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INVISIBLE CHILDREN in Uganda (Help)
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An organization called "Invisible Children" came to my school today to help raise awareness about the 25 year war going on in Uganda right now and how children are abducted from their homes and forced to fight. My eyes were opened to this reality today and I really would like to help in anyway I can. The best way that myself or any of you can help is to donate ANY amount to this non-profit organization. Anything you can sacrifice is appreciated. (I paid 20 today at school, which is why you will see I have paid nothing on the website.) http://25.invisiblechildren.com/member/ ... fcid=50299 The goal that has been set is a small amount of $25. If any of you could help with that, that would be awesome. But if not, it's all okay. I love you still. I realize that animalcollective.org is NOT a site for charities, and I am NOT expecting anyone to donate. I just thought that it wouldn't hurt to post this in the "Vocal" section of this site. Like I said, ANY size donation is greatly appreciated. If you can't donate, perhaps you could post the link to a Facebook, Twitter, etc. account so someone you know could possibly donate. Please don't flag this as spam. I'm just trying to help out in any way I can, and I need people to help me do that. Thank you for at least reading this if you have made it this far. Much Love, SpritBear
I have friends in Uganda and am going this June. Your call for help is not unheard.
I would love to go there and do what I can to help. Have you been there before?
No, I have not. I've been to Tanzania but that's a different matter. I hope to live the rest of my life in East Africa though. I think I have a calling there. But I know people who have died in Uganda. Our missionary friend visits often, and the last time he left, the day after actually, soldiers went into the town and killed a bunch of people that we were in contact with (for being Christian).
I felt a need to help in any way I could, and me being only one human with no money... What I can do is spread the word about it. So, I really appreciate you reading and commenting. What church mission was it? , if you don't mind me asking.
Not associated with a church. He's a lone missionary, haha.
Oh, I sorry I sorry. I thought the (for being Christian) implied that it was with a church. That's awesome though that he's helping. Also, I really love your signature.
No need to apologize! The people that were killed were part of a church, though, if that's what you were asking... I don't know the name though.
Oh yes yes. That is what I was asking. Thank you MoonDog sir. You seem like a kind gent rent.
I believe we are open to any kind of information proffered. I will check the link out and read up on it. Isn't it interesting when our eyes are opened up and our spirit is touched by something? It's like electricity. I have my own "something".
It is quite amazing. I had that experience yesterday. My mind was opened to this reality. I felt the need to help in any way I possibly could, as I said earlier in this thread. It IS like electricity. You have your own "something"? Sounds intriguing! Thank you for reading up on it. It really is a great organization.
Fuck 'em
Hey hey, Space Fred, it is okay. I actually feel the same way. Most everyone in my school did not care about this in the least bit, and I just found myself wanting to be alone and quiet for the rest of the day. I feel so terrible for all the horrible things kids and a lot of other people across the world have to deal with. We have it so nice over here, and we take so much of that for granted. I want to help them so badly. But what can I do? What can ONE person do?
That's a great question to which I have no good answer.
OK, here's my weird story to illustrate how one person can make a difference. One person is standing on a busy sidewalk looking at the sky. Looking at the sky for a long time. People are walking past him, too wrapped up in their trajectory. Eventually someone else looks up, too. They're curious. And then another. A crowd forms. Now people aren't just looking up, they are joining the crowd to see what the crowd is looking up at. Different people, different missions, different backgrounds. If you yell and shout and point you might get more people looking faster. Those that will be moved, will. Those that won't will move on. But if you're looking at a universal truth, like a gorgeous sunset, or battered women, you have just made an immeasureable difference.
This is absolutely great! Is this a quote? Or did it come from your brain? I love this. Tanks
Oh, I'd guess that's an original. Thanks for posting that, Wini.
Space Fred and I would like to say Thank You for posting that!
Well, hey, thanks. Sometimes I am able to make sense. One caveat about what I described: not everyone can SEE what you see. But many can.
they came to my school as well. we've been pretty involved with them for a number of years. way to go putting this out there!
Yeah yeah! Thank you sir. I thought this would be a good place to post the information. It's a great organization and the problems over there are REAL.
[quote="winilula"]Well, hey, thanks. Sometimes I am able to make sense. One caveat about what I described: not everyone can SEE what you see. But many can.[/quote] That's because I'm colorblind. Did I already post a response to this? I thought it if I didn't post it.
I love you all!
A NOTE OF TEMPERANCE I was reading about brainwashing last night and that reminded me that we are ALL being brainwashed in both positive and negative ways. Sometimes when you feel something new and intense it is not really YOUR feeling, it is the techniques of the informer to (knowingly or not) coerce you into feeling what they feel. And of course you do, because it feels Good and Right! Especially when you are younger (sorry) it is easier to not notice the feelings are not emanating from within but are caused by external stimulus. Not that we get any swifter when we are older! We just have become used to being duped, lied to, manipulated, used and so learn to be wary of intense and sudden emotions. (except anger and fear) (and even those are questionable!) HOW-EVAH... I have found a good trick to be asking myself: Have I ever felt this way before? What was the outcome? Does this line up with thoughts/feelings I have had independent of anything outside my skull? Being young is so very hard when they give you the wrong instruction manual, or don't give you one at all. I am so glad I am old.
The influence of advertisements, opinions, and all sorts of difficult-to-percieve stuff on thoughts, feelings, and behaviors is fascinating. I have trouble watching commercials on TV or looking at billboards on the side of the road sometimes (when I'm not meditating, usually) because of how effective they are at infiltrating my thoughts. I actually end up feeling resentful. I generally do feel resentful to manipulative advertisements, and I don't watch much broadcast TV because of that. A book that I wrote about here under my old moniker, [i]Ishmael[/i] by Daniel Quinn, talks extensively about what Quinn calls "Mother Culture". The influence of the voice of culture whispering in our ears is monumental. Wini, you might enjoy Daniel Quinn's stuff. As might anyone who likes to read and who has an interest in the way people live their lives.
that's a very interesting point to touch upon, wini. And Dave, I have trouble too with commercials and things. Its really a common trouble I have though that is probably one of the more obvious when it comes to advertising. The portrayal of women. Being relatively tall and thin myself I still see all these perfect women and its so easy for me to pick myself apart, which I end up feeling poorly about because I know there's nothing wrong with me but i've been brainwashed into thinking what a woman should look like and that I don't have 'this' have too much of 'that'. But that outlook can be easily applied to everything. The stereotypes of men, being told that we should drink soda, or that recycling makes us a better person. Positive and negative. But anyways, since i haven't even touched on the topic...Thank you for sharing this! I try sometimes to forget about the plight of people in the world because there is so much of it and it can be so overwhelming sometimes but that's a bit selfish really. And I think its great that you feel so passionately about this topic because i've felt that way before in regards to similar humanitarian efforts. And i'm glad that you've shared it with us because its brought an awareness, it got us talking and thinking about some really important issues and I will certainly be donating even just a small amount of money towards this cause.
Some recent stuff in Africa has actually made me angry at our unwillingness to do anything. It's great that we're interfering in Libya. I couldn't be happier. One less genocide in the continent is a huge accomplishment (if we actually stop him), in my opinion. However, it makes me think. Why THE HELL hasn't the UN and the US stepped in before in places like Uganda, Rwanda, Sudan, THE Congo, and countless other places?! I understand that the genocide in Sudan was slighted by the UN for the simple reason that China receives most of their oil from Sudan... how screwed up is that? Once China makes an investment in something, and investment that leads to the death of thousands of innocent people, the rest of the world just looks the other way? And damn, just look at the Congo. That place has been screwed up ever since the Belgians left them to rot. It didn't help that the US helped assassinate their first democratically elected leader and then put a crazy dictator tyrant in the throne for 32 years. I think it's great that the US is stopping the government in Libya, and I'm glad for organizations like Invisible Children, but it makes you think. Are we really doing anything? How many more situations are being overlooked while we pat ourselves on the back for "solving" another? Hell, look at Ethiopia. As good natured and well-meaning all of those charities were, both donors and celebrities like Bono actually screwed up the country even more. All the money went to the communist government, meaning the government got richer while people died of starvation on their doorstep. Hell, we should just nuke Africa and get it over with (just kidding). But really. I hate the UN for their inability to do what's right and act.
