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Connecting Policy and Practice: Challenges for Teaching and Learning in Schools and Universitiesby Michael Kompf
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Pub. Date: 08/28/2005
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Written by members of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching, the papers in this volume were presented at an international teaching conference on the issues of theory and practice. Using these contributions from experienced researchers, most of whom are practising teachers, this single volume is international in scope and context,
Written by members of the International Study Association on Teachers and Teaching, the papers in this volume were presented at an international teaching conference on the issues of theory and practice. Using these contributions from experienced researchers, most of whom are practising teachers, this single volume is international in scope and context, demonstrating differences and similarities between and within countries.
This detailed book is clearly split into five sections focusing on the following themes:
* teacher education – professional identity, professional research, and quality of teacher education
* teacher practice – basic values, ethics, and cultural scaffolding
* higher education – academic motivation, discourse dissonance concerning intellectual property, self studies of teacher education practice
* teacher development – the challenge to be the best teacher, the link between policy and practice, personal theory and practice in tertiary development
* research and theory – reflective practice, shared democratic values, teachers as researchers.
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Table of ContentsPart 1. Teacher Education 1. Learning to be a Teacher: Teacher education and the development of professional identity 2. Teacher Learning and the Theory of Variation 3. Areas of Professional Research: A proposal for organizing the context of teacher education 4. How to Affect the Quality of Teacher Education: A four-year policy driven project implemented at university level 5. Learning from the Conservation of New Teachers Part 2. Teacher Practice 6. Inside Teacher Community: Representations of classroom practice 7. The Contemporary 'Basic Values of School': The emperors' new clothes? 8. Exploring the Landscape of Teachers' Tacitly Implied Ethics 9. Cultural Scaffolding: The arts and crafts 10. What is Actually Happening in Secondary Classrooms? The rhetoric and reality of curriculum reform Part 3. Higher Education 11. Students' Voices at a Portuguese University: Academic motivation and its relationship with academic success 12. Discourse Dissonance in University Policy Concerning Intellectual Property 13. When Angels Dance with Devils: What is sacred and profone in the professoriate? 14. Listening to Students' Voices: Self study of teacher education practice 15. UK Doctoral Degree Assessment Criteria: Towards transparency through exploring teacher thinking Part 4. Teacher Development 16. The Challenge to the Best: Research and the teacher 17. Tertiary Teacher Development: Connecting policy, personal theory and practice 18. Collaboration in Cross National Networks for Teacher Professional Development 19. Dilemmas of Democratic Education 20. When the Best Maps Cannot Guide Us: Exploring and understanding teacher vulnerability Part 5. Research and Theory 21. The Development of Teachers' and Students' Identities through Reflective Practices: Conceptual considerations 22. On a Pedagogy of Research Problems 23. Shared Basic Democratic Values by Means of Education? A deweyan perspective on some democratic illusions and necessities 24. Face to Face: Human dimensions in biographical interviews 25. Teachers Becoming Researchers: Reflections on professional development
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Ted Nugent's Still a "Special Deputy" to Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (left), with his "Special Deputy" Ted Nugent.
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We almost forgot about when the "Motor City Madman" Ted Nugent -- known in more recent days simply as a madman -- was deputized by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Turns out, Nugent's still a "Special Deputy" to Arpaio, a sheriff's office spokesman confirms to New Times.
Nugent's been in the news recently for making really awkward, super right-wing comments about President Obama and Democrats, saying in reference to the Dems that "we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November," adding that he'd be "dead or in jail by this time next year" upon Obama's potential reelection.
Nugent had to meet with the Secret Service for the special brand of jackassery he presented during a National Rifle Association meeting a couple weeks ago, and the Army canceled a show he was supposed to perform at Fort Knox in June.
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As part of the plea agreement, according to Reuters, Nugent will land on probation, will be banned from hunting in Alaska or on Forest Service land for a year, has to pay a fine, and film a public-service announcement about not breaking the law while hunting.
Nugent's last crimes came in 2010, when he violated a couple laws in California while deer hunting, losing his deer-hunting license and pleading guilty to deer baiting and not having a properly signed tag, according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, Arpaio swore in Nugent as a "Special Deputy" in August 2010.
We've tried to get a precise definition of "Special Deputy" before -- as has Arpaio election foe Mike Stauffer -- but we were unsuccessful in that venture (no response from the sheriff's office).
"Special Deputy" status isn't permanent, we know, since the baller formerly known as Shaqtus, Shaquille O'Neal, was stripped of his status after Arpaio got upset that O'Neal dropped the n-bomb in his rap about his former Los Angeles Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant -- the "Kobe how my ass taste?" performance.
Still, after committing a few crimes and acting like a complete weirdo, Nugent's still "Special" to Sheriff Arpaio.
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Ray Kurzweil, the bold futurist and author of the New York Times best seller The Singularity Is Near, is arguably today's most influential technological visionary. A pioneering inventor and theorist, he has explored for decades how artificial intelligence can enrich and expand human capabilities. Now, in his much-anticipated How to Create a Mind, he takes this exploration to the next step: reverse-engineering the brain to understand precisely how it works, then applying that knowledge to create vastly intelligent machines.
