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Recent government action on the issue has largely consisted of passing the buck by telling companies to do their part to fight efforts to undermine free expression. Following Google's claim that its intellectual property had been stolen as a result of cyber attack from China, which precipitated its decision to stop censoring search results in that country, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech about Internet freedom and encouraged U.S. businesses to take a more proactive role in the fight against censorship.
Google incidentally tried that in China and was forced to retreat to Hong Kong, which may explain why businesses have not exactly been lining up to oppose censorship.
At a hearing in March, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin noted that in a year and a half, no new companies have joined the Global Network Initiative, an anti-censorship group, championed by Google, Micrsoft, and Yahoo.
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[SR: 229919], Paperback, [EAN: 9780321278654], Addison-Wesley, Addison-Wesley, Book, [PU: Addison-Wesley], 2004-11-16, Addison-Wesley, "In this second edition of Extreme Programming Explained, Kent Beck organizes and presents five years' worth of experiences, growth, and change revolving around XP. If you are seriously interested in understanding how you and your team can start down the path of improvement with XP, you must read this book." —Francesco Cirillo, Chief Executive Officer, XPLabs S.R.L. "The first edition of this book told us what XP was—it changed the way many of us think about software development. This second edition takes it farther and gives us a lot more of the 'why' of XP, the motivations and the principles behind the practices. This is great stuff. 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Eden hung quietly on the outskirts of the group, her warm golden eyes absorbing every minute detail of the interactions around her. So much had changed; it seemed it was the break in reality where players could change sides. Eden had never understood a need to change sides, but she appreciated that the benefit was in her favor. Some things were negligible, if one knew the greater picture. Her primary concern was for her sister, actually, who seemed to be having an internal nervous breakdown as she watched with wide, frightened eyes.
Atlas' mind was reeling, desperate to keep up with the frenzied pace of the world she'd found herself in. She clung to Phaedos' hand like an anchor to the truth, something she feared severance from more than she feared the death she knew waited around every corner. Noise bombarded her from every direction and the volume of it all pounded at her eardrums with a wicked, deafening rhythm. She held herself together based on the images being fed into her nervous system. Barely able to keep up with the shifting sides and changing players, she found herself eager to simply move ahead. Any step forward had to be better than standing around waiting for more factors to contort before her very eyes. It didn't matter that their numbers had just been increased by four; though it certainly would not be a detriment; she could do nothing except wait for the eye of the storm. The true test had not come to pass, not just yet.
She hadn't needed Arisa to clarify what her plan was, but for the benefit of the less telepathic, she'd asked; the small vampire woman was practically projecting the schematics to her across the gap between them. Her thoughts were strong and clear, clearer than anyone's had been – save Eden; but Atlas did not question it. Instead, she took the opportunity to move ahead.
Eden was beside her, then, her voice a parallel whisper to the sound of her own thoughts as they ran through her head. You'll have to shield Elseron, Eden was thinking, you two won't be fast enough to get out in time.
I can shield the three of us, Atlas thought back, not even glancing to her sister.
Phaedos does not need your shields, but that is good news. Let's do this.
Eden's fingertips brushed faintly over Pilot's shoulder, but his attention was on her instantly and it seemed they needed even fewer words to communicate than Atlas and Eden did. Not for the first time, Atlas wondered if Eden and Pilot could communicate telepathically, but her curiosity could not be indulged. They had things to do.
Phaedos released her hand and she nearly panicked; she settled, however, when he returned with Elseron propped up on his shoulder. Her Guardian, her father, she reminded herself, still looked worn and battered, but the inky blackness in his veins had vanished and some of the light had returned to his eyes. The world felt better with them both within reach.
Eden was already beginning to herd the others up into the same vent Will had fallen through. Pilot, the relentless warrior masked by some phantom monster in his eyes, went first, brandishing what few weapons he had left. As he crouched to lunge himself upward without the use of his hands, Phaedos stopped him.
For an instant, the two simply stared at each other, impatience already bubbling in Pilot's gaze. As was usual, Pilot was faster, and he spoke first. "Was there something you wanted?"
What was surprising about the interaction, for Atlas, was how placid Phaedos' expression was. A ripple of surprise moved through the group as Phaedos' lips turned upward in a genuine smile. Static buzzed in Atlas' chest, vaguely reminiscent of anticipation but mingled with too much apprehension. Phaedos spoke then, and the sound of his voice felt like small landmines going off in her ear canals. "Yes, he said. There was." He stepped closer and suddenly the grin morphed into something almost manic, dangerous – but there was a strangeness to the image Atlas was seeing, as if it were not her eyes she was looking through, and she realized she was seeing Pilot's view. Phaedos lifted his arms and collapsed them around a frantically confused Pilot; an embrace that appeared as foreign to the onlookers as it felt to those participating, but still, Phaedos hugged him. When he pulled back, he slapped his palm on Pilot's shoulder twice, in such a masculine gesture that Atlas forgot he'd just been embracing someone. He said, as if over a great blockage in his throat, "My gratitude to you is beyond words, Gallo. I know what you must think of me, and I am certain I deserve it all; I've come to terms with my role in our interactions, but you should know that I will never forget what you've done for me, for the woman I love, or for her kingdom."
