August 3, 2018: Romaric is excited to see how Alphabot, using RACE software licensed from Romaric, is rolled out within Walmart (with over 11,000 stores worldwide), and other global retailers.
May 21, 2018: Romaric announced today the opening of a sales office in Hsinchu, Taiwan, effective early June 2018. Romaric has hired Michael Bowcutt, who is fluent in Chinese (Mandarin) and previously lived in Taiwan for two years, to initiate its formal operation in Asia.
March 15, 2018: The Romaric Automation Control Engine (RACE) has now reached its fiftieth installation worldwide. These installations include the complete Romaric product set (Roma MD MCS, RES-Q, RACE Track and RACE Purge), as well as RACE adaptations and RACE Lite implementations.
August 29, 2016: Romaric has reached agreement with a Boston-based robotic solution provider to license its Romaric Automation Control Engine (RACE) source code for adaptation into the retail industry. The initial end user of the technology is intended to be a top-ten global retailer.
September 10, 2015: The Romaric Automation Control Engine has been packaged and released as a separate product upon which other software development companies can build their own products, which require robotic and machine interfaces, and integration into a manufacturing or enterprise IT environment.
December 31, 2014: Romaric announced today that Infineon Technologies AG has purchased a worldwide license of the company's Roma MD™ Material Control System, as well as RES-Q™, the company's emulator for automated material handling and transport systems.
August 1, 2012: The Romaric Management Team, lead by Rory M. Gagon, has repurchased 100% of the Romaric stock from Solar Holdings Inc., a US subsidiary of Roth & Rau AG. The original co-founders of Romaric plus an additional key employee closed the deal in late July 2012.
July 1, 2009: Solar Holding Inc., a US subsidiary of Roth & Rau AG, is acquiring 100% of the shares in Romaric Corporation, a company based in Salt Lake City, USA. Romaric's customers include AMD, Applied Materials and Intel.
February 20, 2008: The typical time frame for an MCS installation team to be onsite is 3-6 months. Romaric got a Spansion installation done in 16 days.


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A blighted ovum, also called an anembryonic pregnancy, occurs when an early embryo never develops or stops developing, is resorbed and leaves an empty gestational sac. The reason this occurs is often unknown, but it may be due to chromosomal abnormalities in the fertilized egg.
A blighted ovum usually occurs early in pregnancy — sometimes before you even know you're pregnant. However, you may be aware of your early pregnancy because of a positive pregnancy test or missed menstrual period. A pregnancy test may be positive because the early embryo secretes a pregnancy hormone — human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) — until the embryo stops developing and fails to implant.
You may have symptoms of early pregnancy, such as breast tenderness, nausea and vomiting. But when the embryo stops growing and hormone levels decrease, pregnancy symptoms subside. At this point, minor abdominal cramping and light spotting or bleeding are possible. An ultrasound will show an empty gestational sac.
A blighted ovum eventually results in miscarriage. Some women choose to wait for the miscarriage to happen naturally, while others take medication to trigger the miscarriage. In some cases, a procedure called dilation and curettage (D&C) is used to remove the placental tissues.
Most women who've had a blighted ovum go on to have successful pregnancies. If you experience multiple consecutive miscarriages, talk with your doctor or other care provider to identify any underlying causes.
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Georgians awoke Wednesday to find their state's political landscape reshaped by a Republican upset that swept out an incumbent U.S. senator and installed the state's first GOP governor in 130 years.
Analysts and political operatives described the scale of the Republican win -- which also toppled a long-reigning House speaker and blunted Democrats' hopes of dominating Georgia's congressional delegation -- as nothing short of historic in a state that became the last to elect a Republican governor since Reconstruction.
The GOP victories that unseated Democratic Sen. Max Cleland and Gov. Roy Barnes, analysts said, signaled that the Republican tide that years ago washed over much of the South finally had lapped up on Georgia's shores in a meaningful way.
"We're headed for a new day in Georgia politics," proclaimed a weary but ebullient Saxby Chambliss, a four-term House Republican who defeated Cleland by 7 percentage points after a $25-million contest most notable for its acrimonious tone.
The Chambliss win -- and an even more surprising victory by Republican Sonny Perdue in the governor's contest -- were "stunning" results for Georgia, said Michael Binford, a political scientist at Georgia State University. "It was a major upset. People are still trying to figure out what was going on."
Theories fluttered like yesterday's campaign posters. But there was general agreement on several factors explaining the Republican sweep in Georgia, including the trend favoring the GOP nationwide.
Most observers agreed that Chambliss, along with Republican candidates in close contests around the country, benefited heavily from the popularity of President Bush, who visited Georgia three times recently on the congressman's behalf. The most recent presidential swing came Saturday, amid polls that showed Cleland's lead dwindling.
"George Bush was very effective at getting support to Saxby Chambliss. He campaigned for him extensively, raising money, and helped him in the debate on homeland security," Binford said.
Chambliss, who chairs a House subcommittee on terrorism, appeared to have gained from the public's anxiety over homeland security since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In one television commercial hammering Cleland as soft on national security, photographs of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein flashed on the screen to accent descriptions of how Cleland had voted repeatedly against homeland security legislation favored by Bush.
The national defense gambit was all the more remarkable because Cleland -- who preferred a competing homeland security measure that he said provided better worker protections -- lost his right arm and both legs during combat in Vietnam. He once ran the Department of Veteran Affairs. Cleland objected that his patriotism was being questioned, but some damage was done.
Barnes' loss in the gubernatorial race was more surprising. He made ample use of the largess afforded by his incumbency, spending about $20 million -- six times the amount spent by Perdue, a state senator who switched from Democrat to Republican in 1998. Polls gave Barnes the lead going into the final days of the campaign.
But Barnes, who was at the end of his first term, fell victim to voter resentment over several of his more controversial moves as governor -- including creation of a new state flag that greatly shrank the prominence of the Confederate battle flag symbol.
Barnes privately approved the design last year, which was whisked through the state Legislature without debate. The maneuver angered many Georgia residents, particularly rural voters who showed up in high numbers Tuesday to register their displeasure with Barnes.
Perdue has said he favors putting the flag issue to a referendum. Turnout was noticeably higher in many rural counties that picked Perdue over Barnes.
Barnes also faced displeasure from teachers opposed to his education reform program and from opponents of a controversial highway, called the Northern Arc, that is planned in the outskirts of Atlanta.
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A redistricting plan favoring the Democrats also appeared heavy handed to many voters.
"There were a lot of smaller groups of people antagonized by the governor for one reason or another," said Whit Ayres, an Atlanta-based GOP pollster.
Still, Ayres and others described Tuesday's results as a breakthrough for Republicans in Georgia, where the GOP managed to align their upscale voters in the suburbs with rural residents in corners of the state where Democrats once held sway.
The defeat of House Speaker Tom Murphy, who served for 42 years and was the archetype of the old-style, loyal, "yellow dog" Democrat, was one more sign of just how much politics here suddenly looks different.
It was the Republicans who were appropriating the rhetoric of the civil rights era. "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, free at last!" Perdue exulted before a jubilant crowd of backers. In the crowd, a supporter waved the former state flag dominated by the Confederate symbol.
While other states in the South grew accustomed to electing Republicans as governors and senators during the last 30 years, the Democratic Party's lock on Georgia held.
Ayres said that was partly due to a lack of "superstar" GOP candidates in the mold of Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and to the appeal of right-leaning Democrats, such as Zell Miller, who now will be the state's ranking U.S. senator.
But even Democrats conceded that that era may be over.
To them, the state's political map is stark and bifurcated: Atlanta remains a Democratic stronghold -- thanks in part to a sizable black population -- while much of the rest of the state may have more in common with Republicans than with a national Democratic leadership, which it views as too liberal. In the middle is a suburban belt that promises to be the battleground of the future, said Tim Phillips, who managed Barnes' campaign.
"The fight is over the SUV drivers, not the pickup truck drivers," Phillips said. "The fight over the pickup truck drivers is over."
But all is not lost for the Democrats -- the Republicans now have to govern with a legislature still controlled by Democrats.
"What that means to the future of Georgia depends on how Republicans operate in office and how the Democrats respond," Phillips said. "It's certainly not hopeless."


