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MARQUETTE, Mich.—Northern Michigan University Women's Soccer (4-2-2, 1-0-0 GLIAC) remains unbeaten in their previous four matches after a 1-0 defeat of Northwood University (1-5-0, 0-1-0 GLIAC) Friday afternoon at the NMU Soccer Field.
With wind, rain, and cold temperatures plaguing the afternoon, the elements were the story of the first half. Both squads recorded their fair share of shots with Northwood eventually edging the Wildcats, 9-7, in the opening half.
Despite seven shots on goal for the Timberwolves in the first 45 minutes, the Wildcat defense and sophomore goalkeeper Brianna Frontuto (Luxemburg, Wisconsin) held NU without a score. She recorded a save in each of the seven shots on-goal faced before the halftime intermission.
The offensive tempo slowed in the second half courtesy of increased rain and winds. The weather conditions caused for just one combined shot on-goal in the second half. It was the Wildcats on the attacking end of that shot which would prove to be the difference maker.
Freshman forward Taelor Moore (Warren, Michigan) found the back of the net in the 77th minute of play for her third goal of the season. A cross by freshman midfielder Caroline Halonen (Hartland, Michigan) bounced around a group of players for both squads before Moore was able to recover the ball for the lone score of the match. Halonen picked up her team-leading fifth assist and 17th point of the season on the score.
NMU was able to hold their opponent without a shot in the final 13 minutes after they took the first lead of the match. They are now unbeaten in their past four matches with a 3-0-1 record over the span. The 4-2-2 start for the Wildcats is the best since the 2011 campaign when the Wildcats began the year with a 5-1-2 mark.
Thanks to the NMU defense, Frontuto did not face a shot on-goal in the second half to finish the contest with seven saves, her best mark since the season opener. Her season saves number now climbs to 36, the most in the conference. Her save percentage sits at .837 which is the fifth-best mark in the GLIAC. With a .87 goals against average, she is one of just four goalkeepers in the conference to own a sub-one mark.
Frontuto is climbing the program record book in a number of other categories including wins and shutouts. Her second solo shutout of the season brings Frontuto's career total to seven. That number is tied for the fifth-most in Wildcat history. After earning her fourth win of the season on Friday, Frontuto now owns eight for her career which gives her sole possession of seventh-place.
The Wildcats will host their second GLIAC match of the weekend on Sunday when they take on No. 17 Ferris State University at noon. The Bulldogs compete against Michigan Technological University Friday evening.


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FCC Denies Analog-TV Shutoff in L.A.
A Los Angeles-area TV station that wanted to terminate analog broadcasting immediately was denied permission Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission.
The transition to digital-only broadcasting is a top FCC goal, but the agency wants to ensure that an analog cutoff won't harm the interests of viewers who do not subscribe to cable and satellite.
KJLA, a bilingual station in Ventura, Calif., owned by Entravision Holdings LLC CEO Walter Ulloa, sought permission to cease analog broadcasting. But FCC Media Bureau chief Kenneth Ferree denied the request, citing the negative impact on the Hispanic population in Ventura and Los Angeles counties.
"The loss of analog over-the-air Spanish-language programming could have a significant impact in these areas," Ferree said in a three-page letter.
KJLA told the FCC that 0.25% of the station's viewers relied on over-the-air reception. Because Ventura's Hispanic population is 33.4% and that of Los Angeles is 44.6%, Ferree said, "The loss of analog over-the-air service to even 0.25% of a station's audience could result in the disenfranchisement of a significant number of persons."
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The Purple Heart
The Purple Heart medal was originated by General George Washington on August 7, 1782 for distinguished valor and is now awarded only to members of the armed forces of the United States who have been wounded in combat against an armed enemy.
Recipients of this unique award have been specifically honored by the U.S. Congress as a chartered fraternal organization known as the Military Order of the Purple Heart and have active members in chapters throughout the United States and the world.
Erected by Nebraska Chapters, Military Order of the Purple Heart.
Marker series. This marker is included in the Military Order of the Purple Heart marker series.
Location. 40° 49.302′ N, 98° 17.707′ W. Marker is near Grand Island, Nebraska, in Hall County. Memorial is on Interstate 80 at milepost 316.5, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Grand Island I-80 Rest Area Westbound, Doniphan NE 68832, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Grand Island (a few steps from this marker); The Mormon Trail
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Disney, ESPN Prep New VOD Strategy
The programming networks inside The Walt Disney Co. are overhauling their video-on-demand strategies and developing a cross-brand programming initiative that combines content from ESPN, Disney Channel, Toon Disney, SoapNet, Jetix, ABC Family, Radio Disney and ABC.
"We're bringing a broad comprehensive VOD offering to the marketplace," said Albert Cheng, senior vice president of sales strategy and business development for Disney and ESPN Networks. The initiative covers a wide range of sports, entertainment and children's programming. And it comes after both a strategic review of the company's VOD offerings and the integration of both sales teams under one affiliate banner.
For instance, ESPN has pulled its original VOD lineup from the marketplace. Its mix of SportsCentury and other programming, sold either a la carte or via subscription VOD, didn't work for the operator or ESPN, said Matt Murphy, senior vice president of broadband and interactive sales at ESPN. "Neither of those business models makes much of a business," he said.
But Disney has an SVOD offering for Disney and Playhouse Disney with Insight Communications Co., Cablevision Systems Corp., RCN Corp. and Blue Ridge Communications, among others. And the experience working with those operators has formed the basis of the new strategy. As the company beefs up its VOD offerings, it remains steadfast in its message that strong programming requires some form of compensation, and it is heartened by MSO comments that cable is ready to pay for some VOD product.
"We have great brands and content, and a VOD offering that gets cable competitive," Cheng said. "It will be content not found anywhere else, unique to VOD. We view it as a product that will differentiate [cable] from satellite.
"We expect to be compensated for it monetarily," he said. "We're still looking at the right structure. This is not free to the operator. We've undertaken quite a bit of investment. There is a content factor in these brands. We expect some fare compensation." Cheng contends that there is now a willingness to discuss compensation.