Drawing on the most recent neuroscience research, his own research and inventions in artificial intelligence, and compelling thought experiments, he describes his new theory of how the neocortex (the thinking part of the brain) works: as a self-organizing hierarchical system of pattern recognizers. Kurzweil shows how these insights will enable us to greatly extend the powers of our own mind and provides a road map for the creation of super-intelligence - humankind's most exciting next venture. We are now at the dawn of an era of radical possibilities in which merging with our technology will enable us to effectively address the world's grand challenges.
How to Create a Mind is certain to be one of the most widely discussed and debated science books in many years - a touchstone for any consideration of the path of human progress.
©2012 Ray Kurzweil (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.
Gen-Xer, software engineer, and lifelong avid reader. Soft spots for sci-fi, fantasy, and history, but I'll read anything good.
"Articulate but familiar brain-inspired AI pitch"
If you don't know much about the current state of artificial intelligence, brain science, or the philosophy of consciousness, and don't mind a little bit of technical discussion, Kurzweil does a fine job of articulating the current rapid converge between these areas of understanding. However, if you already do know the basics, this book probably isn't going to do much to expand your own consciousness.
Speaking as a software engineer who has a fascination with AI, I largely agree with Kurzweil's glowing assessments about the future of machine intelligence, though I'd probably push his timeframe back a few decades and could do with a bit less of his self-promotion. Though there's a lot we still don't understand about how the human brain operates, neuroscience and computer science are starting to form the same fundamental insights about how intelligence "works", whether it's represented as neurons or a mathematical process. In a truly intelligent machine, data from the outside world is taken in by a large, hierarchical array of pattern-recognizers, which gradually rewire themselves to better anticipate the messy-but-hierarchical patterns of the real world (visual squiggles to letters, letters to words, words to syntax, syntax to meanings, meanings to relationships, relationships to concepts, concepts to insights -- and back down again). To some extent, the software world has already made useful progress in this direction.
However, most of the insights Kurzweil offers aren't anything new. Indeed, most of what he says was explored in Jeff Hawkin's 2004 book, On Intelligence, and in academia before that. Briefly stated, the hierarchical architecture of the human brain's neocortex is the major engine of human intelligence, and it seems to start out mostly as a blank slate, a generalized learning machine that builds neural connections through experience, eventually forming a complex inductive model of reality, which constantly makes predictions about what comes next. Kurzweil shares some of his own successes solving certain kinds of problems decades ago, but the new ideas he advances seem somewhat vague and underdeveloped (maybe he's saving the nuts and bolts for his new job at Google).
Still, there's plenty here for a general audience, when he gets away from the geekery. Kurzweil is passionate and pretty convincing about his belief that even limited gains in awareness of how the human brain works still provide AI researchers with some powerful springboards, and that, conversely, advances (or missteps) in AI teach us more about the brain. As he points out in discussing Watson, the IBM computer system that famously won on Jeopardy after acquiring most of its knowledge from scanning natural-language documents (the sampling of questions it got right is impressive), things have already come a long way. And there's no reason to believe that the rapid convergence won't continue, especially in the post-cloud computing world. After all, the specific, idiosyncratic way our monkey-rat-lizard brains were shaped to think as our ancestors crawled/darted/clambered around undoubtedly isn't the only way an evolutionary process can discover thought.
There's also a succinct but informative history of the field of AI, with brief overviews of significant thinkers and developments. And Kurzweil wades a little bit into the philosophy of consciousness, exploring some its more paradoxical aspects in light of what science knows about the human brain. For example, it's been shown that the two cerebral hemispheres, in patients with a severed connection, operate almost as two separate brains. Yet, each one still seems to think it has a conscious link to the other. Maybe such individuals are more like two people in one body, but don't realize it? Eerie, huh? His other thought experiments are nothing new, but still fun. Everyone should know what the Chinese Room is.
Finally, there's a section in which Kurzweil responds to critics, and calls out a few flagrant misunderstandings of his ideas. While it's debatable how on-target his past predictions about technology have been, as far as I'm concerned, if he was even halfway right, then he'll be fully right soon enough.
Overall, I think I would recommend this book most to AI neophytes who haven't read anything by Kurzweil before. His enthusiasm for the topic can be quite inspiring. For other readers, especially those who have read On Intelligence, I don't think you're missing anything essential. I'd probably give this one 4 stars for the former audience, 2.5 for the latter, 3.5 overall.
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"Good guide on what it means to be human"
Kurzweil is not for everyone, but he is for me. He covers a wide range of topics from how the brain works, quantum physics, logical positivism and Ludwig Wittgenstein up to what does it really mean to be human.
I get a little glossy eyed during the description of the brain and its interactions, but he explains them as good as anyone and I could follow them but not well enough to repeat it to others, but when he's talking about what constitutes a thinking human is where he really excels and excites and I can and will repeat to others his thoughts on that stuff.
The narrator really added to the books enjoyment. I thought he was narrating the book exactly the way the author would have been while he was writing the book.
