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Creators | A group of friends is trying to raise money via The Hero Initiative for a "modest funeral" for Static co-writer Robert L. Washington III, who died last week at age 47. [The Outhousers]
Awards | Frank Doyle, who wrote thousands of Archie Comics scripts, and Steve Skeates, who wrote for both Marvel and DC Comics, will be honored with this year's Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. Both were chosen by a unanimous vote of a committee headed by Mark Evanier. The awards will be presented July 13 during the Eisner Awards ceremony at Comic-Con International in San Diego. [Comic-Con International]
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Graphic novels | Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald look at the graphic novel presence at last week's BookExpo America. [Publishers Weekly]
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Comics | Art Spiegelman is contributing a prescient New Yorker cover from 2001 to the Occupy Comics anthology; other creators who are contributing work include Alan Moore, Jimmy Palmiotti and Dean Haspiel. [Underwire]
History | Joe Sergi takes a look at the comics burnings of 1948, a series of disturbing events in which children, no doubt goaded on by well-meaning adults, collected comics door to door and then burned them in a public bonfire. [CBLDF]
Publishing | Bob Wayne, DC Comics' senior vice president of sales, and John Cunningham, vice president of marketing, discuss May sales figures, which show the publisher edging closer to Marvel in market share and Batman topping Justice League. Wayne also explained why DC won't change its practice of publishing collected editions first in hardcover, then as inexpensive paperbacks: "While certain titles do get a deluxe or an Absolute Edition at some point, we think our retailer would be leaving a lot of money on the table if we didn't give consumers the chance to buy hardcovers first on select titles. The sales we are having in both channels on Batman and Justice League in the month of May indicate that we don't have that many people waiting the trade, looking for that cheaper edition. A lot of people seem to want a nice durable hardcover and we plan to follow this model for the foreseeable future." [ICv2]
Piracy | Manga scanlators (and proprietors of other bootleg comics sites, such as HTMLComics.com) have argued that reading manga on their sites is no different from checking it out of the library. Librarian and graphic novel expert Robin Brenner explains why that just isn't so. [About.com]
Conventions | Three-day tickets went on sale this week for New York Comic Con. Confirmed guests so far include Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Mike Mignola and Josh Gates. [Collider.com]
Publishing | The revelation that DC's newly reintroduced Green Lantern Alan Scott is gay has moved Christian comic publisher Art Ayris, who is also the executive pastor of a Baptist church, to announce that his company Kingstone Media won't be including gay characters in its lineup: "If Kingstone is the only comic book company in America doing it, we will stand for the things God says are godly and stand against things that clearly fall under the category of sin." [Baptist Press]
Retailing | The Avengers movie seems to be bringing new customers into comics stores looking for Marvel titles, at least in Maryland. Pullbox requests for Marvel comics are also up, suggesting some of the uptick is from existing customers. [The Star Democrat]
Comics | The Greenville County (South Carolina) Library has removed two copies of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon from its shelves after a mother filed an official challenge to the collection's sexual content. Carrie Gaske said that although her 14-year-old daughter found the horror book in the adult section, she thought "it looked like a children's comic," and would be fine for her to check out. Daughter Jennifer soon discovered Neonomicon wasn't the "murder mystery comic book" her mother believed it to be. "It was good at first," she said. "Then it got nasty." How "nasty"? "The more into I got the more shocked I was, I really had no idea this type of material was allowed at a public library," Carrie Gaske said. "I feel that has the same content of Hustler or Playboy or things like that. Maybe even worse."
The library allows children age 13 and older to check out books from the adult section with their parents' permission. The library system's two copies of Neonomicon have been removed from circulation while a committee reviews the content. [WSPA.com]
Conventions | New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has mothballed plans for a giant convention center in Queens, leaving the unlovely, unloved, but well-situated Javits Center as the home of New York Comic-Con for the near future. [The New York Times, via The Beat]
Publishing | Alex Klein sees the "outing" of Green Lantern Alan Scott as a desperate move to boost sales by a publisher whose market share is dropping: "Switching up sexual orientation is a cunning way of compensating for flagging sales and aging characters. In the meantime, the industry is rebalancing: toward independent publishers, author ownership, and cross-platform digital tie-ins. As small studios sap talent from the giant conglomerates, comics are changing—and there's a lot of money to be made in the process—just not in the comics themselves." And he talks to The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman and Image publisher Eric Stephenson about what they can do that the Big Two can't. [The Daily Beast]
Publishing | Eight months after the launch of DC Comics' New 52, Marc-Oliver Frisch takes a look at the reboot and concludes that it is not the "game-changer" it was touted to be. After an initial burst of sales when the series was launched, DC's monthly numbers have settled down to about half the September sales, above the previous year's levels but best described, as Frisch puts it, as "solid but not spectacular." [Comiks Debris]
Digital comics | Anthony Ha looks at the success of the Pocket God comic, which is marketed alongside the game; more than 200,000 copies of the first issue have been sold, and sales for the whole series total 600,000. Dave Castelnuovo of Bolt Creative thinks the strong sales are due in part to the 99-cent cover price: "Meanwhile, the traditional publishers don't want to undercut their print prices, so they're usually charging $2.99 or $3.99 for new issues. (Some older comics are available for considerably less.) Castelnuovo says that's 'just too expensive' for digital comics, especially when they're competing with something like Angry Birds, which offers more content for just 99 cents. And although Marvel and DC are sell digital collections, Castelnuovo argues that they should be doing more to bundle dozens or even hundreds of issues together, so that readers can 'blaze through them' the way that they will consume entire seasons of Mad Men or Game of Thrones." [TechCrunch]
Legal | Don MacPherson, who covers the courts for his daily newspaper, updates the case of Josue Rivera, aka comic artist Justiniano, who pleaded not guilty in May 2011 to charges of possessing more than 100 photographs and videos containing child pornography. Rivera was arrested in Connecticut following a July 2010 incident in which police say he mistakenly gave a funeral home director a thumb drive containing 33 files classified as child pornography instead of the one containing photos of a deceased relative. Police later seized Rivera's computer and found 153 files of suspected child pornography. A judge has denied a motion to suppress the thumb drive, which Rivera's attorney had argued was obtained by police through an illegal, warrantless search. However, the judge ruled the search valid, as the material on the drive was brought to the attention of the police by a third party, the funeral home. MacPherson's summary of court documents provides more details on the case. [Eye on Comics]
Creators | Freelance artist Oliver Nome, who has worked for Wildstorm and Aspen but has no health insurance, is suffering from a brain tumor, and his dealer is selling off his art to help pay for the surgery. [Blog@Newsarama]
Publishing | John Jackson Miller looks at the shape of the comics market in 1995, before Diamond Comic Distributors had a virtual monopoly on distribution. [The Comichron]
Awards | The voting deadline for this year's Eisner Awards is Monday. [Comic-Con International]
Digital comics | George Gene Gustines takes a quick trip through the landscape of digital comics, dropping in on Mark Waid, comiXology's David Steinberger and Marvel's Avengers vs. X-Men Infinite Comic. Much of this is familiar territory to regular readers of this blog, but hey, it's The New York Times noticing digital comics! [The New York Times]
Digital comics | FreakAngels writer Warren Ellis looks at three recent digital comics, noting how they all limit themselves to "two-tier storytelling": "Accepting and exploiting new limitations is always part of a new format. These three projects, though, can't produce even a full-page spread without some serious scheming and dancing." [Warren Ellis]
Conventions | ReedPOP has officially announced it will fold the New York Anime Festival into New York Comic Con, rather than continue them as separate events held at the same location. "This move has nothing to do with our loyalty or commitment to the anime community and everything to do with the growth and identity of New York Comic Con as a leading pop culture event," ReedPOP's Lance Fensterman said in a statement. "NYCC embraces all elements of the pop culture world, including anime, and we have evolved to a point where the existence of NYAF outside our universe is almost a contradiction. We will be better able to serve the anime community from within the NYCC infra-structure rather than have a show which is separate and which will always be dwarfed by everything that New York Comic Con represents and is." [press release]
Passings | Cartoonist Jim Unger, whose one-panel comic Herman served as an inspiration for Gary Larson's The Far Side, passed away Monday at his home in British Columbia. He was 75. The comic appeared in about 600 newspapers worldwide from 1974 until Unger's retirement in 1992. [The Daily Cartoonist]
Conventions | Phoenix Comicon kicks off today, drawing an anticipated 35,000 to 40,000 attendees to the Phoenix (Arizona) Convention Center. Comics guests include Brett Booth, Jim Cheung, Garth Ennis, David Finch, Kathryn Immonen, Stuart Immonen, Andy Kuhn, Francis Manapul, David Lapham, Bob Layton, Dan Parent, George Perez, Billy Tucci and Ethan Van Sciver. [Modern Times Magazine, Fox 10 News]
Publishing | What does it mean to be an imprint of a larger publisher? For those who are interested in how the sausages are made, Gina Gagliano explains the relationship between First Second Books and parent company Macmillan. [First Second Books]
Comics | When 4-year-old Anthony Smith didn't want to wear his hearing aid because superheroes don't wear them, his mother emailed Marvel to ask if they had any pictures of superheroes wearing a hearing aid. Not only did Marvel editor Bill Rosemann respond with an image of the cover of 1984's West Coast Avengers #1, which featured Hawkeye wearing a hearing aid, he also had artist Nelson Ribeiro transform Anthony into a superhero, Blue Ear. [Concord Monitor]
Publishing | Former Marvel editor Jody LeHeup, who was let go by the publisher in October during a round of layoffs, has joined Valiant Entertainment as associate editor. [press release]
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From the Appalachian foothills in tiny Keyser, West Virginia, Gary Howell's auto parts business has known the internet's promise and it's peril.
