Welcome to our second Ayurveda webinar series. This time its bigger and better. More sessions and more content. You will all get a video copy on a pen drive within 2 weeks, after the program. So, you never miss out on anything. This program is for all clinicians including fresh Ayurveda doctors. While practitioners receive a more comprehensive understanding about their own principles ingestive medicine practitioners like nutrition practitioners naturopaths, herbalists & GPs will be amazed at how much can gain from this.
Brand new content. Dynamic presentation. All clinic-centred.
Plain simple language. Easy to grasp. Transfomatory! Online! Content is scientific and honest approach to clinical information drawn from traditional Ayurveda. Don't miss these programs in February 2016. Over 4 intensive sessions Dr. Rama Prasad shares is deep insights into the key principles into clinical Ayurveda. This program is designed for all practitioners and students.
Our learning and communicating of Ayurveda becomes tough due to many factors. Unpalatable technical terms, confusing Indianisation, unavailable products and cost of the treatments are just some to start with. What if we take the soul of Ayurveda principles and apply it in our modern context? In our lives and clinics? With the same amazing results?
There is a reason why passionate students, writers and practitioners from rest of India and all over the world spend time in Kerala to learn Ayurveda. Ayurveda has been kept pure and serene in this part of the world. And, most importantly, they have kept Ayurveda as an inseparable part of life. They learnt Ayurveda intentionally.
What if we put all theories and principles of disease process - etiopathology together into a small and integrated diagram? What if it is all Ayurvedic and no new jargon to learn? Would it helps you? Would it make your consultations? You will love this session! Every disease fits into this Ayurveda format!
Master the foundation and applied Tongue analysis for Ayurveda clinic over this 4 hour webinar! Tongue map along with 10 vital aspects will take you to a new level of clinical expertise.
You will see the disease process before your client shares their signs and symptoms with you.
Learn the foundation and applied aspects of Tongue analysis for Ayurveda clinic over this 4 hour intensives. Learning the tongue map along with 10 vital aspect will take you to a new level of clinical expertise.
Learn the following in this 4 hour sessions. The role of water, oil, alcohol, sugar and other extracts. 20 Kashayams and 20 Arishtams. Handout will have all product info including ingredients, indications and dosage.
Learn the following in this 4 hour sessions 20 Churnams, 20 Lehams and 20 Oils. Handout will have all info including ingredients, indications and dosage.
"Prescribe Like a Master" is to initiate you into ancient Kerala Master style prescription. This is logical, simple and precise. You will learn the whole thinking process of the Master's.
Dosha is the most misunderstood, confusing and most misleading word in Ayurveda today. This series is an attempt to get into word with Sanskrit grammar, Vedic views, Brihat Trayi's views and pure logic. By the end of these 2 sessions, you will have a clear idea about the word and its application.
Origins of the words such as Vata, Pitta, Kapha, Dosha etc. along with their synonyms such as Vaayu, Maayu and Shleshmaa.
"Rama's Dosha session! Now I have a brand new level of understanding about Doshas. Nothing like I thought and taught for the past 15 years! This changed everything", exclaims one of my students last year.
Dr. Rama Prasad presents these extraordinary training sessions for health professionals and fresh Ayurveda doctors. This is the second this year. The content is fresh, presentation is dynamic, topics are clinic-centreed with his usual fun and precision.
1) 1/2 hour before each session we'll send you a link to attend!
2) You will receive a link to watch or download the full session.
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Dubbing? It's a challenge!
3cycle February 7, 2018
«Either you dub properly, or you just don't do it», Annalaura Carano cuts short. She is in charge of the Theatrical Dubbing division at Warner Bros. Entertainment Italy, and an old acquaintance of Marco Guadagno.
«I worked with Marco last year, for the "Spiderman" movie. He was dubbing director and script adaptor. Right now we are working together on "Peter Rabbit" (to be released on 22 March), an English animation film based on the character of Beatrice Potter's book. They also made a TV series on it. But we have known each other for quite a while now. I remember, for example, "Man on the Moon" (1999), which wasn't very successful in Italy, despite being a wonderful film [there's recently been some talk about it, because of the documentary "Jim & Andy", starring Jim Carrey, who talks about the shooting of the film, editor's note]. It was a sort of experimental film and we greatly enjoyed dubbing it, because it posed a number of challenges, in terms of recitation and interpretation, that mainstream films do not pose.
