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They hunt, they kill, they cheat: Single-celled algae shed light on social lives of microbes

January 18, 2013
University of Arizona
Cheating is rampant among microscopically small algae, biologists have discovered. Their study adds to the emerging view that microbes often have active social lives. Future research could potentially open up new approaches to control or counteract toxic algal blooms.

Shimmering golden under a microscope, Prymnesium algae are seen swarming and devouring a green alga. A human hair would cover most of the swarm.
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Cheating is a behavior not limited to humans, animals and plants. Even microscopically small, single-celled algae do it, a team of University of Arizona researchers has discovered.

Humans do it, chimpanzees do it, cuckoos do it -- cheating to score a free ride is a well-documented behavior by many animals, even plants. But microscopically small, single-celled algae? Yes, they do it too, biologists with the University of Arizona's department of ecology and evolutionary biology have discovered.

"There are cheaters out there that we didn't know of," said William Driscoll, lead author of a research report on the topic who studied an environmentally devastating toxic alga that is invading U.S. waters as part of his doctoral research in the lab of Jeremiah Hackett, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Driscoll isolated several strains of the species, Prymnesium parvum, and noticed that some grew more quickly and do not produce any of the toxins that protect the algae against competition from other species of algae.

"When those 'cheaters' are cultured with their toxic counterparts, they can still benefit from the toxins produced by their cooperative neighbors -- they are true 'free riders,'" Driscoll explained.

The study, published in the journal Evolution, adds to the emerging view that microbes often have active social lives. Future research into the social side of toxic algae could open up new approaches to control or counteract toxic algal blooms, which can pose serious threats to human health and wipe out local fisheries, for example.

Prymnesium belong to a group of algae known as golden algae, so named for their accessory pigments, which give the cells a golden sheen. This toxic species lives mostly in oceans and only recently has invaded freshwater environments. Its distant relatives include the equally microscopic diatoms, which make up a large part of phytoplankton, and giant kelp.

The algae produce toxins that are deadly to fish but so far have not been shown to threaten the health of humans or cattle. Many scientists believe the toxin arose as a chemical weapon to wipe out other algae and other organisms competing for the same nutrients and sunlight on which the algae depend. The discovery of cheaters that don't bother to produce toxin, however, throws a wrench into this scenario.

"We are trying to understand the ecological side in these algae," Driscoll said.

"If you're a single cell, regardless of whether you make a toxin or not, you're just drifting through the water, and everything is drifting with you," Driscoll explained. "Producing toxins only makes sense if the entire population does it. Any given individual cell won't get any benefit from the chemicals it makes because they immediately diffuse away. It's a bit like schooling behavior in fish: A single fish can't confuse a predator; you need everyone else do the same thing." For that reason, he explained, the cheaters should have an immediate advantage over their "honest" peers because they can invest the energy and resources they save into making more offspring.

"Theory tells us cooperation should break down in these circumstances. If you are secreting a toxin and it's beneficial to your species, then everybody gets access to that benefit. In a well-mixed population where there is no group structure, natural selection should favor selfishness, and the cheaters should take over." But for some reason, they don't. An alternative explanation for toxicity becomes clear when toxic cells are observed alongside their competition under a microscope.

"They attack other cells," he said. "Using their two flagella, they swim up to the prey and latch on to it. Sometimes a struggle takes place, and more cells swim up to the scene, surround their victim and release more toxin, and then they eat it."

"These toxins might have evolved less as a means to keep competitors away and more like a rattlesnake venom. The algae might use it to stun or immobilize prey." Driscoll and his co-workers isolated the toxic and the non-toxic strains side by side from the same water sample, taken from a late bloom as the bloom started to crash.

"When times are good and there are plenty of nutrients in the water, the algae use photosynthesis to gain energy from sunlight, but when nutrients become sparse, they attack and become toxic," Driscoll said. "That's when they start swimming around looking for prey. They are a little bit like carnivorous plants in that way -- like a Venus fly trap."

The group observed that as soon as nutrients become scarce, the toxic population ceases to grow, but the cheaters keep multiplying.

Driscoll and his team think the cheating behavior could be an adaptation to the algae bloom life style.

"During a bloom you have killed off all the prey or a huge amount of it, so why produce toxins and go looking for something that isn't there? It might be better to just keep growing and not even try to bother to keep looking for prey because it's gone."

Driscoll said the research illustrates how little is known about the ecology of microbes.

"We're just starting to understand what the mechanisms are that maintain cooperation in microbes. The theory is heavily slanted toward multicellular organisms. Only recently have people started to think about microbes cooperating."

To better understand the genes and biochemical pathways that control how the algae make their toxins, the group in Hackett's lab is investigating which genes are active in the toxic compared to the non-toxic strains.

"We are finding a number of stress-related genes are regulated differently in the cheaters," Driscoll said. "A lot of the other genes have not been studied before, especially those most likely involved in toxin production."

"The problem is that nothing close to these algae has had its genome sequenced, so they're pretty mysterious. Many of the genes we have sequenced are novel, so understanding their function is a big part of the challenge."

