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Less than 72 hours after failing to vote on a $60.4 billion Sandy aid bill, the House has approved a "scaled back" version of the bill, to the tune of $9.7 billion.
The bill allows Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to pay out insurance claims to those who held federal flood insurance.
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Friday's 354-67 vote sends the bill to the Senate, which expects to pass the bill later in the day. All of the no votes were cast by Republicans.
Long Islanders sounded off earlier this week, blaming both sides of the political spectrum after the initial bill was ignored by the House, despite approval from the Senate.
CNN has reported that the remaining $50-plus billion will be discussed on Jan. 15.
New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie released the following statement regarding Friday's critical vote by the House of Representatives:
"Today's action by the House was a necessary and critical first step towards delivering aid to the people of New York and New Jersey. While we are pleased with this progress, today was just a down payment and it is now time to go even further and pass the final and more complete, clean disaster aid bill. We are trusting Congress to act accordingly on January 15th and pass the final $51 billion instrumental for long-term rebuilding in order for New Jersey, New York and our people to recover after the severe devastation of Hurricane Sandy."
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Jeurys Familia makes his 27th start of the season tonight as the Buffalo Bisons end their seasons series with the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees at Coca-Cola Field. The 27th start is the most by a pitcher in the International League this season. Familia is 8-8 with a 4.65 ERA. His 112 strikeouts are tied for seventh most by a Bison pitcher in the Modern Era along with Matt Harvey (2012) and Dorn Taylor (1990).
John Maine gets the start for Scranton. He has a 1-2 career record against the Bisons with a 6.10 ERA, including the 2004 season when he pitched with Ottawa.
The Bisons are looking to end a five-game losing skid while Scranton is on a season-best eight-game win streak and on top of the IL North Division standings.
In roster moves today, righty Drew Carpenter was promoted to the Herd from Double-A Binghamton while righty Armando Rodriguez was transferred back to the B-Mets.
Carpenter was signed as a minor league free agent by the New York Mets on Aug. 10. In five gaves with Binghamton he recorded three saves giving up just four hits with 10 strikeouts in five innings of work.
Rodriguez made his Triple-A debut with the Herd on Thursday, throwing 4 1/3 innings giving up one run in a no-decision.
Tonight's lineups:
Chris Dickerson -- LF
Corban Joseph -- 2B
Eduardo Nunez -- SS
Ronnier Mustelier -- DH
Brandon Laird -- 3B
Francisco Cervelli -- C
Melky Mesa -- CF
Kosuke Fukudome -- 1B
Darnell McDonald -- RF
Fred Lewis -- RF
Josh Satin -- 2B
Lucas Duda -- LF
Valentino Pascucci -- DH
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Adam Loewen -- 1B
Josh Rodriguez -- SS
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President Barack Obama will visit Minneapolis on Monday to meet with local officials about gun violence, less than two months after the December that claimed the lives of 20 children and six school staffers.
The day trip will be the president's first one outside Washington to discuss his "common-sense" plan to combat gun violence, introduced on January 16 and reiterated a few days later in his weekly video address to the nation (see above). The visit follows his promises to heavily involve communities in tackling this issue.
"Everything we do combines both a legislative strategy with a broad-based communications and outreach strategy to get people engaged and involved, so that it's not Washington over here and the rest of America over there," Obama told New Republic editors in a recent interview.
The choice of Minneapolis for his first visit is deliberate. The city has more gun control measures than most American cities. Local authorities have spent years creating and refining a youth violence initiative and fine-tuned version of Minnesota's background check for gun buyers.
Related: Hennepin County Sheriff Meets With President Obama
Minneapolis was also the scene to a mass shooting last September, when a man went on a shooting spree with a semiautomatic rifle, killing six former co-workers after he was fired. The man had 10,000 rounds of ammunition.
Last week, Mayor R.T. Rybak announced that he and 60 other mayors across the U.S. were examining gun manufacturers that they hire to arm police, to determine whether they are helping or hurting "common sense" gun control.
"Minneapolis is a city that has taken important steps to reduce gun violence and foster a conversation in the community about what further action is needed," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney explained during a media briefing last Friday. Minneapolis Chief of Police Janee Harteau and Sheriff Richard Stanek were involved in drafting the White House plan.
In January, the president called for an extension of the Minneapolis measures to be implemented nationwide: universal background checks, school safety and mental health programs, and a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. But he faces an uphill battle in a Republican-dominated Congress that views the legislation as an attack against the second amendment.
Last month, Republican Missouri Senator Brian Nieves wrote about his severe distrust for federal government regulation, arguing that "increased gun control only empowers government and criminals...Gun control laws only disarm the innocent and weaken those who follow the law."
In an effort to curb the anti-gun rhetoric being attributed to him, the White House released a photo last Saturday of Obama wielding a smoking rifle, which they say was taken while skeet shooting at Camp David on the president's birthday last August.
"Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas," Obama told The New Republic, adding that "advocates of gun control have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes."
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Washington -- Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., today unveiled an education proposal that works to provide at least one year of pre-kindergarten to children in Pennsylvania and across the nation.
Since 2007, Casey has made access to pre-K education one of his top priorities. In each Congress, HE has introduced initiatives to advance the goal of universal pre-K and has advocated for increased investment in early learning.
"One of the most important steps we can take for our economy and our children is to invest in early education," Casey said. "Having at least one year of pre-K will better prepare our children in an increasingly competitive global economy. Every child deserves a chance to develop their talents, and a year of pre-K is essential to doing that."
During the State of the Union address, President Obama called for an early learning initiative. Casey's plan would create a partnership between the states and federal government on pre-K education for children.
Children who attend high-quality preschool are more successful in school, more likely to graduate from high school, and more likely to become productive adults who contribute to the U.S. economy. Moreover, research shows that every dollar invested in high-quality pre-kindergarten can save as much as $7 in other costs, including crime, welfare and remedial and special education.
The Prepare All Kids Act will:
- Provide at least one year of voluntary pre-kindergarten, with a focus on children from low-income families and children with special needs.
- Require pre-kindergarten programs to use a research-based curriculum that supports children's cognitive, social, emotional and physical development and individual learning styles.