Simple answer: Because the U.S. spent some $3 trillion on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and we're already going into Libya on a stretched budget--we simply don't have unlimited resources to play Global Policeman. And the U.N.'s peacekeeping abilities are often useless due to differing political goals of countries on the Security Council (yes, I'm talking about China and Russia). The full answer is extremely complicated and I'm not going to kid myself into thinking I could tell you all the ins and outs. I agree, it would be nice if genocide didn't happen, but this is the world we live in. One part of the complete answer to "Why here instead of any of the other multitudes of places in which genocide is and has been happening for the last decade or so?" is this: Obama has the support of many nations, including several Arab ones, to go ahead with the air operations. Whether or not they continue to support him is an issue as well, but I don't think the U.S. couldn't afford to run around in another Middle Eastern country without support from its neighbors, even if that support is short-lived. As the President said, it presents us with a unique opportunity to step in and help, whereas in other situations that help might not be possible. My problem with the Libya thing is this: what happens if the air strikes fail? Do we send in more troops? Do we start another full-on war? I don't think Obama's interested in taking it that far, but I just don't know anymore. His moves have been becoming increasingly conservative (he's far from a true left-winger, contrary to what fanatics like Glebb Neck say) and he's already extended our troops' time in Iraq and Afghanistan, which I believe was a lost cause in the first place. So, we'll see. If you listen to "Talk Of The Nation" on NPR, this will definitely come up, and that show generally has intelligent and knowledgable folks on the air who have, in this particular case, been dissecting advantages, disadvantages, and risks of the U.S.'s intervention in Libya.
:O Sorry
Oh Oh. Thank you though! For all those words. I enjoyed the on topics and off topics.
Hmm I don't know why I wrote all of that.
It seemed like you felt passionately about it. It bothers me, too.
I do.
it began in AFRIKA and that is where it will all end! __<" title="mad" />
I read something else this morning that explains why the U.S. is intervening in Libya. While the revolts in other parts of the Middle East are actually more important to the political interests of the United States, there's an international news organization with a strong presence in Libya. If U.S. personell were photographed for just standing by while the oppressive government cracked down on its people, it would make for a publicity nightmare.
I just read through this thread finally! I think it's great that you're speaking up about something you are so passionate about. And even the off topic stuff is interesting. I donated!
Hey! Thank you! I think it's really good to spread the word about this. Although, I agree with the above comment. We need to find a permanent solution to help over there. Money is never a permanent problem solver. Shinsickle, you're a swell lady.
Permanent solution: I don't think there's only one. I think they're all based in personal responsibility, and the sad fact is that when people have 244 inch televisions, heated seats, and spicy Cheetos, a desire for introspection and changing deep-seated tendencies is unusual, even when there's something urgently prompting the need for those changes.
[quote="Dave"]Permanent solution: I don't think there's only one. I think they're all based in personal responsibility, and the sad fact is that when people have 244 inch televisions, heated seats, and spicy Cheetos, a desire for introspection and changing deep-seated tendencies is unusual, even when there's something urgently prompting the need for those changes.[/quote] I was watching TV yesterday and aparently the Director of movies like Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty, and Liar Liar was like that. He was succesful and bought a big house and had awesome stuff. \ the difference is that, he ended up losing his "i can have anything i want"mindset, and gave it all away. Now he lives in a normal house (actually, just a large trailer) and doesnt buy many things. He said hes way more happy that way.
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The 2006 book, 225 Best Jobs for Baby Boomers by Michael Farr, describes the best and most popular jobs with older adults, and here, we discuss his top 10 picks.
- Management Analysts
Management analysts work with organizations as consultants to examine how the organization functions and makes recommendations on how they can improve efficiency, profit, and structure. According the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in May 2004, management analysts earned a median annual salary of $63,450. The industry is forecasted for faster-than-average growth through 2014, though competition is expected to be keen. Many management analysts begin working with either a bachelor's degree in business administration or an MBA. For returning adult students, it's never been easier to earn a degree in business administration. Opportunities abound at both traditional colleges and through online degree programs. Many business administration programs offer accelerated options, as well.
- Post-Secondary Teachers
Post-secondary teachers are those who teach in colleges, universities, and vocational training centers. BLS reported in May 2004 that the median annual salary for post-secondary teachers was $51,800, though salaries vary widely in the field, depending on education level, type of school where one teaches, and experience.
The path to becoming a post-secondary teacher depends. Professors at four-year universities, for example, generally must have a Ph.D. in their field. Instructors at community colleges typically have a master's degree. Instructors at vocational schools tend to have a degree in their field and many years' experience. Many adult students like the idea of adding a degree onto many years of experience and becoming teachers. Today, there are lots of opportunities to advance credentials.
- Logisticians
Logisticians manage all the processes involved in supply chains. They work with suppliers of materials and the flow of those materials as they reach consumers. Often, the job involves aspects of transportation, stock and warehouse, and flow monitoring. Logisticians earn, according to Farr's book, an average salary of $56,300 and have more than 160,000 projected job openings through the next ten years.
Logisticians typically earn degrees in business administration. Many schools offer specialization in business logistics. An MBA is always a great degree choice for one interested in a logistics management position.
- Managers
Management careers are always enticing, and Farr names general and operations managers, medical health services managers, financial managers, and CEOs as the best positions for adults. Salaries for managers average around $75,000, while CEO salaries often skyrocket well into the hundreds or even millions.
Managers often hold degrees in business administration, either at the undergraduate or MBA level. Financial managers will generally have a specialty degree in finance, just as health services managers will often have a similar emphasis on their degree. Adult students can capitalize on years of business and management experience with an MBA that can propel them into a general management position.
- Registered Nurses
Registered nurses, or RNs, perform basic patient care duties, such as maintaining medical records, perform tests, operate machinery, and administer medication. They also ensure patient comfort and care and work with patients and families to educate them. RNs work in hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, and more. In 2004, BLS reported that RNs earned a median annual salary of $52,330. Nursing is one of the fastest-growing job fields in the country today, and forecasts through the next several years indicate it will continue to grow much faster than average.
A returning adult student can start fresh as a registered nurse through relatively short-term training programs. Once the registered nursing license is earned, there are lots of online programs through which nurses can boost their credentials, including the RN-to-BSN program and RN-to-MSN program.
- Doctors
Specifically, Farr names anesthesiologists, general internists, obstetricians and gynecologists, psychiatrists, surgeons, general practitioners, and pediatricians as the best positions. With salaries into the mid- to high-$100,000 range, it's obvious why it's such a lucrative field.
Returning adults might find the medical field daunting, with four years of medical school, a year-long internship (at least), and a three to seven year residency looming. But it is a lucrative field with many rewards.
- Pharmacists
Pharmacists dispense drugs and medications and counsel patients on the proper use of their prescriptions. Pharmacists work in community pharmacies, grocery stores, and hospitals. BLS reports in May 2004, the median annual salary for pharmacists was $84,900 and growth is forecasted to be faster than average.
Pharmacists must go to school for a professional pharmacy degree. Most pharmacy programs are three years; or six to seven years when rolled in with a bachelor's degree. A returning adult student might also consider becoming a pharmacy technician, another very lucrative career. In 2004, pharmacy technicians earned $11.37 per hour (median salary) and growth is projected to increase at a much faster than average rate. The path to becoming a pharmacy technician is much faster than that of a pharmacist - pharmacy techs study for a certificate and gain hands-on experience through externship programs.
- Lawyers
With a steady demand and high salaries, law is an extremely attractive career field for older adults. BLS says median salaries were at $94,930 in May of 2004 and growth through the next several years is as fast as average. But lawyers need a law degree, which entails three additional years of full time study after the bachelor's degree. The most motivated adults will go after this degree, but you might also consider studying to be a paralegal. In 2004, paralegals earned median annual salaries of $39,130 and growth is forecasted to increase at a rate much faster than average. Students can become paralegals through certificate and associate degree programs, and bachelor degree programs are also available.
