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Q: APDU Command Error - response 6C6B I am trying to read smart card using PCSC commands in Objective-C.
  int count = 17;
unsigned char *get_cplc_command = (unsigned char *)calloc(count, sizeof(unsigned char));
get_cplc_command[1]=-92;
get_cplc_command[2]=4;
get_cplc_command[4]=12;
get_cplc_command[5]=-96;
get_cplc_command[8]=2;
get_cplc_command[9]=67;
get_cplc_command[11]=19;
get_cplc_command[15]=1;
get_cplc_command[16]=1;

receive_length = sizeof(receive_buffer);

ret = SCardTransmit(card,
                    &sendPCI,
                    get_cplc_command,
                    sizeof(get_cplc_command),
                    NULL,
                    receive_buffer,
                    &receive_length);

LOG(@"SCardTransmit 0x%08x", ret);

When I execute above command I am getting 6C6B response.  Can you please help me to resolve the issue.

A: The status word 6CXX means, that the Le field of the command APDU was wrong.
Citing ISO 7816-3, Table 14:

Process aborted due to a wrong Le field (SW2 encodes Na, i.e., the
  exact number of available data bytes). In cases 1 and 3,  the card
  should not use such a value. In cases 2 and 4, the card shall be ready
  to receive the same command with P3 =  SW2.

And ISO 7816-4, Section 5.1.3:

If SW1 is set to '6C', then the process is aborted and
  before issuing any other command, the same
  command may be re-issued using SW2 (exact number of available data bytes) as short Le field.

(Although not familiar with Objective-C) My bet is that the 4th argument of SCardTransmit (i.e. sizeof(get_cplc_command)) should be count instead -- as the sizeof operator does not give you the size of allocated array, but the size of the pointer to it.
[Presuming 32-bit architecture and sizeof(unsigned char*) equal to 4]: Command sent was not 00A404000CA00000024300130000000101 as intended, but 00A40400 which was interpreted as case 1 command (see ISO 7816-3, Section 12.1.2 for command APDU cases description).
Good luck!

PS: Please consider checking your receive_length variable for the same problem.

EDIT> Regarding the 61XX status:
As @guidot wrote, you need to issue a GET RESPONSE (another command) to get the response data immediately after receiving this status word.
Citing ISO 7816-4:

If SW1 is set to '61', then the process is completed and before
  issuing any other command, a GET RESPONSE command may be issued with
  the same CLA and using SW2 (number of data bytes still available)  as
  short Le field.

The above-mentioned GET RESPONSE command is documented in ISO 7816-4 as well (see e.g. here).
In your case the APDU exchange should probably look like this:
> 00A404000CA00000024300130000000101 // SELECT command
< 6121 // SELECT response -- 33 bytes still available
> 00C0000021 // GET RESPONSE command
< XXXX...XX9000 // GET RESPONSE response (33 bytes and a status word)

(You will have to call the SCardTransmit twice, once for 00A404000C... and then for 00C0000021.... Remember to reset the receive_length variable if re-used).

Note: You might want to try sending a 00A404000CA0000002430013000000010100 command APDU (the same command with a Le field present and set to 0x00 -- meaning you are expecting up to 256 bytes in the response data).


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By MICHAEL KARANJA, NAIROBI, Kenya July 21- The Kenya Railways Corporation (KR) is inviting expressions of interest for the construction of modern railway cities along its major railway stations.
The corporation is on the look for investors interested in putting up shopping malls, office blocks as well as parking bays.
Kenya Railways Managing Director Nduva Muli on Friday said the KR had received three expressions of interest for the projects.
"We have received three expressions of interest which we are currently reviewing. The next step will include structuring a bid process to select the investors," Mr Muli said.
The State owned institution says it has 200 acres in Nairobi, 110 acres in Mombasa and 75 acres in Kisumu for the development of the multi-purpose cities on the land by way of public private partnerships.
Due to the size and nature of the investment required, the MD said it was expected that the winning investors would break ground by August 2012.
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However, the major challenge to the projects remain the irregular titles awarded on some of the land in the three cities.
He was speaking during a site visit of the Syokimau station, which is part of the 12 new stations in and around Nairobi Kenya Railways, is constructing as part of the Nairobi Commuter rail service.
The last station to be put up was in 1935 in Butere.
The new terminal is scheduled to be complete by December, and will seek to decongest Nairobi with a 100-kilometer commuter rail line in and around the city at a cost of Sh16 billion offering an alternative mode of transport.
The scope of work involves upgrading and doubling the existing track, building of a new branch line at JKIA and remodeling of existing 10 stations such as Dagoretti, Kibera, Nairobi and Makadara.
The Syokimau station will be connected to Embakasi Railway station by a 2.2 kilometer-track via tunnel under Mombasa road valued to cost Sh3.2 billion.


