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It was England’s best performance at a major tournament since Southgate was part of the team that reached the semi-finals at Euro ‘96.
England arrived at this World Cup with the least experienced squad in terms of caps, but Southgate said the agony of losing was just as strong despite surpassing limited expectations.
“We all feel the pain of the defeat. Did we expect to be in this position? I don’t think realistically any of us did,” he said.
England will return to their Repino base near Saint Petersburg ahead of Saturday’s third place play-off against Belgium, a repeat of their final group match.
“The honest thing is it’s not a game any team wants to play,” Southgate admitted. “We have two days to prepare and we’ll want to give a performance of huge pride.
Robert Kahn, the most senior figure in the development of the internet, has delivered a strong warning against "Net Neutrality" legislation.
Speaking to an audience at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California at an event held in his honour, Kahn warned against legislation that inhibited experimentation and innovation where it was needed.
Kahn rejected the term "Net Neutrality", calling it "a slogan". He cautioned against dogmatic views of network architecture, saying the need for experimentation at the edges shouldn't come at the expense of improvements elsewhere in the network.
(Kahn gently reminded his audience that the internet was really about interconnecting networks, a point often lost today).
"If the goal is to encourage people to build new capabilities, then the party that takes the lead is probably only going to have it on their net to start with and it's not going to be on anyone else's net. You want to incentivize people to innovate, and they're going to innovate on their own nets or a few other nets,"
"I am totally opposed to mandating that nothing interesting can happen inside the net," he said.
So called "Neutrality" legislation posed more of a danger than fragmentation, he concluded.
With the exception of Google's man in Washington DC, Vint Cerf (with whom Kahn developed TCP/IP), most of the senior engineers responsible for developing the packet switched internetworking of today oppose "Neutrality" legislation. Dave Farber, often called the grandfather of the internet, has been the most prominent c...
Engineers fear rash legislation would inhibit the ability of systems engineers to improve latency and jitter issues needed to move data at speed.
"The internet is still pretty fragile today," said Kahn.
Kahn's history as protocol designer is a minor note, compared to his role as a politically astute manager and advocate at key moments in the development of the technologies responsible for the internet.
When he embarked on a career in networking, peers and seniors tried to talk him out of what was then considered a crazy choice.
"People thought I was throwing my career away. People thought time sharing wouldn't take off and if it did it would only be in a few palce, so wouldn't have commercial values," he said. "If I had listened to many people in the field I would not have gone into networking."
Working on colour TV, automatic game control loops, information theory, and even microwaves were all considered "cooler" than networking.
Later, he found DARPA was a reluctant sponsor. The US Department of Defense's research agency didn't have many computers when Kahn arrived in 1972 and couldn't see much of a use for them.
Technical history is often seen as an inevitable progression, punctuated by moments of individual genius, but the gentle backroom cajoling rarely gets mentioned.
It was certainly needed. Ironically, when Kahn arrived at DARPA it was to take a break from networks, and work on factory automation research. But the hype du jour, Artificial Intelligence, was sweeping the land and Congress cut the budget for his project. Kahn began to reassemble a team of packet switching veterans.
In the early 80s he managed the gradual, and awkward transition from private defense project to public network, fighting off the cumbersome, bureaucratically-devised OSI model of internetworking.
"I fought a ten year battle to protect the name 'Internet'", he says. "It cost a million dollars and eventually the name prevailed - but we could have lost the internet."
The CRNI (Corporation for National Research Initiatives) was really essential to winning that one, he said.
Kahn urged today's engineers to "Think Big... we are at the very early stage of a revolution that's going to take most of the 21st century". He rejects any labelling as the "father of the internet", saying credit for its growth can be shared by the entire industry.
You can find a video of his talk here. It's a 230MB download in Windows Media format only, and there's no transcript yet.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The city of Jacksonville Planning Commission on Thursday sided with residents in a battle over a proposed development in south Mandarin.
A developer wants to build 21 homes on 9.5 acres off County Dock Road, near Loretto Road and just south of Interstate 295, and rezone County Dock Road to allow more traffic.