- Educational Administrators
Educational administrators are the leaders in the school system. Median annual salaries ranged from $35,730 to $74,190 in May 2004, according to BLS, and vary depending on the type of school one administrates in. A position in administration is a great option for a returning student. Those with teaching experience can add a master's in education (MEd) or educational doctorate (EdD) to their credentials and be welcomed to a job market that is forecasted for steady growth through the next several years.
In May 2004, elementary and secondary school administrators had median annual earnings of $74,190; postsecondary school administrators had median annual earnings of $68,340, while preschool and childcare center administrators earned a median of $35,730 per year. Salaries of education administrators depend on several factors, including the location and enrollment level in the school or school district.
- Sales Representatives
Sales is a terrific career for anyone who is up for the challenge of persuasion. While salaries vary greatly depending on how successful one is - sales is generally a commission-based career - BLS reports median annual salaries for sales reps at $58,580 in May 2004. A degree in business administration is generally a great springboard to a career in sales, and there are lots of opportunities for adults to go after an MBA or an undergraduate degree, either on a nearby campus or online.

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It Takes a Church to Raise a Child
I have often heard parents of college students lament that their children return home from school, drop off the laundry, and immediately go out with friends without spending any time with the family. I remember hearing that complaint and thinking …Read More
The Letter to the Church in Laodicea
The pipes in our home sprung a series of leaks. Since most of my neighbors had replaced their plumbing, I knew it was time for me to do the same. However, hiring a plumber to do this would cost thousands …Read More
Mark Bates
Rev. Mark Bates is senior pastor of Village Seven Presbyterian Church and is a Bible teacher at Evangelical Christian Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


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Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy insisted DuJuan Harris was the team's starting running back even as he remained on the physically unable to perform list.
However, those plans had to be altered when Harris re-injured his knee last Friday against the Seattle Seahawks and had to be placed on injured reserve.
McCarthy spoke Wednesday to just how much of a blow the loss of Harris will be for the Packers.
"Every offseason, you go through evaluations of your offense, you do offseason studies, you project how you envision your offense looking and then you kind of confirm things after the draft," McCarthy said, via Jason Wilde of ESPNMiwaukee.com. "You have a vision, packages in place on how you're going to start the season. I'll just tell you this: DuJuan was a big part of particularly my individual focus for this season."
Harris played in just four games for the Packers last season and carried 34 times for 157 yards and two touchdowns. Apparently McCarthy saw enough to believe Harris could improve a lackluster rushing game. Now the Packers will have to get by with a combination of rookies Eddie Lacy and Jonathan Franklin and veterans James Starks and Alex Green.


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Help! I Need to Respond to All These Cisco IOS Software Vulnerabilities and I Cannot Scale!!!
No software is immune to security vulnerabilities. The time between the discovery and disclosure of security vulnerabilities and the availability of an exploit is getting shorter. This imposes pressures on network security professionals and information technology (IT) managers to quickly respond to security vulnerabilities or apply mitigation in their network. Many organizations are struggling to keep up-to-date with the constant release of new vulnerabilities and software fixes. At the same time, they are under pressure to provide near 100% availability of key business services and systems.
Note: Cisco has a very robust vulnerability management process. This process is described in detail at Cisco's Security Vulnerability Policy. The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) manages the receipt, investigation, and public reporting of security vulnerability information that is related to Cisco products and networks.
As an example, every time Cisco discloses a security vulnerability for Cisco IOS Software (or any given product), network security administrators have to identify affected devices and (in numerous cases) upgrade such devices. These activities can take hours, days, or even weeks depending on the size of the organization. For instance large enterprises and organizations may have thousands of routers and switches that need to be assessed for the impact of any given vulnerability.
Most security and network administrators are seeking ways to leverage standards and available tools to reduce the complexity and time necessary to respond to security advisories, assess devices, and ensure compliance. All these challenges make it almost impossible for a security or network administrator to decide what changes are needed on endpoints or networking devices. Additionally, administrators must determine how to implement those changes quickly, correctly, and consistently.
The security community has struggled to make these tasks easier. The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) was developed to address most of these challenges.
SCAP was created to provide a standardized solution for security automation. The SCAP mission is to maintain system security by ensuring security configuration best practices are implemented in the enterprise network, verifying the presence of patches, and maintaining complete visibility of the security posture of systems and the organization at all times.
The current SCAP specifications include the following:
- Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL): OVAL is an international community standard to promote open and publicly available security content and to standardize the transfer of this information in security tools and services. More information about OVAL is available at http://oval.mitre.org.
- Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF): XCCDF is a specification for a structured collection of security checklists and benchmarks. More information about XCCDF is available at http://scap.nist.gov/specifications/xccdf.
- Open Checklist Interactive Language (OCIL): OCIL is a framework for collecting and interpreting responses from questions offered to users. More information about OCIL is available at: http://scap.nist.gov/specifications/ocil.
- Asset Identification (AI): AI is a specification designed to quickly correlate different sets of information about enterprise computing assets. More information about AI is available at http://scap.nist.gov/specifications/ai.
- Asset Reporting Format (ARF): ARF is a specification that defines the transport format of information about enterprise assets and provides a standardized data model to streamline the reporting of such information. More information about ARF is available at http://scap.nist.gov/specifications/arf.
Note: Two emerging languages are Asset Summary Reporting (ASR) and the Open Checklist Reporting Language (OCRL). More information about ASR is available at http://scap.nist.gov/specifications/asr/, and more information about OCRL is available at http://ocrl.mitre.org/.
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE): CVE assigns identifiers to publicly known system vulnerabilities. Cisco assigns CVE identifiers to security vulnerabilities according to the Cisco public vulnerability policy. More information about CVE is available at http://cve.mitre.org.
- Common Platform Enumeration (CPE): CPE is a standardized method of naming and identifying classes of applications, operating systems, and hardware devices. More information about CPE is available at http://cpe.mitre.org.
- Common Configuration Enumeration (CCE): CCE provides unique identifiers for configuration guidance documents and best practices. The main goal of CCE is to enable organizations to perform fast and accurate correlation of configuration issues in enterprise systems. More information about CCE is available at http://cce.mitre.org.Note: Other community-developed enumerators, such as the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), are currently being expanded and further developed. CWE is a dictionary of common software architecture, design, code, or implementation weaknesses that could lead to security vulnerabilities. More information about CWE is available from http://cwe.mitre.org. Another emerging enumerator is the Common Remediation Enumeration (CRE). More information about CRE is available at http://scap.nist.gov/specifications/cre.
- Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS): CVSS is a standards-based scoring method that conveys vulnerability severity and helps determine the urgency and priority of response. Cisco provides a base and temporal CVSS score for each vulnerability that is disclosed via security advisories and other disclosure methods. Customers can compute environmental scores to assist in determining the impact of the vulnerability in individual networks. Cisco has a FAQ regarding CVSS at http://www.cisco.com/web/about/security/intelligence/cvss-qandas.html. Cisco has also provided a CVSS calculator to compute the environmental impact for individual networks at http://intellishield.cisco.com/security/alertmanager/cvss.
More information about CVSS is available at http://www.first.org/cvss.
- Common Configuration Scoring System (CCSS): More information about CCSS is available in the following PDF document: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/ir7502/nistir-7502_CCSS.pdf.
Note: Two emerging metrics specifications are the Common Weakness Scoring System (CWSS) and the Common Misuse Scoring System (CMSS). CWSS is a methodology for scoring software weaknesses. CWSS is part of CWE. More information about CWSS is available at http://cwe.mitre.org/cwss. CMSS is a standardized way to measure software feature misuse vulnerabilities. More information about CMSS is available at http://scap.nist.gov/emerging-specs/listing.html#cmss.
