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Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, Johor by Shangri-La
1 April 2015
PUTERI HARBOUR, JOHOR, MALAYSIA: April 1st 2015: Traders Hotel Puteri Harbour, Johor today rebrands as Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, Johor, becoming the tenth hotel to adopt the new Hotel Jen brand by Shangri-La International Hotel Management Ltd. Catering to a new "Jeneration" of independently minded business and leisure travellers, the brand has quickly launched ten hotels in seven months in nine cities in Asia Pacific.
Puteri Harbour lies within Iskandar Malaysia, the new southern development corridor in Johor identified as one of the key developments to spur the growth of the Malaysian economy. The launch today of Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, Johor highlights Shangri-La's long-term commitment to the Malaysia market.
The Hotel Jen brand is inspired by virtual persona Jen, a professional hotelier who loves life, travel and the adventure of discovering new places. Hotel Jen takes care of guests with efficiency and care while giving them informed access to a great destination. Hotel Jen provides travellers greater flexibility to blend the boundaries between business and leisure.
Mr. Greg Dogan, president and CEO of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, said: "The opening of Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, Johor is extremely important for our organisation. We've built a strong brand presence in Malaysia and will continue to grow and build solid long-term associations with our business partners and stakeholders.
"We recognise the growth of travellers with a 'millennial' mindset who seek simple pleasures, easy efficiencies and the opportunity to indulge their sense of adventure when travelling for leisure or business. True to the new brand, the Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour team embraces the changing demands of today's more independently minded travellers and we are proud to introduce the Hotel Jen brand to meet the needs of our existing and new customers."
Mr. Sigi Bierbaumer, general manager of Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, added: "The rebrand to Hotel Jen will set new standards for guest experiences, which shows in the changing demands of today's customers, both the new and 'millennial' mindset and the increasingly socially enabled 'young-at-heart' existing customer. It is a revolution and all about changing our approach, starting at the very heart of our hotel – our staff.
"The first thing guests will notice as they enter the hotel is less-formal staff uniforms. An informed and friendly service style continues by allowing guests to discover the best of where they are through unique recommendations, from the theme park experiences and attractions to bars and restaurants in town. The Hotel Jen team will be a guest's own personal local lifestyle guide, making them truly feel like they are staying with a friend."
Embracing the concept of 'staying with a friend', guests will notice the extra touches on the in-room and restaurant dining options, which feature fresh local products selected for flavour, fusion and fun. For added convenience, the hotel features a vending machine with beverage and snack items priced at convenience-store levels and a 'Grab&Go' deli counter offering quick meal solutions.
Cutting-edge technology is also key to catering to the highly social, young-at-heart traveller. WiFi everywhere, all the time, and convenient mobile charging stations throughout the hotel and a PressReader app with access to 2,500 online publications, replacing the traditional morning newspaper, are some of the many features on offer at Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, Johor. In addition, simple pleasures, such as a laundry wash-and-fold service for unlimited items in the laundry bag at one price, fruit-infused waters and signature iced teas in summer and coffee and snack-box-to-go options after breakfast allow guests to get on with the things they care about – life, travel and discovery.
The SkyBar, Bar & Restaurant beside the infinity pool overlooks the harbour, providing a spectacular view of the Johor straits through to Singapore.
Guest comfort and safety are an absolute priority and there will be no compromise on existing, high-quality standards.
Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, Johor is located in the special economic zone of Iskandar Malaysia, at the Puteri Harbour waterfront in the Nusajaya Zone. It is surrounded by the Johor New State Administration Centre, the medical hub and University Park. The hotel is a 15-minute drive from the Malaysia-Singapore Second Link, one hour from Singapore Changi Airport and 35 minutes from Senai Airport.
Theme parks and attractions are a major draw for families and the young-at-heart. Legoland Malaysia is located within close proximity, while Sanrio Hello Kitty and The Little Big Club are at the hotel's doorstep. Spanning over 60,000 square feet, the indoor theme park features world-renowned and popular children's characters in three main areas: Hello Kitty Town showcasing Hello Kitty and friends by Sanrio; The Little Big Club featuring HIT Entertainment's Thomas and Friends, Barney, Bob the Builder, Pingu and Angelina Ballerina; and a themed family restaurant by popular local cartoonist, Lat.
For an informative or cultural stay, a 10-minute walk from the hotel is Kota Iskandar, Johor state's new administrative centre, where guests can watch parliamentary debates in the State Legislative Assembly Hall, which is infused with distinctive Moorish-Andalusian elements in its architecture and surrounded externally with waterscapes and lush gardens.
The Horizon Hills Golf & Country Club is a 15-minute drive from Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, Johor. In the immediate township, 20 international-standard golf courses are readily accessible and feature full clubhouse facilities and courses designed by Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Robert Trent Jones II and Peter Dalkeith Scott. Further afield is the Ponderosa Golf and Country Club. For guests seeking retail experiences, Johor Premium Outlets, Johor's fine outlet shopping, is a 20-minute drive from the hotel.
For a quick gateway, the Puteri Harbour International Ferry Terminal provides scheduled ferry trips to Tanjung Balai, Karimun in Indonesia and Singapore.
Hotel Jen launched in September 2014 and, through the rebranding of Traders Hotels, is now in nine cities in Asia Pacific: Brisbane, Beijing, Hong Kong, Malé Maldives, Manila, Penang, Shenyang and Singapore. Hotel Jen development projects are under consideration in key gateway cities in Asia Pacific, with plans to expand globally in the future.
Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, Johor
283 guestrooms with a choice of eight room types ranging from a 33sqm Deluxe Room to the 96sqm Speciality Suite
Located minutes away from renowned theme parks (LEGOLAND® Malaysia Theme Park and Sanrio Hello Kitty Town and The Little Big Club and Angry Birds Activity Park Johor Bahru) and easy access from/to Singapore via Malaysia-Singapore Second Link or Puteri Harbour International Ferry Terminal
Rebranding offer:
Make a room reservation at Hotel Jen Puteri Harbour, Johor from M$388++ for stays from April 1st until June 30th 2015 and avail a buffet breakfast at Harbour Café. You will also enjoy a room upgrade to the next room category, late check out until 4 pm (subject to availability), local landline phone calls within the Johor area, shuttle to Legoland Malaysia, a Johor Premium Outlet VIP Coupon Book and the opportunity to purchase theme park tickets at a discounted price.


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Conservative coalition supporting immigration reform
AUSTIN – Touting themselves as a coalition of Bible, badge and business owners, a group of conservative Texans urged Republican lawmakers Wednesday to abandon divisive rhetoric and engage in a more substantive debate on comprehensive immigration reform.
Representatives from the state's evangelical, law enforcement and commerce communities, meeting at a conference dubbed "The Texas Summit," vowed to more publicly voice their pro-reform views to avoid being shouted down by opponents within their own party.
As a new debate over the issue brews in Washington, they join a growing coalition of traditionally conservative voting blocs poised to become unlikely allies to President Barack Obama in achieving what he describes as one of the chief priorities of his second term in office.
"There are a handful of very loud and unnecessarily angry voices," influencing the discussion, GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist said, addressing the crowd gathered at Austin's First Baptist Church. "The reason they have been able to be heard on this issue is that others have been silent. We're going to have to unite the center-right."
Norquist, more famous for his anti-tax crusading in Washington, has recently toured the country backing a fix to "the nation's broken immigration system."
His comments Wednesday came the same day as the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on a bipartisan proposal put forth last month that would establish a route to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented residents.
And as if to underscore his point, some Republicans on the panel quickly dismissed the plan as amnesty.
But in addressing conference attendees in Austin, Norquist went further, even, than fellow Republicans who have said they would endorse the Senate plan, but only if the flow of illegal migration at the border is first stanched.
"If you've got a stupid law, you change it," he said. "You don't enforce it first, you change it."
For others at Wednesday's summit, endorsing a pro-reform stance came only after years of reflection.
"We are looking at this through a moral lens and particularly through a Biblical lens," said Barrett Duke, vice president for policy and ethics with the Southern Baptist Convention.
