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Myanmat sets new curfews after fresh violence

Yangon, Myanmar (AP) - The Myanmar authorities imposed a curfew from dusk to dawn in three cities Tuesday after anti-Muslim violence hit new religious parts of the country, approaching the main city of Yangon.

Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview

is one of the most respected voices in technology, a visionary who helped shape our digital culture. Recently, however, he began to warn against the consequences of flight probably in a technological future. This is what explains why he became a dissenting voice - and what worries more

Jaron Lanier is the rarest of rare birds - an uber-geek who is very critical of the world created by the technology he helped to create. Now, at age 50, became known in the 1980s as a pioneer in the field of "virtual reality" - the development of computer-generated environments where people can interact real. Since then, it has attracted the label "visionary" is not always a compliment in the computer industry, which is designated as the

New Yorker memorable said, "The ability of mercury penetration and lack of practical skills."

In person, it looks like the idea of ??taking a technology guru: thick, casual clothing, no socks, beard and dreadlocks. However, they also have good people skills. He is friendly, intelligent, friendly and talkative. Her shrill voice belies its physical volume and laughed a lot. He is a talented musician who is widely read and write prose accessible and sometimes eloquent. His latest book -

Who Owns the Future

- is sobering reading for anyone who cares about what the cultural critic Neil Postman called "Technopoly" - the The main objective belief that labor and human thought is the calculation of technical efficiency, which is above the human trial.

Lanier thought in this direction for some time. An earlier book of his -

not a gadget: A Manifesto

- argued that the Internet was in jeopardy human interaction, we stifle creativity and change people . Lanier was particularly scathing about remix culture, he considered not only ethically questionable, but also doomed to failure in the long term. If we have a world in which artists can not live on their work, eventually you run out of things to remix. His new book this perspective much further articulates three main ideas. The first is that the Internet has encouraged us to process information in the frivolous spirit manifested by the trope "information wants to be free." So, treat it as if it was free and therefore make it more difficult for certain types of work to earn decent livings. But once you get to the point that the world is really run by the software, this view will be relaxed economically unsustainable.

The second idea is that the decisions we make in the design of technology systems will eventually come back to haunt us. One of the heroes of Lanier Ted Nelson, the visionary who invented hypertext and imagined a world in which everything is written dynamically linked so that mankind could be infinitely creative in combining ideas. But Nelson believes that the relationship must be a two way process and also include micro-payments, so everyone will get paid every time someone uses their profession. Finally, we have a world of hypertext in the web form, but with a road linking only.

Finally, Homer is a metaphor to highlight what is wrong with our current ecosystem. The web has evolved from what geeks call a client-server model to a system dominated by what Lanier calls "mermaid servers" such as Facebook, which contain billions of Internet users in slavery without sharing wealth generated with the people who create the wealth in the first place. In the Odyssey, Ulysses Circe warns against mermaids "that enchant all who come near them." If someone gets too close to them unwisely said, "his wife and children will never be welcome at home, sitting in a green field and warble him to death with the sweetness of their song." Addicted to Facebook, please copy.

John Naughton:

Many commentators

characterize as an "against-" by offering a story that goes against conventional wisdom on our interconnected world . The problem with this qualification, however, is that most other geeks Mavericks not, then it certainly is. You say that your colleagues technicians tolerate dissent of his story. It sounds like they take a condescending attitude. It's like they say, "Oh, it's just Jaron off on one of his rants again" And behind this is an implicit consequence -. Whether their belief in the story will not be diminished by what you say. Is that how you see it?

Jaron Lanier:

I'm not the only person who thinks too technical, but I'm the only one who also writes. I have a foot in both worlds. And there are other numbers that are noteworthy. At the beginning of the

not a gadget , for example, is a list of people they regarded as belonging to the humanist tradition computer. And some of them write very well. However, in the current group of computer scientists do not know if someone else do what I do. This is what worries me - the fact that there is more diversity in the writing of the computer. It's not that I hope you will agree with me, but I expected more diversity than I do.