Disney plans to offer 50 to 100 hours a month across its networks, with 25% of the content being refreshed each week, Cheng said. Disney is formulating the packages now, going through rights clearances and assessing what's been popular to date on VOD.
"We've completely overhauled our VOD offering," Murphy said. "None of this is repurposed. We have now 100% original exclusive content."
ESPN plans to offer daily segments of Pardon the Interruption, daily and weekly news recaps, plus analysis of college basketball and other sports.
The daily news segments will present a delivery challenge, but, Murphy said, "We're working on a solution on how to deliver content in a timely manner. We're almost ready to do a test."
Condensed college football and basketball games, a la NFL On Demand, are another possibility, Murphy said, as are bonus episodes of original fare like Tilt, as well as outdoor programming.
As for Disney's VOD, Cheng said, "The most popular programming on linear is the most popular programming on VOD. It will be a mixture what they have seen and new programming for the VOD platform."
Premiering new series episodes on VOD is another tactic Disney will continue to pursue, Cheng said. "Premieres are a huge thing for VOD," he said. When new That's so Raven episodes premiered on VOD, views per show rose 78% at one MSO, Cheng said.
Adding to the mix, Radio Disney will provide about 100 music videos a year to the service. And Disney also is reaching across the aisle to another corporate sibling, providing ABC-TV-owned content to the VOD lineup — both primetime and late night. The list includes some of ABC's reality programming, library titles like Line of Fire and Life with Bonnie and perhaps late night fare like The Jimmy Kimmel Show, Cheng said.
Advertising support remains a longer term-possibility. "It's still a little early, but we're interested in learning more about it," Cheng said. "We believe it's a potential revenue stream, but we don't believe it is the only revenue stream."
Added Murphy: "Our ad sales department is hearing there is clearly an interest to start exploring these types of opportunities. Times are changing. People's viewership habits are changing. There is a willingness to experiment with new things."
One of the challenges will be allowing customers to find such disparate content across the VOD platform. While some operators place network content on their own "channel," other operators use more generic content-navigation setups.
"Navigation will be one of the key areas where operators will have to create a great consumer experience," Cheng said. For Cheng and Murphy, brand groupings make the most sense, with an adequate search capability.
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The ancestors of the South Slavs arrived in the Balkans in the sixth and seventh centuries.[4] By the ninth century, the South Slavs were converting in large numbers to Christianity. Credit for the conversion is given to two Christian saints, Methodius and Cyril. The Bible and liturgy were translated into a South Slavic language (Slavonic). Followers of Cyril are credited with the invention of the Cyrillic script, based upon Greek characters, used in Serbia and Russia today.
The South Slavs were divided by the split or Great Schism in Christianity between the Catholic Church of the West, which recognized the authority, of the Pope in Rome and used Latin, and the Orthodox Churches of the East, which refused the priority of the Bishop of Rome and used Greek or other languages in religious texts and practices. The South Slavs inhabiting the northern areas, the Slovenes and Croats, became Catholic and those in the southern and eastern areas, the Serbs, became Orthodox. In 1159 a Serbian dynasty was founded. In 1346, under the Emperor Stefan Dusan, a Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarchate was established, with its seat in the Kosovo region of present-day Serbia. Serbia's rise as a powerful state is expressed in the art and architecture of its many monasteries.
Adjacent to the Serbian kingdom was Bosnia. The early period of Bosnian history is an enigma. What remains as witness to this period are stecaks , large funerary monuments decorated with enigmatic, sculpted symbols. Bosnia grew powerful as a crossroads for trade between the flourishing city-state Ragusa (present-day Dubrovnik) and Constantinople, the capital of the eastern Roman Empire and the Orthodox Christian world. Bos-
nia also had mineral wealth in gold and silver. The city of Srebrenica (the name comes from the South Slavic word for silver) was particularly famous for its mines. The Bosnian state reached a high point under the rule of King Tvrtko (crowned in 1377), who ruled at the same time as Prince Lazar of Serbia and who sent troops to fight at Lazar's side at the battle of Kosovo in June of 1389.
In medieval Bosnia there were three churches: the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and a third Christian Church, called the Bosnian Church, which was independent from both the Catholic and the Orthodox worlds. The Bosnian Church was accused of heresy and associated by its enemies with heretics from Bulgaria called Bogomils. Bogomils were accused of being Manichean dualists, that is, believing in two equal principles of good and evil and rejecting the world as being of the evil principle.
The Catholic rulers of Hungary persuaded the papacy to sanction attacks on Bosnia in order to extirpate the heresy. The papacy also authorized the Franciscan order of friars to establish monasteries in Bosnia and bring the adherents of the Bosnian Church back to Catholicism. The Orthodox Church was also involved in persecuting adherents to the Bosnian Church.
The world of the South Slavs was soon to be transformed by a new force. Ever since the tenth and eleventh centuries, Turkic tribes from Central Asia had been gaining power in the Islamic Middle East. By the fourteenth century, one of those Turkic tribes, the Ottomans, gained ascendancy in Anatolia and began constructing a major world empire. After the battle of Kosovo, the Ottomans pursued their advance and in the year 1453 they captured Constantinople, the capital of the eastern Roman Empire and Orthodox Church. By 1483 they had captured Bosnia.
— Medieval Bosnia unttei King Tvrtko (1377} □□ Bosni^-Herieaovirts in 1993
— Medieval Bosnia unttei King Tvrtko (1377} □□ Bosni^-Herieaovirts in 1993
Medieval and Modern Bosnia
In the reign of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566), they were at the gates of Vienna. The Ottomans transformed small villages into the new Ottoman-style cities of Sarajevo, Mostar, and Travnik. Roads, bridges, marketplaces, and inns were constructed throughout the region. As Bosnia grew and prospered, Bosnians converted to Islam in a higher proportion than Serbs or other South Slavic groups.
