Internet porn: Automatic block rejected

Ministers have rejected plans to automatically block internet access to pornography on all computers, saying the move is not widely supported.

A public consultation found 35% of parents wanted an automatic bar while 15% wanted some content filtered, and an option to block other material.

But the government says internet providers should encourage parents to switch on parental controls.

Claire Perry, the MP who led the campaign, said she was "disappointed".

The NSPCC said parents' voices were not being heard.
There were more than 3,500 responses to the 10-week consultation - which included those from members of the public, academics, charities and communication firms as well as 757 from parents.

Respondents were asked to answer "yes", "no" or "maybe" to three separate questions about how internet service providers (ISP) could play a role in limiting access.

An automatic block would mean users would have to actively request that pornographic content was made available by their ISP.

Mrs Perry, the Conservative MP for Devizes in Wiltshire, led the campaign and handed over a petition to Downing Street containing more than 115,000 names.

She chaired the cross-party Independent Parliamentary Inquiry on Online Child Protection which concluded in April that government and ISPs needed to do more to keep children safe online.

She told BBC News she was "obviously disappointed that the opt-in option has been rejected" but she added: "Clearly that was not the preferred choice of the 3,500 people who responded to the consultation and we have to base policy on what's been received not what we want."

'Sea change'

She said she was pleased internet service providers would have to actively encourage and prompt parents to switch on filters which will block adult sites to children and verify the age of the person setting up the controls.

She said the exercise had helped to obtain a "sea change in attitude" from ISPs.

The report said there was "no great appetite among parents for the introduction of default filtering of the internet by their ISP - only 35% of the parents who responded favoured that approach".

Some 13% said they favoured "a system where you are automatically asked some questions about what you want your children to be able to access".

And 15% answered "yes" to a system that combined the previous two approaches where some harmful content, such as pornography, was automatically blocked but parents were also asked about what other content their children could access.

The NSPCC said the figures showed that half of the parents who took part in the consultation wanted some sort of automatic block on online pornography.

But the report said an automatic ban - or "opt-in" - approach could lead parents into a "false sense of security" because it could not filter "all potentially harmful content".

'Over-blocking' risk

It also did not "deal with harms such as bullying, personal abuse, grooming or sexual exploitation which arise from the behaviour of other internet users".

It added: "There is also a risk from 'over-blocking' - preventing access to websites which provide helpful information on sexual health or sexual identity, issues which young people may want information on but find difficult to talk to their parents about."

About 70% of the 78 voluntary and community sector organisations that responded answered "yes" to an automatic block while a strong majority of respondents from all other groups answered "no".

While a large majority of the 77 information and communication businesses questioned were against all forms of control, they gave most support (about 18%) to the second approach, in which parents decide what they want their children to access on the internet.

The report found that, taking respondents as a whole, the majority were against all forms of control with more than 80% answering no to each of the three questions.

It praised the the four main ISPs - BT, TalkTalk, Virgin Media and Sky - for signing up to a code of practice, offering customers a choice of whether to apply filters, but said providers should go further and actively encourage parents to turn them on.

'Right direction'

The NSPCC said that while the government's response was "a step in the right direction in making the internet safer for children" it was "disappointing" it had not gone further.

"The best option to protect children is for adult content to be automatically blocked by internet service providers," head of corporate affairs Alan Wardle said.

"Hardcore pornographic videos are just a few clicks away and a quarter of children have been sent unsolicited sexual material online."

He said it was vital new measures were rolled out to new and existing customers "quickly".

Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch, which is opposed to default filtering, said: "This is a positive step that strikes the right balance between child safety and parental responsibility without infringing on civil liberties and freedom of speech.

"The policy recognises it is parents, not government, who are responsible for controlling what their children see online and rightly avoids any kind of state-mandated blocking of legal content."

Source : BBC News

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Newtown school gunman used rifle to kill victims

The gunman who killed 20 children and six adults at a school in Connecticut used a rifle as his main weapon, the chief medical examiner says.

All the victims at Sandy Hook school in Newtown died of gunshot wounds, H Wayne Carver II said.

A list of the dead has been released. All the children were aged six or seven, and all the adults were women.

The gunman, named in media reports as Adam Lanza, killed his mother before driving to the school and opening fire.

