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PS Store revamp: Sony and the stay-at-home shopper
As Sony rolls out its new-look PS Store, Stace Harman speaks to those involved with its redesign to find out how it's going to help rather than hinder those that want to spend money.
"The reality of the store is that it has such breadth, with over 1,000 full games, 8,000 add-ons and 20,000 pieces of game content, that we got to the point where consumers would turn up at the old store and feel, like, 'Well, where do I get stuff?'"
The PlayStation Store has never boasted the most inviting of shop fronts, nor provided the most intuitive shopping experience. Were it a bricks and mortar high street store, it would be shunned by many passers-by who would wonder aloud at how such a shop could remain in business. Certainly, with its minimalist window display, curious pricing, inconsistent stock policies and baffling catalogue system, the PS Store can feel more like a perverse sociological experiment than a place designed to help you spend money.
The redesigned PS Store, which has now finally launched in both the US and Europe after being delayed from original October release dates, aims to address two of these issues straight out of the gate. Both the aesthetic layout and the search and filtering tools have been given a much needed overhaul, details of which can be found in an extended news piece from last week, when VG247 was amongst a handful of press outlets to be invited to Sony's London offices for a sneak peak.
The redesign is the result of extensive consumer insight studies, which have seen Sony submit numerous design materials, work-in-progress code changes and iterative store updates to shoppers and consumers in order to obtain feedback during the two-year redevelopment process. As VP for Sony Entertainment Network operations in Europe, Gordon Thornton, acknowledges it was high time that changes were made.
"The reality of the store is that it has such breadth, with over 1,000 full games, 8,000 add-ons and 20,000 pieces of game content, that we got to the point where consumers would turn up at the old store and feel, like, 'Well, where do I get stuff?'" admits Thornton.
"So, for this iteration of the store, that was the primary driving force and the key issue we're attempting to solve. Hopefully, when people feel that we've got that right, we can look at adding more features on a rolling basis and solving other potential issues."
Thornton is keen to highlight that the job is not done and dusted once the new store is rolled out. Additional design elements and functional improvements will be added on an ongoing basis every one or two months, but the initial splash is aimed at improving the basics.
"We've got a lot of features that we want to deliver but we need to get the fundamentals covered first," confirms Elliot Dumville, product development manager for PS Store Europe. "We definitely wanted to make the store more browsable, which involved talking to all different kinds of consumers to find out how they went about shopping, why were they visiting the store in the first place, how they wanted to go about finding content and how were we making them go about it."
Entering a couple of popular search terms into the old store highlights just how necessary an overhaul of the search engine logic is: "CoD" returns 283 items, including Resident Evil Code Veronica X, a smattering of items for PS Home (including a Shark Mask and a Mummy Suit) and then, if you scroll down far enough, a handful of CoD4 wallpapers and Call of Duty game content.
Meanwhile, having the gall to search for Dishonored by way of a British-English spelling returns no results at all; thankfully, both abbreviations and misspellings are accommodated by the new search logic, alongside the facility to have search results returned as you're typing.
The sum of its parts
Going forward, it is PS3 owners who will benefit most from the redesigned PS Store. There are separate, dedicated content sections for both PS Vita and PSP owners but this is primarily to ensure that PS3 owners who are browsing for PS3 content will not be bamboozled by irrelevant offerings. It's a bold move and one that, at first glance, appears to push Vita owners to the outskirts of the party. However, with the handheld's own dedicated store accessed via the console itself, it makes sense to focus on the likely interests of consumers that have arrived at the store via PS3.
"Vita is an important thing for us, but it's also important that we don't have Vita products getting in the way of the PS3 content and experience," explains Dumville. "The Vita store is going great guns and for people that use the PS3 store for Vita content, we've tried to make it as easy as possible and give them the quickest route that we can straight to all the stuff that is Vita specific.
"However, the lion's share of consumers that use the PS Store at the moment are looking for PS3 content, so we've tried to create a dedicated sub-section of the store for PS Vita users, but the real focus of Vita content will be on the Vita store."
Unfortunately, the arrival of the new-look PS Store cannot cure all the ills currently ailing European PS3 owners. To wit: while the search and filter functions have been significantly improved, they cannot locate content that simply isn't there. In recent months, unexplained discrepancies between the US and EU stores have seen PS3 owners forced to wait for highly anticipated titles including Counter-Strike and The Walking Dead. This has been made all the more galling by Europe-based 360 and PC owners not experiencing the same delays, suggesting the problem lies not with the localisation process but with Sony.
"On individual games there are different reasons for why it happens … but we'd like to assure people that we do listen and we are aware of the discussion on Twitter and on message boards and we are working with publishers to try to get that solved," assures Thornton.
"The reality of this new store is that we've been working very closely with publishers and they've been very excited by it. I think because of that, we're able to work much closer with the publishers to get the same experience for the European consumers as for the US."
With its redesigned PS Store, Sony is making a commitment to PS3 owners in the here and now, with both Thornton and Dumville adamant that the store has been designed to best serve its customers in the present, rather than preparing them for the PS4-powered future.
The redesign, alongside the recent launch of the 500Gb PS3 SKU, suggests Sony now appreciates that while physical retailers still play an integral part in the retail landscape, an increasing number of consumers desire an intelligently designed, digitally-delivered shopping experience that they can enjoy from the comfort of their sofa.


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While exploring the Timberland preserve, I stepped into a muddy bank and sank. I heard a few "plops" as the amphibians fled into the water. But then I stared down into a pair of bulging eyes on one of the biggest – and bravest - bullfrogs I had ever seen. He didn't move. I didn't move. And you aren't going to want to move when you see the natural beauty that is Timberland.
The 600-acre preserve in the northern portion of town is home to more than 15 miles of trails – many of them snaking around the beautiful Upper Lake, past the pristine Iron Stream and through the valley of Maupus Brook. The preserve – managed by the town's conservation commission and volunteers – has level, easy-to-follow trails marked with blue, green, orange, red, violet, white and yellow blazes.
The highlight of my visit was exploring the trails around the lake, stream and brook, which traverse the wild and untouched southwestern and southern portions of Timberland. The other portions of the preserve pass through the woods, connected by old logging roads.
Although there are about a dozen entrances to the trail system, I selected the Upper Lake dam entrance. The relatively undeveloped lake – there are several houses along its southeastern shores – is incredibly beautiful with its small, forested islands and mats of water lilies, but there aren't too many viewing areas along the western shoreline unless you travel right along the banks or high on a rocky knoll.
But once you get to the yellow- and red-blazed trails along the northern and eastern banks of the lake, the views are stunning. There are a number of picturesque coves where water enters through inlets lined with boulders and pine trees. At the northern tip of the lake is a huge boulder where visitors can sit and watch dragonflies dancing on the wind or ducks floating between the pond lilies.
