In order to qualify glutamate as a true neurotransmitter, scientists had to establish that it was released by nerve cells at the ends of long fibers called axons. Researchers also showed that glutamate, like dopamine and all other neurotransmitters, crosses a narrow space beyond the axon called the synapse and binds to receptor molecules on the surface of other neurons, triggering rapid electrical or chemical activity in the second cell.
Once scientists had established the status of glutamate, especially in the cortex, they were quick to explore the possibility of glutamate dysfunction in schizophrenia. Here another bit of serendipity came into play. As with amphetamine and the dopamine hypothesis, it involved a drug that caused psychosis.
Remarkably, the drug phencyclidine was another gift from the anesthesiologists. Developed as an anesthetic in the 1950s, phencyclidine (PCP, called "angel dust" as a street drug) was soon pulled from regular use because it caused psychotic symptoms during recovery. But whereas amphetamine produces only the positive (psychotic) features of schizophrenia, PCP and chemically similar anesthetics such as ketamine produce both negative and cognitive symptoms as well. David Lodge and colleagues at the University of London supplied the link to glutamate in 1983, when they found that PCP and ketamine bind to one particular type of glutamate receptor called the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor.
Activation of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor occurs when either glutamate (Glu) or NMDA and glycine (Gly) bind to the receptor molecule, shown on the left. A channel within the receptor complex enables molecules to cross the cell membrane. Magnesium (Mg) blocks this channel. When Mg is removed from the channel and the receptor is activated, calcium (Ca++) and sodium (Na+) ions enter the cell and potassium ions (K+) leave. (J.D. Thomas and E.P. Riley / NIH National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)
Researchers soon began to advance theories about how glutamate dysfunction might play a role in schizophrenia, led by Daniel Javitt of the Nathan Kline Institute in New York in 1987, as well as Joseph Coyle and his colleagues and John Olney of Washington University in St. Louis. If PCP and ketamine produced a schizophrenia-like state by interfering with normal NMDA receptors, then perhaps these receptors were performing poorly in the disorder. Evidence emerged from studies of postmortem brain tissue—some, but not all, such studies have found modest evidence of alterations in glutamate-related molecules in the brains of people with schizophrenia. The glutamate hypotheses have also gained support from genetic research—among the genes that have the strongest support as schizophrenia susceptibility candidates are several that code for proteins that influence glutamate signaling. In particular, a meta-analysis of genetic studies, by Lars Bertram and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital and published in 2008, found that variation in one of the subunits that makes up the NMDA receptor increases the risk for the disease.3
Researchers, particularly Javitt and Coyle, have conducted clinical trials to boost the function of NMDA receptors. Although negative and cognitive symptoms improved in these small preliminary trials, the results were not strong enough to induce the pharmaceutical industry to pursue drug development efforts. However, a breakthrough at the turn of the new millennium has led to a revitalizing of these approaches.
While Coyle, Javitt, and others were focused on modulating the NMDA receptor directly, Bita Moghaddam at Yale University had turned her attention to a different class of glutamate receptor. Called metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), they do not rapidly convey information at glutamate synapses, as NMDA receptors do. Rather, they influence how the glutamate synapse operates in various and subtle ways. In a paper published in 1999, Moghaddam and colleague Barbara Adams took advantage of the fact that PCP and other NMDA-interfering drugs can be used in animal models, where they produce effects strikingly like the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia patients.4 When they gave rats a drug that activates only mGluRs, the researchers found that the cognitive effects of PCP—e.g., working memory impairment—were significantly reduced. In 2005, John Krystal of Yale University and his colleagues replicated this finding in humans, showing that the same mGluR receptor drug could reverse the cognitive effects of ketamine in healthy volunteers.