"We've shipped Neon parts everywhere from Moscow to Singapore."
He opens a drawer filled with manilla folders records
"These are all fraudulent credit cards," Howell told Orr.
"All of these!" said Orr.
"All of these."
Howell has lost tens of thousands of dollars to fraudulent transactions. But what galls him most are the fees credit card companies charge him for each bogus order, reports CBS News Correspondent Bob Orr.
"They charge us fees for being the victim of a crime!" he said.
Internet commerce is exploding -- up 23 percent last year alone to $69 billion. One of every 50 online transactions is fraudulent -- and every bogus charge winds up costing both merchants and consumers.
"We eat losses, we have to raise prices," Howell explained.
The problem is internet merchants never see the customer or the credit card, and that carries a risk. For example, say someone in Washington orders fresh salmon from City Fish in Seattle.
If the card number turns out to be stolen or fake, the merchant can take a triple hit. He loses the money from the sale, loses the fish if it's been shipped and pays a penalty on top of that.
From his tiny shop in Lititz, Pennsylvania, Tom Mahoney runs "Merchant 911," a website that offers fellow vendors anti-fraud tools he says the credit industry doesn't.
"I firmly believe there's a financial incentive for them not to protect the merchant," Mahoney said.
"Because they're making money on the bogus fees?" asked Orr.
"That's correct."
No, says the industry -- that's ludicrous.
"Credit card companies absolutely have a vested interest in minimizing and preventing fraud," said Nessa Feddis of the American Bankers Association. "There is a cost associated with an invalid transaction. And the fee is intended to help recover those costs but also to encourage the merchant to be more careful."
Small businessmen feel the credit industry should share the burden.
"I don't like accepting all the risk for multi-million, multi-billion dollar corporations," Howell said.
But, until a better fraud-fighting system is developed, the "little guy" will be largely on his own, and often on the hook for losses.
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Groton - A full-sized school bus parked at a Route 12 supermarket Sunday morning may have seemed curious, but the bright pink sign hanging in front of it answered any questions.
"Help us Fill the Bus! With Thanksgiving Food Items."
Shoppers at the Stop & Shop responded in droves to the fifth annual Academy of the Holy Family's Fill the Bus Thanksgiving food drive as they donated dozens of frozen turkeys, canned and frozen vegetables, bread and rolls, gravy, potatoes cranberry sauce, pasta and desserts to help fill Thanksgiving baskets for needy families throughout southeastern Connecticut.
About 15 students in the school's Teens in Action program stationed themselves at the supermarket for seven hours Sunday, pausing for a pizza lunch on the bus. Students handed out lists of items especially needed for the baskets, but accepted all donations, including cash. At the end of the drive, they took stock of the donations and went into the store themselves to buy items that appeared to be in short supply.
"I love it," ninth-grader Kelsey Nagy of Haverhill, Mass., said after loading bags of food onto the bus. "We're getting a lot of donations."
Roxanne Rehberg, a teacher, adviser and coach at the academy, came up with the Fill the Bus idea five years ago when the Sisters of Charity at the school noticed donations for the annual Thanksgiving baskets were starting to drop off. The school has rotated locations over the years to different stores throughout the region both to spread the requests for donations and to spread the word that the small Catholic girls' high school in Baltic represents the entire region, Rehberg said.
The school bus delivered the goods to the Academy of the Holy Family in Baltic Sunday afternoon, putting the frozen food into the freezer, the cold items into the cafeteria coolers and the dry goods on the cafeteria tables for sorting. Today, students will form assembly lines to fill food baskets for 100 or more families in the region.
Marguerite Langlais of Gales Ferry saw a news clip of the food drive on the television news Sunday morning. Before she had a chance to respond, her husband, Don, called from the store on his way to the New England Patriots football game to tell her about the food drive.
"He said 'go bring that turkey we bought yesterday. We'll get another one,'" Marguerite Langlais said, handing the bird to students standing outside one of the store doors.
Another man handed a frozen turkey to students at the other door.
"This is for you," he said. "The beer is mine."
Students were well organized in groups, several at each of the two doors handing out lists of items needed and asking customers if they can help "fill the bus." They offered muffins to donors on their way out of the store. Other students and school staff were waiting to haul carriages of full grocery bags and turkeys back to the bus.
By almost noon, the students had collected 30 turkeys, triple last year's number, Rehberg said. That total didn't include the donation of $500 worth of turkeys brought to the school by the Cima family of Canterbury.
Lauren Cima of Griswold graduated from the Academy of the Holy Family three years ago and returns each year for the food drive. She said her family makes the donation in memory of her 18-year-old brother, Ricky Cima, who was killed in September 2009 when his pickup truck was struck by a train in Plainfield. She said the family also makes donations to Ricky's school, Harvard Ellis Technical High School in Danielson.
"I enjoy it," Lauren Cima said. "I like giving back."
Sunday's bright sunny weather, although cool temperatures in the 40s, kept students' spirits up. Sunday was freshman Amy Roberts' 14th birthday. Her sister, sophomore Mary Roberts, brought out two balloons tied to a box of snack crackers to celebrate. One said "Happy Birthday" and the other was in the shape of a bright yellow dump truck.
"They didn't have a school bus," Mary Roberts said.