Two years ago, Duke's group took its first public stance in the immigration debate, endorsing a pathway to citizenship at its annual meeting in Phoenix.
In the years since, members have launched the website EvangelicalImmigrationTable.org, which urges evangelicals to reflect on the Bible's message about immigrants.
After all, said Suzii Paynter of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, "Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden of Eden, and Jesus was a celestial immigrant from heaven."
Brad Bailey, a Houston restaurateur and founder of Texas Immigration Solution, said his views, too, had also recently evolved.
After working alongside his immigrant employees for years, he said he was disturbed by conservative pundits and his party's presidential candidates in 2011 who tore into Gov. Rick Perry's support for providing in-state college tuition to the children of undocumented migrants.
Thanks in part to lobbying from Bailey's group, last summer the Texas GOP broke from the national party platform, acknowledged that deporting all undocumented immigrants was not a feasible option, and called for a common ground solution.
Democrats in Austin hope to harness that more moderate tone. On Wednesday, State Reps. Rafael Anchia, D-Dallas, and Ana Hernandez Luna, D-Houston, filed a resolution that, if passed, would urge Congress to swiftly pass an immigration reform plan.
Their proposal carried endorsements from several former GOP state lawmakers including ex-state Rep. John Garza, San Antonio.
"The harsh and intolerable talk has really hindered our ability to solve this," Bailey said. "But the game is changing, and it's starting here in Texas."
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I'm still chugging my way through Rage, but so far I've grown quite attached to a game that feels like it comes into its own over the course of its dozen-hour-or-so campaign.
What I'm experiencing now 9 hours in or so is very different from the Xbox 360 game and it's play in those first three hours I wrote about a month ago.
This video attempts to tackle some of what I've experienced in the game in the way of weapons, ammo, enemies, mini-games, driving, shooting and those cluttered settings. The video can't really do the game justice, in particular it doesn't really deal with all of the different sorts of behaviors you'll come across when taking on the myriad of enemies.
Make sure you only watch this video if you're prepared to see an awful lot of the game, though not really any plot points.
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eWeek: Why Microsoft Will Try Again for Yahoo in 2009
By Chris Preimesberger
Insider Eric Jackson believes that it's only "the second inning" in the revival of Yahoo. He expects Microsoft to return with yet another merger proposition for Yahoo next year because Microsoft still needs big help in online services.
Now that the annual shareholders meeting is over, the attendees have been "Yanged" and headed back home, and the corporate propaganda machine is taking a vacation, what's next for Yahoo and its embattled leadership?
CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang--who is adept at calming investor nerves and charming analysts and media types alike, thus the "Yanged" observation--will tell you that things are looking up big time, because the company "offers a total Web platform that is unmatched anywhere."
Chairman of the Board Roy Bostock's answer will be in typical executive-speak: "We now look forward to executing on our strategy and continuing to build our great company. Yahoo has made significant strides in executing on its strategy [in the last year], performing particularly well in light of the challenging circumstances of the past six months."
But ask Eric Jackson, president of one of the company's biggest investors, Ironfire Capital--which owns about 3.2 million shares--and you get a very different take.
"The company needs to make some fundamental changes if it's going to improve its performance and stock price. Yahoo is too bloated right now; they need to reduce head count, focus on core businesses and divest some of their holdings that aren't making any money," Jackson told me after the meeting. "But it's only about the second inning [of the company comeback], although it's been the second inning for a long time. There have been a lot of pitches and foul balls."
Jackson said people should go back and read the November 2006 "peanut butter memo" written by Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo senior vice president of communications, communities and front doors, and published in the Wall Street Journal. Here's an excerpt:
"I've heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do, and thus we focus on nothing in particular. ... I hate peanut butter. We all should."
"That came out almost two years ago, but it's as fresh today as it was back then," Jackson said. "They've been doing stuff, but obviously most of those criticisms are still valid today. It's going to take a lot of work [to get back on track] and new leadership--and preferably from the outside."
Jackson, Garlinghouse and billionaire investor Carl Icahn--the key promoter of the failed Microsoft takeover--aren't alone in thinking that big changes have to come for Yahoo to regain the glory it had in the pre-bubble days, when its stock was in the $80 to $100 range. But they were unable to rally the support of enough additional shareholders to make any changes on the board and at the CEO position this year.
Icahn will be replacing resigning board member Bobby Kotick in a few weeks, and two other positions on the board will be decided upon within that same time frame.
Over the next year, the new 11-person board will need to re-examine the company's overall focus, take a close look at head count, and decide how to refine or dispose of some products so that they don't compete with each other in the open market.
Another Microsoft Takeover Attempt in the Works?
They also may have to deal with another overture from Microsoft, if one believes Jackson.
"We overplayed our hand with Microsoft. Yes, it would have been a great deal for the shareholders and for the company," he said. "We should have taken the deal [at $31 per share, or about $47 billion in cash]. Obviously, they [the board] disagree with what I think, but this doesn't surprise me. They think a poison pill is a good idea. ... But I don't think it's completely dead. I believe … [Microsoft] will come back around next year and try again."
"I believe it is simply due to Microsoft's weakness in its Online Services Division. You look at their last quarter's numbers for that group, and it's clear that they are falling further behind. Their desktop business also showed deceleration. Yahoo helps with both problems," Jackson said.
Microsoft has been trying the go-it-alone-and-hire-more-engineers approach for 12 years, Jackson said. "It's not working and will not catch Google."
He added an anecdotal reason why he believes this.
"I had never used Microsoft search before a couple of weeks ago. I sat down to try it and then realized I had no idea what to type in. I tried Microsoft.com, but the only search bar was to help me search MSFT internal directories. I then remembered seeing some advertisement for 'Live Search,' so I tried Livesearch.com. It was some spam site. Finally, I tried Live.com, and the results were no good. I will never use it again. When I want to Google or find Yahoo, I know what to punch in. Simple as that," Jackson said.
Keeping It Simple Works Wonders
On the Internet, simplicity cannot be overstated. Yahoo and Google both have mastered the ostensibly "simple" act of searching the Web. Thus, they continue to run away from the competition.
Yahoo purports that at any given time on the Internet, about 12 percent of all Web surfers are on a Yahoo-owned page. How anyone can possibly figure that out is beyond my comprehension, but that's what its salespeople tell potential advertisers.
There's no question that the company still is a media giant with which to be reckoned. However, by all accounts, 2009 looks to be a crucial year for Yang, Bostock, President Sue Decker & Co. as they forge ahead with improving products, services, profits and stock prices.
Can they do it? Certainly. Will they do it? That's anybody's guess.
If the company doesn't perform, Jackson, Icahn and the other dissidents will have another year's worth of ammo in their weapons when they come gunning for the top executives again next August. You can bet they won't stand to being "Yanged" once again.


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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
When novels were written with a serious purpose and read as avidly all across the world Tolstoy was a doyen in the same class as Balzac, Dickens, Hawthorne, Poe, Scott and Dosteovsky. Literary tastes have since changed. Tastes of readers are weighted on the side of best sellers and since writers who sell are more a product and who are geared to cater to the lowest denominator we see the kind of books that is touted in each season as best sellers. I would not be surprised if Tolstoy's moral passion and Dosteovsky' delving into darkness human soul are now dubbed as top heavy or elitist by modern readers who have grown up with Dan Brown or John Grisham.
Nevertheless according to the English writer Virginia Woolf, 'he with his observational powers elicited a kind of fear in readers' and she granted that Tolstoy was "the greatest of all novelists."
The scion of prominent aristocrats, Tolstoy was born at the family estate, about 130 miles south of Moscow, where he was to live the better part of his life and write his most important works. Having lost his parents at a tender age Tolstoy and his four siblings were then transferred to the care of another aunt in Kazan, in western Russia. From his diaries we know the agonizing spiritual ambivalence that plagued him and he well into his mature years lived a loose life as customary with nobility of his times in debauchery. . Educated at home by tutors, Tolstoy enrolled in the University of Kazan in 1844 as a student of Oriental languages. His poor record soon forced him to transfer to other areas. Thus he drew towards literature. The writings of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau made a deep impact on him. (in place of a cross, he wore a medallion with a portrait of Rousseau). In 1851 he joined his older brother Nikolay, an army officer, in the Caucasus and then entered the army himself. He took part in campaigns against the native Caucasian tribes and, soon after, in the Crimean War (1853–56).