"Brand new Kurzweil book! ... Excellent!!"
I am currently 2 hours into the book and it is everything I hoped for - possibly the best audiobook I've listened to so far. I am a Ray Kurzweil fan. I've already listened to "The Singularity is Near", a book which contains a lot of data tables, that, in my opinion, kind of hampered the listening experience. This book on the other hand, has a straightforward narrative style that translates very well into the audio format. The reader speaks a bit slow for my taste, but that is a very minor complaint. The information in this book is fascinating. If you're a fan of science, technology and futurism, or if you are interested in the human mind and how it works, you will love this book.
"Read the Wikipedia article, don't bother with the book"
Kurzweil spends more time comparing himself to the great minds of humanity than he does actually discussing his theories. The content is laced mostly with anecdotal fluff, and quotes by other people to make his writing sound more impressive. I'm really happy Audible allows returns because this book is a waste of money. You'd save yourself a lot of time and frustration by just reading a synopsis of the book.
"Another great piece of work by Ray."
I would give a repeat listen again in one years time to compare the rate of technology to his predictions. Especially now that he is working at Google. I have read or listened to all of Ray's books, and while I think some of his predictions are a little grandiose, many are spot on.
Technology has always fascinated me. The whole idea of a set of machine software to bring about innovation, products, revelations and revolutions to many areas of our world is both exciting and intriguing.
The explanation of how the mind is layered with pattern recognizer's over and over not only has this been proven, but replicated on some small proof of concepts already. It is an exciting time.
None come to mind.
He brought an energy and excitement to the book. Sometimes the material get a little dry, he kept you interested.
Welcome to the world of tomorrow.
Having the kindle version of this helped out a lot. There isn't too many charts or pictures, but I found that following along during a section/chapter that I found really interesting helped me understand it a little easier.
"The intersection of human behavior and technology"
Great insights into the evolution of the human mind and technology. A must have for people interested in learning about the origins, current applications, and predictions of the field of AI.
"Kurzweil is very full of himself"
A few good chapters but mostly just kurzweil going on and on about his predictions in other books.
Prometheus One
"Monumental, transparent, translucent, transcendent"
Kurzweil tackles one of the biggest scientific mysteries our our ages: How to build a synthetic mind. Instead of descending into mumbo jumbo, touchy feely nonsense, he sets forth a vision that makes a lot of sense, even to sophisticated practitioners. Sure, I think he over simplified the solution, but he gives enough specific hypothesis that one could spend decades fleshing out, refuting, refining his ideas.
All of it
Excellent, extremely pleasant to listen to his voice. Slightly arrogant which suits the material in the book.
Well, the only downside is that Lane mispronounced a few words... especially "von Neumann" repeatedly (saying "von New--man" which is simply not correct. This really bugged me. Clearly Kurzweil did not review the entire performance before giving his ok.
Otherwise his performance was great.
"Wonderful Audio Book!"
I purchased a print copy of this book and read a few chapters and loved it, but was finding it difficult to make time to finish it. So I purchased the audio book and now can enjoy it driving to and from work. The topic is fascinating and the author explains everything very clearly in language that anyone can understand.
If you want to understand how the human mind works and how someone will create an artificial mind in the not-too-distant future, this is the book to read.
"You will need to focus on the content"
Historical, Futuristic, Fascinating
The details in which Kurzweil deconstructs the subject matter into finite components down to a level in which most people would abandon the exercise due to mental fatigue. If you follow him on the journey of details, you will be rewarded with knowledge, and insight.
Lane reads as though he is Kurzweil and it is very effective in selling the emotional bonding needed for the "a-ha" moments to happen. He is very conveincing on selling very detailed information and keeping the listener attentive.
Yes, although to be honest, there was a point 2/3rd's of the way through where the information was redundant to previous sections and I was getting bored. This corrected itself at the ~80% point and once again became engaging.
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Good progress man and reps for turning your life around.
Man, great work and impressive quads. Best of luck.
No critically lagging bits from what can be seen in the pic. Look pretty symmetrical with a descent chest. Not sure what your goals are but I'd just focus on adding more size overall. Switching to 3...
Smart move asking for help before moving to higher weights (if this is actually a serious post). First, for a proper deadlift you need to pull the weight from a resting position on the floor. It is...
Great progress, impressive delts.
awesome and inspiring work and build.
I'm with a number of people on here. Typically rotate between 3 on, 1 off, 2 on, 1 off (chest/bi, back/tri, legs) and 2 on 1 off (chest/bi, back, delt/tri, legs). Hits everything ~twice a week. First...
Hey man great progress, looks like you've added a fair amount of size. Maybe bring the pecs up a bit, but good overall build.
Impressive build and transformation. Quads looking sic. Great work!
You are right, crap lighting but still impressive chest and solid delts.
Not in the military, but I do share your frustration. I am a biologist and spend 2-6 weeks in the desert with limited amounts of food, little sleep and am very active during our trips. As such I...
Great work, impressive lats.