JN:

are very good at explaining how, once it becomes an established technology, we become locked into it. It becomes an important part of the infrastructure of our lives that change is unthinkable. And yet, I think if radical changes we then headed to serious problems. If you are right about "lock-in" does not mean that his campaign is essentially Don Quixote - which are the windmills

JL:

In truth, I was more chimerical in the period leading up to the current orthodoxy. What I said in the 1980s

was entirely chimerical. Now they see me as more realistic and grounded. I have many emails from people who agree with me, but are impatient and want to propose methods to move to a better situation very quickly - with a sort of Ponzi scheme that people buy quickly, causing things change quickly. I always say to these people that what I am advocating is in fact a process slower and more deliberative. I'd rather have 20 or 30 years, it is likely that the time we have before automation jobs crisis become serious. What I prefer is to defend not change as quickly as possible, but to engage in a political dialogue and long-term deliberation, why I wrote a book instead of proposing a Ponzi scheme to cause a rapid transition. In addition, our current arrangements can not drive to lock the end, because it is not sustainable.

JN:

You said hard things about the mentality that celebrates our ecosystem of networked information. Expressions such as "digital Maoism" and "hive mind" come to mind. But "Maoism" was an ideology that was responsible for the deaths of between 18 million and 40 million people. Were you using captivating images to shock people out of their complacency?

JL:

interesting, I think I remember that "digital Maoism" was not my money. It was a title chosen by John Brockman for a song that I wrote. Probably not something I would say to myself, because it has a. alarmist Red bait or the if I used the "hive mind" term time time, was not invented by me, but by Kevin Kelly, I think.

JN:

One of the things that struck me forcefully in his writing, it is thought that is implicit in all the elections he is a technique some philosophy or ideology. The Internet that we use today, for example, has been identified as one of its most important characteristics, because the designers are not concerned about the possibility of trusting the system users. But it is not the only type of internet that you may have.

Similarly, the World Wide Web as provided by Tim Berners-Lee could have bidirectional link embedded in it (which would have provided a system of mutual settlements), more than one way link embedded in the original design. Part of his argument, as I understand it, is that some design decisions back to haunt you.


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Secret Teacher: leaders can't afford to forget behaviour management basics

Everyone at school has a duty to respect the rules of behavior management, especially senior management teams

"Wait! Stop talking! Wait! Shut up! "The voice in my head is screaming.

Imagine the scene in our school hall:. 300 students sat in groups of tutoring course alongside their friends, and there is a buzz of murmurs and whispers in the room

my rant silently in my head - "Wait! Hush" - And I know that the only person in liquidation me, it is because this rant is not directed to students . It is assumed that a member of our management team and pastoral director, was at the front, they talk about students. They are not heard by the vast majority of students, but still.

Try returning students was a farce, and finally the group throughout the year (and support teachers) are punished and remained in place after the end of the hood. I served my sentence in silence, but if I had been able to produce steam that would have been out of my ears.

Managing student behavior is part of our work, and punish students who were in my opinion very unfair. The administrator has no pastoral experience teaching (now that's another rant), has not given any public speech or behavior management training (oh, and another) so I can forgive him a little, but I can not believe that SLT ads just went ahead despite the fact that students were still talking.

This is not a case of "people in glass houses do not throw stones" - I know I have to work on behavior management and probably always will. But the fact that I know that it is something positive, and I remember every day when I'm in front of a classroom full of students.

• The first thing you learn as an intern is expected. Students have to queue outside the room, waiting for an answer, wait until the feathers must be sacrificed, is waiting to get their books and the list goes on. However, the largest and most important "hold" all is "waiting for the silence." Sometimes the wait for silence can seem like an eternity, but whatever the length of time you must wait, never speak until the silence and absolute. Start talking, while the group is not silent is a sign that you are not in total control, and students to identify and exploit this weakness. TSL should know, they taught long ago. Have they forgotten everything he learned?