Unraveling the molecular mechanisms behind all this chemical warfare, cheating behavior and maximizing growth could potentially lead to new applications, the researchers speculate, albeit cautiously.

Driscoll explained the cheating trait might be an Achilles heel that could be exploited to curb algal blooms.

"We are ultimately interested in disrupting the competitive abilities of these bloom-forming populations. While this research is just scratching the surface, understanding how natural selection may work over the course of a bloom can provide a deeper understanding of the traits that are most important to the success of this species."

In addition, the cheaters' tendency to keep growing when their toxic peers no longer can is in some ways reminiscent of cancer cells.

According to Driscoll, one way to think about cancer is that cancerous cells have an immediate advantage over their non-cancerous, well-behaved neighbors. But this advantage, if unchecked, is very shortsighted because it will interfere with the basic functioning of the multicellular organism of which they are all a part.

"What we may be seeing in our algae is a -- far less extreme -- version of a similar story, because a short-term advantage to not producing toxins may interfere with the long-term competitive ability of the population."

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  1. William W. Driscoll, Noelle J. Espinosa, Omar T. Eldakar, Jeremiah D. Hackett. ALLELOPATHY AS AN EMERGENT, EXPLOITABLE PUBLIC GOOD IN THE BLOOM-FORMING MICROALGAPRYMNESIUM PARVUM. Evolution, 2013; DOI: 10.1111/evo.12030

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21st Century Leadership Discussion Days on Facebook

29. Jun 2013

World Scouting’s Priority Area Working Group for 2011-2014 on “21st Century Leadership” launched a Discussion Paper recently on leadership development in Scouting. This area of work largely focuses on the Youth Programme aspects of leadership development for young Scouts as against the training of adult Scout Leaders, which is another important aspect of Scouting. The Working Group on “21st Century Leadership” has launched a campaign called Discussion Days around 6 key areas from the Discussion Paper. The Discussion Days are currently ongoing on their Facebook Page ( from 27 June and will continue up to 2 July 2013 inviting everyone to contribute to this key area of World Scouting’s work for this triennium.

Based on Resolutions from the 39th World Scout Conference in Brazil (2011), “21st Century Leadership” was selected as one of the four priorities by the World Scout Committee for the current triennium. The other areas of priority for World Scouting currently are “Youth For Change”, “Our Strategic Path” and “Global Support”.

The Discussion Paper – which forms the basis for the Discussion Days on Facebook – was prepared by the Working Group and circulated to all National Scout Organizations earlier this month. The Paper attempts to clarify how everyone in Scouting understands leadership in order to find an approach that represents a shared view from the Scout Movement. It has been produced in order to facilitate discussion on the nature and role of leadership development in the Scout Youth Programme. The Working Group has synthesised the Discussion Paper through literary studies and consultation with hundreds of Scouts at various Regional events around the world since the Brazil Conference.

The Paper is one of the several outputs from the on-going work of “21st Century Leadership”. Through the discussions around the Paper, the Working Group is inviting best practices and examples from National Scout Organizations that focus on components of Youth Programme contributing to leadership development of Scouts. The Group also plans to produce several assessment tools for leadership development aspects of Youth Programme. National Scout Organizations will be offered training and support to use the assessment tools. In the process, a pool of trained consultants will be created with sufficient background and knowledge on Scouting’s Youth Programme contributing to leadership development, which is engrained in the Purpose and Principles of the Scout Movement.

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10 Tips for Choosing the Perfect Name for Your Company

By Alyssa Gregory

LettersYesterday, as part of my series on starting a business, I provided a general outline of things you need to think about when you develop a name for your business. Once you have your plan in place, here are some tips to help you find a business name that will add to your success.

1. Check on the Competition: What kind of names do your competitors have? Make a list and compare them to spark your own ideas and to help you develop a name that really stands out from the crowd.

2. Think about Your Target Audience: You want your business name to resonate with the people you are trying to reach. Use what you know about your target audience to measure the relevancy of any names you come up with.

3. Embrace Your Creativity: While you want your name to be easy to pronounce and remember, don’t skip over the value of creating a name that is completely unique. Not only can this make your business more memorable, but it can also provide a great opportunity for a back story, if your creative name has a special meaning.

4. Look at It from All Angles: Think about how the name will fit into the everyday operations of your business, and what it will make others think and feel. Make sure it coveys a clear message and that you are aware of all of the possible connotations that may influence how your business is perceived.

5. Don’t Limit Yourself: If you choose a name that identifies exactly what you do, such as Joe’s Logo Design, you might be limiting the future growth of your business. Sometimes it makes sense to be a little more general, such as Joe’s Graphic Design, so you don’t have to revisit and possibly revamp your brand down the line.

6. Get Input: Once you have a few possibilities, bounce them off of friends, family, colleagues and potential clients if possible. Ask for their initial impressions and suggestions they may have, and then add their feedback to your process.

7. Visualize the Brand: Your business name is more than just a name, it’s a big part of your company brand. Think in terms of your domain name, your marketing materials and how the name will essentially translate into all aspects of this new brand you are creating.