You could go either way, but personally I'd just go for a slow lean bulk. All depends on what your goal is for the next year.
Good progress, difference is clear. Descent quads. Just keep going.
Yeah man, good work on the delts and arms.
First, everyone is going to look different at the same weight/size as muscle bellies, insertions, muscle maturity and bf will vary. However saying that in the pic I posted I was 6'0 175-180 with...
Glad to see you stuck with it and were driven enough to make such great progress. I know how frustrating it can be to try and reclaim your gains. Great work. Looking swole.
Impressive work. Great back.
Great progress so far. Nothing really seems to be lagging. Personally I would just focus on gaining size in general, rather than focussing on an area, but what you do just depends on what your goals...
Sick progress man, looks like you kept the majority of your muscle during the cut. Lighting on the back pic sucks but your back still looks impressive.


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Today's post is written by 2nd VDGe Lion Mike Kerek of the Reynoldsburg Lions. Learn more about baby Rodrigue, his illness and how you can help by following his family's Facebook page.
I received an email from our MDS on May 7, 2015, who had received it from a Lion half a world away. Her message to the other elected district officers and myself was, "Not sure what to do with this, but it could be a good zone project":
I'm Yannick Bonnefond, President of the Lions Club Reunion Sud France Australe located in Reunion Island (Indian Ocean). Here, we are close to the family of 7-month-old Rodrigue, who has a serious genetic illness called Werdnig Hoffman (Amyotrophie spinale).
The Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, USA, has selected Rodrigue to test a new experimental treatment. His parents, Jean-Francois and Cecile Cadet, and Rodrigue will fly from Reunion Island in 10 days and are expected in Columbus on May the 10th. They don't know anybody there.
Can you tell me if you know somebody in your Lions club who might help them? They will be certainly lost and far from friends and family.
Thank you very much for your response and your help to this family.
Best regards from Saint Pierre in Reunion Island
President 2014 – 2015
By this point there were only three days before the Cadet family was to arrive, and we had no information at all to work with except this sole email.
Through email and later Facebook, Yannick and I were able to work together and obtain the flights, times and needs of the family with a couple of hours to spare before they were due to arrive. District 13-F DGe Lion Ben Cosgray and his wife (Plain City), PDG John Fischer (Columbus Southern Pines), French-speaking Lions Vanne Ganziami, Lavie Koubaka, and Rennes Adiwenyaga from Reynoldsburg, along with myself, were all on hand to greet the travel-weary family with smiles, gifts and a warm welcome. We were able to get them to the hotel and settle in with contact information that let them know they had a support system here in the United States. Jean-Francoise and Cecile are not Lions, and were amazed at the response their friends in Reunion provoked, simply by reaching out to fellow Lions and asking for help…even to Lions on the other side of the world.
I've been a Lion for 16 years, and for the first time I understood the power of 1.4 million Lions. People I have never met and likely never will, unless I am very fortunate, needed assistance and got it because we were all part of the same organization that lives the motto, "We Serve." I know the same would hold true for me, should I need it.
It's an amazing knowledge that regardless of where I am in the world, whatever my concern or need may be, there will be a Lion there to help.
Jean-Francoise and I are staying in touch, and he's keeping me informed. Little Rodrigue has not yet been accepted into the program he needs, but there is still a possibility. I hope and pray that Rodrigue gets the treatments he so desperately needs. I'm just glad that I could be a part of his life, if only fleetingly, and know that I touched his life and his family's in a positive manner. It's the only reward I need to reach out the next time.
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The International Assistance Grant (IAG) program enables Lions clubs in developed countries to partner with Lions clubs in lesser-developed regions on projects that make a real difference for communities in need. IAGs fund collaborative projects that provide direct and immediate services to the disadvantaged. In addition, the program supports projects that aid the blind or disabled.
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Looks like another skimpy month for FUNimation.
I guess they got all of their biggest titles out for the holidays, so there's really not much else to put out.
Still waiting on Roberta's Blood Trail, Guilty Crown, and Future diary, though. And wasn't Fujiko supposed to come out this spring as well?
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It's too bad WTK was so subtle about pointing out that this solicitation list is not final.
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I want more "older titles to Blu-ray," like they did with Yuu Yuu Hakusho. After seeing Right Stuff offer each season of Dragon Ball for $13.49 apiece, I'm really inclined to buy it, as I've never seen the series and have heard so many good things about it.
But then I think to myself about all the wishy-washy crap that FUNi does with their packaging, the possibilities of BD conversions, and the fact that they occasionally split big series into separate boxes, then condense them into fewer sets, and eventually into one collection. And because of this, I really wanna' like them for putting in the effort to produce good, quality product, but at the same time it pisses me off when they screw around with the aforementioned gripes above.
They hinted at Trigun on BD, but now it's just a DVD re-release. They licensed X (TV) and hinted at a BD release for that; haven't heard anything since. They listed Last Exile (the first one) for BD a while back, and now it's completely vanished. What about Fam: The Silver Wing? Where's Guilty Crown? And can I get Darker Than Black season 1 on BD at some point, or can they just give up the license already and let Aniplex have it?