Nevertheless, all films are complex: when we market a film in Italy, the greatest problem is to make the best out of it, notwithstanding the limits set by dubbing and by the language. It is penalising for us not to have a national slang, as they do in the United States. All our slang is regional: there are only a few words, about four or five, that can be understood from Bolzano all the way down to Messina, and this inevitably affects the adaptation, impoverishing it. When you dub, it's hard to properly render social class differences, speaking styles and education levels. Indeed, what you often hear on television is almost ridiculous, because they're all talking like university professors.
Anyway, dubbing is necessary for the product to reach a vast audience. Furthermore, Italians are simply not accustomed to reading subtitles or watching original version films, even if things are a little different when it comes to the new generations. However, dubbing must be done properly: you cannot use an actor who is 10, 15 or sometimes even 20 years older than the performer, but this actually happens more often than you would think. I watch many TV series, mainly in the original language, and when I watched the dubbed version of the same show I found the characters extremely different. I mean, either you dub it properly or you don't dub it. You're better off reading the subtitles, even if it requires an extra effort.»
Taking cue from an article that appeared on the website Altrospettacolo about Luca Guadagnino's film "Call me by your name" (nominated for four Academy Awards), which reads "We have reached version 2.0 of the 'pros and cons of dubbing' diatribe, reaching a level that compels us, for once, to clearly side with one of the two standpoints", we asked Annalaura Carano to comment on it: «The original version is rich, because it features three languages, plus a dialect, because some characters, who are local residents, speak the local dialect. My idea, which the film director did not share, was to dub the parts in English only, leaving the characters' original French lines, which aren't many. In the end, they stuck with traditional dubbing, and it was entirely dubbed into Italian (with the exception of a few characters, recorded live as they spoke the local dialect, which we managed to retrieve), with the film director approving the main voices. Sure, the multicultural aspect of a family that is a bit French, a bit American and a bit Italian, is lost. So I can answer the criticism made by Altrospettacolo by saying that it's a matter of style, of choices, of personal tastes, in a way. Plus, it is available in the original version, with subtitles!
I actually hope that more and more people will choose to watch films in their original version, above all so they can realise that certain pairings made throughout the years with some great American actors were not always the best solution. As I said, sometimes it's because of the age difference, but sometimes it's just the type of voice that doesn't match the actor well. One might think that a leading actor's dubbed voice should have the timbre of Francesco Prando, a nice, classical voice. But that's not the case: even the lead character must have his/her own voice. We must try to be as faithful as possible to the original version. Some directors and clients prefer to make different choices, perhaps out of continuity or because they simply love a specific voice. But I think that's not the way to go about it. Quite plainly, it's wrong.»
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Capturing The Endurance: Photographs Reveal The Treacherous Expeditions Made By The Ship And Her Crew
Laying to, 14 January, 1915. Caroline Alexander / Seaforth Publishing / mediadrumworld.com
By Ben Wheeler
FASCINATING IMAGES from a new book have helped shed light on the Antarctic expeditions undertaken by the ship Endurance and her crew over one-hundred years ago.
The photographs show the Endurance, which was led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in a number of tight spots over the course of its voyage, including one where the ship is virtually laid on its side after being caught in a pressure crack on 19 October 1915.
Other more intimate snaps reveal members of the crew acting as night watchmen as they huddle round a fire, whilst an additional picture shows Second Officer, Tom Crean, also known as the Irish giant, cuddling four puppies who were to make up 69 Canadian sledging dogs on-board the ship.
'The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition' is authored by Caroline Alexander who opened up about her interest in Endurance and how she came to write the book. Caroline Alexander / Seaforth Publishing / mediadrumworld.com
'The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition' is authored by Caroline Alexander who opened up about her interest in the story of the Endurance and how she came to write the book.
"I read Shackleton's own account, South, and was transfixed," she recalled.
"I then read all the first-hand accounts I could find, including memoirs by Hurley the photographer, Hussey the meteorologist and the better-known works of Worsley, the captain and navigator.