Head teacher Dawn Hochsprung is listed among the dead, along with adults Rachel Davino, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Russo, Mary Sherlach and Victoria Soto.

The youngest child to be killed was Noah Pozner, who celebrated his sixth birthday only last month. Most of the children who died were girls and nearly all were aged six.

Dr Carver said all the victims had been hit more than once.

Initial reports suggested that the killer had used two handguns which he also had with him.

Earlier, Lt Paul Vance of Connecticut state police said the gunman had forced his way into the school, and had not been let in "voluntarily".

He said investigators had gathered "good evidence" in the search for a motive.

The gunman killed his mother at the home they shared before driving to the school in her car and opening fire. Reports say the guns used in the attacks were registered to her.

There are conflicting reports about whether she had worked at the school in the past.

Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy made a television address saying the children were "taken from their families far too soon".

"What's important right now is love, courage and compassion," he said.

President Barack Obama has urged "meaningful action" against gun crime in the US in the wake of the attack.

"As a country we have been through this too many times," he said in an emotional White House address.

"We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics."

Friday's killings took place in two rooms within a single section of the school, police have said. The shooting lasted just a few minutes.

'Absolutely quiet'

As they heard the shots, teachers in other parts of the building tried to protect children by locking doors and ushering them into closets.

"I told them we had to be absolutely quiet, because I was just so afraid if he did come in, then he would hear us and just start shooting the door," said teacher Kaitlin Roig.

"I said to them, 'I need you to know that I love you all very much and that it's going to be okay', because I thought that was the last thing they were ever going to hear."

Library clerk Maryann Jacob described telling 18 children to crawl into a storage room, before barricading the door with a filing cabinet. "We set them up with paper and crayons," she said.

Dr Jeannie Pasacreta, a nurse practitioner and psychologist who has been advising parents on how to talk to their children, says neighbours have been cancelling Christmas parties and taking down decorations.

Brother questioned

Early reports named 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, of Hoboken, New Jersey, as the gunman, but unnamed officials later said his brother Adam was the suspect.

Ryan Lanza was questioned by police, US media reported, but has not been named as a suspect.

In a separate development, police in Oklahoma have arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to shoot and bomb students at his school in Bartlesville. Sammie Eaglebear Chavez, 18, is said to have tried to convince other students to help him carry out an attack.

The attack at Newtown is the second deadliest shooting attack at a US school or university.

In 2007, a student at Virginia Tech university killed 32 people and injured many more.

Source : BBC News

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The daily life of the Tribe Zoe (a lost world)

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Name

They are also known as the Poturu, Poturujara, or Buré. The term "Zo'é" means "us," as opposed to non-Indians or enemies. The term "Poturu" is the type of wood used to make embe'po labrets.^[1]

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Language

The Zo'é language belongs to Subgroup VIII of the Tupi-Guarani language family.^[2]

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Culture

All Zo'e wear the poturu, a wooden plug piercing the bottom lip. The Zo'e have a tradition where new fathers have the backs of their calves cut with the 'tooth of a small rodent'.

The marriage rituals of the Zo'e are complex and not fully understood. It is not known how many wives or husbands one is allowed to have. Many women practice polyandry, one or more husbands may be "learning husbands"; young men learning how to be good spouses, in exchange for hunting for the rest of the family.

In the state of Para, Northern Brazil, in one of the last still largely unexplored rainforests in the world, a new tribe, the Zoe, was recently contacted. They live between the Amazon River and the country of Suriname. The Zoe are part of the Tupi linguistic group. Little is known about them. They are semi-nomadic hunters and gatherers. Their favorite prey is monkey, which is plentiful in the region during the dry season. During the rainy season, the Zo'e rely on a root plant calledmanioc, which must be processed into flour to avoid its poisonous properties.

—Jean-Pierre Dutilleux^[6]

Source : wikipedia

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FIFA Ultimate Team Best Player

FIFA ultimate team best players

Who are the FIFA ultimate team thirteen best Players?

Well I suppose that depends on how you define the best player.

FIFA ultimate team is a unique game format and I like the FIFA ultimate team's chemistry feature because it doesn't allow one player to be a god and every one that can't afford him get flogged game after game. It lets everyone have a chance but saying that, there are still good players and bad ones.

So let's take a look at a few of my favorite players in the game.

