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Nereid Lake has a thick file of paperwork documenting her $60,000 in student loan debt.
Mary Teresa Bitti, Financial Post · Jun. 4, 2011 | Last Updated: Jun. 10, 2011 2:15 PM ET
In 2006, Nereid Lake was a single mom with an undergraduate degree in French linguistics from Simon Fraser University and well on her way to a master's degree in linguistics when Canada Student Loans informed her she had exceeded the lifetime lending limit of the federal program and would have to leave university — without her degree.
At the time, she had accumulated about $60,000 in student loans.
"Even though I had an armload of academic awards, I was forced to leave," she says. "My aspiration was to work in the field of voice recognition cognitive science, getting computers to understand human language. Instead I had to take the first job I could, as a low-earning court clerk. Now I'm nearly 40 just barely making ends meet and still owe more than $50,000 in student debt. I naively thought student loans would be the great equalizer. Instead I've plunged into a student debt nightmare."
Ms. Lake is not alone. Nearly two million Canadians have student loans. That debt is worth about $20-billion and includes federal and provincial government loans and personal debt in the form of credit cards, family loans and lines of credit all used to finance post-secondary education. And that number is only set to grow as student loans owed to the government of Canada alone increase by $1.2-million a day. At the same time, the amount of unrecoverable student loan debt now sits at $149.5-million.
"That figure is absolutely growing," says David Molenhuis, chairman of the Canadian Federation of Students in Ottawa. "Next year even more money will have to be lent out in record amounts, while monthly deliquency rates continue to trend up.
"People are finding it more difficult to make payments, budgets are becoming more strained and we are seeing more reliance on food banks and the use of emergency bursaries offered by student unions," he says.
"We have an entire generation of people who now more than ever have to complete some form of post-secondary education just to get a job interview, with more than 70% of all new jobs requiring some degree or diploma. We are on the verge of bankrupting a generation before they even enter the workplace."
Part of the problem is the dramatic increase in tuition fees, which have jumped to an average of $4,724 in 2008-09 from $2,591 in 1999. This doesn't bode well for young people financing post-secondary education. Borrowing rates have already increased to 57% in 2005 from 49% in 1995. This is set to grow as a tough job market means more young people are opting out of the workforce and staying in school.
"The percentage of youth attending school on a full-time basis ranged from 56% to 58% over the 1995 to 2009 period, but shot up to 63% in 2010," says Roger Sauvé, president of People Patterns Consulting and author of the 10th edition of Canada Job Trends Update 2011. "I suspect that the second consecutive year of youth job losses convinced or forced students to stay in school full-time."
In the meantime, the number of young people with debt loads of $25,000 or more when they leave university and college is also on the rise, sitting at 27%, up from 17% in 1995. By 2009, the average debt for university graduates was $26,680.
"The debt picture will only worsen due to the lower availability of part-time work for students who are attending school in the fall," Mr. Sauvé says. "The percentage of full-time students with jobs during the October to December months declined to only 37% in both 2009 and 2010 — the lowest in a decade."
The reality facing graduates isn't much better. There have been many attempts to estimate what the return on investment is for students. This is a tricky game, Mr. Molenhuis says.
"The Rae review in Ontario a few years ago created a myth that the lifetime return on investment for a post-secondary education is $1-million. We find the average ROI to be closer to $20,000 — as does the OECD. A post-secondary education is not a value add any more. It is the going fare to get in the front door."
And this points to a bigger problem, Mr. Molenhuis says. "Canada does not have a national vision for its post-secondary education system. For the billions of dollars we pour into the system, we do so without a vision for outcomes. We don't know what it is we want to get out of our colleges and universities in order to meet the needs of the 21st century."
And it's a generation of students saddled with debt that is paying the price. Margaret Johnson, president of Solutions Credit Counselling Service Inc. in Vancouver, has seen an 8% uptick in the number of young people in crisis because of their student loans. And she says the heart of the problem is not the value of the loan but the "crippling interest rate attached to these government loans."
In fact, at a time when interest rates are at historic lows, the government is charging about 8% on student loans, Ms. Johnson says.
"When the loan goes into default, the interest starts to compound. And then you have an absolute nightmare. The average debt I'm seeing is anywhere between $30,000 and $60,000. The payments are so high on some of these loans that the young person cannot live and make a payment. Instead of lowering the interest rate — or eliminating it, which I think is the best solution — the government extended the repayment term to 14 years. The fact that so many loans are in arrears proves this isn't the answer."
And the fact that students owe so much money upon graduation means they are unable to start saving and building their net worth. That has broader implications for the economy. The burden of student debt has also caused graduates, such as Ms. Lake, to take jobs that aren't their first choice. So they will have to wait even longer for their net worth to turn positive, leaving them a shorter period of time to build up adequate retirement savings, Mr. Sauvé says.
"As a result, the economy may grow less quickly than in the past as this indebted generation allocates more of their wages to paying off student debt and then having to save as much as possible each year to build up their net worth ... it is not a positive for the economy.
"The ability to create individual wealth will be even more difficult if the current 'boomy' level of house prices does not correct before the youth generation begin to purchase homes en masse when they reach their early 30s."
Mr. Molenhuis says it is not a sustainable system in the long term.
"You shouldn't have to accumulate so much debt to get through school. That's where we want to start."
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(Pocket-lint) - The Sony Bravia KDL-55HX853 is the second telly from the company's dynamic edge-LED range that's made its way into Pocket-lint towers. It's a mix of unusual design with bags of picture-enhancing technology and enough connectivity - both physical and via Wi-Fi - to keep the techiest telly fan happy. We've previously had the excellent 46-inch version grace our eyeballs with its visual wonders, but does the larger 55-inch HX853 model deliver a winning formula that's as strong?
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The KDL-HX853 series is based around a quirky "monolith" design in which the screen doesn't sit upright like any normal telly. Nope, the way it integrates with the included soundbar-meets-stand means it slants backwards by six degrees.
When the TV's off this looks rather cool - like a trendy art object in its own right - but when it's switched on it can momentarily feel a bit like everything's falling over.
