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The newspapers and airwaves are currently filled with talk of "network neutrality." Technically, it is about traffic – email, web queries, voice and video – and its possible prioritization on the Internet. Should Internet service providers and governments treat all data equally, or can they give preference to some content, sites, applications, users or devices based on defined criteria?
If you believe the pundits, network neutrality is about truth, justice and the unfettered right to watch YouTube videos. In reality, the network neutrality debate is a power and economic struggle between Internet service providers (i.e., mostly cable systems, telephone companies and wireless carriers) and those who provide content and services (e.g., movie and video services, search engines, social networks, web site hosts, email service providers and Internet businesses). Mediated by the U.S. government, the outcome of this battle has profound implications for all of us who consume content and use the Internet for work, recreation and social interaction. It will determine how much we pay for bandwidth, what services are available and how good they are.
To understand the net neutrality power struggle, it's instructive to consider an analogy with roads and traffic. Imagine a world where almost all roads were built, owned and operated by companies, rather than state and local governments. To recoup their construction costs and a profit, the companies charge tolls on all cars and trucks using the roads. To further complicate things, many of those road companies also operate their own fleets of cars and trucks, competing with their customers to deliver some goods and services.
The question is whether the road owners and operators can give priority to certain cars or trucks – their own or those of others -- based on how much the owners are willing to pay, the size of the fleets, and where the traffic goes. Superficially, the answer would seem to be obvious – yes, they should – until you realize that the goods and services on which individuals, businesses and governments all depend are being delivered by those cars and trucks. This conundrum is the balance of private enterprise and the public good.
One need look no further than the history of water companies, electric utilities, radio and television, and telephone companies to see the creative tension between regulation for the common good and stimulating free enterprise and supporting innovation. Many of us remember when the old AT&T (Ma Bell) was a regulated monopoly, with telephone rates and services subject to state and federal approval. The 1982 breakup of AT&T into a long distance company and a set of regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) led to an explosion of wired and wireless services, competition from Sprint and MCI, and much lower long distance rates.
However, those old telephone regulations also supported the public good, ensuring that inexpensive telephone service was available everywhere, whether one lived in an isolated, rural area or a large city. Why? Because the regulations included cross-subsidies to support rural service. For all the excitement about high-speed Internet access, it is not universally available because the revenue in rural areas does not cover the costs of service. (Think about the toll road analogy again. Private sector toll roads are only economically attractive where there is high traffic.)
This brings us back to the network neutrality debate. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing to treat the Internet, both wired and wireless, as a telecommunications service, using the same legal authority it uses to regulate other telecommunications services – radio, television, and telephony. Under the proposed rules, Internet broadband would be treated as a "common carrier," meaning the network must be open for all without discrimination. In addition, the FCC has proposed to refrain (forbear) from enforcing those regulatory provisions not relevant to modern broadband services. Nor would the proposal regulate rates or mandate service.
The political and economic battle is raging over how much regulation would be applied and how those regulations would affect the players. Some argue that any regulation will stifle innovation and private sector investment, and bring us a step closer to big brother rate regulation and tariffs – in the spirit of Ma Bell oversight.
I think that is highly unlikely, as the Internet is filled with competing services and companies. Rather, the network neutrality debate is about balancing innovation, private enterprise and the public good, while ensuring fairness and equal access. Simply put, it is a debate about appropriate checks and balances for a critical service. It should not be a political issue.
Internet access was once a luxury, but no longer. In a 21st century knowledge economy, high-speed Internet services are the roads, waterways and rail lines of trade and commerce. They are the successors to telegraphy and telephony, coupling individuals and families across time and space. They are society's essential services, especially in a state like Iowa, where we are deeply dependent on communication for our future.
We need policies that enable universal access, while also ensuring Internet service providers have the flexibility and freedom to innovate and the economic returns to make that attractive. We also need mechanisms and technologies that support both top down and bottom up network deployment, allowing new market entrants and existing companies to expand coverage.
Remember, network neutrality is not just about streaming high definition movies to your television or mobile device, or buying goods and services via an e-commerce site. It's also about broadband access for education, electronic consultation with a medical specialist to avoid a repeat visit to the hospital during a winter storm, small businesses marketing products globally, and precision agriculture that lets Iowa farmers maximize crop yields. In short, network neutrality is complicated, but it matters to all of us.
Warning: This is a long post, reflecting the complexity and nuance of Internet governance.
Just before the 2012 holidays, the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT), pronounced as "wicket" by the cognoscenti, concluded in Dubai. In the buildup to the WCIT, there was much handwaving and fearmongering, political position jockeying, and backroom negotiations by multinational companies, governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), technology policy wonks and political pundits. There were frequent stories in the trade and policy rags and the mainstream press, including the New York Times. How, you might ask, could such a seemingly obscure conference engender such an international frenzy?
In the spirit of full disclosure, I should reveal that I spent a good portion of the last three years working on this issue, while heading Microsoft's Technology Policy Group. I traveled the world, meeting telecommunications policy leaders, trade associations, companies and senior representatives of international governments, including ones from the United States Departments of State, Commerce and Federal Communications Commission (FCC). With that disclosure, as well as noting that what follows are my personal opinions, a bit of background and history is in order.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), which is a United Nations organization, organizes the WCIT. The ITU began as the International Telegraph Union, which suggests some its origins and history. Originally responsible for coordinating global use of the radio spectrum and, more recently, assisting in international assignment of satellite orbits, the ITU now operates under three units, the ITU-R (radiocommunications), ITU-T (standardization) and ITU-D (development).
As a UN organization, the ITU's members are countries, rather than individuals, companies or NGOs. Despite the one country, one vote governance model, there is multistakeholder participation in some informal aspects of the ITU. I was a frequent visitor to the ITU, and I participated in ITU retreats and CTO roundtables. I know the ITU leadership well.
Because major ITU policies and approaches, including tariffs, are codified as international treaties – the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs) – policy changes are fraught with all the complexities that accompanies any international treaty. Indeed, before the 2012 WCIT, the ITRs were last updated in 1988. The languid pace of treaty change is but one of many challenges posed by the ITRs. It has also brought into question the relevance of the ITU and its policies and approaches. The country voting model and UN culture do not match the freewheeling Internet world.
Looking back twenty four years to the previous WCIT takes one almost to prehistory in Internet time. The TCP/IP protocols were in place, but international networking was largely a research or private network curiosity and dialup modems defined the consumer network experience. The World Wide Web was still a gleam in the eye of Tim Berners-Lee; the Mosaic web browser had not burst on the scene; the dot.com frenzy was yet to come; mobile phones were rare, expensive and bulky; and plummeting international telephony charges due to IP-based audio and video calling were still over the horizon. In short, the telecommunications world of 2012-2013 is radically different from the staid landscape of 1988.
The technological and economic changes wrought by the Internet in those fourteen years are equaled by the social and cultural changes. Geographically and politically separated regions are now digitally interconnected in ways unthinkable just a few years ago. The global flow of information has challenged governments, companies, NGOs and individuals to adapt legal frameworks, regulations, technical operations, social expectations and national security operations. (See Globally Connected, Globally Worried and Information Privacy: Changing Norms and Expectations for a bit of perspective.)