Another highlight is exploring the banks and bed of Iron Stream, a pristine state-designated "Class A" trout stream that turns a bit mysterious in the summer. It becomes almost a "ghost" river with water flowing underneath huge boulders blackened by the waterflow and dried-up weeds hanging from the rocks. Although you hear the water, you have to search for the source under the boulders. When it does go aboveground, the sunlight escaping through the canopy of trees sparkles off the pebbles as fish dart past.
The trails that pass through the valley of Maupas Brook travel through the oldest forest within Timberland. Huge white pines and ledges, as well as a neat view out across the Guilford Lakes Golf Course, are the highlights of this journey. For those who want to see it all, take the four-mile white-blazed trail that traverses the entire perimeter as well as the heart of Timberland.
The bullfrogs shouldn't be the only ones enjoying the incredible views.
There are numerous parking areas for Timberland. To reach the Upper Lake trailhead take Route 80 to Twin Bridge Road. Take a right on North Madison Road and a right on Lakeside Drive and follow to the parking area near the dam. Visit http://www.ci.guilford.ct.us/board-commissions/pdf/conservation-timberlandmap.pdf for a map of the area. GPS coordinates for the parking area: 41.336619-72.681588.
Peter Marteka may be reached at 860-647-5365 or at email@example.com or The Courant, 200 Adams St., Manchester, CT 06040.

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BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – The big man – and at 6-foot-4, Sean Johnson certainly is a big man – stands in Section 8 and hears the cheer get louder.
Sean-Johnson. Clap-clap, clap-clap-clap. Sean-Johnson. Clap-clap, clap-clap-clap.
Johnson looks happy. And why shouldn't he? The Fire's rookie goalie just made seven saves – several of which were highlight-reel caliber – to preserve a 0-0 draw against the star-studded New York Red Bulls.
Still, he couldn't have been expecting this reception. After all, it's not often that Section 8 serenades any player – let alone a rookie goalie that just finished his second career MLS game. But that didn't matter. This sort of thing is better as a surprise anyway.
Not that Johnson is surprised with how he's been playing. Since taking over the starting job from Andrew Dykstraon July 17, the Fire's confident 21-year-old has been lights out. He has given up a measly three goals in four competitive matches. Two of those tallies were Landon Donovan penalty kicks – as automatic a goal as there is in MLS.
But Johnson's emergence didn't happen overnight. In fact, it almost didn't even happen at all.
For a while, it looked like Johnson's soccer career wouldn't extend beyond high school. The Atlanta-area native – who played forward for school and 'keeper on club – wasn't recruited by any colleges until his senior season, when he switched club teams and was spotted by scouts at a tournament.
"I wasn't too familiar with the college process," Johnson told MLSsoccer.com on Thursday. "I didn't join a good club team until I was a junior and I started getting recruited as a senior during tournaments during my first semester. I eventually committed to the [University of Central Florida] in the second semester of my senior year, which [was] later than everyone else."
A pair of injuries to UCF's two other 'keepers forced Johnson into the starting lineup on Day 1 of his college career. He played all but 45 seconds in goal his freshman year and – for the most part – he did well.
But Johnson really broke out during his sophomore season, when tallied five shutouts en route to being named team MVP. Most impressively, Johnson began to receive call-ups to the US Under-20 National Team, which – at the time – was attempting to qualify for the 2009 U-20 World Cup.
Johnson began to receive so many call-ups to the U-20s that he decided to put his junior season at UCF on hold. He told his coach that he would be taking a semester off to focus on preparing for the U-20 World Cup, which – having successfully qualified for – the US would be taking part in.
"I made a decision to leave because of the 20s," Johnson said. "I got the opportunity to go to the U-20 World Cup qualifiers, but it took up a lot of time. There are a lot of camps. I didn't really want to miss school and have my GPA suffer, so I told my coach that I was going to take off a semester.
"Then we qualified for the World Cup and kept rolling and I was like, 'I'm going to be gone for a good bit during the World Cup, so I'll just take off another one.'"
When the U-20 World Cup came to a close in October of 2009, Johnson had a decision to make: return to UCF and continue playing college soccer or turn professional. He decided to go pro, training with the PDL's Atlanta Blackhawks before signing a Generation Adidas contract with MLS in January 2010.
"I just thought it was a good fit," Johnson said of turning pro. "I felt that I was ready and if I wanted to play on the next level I needed to get myself in that environment as quickly as possible.
"We weren't that successful in the U-20 World Cup [the US team went 1-2 and failed to make it out of the group stage; Johnson didn't play], but we had great training while we were there and being in and around a pro environment all year I felt ready to make the move."
Soon after he signed his Generation Adidas deal, the Fire took Johnson with the 51st overall pick of the MLS SuperDraft. He came into Chicago behind Jon Busch and Dykstra on the depth chart but rose to No. 2 when Busch was unexpectedly released less than a week prior to the start of the MLS season.
But Johnson had to wait his turn to see the field. He got his first crack at starting on May 19, when the Fire took on Paris-Saint Germain in the Chicago Sister Cities Cup.
He didn't play as well as he would've liked and didn't get another chance to start until June 29, when the Fire took on the Charleston Battery in the US Open Cup. He played well in that game, shutting out the Battery for 120 minutes before the Fire fell to the USL-2 side in penalty kicks.
But the starting job was still Dykstra's. And it seemed it would remain that way. Then, after Dykstra let in five goals in the SuperLiga opener against Monarcas Morelia, Johnson got another shot.
Fire head coach Carlos de los Cobos started the rookie in the Fire's SuperLiga match against New England. Though Johnson gave up one goal against the Revs, he performed well enough to earn the start in Chicago's SuperLiga finale against Pumas UNAM three days later.
That match is when Johnson took control. He shutout Pumas en route to a 1-0 victory (his first professional win), making several key saves and playing with a confident swagger previously unseen from the Generation Adidas player.
Then came the Aug. 1 match in Los Angeles. Johnson started the game – his first MLS appearance – and played magnificently, making several big time saves.
None topped his 85th-minute diving stop of forward Alan Gordon's header. The improbable save – which was voted Save of the Week – preserved Chicago's 3-2 advantage and handed LA their first MLS home loss of the season.
"It was good," Johnson said of his performance against the Galaxy. "My job is to try my best to keep the team in it and give them the chance to earn those three points [and I think I did that against LA]."
Johnson followed that stellar performance by stealing the show in the aforementioned match against New York. For the second straight week, Johnson made multiple unbelievable saves. His most impressive stop came in the 91st minute, when he dove to his left to parry Juan Pablo Angel's header wide of the post.
WATCH: Johnson denies Ángel late in game
The save – which won Johnson his second straight Save of the Week award – highlighted the tremendous progress Johnson has made since he first appeared for the Fire against PSG.
"I think the biggest thing is how quick he's learned from the Paris Saint-Germain game to now," Fire goalkeeping coach Aron Hyde said Wednesday. "He's a very quick learner. I think it's showed in some of the saves that he's made.