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If you're an NFL fan like I am (Go Eagles), then you are probably following some of your favorite teams and players on Twitter. The season starts tonight with the Giants vs. Cowboys, and I really don't care who wins.
However, Twitter has unveiled a new "get-started" page for those of you who want to follow all of the action. Here's what the company said on its blog, by way of Omid Ashtari, its Head of Sports & Entertainment:
At 8:30 p.m. ET tonight, the @NFL season will officially commence at Giants Stadium, where the Super Bowl champions @Giants take on their division rivals the @DallasCowboys.
With all NFL teams and a majority of players having an official presence on Twitter, fans can get closer to their favorite teams and athletes.
The page is pretty slick, and you can find it here:
You'll find some general instructions on how to use Twitter, which is clearly onboarding for new users, but offers some extras like breaking up the teams by division. If you're an NFL fan, then this is a page that you probably want to bookmark and go back to throughout the season. It's really too bad that players and coaches can't tweet during the game, I'd watch that.
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Jim Acosta of CNN has a very specific skill: he's great at getting roasted by conservatives on Twitter. Remember when he tried to troll Sarah Sanders? Well, he's back at it.
Well, this attempt included President Trump. Acosta tried to shame Trump for pulling out of the Iran deal, but it blew up in his face.
Instead of people angry at Trump, this just served as a reminder that Trump is following up on so many of his campaign promises.
It's called promises kept. We realize that's a new concept after 8 yrs of lies. You'll get used to it. Or not. We don't care.
That certainly did not go as planned for Acosta.
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Congresswoman Mimi Walters has voted with the Trump agenda 99 percent of the time, but a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll shows voters want a member of Congress who will act as a check to Trump.
By	Dan Desai Martin
Voters don't want a member of Congress who acts as a rubber stamp for the Trump agenda, which could be bad news for embattled Congresswoman Mimi Walters (R-Irvine), who almost never misses an opportunity to side with Trump.
"By a whopping 25-point margin, voters say they're more likely to back a congressional candidate who promises to serve as a check on President Donald Trump," according to a new poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal.
In the same poll, more than half of voters said they would be less likely to vote for someone who has supported the Trump agenda over 90 percent of the time. Walters supports the Trump agenda 99 percent of the time.
In competitive congressional districts, like Walters', voters are overwhelmingly more likely to support a candidate who stands up to Trump. According to the Washington Post:
These numbers get more striking when you look at how they break down in all of the House districts that the Cook Political Report designates as competitive. According to the good folks at NBC, who sent over these numbers, in those districts:
By 52-19, voters in competitive House districts are more likely to support a congressional candidate who promises to be a check on Trump.
By 55-28, voters in competitive House districts are more likely to support a congressional candidate who has opposed Trump most of the time.
In opposition to the will of voters, Walters is one of the most reliable Trump supporters in Congress. Even on issues that hurt her own constituents, like health care and taxes, Walters chooses to side with Trump.
Health care is the top issue heading into the midterm elections, according to the NBC/WSJ poll, along with several other polls.
Walters voted to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, a piece of legislation that has helped millions of people gain access health insurance. Her preferred alternative was a Republican bill that would have caused more than 20 million people to lose health insurance, according to non-partisan researchers. In addition, the bill she voted for would have eliminated protections for individuals with pre-existing conditions, instituted an "age tax" for people aged 50-64, and caused premiums to skyrocket.
Walters also championed the unpopular Republican tax bill even though it will raise taxes by $12 billion on a million Californians. Homeowners in Orange County can thank Walters when they are forced to pay an additional $4,500 in taxes this year. An L.A. Times poll found the tax bill deeply unpopular with Californians, yet Walters continues to brag about her vote on it. A big business lobbying group is even running television ads touting her vote that helps wealthy corporations rake in billions of dollars while leaving California workers behind.
Walters is not shy about her devotion to Trump and Trump's agenda. "It is very important that Republicans back the president," she said. "He's the president of our party. He stands for what we stand for."
While she continues to back Trump with an almost perfect pro-Trump voting record, Americans are voicing their concerns.
"Voters know [Trump is] corrupt and authoritarian — those things are two sides of the same coin. They know he lies nonstop and is a racist and has a dangerously destructive temperament," says the Washington Post.
"They want a check on Trump's corruption, policies, and temperament — his racist and authoritarian tendencies included," the Post continues.
While voters want someone who will stand up to Trump, Walters spends all her days staunchly standing with Trump.
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I've observed investors respond to similar events very differently from one point in time to the next.
For example, on some occasions in the financial markets, the prospect of stronger economic growth has led to a belief that inflation will follow. This suggests interest rates will rise… and that company profits will suffer as the cost of debt rises. So the incentive to invest to grow businesses (and earnings) will diminish. As a result, investors sell shares.
But similar data points can provoke the exact opposite reaction in stock markets. On some occasions, expectations of stronger economic growth has led to a belief that earnings will be good… which is good for companies. So investors buy shares.
The difference in reactions is because of the way that investors choose to judge potential outcomes from a similar set of economic circumstances. In short, there's no one, set "rational" way for investors to react.
Universities around the world run courses and degrees in the "Social Sciences". These include subjects like sociology, anthropology, geography, psychology, demographics, politics, criminology and of course, economics.
As a young undergraduate, I fully agreed with the definition of my study of economics as "science" of a kind. Much of what we studied in economics was based around statistical testing of hypotheses, charts, graphs, tables and spreadsheets. All of this seemed to give the study of economics a sort of scientific credibility based on numbers and facts.
Economics told us that humans, both individually and collectively, behave in rational ways… ways that could be explained by statistically observable data. And economics is all about trade-offs… people behave rationally in pursuing the greatest amount of satisfaction given income and resources. We were told that people respond to incentives, and that market prices reflect the balance of demand and supply for goods and services.
But it soon became apparent that while the subject matter of economics may be amenable to factual and statistical analysis, the simple reality is that economics is the study of the collective behaviour of many millions of individuals. And that people often, individually or collectively, do not behave in the way that the models of economics predict.
In short, they often behave irrationally, at least according to conventional economic thinking.
Numerous economists and academics have brought behavioural psychology to the study of how we make economic and financial decisions.
Last week, the Nobel Foundation awarded the Nobel prize in economics to perhaps one of the most noted and colourful behavioural economists, University of Chicago's Richard Thaler. Along with Hersh Sefrin in the early 1980s, Thaler put forward an "economic theory of self control". In simple terms, this describes how people cannot, or do not, control their impulses.
Example: People can be counted on to have the motivation to pick up a $20 bill they see lying on the footpath. But they are very likely going to have a hard job resisting the temptation to spend that $20. They lack the self control to put away cash for retirement.
It is this lack of will power that ensures that most people don't put away enough money for their retirement.
Thaler (and others) made lots of what might seem like minor, almost irrelevant observations about human behavior not being truly rational. But they demonstrated that many of these can and do have profound impacts on economic outcomes.
I've noticed this in real life in Hong Kong. I frequently pass a gas station that sells the liquid petroleum gas for taxis, at a price that is a couple of cents cheaper than other places. The queue of taxis in line wanting to not spend a few cents can stretch for a quarter mile down the street. Drivers can take the best part of an hour to get filled up.
It would be more rational to pay a bit more for the gas at a station with no queue and spend that wasted hour picking up paying customers. But that's not what happens. These taxi drivers are more concerned about losing the money they already have then losing out on money they could be making.
Then there is what Thaler called the "endowment effect". Here, people put a higher value on things when they own them. I see this all the time (and have been subject to this effect myself) in the real estate space. People often place a much higher value on property that they own, than they would be prepared to pay themselves in the open market.
Another is the "status quo bias". This means that people tend to continue with what they have – whether it's a frame of mind or belief or asset – already rather than make a change, even if that change could provide big gains from a small cost.
These behaviours can have big economic and financial implications.
For example, in his book written with Cass Sunstein, "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness", Thaler and Sunstein explain how irrational flaws and biases pervade our thinking and our actions. But a simple, and often very subtle, nudge can encourage us to make much better economic and financial decisions.
The most well publicized version of the "nudge" effect comes from the pension arena.
Now, this is a subject that I have harped on for years. Far too many people are woefully under provided for their retirement. Quite simply, they have not put away enough money during their lives.
Thaler suggested that a very simple change in pension policy could encourage far more people to be better provided for retirement. The simple nudge is to switch the pension policy from where an employee explicitly needs to decide to participate in a company pension plan, to a default that enrolls him/her automatically – but with the ability to decide not to participate if so desired. The freedom of choice still remains.
Under the automatic enrollment scheme, far more people end up saving into pension plans. The pension regulator in the UK has reported that participation in private pension schemes increased from 42 percent to 73 percent in the period from 2012 to 2016 after default enrollments were put in place. A total of just 12 percent explicitly decided not to participate in the private pension scheme.
The "nudge" effect has had big impact on pensions in the U.S. and Sweden as well.
If we were truly rational, it would not matter whether the default was to participate, or not participate, in the scheme. We would simply judge the cost and benefits and decide accordingly. But clearly, we are not totally rational. And this very small, and very simple policy "nudge" can have substantial impacts on a large number of lives and the finances of countries.
Again, while human behaviour might seem inconsequential when it comes to economics, it can have big financial implications.
So the next time you go to make a financial decision, think about whether or not it's a rational one.