One can parse Internet governance challenges in several ways: technical, legal and economic, social and ethical and national security. Let's begin with the technical issues, which are perhaps the simplest. Operating the global Internet effectively requires de facto adherence to an evolving set of technical standards. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) manages the domain name system (DNS) and IP address blocks on behalf of the international community.
Although not without controversy, ICANN and its sister organization, the Internet Society's Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), have generally been effective in creating a multistakeholder governance model for Internet operations. However, the tizzy over generic top-level domain names (gTLDs) and intellectual property protection has heightened government desires to control ICANN.
Shifting to economics, companies, countries, NGOs and privacy advocates all worry about the transnational flow of data, differing laws and intellectual property protections, jurisdictional constraints and safe harbors. If you are a Kenyan national working for a German company with operations in Brazil, and you travel to India, just whose laws govern you and your company? The answer is murky, but generally all of the above, plus some others.
Nevertheless, Internet service operators must respond to civil and criminal legal requests for data every day. For those subject to multiple legal jurisdictions, it is sometimes impossible to satisfy the laws of countries involved. For those interested and suffering from insomnia, I highly recommend reading the Bank of Nova Scotia case (United States v. Bank of Nova Scotia, 740 F.2d 817 (11th Circuit, 1984).
Mixed with all of these legal and economic issues are elements of international trade, protectionism and economic development. The rise of cloud computing, whose economics have driven massive scale and data consolidation, has exacerbated these concerns about extraterritorial jurisdiction and control worldwide, particularly when U.S. companies dominate cloud computing and many fear the U.S. PATRIOT Act.
Then there are the crucial issues of human rights and free speech. How does one reconcile global communication, which brings differing international norms and expectations for freedom of speech into direct and day-to-day conflict? It is more than an abstract question for millions of Internet users, and one with no simple answers.
One can debate the ethics, human rights records and legitimacy of certain governments, but the sovereignty of nations and their right to establish laws within their territory is an unquestioned aspect of international law. I have seen senior representatives of governments with widely divergent views on freedom of expression all agree that their governments have a critical role to play in Internet governance. Those same representatives differed markedly in their delineation of appropriate governmental roles, their definitions of free speech and its appropriate limitations.
Finally, there are issues of national security, information security and cyberwarfare that are beyond the scope of this essay. In a knowledge economy, information is advantage, and economic or technical disruption via the Internet itself can be a form of low-grade warfare. Likewise, with military capabilities themselves increasingly dependent on smart, network-connected weapons, they are themselves objects of defense and attack.
This interplay of technology, international law, economics and trade, social norms and human rights, and national security is a witch's brew of complexity, with diverse stakeholders and perspectives. Many of them encamped in Dubai at last December's WCIT.
Thus, it is not surprising there was acrimony and controversy, with claims and counterclaims; one could hardly expect otherwise. Central to these debates were concerns, some say unfounded, though others disagree vehemently, that the U.N., via the ITU, might assume greater control of Internet governance, shifting from the multistakeholder model toward greater centralization and government control.Some of this was also tied up in the ITU's own search for new relevance.
What emerged from two weeks of painful negotiations was what can best be described as an uneasy peace. After much debate, 89 of 152 countries signed an amended version of the ITRs. The U.S., Japan, Canada, Germany, India, and the U.K. were not among the signatories, objecting to attempts to curtail multistakeholder governance. In short, it was an ugly mess.
What's next? The global community is strongly divided along ideological lines. Thus, we are likely to see even greater dichotomy in government intervention, more uncertainty in international law, and limits on global information flow. Despite this, I believe the Internet will continue to grow and evolve organically. Too many stakeholders want that to happen, and their voices must be heard.
Thus, I am a strong proponent of the multistakeholder model. I do recognize, though, that governments have an important role to play, just as they do in other domains. This is a messy process, and it will undoubtedly continue that way. Such is the nature of debate.
This year, I again have the honor and privilege to chair the selection committee for the Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach awards. I will also be hosting the presentation ceremony at SC12 in Salt Lake City for these two awards, along with the Ken Kennedy award. (My former colleague at the University of Illinois, Professor David Padua, chaired the Kennedy award selection committee.)
These eponymously named awards recognize truly outstanding contributions to high-performance computing, in honor of three leaders of our field. The Seymour Cray award recognizes individuals whose innovative contributions to high performance computing systems best exemplify the creative spirit demonstrated by Seymour Cray. In turn, the Sidney Fernbach award is given to for outstanding contribution in the application of high-performance computers using innovative approaches. Finally, the Ken Kennedy award recognizes outstanding contributions to programmability or productivity in high-performance computing, together with significant community service or mentoring contributions.
I am delighted that the 2012 Seymour Cray Award will be presented to Peter Kogge, who is currently a professor at the University of Notre Dame. Early in his career, Peter developed parallel algorithms for recurrence solutions and parallel prefix operations, resulting in what is now known as the Kogge-Stone adder, the gold standard for fast addition. While at IBM, he also developed a series of HPC systems for military and space applications, including some that were key elements of the U.S. space shuttle. For many people, that would define a career. However, Peter has also been a pioneer in multicore and multithreaded processor design; he was also one of the creators of what we now call "Processor in Memory" (PIM) computing. Today, he is a leader in exascale initiatives.
I am equally pleased that Professors Laxmikant "Sanjay" Kale and Klaus Schulten, developers of the NAMD biomolecular simulation software, are joint recipients of the 2012 Sidney Fernbach Award. Their collaboration combines the best of computer science and computational science. Utilizing Kale's insights in fine grained parallelism and load balancing, embodied in the CHARM++ library, and Schulten's insights into biophysics, NAMD transformed high-speed molecular dynamics simulations, allowing the motions of large biological systems to be simulated for longer periods of biological time than were previously feasible.
The third of these awards, the Ken Kennedy award, recognizes Professor Mary Lou Soffa for "contributions to compiler technology and software engineering, exemplary service to the profession, and lifelong dedication to mentoring and improving diversity in computing." As the award citation notes, her work spans optimizing compilers and software engineering. Among her many contributions are key insights into quantifying the value of code optimizations within a coherent framework and on register optimization. In addition to seminal contributions to compiler technology, Professor Soffa has also been instrumental in mentoring women in computing and raising awareness of the need for our culture to be more inclusive and supportive.
My thanks to Satoshi Matsuoka for the photographs of the plenary program award presentations.
Over the past year, I have been ruminating the seismic shifts rocking public higher education in the United States. The compact between our society and its public research universities is being renegotiated in ways that are as deep as anything seen in the past forty years. State support continues to decline, accelerated by the economic downturn. In turn, a public backlash is building against rising tuition. There is an increasing need for lifelong learning and skills refresh, and new technologies are challenging historical modes of content delivery.
There are also new expectations for research discoveries to stimulate innovation, coupled with often-unrealistic hopes for short-term economic payoffs from basic research. Amidst all of this, globalization and rapid technology shifts are forcing us to address complex societal issues in new ways. Finally, the nature of scientific discovery itself is in flux, with high-performance computing and big data reshaping research in the physical, biological and social sciences, and even in the arts and humanities.
Late last year I decided it was time to return to academia, taking what I have learned at Microsoft back to the university and laboratory world to help address these challenges. Since that time, I have been working quietly to ensure a smooth transition within Microsoft and working with the leadership of several universities and institutions to define the roles I would take on this fall.