Here is a list of my favorite five-star players, their leagues, positions and their teams so it will be easy for you to find, buy or trade them.

Let's start off with Barclays Premier league, there are four five-star players that I've found so far. They are:

• Nani, a gold player with a ranking of eighty-five. His position is LM and he plays for Manchester United.
• Hatem Ben Arfa is another gold player with a ranking of eighty-one. His position is RW and he plays for Newcastle United.
• Oussama Assaidi is also a gold player and his ranking is seventy-eight. His position is LW and he plays for Liverpool. This guy has kicked a lot of goals for me.
• Adel Taarabt is another Barclays' legend. He is a gold player with a ranking of seventy-eight. His position is CAM and he plays for Queens Park Rangers.

I like the Barclays Premier league players as they are easy to find if you know the names of the British clubs, but I have to admit I have a soft spot for the Brazilian players as well. So let's have a look at my top Liga do Brazil picks:

• Ronaldinho is of course the first one that comes to mind as he is an unstoppable force in real life. Well. it's no different in this game, he is an amazing player. He is a gold player with a ranking of eighty-three. His position is CAM and he plays for Atlético Mineiro.
• Andrés D'Alessandro is an international gold player with a ranking of eighty and his position is CAM as well.
• Neymar is another one I like. He is a gold player with a ranking of eighty-five and he plays LW position and his team is Santos.

I could go on all day about the gold players that I like and use, but it would make for some pretty dull reading.

To summarize, there are a lot of really great players and I am just scratching the surface here, but I can definitely say that if you like FIFA and fantasy football then you will love playing FIFA ultimate team. It gives you all the action of the FIFA World cup game with the strategies and tactics of fantasy football.

It is by far my all-time favorite sports game and I must give a big thumbs up to the guys at EA games for this one. You guys have definitely done it again.

If you want to be a part of an online FIFA community, get tips and ideas for free from other players then get to this site and start talking to the gold coin masters today at http://fifaultimateteamgoldcoinmasters.com or check out the latest stategy guides on our guides page Click for guides

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Rival rallies held in Egypt over constitution

Thousands gather in protest and support over president's decision to proceed with Saturday's vote on draft constitution.

Thousands of pro-government and opposition protesters have held rival rallies in Cairo for and against a controversial constitutional referendum proposed by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

Leftists, liberals and other opposition groups called for Tuesday's marches to the presidential palace to protest against the hastily arranged referendum planned for Saturday.

Al Jazeera's Sherine Tadros, reporting from the anti-Morsi rally, said that the crowds in front of the presidential palace had "thinned out significantly" around midnight as people returned home. Some of the protesters had managed to breach the concrete barriers intended to keep them away from the presidential palace. "The situation is still pretty calm - it's actually quite a festive atmosphere," said Tadros. The debate among the crowd seemed to be whether to vote "no" on the referendum or to boycott the vote entirely. The centre-right Islamists who dominated the body that drew up the constitution, urged their followers to turn out "in millions" in a show of support for the president and his referendum. Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from the pro-Morsi rally in the Nasr City neighbourhood, said speaker after speaker has been taking the stage, calling for the constitution to go through. "Here, people do support President Morsi. Here, people do say that they are behind the constitution," said Abdel-Hamid. "For them, the constitution brings stability to the country and economic recovery. And a lot of people here will tell you that their lives have been at a standstill since the revolution back in 2011." Critics of the draft constitution say it disregards the rights of women and ignores personal freedoms. The opposition, stubbornly calling for the referendum to be delayed, was still trying to decide late on Monday whether to boycott the vote or rally Egyptians to vote "no" to the draft. Egypt's political crisis began on November 22 when Morsi issued a decree expanding his powers, granting himself immunity from judicial oversight or challenge. The decree, which he later withdrew, sparked mass demonstrations. Military empowered The elite Republican Guard has yet to use force to keep protesters away from the palace, now ringed with tanks, barbed wire and concrete barricades, but a decree issued by Morsi late on Sunday gives the armed forces the power to arrest civilians during the referendum and until the announcement of the results. The head of the Egyptian military called for a "national dialogue" to be held on Wednesday in an attempt to resolve the constitutional crisis, a military source said. Defence Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is calling for all sections of the people to convene a national dialogue at the Olympic Village tomorrow," the military source told Reuters. The Egyptian president insists on holding the referendum on schedule, despite concerns over who will monitor the vote. Several groups of judges have said they will not oversee the referendum, as is customary for judges in Egypt. Meanwhile, Egypt's judges on Tuesday said that most will of them will not oversee vote on disputed constitution, although Tadros reported that "there are enough judges now to monitor the referendum". Judges of the nation's administrative courts announced on Monday they were conditionally lifting their boycott of the vote, but they said their supervision of the process was conditional on bringing an end to the siege of the Supreme Constitutional Court by Morsi's supporters. Also on Tuesday, a vital $4.8bn International Monetary Fund loan to Egypt has delayed until next month, intensifying the political crisis gripping the country. 'Political polarisation' Leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahy, one of the most prominent members of the National Salvation Front opposition coalition, said Morsi was driving a wedge between Egyptians and destroying prospects for consensus. "The road Mohamed Morsi is taking now does not create the possibility for national consensus," Sabahy said. If the constitution was passed, he said: "Egypt will continue in this really charged state. It is certain that this constitution is driving us to more political polarisation." The National Salvation Front also includes Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mohamed ElBaradei and former Arab League chief Amr Moussa. Morsi's decision on Saturday to retract a decree awarding himself wide powers failed to placate opponents who accused him of plunging Egypt deeper into crisis by refusing to postpone the vote on the constitution scheduled for December 15. "We are against this process from start to finish," Hussein Abdel Ghani, spokesperson of the National Salvation Front, said.