The conversion of such a large number of Bosnians to Islam has been a major issue in Croatian and Serbian national mythologies. For Croat and Serb nationalists, only the weak and the cowardly converted to Islam; conversions to Islam must have been the product of force or opportunism. Such a mythology is just as distorted as its implied counterpart mythology, that the Slavs who converted to Christianity in the ninth century did so without any economic or political pressures or enticements. Conversion is a complex process, involving intricate interconnections (and sometimes contradictions) between individuals and wider forces in society. Most Bosnians believe that the largest number of converts to Islam were from the Bosnian Church, who were persecuted as Christians and whose beliefs were supposedly more compatible with those of Islam. Historians have challenged this theory, however, showing that there is no evidence that the Bosnian Church in fact was Bogomil and that the patterns of conversion were far more complex than the supposed mass conversion of Bosnian Bogomils to Islam.
Also exposed as historically untenable are the national myths that ethnic groups are or ever were stable entities that remain fixed down through the centuries, or that the Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats, and Muslims of Bosnia today are direct descendants through stable ethnoreligious communities of ancient Or-
thodox, Catholic, and Muslim ancestors. The various loyalties in Bosnia were complex and shifting, and conversions followed many patterns. Orthodox Christians converted to Catholicism, Catholics converted to Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Christians and Catholics converted to Islam. Some Muslims converted to different forms of Christianity.
The final mythic figure of Croatian and Serbian religious nationalism is the evil Ottoman. No occupied nation thinks kindly of its colonizer and the Ottomans were no doubt capable of cruelty and oppression. Yet the stories of Ottoman depravity at the heart of nationalist mythology cannot match the evidence. If, as Croatian and Serbian religious leaders and academics claim, the Ottomans were constantly massacring Christians, how is it that such large groups of Catholics and Orthodox Christians not only survived, but in some cases grew and flourished under Ottoman rule? If, as today's national myths would maintain, the Ottomans spent five hundred years busily eradicating all traces of Christianity, how is it that such a magnificent ancient heritage of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity—manuscripts, art, and architecture—survived Ottoman rule so well? If Islam is an inherently persecuting religion based on forced conversion, how is it that the Catholic and Orthodox populations not only maintained themselves for five centuries under Ottoman rule, but grew?
In the nineteenth century, the three myths—conversion to Islam based only upon cowardice and greed, stable ethnoreligious groups down through the centuries, and complete depravity of Ottoman rule—became the foundation for a new religious ideology, Christoslavism, the belief that Slavs are Christian by nature and that any conversion from Christianity is a betrayal of the Slavic race.
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Lawmakers and academics yesterday called for constitutional reform to free Taiwan from the shackles of the "one China" framework and push for "normalization" of the nation, while rejecting the feasibility of the so-called "1992 consensus" that they said has been forced upon president-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) by Beijing and President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九).
Amid growing pressure from China for Tsai to toe Beijing's line, non-governmental organization the Taiwan Association of University Professors invited New Power Party (NPP) Executive Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌) and several academics to speak at a forum in Taipei yesterday on cross-strait relations.
"When Chinese Nationalist Party [KMT] members speak of the 'one China' principle, they often also mention Article 11 of the Additional Articles of the Republic of China [ROC] Constitution, which was passed by the now-defunct National Assembly in 1991 and thus lacks democratic legitimacy," Huang said at the forum.
The article in question, which applies the formula of "one country, two areas" to cross-strait relations, states: "Rights and obligations between the people of the Chinese mainland area and those of the free area [Taiwan], and the disposition of other related affairs may be specified by law."
Huang said that based on the concept that a nation's sovereignty rightly belongs to its people, it is self-evident that Taiwan and China are two separate sovereign nations that have simply been put in unfair circumstances.
Citing the need to "normalize" Taiwan, Huang said the goal requires collective efforts and step-by-step plans, starting with promulgation of an act governing the signing of cross-strait agreements, followed by the normalization of society, the economy and then the constitutional system.
"We should create a Taiwan-centric education system to replace the longstanding China-oriented curriculum … while bidding farewell to the nation's authoritarian legacy. In terms of the economy, the new Democratic Progressive Party government must expand domestic demand and steer Taiwan toward the world, instead of relying solely on China," Huang said.
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While putting aside a long-term dispute over the existence of the "1992 consensus," Taiwan Thinktank deputy chief executive Lai I-chung (賴怡忠) said it is bizarre to use a "consensus" that dates back 24 years to define current cross-strait relations.
"In addition, despite Ma's acknowledgement of the '1992 consensus' over the past eight years, China has never relinquished its efforts to push for the 'one China' principle," Lai said.
Past events indicated that the "consensus" is not conducive to Taiwan in terms of the economy, politics and cross-strait stability, Lai said, citing an op-ed piece published by Chinese state-run newspaper the Global Times in October 2014, which called Ma a "local chieftain," and China's unilateral designation of the M503 air route in January last year, despite its threat to Taiwan's national security.
The "1992 consensus" — a term former Mainland Affairs Council chairman Su Chi (蘇起) admitted making up in 2000 — refers to a tacit understanding between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party that both sides acknowledge there is "one China," with each side having its own interpretation of what "China" means.


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Guide a group of legendary warriors on a journey through the tragic history that doomed a kingdom and drove a hero down a dark path 500 years before the events of the Xenoblade Chronicles™ 2 game. Defend yourself from Malos and his forces using all the fury of this refined battle system, allowing you to fight as both the artificial lifeforms known as Blades and their masters, the Drivers.
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The Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee has a busy meeting ahead on Wednesday 2 April, when members will be focusing on a number of important topics.
The development of a new Special Educational Needs school at the Manor Park site
A new school will be developed on the former Manor Park School site in Nuneaton specifically for pupils with Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD) and Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) . The new school will be expected to accommodate 60 – 80 pupils and additional units will follow in later stages closer to mainstream schools. At the meeting , the Committee will consider the latest position and timescales for completion.