Can't believe I ever wanted to work for 'em at one point . If I did today, I'd probably tear up the divisions and either fix the packaging department just to get some effing uniformity in their casing or tell their press release people to stop giving false/super-delayed hopes to consumers for expectations.
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Trigun is a materials problem. No HD masters exist for it and the Japanese producers have stated before that they aren't going to do an HD telecine for it as a BD wouldn't sell enough in Japan to be worth it. The best Funi could do short of paying for an HD telecine, which as they found out with DBZ is very expensive, is upscale the old composite SD masters and no one wants that.
I'd really like to know what's up with Last Exile and Darker Than Black season 1 too. I hope they're planning to release the Last Exile BD alongside Fam the Silver Wing whenever they release that.
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|TRSI has posted the solicitations (see first post). Main addition is Shana Season 3.
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The recent set, Season 4 Voyage 3, covers spoiler[the Luffy vs Usopp fight, the Franky/Iceburg confrontation, and Robin leaving the crew]
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An Inevitable Threat
Cyber: The New CAT
Superstorm Sandy. The Joplin tornado. The Japanese earthquake and tsunami. California wildfires. 9/11. Catastrophes come in many forms. It is universally understood that despite our best efforts, disaster can strike due to forces beyond our control. Cyber threats are equally dangerous and diverse — and just as unstoppable.
Yet even as catastrophe risk management matures and scores of executives join the catastrophe conversation, the dragon known as cyber risk still sits in the middle of the board room, quietly smoldering.
In every industry and at every company size, cyber risk is a foundation-level exposure that every business must confront — one that must be viewed with the same gravity as a company's property, liability or workers' comp risks.
As recent as a decade ago, that might have been an overstatement. But not now. Technology and business are fundamentally linked. Computers and the Internet are the primary platform for communicating with customers and vendors, managing profits and expenses, paying employees, operating the machines that produce goods and provide services, and making sure that the end product gets into customers' hands on schedule. Mobile technology and the Internet of Things are opening new channels, making technology a physical extension of ourselves, both personally and commercially.
"The entire economy is so reliant, in ways that we don't even see, on technology and the storage, transmission and usage of data, both personal and for analytical purposes, that it's fundamental to almost every sector," said Oliver Brew, vice president for professional, privacy, and technology liability at LIU Liberty International Underwriters, the specialty line division of Liberty Mutual in New York.
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That reliance is only going to grow. A January report by Forrester Research described software assets as more critical to business success than financial assets over the next 20 years.
"If you take a look at the public companies' 10-Ks and publicly disclosed statements, what are they emphasizing that's going to differentiate them from their competitors, increase sales, decrease costs and maximize efficiency? They focus on the use of technology and the use of information assets," said Kevin Kalinich, global practice leader for cyber and network risk at Aon Risk Solutions.
With increased technology comes increased opportunity for attack. However, that reality didn't get a lot of traction in the C-suite until the recent Target breach splashed it across world headlines. Even now, there are still some resting easy, confident that their IT teams have everything under control. Others assume cyber attacks are a threat largely confined to industries such as retail, health care and financial services — sectors with the most data to lose.
Small businesses, in particular, downplay the risk, said Jesse Bessler, an account executive at Lacher & Associates, of Souderton, Pa. "I think it's that they just don't understand the risk, and they think that [a cyber policy] is an add-on item they don't need."
Increased Sophistication
Security experts, however, are trying to break through the wall of denial. Cyber attacks, they argue, are akin to massive storms or similar to the focused destruction of a tornado — something you can prepare for, but not something you can prevent. Despite firewalls and antivirus programs, experts say, cyber punches will eventually land inside every company.
To grasp the magnitude of the threat, it's important to recognize that the driving forces behind cyber crime are vast, varied and as uncontrollable as any atmospheric or geologic force. The threat is now ubiquitous, and experts agree that while making an effort to reduce the risk of a breach is important, it is no longer possible to completely prevent cyber attacks.
"It's like two identical cars in a mall parking lot," explained Kurtis Suhs, vice president and national technology and privacy product manager for Ironshore. "If one's locked and one's unlocked, the bad guy's going to go to the unlocked car. But if the bad guy really wants to get into the locked car, he will — it'll just take longer."
And yet, organizations keep brushing off the threat. That may be because "cyber risk" has become synonymous with data theft. If an entity does not have a significant aggregation of customer financial data, executives assume they won't be targeted. The reality is that the true exposure is no longer just about credit card or Social Security data. Hackers have expanded their target list, adopted a more patient approach and found deep-pocketed sponsors, whether private-sector or state-sponsored, security experts said.
Sophisticated hackers are conducting long-term surveillance and probing for weaknesses they can exploit for financial gain, said David Remnitz, global and Americas leader of Ernst & Young's forensic technology and discovery services business. "The end result here is the theft of highly valuable, internal information for significant financial gain," he said.