"He seems to carry himself more like a 40-year-old than a 21-year-old," Hyde said of Johnson. "I give him a lot of credit for that. He doesn't let anything faze him; he's been excellent."
And while he certainly hears all the praise, Johnson knows he has a long way to go. Two good MLS games don't make a career, and the big 'keeper understands that his recent emergence won't count for anything if he doesn't consistently perform.
"Consistency is probably the most important thing," Johnson said. "Whether it's in training, in games, or what you're doing off the field I think you try to maintain a certain standard and carry that over to the games. Week in and week out you try not to drop your level."
Sam Stejskal covers the Chicago Fire for MLSsoccer.com. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow him on Twitter @samstejskal.


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Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (Mont.) receive $400K for assessment of contaminated sites
Release Date: 05/08/2013
Contact Information: U.S. EPA: Richard Mylott, 303-312-6654; Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes: Rich Janssen, 406-883-2888
(Denver. Colorado—May 8, 2013) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation as the recipient of $400,000 in Brownfields assessment grants. Today's announcement is part of $62 million in EPA Brownfields funds awarded to 240 grant recipients across the nation to assess, clean up and redevelop contaminated properties.
"EPA Brownfields grants open doors by helping communities transform blighted properties into public and economic assets," said EPA acting regional administrator, Howard Cantor. "These investments will address contamination and create new opportunities for people to live, play, and do business."
The community-wide hazardous substances and petroleum grant funds will be used to conduct a dozen or more environmental site assessments at properties that have been identified as priorities by the Tribes. These sites include former gas stations, dumps and junk yards, and mill sites where soil and groundwater contamination are obstacles to redevelopment.
There are an estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated sites in the United States. Under EPA's Brownfields program, more than 20,000 properties have been assessed, and more than 850 properties have been cleaned up. EPA's Brownfields investments have also leveraged more than $19 billion in overall cleanup and redevelopment funding from public and private sources. On average $17.79 is leveraged for every EPA Brownfields grant dollar spent. These investments resulted in approximately 87,000 jobs nationwide. When Brownfields are addressed, nearby property values can increase 2-3 percent.
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By some counts, 14 teams have expressed interest in Peyton Manning since the Indianapolis Colts cut him Tuesday night. Of those, the teams considered serious contenders to land the future Hall of Famer include the Miami Dolphins, the Arizona Cardinals, the Seattle Seahawks, The Washington Redskins, the Houston Texans, and in somewhat of a surprise, the Denver Broncos.
Reportedly, Manning is visiting Denver Friday and will make subsequent visits to Phoenix and Miami. Manning says he wants to make his decision within a week, and it seems he has his pick.
He has a slew of factors to weigh when choosing a team. Off the field, he'll want a team that will allow him enormous license in running the offense. On the field, wide receivers will be a big consideration – a quarterback, after all, needs someone to catch his passes. But this late in his career, just as important may be a good offensive line that can protect him.
"At this stage, I'd say that the O-line is more important to him than the receivers," says Mike Tanier, a contributor to The New York Times Fifth Down blog and a staff writer at FootballOutsiders.com. "You can make the receivers better. That's what he was doing the last three years in Indianapolis. But he knows that to make the receivers look good he's got to be upright."
True, Manning was working behind a terrible offensive line in his last year with the Colts, and a line that was perhaps only average before that (as with the receivers, Peyton made them look better than they were). Furthermore, he gets rid of the ball so quickly that he's rarely in danger of being sacked.
But essential to his success is a smart center, since centers are generally responsible for calling out protection schemes at the line. Unusually, Manning often changes the protection schemes himself, meaning he will need a center who can keep up with his football mind.
And, quick release or not, he's likely to be more aware of the potential for injury after a year on the sidelines. But which Manning suitor can offer him the best protection?
According to Mr. Tanier, the clear winner is the Houston Texans. "They're a dark horse contender for him, but they can point to an impact dominant O-line to protect him. They made it to the second round of the playoffs with a third-string quarterback."
The Texans, he says, specialize in cut blocking, a barely legal tactic that involves blocking people at the knees. Texans head coach Gary Kubiak knows a thing or two about scary offensive lines: as the offensive coordinator for the Broncos, he helmed the intimidating Denver front that sheltered an aging John Elway to two Super Bowl victories.
Another selling point for the Texans is Pro Bowl center Chris Myers, just the sort of intelligent center Manning would probably love to work with. Myers is a free agent this offseason, but Tanier thinks the Texans will work hard to resign him.
As for the other teams in the hunt, the Seattle Seahawks O-line is a distant second, but better than many people think. They gave up a lot of sacks last year, but that may have had more to do with quarterback Tarvaris Jackson than it did with the line.
"The low sack totals are misleading," Tanier warns. "Manning isn't going to look at a sack total, he's going to look at the film. And he'll know better than I will that the Seahawks are better than they look."
What about the Dolphins, perceived by many as a Manning front-runner?
"They'll have to talk him into that one," Tanier says. The Dolphins have a good left tackle in Jake Long, and a promising rookie center in Mike Pouncey. But the Dolphins line that looked promising on paper fell apart during the season, giving up the third highest number of sacks in the league, at 52. The squad also had the fourth highest allowed hit total in the NFL, so Manning as a Dolphin might get knocked around more than he'd like.
What's more, teams with glaring issues on their offensive line will have a tough time resolving them this year. The free agent market for O-liners is fairly limited, full of what Tanier calls "veteran journeyman and second-tier question marks."
The one exception might be Manning's longtime center and good friend, Jeff Saturday.
Like Manning, Saturday has played his entire career in Indianapolis, and he is an unrestricted free agent this year. He has expressed interest in being signed as a package deal with Manning, and a club that can get a deal done with him would have a much better shot at Manning.
The Saturday, factor too, might give teams with a woeful offensive line a better shot. The Redskins, for one, have the cap room to make such a deal. Plus, Tanier says "They love spending money and they have a problem at center."
So which team, and which line, will lure Manning? The narrative is likely to change in the coming days, and the decision may come down to off-the-field factors. Still, Tanier has his prediction. "I said Seattle earlier. Bit now I'm leaning towards Houston, and the offensive line is a big part of that."


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Jam on the River announces Memorial Day Weekend line-up with Lotus, Grimace Federation and more
Philadelphia's riverside music festival Jam on the River returns to Penn's Landing on May 25th, with a stacked line-up of electronic, rock and jam bands. Headlined by Lotus, the Memorial Day Weekend event will include sets by GRiZ, Papadosio, Conspirator, Zoogma and locals Grimace Federation. Tickets go on sale this Friday, March 21st at Noon and will be available here. Check out videos of the performers below.


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Since 2006, Fun Fun Fun Fest (FFF) has given the people of Austin, Texas a reason to cheer, laugh, sing, dance, mosh and play air guitar. While not as prolific as ACL (Austin City Limits) or as expansive as SXSW, which covers most of the city, Fun Fun Fun Fest is unique in the entertainment it offers.
