Bicycle-inspired art show Artcrank gaining steam

Copywriter and creative director Charles Youel first introduced the concept of Artcrank to the world in 2007 in Minneapolis. Since then Artcrank, which is a bicycle-inspired art show that exhibits posters created by local artists, has grown to include 11 international locations.

The show was even part of bike industry mega-convention Interbike in Las Vegas last year, and it is set to take place Sept. 19 at Interbike this year.

Artcrank says it hopes to "use creativity..

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Elisabeth Murdoch: I don't want the top job

EDINBURGH, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Elisabeth Murdoch said on
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An Ultimatum for Iran

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Either Israel is engaged in the most elaborate ruse since the Trojan horse or it is on the cusp of a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.What's alarming is not just Iran's increasing store of enriched uranium or the growing sophistication of its rocketry. It's also the increasingly menacing annihilationist threats emanating from Iran's leaders. Israel's existence is "an insult to all humanity," says President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "Anyone who loves freedom and justice must strive for the annihilation of the Zionist...

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Nam Phan and Cole Miller Wage War: UFC on FOX 4 Preliminary Card Rundown

It was a mixed bag of results for the bouts on the UFC on FOX 4 preliminary card, which aired live on Fuel TV prior to the main card broadcast on FOX, and in terms of action, the six bouts delivered.

• In the first fight of the evening, flyweight scrapper John Moraga utilized his well-credentialed wrestling chops to prevent jiu-jitsu specialist Ulysses "Useless" Gomez from bringing the fight to the ground, and once Moraga found his groove on the feet, he lit Gomez up with a storm of short punches and elbows against the cage.� Gomez crumbled under the onslaught, giving Moraga the win via knockout at 3:46 of the first round.

• In featherweight action, dueling judoka Manvel Gamburyan and Michihiro Omigawa took turns blasting each other in the striking exchanges ? Gamburyan dinging the Japanese fighter with a flying knee, a well-timed high-kick, and various punches, Omigawa tagging the Armenian with a torrent of jabs and crosses.� But the TUF 5 runner-up found success with his takedowns, and though Omigawa was usually back up in an instant, points were scored.� When time ran out, the judges gave Gamburyan the well-deserved unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 30-27).

• Heavyweight Brit Oli Thompson may have had the advantage in terms of muscle, but fellow UK product Phil De Fries seemed unfazed.� Rocking Thompson in the first with a decent portion of fist-salad, De Fries established early on just how dangerous he could be, and when he began mixing in an aggressive ground assault, for Thompson things went from bad to worse.� The ending sequence came when De Fries got his foe down, secured back-control and applied a face crank; Thompson tapped out at 4:16 of Round Two.

• Featherweight Josh Grispi needed a win in his return bout against jiu-jitsu expert Rani Yahya, but he made the mistake of playing the Brazilian's game and it cost him.� From takedown to guard pass to North/South choke submission, it was all Yahya, and Grispi was forced to tap out at 3:15 of the first round.

• The light-heavyweight contest between wrestler Phil Davis and Brazilian Muay Thai specialist Wagner Prado ended in the most unsatisfying way possible.� In one of the first full-fledged striking exchanges on the feet, Davis accidentally put his fingers in Prado's eye.� Prado was instantly in pain, and the blood around his eye was enough for the doctor to call it.� The bout was rendered a "no decision" at 1:28 of Round One.

• The "main event" of the preliminary card, which saw ultra-tough featherweights Cole Miller and Nam Phan throw down, did not disappoint in terms of pace and violence.� Eschewing their vast collective jiu-jitsu experience for the opportunity to stand and box, Miller and Phan battered each other relentlessly for all three rounds.� In the first, Phan quickly overcame Miller's sizeable reach advantage to repeatedly land a vicious left hook to the chin. But Miller made adjustments by the time Round Two rolled around, and his straight rights began knocking Phan's head back over and over again.� The final frame saw no abatement in the dogfight, and when time ran out, the judges gave the split decision to Phan (29-28, 29-28, 28-29).

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Summer, what summer? Forecasters predict rain showers over the weekend...no wonder 1.8million of us are heading overseas.

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USC freshman Austin Oriol, left, gets help from his father, Gil, unpacking belongings in his dorm room.

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What Every Organization Needs to Know About the Changing Face of Software Development

The way software is created is in the midst of fundmental change. Agile, component-based software development are helping coders create applications faster and more efficiently than ever before, but the process has also introduced complex new risks and requirements. Four critical steps can help reduce those risks.