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Sigøjnere (ældre betegnelse tatere) er en bred samlebetegnelse på flere beslægtede folkeslag, der findes i alle seks befolkede verdensdele, nogle af dem har været eller er nomader/nomadiske. Deres etniske oprindelse er omstridt og ukendt, men det menes at nogle af dem stammer fra det nordlige Indien, hvor de udvandrede 800-1300tallet, eftersom nogle af dem taler det indoariske sprog romani. Betegnelsen sigøjner er afledt af tysk zigeuner. Flest sigøjnere menes at leve i Europa, hvor der lever omkring 5-6 mio., hvilket er omkring halvdelen af alle sigøjnere, men de er også udbredte i lande som USA og Brasilien.

Begrebet sigøjnere benyttes primært af omverdenen, selv foretrækker de fleste af dem deres egne etniske betegnelser. Begrebet sigøjner kan opfattes stigmatiserende og som en etnisk stereotyp og sigøjnere udnævnes ofte som syndebukke, fx under 2. verdenskrig hvor omkring 500.000 døde i koncentrationslejre. Nogle af de roma-beslægtede folkeslag kalder dog sig selv for sigøjnere og foretrækker denne betegnelse.

Kendte folkeslag der til tider kaldes sigøjnere omfatter: Romaer, sintier, manousher, romanichaler og kaléer. Den største etniske gruppe er romaer.

Sigøjnere i Danmark
Sigøjnere i Danmark er langtfra en ensartet gruppe. Antallet blev i 1990'erne anslået til at være 2000-4000. Nogle af dem er efterkommere af tatere. Der findes ingen national organisation, i modsætning til nogle andre lande.

Zigeuner
På tysk har zigeuner to betydninger:
 En betegnelse for et folkeslag med en fælles kultural og etnisk baggrund. En livsstil der også er beskrevet som uregelmæssig op til "nomadisk", som ubundet, afvigende eller kriminel anses som faste kendetegn. Begrebet opstod i slutningen af 1700-tallet.
 En betegnelse for forskellige etniske og sociale grupper, hvis medlemmer tilskrives en livsstil, der er beskrevet som rastløs, rodløs, afvigende og / eller kriminel. Denne benævnelse opstod med begyndelsen af den tidlige moderne periode.

Gypsy
Det engelske ord for sigøjner er gypsy, hvilket er afledt af afledt af mellemengelsk: Gipcyan, Gypcyan, (gyptisk), fra gammelfransk: Gyptien. Det er forkortelse for "egyptisk", fra latin: Aegyptius, for da romaerne dukkede op i England i det 16. århundrede, blev de fejlagtigt antaget at være kommet fra Egypten. Albansk: Evgit, græsk: γύφτος (Gýftos), italiensk: Gitano og spansk: Gitano har samme oprindelse.

Referencer
 Den Store Danske
 Nudansk Ordbog

Romaer
Etniske stereotyper

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Orange prize for fiction 2006
'It pains me that I can no longer feel sorry for myself'
Last year she was unknown, skint and hooked on two-for-one toiletries. Then she won the Orange prize. Following the announcement of this year's longlist, Lionel Shriver reveals how the award changed her life
Sun 12 Mar 2006 19.43 EST First published on Sun 12 Mar 2006 19.43 EST
In the context of my hitherto doomed literary career, the novel that won last year's Orange prize was already selling bizarrely well by the time it made the shortlist. Nevertheless, the prize gave those sales long legs, and raised my public profile to the point of embarrassment.
About half of this year's long list, announced this week - the likes of Joyce Carol Oates, Zadie Smith or Helen Dunmore (who has won the Orange before) - have achieved a high profile already. So this is addressed to the other half - to a prospective winner who is hardly a household name. I would never want to sound ungrateful, and winning obviously beats the alternative. Still, getting what you think you want may prove to have unexpected downsides.
If, like me a year ago, you have never turned down a single promotional opportunity, no matter how weeny, nor declined a single journalistic assignment, no matter how poorly paid, you will not be in the habit of saying no. Thus our 2006 Orange winner, no longer obscure, will find herself suddenly appearing at a bewildering number of literary festivals, libraries and book groups. By and large the audiences at these events will prove uncannily intelligent, enthusiastic and intuitive, imputing to your winning novel far more sophistication than you ever imagined it engendered while you were writing it - which will make saying no to the next engagement that much more difficult. When not blathering about your fascinating book until you yourself secretly begin to hate it, and reading the same passages aloud until they ring in your head with a mocking sing-song, you will be writing essays like this for the Guardian.
Moreover, you will be asked to comment as an authority on subjects you know nothing about. I for one have been undeterred from swanning about from BBC Breakfast to Radio 4 as an expert on motherhood just because I do not happen to have any children.
A cluttered diary easily crowds out working on your next novel, and therefore translates into you unwittingly becoming a fraud. Alarm bells should start to sound when you realise that you now spend more time talking about your fiction than writing it.
Next: winning prizes can whet an appetite for more. A beguiling scenario can present itself whereby your luck appears to have permanently turned, and, just as you were once cursed, you are now imperviously charmed. The good life of ever-escalating triumph seems to lie before you.
This is deadly. I did not, like former Orange winner Andrea Levy, subsequently win the Whitbread. I will probably not win Crime Thriller of the Year at the British Literary Awards later this month. I will never, necessarily, win another major literary prize ever again. One solace: I suspect that only the first one feels quite that exhilarating. Yet it is disheartening to realise the very next day that you may have already experienced the highlight of your life, and it is all downhill from here.
Another warning to this year's winner: if like me, you were not well known before, once the prize is awarded in June, you certainly will be. People will recognise you at parties. This may sound swell, save that I myself am crap at parties, and prefer to hunker in corners anonymously with the catering staff. Moreover, other people will be much nicer - more solicitous, deferential and complimentary (at least to your face). This also may sound swell. But it actually feels creepy.
In fact, this last year I have been reminded of what it was like to get my braces off at the age of 15 after having been a buck-toothed ugly duckling for years. People suddenly treated me differently then, too. My no longer being an eyesore so transformed other people's attitude toward me that it revealed their affections as superficial, untrustworthy, arbitrary, and dangerously fickle.
So enjoy it, but don't take public attention too seriously, and be prepared for that attention to evaporate just as rapidly as it first manifested itself from nowhere. Media fawning is addictive, but not very nutritious - like CS Lewis's magic Turkish delight that just leaves you craving more. The world is teeming with hungry has-beens snuffling around for public acclaim with all the unseemly desperation of heroine addicts. Snort a few hits, just don't start main-lining.
Furthermore, once your first high subsides, be prepared for a curious enervation to set in. I believe this is true of any success, and that this is what high-achievers are always trying to warn aspirants, to no avail. It is a little flat. Being nominated for the Orange prize is energising, having won the Orange prize merely pleasant. Striving by its nature is stimulating, arrival inherently inert.
Prominence and commercial viability also test any writer's mettle: so you want to be an established novelist? OK. Go ahead. Let's see if you've got anything more to say. Abruptly encountering no adversity is destabilising, like pushing hard on a bolted door that someone suddenly unlocks from the other side. You will not have any trouble getting your next book into print. But that does not mean it will be any good. Indeed, by raising expectations, you have potentially set yourself up for a fall. Furthermore, if your reading public has grown overly attached to your winning novel, they will inevitably find the next one a crushing disappointment - if only because it is not, as in my case, Son of Kevin, The Return of Kevin, or Kevin Strikes Back.
But the biggest challenge to living in a limelight that has previously swept elsewhere goes to the core of your identity - of not just who you are to other people, but who you are to yourself. Before this last year, I had lived for decades in the literary hinterlands. Locating myself in the cultural margins provided a sense of identity just as geographical as my dozen years of residence in off-the-beaten-track Belfast. I had long thought of myself as an outsider, holding on in the world of letters by the skin of my teeth. Agreeably, I got used to people leaving me alone, and keeping their noses out of my business. Relocating myself closer to the cultural mainstream has upset my interior furniture, much as when you load your country house on to a flatbed tractor-trailer and drag it into the city, the walls can skew, and its accoutrements fall on the floor.
One aspect of this private rebranding exercise concerns money. Now, I am by no means wealthy. But for most of my life I've been skint, and - I know this sounds wonky - something in me misses being broke. I can no longer rely on my better-off friends to take their cue from my theatrical scrabble for my wallet and pick up the tab for dinner. More crucially, a newly middle-class income has converted my fanatical economy from cunning survival strategy to affectation. I no longer have to buy those yellow-tag supermarket pork chops that look green around the edges, or to make a special trip to the Elephant and Castle just because there is a two-for-one sale on Herbal Essence shampoos. I could actually afford to turn on the heating before 7pm. I wonder if I have recently conceived a desire to own my own home in London just so that I can feel poor again. Because these days I'm no longer "frugal". I'm just cheap.
For now we get down to the sacrifice at the very heart of any success. Reflected in my fondness for Campari and roasted chicory, I have a taste for bitterness. Yet I have had to ditch my standard grumble that "nobody ever gives me prizes". I cannot decry all those sell-out wankers on the bestseller list when my own book has sat on that list for nearly a year. In short, I can no longer feel sorry for myself.
I have been astonished to discover that this is a deprivation that pains me on a daily basis. My only solution thus far has been to feel sorry for myself that I can no longer feel sorry for myself. Bit perverse, but it works.
· Lionel Shriver is the author of We Need to Talk About Kevin (Serpent's Tail, 2005). Double Fault will be released by Serpent's Tail in May and The Post-Birthday World by HarperCollins in 2007.