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At last, a reprise of the highly popular Millennium Philadelphia in a deluxe paperback edition ($29.95, October 15, 2007), with the striking black-and-white photographs of city life and history that made it a "family album of the Philadelphia century." Picking up where the original left off, a chapter update, "The New Millennium," features a full-color pictorial of the city's continued change into the twenty-first century.
To outsiders, Philadelphia is defined by its celebrities: the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Grace Kelly, Bill Cosby, Rocky, Ben Franklin, cheesesteaks. But Philadelphians know it as a city of neighborhoods, of rowhouses spilling out people on summer evenings. It is a city of strong ethnic flavors, though the ethnic origins keep changing.
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By CARLI TEPROFF, For Miami Herald, On 22 December 2016, Read Original
Kindness. Peace. Acceptance.
Those are some of the words children came up when asked what they would like to see in the world.
"It's important for my daughter to see if we stand together, we can achieve peace," Bridget Nevel said at an event Wednesday night meant to challenge Islamophobia and fight against racism. "We need to stand up for everyone's rights."
Nevel and her 4-year-old daughter, Persephone, were two of about 40 people who gathered in front of the giant menorah and Christmas tree on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road as part of Network Against Islamophobia, a project of Jewish Voice for Peace and CAIR-Florida.
Similar events were held in 25 other cities across the country ahead of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, which begins Saturday night. Donna Nevel, who is with Jewish Voices for Peace, said the Jewish holiday is about light, dovetailing with shining a light on the attacks against Muslim Americans.
"We want everyone to know that we stand together against hate," said Nevel, who is Bridget's aunt. "No one should have to face this kind of treatment in America."
The program, which many Lincoln Road visitors stopped by to catch a glimpse, began with the singing of the hymn, This Little Light of Mine, modified for the occasion.
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The attendees wore signs that declared their commitment to fighting against hate with messages such as "We will not be silent," "We welcome Syrian refugees" and "We stand strong for immigrants' rights."
Sahar Shaikh, who is with the Muslim Women's Organization of South Florida, said seeing everyone from all faiths join together was encouraging and made her feel accepted.
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Wanting to belong is part of being human. Despite all of our differences, it is still important for us to have a connection at some level to other people.
This is possibly the reason why one boy from Orlando felt the need to hug a 34-year-old lady who is practically a stranger when he saw that they had something in common. And, he simply could not let the moment pass without making a connection.
During one of the events sponsored by The Lucky Fin Project, a non-profit organization conducting meet-ups for people with limb differences, little Joseph Tidd wanted to say good-bye to everyone before heading home with his parents. As he was going around saying his "good-byes", he was slightly taken aback when he found a lady who had exactly the same limb abnormality as his. Joseph was missing his left arm while the stranger was missing her right.
Amy Siesel, a Mom from Mexico, also has one undeveloped arm which was a result of unexpected side effects when her mother drank some medicine to avoid sickness while she was pregnant with her. Seeing that the little boy was about to come her way, she lifted her affected limb and motioned for the boy to fist bump.
Though he is just a year old, little Joseph seems to have connected the dots quickly as he realized that they had something special in common. In the end, he ended up hugging Amy who was overwhelmed with emotions because of the boy's gesture.
She even held him for much longer, basking in the beautiful connection they instantly felt for each other. The young boy was very at ease while Amy was truly touched that at such a young age, little Joseph knew that he was not alone.
As Amy was holding Joseph, she made their affected limbs touch as if doing a fist bump. Young Joseph was evidently happy and he was surely enjoying the company of his new found friend. Born with a condition called Symbrachydactyly, it was unfortunate that little Joseph's left arm was not fully developed when he was still in his mother's womb.
This was probably a hard thing to accept at first but his parents, Colleen and Miles, were not discouraged. Instead, they supported the Lucky Fin Project so their son will know that there are others in the world just like him and that he is as special as anyone with normally developed limbs.
This sweet boy's heartwarming reaction is simply something that you cannot miss out on!