8. Use Tools: During your brainstorming phase, use some of the tools that are available to get inspired. A thesaurus is a must-have, and here are a few online tools to try out:

9. Keep It Short: Your business name won’t necessarily be more effective if it’s short, but it may be easier to remember. You can also consider using an acronym, but be careful – unless there is an obvious and memorable tie-in, using an acronym can make your name too generic to be relatable to your target.

10. Sleep On It: Put your shortlist of names aside for a day or two and then come back to it with a fresh perspective. You may feel differently about a name you loved before, or your working list may help you develop a new and perfect name when you review it again.

I used many of these tips years ago when I started my business, avertua. While it may not be the perfect case study in business name development, my business name has sparked many questions about where it came from (I made it up), what it means (it’s my take on what I provide: “a virtual solution”), and how to pronounce it (ah-ver-choo-ah). My goal when creating my business name was to get people intrigued and to be memorable, and it appears I’ve been successful in doing that.

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  • Michał Czernow

    Maybe writing a case study of creating sitepoint brand is a good idea :).

  • Boyohazard

    Re: number 6 Getting Input. I suggest you don’t ask friends and family. They tend to tell you what you want to hear, as opposed to what you need to hear.

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    I would also add, that an important part of finding a logo/business name is making sure they have no conflicting(read: negative) meaning in other languages or cultures. For instance, my last name is Booth, but when I type fast I often spell it Botoh. So I’ve been thinking that I would incorporate this into a branding for my freelance work.

    As it turns out, ‘Botoh’ is a foreign last name, a form of inappropriate Japanese dance (spelled Butoh but also misspelled as Botoh, and Botoh is also an acronym for ‘but on the other hand’.

    In my scenario, the alternative meanings aren’t enough to warrant a change in name/idea, but I thought it was something worth considering.

  • Joel Dahlin

    Great tips.

    I would add, make sure the .com is available your the name.

    Joel Dahlin | http://www.dahlindevelopment.com

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    Make it short, make it obvious to spell and choose a name for which you can get the corresponding domain. My current company name is Greentram Software, which meets all these; it fails in being completely unrelated to what I do – writing and selling structural engineering software – though does leave the way open to release other non-construction related products should I ever find myself with time on my hands!

    Perhaps it’s my age, but I find gimmicky names a real turn-off: if I was selling my home I’d much sooner choose Barry Plant than Fruit. But in a different market the reverse might be true.

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    My wife and I wanted a fun, memorable and relevant name for our photography business. The result was “Shutterpated” which we derived from “Twitterpated” from the movie Bambi. The urban dictionary defines twitterpated as, “the flighty exciting feeling you get when you think about/see the object of your affection.”. We felt that was appropriate because 1) we wanted to capture those types of moments for our customers and 2) taking a great photo kinda results in that excited feeling. Exchanging “twitter” and “shutter” is just self explanatory.

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As an avid Utah skier I pride myself on enjoying the diverse qualities that each Utah resort has to offer.  This is why I was so excited to Ski the Beav for my first time this past Sunday. Beaver Mountain where have you been all my life?  This quaint little resort about a two hour drive north of Salt Lake has A LOT to offer.  Beaver Mountain is one of the last family owned resorts in North America. Where else have you skied that the gentleman who sold you your ticket at the window owns the resort?

