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Eagles coach Andy Reid has named Michael Vick the starting quarterback, the team announced tonight in a stunning reversal. The move appears to be for the season.
Reid said the decision came down to Vick's strong play and will allow Kolb to continue his development.
"Michael Vick deserves the opportunity," to keep playing, given how well he has played, Reid said. "Right now, Michael Vick's the starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles."
Reid called Vick an "ex superstar who now has regained his abilities."
"Michael Vick is playing out of his mind right now," Reid said, while praising Kolb as well. "What a lucky franchise and a lucky head coach I am to have two quarterbacks that I feel that way about. It's unbelievable."
UPDATED: Guard Todd Herremans wrote on his Twitter account, "I feel that whoever management decides gives us the best chance of winning should be our qb."
Vick clearly has won Reid's confidence with his play over the past six quarters.
"Very few quarterbacks can go out and play the way he's played the last couple weeks," Reid said. He said Vick was able to move when needed and make throws down the field, even under pressure. He cited Vick's ability on third down, in particular.
Reid said the decision had nothing to do with Kolb's recent concussion.
"Kevin's fine. This is not an injury related issue."
He said Kolb can still be a "championship level quarterback" but needs an "opportunity to mature."
Asked if this was the toughest decision he has had to make, Reid said "tough, but tough in a good way."
He painted the decision to bench Kolb as a way to help him grow, even after three years on the bench.
"I actually think this helps Kevin Kolb's maturation process," Reid said, adding that it will allow Kolb to continue to learn. "The future is bright for Kevin Kolb."
Still, it is hard to see how Kolb can get another chance after having an entire off season devoted to him, only for Reid to put him back on the bench after one half as a starter.
"If anyone believes that its good for Kevin Kolb's development to sit on the bench, I've got some real estate to sell you," NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock said on the air.
Vick's mobility, in particular, is something the team thinks they need to win now behind a shaky offensive line, according to a team source, though Reid denied this in his press conference.
The Eagles leadership was unified in its decision on the starter, according to a front office source.
The decision is a sharp change for Reid, who on Sunday said Kolb would start Sunday in Jacksonville. Asked then if it would be hard to go back to Kolb given the way Vick played against the Lions, Reid said no.Vick himself said Monday that Kolb would start.
Looking back on Monday's press conference with hindsight, though, it appeared that Reid left the door open that day when asked again about Kolb's status.
"We'll just see how it all works out," Reid said Monday. "I'm not here to justify one over the other, I'm not doing that. I told you before, I'm very proud of Michael. Michael's a great player. Michael was one of the all-time great ones in this league at one time and he's on his way back. I think we were able to see that and I think that's a great, great thing. Kevin's future is, he hasn't had the same experience here as Michael has, but his future is a bright one."
Asked about getting Vick on the field, Reid said, "Yeah, Michael will be out there. We'll see how it goes."
The Eagles have invested three years in grooming Kolb and have touted his potential all off-season, even extending his contract. But Vick's dazzling play in six quarters against the Packers and Lions apparently were enough to change even Reid's mind.


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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake (3-0-4, 13 points, West #3) picked up a valuable three points on Saturday night to remain unbeaten in 2014, getting a goal from MF Ned Grabavoy and a heroic performance from GK Nick Rimando to beat Portland Timbers (0-3-4, 4 points, West #8) 1-0 in front of a sold-out Rio Tinto Stadium.
Grabavoy scored his first goal of 2014 in the 78th minute to give RSL the lead, and Rimando made it stand with several huge late saves, extending RSL's club record unbeaten start to seven games. Rimando – who missed RSL's last two games due to a knee injury picked up while playing for the U.S. Men's National Team in its 2-2 draw with Mexico on April 2 – now has 111 career regular season shutouts, just one shy of tying retired GK Kevin Hartman for the all-time MLS record.
Real Salt Lake controlled the game's early stages, holding the majority of possession and putting Portland under some sustained pressure. Unfortunately, the Claret-and-Cobalt couldn't piece any of that pressure into a clear-cut chance, and it was Portland that had the first look of the match.
Timbers FW Darlington Nagbe had the opportunity in the 19th minute, picking up a ball in the RSL third and slaloming into the area before firing a shot on goal from the top of the six-yard box. Rimando made a big save on the play, holding his ground at the left post and reacting quickly to punch Nagbe's effort over the bar.
Real Salt Lake continued to stay on the front foot for the rest of the half, eventually registering its first chance in the 34th minute. RSL MF Javier Morales had the look, sending a dangerous free kick over the bar from the edge of the area after FW Olmes Garcia was fouled just outside the box.
RSL had a pair of chances in the 40th minute. MF Ned Grabavoy had the first look, heading a MF Luke Mulholland cross on frame that Portland GK Donovan Ricketts held comfortably. Garcia created the second, better chance, running onto a Mulholland chip on the right touchline and racing inside before cutting a pass back to FW Alvaro Saborio, who had his 10-yard effort in the right side of the box deflected over the bar by a Portland player.
Real Salt Lake had the first chance of the second half in the 57th minute, when Morales crossed to DF Chris Schuler at the left post, only for the big center back to sky his diving header over the bar.
RSL couldn't sustain the pressure, however, with Portland nearly going ahead through FW Maximiliano Urruti on three different occasions in the 58th, 60th and 61st minutes. Urruti came closest on his first chance, getting free in the left side of the area and banging a 15-yard strike off the near post. He couldn't quite take advantage of the next look, touching a difficult MF Diego Valeri chip wide of the left post from the penalty spot. Urruti squandered a golden chance in the 61st, stunningly missing the target on a 1-v-1 with Rimando after latching onto a turnover deep in RSL's third.
Real Salt Lake Head Coach Jeff Cassar made a double substitution in the 67th minute, bringing MF Sebastian Velasquez on for Mulholland and FW Joao Plata on for Garcia. It was the first appearance for Plata since suffering a left hamstring strain in RSL's 1-1 draw against LA Galaxy in the 2014 home opener on March 22.
RSL came agonizingly close to taking the lead in the 73rd minute, when Morales rolled a shot off the woodwork. DF Chris Wingert created the chance, weaving his way through the Portland defense on a rare run into the box before playing a square ball to Morales just inside the area. The Argentine playmaker freed himself up with a touch toward goal, then side-footed a 12-yard effort past Ricketts and off the right post.
Grabavoy gave RSL its long-awaited lead in the 78th minute. Velasquez started the play, cutting inside from his position on the right wing and finding Grabavoy with a square ball in the middle of Portland's third. Grabavoy took it from there, dribbling into the area before firing a low left-footer inside the far post from 15 yards.
Desperate for a result, Portland frantically searched for an equalizer in the match's final minutes. They would've found one in the 85th had it not been for the heroics of Rimando, who made a point-blank stop on substitute DF Alvas Powell to keep RSL ahead. Timbers MF Gaston Fernandez sprung Powell in the right side of the area, hitting the Jamaican international in stride just eight yards from goal. Powell put a shot on target with his first touch and Rimando stoned him, making a kick save to preserve RSL's lead.
Rimando again preserved the three points with another great stop in the 88th minute. Fernandez pounced on a loose ball in the RSL third, taking a touch toward goal and curling a 20-yard left-footer toward the upper left corner. The ball looked ticketed for the back of the net, but Rimando – as he so often does – had other ideas, acrobatically leaping to his right to push the ball around the bar and out for a corner.
RSL will return to action next Saturday, when it will host Vancouver Whitecaps FC at 7:30 p.m. MT at Rio Tinto Stadium. Tickets to next Saturday's expected sell-out can be purchased at the Rio Tinto Stadium box office, online at www.RealSaltLake.com/Tickets or over the phone at 801-727-2700.
