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To evaluate the current state of sleep medicine educational resources and training offered by US neurology residency programs.
In 2010, a 20-item peer reviewed Sleep Education Survey (SES) was sent to neurology residency program directors surveying them about sleep medicine educational resources used in teaching residents. Pearson product momentum correlation was used to determine correlation of program attributes with resident interest in pursuing a career in sleep medicine.
Of the programs completing the survey, 81% listed a formal sleep rotation and 24% included a forum for sleep research. A variety of innovative approaches for teaching sleep medicine were noted. Program directors noted that 5.7% residents entered sleep medicine fellowship training programs in the preceding 5 years. Programs that had a more substantial investment in sleep medicine teaching resources were more likely to report residents entering a sleep medicine training program.
This is the first report providing an analysis of the current state of sleep medicine training in US Neurology Residency Programs. Our data provide evidence that investment by the residency program in sleep education may enhance the ultimate decision by the neurology trainee to pursue a career in sleep medicine.
Avidan AY; Vaughn BV; Silber MH. The current state of sleep medicine education in us neurology residency training programs: where do we go from here? J Clin Sleep Med 2013;9(3):281-286.
Sleep disorders are highly prevalent across the general population, but education in their recognition and diagnosis is often lacking for health care providers, including neurologists. Trainees who are not exposed to sleep education during their neurology education run the risk of failing to provide appropriate diagnoses and management interventions that could result in improvement of primary neurological conditions and quality of life. In addition we believe that sleep problems, including central nervous system hypersomnias, sleep related movement disorders, sleep disordered breathing, and complex behaviors at night, all which have underlying neurologic pathophysiology, are the responsibility of neurologists to evaluate, diagnose, and treat. As such, we suggest that neurology residencies have the responsibility of offering trainees sufficient sleep medicine knowledge necessary to assess, diagnose, and treat key sleep problems. At present, no unified curriculum or requirement exists about the scope of sleep education experience residents receive. Over the past twenty years, sleep medicine has dramatically changed from a novelty to a mainstream specialty. Sleep medicine was recognized as a unique discipline by the American Boards of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), with ACGME accredited fellowship programs starting in 2005. An increasing amount of research further tightens the link of sleep medicine to overall health and brain function. A PubMed search for 2010 found 3,101 articles whose title is related to sleep compared to 798 in 1990, a jump of 3.9 times as many articles over the course of two decades. As an example of the neurology literature, the journal Neurology published 168 articles on the topic of sleep in 2010 compared to only 11 in 1990, an increase of 15.3 fold. Our understanding of the effect of sleep states and sleep disorders on neurological diseases has also improved. Some sleep disorders such as REM sleep behavior disorder predict the development of neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson disease, Lewy body dementia, and multiple system atrophy, sometimes decades later. Sleep disorders such as sleep apnea and restless legs syndrome appear to increase the risk of vascular disease including data implicating sleep apnea as an independent risk factor for stroke. Furthermore treatment of sleep disorders can improve various comorbid neurological conditions such as migraine and epilepsy. These and other key data can help neurologists understand the importance of sleep medicine in treating our patients and add insight to the critical need for including sleep disturbances in neurology residency training.
Based on a survey conducted in 1998, the average amount of teaching time devoted to sleep at medical schools was only 2.1 hours.1 This baseline of instruction in sleep medicine would not suffice for the educational need of the trained neurologist. Residency training may serve as a unique window of opportunity for the neurologist trainee to gain exposure to a wide variety of diagnostic and therapeutic avenues for a spectrum of patients with neurological complaints. While disciplines such as pulmonary medicine, otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, and psychiatry have taken initiatives to generate competency-based sleep medicine curricula for their trainees, in contrast, the role of sleep medicine in neurology residencies has been somewhat neglected.2–7 In 2001, sleep issues were included in the required list of topics to be reviewed during neurology residency, demonstrating recognition of the relationship of sleep medicine to neurology. The July 2007 revision of the program requirements stipulated that faculty with special experience in sleep disorders must be available on a regular basis to neurology residents.8
Additionally, residents must be instructed in the effects of sleep deprivation and fatigue on their performance. Now, nine years after initial inclusion of sleep medicine in neurology training, we decided to analyze the adequacy of sleep medicine education in neurology residencies.
In March 2010, we conducted an online survey among neurology residency training program directors regarding the resources available and the amount of sleep education offered for the neurology residents. The survey was created by a task force from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Sleep Section and received peer review by the section executive committee and the AAN Residency Education subcommittee. Questions focused on sleep education resources available in neurology residencies, and topics included in the survey were those determined from review of the sleep education curriculum described for other subspecialties.3–6 Our Sleep Education Survey (SES) consisted of 20 questions and was approved by the AAN Education Committee and Program Directors Committee prior to being sent out to the cohort of neurology residency program directors (Appendix). Program directors completed the survey on line using an online "Survey Monkey" questionnaire, and statistics were compiled regarding the responses. Pearson product momentum correlation was used to determined correlation (significance level p < 0.05). In addition, we obtained the ACGME data for residents entering a sleep medicine fellowship in the 2009-2010 year, including each resident's primary residency discipline. We also reviewed the geographic locations of all 126 ACGME accredited neurology residencies and compared them to the list of accredited sleep centers maintained by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) for location and proximity.
We obtained 58 responses from 126 neurology residency program directors (46% response rate; Table 1). The program directors reported a mean of 3.9 residents per year (range 1-10). Seventy-five percent of programs (43/57) reported that they were associated with a sleep center, and 33 of the 43 centers were accredited by the AASM. Eighty-one percent of programs offer a sleep rotation, and over 80% of these were 1 to 2 weeks in duration. Programs had a median of 2 faculty with expertise in sleep medicine and 1.3 board certified in sleep medicine (by either the American Board of Sleep Medicine or American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology). Thirty-one percent of programs reported no faculty with sleep medicine experience; 24% of the responding programs reported resident participation in sleep research.
General statistics of programs and sleep education
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Many programs noted incorporating sleep lectures and clinical exposure as part of the EEG or epilepsy rotation. One program that did not have faculty in sleep medicine noted they used a sleep medicine PowerPoint slide module as a teaching lecture set. Overall, lectures were the most commonly used teaching format. The mean duration of didactic lectures was 5.2 h/year, with 37% noting ≤ 3 h per year on sleep education and 7% offering no lectures. The distribution of lecture topics suggested that major neurologically based topics such as REM sleep behavior disorder and restless legs syndrome were missing in up to a third of the programs surveyed, and relatively low numbers of programs offered clinical exposure or case review as formats for specific topics (Table 2). Programs have used a variety of innovative approaches to teach sleep medicine including sleep medicine electives, regular weekly sleep clinics, teaching sleep during other neurophysiology rotations, non-continuity sub-specialty sleep clinics, and didactic neurophysiology and sleep lecture series.
Number of programs (%) that offer each sleep topic in particular format
The correlation analysis demonstrates that neurology programs that had substantial faculty investment in sleep medicine were more likely to be associated with a sleep center, offer lectures, and promote other educational formats (Tables 3A and B). The association of resources and learning opportunities is listed in Table 3A. Highest associations are between the presence of faculty in sleep medicine and hours of lectures and learning opportunities such as research. Experiential learning as indicated by presence of clinical exposure or case review was also associated with the presence of clinical faculty boarded in sleep medicine (r = 0.17) and those faculty fellowship trained in sleep medicine (r = 0.17). We identified three programs that participated in experiential learning in sleep medicine despite no sleep faculty.