While that could mean outright theft of trade secrets or confidential M&A data, it could also mean corporate sabotage, as in corrupting a decade of research and development results or putting competitors out of business. Imagine a market where most of the players used one primary vendor as a source for a key ingredient. An organization could contract with a lesser-used source for that ingredient, then disrupt the operations of the primary vendor via a denial-of-service attack or other type of malware, leaving the rest of the market scrambling for suppliers.
The potential for lost business and liability claims could be devastating for the affected companies. Even those with solid business continuity plans in place could still take heavy hits from the reputational fallout.
"A large company might be able to absorb that risk. A small company can't," said Elissa Doroff, a vice president and senior advisory specialist in Marsh's network security and privacy practice in New York.
To date, breaches have largely been limited to individual companies, but the potential for larger events looms. One concern centers on cloud companies, which could host data for hundreds of businesses. A data breach or network interruption, or the physical destruction of a cloud-service data center could wreak larger havoc on the economy.
"That's a potentially catastrophic loss," said Doroff.
The sky's the limit at this point. Criminals are capable of disrupting a multinational corporation, a transportation or logistics network, a health care system, an entire industry or even an entire region, creating havoc and leading to economic losses in the millions or billions — in many situations even putting lives at risk.
Keep in mind that those with ill intent don't even need to have an IT background — the proliferation of hackers-for-hire means that anyone intent on doing damage can do so if their pockets are deep enough.
That said, it probably wouldn't take a well-funded ring of genius-level hackers and a sophisticated attack plan to paralyze the average organization. Three years ago, the U.S. subsidiary of Shionogi, a Japanese pharmaceutical firm, suffered a devastating cyber attack that deleted the contents of 88 computer servers, crippling the company's operations for several days, disabling its email, BlackBerry servers, order-tracking system, and financial management software. The attacker? A former mid-level employee, working from a public
Wi-Fi network at a nearby McDonalds, calmly sipping coffee while bringing Shionogi to its knees.
An Enterprise Approach
Even organizations that have never been affected by a catastrophe generally do not question the need for CAT planning. At the very least, most probably have a written evacuation plan in place and enough insurance to cover the potential physical damage of a storm. The smartest also address the whole picture from a supply chain and business continuity standpoint, and may have even considered questions about how to manage any reputational damage related to interruption of service to customers.
Cyber exposure should be approached in much the same way. It starts with engineering out the risk to whatever extent possible. If your roof is old, for instance, replacing it may be a way to ensure the building is more likely to stay intact if it's battered by a storm. The cyber equivalent might be replacing old servers or upgrading any existing automated intrusion detection system. Security experts stress, however, that cyber risk is not an IT exposure, it's an enterprisewide exposure. Therefore vulnerabilities need to be identified across an entire organization, with policies and procedures modified accordingly.
A comprehensive, enterprisewide disaster plan can also go a long way toward helping companies minimize the damage sustained in the event of a cyber attack. For every function of an organization, management needs to ask hard questions about how a cyber attack could disrupt that function, and what kind of back-up plan each department would need. Do you have a way to contact customers and suppliers if your email goes down? Do you have a crisis communication plan for alerting the public about how you're handling the situation? Are your records backed up and accessible through a secure third-party?
Increasingly, organizations will rely on insurance to ensure their survival after a cyber event. In a February survey by BAE Systems, nearly 30 percent of companies said they expected the cost of a cyber attack to exceed $75 million. Another 20 percent expected the cost to fall between $15 million and $75 million.
"There's an expectation that this could have an extremely material effect on business performance, and that's a risk they look to hedge," said Paul Henninger, global product director for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, a business unit of BAE Systems.
Taking a realistic approach to cyber attacks could improve underwriting of the risk, he said. Just as carriers evaluate whether clients are prepared for a CAT-5 hurricane, knowing some damage is likely, they could determine whether clients are ready for a cyber storm.
"You can't make it go away, but you can minimize the impact on the bottom line and customers and reputation," he said.
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Risk Technology: Risk Managers Lead from Within
This year marks my twentieth in the risk management field. Now I would never call myself a risk manager. Far from it: I'm a computer geek, and proud of it. Today we refer to the Internet, Cloud, Mobile and Big Data, but I've been working with technology my entire life. So much has changed in those twenty years. Networking computers together was rudimentary and extremely limited when I started. Now everything, and everyone, is interconnected, and that has changed everything.
That interconnectivity has allowed organizations to move away from the isolated, siloed processes of the past, and produced dramatic changes in the way we conduct our business and our lives. I've watched risk management evolve from a department called upon primarily when things go wrong, to a pervasive philosophy for running a successful business. Fewer and fewer risk managers I speak to work in isolation, reacting to claims as they come in. Rather they are a collaborative lynchpin to manage risk. They don't wait for bad things to happen. They proactively put safety programs in place, analyze loss data and make their organizations more risk-aware. They know an enormous amount about the inner workings of their organization, its suppliers, distributors, vendors and team members. This is a fundamental transition from a middle management, administrative function, to an executive level function that is key to the organization's success.
