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SoundCloud Voices
SoundCloud Voices is a weekly Community feature focusing on new spoken word creators found on SoundCloud. It might be a podcast, radio show, audio book, interview, audio messages, a poem, anything! Keep an eye out every Thursday for a new post.
SoundCloud Voices this week takes a look at how news organisation Al Jazeera have been using SoundCloud this week to cover the Russian Elections. Taking place on March 4th, Al Jazeera reporter Christopher True has been in Moscow leading up to the date covering the build up, getting a sense of the thoughts and feelings of the public. Some of this coverage has been done using SoundCloud's iPhone app which has been used to interview the Russian public on their thoughts on Putin and generally on the presidential election. Some of these recordings took place earlier this week at a demonstration against Putin and for free and fair elections. Protesters joined hands and formed, approximately, a 16km long chain along the Garden Ring in central Moscow. Chris was able to interview some of the protesters simply by recording with the SoundCloud app and said "I found the application very easy to use, I think also it's less intrusive than a dictaphone so people are more relaxed in talking.". You can read the full report by Chris True on the Al Jazeera web site.
Take a listen to this interview with Alexander and Ilyia who took part in the human chain on Sunday.
Or Ekaterina who also was part of the protests.
Al Jazeera have also been making use of the ability to plot location within the SoundCloud iPhone app. We have the ability to plot audio to maps so over the next week you should follow Al Jazeera's Russian Elections map which will be showcasing all the audio that Chris has recorded on location.
Go over to the Al Jazeera site to take a deeper look, but to give you an idea, it looks a little like this:
Since the protests on Sunday, Chris has continued to interview the Moscow public. Here's a couple more interviews for you to listen to! It's great to hear a wide demographic of people of different ages and professions giving their opinions!
If you are interested in trying out SoundCloud as a spoken word podcast platform, you can sign up for via this form. Successful candidates will be emailed with further details.


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Graduations provide respite, fresh start after deadly OK tornado
MOORE, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Five days ago, Miranda Mann huddled in a science classroom at Southmoore High School. She should have been filed with pride, relief and excitement about her upcoming graduation. Instead, she was filled with fear as a devastating tornado powered through her central Oklahoma city.
The 18-year-old has been literally picking up the pieces of her life since.
Her house was unrecognizable, except for her and her mother's cars, after the twister destroyed it Monday.
Her family sifted through rubble and salvaged some things, only to see many of them -- such as her prized book collection -- ruined by torrential rains.
Mann doesn't want to live in Moore, wary of a place that's been hit by two EF5 tornadoes -- the strongest possible -- over the past 14 years. There's been plenty of time, and way too many reasons, for tears.
But finally ... finally, Saturday was a time to smile.
"My family is all here, we get to be together," Mann said about her graduation at Oklahoma City's Cox Convention Center. "(You can) relax and let your hair down, because you know that we're not going back to the house today. We're not going to see that."
Southmoore High's seniors were one of three classes celebrating their commencement ceremonies at the facility. The date had been set for months, and it wasn't moved after the storm killed 24 people, injured more than 375 others and damaged 12,000 residences in and around the metropolitan area.
Jake Spradling is glad the show went on. Like Mann, he's a Southmooore High senior; like her, he no longer has a place to call home.
The hours since Monday have been "overwhelming," Spradling admitted, though he said the outpouring of support -- offers to bunk early at Northwestern Oklahoma State University where he'll head this fall, dozens of text messages and "calls out of the wazoo" with offers of help -- have made a big difference.
He knows people who lost family members, and many more who lost homes. He knows that they need time to plan and attend funerals, to clean up debris, to figure out what happens next.
Even with all that, "I'm glad it's today," Spradling said. "It means to me that we're not going on different routes.
"We're staying on the same path that we were meant to be on."
Graduation festivities were infused by the tragedy, including speakers' remarks and other poignant reminders. One happened when Southmoore's Alyson Costilla walked across the stage to get her diploma and about a dozen people in the crowd stood up and held up pictures of her mother Terri Long, who died in a 7-Eleven ravaged by the powerful winds.
Outside the convention center, the seniors from Southmoore, Westmoore and Moore high schools won't have to go far to be reminded of the devastation.
Funeral homes and churches are busy with services for those killed.
Ten of those killed were children, including seven second- and third-graders at Plaza Towers Elementary School. After three funerals earlier in the week, two more of those students were to be buried Saturday.
Transforming Moore back into the city it had been won't be easy. Its public schools alone suffered $45 million in damage, including the two elementary schools that were leveled. Insurance claims related to Monday's storm will likely top $2 billion, according to Kelly Collins from the Oklahoma Insurance Department.
But residents aren't doing it all alone.
Besides the presence of FEMA representatives and other public officials on the ground, they've had friends, relatives, even strangers come out to help.
Sharon Liston has spent the last 25 years teaching math at Westmoore High, from which she's retiring after 40 years total in the profession.
On Friday, a day before her school's graduation, a caravan of students arrived at her home to clean up her 3-acre property.
"It looked like a wall of students with trash cans and trash sacks, and they literally picked up every stick within that three acres there," Liston said.
That kind of help makes it easier for Moore's residents to move on from this horrific week.
Saturday's graduation ceremonies are similar, in that way. It means the end of one thing, and the beginning of another. A fresh start.
"It's just the closing of one chapter and the opening of another," Spradling said. "...It's one of those flipping of the pages that means a lot to everybody here."
CNN's Eric Fiegel reported from Oklahoma, while Greg Botelho reported and wrote this story from Atlanta. CNN's Mariano Castillo contributed to this report.


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1. I need your help. When approaching a service agent or receptionist, this opening line appeal to someone's instinctive helpful nature. You're likely to get a better response (and better service!) if you use this line.
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4. I don't know what that means. It shows that you're listening. You're not too proud to admit you don't know everything. You'd like to learn more. This approachable, humble phrase also demonstrates interest in the other person.