Correlation of program attributes
Correlation of program attributes: the impact of having a sleep center, sleep lectures, case reviews, and electives in sleep medicine
Program directors reported that over the preceding 5 years, 5.7% of residents entered sleep medicine fellowship training programs. Programs that had a sleep center were more likely to report residents entering a sleep medicine training program. This was similar to the data from the ACGME, which showed 6.2% of neurology residency graduates entered a sleep residency for the 2008-2009 year.9
Of 126 ACGME listed neurology residencies, 117 have an accredited sleep center within the same city as the program. Of the remaining programs, all have a sleep center (accredited or not accredited) within 30 miles of the teaching institution.
This is the first study of its kind assessing sleep medicine exposure among neurology residents. Despite the fact that neurologists frequently encounter patients with sleep disturbances and that sleep is a required topic by the Residency Review Committee (RRC), our data show that the exposure to sleep medicine education in neurology residents remains limited. Although the survey did not include exploratory questions to gain insight into barriers to exposure, we found that most program directors noted in the comment section similar hurdles of resources and available faculty. We also found that inclusion of sleep medicine in the training schedule correlates with available resources in sleep medicine, such as the presence of specialized faculty and sleep laboratories.
Programs that had faculty trained or experienced in sleep medicine were more likely to offer electives or rotations in sleep medicine and lectures in sleep. Furthermore, residents were more likely to do research in sleep medicine when they had access to faculty who were board certified in sleep medicine. Our results reveal that approximately three-quarters of programs have access to sleep laboratories, and a similar percentage teach many of the identified topics of sleep medicine. The programs that have access to a sleep laboratory were more likely to provide electives in sleep medicine: 36 of 43 programs with a sleep center offered a sleep elective, whereas only 7 of 14 without a sleep center did so. Offering an elective and the number of hours of sleep lectures correlated strongly with access to faculty. Overall, programs offering sleep electives and having a sleep center associated with the residency appeared to correlate with a greater number of residents pursuing sleep training.
Review of specific topics revealed that sleep physiology and normal sleep were the most commonly covered. This is most likely related to the requirement that all residencies cover duty hour limitation, sleep, and fatigue. Topics of insomnia, psychiatric disorders in sleep, and general sleep evaluation were least likely to be covered. A surprisingly high percentage of programs did not cover sleep issues in neurological disorders and classic neurologic sleep disorders, such as narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, and REM sleep behavior disorder. The most common format for covering the topics was formal lectures, whereas case review was the least common method utilized. Advantages of lectures are that they can transmit a great deal of information in a tightly compact time frame and use fewer faculty resources. Lectures, however, have many disadvantages: they may not be easily attended by all residents, information may not be reviewed more than once, application of the information may not be readily apparent, and learners assume a more passive learning style. More recent emphasis on active experiential learning has shown improvement in retention and subsequent behavioral application of the subject. In particular, some educators believe that residents may learn more by inclusion of case-based learning with discussion, allowing the transformation of knowledge to clinical applications. We found four programs without faculty in sleep medicine that offered experiential learning, but these case review topics were very limited.
This survey was not completed by all of the program directors. We received information from approximately half of the programs, raising the possibility of type 2 bias. Our survey could have triggered responses from program directors with extreme views—those who view sleep education in neurology positively and are keenly interested in sleep medicine; and those who view sleep education curriculum in residency training negatively and are opposed to teaching sleep medicine. To validate the responses, we looked at the rate at which residents entered into sleep medicine residency. From the survey, we calculated that 5.7% of the resident pool entered into sleep training. We then reviewed the ACGME statistics for number of residents with a neurology background that were in 2009-2010 sleep medicine fellowships and divided that by number of graduates from all neurology residencies. This demonstrated a national average of 6.2% of 398 neurology resident graduates entering sleep medicine fellowship training. Thus we feel the survey provides good cross sectional data of current training practices. These data also suggest that the number of neurology residents entering into sleep medicine, assuming maintenance of the current number of graduates and those graduates on average having a 25-year career, would support approximately 450 neurologists nationally with an interest in sleep medicine at any one time.
We see key opportunities to improve training in sleep medicine in neurology residency programs. The most important requirement is improvement of access of residency programs to sleep centers where infrastructure exists to deliver sleep education, clinical experience in sleep disorders, and exposure to recording and interpreting sleep studies. We also recommend provision of resources for sleep educational modules to ensure uniform teaching material and access to faculty with sleep medicine experience. When reviewing the primary geographic location of all neurology residencies listed by the ACGME, 93% (117 of 126) of programs were located in the same vicinity as an AASM accredited sleep center, which ensures that quality education and clinical training are standardized and available. With one exception, all programs that did not have access to these accredited centers were within close geographic proximity (about 30 miles) to accredited laboratories. These sleep centers can be a valuable resource for residency programs to partner with to foster sleep education. This association could be encouraged by the residency program requirements specifically requiring such a relationship similar to that of clinical neurophysiology laboratories. Other ACGME residency committees have required residents to have exposure to a sleep medicine rotation and sleep laboratory experience. When this was mandated as part of the pulmonary fellowship requirements, the number of pulmonary medicine physicians entering the field of sleep medicine increased sharply. Greater exposure of sleep medicine in neurology residency could results in similar gains.
However, we understand that the requirement of having access to sleep trained faculty would put excessive burden on many smaller programs, and thus more creative mechanisms to include this training are needed. Advances in distance learning can provide exposure to many topics that could be available via e-learning modules, webinars, or packaged electronic teaching sets and case review. This would allow residency programs to access shared faculty resources, some of which may be available through centralized professional societies, at a relatively nominal cost. The advent of educational modules also fosters a change in mindset from the traditional educational metric of time spent on a clinical rotation equated to successful learning. Competency-based education focuses on the metric of attainment of knowledge and application,10 allowing learners the ability to learn at an individual rate and show proficiency of a specific topic. This creates the opportunity for development of self-assessment and competency-based tools to be developed for residency programs.
Knowledge of sleep medicine offers an opportunity for improvement in care for patients with neurological disorders. The inclusion of sleep education is not uniformly applied in neurology residencies, despite ACGME requirements. Although this lack of uniformity may be a result of variability of access to faculty in sleep medicine, sleep laboratories, or other valuable resources, most of these issues can be addressed by partnering and newer learning tools.
Dr. Avidan served as a consultant for Merck; has received speaker honoraria from the American Academy of Neurology, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians, and book royalties from Elsevier and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. He received speaker honorarium from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Sanovian, Somaxon, GlaxoSmithKline, Purdue, and Teva, and received support from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. He is also serving as the editorial board of Sleep, and a special section editor of Sleep Medicine.
Dr. Vaughn is on the Editorial Boards and an Associate Editor for Sleep Multimedia, Medlink Neurobase Sleep and Epilepsy 2011 receiving Publishing Royalties, and received an honorarium for serving as guest editor for Neurologic Clinics. He has received speaker honoraria from the following organizations: American Academy of Neurology, American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Medical Education Resources (nonprofit). He serves as chair of the Sleep Examination Committee (a multidiscipline committee) administered by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a Professor of Neurology at University of North Carolina, which involves 50% interpreting clinical neurophysiology and sleep studies. His research Support, and Commercial Entities are through the Johns Hopkins University and Glaxo Smith Kline.
Dr Silber is program director of the Mayo Clinic Sleep Medicine Fellowship. He is chair of the steering committee of the Sleep Medicine Program Director's Council. He receives royalties from two books "Sleep Medicine in Clinical Practice, 2nd edition" and "Atlas of Sleep Medicine."