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The Gnostic Gospelsby Elaine Pagels
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The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Gnostic Gospels has continued to grow in reputation and influence over the past two decades. It is now widely recognized as one of the most brilliant and accessible histories of early Christian spirituality published in our time. In 1945 an Egyptian peasant unearthed what proved to be the Gnostic Gospels, thirteen papyrus volumes that expounded a radically different view of the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from that of the New Testament. In this spellbinding book, renowned religious scholar Elaine Pagels elucidates the mysteries and meanings of these sacred texts both in the world of the first Christians and in the context of Christianity today.
With insight and passion, Pagels explores a remarkable range of recently discovered gospels, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene, to show how a variety of "Christianities" emerged at a time of extraordinary spiritual upheaval. Some Christians questioned the need for clergy and church doctrine, and taught that the divine could be discovered through spiritual search. Many others, like Buddhists and Hindus, sought enlightenment -- and access to God -- within. Such explorations raised questions: Was the resurrection to be understood symbolically and not literally? Was God to be envisioned only in masculine form, or feminine as well? Was martyrdom a necessary -- or worthy -- expression of faith? These early Christians dared to ask questions that orthodox Christians later suppressed -- and their explorations led to profoundly different visions of Jesus and his message. Brilliant, provocative, and stunning in its implications, The Gnostic Gospels is a radical, eloquent reconsideration of the origins of the Christian faith.
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This book, as well as Gnosticism as a subject, is something to digest, not sample and rebuke when it doesn't concur with your average tastes. Gnosticism does make sense, and each variance on it has some sort of valid point. Orthodox Christianity may not have faith in these points, and may even believe the opposite, but that doesn't discredit the matter at hand, only the reader and sect's ability to consider other opinions. No one knows for certain exactly what went down so many moons ago. We have our gut instincts, logical conclusions, and maybe even a little evidence but in the end there will always be loose ends to tie up in this or any belief system. I think Pagels and the Gospels themselves do a fair job of posing possible scenarios, and fresh (albeit ancient) ideas are certainly needed in a perhaps stale field. My belief is that texts such as this, along with the ideas they convey, will increase in number, even if not in quality. They pose questions that must be answered, if that means breaking our piggy bank of spiritual coinage to see what we've really been rattling at for two thousand years, then so be it. May not be fun, may not be pretty, but thoughts are unstoppable, so we might as well read things like The Gnostic Gospels with a grain of salt. I really liked the book's format, as well the text seemed chronological, but varied enough for prolonged interest. Pagel's vault of knowledge has also been dilligently concentrated and made accessible to the layperson in a similar manner to The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. There are certainly things missing in our collage of information regarding Gnosticism it is very likely some key pieces have been long converted to dust, and I think Pagels has artfully painted in the gaps with good reason and scholarly prudence. All in all, the main point of distaste for this book so far has been the topic, so I must ask this: If you by nature have an inclination toward rejecting an idea, why commit so much time to reading about it?
Most of the reviews for this claim that this book as well as other Gnostic writings are inaccurate because the bible which is 'truthful' says something different. Don't believe them, Gnostics were not pagans, they were a sect of christians that had a different interpretation of Christ and who were declared evil by the early church for it. If you want to get a different perspective don't blindly follow, read, learn, think for yourself.
This book is an excellent and enlightening book; however, I recommend before purchasing this book you choose another introductory book or source about Gnosticism. It is imperative you have a good, basic understanding of who the Christian Gnostics were and how they differed from the early Christians. Once you have that understanding, purchase this book and keep it permanently in your library. This book delves into the fascinating specifics of why these two groups held opposing opinions about Jesus' mission, teachings, and life.
Elaine Pagels deserves all the kudos she won with her 1979 study of early Christianity. Her research into the many documents comprising the Nag Hammadi Library is marvelously thorough and perceptive. Mentioning her own involvement via personal comments adds another dimension to the enjoyment of the book. What emerges is a revelation of just why the followers of gnosis and self-realization were branded as heretics and why these original texts were excluded from the 'orthodox' Christian canon. Seekers of the true, or 'lost' Christianities, will be rewarded. Pagels wonders in print whether perhaps gnosticism was influenced by Hindu teachings, by the spiritual science of yoga, but never asks where Christ was between the ages of 14 and 30. The answer to that question is revealed in a new book from Self-Realization Fellowship, see below.
When I first heard of the Nag Hammadi find, in the Egyptian desert in 1945, I was entranced. It was as significant as the Dead Sea scrolls, because of the determined attempt to destroy all evidence of the Gnostics and their literature by the Constantinians. So, I was delighted to have the opportunity to meet with Dr. Pagels briefly, in 1981, in New York, accompanied by my friend Dr. John Kiley. I highly recommend this book. The scholarship and research is evident, and yet it is clearly written so that any interested person can enjoy it without being burdened by the jargon of academia. A fascinating book, which will increase your knowledge of the Gnostics exponentially.
Pagels objectively introduces the subject of the Gnostic Gospels—she describes the history of the texts, some basic differences between Gnostic beliefs and Orthodox beliefs, and then summarizes by saying that Christianity would have developed quite differently (or perhaps even fizzled out like other mystic fad religions) if Gnosticism had survived. She supports neither Orthodoxy or Gnosticism in this book, but provides an objective historian's view on the two faiths. This is a fantastic introduction to Gnosticism, and it lacks the sensationalism of many Gnostic scholars today. Highly recommended.
A must read for anyone curious about the books that did not make it into the Bible.


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Stetson earned a 69-68 victory over Florida Atlantic on Tuesday, getting 16 points from Chris Perez at FAU Arena.
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Infinite regress arguments play an important role in many distinct philosophical debates. Yet, exactly how they are to be used to demonstrate anything is a matter of serious controversy. In this paper I take up this metaphilosophical debate, and demonstrate how infinite regress arguments can be used for two different purposes: either they can refute a universally quantified proposition (as the Paradox Theory says), or they can demonstrate that a solution never solves a given problem (as the Failure Theory says). In the meantime, I show that Black's view on infinite regress arguments (1996, this journal) is incomplete, and how his criticism of Passmore can be countered.
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German Occupation Coastal Trail01/08/2016
Against a backdrop of spectacular coastal cliff scenery, walk around Jersey's dry land battleship, Battery Lothringen.
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at the Opera House.01/08/2016
The world's favourite murder mystery! The Mousetrap is famous around the world for being the longest running show of any kind in the history of theatre, with over 26,000 performances in London.
Bioblitz Family Day at Durrell06/08/2016
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Horse Racing - Ladies Day14/08/2016
A day at the races is great fun for all the family, don your hats for the most colourful and glamorous race of the season.
Vintage Fair at St Aubin28/08/2016
Stalls at the fair will be selling collectable items and unique gifts from the 1900s to the 1980s
International Air Display 201608/09/2016
Military and civilian aircraft perform in formation flying over St Aubin,s Bay, always a highly popular event.
St Brelade's Bay beach festival.10/09/2016
A brand new festival for 2016. Sure to be a good day out for all the family.
Heritage Open Days10/09/2016
2016 is the 80th anniversary of the National Trust for Jersey and all of the Trust's properties will be open over the course of the weekend.
Condor Ferries 2016 Dragon Boat Festival17/09/2016
Now's the time to organise and book in your team, Everyone is invited to come on down to Albert Pier for a day of family fun!
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Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) are a growing threat to businesses, as criminals can be hired by the hour. » Read More
Existing security models and defensive technologies have not kept pace with the innovation of the attackers and the return on investment from traditional firewalls and anti-virus is rapidly decreasing.
The "worst Internet attack ever" slowed down millions of computers worldwide.
Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, is looking for her own hackers — 600, the agency estimates.
CNBC's Scott Cohn reports China is again a cybersecurity focus. Also in the news, Andrew Auernheimer, known online as "Weev," was convicted and sentenced to 3.5 years for hacking 120,000 iPad users' personal information.
Mandiant, the cybersecurity firm that in February released a ground-breaking report detailing the suspected activities of a Chinese military hacking unit, told CNBC it is suffering the consequences of going public.
CNBC's Eamon Javers on the tension that arose as Washington pushed for cybersecurity cooperation with private industry. Even while President Obama raised the issue with new Chinese President Xi Jinping, U.S. CEOs are pushing for limits on government collaboration.
Cybersecurity threats against the U.S. are growing, President Obama said, as concerns rise about hacking attacks originating in China.
One expert says that a 12-year-old with the right tools could pose risks to companies and the U.S. economy.
A data breach apparently affecting the first lady of the United States, and singers Beyonce and Britney Spears—among others—resulted from an old-fashioned "pretexting" attack, rather than a sophisticated computer hack, a company told CNBC.
Authorities were grappling with how to respond to a website that posted what appears to be private financial information about top government officials and stars.
That's classified! Not anymore. US agencies like the FBI will begin sharing some classified information with companies to help prevent hack attacks.
CNBC's Scott Cohn reports on the growing number of CEOs speaking out on the danger that cyber threats pose to their company.
At the IHS CERAWeek Conference in Houston on Wednesday, CNBC spoke to BP CEO Bob Dudley about the persistent cyber threats that companies like his receive.
BP CEO Bob Dudley talks about the constant cyber-attacks to BP and how they protect themselves.
Chinese hackers are one problem. But so are employees who put company information online with their smartphones and tablets.
US intelligence officials are trying to figure out the motive behind recent corporate hack attacks -- and where the biggest threats lie.
Evernote, a Web-based note-sharing service, said it was resetting the passwords of its 50 million users because hackers managed to breach its computer network.
Businesses far too often fail to take basic steps to protect their digital infrastructure, or realize the biggest threat may be inside their own company.
Death is one of the only guarantees in life — that and taxes. And now, perhaps, getting hacked can be added to the list, and that's been a boon to the cyber-insurance industry.
CNBC's Scott Cohn reports on the growing problem of cyber attacks. Even Ben Bernanke addressed it in his testimony to Congress this week. Many companies, however, are wary of reporting attacks, he says, and that's a problem.
By attacking business computer networks, hackers are accessing company secrets and confidential strategies and creating huge losses for the overall economy.
China is working feverishly to counteract its slowest GDP growth in recent years, and one of the ways it's doing so, say U.S. officials, is through the theft of American corporate secrets.
US businesses are enduring an unprecedented onslaught of cyber invasions from foreign governments, organized crime syndicates, and hacker collectives, all seeking to steal information and disrupt services, cybersecurity experts say.
Jihadis utilize a wide range of apps to run terror operations, and they make recommendations to each other about technology.
Silicon Valley Republicans praised billionaire investor Peter Thiel for focusing on real issues, representing diversity on the GOP stage.
Robots are eliminating job drudgery in hospitals, and they'll soon take on therapeutic roles.
Virtual reality start-ups are raising billions, and consumer headsets are hitting the market. VR's promise is for real.
Google has patented a way for its driverless cars to communicate with pedestrians and others on the road.
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My wife and I stayed one night at Nairobi's Boma Hotel at the end of February. The hotel is medium-sized, modern and very well appointed. Lovely, large, quiet, comfortable rooms and nice bathrooms.
We stayed there for location, between the international airport, and the domestic airport (Wilson) Normally we use Fairview in the middle of town.
We ate and entertained our agent in the basement restaurant. Food was nicely presented and reasonably priced.
The only negative was a slightly disorganised concierge service as we had to wait for our taxi to the airport in the morning.
A good choice for those on safari using both airports. Saves going into the city.
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Having trouble? Direct your kids with what you want them to do instead of what you want them to stop doing. source
Give children language for their feelings. Labeling emotion is first step in brain's ability to process verbally instead of physically source
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cultivate a positive attitude, a positive presence and watch many of your family struggles slip away. source
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Children can't flourish when their parents are repeatedly burning the midnight oil, and on the brink of parenting burnout. source
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At an institution like Caltech, materiality is inescapable. Science and technology deal with physical things (or, at the least, with terms that stand in for physical things). In the humanities, however, the role of materiality is less clear. As John Brewer, Caltech's Eli and Edye Broad Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, points out, working humanists have "no Mars Rover or sea urchin to manipulate," so their connection to the material is less obvious. Indeed, humanists often concern themselves with ideas, language, memory, and culture—all of which are mental constructs. "For a long time," says Brewer, "everybody in the humanities was interested in what everything symbolized, which was rather abstract and metaphysical and linguistic."
The pendulum has swung, however, and now humanists are reevaluating the role of materiality in their disciplines. The emphasis today is more on the "stuffness" of the humanities—the way in which all cultural artifacts, from books to blueprints to bus tickets, are relations between and manipulations of physical things. Paintings, after all, are made of oils and canvas and pigments; books are made of paper and ink, cardboard and cloth (and perhaps today, computer chips). How are they created? How are they used? How have they been preserved and why? Their tangible existence as objects is a critical part of the insight they can offer us about human beings and culture, about the present and the past. Even things of great interest in the humanities that cannot be classified as objects are inevitably material; spoken language, for example, involves air, tongues, teeth, and larynxes.
The humanities' interest in the material has given rise to a new collaboration between Caltech and the Huntington Library, a premier research institution in the humanities less than a mile from Caltech in San Marino, California. "Materialities, Texts, and Images" (MTI), a two-year pilot program funded jointly by Caltech and the Huntington, explores texts and images through the lens of the material.
Rather than following the usual model for research in the humanities—choose a discipline; choose a part of the world; choose a time period; choose a subject—MTI is a decidedly methodological project. It asks the most general question in its purview: how materiality, the embeddedness of culture within tangible things, can be most effectively studied and theorized. As Steve Hindle, W. M. Keck Director of Research at the Huntington, explains, the scope of MTI "is not restricted to any particular time period, so it's not medieval or early modern or modern; it's not confined to any particular discipline, so it's not designed specifically, much less exclusively for historians or literary scholars or art historians." Instead, MTI breaks down disciplinary boundaries, embracing the humanities in all their diversity, without asking anyone to water down their specific research interests.
Over-specialization can be a pitfall in the humanities, according to Brewer. The interesting work goes deep, searching out meaningful details and engaging in exhaustive research. But the most interesting work goes deep and then comes up broad, articulating the significance of very specific research topics for theories and methods in the humanities generally. MTI is designed to be a platform where humanists from disparate fields can create the kind of synergy that pushes the humanities as a whole forward.
Two visiting postdoctoral fellows who, according to Hindle, were selected because they were "as different as possible," have been brought on board this year to get the MTI program under way.
The first, Stefanie Sobelle, is a professor of English at Gettysburg College who studies the interrelationship of architecture and literature in late 19th- and 20th-century America. Sobelle's work, she says, investigates how both architecture and literature engage in a "conceptual process of imagining a world and then creating it, in the use of architectural language to talk about a text, and in the book as a three-dimensional space that you move through and inhabit, which often very intentionally manipulates your experience of that space."