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Einstein Researchers Develop Promising Novel Immunotherapy to Treat Various Types of Cancer
Immune checkpoint inhibitors such as Keytruda and Opdivo work by unleashing the immune system's T-cells to attack tumor cells. Their introduction a decade ago marked a major advance in cancer therapy, but only 10 to 30 percent of treated patients experience long-term improvement. In a paper published online in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI), scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe findings that could bolster the effectiveness of immune checkpoint therapy.
Rather than rally T-cells against cancer, the Einstein research team used different human immune cells known as natural killer (NK) cells—with dramatic results. "We believe the novel immunotherapy we've developed has great potential to move into clinical trials involving various types of cancer," said study leader Xingxing Zang, MMed, PhD, the Louis Goldstein Swan Chair in Women's Cancer Research and Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Oncology, Urology and of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a member of the Cancer Therapeutics Program of the Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center.
Xingxing Zang, MMed, PhD
Telling Friend from Foe
The surfaces of immune cells are studded with receptors known as "checkpoint" proteins, which prevent immune cells from straying beyond their usual targets (pathogen-infected cells and cancer cells). When checkpoint receptors on immune cells bind with proteins expressed by the body's own normal cells, the interaction puts the brakes on a possible immune cell attack. Diabolically, most types of cancer cells express proteins that bind with checkpoint proteins, tricking immune cells into standing down and not attacking the tumor.
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are monoclonal antibodies designed to short-circuit immune-cell/cancer-cell interactions by blocking either the tumor proteins or the immune-cell receptors that bind with tumor proteins. With no brakes to impede them, immune cells can attack and destroy cancer cells.
New Focus on Natural Killer Cells
The limited effectiveness of checkpoint inhibitors prompted Dr. Zang and other scientists to look at checkpoint pathways involving NK-cells, which—like T-cells—play major roles in eliminating unwanted cells. A cancer-cell protein called PVR soon captured their attention. "We realized that PVR may be a very important protein that human cancers use to hobble the immune system's attack," said Dr. Zang.
PVR protein is usually absent or very scarce in normal tissues but is found in abundance in many types of tumors, including colorectal, ovarian, lung, esophageal, head and neck, stomach and pancreatic cancer as well as myeloid leukemia and melanoma. Moreover, PVRs appeared to inhibit T-cell and NK-cell activity by binding to a checkpoint protein called TIGIT—prompting efforts to interrupt the TIGIT/PVR pathway by using monoclonal antibodies made against TIGIT. More than 100 clinical trials targeting TIGIT are now in progress worldwide. However, several clinical studies, including two large phase 3 clinical trials, have recently failed to improve cancer outcomes.
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Meanwhile, the cancer-cell protein PVR was found to have another "binding partner" on NK-cells: KIR2DL5. "We hypothesized that PVR suppresses NK-cell activity not by binding with TIGIT but by binding with the recently recognized KIR2DL5," said Dr. Zang. To find out, he and his colleagues synthesized a monoclonal antibody targeting KIR2DL5 and carried out in vitro and in vivo experiments using the antibody.
In their JCI paper, Dr. Zang and colleagues demonstrated that KIR2DL5 is a commonly occurring checkpoint receptor on the surface of human NK-cells, which PVR cancer proteins use to suppress immune attack. In studies involving humanized animal models of several types of human cancers, the researchers showed that their monoclonal antibody against KIR2DL5—by blocking the KIR2DL5/PVR pathway—allowed NK-cells to vigorously attack and shrink human tumors and prolong animal survival. "These preclinical findings raise our hopes that targeting the KIR2DL5/PVR pathway was a good idea and that the monoclonal antibody we've developed may be an effective immunotherapy," said Dr. Zang. Einstein has filed a patent application for the KIR2DL5/PVR immune checkpoint including antibody drugs and is interested in a partnership to further develop and commercialize the technology.
Dr. Zang has previously developed and patented more than 10 immune checkpoint inhibitors. One of those inhibitors is now being tested in China in phase 2 clinical trials involving several hundred patients with advanced solid cancers (non-small cell lung cancer, small cell lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, head and neck cancer, melanoma, lymphoma) or recurrent/refractory blood cancers (acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes). Another of Dr. Zang's immune checkpoint inhibitors will be evaluated starting next year in cancer clinical trials in the United States.
The title of the JCI study is "Blockade of the immunosuppressive KIR2DL5/PVR pathway elicits potent human NK-cell-mediated antitumor immunity." Additional authors include lead authors Xiaoxin Ren, PhD, and Mou Peng, MD, PhD; Peng Xing, MD, PhD; Yao Wei, MD; Phillip M. Galbo Jr., PhD; Devin Corrigan, BS; Hao Wang, PhD; Yingzhen Su, PhD; Xiaoshen Dong, MD, PhD; Qizhe Sun, PhD; Yixian Li, MD; Xiaoyu Zhang, MD, PhD; Winfried Edelmann, PhD; and Deyou Zheng, PhD, all at Einstein.
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K12 lessons from ICRISAT
Only English will make us competitive!
Frank A. Hilario
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/280375
MANILA - Imperial Manila, your K+12 is suspect, to say the least, as would be a Filipedia. Secretary Armin Luistro, ladies and gentlemen of the Imperial Department of Education (DepEd), children, your standards are absolutely rural, belonging to the back country, certainly not primitive but definitely tribal.
People, I'm not against the DepEd counting from 1 to 12 grades, if that's all you know how to count. But with your K+12 curriculum, you are unquestionably behind the times, despite your claim of keeping up with the times. Let me give you a dose of your own educational medicine.
People, here are the Core Academic Areas of your K to 12 Basic Education Program (from the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines, gov.ph):
(1) Math
(2) Filipino
(3) English
(4) Araling Panlipunan
(5) Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao
(6) Music, Arts, Physical Education, and Health (MAPEH).
People, there are many questionable aspects of this educational package, including MAPEH, but I will confine myself this time to the core academic areas.
Notice: (2) Filipino (Language), (4) Araling Panlipunan (Social Studies), and (5) Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao (Humanities, I presume). 3 out of 6; that means that 50% of the core areas are to be taught in Filipino (Tagalog). So, I must be out of my mind if I believe you people of DepEd when you claim that your K+12 program will "improve the (global) competitiveness of our country's graduates" - when did Filipino (Tagalog) ever become globally competitive?! That is a thought as ridiculous as a Filipedia.
Children, if you want to learn about teaching global competitiveness within K+12, let me take you to India, where we find the International School of Hyderabad (ISH). Yes, as a teacher I know that teachers have to learn too. ISH is a 40-year old school, set up in 1972 by parents, now 30 years institutionally under and located on the campus of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad. Yes, ISH has a K+12 program you should be jealous about.
ICRISAT Director General William Dar was Guest Speaker at the graduation ceremonies of ISH on 25 May 2012 at the Park Hyatt Hotel in the Banjara Hills of Hyderabad. We can learn from what he said:
The ISH's mission is to develop responsible global citizens through (the school's) proactive and adaptable professionals, evolving and progressive curriculum, and world-class facilities. Today, ISH enrols over 250 students from 26 countries and is the best school in its class in the city without a doubt.
Professors, instructors and teachers all must learn from the best!
"There are no shortcuts to success but," Dar said, "yes, there are certain competencies you can develop along the way. Let me share with you some, as my graduation gift." This is his list that I believe Philippine schools should be cultivating, starting from Kindergarten:
(1) Well-cultivated self-awareness - The first secret of success lies inside each one of us. We need to cultivate a sense of our personal strengths and be aware of our weaknesses.
(2) Compelling vision - The second secret is being visionary, to have a dream, to be driven to be better each time.
(3) Masterful execution - Leaders drive results. They possess good planning, organizing and delivery skills.
(4) Real way with people - A leader must have the ability to get others to act in the desired way. They win respect from those who must be influenced, and build mutual respect.
(5) Relevance and social contribution -Successful leaders are true change agents… They are memorable because they change people's lives for the better.
(6) Renewal and continuous learning and adaptation - Lastly, successful leaders have an uncanny ability to reinvent themselves in the face of incessant change. They have to deal with increasingly complex challenges, the need to innovate to be competitive, to understand and master technological advances and operate in a global environment.
Remember, William Dar is talking to high school graduates. How do you teach all that in Filipino (Tagalog)?!
People of DepEd, you want Filipino schoolchildren to be globally competitive? Think global, act local. Think India. Let us all learn from the International School of Hyderabad (from its website, ishyd.org):
(1) Your school must nurture a dynamic environment in which every child is valued and at the same time challenged. In the Philippines, only those in the Top 10 are valued and challenged; those who fail are passed anyway.
(2) Your school must offer individualized and personalized approach to learning. In the Philippines, if you have 50 students to a class, how do you do that? Be creative! You don't need a classroom. There is information technology waiting to be tapped. All you have to do is use your head.
(3) Place your high priority on learning how to learn, learning by doing, and thinking critically.In the Philippines, the high priority is placed on memorizing lessons, and criticizing the government's action or inaction.