- Trust Model for Security Automation Data (TMSAD): TMSAD is a trust model to maintain integrity, authentication, and traceability of security automation data. More information about TMSAD is available in the following PDF document: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/ir7802/NISTIR-7802.pdf.
Cisco's New OVAL Support
Cisco is committed to protect customers by sharing critical, security-related information in different formats.
- Scalability
- Single point of control
- Reduction of risks due to human error
- Breadth of coverage
The following provides a simple example of how an administrator can use an OVAL scanner to connect to several Cisco IOS routers over SSH and check them for the presence of vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and installed software.
OVAL Definitions
OVAL definitions are XML files that contain information about how to check a system for the presence of vulnerabilities, configuration issues, patches, installed applications, or other characteristics. For vulnerability checks, definitions are written to check for a vulnerability identified by a specific CVE identifier.
There are four main use cases, also called "classes," of OVAL definitions:
- Vulnerability: Determine the presence of a vulnerability on the system being tested
- Compliance: Validate a device configuration against a known or approved valid configuration
- Inventory: Check for a specific software installed on the system
- Patches: Find a specific patch on the system
Downloading Cisco OVAL Content
OVAL content (often called "definitions") can be downloaded directly from Cisco IOS Software security advisories. Each of these advisories includes a link to the corresponding OVAL definition(s). Currently only Cisco IOS Software is supported. Cisco is working with MITRE and the OVAL community to enhance and develop new schemata to better support Cisco IOS Software and possibly other Cisco products. OVAL enables interoperability between security and network management products from different vendors in different vertical markets, allowing them to quickly and automatically perform vulnerability and compliance assessment of network infrastructure and networking devices. Many vendors are working on integrating Cisco IOS Software schemata support into their products.
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Dennis Farina Dies at 69
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It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, the violence within us. And for some people, it's actually possible to measure it, to see violence in a brain scan. Like for James H. Fallon. When you go to parties, do you normally say James H. Fallon?
JAMES H. FALLON: I just say, Jim.
RAZ: Oh, you say Jim. Okay.
FALLON: That's to differentiate me from that crackpot, Jimmy Fallon.
RAZ: Oh, yeah. Anyway, Jim is a neuroscientist at the University of California at Irvine. And his story wasn't all that different from other researchers who study brains, that is until he discovered something, something that really was inside of him, and he told the story in his TED Talk ...
FALLON: I study behavior but on the basis of everything from genes, through neurotransmitters, dopamine, things like that, all the way through circuit analysis. So that's what I normally do but then, for some reason, I got into something else just recently. And it all grew out of one of my colleagues asking me to analyze a bunch of brains of psychopathic killers.
RAZ: So, every so often, a little like in the movie "Silence of the Lambs", psychopathic murderers would be wheeled into Jim's lab at UC Irvine.
FALLON: Right. You know, maybe once every six months or so, there'd be a SWAT team that would show up with a guy in manacles and they'd do PET scans on him. And what my colleagues would say is, take a look at this, what do you see. The thing I do, you know, normally is to look for patterns in things, and so I would look for what areas of the brain were off ...
FALLON: And here's just to give you the pattern. The pattern is that those people, every one of them I looked at who was a murderer, and was a serial killer, had damage to their orbital cortex which is right above the eyes, the orbits, and also the anterior part of the temporal lobe. So there's this pattern that every one of them had, but they all were a little different, too. They had other sorts of brain damage. And how you end up with a psychopath and a killer depends on exactly when the damage occurs. It's really a very precisely timed thing. You get different kinds of psychopaths on the basis of genetics, brain damage, and the interaction with environment, and exactly how that machine works.
RAZ: Nature and nurture, and when those two things are in perfect balance, Jim says there's one thing that can set it all off.
FALLON: The key thing is called the MAOA gene and there's a variant of this gene that is in the normal population. Some of you have this, and it has to do with too much serotonin during development. It's kind of interesting 'cause serotonin is supposed to make you calm and relaxed, but if you have this gene in utero, your brain is bathed in this so your whole brain becomes insensitive to serotonin, so it doesn't work, you know, later on. And it's sex-linked. It's on the X chromosome and so, in this way, you can only get it from your mother. And in fact, this is probably why mostly men, boys, are psychopathic killers, are very aggressive. Because, you know, the daughter can get one X from the father, one X from the mother, it's kind of diluted out. But, for a son, he can only get the X chromosome from his mother, so this is how it's passed from mother to son. Theoretically, what this means is that in order to express this gene in a violent way, very early on before puberty, you have to be involved in something that's really traumatic. Not a little stress. Not being spanked, or something, but really seeing violence or being involved in it, in 3-D. All right, this is how the mirror neuron system works. And so, if you have that gene, and you have - you see a lot of violence in a certain situation - this is the recipe for disaster. Absolute disaster.
RAZ: It was a pretty fascinating discovery. The violence gene might be passed from mother to son, and then a short time later, Jim got a call from his mother ...
FALLON: My mother said to me, you know, I hear you've been going around talking about psychopathic killers, and you're talking as if you come from a normal family. I said, what the hell are you talking about? She then told me about her own family tree. Now, she blamed this on my father's side, of course. This was one of these cases, because she has no violence in her background, but my father did. Well, she said, there's good news and bad news. One of your cousins is Ezra Cornell, founder of Cornell University. But the bad news is that your cousin is also Lizzie Borden.
RAZ: Lizzie Borden, you know, the one who took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks.
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO: (singing) One hot day in old Fall River, Mr. Andrew Borden died. And they booked his daughter, Lizzie, on a charge of homicide.
RAZ: So, you got the Lizzie Borden chromosome?
FALLON: I got the Lizzie plus, yes.
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO: (singing) But they all agree Ms. Lizzie B was quite a problem kid...
FALLON: Okay, you know, so what? We have Lizzie.
CHAD MITCHELL TRIO: (singing) That kind of thing just isn't very nice...
FALLON: She goes, no, it gets worse, read this book. And here's this "Killed Strangely," and it's a historical book, and the first murder of a mother by a son was my great-great-great-great-great grandfather. Okay, so that's the first case of matricide, but it doesn't stop there. There were seven more men on my father's side that were all murderers. Okay, now this, you know, gives one a little pause.
FALLON: Because my father, you know, my father himself and my three uncles in World War II were all conscientious objectors. They were all pussycats. But every once in a while, Lizzie Borden, like three times a century, and we're kind of due.
FALLON: So I - and we had to take action. Now, our kids found out about it and they all seemed to be okay, but our grandkids are going to be kind of concerned here. So what we've done is I started to do PET scans of everybody in the family.
FALLON: And we started doing PET scans, EEGs, and genetic analysis to see where the bad news is. But there's going to be bad news somewhere and we don't know where it's going to pop up. So that's my talk.
RAZ: Wait a minute, that can't be it. I mean, that can't be everything. There has to be more to the story, Jim.
FALLON: Well, after the TED Talk, over the next year and a half, I had more tests done.
RAZ: On you.
FALLON: On myself. EEGs and, you know, different kinds of imaging. But also further genetic tests and these came back even worse, as it were. That is, it showed that I had even more genetics related to violence and lack of empathy.
RAZ: Wait, like you were potentially a murderer?
FALLON: I'm not a murderer.
RAZ: No, right. Of course not.
FALLON: And I'm not a criminal and yet I've got what appears to be all the elements except early abuse.
RAZ: You have the same kind of brain as the ones you studied?
FALLON: Yeah, my brain looks like probably the worst killers I looked at, the worst psychopaths.
RAZ: Wow.
FALLON: The thing is, I don't have other brain damage. The top of my brain, where all of the cognition is, the cold cognition and executive function, is hyper-functioning. It could mean that I'd be really a mastermind murderer, if I was a murderer, because my executive skills are quite good, and you can really see it in my brain patterns.
RAZ: So what explains the fact that you're not, that you're a peaceful guy?
FALLON: Well, my parents and my extended family, my aunts and uncles and grandparents, treated me with particularly kid gloves, wonderfully, from the time I was born, and I think that had a lot to do with it. I never thought that environment played a role like that at all. And this really changed my mind in the past couple of years. So, I've had to eat some crow.