Although every year presents plenty of heavy acts, Napalm Death, Tomahawk, Municipal Waste and Pallbearer are scheduled on this year's Black Stage on November 2-4, there are times when distorted guitars are absent. These moments are best served taking in a comedian's act, riding a mechanical bull, playing video games or simply discovering a new band. Metal heads with wrist bands in need of further straining their neck tendons can attend a FFF Nites show for free and throw their horns to bands such as Brutal Truth.
Last year's installment brought in Danzig, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Eyehategod and many other loud and extreme artists. Danzig's set was dubbed "Danzig Legacy" because he performed shorts sets of all of his bands—Danzig, Samhain and Misfits. However, the festival was forced to cut his set short soon after launching into the Misfit's segment. His reaction caused FFF co-owner Graham Williams to blog about the fiasco, which went viral on the Internet.
Since our article containing William's comments on working with Danzig became Metal Underground.com's most read article of the year, we figure we should ask Williams a few questions concerning this debacle. Additionally, he commented on the history of FFF, his criteria for booking artists, this year's big surprises and what artists he hopes to secure for future festivals. More...


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"Last summer, IBM set up Power,org, to promote its PowerPC chip as what it called 'open hardware.' This year, Sun launched the OpenSPARC.net open source project around the source code for its Niagera microprocessor. But what does "open" mean in the context of hardware? You have to pay to participate meaningfully in Power.org, as well as pay royalties to implement - it's built on a traditional RAND consortium model. To use the Sun code, though, its just download the code under an open source license, and you're good to go to use anything except the SPARC name. All of which leads to the questions: 'what does open mean in hardware, and which approach will work?"
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Kim Schulte-Shoberg has joined University of Wisconsin-Stout as director of Business and Financial Services effective Thursday, Dec. 1.
Hotel, restaurant and tourism students awarded scholarships
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Chancellor Sorensen and Vice Chancellor Diane Moen discuss the impact on UW-Stout of state budget problems; Lucy Nicolai, Director of the Memorial Student Center, describes the remodeling plans for the building.
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Obit: Oberholtzer, Darlene (1998? - 2002)
Contact: Stan
Surnames: OBERHOLTZER HORST
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Oberholtzer, Darlene (1998? - 5 Aug 2002)
Karla Jane Oberholtzer, 6, Darlene Fern Oberholtzer, 4, and Anne Shirley Oberholtzer, 2, all of the town of Beaver, Unity, Wisconsin, died on Monday, Aug. 5, 2002, in the emergency room of Saint Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield. Visitation with family and friends will be held from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 8, at the Oberholtzer residence, W3044 County Road K, Unity. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 9, at the Pine Grove Mennonite Church, Granton. Clair Horst, Paul Wesley Oberholtzer, Virgil Martin and Ervin Schowalter will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Survivors include their parents, Philip and Shirley Oberholtzer, Unity; two sisters, Jessica Dawn Oberholtzer and Lynette Faye Oberholtzer, Unity; one brother, Wilson Aaron Oberholtzer, Unity; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Oberholtzer, Curtiss, and Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Horst, Myerstown, Pa.; a maternal great-grandmother, Lena Horst, Akron, Pa.; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. Maurina Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.
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By defeating UEFA EURO 2012 runners-up Italy 2-1 in their own back yard, a month after holding world champions Spain to a 1-1 draw, France confirmed their re-emergence as a force to be reckoned with on Wednesday.
Arguably the most impressive result of a busy night of friendlies belonged to a Zlatan Ibrahimovic-inspired Sweden, however, who beat England 4-2, courtesy of four goals from the Paris St Germain star. Argentina, meanwhile, had to content themselves with a 0-0 draw in Saudi Arabia, despite the best efforts of Lionel Messi.
FIFA.com rounds up all the action, results and goals from an intriguing evening of international duels.
The big match
Italy 1-2 France
Goals: Stephan El Shaarawy 35 (Italy); Mathieu Valbuena 37, Bafetimbi Gomis 72 (France)
France are clearly a team on an upward trajectory; after drawing with Spain in a recent FIFA World Cup™ qualifier, Les Bleus overcame a strong Italy side in Parma, and have now gone an astonishing 50 years since registering their last loss on Italian soil.
Yet it had all started so brightly for La Nazionale, who opened the scoring with a flowing move involving Andrea Barzagli, Mario Balotelli and Riccardo Montolivo, who drove forward before slipping a lovely ball through for Stephan El Shaarawy. The AC Milan forward kept his cool to slot the ball between the legs of Hugo Lloris.
The French drew level in style just two minutes later, Marseille attacker Mathieu Valbuena cutting in from the left, beating two Italian defenders and whipping an unstoppable right-foot shot into the top corner.
The equaliser brought the match to life, as play raged from one end to the other. The breakthrough finally came halfway through the second period, Jeremy Menez bursting down the line before finding Patrice Evra in space. The Manchester United man's shot, which may have been trundling wide, was poked into the net by a stretching Bafetimbi Gomis. Italy pushed hard during the final fifteen minutes, but were lucky not to concede again, as Didier Deschamps' charges continued to catch them on the counter-attack.
The other games
Goals from Danny Welbeck and Steven Caulker, who was making his international debut, appeared to have put a much-changed England team in the driving seat against Sweden in Solna. But Zlatan Ibrahimovic had other ideas, and his four goals, including a truly amazing acrobatic effort in injury time, propelled the Swedes to a memorable 4-2 triumph.
Despite the reverse, Roy Hodgson will doubtless be pleased to have had the chance to blood a handful of rising stars, and will be aware that his side are unlikely to come up against a player of Ibrahimovic's class every time.
The Netherlands and Germany played out an uninspiring 0-0 stalemate which, taking into account the numerous absences from both line-ups, is perhaps not hugely surprising.
Switzerland and Bosnia-Herzegovina both enjoyed last-gasp away victories in North Africa, versus Tunisia (2-1) and Algeria (1-0) respectively. Xherdan Shaqiri grabbed the winner for the Swiss, while Muamer Svraka did the damage for the Bosnians.
Despite a brace from Nejc Pecnik, Slovenia were unable to halt a poor run of results, losing 3-2 to Macedonia. Ukraine recorded a useful 1-0 success in Bulgaria, who have thus far impressed in FIFA World Cup qualifying. Elsewhere, Turkey and Denmark drew 1-1, Mevlut Erding and Nicklas Bendtner getting on the scoresheet, while Belgium suffered a surprising 2-1 loss in Romania, for whom Gabriel Torje scored the decisive goal from the penalty spot.
The Czech Republic saw off their Slovakian neighbours 3-0, courtesy of a double from David Lafata, in a match that featured eleven substitutions. Portugal, meanwhile, appeared to struggle without Cristiano Ronaldo in their 2-2 draw with Gabon.