Real Salt Lake Match Notes – RSL 1–0 POR
- Tonight's attendance of 20,496 marks Real Salt Lake's second sellout of the 2014 season. RSL opened its 2014 home schedule in front of a sold out Rio Tinto Stadium on March 22 against LA Galaxy.
- Real Salt Lake remains the only undefeated team in MLS, now posting a 3-0-4 record in its first seven matches. RSL also remains undefeated at home, recording a 2-0-1 record in Utah. In its two previous home matches, the Claret-and-Cobalt drew LA Galaxy 1-1 in its home opener and defeated Toronto FC 3-0 on March 29.
- Tonight's match between Real Salt Lake and Portland Timbers was their first meeting of the 2014 MLS regular season. RSL continues its dominance over Portland, extending its unbeaten streak over the Pacific Northwest side to 11 games. RSL has not lost to the Cascadia side since their first-ever meeting in April 2011. RSL is now 8-1-3 against the Timbers across all competitions and posts a 5-1-3 all-time regular season record against the Timbers.
- RSL GK Nick Rimando was back in the RSL lineup tonight, starting for the first time in two weeks. Rimando missed the last two matches due to a knee injury suffered in the U.S. Men's National Team's 2-2 draw with Mexico on April 2. His shutout tonight marks his 111th career clean sheet. Rimando is now one shutout away from tying retired GK Kevin Hartman's all-time MLS mark of 112.
- RSL MF Ned Grabavoy proved to be the difference tonight, scoring the game's only goal in the 79th minute. Tonight's goal was his first of the 2014 season and second against Portland Timbers all-time. RSL has had a very diverse attack against Portland, with nine different players scoring against the Cascadia club in 2013 alone. RSL MF Sebastian Velasquez earned the assist, his first of 2014.
- With tonight's start, RSL Captain Kyle Beckerman moved into a tie for 10th-place in MLS history with former teammate and current RSL Assistant Coach Andy Williams with 332 regular season games played. Beckerman is seventh in MLS history with 302 career regular season starts, two shy of tying retired MF Chris Henderson for sixth-place all-time. Beckerman also sits in seventh-place in MLS history with 27,183 regular season minutes played, 180 minutes behind current New England Revolution Head Coach Jay Heaps.
- RSL FW Joao Plata made a return to the gameday roster tonight. Plata had missed RSL's last three matches after suffering a hamstring injury in RSL's home opener against LA Galaxy on March 22. Plata performed extremely well in RSL's first three matches, registering two goals and two assists to start the season.
- RSL MF Luis Gil made a return the 18 tonight after missing last weekend's 2-2 draw with Philadelphia Union due to a hamstring injury. In his place, MF Luke Mulholland earned his third start for the Claret-and-Cobalt. The Englishman has two goals from his previous starts – one in RSL's 2-2 draw with Philadelphia Union and one in its 3-3 draw at San Jose Earthquakes.
- RSL MF Jordan Allen and FW Benji Lopez are currently with the U.S. Under-20 Men's National Team, playing in the Dallas Cup tournament and were not available for today's match. The U.S. U-20 squad will play in the Dallas Cup's Gordon Jago Super Group Final tomorrow afternoon against Argentine side River Plate at 5:00 p.m. MT.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 0 1 1
Portland Timbers 0 0 0
Scoring Summary:
RSL – Ned Grabavoy (Sebastian Velasquez) – 79'
Misconduct Summary:
POR – Mamadou Danso (Yellow; Foul) – 33'
Real Salt Lake (4-1-2-1-2): Nick Rimando; Tony Beltran, Chris Schuler, Nat Borchers, Chris Wingert; Kyle Beckerman (C), Luke Mulholland (Sebastian Velasquez, 67'), Ned Grabavoy, Javier Morales; Alvaro Saborio (Devon Sandoval, 93'), Olmes Garcia (Joao Plata, 67')
Substitutes not used: Jeff Attinella (GK), Aaron Maund, Abdoulie Mansally, Luis Gil
Portland Timbers (4-3-3): Donovan Ricketts; Jack Jewsbury (Alvas Powell, 84'), Mamadou Danso, Pa Modou Kah, Michael Harrington; Diego Chara, Will Johnson, Diego Valeri (Gaston Fernandez, 61'); Kalif Alhassan (Michael Nanchoff, 77'), Maximiliano Urruti, Darlington Nagbe
Substitutes not used: Andrew Weber (GK, Jorge Villafana, Norberto Paparatto, Ben Zemanski
Referee: Drew Fischer
Assistant Referees: Daniel Belleau, Jeff Hosking
4th Official: Allen Chapman
Attendance: 20,496
Weather: Clear and 65 degrees

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Americans are more confident in U.S. banks than they've been in five years as an improving economy helps lenders boost profit and repair their balance sheets, a new Gallup poll found.
People who said they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in U.S. lenders climbed to 26% of respondents from a record low of 21% a year ago, according to a statement on Gallup's website today. That's still below the 41% recorded in 2007 before the credit crisis and 32% in 2008 as the financial system began to falter.
The telephone poll of 1,529 people on June 1 through June 4 followed all-time highs for the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index in May and record first-quarter profit for the banking industry. New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, and San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co., the biggest mortgage lender, had their best year for profit in 2012.
"Most authorities agree that U.S. banks did well on their 'stress tests' and that banks' balance sheets are much improved, as are their earnings," Gallup said in the statement. The Federal Reserve regularly tests the largest financial companies to see if they'd stay healthy in a crisis, and 17 of 18 passed this year.
The percentage of people expressing confidence in banks is now almost equal to those with little or no confidence, which Gallup said fell to 28% from 35% a year earlier.
Bank Blemishes
Confidence hit its low in 2012, a year that included the discovery that bankers were manipulating benchmark interest rates for their own benefit, and a trading loss at JPMorgan that blemished its image as one of the best-run lenders.
That same year, five mortgage-servicing firms including Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan reached a $25 billion settlement with 49 states and the federal government to end a probe of abusive foreclosure practices.
Confidence in banks ranked 10th among 16 types of institutions, according to Gallup. While lenders trailed the military, small business and the police, they were ahead of television news, newspapers and Congress, the poll found. Confidence in banks also rose the fastest of any group this year, according to Gallup.
The nationwide survey of U.S. adults has a 3% margin of error and confidence level of 95%, Gallup said.
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My research interests include topics in machine learning, algorithmic game theory and microeconomics, computational social science, and quantitative finance and algorithmic trading. I often examine problems in these areas using methods and models from theoretical computer science and related disciplines. While much of my work is mathematical in nature, I also often participate in empirical and experimental projects, including applications of machine learning to problems in algorithmic trading and quantitative finance, and human-subject experiments on strategic and economic interaction in social networks.
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Since 2002 I have been a professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Pennsylvania, where I hold the National Center Chair. I have secondary appointments in the department of Economics, and in the departments of Statistics and Operations, Information and Decisions (OID) in the Wharton School. I am the Founding Director of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences, where my Co-Director is Rakesh Vohra. I am the faculty founder and former director of Penn Engineering's Networked and Social Systems Engineering (NETS) Program, whose current directors are Andreas Haeberlen and Aaron Roth. I am a faculty affiliate in Penn's Applied Math and Computational Science graduate program. Until July 2006 I was the co-director of Penn's interdisciplinary Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.
As of August 2018, I am affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute as an external faculty member.
In June 2018, I became a Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley on projects applying AI and machine learning.
I have worked extensively in quantitative and algorithmic trading on Wall Street (including at Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, and SAC Capital; see further details below). I often serve as an advisor to technology companies and venture capital firms. I am also involved in the seed-stage fund Founder Collective and occasionally invest in early-stage technology startups. I am a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alan Turing Institute, and of the Market Surveillance Advisory Group of FINRA. I occasionally serve as an expert witness or consultant on technology-related legal and regulatory cases.
