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Sunday, September 30, 2012
President Obama's Pick-Up Basketball Days at Harvard
With his in-depth?report of Barack Obama ballin' on the FBI basketball courts, Michael Lewis, who shadowed the President for six months, inspired us to do some digging into Obama?s past pick-up career. Described as ?the trash-talker with a left-handed jump shot? by NPR, Obama has now transformed his ?trash-talk? into some of the most eloquent speeches given in American history. Will Obama?s loud mouth come out in his upcoming debates against Mitt Romney? What other parts of his game has the Commander in Chief incorporated into his presidency?
In a Dallas Morning News?article comparing the two 2012 presidential candidates, Obama?s former classmate, Hill Harper, said, ?If there was any knock against Barack, he pulled his socks up a little too high and his shorts were a little too small.? Well, we think (and hope) that the President?s style has definitely improved with time and a White House stylist. Although the image of Obama knocking back jump shots at Hemenway Gym in ?80?s style gear is still pretty awesome.
While at Harvard Law School, Obama played for the Black Law Students? Association. In one of the team?s scheduled games, the President was starting at center against the opposing squad from Wapole prison. Obama reportedly asked an inmate what got him to Wapole, and he received the reply, ?Double murder.? The President ex?d his signature jump-shot-trash-talk combo. It seems that even the future leader of the free world can be shaken by an intimidating opponent. Maybe Mitt should take some notes.
The President?s opponents have ranged from inmates to Secretary of Education and former captain of the Harvard basketball team Arne Duncan. One aspect of Obama?s game has remained the same, and that is his love for a challenge. In all his time on the basketball court, whether it be with Washington elites or other HLS students at Hemenway, the President does not like to have others take it easy on him. Lewis was told, when he himself was participating in one of Obama?s pick-up games, that if anyone? did not play hard, he was not asked to play again.
Even though Obama?s love of basketball has moved from Hemenway to the FBI, its intensity has stayed the same.
Source: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/9/30/harvard-obama-basketball-pickup-back-page/
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Australians Surge in Quest to Build Quantum Computer
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Teams based at the University of New South Wales have made advances toward building a quantum computer, which could help tackle a new class of problems.
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
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75% tax for high earners? France unveils new budget
PARIS (AP) ? The French government presented a budget Friday that was heavy on taxes ? including a controversial 75 percent income rate on high earners ? but which critics said lacked fundamental reforms that could jumpstart economic growth.
President Francois Hollande's cabinet defended the spending plan for next year, calling it a "fighting budget" that would win the "battle" against joblessness and help growth.
Like many European countries, France must tread a fine line between cutting the debts that dragged them into the current financial crisis and investing in the economy to spur growth.
The French economy, the second largest among the 17 countries that use the euro, has not grown for three straight quarters, the national statistics agency confirmed Friday. Its gross domestic product stands at ?1.8 trillion ($2.2 trillion). Unemployment has been on the rise for more than a year and stands at 10.2 percent.
Economists warn, however, that things could get much worse in France if it doesn't get serious about slashing state spending and reforming stringent labor laws.
"This is a serious budget, it's a leftist budget and it's fighting budget," Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told French radio station Europe-1 Friday morning.
Because Hollande promised that he would slash the country's deficit to 3 percent of its GDP next year ? a limit required by European rules ? the government must find ?30 billion in savings. One-third will come from spending cuts. The rest will come from new or higher taxes on the wealthy and big companies, including a new 75 percent tax on earned income that exceeds ?1 million.
Among the other measures included are a new income tax level at 45 percent for those making more than ?150,000 ? the current top rate of tax is about 41 percent for income above ?70,000. Also included in the budget is an increase of capital gains taxes, which start around 19 percent, to bring them more in line with how salaries are taxed, and a cap on certain deductions for large companies on their income taxes.
The 75 percent tax will last for two years and has always been billed as a symbolic measure since it will bring in very little revenue. Several businessmen and politicians in the opposition have said that's exactly what's wrong with the 2013 budget: It sends the message that France doesn't like the rich and isn't open for business.
"France is sick from a model that isn't viable," said Guillaume Carou, CEO of Didaxis and president of the Club of Entrepreneurs, which represents 15,000 small businesses. "But (the government has) chosen to keep it, that's what the 2013 budget reveals."
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault rejected that characterization, however, insisting that the budget would win the battle against unemployment.
"It's a budget that aims to inspire confidence and to break the debt spiral that keeps growing and growing," he said after the budget was presented to the Cabinet.
The budget is built around an expectation of 0.8 percent growth for next year. If growth misses the projections, more cuts could be needed later.
Moscovici conceded that most economists predict the French economy will grow just 0.5 percent, but said that if the European debt crisis stabilizes, France would meet its targets.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/france-unveils-budget-heavy-taxes-124501335--finance.html
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Guest Post ? Privacy 101: privacy, anonymity and you | Finally, A ...
This is a double guest post, incorporating two separate presentations from the recent Melbourne Crytoparty event.? Cryptoparties are grass-roots data security education activism ? CryptoParties are free to attend, public, and are commercially non-aligned.? Some of the information provided below is specific to Australian law; find a Cryptoparty MeetUp local to you if you want to check your specific legalities (follow the proceedings online if you can?t get to the MeetUp itself).
Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn?t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn?t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. ~Cypherpunk Manifesto
GeorgieBC first explains why privacy is necessary for all of us, then Sarah Stokely expands on privacy matters and outlines the basics of using Tor as one of the tools for online privacy.
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First posted on September 22, 2012 at GeorgieBC?s Blog. You can listen to the speech on SoundCloud
SPEECH TRANSCRIPT
Cryptoparty Melbourne
Hello?CryptoParty. My name is Georgie online, Heather Marsh to some people and other things to other people. I would like to talk to you all a bit about privacy and anonymity. We all know privacy is essential in high risk activism, but it is so much more than keeping bloggers from being killed. Privacy is for us all, it is a right we used to have and most people do not realize we have lost it, or that we ever had it.