With the 46-inch version we got used to this leant-back design, but with the larger 55-inch KDL-55HX853 the lean is exaggerated because of the sheer scale of this TV. It's taken a week of living with the beast for it to feel familiar and "normal". The tilted viewing angle's one main benefit, however - as we pointed out in the 46-inch review - is that daylight reflections can be avoided. But that's reaching a bit, really.
READ: Sony Bravia 46-inch KDL-46HX853 LED TV review
The larger KDL-55HX853 doesn't have to be mounted in this way, and you can opt to wall mount it instead. But this means sacrificing the soundbar - though there are speakers on the rear of the TV as well - and investing extra dosh into buying a wall bracket.
As a 2013 review of a 2012 TV, the onus on bezel size has increased as that of more modern sets has decreased. But that's not to say the year-old HX853 lends too much of its real estate to the outer-edged black and silver stuff. With the bezel-to-edge distance between 28mm and 30mm, and the TV itself just 30mm thick, it's a small surround considering the screen measures a significant 1.25m across its top edge. The edging may be slightly wider than some of the current competition, but the Sony still manages to stay on the right side of beautiful.
Picture Quality
The big kahuna. At it's core a TV is all about picture quality, and the 55HX853 rarely disappoints on the display front.
The contrast range and black levels are excellent, although it goes without saying that there's some obvious edge-LED light as with any LED-backlit LCD TV. It's only really noticeable in those really dark scenes where there are smaller yet brighter subject areas. Even in the sample shots where we show such light it's clear to see how uniform the set is - there are no random light leaks scattered throughout as with some of the competition.
But one thing we did notice about the 55-inch version of the HX853 is that Sony appears to have filtered the corners to try to dampen the presence of LED light. It might help in some darker scenes to achieve better uniformity, but in really bright frames it goes the other way and gives a slight vignette effect at each corner.
Motion is another all-important factor when it comes to LCD tellies, and Sony's Motionflow XR 800Hz technology is what the company has employed to smooth out the visuals. The idea is that a backlight "blinks" four times per the native 200Hz refresh to give the impression of additional frames that aren't really there. In practice we found it works well for 3D content and some TV viewing, but for the classic movie experience it's best adjusted from within the menu options to avoid the hyper-real "soap opera effect" - think The Hobbit in 48fps and you'll understand why such smoothing isn't always desirable.
There's other tech at work, too: Sony's X-Reality Pro technology is designed to upscale whatever the original source material's resolution is, which is particularly useful in the digital streaming age. We've jumped into the YouTube app to stream non-HD clips and the HX853 sure does upscale to the best of its abilities. A better example is when watching digital files - we've plugged a USB stick loaded with goodies into the TV's rear and loaded up 720p MP4 files that looked fantastic in all their upscaled glory.
A USB connection is just the tip of the iceberg of course. There are multiple ways that the HX853 can obtain media, from smart online methods through to the networked Homestream system which enables sync with a Mac or PC for real-time playback.
For Homestream you'll need to download software and install it first, but once that's done it's possible to send media live to the set, including MKV, MP4, AVI which are all decoded in real time. Welcome to the computer-based media server, and what a lovely idea it is.
But a good idea can be carried out poorly, and that's Homestream's main issue. It's an over-complex bother to set up, no external storage devices can be sourced (irrelevant of connection type), the library and layout is sloppy and the user interface needs sharpening up. That's quite a list. But we like the sentiment. For the most part we've stuck to both hard-wired media and the built-in smart app-based catch-up services.
Connected viewing
Beyond Homestream there are plenty of other built-in apps that this Bravia can make the most of. Fix the telly up to your network and it offers Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) which is the portal into the likes of Lovefilm, Netflix, YouTube, Skype, Sony's own Video Unlimited movie rental service and plenty more. The other access point is "Home" which loads up the bulk of settings, including many of the apps and services available from SEN.
To use Skype you'll need a specific Sony accessory camera called the CMU-BR100 which we've reviewed in full as part of our 2013 Skype week. Have a read to see what we made of this USB clip-on cam, but don't forget that third-party USB webcams won't function through this particular Bravia.
READ: Sony CMU-BR100 Skype camera and microphone review
However, we did find that access to the SEN home is slow. Once streams are up and running there are no problems, but from first firing up the TV there's time to boil the kettle before the SEN is accessible. Even then it still has a prolonged wait from pressing the button to seeing action on the screen. Not so smart - a problem that we highlighted months back and one we'd hoped firmware updates would have improved by now.
Mounted on its soundbar there's high expectation for the HX853's sound performance. The experience does create the sensation that sound is being pushed from the TV's base, which doesn't give it the most sparkly or fully forward projection, but that can be overcome with some adjustments and volume.
Tweak the system's EQ - it's a simple bass and treble version - to get the balance right and we think the KDL-55HX853's sound is decent. It can cater for a wide range including a reasonable push of bass, though for true sub you'll want to wire up a full system at extra cost.
We gave Brad Pitt's latest Killing Them Softly a whirl and the various bone-crunching scenes suitably rattled our in-ear bones just as much. The volume does need to be pumped to get the fullest sound out of this set, otherwise the HX853 can risk sounding a little muted and nasal.
One thing we've not yet touched upon is the KDL-55HX853's price. A handful of months is a long time in tech, and this big ole Bravia beastie doesn't have as big a price tag as you might imagine. Well, not any more anyway. The current sub-£1,450 price tag is roughly the same as the 46-inch model we reviewed just nine months ago. Indeed patience can pay off.
But it's not just the price that's welcoming. The HX853's image quality is wonderful, save for subtle corner filtration and some edge-LED backlighting being visible in extra dark scenes.
The slanted stand design also isn't something we can totally rave about, nor is the tardy response time of the Sony Entertainment Network's smart content access, but for the money it's difficult to moan and when things do get up and running it's all smooth to operate.
If you're in the market for a large-screen treat at a fair price then hold your horses on the 4K front, as the KDL-55HX853 is a cracker that will happily fill the gap. It's full of decent processing tech and while there are some small qualms that hold it back from perfection, it manages to balance out performance to price and come out on top.
Even a year on from its first unveiling the 55-inch HX853 is still great. That leant-back stance is as much a thing of confidence as it is a design concept. A cracking telly.