The impact of changes to the Integrated Disability Service
In February 2013, Council agreed to a £1.76m savings plan for the Integrated Disability Service. This required a redesign of the service to ensure that it was:
- modern and fit for purpose;
- compliant with legislation supporting independence and personalisation so that families are actively involved in the decisions made about how to best support their children; and
- achieved value for money and cost effective, with a level of investment that is more in line with statistical neighbours.
Members will review progress achieved in managing the savings programme and preperation for the new "Local Offer" defined care packages.
The Committee is aslo due to receive two important verbal updates on a) the changes to Children's Centres and the delivery of Early Years services, and b) the proposal to merge Warwick's school admissions priority areas into a single scheme for the town, which will give members the latest position on these two significant policy changes.
There will also be reports on:
- The important work undertaken by Inclusion Support Groups at Primarly Schools;
- The impact of Government changes to the adoption process and the introduction of adoption service scorecards; and
- The transition of Public Health into the County Council.
Do you want to know more?
The meeting will commence at 10am at Shire Hall, Warwick – a copy of the agenda and the reports can be found here. If you have a question that you wish to ask at the meeting, please contact Georgina Atkinson at least 3 working days before the meeting. Otherwise, please arrive at least 15 minutes before the start of the meeting and ensure that the Chair is aware of the matter on which you wish to speak.


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Archive for October, 2009|Monthly archive page
Piece in the New York Times about Electric Literature, a new-ish literary mag, distinguished by its availability in a variety of formats:
The founders of Electric Literature, a new quarterly literary magazine, seek nothing less than to revitalize the short story in the age of the short attention span. To do so, they allow readers to enjoy the magazine any way they like: on paper, Kindle, e-book, iPhone and, starting next month, as an audiobook.
A refreshing embrace of the possibilities of the new. From their website:
Publishing is going through a revolution. There's opportunity and danger. The danger lies in ignoring or resisting the transformation in media. New platforms present an opportunity to adapt. We believe the short story is particularly well-suited to our hectic age, and certainly for digital devices. A quick, satisfying read can be welcome anywhere, and while you might forget a book, you'll always have your phone.
To us, literature is what is important, not the medium. If eBooks, Kindles, or iPhone apps help literature survive, then we're all for them.
The Limits of Lending
Just when I was getting a little bit excited about the Barnes and Noble Nook – in particular it's ability to allow the lending of e-books to friends, engadget suggests that the limits of lending are pretty draconian:
Unfortunately, the "world's most advanced e-book reader" limits the LendMe feature to one 14-day period per book, ever, and that's only if the publisher gives permission. You also can't read the title yourself during the loaner period.
I can live with not being about the read the book whilst its 'out' (after all, a p-book can't be in two places at the same time), the idea that you can only ever lend a book once is a real downer. I've said over and over that it's the cultural change towards e-books that's way more difficult than the technical stuff. Getting people to change the habits of a lifetime is no easy thing to do. The one-off lending limitation doesn't help at all.
PS: This post made possible by the fact that HK Airport has free wifi, in case anyone's passing through 🙂
Meet the Nook…
Barnes and Noble today introduced its e-book reader. They've named it the nook (New bOOK perhaps??) As expected, it's Android powered and has two screens – one e-ink for reading and one colour LCD for navigating. Detailed coverage at gizmodo. As well as the technical stuff, the nook has a couple of interesting features. There's book sharing. From Gizmodo:
One of my main objections to the Kindle and other readers is that most of my books come from friends, rather than bookstores. The Nook realizes that and integrates a 2-week lending period—plenty of time for a quick read
And then there's the (somewhat ironic) idea that if you take your nook into a Barnes and Noble shop, you can browse books for free. Again from gizmodo:
You'll be able to take the Nook to any of Barnes & Noble's gajillion stores and read one ebook, for free, each time—the same way you might wander into the store, pick up a book and read it for an hour or two.
Overall, it seems more appealing than the kindle (and Barnes and Noble promises flexible file formats and a million available titles). I wonder if the colour screen will make the e-ink one look a bit lame though. Anyhow, shipping sometime in November, no word on international release…
Oh – and when I typed nook into my iphone, it auto-corrected to book.
Devil, meet details…
As we wait for the kindle to arrive in Australia, there's been some chatter about what titles will be available and for what cost. The Sydney Morning Herald moans:
Australian Kindle users will have to pay about 40 per cent more than Americans for books on the Amazon e-book readers and the local publishing industry has expressed serious reservations about supporting the gizmo… And despite promising on its website that there are "no additional charges" for delivering books to overseas users, an Amazon spokesman told The Guardian that the average e-book would cost $US13.99 for foreign customers, 40 per cent more than the American price of $US9.99.
It seems as though kindle international is just a kindle with a gsm radio, with international roaming switched on. There's nothing special about the device – in fact Amazon is marketing it to Americans who might like to travel, as well as to overseas users.
As anyone who has been overseas with an iphone knows, data costs whilst roaming are terrifying (I once spent $16 to check my email whilst in NZ.) Even three, whose data rates are pretty friendly charges $20 per MB when roaming in the USA (and a much more friendly 50 cents/MB when on an available 3 network overseas). Given that the average paperback novel will come in at around 500k, then an extra four bucks isn't actually too bad. Of course, Amazon won't pay consumer roaming rates, and is sure to be taking a cut – but the roaming charges will vary from country to country and there's something appealing about a single flat-rat fee.
Again, the bigger devil is in the range of titles available…
In other news…
I try not to publish rumours, but just for something different… Whilst Ozzies are busy dissecting the possible impact of the kindle, the e-book hardware scene continues to hot up. Some are breathlessly waiting for Apple to enter the fray and according to gizmodo, the latest suggestions are that Barnes and Noble's new e-reader will run android – which means apps. So we have rumours of a convergent device with an e-ink screen competing with a convergent device with a colour LCD screen. Next year is rumoured to be very interesting.