"The ISH's vision is to provide high-quality holistic education in an inspiring learning environment that maximizes the potential of each individual to become a responsible global citizen" (ishyd.org). People of DepEd, your vision is local, not global.
ISH has its own curriculum "originally developed from the English National Curriculum." People of DepEd, if you want Filipino schoolchildren to become globally competitive, by all means, teach them English at all times!
How did ISH become the best? First, it borrowed from the best. So, in Grades 9-10, ISH follows the IGCSE, an international curriculum developed and administered by Cambridge University. In Grades 11-12, ISH follows the International Baccalaureate program, the most widely recognized international curriculum in the world. And ISH is accredited by 2 foreign accreditation agencies: the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and the Council of International Schools.
Dar said, "Let me underscore that the future belongs to the young who comprise more than half the world´s population. They are speaking out and taking active leadership roles throughout society to build a world truly fit for a younger generation." People, if we teach them right, the youth are the hope of the fatherland of the future.
"As graduates of ISH," Dar said, "you have more than what it takes to lead and succeed. Go and capture your moment in the sun."
Filipino high school students could go and do likewise - but only if we teach them well, and in English. People, only the best is good enough!
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Date posted: Jun 11, 2012 4:12pm
Reporter: Mark Salazar
YouScooper Maria Trinidad Toriano shares this photo of students attending a class amid flood water at a public high school in Hagonoy, Bulacan.
Toriano, a teacher of the school, reports that the area is a catch basin every time there is a high tide. She adds the high tide happens every other week and that floods rise up to knee-level.
The tide only appears on certain times of the day. It starts at around 11AM and disappears at around 2PM.
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Wrong Track in Senior High School?
With the new K to 12 curriculum in the Philippines, various tracks are now offered in the last two years of basic education. The various options available obviously make it possible for students to find themselves later unprepared for the courses they decide to take in college. A student, for instance, who finishes the accounting business management (ABM) strand in the senior high school academic track, is now required to take additional courses if the student chooses to enroll in a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) major in college. These additional courses which are now called "bridging programs" are either taken during the first year of college or over several weeks in the summer before college starts. Above copied from Coldwater High School Early College Program There are bridging programs in the United States, but these are different from the ones that are now appearing in colleges in the Philippines. In Coldwater High School in Michigan, fo
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K to 12 Program ng Gobyerno ng Pilipinas
MGA TANONG AT SAGOT HINGGIL SA Kto12 PROGRAM NG GOBYERNO NG PILIPINAS Posted on May 28, 2012 by David Michael San Juan MGA TANONG AT SAGOT HINGGIL SA Kto12 PROGRAM NG GOBYERNO NG PILIPINAS (Paunawa: Simpleng lenggwahe ang ginamit sa artikulong ito upang madaling maintindihan ng mayorya.) For the full English version please visit http://www.scribd.com/david_juan_1/d/70033985-San-Juan-David-Michael-Full-Paper-Kto12 TANONG: ANO ANG KTO12 PROGRAM? SAGOT: Ang Kto12 Program ng gobyerno ng Pilipinas ay tumutukoy sa pagkakaroon ng mandatory o required na kindergarten at karagdagang 2 taon sa dating 10-year Basic Education Cycle. Kung noon, pagkatapos ng anim na taon sa elementarya at apat na taon sa hayskul (kabuuang 10 taon) ay maaari nang makapagkolehiyo ang mga estudyante. Sa ilalim ng Kto12, bago makapagkolehiyo, kailangan pa nilang dumaan sa karagdagang 2 taon pagkatapos ng apat na taong hayskul. Sa bagong sistema, tinatawag na senior high school o junior
Hapag ng Pag-Asa (Table of Hope)
Hapag ng Pag-asa, Painting by Joey A. Velasco The following is an article written by Fr. James B. Reuter, S.J., originally published on the Philippine Star . HAPAG NG PAG-ASA. By Fr. James B. Reuter, S.J. The Philippine Star 04/21/2007 At the entrance of the Major Seminary of the University of Santo Tomas , in Manila , you will see a painting. It is the "Last Supper" of Joey A. Velasco. It portrays poor children from Metro Manila, all between the ages of 4 and 14, at the Last Supper with Christ Our Lord. He has called it "Hapag ng Pag-asa", the table of hope. To start with, it is not really a table. It is a big delivery box, knocked apart and nailed together again as a table. Joey Velasco himself has said: "This painting reveals a story of greater hunger than a plate of rice could satisfy. What these children are starved for is love." Realizing that his little models were real persons, he investigated the life of each of them, and wrote
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"Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common." - Albert Einstein
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IISD Sustainability Certificate Series
September 28, 2022 6:00 am - April 23, 2023 6:00 am
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Register by September 25, 2022
As we seek to tackle a triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution, we need to engage young leaders in how we respond to these challenges. The IISD Next project works to link ongoing research and engagement on sustainable development with the people who will soon be tomorrow's policy-makers and policy influencers, and who will also be the ones feeling the impact of today's decisions.
As part of this work, IISD is launching a new online workshop series for university students around the world. This four-part series, available free of charge, will focus primarily on:
How to engage effectively with the policy process, from the local level to the international level.
The history, rationale, and current state-of-play of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (presented over two sessions).
The importance of transitioning to more sustainable modes of consumption and production, including what hot-button issues like eco-labelling and the circular economy mean in practice.
Students who attend all four workshops will receive a certificate of participation. The workshop is open to current university students and those who have recently graduated. Students should register by September 25, 2022, if they wish to complete the entire series. Workshops will be delivered online and each session will be one hour long.
To schedule a workshop for your region or to learn more about our program, please contact our Youth Engagement Coordinator, Emily Kroft, at [email protected].
Current Schedule of Workshops for the 2022–2023 Academic Year*
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September 28, 2022, at 4 p.m. September 28, 2022, at 4 p.m. September 29, 2022, at 6 p.m. October 4, 2022, at 4 p.m. October 4, 2022, at 6 p.m.
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October 26, 2022, at 4 p.m. October 27, 2022, at 4 p.m. November 2, 2022, at 6 p.m. November 3, 2022, at 5 p.m. October 25, 2022, at 6 p.m.
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When you think of a funnel, you immediately think of a space that get smaller and smaller and eventually ends at a certain point. A marketing funnel demonstrates the same concept, but the end point expresses the desired result for a potential customer engaged by a marketing campaign. It essentially has five levels beginning with cold prospects, that turn into leads, become first-time buyers and finally transform into multi-buyers or brand loyalists. With the continual changes in the communications landscape, the biggest question in the 21st century of marketing is, what is the best strategy to move potential customers down this virtual funnel?
The short answer is "Content is King." Essentially, the goal of your marketing strategy is to tell your story through content that can be delivered through multiple platforms. Each type of activity in the marketing mix such as public relations, email, social media, video, texting, advertising and more, plays an important role at each level of the funnel. The closer you get to the bottom, the more specific the content must become to the targeted customer.
Since each step in the marketing funnel needs to contain content that is strong enough to move a prospect to the next level, you must strategize carefully as to what is appropriate. You don't want to pepper a prospect with basic "about us" information when they have already signed up for updates on your product or service.
You might start with a Facebook ad with an engaging message that merits a click-through to a landing page you've created. The content on the landing page must then be valuable enough for the prospect to provide you with some type of information such as their email address or contact and company name.
Another staring point could be crafting creative story ideas and pitching them to the traditional media. Once the material is published, interested readers impressed with your thought leadership might visit your website where they will reach the next level in the funnel which should contain a specific call-to-action.
Once you have their name and know specifically who they are, you need to focus on the individual points of contact between your organization and the customer. As a rule of thumb, it takes about eight touch points to convert a prospect into a customer. You must consistently reach them through their preferred communication channels with value-added content that conveys the uniqueness of your company as compared to the competition.
Like an actual funnel, as you bring leads deeper into your organization, the number at each level will dwindle. To make the most of your efforts, study the relationship between the content delivered and the consumers that you have both lost and retained. This information will not only help you with your content creation, but it will continually refine the persona of your target market and help you expand the reach of your content delivery.
As you build a marketing plan, keep in mind that your content strategy needs to be planned and created well in advance – most often done in the form of a content calendar. If you are prepared to deliver relevant content, and have outlined the correct timing for the delivery of this content at each level of the marketing funnel, you're on the right track towards achieving your marketing objectives.