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The Admission Undergraduate and Postgraduate (Coursework) Rule published in the UNE Policy Register provides the framework for admission to all undergraduate and postgraduate (coursework) courses, non-award and cross-institutional study at UNE. It should be read in conjunction with the Admission Undergraduate and Postgraduate (Coursework) Procedures.
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Study shows more intense exercise can produce greater weight loss
Feel like your morning walk isn't helping you shed pounds as quickly as you'd like? You might want to pick up the pace, according to a study published in the newest issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
The research shows that, over time running may produce greater weight loss than walking, especially in men and overweight women.
The study analyzed 15,237 walkers and 32,216 runners over a period 6.2 years. Though both groups lost weight, runners demonstrated higher energy expenditure and a greater decrease in body mass index (which is typically used to determine whether someone is overweight or obese). Because participants in this study were volunteers, they tend to be healthier than the general population.
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Crytek says its intentions with Crysis 2 "backfired a little bit"
Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli has said developing Crysis 2 to be playable on most PC systems ended up "backfiring" on the firm.
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Crytek's detailed in a post, since pulled, on the MyCrysis website the DirectX11 update for Crysis 2.
Total War: Shogun 2 DX11 patch due "first week of May"
That's the word from the community manager on the Total War forum. He's also "The Creative Assembly Lieutenant', so it's best not to argue.
Crytek stomps on rumors of a DX11 patch for Crysis 2
Crytek has shot down rumors that Crysis 2 would soon be getting DirectX 11 support included in a patch.
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AMD has comprised a list of games that will support DirectX11, and DICE's Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is on the list. According to The Tech Report, AMD handed over the list of games during a presentation, and it is worth noting that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat is listed as well, although listed with an incorrect […]
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Codemasters told VG247 today that the October's Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising won't have DX11 support at launch, but it doesn't sound as though a future update's being ruled out."Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising will not support DX11 out of the box," said a rep by email."Colin McRae DiRT 2 will be our lead title supporting DX11 […]
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Isn't $710 a bit much for a crummy PSOne demo - seemingly worthless when it was handed out 12 years ago? The collector who won the bidding for NBA 2-Ball thinks he got a steal on the price.
Speaking under the pseudonym "Richard," the winning bidder told Multiplayer Games that the disc's rarity and the completionist mentality of game collectors means sometime, someone's going to pay a lot of money for this game. NBA 2-Ball also has a unusual provenance - it came only in a sleeve and was handed out as a prize at the 1998 NBA All-Star Game in Madison Square Garden.
I think it was a steal. I would not consider a PlayStation collection complete unless it included this game … There are not many people now trying to complete a PlayStation collection, but take my word for it there will be in the future. Just as no one thought about collecting a complete set of NES games 15 years ago, it will happen. The PlayStation may not be as popular and the NES today, but, it will be in 2020! Everyone of those collectors will want this game to complete their collection. I could see this game being worth $5,000 or more, even if more of them come out.
Sounds like a lot, but the way things are heading, I bet $5,000 in 2020 won't even cover a month's rent.
Read more of Richard's thoughts on game collecting, and the need for games preservation - even of crappy demos no one wanted - at the link.
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In the wake of the "Great Recession" and the changes it brought, a "better new normal" must be reached by economic policymakers, said Christina Romer, chair of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, at Princeton University on April 17.
Romer gave the opening keynote address at the eighth annual Princeton Colloquium on Public and International Affairs, which included several other experts in economics and public policy. The daylong colloquium, titled "The New Normal? American Policy Making After the Great Recession," examined the challenges and opportunities that the recent economic crisis has created for American policymakers.
Romer stressed reducing the budget deficit and creating new investment opportunities in areas such as clean energy and biotechnology. She said it is important to create more stability than the previous "normal," which was "built on borrowing."
The theme of a structural rebuilding of the American system after the recession was echoed throughout the colloquium, with a variety of speakers commenting on the need to improve economic, financial, congressional and foreign policies.
Jon Corzine, former New Jersey governor and U.S. senator, presented the closing keynote address on "Restoring the Social Contract." Other speakers included Joshua Bolten, former chief of staff to President George W. Bush and a visiting professor at Princeton, and Alan Krueger, a Princeton professor currently on public service leave as assistant U.S. treasury secretary for economic policy.
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Today is International Volunteer Day, and the main focus of this international day this time is awareness of and recognition for volunteers and volunteer organizations. If volunteers were a nation, they would form the 10th largest nation in the world. The purpose of the international day is to recognize the commitment and impact of this "nation", and to applaud them for this very commitment and impact.
In his message on this day, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stresses that this commitment comes in many forms:
"Let us remember that volunteering can embrace all people, from the activist who works full-time for a cause to the occasional citizen who reaches out when he or she can. Each sets an example of the spirit of compassion we need."
International Volunteer Day is celebrated 5 December and constitutes a chance for volunteer-involving organizations and individual volunteers to promote their contributions to development at local, national and international levels. By merging UN support with a grassroots mandate, the International Volunteer Day is a unique opportunity for volunteer-involving organizations to work with government agencies, non-profit organizations, community groups and the private sector.
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Writing for a unanimous Court, Justice Thomas delivered the opinion in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. The Court held that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but manmade cDNA is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring. The case involved the well-known BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which can involve mutations that increase the likelihood of breast cancer. The ruling is significant for a variety of companies (including Myriad) that hold important DNA patents. But for the industry as a whole, it offers the prospect of significant patent protection for cDNA, as well as other inventions derived from human DNA. Justice Scalia filed an opinion concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
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So I just stood there in the summer rain as it poured away.
And my mind kept drifting to the night before as I sat with your picture in my hand. To tear it away or to keep it for one more day? I know I asked myself the same question the night before. And the night before that and always ended up with it under my pillow as tears rolled down my face and sleep slowly came.
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Livestock panels, sometimes known as cattle panels or hog panels, have many uses in the garden. They are 16' long and 36"(hog)-52" high. The spacing between the heavy wires in the ones I have is 6"x8". Some panels have closer spacing near the bottom. I first learned about them as animal fencing, but they prove quite handy to have in the garden. Although the panel itself can flex, it is a strong fencing that does not need tightening.