But risk managers are increasingly finding that email and spreadsheets are clumsy, inefficient, and ultimately create obstacles to managing risk throughout their company. With the speed and global reach of business, when even 'local' businesses rely on a far-flung supply chain, yesterday's technology introduces risk, inefficiencies and increased levels of error. Today's business demands technology that facilitates decisions for tomorrow's business challenges. Organizations need a platform – a platform that provides secure, efficient and consistent methods of communicating risk-related events and data. Fortunately this need comes at a time when we have a convergence of technologies that can make this vision a reality.
This is a fundamental transition from a middle management, administrative function, to an executive level function that is key to the organization's success.
Just imagine running your business on technology of twenty years ago. Sending paper memos (when CC referred to a literal 'carbon copy'), using a phone tethered to your desk, taking delivery of policy documents in hard copy – oh wait, they still do that. Would that put your business at a competitive disadvantage? Of course it would – and risk management would suffer too.
Risk management no longer has to take a back seat to other parts of the organization. Quite the opposite. By leveraging commercial cloud platforms, the pervasiveness of the Internet and the interconnectivity of everyone and everything, the risk management team can be the most modern, forward-looking part of the company. Risk management has become the bellwether of change – actually bearing the standard for technology-enabled collaboration and productivity across the organization. Imagine that.
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Buyers Beware: General Liability Outlook May be Shifting
The soothing drumbeat of "excess capital" and "soft market" to describe the general liability (GL) market is a familiar sound for brokers and buyers. Emerging GL trends, however, suggest the calm may not last.
Increasing severity of GL claims may hit some sectors like a light rain at first, if they have not already, but they could quickly feel like a pelting thunderstorm in others. A number of factors could contribute to the potential jump in GL prices for certain industry segments or exposures, possibly creating "micro" or niche hard markets in the short-term, and maybe even turning the broader market over the longer-term.
"There are trends we're seeing that will play out slowly. Industries that carry more general liability exposure will and have been hit first and hardest, but it won't apply across the board initially," said David Perez, Senior Vice President and Chief Underwriting Officer, for Liberty Mutual Insurance's National Insurance Specialty operation. "There is ample capital in the market today, which allows a poor performing account to move its policy frequently from carrier to carrier. Poorer performing classes, however, will likely face increased pricing for GL policies and a reduction in capacity."
The good news for buyers is that they can take action today to lessen the impact these trends and the evolving market may have on their GL programs.
David Perez on the state of the GL market.
Medical and Litigation Trends Drive Severity
One factor increasing claim severity is the rising cost of health care, driven both by greater demand and by medical inflation that is growing faster than the Consumer Price index.
The impact of rising medical costs on commercial auto is well-known. Businesses with heavy transportation exposures are finding it more difficult to obtain coverage, or are paying more for it.
That same trend will impact general liability, just on a slower and more fragmented basis.
"In light of these trends, brokers and buyers should seek to understand how effectively their current or potential insurers defend GL claims, particular in using evidence-based medicine to assess and value the medical portion of a claim, and how they can provide necessary care to claimants while still helping clients control their total cost of risk."
— David Perez, Senior Vice President & Chief Underwriting Officer, National Insurance Specialty, Liberty Mutual Insurance
"It takes longer for medical inflation to register through the tort system in general liability than it does in auto liability (AL) because auto claims are generally resolved more quickly," Perez said. "But the same factors affecting severity in AL also exist in GL and as a result, it's foreseeable that we will not only see similar severity trends in GL, but they may in fact be worse than we've seen in commercial auto."
Industries with greater exposure to severity in general liability claims should be the first wave of companies to notice the impact of medical inflation.
"Medical inflation will drive up costs across the board, but sectors like construction and product manufacturing have a higher relative exposure for personal injury lawsuits."
The impact of medical inflation on the GL market.
Beyond medical inflation, two litigation trends are increasing GL damages. First, plaintiffs' lawyers are seeking to migrate the use of life care plans—traditionally employed only for truly catastrophic injuries—to more routine claims. Perez recalled one claimant with a broken thumb and torn ligaments who sought as much as $1 million in care for the injury for the rest of his life.
Second, the number of allegations of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in GL claims is growing. It can be difficult to predict TBI outcomes initially and poor outcomes can be expensive and long tailed.
"In light of these trends, brokers and buyers should seek to understand how effectively their current or potential insurers defend GL claims, particular in using evidence-based medicine to assess and value the medical portion of a claim, and how they can provide necessary care to claimants while still helping clients control their total cost of risk," notes Perez.
Changing Legal Landscape
Medical inflation and litigation trends are not the only issues impacting general liability.
Unanticipated changes in court interpretations of policy language can throw unexpected pressure on GL pricing and capacity.
Courts sometimes issue rulings interpreting policy language in a manner that expands coverage well beyond the underwriter's original intent. Such opinions may sometimes have a retroactive effect, resulting in an immediate impact on not only open, but also closed cases in some circumstances.
Shifts in the Marketplace
In addition to facing price increases, GL brokers and buyers will be challenged by slightly shrinking capacity due to consolidation and repositioning among carriers in the marketplace. "Some major carriers have scaled back their GL writing, resulting in a migration of experienced senior management. As these executives leave, they take their GL expertise and relationships with them, resulting in fewer market leaders and less innovation," Perez said.