"During this time, I became aware of the quality and number of world class images that Frank Hurley had taken and was determined to have them displayed in an exhibition in the US.
January 6, 1915; Exercising the dogs. Caroline Alexander / Seaforth Publishing / mediadrumworld.com
"Through some contacts at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, I was able to co-curate an exhibit dedicated to the images and included a number of artefacts that had survived the exhibition.
"However, at the outset I was told by the museum it was their custom to have a publication accompany an exhibition – so that became my mandate to write the book."
Caroline also recounted some of the more interesting things she learned whilst writing the book as well as what readers can expect from her take on the story.
"I knew nothing of Shackleton before reading his first-hand accounts other than having heard his name spoken about reverently," she said.
The Endurance keeling over. Caroline Alexander / Seaforth Publishing / mediadrumworld.com
"However, my favourite source for this story is the logbook of Chippy McNish, the only member of the non-officer, wardroom class who kept a log.
"His account of the voyage is dogged, dour, sceptical and often bluntly moving. I had ordered some newspaper clippings about his death in New Zealand and when I opened the package I was shocked to learn that McNish had died a pauper on the docks of Wellington.
"I knew him from reading his logs and all the additional research I had done including meeting with his grandson, so when I read the clippings I broke down. It was as if I had received a telegram with breaking news, not events of 70 years ago.
The rescue. Caroline Alexander / Seaforth Publishing / mediadrumworld.com
"I think that what my book shows is how a very flawed man could, if you will, find redemption in the one extraordinary, indeed almost inexplicable, act of leading all his men to survival.
"Shackleton wrote that 'optimism is true moral courage' and his ability to turn instantly from shattered dreams and disaster, the utter failure of his actual expedition, and move forward with confident determination is remarkable and the mark of a great leader."
'The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition' is published by Seaforth Publishing and is available via: https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-Endurance/p/14033?utm_source=seaforthpublishing.com&utm_medium=subsite
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From the Lone Star State to outer space
NICK KELLY
April 25 2009 12:00 AM
Next month is the 25th anniversary of the premiere of Wim Wenders' hugely influential film Paris, Texas. The story of a hangdog drifter from the Lone Star State (played by Harry Dean Stanton) trying to reconnect with his long-departed wife and son, the movie gained much of its force from Ry Cooder's unforgettable soundtrack. This lent Wenders' panoramic images of the baking hot Texas desert a rootsy authenticity. And it was decisive in giving the film a haunting and haunted tone that led rock stars from Kurt Cobain to Elliott Smith to declare it one of their favourite movies of all time.
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/from-the-lone-star-state-to-outer-space-26531324.html
https://www.independent.ie/migration_catalog/Non-Staff/article25082096.ece/b95ce/AUTOCROP/h342/cooder_indo
Closer to home, U2 have acknowledged that Paris, Texas was a huge source of inspiration for The Joshua Tree album (cue image of four Dubliners posing sullenly in an American desert ... ).
The rich timbre of Cooder's mellifluous slide guitar was front and centre of Wenders' movie. The LA guitarist, songwriter and producer -- who plays three nights in Dublin's Olympia Theatre in June -- based the score on an old spiritual from Blind Willie Johnson, called Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground, which Cooder described as "the most soulful, transcendent piece in all American music".
Johnson was the quintessential Southern American blues singer -- having grown up black, blind, penniless and motherless in the town of Brenham, Texas, Johnson persevered thanks to the strength of his religious faith.
Born in 1897, at the age of five he declared that he wanted to be a preacher, and made for himself that archetypal blues instrument -- the cigar box guitar -- which he played using a brass ring for the slide effect that Cooder would master decades later.
Later moving to the Texan town of Beaumont, he fulfilled his childhood ambition when he took to preaching and singing at the side of the street, regaling passers-by with spirituals and the gospel and blues standards of the day (but no Bob Marley or Oasis, thank God). Despite his extreme poverty, Johnson always dressed well, wearing a smart grey suit and sporting a pencil moustache.