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Pilot Light suffers a breakdown following a string of personal losses. His grief leads him to commit a crime that doesn’t go to plan. Whilst delirious he attempts to cover his tracks. Through a sequence of flashbacks we understand how a nice, ordinary bloke has come to be feeding hacked up body parts to the hunting dogs at London Zoo.
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If Jesus came down today, what would He say to the Churches? Jesus was very critical of the religious leaders of His time on earth; large portions of the gospels are attributed to His attack of their traditions. In this controversial book, author Josie Burness explores this exact question and pronounces Severn Woes to the Modern Day Pharisee, a strategy for ousting hypocrisy from Church.
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These 95 theses summarize the problem of institutionalized Christianity as we have known it for the last millennium and a half. The article largely speaks for itself. It's not a novel. It's not a history lesson. It's not a narrative. It's a dish of 95 Theses served cold.
Hand of God, Hand of Fate
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 46,040. Language: English. Published: September 27, 2012. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
A simple hand of cards between God and Lucifer over the soul of Savonarola. Tricked into winning, the Devil remarked “Today you have dealt me a fine and lordly hand yet know that this matter is not at an end." Our Rev. Hoot prompts a satanic rite by four teens with hilarious consequences. This satire of the human condition,will delight all who suffer neither fools nor religious hypocrites gladly.
The United States of Air: a Satire
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 75,530. Language: English. Published: August 15, 2012. Categories: Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
Food Enforcement Agent Jason Frolick believes in America. He believes in eating air. As part of the Global War on Fat, he puts food terrorists in Fat Camp. When a pizza dealer gets whacked across the street from the Thin House, the Prophet Jones himself asks Frolick to investigate. But what Frolick finds out shakes his faith. Will he ever be able to eat air again?
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Price: Free! Words: 3,450. Language: English (New Zealand dialect). Published: June 26, 2012. Categories: Nonfiction » Religion and Spirituality » Sermons / Christian, Nonfiction » Religion and Spirituality » Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic
God wants you to have a vibrant purpose. He wants you connected to Him, to understand your purpose, and fully engage with Him. If for some reason that you have been injured in life, hurt in life or disconnected from God, it's inevitable your life will not demonstrate all it could. Your life will be like this man with the withered hand, not just a physical thing but emotional, with tremendous shame
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A short narrative told through the experience of a corpse in the inner city exploring the darker side of civilization. Beyond the glaring light of society, the unbiased eyes of the dead look into the shadows of city life.
New Questions for a New Age: The limits of metaphysics and other belief systems
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This book is for everyone who has turned away in disillusionment from their inherited religion, only to find more of the same in the alternate paths they have chosen.
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Who is Jesus? Can one love Jesus and hate religion? This volume answers the questions: • Who is Jesus of Nazareth? • How do we love Jesus more deeply? • If religion is so wonderful, why has it started so many wars? • Why is Jesus greater than Mohammad, Buddha, Krishna & all others? • Why is Jesus the exclusive way to God? What race or color is Jesus?
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"Willie – The Man, the Myth and the Era" is the historical and biographical account of California’s Willie Brown and the era in which he served in the legislature. "Conspiracy" and "The Sting" are two chapters that involve calculated attempts to depose or otherwise destroy this brilliant politician and the battles that ensued.
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When a MI6 operation in Paris is endangered by a kidnapping in Manchester Six have to call in an operative who has retired to the city. Irwin Baker is trying to lead a quiet life, but he can't say no when he's asked to save a mother and child. With his reluctant Police contact in tow he has only four hours to find them.
21st Century Essential Guide to Bed Bugs: Identification, Prevention, Control, and Eradication, Practical Information about Pesticides and Bedbugs, Public Health Policy and Medical Implications
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Vital information about identification, prevention, control, and eradication of bed bugs, with authoritative information from the CDC, EPA, and NIH. Extensive material from EPA National Bed Bug Summit; CDC and EPA Control Statement; Top Ten Tips; practical information on getting rid of bed bugs; non-chemical control measures; biology.
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A burned out ad guy gives new meaning to the word "creative" when he thinks up the biggest idea of his career - a way to swindle his contemptible clients out of millions and make a fresh start. COMMERCIAL BREAK is MAD MEN meets THE PRODUCERS - unpredictable, fast-paced, and hilarious, with the kind of offbeat storyline and rich characters enjoyed by readers of Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard.
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It sounds like an easy job--trail a woman from the airport to her destination and call in where she went. In fact, the job sounds too easy for hardboiled P.I. Deacon Bishop. Still, he needs the money. So... Unfortunately, Bishop is right. Before he can say 'sting,' he's caught in a web of deadly redheads, angry terrorists, murder and... honeybees.


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Here is PFF's take on the Jets current depth chart, from which they ranked the Jets roster as 23rd best (or 10th worst) in the NFL.

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While we can nitpick some of the rankings here (Coples and Wilkerson in particular), I'd actually say that where they have placed the Jets in their rankings is pretty reasonable.

As you can see from the color coded chart, the Jets have a high number of players on their roster that are either rookies or players that have yet to prove themselves. This mostly impacts upon their depth, with Kenrick Ellis being the only non-starter who they would regard as an "above average starter". However, the majority of the second and third string would have to be classified as unproven rather than just not good enough.

In terms of their projected starters, thing look a little better (and certainly an improvement on last year) with nine players considered a "good starter" or better and many of the players regarded as below average either being young players who have the potential to get better this season, or established veterans who are capable of being better and whose struggles last year can be at least partially attributable to the players around them.

On the assumption that Stephen Hill will be relegated to a backup role unless he develops this year and that Tommy Bohanon is not likely to have a key role, even if he makes the team, this underlines how important it is to get better play from the left guard position with Brian Winters the only remaining "poor starter" on the first unit. Average or better performance from him could elevate the play of those around him, which is what we saw from Nick Mangold in particular over the last month.

Beyond that, the Jets are obviously relying on Geno Smith more than anyone, but there are several other players on the team who are capable of performing better than this projection (which is, of course, based of 2013 performance).

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So says Marc Berman in the above tweet. That game against Philadelphia would be on January 26th. Felton hasn't played since a 5-for-19 effort against the Lakers on Christmas Day, a lousy X-Mas gift indeed, but while his shot selection had started to give us a bit of fits, there's no denying the offense just hasn't looked the same without him. New York would love to see him back in the lineup -- finally with a pair of healthy mitts -- to reignite the deadly pick-and-roll action he'd developed with Tyson Chandler, and to perhaps be the man to get Amar'e Stoudemire acclimated into things, as well.

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 A team is a group of people who do collective work and are mutually committed to a common team purpose and challenging goals related to that purpose.