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Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, BRAUCHER, WILKINS, & ABRAMS, JJ.
At the trial of indictments for the murders in the first degree of a husband and wife, black and white photographs of the victims were properly admitted in evidence. [239]
At a murder trial in which insanity was a defense, a ruling striking the answer of a qualified psychiatrist for the defendant as to the witness's understanding of the decision in Commonwealth v. McHoul, 352 Mass. 544 (1967), was correct, and was not prejudicial, where the answer was not responsive in all aspects and the witness was given a chance "to restate" his answer. [240]
At a murder trial, where a psychiatrist for the defendant testified that in his opinion the defendant had not had a mental disease or defect on the night of the killings, the judge properly sustained an objection to a further question concerning the defendant's ability to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law. [240-241]
In a criminal case, the opinion of an expert for the defendant as to his mental condition at the time of the crime must be stated only in accordance with the standard of the McHoul case; however, the expert may testify as to his diagnosis even if in his opinion the defendant was not suffering from a "mental disease or defect." [242-244]
An argument on appeal from convictions in criminal cases that the trial judge should have charged the jury pursuant to an "insanity defense" was lacking in merit where the defendant did not request an instruction on the question of his sanity or object to the judge's charge. [244-247]
Upon an assessment pursuant to G. L. c. 278, Section 33E, of the entire record of convictions of the defendant of murder in the first degree of a
husband and wife, and the imposition of consecutive life sentences, this court concluded that substantial justice did not require a new trial at which the defendant's criminal responsibility would be submitted to the jury where it appeared that, although the evidence was sufficient to raise a question of the defendant's responsibility, he not only did not request an instruction thereon but avoided the point and claimed someone else committed the crimes, and that the only expert testimony was from the defendant's psychiatrist and indicated that the defendant was not suffering from a mental disease or defect at the time of the killings. [247-248]
INDICTMENTS found and returned in the Superior Court on November 13, 1976.
The cases were tried before Dimond, J.
Robert B. Shumway for the defendant.
James P. Donohue, Assistant District Attorney (Edward P. Ryan, Jr., Special Assistant District Attorney, with him) for the Commonwealth.
WILKINS, J. We affirm the defendant's convictions of murder in the first degree of Frank C. Dickinson and Bertha L. Dickinson. The victims, husband and wife and each over eighty years old, were brutally murdered on the night of September 8, 1975, in their home in Auburn. The defendant was sentenced to consecutive life sentences.
The defendant argues that the judge should have excluded from evidence black and white photographs of the victims. The photographs were relevant to the question of extreme atrocity and cruelty, and their admission was within the judge's discretion. Commonwealth v. Bys, 370 Mass. 350, 358-361 (1976). He gave cautionary instructions to the jury concerning the photographs on more than one occasion. There were no extraordinary circumstances making the admission of the photographs improper. See Commonwealth v. Richmond, 371 Mass. 563, 564-565 (1976).
The only other exceptions argued by the defendant relate to the exclusion of testimony he offered from a psychiatrist in support of a claim of insanity. As will be seen, the judge's rulings were correct. The defendant makes further arguments as to which no exceptions were claimed.
We consider all the defendant's arguments in the context of our obligation under G. L. c. 278, Section 33E, to review the whole case to determine whether justice requires a new trial or a reduction in the verdicts. Our consideration of arguments not based on exceptions is restricted, however, to a determination whether there was a miscarriage of justice. See Commonwealth v. Williams, 364 Mass. 145, 150-151 (1973).
The defendant offered the testimony of a qualified psychiatrist, Dr. Malcolm R. Sills. Dr. Sills saw the defendant on three occasions for a total of approximately six hours and prepared a report. He concluded that the defendant's thinking was "concrete and dull," that he was unable to think in terms of abstractions, that his affect tended to be overcontrolled, and that he had no attachment to members of his family and had no real friends. Dr. Sills concluded that the defendant "was not retarded but that he was either dull normal or borderline" between dull normal and retarded. He described what the defendant told him about his past, the incidents of September 8, 1975, and two occasions where the defendant was "amnesic." Dr. Sills gave his general impressions of the defendant. He indicated his awareness of the opinion of this court in Commonwealth v. McHoul, 352 Mass. 544 (1967). He was asked his understanding of the McHoul decision and responded as set forth in the margin. [Note 1] The answer was struck on motion of the Commonwealth. The judge said, "[W]e will give the doctor a chance to restate it." The defendant excepted to the judge's ruling. The ruling was correct because the answer was not responsive in all aspects. The ruling was not prejudicial because the defendant was not foreclosed from pursuing the line of questioning.
After another question was excluded, the judge suggested to defense counsel that he might ask "the appropriate
question using the McHoul standards as the subject matter of your questions." The attempt to direct the inquiry in terms of the principles laid down in the McHoul case was appropriate. Commonwealth v. Martin, 357 Mass. 190, 193 (1970). It is clear that defense counsel was well aware of the McHoul case but was reluctant to follow the form of questions indicated in that opinion. In particular, for a reason which soon became apparent, he seemed reluctant to ask Dr. Sills whether the defendant had a mental disease or defect on the night of the killings. The judge indicated that, before going to other matters of opinion under the McHoul standard, the defense must ascertain whether in Dr. Sills's opinion the defendant had a mental disease or defect on the night of the killings: "Take it one step at a time." When he was asked whether the defendant had had a mental disease or defect on the night of the killings, Dr. Sills answered that in his opinion the defendant did not. The judge sustained an objection to a further question concerning the defendant's ability to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or his ability to conform his conduct to the requirements of law. The defendant excepted to that ruling. The ruling, however, was entirely consistent with the McHoul standards. Criminal conduct is excusable in this Commonwealth on the ground of insanity only where the defendant's capacity to appreciate the criminality of his action or his capacity to conform his conduct to the requirements of law was substantially impaired as a result of a mental disease or defect. We see no reason at this time to depart from the standards expressed in the McHoul case. If an expert witness for a defendant concludes that the defendant was not suffering from a mental disease or defect at the time of the defendant's alleged criminal conduct, that expert witness need not be permitted to testify concerning the defendant's ability to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or his ability to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law.
After a bench conference, during which the judge explained his ruling in terms of the requirements of the McHoul case, Dr. Sills was permitted to testify that he
defined "mental disease" conservatively to apply to a person if he is "at the more extreme end of mental illness and psychotic in my opinion." He further testified to the difference between a mental disease and a mental defect, and said that the defendant did not have a mental defect. The defendant rested his case, and the Commonwealth then rested without putting on a psychiatric expert in rebuttal, as originally planned.
The defendant was not precluded from obtaining Dr. Sills's diagnosis of the defendant's mental condition at the time of the killings. All that was restricted was the eliciting of the expert's opinion of the defendant's criminal responsibility in terms other than those outlined in McHoul. An expert opinion concerning criminal responsibility must be given according to the McHoul standard, but an expert may testify to his diagnosis even if in his opinion the defendant was not suffering from a "mental disease or defect." [Note 2] Since, in an appropriate case, the jury must make the factual determination whether a defendant was legally insane at the time of his allegedly criminal conduct, they should be allowed to have information concerning the defendant's mental state. Although a particular expert's definition of the terms "mental disease or defect" is helpful to the jury in their finding, the jury are not required to adopt any particular definition as their own in a particular case. It is well established that experts differ on their definition of those terms. See, e.g., Drope v. Missouri, 420 U.S. 162, 176 (1975); Model Penal Code Section 4.01, Comment at 160 (Tent. Draft No. 4, 1955); A.S. Goldstein, The
Insanity Defense 47-48, 134 (1967); Green, Proof of Mental Incompetency and the Unexpressed Major Premise, 53 Yale L.J. 271 (1944). In Commonwealth v. McHoul, supra at 550, we indicated that one of the advantages of the Model Penal Code test for insanity "is that under it, experts will be unrestricted in stating all that is relevant to the defendant's mental illness. . . . This means that experts experienced in the study and treatment of the mentally ill may testify fully as to the nature and extent of impairment of defendants' mental faculties as well as their observations or other bases for their conclusions" (footnote omitted). The use of the words "mental illness" and "mental faculties" indicates that expert testimony regarding a defendant's mental state would be admitted even if the expert does not believe or testify that the defendant was criminally irresponsible within the McHoul test. See id. at n.6; Model Penal Code Section 4.07 (4) and Comment at 198 (Tent. Draft No. 4, 1955); Huckabee, Resolving the Problem of Dominance of Psychiatrists in Criminal Responsibility Decisions: A Proposal, 27 Sw. L.J. 790, 791 (1973). The sole restriction we place on the admission of an expert's opinion concerning a defendant's mental state is that he may express an opinion only in accordance with the standard of the McHoul case.
Although defense counsel had earlier indicated that he would like to make an offer of proof, he made no such offer. Dr. Sills did testify to a diagnosis and gave his conclusions regarding the defendant's personality type and intelligence. There is little in the record to show what Dr. Sills would have testified to additionally, if he had been permitted to do so. On the record, we find no basis for a conclusion that Dr. Sills's excluded testimony would have aided the defendant.
The defendant has appended Dr. Sills's report to his brief. The Commonwealth argues that we should disregard the report. In assessing whether there was reversible error in the judge's ruling restricting further testimony from Dr. Sills, we agree that the report may not be considered. Moreover, our obligation under G. L. c. 278, Section 33E, to consider