Most people in democracies feel that freedom of the press is essential in a democracy; this is because we need information about our government in order to participate in a democracy. This freedom has been turned on its head so that people now feel they have the right to see Kate Middleton?s breasts but not foreign policy documents. It?s the other way around. Foreign policy documents are subject to censorship that is not compatible with democracy. Kate Middleton has been subjected to surveillance in violation of her right to privacy. The news obsession with celebrities and their private matters is there to distract you from the real news which they are not showing you. They tell you what US president Obama?s daughters wore to school when we really need to know if he is going to bomb Iran.
In our grandparents day they had a wonderful thing called mind your own business. They did not give their first names to people they had just met. There were layers of trust you went through to get to know someone and you owned the truth about yourself. This expectation of privacy for individuals is gone and we need to bring it back; transparency is for public organizations and actions which affect the public, not for our private lives. Perfect strangers will now demand any detail of your life and feel they have a right to it. We know the surveillance culture has won when snooping is a virtue, equated with being open, honest, and having nothing to hide while a request for privacy is met with shock and hurt and group shunning. We need to start refusing to provide personal data as much as we can, privacy is a basic right and if we do not use it we will lose it. We have lost it.
It has been proven enough times, famously by Julian Assange and Bradley Manning but in many other cases as well, that authorities do not need to see any transactions or have evidence of any criminal activity to destroy your life; it is enough that you pull attention, that they are aware of your existence. The fact that you are doing nothing wrong or illegal is no protection if you have attracted the attention of someone with power or mental instability. Governments are not the only people on the internet; if you start expressing opinions you will find far more interesting opposition as well. Anonymity, once lost, can never be regained; even if you have no intention of ever expressing a controversial opinion, privacy should become a habit, like brushing your teeth.
Besides the safety aspect, online anonymity is cherished by internet dwellers as the only means to pure thought exchange, where ideas can be judged on their own merits, unclouded by preconceived judgements based on unrelated data.
I started out as a programmer, and there was a time where even just my voice would have made anything I said instantly discredited, people only listened to opinions on programming or politics from baritones and tenors. That is still the case in some circles, there is a reason my online names are usually sexually ambiguous or male. Alan Turing, one of the fathers of computer science faced the same obstacle when it became widely known that he was homosexual; there is a very sad quote from him, ?Turing believes machines think. Turing lies with men. Therefore machines cannot think.? We have lost far too many brilliant ideas because of bigotry against the place they came from. Many women in history would never have been published if they did not publish as men; many brilliant thinkers have been attacked based on irrelevant personal data such as race, age, or opinions on unrelated topics and their ideas have been lost. Until we live in a world with no bigotry, anonymity is the only way for these voices to be heard.
In order to move to an idea driven system, away from a personality based one, we need to all stand up for privacy for us all. Crypto parties are an amazing initiative; Privacy is fun; Tor and PGP and OTR are very fun to use, and when you are comfortable with them, maybe you will also tell the next person who demands personal data from you to mind their own business which is also fun. I hope you all have a great evening!
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First published as a slide presentation on 22nd September by @stokely: you can view the slides on GoogleDocs.
#Cryptoparty Workshop: Tor
Saturday, 22 September 2011, by @stokely
This is NOT copyright. It?s in the public domain. Use as you wish. 
Why are we here?
- we?re in an era of strong government action against internet users
- 250,000 Australians under surveillance (excl ASIO)
- there are two main areas under attack ? piracy, and free speech
- International legal(?) action against Wikileaks, Megaupload
- Strong Government interest in the use of online social networks by political activists (Arab Spring, Occupy)
Global problems for cyberactivists & cyberdissidents, bloggers & journalists
*Reporters without Borders- Press Freedom roundup 2008:
- ?Predatory activity is increasingly focused on the internet.?
- 1 blogger killed
- 59 bloggers arrested
- 1,740 websites bocked, shut down or suspended
- more online journalists incarcerated than other journalists for the first time
- Internet censorship in China, Cuba, parts of the Middle East
- western companies including Google and Yahoo selling or modifying their products and services to enable censorship regimes
LESS security, MORE surveillance
It?s never been particularly safe to communicate by email or on social networks due to insecurities in the tech, and it?s about to get worse. WHY?
- Increased surveillance of activists. There have already been subpoenas on Australians? Twitter accounts & Twitter last week said they?d comply MORE with requests from the Australian police.
- The US government is strengthening laws to control the internet (See the proposed SOPA/PIPA laws)
- As signees of the Free Trade Agreement with the US, Australia is legally obliged to enforce laws like the DMCA in Australia. So their law can touch us.
- Social networks are voluntarily censoring (Twitter announced geo-censorship of tweets yesterday).
Legal disclaimer
- I am not a lawyer, and this workshop is not about your legal rights or responsibilities.
- Seek legal advice. Use your common sense.
- This workshop will give you some simple tools to stay safer
- The key word is SAFER, not 100% safe.
- Today we?ll show you one or two layers in the security ?onion? ? we?re not promising to protect you from the world?s best hackers or the FBI. If you are Wikileaks and people could die based on the information you?re sharing, basic security is not enough. You need to learn more about how to keep yourself, your communications and your community safe.
Part 1: Secure your email
Your email is not safe
- Vulnerabilities are human and technical.
- Human vulnerability: choosing easy to guess passwords, sending email to someone untrustworthy who forwards it to the authorities or a newspaper, sharing your password with someone who loses it.
- Tech vulnerabilities: Spyware like keyloggers, your password could be cracked, your login might be insecure (http), transmission of your email over the internet might be insecure.
- At least two ISPS will handle your email ? the sending & receiving ISP. Do you trust your ISP? (Don?t). They are subject to Australian law and are routinely asked to provide information from/about their customers.
3 steps to safer email
- Keep your computer free of viruses/malware
- Keep your password secure
- Encrypt your email
Viruses/malware
- Malware exists to steal passwords, and to get exact copies of everything you type ? it?s called keystroke logging.