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Men's And Women's Swimming & Diving Teams Garner Academic Distinction From CSCAA
Posted on July 20th, 2012 by Ethan Armstrong
The Gustavus men's and women's swimming and diving teams have been recognized as Scholar All-America Teams by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).
The women's squad cumulated a grade point average of 3.33 this season, while the Gustie men registered a GPA of 3.11. The top team GPA in NCAA Division III on the women's side was held by Hope College at 3.79, as the top men's GPA went to Principia College at 3.76.
The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) was well represented on both the men's and women's Scholar All-America Teams. On the men's side, five schools including Macalester College (3.42), Carleton College (3.28), St. Olaf College (3.17), and Saint Mary's University (3.04) were honored. A total of 10 institutions made the women's list, as Augsburg College (3.68) and Concordia College (3.61) led the way with the third and eighth best GPA's, respectively, in the country. Also taking home All-America distinction was St. Catherine University (3.45), Carleton (3.42), University of St. Thomas (3.37), Saint Mary's (3.36), Macalester (3.36), St. Olaf (3.30), and Hamline University (3.03).
The Team Scholar All-American award is presented to college and university swimming and diving teams, who have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. The award is presented to teams achieving this standard in the fall semester and in the semester of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships (Winter/Spring).
On an individual level, five Gustavus women's swimmers garnered Scholar All-America recognition. Earning a place on the 2012 Scholar All-America Team was Stephanie Korba (Lakeville, Minn.), Kelsey Lucia (St. Cloud, Minn.), Katie Olson (Zimmerman, Minn.), Alissa Tinklenberg (Willmar, Minn.), and Sarah Hund (Willmar, Minn.).
The Scholar All-American award is presented to college and university swimmers and divers, who have achieved a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher, for the semester or cumulative average, and have qualified for their respective national championship. The award is presented in the semester of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships (Winter/Spring).
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Steve LarsenCast members of âThe Code Breakerâ at Growing Stage in Netcong.
Who says that the Growing Stage is just for little kids?
The Netcong theater that has offered tots "Babes in Toyland" and "Lyle the Crocodile" is now presenting Pauline C. Conley's "The Code Breaker." It's a genuinely ambitious play that's aimed at teens — but will impress many adults.
In this sci-fi tale set on the planet Orb, a computer runs the show in totalitarian fashion. "She" has the chummy name of Ruby, but make no mistake: She's Big Sister, and she's watching you.
Ruby has just decided the futures of four bright teens. After she deigns to let Pete pursue a career in science, she gives Bernice a position on the junior tribunal — probably because Ruby knows this dutiful lass will follow her every order.
Barney and Lisa aren't as lucky. Both wanted to be actors, but Ruby has chosen them for a life of clerking. They must accept their fate, unless they want to give up their water ration and Ruby's occasional permission to watch a movie.
While director Stephen L. Fredericks often finds terrific kids to populate his shows, he's found his strongest cast yet for this play. Don't be surprised if each and every one of these five young actors is a superstar in a few years.
Robert Mintz is a marvel as Pete. He seems so at ease on stage, intelligently delivering his lines with a mix of charm and determination.
Rosemary Glennon is completely winning as Bernice, as she expresses the anguish in having to make a choice — does she stay true to Ruby or support Pete?
Annie Rutherford Lutz reminds one of a young Sarah Jessica Parker. Lisa must see through the devastation that she's been denied her dream and be happy that her friend got what she wanted. That's not easy to play, but Lutz successfully achieves it.
As Barney, Devon Tully proves that he's a natural comedian. One so young can't be expected to be adept at delivering a line, stressing just the right syllable to get the maximum laugh. Yet he does.
Ruby may not seem to be a demanding role at first glance, but to play a computer without making it an over-mechanized cliché isn't easy. Casey Gill walks the fine line between human and machine with the skill of a great circus tightrope artist.
The odd component of Conley's script involves the names that she chose for her characters. Aren't Barney, Bernice, Lisa, Pete and Ruby rather earthbound names for those living in faraway Orb? A similar question arises as the second act begins. Barney and Lisa are doing a scene from "Romeo and Juliet." How they read a play by that Earthling, Shakespeare, is never explained.
When Lutz and Tully play the doomed lovers, Fredericks has them purposely overact. Their melodramatics suggest that Ruby had a point in keeping them off-stage.
On the other hand, it seems Orb doesn't have an excellent training program for its young performers. Lucky for us, New Jersey does — the Growing Stage.
When: Through Oct. 23. Fridays at 7:30 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 4 p.m.