Author contributions: Dr. Avidan: drafting/revising manuscript, study concept and design, Dr. Vaughn: drafting/revising manuscript, study concept and design, analysis or interpretation of data. Dr. Silber: drafting/revising manuscript, analysis or interpretation of data.
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This side-event will provide an occasion to discuss UNESCO's contributions to promoting girls' and women's education, and to outline continuing challenges and new solutions and ideas to overcome them.
The side-event will be opened by high level personalities, including the Director-General of UNESCO and the Executive Director of UN Women, and will provide an opportunity to present and share UNESCO's and other partners' on-going work and recent publications regarding girls' and women's education around the world.
Gender equality and education are fundamental and inalienable human rights. Gender equality is one of the overarching priorities of the international development agenda as well as of UNESCO's work, embedded in its efforts in all its domains, including in promoting education for all.
The Global Partnership for Girls' and Women's Education was launched by the Director-General of UNESCO in 2011, with the conviction that education for girls and women has the power to break cycles of poverty, achieve greater social justice and sustainable economic development and peace. The Partnership aims at raising awareness and bridging policy and financial gaps regarding girls' and women's education. It mobilizes non-traditional partners in order to expand secondary education for girls and women's literacy opportunities and, ultimately, promote gender equality and women's empowerment.
Participants will be invited to visit different stands that will present some update of the projects developed under the Global Partnership for Girls' and Women's Education in five African countries. Visual presentations and publications on issues such as literacy and gender and the use of ICTs in promoting gender will also be proposed and the updates from the on-line "World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education" developed by UNESCO Institute for Statistics will be presented.
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Barbara Billingsley, the actress who portrayed the domiciliary icon Mrs. June Cleaver in the long-running "Leave It To Beaver," has passed away at the age of 94.
Billingsley, according to MSNBC, died at her Santa Monica home after a battle with polymyalgia, a rheumatoid disease.
With modern interpretations of the fifties and sixties such as "Mad Men," where the nuclear family is under incredible and often constant strain, Billingsley's role as June Cleaver was always one of gentle nurturing and patience, quite the opposite of the famously frigid Betty Draper. June's concern was maintaining the status quo of house and home, often worrying about her sons Wally, and of course, The Beaver.
Her signature pearls, she said in an interview with the Archive of American Television, were originally meant to hide a hollow she had in her neck. "That is the Gospel Truth!" Billingsley said. "Not because I was cleaning the house and vacuuming in high heels." The heels, she added, came later once Wally (Tony Dow) and Beaver (Jerry Mathers) began growing. "I had to be taller!" Billingsley said. "I was lucky they didn't put me on an apple box."
After her six-seasons of portraying June Cleaver, Billingsley was typecast mostly as a docile homemaker, and used that time off camera to focus on raising her family, the Times said. She made a famous cameo appearance in the 1980 satire "Airplane!" as a woman who kindly lent out her jive language skills to help interoperate what a jive-tossing hipster had to say.
Billingsley was born in Los Angeles as Barbara Lillian Combes on December 22, 1915, and, according to IMDB, starred in two failed TV series before donning pearls, heels, and aprons for the role of June Cleaver.
According to the Times, Billingsley began acting on Broadway after leaving Los Angeles Junior College. It was at the short-lived play "Straw Hat" where she met her then-husband, Glenn Billingsley. They had two sons, and divorced after six years of marriage.
Billingsley remarried director Roy Kellino in November of 1953, though their marriage was cut short when Kellino died of a heart attack three years later, a short while before she was cast in her role on "Leave It To Beaver."
She married general practitioner Dr. William Mortenson in 1951 and remained married until his death twenty-two years later.


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The Benisu Island (紅州島, Benisu-tō, Literally meaning: Crimson Sandbank Island) is an island located somewhere in the south of the Land of Fire and the Land of Lightning. It has its own shinobi, but it is unknown if it's also a village, or if it's just a land with its own shinobi. So far, the only known shinobi from Benisu Island are the three members of Team Bandō. Their supposed leader, Bandō, refers to Benisu Island as a nation. A sign on Nanakusa Island refers to the shinobi and/or people of Benisu simply as "The Benisu".
- The 商 (Shō) kanji on the Benisu shinobi's forehead protectors means trader, merchant or something similar to that effect.
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Rdio Updates Android App - More Music Discovery Options, Redesigned Design
All the recent hype has been around Spotify, but that hasn't stopped Rdio from innovating. Its recent revelation includes a newly redesigned app (for the Android faithful who have stayed true) that offers easier music discovery & control, as well as ice cream sandwich support...to the few of you with Galaxy Nexus devices.
New features include:
Streamlined Top-level Navigation - All-new home screen design gives one-click access to key features in the app
New Releases - Be the first to listen to new albums and singles on the day they are released, and access new albums released up to two weeks prior
Top Charts - Check out recent chart-topping albums
Recommendations - Discover more music by exploring fresh album recommendations based on your listening history
Enhanced Search - In addition to searching for artists, albums, and songs, you can now search for Playlists and People
Synced collection and playlist views - View only the music you have synced for offline listening, without the need to go into offline mode
Convenient Control - Take advantage of Android Ice Cream Sandwich's new remote control client to manage playback controls on the lock screen, including viewing controls and album art
"With the Rdio for Android redesign, we were focused on bringing Android users the best mobile music discovery application possible," said Malthe Sigurdsson, VP of Product, Rdio. "We believe this launch further reinforces our commitment to creating the most visual, social and interactive experience of music across every platform."
Rdio for Android is free to download, but follows other streaming services' lead by only allowing premium subscribers access to streaming content ($9.99/month). The flip-side is that you get unlimited, on-demand access to over 12 million songs. So if you don't want to clog up your device with only your music, and opt to access a plethora of music everywhere you are (as long as your have decent network access), check out the new Rdio for Android and let us know what you think in the comments section.


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The Vampire Diaries gang is embarking on a journey that could forever change their future.
With Kol dead and Jeremy's mark (aka map) fully grown, Professor Shane can now lead Damon, Elena, Stefan, Rebekah, Bonnie and Jeremy to a remote location ...
The Vampire Diaries gang is embarking on a journey that could forever change their future.
With Kol dead and Jeremy's mark (aka map) fully grown, Professor Shane can now lead Damon, Elena, Stefan, Rebekah, Bonnie and Jeremy to a remote location that holds the cure to vampirism. Once faced with the idea of becoming human again, everyone begins to think of what they want - or don't want - for their future.
The Vampire Diaries: Who's going to die?
"It's pretty plain and simple. Damon has no desire for himself or Elena to take this crap and he's thinking, 'Why would one want to do that?" Ian Somerhalder tells TVGuide.com. "But it's what she wants and the whole reason Damon is here is for the woman he loves. Her desire and her safety is his whole life at this point."
Damon also fears that if Elena becomes human again, she'll no longer love him, whether it's because it breaks the sire bond or because she comes to her senses. Elena says that being human won't change a thing, but Somerhalder is skeptical. "I think there's a 50-50 chance that this girl is in love with him."
The Vampire Diaries New Posters: Who's uniting and who's returning?
Even if their love is real, Somerhalder admits that he's not sure that Damon could ever embrace it - at least not in the near future. Why? Blame Katherine.
"It's safe to say it would ultimately be quite some time before he would allow himself to [fall in love]," Somerhalder says. "Even as dumb and crazy as Damon can be, it's like, 'ouch fire hot, ouch fire hot, ouch fire hot.' I would hope the man would take a break. Hell, people get burned over a six-month relationship and take a year to heal. If you got screwed over for 150 years, you can imagine how that carries forward.