Pilot was silent; he did not move, did not blink, did not seem to even be aware that Phaedos was standing in front of him; until he lifted his eyes and their gazes locked. He never spoke or made a motion to reach out. After a moment, he nodded, almost imperceptibly, and sprung upward without warning. The only sound was a soft thud as his elbows caught his weight and he pulled himself into the air vent.
The pace of time kicked back into gear and Atlas realized their interaction had taken less than a heartbeat; she could feel her lungs half-way full, her heart aching to begin its rhythm. She blinked and it broke the hold on her senses.
Seemingly unaffected by the time warp, Eden said, "Melody, Dante, up into the shaft. Now. Then Will and Eric. "
Now that she was looking, it seemed no one else had felt the stutter. Curious, Atlas thought.
Dante said, "No, I will stay and fight."
From up in the shaft, Pilot's voice echoed down into the room, "Do what my wife says, Bear. We have a plan."
For a brief moment, Dante held firm. His eyes locked with Melody's and there was an entire lifetime of communication between their eyes. He shook his head but said, "Fine, but I'm bringing my pipe."
Within seconds Phaedos, Elseron and Atlas were alone in the slaughter room with Arisa and an army of lycans about to burst through the walls. Just as Atlas threw her shield up to cling tightly to the figures standing beside her, Arisa caught fire and the explosion shook the very ground beneath Atlas' feet. Flames licked up the oxygen instantly, glowing an effulgent sunbeam yellow and a dusky orange, contorting in on themselves in a sick, scorching dance. Atlas fought to maintain her control but the only thing that punctured her awareness was the spectral chorus of wails as the lycans burned alive. Atlas feared she would never forget the sound; feared it would keep her awake at night. It was a haunting noise that sank into her skeleton and rattled even when the sound had long died off.


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The water only feet from where we were standing exploded, raining sea water down on the beach and several tourists. That was when everyone began running and screaming.
The two girls now realizing what I was doing and why began to follow me... willingly this time. We headed straight for Dave but the scrambling crowd swarmed around us and I had to drag the girls through the crowd to prevent us from being separated. The crowd was thickening the farther we went and it was harder to get between people, but after several minutes we reached the road and broke out of the crowd.
Without thinking I kept running and plowed into Dave who had suddenly appeared. The force sent him flying into another man and he threw what he was holing into the air. I watched it arc through the air and it caught a ray of sunlight that made I appear to have an oddly familiar shape, but I was too exhausted to think about it.
I walked over to Dave and pulled him up, "D, you okay? I didn't see you there," I asked then turned to help the man but he was already gone. I caught a glimpse of his face and then I saw his arm as he reached for the object. It had a jagged cut that looked fresh but it was stitched shut and looked as if the person who stitched it had done a poor job. I began to approach him to apologize but he turned and vanished.
Dave waved his hand in front of me," J, you in there? I said I'm fine. Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm good, sorry I thought I saw something," I replied.
"Okay so do you wanna tell me what's going on?" he asked.
"I'll tell you at the house ok?" I turned to the girls who were still standing beside me, "Do you wanna come with us?"
It took them a few minutes to reply," Yeah I guess we could, we're not going back over there," one of them said, pointing to the beach.
It was the first time I really got to look at the monster and I realized that it want merely a sea serpent it had a body hidden by the water and I could barely see the where it connected with the extremely long neck. I could only imagine how large its body had to be to balance it when it was standing. Besides it size however it was a blue-gray color and the water made it shine as if each scale had been polished. I looked farther up to the top of its neck. It had fierce red eyes that seemed to glow and ling whiskers hanging around it mouth that reminded me of a dog's snout.
I was so amazed by the monster I barely noticed when David started dragging me away. Eventually I turned and walked away with him and the girls and several minutes later we were back a David's house and in his room.
We sat there for a few minutes in silence in his medium sized room. David and I were sitting on the air mattress, which was meant to be my bed, letting the girls have the bed. I was about to speak, but both our moms walked in at the same time with a thousand questions that weren't about to be asked or answered in any way. We managed to force them out after the basic questions had been answered, like who the girls were, what we were going to do, if they were our girlfriends, (which was rather embarrassing because they were in the room with us) and when they had to be home.