I am an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.
The Past:
I spent the decade 1991-2001 in machine learning and AI research at AT&T Bell Labs. During my last four years there, I was the head of the AI department, which conducted a broad range of systems and foundational AI work; I also served briefly as the head of the Secure Systems Research department. The AI department boasted terrific colleagues and friends that included Charles Isbell (now at Georgia Tech), Diane Litman (now at University of Pittsburgh), Michael Littman (later at Rutgers, now at Brown), David McAllester (now at TTI-Chicago), Satinder Singh (now at University of Michigan), Peter Stone (now at University of Texas), and Rich Sutton (now at University of Alberta). Prior to my time as its head, the AI department was shaped by the efforts of a number of notable figures, including Ron Brachman (who originally founded the department; now at Yahoo! Research), Henry Kautz (who led the department before heading to the University of Washington; now at the University of Rochester), and Bart Selman (now at Cornell). Before leading the AI group, I was a member of the closely related Machine Learning department at the labs, which was headed by Fernando Pereira (later at Penn, now at Google), and included Michael Collins (later at MIT, now at Columbia), Sanjoy Dasgupta (now at UCSD), Yoav Freund (now at UCSD), Rob Schapire (now at Princeton), William Cohen (now at CMU), and Yoram Singer (later at Hebrew University, now at Google). Other friends and colleagues from Labs days include Sebastian Seung (later at MIT, now at Princeton), Lawrence Saul (later at Penn, now at UCSD), Yann LeCun (now at Facebook and NYU), Roberto Pieraccini (now at Jibo), Esther Levin (now at Point72), Lyn Walker (now at UC Santa Cruz), Corinna Cortes (now at Google), and Vladimir Vapnik (now at Facebook).
I spent 2001 as CTO of the European venture capital firm Syntek Capital, and joined the Penn faculty in January 2002.
From June 2016 to March of 2018, I was the Chief Scientist of MANA Partners, a trading, technology and asset management firm based in NYC. From early 2014 to June 2016, I led a quantitative portfolio management team with Yuriy Nevmyvaka at Engineers Gate. From June 2009 through September 2013, we were PMs in the MultiQuant division of SAC Capital in New York City. From May 2007 through April 2009, we led a quantitative trading team at Bank of America in New York City, working on both proprietary and algorithmic trading strategies within BofA's Electronic Trading Services division. From the Spring of 2002 through May 2007, I was first a consultant to, and later the head of, a quant prop trading team within the Equity Strategies group of Lehman Brothers in New York City.
I spent most of 2011 on sabbatical in Cambridge, England, where I visited the University of Cambridge Economics Department and was a visiting Fellow at Christ's College. I also spent time visiting Microsoft Research Cambridge.
I have served as an advisor to the startups Yodle (acquired by web.com), Wealthfront, Activate Networks, RootMetrics (acquired by IHS), Convertro (acquired by AOL), Invite Media (acquired by Google), SiteAdvisor (founded by Chris Dixon; acquired by McAfee), PayNearMe (formerly known as Kwedit), and Riverhead Networks (acquired by Cisco). I was also involved in Dixon's startup Hunch (acquired by eBay), and have been a consultant to Bessemer Venture Partners. In the past I have served as a member of the Advanced Technology Advisory Council of PJM Interconnection. the Scientific Advisory Board of Opera Solutions and the Technical Advisory Board ofMicrosoft Research Cambridge.
I did my undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley in math and computer science, graduating in 1985. I received a Ph.D. in computer science from Harvard University in 1989. The title of my dissertation was The Computational Complexity of Machine Learning (see Publications below for more information), and Les Valiant was my (superb) advisor. Following postdoctoral positions at the Laboratory for Computer Science at M.I.T. (hosted by Ron Rivest ) and at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley (hosted by Dick Karp ), in 1991 I joined the research staff of AT&T Bell Labs, and later the Penn faculty (see professional bio above).
Alongside my formal education, I was strongly influenced by being born into an academic family, including my father David R. Kearns (UCSD, Chemistry); his brother, and my uncle Thomas R. Kearns (Amherst College, Philosophy); their father, and my paternal grandfather, Clyde W. Kearns (University of Illinois, Entomology); and my maternal grandfather Chen Shou-Yi (Pomona College, History and Literature).
In the past I have been program chair of NIPS, AAAI, COLT, and ACM EC. I have also served on the program committees of NIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, COLT, UAI, ICML, STOC, FOCS, and a variety of other acryonyms. I am a member of the NIPS Foundation, and was formerly on the steering committee for the Snowbird Conference on Learning (RIP).
I am on the editorial board of the MIT Press series on Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning, and the editorial board of the journal Market Microstructure and Liquidity. . In the past I have served on the editorial boards of Games and Economic Behavior, the Journal of the ACM, SIAM Journal on Computing, Machine Learning, the Journal of AI Research, and the Journal of Machine Learning Research.
I am a former member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies. From 2002-2008 I was a member, vice chair and chair of DARPA's Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group.
Current (alphabetical):
Doctoral student
Hadi Elzayn
Doctoral student Shahin Jabbari
Doctoral student Chris Jung (jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Warren Center postdoc Jieming Mao
Doctoral student Seth Neel (statistics department, jointly advised with Aaron Roth )
Doctoral student Saeed Sharifi (statistics department)
Research scientist Yuriy Nevmyvaka
Alumni (reverse chronological):
Former Warren Center
Bo Waggoner,
currently visiting Microsoft Research NYC and soon to join the University of Colorado faculty
Web page for the undergraduate course
Networked Life (NETS 112), Fall 2017
and a condensed
online video version.
Former Warren Center postdoc Jamie Morgenstern, now on the Georgia Tech faculty
Former doctoral student Steven Wu, now on the University of Minnesota faculty
Former doctoral student Hoda Heidari, now a postdoc at ETHZ
Former doctoral student Ryan Rogers, now at Apple
Former Warren Center postdoc Grigory Yaroslavtsev, now on the Indiana University faculty
Former doctoral student Lili Dworkin, now at Socratic
Former doctoral student Kareem Amin, now at Google NYC
Former research scientist Stephen Judd
Former doctoral student Mickey Brautbar
Former postdoc Jake Abernethy, now on the Georgia Tech faculty
Former postdoc Karthik Sridharan, now on the Cornell faculty
Former postdoc Kris Iyer, now on the Cornell faculty
Former MD/PhD student Renuka Nayak, now a clinical fellow at UCSF
Former doctoral student Tanmoy Chakraborty, now at Facebook
Former postdoc Umar Syed, now at Google NYC
Former doctoral student Jinsong Tan, now at Uber
Former postdoc Eugene Vorobeychik, now on the Vanderbilt faculty
Former postdoc Giro Cavallo, now at Yahoo! NYC
Former doctoral student Jenn Wortman Vaughan, now at Microsoft Research NYC
Former postdoc Eyal Even-Dar, now at Final Israel
Former doctoral student Sid Suri, now at Microsoft Research NYC
Former postdoc Sham Kakade, now on the University of Washington faculty
Former postdoc Ryan Porter, now at AMA Capital
Former postdoc Luis Ortiz, now on the University of Michigan-Dearborn CS faculty
Former summer postdoctoral visitor John Langford, now at Microsoft Research NYC
(See also the Fall 2016,   Fall 2015,   Fall 2014,   Fall 2013,   Fall 2012,   Fall 2011 (hosted at Lore),   Spring 2010,   Spring 2009,   Spring 2008,   Spring 2007,   Spring 2006,   Spring 2005, and Spring 2004 offerings.)
Web page for MKSE 150: Market and Social Systems on the Internet, Spring 2013, taught jointly with Aaron Roth.