His own modest abode was a House of Prayer, and he continued to preach from it -- until it was burned to a cinder in a fire. (Very possibly, he woke up the next morning to find his dog had run off.) Continuing to live among the ashes of the house in the open air, Blind Willie Johnson contracted pneumonia and died a few weeks later in 1945, although there were reports that his cause of death was actually a combination of malaria and syphilis. His widow Angeline also reported that he had been refused treatment at the white-run local hospital on the grounds of his race and/or his visual disability.
What we do know, though, is that Blind Willie Johnson lives on in the music that he composed on his battered old cigar box guitar during the first Great Credit Crunch -- sorry, Great Depression -- in the 1920s and '30s. Songs like 'It's Nobody's Fault But Mine' and 'In My Time of Dying' which he recorded for Columbia Records, took on a rich after-life themselves, with everyone from fellow Columbia artists Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Nick Cave either covering or refashioning the tunes.
Although Blind Willie Johnson only recorded about 30 known songs in his lifetime, 'Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground' has arguably become the most celebrated, thanks in part to Cooder's masterful interpretation.
The most recent version came only a few months ago when the cult UK indie label 4AD released a compilation charity album titled Dark Was The Night, which featured avant-garde classical troupe The Kronos Quartet re- imagining the song for the title track.
But it also crops up in the acclaimed Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line as well as the late Italian director Pasolini's film The Gospel According To St Matthew. And in a surreal twist, the tune is included on a special record that NASA sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft in 1977, so presumably it's now big on Mars too.
I wonder if Johnson ever imagined that the tune he was playing on his bottleneck guitar on a street corner in a small town in Depression-era Texas would one day (possibly) be all the rage among one-eyed little green globular creatures in a galaxy far, far away?
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Team 1306 running a Community Night at the Urban League.
The list of the partnerships built with community organizations since 2012.
This video shot at our center when we hosted something called 'Kids Code Camp.'
A profile of our founder & president, Ben Senson, from the early days of BadgerBOTS
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A super sleepy Ben Stein delivering a PechaKucha talk in the summer of 2013.
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The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution (also known as the Constitution Bicentennial Monument) is a monument commissioned of Australian artist Brett-Livingstone Strong by Warren E. Burger, Chairman of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution. One of a pair created by Strong to commemorate historic anniversaries, along with The United States Presidency Monument, it was dedicated by President Ronald Reagan at Independence Hall in Philadelphia on September 17, 1987. Both monuments are the property of the  EventMakers-USA,Inc., a Virginia-based company with principal offices in Henrico, Virginia. Over the years the monument has been transported for display purposes to several major public events around the country. In 1991 it was scheduled to begin a twenty-city traveling exposition as part of the Spirit of Freedom Tour. Due to the withdrawal of sponsorship funding, the tour never commenced.  The Monument's companion original replicas of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights are being produced for placement in America's schools through the National Constitution Plaque Initiative. All user rights to the Constitution Monument and the Original Replicas of the Constitution were transferred to The American Constitution Spirit Foundation, a Virginia non-profit, in March 2010. The Foundation plans to place the monument at the new Spirit of Freedom Center in Henrico County Virginia in the summer of 2021.

Description

The National Monument to the US Constitution is 8' 4" tall, weighing 7 tons. The cast bronze, granite, and marble monument was sculpted by Brett Livingstone Strong, circa 1987.The monument consists of a bald eagle landing from flight carrying the American Flag and draping it over the monument, symbolizing the American people preserving, protecting, and defending their Constitution. The monument is constructed of poly-chrome and paginated cire perdue (lost wax)  cast silicon bronze on a polished marble and granite pedestal. The flag is attached to the "Spear of Might" which is held in the right talon of the eagle along with the "arrows of protection" symbolizing the strength of the United States. The eagle's left talon clutches an olive branch, a symbol of peace. Bronze tree roots on the base go deep into the core of the foundation representing strength and stability. Exact replicas of the signers of the United States Constitution are circumscribed on the circular plinth between the bronze eagle and the granite pedestal. The octagonal pedestal is constructed of white marble and red and blue granite with white marble stars arranged to symbolize the American Flag. At the front of the pedestal is a bronze depiction of the eagle resplendent with the national motto " E Pluribus Unum" surrounded by a circle of fifty stars.