Sobelle's MTI counterpart, science historian Alexander Wragge-Morley, most recently at the University of Oxford, works with texts produced by British medical doctors in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to examine how British medics dealt with "the interconnections between knowledge production and matters concerning sensation, emotions, and aesthetics," he says. In his work, Wragge-Morley has found that although the early 18th century was when "these key separations between science and the arts are supposed to have been coming into play, the archives show that the sciences and humanities are much more vested in each other than it's sometimes convenient to realize."
Under the provisions of the MTI program, Sobelle has an office at the Huntington this fall while Wragge-Morley has an office at Caltech. Midway through the year, they will swap, so that each has an opportunity to participate fully in the lives of the institutions that are sponsoring their work. In the spring and summer, each will organize a workshop with speakers from diverse fields who share their interest in pushing the boundaries between academic disciplines while focusing on the role of materiality.
Both Sobelle and Wragge-Morley are excited about the potential of developing more extensive intellectual ties between Caltech and the Huntington, involving Caltech faculty in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS), as well as faculty and researchers in other fields at Caltech.
Wragge-Morley, for example, is eager to contact neuroscientists at Caltech who are pioneering "the science of beauty" (a scientific undertaking, he notes, that was announced by British painter William Hogarth in 1753). "I think there are very interesting connections that can be drawn between the types of work being done at Caltech—which we could rename 'Materiality Central,' after all—and contemporary work in the humanities." Meanwhile, Sobelle hopes to talk to Caltech scientists about the models they create, because a model, she says, is "a form of representation and also a thing in and of itself. What kind of models are engineers creating? What about biologists? What about chemists? What does a model mean differently in those different fields? Do they think of the model as an aesthetic object in itself, or not?"
MTI's broad vision promises to bring fresh life to the pursuit of the humanistic disciplines at Caltech, Brewer says. "One of the nice things about this project is that it's one of those capacious things into which you can stick almost anything. It's like Mary Poppins's handbag, actually." Many Caltech faculty in the humanities already pursue scholarship that explores the concept of materiality, and they will be active participants in the MTI program as it gathers momentum. For example, Jennifer Jahner, Assistant Professor of English, studies medieval manuscripts not only for their manifest content, but also for the manner in which they have been copied and bound by hand. Professor of History Nicolas Wey-Gómez specializes in the rise of imperialism and the global south during the Age of Exploration, research that has drawn him into extensive study of the physical maps created and used by explorers in the Atlantic region.
The MTI program also strengthens ties between two world-class institutions that grew up together in the San Gabriel Valley. Astronomer George Ellery Hale, one of the scientific "troika" (including physical chemist Arthur A. Noyes and physicist Robert A. Millikan) that built Caltech into a world-renowned science and engineering institute, also served on the board of trustees of the Huntington Library in the 1920s. Hale's dream was to use the resources of the Huntington to create a humanities division for Caltech, which at that time was restricted to the physical sciences. Instead, Caltech created its own humanities division in 1927, and Hale helped mold the Huntington into an independent institution available to scholars and the general public alike. Today, the Huntington hosts 1,700 scholars annually—170 are funded by the Huntington itself, making it the largest and most competitive fellowship program in the United States.
Caltech's HSS division and the Huntington have other existing collaborations. The Eleanor Searle Visiting Professorship in the History of Science and Technology brings leading scholars in the field to Caltech to teach for HSS and pursue their own research through the Huntington collections, while a joint postdoctoral instructor program draws junior scholars for research and teaching. For HSS division chair Jonathan Katz, the real excitement of MTI is that it will expand Caltech's relationship with the Huntington, "which has always enriched our humanities program and provided access to unparalleled archival sources for our scholars." The MTI program, Katz says, will "bring Caltech and the Huntington together as an intellectual hub for this kind of inquiry."
To: The Caltech CommunityFrom: Fiona Harrison, Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics and Astronomy, and Chair, Faculty Search Committee; and David Lee, Chair, Board of Trustees, and Chair, Trustee Selection Committee
Today it is our great privilege to announce the appointment of Thomas F. Rosenbaum as the ninth president of the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Rosenbaum, 58, is currently the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, where he has served as the university's provost for the past seven years. As a distinguished physicist and expert on condensed matter physics, Dr. Rosenbaum has explored the quantum mechanical nature of materials, making major contributions to the understanding of matter near absolute zero, where such quantum mechanical effects dominate. His experiments in quantum phase transitions in matter are recognized as having played a key role in placing these transitions on a theoretical level equivalent to that which has been developed for classical systems.
But Dr. Rosenbaum's scientific achievements were not solely what captured and held the attention of those involved in the presidential search. We on the search committee were impressed by Dr. Rosenbaum's deep dedication, as Chicago's provost, to both undergraduate and graduate education—both critical parts of Caltech's mission. He has had responsibility for an unusually broad range of institutions and intellectual endeavors. Among his achievements as provost was the establishment of the Institute for Molecular Engineering in 2011, the University of Chicago's very first engineering program, in collaboration with Argonne National Lab.
We also believe that Dr. Rosenbaum's focus on strengthening the intellectual ties between the University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab will serve him well in furthering the Caltech-JPL relationship.
As provost, Dr. Rosenbaum was also instrumental in establishing collaborative educational programs serving communities around Chicago's Hyde Park campus, including the university's founding of a four-campus charter school that was originally designed to further fundamental research in education but which has also achieved extraordinary college placement results for disadvantaged Chicago youths.
This successful conclusion to our eight-month presidential search was result of the hard work of the nine-member Faculty Search Committee, chaired by Fiona Harrison, and the 10-member Trustee Selection Committee, chaired by David Lee. We are grateful both to the trustees and faculty on our two committees who made our job so very easy as well as to those faculty, students, staff, and alumni who provided us with input and wisdom as we scoured the country for just the right person for our Caltech.
"Tom embodies all the qualities the faculty committee hoped to find in our next president," Harrison says. "He is a first-rate scholar and someone who understands at a deep level the commitment to fundamental inquiry that characterizes Caltech. He is also the kind of ambitious leader who will develop the faculty's ideas into the sorts of innovative ventures that will maintain Caltech's position of prominence in the next generation of science and technology."
"The combination of deep management experience and visionary leadership Tom brings will serve Caltech extremely well in the coming years," Lee adds. "The Board is excited about collaborating closely with Tom to propel the Institute to new levels of scientific leadership."
"The Caltech community's palpable and deep commitment to the Institute came through in all my conversations, and it forms the basis for Caltech's and JPL's lasting impact," Dr. Rosenbaum says. "It will be a privilege to work closely with faculty, students, staff, and trustees to explore new opportunities, building on Caltech's storied accomplishments."
Dr. Rosenbaum received his bachelor's degree in physics with honors from Harvard University in 1977, and both an MA and PhD in physics from Princeton University in 1979 and 1982, respectively. He did research at Bell Laboratories and at IBM Watson Research Center before joining the University of Chicago's faculty in 1983. Dr. Rosenbaum directed the university's Materials Research Laboratory from 1991 to 1994 and its interdisciplinary James Franck Institute from 1995 to 2001 before serving as vice president for research and for Argonne National Laboratory from 2002 to 2006. He was named the university's provost in 2007. His honors include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the William McMillan Award for "outstanding contributions to condensed matter physics." Dr. Rosenbaum is an elected fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Joining the Caltech faculty will be Dr. Rosenbaum's spouse, Katherine T. Faber, the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. Dr. Faber's research focuses on understanding stress fractures in ceramics, as well as on the fabrication of ceramic materials with controlled porosity, which are important as thermal and environmental barrier coatings for engine components. Dr. Faber is also the codirector of the Northwestern University-Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU-ACCESS), which employs advanced materials science techniques for art history and restoration. Dr. Rosenbaum and Dr. Faber have two sons, Daniel, who graduated from the University of Chicago in 2012, and Michael, who is currently a junior there.