The taller red haired girl's name was Susan and the shorter blond girl's name was Maria, we were simply hanging out, and no they weren't our girlfriends, and they had to be home by ten. These answers seemed to please them enough to get them to leave but they left the door open a crack and went back downstairs. I turned David's TV. on and cranked the volume up so they couldn't hear us and began to talk," Would you guys believe me if I said I said I knew that was going to happen?"
"Well yeah they're moms the question everything," Susan replied.
"No I mean at the beach with that thing in the water," I said.
"Oh that..." I thought she was going to say more but she stayed silent and I looked around. It was clear to me that they were all confused, but I couldn't tell if it was because of what happened at the beach or if it was what I was saying.
"I had a dream earlier today," I explained," we were at the beach and that happened all of it the running the screaming but unlike today, in my dream Dave died trying to save you two. I know this sounds crazy and I don't know if I'm going insane, but do you believe me?"
"J, I don't think you're crazy... I just think you've been watching too much TV," David said. That was all we said about it. We all sat there watching TV. and talking until the girls left.
Then I fell asleep....


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Finn Harolds
"Watch out!" A shout came up from above as a large beam crashed through the makings of the building. Destroying hours worth of work. Finn was most unfortunately directly under its path, so as his closes friend Thomas. Without a second through he grabbed Ethan who stood their stunned, and dropped to the ground holding his own neck,and closed his eyes hoping for the best.
'BANG!Crash!' The ground shook, but Finn felt nothing.
Finn opened his eyes in amazement, he was fine, and so was Ethan. What happened? He turned around, the bottom of the beam was resting on the ground while the other end was resting on whatever was left of the building. The two of them laughed quickly clearing the area just incase.
"What are you two laughing at?" The foreman asked at the edge of the site. Finn straightened himself out, and put on a straight face.
"Uh sir, its just because we had such a close call. err, sorry sir." Finn said. The Foreman stared the two boys down.
"Both of you get back to work!Now!" He yelled harshly.
"Yes." Ethan said turning Finn around who was giving the foreman a murderous glare.
The rest of the day labouring on the construction site fore less than a pounds pay was, very unpleasant especially with that foreman who only let the boys work because he could pay them less under the table for simply hulling construction materials around the site like work horses. However they had to get money somehow, it wasn't enough for the other four orphans they lived with, but it was better than totally relying on stealing to get what they needed. Finn wished he could spend some of the money towards books. He wasn't great at reading but he loved it nonetheless.
"Alright the days over! Get going the lot of ya!" The foreman yelled as the sun began to sink into the horizon of the great city. They had managed to clear away most of the debris from the accident earlier, but the repairs would have to wait till after the weekend.
Finn and Ethan left picking up their weeks pay, and picked up supplies they were low on before making their way to the Shack as they called it. Which was but it more resembled a lot of badly built housing around to make room for the other orphans that lived there. It wasn't an Orphanage thankfully,they heard of wretched rumours to what happened to kids that lived in the real orphanages. The others were out currently which was fine by Finn who was dead tired from todays bout of work.
"Where do you think they are off to? Ethan said, sitting on his cot which was next to Finn's.
"I don't know, they're probably stealing again. Or getting in a fight with one of those posh kids. Either way the usually come back all right, so no need to be too worried."
"Your probably right, but I'm not getting a good feeling today Finn. I mean that beam nearly squished us like bugs today, and with our luck that always mean something bad is going to happen." Ethan said with a whiny tone.
Finn had lived with Ethan since the day he was found in the Alleyway a little cut up, and at a loss to most of his memories. Except a blurred one of his parents faces, and then a blurry flash of A samurai holding a bloodied katana with a large amount of blood on the floor. Finn shook at the thought, but over the ten years he had spent with Ethan he had come to know him as an overly superstitious boy, who worried to much sometimes, but was a loyal friend who would throw his life away for just about anyone he called a friend.
"Well if that's how you feel than you can go find em. I'm going to read a little then go to bed." Finn Yawned falling onto his less than comfortable cot.
"Of course, its been a long day."
"Alright then, I'm going head out for a bit catch some of the nice night air for myself then."
"Alright, tell me if you find a cheap, cheap book,"
"You and your books, you know the others and I were hoping that with all the reading your doing you will get really smart, and a better job so we can all live in a much better place." Ethan said making Finn laugh.
"Don't get your hopes up to much, but I will try." Finn said," Enjoy your night Ethan."
Time passed quickly for Finn as he sat alone vividly reading his book, until he fell sleep took him an hour or so later bringing him into a realm of nightmares of the Samurai cutting down his friends, and chasing him through the streets of London. Its face hidden behind behind a dark mask, but strange glow from where its eyes should be. Finn found himself balancing on steel beams many feet above the ground the samurai catching up to him. He reached the end of the beams, and turned around, to see that blood covered sword coming at him. He took a step off and fell, only to wake up sweating, and mumbling a scream off terror.