But residents believe it would ruin their neighborhood.
At the Planning Commission's Thursday afternoon meeting, commissioners voted 5-2 to deny the rezoning motion -- saying it had concerns that County Dock and Loretto roads were not adequate for access to the new neighborhood.
Before the vote, dozens of residents showed up at City Hall to protest the proposed development in south Mandarin. But others told News4Jax earlier in the day that weren't even going to bother voicing their opposition because they thought commissioners would side with the developer.
Ahead of the meeting, Dennis Sandell, who lives near County Dock and Loretto roads, voiced his opposition about the proposal to develop 21 homes in the area.
"We're completely upset about it. Totally opposed to it," Sandell said.
Sandell said he and his neighbors are fighting the proposal because it would ruin the historic area and it would be dangerous. He also said city leaders have not listened to their concerns.
"He said, 'You people in Mandarin just want to build a wall in Mandarin and not let anyone else in.' Well, that statement, to me, is pretty inflammatory, and to be honest, it's pretty insulting," Sandell said. "My fence has been knocked down seven times, so that's a safety concern. You put 21 more houses, and there's f...
Sandell and his neighbors attended the city planning meeting, during which Paul Harden, who represents the developer, pushed to get the road rezoned.
"These are superb locations. They're superb in size. They're going to be very nice, very expensive houses," Harden said.
The motion still has to go through the city's Land Use and Zoning Commission on June 6. It would then go to the full City Council.
Harden said he will not comment until after the June 6 meeting.
Though they're still concerned the motion will pass in the end, residents said, Thursday was a victory for them.
PAUL MERSON reckons Liverpool did one of the best bits of business last summer in signing James Milner.
The England international completed a free transfer from Manchester City and has been a key member for the Reds since his arrival.
Milner has netted seven times for Jurgen Klopp’s men in all competitions this term and has also played a key part in England’s Euro 2016 preparations.
And Merson reckons the 30-year-old’s arrival on Merseyside has been a great addition to the team.
Milner has got the legs, he can get around the pitch and he is experienced.
“He can run all day, which is important because it is going to be so hot over in France [at Euro 2016]," Merson told Sky Sports.
Milner recently spoke out about his England future, admitting that he may have to consider stepping down from international duty if he isn’t involved in Roy Hodgson’s plans.
“I want to contribute to England in the future,” said Milner, “and if the manager sees I have a part to play, then great. I have built up a lot of caps and experience.
“If not, it would be better for me to step aside and let younger guys travel around.
Microsoft revealed new details about its Windows Mixed Reality headsets this morning. The company confirmed that headset and motion controller bundles will be available for the holiday season starting at $399 from hardware makers HP, Lenovo, Dell, and Acer. The devices will work with PC systems that will start at $499.
But the big news is about the content. Games from Valve’s Steam platform will work on these Windows mixed-realty devices, and the company is working “to bring future Halo experiences into mixed reality,” through its 343 Industries game studio, confirmed Alex Kipman, the Microsoft technical fellow who oversees the initi...
The Steam integration is notable because of Valve’s major role in PC gaming, and its own partnership with HTC on the Vive virtual reality headset. Windows Mixed Reality devices are designed to make augmented and virtual reality more affordable than higher-end devices including the Vive, the Oculus Rift and Microsoft’s ...
A protester using the Ukrainian flag as a mask throws objects into the Russian Embassy in Kiev on Saturday.
Amid accusations of Moscow's support for the rebels in eastern Ukraine and the targeting by protestors of Russia's embassy in Kiev, the Ukraine crisis escalated over the weekend as pro-Russian rebels downed an airplane transporting Ukrainian forces after losing control of the port city of Mariupol.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared Sunday a day of mourning and vowed to punish the pro-Russian separatists responsible for shooting down a Ukrainian military transport plane, killing all 49 crewmembers and troops aboard.
The death toll was the highest suffered by government forces in a single incident since the Ukrainian crisis flared in February and is likely to fuel tension between Russia and the U.S., which accuses Moscow of arming the rebels.
Poroshenko promised an "adequate" response after the plane was downed as it came in to land at an airport outside of the city of Luhansk.