Origin
In the late 1980s, the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution conceived of two monuments to commemorate United States history, one celebrating the 200th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution and another the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the U.S. presidency. Australian artist Brett Livingstone Strong was commissioned by former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who served as chairman of that Commission, to produce these monuments. At that time, the Commission intended that the monument would travel across the country as part of the national celebrations of the Constitution's bicentennial beginning in 1987.

The National Monument to the U.S. Constitution was officially dedicated at its unveiling at Independence Hall in Philadelphia by Ronald Reagan on the bicentennial, September 17, 1987. Both monuments were officially recognized, along with the five bronze original replica plaques, by the artist, of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Subsequent history
In 1989, both the National Monument to the U.S. Constitution and the United States Presidency Monument were the property of the American Spirit Corporation, affiliated with the non-profit American Spirit Foundation. The following information is inaccurate (In 1990, the American Spirit Corporation allowed a lien to be placed on the monument to the U.S. Presidency collateral for unpaid attorneys fees of $110,000.00 owed to a law firm in Los Angeles, CA). Subsequently, the foundation was dissolved and the two monuments were owned by different parties until they were reunited in 2004.

Display

Although the monument did not tour as planned in 1987, it was displayed in a parade celebrating the bicentennial in Philadelphia. It was also featured at the "Spirit of Freedom Country Music Festival" in The Plains, Virginia in 1989 and, in 1991, the Tournament of Roses Parade. The monument was taken to Richmond, Virginia where in January 1990 it was the centerpiece for the  inaugural celebration of Douglas Wilder. In 2003, it was relocated to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California. plans to place the monument at the new Spirit of Freedom Center in Henrico County Virginia in the summer of 2021.

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Monuments and memorials in Pennsylvania
1987 sculptures
Bronze sculptures in the United States
Bicentennial anniversaries

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One student from Henry County was among the 1,400 students who received degrees during graduation ceremonies Aug. 13 at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion.
Christina Lyons, 1403 Radcliff Road, Smithfield, graduated with an MSN in primary-care nursing.
Juniors in both the Eminence Independent and Henry County Public Schools systems performed well enough on the ACT last year to increase the average scores in all subject areas.
Eminence's average composite of 20.9 placed it seventh among the state's districts.
Additionally, more juniors in both districts met the designated benchmarks for the test's subject areas — English, math, reading and science — compared to the previous years.
Two of the three elementary schools in the Henry County School District are changing the way parents will receive information about their children's progress on report cards.
Letter grades, used to rate academic success – or lack thereof – for generations of schoolchildren, will be replaced with numbers representing each student's level of mastery of core subjects, as required by the state Department of Education.
During her brief life, Rachel Scott was devoted to making a positive impact in the lives of others.
On April 20, 1999, Scott became the first victim of what was then the deadliest school shooting in America at Columbine High School in Colorado.
After her death, Scott's family picked up her goal of having a positive impact, and created Rachel's Challenge.
At Henry County Public Schools and Eminence Independent Schools last week, students were presented with Scott's story, and Rachel's Challenge.
The Wee Warriors afterschool program in Eminence will proceed for the 2011-12 school year.
"We believe it's a valuable program," Eminence Independent Schools Superintendent Buddy Berry said Monday.
Lack of funding and low enrollment has put the decade-old program in jeopardy, but Berry said the board opted last week to continue the program.
At its peak, the program had about 50 children, Berry said. This year, only 25 children are enrolled.
Sarah Peak (center) was recognized at the University Scholars Assembly of Eastern Kentucky University for the top award in the outstanding graduate thesis category. Also pictured are Dr. Jerry Pogatshnik (left) dean of the graduate school, and Dr. Nathan Tice (right) her thesis adviser. Sarah's parents are Gregg and Suzanne Peak of Owenton; grandparents are Jesse and Evelyn Bourne of Owenton and Hugh and Mable Peak of Shelbyville.
Three Eminence graduates who took part in the Shelbyville Art Fair and were honored for their work on July 28. Jesse Loaring, left, won 2nd place, and will be attending Jefferson Community College. Shane Armstrong, center, won the grand prize with his Michael Jackson themed artwork. Kaelin Wright's self portrait won a first place award.