In the picture you can see my garden gate and grape arbor, both made from the panels. To bend a panel into the arbor shape, lay it on the ground and have someone hold one end or anchor it in some way. Pick up the other end and walk toward the first end. It's that easy. We needed more height in the arbor than the 16' panel would provide, so we put it on top of two rows of bricks on each side. Rebar is inserted into the ground through holes in the bricks. The panel is wired to the part of the rebar sticking up from the ground. You can find these panels at farm supply stores. You can find rebar at home building supply stores in the area where they display cement blocks. To see how this arbor looks when the grapes are in full production, go to my March 6, 2012 post On Growing All Your Own Food.
The panels can be cut with bolt cutters or a hacksaw. I cut one to make my gate. I have wired ½" hardware cloth to the lower half of the gate to keep rabbits out. An earlier attempt at rabbit control was to weave bamboo through the spaces. If I have enough bamboo strips there, it works. However, I need to keep after it. When I came across the hardware cloth, I went with it. There is no hinge or latch here. The gate fits between the arbor and fencepost on the hinge side. On the latch side it just leans against the regular fence. We have plans for putting new posts in that garden entrance and this gate, put up several years ago, was only meant to be temporary.
I also use the panels as a trellis for garden crops, particularly tomatoes. I put a fence post on each end and one in the middle. Baling twine often serves to hold it to the posts. The panel goes down the middle of my 4' wide bed and the tomatoes, planted at the base, are just woven through the spaces as they grow. In that wide bed there is still space on the sides for carrots, basil, parsley, or just heavy mulch. Tomatoes can do without a trellis as sturdy as a livestock panel and I also use old field fencing to trellis tomatoes. The panels, however, present a neater appearance. These trellises stay in the garden all year. In the fall, when I'm planting cover crops, I move them to where they are needed the next year and set them up. I can do this because I have no need to till the beds before planting tomatoes, or whatever it is that the trellis will be supporting. I just cut the cover crop with a sickle and let it lie as mulch or remove the biomass to the compost pile. The bed is ready for the next crop with the trellis already in place.
These panels are great for making structures, like small greenhouses. The photo shows the greenhouse our daughter Betsy made for her Arkansas garden. You can also see it in Betsy's segment of Develop a Sustainable Vegetable Garden Plan. She built a wood frame for the base and used wood to frame a door on one end and a vent window on the other. You could use the panels against the side of a building as a lean-to structure and build something taller.
Of course, you could actually use these panels for their intended purpose, controlling livestock. They make good temporary or permanent pens. Beware of using them with young goats developing horns. The goats might get their heads stuck. Once the goats and their horns grow enough, that's not a problem. If that does happen, don't panic. Cut the fence with bolt cutters or a hacksaw, preferably with the bolt cutters. You can mend it by using wire to close up the space. I have a leftover spool of aluminum electric fence wire that I cut and use as twistees to hold the fence to metal posts. Baling twine works, as does plastic zip-ties. The panels are good barriers for most dogs, goats, cattle, pigs, etc. Chickens, however, can slip through, as well as other small critters, such as skunks, rabbits, and opposums. You can add chicken wire or other fencing to the panels to keep out the smaller creatures.
Betsy and her husband, Chris, are using livestock panels as movable fencing with their goats to clear a future fenceline. They gradually move the pens down an overgrown area on the side of a field. Sometimes the panels are tied to trees and they are flexible enough to curve around obstacles, if necessary. Betsy and Chris use as few posts as they can get away with, since they have to move them regularly. The ends are put together with clips, similar to carabiners. Besides just connecting the ends, the clips can act as hinges, or as latches if that's where they decide they need a gate to be. You can see the great job the goats are doing clearing the brush by the trees. Goats love eating brush better than grass. This is a great use of both the goats and the fence panels.
Getting these 16' fence panels home from your farm supply store might pose a problem. I've used a pick-up truck with an 8' bed, putting one end inside the tailgate, extending the panel over the truck cab, and tying the other end to the front bumper. I wasn't going far. If you do that, protect the top of the truck with a piece of cardboard or old blanket. If you buy enough, you could have them delivered. If you are going to cut them into shorter lengths anyway, you could do it right there and make getting them home easier.
Some of you reading this may have already been using these fence panels on your homesteads and have plenty of ideas and uses of your own. If you would like to share them, I welcome your comments. If you are using these panels for the first time, good luck, have a good time, and let us know how it goes.


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China Rebuffs Detailed Report on Its US Hacking Escapades
Feb 19, 2013 3:07 PM PT
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei reportedly said at a briefing on Tuesday that China's military was not involved in any recent cyberhacking. His comments were apparently in response to allegations published by The New York Times on Monday, gleaned from a new report by Mandiant.
Among many other findings in the report is the existence of a 12-story white office tower in the outskirts of Shanghai, said to be used by the People's Liberation Army unit of cyberwarriors. Unlike the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., or the Kremlin in Moscow, where many of the Cold War-era strategies and tactics were likely directed, the building in Shanghai is nondescript. Yet it could be the command center of the "Comment Crew" or "Shanghai Group" -- the names given to the Chinese hackers.
The group is reportedly known by the more official sounding name "P.L.A. Unit 61398."
Cyberwarfare is just the latest theater of operations in the world of espionage, and as many a spy movie and potboiler novel suggests, it is common for governments to disavow and deny acts of espionage.
"This is something we knew was coming," said Alan Webber, industry analyst and managing partner at Altimeter Group. "Are the Chinese doing this? Yes, but so are a number of other countries. So are the Americans, so are the Israelis, so is France. This is not new."
"Anyone who has read Sun Tzu's The Art of War had to know this is how the Chinese would operate," Webber told TechNewsWorld.
Escalating Cyberthreats
Hackers from China -- including the Shanghai Group -- have systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organizations and could have an extensive infrastructure of computer systems from around the world, according to the Mandiant report, which details numerous hack attacks on U.S. industries.
In light of the report's numerous details, Hong Lei's assertion that the allegations are baseless is hard to swallow, but this is more than just a tit-for-tat reaction.
"The Chinese are hacking us because they want something from us," said Martin C. Libicki, senior management scientist at the Rand Corporation.