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Broomball History: Where the Sport Began and How it Evolved
Broomball is an awesome and fun game, but broomball history is shrouded in mystery. That only adds to the aura and mystique of the offbeat sport. Some folks claim it was created by hockey-loving Canadians who found themselves without hockey sticks and pucks. Others say it dates back to early native peoples in Canada. Still others believe it can be traced back to the Vikings hundreds of years ago!
Which of these, if any, are most likely? Let's trace the history of broomball with a look at some of the theories about its origins, as well as a look at how the game has evolved since it became a legitimate sport just over 100 years ago.
Broomball history: The origins of the sport
One hypothesis suggests that Scandinavians played a violent game similar to what we call broomball back in the 10th century. The report goes that Vikings in Iceland played "Knattleikr," which involved villages of people competing against each other for days at a time, and deaths during the matches were not uncommon.
That game could only be considered a very distant relative to the broomball game we all play today. The same could be said of the "stickball" game played by the native peoples of eastern Canada. They used sticks to knock a ball through a goal. They probably played this game during all seasons, but it's easy to imagine that winter contests would have taken place on snow or ice, and thus looked somewhat like modern broomball games.
The most widely-accepted birthplace and time of broomball is Canada in the early 1900s, but even then, it's still unclear exactly how the game started. The non-profit organization USA Broomball suggests that the first modern players were street car workers who played with a soccer ball and actual brooms.
As far as we know, the earliest documented games of broomball took place in Perdue, Saskatchewan on March 5, 1909. However, there are also vague reports of games in Toronto in 1909, as well as rumors of games in Massey, Ontario way back in the 1890s. Nobody can really pin down the date with any more certainty than that, however.
More broomball history facts: Early games were played with actual brooms. Later, that changed to hard, frozen brooms, and much later, brooms were replaced by the current sticks with broom-shaped ends.
The evolution of broomball through the 1900s
Broomball spread to the United States at some point in the 1910s, when it was played in Minnesota. The gentlemen shown in the photo at the top pf this post played in Duluth in the 1920s.
The sport appeared in other cold-weather cities in the ensuing years. At Fort Brady in Michigan, soldiers played broomball during World War II. They wore skates and played on iced-over streets during the winter. That's a very cool piece of broomball history trivia!
Organized leagues began appearing in Minnesota in the 1960s. Early teams had 10 players, leading to a very crowded ice surface and a playing style that would have resembled soccer. Broomball.com reports that these rosters featured one goaltender, three forwards, three mid linesmen, and three defensemen. In 1967, that dropped to eight players per side, and in 1980, the current six-player setup came into effect
As the popularity of ice hockey grew, the niche sport of broomball grew as well, and it spread to many different U.S. states via word of mouth and, in recent years, the internet and social media. Minnesota remains one of the most popular states for broomball, with high-level leagues and annual tournaments across the state. Even southern states now have broomball thanks to the indoor ice arenas in large cities.
Canada, of course, has some of the highest-quality broomball matches in the world thanks to its experienced players. YouTube is a great place to watch clips or even entire matches from the 2016 Canadian Broomball Championships:
Broomball's continued international growth
Broomball history in America goes back far enough that USA Broomball has established a Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, the rest of the world has caught on to North America's game. Nations like Russia, Australia, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Sweden have embraced the game.
The International Federation of Broomball Associations serves as the governing body of the sport. Established in Canada in 1998, the IFBA organizes the biennial World Broomball Championships and creates the sport's rulebook.
Check out their site to learn more about the current worldwide state of broomball.
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You are avoiding the openness issue. Google Android OS makes everything available including tethering. If any cell phone maker or carrier disable the tethering then they are making their Android phone not open. Then they can not claim their phone is running Android. This is definitely a no no for marketing.
Where did you dream that up?
6:49 pm: Walt: I notice more and more they are taking on the personality of the carrier, not Google, not the handset maker. There are lots of what I would call craplets. Verizon, for example, swapped out Google for Bing. Is there a danger it is being taken over?
Rubin: That?s the nature of open. That?s actually a feature of Android.
Apparently "open" for Android means that it's open to the carriers to modify at their whim.
Andy is talking about the openness of Verizon being able to swap out the Google application for the Bing application. This is not the same as being able to modify the Android OS. Do you know the difference between the OS and the application?
What this really means is that Apple made an insanely useful phone, and people use it more than ever... And now the carriers wanna punish them for it.
"We've had this great business selling pocket transistor radios but now our customers prefer buying more and more flatscreen TVs which have been getting bigger and bigger. We can only store one or two TVs in a space originally built to hold fifty radios.
We can't cope with all our customers demanding bigger and bigger TVs; Panasonic make some of the largest TVs so it's time they pay towards our building larger stores and expanding existing stores to hold more TV stock".
SJ to network carriers: "Blow me!"
And the 2 lost decades would be because of the fast internet then? Or could it have been worse without it?
So you picked out the only survey that said so? Ever think of why it said so when other studies say otherwise? The wired survey was conducted at a time, when other countries had hardly any iPhones in use (with maybe the UK as an exception) and then by only using iPhones. Then of those countries, how many used the Wired app to test their speeds? How many even read Wired? I looked at the raw data in that test then and most non-US countries (with maybe the UK as an exception) had a few data points, not thousands or even hundreds. Hardly a test that provides comparable results globally.
No, the lost 2 decades happened because the Japanese government was rudderless and was just throwing stuff on the wall to see if they stick (like pasta). Japanese government keeping controlling ownership of NTT and NTT DoCoMo is a bad thing for consumer. You might as well advocate that the US government should buy AT&T and Verizon to re-create Ma Bell and then spend $300 BILLION government money on fiber deployment across America.
The iphone is the best comparison tool ever existed for international comparison. It is used by expats all around the world.
What are you talking about? Europe is way ahead in telecommunication infrastructures...BTW in Europe you don't get charged if someone call you like they do here and you can buy any device and use it on any carriers.
Brits had the highest SMS usage in Europe --- and US dwarfed Brits in SMS usage. Verizon Wireless has more 3G users than the ENTIRE Vodafone empire in Europe. US has more 3G penetration than Europe. US has more smartphone penetration (and more higher end smartphone than the symbian phoes) than Europe.
The EC has been talking about migrating to the US system for the last few years now.
You are just penny-wise and dollar-stupid. Who cares if you get charged for receiving a call if you pay less in total terms. If you are getting 100 minutes for $10 and you don't pay for receiving incoming calls vs. I get 300 minutes for $10 and get charged for incoming calls --- for the whole population as a whole when you average out incoming/outgoing as 50/50 mix, I am getting a better deal than you.
A few of you might buy a unsubsidized phone and use it on any carriers, but the majority are buying subsidized phones on contract --- which in Europe, you can't get out of contract without paying the full amount owing for the rest of contract. Technically easy to switch carriers in Europe, but financially difficult to switch in Europe. In the US, you get out of your existing contract by paying relatively inexpensive pro-rated Early Termination Fees, then you sign another contract with a second carrier which will give you a free phone --- who cares if you are switching from a CDMA carrier to a GSM carrier and can't use your old phone. Since chips double speed every 18 months, my free phone will be much better and faster than your ancient 2 year old iphone which you pay 700 euro for.
A few of you might buy a unsubsidized phone and use it on any carriers, but the majority are buying subsidized phones on contract --- which in Europe, you can't get out of contract without paying the full amount owing for the rest of contract. Technically easy to switch carriers in Europe, but financially difficult to switch in Europe.
I guess it is very expensive here since my daughter is paying 5 USD for 3000 minutes. And that is not a fixed length contract.
Actually a large part of europe does buy the phone and subscription separately. The UK is just one of tens of countries on this side of the pond.
You're so Intent on proving that the US is superior that you hand pick your comparison points and even then you don't seem do proper research. No need for that. The US is quickly catching up after a few decades of very slow development in mobile. So much so that in some areas US has already passed Europe and Asia. Doesn't mean that all US decisions are the best (or worst). A critical view usually helps to find the best of all solutions. We can all benefit from learning from one another with an open mind.
People often come up with these price comparisons with MVNO deals.
A large part of Europe have the option of buying the phone and subscription separately --- doesn't mean that people actually do it. When the iphone was first launched in France, the percentage of people buying the phone separately without contract was something like 5% as announced by the carrier themselves.