- Players of online games like World of Warcraft get targetted by keystroke loggers, who capture their game login password so they can steal their accounts. It doesn?t just happen in the movies. It happened to me.
- Keep your software & operating system up to date, and install some anti-malware/anti-virus software ? here are some step by step tips: https://security.ngoinabox.org/en/chapter-1
Protect your password
- Change your password. Today.
- This should be common to anyone with an ATM card, but it?s not
- Change it regularly, make it not personal to you (ie birthdays), mix in numbers, letters & capitalisation
- As a memory aid, use a mnemonic like:
- ?To be or not to be? That is the question? which becomes ?2Born2b?TitQ?
- One password to rule them all: Password manager software like KeePass
- http://keepass.info/
- Uses one master password to access & manage all your passwords.
Login securely
- You need your email to be secure at the point of login (if you?re using webmail) and when it?s travelling the internet to reach the recipient of your mail.
- Webmail is less secure because you are trusting the content of all your emails to the company that?s sending it. (ie Google).
- Consider switching to an email client (email software like Thunderbird or Mail for Mac instead of using a web-based email like Gmail or Yahoo)
- Riseup is an email service run by and for activists that can be securely accessed by webmail or using an email client like Thunderbird (https://riseup.net/en)
- Choose a webmail provider that uses https to login.
Using https for your logins
- https uses SSL (Secure Socket Layer) to add a security layer to normal web pages (http), you?ll already use it for online banking.
- Gmail uses https by default. To check if it?s turned on:
- Sign in to Gmail.
- Click the gear icon in the upper-right corner, and select Mail settings.
- In the General tab, set ?Browser Connection? to ?Always use https?.
If you?ve never changed the setting before, no radio buttons will be selected, even though the default is indeed ?Always use https?. - Click Save Changes.
Encrypt your mail
- Unencrypted email travels as-is online, meaning anyone snooping can read it.
- Encrypting mail means encoding it so snoopers can?t read it.
- Later we?ll break into groups to show you how to use Tails to encrypt mail and files and use keys to ensure that the sender (you) and the receipient are who they say they are.
Activity: Secure your webmail
- Break into groups
- With your group leader, work out if it?s possible to turn on https for your webmail and make sure it?s turned on.
- Change your password! Choose something more secure.
Secure your browsing
Use https everywhere that you can
- If you use the Firefox browser, you can install the ?HTTPS Everywhere addon? so it happens all the time.
- Download it here: https://www.eff.org/files/https-everywhere-button.png
- There will be an HTTPS Everywhere button at the top right of your Firefox toolbar which lets you see & disable a ruleset if it?s causing problems with a site. eg if you try to get on a hotel wifi connection.
- There is no excuse for not using HTTPS-everywhere
Set Facebook & Twitter to https
- To make Facebook use https, go to the Account Settings menu, change the default value in the ?Account security? sub-menu to https.
- More info here: https://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=486790652130
- To turn on https on Twitter, go to your account settings (https://twitter.com/settings/account) and tick the box next to ?Always use HTTPS? which is at the bottom of the page.
The Tor browser
- Tor is an online security project.
- Tor has been described as ?a second Internet running inside the existing Internet?. It allows people from countries with strict regimes to bypass blocking and monitoring software.
- There?s a video of the Tor project creators talking about how governments and corporations have tried to block Tor.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DX46Qv_b7F4#!
- Tor bounces your online communication around a network of relays run by volunteers, instead of going straight from your IP address to your destination. This means it prevents people who might be spying on your internet connection from learning what sites you visit or learning your physical location and it lets you access blocked sites.
How Tor Works
Step 1: Alice?s Tor client obtains a list of Tor nodes from a directory server
Step 2: Alice?s Tor client picks a random path to the destination server. All the intermediate links are encrypted (green) only the final link to the destination is unencrypted (red).
The Tor browser
- You can install & use Tor software, or use the Tor browser to make your web browsing (more) secure.
- BE AWARE of Tor?s limits. It focuses only on protecting the transport of data. You need to use protocol-specific support software if you don?t want the sites you visit to see your identifying information. For example, you can use Torbutton while browsing the web to withhold some information about your computer?s configuration.
- What does this mean? External applications are not Tor-safe by default, and can unmask you.
- Tor is TCP only, and then apps can send your IP address, so it?s good to use vetted apps.
- One way around this is to use a transparent Tor proxy like Tails (https://tails.boum.org/)
The Tor browser bundle
- An easy way to use the Tor software is to download and use the Tor browser bundle.
- This means just by using the Tor browser, you?re protected by Tor software.
- It?s available for Windows, Mac or Linux.
- It can also run off a USB flash drive (AKA USB key). This means you can safely browse from any computer, by using your USB key.
- Download the Tor browser bundle here:
- https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Tor check
- Make sure you?ve actually got it working right.
- Once you?ve got the Tor browser installed, visit the Tor Check page: https://check.torproject.org/
- It will detect whether you?re using Tor or not, and tell you.
Need help?
- On IRC: #tor
- Or: http://irc.oftc.net/
Suggested Activity: Set up a secure browser
- Install Firefox & HPPTS Everywhere and/or the Tor Browser
- Make sure you use the Tor Check tool as well!
Tools for Activists & Bloggers
Highly recommended:
- Security in a box: https://security.ngoinabox.org
- Riseup email for activists: https://riseup.net/en
Resources for safe publishing online
Highly recommended:
Tails ? the amnesiac incognito live system
Suggested Activity
- Set up a USB key with Tails for secure computing
- Use Tails to encrypt files, email, and instant messaging
Thanks!
- Thank you for coming to #Cryptopart to learn and share what you know
- Remember ?each one teach one? ? please find someone who needs to learn this stuff, and teach them!
I can email out this presentation with handy links to information and downloads, if you email me (sarah.stokely@gmail.com) or tweet me (@stokely).
Cheers!