"Everyone who can spy does spy. In the old days we used humans, and then we used signal interception," he told TechNewsWorld.
"What makes the Chinese unique is that they are spying on companies," Libicki added. "All may be fair in love and war, but it is not fair in international trade relations. If you steal trade secrets to level the playing field, that is not fair by international norms."
Cyberthreats are widely viewed as equivalent to physical attacks on the United States or its interests in terms of the damage that can be done.
"It is a concern for the government, and it should be a concern for business owners," said Irving Lachow, director of the program on technology and national security at the Center for a New American Security.
Threat to Innovation
What is at stake when the Chinese hack into American systems is more than just details on the distribution network of Coca- Cola or even access to a story in a newspaper before it runs.
There is a serious risk that intellectual property could be stolen, Lachow told TechNewsWorld. "This could cost billions of dollars to American companies, and it is a concern because it could cost tens of thousands of jobs."
The graver issue is that there apparently isn't much that can be done to stop it.
"The fact of the matter is that the federal government can't do a lot about this," said Altimeter's Webber.
"Businesses are the new cyberwarfare platforms. The government will try to do a lot, but there isn't a lot they can do," he maintained.
"It is a lot worse than what we're seeing," added Webber. "It is only going to get the attention it deserves when people realize how many millions and millions -- and even billions -- of dollars it costs us."
Real-World Attacks
There is justifiable fear that virtual attacks on IP could translate into physical attacks and that little could be done to stop them. These could include attacks that shut down crucial systems and cause physical damage. However, that type of scenario is not likely to unfold anytime soon.
"It is possible to create a physical attack, but it takes a lot more work to do so than it would to wipe someone's hard drive," said Lachow.
There is also reason to worry that the attack strategies employed by China could proliferate to other nations or organizations. Russia and China are not likely to create the type of attack that could cause widespread damage -- either physical or virtual -- but there is concern that a rogue state such as North Korea might make the attempt.
"A terrorist attack of the banking system could mess up the economy," Lachow added. "That could do a lot of financial harm."
US Resolve
It is unclear how well the U.S. is prepared to address these types of attack if they should become more frequent -- or even whether the attacks are already more common than reports suggest.
"You have a bastardized organization that is hard to handle," said Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight Jr. (Retired), former head of the Signal Corps and author of the book From Pigeons to Tweets.
"We are over organized; the data that gets flashed around the world is not well coordinated," he told TechNewsWorld.
"The Internet has too many entry points and makes us open to these attacks," McKnight added. "We are our own worst enemy in this case."
The number of attacks could in fact be worse than reported in part because it is hard to know when something has been stolen.
"There is the opinion that in this case there are two types of organizations," said Rand's Lebicki. "There are those that know they've been penetrated and those that don't know that they've been penetrated."


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Carrot Raisin Salad From 'Down South'
Coleslaw and potato salad may be more famous outside of Southern takeout counters, but carrot raisin salad is just as common at picnics and potlucks. In it, grated carrots and plump raisins are mixed with a rich mayonnaise dressing spiked with curry powder. Donald Link's version in his new cookbook, Down South, stays true to the classic preparation. However, he gives the salad one important tweak: freshly made curry powder. Toasting and grinding the spices just before adding them to the dressing heightens their flavor, making this salad less of a forgotten side dish and more like a buffet star.
Why I picked this recipe: Despite seeing this salad everywhere when I was growing up, I had yet to see it pop up in a Southern cookbook.
What worked: Unlike many lackluster versions of the dish, Link's carrot raisin salad was vibrant, fresh, and light (even with all that mayo).
What didn't: I thought the curry powder was a bit cardamom-heavy, making the final dish just a smidge too floral. I'd back down on the cardamom seeds by half next time.
Suggested tweaks: Feel free to tweak the curry powder to suit your taste, or to use a high quality blend from the store. Just stay away from that dusty jar on the back of your spice rack.
Reprinted with permission from Down South: Bourbon, Pork, Gulf Shrimp & Second Helpings of Everything by Donald Link with Paula Disbrowe. Copyright 2014. Published by Clarkson Potter, a division of Random House. All rights reserved. Available wherever books are sold.
- Yield:Serves 4 to 6
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:At least 1 hour and 20 minutes
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- 2 teaspoons curry powder, preferably homemade (see below)
- 2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 1 pound carrots, peeled and shredded (about 4 cups)
- 2 cups good-quality raisins
- 1 cup loosely packed fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves, thinly sliced
- Homemade Curry Powder
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds
- 2 teaspoons cardamom seeds
- 2 teaspoons coriander seeds
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1 teaspoon dry mustard
- Heaping 1/4 teaspoon cayenne
In a medium bowl, mix the mayonnaise with the curry, salt, cayenne, and lemon juice. Fold in the carrots, raisins, and parsley. Refrigerate for an hour or up to 4 hours to allow the flavors to develop.
To make the curry powder: Toast the cumin, cardamom, and coriander seeds in a small, dry skillet over medium-low heat until the seeds are lightly browned and fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and let cool completely. Add the turmeric, mustard powder, and cayenne and mix to combine. Grind the spices in a coffee grinder. Store in an airtight container for up to 2 months.
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EBRI recently challenged a pair of studies that concluded Gen Xers' retirement prospects were in worse shape than boomers' prospects, pointing out also that the oldest Gen Xers are only 49, with many earnings years left before they reach traditional retirement age.
EBRI charges that some studies used flawed assumptions or bad methodologies to reach their conclusion that investors born between 1965 and 1974 had a smaller likelihood of saving enough for retirement than older investors born between 1948 and 1964.
"Calculating retirement income adequacy is very complex, and it's important to use reasonable assumptions and current data if you want credible results," Jack VanDerhei, EBRI research director and author of the report, said in a statement.
EBRI took issue with a 2013 study by Pew Charitable Trusts that found the median replacement rate for Gen Xers who retire at 65 would be 32 percentage points lower than early boomers' and nine points lower than later boomers'.
However, that finding "explicitly ignores future contributions," EBRI argued. "EBRI's analysis concludes that ignoring decades of potential future contributions (as the Pew study does) exaggerates the percentage of Gen X workers simulated to run short of money in retirement by roughly 10 to 12 percentage points among all but the lowest-income group," according to the report.