Concealing his identity, Tolstoy submitted Childhood for publication in Sovremennik ("The Contemporary"), a prominent journal edited by the poet Nikolay Nekrasov. Nekrasov was enthusiastic, and the pseudonymously published work was widely praised. During the next few years Tolstoy published a number of stories based on his experiences in the Caucasus, including "Nabeg" (1853; "The Raid") and his three sketches about the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War: "Sevastopol v dekabre mesyatse" ("Sevastopol in December"), "Sevastopol v maye" ("Sevastopol in May"), and "Sevastopol v avguste 1855 goda" ("Sevastopol in August"; all published 1855–56).
After the Crimean War Tolstoy resigned from the army and was at first hailed by the literary world of St. Petersburg. But his prickly vanity, his refusal to join any intellectual camp, and his insistence on his complete independence soon earned him the dislike of the radical intelligentsia. He was to remain throughout his life an "archaist," opposed to prevailing intellectual trends.
The period of the great novels (1863–77)
Happily married and ensconced with his wife and family at Yasnaya Polyana, Tolstoy reached the height of his creative powers. He devoted the remaining years of the 1860s to writing* War and Peace. This was followed up with his other great novel, Anna Karenina(1875–77). These two works share a vision of human experience rooted in an appreciation of everyday life and prosaic virtues. In 1899 Tolstoy published his third long novel, Voskreseniye (Resurrection).
Tolstoy's rejection of religious ritual contrasts markedly with his attitude in Anna Karenina, where religion is viewed as a matter not of dogma but of traditional forms of daily life.
His search was increasingly straining his married life since his wife yearned for a settled life with the rightly earned fame and material affluence while his attitudes and beliefs were creating enemies inside Russia. His religion upset the Orthodox Church and pacifism, the State.
With the notable exception of his daughter Aleksandra, whom he made his heir, Tolstoy's family remained aloof from or hostile to his teachings.
Tormented by his domestic situation and by the contradiction between his life and his principles, in 1910 Tolstoy at last escaped incognito from Yasnaya Polyana, accompanied by Aleksandra and his doctor. Within a few days, he contracted pneumonia and died of heart failure at the railroad station of Astapovo.
In contrast to other psychological writers, such as Dostoyevsky, who specialized in unconscious processes, Tolstoy described conscious mental life with unparalleled mastery. His name has become synonymous with an appreciation of contingency and of the value of everyday activity. Oscillating between skepticism and dogmatism, Tolstoy explored the most diverse approaches to human experience. Above all, his greatest works, War and Peace and Anna Karenina, endure as the summit of realist fiction.
Most readers will agree with the assessment of the 19th-century British poet and critic Matthew Arnold that a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life; the 20th-century Russian author Isaak Babel commented that, if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy. Critics of diverse schools have agreed that somehow Tolstoy's works seem to elude all artifice. Ultimately he remains by such diverse works as War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Anna Karenina the living symbol of the search for life's meaning.
• War and Peace
The work's historical portions narrate the campaign of 1805 leading to Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Austerlitz, a period of peace, and Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. Contrary to generally accepted views, Tolstoy portrays Napoleon as an ineffective, egomaniacal buffoon, Tsar Alexander I as a phrasemaker obsessed with how historians will describe him, and the Russian general Mikhail Kutuzov (previously disparaged) as a patient old man who understands the limitations of human will and planning. Particularly noteworthy are the novel's battle scenes, which show combat as sheer chaos. Generals may imagine they can "anticipate all contingencies, " but battle is really the result of "a hundred million diverse chances" decided on the moment by unforeseeable circumstances. In war as in life, no system or model can come close to accounting for the infinite complexity of human behaviour.
The novel's other hero, the bumbling and sincere Pierre Bezukhov, oscillates between belief in some philosophical system promising to resolve all questions and a relativism so total as to leave him in apathetic despair.
Tolstoy's belief in the efficacy of the ordinary and the futility of system-building set him in opposition to the thinkers of his day. It remains one of the most controversial aspects of his philosophy.
(Copyright © 1994-2011 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc./ Gary Saul Morson)


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[Op-Ed: Politics]
The stunning win of Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race Tuesday has sent shock waves throughout the political world. But, as usual with tectonic shifts like this, many people are totally misreading what happened.
Republicans have every reason to be crowing today and Democrats have every reason to be depressed. The people of Massachusetts spoke with their votes that they are more interested in results, not party labels. The problems both parties face is not with their bases, but with independent voters.
There are more independent voters than there are Democrats or Republicans. In Massachusetts, 51% of the electorate is independent. This is going to force both parties to come to the political center. That is the lesson from the Tuesday vote.
Any other spin is simply nonsense.
Brown was a little known Republican state senator with an unremarkable voting record. Conservative columnist, Kathleen Parker, has described him as a moderate New England Republican with socially moderate and fiscally conservative views.
Brown describes himself as, "fiscallyconservative and socially conscious." Conservatives are going to beshocked to find out that Brown supports Roe v. Wade.
Brown provided Massachusetts voters, and the country by extension, with an empty vessel to channel their total dissatisfaction with Washington and the White House.
Most people have no idea what either Brown or Martha Coakley, his opponent, stood for, other than their respective positions on healthcare. Republicans are concluding that the election was a repudiation of healthcare and President Barack Obama.
Democrats are saying that Coakley ran a horrible campaign-- which she did. While both statements are true in absolute terms, that's not the message voters were sending.
Yesterday morning on a news show, Brown made it perfectly clear that he is an "independent" Republican. This is themessage to be taken away from the election. Brown's election is a dire warning to all incumbent politicians.
Americans are pissed at the dysfuntionality of our political systems and the seeming inability of politicians to solve problems.
Voters don't feel like politicians have made air travel any safer than before 9/11, or made government work more efficiently, nor controlled government spending, to name a few issues. With technology, we are travelling at the speed of thought, but governing at the speed of a horse and buggy. We communicate through e-mail messages, BlackBerrys, and instant messages; but our political systems function at the pace of a tortoise.
The problems facing Americans today can not be solved withthe pace our political systems are operating under. Why does it take years for the simplest of legislation to pass? Why does it take weeks forpoliticians to organize a town hall meeting?
Why couldn't ourgovernment properly respond to Katrina? There are a lot of similarities between Brown's and Obama's candidacies and ultimate victories. Neither was given a realistic chance of winning; both were running against a frontrunner who had been all but crowned the victor-- Hillary Clinton in Obama's case. ); neither hadthe support of the party establishment.
Their victories both stunned the political world.
But, if Republicans think Brown's election was a vote for Republicans or conservatism, they are greatly mistaken. Voters are angry. They don't want to abolish government, they want effective government. This provides a great opportunity for Republicans to have a discussion on what is the role of government in a Republican world.
Nomore campaign slogans like, small government, low taxes, and more individual freedom. Voters want to know how these words translate into policies that impact their daily lives.
Democrats missed a golden opportunity to prove to America that they could govern, but as usual, they blew it big time. Two nights ago, I saw Howard Dean make an amazing statement on TV. He said if Bush was still in the White House, he would have rammed health care through Congress—it would have already been law.
Voters basically told Democrats and the White House that they don't believe they can effectively govern; therefore they were willing to vote for a Republican to register their dissatisfaction.
How can you control the White House and super majorities in both houses of Congress and yet, not get anything done?
Obama, by far, is the biggest loser. He has proven to be a very weak president because he refuses to make people in Congress fear him--especially Democrats. Why have the Democrats not stripped Sen. Lieberman (I-CT) of his chairmanship? He actively campaigned for John McCain, a Republican, and was almost chosen to be his running-mate.