Source: http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/guest-post-privacy-101-privacy-anonymity-and-you/
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Friday, September 28, 2012
Fans cheer NFL referees in first game back after lockout
BALTIMORE ? They walked like conquering heroes through the tunnel of football gladiators. And the greatest decision the NFL's returning officials had to make Thursday night was whether to tip their caps to the roar that rolled down from above.
Head linesman Wayne Mackie tips his cap as he walks on the field Thursday night. (AP??It was less than an hour before their first game back after the national nightmare that was their lockout, and the sound that surrounded them from the still half-filled M&T Bank Stadium felt like sweet music. They suspected such a welcome as they dressed in their tiny cinder-blocked room beneath the stadium's stands. They discussed what it would feel like to step into cheers. And then they debated a staggering question they never had reason to consider before:
Do they doff their caps?
They are officials, after all. Hardly here to be the show. And because of this they seemed resolute in appearing oblivious to the only love they will ever feel in a football stadium. They entered the tunnel without expression. But as the cheers tumbled down around them, their cool melted. Smiles danced at their lips.
And then referee Gene Steratore pulled his white cap off his head and waved it to the fans, who had given them a standing ovation.
[More: Replacement ref insists he made correct call on late Seattle TD]
"The emotion kind of overtook us for a second there," Steratore said after the Ravens' 23-16 win over the Cleveland Browns.
He stood at the front corner of the officials' locker room. He had showered and dressed but he was still giddy from a night like none he had ever had on a football field. In the room behind him, his colleagues sat in various states of dress. They laughed as they pulled off their socks. The room was filled with a genuine joy.
"We know what this is," said Steratore, a 10-year veteran. "We know how special this is. And we have always taken such pleasure in being a part of this whole thing and having it go smoothly without being recognized. And then when you're actually recognized, it was a little different feeling to be honest with you."
What a strange day it must be for someone accustomed to being mocked and hooted and booed to suddenly be recognized for what he does right. Steratore and the men in the room behind him seemed to understand that on Thursday. They realized they will never be more popular than when they appeared from the tunnel that first time on Thursday, following a horrendous start to the season with replacement refs that ended with Monday night's controversial touchdown in Seattle. It was as if they didn't want to let go of the night.
He laughed.
"To see [the fans], at some point, recognized that ? there is a value to what we do and to be able to acknowledge that the way they did coming out, the anticipation that may happen, it was something that I guess we probably did need," Steratore said. "Because it was something that had never happened before."
[More: Darrelle Revis' injury could impact future of Jets' GM, coach]
Neither, probably was the giant hug he received from Ravens coach John Harbaugh as the fans clapped.
"That was more an embrace don't you think?" Steratore said after the game, spreading his arms wide.
"It was a man hug," Harbaugh later said.
To grasp Harbaugh's enthusiasm, to realize how an NFL head coach could openly wrap his arms around a referee in an expression of affection, you have to appreciate how deep the frustration was for the coaches who dealt with replacement officials these past few weeks.
There is nothing NFL coaches hate more than officials who don't know the rules. They can accept bad calls ? they don't have to like them, but they can understand them. Bad calls, they say, are a part of the game. What drives them mad is when the officials don't know the rules. Coaches are driven insane by officials who don't know every paragraph of the rule book.
[More: Top 10 worst gaffes by replacement refs]
Former cornerback Shawn Springs, who once played for New England coach Bill Belichick, said this week that he was certain this is why Belichick was so irate after losing here to the Ravens on Sunday night. No coach, he said, knows the rules like Belichick. The Patriots coach actually employs a man named Ernie Adams, who among other things is a rules expert and sits in the coach's booth.
An NFL head coach said this week that the communication between he and the replacement officials had been horrendous. He said he realized why the dialogue failed and thought the men were doing the best job they could. But he added that he could tell they weren't certain about many of their rulings.
"They didn't know the rules at all," said an NFL executive, who like the head coach, risked punishment by the league if they spoke on the record. "They just killed the flow of the game with all their talking. They would go under the hood and it would take forever and then they would come back and the whole pace of the game was blown."
For all these reasons, Thursday night was filled with a strange kind of love. Coaches smiled when they saw the old officials back on the field again. Players laughed. Fans waved.
Referee Gene Steratore talks with Ravens head coach John Harbaugh before Thursday night's game. (AP)The enchantment won't last, of course. Thursday night was a one-time thing, a relief that games wouldn't stretch on for hours as flag after flag was thrown and players fought unchecked and calls were botched. In the Ravens' locker room afterward, Harbaugh said he had one miscommunication with the officials in the game.
But it all seemed such a small thing on the giddy night that football finally felt right.
And as he stood in the officials' locker room, Steratore agreed. The last few weeks gave him an odd vacation he had never known. It gave him a chance to see how much he missed the NFL and more important, it gave the NFL and all its coaches and players and fans a chance to see how much they all missed him.
"I think this was a little bit different in the sense that we were actually recognized and part of the story before the game, which is not something we are used to," Steratore said. "It's not something we look to do. Our main objective is to be unnoticed. It's not to be part of the entertainment but as the director. The game is for the coaches and players to be noticed.
[More: The worst calls in sports history]
"We're the people that are directing the show, per se. [Thursday night] I guess there may have been a scene in the entire play where maybe we were the focus for the first time, so that was a different feeling. To just be applauded by 50,000 people prior to anything happening, it was something that kind of chokes you up. It was a special feeling."
Special indeed on the night he became a national hero.
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The 10 Worst States For Retirees - Retirement Homes
There?s no shortage of retirement advisors online who recommend the best cities, states and even countries for retirement. If you?re looking for lower income taxes, there are places for that. If you want miles of sandy beaches, there are places for that.
And if you dream of being close to friends and family, you?re probably there already. But are all retirement destinations created equal? If there are excellent retirement destinations out there, what are the worst?