Dr. Rosenbaum will succeed Jean-Lou Chameau, who served the Institute from 2006 to 2013, and will take over the helm from interim president and provost Ed Stolper on July 1, 2014. The board, the search committee, and, indeed, the entire Institute owes Dr. Stolper a debt of gratitude for his unwavering commitment to Caltech, and for seamlessly continuing the Institute's forward momentum through his interim presidency.
As you meet Dr. Rosenbaum today and over the coming months, and learn more about his vision for Caltech's future, we believe that you will quickly come to see why he is so well suited to guide Caltech as we continue to pursue bold investigations in science and engineering, to ready the next generation of scientific and thought leaders, and to benefit humankind through research that is integrated with education.
For the third year in a row, the California Institute of Technology has been rated the world's number one university in the Times Higher Education global ranking of the top 200 universities.
Harvard University, Oxford University, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology round out the top five schools in the 2013–2014 rankings.
Times Higher Education compiled the listing using the same methodology as in the 2011–2012 and 2012–2013 surveys. Thirteen performance indicators representing research (worth 30 percent of a school's overall ranking score), teaching (30 percent), citations (30 percent), international outlook (which includes the total numbers of international students and faculty and the ratio of scholarly papers with international collaborators, 7.5 percent), and industry income (a measure of innovation, 2.5 percent) make up the data. The data were collected, analyzed, and verified by Thomson Reuters.
The Times Higher Education site has the full list of the world's top 400 schools and all of the performance indicators.
Determining cause and effect is complex and fraught with difficulty, from our intuitive—but often mistaken—sense of the causes of events in our daily lives to the perils of structuring and interpreting scientific experimentation. One problem with teasing apart these relationships is that there are many cause-and-effect sequences that we can only observe; we cannot meaningfully intervene, which may make it more problematic to test causal relations. For example, we did not come to know that the gravitation of the moon causes Earth's tides by removing the moon to observe how Earth's tides would be affected by its absence. Other means of establishing causality were required.
More bedeviling for anyone seeking to find an accurate causal sequence is how often we observe things that look like causal relations but are only correlations—that is, variables that change (or seem to change) in relationship to one another but are not causally related. If you catch four colds this winter, you may recall that you went outside with wet hair before coming down with each one. This is a correlation. What you don't know—and what might require further reflection and experimentation—is whether the wet hair actually caused the cold.
Untangling causal relations and correlations is what Professor of Philosophy Frederick Eberhardt has come to Caltech to do. We recently spoke with him about how causal relations can be identified—and why they matter.
Why does causation matter?
Causal issues are everywhere. They're in policy, they're in medicine, they're in our basic sciences.
Can you give an example of a correlation that might not involve causation?
Let's take the example of eating ice cream and drowning. These two variables are correlated: when rates of ice cream consumption rise, so do cases of drowning. So we might wonder whether this is a causal relationship: Does eating ice cream cause drowning?
There's a big debate in philosophy over exactly what constitutes a causal relation.
To say one is the cause of the other, we presumably don't require that every time someone eats ice cream they go and drown. So it's only a weaker, probabilistic relation. But it may be more than just a probabilistic relation since, in this example, we think that there could be a common cause: such as good weather, which increases the probability of both ice cream consumption and drowning. If this is the case, it is the common cause that gives rise to the observed correlation. However, if we intervened to increase the consumption of ice cream while holding everything else fixed, and rates of drowning increased as well, then there would be good reason to think that we had identified a causal relation. So, a rather useful way to think about causal relations is that they support certain kinds of interventions.
Given how tricky it can be to establish causality in complex real-world systems, are there correlations for which you think a causal relationship is well established?
That smoking causes lung cancer is reasonably well established. This was not always obvious. Not every smoker died of lung cancer, right? Whether or not drinking red wine in reasonable amounts is related to less cardiovascular disease is not so clear yet. Climate change, of course, is another example. You see the debates about the causal relations involved in climate change and the extent to which we can establish them on the basis of the finite data that we have. Maybe we don't need to know the causes of climate change in order to predict what will happen, but it's crucial to know the causal relations in order to know whether your intervention is going to be efficacious.
Do you ever find it difficult to avoid confusing "causal" and "casual"?
It does happen, because, of course, spell checkers don't catch this. But I guess your fingers have a motor memory of what sequence the letters come in. Because of what I do, it's more likely that I will make a typo in an invitation to a party saying, "Please, it's causal clothing.
Are you planning to be the conscience of Caltech? Hovering over researchers' shoulders saying, "Not so fast!"
I think that's the risk of someone working in methodology, that they become the preacher. I don't want to be the preacher but rather get my hands dirty in the data as well. I try to develop algorithms that infer from one or many different data sets, the causal relations among the variables. These algorithms could prove useful to scientists attempting to ferret out the causal relations in their statistical data.
What attracted you to the position at Caltech?
If you ask other philosophers whether my work is philosophy, they might cringe a little bit and think that I fall more into a technical environment. I actually think these methodological questions about understanding the difference between causality and correlations are fundamentally philosophical problems. I think here at Caltech, this categorization of research topics just won't be an issue. I think people will hopefully see that what I do is relevant and that it matters to a lot of fields, and then who cares whether you call it "philosophy" or not? A lot of people write "interdisciplinarity" on their flag, but very few people do it. I am looking forward to working with some very bright students at Caltech who hopefully will share my disregard for disciplinary boundaries.
Will you be collaborating with other faculty at Caltech?
I hope to find other faculty and researchers here who in their own work have become interested in questions about causality and are keen to pursue those questions in collaborations, but projects like these will need time to develop.
Eberhardt was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, because his parents—both biologists—were living on the Galápagos Islands. He grew up in Germany and received his B.Sc. in philosophy and mathematics from the London School of Economics before doing graduate work at Carnegie Mellon University, postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley and at Carnegie Mellon University, and taking on an assistant professorship at Washington University in St. Louis. He is joined in California by his wife, Minoli Ratnatunga, an economist at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, and their young son, Gustav.
Colin Camerer, a behavioral economist at the California Institute of Technology whose work integrates psychology with economics experiments to understand how people behave when making decisions, has been named a MacArthur Fellow and awarded a five-year, $625,000 "no strings attached" grant. Each year, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awards the unrestricted fellowships—popularly known as "genius grants"—to individuals who have shown "exceptional creativity in their work" and "manifest promise for important future advances," according to the foundation.
The MacArthur Foundation describes Camerer as a "pioneering economist whose research challenges assumptions about human behavior in the traditional models used by economists."
"I am thrilled to be honored by the foundation," says Camerer. "Their choice recognizes the importance and promise of using psychology, and now neuroscience, to do better economics."
"Colin's MacArthur Fellowship is well deserved," says Jonathan Katz, Kay Sugahara Professor of Social Sciences and Statistics and chair of the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences. "He helped found the now-established field of behavioral economics, showing how fundamental understanding of human psychology can help improve our models of economic behavior, and he continues this exciting work by looking at the intersection of economics and neuroscience to open up the black box of economic decision making."
Behavioral economics, Camerer explains, combines the best ideas and methods from economics, psychology, and, most recently, neuroscience, to better understand choices people make. "The brain is computing an economic number—how much you like a new restaurant, whether a football team will win, whether a person is friend or foe," he explains. "We create theories that detail this neural computation, express it in math, and then predict what people do. When we eventually understand a lot more about the neural computations, we can help treat people with disorders—they're like broken software—make neural nudges to improve decisions, help companies organize work, and much more."