So will Damon and Elena end up together in the long run? Not without some serious complications, Somerhalder says. "That romantic in us wants to believe that would be the case, that they would be able to work themselves out, but then there's this thing called story on The Vampire Diaries, and it's very difficult to let people be happy for very long."
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The source code
The source code and the compiled class file are in a single zip file.
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Clickjacking is an attack that tricks users by showing them an innocuous page but including the real controls from sensitive pages. These controls are disguised through the use of background frames that mask off everything except the control, so that the user can't tell that they are actually clicking on a sensitive function in some other website.
How can web applications protect their users from this attack? The typical defense to clickjacking is to prevent your pages from being framed. The typical approach to this is to include a "frame-breaker" script in every page that ensures that the content is not framed. Here's an example of such a script courtesy of Giorgio Maone.

However, there's an alternative approach that may be simpler to implement. Microsoft has now included a defense in IE8 that allows developers to specify that pages should not be framed. They use a new (nonstandard) X-FRAME-OPTIONS header to mark responses that shouldn't be framed. There are two options with X-FRAME-OPTIONS. The first is DENY, which prevents everyone from framing the content. The other option is SAMEORIGIN, which only allows the current site to frame the content. Currently this works in IE8 RC1+, but will not affect users of other browsers until they decide to implement this feature. Firefox users may want to look at the protection in NoScript.
We'd like to add the X-FRAME-OPTIONS header to any pages that shouldn't be framed. So we could go into every servlet and JSP and add one of the two following lines of code:
// to prevent all framing of this content response.addHeader( "X-FRAME-OPTIONS", "DENY" ); // to allow framing of this content only by this site response.addHeader( "X-FRAME-OPTIONS", "SAMEORIGIN" );
However, this seems a bit intrusive and a lot of work. In this article, we'll implement a simple JavaEE filter to add the X-FRAME-OPTIONS header to some or all parts of your application.
The source code and the compiled class file are in a single zip file.
The first step is to add the filter to our application. All we have to do is put the ClickjackFilter class on our application's classpath, probably by putting it in the classes folder in WEB-INF. The class file should be in a folder structure that matches the package (org -> owasp -> filters -> ClickjackFilter). You can extract the class file from the zip file.
Then we just have to add the following filter definition and mapping to our web.xml. You should paste this in right above your servlet definitions. You should set up the mapping so it applies to any page that shouldn't be framed. Using /* will apply it to everything.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app id="WebApp_ID" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"> <display-name>OWASP ClickjackFilter</display-name> <filter> <filter-name>ClickjackFilterDeny</filter-name> <filter-class>org.owasp.filters.ClickjackFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>mode</param-name> <param-value>DENY</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter> <filter-name>ClickjackFilterSameOrigin</filter-name> <filter-class>org.owasp.filters.ClickjackFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>mode</param-name> <param-value>SAMEORIGIN</param-value> </init-param> </filter>  <filter-mapping> <filter-name>ClickjackFilterDeny</filter-name> <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping>  </web-app>
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/** * Software published by the Open Web Application Security Project (http://www.owasp.org) * This software is licensed under the new BSD license. * * @author Jeff Williams Aspect Security * @created February 6, 2009 */ package org.owasp.filters; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.Filter; import javax.servlet.FilterChain; import javax.servlet.FilterConfig; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.ServletRequest; import javax.servlet.ServletResponse; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse; public class ClickjackFilter implements Filter { private String mode = "DENY"; /** * Add X-FRAME-OPTIONS response header to tell IE8 (and any other browsers who * decide to implement) not to display this content in a frame. For details, please * refer to http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2009/02/05/clickjacking-defense-in-ie8.aspx. */ public void doFilter(ServletRequest request, ServletResponse response, FilterChain chain) throws IOException, ServletException { HttpServletResponse res = (HttpServletResponse)response; chain.doFilter(request, response); res.addHeader("X-FRAME-OPTIONS", mode ); } public void destroy() { } public void init(FilterConfig filterConfig) { String configMode = filterConfig.getInitParameter("mode"); if ( configMode != null ) { mode = configMode; } } }
There are not many dependencies here, just the standard Java EE environment. You can compile with:
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First, you'll need IE8 RC1+. I downloaded a free VHD of IE8 beta from Microsoft and then did a Windows Update to IE8 RC1. You'll need to install the free VirtualPC to run this.
There's a very simple test case in the WebContent directory of the zip file. It has one page with the text "unframeable content" and another page that opens the first page in a frame. When you set the filter to DENY in web.xml, the page shows an error message that the content cannot be viewed in a frame. When you set it to SAMEORIGIN, the content is allowed.


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Wes And Linda Konsmo Are Stung Again
In 1988, Wes Konsmo of Tacoma, Washington, was cruising through Seattle when he spied what he thought was an old Mopar in the back of a used-car lot. A return trip to the lot confirmed his suspicions. Sitting there surrounded by other seasoned sheetmetal was a '69 Super Bee painted Light Bronze Metallic. A quick drop of some cash and Wes drove his Bee home. For the next seven years, the Bee was driven around town, hauling groceries and whatnot until it was deemed time to give the car a facelift. Wes "deemed" the time right when the headlight switch shorted and caught the dash on fire. Had it not been for a quick-thinking friend with a fire extinguisher, the Bee might have been lost.
After completely disassembling the car, the Bee was soda-blasted, revealing hidden horrors beneath. The amount of Bondo in the rear quarters would warrant replacement of both sides. Cancerous spots of sheetmetal were removed from other portions of the body, and the front fenders were replaced. When Expert Autobody of Port Orchard, Washington, finished preparing the revitalized sheetmetal, they covered everything in a flawless shade of the original Light Bronze Metallic, then installed a new vinyl top from Legendary Auto Interiors. The interior needed to be the same quality as the exterior, so to that end, Wes commissioned Specialty Auto in Tacoma, Washington, to recover the seats with a new skinning of Saddle Tan, and to install a new headliner also supplied by Legendary Auto Interiors. Although the original eight-track player still occupies the factory location, tunes are served up via a CD player hidden in the glovebox. CV Plastics of Mission, British Columbia, handled the restoration of the original dash and the plating of all plastic parts.
During the time Wes was driving the Bee, the number-eight connecting rod decided to take a vacation and left the block. Parkland National Auto in Tacoma handled the machine work and sleeving of the block. Then Wes, with the help of friend Steve Stahlschmidt, handled the assembly chores. The guys filled the block with the stock rods and crankshaft to spin a set of Wiseco 9.5:1 pistons. The Mopar Performance 484 Purple shaft cam actuates stock valves in the 452 heads that were freshened by Aerohead Components. Feeding the B-engine is a 750 Edelbrock carb perched atop a Weiand intake. From there, the 18-spline transmission sends the juice to the 831/44 rear filled with a Sure Grip unit and 3.91 gears.
Driving something this nice means you better be able to stop when needed. The 14×7 Magnum wheels wrapped in Grand Am rubber are slowed with factory power disc/drum brakes.
Wes purchased his first Bee right off of the showroom floor in December 1968. He has regretted letting that one go, so we would be willing to bet that he and his wife, Linda, have no plans to sell their latest Bee anytime soon. Why? Because Wes is a pre-enjoyed auto-sales manager. He can definitely appreciate the value of his secondhand sweetheart.


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Stafford: 'I felt like I threw it pretty well'
By all accounts, including his own, Georgia quarterback Matt Stafford fared well in his private workout for the Lions Tuesday.
I think I did well, Stafford said in a phone interview Tuesday. At this point I'm not going to say what I feel like my chances (of going No. 1) are. I feel like I've done everything I can. I feel like I've done well every time we've met together. Whether they go with me or with somebody else is not up to me, but I can rest easy at night knowing that I did everything I could.