RAZ: I mean, do you ever - does it ever kind of freak you out that you have that inside of you?
FALLON: It's made me wonder. You know, it really has. I thought I knew who I was, but it's only after this, after the TED Talk, and over especially the last year and a half, I found out other things about what people think about me, people very close. And I've told them please be honest, and what I heard was not so great.
RAZ: What did you hear?
FALLON: Well, I think I'm warm to people and I'm quite cold, and I don't do the things I think the average person does. I don't take care of the people around me in the way I should, and I just do things that you wouldn't want to be married to me. You might not want to completely depend on me. If I have a choice between going to a funeral for my aunt or uncle and going to a party that popped up that day, I'm at the party. I don't do the things you're supposed to do. There's a lot of that stuff. Frankly, it's not things that are criminal, right, and you don't want to hurt people. So there are a number of things that I have that are considered psychopathic.
RAZ: Has that discovery about yourself changed you?
FALLON: After I found out what people thought about me, you know, I really didn't care.
RAZ: Wow.
FALLON: Which is kind of the proof they were right about me, 'cause I don't, you know, at a very fundamental level, I don't care. But I'm trying to. Like, I know I should be doing this. So I'm trying to retrain myself into caring. So that's how I'm handling it, just by knowing that I should be doing certain things and trying to do them.
RAZ: You're like your best research subject.
FALLON: As it turns out, yes. You know, I've been forced to look at myself, which I never did before. And the hints were there all along, I just refused to put them together into the story that it is. And I always had kind of whitewashed, or sugarcoated, my behavior, and people around you help you do that. They go, oh, you're just being a boy, you're just being a kid, you're just being a wild man. And so, I took those sorts of responses from people and from myself, as, oh that's just fun. And when people tell you, oh, you're crazy, you could be told that a hundred times in your life. But there's another way of looking at those statements and who's saying it and under what circumstance. And you could either listen to it and put them all together to get the correct story, or not. I, of course, I always suppress that.
RAZ: We just heard from Phil Zimbardo, the psychologist, and he says, you know, anyone is capable of violence. I mean, anyone could carry it out. Do you think that's true?
FALLON: There are many genes that control these things, the aggression and the violence and probably the desire and willingness to get even with people, retribution, but also, empathy. All of these things, it's a roll of the dice. We're in the genetic casino. There's a hundred dice, and they can come up millions of different ways. That means that everybody is on a different part of the spectrum. And so on the spectrum of violence, there are some people who are naturally, they're born, with very violent tendencies. It doesn't make them criminals and they can - they become what are called pro-social psychopaths. That is, they can use it to do great things. But I think, you know, some people are just so mellow that they inherit all of these very low violence genes, that theoretically they can get violent. But it's almost never going to happen, they'd have to be pushed so far. So the answer is, yes, everybody potentially is a killer. But some of us are potentially more than others, and those people are protectors. But in the wrong circumstances, they also are predators on us.
RAZ: Jim Fallon's a neuroscientist at UC Irvine. His TED Talk is worth seeing in full. You can find it at TED.com.
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When Sid Slapdash substituted for the 6th grade math teacher at Summerset Middle School last week, he found that he needed to finish putting grades on the report cards of five students (boys Ian and Justin and girls Kami, Leslie, and Mandy). Unfortunately, Sid was distracted by a paper airplane flying across the classroom and gave each student a different grade from what he or she deserved. The five, including the Quinn youngster, were each to get different grade--and each did. Given the clues below, can you unscramble Sid Slapdash's report card snafu: what grade (A, B, C, D, or F) should each have gotten and which grade did he or she take home last week?
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Glendale school officials are vying for a new federal grant to turn existing neighborhood schools into magnet sites.
Under a new grant competition, the U.S. Department of Education will divvy up more than $96 million for districts to create magnet schools, but Glendale Unified officials say just 40 districts could win.
District officials estimate schools would win an average of $2.5 million to spend each year for three years.
In 2010, Glendale schools won a similar grant worth more than $7.4 million, which helped transform Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin and Mark Keppel elementary schools into technology, foreign language and visual and performing arts magnets, respectively.
Officials have not settled on which campuses would be targeted for the change, but have said Roosevelt Middle School and Cerritos Elementary each elected to take on a new magnet status long before the grant became available.
This time around, Glendale Unified can be more competitive by creating magnets that assume a science, technology, engineering and math theme.
Roosevelt and Cerritos would enlist that theme, and add arts into the fold as well.
For years, Roosevelt has partnered with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA and executed a comprehensive robotics program.
The school would build on those traits Principal Mary Mason said, and potentially create a digital animation studio.
Cerritos Elementary Principal Cynthia McCarty said a new potential focus at Cerritos could be math, since the school's testing data shows Cerritos students thrive in that subject.
The school could also establish relationships with museums to educate students, she added.
At both school sites, more than 80% of students receive free or reduced lunches — a figure that could contribute to the district's chances of winning.
"We serve a community where many of these students may not have these opportunities out of this school," McCarty said.
Districts that recruit students into magnets from different socio-economic and racial backgrounds would also stand a greater chance of winning.
Up to 400 more students could attend Roosevelt on top of the current 820 neighborhood students, Mason said.
Grant winners could be notified by July, officials said.
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Brussels, 14 February 2012
First Alert Mechanism Report on macroeconomic imbalances in Member States
Why does the EU need a new Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure?
One key lesson from the crisis has been that more attention needs to be paid to macroeconomic imbalances and divergences in competitiveness between EU countries. In some cases, current account imbalances and divergences in price competitiveness have reached unprecedented and unsustainable levels, and this goes well beyond a natural catching-up process or demographic determinants of the past decade.
This does not imply a lack of surveillance on imbalances in the past. On the contrary, macroeconomic imbalances have been continuously monitored within the context of the EU's Broad Economic Policy Guidelines (BEPG). In addition, there has been a number of country-specific recommendations related to macroeconomic imbalances. However, experience has shown that surveillance must be followed up by proper enforcement given the potential harmful spill-over effects between countries in the EU, and in the euro area in particular. There is thus a clear need for a stronger framework and reinforced governance, including financial disincentives, to ensure that recommendations are appropriately taken into account at national level.
The Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP), and the regulation to enforce it, respond to this challenge. The MIP gives the European Commission and the Council of Ministers the possibility to take action before the imbalances reach unstable levels. The new procedure is part of a comprehensive set of rules that entered into force on 13 December 2011, the so-called "six-pack", which reinforces the monitoring and surveillance of fiscal policies as well as macroeconomic policies in all 27 EU Member States (MEMO/11/898). Surveillance of macroeconomic imbalances under the MIP is an integral part of the "European semester", the economic policy cycle that integrates economic, budgetary and structural reform as well as measures to help boost growth (MEMO/11/364).
What is the role of the Alert Mechanism Report (AMR) in the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure?
The Alert Mechanism Report (AMR) is the starting point of the new surveillance procedure. It is a "filter" to identify countries and issues for which an in-depth review is deemed necessary. Based on a scoreboard, the European Commission examines economic indicators to identify internal and external imbalances (see following question). There is no automatic or mechanical interpretation of the results of the scoreboard indicators in the Alert Mechanism Report but rather a qualitative assessment. The overall number of breaches of thresholds, the severity of individual breaches as well as the combination of breaches is considered. The assessment also takes into account other relevant information and economic indicators beyond the scoreboard with a view to getting a comprehensive picture. Economic judgement ensures that all pieces of information are put in perspective and become part of a complete analysis.
Based on that, the European Commission has identified Member States that show signs of potential macroeconomic imbalances or face challenges in adjusting to imbalances, and should therefore be looked into in further depth. It is in these in-depth investigations that the causes of the imbalances are analysed in detail with a view to determine whether they are harmful or not. Only after this in-depth analysis will the European Commission propose a recommendation under the preventive or the corrective arm of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure, if appropriate.