The international launch of the iphone definitely shattered all myths about how Europe is years ahead of US. Go to Ireland and Sweden, nobody talked about 3G beauty contest anymore. Go to the EC, nobody talked about limiting 3G expansion band auctions to be limited to WCDMA/HSDPA technology --- all those 3G expansion band auctions were done 3-4 years ago in a technology-neutral way so that carriers would have to option to deploy wimax. Go to the EC and everybody is talking about migrating to American style "bill and keep" is their LONG term goal. What's keeping the EC from doing that? It's people like you who refuse to actually acknowledge their views as penny-wise and dollar-stupid.
Hell, even the GSMA is getting rid of the SIM card.
I have always stated that we live in an imperfect world --- and out of all the imperfect solutions, the American system seems to be correct most of the time.
And being open means they can add, remove or change features (including tethering) as they wish.
ARGH!. And you conveniently change the subject each time you are proven wrong. Starting to piss me off that is. And how does the MVNO field change the fact that your statement on price differences was proven false?
And once again. The iPhone is only one of many. Picking your comparisons with the iPhone is disregarding a HUGE part of the existing market. Especially when the subsidies differences make it even more difficult to compare pricing. Evem tjen, the iPhone contracts are not the cheapest in the US. I believe Asia had the lowes iPhone + contract pricing? Could be wrong there.
Just to ask a simple question. If your view that the US system is the best (let's just limit it to mobile), why did it take the US over 20 years to catch up with the rest? Please give at least two reasons so that you restore my faith in people actually looking analytically at issues and not just picking comparison points to make themselves feel good about the country they live in.
Anybody can dig up time limited special pricing deals on MVNO's --- even in the US. I can even call up my carrier, threaten to leave and see if they will give me a special pricing plan. If I succeed and I post my lower pricing on this forum, what does that prove --- absolutely nothing.
The iphone is the best tool for international comparison --- because it's standardized, and well documented in English. I don't need to learn Swedish just to find out what's going on to the local market scene in Sweden --- or any of the 10-20 different languages in the first world OECD countries. We are talking about first world countries where service pricing should be compared --- not insanely cheap voice minutes in India.
It's called the rabbit vs. the turtle. And the turtle is going to win at the end. I rather have a long term win and a short term win. EVERYTHING you think is correct in Europe --- turns out that the whole Europe has either migrated already to the US system, or in the process of migrating, or has stated that in the long term to be hopefully migrating (barring obstructionist like you). You can have your nostalgia about how Nokia used to rule the world.
American style "bill and keep" mobile termination rate is the perfect example --- study after study has shown that Europe should adopt it. European Commission has stated --- in their complete lack of backbone way --- that this is their long term goal for benefiting consumers.
Europeans used to think that high spectrum auction prices would increase mobile service prices. But you know what --- for the last 3 years, UK has basically the cheapest iphone plans in the whole Europe, even though they had the highest 3G auction prices in 1999/2000. Countries like Norway and France --- which basically gave away 3G spectrums for peanuts, had much higher iphone plans pricing.
Not limited pricing. Standard pricing. And this by looking up just one. Not even digging for a lower price. No matter how much you'd wantit to be different by again selecting your comparison points instead of looking at something, which is not subsidisedso that you see the actual price if the service.
The iphone is the best tool for international comparison --- because it's standardized, and well documented in English. I don't need to learn Swedish just to find out what's going on to the local market scene in Sweden --- or any of the 10-20 different languages in the first world OECD countries.
Thank you. Just proved the point that you are looking at a ver limited view of the market to see what you want to see.
Nope. Just giving you factual data about the points that your claims clearly have as incorrect. Notice I didn't refute your SMS claims? Or your FTTH claims? I didn't because they were largely correct.
Agreed. Now that most users have devices that have A-number display, it makes more sense as you can decide if you want to pay for receiving a call from a user you can identify.
Did you ever think of why the REST OF THE WORLD hasn't gone into "bill and keep" yet? The US is the only one in that scheme. If you think really hard, you'll quickly see why that is. It has nothing to do with US or Europe or Asia or China being superior or inferior. "Bill and keep" combined with another US-only feature of mobile usage is one of the main reasons for the low adoption rates in the US for the previous 20 years when the rest of the world (not just Europe) went ahead with mobile. The previous US spectrum allocations in the eighties were another factor that is widely accepted as a flawed approach.
Like I said. All countries/regions do some things better than others. None are perfect. By having an open mind, we can find the best solutions to current needs. Needs change, thus regulations change.
Sigh: http://www.newamerica.net/publicatio...ans_and_prices just to prove your point fails once again now with yet another study. This one quite recent. How many times does this have to be done before you believe? But it seems you don't even bother looking at the facts that oppose your view?
The iPhone pricing is not transparent enough to make a valid comparison UNLESS your only interested in buying an iPhone. It only shows the comparative competitiveness of the local iPhone market. Not the mobile market as a whole.
It also took UK 10 years to get lowish prices and half decent coverage which s still appalling compared to other developed Asian and European countries). And they have tough competition out there with all four major players sharing roughly 25% each of the market so you'd assume by your theorem that they should have excellent coverage.
Prove what? It is impossible to independently verify your claims (or a million other people's claims) that they somehow gets an extremely cheap pricing on their cell phone plans. I don't speak Japanese or Swedish, how would I be able to verify that such and such plans are really true.
How would I verify my own "cheap" pricing --- scan my letter threatening to leave AT&T and then scan AT&T's letter saying that they would give me a discount and then post them to this forum.
Comparing regular price iphone plans are the best way to independently verify claims of international pricing comparisons.
How could you refute my SMS claim? This is UK telecom regulator (Ofcom) saying it.
Quote: "And although we're the second highest texting nation in world – sending 83 billion text messages in 2008 – the UK is still dwarfed by the US which sends 10 times more."
US has 5 times more population than UK, but text 10 times more in total --- it means that Americans send twice as much text per capita than the second highest country in the world.
Canada, Hong Kong also use the "bill and keep" method. And Hong Kong is the definitive iphone paradise. Why would Europe care about mobile penetration right now --- when they have 120-150% mobile penetration. They are meaningless statistics when all they are counting is spare SIM card accounts in the desk drawers.
Did you ever think of why the REST OF THE WORLD are all saying the same thing that "bill and Keep" is their long term goal.
Read their methodology, it falls in the same trap as OECD comparison. People from a poor third world country like India can only get voice at 1 cent a minute, but somehow you manage to get 3000 minutes for $5. Congrats.
It didn't take UK 10 years to get low prices. All it took was Li Ka Shing entering the UK market with Hutchison 3 UK at the height of the internet bubble --- he bought high and can't sell the business, can't IPO his business (failed Hutchison 3 Italia IPO). He flipped businesses like Americans flipped houses. So what did he do? Start a bunch of price wars in UK, Sweden and Australia --- hoping one of his competitors would buy him out. It partially worked in Australia when he monetize his investment when Vodafone Australia and Hutichson 3 Australia merged last year.
It isn't impossible or even difficult. Again: Regular pricing. I as others have shown you several before in other discussions with links, but as it doesn't suit your view, you find excuses or switch topic. You don't need to understand Fremch, Swedish or German or Japanese as long as you understand symbols like ?, £, $, min, SMS etc.
Looking at iPhone plans in US, Canada, HK and UK because their sites are in English is conveniently ignoring 98% of the market out there, thus making wide assumptions about telecoms legislation and policy on a few percentage points of a total market is, well... Not to mention that pricing is affected by more than one policy (like bill-and-keep).
As for bill-and-keep. Now that the market is more mature, it makes more sense than before, when penetration growth was more important. Bill and keep has always been used in roaming scenarios.
It may very well be (quite likely) that for the next 20, the US is at the forefront of mobile communication. But: if the US system is so brilliant without a SINGLE flaw, why was the last 20 years the way it was?
If modus operandi is anything to go by, you won't answer this one but here's hoping: Since you're so set in the premise that the US system is without flaws and that the rest of the world should adopt the US system as is , please outline a few mistakes/flaws/reasons, why the US took 20 years to catch up in the mobile space and what caused the current momentum change (changes in US market or Other world markets?) that may eventually make the US lead in most parts of the Mobile space? Did Europe and Asia stop innovating, have they invented laws that stifle development and competition? The Turtle and Hare doesn't really fit, because the change in the US market dynamics has been massive in the last years (The US is the hare right now).
Aren't telecom's already charging customers for some form of capped usage (minutes, bytes, messages, etc.)? How do they justify wanting to be paid twice for the same service?
If their networks can't handle the service, they probably shouldn't be selling it.
I agree completely. This kind of whiney crap from Wireless providers really pisses me off. If you don't have the bandwidth to support a device DON'T SELL IT. If you can't provide the service at a sustainable market price, you are in the wrong business.
The Eurozone Telco's are a different matter. Most of them are government owned. Hence, inherently incompetent.