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Germany: At the Stuttgarter Turnier in Stuttgart on July 14, Thomas Kettenring 3d (right) bested Jonas Fincke 4d and Jochen Tappe 1d placed third. Netherlands: Sjoerd Koolen 2d took the District Groningen tournament on July 13 with Heike de Rijk 1k in second and Frenk Arnold 1k in third. Czech Republic: The Moyo Open finished July 14 in Pardubice with Pavol Lisy 6d in first, Ondrej Silt 6d in second, and Jan Prokop 5d in third.
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Monday July 22, 2013
Germany: At the Stuttgarter Turnier in Stuttgart on July 14, Thomas Kettenring 3d (right) bested Jonas Fincke 4d and Jochen Tappe 1d placed third. Netherlands: Sjoerd Koolen 2d took the District Groningen tournament on July 13 with Heike de Rijk 1k in second and Frenk Arnold 1k in third. Czech Republic: The Moyo Open finished July 14 in Pardubice with Pavol Lisy 6d in first, Ondrej Silt 6d in second, and Jan Prokop 5d in third.
The Power Report: Kobayashi Satoru Wins His First Igo Masters Cup; Yuki Reaches Third Round of Mlily Championship
Sunday July 21, 2013
by John Power, Japan Correspondent for the American Go E-Journal
Kobayashi Satoru Wins His First Igo Masters Cup: The final of the 3rd Igo Masters Cup, which is open to players 50 years and older who have won a top-seven title or who are doing well in the prize-money rankings, featured a clash between former Kisei Kobayashi Satoru 9P and Ishii Kunio 9P, who was hoping to win his first official title. These days Ishii is best known as the nurturer of the extraordinary talent of Iyama Yuta. Kobayashi, taking black, won by 1.5 points.
Yuki Reaches Third Round of Mlily Championship: The Mlily World Weiqi Open Championship is yet another Chinese-sponsored international tournament. We reported earlier on the results in the first round (Mlily Cup Preliminaries 5/25/2013 EJ). Yuki Satoshi 9P was the only Japanese representative to survive that round. He also did well in the second round, defeating Li 1-dan of China. In the round of 16, Yuki will be matched against Wang Xi 9-dan of China. We don't have full details, but the second round was yet another triumph for China, which won 13 games to two wins for Korea and one for Japan. Among the 13 Chinese players going on to the next round are such prominent players as Gu Li, Kong Jie, Hu Yaoyu, and Zhou Ruiyang. The two Korean players are Ch'oe Ch'eol-han and Cho Han-sung. Yi Se-tol was eliminated in this round. There are rumors of a best-of-ten match between Yi and Gu Li, but, if true, the timing is not good for Yi, as he seems to have passed his peak.
Google Adwords Boosts AGF Traffic 500%
Sunday July 21, 2013
The American Go Foundation has seen a 500% increase in website traffic since setting up a Google AdWords account in May, reports project manager Roy Laird. "We were doing okay, with roughly 500 unique visitors per month, but then we learned that as a 501c3, we qualified for Google Nonprofit status, allowing us to run up to $330 worth of AdWords messages per day. Now fewer than 100 visitors per day is a slow day. More than 2,600 people visited in the month of June alone." Laird says that the goal for now is to generate "click-thrus" – people clicking the ad and coming to the AGF website. When the entire $330/day budget is fully utilized, he says the goal will be to reduce the "bounce rate" – targeting more carefully so fewer people visit and then leave immediately. "In a typical pre-AdWords month, 200 or so of our visitors would indicate interest by looking at more than one page. In June – our first complete month with the campaign – more than 650 people liked what they saw enough to explore further." The ads, which appear as text blurbs on the right of Google searches, are triggered by searching for "key words" that relate to the topic one is searching for. The ads can link to any page on the site, but the primary goal is to teach people to play through the Learn to Play page," said Laird, "we're not selling the AGF, we're selling go." Finding key words that will lead to people actually clicking on the link can be challenging, and Laird says he was surprised at the effectiveness of some unusual approaches. "Someone suggested the puzzle angle, so we created an ad about 'The Ultimate Puzzle', which has attracted more than 450 hits in the past month, more than any other ad. Surely there are some other killer out-of-the-box ideas out there. Send them to email@example.com, and help us grow American go!" Laird thanked Steve Colburn for letting the AGF know they were eligible for Google Non-Profit status. - Paul Barchilon
Brits "Members-Only" Website Move Sparks Debate
Sunday July 21, 2013
A plan to move previously public material into a "members only" section of the British Go Association's (BGA) website has sparked controversy. BGA president Jon Diamond recently announced that the the Association's policies, minutes, and ratings would be moved to the new Members-Only section of the site, which would also include material not previously available on the site, including online versions of recent editions of the quarterly British Go Journal (BGJ) and annual accounts. The announcement of the plan to increase the value of BGA membership was made in an article in the BGJ's latest issue, sparking a heated discussion on Gotalk, with the ratings move clearly the most hotly-debated. One poster characterized making the ratings list accessible only to members as "counter-productive," another appealed for the Organisers' Handbook to remain public, while another pointed out that much of the data about British players is already readily available on the European Go Database. Others, however, thought the move didn't go far enough, suggesting that full tournament results should be available only to members. The "explosion of correspondence" prompted BGA Treasurer Toby Manning to appeal to participants in the debate to send him a brief summary of their views so that he can prepare a condensed report for the BGA Council's consideration. Diamond tells the E-Journal that he expects to have a final determination this week about what will be moved to the Members-Only section. While American Go Association currently has no similar plans, AGA President Andy Okun says that the question of how to maximize membership value has been discussed previously, noting that, for example, game commentaries are distributed only in the E-Journal's Member's Edition.