the whole case, extends only to the record on appeal. See Commonwealth v. Simpson, 370 Mass. 119, 126-127 (1976). An unauthorized annexation to a brief is not part of the record on appeal for the purposes of G. L. c. 278, Section 33E. Thus, the defendant has brought nothing before us with which he may challenge the application of the McHoul standards in this case.
The defendant did not claim surprise by his expert's testimony, and he hardly could have. Dr. Sills's report, dated more than three months before trial, indicates that he did not regard the defendant's mental condition on the night of the killings as a disease. [Note 3] The defendant never sought to obtain another psychiatric expert. See United States v. Dwyer, 539 F.2d 924, 926-928 (2d Cir. 1976). From Dr. Sills's testimony, it appears that he did not believe the defendant was insane under the McHoul test, although on certain facts it appears (from his report) that he was prepared to testify that the defendant was in a dissociative state at the time of the killings. [Note 4]
The defendant seems to argue that the judge should have submitted the question of his sanity, or criminal responsibility, to the jury. When the defense of insanity has been raised by the evidence, the judge must give a requested instruction concerning the defendant's criminal responsibility. In Commonwealth v. Kostka, 370 Mass. 516,
526-527 & n.7 (1976), we noted that evidence tending to show insanity "may enter the case during the prosecution's case in chief, either . . . [by] direct questioning or . . . cross-examination." Of course, often the defendant's asserted lack of criminal responsibility is supported by expert testimony on his behalf. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Walker, 370 Mass. 548, 577 (1976); Commonwealth v. Kostka, supra at 525-526; Commonwealth v. Boyd, 367 Mass. 169, 172 (1975); Commonwealth v. Costa, 360 Mass. 177, 182-183 (1971); Commonwealth v. Smith, 357 Mass. 168, 177 (1970); Commonwealth v. Ricard, 355 Mass. 509, 514 (1969); Commonwealth v. Francis, 355 Mass. 108, 110 (1969); Commonwealth v. DeSalvo, 353 Mass. 476, 478 (1968); Commonwealth v. Chester, 337 Mass. 702, 708-709 (1958); Commonwealth v. McCann, 325 Mass. 510, 514 (1950). We have recognized, however, that the facts of the crime are an element which may be considered in support of an insanity defense. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Costa, supra at 182; Commonwealth v. Francis, supra at 111. Cf. Commonwealth v. Cox, 327 Mass. 609, 615 (1951) (defendant's acts considered in granting a new trial under G. L. c. 278, Section 33E). Indeed, we have suggested recently that a defendant "might argue that the very facts of the alleged crime create an inference of mental disease or defect." Blaisdell v. Commonwealth, 372 Mass. 753, 765 (1977). Thus, expert testimony is not required to raise a defense of the lack of criminal responsibility. Id. United States v. Hartfield, 513 F.2d 254, 260 & n.3 (9th Cir. 1975). In Commonwealth v. McInerney, ante, 136, 151 (1977), we noted that "the question whether the evidence in any particular case was sufficient to require the judge to instruct on the subject does not appear to have been at issue in any case decided by this court." In the McInerney case, we held that certain statements made by the defendant and his history of impotency were insufficient to raise the issue of criminal responsibility.
As an issue considered apart from our obligations under G. L. c. 278, Section 33E, the defendant's argument that the judge should have charged the jury pursuant to an "insanity
defense" is wholly lacking in merit. The defendant did not request an instruction on the question of his sanity. He did not object to the judge's charge. [Note 5] We consider the contention that the defendant's criminal responsibility was an issue only as it relates to our function under G. L. c. 278, Section 33E.
The burden was on the Commonwealth to prove the defendant's criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt. Commonwealth v. Mutina, 366 Mass. 810, 815 n.2 (1975). The "presumption of sanity" operates procedurally to meet that burden until the question of the defendant's sanity is raised. Commonwealth v. Kostka, 370 Mass. 516, 530 (1976). [Note 6]
The evidence was sufficient to raise a question of the defendant's criminal responsibility. The victims were stabbed repeatedly and their bodies mutilated. The evidence would permit a finding that the defendant was a drug user of marginal intelligence who had no memory of his conduct after he entered the victim's premises. He told the police that he remembered walking on the driveway, and that he felt strange, "kind of like floating." He testified that he "felt almost like I was hallucinating." An insanity defense may be raised properly by the admission of any evidence which, if believed, might create a reasonable doubt concerning
the defendant's criminal responsibility at the time of the killings. United States v. Currier, 405 F.2d 1039, 1042 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 395 U.S. 914 (1969). See A.S. Goldstein, The Insanity Defense 112-113 (1967). However, as we have said, because the defendant not only did not request an instruction on criminal responsibility but consciously eschewed pressing the point, the matter of his criminal responsibility was not fairly raised in this case.
We conclude under our obligation pursuant to G. L. c. 278, Section 33E, that the defendant is not entitled to a new trial on the ground that his criminal responsibility was not submitted to the jury. [Note 7] His argument, if accepted, would mean that a defendant could conduct his defense on one theory, such as a claim, as here, that someone else committed the crime, and then argue on appeal that he should have a new trial because he did not advance a claim of criminal irresponsibility, as he should have. We do not regard G. L. c. 278, Section 33E, as a procedural device by which a defendant may challenge his own trial tactics.
Even if a defendant were permitted to pursue such a dichotomous approach under G. L. c. 278, Section 33E, the record in this case does not support a claim that he should have a new trial in which he could try the question of his criminal responsibility. This is unlike those cases involving an insanity defense where this court or certain Justices have concluded that a new trial should be granted in exercise of this court's power under G. L. c. 278, Section 33E. See Commonwealth v. Walker, 370 Mass. 548, 584 (1976) (Hennessey, C.J., and Kaplan, J., dissenting in part) (Liacos, J., concurring); Commonwealth v. Kostka, 370 Mass. 516, 539 (1976) (Hennessey, C.J., and Kaplan, J., dissenting in part); Commonwealth v. Francis, 355 Mass. 108, 112 (1969) (Whittemore and Cutter, JJ., dissenting); Commonwealth v. Cox, 327 Mass. 609, 615 (1951). In all these cases, the defendant actively asserted his lack of criminal
responsibility, and there was expert testimony indicating that the defendant was not criminally responsible. In all but the Francis case, there was no expert testimony at all on behalf of the Commonwealth concerning the defendant's sanity. [Note 8] Here the only expert testimony indicated that the defendant was not suffering from a mental disease or defect at the time of the killings. [Note 9] From our assessment of this entire record, we conclude that substantial justice does not require a new trial at which the defendant's criminal responsibility at the time of the killings would be submitted to the jury. See United States v. Spenard, 438 F.2d 717, 720 (2d Cir. 1971).
The defendant's motion for a new trial, as argued here, presents no independent issue and was properly denied. Convictions of murder in the first degree were appropriate, and, assuming that the imposition of consecutive life sentences is a matter which we can consider under G. L. c. 278, Section 33E, we believe that consecutive sentences were fully warranted in this case. The convictions are affirmed.
Judgments affirmed.
[Note 1] Dr. Sills said: "This breaks down into three things. First, as a result of mental disease or defect, lacking substantial capacity; second, to appreciate criminality of conduct and, third, to conform conduct to the law. I know that's all one sentence, but to be perfectly honest with you, I cannot grasp it unless I break it down to those three thoughts."
[Note 2] Once an expert for the defendant has testified, under the McHoul test, in support of the defendant's claim that he was not criminally responsible, a rebuttal expert for the Commonwealth may testify that, in his opinion, the defendant possessed substantial capacity to appreciate the criminality of his action and to conform his conduct to the requirements of law, even if, in his opinion, the defendant was not suffering from a mental disease or defect at the time of the allegedly criminal conduct. This is so because, if the jury believe the defense expert's opinion that the defendant was suffering from mental disease or defect, the Commonwealth should be allowed to offer rebuttal testimony on the remaining aspects of the McHoul standard. See Commonwealth v. Marshall, ante, 65, 70-71 (1977).
[Note 3] "Dissociative reaction is not a mental `disease' insofar as I have reserved the term `mental disease' for conditions of psychotic proportions. Others have, of course, defined clear neurotic conditions as `diseases:' and have even gone so far as to label `personality disorders.'"
[Note 4] We note that Dr. Sills's report itself suggests that, on the facts of the case, the defendant may not have had a "dissociative reaction" during which he lacked the "substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality [wrongfulness] of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." Commonwealth v. McHoul, supra at 547, quoting from Model Penal Code Section 4.01 at 66 (Proposed Official Draft 1962). Dr. Sills stated in his report that a dissociative state "would have a distinct and clear amnesic period from a given point in time until an exact moment when one `comes to' or `wakes up' with total amnesia for the intervening period. So his failure to tell and retell a consistent story of what he remembers must be weighed against his contention that he does [not-sic] recall the murders."
[Note 5] Indeed, in his brief counsel for the defendant says that he did not press the defense of insanity in his considered judgment "since such a request could well have prompted a most damaging charge on the absence of evidence of insanity." In another portion of his brief, however, the defendant argues that sanity was placed in issue by evidence apart from the rejected psychiatric testimony.
[Note 6] Even after the question of a defendant's sanity is raised, in this Commonwealth the jury may "weigh the facts underlying the presumption and the inferences that may follow from those facts." Commonwealth v. Kostka, 370 Mass. 516, 530-531 (1976). The Commonwealth thus may meet its burden in particular cases, without introducing expert testimony, by relying on the circumstances underlying the so called presumption and on evidence at the trial. Commonwealth v. Walker, 370 Mass. 548, 577 n.20 (1976). Commonwealth v. Kostka, supra at 535-536. However, the absence of expert rebuttal evidence from the Commonwealth in the face of expert testimony on behalf of a defendant might prompt this court, in particular circumstances, to order a new trial pursuant to its authority under G. L. c. 278, Section 33E.
[Note 7] The judge did charge the jury that they could consider the possibility that the defendant lacked the capacity to commit murder in the first degree because of his consumption of liquor.
[Note 8] In the Francis case, the Commonwealth's expert was equivocal. 355 Mass. at 110, 112.
[Note 9] The Commonwealth had an expert available who did not testify. Presumably he would have testified that the defendant was sane.