Source: Al Jazeera and agencies

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What Is Google Panda?

With the amount of information that is available on the internet these days, it becomes very difficult for search engines to segregate quality content from the duplicate and rehashed content. Looking at it from the user's point of view, it can be very frustrating to find bad and irrelevant content in search results. This is where Google Panda has a role to play.

Google Panda is a change in the algorithm of Google. This was introduced to remove all the junk content from Google's search results. Panda segregates content and ranks good quality content higher in the search results and pushes down low quality content. Low quality content can have a negative impact on the entire website, thanks to Google Panda. As a result, website owners can no longer use low quality content and call it "SEO content".

Google Panda was launched in February 2011 and was made open to the world in April 2011. In March 2012, Google also added a penalty for over-optimization as a part of the Panda algorithm.

The Effect of Google Panda

One of the biggest effects of Panda was that all the websites who used content from other sources saw a drastic fall in their rankings. All the websites which had lots of pages with almost the same content (with a few differences like cities, states or countries) were taken off the search results. All the sites with high quality content saw a rise in their rankings.

Google Panda has not replaced any of the previous algorithms. It is just an addition to the Google algorithm along with the other 200 odd factors that are already there. However, Panda has a greater impact on a website's search engine performance as compared to the other algorithms.

How does Panda Work?

The algorithm of a search engine is like a math formula which takes into consideration a number of parameters before deciding which URL to rank higher in the search engine results. However, the main concern of the algorithm is the person who enters the search query. The search engines strive to provide results that meet the requirements of the person who is doing the search. These algorithms do not promote or demote a website. Sine their main focus is the user, any change that is made to the algorithm is with the intention of providing the user with quality search results. The quality of the website that is there in the search rankings is determined by using high level language and artificial intelligence by Google Panda. Some of the features that play an important role in determining the quality of a site are design, speed and trustworthiness.

Google Panda and SEO

How can one make their website SEO friendly and still do well with Panda? You will not have to do anything new if you make sure that the content of your website is quality content that is different from the rest of the sites that are around. Many white hat SEO companies always stress on the importance of high quality content and its importance to the growth of the site.

If your site has seen a dip in rankings due to Panda, there are certain things that you may do to improve these rankings. These are:

· Make your audience your focus

· Do not keep duplicate content on your site

· Do not spam

· Keep only high quality content on your site

· Engage your audience

Many low quality SEO companies and writes may not be able to survive in the market thanks to Google Panda. The main focus of this is to give importance to quality than cost. The sites that will give importance to content that is well researched and liked by visitors will emerge winners. To win in the age of Google Panda, you need to partner a good internet marketing services company that will ensure your brand grows online, ethically and sustainably.

Tanya Jones is a staff writer for Flying Cow Design, a Professional Website Design company.

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