Web page for the graduate seminar No Regrets in Learning and Game Theory, Spring 2013, run jointly with Aaron Roth.
Here are the slides for my STOC 2012 tutorial on Algorithmic Trading and Computational Finance
Web page for CIS 625, Spring 2018: Computational Learning Theory. Here is the Spring 2016 version, an earlier version with Grigory Yaroslavtsev, an earlier version with Jake Abernethy, and an earlier version with Koby Crammer.
Web page for the graduate seminar course Social Networks and Algorithmic Game Theory, Fall 2009
Web page for CIS 620, Fall 2007: Seminar on Foundations of Cryptography.
Web page for CIS 620, Fall 2006: Seminar on Sponsored Search.
Web page for the graduate seminar CIS 700/04: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (Fall 2004).
Web page for CIS 700/04: Advanced Topics in Machine Learning (Fall 2003).
Web page for a course on Computational Game Theory (Spring 2003). This was a joint course between CIS and Wharton (listed as CIS 620 and Wharton OPIM 952).
Course web page for CIS 620: Advanced Topics in AI (Spring 2002)
Course web page for CIS 620: Advanced Topics in AI (Spring 1997)
Web page for the undergraduate course
Networked Life (NETS 112), Fall 2017
and a condensed
online video version.
Below are some press/media articles related to my work, or in which I am quoted. (Some links are behind paywalls or are unfortunately now dead.)
Bloomberg article about shutdown of the legendary Prediction Company,
September 2018.
Bloomberg article about joining Morgan Stanley, June 2018.
NYT article on the EU's GDPR, May 2018.
Penn News article on fairness gerrymandering, February 2018.
NPR Marketplace interview on algorithmic trading and market volatility, February 2018.
"Data Skeptic" podcast with Kyle Polich on machine learning, computational complexity, game theory, trading, fairness etc. November 2017.
WSJ article on financial markets counterterrorism. October 2017.
Regulatory Review article on fairness in machine learning. October 2017.
Axios article on "intimiate" data and machine learning, September 2017.
Interview on Fairness in Machine Learning. Aired on Sirius XM Channel 111, Business Radio Powered by The Wharton School, August 2017.
Pasatiempo Magazine (Santa Fe New Mexican) article about SFI lecture on machine learning and social norms,   April 2017.
CBS Sunday Morning segment on "Luck",   September 2016.
Bloomberg news article on machine learning and macroeconomic policy, and a related radio segment on Bloomberg Surveillance,   June 2016.
Some coverage of the article Private Algorithms for the Protected in Social Network Search in Quartz,   Pacific Standard,   Motherboard,   Naked Scientists,   Groks Science,   PBS Newshour,   and upenn.edu,   Jan-June 2016.
MIT Technology Review article on Cloverpop, September 2014.
Bloomberg News article on HFT and hybrid quant funds, March 2014
Discussions of PAC and SQ learning and their relevance to evolution in Les Valiant's book "Probably Approximately Correct", June 2013
NPR text and audio on Coursera, online education, and Penn, October 2012
Australian radio program "Future Tense" on "The Algorithm", March 2012
Chapter on biased voting experiments in Garth Sundem's book "Brain Trust", 2012.
ScienceNews article on Princeton fish consensus experiments, December 2011.
A profile of and an interview with Les Valiant upon his receiving the 2010 Turing Award, CACM June 2011.
Profile and lecture overview, Christ's College Pieces, Lent Term 2011.
Fiscal Times article on machine learning and technology in trading, March 2011,
Wired Magazine article on algorithmic trading, January 2011, and some more extensive remarks and one-year follow-up on the author's blog.
Science News article on light speed propagation delays in trading, October 2010
Economist article on flash crash autopsy, October 2010
WSJ online post on HFT research, September 2010
Discussion of behavioral social network experiments in Peter Miller's "The Smart Swarm" (Chapter 3, page 139 forward)
Atlantic article on HFT "crop circles", August 2010
Nature News article on "distributed thinking", August 2010
Wall Street Journal article on machine learning in quant trading, July 2010 and a related interview on CNBC
New Scientist article on "Why Facebook friends are worth keeping", July 2010; here is a free reproduction
Philadelphia Business Journal article on the MKSE program and Networked Life, October 2009
Discussion of behavioral social network experiments in Christakis and Fowler's "Connected" (page 165 foward)
Philadelphia Inquirer article on networked voting experiments, March 2009
Science Daily article on networked voting experiments, February 2009
The Trade magazine article natural language processing for algorithmic trading, September 2007
Bloomberg Markets magazine article on AI on Wall Street, June 2007
SIAM News article on behavioral graph coloring, November 2006
Philadelphia Inquirer article on network science and NSA link analysis, May 2006
Chicago Tribune article on privacy in blogs and social networks, November 2005
Chronicle of Higher Education article on Facebook and social networks, May 2004
Star-Ledger article on the demise of AT&T Labs, March 2004
Business Week Online article on technology in NASDAQ and NYSE, September 2003
Philadelphia Inquirer article on ISTAR, interdependent security, and games on networks, January 2003
Washington Post article on web-based chatterbots, September 2002
New Scientist article on the Cobot spoken dialogue system, August 2002
Tornado Insider article on DDoS attacks, January 2002 [Cover]
Tornado Insider article on biometric security, January 2002
Audio of COMNET panel "Staving Off Denial-of-Service Attacks and Detecting Malicious Code"
Tornado Insider article on natural language technology, September 2001
Tornado Insider article on robotics, July 2001
Il Sole 24 Ore profile, June 2001 [English Translation]
Corriere Della Sera profile, May 2001 [English Translation]
Associated Press article on software robots, February 2001
New York Times article on TAC, August 2000
New York Times on Cobot, February 2000
TIME Digital Magazine (now Time On) on Cobot, May 2000
Washington Post article on Cobot, December 2000
New York Times article on boosting, August 1999
What follows is a listing of (almost) all of my research papers in (approximately) reverse chronological order. For papers with both a conference and journal version, the paper is usually placed by its first (conference) date. Also, as per the honorable tradition of the theoretical computer science community, on almost all of the papers below that are primarily mathematical in content, authors are listed alphabetically.
Acronyms for conferences and journals include: AAAI: Annual National Conference on Artificial Intelligence; AISTATS: International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics; ALT: Algorithmic Learning Theory; COLT: Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory; EC: ACM Conference on Economics and Computation; FAT*: ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency; FATML: Fairness, Accountability and Transparency in Machine Learning; FOCS: IEEE Foundations of Computer Science; HCOMP: AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing; ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning; IJCAI: International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence; ITCS: Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science; NIPS: Neural Information Processing Systems; PNAS: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; SODA: ACM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms; STOC: ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computation; UAI: Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence; WINE: Workshop on Internet and Network Economics.
In addition to the list below, you can also look at my page on Google Scholar, and this DBLP query seems to do a pretty good job of finding those publications that appeared in mainstream CS venues (though not others), and can be useful for generating bibtex citations.
NOTE: The main result of the paper above --- an efficient algorithm claimed to find a single exact Nash equilibrium in tree graphical games --- is unfortunately wrong. This was discovered and discussed in the very nice paper by Elkind, Goldberg and Goldberg, which can be found here. The problem of efficiently computing an exact Nash equilibrium in trees remains open (though EG&G demonstrate that no two-pass algorithm can suffice). The original polynomial-time approximate Nash algorithm from the K., Littman, Singh UAI 2001 paper is unaffected by these developments, as is its NashProp generalization in the Ortiz and K. 2002 NIPS paper.
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Londonderry Inventioneers strike a deal during Shark Tank appearanceBy APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
February 17. 2013 9:08PM
LONDONDERRY - When the ABC television show "Shark Tank" premiered in summer 2009, six teenage engineers were watching and dreaming from their Londonderry living rooms.