Our personal and professional lives are defined by a series of inflection points – graduation, marriage, career choices – shaped by shifting technology and societal norms. Each of us also faces the age-old question. How and where can each of us most make a difference in addressing the big issues and the complex problems surrounding them? How do we build on our experiences while also challenging ourselves to learn new things?
Before I came to Microsoft in late 2007, for me it was nearly twenty-five years of academic roles at the University of Illinois and the University of North Carolina, first as a computer science professor, then department head, supercomputing center director (NCSA), founder of a multidisciplinary research center (RENCI), and finally as a vice-chancellor. Where and how could I best build on that experience, plus insights gained at Microsoft? Was it technology or policy centric, or some combination of both?
After weighing several university offers, spanning big data, HPC and policy, I am delighted to be returning to the Midwest. In October, I will be joining the University of Iowa as Vice President for Research and Economic Development and holder of Iowa's inaugural University Computational Science and Bioinformatics Chair, with joint appointments in Computer Science, Electrical and Computing Engineering and Medicine. For details on this, see the University of Iowa announcement.
Many things attracted me to Iowa. First, it is one of this country's great public universities, spanning, as all great universities do, the arts and humanities, science and engineering and associated professional schools. The university is also home to the famed Iowa Writers Workshop, something the aspiring writer in me prizes greatly. It also has a large and highly ranked health care system and a great medical school. (More on that research opportunity in a bit.)
Finally, the University of Iowa is anchored in the Big Ten, where I spent most of my academic career (Illinois) and time in graduate school (Purdue). Yes, it is football season in the U.S., but the Big Ten is more than an athletic conference. The Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), which consists of the Big Ten schools plus the University of Chicago, is a collaborative vehicle for shaping national higher education policy and helping define the future on research issues ranging from institutional data repositories to intellectual property management.
In addition to my role in the university leadership team, as my new title suggests, I will also be delving into computational science and big data, helping the campus address research opportunities and health care futures. It is no secret that the rising cost of health care in the United States, coupled with an aging population and the not yet fully realized potential of personalized medicine, are both challenges and major opportunities. In that spirit, I am delighted that the chair of the University of Washington Department of Anesthesiology, Dr. Debra Schwinn, is joining Iowa as the new Dean of the Carver School of Medicine. I am looking forward to working with her and the rest of the campus.
Whether identifying predictive patterns from clinical records (e.g., predictors of hospital readmission), correlating and extracting insights from massive amounts of new bioinformatics data, or leveraging new sensors and devices for disease and lifestyle monitoring, large-scale data analysis and machine learning are crucial. Likewise, multidisciplinary computational models of biological processes with predictive power are now realizable. Simply put, these are big data and technical computing problems par excellence.
Finally, I will also be keeping my hand in high-performance computing and national policy. I will be spending time in Washington, DC, as a consultant, focusing on issues related to big data and exascale computing.
For me, all of this is very exciting. It is a new adventure and an opportunity to help define higher education in the 21st century. As Theodore Roosevelt said, it is an opportunity to "dare mighty things," working together.
I want to express my deep thanks to Craig Mundie, Rick Rashid and a host of friends at Microsoft for a great five years. When I first joined Microsoft Research, it was to work on new technical approaches to cloud computing hardware, software and applications, drawing on ideas from technical computing. Seeing the scale and scope of truly large-scale infrastructure, far larger than our research high-performance computing systems, was amazing. That eXtreme Computing Group (XCG) activity later morphed into an equally exciting technology policy agenda that has spanned topics as diverse as the application of clouds to scientific and engineering research through telecommunications to Internet governance and digital privacy.
My time at Microsoft has been a truly wonderful experience, working on important problems with talented and passionate people. I have made new friends, built new relationships and learned an incredible amount.
Last week, I have the privilege to participate in the B20 meetings in Los Cabos, a prelude to the G20 economic summit. For those of you who do not know, the B20 is a meeting of international CEOs who gather to discuss economic issues and provide suggestions to the G20 leaders. I was there representing Microsoft and substituting for Steve Ballmer.
The B20 has several working groups, including food security, green growth, trade and investment, and ICT and innovation. I co-chaired the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Innovation group, along with Carlos Slim Domit. (Carlos is the son of Carlos Slim Helú, the world's richest man. Yes, I know names are a bit confusing, but it follows naming tradition.) I have also served with Carlos Slim Helú on the United Nations Broadband Commission. I will return to this topic in a bit.
The B20 meeting opened with a plenary presentation by the Mexican President, Felipe Calderón, who was also chair of this year's G20 meeting. The President gave a rousing speech advocating free trade and the economic benefits. This was followed by a rather sobering panel conversation with Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, Bob Zoellick, head of the World Bank, and Angel Gurria, secretary general of the OECD.
Not surprisingly, the Eurozone crisis and the then ongoing Greek elections dominated conversation. The frustration and near despair was palpable, with Gurria noting that fiscal union without effective governance was the root of the problem. I found myself thinking that this as an old story. After all, the U.S. fought a civil war to resolve, among other issues, the relative power of states and the Federal government. In any case, there were repeated pleas for strong and consistent action the resolve the financial crisis permanently, but limited faith that would happen.
The spirit of the conversation was captured succinctly in an exchange with a B20 delegate from Africa, who rose to ask why the conversation was dominated by European concerns. It was a quite reasonable and appropriate question at a global economic panel. Each of the panelists smiled wryly and said, in their own words, "In this context, no mention is good news."
My takeaway is that the global economic situation is not going to get better any time soon. The Chinese economy is clearly slowing, the Eurozone crisis seems endless, and the U.S. situation is tenuous at best.
As I mentioned at the outset, I co-chaired the B20 ICT and Innovation task force. The core recommendations focused on broadband access and digital inclusion, with four main pillars, and they were presented in a panel discussion, with comments from the Chilean President, Sebastián Piñera.
Over the past six months, have I had several opportunities to have small group conversations with President Calderón. I have been impressed by his sincerity and commitment to collaboration and open government. It will be interesting to see what happens to Mexican policies after the Mexican President elections in a few months.
As one would expect, there was intense security around the leaders. From this event, my earlier participation in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APAC) meeting and visits to the White House, I have come to realize that security details for senior government officials all look very similar. There are dark suits, the subtle but clear bulges of weapons, and the constantly searching gazes.
Finally, the gala events provided an opportunity mingle and discuss politics, economics and policy with a diverse and interesting group. There are not many places where one can first discuss social inclusion with a Peruvian cabinet minister, then join a dinner conversation with the South African ambassador and two CEOs. In addition, of course, there are the obligatory photographs of me in a guayabera.
Today, in Cambridge, UK, we celebrated the ten months of experiences and successes from the Cambridge white spaces trial, which was organized by a consortium of companies, including Microsoft. The event brought together telecom regulators from around the world, hardware, software and content providers and interested parties to discuss the potential and the reality of dynamic spectrum management. The "white spaces" – the unused channels in the TV bands at each location – can be used for wireless communication as long as there is no interference with the primary (television broadcast) usage.
This white spaces spectrum is particularly valuable due to its signal propagation characteristics. Sometimes called "Super Wi-Fi," it can provide broad wireless coverage with relatively few access points, for rural areas that are often digitally disenfranchised, for machine-to-machine communication that can enable smart grids, smart cities and intelligent transportation systems, and for mobile data traffic offload in urban areas.