More int'l kindle details
They'll keep dripping out over the next few weeks, but a Wired article has some answers to some of my kindle international questions. It appears that the carrier in question is AT&T and who its roaming partners are globally. What that means is that you can buy a book anywhere in the world, as long as there is AT&T roaming coverage:
Won't everybody want to spend 20 bucks more on the AT&T version that that works all around the world, even if a cross-border trip isn't on the immediate horizon? "I would!" says Bezos. Indeed, having a Kindle that downloads from overseas means you can get your favorite newspapers and magazines delivered instantly, at the same cost you pay at home. It makes the Kindle a travel guide, too: If you want the lowdown on a Kyoto temple, or are wondering where to get the best fries in Amsterdam, you can download a relevant guide on the spot.
And as for that pesky international rights problem, here's what the wired piece says about that:
Amazon staved off copyright problems by negotiating an arrangement with English language publishers that pays royalties depending on the territory of purchase. (If you buy a copy of The Perfect Thing in London, for instance, the UK publisher Ebury press gets the sale, instead of US publisher Simon & Schuster.) Still, the rights clearances aren't yet comprehensive; of the 350,000 books in the Kindle store, only around 200,000 will be available in some countries.
Kindle comes to Oz!!
Amazon has just done two things. It's dropped the price on its Kindle 2 – now it's US$259 which is pretty ho-hum. Far more interestingly, it's announced an international edition with a gsm radio for US$279. According to technologizer:
More intriguingly, Amazon has added a $279 variant that uses a GSM radio to let you download content in a hundred countries around the world. (In the U.S., it's powered by AT&T; other Kindles use Sprint's network.) You pay a $1.99 surcharge to download books outside the U.S. (reasonable enough) and the same free to download a single issue of a magazine (pricey!). Amazon is taking pre-orders now says the new version will ship on October 19th.
I guess that means we can buy them down here. According to the country info page:
We are excited to now ship Kindle to Australia. Customers in Australia will enjoy:
Books in Under 60 Seconds: Think of a book and you could be reading it in under a minute
Free Wireless: Free 3G wireless lets you download books right from your Kindle. No monthly fees, service plans, or hunting for Wi-Fi hotspots. See Coverage Map. See Wireless Terms and Conditions
Large Selection: Over 280,000 English-language books to choose from; plus U.S. and international newspapers and magazines
Low Book Prices: New York Times® Best Sellers and New Releases are $11.99, unless marked otherwise. You'll also find many books for less – over 100,000 titles are priced under $5.99
So many questions. I wonder who the telephone carrier is here. And I wonder what it means for the parallel importation debate ($2 more for an int'l kindle title by the looks of things – probably for the wireless access fee). And I wonder if the iphone app will turn up on the Australian app store. And if I can buy kindle titles on the web store. And. And. And…
The Lost Torrent
Quick link to a New York Times article which suggests that ebooks might be heading down the slippery slide of piracy the hardware becomes more mainstream:
With the new devices in hand, will book buyers avert their eyes from the free copies only a few clicks away that have been uploaded without the copyright holder's permission? Mindful of what happened to the music industry at a similar transitional juncture, book publishers are about to discover whether their industry is different enough to be spared a similarly dismal fate.
The hook is that Dan Brown's new book is flooding the darknet and just as easy to find via the torrents as via Amazon/Kindle. (Apart from us Aussies of course, who can't get the kindle version for a tenner, but have to outlay $28.99 (AUD) for the iphone app.). So in the interests of research, I spent a few minutes searching for the latest blockbuster pageturner in epub format. Sure enough, one google search and a 5.74 megabyte transmission download later and dan's book is ready for me to read in a bunch of formats on a number of devices. Next time I have lunch with my mates at Random, I guess it's my shout 🙂


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The Healthy Shopper has made a few picks for some of their favorites for Spring 2013
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The second pick is Simply Natural organic salsa. This salsa comes in a few different flavors. Chunky mild, chunky medium, black bean and corn (my favorite) mango and pineapple. I am not personally a fan of mango or pineapple salsa but I gave them to my girlfriend and she raved about them. So that's all I needed to hear.
Pick number three is Natracare. I have used these feminine products in the past as well and love them. Nice and soft and natural. I love knowing what is next to my skin and the last thing I want there is chemicals. Kristina will be soon using products like this and the last thing I want to do to her young body is put chemicals all over it. I actually believe that products like this should never actually be able to have chemicals in them.
Pick four is Hylands restful legs which I love. I randomly get restless legs and they are no fun at all. I didn't even know that there was anything out there for this. I have started taking iron pills which does help but it doesn't make them go away all together. They have happened a few times since receiving this and oh my its amazing, totally made them stop and go away. Priceless!
Make sure you order your free Healthy Shopper coupon book and check some of these out!
Sunday, June 30, 2013
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I need to make more time for 'me time', rather than social media browsing time, too! I've been trying to have a relaxing bath for weeks now. I feel like tonight is the night haha. Thanks for inspiring me :) xReplyDelete
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As usual, my brain draws some funny connections, so I hope my readers can follow me this morning. Let's see if the threads of three different experiences will knit together.
Let's start last night, where my eye doctor reported on my 40-something eyes: Progressive lenses, he recommended, to help with reading all the little screens in my life. Makes sense, I agreed: I'm already taking my eyeglasses on and off, and holding my camera up to my nose to review shots. But wait, he added, there's more. As these little screens have proliferated, he explained, we're suffering from more eye strain, staring at blue-light rather than printed pages. The research is just starting to come together, he cautioned, and we don't know where it will go. "As with any new technology," he mused, "there might be some unintended consequences as it advances."
He was on to something.
I was at the eye doctor's, in fact, because I'd recently celebrated a birthday. Talk about unintended consequences: I spent a lot of time staring delightedly at my smartphone as hundreds of well-wishes appeared on my Facebook wall. It was a success story of modern technology that makes it easy for family and friends to celebrate together, regardless of time and space. As we've moved from tinny-sounding singing greeting cards to high-definition videos texted to us, we've gladly replaced an old custom with a new one.