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Paul Schenk • Mar 27, 2015
Ceres Gets Real; Pluto Lurks
This article originally appeared on Paul Schenk's blog and is reposted here with permission.
Although we are still along way from understanding this fascinating little body, Ceres is finally becoming a real planet with recognizable features! And that's kinda cool. The now-released images from February show features roughly 4 kilometers across, including numerous well-preserved impact craters. These are distinct and clearly show central peaks superficially similar to what we observe on Dione and Tethys. They appear to be about as deep as expected, but measurements of their depths will be done on higher resolution data. Some circular features look rather like flattened craters, but again as to origins (whether relaxed by deformation of ice or by erosion or infilling), caution is in order as we are often fooled at these low resolutions.
Global map of Ceres Global map of Ceres at 4 km/pixel (this is my version of the map that was released on March 2, and is NOT an official map product). NASA / JPL / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA / Paul Schenk
So, Ceres has impact craters, some of which could be modified by geologic processes. It might also have some tectonic features, though it is still too early to be sure of their extent, age, or importance. It even has those enigmatic bright spots (sorry no speculations at this point!), which hint at the possibility of more water-ice related features at higher resolution. All in all, though, it is nice to finally have a sense of Ceres as a body, even if that view is rather fuzzy at the moment. This bodes very well for the approaching mapping campaign.
Although there are still suggestions of linear features in the new images, our experience with similar-sized icy worlds orbiting Saturn is that only the most dramatic canyons are readily apparent at the current resolution. Tectonic features like simple fault scarps or cracks won't be obvious at Ceres until April (we have spent most of March on the dark side of Ceres at some distance thrusting the ion engines in order to achieve our first mapping orbit on April 22). Indeed, many of Tethys' smaller-scale fractures require resolutions down to 100 meters, which we won't see at Ceres till this summer. It is likely that Ceres may not betray many of its most interesting ice-related features till we get down to our formal mapping altitudes where resolutions will be a kilometer or less.
The most intriguing linear features are arcuate grooves radiating from a large southern impact basin roughly 250 kilometers across. Although these could be tectonic, the arcuate shape is consistent with secondary impact features related to the formation of the basin. The key test will occur when we get 1-kilometer data or better and can examine the detailed morphology.
Here are some Cassini images of Tethys, shown similar to our views of Ceres in mid- and late-April. Smooth regions, many craters, and the largest fracture system, Ithaca Chasma are all very recognizable, but the small fractures and crater chains across the surface are not yet apparent. By the last week of April we should be acquiring images of Ceres at resolutions of 1.3 kilometers, although at different phase angles as this 2-week-long RC3 phase goes to completion.
Tethys' anti-Saturn side This is the side of tethys that faces away from Saturn. It includes the huge Odysseus basin in the north, and the crater Melanthius with its strange central ridge in the south. The central-peak crater Dolius just barely peeks into sunlight north of Melanthius. Cassini took the two images for this mosaic on Tethys on 21 July 2007 at 7:44 and 7:58 UTC as "ridealong" observations for a thermal infrared map of the moon. Tethys is 1062 kilometers in diameter and was 231,000 kilometers away at the time; the image has a scale of 1.4 kilometers per pixel. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Emily Lakdawalla
Tethys in enhanced color: south pole and southern Ithaca Chasma This portrait of Tethys is made of three Cassini images taken through infrared, green, and ultraviolet filters on May 10, 2008. It includes Tethys' south pole and the southern end of Ithaca Chasma, which is on the side of Tethys that faces Saturn. On the right side of the visible disk is the huge Telemus basin, but its topography is so subtle that it is difficult to see in this view. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Emily Lakdawalla
This is Dione at 1.3 km/pixel (similar to Ceres during RC3). This exquisite image shows many features, including the relaxed craters at lower left (with prominent central peaks), the large 350-km-wide impact basin at bottom, the multiple fracture sets at right, and the smooth plains at left.
Dione in true color Cassini took three photos of Dione through red, green, and blue filters at 19:32 UT on 26 April 2007 for this portrait of the icy moon. We are looking at the south pole and Saturn-facing hemisphere of Dione. The Palatine chasmata slice into the disk from its right edge to the center, with the flat-floored valley of Aufidus catena diverging south from Palatine toward the huge Evander basin, only half of which is visible at the bottom edge of the disk. Other prominent craters include central-peak crater Dido, at upper center, and slightly smaler peak-ridge crater Erulus, at bottom left. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Emily Lakdawalla
There are times in any great adventure when the pulse quickens just a little and the stomach tightens up a notch. I think I have finally reached that point with Pluto. Two weeks ago we passed the 1-AU point. One AU is the Earth-Sun distance (and yes the tiny Earth does orbit the gigantic Sun), which isn't much more than an anthropomorphic milestone. But we are also now well past the halfway point between Neptune's orbit and our destination. After 9 years of travel (not to mention a decade or more of work to get New Horizons approved, built and launched), it gives one a sense that we are really on final approach. We have passed the second-to-last signpost on the long trek. The last significant signpost will be when we reach the distance where our high-resolution camera gets images roughly equivalent to the Hubble Space telescope, sometime in May. We cannot give a precise date for this as the HST and LORRI imaging systems have different optical characteristics and whatnot. The Project will let us know when we cross this threshold. Still it will be the real mark that we are into new territory.
For the geology types out there (myself included), we will not be getting resolvable data until a few weeks before arrival. That doesn't mean we won't be doing anything. New Horizons is in Approach Phase, during which the Pluto system is under routine monitoring. This will allow us to track all the known moons to get precise orbits and monitor brightness changes to determine rotation periods and such. We are also looking for new moons and even ring systems, if they exist. So we will be very busy during approach doing things that Earth-bound telescopes can't do as well. I will have more on Pluto later this Spring.
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The viruses were already familiar to the researchers—in the second half of the 20th century, corn crops in Kansas suffered a similar fate. Known as maize lethal necrosis, the disease is caused by a combination of sugarcane mosaic virus (SMV), a common virus that is not usually harmful to maize, and a strain of maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV). MCMV is damaging to maize crops on its own, but in combination with SMV, the effect is exacerbated. While there hasn't been a major outbreak of maize lethal necrosis in Kansas since 1988—thanks to a rotation of disease-tolerant corn varieties—when the viruses struck Kenya in 2011, the local maize had no defense. By the following year, the disease had infected 77,000 hectares of Kenyan farmland, costing an estimated USD $52 million. It has now spread to most east African countries and threatens food security for millions of people.
Unfortunately, maize lethal necrosis is hardly unique; in general, plants are just as susceptible to viral infections as humans and other animals are. And viruses are particularly dangerous because, unlike bacteria and other pathogens, they cannot be killed with antibiotics or pesticides. "At the moment, there's not much to be done with plants that are infected," says Jean-François Laliberté, a virologist at the National Institute of Scientific Research (INRS) in Quebec, Canada. So when viruses strike, farmers are often forced to destroy crops, clean tools and machinery, and then replant with seeds from elsewhere.
In recent years, however, scientists have turned to inventive new ways to protect crops. Genetic modification techniques developed over the last 30 years, for example, can arm plants with defenses against viral invasion, while leaving crop yields and food quality unaffected. Some of these modified plants are now in the food chain. More-recent gene editing techniques are refining this approach, allowing researchers to make precise changes in plants' DNA to engineer a more resistant generation of crops. Several such varieties are now being tested in lab and field trials, while a handful await safety approval from national regulatory bodies.
The study of plant viruses has a long history. In fact, it was in plants that viruses were first discovered. In the late 1850s, a devastating disease began spreading across tobacco plantations in the Netherlands. Scientists at the time found that injecting sap from infected plants into healthy ones spread the symptoms—mottling and discoloration of the plants' leaves—leading researchers to assume that the affliction must be caused by a bacterium. However, additional experiments in the 1890s showed that the infectious agent spreading the disease could pass through the tiny pores of a porcelain water filter—far too small to allow the passage of any known bacterium. In 1898, Dutch microbiologist and botanist Martinus Beijerinck coined the term "virus" to describe the mystery contagion, though it would be another few decades before researchers characterized exactly what it was.
New viral genomes, sometimes packaged into a new protein capsid, are then carried away to neighboring cells through small channels in cell walls called plasmodesmata. But it takes a little coaxing, as these passageways typically allow the transit of small molecules, but not of proteins and RNA. So viral factories produce what are called movement proteins, which trigger the channels to widen. Some viral particles also manage to make their way into the phloem, where they have a chance of being sucked up by a sap-feeding insect like an aphid and carried away to infect other plants, often decimating entire fields of crops.
Of course, plants are not passive victims in this relationship, and many have evolved genetic resistance to viral infections. (See "Holding Their Ground," The Scientist, February 2016.) Understanding how plants defend themselves against attack has given scientists a head start in the race to protect crops, allowing them to engineer new, resistant varieties.