- Limit classroom size to a maximum of 20 children and children-to-teacher ratios to no more than 10 to 1.
- Ensure high-quality teaching by requiring that pre-kindergarten teachers have baccalaureate degrees (within six years), with support for teacher educational development.
- Provide funding for much-needed programs serving infants and toddlers, ages birth through three.
- Provide specific funding that states can use to expand programs to full-day and year-round.
- Support and reinforce the importance of other early childhood programs such as Head Start and child care programs by maintaining existing funding levels for those programs.
- Ensure continued pre-kindergarten program quality by requiring states to develop and enforce a monitoring plan.
- Encourage parental involvement in programs and assist families in getting the supportive services they may need.


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It is very sturdy and great quality. I really think the size is perfect and adds a nice touch to presenting your message. The shipping was fast and the stand was exactly how it looks. It was also very easy to put together too.
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This is exactly what I needed for my office to do some of my reading while standing. Much of my work is reading, and I sit way too much. This lectern is small. light weight, and even matches my office furniture. I could not be happier.
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CBZ, the MP3 of Comics
Digital music and, more recently, digital video and digital books, have changed the way we consume media. Comic books are no different, and with the advent of tablet computers, digital comics are becoming more and more popular. If you don't have a tablet computer, however, viewing CBR (or their zip compressed counterpart, CBZ) files is as simple as installing a CBR reader and downloading your favorite comic.
Many comic book readers are available for Linux. A quick Google search will turn up programs like Comix, ComicMaster and Comical, all of which display digital comics quite well. Another search likely will turn up some free comic resources, like the one shown here: Cory Doctorow's Futuristic Takes of the Here and Now. If you miss the comic books of your youth, or if you still enjoy them on a regular basis, you owe it to yourself to check out CBR/CBZ files.
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DRM free, Linux made comic books in cbz
This is a topic close to my heart. I write "Road-Sign Hank and the Aliens" which is released (commercially) in DRM-free CBZ format. And has been quite successful. CBZ is, absolutely, a viable format for commercial distribution of comic books.
In fact, the art for the comic is built in Linux using Inkscape.
Books for real
I can say that i am a geek, but i can't stand ready on a computer screen. Nothing can replace a real paper book, it's an elegant object and i luv to own it, so, on one side, all my music library stands as mp3's, on the other side, i only own books, no cbz or so
Unless cbr and cbz has some
Unless cbr and cbz has some DRM feature, I see no reason why anyone should choose cbr or cbz. From my experience, all comic readers seem to be able to read regular rar and zip files, and seen no advantage with cbz or cbr.
That's because a CBZ *is* a
That's because a CBZ *is* a ZIP file, and a CBR *is* a RAR file. The extension is changed simply to identify the file as being intended for use with comic book reader software.
What's wrong with PDF?
I hate all these formats!!!
I use the GNOME document
I use the GNOME document viewer Evince for reading comics (CBR, CBZ, CBZ and CB7 files)
The other format
Don't forget CBT (comic book TAR).
No, it's not well known outside of linux-land, but some viewers do support it.
Yes, that TAR (tape archive) . . .
"viewing CBR (or their compressed version, CBZ)"
Both are compressed...
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I could lie and say it was a typo, but no, it was an error on my part. Fixed, and thank you. :)
Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter
Where to find legal cbr/cbz comics?
The 2 majors seem to want to go with a DRM product.
From what I've seen, the CBR/CBZ readers are easier to use and on more platforms.
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Key play: West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith hit receiver Stedman Bailey for a 45-yard gain on the first play from scrimmage, a sign of things to come.
Key stat: Smith completed six of his first seven passes for 145 yards.
Second quarter
Key play: Smith threw an 8-yard touchdown to Bailey that gave West Virginia a 21-0 lead and kickstarted the rout.
Key stat: At halftime, KU had fewer completions (three) than West Virginia had touchdowns (five).
Third quarter
Key play: West Virginia poured it on with a 1-yard touchdown run from Tavon Austin that made the score 52-7 with 1:31 left.
Key stat: Bailey had 10 catches for 158 yards after three quarters.
Fourth quarter
Key play: West Virginia's Dustin Garrison finished off the blowout with a 26-yard touchdown run.
Key stat: West Virginia finished with 647 yards of total offense, the fourth straight game a KU opponent has surpassed 500 yards.
Report card
Offense: D. James Sims hit the 1,000-yard milestone, but KU once again struggled to score against a sub-par defense. The passing game must improve.
Defense: F. What happened to the progress? Smith exposed KU's secondary, and the Jayhawks looked like one of the worst units in the country for the second straight game.
Special teams: B. Give credit to kicker Nick Prolago. He came on midseason and gave the Jayhawks a chance to convert short field goals. He made one from 32 yards on Saturday.
Coaching: D. Charlie Weis' next challenge is on the recruiting trail. Still, it's alarming KU wasn't able to equal its two victories from last season.
Player of the game
Smith finished 23 for 24 for 407 yards, tying the NCAA record for completion percentage (95.8 percent). He also set a West Virginia record with 21 straight completions.
Reason to hope
Kansas should be favored in its next game. But the Jayhawks will have to wait until Sept. 7, 2013 to play South Dakota.
Reason to mope
Pick a number. Twenty-one straight Big 12 losses. No road victories in three seasons. Zero victories against BCS-level teams.
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Barrie Arliss said Groupon sells gift certificates with clearly visible expiration dates, even though state law prohibits expiration dates on certificates.
In the class action complaint, Arliss also said the company put other illegal restrictions on the gift certificates it sells as Groupons.
Arliss said Groupon deceives customers into forgoing refunds when customers are entitled to them.
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A content management system is a centralized repository for your content. A Web site is a composite of decentralized fragments that are assembled on the edge, in just-in-time fashion as the content is being delivered to users. If it's not a Web site, what does a CMS do?
First and foremost, the job of a CMS is (not surprisingly) to manage your content. It keeps content in raw form, separate from the presentation layer in which it eventually should appear. A CMS also allows you to deliver content in multiple formats, such as JSON, RSS and Atom feeds. Many legacy and proprietary content management systems rely on creating static HTML output to use for a Web site, but most newer or open-source content management systems are developed in a way that they can be queried directly and return Web-friendly markup.