As reported recently by AARP.org, the 10 worst states for retirees are:
1/ Illinois
2/ California
3/ New York
4/ Rhode Island
5/ New Jersey
6/ Ohio
7/ Wisconsin
8/ Massachusetts
9/ Connecticut
10/ Nevada
The reasons for these 10 states varied, but they ranged from the poor financial health of the Illinois and California state governments, high property taxes in New York and Wisconsin, unemployment and cold temperatures in Ohio, and a high volume of home foreclosures in Nevada. As well, Social Security in Connecticut is taxed, so people who rely on that as a source of income don?t keep the entire amount.
But if you?re looking for a beachfront home in California, or if you want to be close to your family in Ohio, then don?t let a list deter you. But when considering relocating, think about all factors before you move.
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Are you interested in having a say about the development of York?s new Strategic Research Plan?
Join Robert Hach?, vice-president research & innovation, as he conducts a series of workshops with University community members to probe values and perceptions?regarding research at York.? The feedback and discussion arising from these workshops will be used to inform the Strategic Research Plan: 2013 ? 2018.? All York University students, staff and faculty are invited to participate.
Robert Hach?
?These workshops are an important and valuable feedback tool in the construction of the new plan,? said Robert Hach?, vice-president research & innovation. ?I look forward to continuing the discussion with members of the York community, as we shape the future of York research together, and to ?developing a new plan that each member of the York research community can see themselves a part of.?
During the workshops, participants will be asked to share their hopes and concerns with respect to the new Strategic Research Plan, highlight what they feel are the current and future core research values for York as an institution, provide their feedback on areas of research excellence and identify future areas for continuous improvement.? Participants will have an opportunity to share their thoughts in small groups and each group will present their feedback to the larger audience.
The workshops will be facilitated by Celia Haig-Brown, professor, Faculty of Education and Gary Miller, instructor,?Schulich School of Business MBA program and the Schulich Executive Education Centre.
Workshop dates are available below.?To RSVP for the workshops, click here.
The workshops will be held on:?
| Date | Time | Location |
| Tuesday, Oct.?2 | ?9 to?11am | 305 Lumbers Building, Keele campus |
| Friday, Oct. 5 | 9?to 11am | BMO Room, Glendon Manor, Glendon campus |
| Tuesday, Oct. 16?? | 9?to 11am | Founders Senior?Common Room, 305 Founders College, Keele campus |
| Friday, Oct. 26 | 1 to 3pm | Harry Crowe Room 109 Atkinson Building, Keele campus |
| Thursday, Nov. 1 | 1 to?3pm | 519 York Research Tower, Keele campus |
Hach? will also be hosting Community Chats to invite the York community to participate in discussion on elements they feel are important for the development of the new plan.? Meeting dates and times are available below.? Please drop-in.
Community chats with the VPRI will be held on:
| DATE | TIME | LOCATION? |
| Thursday, Oct. 4 | 9?to 10am | 402 Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building, Keele campus |
| Friday, Oct. 19 | 1 to 2 pm | 214 Joan & Martin Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts, Keele campus?? |
| Thursday, Nov. 1 | 9?to 10 am | 219 Glendon Hall, Glendon campus |
| Tuesday, Nov. 20 | 9?to 10 am | S802 Ross Building, Keele campus |
| Friday, Dec. 7 | 9?to 10 am | 214 Calumet College, Keele campus |
| Tuesday, Dec. 18 | 1?to 2 pm | 286C Winters College, Keele campus |
For more information on the development of the new Strategic Research Plan.
Republished courtesy of YFile? York University?s daily e-bulletin.
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Bosnian forensic experts search mass grave
HAJVAZI, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) ? Forensic experts have found 10 bodies as they began to excavate a mass grave where Muslim Bosniaks killed during the 1995 massacre in the eastern town of Srebrenica are believed to have been hidden.
Srebrenica was the worst massacre in Europe since World War II and took place in an area that was officially under U.N. protection during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
The execution of over 8,000 men and boys has been defined as genocide, and Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, who commanded Serb troops who conducted the massacre, is now on trial before a U.N. tribunal.
In addition to the 10 bodies recovered Wednesday, the team expects to find at least 10 more in the grave.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bosnian-forensic-experts-search-mass-grave-141253793.html
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Pregnancy generates maternal immune-suppressive cells that protect the fetus
ScienceDaily (Sep. 26, 2012) ? A new study published online in the journal Nature suggests it might be possible to develop vaccines to prevent premature birth and other pregnancy complications. If so, such vaccines would be the first intended to stimulate the subset of regulatory CD4 T cells that suppress the immune response.
Current vaccines are specifically designed to stimulate T cell subsets that activate the immune response.
The study, led by a researcher at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, shows the immune system of a pregnant mother stimulates cells that selectively prevent attack and rejection of fetal tissues recognized as being foreign. Importantly, these pregnancy-induced, immune suppressive regulatory T cells are retained after delivery, and rapidly re-accumulate and provide protection in subsequent pregnancy.
Successful pregnancy requires the ability to tolerate antigens inherited from the father. These antigens evoke an immune response by the mother's immune system, which considers these antigens foreign. If the mother gets pregnant again, these T cells remember the first pregnancy and provide additional protection to the fetus from being attacked by the mother's own immune system.
"We show definitively immune suppressive regulatory CD4 cells can form immunological memory," says Sing Sing Way, MD PhD, a physician researcher in Infectious Diseases at Cincinnati Children's and the study's senior author. "These memory features shown in pregnancy illustrate why complications become reduced in subsequent compared with primary pregnancy, but can also be broadly applied to new ways to better control the stringent balance between immune stimulation and suppression for preventing autoimmune diseases."
Way and his colleagues demonstrate that the protective program during pregnancy is established by the expansion and retention of regulatory T cells that specifically recognize fetal antigens.
"Knowing this, we can design vaccines that specifically target immune suppressive T cells," explains Dr. Way. "Current vaccines exclusively target immune activating T cells. With the polio vaccine, for example, vaccination is designed to induce long-lasting immune-activating cells that eradicate the virus with later infection. A vaccine that targets the expansion and retention of immune suppressive cells would allow selective silencing of undesired responses and prevent them from attacking the body."