5. I'm new here/this is my first time. Again, this appeals to someone's helpful nature. Give them a chance to introduce you to others. Surrender yourself and they'll usually help you out.
6. Hang on for ten seconds. Especially on the phone, this tells someone that you really will 'be right back.' With the limited time each person has to talk to you on the phone, sentences like this speed it up. They will usually count, too, just to see if you really come back in 10 seconds. Remember, specificity = credibility.
7. Let me give you an example. Keeps someone engaged, helps he or she follow you and the conversation. Be sure to offer an example as support for your point.
8. Welcome in. In all situations – at a table, in a room – use these two words to show approachability and hospitality. It's amazing how much friendlier 'Welcome in!' is than 'Hello!'
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11. Here's what I learned. People don't care what you know, only care what you learned. Tell them.
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Were Garfield a human being, we would not hesitate to read this incident, in which Garfield strips a 3-year-old child to his underwear and leaves him standing in a snowbank, as cruel at best, sexual-assulty at worst. This is one of the many advantages of Garfield's constantly shifting blur between cat, anthropomorphized cat, and cat-in-name-only.
Because of Davis' cartooning style, in which everything is mildly grotesque, we always have to take characters at their word when it comes to aesthetic evaluation. Jon's looks, for example, are regularly evaluated as somewhere in the spectrum of plain to unappealing, but he's drawn essentially the same as world class hottie Liz; that these assessments are often made by the spiteful and rude Garfield does not make them easier to parse. We take it as a given that Garfield is morbidly obese, but from the physical evidence, he does not appear out of the ordinary next to, say, Nermal. This is an interesting phenomenon/ problem for cartoonists with a penchant for exaggerated, hideous stylization, from Don Martin to Kaz to Jim Davis. When a gag requires a character or object to immediately read as ugly or tasteless, the art has to go an extra mile... a sprint of which Garfield is perfectly capable. Witness the character design of Greta the pet sitter only last week.
So the "stupidity" of the boy's outfit in today's strip doesn't even register. No clothing ensemble is particularly fashionable or flattering in Garfield, so as with the case of Jon's bad taste in evening wear, the kid's outfit requires additional cues in dialogue/ reaction, etc. We get no such help until the far right of the final panel. The strip's focus clearly isn't on the kid's fashion crimes as Garfield perceives them, on the kid's hypocrisy, or really his comeuppance for calculated rudeness to animals. The core of the strip is a burgeoning little bully mistakenly trying to tango with a grandmaster. Garfield bats not an eye as he goes way, way past the point of eye-for-an-eye in return of a child's meaningless insult. He lays something else bare, besides the child's vulnerable white underbelly: Garfield cares about what this idiot thinks. And he cares that his art has been attacked, even if he has to destroy it to refute the criticism. And he cannot resist striking the kid out when he steps up to the plate, even though the lad's hopelessly outmatched, because it's a bullying contest, and that's what bullies do. When everyone's an asshole, the biggest asshole may win, but he's still an asshole.
I humbly submit that both combatants in this battle of insults are slightly wrong, as any tiny cat-crafted snowman is not going to be "stupid" but rather "adorable", and with the little outfit, it would be just precious. Not that these things can't happen, but there must've been a heavy surprise snowfall overnight, since spring was in full bloom only yesterday.
"Tango with a grandmaster" officially marks PerMon's first glaringly mixed metaphor of 2008.


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Well, that's what it looked like. Murky, camo-green and all.
Plus, I'm hooked on alliterations, and those "s" words flowed together so well. Although I must say, swamp scum probably isn't the most keyword-worthy phrase. Not that I've ever cared much about keywords. In my own blog world, anyway. If I write copy for you, I'm TOTALLY into keywords. TOTALLY.
I suppose if I'm going to take this blogging thing seriously, I should start thinking tagline options, SEO, keywords, analytics and metadata. Don't you think? After all these years?
Just the mention of metadata gives me brain freeze. And without the accompaniment of a huge bite of ice cream, that's just not fun.
Okay, on to the serious business of figuring out what to do with all this spinach. I'm almost sure someone at my CSA pickup location slipped some of their spinach into my box.
Fine. If anyone can manage an abundance of spinach, it's me. I'll take on the challenge.
Nancy Drew meets the Green Goddess (ooh, that would have been a great title).
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SPINACH (if you don't have any, I'll share), washed with stems *
1 golden beet unpeeled, scrubbed, trimmed and chopped *
1 small apple unpeeled, scrubbed and chopped *
1 cup vanilla goat yogurt
a handful of frozen cherries
a handful of pumpkin seeds
1 teaspoon cinnamon
coconut water
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1. Place all ingredients in your VitaMix and blend well. If you have a regular blender, shred the beets rather than chopping them.
* The skins of beets and apples contain all kinds of beneficial nutrients and fiber, so choose organic and leave the skin intact. Scrub well, but don't peel. If you don't go with organic, then you might want to get rid of the skin as it's probably been sprayed with an assortment of icky chemicals. Spinach stems contain some nourishing goodies as well, so throw some of them into the mix.
Go forth and celebrate spinach (again and again). No complaining. This is what "eating local" is all about. Especially in Colorado.
Peace, love and green stuff!


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Nothing of true consequence has transpired yet at Ravens training camp, not even an actual preseason game -- the best litmus tests for who's worthy of inclusion on the roster.
That doesn't mean impressions aren't being formed, though, as the Ravens are one week away from the close of camp.
With that thought in mind, here's a cheat sheet on how the roster is shaping up by position with an eye toward performance:
Joe Flacco has had a sharp camp, decisively delivering spirals and getting the football out of his hands quickly. In negotiations with the Ravens for what figures to eventually be a blockbuster long-term deal that isn't imminent at this time, Flacco has displayed progress in accuracy, timing and aggressiveness. Most of his miscues seem to be born from practice experimentation against an opportunistic secondary.