As is often the case with PHP content management systems, such as Drupal and WordPress, the CMS can output content via a Web server. This leads to the perception that the CMS is, in fact, the Web site. In the case of small Web sites, the difference is negligible and not worth discussing. However, for larger Web sites (and most certainly for enterprise sites), the difference becomes unavoidable. A CMS like Drupal is installed in a Web server's docroot, and content is requested just like any other Web page. A good CMS will handle things like granting users access to content, content administration, theming and even accepting user-submitted content, such as comments and blog posts. Apache accepts a GET request and passes that on to Drupal, which then interprets it using a variety of menu callbacks to determine which content is desired. It's smart enough to check user access controls first to determine whether the requested content is allowed, and then decides to deliver it. The theme engine within the CMS renders HTML around the content and returns an HTML document back to Apache for delivery to the end user.
So What Is a Web Site?
Broadly speaking, a Web site is a collection of HTML documents that interlink to other pages that let users easily load related documents. But in its more abstract form, and in the form most people expect from a Web site, it is the location on the Internet that users interact with using a Web browser. What the user actually interfaces with could be static HTML files, HTML generated via PHP, page updates using AJAX and JSON data, or even Flash or Java plugins fetching content from a Web service.
In the end, a Web site is that huge abstract thing users see and interact with when they put your URL in their browsers and something comes back. While clicking around your Web site, looking for the information they're after, end users have little to no concern about HTML or your CMS; they care only that the content is delivered in a seamless fashion.
Although the content itself makes up the majority of the Web site, there also are ancillary components that go along with serving that content. This necessarily includes the Web server, content distributed networks (CDNs), front-end cache systems and even Web browser support. All of these things may change what users see after the content has left the content management system.
It helps to think of your Web site as being composed of several categories, or buckets. Your content management system is, indeed, a bucket unto itself. You also should have buckets for caching (Varnish, CDNs and Memcache). Additionally, you may have another bucket for hosted integrations, such as Facebook and other social network plugins, comment systems and statistical analytics. There even may be buckets for mobile apps. Every time visitors view a page from your Web site, they are pulling from each one of these categories.
However, as far as the Web server is concerned, the "end user" in question may not actually be the person sitting at the Web browser. The requester may be a load balancer that manages requests to multiple Web servers that serve the same content. The load balancer then in turn returns its version of the document to a front-end cache like Varnish or a CDN. Varnish reads the content and decides that additional holes need to be filled and fetches more content.
Why Should My Web Site Be Decentralized?
Content management systems written in templating languages tend to be very fast to develop and are quick to update with new content, but they have performance concerns as a result of their tendency toward frequent dynamic page generation. For small amounts of traffic, internal caching is usually sufficient. Even serving static content, Web servers can scale only so far, as they have very defined hardware limitations--the amount of available RAM divided by the amount of memory allocated to a thread (like with PHP's memory_limit value) determines the maximum number of simultaneous users that can access the server. Adding multiple Web servers behind a load balancer, enabling front-end cache and using a CDN will improve the scalability of the Web site significantly.
Adding more buckets increases Web site capacity. Adding more buckets also changes the results of the request from the CMS into what is ultimately delivered as the Web site. This is where edge computing becomes an integral part of your Web site. To improve performance even more, it may become necessary to move some components, such as user registration and commenting systems, out of the content management system entirely, and place these things in some of your other buckets. For instance, a common approach is to have the CMS serve user-agnostic content with placeholders for the "Welcome so-and-so" messages. These placeholders can be edge-side includes (ESIs) that then are replaced by user-facing cache systems. Varnish and most CDNs support ESI by default. ESI fragments literally can live anywhere else on the Web, such that it's no longer a requirement for the CMS to manage user registration, much less even be aware of it.
Edge-side includes (for example,
<esi:include src="http://example.com/fragment.html" onerror="continue"/>) are very similar to server-side includes (SSIs) when dealing with static HTML files served by Apache. ESI is a standard of edge-side computing and caching systems. This makes it possible to manage content in your primary CMS, manage users and user-generated content in a secondary system, and include other outlying content from tertiary systems. With this approach, your Web site actually may consist of several disparate content management systems assembled on the edge prior to delivery to end users.
Software as a Service (SaaS) is another bucket that sometimes makes up a Web site. Using on-demand functionality like SaaS, you easily can handle decentralized elements, such as user comments or breaking-news alerts. In this case, AJAX makes additional requests to your service and interprets the JSON response (because why must a CMS deliver just HTML?), and jQuery renders the results into the existing page. With SaaS, it is ultimately the browser that adds the finishing touches to the conglomeration that is your Web site.
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Is a CMS a website? Yes I
Is a CMS a website? Yes I believe the definition of a website is just an amount of data accessible via an external ip to the public. I do not think that we could call a website a "website" if it was accessible internally, am I wrong on that?
As Cuisine Thai says, it would be a great idea to have a battle between Drupal and Wordpress. I personally prefer wordpress because of the huge amount of plugins and themes available on the net.
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"Teaching certain clients how to use a CMS is a little like teaching a dog how to use a vacuum cleaner. No offense, but it's a petrifying task for all. So hurray, you guys just made our web studio's life so much easier!
concrete5 is revolutionary in simplicity. Our clients are impressed, less scared, and a whole lot more independent which means we can concentrate on design and programming instead of wasting a ton of precious time training them. Awesomeness!"
Thanks for the information. I
Thanks for the information. I learned a lot just by reading your posts. Keep it up!
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I'm doing some investigation on the similar subject. This was of actual support.
We use a CMS system now to
We use a CMS system now to serve up web pages to customers in a secure environment. The next step for us will be to see if we can integrate our ERP system data and serve that up as part of the content delivery. We have a few obstacles to overcome, and are writing an API that should address most of these. I think this will be an awesome resource for our clients once we work out the integration. I'll report back when we get closer to a finished solution.
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One important "bucket" that I didn't note (désolé si qqun deja d
Whilst you did cover the essential concept of different roles being covered by these different "buckets," such as Memcache (most suited ostensibly to database-driven portions of the "web presence") and CDNs (most suited to large-scale distribution of very static content, such as media)--but one intermediary concept that is arguably an important portion of many web presences is the squid caching proxy.