Families living on one of Henry County's remote roads have petitioned the Henry County Board of Education for bus service for their children.
In July, Jessie Decker presented a petition with 13 signatures on it to the board, in hopes that bus service would return to LeCompte's Bottom Road. Many of the signees wrote "I pay school tax," in the comment area next to their name and address.
"Whereas we pay school taxes, we feel that we're being discriminated against," Decker said in a July phone call to the Local.


With Facebook Live you can use your phone to share a moment instantly with the people you care about. This means your friends, family or fans can be there with you, and you can respond to their comments and see their reactions.
Since launching Facebook Live last summer to public figures via our Mentions app and more recently to everyone in the US using our iOS and Android apps we've been surprised and delighted with how people are using live video to connect and interact with each other all over the world. People are letting their friends discover their hobbies. Parents are using it to share moments in their kids' lives with their extended families. Athletes are giving people a window into their training. Chefs are bringing their fans into their kitchen. Journalists are hosting global conversations on topics they care about. Aspiring musicians can now put on a live concert for their friends. Many people all over the world are using Facebook Live in many different ways to talk to and interact with the people that matter most to them.
Introducing New Ways to Create, Share and Discover Live Video on Facebook from Facebook on Vimeo.
That's why Facebook announces new features for Facebook Live to give you more ways to discover, share, and interact with live video, and more ways to personalize your live broadcasts.
"Going live" on Facebook feels special because you are going live with the people you care about. Today the social networking site is rolling out the ability to go live in Facebook Groups and Facebook Events," says the company in a blog post.
Live in Groups allows you to broadcast to just the people in the Facebook Group – so you can go live in your family group, or share a workout plan in a fitness group. Live in Events means you can go live from a birthday party to allow those that can't make it to join the fun, and a performer can go live backstage to the people who've RSVP-ed to the event to give them a sneak peak. You can even use Events to schedule a live Q&A session. We hope this new ability to both broadcast and watch live video within Groups and Events enables people to connect more deeply with their closest friends, family and the communities of people who share their interests.
Facebook Live is interactive and fun: Live reactions, replaying comments made while live and Live filters will make it even more so. Live Reactions makes it easy for your viewers to express their feelings in real time during a live broadcast. Using the same reactions we launched in News Feed, viewers can select Love, Haha, Wow, Sad or Angry, and the reactions animate right on top of the video. Live Reactions appear in real time and disappear quickly so broadcasters and other viewers can get a sense of how people are feeling at different points during the live video – it's like hearing the crowd applaud and cheer. When your friend reacts to your video or to a video you are both watching together you'll see their profile pic and a little starburst before their reaction appears.
Live video feature is truly interactive as broadcasters engage with their commenters and respond to their suggestions and questions. In fact, from initial data, we've seen that people comment more than 10 times more on Facebook Live videos than on regular videos. We want people watching the broadcast after the fact to feel "in" on the action. To achieve this, we will replay comments as they happened during the live broadcast when people watch it later.
We've also heard that people want more creative ways to personalize their live broadcasts. Today we're starting with a set of five Live Filters, and coming soon we'll add the ability to draw or doodle on your video while live.
People are having a lot of fun watching live with friends. That's why today Facebook has also decided to add the option to send an invitation to a friend to watch with you right from the live video. Simply tap on the invite icon and select the friend you want to invite and they will receive a push notification with your invitation.
People don't want to miss out on great broadcasts that are live right now. So today, Facebook is starting to roll out a dedicated place on Facebook's mobile app where you can discover live video that the world is talking about, live video from the friends and creators that matter most to you, and live video on topics you're interested in. From that place, you can also search live and non-live videos, and choose to go live yourself. Simply tap on the new video icon in the app to navigate to this new space.
Finally, if you want a visual way to explore public live broadcasts that Facebook currently happening around the world, today we're releasing a Facebook Live Map on a desktop. People in more than 60 countries can now share live video, and we've been inspired by all the different global broadcasts. The Facebook Live Map gives you a window into what's happening in the world right now.
We're also introducing new metrics for Pages sharing live video; read more on our Media blog.