- Tony Collman, British correspondent for the E-Journal
Your Move/Readers Write: File under "How Cool Is This!?"
Sunday July 21, 2013
"This issue (7/21 EJ) gets filed under 'How Cool Is This!?'" writes Jean de Maiffe. "Pairing go and music satisfies two of my longtime pleasures, and as an old go teacher, I am especially delighted with the children's day camp information. Three cheers for go organizers and go teachers everywhere!"
Iyama Retains Honinbo Title With 4.5-Point Win in Game 7
Saturday July 20, 2013
In the end, Iyama Yuta 9P's hold on the Honinbo title came down to 4.5 points. That was Iyama's margin of victory over Takao Shinji 9P in the final game of the 68th Honinbo title, which concluded on July 18 at 7:42p after 262 moves in Hadano, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. This is the third time in three years that the Honinbo has gone the full 7-game distance, including last year when Iyama took the title from Yamashita Keigo 9P. Iyama and Takao began their grueling duel in mid-May with Iyama winning the first game. Takao quickly made up the loss by controlling the next two games. However, Iyama (right) was not intimidated and fought back in games four and five, giving himself a chance to capture the match in game six, but Takao quickly extinguished those hopes in just 194 moves to set up yet another dramatic final game for the match. In the decisive seventh game (left), Iyama, taking black, used almost half of his eight-hour time allowance during the first day alone. When Takao sealed the move (W74) at 5:07p on July 17, he had four hours and forty-eight minutes remaining while his opponent only had four hours and five minutes. At 9a the next morning, the tricky sealed move was revealed and
"[changed] the flow of the game," according to live game commentator Rin Kanketsu 7P. Yet up until move 70, either player could have taken the title. It was white's tenuki at move 82 that was the crucial misstep that allowed black to secure thickness and give Iyama the advantage. White attempted to complicate the game at move 92 but Iyama stayed unfazed through the endgame and claimed victory with only two minutes left on his clock. In a post-game interview, Iyama said he felt fortunate to have held on to the title after such a challenging series. Takao felt lucky he made it to the end but was disappointed in his own performance. Since his most recent Honinbo title in 2007, Takao has tried to "reclaim the crown" three times to no avail. Iyama, on the other hand, holds five of the seven major Japanese titles (Kisei, Honinbo, Tengen, Oza, and Gosei) and also won the 25th Asian TV Cup at the end of June, proving his international prowess.
- Annalia Linnan, based on a more detailed report — including more photos and game records — on Go Game Guru; photos courtesy Go Game Guru
Congress Registration Nears 400, Pentathlon & Teacher's Workshop Added
Saturday July 20, 2013
Registration for this year's US Go Congress is nearing 400, including 22 professional go players. The Congress runs August 3-11 in Tacoma, WA. Among the highlights are the Pentathlon, a new event "for the truly dedicated competitors" that includes the US Open, 9×9, 13×13, lightning, and self-paired tournaments. Also new this year is the Teacher's Workshop, which will provide teachers with a certificate that will identify them as officially recognized AGA Go Teachers. Takemiya Masaki 9P will lead a session on "The teaching game," and Lee Dahye 4P, a specialist in teaching teachers in Korea, will run several sessions on teaching single digit kyu players. "Many of us have taught someone to play; now is the time to learn how to do it better," says Congress Director Chris Kirschner. "The original theme of aiming just at beginners has been left in the dust," adds workshop director Bill Camp. Anyone may attend any of the 16 workshop sessions, but only registered participants earn a certificate; click here for details and to sign up.
photo: Kirschner models the 2013 Congress t-shirt; photo by Phil Straus
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Lebron and Wade resorted to the shake & bake late to shake the Mav's tonight! The #2 Miami Heat took game 1 of the NBA Finals, 92-84, over the #3 Dallas Mavericks! Mav's Dirk Nowitski showed up and Josh Terry got stuffed! Lebron threw it down And 1 and Wade blocked a shot and caught Lebron on an alley-oop – sky! Mav's Jason Kidd connected And 1 alley-oop style with Tyson Chandler! Chris Bosh was on point had a sick put-back and Lebron beat the buzzer to beat the end of the third quarter! The Heat clamped down and dominated game 1! Check out the highlight reel and spectacular plays below!