White spaces use has been approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and approval by the U.K. regulator (Ofcom) is near. Other regional and national bodies are also moving forward. In this spirit, today, we also announced formation of a new consortium to launch a new trial in Singapore. Details on all of this can be found on the Microsoft on the Issues blog, where I wrote about Broadband White Spaces – Ready to Go Global. For more details and news coverage, type the words, "white spaces" and "Cambridge" into your favorite search engine.
Two weeks ago, I attended the 20th anniversary celebration for the U.S. Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. The celebration began with a dinner and continued with a daylong program at the Newseum in Washington, DC. It is hard to believe is has been over twenty years since the High-Performance Computing and Communications Act of 1991 inaugurated the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) program.
In hindsight, it seems obvious that elevating the profile of computing and networking and coordinating activities across the research arms of the Federal government was a great idea. It was far less obvious at the time, as former Vice-President Al Gore reminded us during an anecdote-filled lunchtime reminiscence. There were several hearings over multiple years, with many doubters.
Yet only two years later, the Mosaic web browser was born at NCSA at the University of Illinois, helping birth the Internet revolution and the original dot.com boom. Some of you may not know that Mosaic was intended as a collaboration tool, itself the successor to another NCSA collaboration tool called Collage. Anyone see a naming pattern there? It was all about bringing people together who were otherwise separated by time and space.
At the time of Mosaic's release, NCSA was an anchor site of the NSFNet, the nascent backbone of the Internet we know today. Given the popularity of Mosaic and the fact that NCSA's web site was Mosaic's default home page, the NCSA site, hosted by NCSA HTTPd, was the world's busiest. (Bob McGrath, Thomas Kwan and I wrote an early paper on web traffic analysis, and Will Scullin, Steve Lamm and I developed some real-time traffic visualization tools for the CAVE.)
It was also a time when Illinois undergraduates were asking me if a $250K signing bonus was too small, and the startup mantra was "get big fast," focusing on number of page clicks and customers. Eventually the old economics – the one based on profits – demanded its due, and the crazier startup ideas died. For the record, selling dog food (a low cost, high weight item for shipment) on the Internet may not have been the best business plan, though a few succeeded. More rational business models emerged, today it is hard to imagine the world without e-commerce.
As the NITRD celebration, I was reflecting on all of this, as well as digesting the technical content of the presentations, which spanned topics as diverse as computational science, the economic impact of computing and the rise of big data. It was in this context that I posed a question to the final panel, a question grounded in the ever-rising importance of information technology and innovation to global economic competitiveness: What national research strategy should we pursue in light of the coordination now present in other parts of the world?
The question was really about whether the HPCC initiative, with all of its economic, scientific and cultural benefits, was a singular event or something replicable in today's political environment. It was a bit of a rhetorical question, but one that seemed appropriate to frame the celebration's context. The unflappable and always thoughtful Chuck Vest gamely responded with some thoughtful observations on the importance of educational investment for the future.
Former Vice-President Gore didn't invent the Internet, but fully deserves all the fulsome praise he has received for raising the issues and helping creating the conditions that let it grow and flourish. Musing on this and the NITRD discussion, I found myself thinking about another Illinois story, one that captures the tumultuous change of another century and the singular contributions of another individual.
It's the story of Daniel Burnham and the birth of modern Chicago. Daniel Burnham didn't invent Chicago, but he might as well have, for it bears his indelible stamp. He one of the driving forces behind the 1892 Columbian Exposition, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas. The Columbian Exposition and the "White City" was Chicago's coming of age party, elevating Chicago in stature as one of the world's great cities. Mind you, this was a mere twenty years after the Great Chicago Fire, which had destroyed much of the city.
One element of the story has Burnham standing on the shore of Lake Michigan on a cold, winter day, pointing into the distance and describing the buildings and the city that would rise from the windy desolation. A visiting architect turns to Burnham and asks, "How can this be?" To which Burnham is reputed to have replied, "It is already decided." And so it was.
The anecdote is probably apocryphal, but the vision and the outcome were decidedly not. As Burnham himself wrote,
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.
It's the emotion Carl Sandburg also captured in his Chicago poem about Chicago as the tool maker, stacker of wheat and player with railroads, the city of big shoulders. It was the spirit of a city and a young nation, confident and excited about the future. It's the same spirit we all felt in 1991 at the beginning of the HPCC program and then in the web revolution.
As we look to the future, I believe Burnham was right. It's time to make big plans, defining a truly compelling research and education strategy for the 21st century knowledge economy, one that inspires and compels us all to action. We need not be riven by doubts and troubled by today's financial research malaise. There is another way, one that rebuilds our research institutions, empowers our citizens and creates new opportunities for all. Amazing and transformational things are within reach.
How can this be? The lessons of NITRD and Burnham's Chicago point the way, working together.
In these challenging economic times, U.S. universities are under great stress – economically, politically and socially. Cash-strapped states are reducing appropriations for public universities, and those private universities fortunate enough to possess substantial endowments are managing them with a frugal eye on an uncertain economy. To compensate, tuition is rising rapidly, and the chase for already constrained Federal research funding is increasingly frenetic.
Unfortunately, increasing numbers of students are leaving (degreed or not) with substantial loan debt and – in this economy – with rather bleak employment prospects. The rising cost of higher education, coupled with uncertain employment options, is deeply troubling to parents and students, as well as faculty members and university leaders.
What does all this mean? Public and private institutions alike are now caught between their straitened economics and their historical roles. In a rapidly shifting knowledge economy, it has never been more important to educate a new generation of students, advance the frontiers of knowledge, foster economic development and facilitate debate on important societal issues.
It is tempting for those of us in computing to ignore these issues. After all, our field is booming, with stunning advances in both computing theory and practice. We face a shortfall of qualified graduates, the competition for experienced and qualified practitioners is intense, and there are many interesting and well-remunerated jobs. (For detailed data, see the Computing Research Association (CRA) workforce data analysis.)
Yes, we should celebrate these happy facts, but I believe we must also consider our social obligation to help address today's university challenges, for we are the beneficiaries of past actions. In that spirit, it is worthwhile to consider another time when American society renegotiated its compact with higher education, triggered by social and economic upheaval.
The Morrill Act of 1862 granted each state 30,000 acres of public land. Proceeds from the land sales were to be invested in an endowment to support colleges of agriculture and mechanical arts in each of the states. For the first time, practical training became a major focus of U.S. higher education.
These "land grant" institutions brought modern engineering and agricultural methods to a still largely rural and agrarian, though rapidly industrializing society. Nor were they simply outposts of erudition, with agricultural experiment stations and extension services, they quite literally took new ideas and technology to the farmer's field.
What are the "agricultural and mechanical" arts of the 21st century knowledge economy? What transformative force is driving economic and social change? The answer to both questions seems rather obvious – it is computing, both its enabling technology and its myriad applications.
Our universities are struggling to respond and adapt to a rapidly shifting environment, with new social demands and heightened economic pressures. How do we help them respond more nimbly to societal needs for education and skills, economic development and job creation? How can we best use computing to expand access to higher education? How can we reduce costs and provide just-in-time lifelong education when the inevitable technical dislocation and job losses occur? How can we accelerate discovery and innovation?