Technology can put a happy sparkle in our eyes, too.
Alas, not everybody has figured out how to make technology more delightful than painful. This was particulary clear recently at the Newark Airport, where another eatery succumbed to the trend of replacing people with iPads. Don't misunderstand: I pre-order coffee and sandwiches using an app a lot, especially for fast food. But for in-person experiences, we haven't worked out the bugs of using technology for customer service.
[tweetthis]Great service is an app with its own OS: People![/tweetthis]
As I've written before, nothing beats a skilled worker, regardless of pay grade, to create customer delight. And loyalty. There remain times when techno-coolness is a poor substitute for a people-driven service experience.
At the airport, I stopped at a restaurant whose attraction was fresh, high-quality brand-name deli-meat sandwiches. A big menu still hung on the wall behind the counter. As I stood there, the only customer in th place, the staff behind the deli simply ignored me. Evidently her customer service app hadn't been upgraded in a while. A polite ahem later, she instructed me to place an order on the iPad at the end of the counter.
She couldn't take my order outside of the technology process.
Hungry enough not to argue, I tapped my selection, then returned to stand before her. I watched as she glanced at a screen behind the deli, then reached into the refrigerated case to pull out a pre-made sandwich! Placing it in a bag, she handed it to me explaining it was faster if I just took a pre-made one. Did I want any condiment packages, to apply myself, too?
Talk about ghosts in the machine!
As my eye doctor pointed out, we're still learning a lot about how technology fits into our lives. It's easy to forget that smartphones and tablets are recent inventions. While the "internet of things" relentlessly cross-wires our real lives to virtual ones, we're still working out the kinks.
We could produce a generation of short-sighted seniors; or a generation better connected to each other than ever before. Neither is guaranteed; and we should be cautious enough to ask which we desire.
One thing is already certain: We learned from a generation of script-reading call center failures that not every automation improvement increases customer satisfaction. Some companies are downright myopic with their substitution of technology for service, regardless of cost. We may find that important business things – satisfaction, loyalty, word of mouth – can't be driven by algorithm alone.
[tweetthis]In a future of wrap-around virtual-glasses, will the human touch still be seen as the best service?[/tweetthis]
Service, it turns out, operates as its own powerful operating system. Punching in your order for a prefabricated product might work well for textiles or automobiles. We might prefer a dozen video messages to a single hand-written birthday card, too. But I couldn't eat any of the birthday cakes posted on my social wall; and I could hardly eat the sandwich handed to me at the serviceless deli either.
Great service is its own OS. When delivered by the right technology, people, it's still the best indicator of long-term success. Just as complex experiences continue to benefit from combining the most from a skilled surgeon, manager or salesperson with technology, we should be careful not to turn everything into an automat experience.
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Kaitlin Honeycutt
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Kaitlin began practicing yoga in college at Ohio University 5 years ago, having had a sports background her whole life. After moving to California, she continued to venture down her new found yoga path practicing on and off, doing the free-week yoga hop from studio to studio. Kaitlin eventually landed at Ra's doorstep, finding her home. She quickly developed a consecutive practice and found mentor teachers who she looked up to and who had what she long to have in their own practice. After almost a year of dedicated practice, many long talks with her teachers and after seeing how yoga had transformed their lives along with being witness to the change in her own, Kaitlin decided that she wanted to give to others what was so beautifully given to her: yoga. Kaitlin found herself at White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara for her YTT and graduated with her 200+ hour certificate in August 2013. Since, Kaitlin has poured herself into strengthening her own practice and teaching to help others find the beauty in their own.
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With Marie's passing two years ago, her music and legacy has come into sharper focus. An astonishing truth that materializes when discussing Teena Marie is how atypical said discussions on her music and impact are. Here is the woman who put...their head, pushed R&B past its borders in her prime and remained a force into her veteran days. Yet, a generous search or reading into Teena Marie will find the same responses about her discography and history: Irons in the Fire (1980), It Must Be Magic (1981), Rick James, "Square Biz," "Fire & Desire," and "Lovergirl."
This is not to say these albums, songs, or one individual do not play integral roles in Marie's lore, but that isn't all of her story. Yes, James was Marie's friend, flame, and mentor. Yes Marie took creative control on Irons in the Fire and produced, arranged, wrote, and composed every record that followed. But what about everything else? The narrative of Teena Marie needs exploration and the maligned Emerald City is the perfect starting point.
|Teena, Circa 1985/1986
Marie's Motown exodus hadn't been gentle, though her time there was successful. A misappropriation of trust had made Marie a freedom fighter for artists everywhere and gave us "The Brockert Initiative." Afterwards she hit Epic with her tour de force, 1983's Robbery. The album song cycled her tumultuous on-again-off-again courtship to the late punk-funker Rick James and was equal amounts of heartbreak, funk, and confessional poetry. It also wasn't a hit: (#13 U.S. R&B, #119 U.S. pop). Rather, the accessible Starchild(1984) claimed sales glory with its lead single "Lovergirl," a likable fusion of (then) current rock-R&B-pop-new wave fizziness that gave Marie her first pop hit (#4 U.S. Pop) but kept her firmly entrenched in R&B's good graces (#9 U.S. R&B). Starchild did have other highlights to share ("Help Youngblood Get to the Funky Party," "Starchild," "My Dear Mr. Gaye") but they were obscured by banal numbers like "Jammin'" and "Out on a Limb."
|"Emerald City" as depicted in the 1939 film adaption of Wizard of Oz
There, Marie herself became "Pity," a character created for one of her many poem stories that accompanied each record. Pity became an allegory for Marie's racial frustration of being accepted into black culture, with all its pros and cons when it came to her other musical interests. She revealed via an excerpt from the Emerald City poem, her feelings:
Of course she wanted to be green because she'd been all the other colors before, I mean, with her past lives and all. Now that people were saying she couldn't possibly be white, it seemed to be the natural thing to do. And anyways, since she hadn't seen any green people before, maybe she wouldn't run into any stereotypes and prejudices this time.