Dual-threat backup quarterback Tyrod Taylor hasn't been challenged by Curtis Painter, who lost eight starts last season with the Indianapolis Colts when he stood in for an injured Peyton Manning. Taylor hasdazzled at times in reserve duty with his arm, and his feet, offering a different style than Flacco.
Painter is a pocket passer who has battled bouts of erratic play, and has thrown plenty of interceptions. He hasn't made a strong case so far for the Ravens to keep three quarterbacks during the regular season. The defending AFC North champions kept two quarterbacks on the roster last year, and three seems to be a luxury.
Pro Bowl running back Ray Rice is the Ravens' $40 million man, and their investment appears to be a sound one. He's his usual dynamic, all-purpose self.
Fullback Vonta Leach provides a punishing presence as Rice's personal bodyguard, a rare throwback lead blocker in a league where they have practically become extinct.
The backup running back situation remains a quandary.
Third-round rookie Bernard Pierce is the most suited for full-time duty if something ever happened to Rice. However, a hamstring injury has prevented the new father from getting on the field much. His grade is incomplete.
Anthony Allen has power, but hasn't demonstrated much in the way of moves.
Damien Berry is a slashing back who has put on some good bulk in the weight room and has had a solid camp overall.
Besides Rice, the most impressive back on the practice field has been diminutive undrafted rookie Bobby Rainey. Stocky and generously listed at 5-8, 212 pounds, the ultra-productive former Western Kentuckystandout rushed for more than 1,600 yards as a junior and a senior.
Rainey has impressed the coaches with his ability to catch the football out of the backfield and has a scooting, downhill style. He's not as much of a long shot as he was when he arrived in Owings Mills forcamp a few weeks ago.
Veteran Anquan Boldin has built better chemistry and timing with Flacco and returned a bit quicker and healthier than last season when he battled a partially torn meniscus in his knee that required arthroscopic surgery before the playoffs.
Torrey Smith is the deep threat of the offense, and the former second-round draft pick has gained polish as a route-runner. His hands have become more consistent.
Newcomer Jacoby Jones can create separation and has big-play capabilities. He still has lapses of concentration that lead to the occasional dropped pass, but not enough to cause serious alarm. He's thefavorite to be the third receiver.
LaQuan Williams has been one of the bright spots of camp, making several acrobatic catches and showing off body control and toughness.
Tandon Doss' hamstring injury, which sidelined him for a week until he returned Monday, has him in a position where he needs to make up ground. He's listed on the official depth chart as the backup to Boldin.
The Ravens kept six wide receivers on the active roster last season, including kick returner David Reed, who's still recovering from surgery on his anterior cruciate ligament and is unlikely to be ready in time for the season.
The Ravens like what they've seen from Devin Goda, a big, former Slippery Rock wide-out (6-2, 218 pounds), and speedster Deonte Thompson.
Thompson is one of the fastest players on the squad, but will need to prove that he can go over the middle and catch the ball regularly in games to claim a roster spot.
Tommy Streeter has been mastering the jump ball part of his job, but needs to develop a more extensive knowledge of the route tree and make sharper cuts out of his breaks.
Starter Ed Dickson has the potential to have a breakout year. Athletic with ideal size, Dickson's only drawback was a few maddening drops last year. He seems steadier and more confident this fall.
Dennis Pitta sustained a clean break of his right hand, which has been repaired through surgery. He's slated to return in time for the season opener against the Cincinnati Bengals. Pitta is one of Flacco's mosttrusted targets and closest friends.
The third tight end spot, a position intended for a blocking type, is being contested between Davon Drew and newcomer Billy Bajema. Bajema just got here, but has more of a track record in the NFL than Drew. Drew had a rough practice Saturday with drops, but knows the system.
Bryant McKinnie reported late with a sore lower back and about a dozen pounds heavier than his target weight. Five days after he showed up, the former Pro Bowl selection finally passed the conditioning test.
If McKinnie keeps shedding pounds -- and he says he's roughly 360 now after playing at 370 last season -- then he's the Ravens' best, most proven option at left tackle. The Ravens face a Murderer's Row of pass rushers this fall that includes DeMarcus Ware, Trent Cole, Tamba Hali, James Harrison, Brian Orakpo, Elvis Dumervil and Jason Pierre-Paul. McKinnie is under serious scrutiny, though, because of his weight issues. Off the field, he's facing financial issues.
Michael Oher's quickness and conditioning are rare for a tackle regardless of whether he lines up on the left or right side. He formed a strong tandem last year with Pro Bowl guard Marshal Yanda that's likely to be reprised.
Yanda is the Ravens' top blocker, a former Iowa farm boy with a nasty streak.
Rookie second-round pick Kelechi Osemele has stonewalled pass rushers and has a powerful hand punch. If the McKinnie situation goes south, then he represents the Ravens' insurance policy at right tackle thatwould allow Oher to shift to the left side.
The Ravens are encouraged about the progress of veteran left guard Bobbie Williams, who reported to camp 14 pounds lighter than minicamp. He's up there in years at nearly 36 years old, but still has a mauling blocking presence.
Rookie center Gino Gradkowski hasn't backed down against big defensive linemen and has learned the blocking schemes quickly. He's gotten a lot of snaps since six-time Pro Bowl center Matt Birk has missed a week with back spasms.
Birk, 36, hasn't missed a start since joining the Ravens, so not being on the field in camp doesn't send up a big red flag yet.
Jah Reid's untimely strained right calf injury has prevented him from making a bid for playing time after being projected by the Ravens as a potential starting guard during the offseason.
Gritty veteran Tony Wragge could figure in as a valuable swing player as an interior lineman.
Ramon Harewood's health continues to be unreliable, the book on him since being drafted in the sixth round out of Morehouse.
Justin Boren is highly regarded for his toughness, but is more of an in-line fighter than anything else, as he doesn't get to the second level often.
Undrafted tackle Jack Cornell is a technician, an uncommonly mature rookie chasing a roster spot who's done enough for general manager Ozzie Newsome to single him out to owner Steve Bisciotti.