Not only is it useful for load balancing and architecture-masking, but it is perfectly-suited to the intermediary case (critical thinking is so underrated these days...and synthesis even more so...)
Wikipaedia is one notable exemplar that uses squid extensively owing to its content being largely "static" pages, but the content on these pages, unlike video/media content, is apt to change at any time as contributors modify, add to, delete content. squid can sit between webservers and serve content that has not changed, reducing load on the very web server itself, in reverse proxy roles.
Beg to differ
Maybe you aren't familiar with Varnish, but it is essentially a specialised version of Squid (focusing purely on HTTP). So that kind of bucket was actually covered.
agreed been trying to explain
agreed been trying to explain this to people forever.
Ha, very crucial topic
Ha, very crucial topic though! I kinda interested to read that nice input. I have been long since user of linux. I have found content management system really accessible indeed. Thanks!
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"Using on-demand functionality like SaaS, you easily can handle decentralized elements, such as user comments or breaking-news alerts"
Suggesting that anything that requires user data input without the established and tested frame-work like a CMS is irresponsible at best. Like encryption, you are opening a security hole by trying to reinvent the wheel.
Properly invoked CMS' natively protect users from injections, session highjacks, and other things that would take much more effort to protect against in pure server-side scripting system. I'm not saying that PHP can't be hardened, but it is harder to do and therefore easier to skip. Nor am I saying that security blunders can't happen in CMS's. That is why the open source part of the equation is so important. You then get completely non-biased and transparent security reviews by outsiders.
Dave Keays, freelance webmaster
Why isn't it a web site?
Saying a CMS based site isn't a web-site because what is stored on the server isn't what is presented to the user is like saying that only programs written in machine language are programs. I'm sorry but it is another layer of abstraction (6th generation) in an already established chain. It isn't written in pure HTML/Javascript/CSS just like most desktop programs today aren't written in the CPU's OP code or microcode.
Saying it isn't a website because it has limits and is not infinitely scalable is absurd since every component in a Internet system is not completely scaleable. Does cat5e cables have a speed limit? Does the browser on a computing device (desktop computer, mobile device, etc) have a limit even with infinite RAM available?
Also, Drupal is being used in enterprise situations (White House, Sony, Fast Company, etc) which proves the implication that it is not doesn't pan out in the real world.
Dave Keays, freelance webmaster
What is a CMS
I found the article "Your CMS Is Not Your Web Site" very interesting, as it confirmed my thoughts on which Web development tools -aka CMS/Portal solutions to use for the broadest range of my clients' needs and requirements.
After installing and evaluating several Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) CMS over the past three years [Note: I am not a web developer] - including the more popular Apache/PHP/MySQL based CMS, three Jave CMS/portals, three Python based CMS (two with Zope Application server) and even a Ruby-on-Rails product, I determined that Plone CMS/Portal made the best fit for 'scalability' you mentioned in article, plus flexibilty, very good security model and is extremely modular and powerful.
In almost every aspect of your article description of disparate CMS functions, Plone is a good choice and has never disappointed.
The only major drawbacks for many "small website" clients are (a) there is a severe limitation of 'great looking' themes available - bothe Free and for purchase - requiring custom development, and (b) that Plone and Silva - another Python/Zope application - cannot be hosted in a "shared hosted" environment, resulting in increased hosting costs - minimum $30-$35 per/ month and up for VPS or dedicated sever hosting.
I like the explanation you provide.
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cms VS
It would be interesting to get "battles" between various CMS'
like Drupal VS Wordpress
Joomla VS WD ... and so on
As i do develop websites, i usually use Worpress, and focus on it, and i don't have time to check wether other solutions may be good ones. But i would like too be able to do this comparison...
an idea for an article ? ^^
If you feel like trying another CMS, take a little bit of time to have a look at ProcessWire. While being very powerfull, it has a low learning curve. And you will find things that you don't find in Wordpress, like custom fields, and DOM like page handling (yep, just like jQuery selectors)
It's no surprising that LinuxJournal is focusing on Drupal.
Comparing Wordpress and Drupal is now similar to Apples and Oranges. Wordpress is going in a way that Wordpress is the site. Among millions of Wordpress site, it's very easy to find sites that use same theming, slideshows, etc.
Drupal, in other hand, very difficult to get up but fina product is unique. it's unlikely that someone will go Drupal to host a simple blog (although I've done) with Drupal. So it's now making a framework. Not the web site itself.
However, your writing on "So What Is a Web Site?" is something related to Wordpress.
Web is not a collection of content anymore. Sometimes it's a presentation of content, but we should't forget services that has no specific content to deliver but a service -- like pagerankandalexa.com which is a pretty cool and useful Drupal site.
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This week Pakistan marked its day of independence from British rule with parades, parties, face painting and bombs. Two pictures of faces covered in colour, one paint, the other blood, seems to sum up all there needs to be said about the national pride Pakistan feels while facing so many challenges. Visually the complementary colours of green and red (colours on opposite sides of the colour spectrum) make the pictures jump out of the page especially when put side by side. The angry eye staring out of the face of green in Mohsin Raza's picture engages the viewer full on while in Amir Hussain's picture the man seems oblivious of his wound as blood covers his face, again more opposites, this time not in colour but mood. India too is preparing to celebrate its independence and Dehli-based photographer Parivartan Sharma's picture of festival preparations came to mind after I put together the red-and-green combination picture from Pakistan.
(top left) A man, with his face painted depicting the colours of the Pakistan national flag, attends a ceremony to mark the country's Independence Day at the Wagah border crossing with India on the outskirts of Lahore August 14, 2011. Pakistan gained independence from British rule in 1947. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
A man, his face bloodied by a head injury, is held by a resident as he waits to be evacuated from the site of a bomb blast in Dara Allah Yar, located in the Jaffarabad district of Pakistan's Balochistan province, August 14, 2011. A bomb ripped through the two-story building in Pakistan's restive southwest on Sunday, killing at least 11 people and wounding nearly 20, police said. REUTERS/Amir Hussain
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When George Saunders had a book signing for Tenth of December he had some choice advice for those who have tried to emulate their idols and failed (much as he found himself with Ernest Hemingway).