"We'd often joke about it, about what we'd do if we got a chance to be on the show," said Tristan "T.J." Evarts, 17, one of the founding members of the Inventioneers. The group is a FIRST Lego League team whose award-winning invention, the SMART Wheel, is due to go into production later this year.
"Be careful what you wish for," said Evarts, who created the driving safety device with the help of teammates Emily Balcom, 16, Kate Balcom, 15, Bryeton Evarts, 12, Jaiden Evarts, 13 and Paige Balcom, 18.
The SMART Wheel is an electronic steering wheel cover that senses driver hand position and provides instant feedback to alert the driver to unsafe positioning. The Inventioneers are the reigning FIRST Lego League world champions and New Hampshire's four-time reigning state champions.
Over the past four years the team has obtained four provisional patents on its inventions and the SMART Wheel has been test driven at the White House by both President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood.
With such an impressive resume, it turns out the talented teens didn't have to track down the producers of Shark Tank. The producers found them.
Technically, the producers called the Inventioneers not once, but twice. When the producers of the show contacted the six home-schooled kids in 2011, the teammates decided to hold off on Hollywood for the time being, opting instead to further refine their invention. But when the show called again last May, the Inventioneers were finally ready for the small screen.
This past September the teammates and their parents spent a week in California for the production of a Shark Tank episode. The TV series features a panel of entrepreneurs and business executives who consider offers from inventors seeking hefty investments for their products, inventions or businesses.
According to team member Kate Balcom, the show's producers chose the Inventioneers from a pool of over 30,000 applicants.
Filming on Season Four, Episode 16 wrapped in just a day, with much preparation and Skypeing with show producers in the weeks leading up to the big moment.
"We wanted to make sure our sales pitch was perfect," Evarts said.
The toughest part of the show was the question-and-answer session, as the teammates were put on the spot in front of the cameras.
"It was really about pitching our product, showing what the program is about and letting our personalities shine through," Evarts said. "I felt pretty confident about it."
Several weeks after filming the episode, Hollywood film crews arrived in Londonderry to shoot footage of the teammates. From there, the teens were sworn to secrecy about the episode's outcome until the show aired last week. Not even Lisa Evarts, one of the team's adult advisors, knew what happened in front of the camera until then, as parents weren't allowed at the show's filming.
Fortunately, the teammates, who all share a close bond, had each other to share their nervous excitement with.
"It's definitely good that we were able to talk to each other and talk often," T.J. Evarts said.
Appearing before the judges, there were definitely some tense moments. One judge challenged them by noting the SMART Wheel doesn't actually stop drivers from taking their hands off the wheel, it only alerts them. T.J. Evarts calmly informed the sharks that President Obama had tried out the product and even requested a SMART Wheel for the first daughters. T.J. and his teammates had the pictures to prove it.
Robert Herjavec and Mark Cuban partnered to give the Inventioneers $100,000 for a 30-percent stake in the SMART Wheel. The episode is online at http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/.
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"We also own all of the code, including the HTML code, and all content. As you may know, you can view the HTML code with a standard browser. We do not permit you to view such code since we consider it to be our intellectual property protected by the copyright laws. You are therefore not authorized to do so."As Beck says, "That's kind of like a puppet show invoking copyright to prohibit the audience from looking at the strings. The user agreements of the law firm and one of its clients also contain a bunch of terrible terms that have become all too common: a prohibition on linking to the site, copying anything from the site (even if its fair use), and even referring to the website owner by name. The law firm doesn't even allow its own clients to say they're represented by the firm without permission." He also notes that the law firm in question is demanding that another website remove criticism of one of their clients because it did not receive permission to use the client's name or link to the website -- two things that the laws and the courts have been pretty clear in saying is perfectly legal over the years.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins has been released from the hospital after treatment for pneumonia.
The 86-year-old Dinkins was admitted to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital on Oct. 30. He was released Wednesday night.
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Hedge funds accumulated their second-biggest bet against gold on record just as prices rallied the most in 15 months on surging demand for coins and jewelry and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ended a recommendation to sell.
The funds and other large speculators held 69,726 short contracts on April 23, within 0.6% of the all-time high reached six weeks earlier, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. The net-long position dropped 25% to 46,168 futures and options. Net-bullish wagers across 18 U.S.-traded raw materials slid 5%, the third decline in four weeks, with cuts in silver, corn and gasoline.
Bullion rallied 11% since reaching a two-year low April 16. The U.S. Mint ran out of its smallest gold coin last week, with sales across its products poised for the best month since December 2009, and the U.K. Mint said purchases tripled. Premiums paid by jewelers in India, the biggest importer, to secure supply surged as much as fivefold in 10 days. Goldman said April 23 it closed a bearish recommendation, while saying further declines are likely.
"It's bizarre that the price has come back so rapidly," said Donald Selkin, who helps manage about $3 billion of assets as the chief market strategist at National Securities Corp. in New York. "After the big decline, demand jumped like crazy. It's the old rubber-band theory: You stretch too far, and eventually, it snaps back. Banks came in to buy, and there is record demand for coins around the world."
Gold Rally
Gold futures jumped 4.2% to $1,453.60 an ounce on the Comex in New York last week, the most since January 2012. Analysts are the most bullish in a month, with 15 anticipating higher prices this week. Eleven are bearish and three neutral, according to a Bloomberg survey. The contract for June delivery advanced 0.8% to $1,465.60 at 10:12 a.m. in New York.
The Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 commodities climbed 2.4% last week and the MSCI All-Country World Index of equities gained 2.3%. The dollar slid 0.3% against a basket of six currencies, while Treasuries returned 0.2%, a Bank of America Corp. index shows.
Bullion tumbled into a bear market April 12 and plunged 9.3% in the next session, the biggest drop in 33 years. The retreat underscored how some investors had lost faith in the traditional store of value, even as central banks printed money on an unprecedented scale to boost growth. The slump spurred buyers across the world to increase their physical holdings, and billionaire John Paulson, the biggest investor in the largest exchange-traded product backed by bullion, reiterated his bullish view on prices.
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Call of Mini: Zombies Review
- Publisher: Triniti Interactive Limited
- Genre: Action
- Released: 14 Jun, 2011
- Size: 303.1 MB
- Price: FREE!
- Responsive twin-stick controls; sharp movement and snappy aiming and firing.
- Moody cartoonish 3D graphics; two relatively large arenas to fight in.
- Lots of unlockable weapons, characters and zombies to encounter.
- Weapon stats discourage purchasing additional weapons; limits variety and encourages grinding for 'cash'.
- No way to preview character 'traits'; large cash sinks (and thus potential time sinks).
Call of Mini: Zombies is more Minigore and less Call of Duty: Zombies, but the novel over-the-shoulder viewpoint and carefully designed environments gives this game future potential.
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There are no prizes for working out the influences for Triniti Interactive's latest release 'Call of Mini: Zombies', so it should be no surprise to find yourself strapping in to a zombie-themed twin-stick shooter.
After selecting from a handful of characters you're faced with the challenge of shooting, chopping or blowing up a variety of zombies invading one of two different locations. In keeping with the 'Call of Duty' theme, players maneuver and fire their weapons from a third-person over the shoulder perspective, swiping the screen to look in different directions, while two analogue sticks provide access to movement and firing. Aiming is surprisingly easy as the controls swiftly respond whether you're firing or moving around the level, making even the nimblest of foes simple to track.