I do not know the answers, or even all the questions. However, like agriculture and engineering before us, computing has a social responsibility to be an active and enthusiastic partner in helping chart the nature of higher education and its evolving compact with society. It is, I believe, a responsibility we have not fully shouldered to this point.
We have the skills, insights and expertise. We can plant the seeds of the future.
As an international traveler, if you ever stood in the central Tokyo train station during rush hour, clutching a ticket in your hand and looking helplessly about, you know the feeling. If you ever stared hopelessly at a Cyrillic menu while seated in a restaurant off the beaten path in Moscow, you know the feeling. Finally, for the aging geeks among us, if you have ever tried to read someone else's APL program, you know the feeling.
It is the feeling of illiteracy and exclusion, of being unable to participate in the milieu, frustrated and dismayed, unable to communicate and understand. In the three cases above, a kindly Japanese businessman rescued me, I ordered food via hand gestures and self-deprecating smiles, and I spent some long hours reconstructing programmer intent.
Inclusion and access shape our lives. Highlighting this, a New York Times article, "Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees," recently reported the results of a study that used Facebook data to compute the electronic separation of Facebook participants. It was an electronic update to the oft-repeated adage that six degrees of separation connect all denizens of the planet. The results speak to the power of our electronic networks and highlight, by exception, another form of separation.
It is an equally pernicious exclusion, one crossing cultures, countries and languages. It makes no distinction between the literate and the illiterate. An economic and cultural chasm, a digital divide, separates the digitally connected from those who lack the ways or the means to join the digital community. In a knowledge economy, the separated are cut off from a plethora of services, educational materials, and business prospects.
If we are to address inequality and create opportunities for economic advancement, this must change. It is a global need, not simply a question of developed versus developing country access. The digitally disenfranchised are all around us. In some parts of the world, broadband access is an unattainable dream, beyond the economic reach of entire families. In other places, it is a non-trivial fraction of a month's income. In still others, it is either not available or its performance is inadequate. (See Broadband: Oxygen for a Digital World)
Digital inclusion matters to every society and government, for addressing inequity and access facilities better education, improved health and economic development. If we have learned anything from the history of previous economic malaises, it is that innovation and economic growth are the keys to financial recovery. Digital inclusion is one of the enablers, a catalyst for the exchange of ideas.
As I recently remarked at the closing ceremonies of the ITU Telecom World, this is not the responsibility of any one institution. The responsibility lies with all of us. No one need digitally disenfranchised.
A few years ago, a foundation ran a billboard campaign with an image of Kermit the Frog and the caption, "Eats Flies, Dates a Pig, Hollywood Star. Live Your Dreams." Beyond being a huge fan of the Muppet Show and its sardonic humor, especially as offered by Statler and Waldorf, I have always loved this billboard because it captures an essential element of human life, the desire to make a difference, to live life with the passion of commitment. It is a feeling Thoreau captured in Walden, to the enduring delight of secondary school English teachers across North America:
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I was reflecting on this recently as the world lost two innovators in computing. About the first, Steve Jobs, much has been written, but far less about another pioneer of computing, Dennis Ritchie.
UNIX and C transformed our notions of operating systems and programming, seeding a cornucopia of software tools and technologies. I still have my dog-eared copy of the 1978 Bell Systems Technical Journal (BSTJ), which was devoted to the "UNIX Timesharing System."
I was a graduate student then, and it brought my first exposure to UNIX on a VAX 11/780 at Purdue. We ran VMS part of the time and UNIX the rest, largely because VMS had a decent FORTRAN compiler. The numerical analysts among us used FORTRAN, but for the rest, it was UNIX and C. It was a heady time, when new tools and approaches were transforming academic computing research from a largely theoretical discipline to an experimental science. I created a compiler for John Backus' FP language using lex and yacc on that VAX, and I wrote a Ph.D. dissertation using troff.
As da Vinci supposedly remarked, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." UNIX was elegant in its simplicity and functionality. It and the C language inspired multiple generations of hackers (and I use that word in its original, pure sense) to create so many things. It is not exaggeration to say that one can date operating systems as pre-UNIX and post-UNIX.
Richie's passing was not noted with great fanfare, but he made a difference. All of us in computing honor that.
In between the endless work deadlines, the email deluge and the frenzied travel, take a deep breath and ask yourself what matters and what you are doing. The answers may surprise you, particularly as mortality seems more than a tale told by the wise and aged to the young and uncertain. Those are the essential facts Thoreau described.
Throughout my life, I have been able to live many of my dreams. Far too many people are not so fortunate. (For the record, eating flies, dating a pig and being a Hollywood star have not been among them.) I have a few dreams left, both in computing and in life, and I suspect you do too. In my case, there is a book or two trying to escape via my fingers. (See Eudora, You Got the Love?)
Seize the opportunity. Live your dreams. Make a difference. It is all that any of us can hope to do.

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Join us on the Peace Plaza in downtown Rochester select Saturday nights for Movies on the Plaza. The movie series will start on June 13 and continue until August 8. The movies will start each week at 9:00pm and are FREE to attend. Bring your lawn chair or blanket and gather on the grassy side of the Peace Plaza for this fun outdoor event.
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June 13th
Mary Poppins
Rated: G
Runtime: 140 min
The Travers children get the attention of their all-business father by bedevilling every new nanny in the Banks household. When Mr. Banks advertises conventionally for another nanny, the kids compose their own ad, asking for someone with a little kindness and imagination. Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews in her screen debut) answers the children's ad by arriving at the Banks home from the skies, parachuting downward with her umbrella. They meet Mary's old chum Bert (Dick Van Dyke), currently employed as a sidewalk artist. Mary, Bert, and the children hop into one of Bert's chalk drawings and learn the nonsense song "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" in a cartoon countryside.
June 27th
Muppets Most Wanted
Rated: PG
Runtime: 113 min
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
July 11th
Rated: PG
Runtime: 135 min
Gavin O'Connor directs the sports drama Miracle, based on the true story of the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid. Kurt Russell stars as hockey coach Herb Brooks, who assembles a U.S. team of underdogs. No one thinks they can make it, as they are up against the previously undefeated Soviet hockey team. Despite the odds, Brooks leads the U.S. team to victory. As the 1980 Winter Olympics happen to coincide with the Cold War, the event is interpreted as patriotic
July 25th
Finding Nemo
Rated: G
Runtime: 101 min
The wizards at Pixar take us under the sea to the world of clownfish Marlin and his son Nemo. When the defiant Nemo takes off from his dad and gets captured by a tropical fish seeker he finds himself stuck in a fishbowl in a dentist's office. Marlin and his well meaning, but wacky, friend Dory embark on an epic journey to find his son.
August 1st
Homeward Bound
Rated: G
Runtime: 85 min
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Disney's 1993 remake of the 1963 hit The Incredible Journey, follows three household pets as they travel across mountains and plains on their way to find their owners. A misunderstanding leads the animals to mistakenly believe that they have been abandoned by their loved ones, when in reality they have been left in the care of a friend while the family has moved from the country to the city for the father to take a temporary assignment . All three pets--a golden retriever (Don Ameche), a cat (Sally Field), and a bulldog puppy (Michael J. Fox)--can talk, and they bicker and crack jokes as they set off on a truly incredible journey chock full of misadventures as they wend their way back to their owners.