Camerer already has some idea of what he'll do with the unrestricted funds. "I'll share with family, especially my sister who feeds poor people in Detroit," he says. "Then I'll push back against the science sequester by funding some really adventurous research, like replicating earlier studies—that's unglamorous and hard to fund, but it's crucial for really finding out where the science is rock solid—and then use the money as backup funding when necessary and prudent. For example, we have a grant that was highly rated by the National Science Foundation to do ongoing work on the neural basis of price bubbles, but it is in limbo due to the sequester cutbacks. So I will just start funding some of it to keep going."
Camerer received his bachelor's degree in 1976 from Johns Hopkins University; he earned his MBA in 1979 and a PhD in 1981, both from the University of Chicago. Following positions at Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago, he joined the Caltech faculty as a visiting associate in 1993 and became the Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics in 1994. He has been the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics since 2008.
Camerer, who is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society, becomes Caltech's 17th faculty member to be given a MacArthur Fellowship, joining recent awardees Sarkis Mazmanian (2012), John Dabiri (2010), and Alexei Kitaev (2008).
For more information on the 2013 MacArthur Fellows, visit the foundation website at www.macfound.org.
During financial bubbles, such as the one that centered around the U.S. housing market and triggered the Great Recession, some investors react differently than others. Some rush in, trying to "time" the market's rise and fall, while others play it safe and bow out. Ever wonder what accounts for such differences? New neuroeconomic research at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has found that the investors most likely to take a risk and fuel bubble markets are those with good "theory of mind" skills—those who are good at "putting themselves in others' shoes." They think the most about the motives behind prices and what other people in the market are likely to do next, but during bubble markets, that actually becomes risky behavior.
The finding is contrary to what some economists have suggested—that financial bubbles are driven by confusion or denial on the part of investors and traders.
"What we find is that the people who are most susceptible to bubbles are not just reckless traders getting caught up in a frenzy," says Colin Camerer, the Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics at Caltech. "Instead, when there are unusual patterns in trading activity, these people are actually thinking a lot about what it means, and they're deciding to jump in."
Camerer is one of the principal investigators on a new paper describing the study and its results in the September 16 issue of the journal Neuron. The study was led by Benedetto De Martino, senior research fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, while he was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech.
An important message from the study, De Martino says, is that it shows "when we interact with complex modern institutions, like financial markets, the same neural computational mechanisms that have been extremely advantageous in our evolutionary history can turn against us, biasing our choices with potentially catastrophic effects." Indeed, theory of mind is typically considered a beneficial skill that can help an individual navigate everything from everyday social situations to emergency scenarios.
The findings center around two regions of the brain. One, called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), can be thought of as "the brain's accountant" because it encodes value. The other, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC), is strongly associated with theory of mind.
In the study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to monitor blood flow in the brains of student participants as they interacted with replayed financial market experiments. Such blood flow is considered a proxy for brain activity. Each participant was given $60 and then served as an outside observer of a series of six trading sessions involving other traders; each trading session lasted 15 periods, and after each period the dividend for the traded asset decreased by $0.24. At various points during the trial, the students were asked to imagine that they were traders and to decide whether they would want to stick with their current holdings or buy or sell shares at the going price.
In half of the sessions, trading resulted in a bubble market in which the prices ended up significantly higher than the actual, or fundamental, value of the asset being traded. In the three other sessions, prices tracked fairly well with the fundamental value, and never exceeded it.
The researchers found that the formation of bubbles was linked to increased activity in the vmPFC, that "accounting" part of the brain that processes value judgments.
Next, they investigated the question whether the people who were more susceptible to participating in, or "riding," bubbles showed heightened activity in the same brain region. The answer? Yes—those who were willing to participate in the bubble market again displayed more activity in the vmPFC.
To further investigate the theory of mind connection, the researchers asked participants to take the well-known "mind in the eyes" test. The test challenges test takers to choose the word that best describes what various people are thinking or feeling, based solely on pictures of their eyes. The researchers found that study participants who scored highest on the test, and thus discerned the correct feelings most accurately, also showed stronger links between their portfolio values and activity in the dmPFC, one of the brain regions linked to theory of mind activity.
"The way we interpret this is that these people were thinking more about what was going on in the market and wondering why people were behaving the way they were," Camerer explains. "Normally, in everyday social encounters and in specialized professions, this kind of mind reading is useful to the individual. But in these markets, when prices are going crazy, these people think, 'Wow, I think I can figure these markets out. Let me buy and sell.' And that is usually going to contribute to the bubble's momentum and also cost them money."
One of the most innovative parts of the study involved using a new mathematical formula for detecting unusual activity in the trading market. Unlike normal markets in which the mathematical distribution of the arrival of "orders" (offers to buy or sell shares) follows a somewhat steady pattern, bubble markets display restlessness—with flurries of activity followed by lulls. The researchers looked to see if any brain regions showed signs of tracking this unusual distribution of orders during bubble markets. And they found a strong association with the dmPFC and vmPFC. Heightened activity in these prefrontal regions, the team suspects, is a sign that participants are more likely to ride the bubble market, perhaps because they subconsciously believe that there are insiders with extra information operating within the market.
Another of the paper's senior authors, Peter Bossaerts, completed the work at Caltech and is now at the University of Utah. He explains: "It's group illusion. When participants see the inconsistency in order flow, they think that there are people who know better in the marketplace and they make a game out of it. In reality, however, there is nothing to be gained because nobody knows better."
The research could eventually help in the design of better social and financial interventions to avoid the formation of bubbles in financial markets, as well as methods for individual traders and brokers to manage their trading better.
The Neuron paper is titled "In the Mind of the Market: Theory of Mind Biases Value Computation During Financial Bubbles." Along with Camerer, De Martino, and Bossaerts, additional Caltech coauthors are John O'Doherty, professor of psychology, and Debajyoti Ray, a graduate student in Computation and Neural Systems. The work was supported by a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Betty and Gordon Moore Foundation, and the Lipper Family Foundation.
To expand its involvement in online learning, the California Institute of Technology will offer courses through the online education platform edX beginning this October.
The edX course platform is an online learning initiative launched in 2012 by founding partners Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Caltech's rigorous online course offerings will join those of 28 other prestigious colleges and universities in the edX platform's "xConsortium."
This new partnership with edX comes one year after Caltech offered three courses through the online learning platform Coursera in fall 2012. The Institute will now offer courses through both platforms.
"Coursera and edX have some foundational differences which are of interest to the faculty," says Cassandra Horii, director of teaching and learning programs at Caltech. Both organizations offer their courses at no cost to participating students; edX, however, operates as a nonprofit and plans to partner with only a small number of institutions, whereas Coursera—a for-profit, self-described "social entrepreneurship company"—partners with many institutions and state university systems.
The two platforms also emphasize different learning strategies, says Horii. "Coursera has a strong organizational principle built around lectures, so a lot of the interactivity is tied right into the video," she says. Though edX still enables the use of video lectures, a student can customize when he or she would like to take quizzes and use learning resources. In addition, edX allows faculty to embed a variety of learning materials—like textbook chapters, discussions, diagrams, and tables—directly into the platform's layout.
In the future, data collected from both platforms could provide valuable information about how students best learn certain material, especially in the sciences. "Caltech occupies this advanced, really rigorous scientific education space, and in general our interest in these online courses is to maintain that rigor and quality," Horii says. "So, with these learning data, we have some potential contributions to make to the general understanding of learning in this niche that we occupy."