On which economic indicators is the scoreboard based?
The scoreboard is made up of ten indicators with a view to monitor external imbalances, competitiveness and internal imbalances, including housing markets and indebtedness. This helps to identify shorter-term rapid deteriorations as well as any longer-term gradual build-up of imbalances. Alert thresholds have been set for each indicator. The scoreboard has been drawn up by the European Commission following consultation with the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). The indicators may evolve over time. Currently, the design of the scoreboard is as follows:
External imbalances and competitiveness
Internal imbalances
In the scoreboard, there is a threshold of -4% of GDP for deficits and +6% of GDP for surpluses. Is this in line with the symmetric approach outlined in the legislation?
Surveillance covers both deficits and surpluses. However, the risks are obviously higher for current account deficits than for current account surpluses, because the former raises concerns about the sustainability of the external debt of a country. Large and persistent current account deficits are especially worrying if they are combined with sustained losses of cost competitiveness and export market shares.
Which countries are identified for further review in the Alert Mechanism Report?
Based on the economic analysis and the scoreboard for 2010, the European Commission considers that 12 EU Member States warrant an in-depth review. This reflects the fact that this is the first application of the procedure and that Member States have to cater for previously accumulated imbalances. The European Commission considers that the risks of imbalances in the following countries warrant further investigation: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Hungary, Slovenia, Finland, Sweden and the UK.
Among the reasons for calling for in-depth analysis on these twelve countries are the following elements:
Belgium: important loss in export market shares, going hand in hand with deterioration in the current account balance and declining cost competitiveness. The level of gross private sector debt should be seen in conjunction with high levels of public debt.
Bulgaria: very fast accumulation of both external and internal imbalances but now the country is experiencing rapid and sizeable corrections. As the levels of accumulated imbalances are still high, the prospects for further adjustment require a closer examination.
Denmark: the pre-crisis housing boom, which started to be corrected in 2007, was associated with rapid credit growth and a surge of private sector debt, in particular in the household sector. While credit and house prices have partially adjusted in recent years, the stock of private sector debt remains very high.
Spain: is currently going through an adjustment period, following the build-up of large external and internal imbalances during the extended housing and credit boom.
France: there has been a gradual deterioration of the trade balance, and this is reflected in a deterioration of the current account balance and important losses in export market shares.
Italy: significant deterioration in competitiveness since the mid-1990s which is also seen through the persistent losses of export market shares. While private sector indebtedness is relatively contained, the level of public debt is a concern, especially given the weak growth performance and structural weaknesses.
Cyprus: wide-ranging challenges as regards both the external and internal side. The Cypriot economy combines persistent current account deficits and losses in export market shares with high private sector indebtedness.
Hungary: a sharp adjustment of large imbalances has taken place. The levels of indebtedness, particularly of the public sector but also of the private one, continue to be high. Also, the level of external indebtedness is the highest in the EU.
Slovenia: fast accumulation of internal imbalances with high growth in unit labour costs, private sector credit and house prices. The highly leveraged banking sector is under considerable strain as the economy is now in the early stages of a difficult deleveraging process.
Finland: important loss in export market shares. The level of private sector indebtedness has been steadily increasing during the last decade, driven to a large extent by increasing mortgages.
Sweden: increasing household indebtedness, which is now at high levels despite recent slower credit growth. This reflects very strong increases in house prices over the last fifteen years which have started to stabilise only recently.
UK: important loss in export market shares over the last decade, despite some recent stabilisation. The high level of private debt should be seen in conjunction with a weak public finance situation. The household debt largely reflects mortgages in a context of high accumulated increases in house prices.
What about the Member States not mentioned above?
The Report concludes that the following countries do not require a further in-depth review at this point in time: the Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, and Slovakia. However, for these countries, there will be recommendations on fiscal and macroeconomic policies within the scope of the European Semester.
Countries subject to the EU's financial assistance programme are not assessed in the Alert Mechanism Report as they are already subject to enhanced economic surveillance. This concerns Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Romania.
What are the next steps following the Alert Mechanism Report?
The conclusions of the Alert Mechanism Report will be discussed in the Eurogroup of euro area Finance Ministers and in the EU's Council of Economic and Finance Ministers. The European Commission is also looking forward to the contribution of the European Parliament and key stakeholders. Taking their reactions into account, the European Commission will prepare country-specific in-depth reviews. The reviews will provide the analytical basis for potential recommendations to be addressed to Member States under the preventive or corrective arm of the new procedure. However, an in-depth-review does not automatically lead to a recommendation. As the following graph shows, the Commission's in-depth analysis could result in one of three different scenarios:
Overview of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure
Will any sanctions be imposed?
Euro area Member States are subject to a new means of enforcement under the Excessive Imbalance Procedure. It consists of a two-step approach whereby an interest-bearing deposit can be imposed if the Member State concerned has failed to comply. If they fail to comply for a second time, this interest-bearing deposit can be converted into a fine (of up to 0.1% of GDP). A sanction can also be imposed for failing twice to submit a sufficient corrective action plan. Sanctions are decided by reverse qualified majority voting (ie. they are approved unless a majority of Member States votes against, thereby making the decision semi-automatic).
What is the legal basis of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure?
The Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure is based on two regulations. The first (Regulation 1176/2011) sets out the details of the new surveillance procedure and covers all 27 Member States. The second (Regulation 1174/2011) reinforces enforcement, including the possibility of sanctions, and only applies to euro area Member States.
The Alert Mechanism Report is published annually, but the macroeconomic situation in a Member State might deteriorate rapidly within a year. How will the European Commission ensure that the scoreboard can pick up these deteriorating developments quickly enough?
In addition to the European Commission's annual Alert Mechanism Report on macroeconomic imbalances, continuous monitoring of the macroeconomic situation in Member States takes place as part of the European semester. The Commission's spring and autumn forecasts, for example, are also important steps to assess recent trends and risks in macroeconomic developments. If potentially problematic macroeconomic imbalances arise, an in-depth review can be initiated at any time.
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The television is probably one of the greatest technological innovations of all time, at least in the consumer space. It brought entertainment to numerous generations worldwide, and continues to do so today. However, the TV set we once knew is changing with the times to become more than an end-point for content delivery. The TV is getting smarter, which has lead to the rise of the moniker "Smart TV," and this is opening up new possibilities for vendors and consumers alike.
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The big selling point of Smart TVs is their connectivity, enabling a wide variety of dynamic content to be streamed to them via the Internet much in the same way as on smartphones and tablets. LG is a vendor that has been quick to get on the Smart TV bandwagon and has been releasing connected models in key markets such as Australia. It is a push that LG marketing general manager, Lambro Skropidis, says is paying off for the company. "Smart TV and IP-enabled TVs are growing very strongly and form close to 40 per cent of LG's overall TV sales," he said.
While the online connectivity of Smart TV seems like an exciting prospect for a technology standpoint, industry pundits have often wondered exactly how many people are actually connecting their TVs to the Internet after getting them home. Skropidis says that LG's activation rates would be contrary to any of those question marks. "From our perspective at least, we are connecting at a higher rate than the industry," he said. "This is at well over 50 per cent, and much of this is driven by the very success of our 2012 models."
Acccording to IDC ConsumerScape 360 and consumer primary research director, Michael DeHart, it turns out that people are currently using Smart TVs in a similar manner to standard HDTVs. "There are of course exceptional users, but many Smart TV owners don't yet understand the value proposition of connected TV deeply enough yet to spend the time learning connected TV functionalities," he said.
Since it is still early days for Smart TV, it has prompted some people to wonder if there are a lot of consumers that still just buy a set because they are the best ones in the shop, rather than specifically because they are Internet capable. With the vast majority of TVs produced and sold in the US being connected TVs, DeHart says that the best TVs currently on the market will be connected TVs by default. "Much like the fact that the best smartphones offer Skype and Skype-like applications, it doesn't mean consumers buy the TV set for this reason," he said.