While R&B in the '70's and '80's was known for its multi-racial/gender bands, Marie was still a white woman in a predominantly male oriented field. Teena Marie didn't know how not to dare and so she went about assembling the crew to bring Emerald City to life.
Amid Marie's own primary writing, arranging, and producing, the players included: Bendrix (additional songwriting, bass), Allan McGrier, Stanley Clarke, Abraham Labanel Sr., Bootsy Collins, Gerry Brown (bass), Gary Grant (trumpet), Branford Marsalis (saxophone), Fred Mirza (horn arranger), Maxine and Julia Waters (background vocals), Randy Kerber (keyboards), John Bokowski (acoustic piano), John "JR" Robinson (drums), Brian Kilgore (timbales), James Allen (drum programming), Paulinho Da Costa (percussion), Michael Landau, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Nikki Slikk (guitar).
The mentioned cityscape of Emerald City's urban sprawl gone mad is compelling when looking at the first side of the long player. Three songs in claim Marie's affinity to black dance: the title track, "Once Is Not Enough," and "Lips to Find You". The title cut, with spoken word introduction by Bootsy Collins, spun in fits like a manic carnival groove. Marie's voice jammed all over the place and maintained a controlled pace.
|Single cover to "Lips to Find You"
Marie shattered any competition that lay in wait when it came to her unparalleled lyricism. That lyricism drove home the booming drama of "You So Heavy," dedicated to her longtime muse Rick James in the liner notes, and the arid, Canto-soul of "Shangri-La". The former made analogies to love in withdrawal, while the latter used cuisine and spiritual references to present Marie in her darkest, most sensual moment (still) committed to record. The tropical "Batucada Suite," which upon first visit seemed out of place among the heavier dance and mid-tempo bedroom fare, refreshed. When taken literally from its words ("Mary's into new things, got a brand new bag. Superficial living has made her life a drag...) it played integral to the rediscovery Marie meant for Emerald City. The polished finish of the big ballad "Love Me Down Easy" hummed to be picked up at urban radio, while the closer "Sunny Skies" was a true classic. In the vein of her jazz jewels "You Make Love Like Springtime," "Portuguese Love," and "Shadow Boxing" the mournful track was the last of its kind until her recent jazz boomerang returned on Congo Square (2009).
Emerald City wasn't wholly dissimilar from any of the work she'd cut up to that point. The general public didn't see it that way and the record met a cold reception. The album placed at #20 U.S. R&B, whereas the U.S. Pop #81 placement professed that pop audiences had returned to their dismissive opinion of Teena Marie. Two singles were pulled from the project: "Lips to Find You" (U.S. R&B #28) and "Love Me Down Easy" (U.S. R&B #76). The dance charts (surprisingly) showed no affection to "Lips," while R&B was stiff to the genuinely appealing "Love."
Promotional Video for "Lips to Find You"
Reasons? There were a few. Though R&B tended to embrace their acts eras aside, the genre still had a youth driven market. At 30, Teena Marie seemed old hat to some new ears. The urban danceability of Emerald City was slightly behind the ball in 1986. Black music had started another of its inexorable turns to broader dance characterized in freestyle, hip-hop, and house pioneered by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam, Janet Jackson, LL Cool J, etc. Emerald City book ended the mighty Minneapolis sound in its first incarnation. Had it arrived a year after Starchild in 1985, it may have found a wider audience.
Guitar factored into Emerald City more than any other Marie album, but not so much that it earned the stature critic Chuck Eddy bestowed on it in his book, '91's Stairway to Hell. There, it was tagged with ninth place as "The Greatest Heavy Metal Album of All Time." All because of a scorching guitar solo by the late Stevie Ray Vaughn that closed "You So Heavy?" Electric as that solo was, it was tame compared to the heights scaled by the usual suspects in heavy metal.
|Backside of "Love Me Down Easy" 45" Single Sleeve
The follow-up, Naked to the World(1988), delivered the commercial goods to Teena Marie in her first R&B chart topper "Ooo La La La." The album owned a few tricks, but overall it was dreck done up designer. New Jack Swing had hit and Marie acclimated to it, the results varied from good ("Trick Bag") to messy ("Surrealistic Pillow"). The somewhat improved Ivory (1990) fell from the sales perch of Naked to the World and ended Marie's eight year run at Epic. Barring the independently issued Passion Play (1994), Teena Marie remained quiet for majority of the '90's. She returned in the '00's with a stream of safe recordings starting with the blasé La Doña (2004) and Sapphire (2006) on the Cash Money Classics imprint. Later, Marie signed to Stax/Concord for 2009's Congo Square that bore a stronger artistically aware vibe.
This year, via music critic mogul David Nathan's Soul Music label, Emerald City saw life again in remastered form in June. Featuring liner notes, several instrumentals and 12" mixes, it tacked on two soundtrack gems from before and after Emerald City's genesis: "14k" from The Goonies (1985) and "Lead Me On" from Top Gun (1987). With that reissue, Emerald City is finally getting a chance to let listeners journey to a city where skin color didn't shut out the universal themes of unrequited love, unrelenting desire, and freedom. Five out of five stars.-QH
[Editor's Note: The standard version of Emerald City is out of print, but as stated, the reissued version can be purchased from Soul Music Records directly or Amazon. It is also available digitally.-QH]


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Global growth is likely to be weaker than expected this year thanks to a slower recovery in advanced economies and a further slowdown in emerging economies, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has said.
Ms Lagarde also warned emerging economies to "be vigilant for spillovers" from China's slowdown, tighter global financial conditions, and the prospects of a US interest rate hike.
Her comments came as September opened with a fresh fall in global share prices amid continued investor fears over the slowdown in China on the back of more worrying economic data.
In Dublin, the ISEQ was down more than 3pc mid morning, falling faster that both London and Frankfurt, but recovered some ground to close the day down 2.3pc.