Teams are more productive and innovative than mere work groups. They produce results that exceed what groups of individuals can do through simple cooperation and coordination. Such results reflect a "team effect:" members perform better when they feel they're part of a team. The root of this benefit is members' strong mutual commitment to their joint work. This commitment creates compelling social and emotional bonds among members, who come to believe that "we" will all succeed or fail together and that no one can succeed if the team fails. In every team, "we" trumps "I." Unless you've been part of a team yourself, it's hard to understand the exhilaration produced by this sense of what "we" can accomplish together.

This mutual commitment, this "we," the potent interpersonal bonds among team members, spring from two related sources:

1. A mutual sense of purpose. Every high-performing team believes it exists for a compelling reason and that the world will be better for what it does. Its purpose is not the task or work it does but the benefit it delivers. It's the difference between "We scrub hospital floors" and "We prevent the spread of deadly infections." This is what pulls people together and makes them feel part of something bigger than themselves.

2. Tangible goals based on that purpose. Purpose must be made concrete or it will quickly wither. To sustain its sense of purpose, every team needs to strive toward specific, real achievements that will fulfill that purpose.

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BitTorrent: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

from the who-knew? dept

While BitTorrent certainly is used for unauthorized sharing of content, it's increasingly being used as a legitimate distribution mechanism. While it unfairly gets lumped in with things like Kazaa and Grokster, BitTorrent is just a protocol. It's like blaming FTP or SMTP for file sharing -- and both certainly are used to share unauthorized files. However, because BitTorrent is considered P2P some less than clueful folks seem to think it must be illegal. This leads to bizarre situations where students are losing their network access for "illegal P2P activity" when no illegal activity occurred at all. Instead, the school's IT folks seem to assume that BitTorrent, by nature of being P2P can only be used for illegal acts. I'm assuming they'll be banning FTP next. The school could claim that they're banning it due to the traffic, but they specifically pointed to the legal issue, suggesting that all of those entertainment industry subpoenas appear to be making some universities a little trigger happy on yanking internet access.

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    Normal, legal use

    Downloading game demos used to involve searching for a server that wasn't maxed out with 200 simul users. These days you can get the demos fast and easy with BitTorrent. Just check 3dgamers.com. It's much easier getting the games via BitTorrent tahn via FTP.

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Techdirt. Stories filed under "pre-check" Easily digestible tech news... en-us Techdirt. Stories filed under "pre-check" Fri, 10 Jul 2015 08:31:52 PDT TSA Blows Off Inspector General's Suggestion Boarding Pass Information Be Encrypted Tim Cushing The TSA's Secure Flight system apparently isn't all that secure, according to the barely-readable portions of the recently-released Inspector General's report. The TSA has a Pre-Check program that requires a ton of personal information and $85 to participate in. It also has "Secure Flight," which grants Pre-Check privileges on a case-by-case basis, for which travelers pay nothing. This simply means they won't always find themselves in the short line, but it does call into question the need to provide a ton of information up front, much less $85 for an experience others are getting for free.

Much like everything else the TSA is nominally in charge of, it has flaws. A whistleblower report to the TSA and the Office of the Inspector General claimed that the use of a "risk-based rule" led to a "vulnerability in aviation security" back in early 2014. (This would be before the Pre-Check system allowed a convicted murder with explosives experience to bypass more rigorous screening, simply because the boarding pass included the "wave me through" checkmark.)

What this "vulnerability" was is never openly explained. There's plenty of text in the report (28 pages of it, in fact), but everything specific is hidden under a thick layer of black ink. What we do know is that it involved boarding passes and the TSA's "risk-based assessment" program.

As a result of the report, the TSA suspended the redacted Secure Flight "rule". This rule was apparently linked to passengers' ability to print out their own boarding passes with the handy Pre-Check checkmark on them. Apparently, someone used someone else's ticket or found a way to print boarding passes without providing proper ID verification. Either way, this mysterious "rule" went away, and along with it, some Pre-Check passenger privileges.

Now, the TSA is planning to add additional layers of verification to the Pre-Check/Secure Flight system. But this won't fully go into effect until later this year. In the meantime, the "rule" remains suspended.

As a result of this redacted breach, the OIG's office made three recommendations -- which are also mostly redacted.

The first suggests the nature of the breach (or the problem with the rule) [or both].
Explore the feasibility of encrypting commercial aircraft carrier boarding passes [rest of sentence redacted].
The other two recommendations target the TSA's upgraded credential authentication program.

The TSA pretty much disagrees with the entirety of the OIG's assessment. Scattered between heavy redactions are various punchy odes to its pretty-much-infallible coin toss it calls "risk assessment." Scattered between other redactions are assertions that the TSA is pretty good about assessing threats and has been steadily improving for years without the OIG's constant nagging.