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Southampton transfer news
'Wonder who wins that!' Aston Villa, Rangers and Saints fans react to Joe Aribo transfer update
Rangers midfielder Joe Aribo has been linked with a return to England, with Aston Villa and Southampton among the clubs named as potential suitors for the former Charlton Athletic star
Joe Aribo has impressed for Rangers and has been linked with Aston Villa and Southampton, among others (Image: (Photo by Marcio Machado/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images))
Southampton and Aston Villa fans are both getting excited at the prospect of signing Joe Aribo, after the Rangers star was linked with a move to the Premier League.
A report by the Daily Record says Saints have joined the race to land the midfielder, who previously played for Charlton Athletic between 2015 and 2019.
The 25-year-old has impressed at Rangers and has scored 23 goals for the Scottish giants since moving north of the border in 2019, with Aribo being a standout performer for the Gers this season.
But with Aribo about to enter the final 18 months of his contract at Ibrox and no closer to agreeing a new deal. there is speculation over his future, with several Premier League clubs being linked with the 25-year-old.
Southampton and Everton tipped to move for highly-rated winger who held talks with Leeds United
The Everton and Southampton players leading the way in Premier League with impressive numbers
Brentford, Burnley and Aston Villa have been linked, and a move to Villa would see him reunited with former Rangers boss Steven Gerrard.
But in recent days, reports in Scotland suggest that Saints boss Ralph Hasenhuttl has sent scouts to watch the Nigerian international, including at their recent 1-0 win over Dundee United in the Scottish Premiership.
And fans of Southampton, Rangers and Aston Villa have been having their say on what may happen next for Aribo.
Here's what they have been saying on social media.
New Gers boss Giovanni van Bronckhurst has said he would like to retain the services of Aribo but the lure of a Premier League move may prove difficult for the player to turn down.
Football Scotland have suggested though that Rangers could listen to offers in excess of £10million for Aribo, who scored 16 goals in 97 appearances for Charlton before making the switch to Scotland two years ago.
Saints have had success in the past with signing players from Scotland, including Virgil van Dijk, Victor Wanyama and Stuart Armstrong.
David Moyes and West Ham United given early boost for Boxing Day clash with Southampton
Southampton linked with £20m January transfer for ex-Everton and Paris Saint-Germain youngster


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