Stafford worked out for eight members of the Lions' front office and coaching staff, including head coach Jim Schwartz and general manager Martin Mayhew. He spent about an hour and a half diagramming plays in a chalkboard session, then hit the field under the direction of offensive coordinator Scott Linehan.
A team source said the workout went well and SportsIllustrated.com, quoting an unnamed source, described it as flawless. Stafford wasn't quite as glowing in his recap, but asked if he hurt his chances of going No. 1 in any way he said, I don't think so at all.
It was some different routes that I obviously can't practice, I'm not used to throwing, and kind of tough to simulate without a defense, he said. But yeah, I felt like I threw the ball well.
Stafford said the workout was similar to what he went through at his pro day two weeks ago.
We probably went at a slower pace today then we did at my pro day, he said. Actually, I know we did. It was good. Coach Linehan would teach a route to a receiver and kind of try to help me out with what we're looking at as far as what kind of defense they're playing against us and try to throw it. That was the difference probably more than anything.
What were the new routes the Lions asked him to throw?
They had some inside comebacks almost you could call them, Stafford said. They had some over routes, some things that are just tough to simulate without a defender on them. He'd say, 'Hey, shoot this in there like it was a Cover 2,' and it was just kind of tough without a safety maybe coming over the top to understand what angle he wants you to put it on or how much air he wants on it. I just tried to do my best and then complete some balls.
Since the Lions have watched game tape of Stafford back to high school and know all about his physical abilities and rocket arm, the most important part of the workout was the chalkboard session, which Stafford said he felt like I did really well in.
It was good to get out there and get in front of all those people and show them that I had some knowledge of the game, he said.
Stafford said he doesn't have any more private workouts scheduled. A team of Lions representatives will attend USC's pro day Wednesday then reconvene Thursday in Detroit to start setting their draft board.
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There's a board on Pinterest called Fish Fingers and Custard!. If Pinterest is your first major foray into social networks beyond FaceBook, it will look a bit strange. But if you've spent any time on Tumblr, it will look very, very familiar.
And I think that's a good thing. To a large extent, Pinterest feels like the product pages and ads from House Beautiful, Martha Stuart Living, Cosmo, Fine Cooking, FHM and… wel,l all those other magazines that are little more than glorified catalogues.
The intrusion of a quirkier, less product-placement mentality from the world of Tumblr is a welcome development.
What is still lacking, though, is an intrusion from the world of journalism – with all the stunningly pictorial events happening around the world, from tornadoes and other climate change catastrophes to war and famine (and even the odd nice thing) this is a still a lack of boards and pins reflecting any kind of political or social awareness and interest.
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- I go 'ding' when there's stuff..
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If the rest of the Texas Rangers keep hitting like this, Prince Fielder's injury may not be so hard to overcome.
Alex Rios tripled and drove in three runs, and the Rangers rolled to another rout of Detroit, beating Justin Verlander and the Tigers 12-4 on Sunday.
Texas took three of four in the series, scoring 35 runs in the process.
The question now is whether the Rangers can possibly keep this up after learning Thursday that Fielder would likely miss the rest of the season because of a neck problem.
"We've got to continue to play baseball," manager Ron Washington said. "We miss Prince, and we're not going to even dream that we don't need him in our lineup. We certainly would like to have him in our lineup, but we don't, so we've got to go with what we've got."
The Tigers have lost six of seven, and even Verlander (5-4) couldn't come close to stopping the slide. The Detroit right-hander allowed nine runs -- six earned -- in 5 1-3 innings in one of the worst starts of his career.
"Right now, I'm not in a place where I can repeat my delivery every time, and that's what I need to fix. But I'll get it straightened out. I'm not worried about that," Verlander said. "It's a rough patch, but this is a great baseball team. That hasn't changed."
Michael Choice homered for the Rangers in the second, and Texas broke the game open with five runs in the fifth.
Colby Lewis (4-3) allowed two runs and five hits in 5 2-3 innings.
Mitch Moreland had three hits and three RBIs for the Rangers, and Adrian Beltre and Robinson Chirinos had three hits apiece as well.
"Everybody on this team has contributed so far, has stepped up in one way or another," Moreland said. "I think this was just a big series for us overall, to kind of right the ship, get it going."
Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera left the game in the seventh with a right hamstring cramp.
Verlander has allowed 16 earned runs in his past three starts, and although the Tigers still have the best record in the American League, they have to wonder when this alarming stretch of poor pitching will end.
Other starters have struggled too. In its past seven games, Detroit has allowed 57 runs.
The nine runs allowed by Verlander equaled a career worst, and he gave up 11 hits. Verlander finished with only one strikeout, his fewest in a regular-season game since May 31, 2008, when he also struck out one at Seattle.
"It's good to get him early," Rios said. "The earlier you get him, the better shape you're going to be in at the end of the game."
Choice broke a 1-all tie with a second-inning homer off Verlander, and after a double by Chirinos, Rougned Odor dropped a bunt that Verlander threw away for an error, allowing a run to score.
Texas led 3-2 in the fifth when Shin-Soo Choo led off with a walk and went to third when Elvis Andrus' grounder went past shortstop Andrew Romine for another Detroit error. Moreland and Beltre followed with consecutive RBI singles, and a two-run triple by Rios made it 7-2.
Chirinos singled home Rios two outs later.
The Rangers tacked on three runs in the seventh to make it 12-2 on RBI singles by Andrus, Moreland and Beltre. Cabrera came out of the game after singling in the bottom of that inning, and to make matters worse for Detroit, reliever Joba Chamberlain left in the eighth with a right ankle contusion.
The Rangers finished with 17 hits, bringing their total for the last two games of the series to 36 -- with 14 for extra bases.


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Pirelli Tire To Sponsor Grand National Roadster Show In 2010
John Buck Enterprises, producers of the Grand National Roadster Show (GNRS), announced this morning that Pirelli Tire has signed up as the Trophy Sponsor for the 2010 Grand National Roadster Show, which will take place at the historic Fairplex in Pomona next January. "We're thrilled to have Pirelli Tire on board to sponsor the trophy," says John Buck.
Adding to the prestige and uniqueness of the GNRS is the announcement that the cash award for winning the biggest prize at the show: "America's Most Beautiful Roadster" (AMBR), has been doubled to $10,000 for 2010, making this one of the top car show cash awards in the country. Not only has the cash award been increased, but a set of Pirelli tires, and additional prizes to be announced, have been added to the overall AMBR award.
Significant rules changes for the AMBR title come with the announcement by John Buck that contenders will have to be competing for the first time to be eligible. "Contenders will still be allowed to have shown their roadsters at events like the SEMA Show and media parties before coming to the GNRS, but not in previously judged events," says Buck.
In addition, the number of contenders for the AMBR title will now be limited to 12 per year. All potential contenders are reviewed as in previous years based on criteria submitted to the GNRS for the roadster and display.
The 61st Annual Grand National Roadster Show, the world's longest running car show, will take place Friday-Sunday, January 29-31, 2010, at the historic Pomona Fairplex, 1101 West McKinley Ave., Pomona, California.
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PSV coach Cocu undergoes back surgery
PSV coach Phillip Cocu has undergone surgery to remove a tumour on his back, the Eredivisie club have confirmed.
The surgery was carried out on Thursday after the 43-year-old complained of back pain, with the club explaining that the tumour is likely to be benign.
Technical director Marcel Brands is set to make a further statement on Cocu's recovery on Friday, with assistant coach Ernest Faber taking control of first-team selection duties for the time being.