August 8th
Into the Woods
Rated: PG
Runtime: 124 min
Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods is adapted in this musical from director Rob Marshall and Walt Disney Studios. Inspired by a choice selection of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, this plot centers on a baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) who incur the wrath of a witch (Meryl Streep) while attempting to start a family. Subsequently cursed by the vengeful hag, the hapless couple find their fates linked with those of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick),Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Rapunzel (MacKenzie Mauzy) and Jack (Daniel Huttlestone) of Jack and the Beanstalk.


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Roundtable Review: The Sun Explodes – The Calm, The Storm EP
Release Date: May 18th 2015
Songs: 5
Length: 23 minutes
Genre: Creative progressive rock
Studio Albums: Emergence 2012, We Build Mountains 2013
Location: Carlisle, UK
For fans of: Circa Survive, Children of Nova, Dream Theater, Tesseract
Sonic Cathedral's female-fronted roundup for April – Part 1/2
I've heard it said that Sonic Cathedral agreed to let Metal State publish a digest of their reviews because I train the Sonic Cathedral unicorns. This is untrue. Their unicorns are untrainable. It is very dangerous to stand in front of them when they are moshing. It's also dangerous to stand in front of their unicorns.
Sonic Cathedral reviewed nine female-fronted albums during April. We're doing a two-part digest of those reviews, including the album details and a very short summary of each review. Here are the first five. Part 2 will cover the next four.
Posted in Album Reviews
Tags: Apocalypse? No Way!, Behind the Black Veil, City of Heroes, Dark Sarah, Kiske/Somerville, Limitless, Mechanism, Melodic Heavy Metal, Melodic Power Metal, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, Sonic Cathedral's female-fronted roundup for April – Part 1/2, Symphonic Metal, Temperance, The Way I Am, Whispering Tales
Album Review: Subterranean Masquerade – The Great Bazaar
Genre: Symphonic progressive metal
Release date: 13 January 2015
Label: Taklit Music
Previous releases: Temporary Psychotic State (EP, 2004); Suspended Animation Dreams (album, 2005); Home (EP, 2013)
Tracks: 7
Length: 39 minutes
Recommended to: Prog metal fans of Orphaned Land, Haken, Leprous, To-Mera, and Oriental and Middle Eastern metal; neo-prog rock fans of *Frost, Blind Ego, Galahad.
Mammal's rating: 5 out of 5
Visiting every corner of "The Great Bazaar" is an experience of unfolding wonder and amazement. Subterranean Masquerade are purveyors of musical splendour and delight. Their integration of any number of metal and prog rock styles is constantly unpredictable, varied, and jaw-droppingly delectable.
A Metal-Prog Interlude: VOLA – Gutter Moon
I know and love VOLA, from Denmark, for their earlier and largely unheralded music. When I first heard them in 2009 they were a progressive rock band with a strong flavour of math rock in their compositions.
The new VOLA album, "Inmazes", features a different line-up and a much more exploratory approach. It's a beautiful merging of prog and math rock, prog and math metal and djent. I believe this must greatly broaden VOLA's potential fan base. From my point of view as a metal-prog hybrid, this album will be too good to miss. It should be available now.
Find out more at VOLA's Facebook page.
"Gutter Moon" is from the new album.
For comparison, "Like The Rainbow" is the first track on the 2009 EP, "Homesick Machinery". Both songs are deeply satisfying.
Posted in Exploring New Things
Tags: Djent, Gutter Moon, Homesick Machinery, Inmazes, Math Metal, math rock, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock, VOLA
Mammal's Merry Memories: Jethro Tull – Broadsword (1982)
The title track of Broadsword is a Viking song with a difference. It presents the perspective of the poor sods who see the Viking ships approaching. That must have been a slightly unnerving experience.
Jethro Tull mostly played progressive folk rock. This song, however, may appeal to fans of hard rock, prog metal and, er, Vikings.
Posted in Mammal's Merry Memories
Tags: Broadsword, Jethro Tull, Mammal's Merry Memories, Progressive Rock
Roundtable Review: Thine – The Dead City Blueprint
Release Date: 13 May, 2014
Songs: 10
Length: 57 minutes
Genre: Dark progressive rock (also listed as melodic metal)
Studio Albums: A Town Like This (1998), In Therapy (2002)
Location: UK
Roundtable Review: Between the Madness by VanGough
Posted by RiffRaff
Label: Nightmare Records
Release Date: Out Now
Songs: 12
Genre: Prog
Studio Albums: This is their 5th release
Location: Oklahoma, USA Read the rest of this entry →
What's Cookin' in the Inbox – 20 Feb 2014 Post #3
Posted by Reggie
It's time for the third installment of What's Cookin' in the Inbox for 2014. This time around we have excess material floating in the mailbox, therefore I will sift through it and bring you what I think is the best and most eclectic bunch. Here you go, I hope you find something you like. Enjoy!
Song: Save Me
Genre: Power/fantasy metal
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Posted in Exploring New Things
Tags: Belzebass, Denied, Electronoica, Hard Rock, Hardcore, John Bassett, Kyng, metal, Metalcore, Miracle Master, Morfin, Progressive Rock, Red Seas Fire, Ringworm, Seven Deadly, Thrash, Witchhammer
Album Review: Barishi – Barishi
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Songs: 8
Length: 42 minutes
Genre: Progressive metal/psychedelic
Location: Vermont, USA
Posted in News
Tags: album review, bandcamp, Barishi, Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock
Mik's Top 100 Favourite Albums of All Time #20-16
A while ago, at the same time as Matt and Reggie, I posted my Top 100 All Time Favourite (Metal) Albums over at the forum The History of Metal on FB. It took a good amount of time and effort to put it together, but it was so much fun! My taste in metal is always changing, so the list will not always look the same. In fact, it's already a bit different than it was when I first put it together and posted it on the forum seven months ago.
I tried to limit myself to three albums per band to make the list a little more diverse and interesting. I don't really consider the 'test of time'-factor when selecting what albums that will go on my list, instead I measure it by how strongly the album has affected me emotionally and how much/often it has helped me through both good and bad phases in my life. That's why you can find quite a few newer releases among my favourites too.
#20 Ihsahn – angL
I might be considered strange who prefer Ihsahn's solo albums over his work in Emperor. But who cares, right? By now you all know I'm a sucker for a strong, unique singing voice and Ihsahn is one of a kind. His style of blackened progressive metal includes amazing riffs, dark melodies, relaxing bass lines, vicious screams and thoughtful, poetic lyrics. Like an all-in-one-package. Perfect.


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Born and raised in Birmingham England, I started shooting with the family camera at the age of 12. This progressed to my very own camera (YASHICA TLR) and I was off and running. My photographic playground was the industrial, dingie, and canals of my hometown (it has more canals than the City of Venice Italy). This is where I honed my skills in shooting, developing and printing my work.
After graduating from Aston University (the very first student to have a one man Photographic exhibit) and having a secured knowledge of where I wanted to go, I pursued a career in photography with an advertising agency. There I would photograph CADBURY'S CHOCOLATE for the next several years while shooting privately for other clients
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On coming to America, I engaged in many diverse projects including producing and directing fundraising theatrical shows, Civil War reenactments, old western gunfights, and downhill ski races, but my love of photography was always with me.
When the digital age came into being, so to came the "waking of Brian", with my significant other's encouragement. I picked up were I had left off with my very first love that of photography.