We've been humbled by all the amazing and creative ways that people have used Facebook Live so far, and we're committed to creating the best experience for everyone who wants to create, watch and interact with live videos on Facebook. These features will be rolling out on iOS and Android over the coming weeks. We'll keep working to bring you the best ways to broadcast, interact with, and discover live video. Stay tuned.


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App Store Killer? The Storm of WeChat Mini Programs Swept Over The Mobile App Ecosystem
By: Xiaoxuan Ma
About Xiaoxuan Ma
Are you a "app for everything" type of guy? How many apps you have installed on your phone? For me, there are 85! Have you ever imagined accessing to all of these apps just through one single entry point? Recently, WeChat Mini Programs make it! And that might arouse a new revolution in mobile app ecosystem.
Picture 1. Source: Dragon Social
WeChat Mini Program is emergent
WeChat is a China's most popular social media app which is developed by a tech giant, Tencent. Since it was launched in 2011, WeChat has owned over 1 billion active users in the world (Jao). Based on its enormous amount of users and strong technical support, it released a new feature, named Mini Programs, within WeChat platform in 2017. Mini Programs refer to apps that run inside the app of WeChat, which are also called mini apps or sub-applications. They are easier to be accessed to by simple operations within WeChat, such as through scanning QR code or typing in keywords in the search bar, without downloading or installing (Woo). According to the annual report, WeChat has reached over 1 million Mini Programs which half the size of Apple's App Store (Liao).
In this case, Mini Programs act and function in the similar way with native apps, which means the emergence of mini apps does not change the nature of mobile applications. However, the emergent thing here is, mini apps are accessible through one entry point embedded in the "bigger" app of WeChat rather than downloading each install-package separately. Users could access to apps' interface directly within WeChat platform. Moreover, Mini Programs tied the practice of using apps to multiple functions of WeChat, such as messaging, sharing moments of lives and making payments. This emergent new media practice transform media ecosystem.
Mini Programs challenge the way that users interact with apps
People used to shop and download applications in a few dominant and giant app stores for reliability and security. However, the development of Mini Programs provide new ways for users to approach apps. Comparing the most biggest app store which is from Apple company with Mini Programs, Apple's App Store provides a central location for showcasing apps and enables users to install applications which account for certain sizes in iPhone storage. In the contrary, there is no need for Mini Programs to be downloaded or installed during the operation. Just clicking on their icons within WeChat, these mini apps could be available in the blink of an eye. Moreover, Mini Programs run on the cloud and require no storage space which contrasts to the conventional app store experience (Sarnoff). Mini Programs enable mini apps to be available for users instantly, and provide the new experience of using apps inside an app rather than operating multiple installed applications separately.
Picture 2. The steps to access to a Mini Program with in WeChat, Bilibili mini video app as an example. Source: Screenshot
Mini Programs also break the barriers between different mobile operating systems and system versions for app users. Downloading native apps in conventional app stores leveraged restrictions of compatibility. For instance, downloading a Bilibili app (a popular video platform in China) in Apple's app store requires the system of IOS 9 or later, while the only necessity for a "mini" Bilibili is the supporting platform, WeChat, no matter in the system of Android or IOS. The instant availability, smaller size and stronger compatibility of Mini Programs reconfigure the interactive relations between users and apps. They change the situation that distributing users to separate and various applications and centralize users' app activities by integrating these end apps into one bigger ecosystem – WeChat.
Mini Programs turn WeChat from a social media platform into an integrated and new form of "app store"
The role of WeChat is shifting from a messaging social media into a "app-store" social media with the development of integrating practices that run apps inside an app. App store is defined as "an online curated marketplace that allows developers to sell and distribute their products to actors within one or more multi-sided software platform ecosystems" (Jansen and Ewoud 195). From this given definition, Mini programs make WeChat own inclusive capacities to launch apps and deliver them to users, which could be seen as a kind of "app-store" experience.Moreover, WeChat not only provide entrances to app products, they also enable the using activities to happen directly on this new "app-store" platform. The mini apps provided within WeChat could afford main features of native apps with the smaller size and instant availability.