“All those involved in cynical acts of terrorism of this magnitude must be punished,” Poroshenko said Sunday.
Ukrainian forces on Friday reclaimed from rebel control the city of Mariupol, a major port for the export of steel. The Ukrainian flag was raised over regional government headquarters of the city of 500,000 that had long been a focus of clashes.
Ukraine's presidential press service quoted the defense minister as telling Poroshenko that more than 250 rebels had been killed in the clashes.
It was also not clear how the rebel death toll was reached by Kiev's pro-European authorities, and the separatists have scoffed at such high casualty estimates in the past.
Five border guards were killed and seven wounded in Mariupol when their column of vehicles was ambushed, one day after Ukrainian forces recaptured the city.
The Kiev government has accused Russia of permitting three tanks to cross the border this week into eastern Ukraine, where they were used by rebels. Russia denies supplying the separatists and says Russians fighting in Ukraine are volunteers.
Moscow did not respond to the tank reports but instead accused the Ukrainian military of violating the border several times, including when an armored vehicle on Friday ventured about 150 meters into Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry warned Saturday that if the incursions continued it would "take all necessary measu...
The U.S. State Department said Friday that its assessment was that separatists in eastern Ukraine had acquired heavy weapons and military equipment from Russia, including Russian tanks and multiple rocket launchers.
In Kiev, demonstrators pelted the Russian Embassy with eggs on Saturday and desecrated a Russian flag in protest of what they believed to be Moscow's backing of separatist rebels in east Ukraine, witnesses said.
In a statement released Saturday on its website, the Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the attack, accusing Ukraine of failing to protect the embassy and neglecting its international obligations. Russia has also urged the OSCE and UN to investigate the incident on the Russian Embassy in Kiev and prevent any further at...
Fifty years ago, Kennedy made a historic speech that brought America and the Soviet Union back from the brink.
The Cold War did not end with the opening of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. By the time of these events, it had already lost much of its earlier intensity. A skein of international agreements, some formal and explicit, others tacit and even denied, averted...
There was conflict between the blocs, conducted by proxy or through covert operations. Still, in 1973 the US and the Soviet Union did not allow their client states, Israel and Egypt, to drag them into war. Where the superpowers openly intervened, each suffered not only military defeat but immense loss of moral standing...
In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s the superpowers recklessly stationed new nuclear missiles in Europe. Unrest in both parts of Europe led to the stabilization of the situation. Amidst this turmoil, the Iron Curtain in fact became more porous. Cultural and political elites on each side developed the familiarity that made ...
None of these developments were inevitable. Academics and journalists, bureaucrats and politicians, are far better at retroactive explanation than inspired prediction. If we move (or stumble) backward, we do find a moment of historical breakthrough, in which much previously thought impossible was depicted as feasible.
Its major protagonist was John Kennedy, who in the spring of 1963 was aware of a considerable discrepancy between his very favorable position in domestic and world opinion—and his actual accomplishments. Perhaps he underestimated himself. He had, with the help of brother Robert in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, avoi...
Kennedy had a good sense of what bothered ordinary citizens—and of the distance between their concerns and those of their political leaders. The President was aware of the cultural and psychological devastation of the threat of nuclear war. School exercises (as if crawling under desks would help), theological disputes ...
Many in other nations were angrily aware that their fates depended upon the decisions of American and Soviet rulers. In Great Britain at the end of the ‘50s, as Kennedy was campaigning for the presidency, a large movement against nuclear weapons emerged. Colleagues and friends at Oxford (John Bayley and Iris Murdoch) h...
When the inexperienced and unqualified Ted Kennedy ran for Senate in 1962, he was opposed by an independent candidate arguing for nuclear disarmament, the Harvard historian H. Stuart Hughes. (I recall the savage mockery of Hughes at Oxford by our nation’s great and good friend, Sir Isaiah Berlin.) The President had tak...
Despite his public triumph of November 1962, the President as months passed realized that he had to take the political offensive. Many in the military and the foreign policy apparatus and their intellectual fellow travelers regretted that he had not terminated Castro’s regime. Some said that he should have finished wit...