To find out what consumers really had to say on the topic, IDC studied this question directly by asking people what are their purchase drivers were for connected TVs. What IDC found from its ConsumerScape 360 program, which surveyed consumers in 24 countries, was that internet capability came a distant seventh (over 50 per cent), compared to the leading decision factors of picture (over 90) and audio quality (85). "What these results tell us is that having internet capability is actually the least umportant purchase driver amongst the drivers studied," DeHart said.
Skropidis admits that a large contingent of consumers buying sets because of picture quality, size and they look slick likely exist. "However, going back to the fact that over 50 per cent of our owners are connecting to the Internet, we can assume that a large majority are also buying as a connectivity device," he said.
It's all about the content
While it is all well and good to make devices such as TVs online enabled, what will ultimately draw people to use them is the available content. In terms of the apps, Skropidis says that LG sets a solid foundation though a "very easy to use user interface," which has been designed to be structured and presents content within easily identifiable zones. "One of our key zones spans premium content gathered from local and overseas sources," he said. "It offers value through catch-up TV, movies, news, sport, YouTube, Facebook, and so on."
Following the boom started by James Cameron's Avatar in 2009, vendors such as LG have also worked hard on building up this area of the TV business. "We offer a dedicated 3D content zone with content from our partnership with Disney, plus other documentaries and special interest areas," Skropidis said. In addition to a dedicated gaming zone, called Game World, LG's own Smart World app store comes with a variety of apps covering games, special interest and other areas of interest.
Just because the apps and services are there, it does not automatically mean people are actually using them or whether they get forgotten after the novelty wears off. DeHart says it ultimately depends on how tech-savvy the consumer is. "The current list of offerings is still nascent, and usage will grow much higher when more and better offerings exist," he said. "As our results showed, what Smart TV owners care about the most is not connectivity, but picture and audio quality."
From what LG has seen from its customers, the apps and services are being used by Smart TV owners. "Usage is growing month to month very strongly across all zones," he said. In particular, LG has found unique search activity has grown to over 330,000 a month. "Our premium contents has grown strongly with 30 per cent growth over the past three months, and access to our app store is strongly growing by 15 per cent per month," Skropidis said.
While the popularity of smartphone apps on iPhone and Android has been well documented, it seems to have taken a while for manufacturers to understand what people actually want from apps on TV. Skropidis attributes this to the app-enabled TV space being relatively new. "It is very much in discovery mode for both manufacturing and consumers," he said. "Though, the solid increase in search activity, catch-up TV and on demand movies is encouraging."
Future perfect
As a platform holder, companies such as LG are in the position where it is likely talking to app developers and partners all the time. When asked about the conversations the vendor is having with developers about their experiences trying to monetise apps on connected TVs, Skropidis says it depends on the content partner's strategy, such as whether they want to be on all platforms such as mobile, tablet, and TV etc, or whether they have a first mover approach. "We work with our content partners by creating models that create various revenue streams, such as pay-per-view service, selling content or selling advertising space within their content or app," he said.
When it comes to delivery of entertainment content, some people have suggested that Smart TV could be the next big platform for video gaming. While Skropidis admits that Smart TVs are being used increasingly for gaming, he does not see them at the point where they will replace gaming consoles. "This is mainly due to the hardware requirements of serious gamers," he said. Memory capability and processing speed are key factors for the best gaming experience, and dedicated consoles will continue to deliver this."
From an analyst perspective, DeHart says this topic is currently a "big maybe." "It certainly does open a very compelling new platform for interactivity," he said. "So it has the potential to become a big platform for gaming, such as for massively multiplayer online games." At the same time, Cloud-based services such as OnLive in the US are now delivering console standard games over remote servers without the need for powerful local hardware, leading one to wonder whether the Smart TV platform will also handle these services in the future.
DeHart sees this as a strong possibility. However, since Smart TVs are still in their nascency, he says more functionality, particularly in the area of content delivery, is a must to realise "anything close to potential return on investment" from TV connectivity. "Remember when you bought your first laptop and it was a big deal, but didn't do everything your desktop PC did?" he asked. "A direct analogy plays out here."
Skropidis also admits to this being possible, but it is still some time off from being realised. "We would need better processors and large memory capabilities within the Smart TVs," he said. As such, the key development that he is currently keeping an eye on in relation to Smart TV is Australia's own burgeoning Internet imitative. "The NBN, with high speed internet to broader Australia, will be a game changer," Skropidis said.
The future of Smart TV according to DeHart will essentially be decided by user interfaces and experiences, as he says device usage is always governed by these two areas. "Simply put, most consumers are not interested in working hard to use their devices in advanced ways," he said. "We've already seen connectivity on Smart TVs increase somewhat with better remote devices, but this is one small step in the process."
Patrick Budmar covers consumer and enterprise technology breaking news for IDG Communications. Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_budmar.
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Patton Boggs's role as both law firm and lobby shop has been called into question as a possible conflict of interest by the firm's opposing counsel in a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar environmental lawsuit that pits Ecuadorian plaintiffs against Chevron.
The disagreement is the latest turn of events in a bitterly fought legal battle in Ecuador and the United States that has led to allegations of attorney misconduct on both sides. Experts say the recent conflict-of-interest assertion also highlights how the murky patchwork of state-level rules guiding the ethical responsibilities of lobbyists and lawyers who co-exist under the same shingle remains open to interpretation, despite recent attempts at clarification.
Just two days after Patton Boggs litigator James Tyrrell Jr. notified a Manhattan federal court earlier this month that he was stepping in to represent the Ecuadorian plaintiffs, Chevron's legal team at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher faxed Tyrrell a letter contending that the law firm's recent acquisition of the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group, which previously lobbied for the oil company, meant the firm had a conflict of interest and should remove itself from the case.
In an unusual move, Patton Boggs then asked a federal court in the District to declare the firm conflict-free before a formal legal attempt to disqualify the firm is made. The firm's Nov. 17 filing describes Gibson Dunn's letter as the latest in a series of "unmeritorious threats" designed to "ward off anyone who dares to provide aid to the Ecuadorian Plaintiffs" at a critical juncture in the case.
"Chevron leaves no stone unturned," Tyrrell said in an interview. "It became clear to me that if we did not withdraw they were likely to challenge the permissibility of our involvement. We felt the right thing to do was to act promptly."
Gibson Dunn's Randy M. Mastro did not respond to requests for comment on the conflicts issue; a Chevron spokesman called the entire lawsuit a fraud that has been corrupted by the plaintiffs' prior attorneys.
The prior relationship between Chevron and the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group is undisputed. Since the formation of the shop headed by former senators Trent Lott and John Breaux, the oil company has paid it $525,000 in 2008, $530,000 in 2009 and $265,000 in 2010 for federal lobbying work, according to Center for Responsive Politics data. Congressional lobbying records show that the relationship between the two entities ended just before Breaux-Lott was acquired by Patton Boggs in July of this year.
In asking the court to find that Breaux-Lott's history with Chevron does not pose a current conflict of interest, Patton Boggs describes the prior work as "not in any way legal in nature" and says that fact was "clearly communicated" to Chevron, arguing therefore no legal conflict can exist since the individuals in question were not covered by the professional guidelines to which attorneys must adhere.
Jackson & Campbell attorney Arthur D. Burger, who chairs the firm's professional responsibility practice, said that legal conflicts of interest are dictated by state-level guidelines modeled on but not identical to recommendations made by the American Bar Association. Here in the District, where Patton Boggs has made its claim, the nature of the work, the representation of the work to clients and whether the individuals in question are attorneys are all important factors in determining whether a conflict exists. As is timing. Even lawyer-lobbyists and non-lobbying attorneys can take on cases adverse to a former client's interests "so long as it's not substantially related to what you represented them on before," Burger said.
Tyrrell said Patton Boggs did everything it could to make sure Breaux-Lott's former Chevron work didn't impact the current case.
"While the Breaux-Lott Leadership Group did not perform legal services for Chevron, we nonetheless screened them from the lawyers working on these matters for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs," Tyrrell said.