These studies set the stage for Eli Lilly to try the mGluR drug in people with schizophrenia. As the Lilly researchers reported in their 2007 paper in Nature Medicine, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial conducted in Russia with nearly 200 patients, they found that the experimental drug was significantly better than the placebo in treating positive symptoms, the first non-dopamine blocker to achieve this distinction.1 They did not report on whether they had found effects on cognitive measures, as Moghaddam and Krystal had in their experiments. The study is now being repeated in a different group of patients, with different doses of the mGluR drug. The Lilly trial provides not just proof of concept evidence for the target, but also proof of concept evidence that the strategy can yield new drugs that may turn out to be effective, according to David Lewis of the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute, one of the researchers who had demonstrated changes in glutamate-related molecules.
Another significant glutamate study published in 2007 pointed out both the significant advances and the remaining challenges in understanding schizophrenia pathology. Margarita Behrens, Laura Dugan, and their colleagues at the University of California, San Diego, reported in Science that interfering with glutamate NMDA signaling in mice can reproduce one of the most well-supported findings in schizophrenia: disruptions of cells called interneurons, which signal using the neurotransmitter GABA.2
GABA is the yin to glutamate's yang. While glutamate is the neurotransmitter of choice for the pyramidal neurons, which use it to excite electrical activity in the neurons they contact, GABA is typically employed by a more modest group of cells, the interneurons. These cells confine their axons to their local areas, in which their bursts of GABA inhibit the activity of the pyramidal neurons. Researchers including David Lewis, Francine Benes at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and others have found changes in GABA-related proteins in schizophrenia but only in a select population of interneurons. A recent study in genetically altered mice also points to GABA cell problems in schizophrenia. Akira Sawa and colleagues inserted a mutant form of the schizophrenia susceptibility gene called "disrupted in schizophrenia 1" (DISC1) into mice.5 When they examined the brains of the mice, the researchers found that the same interneurons affected in schizophrenia are altered in the mice with mutant DISC1. The researchers described their work in a 2007 paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Lewis and his collaborators are now testing a drug that may normalize GABA interneuron function in the brain of people with schizophrenia, perhaps with a beneficial effect on symptoms.
Margarita Behrens and colleagues found that abusing ketamine, which inhibits the NMDA receptor, can result in symptoms indistinguishable from schizophrenia in the mouse prelimbic cortex. At right, ketamine has reduced the expression in the prelimbic cortex of parvalbumin (the large, light-colored spots), a molecule reduced in GABA cells in schizophrenia. (M. Margarita Behrens, Ph.D. / University of California, San Diego)
However, Behrens, Dugan, and colleagues' intriguing finding is that the NMDA blocker ketamine selectively damages this same group of GABA interneurons. The researchers suggest that the glutamate deficit might therefore be "more primary," or "upstream" of the GABA deficit. The intermediate step, their report suggests, may be the production of destructive molecules called "free radicals." These results have not been confirmed, so the conclusions vis-à-vis schizophrenia remain speculative. But in 2008 Behrens, working with John Lisman of Brandeis University, added supporting evidence for the link between glutamate and GABA disruptions.6 As they reported in the Journal of Neurophysiology, they were able to directly record altered electrical activity in GABA interneurons that had been disrupted with an NMDA receptor blocker.
The results of Behrens and colleagues highlight the need to work out the complex set of relationships between the different types of neurons in the brain, said Coyle. The strategy of giving different compounds to animals or people and studying how their behavior changes, which has been so productive in the case of the NMDA-blocking drugs, still leaves a fuzzy area between the drug input and the behavior output. In addition to the ongoing debate on the relative importance of glutamate versus GABA disruption in schizophrenia, researchers disagree on whether the neurons of most interest are those in the higher-reasoning areas of the cortex, in areas that connect the cortex with sensory or movement regions of the brain, or both.
Scientists will now attack the neuronal circuits from different entry points: they will explore metabotropic glutamate receptors (of which eight variations have been identified), as well as the manipulation of other glutamate receptors and molecules that help control the amount of glutamate floating about in synapses. Researchers will also focus on the cells on the receiving side of glutamate neurotransmission, principally the GABA interneurons and their connections back to the glutamate-releasing pyramidal cells. Other neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, acetylcholine, and serotonin, will receive attention because they subtly alter communication between glutamate and GABA cells. It remains to be seen whether any single approach will lead to a drug that effectively treats schizophrenia, or whether different compounds, targeting separate neurotransmitter systems for the different symptom domains, will be needed.