A statement on PSV's website read: "After investigation following back pain Phillip Cocu was recently diagnosed with a tumor in his back, for which he has undergone surgery.
"The executive medical team and the medical staff of PSV are satisfied with the conduct of the operation, but are not otherwise available for comment.
"(Cocu's) duties are performed by the other members of the technical staff.
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Probe ongoing into Cardiff "leak"
Confusion reigns as to what action may or may not have been taken at Cardiff over the alleged leaking of team information to Barclays Premier League rivals Crystal Palace.
It was indicated to Press Association Sport by sources at the club on Friday morning that one member of staff had been sacked and another was set to be disciplined, after reports to that effect emerged in the Welsh media.
But Press Association Sport has since learned the situation is ongoing and no one has yet been dismissed on what has been a hectic day at Cardiff City Stadium.
Cardiff manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on Friday dismissed any suggestion of involvement by any member of his squad.
Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman, meanwhile, has been in contact with the Premier League over an incident arising from the Palace game.
It is understood that Premier League officials have requested information on Cardiff's case.
Cardiff, it is thought, have complained to the Premier League about the circumstances surrounding the alleged leaking of their team ahead of last Saturday's clash. Palace won the game 3-0.
Palace sporting director Iain Moody worked for Cardiff until earlier this season. He took up a post at Palace last November.
It has been reported that Cardiff believe Moody might have used his contacts at the Welsh club, or close to Cardiff, to find out which players would start against Palace.
Moody, though, has refuted the allegations, telling The Sun: "That is incredibly, extraordinarily untrue. That is untrue, completely untrue."
Cardiff are currently six points adrift of Premier League safety, lying 19th ahead of Saturday's trip to Southampton with just five games left.
Asked about the allegations at his pre-Southampton press conference on Friday, Solskjaer said: "My week has been on how we can give ourselves the best chance against Southampton.
"I think I have seen every one of my players and I don't doubt anyone's pride, honesty, loyalty, integrity, professionalism. They have all been fantastic this week.
"I have built my life on loyalty and honesty, and those are the values I get from my mum and dad. But in football you need to stick together and learn together, and this week has proved that more than anything.
"I have just said I have no reason to doubt any of my player's professionalism, or honesty, integrity or loyalty.
"I have said what I have said, and the rest will come from Mehmet.
"I am not talking about Crystal Palace. We've got Southampton, and that's my job to get ready for that game. When you are in a football club, you stick together. That's the key."
Cardiff captain Steven Caulker added: "We have got to focus on the situation we are in at the moment. Our focus as players is to put things right from last week, really."
It is understood any alleged leak to Palace has not come from within the Cardiff squad.
However, Caulker added: "To be honest with you, there have been problems like that all season where certain things have been leaked.
"For me, it is frustrating. We need to focus on getting things right on the pitch, not what's going on off the pitch.
"I will be telling the boys that we need to get performances in and get results, not concern ourselves with off-the-field issues.
"A lot of stuff has been going on off the pitch all season, and that has been highlighted in the press. It is important we all ignore all that stuff. Our performances have not been up to scratch of late.
"As far as the boys are concerned, we back ourselves. We've had the support of the fans all season, we've had the support of both managers we've worked under. I find it hard to see where it could be coming from.
"You have a bit of banter with your ex team-mates and friends in football. Until the Premier League has investigated it and got to the bottom of it, I certainly won't be pointing any fingers."
Cardiff's performance against Palace suggested that the game might be up in terms of avoiding a quickfire Championship return, but Solskjaer has no intention of throwing in the towel.
"I am up for a fight, that's for sure," he said.
"There is absolutely nothing wrong with the atmosphere. We have had a very good week again. They are a great bunch of lads, and they have picked themselves up from the hurt of what happened last week."
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Hi Kurt, that reminds of a bug I often have on the PhantomX with DIY remote. Often the hex won't start up at first try (or second try) when hitting 0.
Hi Kurt, that reminds of a bug I often have on the PhantomX with DIY remote. Often the hex won't start up at first try (or second try) when hitting 0.
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Yep - I think I will be revisiting all of the code bases and see if this is hitting more often then we thought
As I mentioned in a different thread, made the change to exit from command mode, which sped up the startup, so comes up much quicker now. I also updated the Phantom_Phoenix github project to include this. So now have code in place that you can give two fresh from the store XBees and just plug them in and the code will configure them to work.
Also updated the zip file for my Teensy breakout board to have a connector on it that will actually work
Again to see the actual schematic and layout you can use the free download of Diptrace beta. If it would help, could also print to PDF files for this.
Edit: Added print to pdf files
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Good work on the XBee part! I'll try updating my PhantomX one day. It's been awhile since my last visit on the Phoenix/PhantomX code. I might wait after my next robot demo on march 23. PhantomX just got a working servo again (replaced gears). And currently my brain is occupied with basic code for MorpHex, lol.
I assume the only change was to the BOM list (power terminal block), not the boards, right?
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Thanks, took me a bit on the XBees as of the 10 second delay.
Yep the only change to the BOM was the power block terminal. As I mentioned I also put in PDF files showing the Schematic and board in case some one wanted to look at the images without downloading and installing diptrace.
Can not wait to see Morphex 2 when you have it up and running. Today I hopefully will have some time to work more on the Teensy code base on the Quad: I am going to experiment with things like, maybe try to do servo updates every 10ms and see if there is any differences. Also on the quad, need to probably work more on the gaits/balance code. In the current code base I can define specific gaits for a robot, which can either add the gaits to the default list or replace the default list. So I have added the ones that I think match the Nuke ones. Which for me only one of them works well... But some of the issues may be what Angle the legs should be at, or the initial position on how far out the legs should be. So it needs more experimenting to see what works well. Earlier I added code to the Commander Input code that like how I adjust the height of the robot and the walking speed by holding down the L6 button and moving the right joystick, I can now hold the L6 button and move the left joystick, to move the legs in and out and to change the angle of the legs, so I can experiment, with legs at 90 degrees from each other versus at 60 degrees...
Also I have both ways to do balance. The original way and the way that Xan added to support the Lynxmotion Quad. Need to see which works better with the different gaits. Hopefully will get back to testing on Hex but UPS shipment appears to be hung up somewhere for several days now
Today I finished assembling a 2nd of the v0.2 Teensy boards. This time I used one of the Seedstudio ones (green) with a green Teensy board (direct from PJRC). I also cut the USB to VIN etch on the Teensy, so by default the board is not powered when plugged into USB. I then did a quick and dirty jumper to allow me to play with USB power as I do some tests.
Also found something else I would change if I did another version. Should have caught this earlier, but would have switched RX/TX labels for XBee. I currently have TX associated with DOUT of XBee but makes more sense assocated with TX pin of processor...
Soon I will mount this board on the PhantomX Hexapod, which is all back in one piece now
But first I will do some more testing of the actual PhantomX using the Arbotix. Would like to first make sure things are workng OK on my standard github Phantom_Phoenix project. So far I don't see the XBee drop anymore. But I think I want to play a little more with the leg positions at different heights.
Also will have the same Phantom_Phoenix code base that is converted over to run on Arduino 1.5.6-r2 using my stripped down Arbotix directory and Bioloid library that uses the standard hardware serial port code. (i.e. - there is a Serial1).
Then will convert to Teensy - using the same code base using Hardware Serial port.
Sounds good Kurt. I think I'll cut the USB power on the Teensy too, I believe it can be messy when connecting to USB when the breakoutboard is powered. Btw. I've got 3 Teensy3.1 from OSH park. But still waiting for the boards from both OSH and Seedstudio.
