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This IDC Financial Insights report looks at the seemingly expanding trend of banking outages in the Asia/Pacific region and looks into the circumstances behind the outages as well as the intrinsic reasons behind them. It further goes on to provide predictions for whether we will see an increase or decrease in outages in the region. This report also discusses best practices for banks to both prevent and cope with outages, as well as the role that vendors must assume in order to help them meet their standards.
"Research suggests that a significant amount of outages can be accounted for by two factors: problems caused either by inconsistent upgrading or by system migration due to M&A activity between banks. Moreover, outages are no small matter. Our calculations suggest minimal estimated losses of over a million dollars per hour of outage for the largest banks in the Asia/Pacific region. With this level of financial damage, what is it that allows these outages to continue in so many banks across the region?" says Michael Yeo, market analyst for IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific.
"The whole IT function needs to be looked at with greater strategic importance in banks and to move away from the traditional cost center approach. Despite IT being so embedded and critical in the daily running of the bank's business, ownership and responsibilities regarding the bank's operations are still located in silo within the IT department solely. IT structuring should use business aims as the base it works from and look toward simplifying processes in an accordant manner. However, with new external threats having recently arisen, plus seemingly little change in the mindset toward IT, we expect outages for the next 12 months to increase in number or, at the very least, in the publicity that they receive."
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The U.S. Department of Education has granted federal aid eligibility to two new academic programs that do not rely on the credit hour -- a form of competency-based education called direct assessment. So far six institutions have earned approval from the department and regional accreditors for direct-assessment programs.
Walden University, a for-profit institution that Laureate Education owns, announced on Tuesday that the department approved its new competency-based master's degree in early childhood studies. The university offers the degree through its Tempo Learning program, in which it said "students can progress at their own pace by applying their existing knowledge and prior experience while focusing on mastering the skills they need to meet the demands of the workforce."
The Texas State College System last October got a green light from the department for its competency-based certificate in industrial systems technology, according to a spokeswoman for the system. The 27-credit program features training in electrical and computer systems. Students work at their own pace and can earn a certificate in two semesters or less. The credential appears to be the first department-approved direct-assessment program to feature face-to-face instruction.
The 35 postseason games of the Football Bowl Subdivision paid out more than $500 million to college football conferences this season, the Associated Press reported. The payout is an increase of $200 million from last season, the final year of the Bowl Championship Series. The increase is primarily the result of media deals to broadcast the seven games that make up the new college football playoff. ESPN pays the conferences about $470 million per year to broadcast the games.
Inside Higher Ed is pleased to release today "Extending the Credential," our latest print-on-demand compilation of articles. Pieces in the collection explore such topics as competency-based education, internships, the role of cocurricular activities, and the evolving roles of the transcript and of the degree. The booklet is free and you may download a copy here. And you may sign up here for a free webinar on Wednesday, May 20, at 2 p.m. Eastern about the themes of the booklet.
A member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors is resigning his post on the university's 17-member board, and he's not going quietly. As news of his impending exit has spread, Edward D. Miller, a former dean of Johns Hopkins Medical School and leader of Johns Hopkins Medicine, has criticized UVa's recent 11 percent in-state tuition hike for the 2015-16 year and a decline in research funding at the institution. Miller submitted his resignation, effective June 30, to Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe in March. His exit comes a year before his four-year term expires.
Miller told the Virginia newspaper The Daily Progress that he disagreed with a March decision to increase in-state tuition rates as a way to subsidize financial aid. "It's hard for me to understand how you can continue to increase the rate of tuition [faster than] the rate of inflation year after year," Miller told the newspaper. "What business can survive that except colleges?"
The University of Miami announced Monday that its next president will be Julio Frenk, the dean of Harvard University's public health school and the former minister of health in Mexico. He will succeed Donna Shalala, who has been president since 2001. In an interview Sunday, Frenk said he plans to push for increased ties between the university and its counterparts in the Caribbean and Latin America. "Latin America and the Caribbean have been relatively neglected in the global dialogue" in higher education, he said. Miami, already with strong ties in the region, is in a position to do much more, he said.
Miami has had both considerable success and scandal in big-time athletics over the years. Asked about his approach to athletics, Frenk said he was "committed to the idea that athletics is an integral part of the higher education experience," but he declined to elaborate, saying that he first needed to "immerse" himself in the issues.
A survey of chief marketing officers reveals that branding projects are common on college campuses. Despite significant time and money, respondents say the work pays off.
Last week, the University of South Carolina suspended a student for writing the n-word on a whiteboard in a campus study room. The university president explained that the student had violated the Carolinian Creed, which bars "racist and uncivil rhetoric."
But in the United States, there's another creed that's supposed to take precedence over all the others: the Constitution. And the university -- not the offending student -- violated it.