This shapes up as a fairly deep group. That is, when everyone's healthy.
Pernell McPhee, the top pass rusher of the unit, is working his way back from a knee injury that required arthroscopic surgery in the spring.
Starting left defensive end Arthur Jones was having a nice camp until a strained hip flexor sat him down.
Massive nose guard Terrence Cody is a huge anchor in the middle of the defensive line. By upgrading his conditioning and dropping a significant amount of body fat since his rookie year, Cody has better energy to occupy blockers, push the pocket and occasionally shoot gaps.
Pro Bowl defensive tackle Haloti Ngata is significantly heavier than he was a year ago when he played at roughly 335 pounds. He still moves uncannily well for a player with so much bulk. Ngata's desire to bulk up stemmed from wearing down last season, but he pulled his hamstring when he took the conditioning test for the first time.
Ngata is still playing his way into shape after returning to full-time duty Monday. The Ravens are looking for a major return on their $61 million investment in Ngata, one of the most disruptive interior forces inthe game.
It's very competitive for reps among Ryan McBean, Ma'ake Kemoeatu, DeAngelo Tyson and Bryan Hall. McBean could give the front seven a lift when he returns from a pending three-game suspension for violating the NFL's performance enhancing drug policy.
Kemoeatu is trying to revive a career nearly derailed by injuries and weight issues.
Hall is an improving young player.
Imposing rookie nose guard Ishmaa'ily Kitchen (6-1, 332 pounds) is a name worth remembering.
Middle linebacker Ray Lewis is trying to defy his age and remain a three-down player by losing a lot of weight this offseason. He's not much bigger than strong safety Bernard Pollard, but he does look quick. Listed at 240 pounds, the two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year appears closer to 230pounds.
Lewis is following a trend of older linebackers who kept getting lighter in the twilight of their
careers, including former Pittsburgh Steelers middle linebacker James Farrior. The true test will come against bigger backs in the regular season. For now, Lewis' experiment of preserving his status as a full-time player appears to be working for him.
Paul Kruger has been interchangeable between rush outside linebacker -- injured NFL Defensive Player of the Year Terrell Suggs' old spot -- and strongside linebacker. Kruger's best spot is rush and he looks more comfortable than he did a year ago as a situational pass rusher. He's had to play strongside or Sam linebacker, where he's listed first on the depth chart, since rookie Courtney Upshaw has been out for the past week with a sprained right shoulder initially characterized as a bruise.
Upshaw reported at roughly 280 pounds and didn't pass the conditioning test on his first try. He's starting to drop some weight and is headed in the right direction of his goal of 270 pounds, but isn't there yet.
The Ravens need to get the former Alabama All-American on the field to gauge what they really have at outside linebacker.
Jameel McClain returns as the starting inside linebacker opposite Lewis, and retaining him on a three-year, $10.5 million contract is looking like a wise move.
Top reserve inside linebacker Dannell Ellerbe has a nagging hamstring injury that has complicated his outlook considering he's making $1.927 million.
Outside linebacker Sergio Kindle's comeback bid continues as he's had his best camp since suffering a fractured skull prior to his rookie season. He suffered permanent hearing damage in that fall, but has regained his equilibrium and his confidence.
Kindle still needs to learn how to redirect his charge when he runs into trouble from blockers, and his spin move hasn't been effective against Osemele.
Albert McClellan is a valuable special-teams contributor who doubles as a steady linebacker.
Ricky Brown and Chavis Williams have been solid.
Undrafted rookie Nigel Carr is a big hitter who needs to refine other parts of his game.
This is arguably the most talented part of the roster.
The Ravens are set at cornerback with $50 million shutdown cornerback Lardarius Webb, and are trying to decide between incumbent Cary Williams and former first-rounder Jimmy Smith opposite Webb.
Williams has had a better camp than Smith, who has battled leg and back ailments and has been beaten more often than the other corners. Williams has recovered from offseason surgery on his right hip to repair a torn labrum that he first hurt against the Seattle Seahawks last season.
Smith has prototypical size and speed. However, he still needs to improve his ability to diagnose plays and make plays on the ball.
Pro Bowl special-teams ace Corey Graham has had an eye-opening camp and has proven he deserves the playing time on defense that eluded him with the Chicago Bears.
After a rocky offseason where he contemplated retirement and dropped hints that he might hold out, Pro Bowl free safety Ed Reed showed up on time and seems to be a rejuvenated man at camp.
Bernard Pollard is an intimidating hitter at strong safety.
Behind starting safeties Reed and Pollard, Sean Considine and rookie Christian Thompson have stood out more than Emanuel Cook.
Fifth-round cornerback Asa Jackson, a former Cal-Poly All-American, has reacted quickly to passing plays. He's pushing returning corners Danny Gorrer and Chykie Brown.
It's been an interesting battle between former Pro Bowl kicker Billy Cundiff and undrafted rookie Justin Tucker.
Tucker is creating a viable challenge. The former University of Texas kicker has only missed three field goals during camp, connecting on 55 of 58 attempts since camp started.
Tucker made all seven attempts Saturday, including a 62-yarder. Cundiff hit 7 of 8 tries, narrowly coming up short from 65 yards. He has made 51 of 59 attempts in two weeks of camp.
Cundiff is under scrutiny due to his flubbed chip shot in the AFC title game that could have sent the game into overtime.
So far, he's done fine even though Tucker has a stronger leg and is less expensive. At this point, barring preseason game struggles, Cundiff is expected to retain his job.
The Ravens will place considerably more weight on preseason performances than how Cundiffand Tucker kick in practice.
Jones is penciled in as the starting punt returner and kick returner.
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In rural sub-Saharan Africa, only one in six people has access to electricity. Kerosene lamps provide a primary light source in many households—at a cost to both health and wealth. A villager in Kenya or Rwanda pays dozens of times more for kerosene than an American spends on grid electricity for a comparable amount of lighting. Charging a mobile phone at a kiosk is even more expensive. "The poorest people in the world are not just paying a bit more for their energy; they're paying a disproportionate amount," says Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO of Azuri Technologies, a solar services firm based in Cambridge, England. Kerosene lamps also pollute the air, and the fuel poses a poisoning hazard, especially to children.