Although Lionel Messi was the player expected to make headlines against Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, it was Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero who excelled on the night, pulling off numerous important saves.
Frank Rijkaard, Messi's first coach at Barcelona and now at the helm of the Green Falcons, saw his players create several golden opportunities against an off-colour South American team that only began to properly push for a winner in the final quarter of an hour. But the Saudi Arabians held on for a deserved draw, which will go down as one of their most remarkable results in recent times.
The other South American countries in action on Wednesday experienced varying fortunes. Uruguay bounced back to get the better of Poland 3-1, with Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez both contributing goals, but Chile were undone against Serbia by the same scoreline. Lazar Markovic, Filip Djordjevic and Filip Djuricic found the net for the Balkan nation.
In addition to friendly encounters, there were two European Zone FIFA World Cup qualifying matches on the fixture list. In Group H, Montenegro secured a comfortable 3-0 victory over San Marino, with Rayo Vallecano striker Andrija Delibasic netting twice. Those three points enable the Montenegrins to leapfrog England at the top of the section, with both teams now having played the same number of games.
In Group F, a David Healy goal salvaged a point for Northern Ireland in the last minute of their home clash with Azerbaijan.
The player
Zlatan Ibrahimovic appeared determined to shine in Solna, and he did exactly that and more, practically beating England singlehandedly. Clearly happy with the support he was receiving from his team-mates, Ibrahimovic was outstanding all night long, putting in a display brimming with skill and physical prowess. His fourth goal of the game, a spectacular long-range overhead kick, may well go down as one of the strikes of the season. Unless, of course, he has similar tricks up his sleeve in the near future.
The goal
Russia 1-1 United States, Michael Bradley 76
A deep cross from Maurice Edu was met with a cushioned header from Juan Agudelo, positioned just inside the box. Michael Bradley strode forward and caught the ball cleanly with a right-footed volley that soared into the net off the post. The USA would go on to secure a creditable 2-2 draw.
The stat
10 – Argentina have chalked up seven victories, two draws and just one loss in 2012, putting in performances that have oscillated between excellent and below-par. While Lionel Messi and Co can look back on impressive defeats of global heavyweights such as Germany (3-1), Brazil (4-3) and Uruguay (3-0), they have also been forced to share the spoils with more modest opponents like Peru (1-1) and Saudi Arabia (0-0) as well as suffering a 2-1 loss to Brazil.
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The Canadian funnyman, who stars in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, admitted he wants to satisfy his creative streak with his works.
"I've had periods where I've walked away from it and I've had periods when I thought, 'Is this worth anything, or is it feeding me?' The one thing I don't want to do is do something I don't have a passion for. I can't pull that off. It would be the new Jim Carrey comedy with dead eyes," he said.
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"You love to work with people you admire and I'm a gigantic fan of his. I think he's one of the great comic actors ever and The Office was one of the greatest shows ever on TV," he said.
"I've had bad experiences with people I just didn't vibe with and when you find somebody you vibe with, I'd do 100 movies with them."
Olivia Wilde and Steve Buscemi also star in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, in cinemas now.
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Oh my... As far as Turkmenistan goes, it's an interesting country now. The former General Secretary of the Politburo of the Turkmen Communist Party is now the absolute monarch, whom the people are supposed to call Turkmen-bashi ("the main Turkmen"), and "The father of all Turkmens."
I got nothing.
I forgot the maps
where does the fire come from?
Apparently it can freeze during the winter in the nearest big city. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashgabat#Climate
Apparently Soviet gas exploration gone wrong is the root of this. The flame is continually fed by gas coming up to the ground (Turkmenistan has some of the largest gas reserves in the world) and nobody seems interested in spending the money, resources etc. to fix the problem since it is in such an isolated area.
LOL! We spent how many billions in the Middle East purifying oil and the oil getting process, and here it is just burning in another corner of the world and no one cares....fantastic. Sorry, didn't mean to make it political, just thought it was ironic.
The real problem with Turkmen (and Kazakh and Uzbek) energy exports is there is no way to export it. Because of embargoes it can't go through Iran and with the way how things are going in Russia that isn't an option either. So they are essentially sitting on goldmines but with no way to cash in until the political situation of their neighbors' calms down. And to tie this into an Orthodox topic that isn't solely political - one of the biggest losers in the latest round of sanctions on Iran is Armenia. When Russia closed its border with Georgia and cut off energy supplies, Armenia also lost its energy supplies. Its borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan are closed - leaving Georgia and Iran as its only neighboring trading partners.
At least Georgia is Orthodox. Any word on whether the two nations could possibly ship energy through Istanbul? With both nations on the Black Sea, they could potentially make a lot of money...but they'd be dependent on the good will of Turkey.
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CARY, N.C. – Schedule congestion and two important matches have the LA Galaxy splitting their efforts in a busy week.
LA Galaxy assistant coach Curt Onalfo, who also coaches the club's reserve squad, confirmed to reporters following the team's training session in Cary, N.C. that he will serve as the club's coach for their U.S. Open Cup Third Round match against the Carolina RailHawks.
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And those men that he'll be leading out onto the pitch at WakeMed Soccer Park have the utmost confidence in Onalfo to lead them to get the team out of Carolina with a win.
"Curt is a great coach. He led us to the championship in the [West Division] championship in the Reserve League last year. He takes his job very seriously," said Galaxy goalkeeper Brian Rowe. "He puts a lot of time into studying the other team and what we need to do to get the job done. I think he's looking forward to taking the opportunity and we'll go forward from there."
"We feel completely comfortable with him. He's coached us last year and this year [in Reserve League]. There's really no excuse," added midfielder Rafael Garcia, who came on as a second half substitute against the RailHawks in last year's Open Cup. "We're here to do a job [because] our main focus is to do a job and that's what we'll try to do."
As for any question on whether the Galaxy is falling to take their U.S. Open Cup clash seriously, Onalfo has some choice words for any detractors.
"I would say that if you asked any of the players' right here, I think that this is the most important game that they're playing this week. We're ready to look forward to it. Our guys, we take it seriously," said Onalfo. "We have 30 players on our roster. We have to bring everybody along. We have a Reserve League that has ten games and this is an opportunity for these guys now.
"If we can advance then we'll see what happens in the next game, maybe they get an opportunity or maybe they don't," Onalfo asserted. "We win with 30 players and we lose with 30 players so we're taking it very seriously. I know that I am."
Adam Serrano is the LA Galaxy Insider. Read his blog at LAGalaxy.com/Insider and contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by h5htyt76757j, Jan 26, 2013.
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It is very rude to view and not vote.
And not voting IMO.
Sir Schmoopy this thread is not about me. This thread is about the 2 posters who are statistically referred to as slow, more than any other.
Sir Schmoopy lol [video=youtube;1SqTsUoNinU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SqTsUoNinU[/video]
I do believe imbecile or mental deficient would be superior descriptive term, although I find Matty to be rather adroit.