An earlier study, conducted in 2012 by the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College, found 44% of households in their 50s were "at risk," compared with 55% of those in their 40s and 62% of those in their 30s.
In that report, CRR failed to consider the effect of automatic enrollment and escalation features, which were widely adopted following the Pension Protection Act of 2006. Gen X is the first generation to have a full working career in a defined contribution environment, EBRI noted.
EBRI noted that all of its Retirement Security Projection Models since 2010 have found Gen Xers retirement prospects were "approximately the same" as boomers'.
EBRI found that almost 60% of Gen Xers will not run short of money in retirement. If future contributions are ignored, as they were in the Pew report, that rate falls by almost nine points to 48%. If future contributions are cut by 50%, it falls by three points to 54%.
If future contributions increase by 50%, however, retirement readiness increases to over 60% of Gen Xers.
Future eligibility in the plan is a factor too. A Gen X participant with no future years of eligibility in his or her 401(k) have a retirement readiness rate of under 40%. Just one to nine years of future eligibility increases the rate to over 60%. Gen Xers with 10 to 19 years of future eligibility have a 73% probability of not running out of money, while the youngest Gen Xers see their rate climb to over 85%.


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Career Moves: Skills for the Journey is a classroom resource designed to connect 21st century skills – such as creativity, critical thinking, entrepreneurial spirit, and imagination – to the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and math).
Specifically tailored towards students in Ontario's Grade 10 careers course, Career Moves is the result of extensive collaboration between Perimeter's Outreach department, experienced guidance counsellors, and classroom teachers.
Following a tour of the BrainSTEM exhibit area, the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for FedDev Ontario, officially launched the new resource.
"We know that future prosperity for southern Ontario depends on an economy that is responsive to market needs and is able to promote and implement innovative practices. We want to ensure kids are choosing the STEM fields when they go on to post-secondary education, and eventually their careers," Minister Goodyear said to a full house at Perimeter Institute's Mike Lazaridis Theatre of Ideas. "I know Career Moves will help achieve this. I know it will be another great example of the Perimeter Institute's outstanding work in showing youth what can be achieved through science and innovation."
The Minister's announcement, as well as observations from Kitchener-Waterloo Member of Parliament Peter Braid, preceded the first of three public lectures as part of Perimeter's BrainSTEM: Your Future is Now Festival. The weeklong celebration of science and innovation, running through October 6, shares the same goal as the Career Moves resource: to ignite students' passion for the cutting-edge subjects that can help them realize their full potential and contribute meaningfully to society as a whole.
"Our goal is to give students the best tools possible to fuel curiosity, exploration, and innovation," said Greg Dick, Perimeter's Director of Educational Outreach. "Students who are passionate about STEM subjects will now be ready to face the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Our resources are designed to inspire students to build a smarter, more prosperous future for the world."
Monday's special announcement of the new in-class resource from Perimeter Institute was one of the many events, lectures, exhibits, and facility tours designed to enthrall and inspire visitors at the festival. For more information, including a full schedule and free tickets, visit the BrainSTEM Festival webpage.
Learn more about Career Moves and Perimeter's other educational outreach projects at Perimeter's Outreach page.
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Student Spotlights
Chris Phillips (Class of 2016)
- Major:
- Accounting
- Fun Fact:
- I was on the national team for inline hockey in New Zealand
Can you tell us how a native of New Zealand came to Niagara University?
Well, it's a long story actually. I'm from Wellington, New Zealand and I have been inline skating my whole life. I was on the national team in New Zealand and was advised by the former Canadian women's hockey coach that I should switch to ice hockey. I had the chance to attend a AAA hockey camp in New Jersey, where coaches saw how hard I was working, and I was asked if I wanted to play in America. Of course I wanted to jump on this opportunity, but due to the differing school seasons in America and New Zealand, I had to wait a year. So I graduated from high school in 2010 and went to college for business in New Zealand to keep up the studying mentality. Next, I moved to Boston, MA and had a post graduate year at Worcester Academy to improve my hockey skills. After this I started applying to schools in the New England area. My coach recommended Niagara to me and I then contacted the school and the coaches. Because I was living in Boston, I didn't have the opportunity to visit Niagara's campus before making the decision to come here. Hockey brought me to Niagara, and it was a leap of faith on both the coaches and my side.
How are you enjoying the club hockey team at Niagara?
I love it! We are like a family, which is actually our motto. It really is a full school year sport, beginning in August until right before spring break, but we work very hard and it pays off. For the first time ever, we're going to nationals which is amazing! I play defense, #28, and I'm always striving to be better, staying after practice to work on skating, which is vastly different from inline skating! Hockey really takes up the majority of my time (in a good way), however the team finds the time to get involved with the community. In fact, we just held a charity game for Suneel Ram, a 15 year old who is a longtime fan and has been suffering from a form of Muscular Dystrophy called Duchenne's Disease. We sold 50/50 tickets and the proceeds went to his foundation. We also invited him onto the ice to receive one of our jerseys.
Tell me what you like about Niagara?
I really enjoy that it's a smaller school. I was in a large college in New Zealand for that year in between high school and Boston, and it was too large for me. Niagara also has a good reputation for its accounting program. With Niagara, you have smaller class sizes, which make the professors easier to relate to and get extra help from them if you need it. Courses like my Introduction to Business course provided a great opportunity to get to know other business students, such as the different class modules and the September retreat while learning the basics of the business world.
How did you decide to major in accounting?
In New Zealand, in 8th grade we have to pick our "track" which is basically what will we study and focus on until we graduate. I chose business because I really enjoyed economics and accounting. Economics always came easy to me, but I recently decided to major in Accounting. I really enjoyed Prof. Gattuso's financial accounting course last semester and found it very interesting. Accounting is something that can be used anywhere and is always in demand.
Do you have any tips for new students?
Don't be afraid to get involved. This applies to activities on campus but to studying as well. Don't be worried about not looking "cool" if you study. That's what you're here for. Also, show up to class! I have found that college is very much self-motivated learning. You get out what you put in!
What are your plans after you graduate?
After I graduate, I would love to travel around Europe and hopefully play on a team there. Then I plan on settling down in a career in the accounting field.