And he is rewarded with the chairmanship of a major committee? This would have never happened in the Republican Party. If
Democrats can't or won't govern their own caucus, why should they be given the opportunity to govern the country? That's the question Democrats must answer immediately.
Even though half of America disagreed with Bush'spolicies, they respected how he was willing to fight for what he believed. No one will ever accuse this White House or Democrats of doing this. With the high level of frustration across the electorate, people are distancing themselves from party labels and are more focused on who is going to solve the problems that this country is facing.
People know we are facing tremendous challenges and are not looking through rose colored glasses. Brown's victory is
merely the opening salvo in what surely will be the continuing increase in the number of independents in the
American electorate.
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Interview by Peter Atkinson
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Vancouver's Devin Downsend may be the closest thing modern heavy music has to Frank Zappa, but these days he's feeling more "Def Leppard." His latest effort, Epicloud, with the Devin Townsend Project, was issued Sept. 18 and is some of the most accessible work he's ever done. And along the way he discovered an affinity for pop music.
Yet it didn't start out that way. Indeed, Epicloud ended up being the polar opposite of what Townsend intended when he set out to write the album, which was envisioned an over-the-top continuation of the already over-the-top Ziltoid The Omniscient sci-fi/comedy/rock opera. But as his grandiose ideas kept mysteriously morphing into catchy pop-metal anthems, he decided to take the ball and run with it.
But Townsend has always works in mysterious ways. Over a 20-plus year career he's been a veritable chameleon, adapting to the many colors of the hard rock/metal palette with a deranged whimsy that is equally parts daring, provocation and attention deficit disorder. Even during his 10-year run heading industrial metal cult legends Strapping Young Lad there were side projects as varied as the prog/pop/metal/polka fusion of Synchestra, the big rock of Accelerated Evolution and the ambient Devlab, either as a solo performer or with the offshoot Devin Townsend Band.
And since disbanding Strapping in 2007, he's continued to explore the fringes — indeed even outer space with Ziltoid — on the sonically disparate Ki/Addicted/Deconstruction/Ghost "quadrilogy" issued by the Devin Townsend Project over a two-year stretch from 2009-2011 that saw Townsend emerge from a period of writer's block with the most creatively fertile period of his career. That has continued on with Epicloud.
But don't get too comfortable with Townsend's new-found commerciality, because what could come next is anyone's guess – including him own.
I know you've been doing these for like three days straight, so apologies in advance if you've heard most of these questions already.
Yeah, I've kinda got the routine down. I'm such a mouthpiece anyway that usually on the first question I just start to ramble and then by the end of it people are just like, "Well, I guess that's all I wanted to ask." So hopefully they got what they were after, even if I didn't give them the chance to ask the questions they wanted. (laughs)
You didn't get stuck in an office in L.A. or New York all week, did you?
No, I'm home in Vancouver. I'll be here for another nine or 10 days. And it's been kind of a nice break between the record, which was finished a month or so ago, and the tour [of the U.S. and Canada with Katatonia and Paradise Lost, which just wrapped, and Europe with Fear Factory that kicks off in mid-October], that pretty much takes us through to Christmas. So it's been nice to spend some time with the family, and get my ducks all in a row for when I do go away. So I'm happy for the time I've got here, even if that means spending part of my day in front of a speakerphone.
Are you getting back to any sort of "normal" schedule or level of productivity now that the four-album set is done and you're back to doing one album at a time?
I think the potential for it to even out is on the horizon. But I've been asked this question several times about my tendency of having so much work going on in my life and what the implications are and to be honest, I'm 40 years old. I've been doing this professionally for 20 years, the fact that I'm able to do this, and at this point things are better than they ever have been, now is not the time to sort of put my feet up. If I've been able to carry on that level or productivity for this long, then I should be able to carry it on until, legitimately, I've got the opportunity to change the level of pace.
It's important for us now, on the 50-yard line here, to put it in gear, as opposed to freaking out about this, that or the other thing. Now is not the time for an existential crisis, now is the time to take into mind the reasons how you've managed to get where you are at this point and just keep going.
I spoke with you when Addicted came out about the your career ups and downs, and you mentioned that you had a way of sabotaging things when they were going good. Is the object now that things are going good to not sabotage them?
Absolutely. In fact, I had a conversation about that last night with a buddy of mine. Because I find that that element of me, that self-sabotaging element, is rooted, I personally think, in a fear of not only success but also failure. So that puts you in a position where you don't really want to put your neck out for the fear of it being cut off, right?
But at the same time, I think a record like what we've just completed, Epicloud, makes it perfectly clear in my mind that I'm willing to do that for the first time. And whatever defeating mechanisms are at play in my psyche, and chances are they will always be there, at least now I'm able to at least recognize that and not incorporate those insecurities into my decision-making process.
I think it's fine for me to think about these things and wonder why or what if and all the kind of neurotic elements of my process that have always been there. I think it's fine to analyze that, but when it comes to the brass tacks of what you need to do, I've made these decisions. There's not a question about my motivations at this point. I want to do this, I want to make big, epic, cool, music, I want to entertain people, I want to play shows. That's what ultimately is the decision, and any of these other kind of murmurings in my world or my mind are just things that you've gotta work through. No big deal.
Covering as extreme a spectrum as you have musically already over your career I guess gives you a bit of a cushion? People know to expect the unexpected.
Sure, but I think perhaps the irony of this new record is it's almost the furthest I've gone out by making something that's accessible. I think that that mechanism that we talked about a minute ago, about that sort of sabotage, has often prevented me from doing just a straight up cool record that is compliant to the listener – to make something that is a good listen and a rockin' record without that sort of emotional drama that it's imposing on the audience.
On the surface, I would have never thought that would be a risky move, but by doing it on autopilot, which is how I operated on this record in particular, I realized once it was done, it was like "Wow, without thinking about it you didn't sabotage this one and what you ended up with is a record that perhaps people are gonna like." (laughs)
So as I said a minute ago, all these thoughts, all the processes and analysis that I'm just kind of wired to do are just going to have to go and for me to make those processes so public that they become the basis of what I write the music about, it's just not interesting to me anymore and I would hazard a guess not that interesting to an audience either.
Now that the quadrilogy is in the taillights, are you more exhilarated or exhausted by the experience?
I can't actually comment too extensively on that just because the pace that we're rolling at is so intense that any sort or recollection about what it is or what it isn't, I just haven't had the time for. The one thing that I am aware of is because my process has always been the current music I write is a direct reaction to what came before, the new record is connected to that quadrilogy, if you want to call it that, based on spending some serious time trying to understand it and by coming to a conclusion of what I was trying to achieve with those four records, which in a nutshell was conquering or getting over these sort of fears that I might have had artistically or personally, that being able to actualize those records has led me to a record like Epicloud which essentially was like, "OK, I'm over it, what's next?"
There's not like this continuum of "all right, now that we've made these dramatic personal statements, let's do another one." Musically, I think I learned a lesson from those four that has allowed me to make a record that isn't about me. And I think that, just on a personal level, it's really, really satisfying to be able to listen to something without feeling like "Wow, I'm swimming upstream in a river of my own semen."
Yeah, that might get a bit old.
(Laughs) I think a lot of times, if you have done those sort of things for your whole career, it's easy to forget that that drama ultimately becomes comfortable and you don't want to leave it because it's all that you know. The option of making something like Epicloud that is commercial in its own way, commercial in terms of my output, is a little more risky than just saying, "Well, I'm just going to go into another isolated corner of my own artistic psyche and write some pseudo profound thing about that." That would have been easy, what was much more difficult for me was going, "Well, here's a record about being over it. Can you do it?"
Were you pleased with the response to the quadrilogy, did people seem to get what you try achieve?
It's two-sided. The first side is they were made from an honest perspective. I made them because I wanted to make them, so regardless of whether people liked them or not, it doesn't change how I feel about them. However, how did people feel about them? Overall, I think people really liked them.
What I found the most gratifying is that some people loved one and hated another. I find that as sign of the success of it because I love them all, or like them all, equally. The fact that certain elements of my nature that are honestly trying to represent a certain thing to its conclusion worked really well for some people and didn't work for others, and I think that it means they are accurate.