Sir Schmoopy, I forgot to congratulate you on your win in the come out of the closet thread. Well done Sir.
The minority is checking in. Thank you sir.
Gay midgets come out of the cabinet.
Irrelevant to your situation.
He does not rhyme words like a child and find it amusing. Irrelevant.
More Kid lies. More Kid pain.


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Sunday, December 22, 2013
The UK "Porn" Filter Blocks Kids' Access To Tech, Civil Liberties Websites
[Updated 2x, scroll down]
Regular readers (at least those of you who also follow me on twitter) will know that I'm more than a little skeptical of censorship in general. And you may have seen, as evidenced by this tweet that I found the decision to implement a nationwide, on-by-default-but-possible-to-opt-out-of web filtering scheme in the UK to be a seriously stupid idea.
But then I was never very likely to become a UK resident or anything more than a very temporary customer of any UK ISP during visits to the country, so I did not give the matter another thought until today, when this tweet announced that you could indeed check whether your web site was blocked. The tweet points you to http://urlchecker.o2.co.uk/urlcheck.aspx, which appears to be a checking engine for UK ISP O2, which is among the ISPs to implement the blocking regime.
I used that URL checker to find the blocking status of various sites where I'm either part or the content-generating team or sites that I find interesting enough to visit every now and then. The sites appear in the semi-random order that I visited them on December 22, 2013, starting a little after 16:00 CET:
bsdly.net: I checked my own personal web site first, www.bsdly.net. I was a bit surprised to find that it was blocked in the default Parental control regime. Users of the archive.org Internet Wayback Machine may be able to find one page that contained a reference to a picture of "a blonde chick with a cute pussy", but the intrepid searcher will find that the picture in question in fact was of juvenile poultry and felines, respectively. The site is mainly tech content, with some resources such as the hourly updated list of greytrapped spam senders (see eg this blog post for some explanation of that list and its purpose).
nuug.no: Next up I tried the national Norwegian Unix Users' group web site www.nuug.no, with a somewhat odd result - "The URL has not yet been classified. If you would like it to be classified please press Reclassify URL". There was no Reclassify URL option visible in the web interface, but I would assume that in a default to block regime, the site would be blocked anyway. It would be nice to have confirmation of this from actual O2 customers or other people in the UK.
But NUUG hosts a few specific items I care about, such as my NUUG home page with links to slides from my talks and other resources I've produced over the years. Entering http://home.nuug.no and http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/ (the path to my PF tutorial material) both produced an "Invalid URL" message. This looks like bug in the URL checker code, but once again it would be nice to have confirmation from persons who are UK residents and/or O2 customers about the blocking status for those URLs.
usenix.org:Next I tried www.usenix.org, the main site for USENIX, the US-based but actually quite international Unix user group. This also turned out to be apparently blocked in the Parental control regime.
ukuug.org and flossuk.org: But if you're a UK resident, your first port of call for finding out about Unix-like systems is likely to be UK Unix User Group instead, so I checked both www.ukuug.org and flossuk.org, and both showed up as blocked in the Parental control regime (ukuug.org, flossuk.org).
So it appears that it's the official line that kids under 12 in the UK should not be taught about free or open source software, according to the default filtering settings.
eff.org: You will have guessed by now that I'm a civil liberties man, so the next site URL I tried was www.eff.org, which was also blocked by the Parental Control regime. So UK kids need protection from learning about civil liberties and privacy online.
amnesty.org.uk: A little closer to home for UK kids, I thought perhaps a thoroughly benign organization such as Amnesty International would somehow be pre-approved. But no go: I tried the UK web site, amnesty.org.uk, and it, to was blocked by the Parental Control regime. UK kids apparently need to be shielded from the sly propaganda of an organization that has worked, among other things for releasing political prisoners and against cruel and unusual punishment such as the death penalty everywhere.
slashdot.org: Next up in my quasi-random sequence was the tech new site slashdot.org, which may at times be informal in tone, but still so popular that I was somewhat surprised to find that it, too was blocked by the Parental Control regime.
linuxtoday.com: Another popular tech news site is linuxtoday.com, with, as the name says, has a free and open source software slant. Like slashdot, this one was also blocked by the Parental Control regime.
bsdly.blogspot.com: Circling back to my own turf, I decided to check the site where I publish the most often, bsdly.blogspot.com. By this time I wasn't terribly surprised to find that my writing too has fallen afould of something or other and is by default blocked by the Parental Control regime.
nostarch.com: Blocking an individual writer most people probably haven't heard about in a default to block regime isn't very surprising, but would they not at least pre-approve well known publishers? I tried nostarch.com (home of among others a series of LEGO-themed tech/science books for kids as well as Manga guides to various sciences, as well as various BSD and Linux books). No matter, they too were blocked by the Parental Control regime.
blogspot.com: Along the same lines as in the nostarch.com case, if they default to block they may well have an unknown scribe blocked, but would they block an entire blogging site's domain? So I tried blogspot.com. The result is that it's apparently registered that the site has "dynamic content" so even the "default safety" settings may end up blocking. But of course, another one that's blocked by the Parental Control regime.
arstechnica.com: I still couldn't see any clear logic besides a probable default to block, so I tried another popular tech news site, arstechnica.com. I was a bit annoyed, but not too surprised that this too was blocked by the Parental Control regime.
The last four I tried mainly to get confirmation of what I already suspected:
www.openbsd.org: What could possibly be offensive or subversive about the most secure free operating system's website? I don't know, but the site is apparently too risky for minors, blocked by the Parental Control regime as it is.
undeadly.org: The site undeadly.org is possibly marginally better known under the name OpenBSD Journal. It exists to collect and publish news relevant to the OpenBSD operating system, its developers and users. For Nanny only knows what reason, this site was also blocked by the Parental Control regime.
www.freebsd.org: www.freebsd.org is the home site of FreeBSD, another fairly popular free BSD operating system (which among others Apple has found useful as a source of code that works better in a public maintenance regime). I thought perhaps the incrementally larger community size would have put this site on Nanny's horizon, but apparently not: FreeBSD.org remains blocked by the Parental Control regime.
www.geekculture.com: How about a little geek humor, then? www.geekculture.com is home to several web comics, and The Joy of Tech remains a favorite, even with the marked Apple slant. But apparently that too, is too much for the children of the United Kingdom: Geekculture.com is blocked by the Parental Control regime.
www.linux.com: And finally, the penguins: By now it should not surprise anyone that www.linux.com, a common starting point for anyone looking for information about that operating system, like the others is blocked by the Parental Control regime.
So summing up, checking a semi-random collection of mainly fairly mainstream and some rather obscure tech URLs shows that far from focusing on its stated main objective, keeping innocent children away from online porn, the UK Internet filter shuts the UK's children out of a number of valuable IT resources, was well as several important civil liberties resources.