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This lovely little stream curves a hundred different ways through a thousand different compositions here between Queenstown and Arrowtown. I've walked along only a small part of it, and I look forward to doing it a lot more. It's here on The Hills golf course, and I've lost a total of two golfballs in here so far. More soon to come.- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
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What should cellular, pay TV and broadband services cost?
A familiar refrain among consumers is that cellular, pay TV, and broadband are overpriced. But if you take a look at the cost of providing some of these services, plot them against demand and usage patterns, and consider some of the unique aspects of the North America market and geography, a different picture emerges. So here's my take, in terms of what looks reasonable from the perspective of the consumer, and service providers' requirement to operate a viable business. Cellular The 'base price' is typically $15-20 per line, which includes unlimited domestic voice and text. The amount of 4G data is now the main variable, or 'currency'. For standalone users, prevailing prices are in the $10 per GB range. The best deals are on volume or family/shared plans, where pricing is $4-5 per GB, and as low as $3 per GB. This is 40-60% less than it was three years ago.
So, what should it cost? Well, consider that usage has been rising on average 50% per year, that operators are consistently spending 15-20% of revenues on capex to keep up with this demand, and have to pay billions of dollars to the government to get more spectrum "supply". One should also consider the challenges of relatively low population density in the U.S., compared to parts of Europe and Asia, which make it more expensive to provide network coverage and capacity.
The biggest trouble with broadband pricing in the U.S. is that most people don't know what they're actually paying for broadband, because it's often part of a "triple play" type service that typically includes pay TV and landline phone. Try to 'unbundle', and broadband pricing that looked like $50-60 per month turns into $80 per month. That's too high…and it is also starting to subsidize pay TV.
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A proposal to protect consumers' privacy by limiting broadband providers' ability to serve targeted ads "overshoots the mark," says Jon Leibowitz, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission.
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His comments come in response to an FCC proposal to prohibit broadband providers from using data about consumers' Web activity for ad-targeting purposes without their opt-in consent. Those rules would only apply to Internet service providers, and not "edge providers" — meaning companies that offer Web content or services, like Google, Facebook, Netflix and ad networks.
With 5G, Verizon could be anyone's crazy-fast home broadband provider – CNET
Verizon CEO says there's no reason why FiOS, now only available in the Northeast, couldn't go nationwide with a fixed wireless service.
A majority of the nation has probably never heard of FiOS, Verizon's broadband and video service. With super-fast 5G wireless technology, that could change.
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam entertained the idea that FiOS, which is only available in the Northeast, could go nationwide. But instead of a physical line going into your house, the connection would be via the next-generation 5G technology the company is developing.
The ultimate promise of 5G is to have that super-fast connection everywhere you go, known as true mobile broadband. But most in the industry believe that won't occur until 2020, when the mobile industry settles on consistent standards. But Verizon and AT&T have both said they would move quicker, opting to deploy a fixed mobile broadband service, offering you high speeds in a single location like your home.
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With Charter Communications' $78 billion mega-deal to acquire Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks in the rear-view mirror, Charter President and CEO Tom Rutledge said he'll look to provide more options for broadband Internet service by focusing on telephone company providers as opposed to overbuilding its cable capabilities.
Rutledge made his remarks Thursday at the MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit in New York, according to trade journal Multichannel News.
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MARIANSKE LAZNE, Czech Republic (AP) Hannah Kearney of the United States won the dual moguls events in a freestyle skiing World Cup on Saturday.
Kearney defeated Jennifer Heil of Canada and Chloe Dufour-Lapointe of Canada was third.
Kearney leads the World Cup overall standing with three events remaining.
Olympic champion Alexandre Bilodeau defeated fellow Canadian Mikael Kingsbury in the final race to win the men's event. Jeremy Cota of the United States was third.
Guilbaut Colas of France tops the overall standings.
Christof Innerhofer wins super-combined; Ligety finishes 4th
BANSKO, Bulgaria -- Christof Innerhofer produced a strong super-G run to win Saturday's World Cup super-combined race narrowly ahead of Felix Neureuther of Germany.
The 26-year-old Italian, who won the super-G world title two weeks ago, finished 11th in the slalom earlier Saturday but recovered to win in 2 minutes, 23.87 seconds.
"I am really happy. Over the last couple of years my coach repeatedly tells me that super-G is my discipline," Innerhofer said. "Guess he is right since this is my second gold in two weeks."
Neureuther was only 0.01 seconds behind, while Thomas Mermillod Blondin of France finished third, 0.33 seconds back.