PAPAYA PEST: Randall Pingel, an entomologist with the US Department of Agriculture, examines papaya fruits for symptoms of papaya ringspot virus, which struck the $11 million papaya industry in Hawaii in the 1990s.PEGGY GREB, USDA/ARSOne of the first lines of plants' natural defense against viruses, deployed when the cell detects double-stranded RNA, is RNA silencing. Plant enzymes called Dicer-like proteins take viral RNAs and turn them into small interfering RNAs (siRNA). These siRNAs bind to a family of proteins called Argonaute as part of the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), which tracks down viral RNAs based on their similarity to the siRNA sequence and chops them into tiny fragments. "We now know that this is the major mechanism by which plants defend themselves against viruses," says Hanu Pappu, a plant virologist at Washington State University in Pullman.
Researchers have been boosting plants' ability to use this mechanism to fight off viruses for more than 20 years. In Hawaii in the 1990s, the $11 million papaya industry was nearly decimated by papaya ringspot virus (PRSV), which yellows the leaves of the fruit trees and slowly kills them. A team at Cornell University inserted the ringspot virus coat protein gene into a bacterial plasmid, and fired gold particles carrying the plasmid at papaya cell cultures. They then germinated plant embryos that were expressing the foreign RNA, which would trigger RNA silencing against the virus. This new papaya variety, named Rainbow, is primed for PRSV, ready to silence its RNA as soon as it invades a cell. Rainbow papaya has been hugely successful and has come to dominate the Hawaiian papaya market since its commercial release in 1998.
More recently, scientists have been taking advantage of this natural plant defense system to protect cassava, a starchy root vegetable that's a staple in the diets of hundreds of millions of people in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and South America. Cassava brown streak disease is caused by two viruses, Ugandan cassava brown streak virus (UCBSV) and cassava brown streak virus (CBSV), which have been infecting cassava crops since the 1980s. The disease only began causing serious problems for farmers in 2004, when the viruses spread out from coastal regions and across Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cassava plants had no natural resistance to the disease.
Meanwhile, to produce a crop with resistance to a greater variety of CBSV strains, VIRCA researchers have combined the full coat protein gene sequences from UCBSV and CBSV into a plasmid and inserted it into the genome of an East African cassava variety that is preferred by farmers.6 This new variety, part of a project dubbed VIRCA Plus, performed well in confined field trials in Kenya and Uganda, with 16 out of 25 transgenic lines remaining symptom-free after 12 months.6 Field trials with these resistant lines continue, as the team works with national government regulators in Uganda and Kenya to seek approval for the new variety to be released for use by farmers.
"The biggest challenge is still trying to negotiate this regulatory infrastructure," says Becky Bart, a plant geneticist at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center in St. Louis.
HIJACKED BY THE ENEMY: Cross-section of stem infected by turnip mosaic virus; virus replication factories stained in green, cell walls stained in magenta.JUANE WANPlant breeders have long been making use of such naturally occurring genetic resistance, selectively crossing wild varieties to produce more-resistant crops. For example, in the 1980s, work led by scientists at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture succeeded in breeding partial resistance to the geminivirus-caused cassava mosaic disease—resistance that's found in closely related wild species of the root vegetable—into cultivated varieties across Africa.10 By cross-breeding cultivated cassava (Manihot esculenta) with its wild relative, tree cassava (M. glaziovii), the team was able to introduce naturally occurring resistance to the disease, controlled by multiple genes.
Such traditional breeding approaches can take decades, however—a cumbersome prospect when new resistance genes must be introduced for each new viral strain that evolves. More recently, scientists have used genetic engineering techniques to more swiftly and precisely arm crops with such resistance. "Genome editing has just completely revolutionized every part of biology," says Bart.
Last year, doing screens in yeast, Bart and her collaborators identified two eIF4E proteins from cassava that interact with CBSV and UCBSV VPg proteins. Then, using the CRISPR-Cas9 system, they edited the sequence of those genes to prevent their expression, resulting in a cassava variety that showed improved resistance to the viruses in greenhouse trials.11 The CRISPRed cassava plants weren't fully resistant, however, suggesting that the viruses may also be able to interact with the three remaining unedited eIF4E proteins. The team hopes to fine-tune the system to engineer a fully resistant cassava plant.
Recent studies have revealed other tricks used by plants to fight off viral infections. For instance, the process designed to recycle damaged or unwanted objects in the cell—autophagy—has been coopted to remove viral particles, too. Working with tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum), Yakupjan Haxim at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and colleagues found that the plant's autophagy protein ATG8 binds the viral ßC1 gene, which encodes an essential protein for infection by geminiviruses, transporting it to an autophagosome for degradation.12 Viruses carrying a mutated version of ßC1, which cannot be bound by ATG8, cause more-severe symptoms and replicate more rapidly. Conversely, when the researchers promoted autophagy—by preventing the expression of enzymes that inhibit the process—plants of the model organism Nicotiana benthamiana, a close relative of tobacco, showed more resistance to three geminiviruses: cotton leaf curl Multan virus, tomato yellow leaf curl virus, and tomato yellow leaf curl China virus.
As researchers continue to learn more about the natural defenses plants use to protect themselves against viral pathogens, and as they enlist rapidly advancing genetic engineering techniques to equip plants with such weaponry, the field is on its way to having the tools it needs to develop a new generation of resistant crops. But it will be an uphill battle. Viruses are constantly evolving, many times faster than the plants they infect, and it is only a matter of time before each virus develops a countermeasure to such resistance mechanisms. For example, many viruses manufacture a protein that can mop up siRNAs, binding them before Dicer-like enzymes can form a RISC complex; and potyviruses such as tobacco vein mottling virus have mutated their VPg protein, allowing them to bind to the modified eIF4E proteins that previously offered the plant resistance.
"I think we have a long way to go to develop sustainable and environmentally sound approaches to really control virus diseases," says Bryce Falk, a plant pathologist at the University of California, Davis.
While genetic editing may be paving the way to more-resistant crops, the approach's application to agriculture is still in its infancy. Each new variety requires extensive testing for safety before the engineered plants can be deployed in the field. For now, quick identification of new viral threats and strict hygiene and quarantine regulations remain critical, by containing outbreaks before they can spread and cause widespread crop losses, particularly in developing nations.
The Plantwise project is a global program led by CABI that aims to do just that. Launched in 2011, the project works with farmers in Africa to help diagnose and treat plant health problems. One of their key innovations has been Plant Clinics, where local farmers can meet with trained plant health experts to identify pests and pathogens. These meetings "have been pivotal in the identification of some of these new pests that are coming to different countries," says Phiri. It was at one of the clinics that maize lethal necrosis was first detected in Africa six years ago. "Early detection is crucial, and plant health clinics are playing that role," he says.
But new technology can also help. For example, MinION portable DNA sequencers being used by the Cassava Virus Action Project are helping farmers in developing nations identify new viruses, allowing them to quickly take action to minimize transmission.
Although the best studied viruses are those that cause disease, the vast majority of plant viruses may not be harmful at all. Most viruses that plague agricultural plants have close relatives in wild plants, which don't seem to suffer from infections. "Most of the time viruses don't cause any symptoms in wild plants," says Marilyn Roossinck, a viral ecologist at Penn State University. "And now we're finding that some of them are truly beneficial"—at least under certain conditions.
For example, Roossinck's research group has found that brome mosaic virus and cucumber mosaic virus (latter shown in background image) both help some plants cope with drought stress, possibly as a result of the changes to plant cell metabolism caused by viral infection (New Phytol, 180:911-21, 2008). In both Arabidopsis and tobacco plants, for instance, researchers at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas in Madrid, Spain, found last year that simultaneous infection with two different viruses increased levels of salicylic acid, a plant hormone linked to stress and drought tolerance (Plant Cell Environ, 40:2909-30, 2017).
"If the conditions are normal, then the virus may be harmful," Roossinck explains. "But when you have a drought, then the virus becomes beneficial." While the precise mechanisms by which viruses make their hosts more drought resistant are still poorly understood, it's possible that one day the molecular mechanisms underpinning such viral infections could be deployed in an agricultural setting to help crops deal with dry conditions, she adds.
In addition to such acute viral infections, plants harbor an array of persistent viruses, which reside permanently within healthy organisms and are transmitted from one generation to the next via seeds. "In wild plants we find about 60 percent of the viruses fall into this persistent category," she says. Many of these viruses, too, may benefit their hosts. For instance, white clover cryptic virus inhibits the formation of nitrogen-fixing nodules in legumes such as lotus when nitrogen levels are high, helping the plants use resources more efficiently.
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As you can see, each is the same, but different. The first one feels dark and powerful, the second one sort of goofy and the third...well, I find it rather impassive and without a lot of personality. It's interesting for me to think about why each of the drawings feels as they do and to analyze what I did to create those moods.
I don't think that you have to reinvent the wheel every time you open your journal. For me, the point is to have fun and do something creative. I do a lof of repeating in my journals. Do you?