Solar kits for lighting and charging batteries are a promising alternative, but many rural families cannot afford the up-front cost of $50 or more. So Azuri and several other firms sell solar kits on a pay-as-you-go plan, which drives down the customer's initial investment to around $10. Families then pay for energy when they need it or when they can (say, after a successful harvest). After the solar kit is paid off, any subsequent electricity is free.
The idea is gaining steam. Azuri counts more than 21,000 solar customers. M-KOPA Solar, which builds on the widespread M-Pesa mobile payment network, serves 40,000 households. And U.S.-based Angaza Design is on track to reach 10,000 customers in the next year or so.
Scaling the technology to even more households could prove challenging. Some start-ups are running into limits of capital as they await reimbursement from new customers. The cash-flow constraints only intensify when customers default.
Still, the rollout may offer important lessons for the rest of the world. "There are all these debates about when solar will reach grid parity in the U.S. and elsewhere," says Bryan Silverthorn, chief technology officer for Angaza. "Africa is a place where, for a huge swath of the population, solar energy is now the cheapest option. No one knows what will happen next."


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Google has bought Jambool, a company that makes a platform for managing online payments for virtual goods sold on gaming and social networking sites.
Jambool made the announcement on Friday on its Web site. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The company develops Social Gold, which can be used for managing virtual currency or processing payments within applications for websites such as Facebook.
In a statement, Google said "we are committed to offering consumers and merchants innovative digital payment solutions, and Jambool will help Google evolve our payments offering and expand into digital goods and content."
The Social Gold platform was launched in 2008, and Jambool wrote that they processed more than double the payment value in the first half of 2010 than they did in all of 2009.
"We've welcomed hundreds of developers to our platform," according to the post. "The fact that our highest revenue day was in the last week attests to the continued growth of online gaming."
The company says it has the only platform with an API (application programming interface) that can manage purchases done in a Flash-based game during game play and even for first-time users who do not have their details yet on record. Jambool charges 10 percent per transaction, but that fee goes down to 7 percent if a client is processing at least US$25,000 per month.
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THE mutilated bodies surface quietly in various parts of the province, and usually without any forewarning. The killings take place sporadically but surely, the bodies dumped on unforgiving mountains or on deserted, half-constructed roads. Perhaps they are meant to constitute a message for certain segments of society. On some occasions, the arms and legs of these corpses are found to have been snapped; often, their faces are smashed in and swollen. At other times, the flesh shows that severe torture was inflicted on various parts of the body, the wounds indicating the use of knives, electric prods or drills that tore gaping holes into the body. The remains are often unrecognisable. And all of them have a gunshot wound in the head.
These aren't scenes from a battlefield in Afghanistan, Iraq or even the former Yugoslavia. Instead, this is the situation in the largest province in Pakistan: Balochistan. According to assessments made by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), severe human rights violations have been taking place in Balochistan since the onset of the latest phase of the insurgency.
Of the many incidents of torture reported by the organisation, one is the case of Alam Pirkani Baloch who belonged to the Pirkani tribe. Apparently, he was arrested and placed in the custody of the Federal Intelligence Unit (FIU). During his incarceration, he was allegedly hung upside down with some sort of sharp-edged tool between his thighs and in his hands.
After his hands and legs had bled for a while, he was taken down. Then chillies and salt were rubbed into his wounds.
In another incident, Ali Beig of the Marri tribe was said to have been arrested by personnel of the City Police Station, Quetta, and handed over to the FIU. He was made to stand naked in freezing weather, electric shocks were administered to him and he was beaten with strips of rubber. After two months of being in the custody of the Central Investigation Agency (CIA) and the FIU, he was transferred to a jail where the FIU would, allegedly, take him away at night for further torture. After a year, he was once again transferred to the FIU camp where he was subjected to torture with heavy steel rollers.
In another example of the types of activities taking place in Balochistan, Eid Mohammad, son of Haji Wali Jan, was arrested under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Act. He was kept in custody for three months. At the time of his arrest, Eid was a student of class 8 and was only 14 years old at the time. Although details of what that happened to him during his detention are sketchy, it is reported that Eid can no longer go to school. He regularly suffers nightmares, during the course of which he screams hysterically and pleads that he should not be tortured.
These are just a few of the various incidents of alleged torture recorded by the HRCP in its fact-finding missions over the years.
Furthermore — and shockingly — these incidents of torture are not considered separate to and distinct from the instances of disappearances that are taking place in Balochistan.
In fact, many reports pouring in nowadays indicate that most of those desolate and mutilated bodies discovered on the uninhabited mountains or empty roads were actually persons reported as missing. Additionally, suspicion is raised by the fact that many such bodies come to light after there has been an attack on paramilitary or government forces that is blamed on nationalist forces.
Despite the seriousness of the situation in Balochistan, which is indicated by the examples given above, these incidents seem to have raised little concern in other parts of the country. The media appears more concerned about the presence of CIA agents in Pakistan than the actual damage that is being caused apparently by state agents in Balochistan. Meanwhile, the government of Pakistan is more concerned about completing its tenure than actually trying to heal the wounds of the Baloch.
The Supreme Court, on the other hand, appears more interested in issuing contempt notices to certain PPP leaders as compared to ensuring the fundamental rights of all those tortured and maimed souls who happen to call Balochistan their home. As for the people of Pakistan, sadly, they appear more interested in scrounging for national pride on the fields of Mohali rather than resurrecting the same on the shamed mountains and empty roads of Balochistan.
However, whatever the motives behind such dismissive attitudes, and civil society and the state authorities' lack of reaction to such incidents, it is clear that the said acts have served to perhaps irreparably harm any possibility of the Baloch placing their trust in the state of Pakistan and attempting at reconciliation.In fact, it has unfortunately now come to such a head that the hatred that certain Baloch tribal people have long held for the state of Pakistan is seeping into other segments of society.