"You go up the mountain of your idol," he explained, "but when you get to the top, you realize they're already there, and that mountain is never going to belong to you. So, you go do your own thing and it's more of a shit-pile than a mountain at first, but it's yours. It's your shit pile. And that's not nothing."
Saunders followed this up by encouraging us to think about our "natural modes" in order to infuse our writing with our own unique energy. For example, think about how you are when you're hanging out drinking in a bar with your friends. Are you a naturally funny person? Then maybe it would be easier for you to write something humorous rather than trying to force yourself to pen some verbose, elitist, nihilistic manifesto because you think that's more 'legitimate' for some reason. "You can't run from who you are," Saunders said. "Not your brain, not your inclinations, or your experience. So accept your shit – run toward it, use it."
On photographer Chase Jarvis' blog we get a look at how to best schedule our days in order to utilize what Tony Schwartz calls "strategic renewal." It's the concept of participating in short activities throughout the day in order to energize us both physically and mentally:
The theory boils down to the fact that we can't increase the hours in the day, but we can increase the energy with which we make the most of those hours. Taking short, scheduled breaks throughout the day rejuvenates and restores us physically and mentally, helping us plow through those assignments and to-do lists in a third of the time.
Inspired by Schwarz and the studies he cited, I created a Daily Schedule that broke up my day into 90-minute Work Blocks, separated by 30 minute Breaks and, in the middle of my day, a 2-hour lunch. I know some of you just spit your coffee out. But you read that right.
While your Daily Schedule blocks may be different from what is set in the article, the concept remains the same: break your day into 90 minute blocks (which research has shown is the ideal length of time for any focused activity), then sprinkle in a few short chunks of restorative activities. Activities can include everything from walking, working out, a short nap, or anything that gets you away from the work for a short while.
For more information on how to schedule your ideal day to achieve strategic renewal, read the full write-up on the concept over on Chase Jarvis' blog.
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Work conflicts are inevitable regardless of the size of the team. At your office, perhaps the marketers and developers can't agree on a launch date. Or as a freelancer, perhaps an irate client is strong-arming you into another round of design revisions. But before we try to deal with a conflict, Mark Gerzon, the author of Leading Through Conflict: How Successful Leaders Transform Differences Into Opportunities, asks us to stop and consider the following question:
Is the conflict hot or cold?
Hot conflict is when one or more parties are highly emotional and doing one or more of the following: speaking loudly or shouting; being physically aggressive, wild or threatening; using language that is incendiary; appearing out of control and potentially explosive.
Cold conflict is when one or more parties seem to be suppressing emotions, or actually appear "unemotional," and are doing one or more of the following: muttering under their breath or pursing their lips; being physically withdrawn or controlled; turning away or otherwise deflecting contact; remaining silent or speaking in a tone that is passively aggressive; appearing shut down or somehow frozen.
Gauging the temperature of the conflict allows us to deal with the particular situation's needs. Gerzon suggests that cold conflicts need to be warmed up and that hot conflicts need to be cooled down:
If the conflict is hot: You don't want to bring participants in a hot conflict together in the same room without settings ground rules that are strong enough to contain the potentially explosive energy. For example, if you are dealing with a conflict between two board members who have already attacked each other verbally, you would set clear ground rules — and obtain agreement to them — at the outset of your board meeting before anyone has a chance to speak.
If the conflict is cold: You can usually go ahead and bring the participants or stakeholders in the conflict together, engaging them in constructive communication. That dialogue, if properly facilitated, should "warm up" the conflict enough so that it can begin to thaw out and start the process of transformation. But you will still need to be vigilant and prepared. Conflict is often cold precisely because so much feeling is being repressed. So you need to skillfully know how to warm it up without the temperature unexpectedly skyrocketing.
As our teams grow, so do the opportunities for conflict. "Conflict resolution, like cooking, works best at the optimal temperatures," Gerzon says. "You want to bring conflict into a temperature zone where it can become useful and productive."
For an innovative company like 3M, who invented masking tape, Thinsulate, and the Post-it note, stifling creativity was a major concern after a series of "efficiency boosting" techniques were implemented. On BusinessWeek, Brian Hindo discusses how they've struggled since with balancing creativity and productivity. As 3M's past CEO George Buckley elaborates:
Invention is by its very nature a disorderly process. You can't put a Six Sigma process into that area and say, well, I'm getting behind on invention, so I'm going to schedule myself for three good ideas on Wednesday and two on Friday. That's not how creativity works.
Ideas need room to breathe. Researcher Steven Boyd found innovation hard to find when asked to analyze everything from commercial application to manufacturing concerns on his projects. This was a huge departure from 3M's traditional method of allowing the research department to pursue a wide avenue of topics, engage in long testing periods and provide funding for personal projects. Remember to standardize your process, not your innovation.
Instead of just going through the motions on your next project, look for the hidden opportunities you already have. On The Creative Influence, graphic designer Michael Bierut challenges us to look for opportunities in even the most dull assignments. He speaks about his mentor, designer Massimo Vignelli, when he was asked to sort through the chaos of the New York subway signage during the 1960s. He remembers thinking:
Does that sound like an exciting job to you? I wanted to design record covers for rock bands and this is signs for the subway, what the heck? But Massimo understood that every assignment like that had within it the opportunity to do something of consequence. So imagine that, for many people when you sort of say, "what is New York to you?" Sometimes what they picture is standing on a subway platform under a sign that says 'Uptown 456.'
As Bierut learned, "every single opportunity has the potential to be something that might have some impact on peoples' daily lives for years to come."
At Entrepreneur, social behavior expert James Clear states that in any creative endeavor you have to give yourself permission to "create junk." Don't fall under the impression that great minds are able to produce compelling work on their first attempt. As Steven Pressfield, author of The Legend of Bagger Vance, affirms:
It was ten years before I got the first check for something I had written and ten more before a novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance, was actually published. But that moment when I first hit the keys to spell out THE END was so epochal. I remember rolling the last page out and adding it to the stack that was the finished manuscript. Nobody knew I was done. Nobody cared. But I knew. I felt like a dragon I'd been fighting all my life had just dropped dead at my feet and gasped out its last sulfuric breath.