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How to keep voters informed about the specifics of a proposed bond vote as well as how and whether to respond to public criticism was discussed by the Waitsfield Select Board this week.
The board, at its February 11 meeting, discussed the content of a mailing that the town's Town Office Task Force wants to get to residents prior to Town Meeting. At Town Meeting in March, voters will be asked to approve a $1.6 million bond vote by Australian ballot to purchase land and construct new town offices.
The process of selecting that site generated significant public interest as well as a concerted and vocal public effort towards the task force and the select board selecting a different site. The task force recommended and the select board accepted the recommendation that town offices be built on a parcel of land known as the Flemer Farm Stand in the village. At the request of citizens, the task force also considered rehabilitation of the former Methodist church in the village. Ultimately the task force opted for new construction at the Farm Stand because of a cost differential of about a million dollars.
At their meeting, the select board discussed whether the task force or the select board should send the mailer out and how the text should read.
"Is it simply explanatory and informational or does it have some convincing force, one way or the other?" asked board chair Sal Spinosa.
"It is directed solely towards the approved site that the board has confirmed and it explains the bond vote and the principles the task force used and the impacts on voters in terms of costs," explained board member Charlie Hosford, who also served on the task force.
"Be careful that it doesn't promote it," said board member Paul Hartshorn.
"It just lays out the fact," Hosford said, and added that it had to be at the printer by Friday, February 15.
Spinosa said he favored getting unbiased information out to voters and said that he felt the mailing should come from the select board versus the task force. The task force, he said, had fulfilled its job and made a recommendation to the select board. Now the bond vote proposal is being advanced by the select board and, thus, the board should send the mailer, he said.
Board member Logan Cooke said that the issue of location of the town offices was an emotional one and that the board should expect an emotional response to the mailer.
"We don't want to be seen as having an opinion," Cooke said.
Other members raised the issue of whether the mailer should include information about the process and how the Farm Stand parcel was chosen over the Methodist church.
To do that, Cooke said, would be "rehashing the discussion."
"Let's not hash through all the history. Let's talk about the site and the bond vote," Spinosa said.
Later in the evening the board came back to the issue of communication between the public and the select board when board member Bill Parker raised the issue of whether the board should be responding to comments, questions and misinformation about the town office project (and other issues) that appeared in letters to the editor of The Valley Reporter.
"I'm just wondering if this board, as a board, should respond to comments that are addressed to the board in the paper. If citizens are calling into question the ethics or approach the board has taken, or its actions, then should the board respond? Should there be a written response in The Valley Reporter if the board is being called to task?" he asked.
"We can use the newspaper to get the information out there. It bothers me when information is being called up in a letter or My View that is inaccurate. I feel that it is our responsibility to correct it. I feel we should always be moving to correct information that is inaccurate when it's made public in the newspaper," he continued.
Board members concurred that it is frustrating to try to handle differing perceptions and conceptions of how select board actions are interpreted and also discussed the fact that people – whether they write letters to the editor or not – don't always base their information on facts, relying on conversations over coffee or at the post office.
Cooke said he felt responding to the letters to the editor was public relations suicide.
"In terms of opinion pieces and letters, I don't think responding helps. You come off as argumentative and combative," Cooke said.
"People make assumptions that aren't fair and spread them. But that's politics and there's not a lot you can do about it," he added.
Board members talked at length about public trust and the public perception of what the board is doing and the intentions of board members. The board discussed holding regular public symposiums or gatherings for members of the public to raise issues of concern, take members of the board to task for actions, praise the board, etc.


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A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the International Mathematical Union
Editor: Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel, University Paris Descartes, Paris, France
Dear Reader,
Last week here in Oslo, Norway, we celebrated this year's Abel Prize Laureates, John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits, who were awarded the Prize "for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory". The mathematical high point of the celebrations were the four Abel lectures given by the prize winners and by Michel Broué and Alex Lubotzky.
Another, smaller, event that took place in Oslo, in February, was a conference on Higher education and research in developing countries. http://www.dnva.no/c26889/artikkel/vis.html?tid=27509 Among the presenters were mathematicians from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. For example, we heard from Cambodia about the project initiated by CIMPA, supported by IMU and others, to rebuild mathematical research and education in that country. Such projects depend heavily on the support and participation of mathematicians from around the world. Indeed, IMU's Developing Countries Strategy Group is currently working on establishing a database of mathematician who are willing to volunteer to give short courses as invited by developing countries.
The Executive Committee met in Budapest, Hungary, in April. A couple of the items on the agenda are mentioned in this newsletter, others will follow in later newsletters.
Finally, I would like to repeat a plea from my editorial in IMU-Net 8, 2004: if you have a suggestion for an item or a piece of news from your part of the world that you think might be of interest to the international mathematical community, please let the editor of IMU-Net know! You can also help us increase the distribution of the newsletter by forwarding this issue to colleagues and encouraging them to subscribe.
Ragni Piene
Member of the Executive Committee
IMU Prizes: Chairs and Nomination
The International Mathematical Union will award the following prizes during the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians on 19 August 2010. The IMU Executive Committee has now appointed the selection committees for these prizes. The Prize Committee Chairs are
- Fields Medals: László Lovász firstname.lastname@example.com
- Rolf Nevanlinna Prize: Ravindran Kannan email@example.com
- Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize: Wolfgang Dahmen email@example.com
The names of the other committee members will be made public at ICM 2010.
Information about the prizes and the Nomination guidelines can be found here.
Nominations should ideally be sent by 15 December 2008 to the Prize Committee Chairs.
International Congresses of Mathematicians: Database of ICM speakers-Missing names
A database of ICM plenary and invited speakers since 1950 can be found on the IMU website.
This list, which now consists of 2084 entries, has been a work in progress and has been compiled from the proceedings volumes of the ICMs. It is searchable by name, section, and year of the congress. However, this database does not include those invitees who, for whatever reason, did not participate in ICM and consequently were not included in the table of contents of ICM proceedings. It has been pointed out to the IMU Executive Committee (EC) that a number of mathematicians were invited speakers but were prevented by their local governments from attending ICM and giving their talks. Most of these mathematicians were from the former Soviet Union.