On the other side of it, when I did Deconstruction, because it was fairly cataclysmic, there's this faction of folks, and rightfully so, I'm certainly not saying this is like a deficit in their personality, who will never let Strapping go. To explain that in a way that makes sense in my current frame of mind, to continue to do something for the sake of other people who have an emotional investment in something you did from the bottom of your heart and you're not doing it from the bottom of your heart, you're just doing it to please them, you are a fucking poser as far a I'm concerned. And if anyone wants you to be that, for their sake, I think maybe those people need to analyze what they want out of music.
Do you want someone to tell you the truth, or do you want someone to represent something that they are no longer feeling in order to appease you? If you're doing that, it's just a martyr syndrome. And all these tortured artists who are like, "I'm doing it for the fans," fuck that, man. I'm not that guy. I'm a 40-year-old dude, I'm not doing anything for the fans, I'm doing it for myself.
Did Deconstruction appease the Strapping fans? As a Strapping fan myself, it did the trick for me.
I think that puts you in the minority. (laughs) When I did Deconstruction, that faction of folks who really loved Strapping were like, "Well, here we go, he's gonna be doing the heavy thing again." While I was making Deconstruction I was very proud of it, because as a musical entity, this is where I'm at where it comes to heavy music right now, this is 100 percent where I'm at. And then when it came out, the reaction from some people was, "Hey, I get it. This is really cool." But that camp, the Strapping camp, were like, "This is shit! This kind of like awkward, random heavy metal thing that isn't want we wanted. It's nor Strapping."
At that time, initially, I was confused, because I thought it was a cool, heavy record. And when it wasn't accepted as being enough like Strapping, like "nope, nope, that's not gonna work," it was really liberating for me. I was like, "Oh really, so me being as honest as I can with heavy music as a 40-year-old man isn't still going to work, well forget it. I'm going to make a pop record."
Ultimately, why making Epicloud was so liberating for me was because it was like, "Well, OK, if I'm not allowed in the club anymore, then shit, I might as well go sound like Def Leppard."
The material on Epicloud captures much of the spectrum that you covered over the the four previous albums, were the songs born out the writing that went into them or was this a fresh start?
I guess I was convinced that after the four records I was going to sit down and write the second Ziltoid record. And I had a clean slate at the point, I'd basically purged everything from that project, and I was ready: "bring me some complicated metaphor music." And then one after another I kept writing big choruses, epic '80s sounding music.
And every time I wrote one I'd put it aside thinking, "OK, cool, you've got that out of your system, now go back to writing this complicated statement." And I get up the next morning and started writing another simple rock song. And it just kept happening to the point where I had to give into it and just be like, "Well, this is obviously what you feel like writing now. As much as you may want to intellectualize the fact that maybe you've got a certain amount of your personality invested in being complicated or avant garde or whatever, it's obviously not what you want to do right now. So you might as well just start with this Epicloud thing."
So with that frame of mind, I wrote a couple dozen songs and the way I described it last night when I was having a conversation with someone was: "Epicloud started as a one-night stand that I thought was just kinda get in there and hump and then be over it, but man now we got joint checking account and a minivan and everything."
So, in a long-winded way, it's all new music, other than "Kingdom" [which originally appeared on Physicist in 2000]. The process of making it took way more effort than I was expecting and it was exceptionally difficult to make this thing what it is. And as a result of all these things coming together it really made me think, and I'm happy to say that the conclusions I'm coming up as to why I did it and what the future holds for me musically are very satisfying to me.
They've maybe been a little unnerving, where I've had to come to the conclusion that maybe I am more simple than I gave myself credit for. But, ultimately, it's the same thing where if you've got a predisposition toward something, I think it's best to figure it out. Because if you don't figure it out you're always going to be confused. If that's where you are, that's where you're at. You're good to go. Artistically, if this is where I wanted to go, instead of being afraid of it, and have it hide in the background, I wanted to know, and I do now. I like pop music.
It fits in pretty well with the four albums you just did, it does seem like a logical next step?
It's a step that, now that it's finished, I'm surprised it's taking this long to get to. But I guess the thing to counter that with is I've got 25 records. I've never made a record like this. It seems silly to me in hindsight that I've been afraid to make a record like this because of the implications of it being, "well, you're a sellout" or this, that and the other thing. I kind of felt that by making it I've had to face this strange fear of people's perceptions of me. But after extensive personal introspection it really is not that much more complicated than, "Yeah, I love music like this."
And I've always wanted to make music like this. From the first record I've ever done, Ocean Machine or any of the stuff, all of these elements of like my leanings toward the Def Leppard part of my personality, it's always been there. I'm surprised to took this long to come out. However, does that mean this is what I'm going to do next? Hell no! This is where I'm at now, who knows where I'll be when it's time to do the next record.
Getting back to Ziltoid, is part two still in the offing?
Everything in my world musically is cresting toward this project that ultimately has Ziltoid as a major component. The project is called Z2, it's going to be a combination of it all. For example, when we did Deconstruction we had the opportunity to work with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and I would imagine, not that I've had the experience, but I would imagine that that is like heroin. Once you get a taste of it it's like, "Holy shit, I've got to get me some more."
I went to the Czech Republic and we had the orchestra for four hours and they had to sight read hundreds of pages of shit. And it was like, "OK, we're gonna get out of it what we get out of it." But after that, I was like, "OK, life goal acquired: To be able to make an epic, heavy, symphonic musical that incorporates the seriousness and the speed and the humor and the existential stuff that I've always been interested in and don't do it in four hours. Have the orchestra for a week and a half and have it perfect."
All these things are goals for me and to visualize them, in my mind, the whole component of Ziltoid plays a big role in that. So I'm hoping I can keep incorporating all these things that I'm interested in, and Ziltoid and orchestra being two of them, and see where it goes.
Now that you've done the By A Thread shows in London where you played one quadrilogy album in its entirety each night [all of which was released as a four DVD/five CD box set in June], the Ziltoid show in Finland, do you see yourself doing more of these "event" type shows instead of just doing the usual tour slog?
Well that sort of event is going to be omnipresent. These kind of one-off shows, that in and of themselves are unique, are becoming very common, if that makes any sense. You have to do stuff like that. I've been doing this for 20 years and if I'm lucky I've got a two- to three-month buffer in terms of finances. And for the most part, man, it's month to month. I'm certainly not one to complain about the state of the industry, I'm very lucky to be in it. I don't do this because I'm trying to buy a yacht I do it because I'm a musician.
But that being said, you have to do something cool because you can't just pump out a disc at this point and expect to make enough money to pay the bills. You've gotta make something interesting for people otherwise what's their motivation for spending money on it? I wouldn't. As the provider of those experiences or those products, how am I supposed to sell people on it if it's not something special? It can't just be like, "We're using a new shade of black on the logo, now it's even darker!"


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Back at CES 2012, Samsung and AT&T announced a new handset for the carrier's 4G LTE network – the Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD. Apart from its unusually long name, the Skyrocket HD, the handset was going to pack in a 4.5-inch 720p Super-AMOLED screen, a dual-core 1.5GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. Except for the 720p Super AMOLED HD screen, the Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD is similar to the Skyrocket.
Now, that more than 4 months have passed by since Samsung and AT&T first announced the handset, both the companies have decided to cancel the launch of the product. While AT&T and Samsung have not yet confirmed that the Galaxy S III will be coming to AT&T's network, the carrier definitely fits Samsung's statement of the largest and fastest LTE network in the United States. Thus, the decision to cancel the Galaxy S II Skyrocket HD from AT&T and Samsung is definitely a good decision.
Hopefully, the AT&T version of the Galaxy S III will not come with an absurdly long name like the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S III Quad HD LTE.
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"We are living in a strange civilization. Our minds and souls are so overlaid with fear, with artificiality, that often we do not even recognize beauty. It is this fear, this lack of direct vision of truth that brings about all the disaster the world holds, and how little opportunity we give any people for casting off fear, for living simply and naturally. When they do, first of all we fear them, then we condemn them. It is only if they are great enough to outlive our condemnation that we accept them." –Henri, Robert. Collected by Margery Ryerson. The Art Spirit. Philadelphia, 1923.