So did the University of Oklahoma, when it expelled two students last month for leading a racist chant on a fraternity bus trip. The chant referred to the lynching of African-Americans, one of the ugliest chapters in our nation's history, and the students deserved all of the condemnation they received.
But our university leaders deserve censure, too, for their craven disregard of the First Amendment. Everyone has the right to speak their mind, no matter how much it offends yours. When Americans work themselves into a fine moral lather, however, freedom of speech is always the first thing to go.
Campus speech codes date to the mid-1980s, in the aftermath of several well-publicized racist episodes. Following the last game of the 1986 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets, drunken brawls erupted at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst between white Red Sox fans and black Mets supporters. At one point, a mob of 3,000 whites chased and beat black students.
After that, media outlets ran a spate of stories about racist incidents on campus, including a mock slave auction at a fraternity. It was never clear whether racial prejudice and harassment had actually increased during these years. But it made for good copy, with headlines like "Bigots in the Ivory Tower" and "Reagan's Children: Racial Hatred on Campus."
As the last item suggests, liberals were quick to blame the alleged rise in racism on Ronald Reagan and the so-called New Right. As conservative politicians stoked the fires of prejudice, the argument went, our campuses should remain bastions of racial equality and justice.
Enter speech codes. By 1992, fully one-third of colleges and universities had enacted some kind of speech regulation. The most famous one -- which became a model for many other measures -- was adopted by the University of Michigan, which barred "verbal or physical behavior… that stigmatizes or victimizes an individual on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, handicap or Vietnam-era veteran status."
But as a U.S. district judge ruled in 1989, when he struck down the Michigan speech code, the words "stigmatizes" and "victimizes" were notoriously slippery. "What one individual might find victimizing or stigmatizing, another individual might not," the judge wrote.
A few years later, the University of Pennsylvania charged a student with violating its speech code after he pleaded with some partying African-American sorority members to keep down the noise. "Shut up, you water buffalo," the student shouted. "If you want a party, there's a zoo a mile from here." In his native Israel, the student later explained, the term "water buffalo" referred to a rowdy person; but the black students interpreted it -- and his zoo remark -- as racial insults.
Penn eventually dropped the charges against the student and -- two years later -- it eliminated its speech code. But it was one of the exceptions. Most college retained their speech codes or added new ones, even in the face of judicial decisions barring such measures. Between 1989 and 1995, six courts -- including the U.S. Supreme Court -- examined university or municipal speech codes, and in every case the codes were deemed unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court's 1992 decision struck down a St. Paul ordinance prohibiting hate speech. Inevitably, the court ruled, city officials would be called upon to decide what was truly hateful and what wasn't. And that's not a call that any of us should want our government making for us.
But that's precisely what our campus speech codes require universities to do. In a recent survey of over 1,000 Jewish students on 55 American campuses, more than half reported experiencing or witnessing an anti-Semitic act or comment within the prior six months. Earlier this year, a Jewish student applying for a campus judicial board position at the University of California at Los Angeles was asked how -- as a Jew -- she could maintain an "unbiased view." And at another U.C. campus, in Davis, Jewish students opposing an anti-Israel boycott measure were heckled with cries of "Allahu Akbar."
Both episodes made national news, but they didn't lead to any official punishment for the students who made the offending comments. Why should racist comments elicit penalties while anti-Semitic ones don't? And why should we allow our universities to discriminate between them when the courts have ruled that both types of speech are protected? We need to educate our students against bigotry without turning our backs on the Constitution. But first, we'll need university leaders with the courage to do it.
Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York University. He is the author of Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education, which was published last month by Princeton University Press.
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The doctors who work in clinics for students at the University of California System started a rolling strike Thursday, The Los Angeles Times reported. The doctors plan to strike for four days at the campuses in Northern and Central California, and then for four days at the campuses in Southern California. The university said that management doctors would fill in as much as possible, but that some nonessential appointments for students were being moved. The doctors' union says that the university has engaged in unfair labor practices in contract negotiations -- a charge the university denies.
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Environmental groups are applauding a new United Nations decision to officially characterise international wildlife and timber trafficking as a serious organised crime, in a move that advocates say will finally give international law enforcement officials the tools necessary to counter spiking rates of poaching.
Crimes related to the trafficking of flora and fauna are today are significant money-makers for criminal networks, amounting to some $17bn a year, according to some estimates. That would make this black market the fourth-largest transnational crime in the world, according to Global Financial Integrity, a Washington watchdog group.
Recently, a new resolution on the issue was adopted almost unanimously at the end of a summit of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ, often called the UN Crime Commission). The resolution, put forward by the United States and Peru, now urges member states to formally view the illicit trade in wild flora or fauna as a "serious crime".