Having shown that these cells can generate and retain immunological memory might make it possible to develop vaccines against autoimmune disorders -- such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis and type 1 diabetes -- in which the body's immune system attacks its own healthy tissues.
Dr. Way conducted the study in mouse models of pregnancy with colleagues from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine. This research was supported by NIH-NIAID awards R01AI087830 and R01AI100934 (S.S.W.), and NIH-NIDDK award F30DK084674 (J.H.R.). S.S.W. holds an Investigator in the Pathogenesis of Infectious Disease award from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.
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- Jared H. Rowe, James M. Ertelt, Lijun Xin, Sing Sing Way. Pregnancy imprints regulatory memory that sustains anergy to fetal antigen. Nature, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nature11462
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Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/living_well/~3/pxuMX5tXvsg/120926133103.htm
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
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postdoc programmes ? postgraduate opportunities in archaeology
Closing date not specified (ordered by post date)
[posted 30 August 2012]
Humboldt Foundation
Georg Forster Research?Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers
http://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/georg-forster-fellowship-postdoc.html
Closing date: year-round
[posted 24 July 2012]
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
AAA Professional Fellow
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/4853112/aaa-professional-fellow
Closing date: not specified (posted 23 July 2012)
The American University in Cairo
several new Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowships
including Archaeology and Egyptology
http://aucegypt.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=29038
Closing date: not specified (posted 6 December 2011)
================================
Closing date (in descending order)
[re-posted 16 August 2012]
Bundesministerium f?r Bildung und Forschung
?Die Sprache der Objekte ? Materielle Kultur im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen?
http://www.mommsen-gesellschaft.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=996:foerderprogramm-bmbf-die-sprache-der-objekte-materielle-kultur-im-kontext-gesellschaftlicher-entwicklungen&catid=24:neueste-entwicklungen&Itemid=61
primary: http://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/18562.php
Closing date (annual): 15 August 2013? (next closing date: 15 August 2014?)
[re-posted 1 September 2012]
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK)
Institute for Advanced Study
Junior Fellowships
to collaborate with region research institutions in four research areas: Energy Research, Marine and Climate Research, Neurosciences and Cognitive Sciences and Social Sciences
http://www.h-w-k.de/wie-wird-man-fellow.html?&L=1
Closing date: 28 February 2013 (next closing date: 31 August 2013)
Belgium
FWO ? Research Foundation Flanders
Pegasus Marie Curie Fellowships
10 short fellowships
primary: http://www.fwo.be/Pegasus-Marie-Curie-fellowships.aspx
Closing date: 1 February 2013 (next closing date: 1 May 2013)
[posted 6 September 2012]
Rutgers University
Center for Cultural Analysis
2013-14 Postdoctoral Fellowships
?Objects and Environments?
in anthropology, art history, cognitive science, computer science, environmental studies and environmental history, history, literary and cultural studies, philosophy, sociology, and other related disciplines
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000742699-01
primary: http://cca.rutgers.edu/news/43-announcements/149-2013-14-seminar
Closing date:?7 January 2013
[posted 9 September 2012]
University of California, Berkeley
S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowships
in Natural Resource Economics and Political Economy; from any social science discipline and related professional fields such as law and planning, who will make significant contributions to research on natural resource economics broadly defined
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/4906988/2013-2014-sv-ciriacy-wantrup-postdoctoral-fellowships
primary: http://nature.berkeley.edu/site/ciriacy.php
Closing date:?10?December 2012
NEW [posted 20 September 2012]
University of South Florida
Postdoctoral Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2013-14
?Global Change in a Dynamic World?
in one of the following disciplines: Anthropology; Communication; English; Geography, Environment and Planning; Government and International Affairs; History; Philosophy; Sociology
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000745197-01
primary: http://www.grad.usf.edu/provostinitiative2013.php
Closing date: 7 December 2012
[posted 5 September 2012]
University of Toronto
Jackman Humanities Institute
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
theme: ?Translation and the Multiplicity of Languages?
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000742486-01
primary: http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/content/id=755
Closing date:?1?December 2012
[posted 31 August 2012]
University of Illinois at Chicago
Institute for the Humanities
UIC Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Food Studies, 2013-14
on some area of food studies related to the humanities
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/4900461/uic-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-food-studies-2013-14
primary: https://jobs.uic.edu/job-search/job-details?jobID=24400&job=uic-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-food-studies-2013-14
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000742221-01
Closing date: open until filled (for fullest consideration: 30 November 2012)
[posted 14 September 2012]
Universidad de Murcia
UMU Incoming Mobility Programme ACTion
Pre-Announcement for the second U-IMPACT call
5 two-year postdoctoral call to attract highly talented international scientists
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/jobDetails/33818271
primary: http://www.campusmarenostrum.es/convocatorias.html
Closing date: 30 November 2012
[re-posted 31 August 2012]
Netherlands
NWO ? The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Rubicon fellowships
http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_6H2G7R_Eng
Closing date: 29 November 2012 (next closing dates: 3 April 2013, 4 September 2013 and 28 November 2013)
NEW [posted 26 September 2012]
University of Wisconsin-Madison
postdoctoral fellowship program in the humanities and humanistic social sciences
The theme for 2013-2015 applicants is ?DEMOCRACY?