The catch? You have to finish it. Even if it is the worst thing you have ever created – get it done. Once you have a finished product, you can go back and find what needs revising. Producing something to completion will provide you with the confidence to continue creating — and eventually, something just might stick.
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey delivered a powerful commencement address at Maharishi University on having the courage to make the leap:
So many of us chose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect so we never dare to ask the universe for it. I'm saying: I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it.
My father could have been a great comedian but he didn't believe that was possible for him. So he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job and our family had to do whatever we could to survive.
I learned many great lessons from my father. Not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.


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Ominous wrote:Would it help if, instead of using the terms 'objective' / 'subjective', we use 'unbiased' / 'biased', or will you assert that all knowledge is also biased by definition?
No, because that's not what I'm arguing. I agree that a moral system can theoretically be unbiased. You have no argument there. My issue is with the statement that moral rightness and wrongness are objective values.
Good, now we're on a point of agreement, and hopefully a conversation can continue. From this point forward, let us acknowledge that, when some say 'objective' vs. 'subjective', they really mean 'unbiased' vs. 'biased'.
Let us also define 'right/good' to simple mean 'having a positive value in an unbiased system', and 'wrong/evil' to mean having a negative value in an unbiased system.
Now that we're all on the same page, let's ruminate a bit more about what would be the positives in an unbiased system.
We're dealing with a species, so actions that advance or protect the species as a whole would, I presume, be 'good'. Actions that are detrimental to the species would be 'bad'.
By this definition, experimentation on unwilling test subjects would, on the surface, have to be considered 'good', since the sacrifice of individuals to increase the knowledge and welfare of the whole would be a positive. However, when we factor in the practical backlash of the majority of the population, fearing that they may be the subject of such experiments, forcing an end to any such experimentation, the net result is negative. This conclusion can be reached without resort to requiring additional elements; whether you believe a particular individual's life to be inherently valuable or valueless, the same conclusion is reached.
Unbiased morality can, I believe, be achieved by weighing a limited set of criteria and determining the action's impact based on our understanding of human nature and human reactions.


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A Blanchard woman's car was found in Tuttle before she knew it was missing last week, when two alleged thives crashed the vehicle in a ditch.
Tuttle police spoke with Blanchard resident Ashley Bassham who told them she came home from church at 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, and as far as she new her car was in her driveway.
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Warner said he stopped to help anyone involved in the accident when he saw two white males leaving the scene. Warner said he asked if they needed assistance and the men responded, "get the f**k out of here."
Warner said he left the scene and called the police.
The vehicle turned out to be Bassham's.
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According to Anna, all God's creatures have their troubles, and we have to agree with our Pollyanna. They certainly do – that's all part of the fun!…
Goin' to the Chapel of Love: On Second Thought…
Former tractor driver Lady Edith is excited to be finally getting her Cinderella moment: A moment when everything isn't all about Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. But this is Edith we're talking about here so we're just waiting for the anvil to drop out of the sky. But before it does, we get this touching moment between sisters, 'I know we haven't always got along…' — We haven't always got along? Excuse me, sorry to interrupt, but the Turkish Ambassador is on line two wanting to talk about the understatement of the year! Ironic that of the two sisters, Edith had the best wedding dress. Even though she didn't go to Patou like Granny wanted, it was stunning and stylish – as opposed to Mary's wedding dress, which was kind-of sack-like. But in the end it didn't matter. As Sir Anthony faces the guillotine, the sisters take too long to get their picture taken – giving the groom too much time to rethink. Let that be a lesson to you brides out there! And there goes the runaway groom (if Robert and Violet had seen he could move that fast, they might have rethought that whole infirmed argument) and everything dissolves into tears. THIS is the reason why we didn't see the actual wedding ceremony between Matthew and Mary. Don't let the posh accents and great production values fool you: Downton Abbey is, and has always been, a soap. A lush, well written, gorgeously filmed and acted soap, but a soap all the same. And what is the first rule of a soap? Whenever there is a wedding ceremony, something always goes wrong. The second rule of a soap? Anytime someone says how happy they are, something always goes wrong. Of course, after this public trauma, we've got to allow Edith her self-pitying moments, but when she says to Anna, 'get me a different life', one sees the limitations in her thinking. It's the same limitation they all (but Sybil) have. She doesn't get that, despite the heartbreak, her life is still worlds better than that of the person picking up after her. Edith is now resigned to her life as a spinster (and ladies, aren't we glad that word has been retired from the lexicon?). When Isobel says they could help Edith by finding her something to do, you could see by Mary's face it had sunk in. Maybe she'll fire Anna and hire Edith to be her Ladies Maid. You know it's crossed her mind. But hey, she'll bounce back. I'll bet that by next week Edith will be talking about her new gentleman caller, George Glass.
Miss O'Brien if You're Nasty: Be Careful What You Wish For
Poor Molesley; he is truly the male, downstairs version of Lady Edith. Nothing he ever does comes right. Since we have known him, all he's ever wanted is to work in the Big House, not realizing all the plots and traps and politics within its pretty walls. He thought that dodging the draft meant he was safe; little did he know that his long dreamt of ambition would be more treacherous than facing the Huns, and now he is unwittingly caught in the War of the Roses. Turns out it's a good thing he didn't get sent to the front because all it took was one withering stare from O'Brien for him to dissolve into a withering heap. We still don't know why Thomas and O'Brien have turned on each other so viciously, but Thomas seems to be getting ahead of himself. He forgets that O'Brien was always the brains of their little operation. When he had to come up with ideas on his own, the best he could do was getting himself shot and being scammed out of his life savings. Could he have seriously thought that starting a rumor about O'Brien leaving would work (and the source not get back to her?). But it was that dig at O'Brien, at the dinner table, about her 'never being asked', that drew blood. And for a second we actually saw some humanity beneath O'Brien's cartoon bitterness. True, she's been doing less moustache twirling now that she's got some family nearby, but this is (maybe) the first we've seen of her that made us wonder about how she turned out this way. When Lord Grantham said he'd have 'mixed feelings' about O'Brien leaving, Mary said she wouldn't, which leaves us to wonder how much has Mary heard from Anna? We know that Mary confides in Anna but can Anna confide in Mary? Has Anna told her about what's gone on with O'Brien and Thomas? And does Anna know more about O'Brien than we know she knows? One wonders. In any event, it didn't take too long for O'Brien to flip the table back with an ominous remark, and now it's Thomas' turn to dissolve into a withering heap. This ain't over.