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I was employed by the school system for 10 years leaving June of 06. I worked 2 years with the special needs children K-5, then 8 years at the Early Childhood Center (also special needs) preschoolers ages 3 to 5. I also worked the school year of 07-08 with the 2's at an academy. I did help out at a home daycare with 6 children ages 3 months to 2 years. At the daycare I help the children learn through play and songs. They learn fine and gross motor skills, cause and effect, socialization, the ability to be with peers, sharing, patience, and of course manners. I also explore textures with them such as shaving cream, whipped cream, play dough, painting with pudding and jello. We have played with water, sand, rice and beans. I am pediatric first aid certified. I also was CT state certified, finger printed and FBI checked. I have since left that job due to lack of incoming children, basically the lady could not afford to pay me anymore. My goal is to create a safe, comfortable, and fun-loving environment for the children. My daily classroom duties included:
*Running classroom when teacher was unavailable or in a meeting
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*Teaching academics, colors, alphabet and numbers, days, months, sorting, and themed activities. Uses teaching tools effectively
*Researching planned themes and preparing art projects and activities
*Teaching fine motor skills related with arts, crafts and writing
*Instructing children how to pretend play and speak in front of other classmates
*Leading the classroom in creative movement through song
*Implementing activities to encourage children in advancing their social development
*Following through with behavior strategies, appropriate positive discipline
*Setting up and cleaning up for arts and crafts and snack time
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Roger - one thing that keeps me loyal to the Kodak chemistry brand is the very consistent qualtity.
I prefer their RA4 chemistry to the various do-it-yourself kits (though Fuji/Hunt may be equally good,
and I haven't tried any Arista private label product yet). HC-110 is fairly complicated to replicate,
though this too has been allegedly done. But why bother? Hopefully, this will be true of film as well.
Someone else will own the business and run it with the attention it deserves, but otherwise, the
quality will be kept intact. But I do agree that manufacturing buyouts are a roll of the dice - more
often than not the purchasers are idiots with a bunch of MBA consultants whose only real world experience is behind a Starbucks counter. But I do know a number of positive stories too, where a
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you now realize Summoning will never be featured on the front page of sputnik no matter how much they
deserve it. I should just delete this review, Noctus was no where to be found when we needed him most
his father fucking died from cancer shut up mamg
no but srsly i didn't know that. Heart goes out to him. I'll jam Land of the Dead in his memory.
, rip paul
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffDamn that's rough.... :[ RIP hard.
Digging: Hooded Menace - Darkness Drips Forth
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffStill can't believe how good this is, might just end up being my aoty goddamn
Digging: Grimes - Art Angels
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffThis is nothing short of pure genius, holy shit how do they keep doing this.
need to hear this still
its good check it out
Digging: Claptone - Charmer
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offit's pretty much aoty yea
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off m/
Album Rating: 3.0Still pretty disappointed with this album, I find it hard to pay attention to lots of the time
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffI don't.
Album Rating: 3.0I still really like the title track and parts of other tracks, but idk I don't have the same emotional connection to the music that I have with a lot of their other stuff.
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffDamn, this is like top 3 Summoning for me
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffThought this came out in June o.O
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffOh wow
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Answer Me When I Call
To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.
1Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness!
You have given me relief when I was in distress.
Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
2O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame?
How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? Selah
3But know that the Lord has set apart the godly for himself;
the Lord hears when I call to him.
4 Be angry, and do not sin;
ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent. Selah
5Offer right sacrifices,
and put your trust in the Lord.
6There are many who say, "Who will show us some good?
Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!"
7You have put more joy in my heart
than they have when their grain and wine abound.
8In peace I will both lie down and sleep;
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Komercni Banka Quarterly Net Falls on Greek Bond Holdings
Komercni Banka AS, the Czech unit of Societe Generale SA, said third-quarter profit more than halved as the company took a charge for Greek government bonds.
Net income dropped to 1.56 billion koruna ($85 million) from 3.48 billion koruna a year earlier as it wrote down 2.64 billion koruna of Greek debt, the Prague-based lender reported.
The results missed estimates on higher-than-expected writedowns, J&T Banka AS analysts wrote in a note to clients. On an operating level, the results exceeded estimates and the faster pace of lending is positive, the analysts wrote.
Gross lending rose to 434.7 billion koruna in the third quarter from 421.9 billion koruna in the previous quarter. Non-performing loans fell 3.7 percent from the second quarter to 16.2 billion koruna.
Komercni shares traded up 0.9 percent, or 30 koruna, to 3,330 koruna, as of 12:05 p.m. in Prague, erasing earlier gains of as much as 3.3 percent.
Komercni hasn't discussed its dividend policy at the board level, Chief Executive Officer Henri Bonnet said at a news conference today in Prague. The capital position of the bank is "very strong" and a decision about a dividend will be made in the fourth quarter, Chief Financial Officer Pavel Cejka said, speaking along with Bonnet.
The Czech economy continued a modest recovery through the first three quarters that was particularly visible in export financing and improved demand for loans from individuals and businesses, Komercni officials said. Confidence in the economy began deteriorating toward the end of summer on worsening news from the euro area.
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Societe Generale, France's second-largest bank, reported third-quarter profit fell 31 percent to 622 million euros ($856 million), hurt by lower trading revenue and a writedown on Greek sovereign debt. The bank also said it won't pay a dividend for 2011.
"The European banking industry finds itself in a difficult situation where macroeconomic challenges are combined with regulatory uncertainties," Bonnet said, adding the Czech banking system is "healthy" and Komercni has proven its capacity and commitment to supply credit to the economy.
Komercni holds about 7.8 billion koruna of Italian sovereign bonds on its trading books. The lender isn't planning a sale of the debt "for the time being" as the market wouldn't accept a good price and bank officials expect Italy to be able to pay its debt, Bonnet said.
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The lender has 0.5 billion koruna in Italian securities to be held to maturity, according to a presentation made at the press conference.
The residual value for Greek bonds on the company's books is "limited and manageable" at 2.89 billion koruna, Komercni said. Net banking income rose 2.1 percent to 8.26 billion koruna in the quarter from a year earlier. Net-interest income rose to 5.58 billion koruna from 5.27 billion koruna a year ago.
Komercni's share buyback program is an "opportunistic approach" of the lender of how to deal with the bank's capital level, Cejka said today. Komercni, which already bought back shares worth 400 million koruna, is considering canceling the stock rather than offering the shares back to the market.


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Touchstone Exploration earns $1-million (U.S.) in 2012
2013-01-28 06:11 PT - News Release
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Touchstone Exploration Inc. has released its financial and reserves results for the year ended Sept. 30, 2012. The Company is currently reporting under International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") and all values in this news release are in thousands of United States dollars unless otherwise stated. Financial highlights for year ended September 30, 2012 are noted below:
-- Average annual production for 2012 was 1,159 barrels of oil per day, a 175 percent increase from the 421 barrels per day produced in 2011. -- Petroleum revenue net of royalties was $29,567, a 219 percent increase from the $9,283 recognized in 2011. -- Funds flow from operations increased $8,795 from negative $1,592 (($0.01) per share) in 2011 to $7,203 ($0.07 per share) in 2012. -- The Company added 1,071,000 barrels of proved plus probable reserves for a total of 8,212,000 barrels net of royalties. -- Ten new wells were drilled and twenty-three recompletions were performed in the 2012 fiscal year yielding annual finding and development costs of $4.58 per barrel on a total proven basis, resulting in a recycle ratio of 3.68. -- As at September 30, 2012, the Company's after tax proved and probable net asset value was $106,115(1) or $0.97 per share (10 percent discounted).