But before it heads into that, the OIG declares the TSA to be "responsive" to its first recommendation, even though it didn't do anything more than declare the recommendation too expensive and too difficult.
Management Response to Recommendation #1: TSA officials did not concur with Recommendation 1. In its response, TSA said in 2012 it explored the cost and feasibility of encrypting commercial aircraft carrier boarding passes [redacted]. After engaging industry stakeholders, TSA decided not to adopt this approach because of limited data fields in some air carrier systems and encrypting boarding pass barcodes is cost prohibitive. TSA said it decided to pursue a more practical and affordable solution using a digital signature.
Nothing's too good for the USofA! I mean, nothing's too practical and affordable. So, let's just use a "digital signature" because it's pretty much just as secure, right?

Now, we just have to assess the wisdom of the TSA's estimation of itself in light of this new (but very limited) information. It thinks it's doing a bang-up job making flying more secure. TSA head John Pistole frequently mentions the many programs it uses in addition to pre-flight scanning/screening, most of which have been determined by others to have a 50% hit rate.

On one hand, its screeners managed to miss 95 out 100 prohibited items during a recent assessment of its screening protocols. (But, man, it was all over that bag of cash, wasn't it!) On the other hand, its long-running ineptitude has yet to result in mass hijackings. It fails at the thing it does the most of (patdowns, screenings) and its more intangible efforts (risk assessment) haven't proven to be any more accurate than its in-person patdowns. In totality, we have a self-important entity whose presence is hardly justified. It appears air travel would be roughly as safe without the TSA's multiple encroachments. What it argues works well actually doesn't, and new issues are dismissed as not being worth the effort/expense to fix.

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Fri, 6 Sep 2013 17:33:16 PDT Fire Sale: TSA Now Offering You Your Civil Liberties For A Fee! Timothy Geigner You've likely heard the phrase "freedom isn't free" before, probably in the context of honoring our service men and women, paying taxes, voting, or paying for audio clips of the movie Braveheart. It's one of those phrases that's been used so often that it's probably no longer worthwhile. My main complaint about the phrase, other than the generally mouth-breathing blowhards who use it, is it leaves the obvious follow up question unanswered: fine, then how much will freedom cost me? It's an important question we've never really had an answer to...until now.

And that answer is? 85 whole American dollars. No, I didn't get that out of some Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy fan-fiction. I got it from the TSA, who announced an expanded program to touch your ugly bits less if you pay up.
TSA Precheck allows passengers who have been pre-approved to keep on their shoes and belt, not remove their jackets, keep their laptops inside their cases, and not have to remove select liquids and gels from their bags. In other words, besides the line, they can avoid most of the hassles of going through an airport security checkpoint.
Now, to be clear, the TSA's Precheck program has been around for some time, but this is a fairly significant expansion of that program, not to mention a sweet price drop. So all of the scare-mongering we previously heard as justification for searching through our things and our pants could have been swept away with a background check and $85? That almost sounds like a good deal, except then you remember that most airport security is futility as performance art to begin with and paying for civil liberties is the kind of thing that would have made Thomas Jefferson grab a musket and his pantaloons.

And here's another consideration: why am I to believe these background checks and $85 make a person safe to pass through large swaths of the airport security that any normal citizen must endure? A fingerprint and $85 doesn't keep someone from being radicalized at a later date. It doesn't mean all the scary terrorist groups out there can't plant someone on a long-term mission specifically to get approved for this list. There's every bit as much danger in these people as in the rest of us. Which is to say, very little, actually.

All this tells me is that if TSA security is either so poor or so unnecessary that millions of people qualify to bypass most of it, and they're expanding that bypass, maybe the answer is to scale the security theater back instead of handing everyone an $85 bill.

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    She wasn't just a troll - she spent weeks "befriending" this girl and printing off all the private secrets that Megan gave her to her daughter, who shared them behind Megan's back with all the other kids at school. Megan was teased, bulled, and beat up for weeks without knowing how all her peers knew her most private secrets and fears. Ms. Drew was on very friendly terms with Megan's family and KNEW before-hand that she was suicidal and had been in therapy and on medicine for chronic depression since third grade.

    She didn't just *troll* - she used the MySpace account to befriend, betray, and attack a thirteen year-old girl. Including several conversations deeply sexual in nature - how they didn't charge a forty year-old woman with something along those lines, I don't know!

    The night that the girl committed suicide was the night that Lori, her daughter Sarah, and a woman they hired on named Ashley "betrayed" Megan, flipping from "friend" to enemy mode and attacking her for anything they could think of, ending with the statement that the world would be better off without her and that Megan's entire life would be shit forever - and "he" would know, being her "boyfriend."

    An hour later when the ambulance pulled up to Megan's house, Lori had the account deleted immediately. Later she attended the funeral, offered support to Megan's grieving parents, and then, in a police interview, said she didn't feel guilty at all about the suicide since the girl was already depressed.

    This was no simple troll - I agree that something has to be done, but I would have taken it from the POV of the emotional/mental damage this woman did to a venerable child - and if NOTHING else that she KNOWINGLY contacted a 13 year-old and engaged in lengthy sexual conversations / mild cybering for months.


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Harnessing Kinetic Energy

A microgenerator could power portable devices for troops.