I Am My Beloved's and My Beloved Is Mine: Carson the Crooner
It's getting all Remains of the Day up in here. Just as we suspected, Carson is sweet on Mrs. Hughes – and forget what I said about Lord Grantham and Carson being the cutest couple on TV – if this goes further it will be these two. The unveiling of the deeper feelings between Carson and Mrs. Hughes (that we always suspected were there) is one of the things that British Telly does so well – and American commercial TV ignores. In the UK, it's not the rarity it is here to have a romantic relationship between two older characters that takes center stage – a relationship that is real and breathes, and isn't just a punch line. This relationship has been on slow simmer for ages. We get the best look at their feelings yet when Carson hears that his beloved got a clean bill of health, he sings, 'Dashing away the smoothing iron she stole my heart away…' (a 19th Century English folk song about a man who beholds his darling while she's doing laundry), and standing in the hallway she looks like she's about to cry happy tears. Now if we can just get them in a room together expressing this to each other. Will there be another wedding this season? Baby steps…
Working on the Chain Gang: Breaking Worse
So I'm not the only one who finds the cryptic pious thing annoying. It seems like he's made more than one enemy by accident. What were they planting on him and who was in on it? It looked like the guard was, and that's not good. And now we know why Mr. Bates discouraged Anna from talking to Mrs. Bartlett. She was rather nasty, wasn't she? But was what she said true? She said he'd changed but why wouldn't he change after he'd gone to jail for Vera? Did Mrs. Bartlett know that? The timeline she gave sounds bad for Bates. There must be something else we don't know, but what? All we know is, Anna won't give up, and Bates is looking shaken.
Be it Ever So Humble?: Now You're Just Showing Off
Being a true New Yorker I'm obsessed by real estate, so allow me to get this straight: At first, when we heard that Lord Grantham bet the farm and lost on Choo-Choo Charlie's latest venture, we (maybe) felt a little sorry for the family for possibly losing their home. Now we come to find out that in addition to the often referred to house in London, they've also got an economical starter castle up north that poor Lady Mary fears will be a bit cramped (that's Mary all over, isn't it? Just when you start to like her, suddenly you want to give her a slap.). Honey, the Duggars wouldn't be cramped in that thing (and maybe Anna could do something with their hair). And oh yeah, on top of that, Lord Grantham mentions that he still owns 'most of the village'! So somehow I don't think we'll be holding a telethon for the homeless Grantham family anytime soon. But why was there an issue in the first place? Why did Lord Grantham think he had to turn Downton into a time share? Why couldn't he have just sold the castle and the village properties to fund the estate? (I mean, aside from the fact that he's a really bad businessman whose only smart business move was marrying Cora.) Don't you kinda wish that when they were talking about money and fortunes won and lost they mentioned actual numbers once in a while? Yeah, I know it might mess with the fantasy, but still. The only specific numbers we've heard mentioned are Daisy's seven shilling raise (a shilling is about a quarter). A fortune! That's why that little castle is so economical – they'd only need eight servants. Such a deal! They'd have it so much easier than me, living in my NYC apartment – my eight servants would have to sleep stacked up in the closet. So inconvenient. And by the way, Downton Place? Don't you just know that some real estate developer somewhere heard that and is now planning to build a Downton Place, full of cramped little apartments. But if the doorman is named Carson, I'm in!
Going Postal: Deliver De-letter De-sooner De-better
As Edith's wedding approaches, the honeymoon is over for Matthew and Mary as they bicker about the money he won't accept from Reggie Swire. We thought last week was bad when he said, 'I do love you so terribly much' and she just replied, 'I know.' Ouch. But now he accuses her of forgery (while saying he isn't) and she fantasizes about beating him about the head – and he thought his eyes were opened before. I suppose that's what living with your in-laws will do for you. But then again, truly, who is luckier than Matthew? This is the second 'fortune' he has inherited! I swear, whether it is a boy or a girl, they have got to name their first child Yolanda Vega. But he doesn't believe his luck and also doesn't believe that Lavinia wrote to Reggie before she died. The fate of Downton lies in the balance and it all hinges on letters from the great beyond. These Brits are so much more literate than we Yanks are. They don't need the Long Island Medium: Their dead people write letters! Matthew has morals: He only accepts money from people who think poorly of him. Matthew won't accept Reggie's money unless he knows for sure that Reggie knew he was a putz before he made out the will. And now, thanks to Daisy, he does! Daisy saves the day! Again! I hope they toss her a few more shillings for this.
Dowager Countessdown
5. "At my age one must ration one's excitement."
4. "Vulgarity is no substitute for wit."
3. "No bride wants to look tired at her wedding. It either means she's anxious or up to no good."
2. "If the poor don't want it, you can bring it over to me."
1. "Aren't you a wild thing!"
BTW, how did you Downtonians do on your homework assignment (to use the word Hobbledehoy)? I have to admit I didn't get around to it. But I did do something jolly with my hair and that's got to count for something, doesn't it?
Downton Dish is written by Deborah Gilbert, a British television maven and editor of the E20 Chronicles, a free, weekly Eastenders e-newsletter, and an Eastenders column in the Union Jack Newspaper.
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I think the Dowager got rid of Edith's betrothed rather nicely.
On Sir Anthony–I thought that sitting in the church, awaiting his bride, he had overheard the Dowager Countess and (was it Robert?) discussing Edith's bleak future as a caregiver and wheelchair-pusher. The shot was of Anthony in the foreground, and the two Granthams across the aisle, the dialogue at foreground volume. Or was the dialogue just meant to be the narrative for what was going on in Anthony's mind?