"Additionally, there are new carriers coming into the business that may not have the historical GL loss data to proactively identify trends or the financial strength and experience to effectively service their GL customers and brokers. Both trends make it important for brokers and buyers to work with an insurer that is committed to the GL market and has the understanding and resources to help better manage risks impacting customers."
Last year saw a high level of mergers and acquisitions in the insurance industry. Buyers should take advantage of that disruption to re-evaluate their needs and whether their insurers are meeting them. Or better yet, anticipating them.
What's a Buyer to Do?
Buyers—and their brokers— should look to partner with insurers that can spot emerging trends and offer creative solutions to address them proactively.
What should buyers and brokers do, given the trends facing the GL market?
"Brokers and buyers should value insurers that have not only durability and a long history in the general liability business, but also a strong risk management infrastructure," Perez said. "Your insurer should be able to help you mitigate your specific risks, and complement that with coverage that works for you."
Beyond robust GL claims and legal management, Liberty Mutual also provides access to one of the insurance industry's largest risk control departments to help improve safety and mitigate both claim frequency and severity.
In addition, notes Perez, "Even if a company has a less than optimal loss history in general liability, there can be options to provide adequate coverage for that company. The key is to partner with an insurer that has the best-in-class expertise, creativity, and flexibility to make it happen."
By working closely with their insurers to understand trends and their potential impacts, brokers and buyers can better prepare for the possible GL storm on the horizon.
To learn more about Liberty Mutual's general liability offering, visit https://business.libertymutualgroup.com/business-insurance/coverages/general-liability-insurance-policy.
This article was produced by the R&I Brand Studio, a unit of the advertising department of Risk & Insurance, in collaboration with Liberty Mutual Insurance. The editorial staff of Risk & Insurance had no role in its preparation.


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Seems like every vendor I speak with is laying out its solid-state disk (SSD) strategy, and almost all say they're trying to help the customer through this confusing platform change. It's not confusing.Today SSDs' primary function is to accelerate databases. There are specific files in a database that, under intense load, get hot. These files are ideal to put on SSD. The second practical use case is actually in a NAS environment where thousands of users are viewing the same set of data over and over again; examples might be product images for a catalog site or heavily hit videos on a video-sharing site. While there are other use cases, these are the big two, and really databases today represent the lion's share of the market.
In my experience, if you have one of these situations you know it. You are probably using or looking at using short stroking to address the performance issues, and at that point SSD begins to make sense, not only for performance but also for cost savings. Implementing SSD can reduce the number of physical spindles required, which saves power; it can reduce adding servers to add access bandwidth; and it can reduce the amount of time spent tuning the database that happens in these environments.
Why is this confusing? First, because the vendors getting into this space are new to it and they are trying to figure it out. In many cases some of their other solutions, like wide striping or enhanced caching techniques, may be suitable for many customers experiencing performance-related issues. As a result they are trying to figure out when to tell a customer to use wide striping or enhanced caching vs. when to use SSD. The other issue is that as most of the traditional storage manufacturers get into the space they are introducing a Flash-based SSD and in many cases are integrating it into their existing storage systems.
While Flash-based SSD is acceptable for read-heavy environments, there remains concern about reliability and the random write I/O performance, while still better than mechanical drives, may not be worth the added costs. Also by integrating Flash-based SSD into the standard storage shelves, these suppliers are exposing themselves to shelf bottleneck issues.
Shelf bottleneck issues occur because in many cases two or three flash drives can consume all the bandwidth that the current drive shelf is able to deliver, leaving 10-plus drive slots unused. Many vendors will quickly mention that these open drive slots could be used by SATA or Fiber mechanical drives, but then you may get in to speed-matching issues.
In the end, storage manufacturers will likely have to come out with specific shelves for just SSD. Probably a 1U case that only holds four SSD drives or a larger standalone system that's designed just for SSD, like those from Solid Data Systems, Texas Memory Systems, or Violin Memory. These manufacturers also provide DRAM-based SSD, which does not suffer from the write I/O or reliability concerns with Flash.
Flash is not all bad and there are some excellent uses for it, as we will discuss in our next entry.
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George Crump is founder of Storage Switzerland, an analyst firm focused on the virtualization and storage marketplaces. It provides strategic consulting and analysis to storage users, suppliers, and integrators. An industry veteran of more than 25 years, Crump has held engineering and sales positions at various IT industry manufacturers and integrators. Prior to Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest integrators.
The cybersecurity profession struggles to retain women (figures range from 10 to 20 percent). It's particularly worrisome for an industry with a rapidly growing number of vacant positions.
So why does the shortage of women continue to be worse in security than in other IT sectors? How can men in infosec be better allies for women; and how can women be better allies for one another? What is the industry doing to fix the problem -- what's working, and what isn't?
Is this really a problem at all? Are the low numbers simply an indication that women do not want to be in cybersecurity, and is it possible that more women will never want to be in cybersecurity? How many women would we need to see in the industry to declare success?
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