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Christof Innerhofer of Italy takes 1st place during the Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Men's Super Combined on Saturday in Bansko, Bulgaria.
It was Blondin's first ever podium of his career and a major boost after a hand injury at the end of last year prevented him qualifying for the world championships.
Jean-Baptiste Grange of France led after the slalom but crashed early in the super-G and did not finish. Initial reports said he had a minor bruise to the thumb and will be fit for Sunday's two slalom races.
Croatia's Ivica Kostelic, who has already wrapped up the World Cup title for the discipline, was fifth.
Giant slalom world champion Ted Ligety of the United States matched his career best super-combined result by finishing fourth, 0.5 seconds back.
"I didn't feel like I had the greatest slalom in the world, but my super-G run was pretty good. It was a pretty giant slalom friendly super-G hill, so that worked out well for me," Ligety said.
Teammate Tim Jitloff was eighth — his best result in two years — and Colby Granstrom just missed scoring his first World Cup points when he finished 31st, despite posting the 15th fastest slalom run.
"Jitloff did a hell of a job in the first run of slalom, skied clean and moved with the terrain well. It was a rough course. It held up but was rough with changing snow conditions," U.S. team head coach Sasha Rearick said.
Morgenstern beats Kofler to win ski jumping gold
OSLO, Norway -- Thomas Morgenstern landed a 107-meter second jump to win gold over fellow Austrian Andreas Kofler at the Nordic world skiing championships on Saturday.
Kofler put pressure on his teammate with a 105-meter jump in the final round on the normal hill at Holmenkollen.
But Morgenstern, a four-time team world champion, nailed the longest jump of the day to seal Austria's first gold medal at the worlds.
Adam Malysz of Poland took bronze, finishing 4.6 points clear of Swiss Olympic champion Simon Ammann.
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Today in the Word, March 16, 1993
Dr. Ian Munro, a plastic surgeon at the University of Toronto, is one of a handful of doctors in the world who can take apart and then rebuild the skulls of infants with Crouzon's disease. The head of a child who suffers from this condition becomes so misshapen that it puts extreme pressure on the brain, ultimately causing retardation. The painful operation often involves breaking as many as 90 percent of the patient's skull and facial bones, but who would argue that retardation is preferable to surgery?


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Don't you hate it when your rich bachelor uncle is all, "Hey, you better pump out some kids, man." And you're all, "Whatever." And he's all, "Oh, really!" And you're all, "Did I stutter?" And he's all like, "Well, fine. I'm taking your inheritance away!" And then your rich uncle goes around wooing young widows with lines such as, "Yo, my nephew sucks, but you got all your teeth and I got all this money." Don't you just hate it when that happens?
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Around pounds 63m of taxpayers' money is spent each year on educational research. A good deal of this research is, broadly speaking, sociological. Much of it is "poor value for money in terms of improving the quality of education provided in schools". The comment is not mine. This is the professor of education at the University of Cambridge, David Hargreaves, speaking. In his view, much of the educational research published today is "frankly second-rate". It neither helps teachers nor makes "a serious contribution to fundamental theory or knowledge". It simply "clutters up academic journals which virtually nobody reads".
I agree. I used to try to read these journals. I have given up. Life is too short. There is too much to do in the real world with real teachers in real schools to worry about methodological quarrels or to waste time decoding unintelligible prose to reach (if one is lucky) a conclusion often so transparently partisan as to be worthless.
The Office for Standards in Education will be publishing a study of educational research undertaken for us by James Tooley, senior research fellow at Manchester University School of Education. Tooley concludes: "Not only was much of the research `partisan' in nature, ... but this was actively condoned by influential researchers. Many of the papers reviewed raised severe doubts about methodology, in particular over the issues of sample size, the reporting of how samples were selected, and the difficulties inherent in the conduct and reporting of qualitative research. Much theoretical research was of dubious value, in particular that concerned with unquestioning adulation of particular `great' thinkers. Finally, the focus of educational research raised some cause for concern, particularly the lack of attention paid to the way learning and access could be improved for young people."
Tooley is careful to state that some educational research is of high intellectual quality and of both theoretical and practical interest. But too much is not. Do we really need research into "how schools, as patriarchal institutions that are ideologically and culturally heterosexual, create and maintain a set of inequitable circumstances that exercise a level of control over the `private' lives of lesbian teachers"? What about papers premised on unthinking acceptance of the belief, held by Professor Stephen Ball of King's College, London, that the Conservative government's reforms were driven by the wish that schools should be "run and managed like businesses with a primary focus on the profit and loss account"? Do they really add to our understanding of how the development of an educational market can, for better or worse, influence what happens in schools?
These are not extreme examples picked to caricature the truth. They are taken from Tooley's stratified sample of articles selected from the prestigious British Journal of Sociology of Education.