Soldiers who are packing multiple portable technologies could soon have less heavy lifting to do. M2E Power, a biomechanics startup based in Boise, ID, has developed a microgenerator that is designed to replace the 10 to 30 pounds (4.5 to 13.6 kilograms) of batteries that the company says troops carry to power devices such as radios, night-vision goggles, and mine detectors.

Power to go: Walking and other movements jostle the magnets, infusing the wire coils with energy in M2E’s microgenerator.

The battery-size product, the M2E, harnesses kinetic energy, or normal physical movement, to generate power. Clipped onto a belt or carried in a knapsack, the entire generator is contained within a regular battery casing. The wearer’s walking or shaking moves magnets in the device. Those magnets infuse the wire coils with energy that can be used to power mobile devices. It isn’t a new technology: the device uses the same technical principle that operates a self-winding watch or a “shake and shine” battery-free flashlight. But those watches and flashlights aren’t highly efficient at generating power. A battery-free flashlight, for example, harnesses enough kinetic energy to power an LED bulb for 45 minutes after 30 seconds of shaking, but not all kinds of shaking will work.

“A shaker flashlight charges only if you move it in one direction, so motions in other directions do nothing,” says Donald Moorcroft, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Western Ontario, in Canada.

According to M2E Power’s website, its system is five to seven times more powerful than existing applications of the technology. So soldiers using the M2E microgenerator should have an easily renewable source of power.

“With the flashlight and other applications of this technology, the magnet has to pass all the way through the coil before it can generate electricity,” says Regan Rowe, director of business development for M2E Power. “Our core innovation is that the magnet starts to generate electricity after it passes the width of just one wire.”

Development of the microgenerator comes at a time when the military’s reliance on portable devices is intense, and conventional batteries are problematic in the field. Soldiers are advised not to go out on missions with a half-charged battery, for example. As a consequence, batteries are often discarded before they are fully used. To address the military’s mobile-power issues, the Department of Defense recently launched a wearable-power prize worth $1 million.

It’s a cause that the private sector is keen to support. M2E Power recently received $8 million in venture-capital funding to develop the microgenerator for the military market. Rowe says that the company expects to have M2Es to soldiers in as little as 12 to 14 months. A consumer charger, for mobile devices ranging from cell phones to portable gaming stations, is expected to reach the market in 18 to 24 months.

M2E Power is not the only company working on a device of this kind or using this technology. Steve Vetorino, inventor of the NightStar battery-free flashlight, is working on a very similar device. “One thing that I find suspicious is that the developer of this technology never mentions how long it will take to recharge a standard battery,” he says. “We’re currently working on a proprietary charging technology that will be able to recharge a C-size battery in only 10 minutes. Our device fits in the palm of your hand and weighs only a few ounces.”

Whatever the device, storing movement itself may be a problem. While it is easy to see how soldiers who cover several miles on foot patrol would constantly keep these kinetic battery replacements powered, what levels of power output will more sedentary civilian consumers see? According to Rowe, even the movements of inactive people should “trickle-charge” the microgenerator throughout the day.

“If you’re a low-activity human, as most Americans are, you spend about two hours a day moving around,” Rowe says. “That is enough to charge up one half- to one hour of talk time on your cellular phone. Right now, users average 24 minutes of talk time per day.”

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Pearl Arredondo grew up in the impoverished East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights. She was raised by a single-mother, a long time Los Angeles Unified School District office secretary, who saw firsthand the challenges facing students in public schools. To ensure that she got the best education in the district, Arredondo was bussed to schools almost an hour away from home.

Arredondo graduated and moved on to Pepperdine University, where she received both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Education and Instructional Leadership. She was the first in her family to graduate from college and began her teaching career at San Fernando Middle School (SFMS) -- the very middle school she attended eight years prior.

At SFMS, she embraced the mission of enhancing educational opportunities for historically underserved students. To do so, she launched the school’s Multimedia Academy, which serviced 350 low-income students. After three successful years, the Multimedia Academy faculty decided it was time to make a full split and become a separate school. In 2010, she helped lead an ambitious reform agenda, through a pilot reform model, that focused on technology development, improving outcomes for children and strengthening families. The team founded San Fernando Institute for Applied Media (SFiAM), the first pilot school established in the Los Angeles Unified School District at the middle school level.

Arredondo is passionate about increasing student access to technology and closing the digital divide, and is a tireless advocate for technology-based curriculum that prepare students to enter a global economy. Her goal is to make SFiAM a model of educational reform.

Currently, Arredondo is pursuing a Master of Science in Educational Administration and is a 2013 National Board Certified Teacher candidate. She is also part of the 2013 Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellowship and serves as the Vice President of SFiAM’s Governing Council. She is featured in the short documentary film TEACHED Vol.1: “The Blame Game,” and is a role model for young Latinas seeking to make a difference in their communities.

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'Unfair' homework should be banned

27th April 2001 at 01:00
An American book says pupils should stay after school to do assignments with teachers on site. Julie Henry reports

HOMEWORK should be banned and the school day lengthened so that pupils can do work set by their teachers on the premises, according to a new book.