The IMU has consistently supported the freedom of circulation of scientists around the world and has continued to endorse the principle of universality expressed by the International Council for Science. In particular, the 15th IMU General Assembly (Santiago de Compostela, 2006) reaffirmed this position and passed a resolution (Resolution 10) in this regard. http://www.mathunion.org/Organization/GA/GA-Santiago/15thGAReportfinal070520Santiago.pdf
In its meeting in Budapest in April 2008, the EC approved a proposal by A. Vershik, Russia, to include on its web site a list of mathematicians who were invited to speak at one of the previous ICMs and who, for political reasons, were unable to participate in the congress. (This list will not include those invitees who either declined the invitation or were unable to attend for personal reasons.) The names of these mathematicians will not be added to the already existing database mentioned above, but will rather be posted as a separate list. It is not an easy task to compile such a list from IMU records spanning several ICMs. Therefore this will be a work in progress, and it is hoped that inaccuracies and omissions are reported to IMU and can be corrected accordingly. If you can help with this, please send your information to firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com.
IMU on the Web: What is the Price of a Journal
For that matter, what is the price of a car or a novel or a loaf of bread? All these things are frequently discounted, but we don't say they have no real price. Yet on several occasions recently, I've heard people say that we can't tell the price of journals because they are often discounted.
When the editorial board of the journal Topology resigned and began a competing journal, Elsevier wrote: "Because the majority of our subscribers purchase this journal in a larger set of journals, most are paying a fraction of the institutional subscription price." I've heard similar arguments from other publishers, who like to compute the "price" of a journal by dividing the total revenue by the number of subscribers. But that's not the price! It's the average revenue per subscriber.
The (list) price of a journal is set by the publisher, and it's plainly visible to anyone who examines annual price lists. Just as for cars or novels or bread, journals may be sold at a discount. But it's important to remember that publishers discount journals for business reasons, not because, in a sudden fit of remorse, they want to lower the price. Journals are sometimes discounted to agents, who consolidate them to help libraries purchase from multiple publishers. They are discounted to institutional members of scholarly societies as a member benefit, in return for dues. And journals are discounted to subscribers who buy bundles of journals, often making a commitment to buy for several years. In each case, the publisher is discounting journals in order to gain some advantage -- it's a business arrangement.
There is nothing wrong with discounting journals or business arrangements in general. But it doesn't change the price. Indeed, the list price is the starting point for all such business arrangements, defining the amount of money "given back" to the customer: I'll return a portion of the price in return for some action on your part - consolidating, being a member, or purchasing a bundle. Confusing the discounted price with the actual price ignores one half of the bargain.
We should pay attention to the list price of a journal because some subscribers (quite often, most) pay the list price. But there is another reason not to let publishers substitute the "average revenue per subscriber" for the price: the average revenue is a quotient, and publishers control both the numerator and the denominator. We must rely on the publisher to tell us the numerator, that is, the total revenue for a journal. Calculating total revenue sounds straightforward until one realizes that when selling bundles, large publishers apportion revenue among many journals - a mysterious process that isn't easily discovered. For many publishers, the total revenue assigned to a particular journal is a very fuzzy number indeed. The denominator is even more problematic. How many subscribers does a journal have? If a publisher adds many journals to bundles at no charge, the number of "subscribers" will quickly rise. But adding unwanted (and frequently unused) journals to bundles doesn't REALLY change the number of subscribers to each journal. Allowing publishers to use these arrangements to calculate either the average price per journal (for an institution) or the average revenue per subscriber (for the publisher) is like allowing politicians to count all those people who MIGHT have voted for them (but didn't vote) in an election.
Scholars face a crisis today caused by high journal prices. If they are going to make headway in addressing that crisis, they have to get smarter about journals and more sophisticated about business practices. They can't allow publishers to redefine the problem by redefining the price. That's neither smart nor sophisticated.
John Ewing
ICMI Awards
The 2007 ICMI Felix Klein Medal is awarded to Professor Jeremy Kilpatrick (USA).
The 2007 ICMI Hans Freudenthal Medal is awarded to Professor Anna Sfard (Israel).
The official presentation of the 2007 medals will be made during the opening ceremony at ICME-11 in Monterrey, Mexico, on Monday, 7 July 2008, jointly with the presentation of the two 2005 ICMI Medals.
Abel Prize 2008
On 20 May 2008, the King of Norway presented the Abel Prize for 2008 to John Griggs Thompson, University of Florida and Jacques Tits, Collège de France.
The Abel Laureates gave their prize lectures at the University of Oslo on 21 May, followed by lectures by Michel Broué and Alex Lubotzky.
Towards Digital Mathematics Library (DML 2008)
The workshop will take place on 7 July 2008 in Birmingham, UK. The objectives are to formulate the strategy and goals of a global mathematical digital library and to summarize the current successes and failures of ongoing technologies and related projects, asking such questions as:
- What technologies, standards, algorithms and formats should be used and what metadata should be shared?
- What business models are suitable for publishers of mathematical literature, authors and funders of their projects and institutions?
- Is there a model of sustainable, interoperable, and extensible mathematical library that mathematicians can use in their everyday work?
- What is the best practice for:
retrodigitized mathematics (from images via OCR to MathML and/or TeX)
retro-born-digital mathematics (from existing electronic copy in DVI, PS or PDF to MathML and/or TeX)
born-digital mathematics (how to make needed metadata and file formats available as a side effect of publishing workflow [CEDRAM model])?
Wolf Prize
the 2008 Wolf Prize in Mathematics has been jointly awarded to:
Pierre R. Deligne (IAS, Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
for his work on mixed Hodge theory; the Weil conjectures; the Riemann-Hilbert correspondence; and for his contributions to arithmetic.
Phillip A. Griffiths (IAS, Princeton, New Jersey, USA)
for his work on variations of Hodge structures; the theory of periods of abelian integrals; and for his contributions to complex differential geometry.
David B. Mumford (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
for his work on algebraic surfaces; on geometric invariant theory; and for laying the foundations of the modern algebraic theory of moduli of curves and theta functions.
The prizes were presented by the President of the State of Israel, Mr. Shimon Peres, at a special ceremony, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on 25 May 2008.