And if this is the true face of Parental Controls, I for one would take using controls like these as a sufficient indicator that the parents in question are in fact not qualified to do their parenting without proper supervision.
If this is an indicator of how the collective of United Kingdom Internet Nannies is to maintain their filtering regime, they are most certainly part of a bigger problem than the one they claim to be working to solve.
If you are a UK resident or other victim of automated censorship, I would like to hear from you. Please submit your story in comments or send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com
Update 2013-12-23 13:05 CET: A reader alerted me to the fact that the URL Checker is down, and that URL now leads to a page that claims the operators are "in the process of reviewing and updating" their offerings.
Update 2013-12-24 19:30 CET: O2 contacted me via twitter direct message, pointing me to their FAQ at http://news.o2.co.uk/2013/12/24/parental-control-questions-answered/. As non-responsive responses go, it was fairly useful, if not entirely constructive. The most useful bit of information is possibly that the service as presented is apparently specific to O2 customers, not the frequently cited national, Tory-backed regime.
As the FAQ document clearly demonstrates, the underlying problem is that some of their customers, for whatever reason, have chosen to leave the monitoring and mentoring of their children's reading to an automated service.
The world contains a multitude of dangers, and most of us, in the UK or elsewhere, would agree that it is a parent's duty both to protect their offspring and to educate them in how to avoid danger or handle problems they encounter.
Ignorance has yet to help anyone solve a problem
There are several ways to protect and educate, and I feel that the approach offered by O2's service is the wrong approach in several important ways. First off, by limiting children's access to information, it strongly recommends choosing ignorance instead of education as the main defense against the perceived evils of the world.
If a person would advise that you chain your children to the wall and burn their library cards, you as a responsible parent would perhaps be reluctant to accept that advice as valid. But O2 has no qualms about offering a commercial service that does just that, only via digital means.
But the engineer in me also compels me to point out that the "Parental Control" is designed only to attack a specific symptom of a wider problem, and it fails to address that problem. And making matters slightly worse, the proposed solution is to apply a technical solution to a human or perhaps social problem.
The real problem is that some number of parents do not feel up to the task of mentoring and educating their children in safe and sensible use of their gadgets and the information that is accessible through the gadgets. Parents failing, or perceiving that they may be failing, to adequately educate or mentor their children is the real problem here. Fix that problem, and your symptoms go away.
If a significant subset of O2's customers feel they are unable to handle their parenting duties, the problem may very well be that society is failing to adequately support parents' needs during their child-rearing years.
The solution may well be political, and may very well involve matters that are best resolved by making a proper choice at the ballot box after well reasoned debates. In the meantime, O2 is only making matters worse by answering the needs of persons who feel the symptoms of the deeper problem by catering to a perhaps understandable, but in fact utterly counterproductive, drive for ignorance.
Ignorance never helped anybody solve a problem. Children need to be nurtured, educated, mentored and stimulated to explore. Please do not force them into ignorance instead.
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linux weekly news (lwn.net) blocked.ReplyDelete
debian.org : Blocked
ubuntu.com: Blocked
Seems like they really have something against open software...Replies
- AnonymousDecember 24, 2013 at 4:06 AM
Am in the UK.Delete
Never turned of this "parental control" thing.
Can access all sites listed.
UK Web Restriction: Not Real.
If you already have a connection plan, its not applied to you.Delete
Its only new accounts.
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2013 at 10:32 PM
Don't get your panties in a bunch. It would appear 'Parental control' is a whitelist. Only specific children's sites are allowed, everything else is blocked.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2013 at 10:39 PM
What about microsoft.com ?Delete
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM
What about apple.com?Delete
(Yes, it's blocked.)
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 10:52 PM
Yeah, www.o2.com is blocked too.Delete
I agree, this approach seems a little unscientific-- after establishing that most sites are blocked, you should start looking for the pattern among the UNBLOCKED sites instead, as it'll probably be more significant. It's like a real-life game of Zendo!Delete
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2013 at 10:35 PM
They've also blocked the BNP (I don't agree with the BNP or anything they stand for, but I don't condone politicial censorship.)ReplyDelete
Also, the PPUK.
- AnonymousDecember 22, 2013 at 11:11 PM
There is no "UK Porn Filter". Some ISPs in the UK however are offering services to provide filtering of websites for their customers.ReplyDelete
Other ISPs have stated they will NOT be filtering content e.g. AAISP - http://www.aa.net.uk/kb-broadband-realinternet.html
Honestly, it seems more like a whitelist for u12 than a blacklist.ReplyDelete
Not sure what got my site blocked - I mostly post screencasts on how to use programming languages like Smalltalk and Python - http://www.jarober.comReplyDelete
The u12 Parental Control also blocks the BBC! That it is a whitelist with very few entries makes more senseReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 12:10 AM
Newspapers too:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 12:57 AM
ITS A FREAKING WHITELIST.ReplyDelete
My website jonfr.com/volcano and other related websites are blocked by O2 UK and other ISP in UK under this filter. They seem to block everything on the internet, or good close to 99,9998% of it. There where some kids websites not blocked I did hear on twitter about this insane censorship.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 8:34 AM
Yup, it's a whitelist. I wouldn't get too worked up about it or paranoid about the UK governments view on free speech, even Google is blocked by default.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 9:02 AM
The perental control catagory blocks forums/discussion, less the little snow flakes encounter curse wordsReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 10:22 AM
I think you need to re-test these. I live in the UK and the majority of these sites are NOT blockedReplyDelete
"There was no Reclassify URL option visible"ReplyDelete
Indeed, but the (other) button marked "Continue" will submit the URL you just entered for a check, and you're invited to check back later..
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 12:16 PM
Interesting article that displays the lack of knowledge by the UK policy makers. The O2 broadband service was sold off to Sky as of earlier this year :ReplyDelete
( see http://www.o2.co.uk/broadband/broadbandchanges )
Via the EFN mailing list, this article turned up, which explains what is currently known about the filter I stumbled upon: http://pseudomonas.dreamwidth.org/120535.htmlReplyDelete
It seems the author is intending to map out the blockage on other UK ISPs as well.
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 4:33 PM
What's the point of having the internet in this country now if you can't use it? These people are the huge idiots, and I hope they get castrated for this.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 5:37 PM
It's a whitelist, pretty much everything is blocked under parental control. By choosing only FOSS sites to be "randomly" checked, you falsely make it seem like this is some kind of vendetta, by the UK gov't, against FOSS. Pretty silly.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 6:18 PM
"Parental Control" isn't the default; you have to ask for it to be turned on.ReplyDelete
I've just checked some of the links claimed to be blocked in this article, and the only category they're blocked for is "Parental Control (opt in u12 service)" which clearly states is an "opt in" service. This is O2's own, internal, optional Parental Control system.ReplyDelete
The Torry-led nation-wide filter is clearly not an O2 internal and optional system.