Cash earned from your spree of violence can be spent on upgrading weapons you already own or go towards armor, weapons and additional characters. Later weapons need to be earned by progress in game before purchasing them with cash (making In App Purchasing of cash somewhat irrelevant), but other than variety there's little incentive to get a new weapon until you max-out the one you currently own. As such the game quickly becomes a repetitive chore of using the same weapon over and over or grinding endlessly to get another weapon 'up to spec'. New zombies add some flavor to later levels, though barring a handful of special creatures player aren't forced to change their tactics.
Despite invoking the appearance of one game and the visual theme of another, Call of Mini: Zombies feels just like any other generic twin-stick shooter. Spending the time to unlock characters and weapons with unique traits does help to mix things up, but getting to that point can take some time.
Call of Mini: Zombies is a fantastic looking game and an easy one to initially enjoy, especially if you love zombie-based shooters, but until updates add more content to deepen the gameplay you'll feel like you're stuck on a never ending zombie-treadmill.
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CEOs Fly Coach? Business Travel Turns Frugal
Employees Asked to Forgo Perks, Trade Down to Lesser Hotels; They Should 'Treat Company Funds Like Their Own Money'
Business travel is back to pre-recession levels, but road warriors can expect less legroom than before.
Traveling for work used to be somewhat cushy—grueling schedules and time away from family may have earned corporate travelers a lie-flat seat on a red-eye flight, a sporty rental car or room service after a day of meetings. But more companies are equating business travel with budget travel, so they're asking employees to forgo some perks and trade down to lesser hotels and are banishing even senior executives to coach....


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STOCKTON - Chris Cichocki still spends plenty of time at Stockton Arena watching young players develop their skills.
STOCKTON - Chris Cichocki still spends plenty of time at Stockton Arena watching young players develop their skills.
The difference now is he watches from the seats instead of the bench.
The first coach in the history of the Stockton Thunder is in his third season as a scout for the Edmonton Oilers, the Thunder's NHL parent franchise. And while his job has changed, his address hasn't. Cichocki, his wife, Val, 14-year-old son, Quinn, and 12-year-old daughter, Carly, have stayed in Stockton even after he was dismissed as coach in 2008.
"In scouting, you can fly out of anywhere to go do your job, and we've set down roots here," Cichocki said. "We like it and we have made many great friends here. It's been a great situation for us."
Cichocki, a native of Detroit, is one of five pro scouts for the Oilers and deals primarily with the minor leagues and sometimes colleges. His job has been affected by the NHL lockout, though when the league is operating, he occasionally scouts the Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks.
He spends most of his time at Stockton Arena to see the ECHL Western Conference teams come through and because of the Thunder's affiliation with Edmonton. Cichocki was hired as the Thunder's inaugural coach in 2005 and compiled a 93-114-33 record before being replaced by Matt Thomas early in the 2008-09 season.
Cichocki was hired by the Oilers in 2010. He admitted it was a bit odd the first time he walked back into the arena as a scout.
"Sure, it was a little awkward the first time you go back. But I went in with my head held high," the 49-year-old said. "It didn't work out the way I would have hoped, but this is a good organization and we're all on the same team. I think Matt (Thomas) has done a great job here. I hope they have a lot of success and can bring home a championship."
Thomas and Cichocki coached against each other when Thomas was leading the now-defunct Fresno Falcons. Thomas said they often confer on players and have a good working relationship.
"I don't think it has been awkward, and that's a testament to Chris as a person. He made sure it wouldn't be awkward, and we've always been friends," Thomas said. "It's good to have the affiliate's scout close and so involved. For me it's really beneficial to have him in town because players know that, and they know they can't take nights off because there's nobody watching."
After his departure from the Thunder, Cichocki finished 2009-10 as an assistant coach with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (Pa.) Penguins of the American Hockey League. He took the next year off from hockey and considered his options. He determined scouting would be a more stable job than coaching, and made calls to NHL teams.
Cichocki knew the management in Edmonton because of its affiliation with the Thunder. He interviewed with Morey Gare, the Oilers' head pro scout. Gare said he was impressed by Cichocki's background, which includes 68 career games with the Detroit Red Wings and New Jersey Devils during his 13-year pro career.
"Chris has played the game at a high level, and that automatically gives him insight on what it takes to be a good pro," Gare said. "He's been in the business in the management and the coaching side evaluating talent, and he has a great network of contacts from his years in the game."
Cichocki said he recently ended a stretch where he was away from home for 26 out of 30 days, but that's the life of a scout. He also works some college games and is constantly on the lookout for qualities that make a successful pro player.
"You are looking for skill and speed and size, of course, but you are also looking for that something extra, kind of a presence a player can have," Cichocki said. "I call it polish. It's the thing that separates a player from the rest, and you know it when you see it."
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in talks for Child 44
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Philip Seymour Hoffman is set to join Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace in Soviet era political thriller, 'Child 44'
Philip Seymour Hoffman is joining the cast of 'Child 44'.
The 45-year-old actor is negotiating a deal to star alongside Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, and Joel Kinnaman in the upcoming political thriller, Deadline.com reports.
The 1950s-set drama follows a disgraced Soviet police officer who tries to solve a string of gruesome child murders, and has been adapted from Tom Rob Smith's 2008 Man Booker Prize longlisted novel of the same name.
Daniel Espinosa is directing from a screenplay by 'The Wire' writer Richard Price, while 'Prometheus' helmer Ridley Scott has signed on to produce.
British star Hardy will play the officer, who has been wrongly framed for treason by a colleague, and Rapace will portray his seemingly-doting wife.
Hoffman was nominated for an Oscar for his powerful performance in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2012 drama 'The Master', and can next be seen in 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' sequel.
This will be the actor's first role since he admitted to falling off the wagon after 23 years of clean living. He checked himself into a rehab facility for 10 days in May after his prescription pill habit escalated into taking heroin.
Hoffman is expected to play a minor role as filming has already begun, kicking off on June 10 in Prague.


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2013: Played in 11 games … Had an assist in his collegiate debut at Hofstra on Feb. 16 … Scored his first career goal in Sacred Heart's 21-8 win at Wagner on April 6 … Fired a season-high four shots against Quinnipiac on April 13.
Prior to Sacred Heart: A two-year letterwinner at Loyola Blakefield High School … Also played three years of volleyball, winning two MIAA championships.
Personal: Born on Oct. 23, 1994 … Son of Wade and Barbara Dauses … Brother, Trevor, also played lacrosse at Sacred Heart … Majoring in accounting … Favorite Sports Teams: Baltimore Ravens and Baltimore Orioles … Favorite Professional Athlete: Ray Lewis … Favorite Book: The Outsiders … Favorite TV Show: Game of Thrones.


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marinmomma wrote:The snake stories have got to stop....not keen to ride out to Nudgee again, certainly not on my own, except during winter!
Maybe it is safer to ride at night. Never seen a snake on the trail then
There's a group of HPRW's who occasionally do a fish and chip run from the crit down to Doug's, in the dark. On the last ride there were 18 of us. God help anything that didn't see the 30+kph wall of Ay Ups sweeping through the Wetlands.


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North Sea drilling activity 'up by a third'
Drilling activity in the North Sea rose by a third last year, according to a new report.
Business advisers Deloitte found 65 exploration and appraisal wells were drilled on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), compared with 49 in 2011.
It suggested activity was boosted by a broader range of tax allowances and a sustained high oil price.
Interest in field development also reached a 10-year high, with 21 projects approved.
Eight projects involving redevelopment of older fields were also sanctioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
The report by the Deloitte petroleum services group (PSG) suggested that the final quarter turned in the strongest performance of the year.
Some 29% of new wells which started over the course of 2012 were drilled between October and December.
More than 90% of new field developments in the UK were eligible for tax allowances following the 2012 Budget.
In March 2012, the Chancellor announced an increase in the small field allowance, and introduced a new allowance for large deep-water developments targeting West of Shetland.