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000746149-01
primary: http://humanities.wisc.edu/fellows/about-the-a-w-mellon-postoctoral-program
Closing date: 20 November 2012
[posted 5?September 2012]
Stanford University
Mellon Fellows for Scholarship in the Humanities
http://mellonfellowship.stanford.edu/about
Closing date: 16 November 2012
[posted 10 September 2012]
Columbia University
Earth Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship program
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/articles/view/55
Closing date: 15 November 2012
[posted 7 August 2012]
University of Cambridge
Smuts Visiting Research Fellowship in Commonwealth Studies
including Commonwealth-related aspects of archaeology, anthropology, economics, history, human geography, law, literature, oriental studies, sociology, politics and social psychology
http://www.myscience.cc/jobs/id201092-smuts_visiting_fellow-university_of_cambridge-cambridge
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFE289/smuts-visiting-fellow-fixed-term/
primary: http://www.smutsfund.cam.ac.uk/visitingfellowshipwolfson.html
Closing date:?15?November 2012
Wellcome Trust
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowships
primary: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Funding-schemes/Fellowships/Basic-biomedical-fellowships/WTX033549.htm
Closing date:?9 November 2012 (for preliminary applications)
[posted 17 September 2012]
Fondation Marc de Montalembert et l?Institut national d?histoire de l?art (INHA)
Prix Marc de Montalembert 2013
soutient l?ach?vement d?un travail de recherche qui contribue ? une meilleure connaissance des arts et de la culture du monde m?diterran?en
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lampea/spip.php?article1807
primary: http://www.inha.fr/spip.php?article4007?& http://www.fondationmdm.com/index.php/fr/bourse?& http://www.fondationmdm.com/index.php/en/bourse?[English]
Closing date: 1 November 2012
[posted 17 September 2012]
?cole fran?aise de Rome (EFR)
Appel ? candidature pour un s?jour comme chercheur r?sident aupr?s de l??cole fran?aise de Rome
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lampea/spip.php?article1797
primary: http://www.ecole-francaise.it/fr/index.html?& http://www.ecole-francaise.it/fr/PDF/Chercheur_Resident_EFR.pdf
Closing date: 1 November 2012
[re-posted 6 September 2012]
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
Postdoctoral Fellows Program
in any relevant area of research including anthropology, ecology, economics, education, geography, mathematics, statistics, computer science, political science, public policy, planning, etc
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000741908-01
primary: http://www.sesync.org/?& http://www.sesync.org/programs/postdocs
Closing date: 1 November 2012
[posted 6 September 2012]
Princeton University
Fung Global Fellows Program
Visting Research Scholar (6 positions)
theme: ?Languages and Authority?
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/4858265/visting-research-scholar-fung-global-fellows-program-princeton-university
primary: http://www.princeton.edu/funggfp/application/
Closing date:?1?November 2012
[posted 3 September 2012]
Santa Fe Institute
Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/4900639/omidyar-postdoctoral-fellowship-at-the-santa-fe-institute
primary: http://www.santafe.edu/education/fellowships/omidyar-postdoctoral/
Closing date:?1?November 2012
[posted 30 August 2012]
University of Chicago
Society of Fellows
TEACHING FELLOWSHIPS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
in all disciplines and areas of specialization
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/4897883/collegiate-assistant-professor
primary: https://fellows.uchicago.edu/
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000741728-01
Closing date:?1?November 2012
[posted 14 August 2012]
University of Chicago
Provost?s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholarships (PCEPS)
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000739613-01
primary: http://provostpostdoc.uchicago.edu/
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000742713-01
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000742776-01
Closing date:?1?November 2012
[posted 13 July 2012]
Dumbarton Oaks
Fellowships
in three areas of study: Byzantine Studies (including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, Western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern studies), Pre-Columbian Studies (of Mexico, Central America, and Andean South America), and Garden and Landscape Studies
primary: http://www.doaks.org/research/fellowships-and-grants
Closing date:?1?November 2012
[posted 2 September 2012]
Jagiellonian University
?Society ? Environment ? Technologies?
Scientific assistant (Postdoctoral research) [13 positions]
in (1) Chemistry, (2) Biology and Earth Sciences, (3) Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, (4) Biochemistry, Biophysicsand Biotechnology, (5) Mathematics and Computer Science, (6) History, (7) Management and Social Communication, (8) Philosophy, (9) International and Political Studies
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/jobDetails/33809303
primary: http://www.set.uj.edu.pl/mlodzi-doktorzy
Closing date: 31 October 2012
NEW [posted 21 September 2012]
Fondation Fyssen 2012
Subventions de recherche
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lampea/spip.php?article1832
primary: http://www.fondationfyssen.fr/subventionrech_oa.htm & http://www.fondationfyssen.fr/subventionrech_modossier.htm
Closing date: 29 October 2012
NEW [posted 20 September 2012]
The Danish Council for Independent Research
Call for Proposals F2012 and S2013
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/jobDetails/33820897
primary: http://en.fi.dk/funding/calls/2012/the-danish-council-for-independent-research-call-for-proposals-f2012-and-s2013
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/fgDetails/39041
Closing date: 29 October 2012
[posted 31 August 2012]
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowshp in the Humanities, 2013-15
one of the following broad subject areas:?Race and Diaspora Studies; History of Science/Technology;?Empire and Colonial Studies; or,?Memory Studies
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000740679-01
primary: http://www.iprh.illinois.edu/guidelines/mellon/
Closing date: 29 October 2012
[posted 20 August 2012]
Amherst College
2013-2014 Amherst College Copeland Colloquium
four or five Fellows from varied disciplines to explore the theme of ?Catastrophe and the Catastrophic?
from the various disciplines of the humanities, social sciences, and natural or physical sciences including anthropologists, literary scholars, historians, sociologists, philosophers, legal scholars, environmental scientists
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/4885018/amherst-college-copeland-fellow-colloquium-2013-14
primary: https://jobs.amherst.edu/view/opportunity/id/478
Closing date: 15 October 2012
[posted 17?June 2012]
University of Pennsylvania
Penn Humanities Forum
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities?(5 positions)
for the 2013-2014 academic year general theme of??Violence?
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000730414-01
primary:?http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/?& http://humanities.sas.upenn.edu/applications/postdoc/cfa.shtml
http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000739203-01
Closing date: 15 October 2012
[posted 3 September 2012]
University of Cambridge -Emmanuel college
Research fellowships
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFC338/research-fellowships/
primary: http://resfell.emma.cam.ac.uk/
Closing date: 4 October 2012
[posted 31 August 2012]
Netherlands
NWO ? The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Vidi
targeted at researchers who have completed their doctorates and already spent some years conducting post-doctoral research
http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_5VTGQW_Eng
Closing date: 2 October 2012
[posted 14 September 2012]
University of Utrecht
Centre for the Humanities
?Humanities in the 21st Century?