Looking forward to hear from you when you've tested the PhantomX.
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Hi Kåre,
I would assume the ones from Seeeduino shipped by now? I ordered my version with Arduino headers on it after you put in your order and it shipped last Thursday and it arrived in US and cleared customs today and soon will be transferred to USPS... Today I ordered some more parts from Digi-key to be able to assemble 1 or 2 of these. Don't have many Arduino shield boards to try out, so not sure yet how much I will attempt there.
I have the first teensy on the quad so should not be too many new things to figure out on the Hex. Hopefully will be at it in the next day or so. But now back to other not as fun stuff, like building Shed/Chicken Coop, go to Dump...
Quick update: The Teensy breakout board with Arduino Headers should arrive Tuesday.
I finished for now playing the Arbotix on 1.5.6 using straight Serial output and as far as I can tell, it is working fine. I also hooked up the the Logic Analyzer and it looks like the timings of the Serial outputs is pretty good. I could only detect a smaller percentage of the time where I probably output quicker than the serial port was outputting and it then cached it and used the interrupt. Could do straight talking to the IO registers if necessary, but I like that this code is the same for both Arbotix and Teensy.
Question: I am still a bit green on how best to use github. Suppose I wish to put up Phantom_Phoenix_Teensy up there. I can obviously just put it up as it's own project, but it could also logically be another Branch of the Phantom_Phoenix project. But much of the time I would want both branches on my main machine. Is it easy to have multiple forks on your machine at the same time and be able to make commits to either of them, or am I better off just having two projects. Most of the files are identical. Most of the other changes is simply a change of header files (ax12.h -> ax12serial.h).
I would suggest using two projects. Projects don't cost anything, and if you want to "mount" one project as a sub-directory of another, you can do that using git externals (that references a very specific version -- not auto-updated.)
Branches only make sense if you intend to merge between different branches a lot.
That being said, you can have multiple branches of the same project checked out in two different location on your machine -- a git checkout is just a directory with a ".git" subdirectory at the top. You can even move the entire checkout directory around on your disk without fear -- it's not like Perforce where the client-side path is stored in the client-spec server-side...
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Hay Presents at Inner City Economic Summit
Cheryl Hay, administrator for Business and Industry Training, was recently invited to present on the LogisticsART program at Columbus State, at the 2012 Inner City Economic Summit. The summit was hosted by CEOs for Cities and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) September 18-19 in Boston.
Hay presented with other city, civic, and business leaders on the topic of industry-led workforce development. The purpose of the Inner City Economic Summit was for leaders to gather and share practices that are proving durable in this fiscal climate. During the Summit, Hay was quoted on Twitter as saying "The only job security you have today is how marketable you keep your skill set."
College Book Bucks go to two Columbus State students
James Patterson is a renowned author who has had nineteen consecutive #1 New York Times bestselling novels, and holds the New York Times record for most hardcover fiction bestselling titles by a single author (76 total), which is also a Guinness World Record.
From his James Patterson Pageturner Awards (which rewarded groups and individuals for creative and effective ways of spreading the joy of reading) to his website ReadKiddoRead.com (which helps adults find books that kids are sure to love) to his regular donations of thousands of books to troops overseas, Patterson is a lifelong champion of books and reading.
For the second year in a row, Patterson has offered an essay contest for college-bound high school seniors. The prize given to the winners is a gift certificate to the independent bookstore of their choice and two of the winners have listed the Columbus State Bookstore as their choice. Columbus State students Andrea C. and Ashley C. won a $1,000 first-place prize and $250 third-place prize respectively. To read their essays, you can visit the contest website here.
Counseling Services to offer seminars for mental health awareness
The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Ohio recognizes Mental Illness Awareness Week (MIAW) 2012: Oct. 7-13. Since 1990, when the U.S. Congress established MIAW, mental health advocates across the country have joined together during the first full week of October in sponsoring many kinds of activities.
In support of NAMI's efforts to raise mental illness awareness, Counseling Services at Columbus State will be hosting a full week of seminars from October 8-12 on diverse mental disorders including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and more. The seminars are design to raise awareness and reduce the stigma of mental illness. To see the schedule of seminars, go online to the Counseling Services website events calendar.
Vayntraub wins photo contest
Elina Vayntraub, multimedia web developer in Columbus State's Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (ITDL) Department, was honored in three categories in the Ohio Environmental Council's 4th Annual Nature Photo Contest. She won the Excellence Award for her photo "Transformed Beauty," the Excellence Award for "Native Alien," and the Merit Award for "After the Rain." See all the winning photos online here: www.theoec.org/PhotoContest_winners2012.htm.
Elina Vayntraub's photo "Transformed Beauty."
Celebrate Disability Awareness Month with Columbus State
Disability Services has a long list of special events and presentations this month to help celebrate Disability Awareness Month. You can keep up with the schedule on their Facebook page, or visit their website to see a list of activities, beginning with a Survival Sign Language course October 3, and the Movie of the Week October 8-12, which is The Hammer, the story of the first deaf wrestler to win the National Collegiate Wrestling Championships. Activities and seminars go through early November, so keep your eye on Update for the upcoming week's announcements.
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MaryEllen Tancred, assistant professor in Medical Laboratory Technology, has earned her Ph.D. in Education from Capella University specializing in instructional design for online learning. Her research explored whether learner interests and COMPASS reading scores could be used as predictors of achievement in web-based courses. The premise is that in today's challenging economy, community colleges have the potential to improve learner persistence while remaining fiscally prudent by using old tools in new ways for advising students in their course format selections.
October Matrix Monitor online now
In the October issue of Matrix Monitor, you can read articles about family therapy, teen alcoholism, the costs of a cluttered desk and much more. See it online here. You can also access Matrix webinars for October by visiting http://www.matrixpsych.com/client-access.php , dropping down to your company name, clicking "submit" and selecting "Work & Family Resources." Then you can click on the date of the webinar you want to attend and register.
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The Library has announced the opening of a new exhibition highlighting the art of Kevin Willis displayed in the main gallery on its 2nd floor and in the Northwest gallery on the first floor. Willis says "I thrive on challenges and interaction. Computer technology offers a new medium for expression in this decade. My art is sometimes intellectual and other times emotional. Both are needed for my work to retain the art of creativity." The exhibition will be on view the entire month of October. The galleries are open all hours of operation of the Library.