A further new allowance for shallow water gas field developments was announced by the government in July 2012.
Deloitte PSG managing director Graham Sadler said oil firms were more confident about investing in the North Sea.
He added: "After several years of caution and uncertainty, we have a more positive environment, where a number of factors such as tax incentives, high oil price and appetite to invest have combined to make 2012 the most encouraging year for a long time.
"The government introduced a range of tax reliefs which have sufficient breadth and depth to create an environment in which companies of all sizes and investors have the confidence to take some risk and expand their operations in the North Sea."
Field deals
Last year also saw a surge in the number of oil and gas fields which were bought and sold.
Across North West Europe, 129 deals were announced - 80 of which took place in the UK.
This equates to a 30% increase on the UK's 2011 deal figure.
These were split almost equally between farm-ins - companies taking a stake in another company's field - and deals to purchase oil and gas fields.
The average Brent oil price for the fourth quarter of 2012 was $110.44, slightly lower than the average for 2012 which was $111.70.


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GravityRAT. How to remove GravityRAT virus (Malware)?
GravityRAT is a malware, which is a term used for various types of malicious software. It is intended to damage or disturb the operation, as well as to steal, destroy, or at all, perform negative and illegitimate actions on the computer that user is using.
There are many types of malware that differ in the way they penetrate and spread into computer systems. This can be done through programs or files that have a malicious code or script included. Others are installed by using vulnerabilities in the operating system, network devices, antivirus programs, or other programs such as web browsers, where the user only needs to visit a particular web page. Most of the cases of malware installation in computer systems are due to users' actions that visit illegitimate webpages, open attachments to emails from unknown senders or download files from the Internet.
Perhaps the most common method used by malware distributors is e-mail spam. Typically, spam contains a message that causes the user to click on the attachment to the message. In some cases (with so-called targeted attacks), spam is not accidentally spread, but is specifically designed for the attacked organization.
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The file attached to the spam file can have many different forms. Nowadays, this is almost never an EXE file because modern e-mail systems automatically filter such files. Typically, this is a Microsoft Word or Excel document, a PDF file, a JavaScript file, and so on. If it is a Word or Excel document, it usually has macros. Modern versions of these programs by default block the macros in the documents. Therefore, the document is designed to persuade the user to allow the execution of macros.
In less frequent cases, the malware is spread by sites that have been compromised (hacked). The content of their webpages has been changed to automatically run a program on the machine whose web browser views the pages of the compromised site.
There are two different ways that can be used when trying to remove the malware from the computer:
Manual removal: Each virus of this type has certain removal steps that must be strictly and carefully performed when you try to delete it from the operating system. Very often this method is insufficient.
Automatic removal: The most secure way to remove this type of virus and its components is to use a legitimate antivirus or anti-malware program. Only this option can help you find any version of the malware and remove any of its components. Follow these alternative steps to fix your computer.
Modern anti-malware systems have components that will detect that the infected machine is trying to connect to a dubious server over the Internet and download an executable file from it, which is also not known as a widespread utility. And, of course, make sure that your antivirus or anti-malware program really works, its license has not expired, and that it is regularly updated.
How did GravityRAT virus got my pc infected:
In many ways adware programs attack and get to users computers with well known techniques. Some very old but still really powerful way for hackers to get you infected. If we don't consider scam emails, there are two main ways:
- Via shareware or freeware installation – Most adware was bundled with some freeware installation as a legitimate way to use force advertising revenue which claims to improve user experience.
More about bundling: in order to avoid any of this into the future you need to pay more attention. When you install a program never use express installation. Go for custom installation and untick any suspicious software that will come with the freeware. If you go for express installation malware will be installed as an additional software. This process is called bundling.
- Infected websites – visiting suspicious websites may also lead to malicious attack towards trojan. Use any type of anti-malware software to remove the virus and further protection.
NOTE: Even after removing all malware from your PC many of the problems caused by it may still remain!
- Name – GravityRAT
- Type Spamming – Malware
- Danger Level – High
- Brief Description – pop-up ads and redirects.
- Symptoms – Poor pc performance or freezing, pop-up ads and redirects.
- Method – Via bundling.
Note: Removing GravityRAT malware manually could be very risky and unpredictable!
To proceed with the manual removal of adware from your computer, follow the removal steps below. NOTE: you may be infected with more than one malware and after following the steps ads may still pop-up. Since malware virus creates variety of malicious modified registry entries and different files, we strongly advise you to use anti-malware tool. Removing the virus manually requires high computer skills and knowledge.
Step by step how to remove malware from Chrome, Firefox and Internet explorer:
NOTE: If ads still pop-up you may be infected with more add-ons witch you have to remove from your PC.
Manual steps to remove ransomware or malware. How to prevent ransomware or malware.For now, removing ransomware or malware manually will only be able for IT specialists. If you don't know one don't worry. We have a solution for you. Over here we will use Spyhunter to remove the virus. The Spyhunter anti-malware is a collection of programs that can be used to scan for malware and clean infected computers. You can also use full anti-malware program in this case which is the better option because it also offers protection.
How to remove "ransomware or malware"NOTE: In this option the virus will be removed but the files will remain locked! You have to decrypt your files.
- Download Spyhunter anti-malware.
- 2. After program has been downloaded, double-click to open it. User will have to install the program. Click on Spyhunter.exe to start the process.
- 3. Update the software before scanning. Once program has been updated go to scan. You can choose from a free trial version or activate license. It is recommended to buy full version as the trial will not protect computer system.
- 4. The scan process will begin. The scan process may take awhile, depending on a computer system performance.
- 5. Once the scan is complete you can choose between delete or quarantine the viruses. The quarantine option is recommended and since the malware is active a reboot will be required to finish process.
Click here for guide of how to uninstall spyhunter.
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Decrypt ransomware files.
Good news is that we can now use decryption programs. A lot of security companies like Kasperky lab, bitdefender and more has developed a program that is fully capable of decryption key for ransomware malware. You can find this programs anywhere on the internet but it is strongly suggested to download this programs from official websites. NOTE: It may take a long time for your files to be decrypted depending on your PC performance.


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BERLIN (AP) — Germany's Roman Catholic Church said Wednesday it has called off an independent institute's investigation into sexual abuse by clergy over several decades. The lead researcher complained that the church wanted too much control over his work.
In 2011, the church asked Prof. Christian Pfeiffer's Lower Saxony Criminological Research Institute to analyze data on abuse from German dioceses as far back as 1945, including material from church archives.
It was part of efforts to address the scandal triggered by revelations of abuse of children and youths in Germany, Pope Benedict XVI's homeland, and elsewhere.
However, the German Bishops Conference said "mutual trust is shattered" between the bishops and Pfeiffer, and it was terminating its agreement with the institute. It said it would seek a new partner for the project, without elaborating.
Pfeiffer said that researchers and church worked well together for the first few months, but then resistance emerged, starting with a call from the Munich archdiocese for the researchers "to bow to church requests for stronger controls" on their work.
A group representing German dioceses then called for the researchers' work to be submitted for pre-publication approval, Pfeiffer told ZDF television, a demand he said was unacceptable.
A statement from Bishop Stephan Ackermann, the church's point man on combating abuse, said that Pfeiffer's "way of communication with church officials" had made "further constructive cooperation" impossible. It did not elaborate.
A group that represents abuse victims, Square Table, said the latest development shows that the church is "unable to cope" with investigating the issue. It called in a statement for a parliamentary commission of inquiry into past abuse and church failings.
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger was quoted as telling the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily it's important that efforts to investigate the abuse scandal do not end in "half-hearted clearing-up."