CfH-Descartes Digital Humanities Fellowship
http://ehumanities.nl/news-general/centre-for-humanities-call-for-fellowships/
primary: http://www.uu.nl/faculty/humanities/EN/centreforthehumanities/fellowships/Pages/Humanities-in-the-21st-Century.aspx
Closing date: 1 October 2012
[posted 5 September 2012]
Universit? Catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Incoming Post-doc fellowships of the Acad?mie universitaire Louvain (AUL)
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/jobDetails/33811481
primary: http://www.uclouvain.be/369565
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/fgDetails/33321
Closing date: 1 October 2012
[posted 30 August 2012]
St John?s College, Cambridge
Research Fellowships, 2013
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFC022/research-fellowships-2013/
primary: http://research-fellowships.joh.cam.ac.uk/rf_2013/
Closing date: 1 October 2012
[posted 14 June 2012]
Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Harvard Academy Scholars Program 2013-2014
in the social sciences (including history and law) with a command of the language, history, or culture of non-Western countries or regions
http://careercenter.aaanet.org/jobs/4803553/harvard-academy-scholars-program
primary: http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy/?& http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/academy/academy_scholars_program.html
Closing date: 1 October 2012
[posted 14 June 2012]
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
International Institute of Social History (IISH)
Research Fellowships
primary: http://socialhistory.org/en/research/research-fellowships
Closing date: 1 October 2012
Bourses d?excellence IN.WBI (Wallonie-Bruxelles International)
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lampea/spip.php?article1424
http://www.wbi.be/cgi/bin3/render.cgi?id=0132992_article&userid=&lang=ln1&rubr=bourses+bourse
Closing date: 1 October 2012
EXTENDED [re-posted 7 July 2012]
L?Agence universitaire de la Francophonie
Prix de la Francophonie pour jeunes chercheurs?: 6?me ?dition 2012-2013
sciences et m?decine &?sciences humaines et sociales
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lampea/spip.php?article1676
primary: http://www.auf.org/actualites/prix-de-la-francophonie-pour-jeunes-chercheurs-6em/
Closing date: 30 September 2012 (i.e. extended from 15 July 2012)
[posted 6?July 2012]
Heidelberg University
Heidelberg Center for the Environment (HCE)
Junior Research Group Leaders (Postdocs)
to establish interdisciplinary research groups within the framework of the participating institutes (including Institute of Pre- and Protohistory and Near-Eastern Archaeology and South Asia Institute).
primary: http://www.hce.uni-heidelberg.de/?& http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/md/hce/120619_hce_junior_groups.pdf
Closing date: 30?September 2012
Fernand Braudel ? IFER Fellowships
postdoctoral fellowships in social and human science (SHS)
All social and human science disciplines are eligible.
An interdisciplinary approach to research topics is encouraged.
primary: http://www.msh-paris.fr/en/research/mobility/fernand-braudel-ifer-fellowships/
http://sites.univ-provence.fr/lampea/spip.php?article1774
http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/index.cfm/jobs/fgDetails/36361
Closing date: 30 September 2012 (next closing date: 31 March 2013)
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Research Fellowships
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primary: https://rfc.cai.cam.ac.uk/rf_2013/
Closing date: 28 September 2012
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Finding the statistical fingerprints of election thieves
ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2012) ? The art of swaying an election is as old as democracy itself. Strategies like ballot stuffing, redistricting, voter venue switching, and temporary traffic detours have skewed regional results, and sometimes determined the winner.
While some tactics get exposed the old fashioned way -- by angry voters or investigations -- others don't. But new research suggests some kinds of election fraud leave a trace in the voting data.
In a paper appearing September 24 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Stefan Thurner brought science to the problem.
"We got into this by chance, when a Russian colleague brought us the 2011 Russian Duma-election data and asked us to take a look," says Thurner. "From the first look we were all pretty shocked, and decided to take a second look."
Thurner, a Santa Fe Institute External Professor who heads the Section for Complex Systems at the Medical University of Vienna, and colleagues looked for two kinds of rigging: incremental fraud, where votes for one party are kept in the ballot box while those for the other candidates are tossed, and extreme fraud, which shows 100 percent voter turnout in a district, all voting for the same party.
The team examined data on number of eligible voters, valid votes, and votes for the winning candidate (or party) from a dozen recent elections around the world. By comparing the distributions of votes for the winning candidate against turnout numbers, they found that rigged elections show a different voting pattern than fair ones.
In fair elections, a nation's voting pattern tends to feature one cluster, showing a general trend of voter turnout and vote for the victorious party (though some nations' regional voter preferences can distort it). Rigged ones show a cluster, but with a smear of votes toward the upper right for incremental fraud. Extreme fraud has a second, smaller, completely separate cluster at the top right corner, signifying up to 100 percent turnout and votes for the winner.
Next, the team developed a model to detect how much forged or manipulated results affected the outcome, then ran through all possibilities of both fraud types playing 0 percent to 100 percent of a part in the election, and compared those to actual data to determine their prevalence.
Among the countries studied, data from recent elections in Russia and Uganda showed both the smear of incremental fraud and the second cluster of extreme fraud, with up to 64 percent of districts being affected in Russia's 2011 vote and 39 percent in 2012. Other countries' data showed little to no such trends.
"I think it could contribute to the benefit of democracy if for every nationwide election on this planet, the raw data is made available on say a United Nations or OECD database," says Thurner. "One could then think of a set of quality standards and checks for any election -- like the ones we presented -- or better ones."
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- P. Klimek, Y. Yegorov, R. Hanel, S. Thurner. Statistical detection of systematic election irregularities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210722109
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Apple supplier halts China factory after violence
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