The above quote strikes deeply within my heart. I found it in the following essential book for any home library: [VandenBroeck, Goldian, ed. Less is More: An Anthology of Ancient & Modern Voices Raised in Praise of Simplicity. Foreward by E. F. Schumacher (Author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered. 1973.). Inner Traditions: Rochester, Vermont, 1978, 1996. p. 219.].
The beauty or the fear of simplicity. How the right and left of our civilization have seemingly forever feared the beauty of simplicity!
Artist, Robert Henri's quote resonates so strongly alongside the following quote by economist and philosopher F. A. Hayak, whose birthday (although he has long passed) was three days ago:
"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as DeTocqueville describes it, 'a new form of servitude.'" –Hayek, Freidrich August. Individualism and Economic Order. 1948.
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"Your greatest danger is the probable practical failure of the application of your philosophy in the United States." – John Maynard Keynes in a letter to Hayek. [ –Hoover, Kenneth R. Economics as Ideology. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2008. p. 152.]
"In the negative part of Professor Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often – at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough – that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamed of." –Orwell, George. 1944. Writing in response to Hayek's book: The Road to Serfdom (1944)".
Author of the classic dystopian novels 1984 (1949) and Animal Farm (1945), Orwell was no fan of capitalism and yet he found it within himself to step away from partisanship to pen the above, historically-informed forewarning.
Please note Keynes' inclusion of the word "practical." Both the right and left have seemingly forever criticized as an impractical (and unregulated) ideal the simplicity of "treating people equally" as opposed to just making everyone equal (regulated).
One example that comes to mind is the issue of who should fund the caring of the present multitude of those who are unable to work and create income. One side argues that the government should stay out of it and that community programs should oversee the need. The other side calls this impractical because, likely, community programs won't be able to fund or handle the load. The poor will instead get shuffled off under bridges, to the gutters and into the back alleys.
Is it a matter of practicality? Is it true that citizen-funded community programs can't or won't handle the load? Is a governmental equalization and regulation of incomes or subsidies the only solution?
Attempting to make people equal is collectivism, as Orwell calls it, which he then describes as "not inherently democratic" but "tyranical," worse so even than historically imposed by the merciless Spanish Inquisitors.
Please also note how artist Robert Henri and economist F. A. Hayek seem to resonate in the above quotes. Economist Robert Maynard Keynes and artist Robert Henri, on the other hand, do not seem to me to resonate at all. Art synonymous with simplicity? Art in opposition to practicality?
How many times has a creatively-gifted student pursuing a degree in writing been told by parents that such a degree would not be practical? How many such students have listened to such regulatory and collectivist advice? Where would our world be without gifted writers on the left, the right and all points in between?
Hmmm, based on the insights from the above quote from Orwell, I wonder if he had parents like those mentioned above, and if so, chose instead to pursue his gift as a writer?
I learned from an influencial person in my life that if I place my palm against another's and push, that is a difficult, forceful and stressful path that leads to anxiety, fear and artificiality. If I place my palm against another's and relax, let go of pushing, then that is a stress-free way of simplicity, non-tension. A natural equality. The two palms can exist alongside without either pushing at the other, and they can get by on their own. Too simple?
Allowing people to empower themselves toward their own pursuits, allowing a free society–whether to live modestly according to one's meager means or affluently, left or right, craftsman or entrepreneur–whatever, is the simple way of beauty–the beautiful way of simplicity. An ideal? Yes. So what. Impractical? No.
In a football game, the kicker doesn't aim at the goal post but beyond it. He may not make 100 percent of the attempted distance, but 80 or 90 percent may put the ball over the post–a score. 100 percent is a goal likely never to be achieved. It is a utopian ideal, impractical. Don't confuse that with a score.
The ideals of libertarianism, most fully realized in the aims of Ron Paul, are not to hit an idealistic 100 percent, I don't believe, but to hit as close as possible. The goal is to score a realistic and beautiful win.
Of course, the kick is only as good as the kicker. Players' records speak loudest on who to place one's trust in.
In speaking of progressivism, the object is to progress. The art of football is to progress down the field to a score, to progress in scoring to a win and to progress in winning to take the beautiful Super Bowl. If you lose, you come back again. You make progress. The art is not, however, to progress in injuring the other team's players to the point of taking them out of the game, or to bypass the rules.
The most obvious and current example that comes to mind is President Obama's push to the Supreme Court of what has come to be known as "Obamacare." By most accounts, the court (now considering the case) will ultimately block his attempt at a "score." Why? Because it directly conflicts with our constitutional guarantees for a right to choose our individual pursuits. The president is attempting to push aside the Constitution along with all those who oppose him–to bypass the refs and the rule book. Maybe the refs will turn a blind eye, and he'll score. Likely he won't.
For myself, I choose not affluence but a more simple life. Who am I to shove it down my affluent neighbor's throat that his choice is wrong, and that I aim to not only make him swallow it but to kill affluence altogether and ultimately to make her or him enjoy the experience?
Creating a "green" planet" by killing off affluence and consumption are separate concepts, to raise another example. The first is admirable for all to work towards. It takes cooperation and compromise to reign in the real dangers of out-of-control consumption.
The second is social engineering for the sake of "making people equal"–a power grab; a purely and politically partisan imposition on OUR equality through nature–"our," meaning ALL–right and left, Black and White, male and female, gay and straight, spiritual or atheist, simple or affluent. It's the equivalent of saying: "I'm right and you're wrong." "I'm smart and you're stupid." "I'm elite, and you're of a lower class." Servitude.
By the nature of equality and free will, no one person or group has a right to impose their ideals on any other person. Simple?
Don't be afraid of overshooting the goal post and scoring the goal.


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This gorgeously scented, lush dessert radiates the tropics: As the guanabana—otherwise known as soursop—sherbet melts on the tongue, it releases notes of exotic fruits and flowers that are beautifully complemented by the other fresh fruits served with it.
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- Makes 8 servings
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- Total Time
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- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 cups water, divided
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 3/4 cup cold whole milk
- 2 (14-ounce) packages frozen guanabana (soursop) purée, such as Goya brand, thawed in refrigerator (3 cups)
- 2 (1/2-pound) papayas
- 2 mangoes
- 1/2 cup fresh pomegranate seeds
- 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
- Bring sugar and 1 1/4 cups water to a boil in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar has dissolved. Transfer syrup to a metal bowl and quick-chill by putting bowl in an ice bath and stirring occasionally until cold, about 5 minutes.
- Add remaining 1/4 cup water to saucepan and sprinkle gelatin over it, then let stand 1 minute to soften. Bring to a bare simmer, stirring until gelatin has dissolved. Add to syrup along with milk and guanabana purée.
- Freeze mixture in ice cream maker, then transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden, about 2 hours.
- Peel, halve, and seed papayas, then cut into bite-size pieces. Peel and pit mangoes, then cut into bite-size pieces. Toss fruit with pomegranate seeds and lime juice and serve with slightly softened sherbet.
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All indicators suggest Apple will unveil the iPad 3 during the first week of March. That's less than a month away, and sources at The Next Web say Apple is in "crunch mode," working hard to line up apps that show off the unique features of the next-gen tablet.
The iPad 3 is expected to feature a high-definition, 2048 x 1536 "retina display." If the new screen does appear in Apple's big reveal, it should provoke all the excitement of the company's first retina display, which appeared in the iPhone 4 in 2010. According to a source who spoke with The New York Times, the next iPad's screen will be "truly amazing."
So which apps might Apple use to show off the brilliance of its new display hardware? We've identified four key app categories that would be ideal for demo'ing the HD display. We've also spoken to software developers about their iPad 3 aspirations. None would spill any beans concerning launch-day involvement, but we did learn more about how the developer community is anticipating the new display.