The educated classes, students as well as other parts of the middle class are all growing increasingly militant.
As stated by Jamil Bugti, son of the late Nawab Akbar, Bugti, "The next generation is all in the mountains, and they're not willing to talk to anyone. People like me, and others, like the different nationalist parties that are in parliament, they don't have any role to play. They look very good on TV. That's about it."
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Australian Parents Of Thai Surrogate Twin Say They Feared Losing Both Babies
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian biological parents of twins caught up in a surrogacy scandal in Thailand wanted both babies but the surrogate mother threatened to involve the police and they feared she would keep both children, they said on Sunday.
David and Wendy Farnell were speaking publicly for the first time since the story broke more than a week ago of 7-month-old baby Gammy, who has Down's syndrome and is being cared for by his surrogate mother in Thailand.
The couple told Australian television they felt they had little choice but to leaveThailand with Gammy's healthy sister.
"We wanted to bring him with us," David Farnell, 56, told the Nine Network's 60 Minutes program.
They returned to Australia with Gammy's sister Pipah as the surrogate motherPattaramon Janbua had told them "if we try to take our little boy, she's going to get the police and she's going to come and take our little girl… and she's going to keep both of the babies," he said.
The couple have been criticized for apparently rejecting the boy, who also has a hole in his heart and is being treated for a lung infection in a Thai hospital.
60 Minutes said the couple were not paid for the interview.
Pattaramon said doctors, the surrogate agency and the baby's parents had known that Gammy was disabled when she was four months pregnant but had not told her until the seventh month.
She said she had feared she would be asked to abort him but would have refused due to her Buddhist beliefs.
The Farnells said they were angry that the agency had not told them about the boy's condition until too late in the pregnancy to safely abort.
They said they want the baby.
The case has drawn international attention to the lack of regulation of international surrogacy and sparked calls in Australia for an overhaul of laws to cut the number of couples traveling abroad for surrogates.
Public outrage intensified last week when it became known that David Farnell was jailed in 1997 for sex offences involving three girls aged under 13.
"I have been convicted of child sex offences and I hang my head in shame for that," he told 60 Minutes, adding that he had reformed and was no longer a risk to children.
As commercial surrogacy is outlawed in Australia many couples turn to clinics inThailand and India.
Thailand has no clear legal framework for surrogacy. Commercial surrogacy is barred by the Medical Council of Thailand but non-profit surrogacy is permitted for blood relatives, and exceptions are permitted on a case-by-case basis.
A draft law banning commercial surrogacy in Thailand has been submitted to the military government, an official of the Social Development and Human Security Ministry said on Thursday.
The Australian government has asked the Thai authorities to allow for the completion of any current commercial surrogate arrangements before introducing changes.
Hands Across the Water, an Australian-run children's charity based in Thailand, will administer the more than A$241,000 ($224,000) raised so far in an online public appeal for Gammy's medical treatment and care.
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August 30, 2007
Google Gadgets that Talk to Each Other
"PubSub allows multiple gadgets on the same page to send and receive data from each other. In other words, you can now build a gadget that communicates back and forth with one another. This introduces a brand new concept and strategy involved when writing gadgets. Information is no longer constrained to fit inside a single gadget. Instead, you can now split up various pieces of information amongst multiple gadgets and allow them to communicate with each other to paint a bigger picture. Gadgets now have the ability to be more closely integrated with one another and present a network of information to users."
This works if you add at least two gadgets, so it makes sense to create an entire tab with interactive gadgets (here's a sample tab). For example, you could have a gadget that includes a search box and other gadgets that show search results from different sources. Or another gadget could collect events (new email, new event, breaking news) and cleverly organize them based on your preferences.
"PubSub is a new framework which allows 'publisher' gadgets on iGoogle to communicate changes to 'subscriber' gadgets that have declared interest in those changes. This is currently available only on iGoogle and publisher/subscriber gadgets must be on the same page."
If you intend to write gadgets that use this new feature, read the documentation. How would you this framework?
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- AnonymousAugust 30, 2007 at 4:24 PM
Interesting, but I find it weird Google would "borrow" the PubSub name...ReplyDelete
This may be usefull. As for the name, "pubsub" sound like jabber feature for me ;)ReplyDelete
Well, I can imagine integrating this with their gmail server, that would be impressive…
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Actually, what I meant that PubSub was a known service, and www.pubsub.com indicates they are comnign back. However, if memory serves me well one of the Pubsub founders now works for Google, so perhaps that's what it became (?)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 30, 2007 at 8:41 PM
You're right, Zoli - TechCrunch wrote recently about PubSub's relaunch and about Bob Wyman (PubSub's co-founder) working on a Google internal project called PubSub.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2007 at 2:03 AM
I am sick of google and myspace and I can't wait till everyone see its all an illusion...and we move onto something else.ReplyDelete
I wonder if we'll end up heading down the route of "service oriented page design"ReplyDelete
This sort of paradigm does lend itself to letting gadget developers focus on their own strengths and creating gadgets that offer "services" to other gadget.
- AnonymousAugust 31, 2007 at 10:21 AM
My write up from last weekReplyDelete


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Bill Firebaugh's first product, the outrageous-looking Well-Tempered (tone) Arm, established him as one of audio's most innovative designers. At the 1985 Winter CES, he showed a prototype companion product—the Well-Tempered Turntable—and was producing production units by January 1987. He discusses here the WTT's unusual design features. (Readers should note that, since we have not yet tested the new turntable, this interview is not to be interpreted as an endorsement of the product.)
Holt: Bill, what prompted you to get into the turntable business?