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February Meeting
Several brave members came out into the blustery cold and snow to attend our Valentine's Day meeting. We welcomed two guests, Jessica and Rachel, and after our general meeting, our own Julie Lemardy presented her talk regarding marketing and how to get your work on best seller lists.
The information was priceless and we all came away with much to work with. The presentation will be later posted to the members RWA forums for those who would like to see it.
January Meeting
Welcome to 2015! We started the new year with a bang, discussing expected guest speakers, programs for members and ideas for future events. We then held a round robin brainstorming session and got to touch on each members current WIP allowing for ideas and laughter to flow freely.
There is so much to look forward to in the coming months and the excitement is palpable within our ranks. Keep the electricity going, Ladies. It's going to be one hell of a ride this year!
November Meeting
November was our final meeting for 2014 and as tradition holds, we held our pot luck lunch. We also had our speaker, Terry Lee, Hollywood Producer extraordinare, present his Antagonist Bootcamp to those who attended.
Though we battled through several techincal difficulties with bandwidth at the library, we were able to muddle through the presentation and once again, we learned so much from his program and hope to have Terry back in the future for more on antagonists and protagonists.
We also discussed 2015 and what changes were in store for us. PLRW has many exciting new items on its agenda for the coming year and we can't wait to get started.
October Meeting
Our October meeting was a difficult one for us. As with everything in this world, changes are made every day and with RWA becoming the corporation that it is, that means we are having to change with them.
New membership guidelines were presented that could change the way our chapter runs and our general meeting was a long, difficult one with questions of our survival and how we will manage through the coming years.
PLRW is an old, strong chapter. We have been through many twists and turns as the publishing world changes with technology and we have managed to not only survive, but thrive. It is what we do best and we will continue to do so. Chins up, ladies, we are here to stay no matter what the future holds for us!


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Your little one will be right in style and stay cool wearing this swing top! Size: Child's 12 months (2, 4, 6) years.
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One-piece halter top that is easy to make for a favorite girl or teen to wear for a warm weather look. Sizes: Girl's 4 (6, 8, 10); Teen's extra-small (small, medium, large).
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A dainty Leaf Lace stitch pattern is worked into a darling little topper for Baby's play clothes. This e-pattern was originally published in the March 2011 issue of Creative Knitting magazine.
Size: Includes child's 12 through 24 months. Made with light (DK) weight yarn, size 9 (5.5mm) 29"" circular and double-pointed needles and size H (5mm) crochet hook.
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Your little sweetheart will stay warm and cozy in this beautiful sweater and cap set. Size: Toddler's 2 (Chest: 20").
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This pullover combines both color and texture in a slim silhouette. The center panel was adapted from an 1890s needlepoint footstool pattern. Size: Woman's small(medium)(large)(extra-large).
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The T-block quilt design adds a touch of tradition to the brilliant colors of this cheery back-to-school sweater. Size: Child's 4(8)(12)(14).
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For a first project, knit this pullover in your sports fan's favorite team colors. Size: Child's 2(4, 6, 8).
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Red and green squares coupled with orange and white stripes make this knit sweater for a child unique -- and colorful! This free knitting pattern is easy and quick to stitch. Download it today and make a cuddly sweater for your favorite little one.
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Bright whimsical fish encircle the hem of this adorable little girl's summer outfit knitted with a slip-stitch wave pattern. Size: Child's 2(4)(6).
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Spend a night out in any major city and the possibilities are infinitely vast. For Moby - electronic engineer and self-confessed nightlife addict - the goal of his latest, Last Night (Mute) was to capture the very essence of the nightclub scene and translate it to a record, touching on as many of those possibilities as space would permit. The desired end result was to convey the careless abandonment that comes with one music-infused night out, when the beat usurps all unrelated concerns and becomes the sole directing force.
Moby hits the mark with unflinching accuracy on just enough tracks to make up for the small handful that fall short before reaching the intended target. The opening "Ooh Yeah" sets the tone nicely, with a head-swaying rhythm, airy guitars and synthesized celestial voices inviting the listener to become part of a strange world that exists only long after the sun has set. Chrissi Poland provides accentuating vocals on "Live For Tomorrow," which starts off steadily, then unexpectedly morphs into a jungle escapade capable of a transporting power similar to Play's "Porcelain."
Tracks like "I'm In Love," "Everyday It's 1989" and "Disco Lies" are wanting due to lukewarm progressions that don't seem to fully blossom, which others like "Alice" and "257.zero" overcompensate for. "Alice" stands out prominently from the otherwise carefree, pleasant content here, yet manages to somehow fit in and develop the disc's movement nonetheless. The raw hip-hop beat and guest vocals by Aynzli Jones and S.O. Simple & Smokey (of the UK-based 419 Squad) suggest a wrong turn made while traveling to the next hot spot, a section of the city where hooded shadows lurk on corners rapping of troubles unknown to the passersby. "257.zero" is pure big beat - heavy bass, dramatic keyboards that rise and fall gently but emphatically and voices counting at random as if announcing the flight number of a plane or spaceship preparing to launch. The breaks are reminiscent of something you"d hear at a sweaty underground club at 4 am, just when things start to pick up.
The final ambient trio covers the simmering effects of leaving the last club after the music has stopped and not knowing what to do with your self. "Sweet Apocalypse" uses a downtempo Asian flute of some sort and mellow strings lined up with a steady, popping beat, while "Mothers of the Night" quells things even more with its quiet single drum and melody. "Last Night" puts the story to rest, as the piano dies down amidst traffic horns and other signs of life in the distance, still active despite the ungodly hour.
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people always tell me i look like moby......
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This CD rocks!! (and think of the social risk im taking by admitting i like moby.) Seriously though, great party/dance music and my favorite soundtrack for long runs. Grab it off piratebay and give it a chance you won't be disappointed.
this is supposed to be a nod to his former raving club days and i say club on, music is far too saturated these days! lets just have fun and shake one or even two booty cheeks!
anybody else think Moby looks like a penis a little bit?
This is a really well written review, regardless of whether you like or dislike Moby. Well done!
no dankenstein, he looks like one cancerous testicle, with the aids
Moby tries too hard
"disco lies" is a really good song.
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Illinois Public Radio's Sean Crawford provides an update on what's up for consideration on the state's legislative docket. Then Blackhawks alumnus and current Comcast SportsNet TV broadcaster Steve Konroyd previews Game 7 and the future of hockey in light of a new 10-year TV deal for the National Hockey League. And in honor of Jazz Appreciation Month, WBEZ's Richard Steele discusses four not-to-miss cuts from the world of jazz.
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The median size of newly built U.S. homes registered 2,385 square feet in the fourth quarter, down from 2,414 in the third, according to Commerce Department data released Wednesday. The median now stands 106 square feet smaller – about the size of a small bedroom – than the all-time peak of 2,491 in the third quarter of 2013.
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Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing (30 Mar. 2009)
Russian mobsters kidnap Wolfe and try to influence him to clear one of their associates who is a suspect in a robbery-homicide case.
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