The President did not trust the State Department to conduct negotiations with the USSR and used informal channels for communicating with Khruschev. The concrete point at issue was a nuclear test ban treaty. Kennedy sensed that the public would welcome an initiative to reduce the dangers of nuclear war. He had the autho...
For one thing, he had to convince Khruschev of his good faith—and of his capacity to turn good intentions into political realities. Soviet propaganda fulminated about the dictatorship of capital in the US but its diplomats, intelligence officers and scholars knew how disordered the making of American policy was. Beyond...
The response in the US was initially muted. In the Soviet Union, the speech was published in full—a quite extraordinary event. Khruschev and his advisors clearly took it as a very positive signal, and the way was opened for an American delegation (lead by Averill Harriman) to travel to Moscow and negotiate a draft trea...
In his book on the Kennedy Presidency, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. attributed the very quiet public response to the conversion of the American public to co-existence. Perhaps, but large segments of the public initially approved the war on Vietnam. The turn against it came rather late, too late to prevent the devastation ...
The Cold War did not end, but it was routinized and weakened. Much brutality and exploitation still took place in its interstices. The Kennedy speech fifty years ago anticipated the normalization of international politics and the gradual elimination of the possibility of an apocalyptic end to civilization. Fifty years ...
(CNN) -- Iranian presidential challenger Mir Hossein Moussavi's hometown of Tabriz is Exhibit A for his supporters as they argue that last week's election was rigged.
Mir Hossein Moussavi lost last week's Iranian presidential election, according to official numbers.
Official results from Friday's polls show that the city and its surrounding province of East Azerbaijan -- dominated by ethnic Azeris like Moussavi -- voted 57 percent to 42 percent to re-elect hard-line incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It's a result many observers of Iranian politics find incongruous, but just...
An Iranian official who asked to remain unidentified said Monday that Moussavi was not popular in Tabriz. There were no exit polls conducted in Friday's balloting and little polling before the election. Nate Silver, who runs the U.S. election Web site FiveThirtyEight, told CNN the official results were "ambiguous."
"The fact that you had some areas where conservatives got only 20 percent of the vote in 2005 and got 70 percent of the vote this time -- things like that have people who already had doubts about those numbers scratching their heads," Silver said.
Q&A: Was the Iranian election rigged?
"I don't think it gives them clean hands, but I don't think there's any smoking gun, either," he said.
And Ken Ballen, the head of a Washington think tank that polled Iranians three weeks before the vote, said it was premature to declare the Iranian vote fraudulent.
Ballen said his organization, Terror Free Tomorrow, surveyed 1,001 Iranians in mid-May. That poll found Ahmadinejad leading the four-candidate field with 34 percent support, while Moussavi trailed with 14 percent. The remaining two candidates, former parliament speaker Mehdi Karrubi and onetime Revolutionary Guards com...
"That does not mean that he would have won the election, and we never said he would," Ballen told CNN's "Newsroom" on Tuesday. "Many people think there was a late surge for Moussavi, and our poll does not reflect that."
But he said the poll suggested that Ahmadinejad would have had a "very large" share of the vote "and possibly enough votes for him to win."
The survey had a sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Silver said the Terror Free Tomorrow poll was conducted "about as well as a poll can be done in Iran." But he said the number of people who expressed no preference -- 27 percent -- suggests that "a lot of people are scared to admit their true preferences."
Meanwhile, the provincial totals showed "big shifts" toward Ahmadinejad compared with 2005, when he came in second in the first round of voting and won office in a runoff, Silver said.
Daniel Berman, a graduate student in Iranian studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland, called some of the reported results "genuinely weird."
He said the official results show that Ahmadinejad more than doubled the 2005 showing for all conservative candidates in the western provinces of Luristan and Khuzestan, two majority-Arab districts that have heavily favored reformist candidates in previous races.
According to those results, Ahmadinejad won 71 percent of the vote in Luristan, which is Karrubi's home turf. Karrubi was the leading reformist candidate in 2005 but drew 5 percent in his home province Friday, according to the official results.

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