The Munich vicar general, Peter Berr, rejected talk of "censorship" and stressed the diocese's "absolute will" to investigate past abuse. But he told Sueddeutsche Zeitung it's also important to discuss how that can be reconciled with the obligation to ensure diligence and the church's responsibility toward employees.
Benedict, who was then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, served as archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982.


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Some people think that if a person does one of the actions that are forbidden in ihraam, that he has to offer a sacrifice, or fast for three days, or feed six poor persons, and that can choose whichever of these three he wants.
It is haraam for the pilgrim who is in ihraam for Hajj or 'Umrah to shave his hair, cut his nails or cover his head with something that is attached to the head, to wear stitched clothes (for men), to wear the face-veil and gloves (for women), to wear perfume on the body or clothes, to hunt game, to enter into a marriage contract, and to have intercourse or engage in foreplay. See question no. 11356.
If the pilgrim in ihraam does any of these forbidden things, then one of the following scenarios must apply:
1- He did it because he forgot, or was unaware of the ruling, or he was forced to do it, or he was asleep – in which case he does not have to do anything (i.e., offer any fidyah)
2- He did it deliberately, but with an excuse that made it permissible to do something that is ordinarily forbidden, in which case there is no sin on him but he has to offer the fidyah for doing that. We will explain this in more detail below.
3- He did it deliberately with no excuse, in which case he has sinned and must offer a fidyah, of which there are three types:
(a) That for which there is no fidyah, which is entering into a marriage contract.
(b) That for which the fidyah is to sacrifice a camel, which is having intercourse before the first stage of exiting ihraam.
(c) That for which the fidyah is to fast for three days, which may be done consecutively or separately, as he chooses; or to sacrifice a sheep of a type that is acceptable for sacrifice, or one-seventh of a camel or cow instead, and to distribute its meat among the poor and not eat any of it himself; or to feed six poor persons, giving each one half a saa' of staple food. He is given the choice between these three options if he removes any hair or nails, puts on perfume, touches a woman with desire (but without having intercourse), if a woman puts on gloves or a face-veil, or if a male puts on stitched clothes or covers his head.
4- That for which the fidyah is to offer something equivalent, namely hunting game. If the game hunted has an equivalent, then he is given the choice of three options:
(i) slaughtering the equivalent and distributing its meat to the poor
(ii) finding out its value and giving food of an equal value to be given to the poor, giving each poor person half a saa'
(iii) Fasting instead, one day for each poor person
If there is nothing equivalent to the game that was hunted, then he is given the choice between two things:
(i) finding out the value of the game that was killed and giving the equivalent in food to the poor, giving each poor person half a saa'
(ii) Fasting instead, one day for each poor person.
Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen, 22/205-206.


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Weare cuts K-9 unit in effort to trim police budget
In the spring of 2012, the board of selectmen asked Municipal Resources Inc. to conduct a study to determine why the police department's overtime line was repeatedly exceeding the budget. That report in its final form was released to the public earlier this month.
The overspending and underbudgeting led to deficits in the line item ranging from $109,798 in 2009 to $73,596 in 2011. Though some of those deficits were reduced by surpluses in other parts of the department's budgets, for the last two years the department's total budget was overspent.
"Overtime for years has been a question at budget time," said Town Administrator Naomi Bolton, "and we struggled to wrap our heads around what was happening."
In order to get out of the habit of deficit spending, said Bolton, the town asked MRI to take a look at the department to see where the money was being spent. MRI came back with a number of recommendations, some of which have already been put in place, while others will take longer.
The immediate change that has come about due to the report is that the department has discontinued its K-9 program, which MRI called expensive to maintain and pointed out that other local communities have dogs available.
But among the changes that will take longer to sort out are scheduling and staffing. The department has officers working four days on, three days off. There are very few part-time officers, and that means when a full-time officer gets sick or takes a day off, another full-time officer working overtime has to cover the shift. The MRI report also pointed to a lack of policy regarding sick time and noted that some officers were using all of their sick days in short periods of time.
"We're going to have to work out a lot of these issues at the negotiating table with the police union," said Bolton. "These are changes that we want to make gradually, not all at once."
The report also states that the town needs to establish a policy that delineates when a police officer is required for road construction, and when flaggers or even cones can be used instead. That ordinance is currently being drawn up, said Bolton.
"Some positive things have come out of this study," she said. "We just need some time to put them into practice."
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Michael Bolton has always been a Motown fan.
Now he's a Detroit booster, too.
Bolton's latest release, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough: A Tribute to Hitsville U.S.A.," not only gave the singer — who's been making his own hits since "Fool's Game" in 1983 — a chance to immerse himself in some of the city's music but also get an in-depth look at its current situation. And where other outsiders see despair, Bolton says he got to see the promise.
"We came to Detroit, to (the Motown Historical Museum) and brought cameras and a crew to do a documentary for the album," recalls Bolton, 60, who was born Michael Bolotin in Connecticut. "Before we got on the plane we had all this information about a group of people who are doing some amazing things in Detroit — Dan Gilbert and the Quicken Loans people and some real estate people — and rebuilding the city from the center out.
"So we stopped by their offices, too, and got some (sound) bites and looked at what they were doing in Detroit, and it was very enlightening — and inspiring. So we're telling that story. We're not even from Detroit and we're enjoying telling it."
Bolton says he was also pleased to subsequently learn that he wasn't the only one rooting for the Motor City from afar.
"There's a really big kind of fan base of people who have nothing to do with Detroit who would like to see the comeback of this great city," he says. "It's really a no-brainer for me to go back to my childhood, especially Motown and Hitsville. That's some of my favorite music, and some of the people I became friends with wrote that catalog — Holland-Dozier-Holland, Stevie (Wonder), Ashford & Simpson.
"That's a cast of characters who are icons in our musical history who all owe Detroit and all their experience and success to something that is staggering when you look back at it, just how successful and all-encompassing (Motown) was."
Bolton, who's scored nine No. 1 hits and has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, has recorded Motown songs before, but he says the idea of an entire album dedicated to the label had long appealed to him.
On one hand, it was easier than creating a standard solo album — "I didn't have to start writing songs," he notes with a laugh — but the challenge was deciding which songs to do for "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," which debuted at No. 38 on the Billboard 200 chart after its late February release.
"I was basically combing through hundreds of songs, all of them masterpieces," Bolton recalls. "I was on tour and would be walking through the streets of Berlin or going to the gym or to restaurants and I'd have the headphones on. I never had that much material to comb through in my life when I was preparing for a record.
"The great thing was that it was basically like walking through the DNA of my life with this music. There were so many great songs. I could definitely do a second or a third volume and STILL have things I'd want to record."
Those will have to wait in line, however, as Bolton has a number of other projects in his sights these days. He's developing "a couple" of television shows he hopes to unveil early next year and is continuing to work on a stage musical. He's planning a new album of original material, too — his first since "One World One Love" in 2009 — but is mostly spending his time co-writing with "a group of people who are like the hot guns," younger artists who he's not yet naming but who he's creating material with that will wind up wherever it fits.
"It's really full circle back to when everything took off for me," Bolton explains. "I was writing with Dianne Warren and Desmond Child and my songs were getting covered left and right and I was finding my own strength as a performer at the same time. So I'm just writing songs right now, and we'll see where they wind up.
"The good news is that melody is back in pop music again. There's a lot of melody in music now, across the board from hip-hop to country, and that's where I'm the most comfortable, so a lot of what I'm doing does feel like the next stuff I'll be singing."
FYI: Michael Bolton performs at 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Macomb Music Theatre, 31 N. Walnut St., Mount Clemens. Tickets are $44.95-$99.95. Call 586-541-1107 or visit www.macombmusictheatre.com.


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16 U.S. Code § 973n - Arbitration
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(Pub. L. 100–330, § 16, June 7, 1988, 102 Stat. 600.)
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