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Q: Authenticating user using persistent cookie. Hash & salt necessary? I'm building a login script and I want users to be able to tick a "remember me" button.
I've read this page on the matter: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/working-with-sessions-and-cookies-in-php-and-mysql/
They recommend creating an auth_key by concatenating a random string with the username and then hashing it with a salt.
$cookie_auth= rand_string(10) . $username;
$auth_key = md5($salt . $cookie_auth);
$auth_query = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET auth_key = '" . $auth_key . "' WHERE username = '" . $username . "'");

I'm just wondering, what actually is the point of doing lines 1 & 2? Could you not just skip out the salt and hash, and just create $auth_key as a long pseudo-random string?

A: It's not obvious at first, but if it was purely a randomized string of some sort and had no identity tied to it before the MD5 hash - then you could have issues where two users end up with the same auth key. That said, MD5 will probably work for you, but technically should be phased out(Numerous collisions have been found with it making it no longer viable) - try looking into a newer one-way hash, such as SHA-2

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The Curlew Wars are over for now, and there's no more rumblings in the bush… The Island Survivors of the Running Wild Creative Arts Program battled on February 13th 2021 in front of a packed matinee, and sold out evening performance.
This play stars, and has been written and produced by, young people from all Southern Moreton Bay Islands. It's their story, crafted over the last seven months on a journey through workshops with some of Queensland's best creative arts talent.
At each performance, The Island Survivors are joined by the Quandamooka's own Yullubariba dancers, and the play features dances inspired by Waangenga Blanco, former Senior Dancer of the Bangarra Dance Company.
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Cultilène is one of the world's leading substrate producers. They have a great reputation in the industry as a company that puts the grower first. The Cultilène stonewool cubes are made to fit the small hole blocks and are supplied in an easy-to-use tray. The cubes have an effective air-to-water ratio and a reliable homogeneity with great strength and dimensional stability and excellent controllability. This media is inert and pathogen free.


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Q: How can I get the current width of a specific amount of columns What I want to achieve is getting the width value (in percentage) of a specific amount of columns (based on the current context).
Is there a grid helper to do this (maybe find-grid function)? Could you provide an example on how to use it?

A: The column-span function will do just that.
scss
.foo {
  // 3 column span, from the 1st column
  width: column-span(3, 1);