Guest author Jason van Zyl is the founder of the Apache Maven project, the Plexus IoC framework and the Apache Velocity project and helped establish Codehaus, an incubation facility for open-source community projects. He currently serves on the board of the Eclipse Foundation and is CTO of Sonatype.

For most of its history, software has been written ? applications consisted primarily of custom-developed code and internally developed components with only a small fraction of code sourced from outside the organization. During the past ten years the widespread use of cloud- based infrastructures and the rise of open-source technologies have heavily influenced the software development landscape with start-ups and established organizations demanding increased flexibility and improved time to value.

As a result, modern software development has become increasingly component-based, where applications are assembled from existing components rather than written from scratch and the vast majority of components are sourced from outside the organization. In most cases externally sourced components are open source. In fact, more than 80% of a typical Java application is assembled from existing open-source components and frameworks.

The GitHub Effect

Just how popular collaborative, open-source development has become was made clear with the historic $100 million investment by Andreessen-Horowitz in GitHub, the code sharing and social networking site for programmers.

Developers are turning to forges like GitHub at an accelerated rate and with good reason. It?s easy to use, the cost is nominal and it provides an invaluable service ? version control for community-driven projects and the simplification of contribution management.

GitHub, and other repositories like it, democratize open-source development and help young projects grow. But once source-code graduates and becomes binary code ready for mass adoption, project teams distribute their finished products via the Central Repository ? a free, openly available, cloud-based repository where developers distribute their software to millions of users globally. The Central Repository, which is operated by Sonatype, has become the industry?s primary source for open-source artifacts, housing more than 400,000 components, servicing more than 7.5 billion requests per year to 60,000 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Global 2,000.

Complex New Risks

While development teams have embraced agile software development processes ? rapid, continuous and collaborative ? the shifting software development landscape has also introduced new risks and requirements. Applications can be composed of hundreds of components sourced from myriad open-source projects and these components can in turn, depend on other components, known as transitive dependencies. This creates an enormously complex supply chain, where a single application may contain components originally published by dozens of individual projects.  Whether provided by commercial vendors or open-source initiatives, components can introduce significant management, security and licensing challenges. Recent analysis by Aspect Security using data from the Central Repository uncovered widespread security vulnerabilities among the most commonly used open-source components.

Component flaws may pose substantial business and technical risks to an organization, including security breaches and intellectual property claims as well as application stability and performance defects. Few organizations, let alone cash-strapped start-ups, have the proper controls in place to mitigate the risks posed by flawed components.

A complicating factor is the the double-edged sword of open-source innovation. On the one hand, open-source projects evolve and release frequently (the average component is updated four times per year) enabling users to reap the benefits of rapid innovation and bug fixes. On the other hand, the ecoystem lacks an effective update awareness mechanism, making it very difficult to keep up with projects and manage change ? especially for large enterprises that consumes thousands of components each month.

Component Lifecycle Management

To firmly establishing both control and visibility across today?s complex and agile software supply chain, organizations young and old should take the following steps toward Component Lifecycle Management (CLM) ? the practice of proactively managing the use of components throughout the supply chain.

Step 1: Inventory ? Gather information about your current component usage

• Tack component downloads and usage to understand consumption.
• Inventory internal component repositories to determine what is being distributed to development teams.
• Understand the software supply chain to determine which components and dependencies are being introduced to the organization.

Step 2: Analyze ? Understand vulnerabilities in applications and repositories

• Analyze key applications to uncover known security vulnerabilities.
• Analyze internal component repositories to discover vulnerable components.

Step 3: Control ? Establish controls throughout the development lifecycle

• Establish policies regarding security, the use of viral licenses and out-of-date or out-of-version components.
• Eliminate or blacklist known vulnerable components in internal repositories.
• Establish mechanisms to prevent known flawed components from entering the organization.
• Implement controls in build and continuous integration (CI) systems to prevent inclusion of flawed components in software builds.

Step 4: Monitor ? Maintain awareness of component updates

• Maintain an inventory of all components and dependencies used in production applications.
• Continuously monitor application bill-of-materials for updates and newly discovered vulnerabilities.

Properly managing the use of open-source components throughout the software development lifecycle will let organizations focus not merely on the cost savings it can bring, but also on the wealth of innovation. The component revolution is upon us.

Are you ready?

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