So why has the quality of what is written declined so much? I think there are two explanations.
The first is something that government could do something about. It is that the expansion of higher education, coupled with the demand that every academic institution produce more research, has resulted in a lot of nonsense being published.
The second explanation is even more controversial. It is that the sociology of education is a subject without a future. On one hand, as I fear recent history shows, sociological researchers can go further and further down the ethnomethodological road, probing the interaction of everyday life in ever more minute detail; on the other, they can struggle to develop ever more complex and abstruse theories that purport to offer macro-explanations of what happens in our educational institutions. Neither possibility is likely to generate much that is of intellectual interest or, indeed, practical use.
There is, perhaps, a third way. This is to recognise that the future lies, if it lies anywhere, in rediscovering the importance of historical perspective; in the patient application of disciplines such as economics and philosophy to the understanding of our education system; in suspending political and professional prejudice; and above all, in a return to what was once the classical terrain: issues, that is, concerning social class and educability and schools as social systems.
The Department for Education is about to embark on its own review. All of us who care about education and who worry about the misuse of public funds must hope that it manages to eliminate at least some of the worst examples.
Chris Woodhead is Her Majesty's chief inspector of schools. An edited version of this article appeared in the `New Statesman' last month.
How can our Chief Inspector make decisions that affect the schooling of every child, without keeping up to date on the findings of academic journals?
Education research is the Chief Inspector's latest target. We must be grateful that so important a person can spare the time to make judgements on the subject, never mind that he finds it wanting. In fact, it's worse than that; he finds it irrelevant and substandard. In fact, Mr Woodhead lays into education research in no uncertain terms - dross, dismal quality, transparently partisan, worthless. Ouch!
The evidence to justify such judgements must be very strong indeed. It is a pity he does not set it out more clearly. Academics and researchers have a convention that conclusions must be demonstrably based on evidence. But finding the evidence in this account is difficult.
In the first place, he does not read academic journals. "Life is too short," he says. I quite agree. If you are trying to run an innovative inspection system, tackle the national curriculum and sort out teacher training, reading research journals can hardly be a priority. But refusing to read them does, of course, cut you off from one source of evidence about the quality of educational research. So what other sources of evidence does the Chief Inspector draw upon? Surprisingly, given the emphatic judgements he delivers, they are a little thin. First, he refers to an unpublished study based on reading selected articles from just three journals. Then he quotes from two Oxbridge professors. And that seems to be it.
How are we to respond to this? All of us want the best possible education for our children and our communities. Achieving it is a challenge to all and that includes researchers and inspectors, in their different roles. School reform, if it is to be effective, needs to be based on the best possible understanding of schooling and its many contexts. We can ill afford a cavalier attitude to evidence. If you think research is expensive, try ignorance.
The Chief Inspector illustrates his dismissal of education research with examples that make it look esoteric and irrelevant. He insists that these are not extreme examples. That's as may be, but a different set of examples gives a very different picture. Here is an alternative selection of topics in recent journal articles: comparing different methods of instruction for acquiring information skills; responses to educational change in primary school; computer-based problem solving, fall-back in attainment on transfer at age 11; evaluating resources for post-16 science education; competence in professional practice; differential achievement of boys and girls at GCSE; introduction of school-administered teacher training; primary teachers' confidence about teaching science and technology; training to develop team work in schools. The list could go on.
The Chief Inspector could be forgiven for not being aware of such articles, since on his own admission he does not read journals. What is more unsettling, however, is that somebody who would judge education research seems to think that academic journals are the principal outlet for research findings. This is not the case. What of all the reports and pamphlets, tests, guidelines for practice, lectures, workshops and press pieces by which research findings are routinely disseminated?
Let me offer a few examples of NFER reports. They cover topics such as: raising attainment in secondary schools, strategies for dealing with disaffected pupils, introducing scientific concepts to children; impact of the special needs code of practice in schools and LEAs, industrial monitoring in schools; guide to post-inspection planning; IT for pupils with special needs in mainstream schools, education of children looked after by the LEAS; parents' views of pre-school establishments. Hardly esoteric, and probably not too far from anybody's list of the key educational topics of the day. We also produce TOPIC, a series of short, helpful articles directly addressed to teachers and what they do, but based on research findings.
This is just a small selection of our recent output. The NFER is not alone in this. Many other institutions are producing relevant and well researched reports which challenge those who say that education research lacks relevance.
Education research - like school inspection - is not perfect, and could do better. There are very few of us engaged in it who do not want to improve it. We are not complacent, nor do we reject well-founded criticism. We welcome the review of education research being conducted under the auspices of the DfEE so long as it is an objective enquiry based on a proper assembly of facts and dispassionate analysis. It will be less likely to give easy sound-bites than one person's musings, but it is a better basis for policy decisions.
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