"It is commendable that the UN CCPCJ is now taking note of wildlife crime," said Peter Paul van Dijk, director of the tortoise and freshwater turtle conservation programme at Conservation International, an international network.
"This demonstrates how wildlife crime is no longer perceived as a proportionally minor type of crime affecting specific species, but is now beginning to be understood as being symptomatic of underlying problems of natural resource security, governance and transparency, and ineffective international actions.
"International wildlife crime can generate the funds to fuel insurgencies and instability, and warrants an equally coordinated and prioritised response from the international community, including the United Nations."
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Under UN rules, characterisation as a "serious crime" can require stiff sentences of four or more years in prison, and will also allow the United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to broaden its role in combating the trade. For years, environment-related crimes have recorded one of the world's lowest conviction rates.
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"This is a breakthrough resolution in terms of recognising the serious nature of wildlife crimes, encouraging governments to view this not just as an environmental issue but as a crime akin to human or arms trafficking," Wendy Elliott, the leader of the wildlife crime campaign at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), a global conservation group, said.
"For so many years, poachers and wildlife traffickers have received fines and quickly been let back onto the streets. The most important element here is the potential deterrence of significant prison time."
Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in poaching, particularly in Africa. Many suggest this is being driven largely by the increasing force of consumer spending in Asia.
Over the past decade and a half, experts say, South Africa has seen a staggering 5,000 percent increase in the illegal hunting of rhinoceroses, while elephant poaching is also currently at record levels, at some 30,000 deaths each year. Meanwhile, nearly a third of all global timber today is thought to have been illegally logged.
While wildlife crime was first discussed by the UN General Assembly a dozen years ago, Elliott says the issue has never been as serious as it is today.
"Historically, poaching was a small-scale local activity, but the value of both the product and the demand is now seen at levels akin to other major illegal commodities," she notes.
"In turn, that has attracted organised criminal syndicates, so the response needed is something completely different. That's the shift we're now starting to see, but we need to really ramp this up globally - wildlife crimes prey on a finite set of resources, after all, and the clock is ticking."
Security concerns
Much of the new international interest in wildlife and timber trafficking can almost certainly be traced to the groups that have become involved, as well as the illicit funding they've been able to secure. According to a new brief put out by the WWF and other environmental organisations ahead of the UN Crime Commission meetings, these groups include rebels in Somalia, Rwanda, Sudan and others.
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"Illegal trade in wildlife alone amasses profits of about $10 billion each year, [and] the illicit trade is intertwined with corruption, money laundering, and the trafficking of other commodities such as weapons and narcotics," Brian A Nichols, an assistant secretary in the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, told the UN Crime Commission in introducing the resolution.
"It undermines security, stability and the rule of law. The criminals that illegally poach and trade in wildlife are part of integrated networks that span continents. They devastate local communities and have pushed more and more species toward extinction."
Indeed, the impact of wildlife poaching on local economies and development efforts can be extremely significant.
"These crimes are not only putting the survival of endangered species in peril, but are also threatening security and sustainable economic development," Elliott notes.
"In many African countries, wildlife continues to constitute a major source of family income and gross domestic product. So this is imperative from a development perspective, potentially endangering years of development advances."
Supply and demand
Following the passage of the new UN resolution, much of the impetus will now fall to national governments to oversee a strengthening of their anti-poaching and customs systems. Next week, governments in Central Africa are slated to meet to discuss links between poachers and ongoing security concerns.
"The proof of commitment will be in not only how many governments ensure adequate penalties, but how many invest in initiatives to engage police and customs investigators in combating these crimes," Debbie Banks, a senior campaigner with the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a London-based watchdog, said.
"Combating wildlife crime is not rocket science. The solutions and tools are widely available, but it's a matter of how much governments are prepared to invest in them. We now have some great political commitments articulated in the new resolution, so it's time for action."
Importantly, the new resolution will apply equally to countries that have serious illicit export problems - for instance, in Central Africa - and to countries where demand tends to be highest, particularly in Asia.
"These increased penalties will need to affect not just those doing the supplying but also those creating the demand," WWF's Elliott says.
"To really reduce demand, it has become increasingly clear that we can't just rely on awareness-raising campaigns - there has to be enforcement, as well. Unless the public feels real consequences for purchasing these items, demand reduction will be very hard to achieve."
A version of this article was first published by Inter Press Service news agency.
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The same card on a bare metal machine was %99.998 on average.
Hopefully if someone else has a different experience they will speak up, but I've not personally heard of any cards working reliably in a PCI passthrough mode. This could e a problem if you intende the KVM
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You could get an analog gateway, or setup another small system to host any cards you get to act as a gateway, and keep most of your logic on the KVM.
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