Firebaugh: Well, after I had made my arm, and achieved what I felt to be the correct degree of stability in it, I thought it would be a rather simple matter to make a turntable. I thought, "There's nothing to a turntable. It's a platter, a bearing, a belt, a motor, and so forth." To me, it seemed to be the simplest thing in the world to make them all work together. So I started out using an aluminum platter, and I made a very nice spindle sleeve and ball-type bearing.
Holt: In other words, the usual thing.
Firebaugh: The usual thing. It took hardly any time at all to make a prototype, but it didn't work well at all. It didn't have that nice, sweet, musical sound, and I wondered, "What's going on here anyway?" After a period of consternation, I started experimenting with these sleeve-spindle, ball-type bearings, and I made maybe three dozen different varieties, trying different materials and different finishes and geometries.
Holt: Why did you assume right off that it was the spindle bearing that was at fault?
Firebaugh: Because if I turned the bearing by hand and listened to it, I could hear it go "scrape, scrape, scrape" as I rotated it. It didn't sound smooth. I could feel the roughness when I turned it. So I made lots of different versions of that conventional bearing arrangement, including ones with standpipes of lubrication. I came to understand that one of the really important issues is lubrication. If you have a spindle fitting into a sleeve and there's only a fraction of a thousandth of clearance between them, there's hardly any room for lubricant to get in there. And any small speck of stuff that gets in there really causes trouble.
So I made quite a few prototypes that had reservoirs of oil; I would drill a hole through the side of the sleeve and connect it with a reservoir of oil so it could get to the spindle through the hole. And then I added more holes to get the oil to the spindle because it still sounded kind of dry.
Then it occurred to me that, if you have enough clearance around a normal spindle that it doesn't bind, and then you have a belt pulling it to one side, it's going to tend to walk around the top of the spindle hole until the belt tension pulls it back, then it's going to go "Clunk!" and do the same thing again. And you know that's not going to help the sound. I believe that's what makes belt tensions and all those things so critical on a normal type of bearing. But I was stuck. I couldn't seem to find a way around the problem.
Holt: How did you solve it?
Firebaugh: I just waited. And while I waited, I kept kind of fiddle-diddling, and eventually new ideas came.
I started thinking about what it would take to provide stable contact between the bearing and its housing without confining the spindle so it would jam up, and I thought of a round peg in a square hole. You pull the platter toward one corner of that square hole, the way belt tension will pull it, and the spindle rests firmly against the edges of the hole at two points 90° apart. And the bottom of the spindle, of course, leans up against the other two edges of the square hole. The spindle can't wobble, yet it isn't confined to a limiting space at either its top or bottom. So I made up a square spindle-well out of nylon and it worked: there was no play at all in the spindle. I thought I had discovered this radical way of using, for the first time, the old round-peg-in-a-square-hole idea.
But then, one Saturday night—actually it was a Sunday morning, I'm a night-owl type—I thought of a simpler way of doing the same thing. If the well is only contacting the spindle at four points, why not just do away with everything except those four points? I thought about using a big spindle sleeve, with an eighth of an inch clearance between the spindle and the sleeve, and then putting in four supports that come through the wall of the sleeve, so they only contact the spindle at a couple of small points.
I had some nylon setscrews on hand, so I threaded those and put them in from outside the spindle well at right angles to each other, so the top of the spindle was seated between two screws at the top and two at the bottom. It worked, so I knew I was headed in the right direction. But there still seemed to be too much friction. There was lubricant in there, but the bearing still wasn't as smooth and easy-turning as it should have been.
So I tried Teflon and polyethylene "screws" instead of nylon, but they still seemed to be binding too much. In addition, they were greatly accentuating the surface quality of the spindle. I wanted something nice and soft and smooth that the spindle could ride against, so I tried using a sort of a setscrew with a rubber point on it. I took a metal setscrew and drilled a hole in the end, and I cut off a piece of an O-ring of the same size and stuffed it into the hole. And that was it! Boy, that was so silky and smooth! It made an immediate difference that you could hear.
I eventually wound up using metal setscrews with the end ground off flat and a 3/16" flat disc of nitrile rubber bonded to it. Nitrile rubber is the stuff oil seals for car engines are made of. Working against polished steel, those seals will last for a hundred thousand miles.
Holt: But wouldn't rubber have higher friction than Teflon against the spindle?
Firebaugh: By itself, yes. But there's maybe a shotglass full of silicone lube—Dow-Corning 200 silicone fluid—in the spindle well. With silicone fluid, this nitrile rubber against metal is extremely slippery. And furthermore, there's a fair degree of damping in the bearing, simply by virtue of the fact that you have five of these pads riding against the spindle. And it's not only damping the rotation, it's damping any vibrations that might be excited within the shaft itself.
Holt: You use one of them at the bottom, to support the platter?
Firebaugh: Yes. And the bottom one is off-center! If I centered it, it just squeezed all its lubricant out and ran dry. Putting it off-center means the part of the spindle surface that isn't on top of the rubber disc at any given moment picks up a fresh coating of oil. The lubricant is constantly being drawn into the surface between the disc and the flattened end of the spindle.
Holt: I noticed your turntable uses the drive belt flipped, so that it runs upside-down around the motor pulley. What's that suppose to accomplish?
Firebaugh: It seems to have a significant effect on flutter. I spent a lot of time studying flutter, both on a 'scope and on strip-chart recordings. I was trying different belts, and I suddenly noticed one of them was giving lower flutter than it had previously. And then I found it was because I had put it on with that half twist in it. It was a lucky accident.
I'm not sure why it reduces flutter, but I think the reason is, as the belt comes off the platter, instead of losing contact the same distance from the motor pulley, the top of the belt separates before the bottom of it.
Holt: You're attributing the flutter to vibration of the belt?
Firebaugh: That's probably it. See, the frequency at which the belt will vibrate is related to the length of it that's in free air—not contacting either the platter or the pulley. Both of those will prevent it from vibrating. With the usual belt threading, the top and bottom of the belt leave those surfaces at the same time, so the lengths of free belt are the same at the top and bottom of the belt. The whole free length of belt will vibrate at the same frequency, giving a fairly high-Q resonance. But if we put a half twist in the belt, its top and bottom edges leave the platter and pulley at slightly different places, so the belt resonance is more distributed in frequency. It has a lower Q, so vibration at any single frequency is much reduced.