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In this respect, studies on functional immunology of T cell activities are still at their beginning, and much work is needed to investigate T cell responses in teleost fish species. In this review we summarise the current knowledge on the group of genes coding for main T cell-related peptides in fish, and the expression levels of these genes in organs and tissues. Particular attention is paid to European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), a marine species in which some information on functional immunology has been obtained, and we reassume here the expression of some T cell-related genes in basal conditions. In addition, we provide original data showing that T cells purified from the intestinal mucosa of sea bass with a specific mAb, express transcripts for TRgamma, TRbeta, CDalpha and RAG-1, thus showing similarities with intraepithelial leucocytes of mammals. Description: L'articolo è disponibile sul sito dell'editore http://www.sciencedirect.com 2010-12-31T23:00:00Z CD3 γ/δ in sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax): molecular characterization and expression analysis http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2204 Title: CD3 γ/δ in sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax): molecular characterization and expression analysis Authors: Randelli, Elisa; Scapigliati, Giuseppe; Buonocore, Francesco Abstract: The CD3 complex is the common marker on the surface of both ab and gd T cells and is essential for formation of the T-cell receptor complex and for T-cell activation. In this paper, we report the gene cloning and molecular characterization of a CD3g/d homologue in sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), the analysis of transcription levels in lymphoid and non-lymphoid organs and the gene regulation after in vitro stimulation with LPS and PHA. Four cysteine residues in the extracellular domain, involved in the constitution of immunoglobulinlike domain, are present in sea bass CD3g/d sequence and they are conserved both in number and position from mammals to teleost sequences. Similar to other known CD3g/ds, in sea bass CD3g/d there is also a conserved immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation ITAM motif that could be responsible for its individual signal transduction capacity. The real time RT-PCR basal analysis shows the highest level of CD3g/d mRNA in thymus, followed by peripheral blood leucocytes, spleen, gills, gut, liver, head kidney, brain and muscle. The expression analysis under stimuli condition reveals a significant decrease of CD3g/d expression after LPS stimulation and a significant increase after PHA-L stimulation, in agreement with mammals results. In conclusion, these data allow us to affirm that sea bass CD3g/d can be used as a T cell marker and will help in adding new insight on the immune response mechanisms of sea bass. Description: L'articolo è disponibile sul sito dell'editore http://www.elsevier.com 2010-12-31T23:00:00Z Intestinal T cells of Dicentrarchus labrax (L.): gene expression and functional studies http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2183 Title: Intestinal T cells of Dicentrarchus labrax (L.): gene expression and functional studies Authors: Picchietti, Simona; Guerra, Laura; Bertoni, Fabrizio; Randelli, Elisa; Belardinelli, Maria Cristina; Buonocore, Francesco; Rombout, Jan; Scapigliati, Giuseppe; Abelli, Luigi Abstract: Cellular and molecular data have evidenced a gut-associated lymphoid tissue in a variety of teleost species, abundantly containing T cells, whose origin, selection and functions are still unclear. This study reports CD4, CD8-α, MHCI-α, MHCII-β, rag-1 and TCR-β gene transcription along the intestine (anterior, middle and posterior segments) and in the thymus of one year-old Dicentrarchus labrax (L.). Real-time PCR findings depicted a main role of the thymus in T cell development, but also rag-1 and CD8-α transcripts are detected in the intestine, having significant expression in the posterior segment. In the whole intestine TCR-β and CD8-α exceeded CD4 transcripts. RNA ISH confirmed these data and detailed that mucosal CD8-α+ cells were especially numerous in the epithelium and in aggregates in the lamina propria. Regional differences in T cell-specific gene expressions are first described in the intestine of a bony fish. High non-specific cytotoxic activity against xenogeneic and allogeneic cells was found in lymphocytes purified from the intestinal mucosa, providing further insight into their local defence roles. Description: L'articolo è disponibile sul sito dell'editore http://www.sciencedirect.com/ 2010-12-31T23:00:00Z Analysis of the expression and modulation of selected immune-related gene transcripts in the DLEC cell line from European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) http://hdl.handle.net/2067/2180 Title: Analysis of the expression and modulation of selected immune-related gene transcripts in the DLEC cell line from European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Authors: Buonocore, Francesco; Randelli, Elisa; Lorenzen, Niels; Einer-Jensen, Katja; Scapigliati, Giuseppe Abstract: Cell lines have been established from different fish species especially for virus isolation and for studying cell-pathogen interactions, and therefore are of interest in aquaculture. In this paper, we have investigated the presence and the regulation of some immune genes in the DLEC (Dicentrarchus labrax embryonic cells) cell line from European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) to preliminary elucidate their action. The basal expression of the selected genes (interleukin- 1β (IL-1β), cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2), transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), CD8-α, major histocompatibility complex II-β (MHC II-β), interferon (IFN) and Mx protein (Mx)) have been investigated and, successively, their modulation have been studied both after stimulation with different mitogen agents and after a transfection with a sequence codifying for the coat protein of a fish nervous necrosis virus (NNV). The results have evidenced that the inflammatory molecules (IL-1β, COX-2, TGF-β), constitutively expressed by the DLEC cell line, are not up-regulated by the stimulation with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from E. coli, whether the expression of the T-cell marker transcripts (CD8-α, MHC II-β) is influenced by the action of a lectin from Phaseolus vulgaris (PHA-L). Finally, the expression of the coat NNV protein in the DLEC cell line, after the transfection, led to an high up-regulation of IFN and Mx gene transcripts. These data suggest that the DLEC cell line recognize specific pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and, therefore, could be useful for studying T-cell pathways and viral responses in sea bass avoiding the use of live test animals. 2010-12-31T23:00:00Z


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Comic book writers have been progressive when it comes to LGBT visibility, often creating LGBT characters or having already established characters come out. The latest move is made by Marvel Entertainment, who recently announced that a new character in the "Uncanny X-Men" series would identify as gay, the Huffington Post reports.
Benjamin Deeds is one of the latest mutants to be discovered in the comics and came out as gay in "Uncanny X-Men #14," which was written by Brain Michael Bendis. The comic is scheduled to hit stores this week.
"Continuing with Marvel's rich tradition of character development and storytelling, this shape-shifting mutant can alter his appearance to mimic anyone he is in close proximity with," Joe Taraborrelli, Sr. Communications Manager of Marvel Entertainment told HuffPo. "The fact that Ben has come out as homosexual is just a small facet of who he is and what he is going to bring to Cyclops' select team of X-Men."
Last year, Northstar, one of the first openly gay comic book super heroes, married his boyfriend in an issue of "Astonishing X-Men." Northstar, who first appeared in 1979, tied the knot with his partner Kyle and the ceremony was the first gay marriage involving a Marvel superhero. Last year also marked first time the "Life With Archie" comic series, which has been in publication since 1941, got its first gay character, Kevin Keller. Soon after he was introduced, Keller married his partner Clay Walker, an African-American physical therapist.
In June 2012, DC Comic's iconic Green Lantern got a reboot and for his new series, he identifies as gay. His sexual orientation was revealed in the second issue of "Earth 2" and fans found out this version of the Green Lantern has a totally different back story and history.
"He doesn't come out. He's gay when we see him in issue two," James Robinson, who writes the new series, told the Associated Press. "He's fearless and he's honest to the point where he realized he was gay and he said 'I'm gay.'"
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We're not exactly enamored with Milano Torino's other creations seen on their difficult-to-Google and slightly terrible website matrix911.wix.com/milantorino. Wait, is this design on their page just a photoshop? It appears so.
Continuing the slightly sketchy design theme, Milano Torino showed off the above photoshop, which clearly shows a Ferrari F12berlinetta. However, on Milano Torino's website, they claim the car will either be based off of a 612 Scaglietti or a 599. Design work will be done by Evren Milano and "either PininFarina S.P.A. or Fioravanti S.P.A. Milano Torino goes on to say that "thru [sic] these companies we can file for an official approval."
Given that the company only shows off two real-life cars on their website, we want to see a bit more of a confirmation from Ferrari or Pininfarina before we get too excited about this 770 Daytona.
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Australian fans, take note: you've got a date in May! Saturday, May 21 is the official premiere of Doctor Who on ABC-TV in Australia, broadcasting every Saturday night at 7:30pm for 13 weeks. Australia is the third country to debut the series, after the UK and Canada. To differentiate between the 'classic' series and the new series the ABC are running the new series with the tag line - 'Adventures in The Human Race'. The first ABC program listing, for "Rose," is available at their website. The series will be followed by "Very Little Britain" at 8.15pm and then "The Bill" at 8.30pm. "The Bill" is currently the highest rated programme on Australian television in the 8.30 Saturday time slot, demonstrating how highly the ABC is regarding the new Doctor Who series. We'll have more information on Australian broadcasts as they become available. (Thanks to James Sellwood and everyone who emailed to tell us!)