Photography ———–
Apps for shooting and viewing photographs would be ideal for showing off not only a high-resolution display, but also an improved camera, which is also a highly likely upgrade.
iOS 5 has a hidden panorama mode that developers haven't yet been able to take advantage of. So, if an iOS update accompanies the iPad 3 launch, we might expect Apple to finally show off panorama mode in conjunction with an improved rear-facing camera. (The current iPad 2 camera is merely iPod touch caliber.)
And if Apple doesn't want to show off its own panorama capabilities, apps like TourWrist and 360 Panorama would be great candidates to show off such a feature.
TourWrist CEO Charles Armstrong is so confident that Apple will be doubling the number of pixels in the height and width of its next tablet, his team is already preparing a new version of its app. "It's four times as many pixels. That makes logical sense, and that's what we're anticipating."
As for viewing images, something like Fotopedia would be a great app for Apple to showcase at the iPad 3 demo. Essentially a depository of mind-blowing photojournalism, Fotopedia won the Tablet App of the Year award at 2011's Crunchies Awards (Silicon Valley's version of the Oscars). The app is broken down into various themed collections (e.g., Dreams of Burma, National Parks and, most recently, Women of the World), each full of stunning full-screen images.
"We love Apple, we only build apps for iOS," Fotopedia senior vice president Christophe Daligault told Wired. "We basically will be ready with very high-quality, high-definition content as soon as a higher-resolution iPad comes out," he said.
Daligault added it would only take a few weeks to tweak Fotopedia for a retina display iPad. So, theoretically, if Apple asked the company to demo at the iPad 3 launch, Fotopedia would be ready. "But we havent gotten a phone call," Daligault says.
Steve Jobs emphasized that the iPad isn't just a tool for consumption, like other mobile devices – it's a tool for creation. Apple has its own photo-creation tools it can debut or update as well – Photobooth for example. This app uses the iPad 2's front-facing camera for taking self portraits with different visual effects, and it could receive an HD update.
Nonetheless, to expand its current content-creation possibilities for tablets, Apple would need to introduce new products. Most likely, we think, would be a new iPad 3 version of iPhoto for more professional-caliber photo editing on the go. Running a display resolution of 2048 x 1536 – a higher resolution than that of the screen on the 15-inch MacBook Pro – would allow photographers to dive quite deep into onscreen details. The display would also be terrific for sharing slideshows.
Video —–
When the iPad 2 launched, one of the major new apps Apple introduced was iMovie for iPad. iMovie lets you cut and edit video clips, use AirPlay to stream content to an Apple TV, and play video directly on the iPad itself.
If the iPad 3 is getting a spiffy new HD display, and (just as likely) an improved camera capable of recording 1080p video – you know, to match the display – then an update to iMovie seems not just likely but inevitable. Like an iPhoto port for iPad, an update to iMovie would help solidify the iPad as a tool for creative types who don't want to be tethered to a desktop or keyboard-burdened notebook.
Other video-centric apps could focus on sports, like the MLB.com app that was singled out at the original iPad's announcement. (Maybe we'll see MLB at Bat 2012.) And with Apple's AirPlay feature, we could see Apple demoing 1080p streaming video from the Apple TV to the iPad 3.
Bottom line: If the new iPad does have a retina display, you can bet that action-packed, high-quality video will be a key part of the presentation.
Games —–
At the iPhone 4S launch, Apple showed off Infinity Blade II, which featured souped-up graphics to take advantage of the phone's A5 processor and 3.5-inch retina display.
The iPad 3 is very likely to sport either a dual-core or quad-core A6 processor. Either way, A6 performance will trump that of the iPad 2's A5 chip, and paired with a high-resolution display, an immersive, action-packed game like Infinity Blade would be just the title to show what the new tablet is capable of.
Now, it doesn't look like we'll be seeing an HD version of Infinity Blade at the iPad 3's launch. Epic Games Representative Laura Mustard told us that the Infinity Blade team "hasn't been talking to Apple about their plans for the future." So what are some other possibilities?
Gameloft's N.O.V.A. 2 HD is a graphics-intensive iPad game that integrates with Apple TV and iCloud. It originally came out in January 2011 and was updated in November.
"Gameloft is always keen to anticipate and support innovative features enabled by Apple," representative Jessica Lewinstein told us. N.O.V.A. 2 HD already has detailed graphics that would look even better on a higher-resolution display, not to mention a tablet with improved processor performance.
At the iPad's original launch in 2010, CEO Steve Jobs focused on a 3-D version of the game Need for Speed, as well as other apps from Electronic Arts. Considering Apple and EA have teamed up before, it wouldn't be surprising to see an EA game onscreen in San Francisco in a month's time. Options could be anything from Mirror's Edge, whose sharp, high-flying action would make for an impressive spectacle, to maybe the iPad version of Battlefield 2. An iPad version of Battlefield 3 would probably be a bit too much wishful thinking, but you never know.
Textbooks ———
Apple just updated iBooks and iTunes U, as well as ways to purchase and create digital textbooks, in its education-related announcement in January. It wouldn't be shocking to see the company iterate on these products one more time to make them HD ready.
Display quality is currently an issue when reading textbooks on regular e-readers and current tablets. E-ink e-readers can't show off bold, color graphics (or any color at all), and even the iPad 2 doesn't have the display resolution to show off some educational content in all its glory. So being able to view and interact with images and diagrams in incredible detail on the iPad 3 would be an impressive addition to an already useful educational tool. Suddenly, processes like the Krebs Cycle wouldn't be so dry anymore, and you could actually attend your engineering lectures without lugging half a dozen different tomes in your backpack.
Obviously, all of the app picks we mention above are purely speculative. But we would be surprised if Apple doesn't showcase some type of app for each of the categories we've called out.


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Craig Ferguson is talking once again, but just because the sun's up doesn't mean the conversation's PG.
The quick-witted, always garrulous host of CBS's "The Late, Late Show" lends his voice to Disney/Pixar's latest computer animated effort "Brave," playing a testy Scottish lord, but Ferguson wasn't censoring his own comments to be more kiddie-friendly when he sat down with PopcornBiz to discuss everything from his new film role to his late night show to how the people of Scotland react to him to how he tries not to be a d***.
How often did you hear in your early Hollywood career that you should get rid of the Scottish accent?
Every day. I heard it every day, and then later on you hear from the same people, or indirectly, 'You're only funny because of your accent.' It's a bit of both. You hear it, but I was never capable of doing it anyway. Although, there's a certain feeling amongst certain people in Scotland that I don't even sound Scottish anymore. I think that'd be news to most Americans.
You recently took your show to Scotland. How do they react to you there, as someone who's gone to Hollywood and gotten successful and famous? Are they skeptical of you, or do they give you a grand reception?
All flavors of that – all variations of the above. Some people are nice. Some people have no idea who you are and what you do. Some people are interested. Some people are not interested. Some people are resentful. It's a broad cross-section, really. I don't think there's any great uniformity of feeling. If there is anything it's a mild interest that someone from the neighborhood did well.
'Brave' largely avoids all the long-held Scottish stereotypes, but how do you feel about those tropes? And do you have a sense of how, nationally, Americans generally think of the Scottish?
It's not a particularly American thing to get it wrong about another country. You can listen to people in Britain…One of my favorite ones was here when an actor on my show said, 'The thing is, Craig, Americans have no sense of irony.' My head writer, who's still my head writer, Ted Mulkerin, says, 'That's very interesting coming from a people that call themselves GREAT Britain.' I think people have misconceptions about what they don't know very well and that's normal. If you don't know something very well you kind of imagine what it'd be like. The more you know about it I think the more interesting it is. America is an extremely diverse place. I don't think there's such a thing like one American thing anymore, if there even ever was. I think that's a myth.
With all your varied creative interests and talents, how tough is sticking to the daily schedule of your show and not being able to run away and do a movie for a few months, or another project like that?