1. Patil ST, Zhang L, Martenyi F, Lowe SL, Jackson KA, Andreev BV, Avedisova AS, Bardenstein LM, Gurovich IY, Morozova MA, Mosolov SN, Neznanov NG, Reznik AM, Smulevich AB, Tochilov VA, Johnson BG, Monn JA, and Schoepp DD. Activation of mGlu2/3 receptors as a new approach to treat schizophrenia: a randomized Phase 2 clinical trial. Nature Medicine 2007 13(9):1102–1107.
2. Behrens MM, Ali SS, Dao DN, Lucero J, Shekhtman G, Quick KL, and Dugan LL. Ketamine-induced loss of phenotype of fast-spiking interneurons is mediated by NADPH-oxidase. Science 2007 318(5856):1645–1647.
3. Allen NC, Bagade S, McQueen MB, Ioannidis JP, Kavvoura FK, Khoury MJ, Tanzi RE, and Bertram L. Systematic meta-analyses and field synopsis of genetic association studies in schizophrenia: The SzGene database. Nature Genetics 2008 40(7):827–834.
4. Moghaddam B and Adams BW. Reversal of phencyclidine effects by a group II metabotropic glutamate receptor agonist in rats. Science 1998 281(5381):1349–1352.
5. Hikida T, Jaaro-Peled H, Seshadri S, Oishi K, Hookway C, Kong S, Wu D, Xue R, Andradé M, Tankou S, Mori S, Gallagher M, Ishizuka K, Pletnikov M, Kida S, and Sawa A. Dominant-negative DISC1 transgenic mice display schizophreniaassociated phenotypes detected by measures translatable to humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2007 104(36):14501–14506.
6. Zhang Y, Behrens MM, and Lisman JE. Prolonged exposure to NMDAR antagonist suppresses inhibitory synaptic transmission in prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 2008 100(2):959–965.
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Has Bravo finally had enough of "The Real Housewives of New York City's" diva antics and outrageous outbursts? According to multiple sources, four of the housewives — Cindy Barshop, Alex McCord, Kelly Bensimon and Jill Zarin — will not be returning for the show's fifth season.
For anyone who watched this past season, especially the reunion specials, it was plain to see tensions were high and the relationships between some of the women had reached a point of no return. The women had even divided into their own set of catty cliques- "The Brunettes" vs. "The Blondes." Zarin, who is notoriously the most vocal of the cast, seemed to be captain of Team Brunette, with Cindy, Kelly and Luann serving as her minions, and launched multiple verbal attacks against the Blondes.
Ramona, Sonja and Alex made several futile attempts to defend themselves against Team Brunette with some screeching of their own, but Jill's squawks and Kelly's unsuccessful attempts to be the voice of reason tuned Team Blonde out. At one point, reunion host and Bravo exec Andy Cohen had to yell at the women like a kindergarten teacher to take turns speaking. There has been no report that this behavior had anything to do with Bravo's casting decisions, but perhaps some new blood will ground these women and deflate the swollen egos this show has cultivated.
Despite the rumors, sources from Bravo say no final casting decisions have been made. Zarin's rep told Us Weekly, "The truth is that Jill is still in discussions with Bravo for season 5 and hasn't made a final decision about returning to the show," while Barshop tells HuffPost Celeb, "Nothing is 100 [percent] decided yet, it could go either way." McCord and Bensimon have released similar statements, maintaining that nothing is certain. In a statement on her and husband Simon van Kempen's Facebook, McCord says, "Simon & I are still under consideration for season 5 & we'll know one way or another very soon. I have to laugh at all the purported 'insiders' giving 'off the record' quotes. Some of the things I've read are frankly just absurd." However, in an interview with New York Live, Countess Luann de Lesseps reveals, "Apparently there are 3 or 4 women being traded in and out."