Is this really the problem: TSL are teaching conditions and mutually exclusive? The. Further up the greasy pole climbs, the more you move away from the front line of teaching, I sincerely believe that behavior management strategies should be implemented, they must be adapted and improved for different students and s If they are not teaching, how the devil to learn what works, and especially what does not work with your current cohort?

behavior

rapid decline in this age group is the talk of the staff room, especially among our new teachers, and from what I have seen students given an inconsistent message in terms of what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior. This inconsistency means that some of them try to push the boundaries. I know that the school management is complex, and because of this complexity, it is easy to forget simple things SLT but essential. Never forget that effective performance management is essential - it can be a serious obstacle to learning. If we allow this to happen, we do not favor students and in the worst case, could mean that some of them will not reach their potential, and unless we stop the rot could lose some teachers discourage profession.

We, and I mean everyone who calls himself a master, and includes SLT enough obstacles to overcome, and we must remember to put first things first: the management of behavior has to be at the top of our list.
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Reading 1-2 Aston Villa

Paul Lambert repeated like a mantra throughout the season. "We're fine," said Aston Villa. This is one of Glasgow on the intensity and the impression was that if he says it enough, you can make this happen, so that the force of his personality may want an inexperienced team in member of the Association 25 years extended elite

This victory, second in 12 games in the Premier League, was a tonic for this purpose. Villa has survived its latest self-inflicted wound, a goal against his black humor of Nathan Baker, and the highly controversial decision to disallow what would have been an equalizer for reading Noel Hunt offside to extricate themselves from the relegation . Wild scenes between fans traveling full time whistle told their own story.

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nurse remained despite bitter, not only for their own terrible defense in the first half. They reached the head of the second period, but if the offside call stuck in his craw, they could not risk another. Home feels vital to their survival prospects and, as such, was a hit.

There are up to five million compelling reasons for clubs to ensure that it is not the season to come down, what with the new TV deal begins mega First League during the summer, and for reading and Villa, the pressure is the kind that happens in the stomach.

is a time of agitation rhetoric - Lambert spoke of a "total war" - and when the head must be made when all around the loss, or routine miskicking released their own goals and, in general, to defend like schoolboys. If no evidence is required about the oppressive nature of stress, or why these teams play dice with relegation came during a first half which was aggravated on commitment but low on quality.

Villa defensive wobbles have been well documented, but suffered a new low. Jobi McAnuff after Matthew Lowton was beaten to cross goalwards left and facing Akpan had hope, Baker, in the second column, place the right foot to clear only to lose, see the ball hit the base and roll, almost apologetically, in the network.

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• yet found a way to monitor the extent and output to a chorus of boos from his supporters. They lost their focus completely on the first goal and when Andreas Weimann snuck inside the right channel to deliver a low cross from Ashley Westwood spend three defenders like reading lemmings had stumbled to the goal line. Benteke Christian, who had peeled, shot at home with the help of a deflection of Stephen Kelly.

worse was to follow for reading. Kelly sliced ??space Weimann cross high in the sky, Lowton won a header and Barry Bannan instinctive shot hits occurred in the post. How to Read frozen Gabby Agbonlahor a hit in the top fantastic.

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had blinked at first with Adam Melt The header of force in a Reflex Brad Guzan and guests included unhappy when the goalkeeper fumbled in Villa Noel Hunt. No penalty. But Villa, created with a tight midfield three, had formed a space before the onset of these objectives. Benteke against the crossbar and a good opportunity Weimann went wide at the counter.

Villa had put in a glorious position, but lived on their nerves in the second half ever, but thought he had equalized when Hunt. McAnuff Cruz Melt The Hunt canceled in the middle and converted at the far post to cry injustice when the assistant referee signals for offside. The Melt, which was the center of the action, it could have been split in front of the last man, as Hunt, but it was pretty darn close. Read deeply offended.
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