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Exploiting the promiscuity of imatinib
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- Published: 15 April 2009
The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Biology 2010 8:82
The protein kinase inhibitor imatinib, also known as Gleevec, has been a notable success in treating chronic myelogenous leukemia. A recent paper in BMC Structural Biology reports a 1.75 Å crystal structure of imatinib bound to the oxidoreductase NQO2 and reveals insights into the binding specificity and the off-target effects of the inhibitor.
- Imatinib
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
- Dasatinib
- Mastocytosis
- Systemic Mastocytosis
Imatinib (also known as STI571 or Gleevec) is one of the great success stories of cancer therapy and is a milestone in small-molecule drug discovery and molecular targeted therapies. Imatinib is the current first-line therapy for all stages of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), in which the chronic phase of the disease is characterized by the increased proliferation of the myeloid lineage and which is cytogenetically diagnosed by the presence of the Philadelphia chromosome. This contains a fusion gene encoding the oncoprotein BCR-ABL, in which a part of the BCR protein is fused to the non-receptor ABL tyrosine kinase, causing it to become constitutively active. The deregulated kinase activity of BCR-ABL accounts for the oncogenicity of the protein and is inhibited by imatinib. Since the approval of imatinib by the US Food and Drug Administration in May 2001, there has been a dramatic reduction in the number of bone marrow transplants for CML in the US; imatinib monotherapy has also been used successfully to induce a complete cytogenetic response in about 75–90% of newly diagnosed CML patients, although drug resistance is a problem with advanced stages of CML [1].
Protein targets of imatinib
Imatinib is not entirely specific and targets tyrosine kinases other than ABL, notably the receptor tyrosine kinases KIT and PDGFR (platelet-derived growth factor receptor). This lack of specificity has been exploited in the clinic, and imatinib has also been approved for the treatment of chronic eosinophilic leukemia (CEL), which is caused by a FIP1L1-PDGFRα fusion, and for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), caused by mutations of KIT or PDGFRα (reviewed in [1]). There has been increasing interest in understanding other potential targets of imatinib to evaluate the specificity, safety and potential off-target effects of this first-in-class drug.
The traditional approach to identifying imatinib targets is through in vitro assays with a panel of recombinant kinases to measure inhibitor binding. This approach is limited by the pre-selection of test targets and tends to provide poor indicators for drug activity in vivo. Two recent studies circumvent this problem by using cell extracts from the CML cell line K562 to identify binding targets of imatinib [2, 3]. In the first [2], imatinib was modified to allow attachment to solid support and incubated with cell lysates, and the bound proteins were identified by tandem mass spectrometry. The second approach [3] used seven broad-specificity kinase inhibitors attached to beads. These mixed kinase inhibitor beads (kinobeads) were incubated with cell lysates and bound proteins were again identified by tandem mass spectrometry. To identify imatinib targets, cell lysates were pre-incubated with imatinib before binding to the kinobeads. Proteins that no longer bound to the kinobeads, because their binding sites were occupied by imatinib, were identified by comparative analysis [3].
Both approaches have confirmed the selective nature of imatinib: no more than five proteins from K562 cell lysates bound imatinib as compared with about 30 proteins for another BCR-ABL inhibitor, dasatinib. The explanation for this difference is that dasatinib targets the active kinase conformation, which is highly conserved and thus shared by other kinases, whereas imatinib targets the inactive conformation, which is unique to the ABL kinase [4]. Surprisingly, both approaches also identified the first non-tyrosine kinase target of imatinib, NQO2. Others may follow: indeed, a recent screen in yeast identified the vacuolar ATPase (V-ATPase), an evolutionarily conserved proton pump, as a target of imatinib [5], and imatinib may interact with other non-kinase targets that could have eluded detection by the K562 cell-based experiments. Structural studies, including one just published by Kuriyan and colleagues in BMC Structural Biology [6], show that this promiscuity reflects the flexibility of the inhibitor, a consideration that is likely to apply broadly to small-molecule inhibitors.
Flexibility of imatinib in binding to targets
The Kuriyan group has analyzed the crystal structure at 1.75 Å of a dimer of human NQO2 bound to imatinib [6]. The objective of the structural study was to cast light on possible side-effects attributable to imatinib binding to NQO2, and a spectrophotometric assay confirmed binding of imatinib to NQO2 with a concentration for 50% inhibition (IC50) of 82 nM, consistent with earlier reports [2, 3] and well within the physiological range of the concentration of imatinib found in the serum of patients (about 1 μM; referenced in [6]). NQO2 is a cytoplasmic flavoprotein that is involved in the cellular response to oxidative stress, although its mechanism of action is not well understood. NQO2 is highly expressed in myeloid cells, and knockdown by RNA interference in K562 cells results in reduced proliferation (referenced in [6]). However, NQO2 knockout mice show myeloid hyperplasia and increased sensitivity to chemical carcinogenesis (referenced in [6]). The potential clinical side-effect(s) of inhibition of NQO2, despite the elucidation of the exact mechanism of imatinib inhibition, are thus not yet clear. The structure does show, however, that the structural flexibility that allows imatinib to bind to NQO2 is also the basis for its binding to other, more clinically relevant targets.
Comparison of the NQO2-imatinib structure with that of imatinib bound to ABL (Figure 1a,b) reveals the flexibility of imatinib binding and demonstrates the difficulty in designing a drug that has no off-targets. In the ABL-imatinib complexes (reviewed in [4]), the DFG motif (Asp381-Phe382-Gly383) that characterizes the activation loop of the kinase is rotated by 180° and adopts a flipped-out conformation (Figure 1b). This DFG-out conformation creates a binding pocket for imatinib, which on binding causes the activation loop to fold towards the active site and at the same time induces contraction of the phosphate-binding P-loop, which also binds to imatinib [4]. Overall, imatinib uses six hydrogen bonds and several van der Waals interactions to stabilize the complex. In the imatinib-ABL complex, imatinib adopts an extended conformation that is seen in several other kinase-imatinib structures [4] and that differs significantly from the compact, ring-stacking conformation seen in the NQO2 structure [6].
The structures of imatinib bound to the SYK kinase, or to the desmethyl imatinib analog bound to SRC kinase, however, are similar to the conformation seen in NQO2, which shows that this is a minor but not a unique conformation for imatinib [6]. Future drug designs will need to account for the distinct conformations that a small molecule inhibitor can adopt if they are to understand the full range of targets that a drug can bind.
Clinical effects of imatinib
In mouse models, there is evidence that imatinib may be effective in the treatment of ischemic strokes [8] and in several inflammatory and autoimmune diseases [9]. The effects on inflammatory and autoimmune disease are consistent with phase I clinical studies and case reports detailing positive effects in rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, spondyloarthritis and Crohn's disease (referenced in [9]). A recent paper [9], again on a mouse model, reports that imatinib may be effective for the treatment of type 1 diabetes, largely through inhibition of PDGFR. Given the involvement of NQO2 in oxidative stress, it will be of interest to determine whether the inhibition of this oxidoreductase can contribute to the anti-inflammatory activity of imatinib.
Known mild adverse effects of imatinib include edema, muscle cramps, diarrhea and bone-marrow toxicity, and these do cause some patients to discontinue treatment [1]. Their cause is currently unknown. Cardiotoxicity has been reported as a potentially severe adverse effect of imatinib (reviewed in [10]): in this case the adverse effect seems to be due to inhibition of the primary target of imatinib, the ABL kinase, but the extent to which the cardiotoxicity results from imatinib treatment is controversial [10].
Imatinib has been shown to be a versatile drug with clinical benefit for treating CML, GIST and CEL and has potential for use in a variety of other diseases. Understanding how imatinib and other small-molecule drugs interact with their cellular targets is important for rational drug design and prediction of potential off-target effects. The limited promiscuity of imatinib may be optimal, allowing its use in a variety of diseases with mild adverse effects. Imatinib has revolutionized the treatment of CML and may be poised for more clinical successes.
We acknowledge funding from the NIH to JYJW (NIH CA43054).
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