After a few upbeat days for world markets, concern about China revived after surveys showed its manufacturing sector shrinking at its fastest pace in three years and its services sector also cooling.
Asian stocks, particularly in Japan and Australia , fell overnight, and the gloomy mood extended to Europe.
Ms Lagarde, speaking at a conference in Indonesia, said Asia is expected to lead economic growth this year.
"Overall, we expect global growth to remain moderate and likely weaker than we anticipated last July.
"This reflects two forces: a weaker than expected recovery in advanced economies, and a further slowdown in emerging economies, especially in Latin America," Ms Lagarde said. "Asia as a region is still expected to lead global growth. But even here, the pace is turning out slower than expected – with the risk that it may slow even further given the recent spike in global risk aversion and financial market volatility."
The IMF in July forecast global growth at 3.3pc this year, slightly below last year's 3.4pc.
Ms Lagarde said China's economy was slowing, although not sharply or unexpectedly, as it adjusts to a new growth model.
"The transition to a more market-based economy and the unwinding of risks built up in recent years is complex and could well be somewhat bumpy," she said.
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Bath Storytelling Circle
We celebrate and promote the modern practice of an ancient oral tradition, through story, poetry and song - and plenty of drink! Contributions from performers must be from memory or extempore (not read). We regularly host Bath's best bards, balladeers, storytellers, poets, jokers and raconteurs! The Circle has featured on TV (in 2006 and 2010) and is the subject of 'Voices in the City', a chapter in the ground-breaking book 'Storytelling for a Greener World: Environment, Community and Story-Based Learning' (Hawthorn Press, 2014).
Contributors to Bath Storytelling Circle gatherings include professional and amateur performers. The Circle has nurtured much storytelling and performance poetry talent over the past decade, not to mention providing a platform for singers of traditional and modern ballads. Several present and past contributors to the monthly gatherings have written a number of the short stories published in 'Ballad Tales', an anthology of british ballads retold (History Press, 2017).
We run an open and inclusive event, with free entry. We meet at 8.00pm on the third Monday of every month, upstairs at The Raven. If you wish to perform, see the evening's Master of Ceremonies for a slot. If you wish to listen, simply sit back with a drink and enjoy the entertainment and the company. To ensure all contributors get a chance to perform, and listeners have plenty of variety, we ask that items take no more than 10 minutes to perform - and we welcome any type of story, poem or song within this guideline.
We break half way through the evening, with an 'announcements' slot at the end of the first session - so if you want to hear what's really going on in Bath, mainstream and counter-cultural, you may hear it here first!
The Bath Storytelling Circle has been meeting since 2005 in the upstairs room of The Raven - an award-winning real ale pub serving great grub on Queen St in the centre of town (close to Milsom St and Queen's Square).


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In trying to remedy any problem it is important, indeed crucial, to know the real underlying cause of the problem.
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Here the last part of the conference "Food as Medicine", a list of symptoms and ailments and some specific foodstuffs that can alliviate these.
Following "Food as Medicine #1 | What is food?", here's a list of specific foodstuffs and symptoms that these can alliviate.
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I have a confession to make. Sometimes I lie when people ask me what I do for a living.
Okay, that's a touch dramatic. It's not like I tell people that I'm an astronaut, or the guy who invented salad-in-a-bag. I'm just not always forthcoming with words like "pastor" or "chaplain" and if I say "writer" and they ask me what I write, I obfuscate a bit. I'll say "I write about the intersection of psychology and religious behavior."
It's not because I'm ashamed of what I do. It's really not. I rarely volunteer that I'm a hospice chaplain because it's the ultimate conversation killer. I'm the only person I know who has the ability to suck the life out of the most raucous party by merely saying what it is I do for a living. People look at me as though I just said "I'm a professional sniper, and YOU are my next target." I witnessed this just the other week. I was sitting in an animated Irish bar after I visited Congress with some friends and a couple of my wife's co-workers, who didn't know what I did. Everyone was laughing and having a good time...and then one of them asked what I did. "Um, I'm a hospice chaplain. I provide spiritual and emotional support for people who are dying and for their families who are watching them die." The gas went out of that party like the Hindenburg. And these were all Christians.
I don't always volunteer to strangers that I'm a pastor because it instantly changes the conversation. I first learned this when I was in seminary, and I lived right across the street from a golf course. I would play in the afternoons and I would get paired up with strangers, because all my friends were "studying" or whatever. You can't spend more than 4 minutes with men before someone asks you what you do. Back then I was much more bold about what I did, and when I said "I go to seminary" the response I received was universally this: "Oh. I hope my cussing hasn't offended you." I was always tempted to say "Nope. What has offended me is how you take 4 practice swings before you shank the ball into the woods."
What I don't like is how the mention of my job changes how people act around me. I start out interacting with real people in t-shirts and jeans and I end up interacting with people in their Sunday best. People have no idea what to say to me or what questions to ask and so everything takes a turn to the awkward. Sometimes my golf partners would not talk to me for the rest of the round. My sense is that most of them hide not because they are hostile to religion but because they are ashamed or afraid, because of bad past encounters with other religious types.
What I am actually trying to do, when I am ambiguous in my answers to the question "What do you do?" is to keep the conversation going. I want to learn about them (well, when I play golf I just want to play golf) and discover what's important to them. I'm not "looking for an opening" but I am genuinely curious. I'm a listener by nature, but when I blindside people with my "religious career" I find that they are reluctant to reveal much about themselves. I want to have a conversation as two human beings, not (in their perception) as "sinful person" to "holy person."
Sometimes, after I have listened and asked questions and shown a genuine interest in them, I will subtly sneak what I do into the conversation. Usually, at this point, their response will be much more positive and curious. The guy who might have been a religious crazy at the beginning of the conversation has suddenly become interesting, because I have listened.
What do you think? Is this a cop out? If you're a pastor or missionary or really involved in churchy activity, do you ever hide what you do? And if so, why?


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