Whilst I am not a fan of censorship, the O2 one, and one on all mobiles, has actually been in existence for a number of years, opt-in and a white list service, where the site is blocked unless it has been screened by someone at O2.ReplyDelete
The new blocks for ADSL providers is an opt out service, and a black list.
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 9:00 PM
Wow, example.com is blocked too. This is stupid.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 9:05 PM
OH GOD ITS 1984! AN OPT IN MOBILE PROVIDER WHITE LIST!!!!ReplyDelete
Get you fucking facts right before you start spouting shite
1) o2 arnt even an ISP they are a mobile provider.
2) This is an opt in white list. Not an opt out black list.
3) the actual filtering for opt in blacklisting can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom
At least be up in arms about the right fucking thing, the uk opt in blacklist is nothing but a political move and thinly veiled censorship. I'm on your side so at least get your facts right.Replies
- AnonymousDecember 23, 2013 at 9:23 PM
O2 aren't just a mobile provider. They have done Broadband for years and was done over BT lines just like Sky. It was only around June-July this year that Sky bought the O2 broadband department.Delete
I used to work for a call centre that dealt with Sky TV Tech and Billing issues and got quite a few calls about letters being sent regarding Sky offers for previous O2 customers due to the switch over.
Other than that your comment is spot on
It really seems what you're describing is company specific... I have virgin internet and none of the sites you listed are blocked... It really depends on the company you choose which have their own blocking criteria which has nothing to do with the government's recent ban...ReplyDelete
Nice information but i think it is a featured Whitelist. Thanks to provide such kind of information.ReplyDelete
Click here to learn more
Website of the swiss gov: admin.chReplyDelete
blocked :D
Greetings from the continent (Bavaria).ReplyDelete
Reading this makes me freeze. The "elite" over here envies your government, because they want such "toys" also.
To me it seems to be a whitelist scheme, only known "good" sites are allowed.
Did you do the inverse test? Can children access the church's websites (despite the recent history of paedophilia among some churches' menbers)?
Does anybody know how the filter works? Is it DPI based (like in china) or DNS based (like the former one in Germany)?ReplyDelete
Would be great if anybody kows more about this.
Enjoy your "freedom", plebs. /sReplyDelete
UK censorship is not imposed solely on children. It is present inReplyDelete
public access portals and restaurants too. In other words, it is
imposed on anyone that can't afford a home internet connection.
These schemes always make mistakes, and these examples are that that
has not changed. But let's not focus on the mistakes. Even if they
could fix all the mistakes, which they can't, that would not make
censorship acceptable. Fixing 90% of the mistakes, which maybe they
could do, would not make it acceptable either. Censorship is evil and
must be defeated.
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 26, 2013 at 5:50 PM
Whitelist's are the Blacklists of tomorrow and as lesser white there is as more safe formour children!1!ReplyDelete
Serious, this, your current opt-in "but it doesn't hit me" is only yet. The door got open, ugly things will be pushed to enter. Step by step, business as usual.
Hate to break it to you but this url checker is for o2 mobile connections. Mobile filters have been live in the UK for years as a means for parents to have a lot of control over what their kids are accessing on the mobile phones.ReplyDelete
This isn't a broadband filter checker. Sorry you wasted your time. But it shows that you didn't give the matter any thought until you wrote this article.
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Lengthy discussion of this article in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6979023ReplyDelete
The blocked sites will eventually drop off Google's first page in the searches for any keywords because Google nowadays mainly ranks sites for pupularity and how long people read each article.ReplyDelete
Blocked sites drop in "pupularity", hance get downgraded in Google. That will be a vicious circle to the bottom, a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Eventually, these sites have "ceased to exist" for all practical purposes, even for those without the filter.
As a citizen of a country in industrial and commercial competition against the UK, I can only cheer. I hope that the rest of Europe and all of Asia adopt the same policies.ReplyDelete
Hi there, we just wanted to give you a bit more information about what's happened. The whole focus has been around our URL checker which has very limited info and the 'parental control' category that has led people to think that we are blocking websites when it's not the case. There has been a a lot of confusion for our customers around what we block so we just want to make sure that you know exactly what has happened.ReplyDelete
So let us clarify what we mean by Parental Controls:
This is a choice we give parents who want peace of mind that their children are accessing websites for under 12's, providing a safe, educational and interesting internet experience. We work with Symantec Rulespace who provide services for web content categorisation, and the category we've selected is 'Kids' content which is for the under 12 age group. We're the only operator to offer this additional/optional service in the UK.
Parental Control is a service we offer to help parents to protect their children while they're online. It enables children to access the web via their mobile to a number of sites which are suitable under this category for under 12's.
The content is child focussed – it is not attempting to define everything that a child can or can't read. We're offering a child friendly environment where parents and children alike can spend time (together or alone) safe in the knowledge that all content under this category is suitable for the child based on the Kids category.
Our default setting means we allow all our customers to access the internet for all websites except any adult related content, Parental Control is just an additional service we're offering to parents.
For more information, feel free to check out our blog here: http://o2lin.kr/1c4tUp5Replies
I think this has already been answered in the updates to the article.Delete
TL;DR version: Your approach is utterly counter-productive at best. Ignorance has never helped anybody solve a problem.
I was delighted to find this Brazilian article referencing this matter -- http://meiobit.com/275090/filtros-britanicos-anti-pornografia-agora-bloqueiam-sites-de-tecnologia/ -- they even managed to find the exact picture I had in mind but failed to find myself when I was writing the story.ReplyDelete
There should be only one censorship, And that is self censorship. But with the deliberate destruction of our culture. Who is to discern.of what is good and what is evil. Of course as planned the state moves into the vacuum. And therefore the interests of those who have wealth and thus power are served. The amalgamation of corporate and government power = Fascism ! Thank you you useful idiots of the left!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2013 at 4:28 AM
This is all about Free Speech. After all the gov't (and their corporate cronies) censor the media and ban books like "America Deceived II".ReplyDelete
Last link of "America Deceived II" before it is completely censored:
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2013 at 1:48 PM
RedTube pixelates all content, becomes #1 provider in Japan and gets elected role model by #UK gov http://wp.me/p35rFe-2J #porn #censorshipReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 7, 2014 at 11:22 PM
Hi Peter,ReplyDelete
A better list of sites to test this against might be board-game companies! Check out boardgamegeek and try out a handful of board game companies - I'd bet that most of the companies listed there (most are small and independent companies, many are based outside the UK or US) are blocked. Of course, while the URL checker is down it isnt easy to test...
...which for a company that makes board games might affect their business if families with young children find that the site has been put into the 'unsuitable' category.Replies
I was a bit annoyed at first when they shut down the URL checker page, but then again, the .aspx extension more likely than not means it's a Microsoft-something box, and that probably couldn't take the traffic from all the slashdot and reddit visitors ;)Delete
I hope they're still monitoring the comments here. Who knows, it might even influence them to do something smart about this one day.
Thanks for information... good jobReplyDelete
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