Even before joining edX and Coursera, Caltech had already become an example in the growing trend of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Yaser Abu-Mostafa, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, developed his own MOOC on machine learning, called "Learning from Data," and offered it on YouTube and iTunes U beginning in April 2012.
Since its debut, Abu-Mostafa's MOOC has reached more than 200,000 participants, and it received mention in the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition—the latest edition of an annual report highlighting important trends in higher education. The course will be offered again in fall 2013 on iTunes U, and is now also open for enrollment in edX.
Although Caltech is now actively exploring several outlets for online learning, the Institute's commitment to educational outreach is not a recent phenomenon. In the early 1960s, Caltech physicist Richard Feynman reorganized the Institute's introductory physics course, incorporating contemporary research topics and making the course more engaging for students. His lectures were recorded and eventually incorporated into a widely popular physics book, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, which has sold millions of copies in a dozen languages.
Continuing in the tradition set by Feynman, the MOOCs at Caltech seek to provide a high-quality learning environment that is rigorous but accessible. "No dumbing down of courses for popular consumption . . . no talking over people's heads either; at Caltech, we explain things well because we understand them well," adds Abu-Mostafa.
More information on Caltech's online learning opportunities is available on the Online Education website.


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|Reviews for The Fox and the Fire Princess
| BartWLewis chapter 1 . 4/14/2015
Amazing. I can see those two being to together.
Although... I was under the impression that they had sex before and yet he got her pregnant before? Don't really understand that.
| War Sage chapter 1 . 9/30/2012
great story
| JJP123 chapter 1 . 8/12/2012
such a tuching ending
| Villain84 chapter 1 . 5/29/2011
Interesting pairing. I never would have thought of Naruto and Azula like this. This was a very touching story and a great lemon in the end. Nice job :)
| Radomir's Renegades chapter 1 . 5/8/2011
I take it that Azula's gone tsundere in this fic. Other than that, have you made a scene where they first met? Or that scene is included within the larger TCKANA?
| omally-dood chapter 1 . 1/26/2010
ya it was a good story but im with zuko in the its kinda wrong department
| Orange-Fuzz-Ball chapter 1 . 11/4/2009
it was change but this one is better.i love your that you can update another like people stubborn in the world.
looking for the update of the celestial avatar and elemental avatar.
| LunarCatNinja chapter 1 . 10/6/2009
AW! Please update soon!
| daniel 29 chapter 1 . 10/5/2009
Seems compelling and a genuinly interesting story wonder how you top it if enough people gave you request for anymore naruto Avatar girls 1 shots


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I got a working postfix/dovecot configuration running with the following rule for recipients rejection:
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks,reject
This works as intended (authorize authenticated users or users from mynetworks, reject others). However if a user coming from mynetworks fails to authenticate he is not rejected.
Is there such a rule as reject_invalid_sasl_auth? Something that would reject the user only if he entered an invalid authentication, but would allow users without authentication.
Otherwise, is there another way than restriction rules to achieve this kind of behavior (SASL option, custom policy)?


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By Maj. Matthew FontaineSeptember 26, 2013
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan - The Unmanned Aerial System Platoon with Company B, 4-3 Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, is on pace to fly their Shadow unmanned aircraft more than 2,000 hours more than their predecessors at Forward Operating Base Shank, Afghanistan.
The platoon has flown more than 3,800 hours across 600 plus flights.
"My goal is 5,000 hours," said U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Mark McConnell, a Lake Hopatcong, N.J. native and the platoon's leader.
The three previous UAS platoons that served at Forward Operating Base Shank flew an average of 2,900 hours with the same number of aircraft.
Their mission is to collect intelligence and conduct surveillance in support of Task Force Vanguard as they help develop the Afghan National Security Forces and secure a key highway in Wardak province, Afghanistan.
The Shadow unmanned aircraft, manufactured by AAI Corporation, is capable of flying for six to nine hours and provides over watch for soldiers on the ground. The full motion video feed gives commanders on the ground, and in tactical operations centers, a real-time picture of the battlefield.
McConnell, a 23-year-old all-source intelligence officer, took command of the platoon upon deployment and couldn't be more proud of the soldiers in the unit.
"They're great noncommissioned officers - proactive and professional who can work through issues and run an excellent maintenance program," he said.
Being able to fly so many hours means giving commanders a reliable "eye in the sky" that can respond when troops are in contact with the enemy.
U.S. Army Sgt. Carl Brown, originally from Victorville, Calif., is the platoon's standardization operator. He is responsible for managing the platoon's training as well as advising McConnell on UAS operations.
The platoon trained for the deployment at Evans Army Airfield, Ga., by flying two weeks each month. A training rotation to the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La., provided realistic training and was very helpful in preparing the unit for deployment, said Brown.
Brown, a career soldier with a wife and daughter back home at Fort Stewart, Ga., credits the unit's teamwork for their success.
"[We] work well together and listen to input from everyone, regardless of rank."
The platoon, a mix of soldiers and civilian contractors, was able to reach the high level of flying hours by closely managing their crew-rest procedures. UAS operators are required to have a certain amount of rest to ensure their ability to safely operate the aircraft.
Most UAS platoons take a day off every two weeks for crew rest. McConnell and his team managed their operators rest on an individual basis, meaning their Shadows were up and flying 24/7 with no down time. Over their nine-month deployment, that adds up to hundreds of flying hours.
McConnell said their maintenance program, ability to trouble-shoot problems and flying the Shadow to the limit of its capability contibuted to their success.
There are two versions of the Shadow. The increased endurance version has longer wings which means more fuel and a 50 percent increase in flight time. McConnell worked with AAI contractors to upgrade his fleet, replacing three of the UAVs with the long-wing versions. The longer flight time equals fewer launches and recoveries and reduced downtime.
McConnell also credits his operators experience and professionalism for the exceptionally low number of safety incidents they've experienced. Any safety incident requires an investigation and results in lost flight time. Keeping incidents low is another reason we've been able to amass so many flight hours, he added.
The 4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division's intelligence officer, Maj. Randy Gable, oversees the implementation of the UAS. They've been very responsive to a changing mission and their ability to provide 24/7 coverage is a feat in itself, he said.
U.S. Army Warrant Officer Jonathan Adams, the platoon's technical expert, implemented a very proficient maintenance schedule, added Gable.
Before the JRTC rotation, the platoon had no instructor pilots, a critical position needed to continually develop the platoon's capability while deployed. The unit's ability to develop the instructor pilots while deployed was a big accomplishment said Gable, a Sneads, Fla., native. "I'm very proud, they've done a hell of a job."
McConnell and Brown are both looking forward to heading home in a few months and plan to have some much deserved fun.
"We're planning a trip to Disneyworld," said Brown.
"The first thing I'm doing when we get back is going to the Jefferson [N.J.[] Diner and having a huge breakfast at midnight," said McConnell.


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Kalen A Darling
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Kalen Darling is in his third year as Head Coach for Spokane Area Swimming and has been a private swimming instructor for more than ten years. He is currently an ASCA Level 1 Coach, as part of the American Swimming Coaches Association.
Growing up in Hawai'i, Kalen swam for Kamehameha Swim Club throughout high school. His collegiate career took him to the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, where he was a six-time Conference-USA Championship finalist. After his sophomore year, Kalen transferred to Whitworth University where he ended his swimming career as a four-time NCAA Division III All-American and six-time NWC Champion. He graduated from Whitworth University with a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication
As a professional triathlete, Kalen has competed in the International Triathlon Union circuit. He was the 2010 Under-23 Pro National Champion.


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