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Home Page Chess Life Online 2008 January Enkhbat and Barnett Top Maryland Open
|Enkhbat and Barnett Top Maryland Open
|By Michael Atkins
|October 16, 2009
The Maryland Open produced three new State Champions for Maryland. In
the Open, University of Maryland Baltimore County student NM Alex Barnett tied with IM Tegshuren Enkhbat with 4.5/5 each. The IM had
better tiebreaks, making Enkhbat the 2009 Maryland State Champ. Jeffrey
Chang finished in a 3-way tie for first in the Amateur Section, but as
the only Free-stater, he is the new Amateur Champ. The new Maryland
Reserve Champ is unrated Ludivico Silverio, who went 5-0 as unrated and was
limited to only $200 in cash prizes.
Michael Regan organized the tournament for the Maryland Chess Association and it was held at the Rockville Hilton over the weekend of Oct 2-4. When walking into this hotel one could scarcely dream and never expect to see an inner courtyard rising 8 stories, and more meeting space than needed at a World Open.
IM Bryan Smith was the highest rated player and experienced the toughest Sunday, playing GM Kaufman and IM Enkhbat. He beat Kaufman and lost to Enkhbat, saying that he had played an idea of 2008 Philadelphia International winner GM Parimargan Negi but it hadn't been fully developed and resulted in losing a piece versus Enkhbat.
IM Enkhbat was on the short end of tiebreaks with Larry Kaufman last year so it is fitting that he is State Champ for 2009. Check out some games from the Open section below, including Enkhbat's sole draw. The tournament results are posted here, and also check MSA rated results.


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When Nyomi Guzman '14 listens to Nancy Pearce, a retired high school teacher, describe all the different birds she's seen in her back yard in Stratham, N.H., she can't help but smile. Pearce loves her manufactured home or "mobile home" and proudly shows Guzman the additions, the deck, and that beautiful backyard.
"After we downsized and bought this home in Aberdeen West, Joe and I were able to really retire," says Pearce. "We've been able to do a lot of traveling. But I tell you, we all feel a lot more secure financially since we bought the land four years ago. I'm the secretary for the board so I know everyone, but now that we own the property we've really become a community."
Recently when Pearce's husband fell ill, she came back from the hospital and found a note on her door—"dinner's ready, just come over and pick it up."
This past summer, Guzman heard stories like Pearce's from homeowners all across the country as she worked to build websites for resident-owned communities that were established with the help of ROC USA, LLC. (See related story.)
"ROC USA helps people who live in manufactured home communities," says Guzman. "They help homeowners in for sale communities purchase the land underneath their homes collectively. And then they empower communities to sustain themselves. Each community works with a certified technical assistance provider." The websites Guzman works on build community and help to sell vacant homes quickly, which keep everyone's monthly payment toward their overall mortgage low.
ROC USA in Concord, N.H., builds on the success of the non-profit New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, which has worked closely with homeowners in manufactured home communities since 1984. In New Hampshire about 20 percent of all the manufactured home communities are resident owned. In 2008, ROC USA was formed to take the program to a national level.
Guzman became involved with ROC USA through the Carsey Social Innovation Internship program. "I found out about the internship at the Net Impact UNH Career Fair last year," says Guzman. Her application was successful and she became one of 11 Carsey interns to work at organizations—both for-profit and non-profit—that have an innovative, market-based approach to achieving their social or environmental mission.
Ethics and social justice have always been important to Guzman, even as a high school student in Amherst, N.H. With a double major in communication and women's studies and two minors in queer studies and race, culture, and power, Guzman has powered through a huge amount of academic work. She's done so with real accomplishment, publishing a lengthy academic article in Commentary, the journal for communication majors, titled "Interracial Couples in Romance Films: Fact or Fantasy." Her extracurricular work has also been noteworthy. She is a Connect Program mentor, supporting first-generation, low income, and multicultural students at UNH. In the summer of 2012, she was a McNair Scholar. Last year she was chair of the Diversity Support Coalition (DSC), which comprises six organizations with a total of 180 members and is governed by a 36-member executive board. "Both the McNair and DSC experiences taught me how to listen, especially to people who are different from me," says Guzman.
And then this summer she had the internship.
"My first day was mostly training and getting oriented. They explained the programs I'd be using to make websites for the communities. My task was to tackle a list of 50 potential websites," says Guzman, "and I had never made a website in my life.
"So," she continues with real understatement, "I spent the next two weeks getting acquainted with the program. I looked at the resources and found a good model to replicate. Then I created a template for each website. Once I figured out how to make the websites more personal and accurate, I began to contact the communities. That was awesome."
Guzman says one of the best things about ROC USA is that "everyone there is pumped to do what they're doing. Just having people be so friendly and kind really matters," says Guzman. "Even the CEO of ROC USA, Paul Bradley is there and he's accessible and easy to talk to."
By mid-July, her first two websites went live. Her ROC USA supervisor Mike Bullard said to her, "This is awesome! You've got to tell everyone!"
By mid-August, her website for Cranberry Village Residents Association
in Carver, Mass., had garnered more than a 1,000 hits. But Guzman was already onto websites for communities in Washington State, Minnesota, Delaware, and Montana. This meant scheduling phone conversations with busy people in myriad time zones. By the end of the summer with 7 sites completed and about 23 in the works, Guzman, like most of her fellow interns, opted to continue working for her organization through the summer. Meanwhile, ROC USA hired a part-time person to continue her valuable efforts.
While Guzman plans to go to graduate school, her experience this past summer is about lifelong learning. As Guzman notes, "There's often a lot of stigma around manufactured homes. For these homeowners to come together, to buy their land, and then to become a community—it takes a lot of heart and commitment."
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