If these rumors are true, the series will be left with recording artist and author de Lesseps, entrepreneur and pinot grigio enthusiast Ramona Singer, and sweet and sassy Sonja Morgan, but can these three women carry the show? Although de Lesseps has always been the most logical of the housewives, graciously providing the other women with helpful etiquette tips (which you can read more about in her book Class with the Countess), she may be lost without her BFFs Jill and Kelly, especially since Ramonja (the nickname for the dynamic duo of Ramona and Sonja) will still be intact. Jill's strong opinions and Jewish chutzpa and Kelly's endless supply of sweets and nonsensical commentary will be missed, but whether or not anyone will miss Alex's newfound confidence and blind loyalty to her husband is still to be determined.


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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Jessica Cohen (Ladsen, S.C.) picked up her second straight double-double and her third consecutive game scoring at least 20 points with a 21 point and 11 rebound performance in the Cobra women's basketball team's 81-61 win over Conference Carolinas foe Belmont Abbey on Saturday.
The Cobras controlled the pace of play from the very beginning, as the caused 24 Abbey turnovers and shot nearly 50 percent from the floor.
Amber Lau (Mt. Wolfe, Pa.) had a game high 24 points, half of which came from three-point range, while Hailey Yohn (Durham, N.C.) was five-for-six from long range for 15 points.
Coker took a 9-8 lead in the opening five minutes of play and never looked back. They held a 41-29 lead at halftime and then added another 40 points in the second half, including a 12-4 run in the middle of the half.
The Cobra women return to the floor on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. when they travel to Laurinburg, N.C. to take on St. Andrews University.
McDonald's Player of the Game- Jessica Cohen
Cohen scored 21 points with 11 rebounds for a double-double.
The McDonald's Player of the Game is presented by the Hartsville McDonald's and is given to the most outstanding performer during each Coker College home athletic event.


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SHERIDAN, Wyo. – Former Georgia College men's basketball graduate assistant coach Dan Magrino has been named assistant coach at Sheridan College. Sheridan is a junior college located in northern Wyoming.
Magrino will join the Generals' coaching staff after recently finishing his master's in business administration as a graduate assistant at Georgia College (2008-09 and 2010-11), and spending a season as an assistant coach at Northern State University in 2009-10. During his tenure with the Bobcats, Magrino worked with the post players and also assisted heavily with recruitment efforts.
"I have been so fortunate to continue my coaching career here at Georgia College," said Magrino. "Learning from coaches Terry Sellers and Mark Gainous has been a remarkable opportunity to better myself as a coach and as a person. The entire Georgia College community and staff makes Milledgeville a tremendous place, and allows for Georgia College Athletics to be something truly special."
In his two seasons, he helped lead the team to a 38-17 record, as well as a 2009 NCAA Southeast Region Tournament berth.
Prior to coaching at Georgia College, he had his playing days at Northern State where he was a post from 2003-2008. The Wolves had a record of 98-28 during his playing career. Magrino double-majored in sociology and political science.
At Sheridan, Magrino will re-join with head coach Steve Smiley a former Northern State assistant coach. Smiley is in his fourth season at Sheridan, going 24-10 this past season.
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I thought this was the sexual harassment thread at first and I was pretty confused.
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text: Have you heard about the "Mad Men Revue?" And yes, it's about as odd as it sounds: a cabaret act featuring early 60's music performed by supporting cast from the cult AMC drama. So far, it's only played L.A., but Lionsgate is working on a plan to book more dates in Vegas, New York and maybe overseas. The original act featured Bryan Batt, Robert Morse (the original How To Succeed in Business... star, after all!), Colin Hanks, Patrick Fischler and Maggie Siff doing numbers "that ranged from early Dylan to pop and jazz standards," conducted by Mad Men's composer. Word is, more of the cast is interested in joining up: we're obviously crossing our fingers for Joan channeling Peggy Lee. [Variety]