It was ambiguous enough to create this question, but the change from happiness to pain on Anthony's face was so abrupt that I felt he had overheard. Everyone else was happy and smiling except the two who had the dialogue, so it was an unexpected development.
Your observation about Lord Grantham selling the rest of the real estate to achieve some level of liquidity is not something I had thought of. Interesting question. Perhaps owning most of the county was a throwback to Lord of the manor position which would somehow be lost.
But I found Matthew's position self-indulgent and selfish. After all, he didn't mind being the inheritor of, as Cora's mother said, her 'late husband's fortune' when we moderns would see the daughters as the natural heirs. Mary's position that he was entering the bosom of her family with less than full commitment was a sympathetic one. But what a wonderful resolution, with Lord Grantham showing his best side.
OMG! Yolanda Vega! Too funny, really, Deborah!
I think its for the best that Edith didn't marry him. Something else will be there for her. She was too desperate just to "be married". The timing at the alter was awful but in the long run, grandma was right.
Yes, there are so many more possibilities for Edith unmarried. But maybe she'll have bad luck after bad luck and then i the last episode of the last season she'll marry into the Royal Family.
Hi Deborah,
As ever, wittingly and brilliantly written! I look forward to your "dish' almost as much as i do the continuation of the saga! Always spot on and with your tongue almost always planted firmly in your cheek. I get several good chuckles from your commentary.
I also agree, completely, about your observations re Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes. Thought the same thing from the start. Being a hopeless romantic, I'm rooting for them!!
Continued success,
@Al: Thanks! I'm rooting for them too!
You're right, I was waiting for someone to say that – Edith's wedding gown was much nicer and Mary's did look like a sack!
After last night's episode……… will Bates ever leave jail alive?
Will Edith become a bitter spinster and forever hate those in the family who drove Anthony away?
Or will they secretly elope and leave the dastardly crew? They never liked her
anyway and she wouldn't need their money. Oh, I forgot, the family has no money!!
Totally agree about Yolanda Vega, not that anybody outside NYC will get it; not sure I agree Carson is sweet on Mrs. Hughes. It could be just loving relief.
Hi Deborah,
Your blog is so brilliantly witty! I can't wait for each new post!
Wondering what the devil was the the thing that was planted under Bates's mattress?
It looked like a twig that a cat had been gnawing on. Because the searcher actually smelled the bedding (eeyoo!) my first thought was that it was pot… I suppose it will be revealed to us later…
BTW I Googled Yolanda Vega and had good laugh over that!
Will Shirley MacLaine and her maid make another appearance? Lots of hype for just one visit!
Well done, Deborah!
Thanks! I wondered what it was as well, but I assumed it was a drug of some sort. And I noticed the sniffing too!
George Glass!!??? Hilarious!! Love me a good Brady Bunch reference!
Poor Edith. She worked so hard for her MRS and to have it snatched away so publicly at the moment of triumph must have been the bitterest pill ever. How will she face the County after this?
Truly. But I bet that farmer's wife giggled when she heard the news.
Chuckling, mightily, I might add at your writings. Pure, pure delightful reading. Thank you for your speculations, insights, etc. Downtown Abbey can go on for years and years if only it could! Love it!
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FCC Could Mess Up Internet With 'Net Neutrality' Rules No One Needs
There's no evidence that service providers are cheating, so why act now?
Barbara Esbin is a senior fellow at the Progress and Freedom Foundation.
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed rules that would shift service and network management decision-making from Internet service providers to regulators in the name of "preserving the open Internet." Yet the FCC hasn't addressed what consumer harms it aims to remedy and whether the costs of imposing this remedy are exceeded by the benefits. Simply put, the case has not been made for regulating America's dynamic Internet sector at this time.
The FCC's proposed rules codify and expand its 2005 Internet policy principles—four aspirational goals intended to preserve "openness" for consumers while giving providers flexibility to manage their networks. Although such principles, as opposed to rules of law, are not legally enforceable, they can and do act as behavioral guides. They were developed with industry and consumer group input and reflect a broad policy consensus that, subject to the needs of reasonable network management, providers should deliver services they have promised; adequately inform subscribers about services purchased; not impede consumer access to or use of lawful content, applications, and devices; and behave in a neutral manner with respect to transmission of online traffic.
Despite its recognition that the policy principles have helped preserve Internet openness, the FCC is now poised to take far more intrusive action. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski states that the rule making addresses "the dangerous combination of an uncertain legal framework with ongoing as well as emerging challenges to a free and open Internet." However, there is no clear mandate from Congress to the FCC to regulate in this area and impose network neutrality or any other mandates on providers. To the contrary, the agency's authorizing statute suggests the opposite conclusion: The Internet should remain unfettered by federal or state regulation.
Second, the evidence marshaled in the FCC's notice of ongoing and emerging Internet challenges is less than compelling. The FCC claims that broadband Internet markets are insufficiently competitive today to protect consumer interests. Yet a 2007 Federal Trade Commission report found no market failure and warned regulators to proceed with caution. The FCC acknowledges that broadband service providers face growing traffic volume demands that must be managed but claims that they have the potential—the opportunity, means, and motive—to act in an anticompetitive fashion when transporting Internet traffic across their networks. FCC detectives point to economic theory suggesting providers have incentives to act in an anticompetitive manner against competing providers of content, applications, or services. What is missing from this crime scene investigation is the body—the actual evidence that providers are behaving anticompetitively or are likely to.
The FCC also cites a handful of instances where service providers have interfered with or blocked Internet traffic or have merely threatened to do so. But what provider would repeatedly risk the wrath of its customers? Routinely infuriating your best customers is not a good business plan. Moreover, we have antitrust laws and enforcement authorities capable of policing actual anticompetitive behavior in the Internet sector as they do for all other sectors of the economy.
The information and technology sector is one relative bright spot on an otherwise gloomy economic horizon. Why is the government suddenly turning its guns on companies actively deploying broadband infrastructure? As Walter Wriston once said, "Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated." Broadband providers invest tens of billions of dollars annually in networks. Although the concept of "neutrality" may sound enticing in academic circles, if such mandates prevent operators from gaining a fair return on their investments, they will, over time, cease investing. This runs contrary to the national effort to deploy broadband Internet more widely at a lower cost.