Well, it's made easy by the fact of the way that I live my life in the sense that I'm involved in a family. I have a wife and children. My desire to leave town is curtailed because I want to be with them. One of the reasons I pursued the late night job so aggressively in order to get it was so that I'd be able to be in town for my family. At that time it was only one kid, but still, I wanted to be here for him. That's why I went after that job. I didn't want the nomadic life of a movie actor. Television actors do well. They stay here and do the same thing. They don't have to travel. I was just done with it. I still go out and do standup tours. I do two or three a year, and you kind of work out your jones for it then. But I like hanging around with my folks.
How does doing the standup tour help you when you go back to the show?
It does seem to energize the show in some way. I think that it gives you a sense of who's watching the show. I meet people who are watching the show when I go out and meet the audiences – they're the people who watch the show. So I get to see that and that's interesting and I get to connect with them in their town, which is also interesting. We get to have more of a raucous party than the law would allow on television, which is also fun. But I don't know how they inform one another. They're different animals. Doing the show, I'm as happy doing that and as relaxed as I am sitting here talking to you. There's no adrenaline rush.
Your shows feels organic, like it just goes the way that it goes on any given day. We hear a host like David Letterman breaks his show down every day, very sharply analyzes and critiques it and tries to find ways to improve. When you're doing a show as frequently as you're doing, how do you find your own creative satisfaction there?
It's really in the moment – that's where I find it. Dave's technique…Dave is a comic genius. Dave's technique of doing the show, I think sometimes, particularly in your early days, if you want to do a good job you emulate the techniques of other people who have done the job previously. If I was a painter I would emulate the works of Picasso in the beginning in order to try and find a way into the process myself. At the beginning, I did all of that. I watched my own show, but that's not how I do it. How I do it is that I don't like to prepare. For me the gold is in the errors, the mistakes. The humanity is in the failure, and also it's funny.
It's inevitable that you get a Hollywood douche-bag on your show every so often.
Without a doubt.
How do you deal with that?
That's a good question, because I never have to deal with it because I never get to see it. Even the worst douche-bag isn't stupid enough to walk out and be a douche-bag to ME. I'll slice them and dice them, but when people behave badly, and it's not as often as you would think, it really is quite a rare occurrence. But when people behave badly we just don't have them back.
Have you ever had those Larry Sanders-esque moments, where the minute the camera stops the person across from you turns into a completely different person?
That does happen. It used to happen more on my show, but it doesn't happen so much now because everyone knows that I end the game with me. The way to succeed on my show – word gets around – is to come and have a good time and be yourself and everyone will be cool. I'm not out to get you. I'm not looking for a way in to f*** you up. It's like, 'Well, let's talk.'
Unless it's your archenemy Stan Lee--
Stan has some unresolved issues!
What do you like about having Stan on and playing out your TV rivalry?
Stan is great. Stan genuinely is confident in his own talent and secure in his legacy, enjoys his success and is a cranky, old motherf***er. I enjoy all that. That's all fun.
Have you ever come up dry on the show?
Yeah, sometimes, but it doesn't last that long. It might happen tonight, and then we'll make a thing of it. I'll ask for some music.
Is there anyone from the long history of television that you see yourself as the contemporary version of?
Well, there are certainly people who have influenced what I do. People that I'm consciously aware of, I'd say the two biggest ones would be Regis Philbin and Pee-Wee Herman. That would be my two strongest TV influences. Pee-Wee for the sense of the absurd and the delight of the absurd in television, and Regis for the ability to just keep talking, extraordinary ability to keep talking.
'Brave's Craig Ferguson: 'I Sometimes Get Hollywood D-Bags On My Show'
The 'Late Late Show' Host Stands Ready to Evicerate Those Who Act Up
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African leaders working on a roadmap to end Libya's conflict are stuck on the question of the future of Moammar Gadhafi.
The leaders of South Africa, Mauritania, Uganda, Mali, and the Republic of Congo are at the African Union summit in Equatorial Guinea drafting a roadmap for Libya that calls for a cease-fire ahead of a transition to democratic elections and legal reforms.
Representatives of the Gadhafi government at the talks appear to accept that plan. But rebels from the Transitional National Council do not because it does not include demands that the Libyan leader resign immediately.
Council representative Mansour Safy Al-Nasr told reporters at the summit outside Malabo that Libyan rebels are advancing and will not retreat until Colonel Gadhafi gives up power.
African Union leaders have criticized International Criminal Court arrest warrants against the Libyan leader, his son, and the nation's intelligence chief for atrocities allegedly committed during a crackdown on opponents. They have also been critical of NATO airstrikes against the government in Tripoli, saying there should be an ?African solution? to the conflict.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Elorabi says rebel demands that Gadhafi resign is a question for Libyans to decide, not the African Union.
The annual summit of the 53-nation alliance closes Friday.
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Saturday, December 10, 2011
Homemade candy recipes: fruit and nut truffles
There's a candy I remember from my childhood. Our main chocolate factory, Kalev, was (and probably still is) well-known for its chocolate selections or "assortiikarp" as they're known in Estonian. I loved their ganache and praline filled chocolates in those chocolate selections, but my favourite ones were the foil-wrapped large truffles with fruit and nut filling.
Here's my attempt to recreate these childhood favourites :) You can see the final product on the left on the photo above.
Fruit and Nut Filled Truffles
100 g dried soft figs
150 g dried soft prunes
100 g dried cranberries or cherries (or a mixture of both)
100 g chopped almonds or hazelnuts
1 Tbsp runny honey or golden syrup or agave nectar
a pinch of sea salt
to coat the truffles:
dark chocolate (tempered, preferably)
Remove the stem from the dried figs. If using a food processor, place the figs, prunes and dried cranberries or cherries into the food processor and process until you've got a coarsely ground fruit mixture. Add the almonds/nuts, salt and honey/syrup and pulse again once or twice. (You don't want the nuts chopped too finely, as you want the texture later).
[You can also simply chop the ingredients as finely as possible]
Place the truffle mixture into the fridge for an hour to cool and harden.
Roll into small balls (TIP: use a little oil to moisten your hands - the mixture won't stick as much then.)
Either dip into melted dark chocolate - or, preferably, into tempered dark chocolate (see note below) until completely covered. Decorate with chopped nuts. Keep in a cool place until ready to serve.
Why and how to temper the chocolate? The Internet - and food blogs - are full of detailed instructions on how to temper chocolate - and why. The latter is easy - unless you temper the chocolate, the chocolate-glazed truffles will lack the shine and the snap, both very desirable elements. "How" is trickier and indeed, tempering can be a hit-and-miss. I've followed this simplified seed-technique for tempering. Place about 2/3 of your chopped up chocolate (or, indeed, chocolate pellets - and NOT compound chocolate!) into a heat-proof bowl and place the bowl on top of a small saucepan, where you've brought about 5 cm/2 inches of water into simmer. Let the chocolate melt slowly, stirring as you go along. Remove from the heat, stick a chocolate thermometer into the bowl. Now add the "seed chocolate" or the chocolate you put aside at the beginning in two or three installments and keep stirring the chocolate and cooling it. Once all the added chocolate pellets have melted, you must continue stirring the chocolate, until it registers 28 C on the thermometer - that will probably take about 15-20 minutes of active stirring, so be patient! You can then gently re-heat the chocolate - either over the waterbath, on top of a hot water bottle or by hovering your hair-drier over the chocolate - until it's about 30-31 C (best temperature for working with chocolate).
5 comments:
- Fruit Flower Bouquet said...
These sound delicious! Thanks for sharing! These would be wonderful Christmas gifts for neighbors.
- 11:00 pm, December 19, 2011
- Katarina said...
Looks delicious! And yes, Kalev chocolate is good!
- 6:00 pm, December 20, 2011
- carrinhos a gasolina telecomandados said...
It is delicious to eat Truffles during travels. I always packed truffle in my box when i was going for long trip. I think that we will add more ingredients into this truffles.
- 11:12 am, December 21, 2011
- Pille said...
Hovkonditorn - they're really lovely, I'll probably make another batch soon!
- 11:31 am, December 22, 2011
- easy recipes teacher said...
I wouldn't cover them in chocolate at all, the filling sounds so delicious and healthy that I would roll it in coconut flakes or cookie crumbles and that's it!
- 11:16 pm, December 26, 2011
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