The anti-homework lobby in America says onerous out-of-school assignments disrupt families, overburden pupils and limit learning. And they are unfair on those pupils from the poorest backgrounds.

Instead, they want to see the secondary school day extended by two hours so students can do extra work with teachers and resources on hand.

Research into high school drop-outs by Etta Kralovec, a former teacher and co-author of The End of Homework, found that all blamed falling behind with homework as a major demotivator.

The disparity between pupils with highly-educated parents, who had time to help and computers at home, and those who did not were magnified by the practice of homework. She said: "Homework appears to disadvantage children by assuming they have a quiet, well-lit place to study. We know a perfect place, far away from the TV, which meets all those requirements - the schoolhouse."

Ms Kralovec argues that the evidence that daily doses of homework lead to academically accomplished students is inconclusive, and that there is no case at all for setting such studies for primary-age children.

Her claim is backed up by a 1999 study by King's College, London, academics who found that nine-year-olds who did maths homework twice a week did no better than those who tackled suchtasks only occasionally.

But a wide body of research reports that homework gives older children an edge. Dr Harris Cooper, professor of psychology at the University of Missouri and author of two papers on the subject, argues that the case for homework is sound.

However, he does acknowledge that overloading children with it in the early years can ruin motivation.

A number of surveys show that the time spent doing homework is increasing both here and abroad. A recent study by the University of Michigan found older students spent 134 minutes a night on extra studies.

And in Britain, Government guidelines advise 20 minutes a day for eight-year-olds, rising to 30 minutes for 10 and 11-year-olds and up to two-and-a-half hours at GCSE level. Homework remains popular with parents and is one of the most frequently cited school shortcomings indicated in Office for Standards in Education parent surveys.

* Homework clubs and other out-of-school activities boost pupils' results, attendance and attitude to school, according to research carried out by the National Youth Agency and the University of Strathclyde, which analysed 8,000 pupils in 53 UK schools between 1997 and 2000. Youngsters who take part in study support get better GCSE results than their peers of equal ability who do not participate, scoring an average of 3.5 grades more on their best five GCSE results, and get one more A-C pass.

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VigRX Plus tablets

Safety advisory

27 March 2014

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has tested four samples of a product labelled VigRX Plus tablets and found that two of those samples contained the undeclared substance tadalafil. The two samples tested by the TGA that contained tadalafil are counterfeit versions of VigRX Plus tablets.

  • Tadalafil should only be used on the advice of a medical practitioner and requires a prescription by a medical practitioner. The taking of medicines containing tadalafil without the advice of a medical practitioner poses a significant and serious health risk.

Photos of the two products tested by TGA which contained tadalafil appear below.

Counterfeit packaging of VigRX Plus Counterfeit Packaging of VigRX Plus

VigRX Plus tablets (counterfeit or otherwise) have not been assessed by the TGA for quality, safety or efficacy.

VigRX Plus tablets (counterfeit or otherwise) are not approved for sale in Australia.

Information for consumers

  • Consumers should be aware there are counterfeit versions of VigRX Plus tablets available for purchase.
  • If you have any concerns arising from your use of this product, the TGA recommends that you stop taking it and consult your health care practitioner.

Action the TGA is taking

The TGA is working with Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) to help stop future shipments of the VigRX Plus tablets containing tadalafil or other undeclared prescription substances from entering Australia. Any such tablets found at the border by ACBPS will be seized and destroyed.

The TGA is advising consumers to exercise extreme caution when purchasing medicines from unknown overseas Internet sites. Products purchased over the Internet:

  • may contain undisclosed and potentially harmful ingredients
  • may not meet the same standards of quality, safety and efficacy as those approved by the TGA for supply in Australia.

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John Harris's national conversations podcast: Simon Armitage

Poet and novelist Simon Armitage talks to John Harris about his observations of Britain and why he doesn't want to be labelled 'northern poet'

There's a "whiff of rot" about modern Britain, says Simon Armitage. Armitage, a poet, playwright, novelist, and literary social commentator, has been writing about Britain for 30 years now, almost reaching national treasure status after becoming the unlikely recipient of a CBE.

In the latest in our National Conversations series of interviews, Armitage talks to Guardian columnist John Harris about the widening cracks he sees in UK society, along with a wealth of subjects both personal and political.

Armitage talks about the moment at school in Huddersfield when he decided he wanted to be a poet, though he studied geography before making a career as a writer.

As he explains, his work is smattered with themes of life and death at their most brutal. It's also rooted in the north, where he still lives, keeping his distance from the southern establishment - though he hates the label "northern poet". Tellingly, when Yorkshire Tea recently asked him to be the voice of their brand recently, he turned them down.

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The British Library to ‘capture’ the digital universe - video

The British Library has been given the right to archive the digital world. Following new regulations coming into force on Saturday, six major libraries will be able to collect, preserve and provide long term access to internet based information, including blogs, e-books and even the entire UK web domain. An estimated 1bn pages a year will be available to researchers through the new archive