Picture 3. Capacities of WeChat Mini Programs VS native apps. Source: Abacus
Affordances were considered as behaviors that an environment offers or constraints (Gibson, 4), which mainly refer to actions that users could take in relation to deal with WeChat and Mini Programs. WeChat worked as a multi-functioned social media which affords the communicative features, functions of sharing moments, making payment transactions and identifying QR codes. This new emergence of "app-store" social media is achieved by combining the original affordances of WeChat with its capacities of supporting mini apps. Operating Mini Programs realizes running apps inside an app and implement social actions simultaneously. For example, mini apps enable smooth user experience by allowing users to check their WeChat messages without having to retrieve mini program pages. Also, within a communicative social media platform, users could share the mini apps to their contacts within messaging function. Light et al. (2) suggested to learn affordance by acknowledging the role of social and material influences on the perceiving actions taken by users. WeChat Mini Programs enable people building social relations, make e-commercial activities and having entertainment experience by affording apps to concentrate users.
Picture 4. The next big move of WeChat Mini Programs. Source: We Do Design.com
Data, privacy and the future of Mini Programs
Mini Programs also met the problems with data and privacy. They need users to authorize mini apps to access to their real-time location and personal information, such as name, profile photo, region and gender. Exposing the private data is unavoidable in an ecosystem that social activities and app experience happened at the same time. This problem would be a huge limitation for mini apps comparing to independent native apps. WeChat Mini Programs would not take over conventional app stores, at least in recent future, due to the insufficient functions of mini apps and the protection of apps' copyright. However, the launch of Mini Programs still provide new possibilities for the evolution of app ecosystem.
Picture 5. Mini Programs obtain user's location and identity information
Video: WeChat Mini Programs: run apps inside app
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The War Within Islam ( 12 Feb 2012, NewAgeIslam.Com)
What is Salafism?
By Dr. Adis Duderija, NewAgeIslam.com
University Pf Melbourne, Islamic Studies
Often we hear about Salafism or Salafi Muslims in the media. The term/concept Salafism has become salient recently with the electoral success by various 'Salafi' Muslim parties in Egypt or the chaos in Maldives. However, the concept is poorly understood. What does the concept mean in the Islamic tradition? This article is an excerpt (minus the references) on Salafism from my recently published book: Constructing a Religiously Ideal 'Believer' and 'Woman' in Islam…. (http://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Religiously-Ideal-Believer-Woman/dp/0230120571) and in it I briefly explain what Salafism as a concept means in the Islamic tradition.
The concept of Salafism in the Islamic tradition has several dimensions to it. One pertains to its implications regarding what is considered to be an 'authentic' methodology of interpreting the Islamic tradition. The second element pertains to a Sunni political doctrine regarding the role of the Companions of the Prophet in the midst of socio-political chaos that characterised early Islam. The third dimension pertains to the manner in which the Islamic tradition is conceptualized based on a particular view of the nature of history and time.
Let us examine each of these.
First of all, the notion of the 'sacred past' in the Islamic tradition has found its expression in the notion of Salafism. The concept of Salafism refers to not only to the notion of how the Islamic tradition is to be conceptualized and interpreted but also concerns the questions of reading of history and the nature of time. In Islamic jurisprudence the phrase as –salaf as-salih has different meanings as "every group has defined salaf according to its own orientation and school". According to one definition the term as-salaf as-salih refers to the "early Mujahid scholars of the Schools" (madhahib) who are accepted and imitated, such as, depending upon the madhhab, Abu Hanifa and his companions Abu Yusuf and Al-Shaybani (Hanafi madhhab), or Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal (Hanbali madhhab), the Companions of the Prophet and the tabi'in (Successors)." The second definition found in the Shafi'i madhhab defines as-salaf as-salih as those who came first in the history of the Muslim community (awa'il hadhihi al-umma). According to another definition as-salaf as-salih refers to the Companions, the Successors and the immediate followers of the Successors who are encompassed by the hadith of the Prophet: "The best of the community is my century, then the one that follows it, then the one that follows that. According to Imam al-Suyuti (d.911/1505), one of the most prolific pre-modern Sunni Muslim writers, the era of the as-salaf as-salih is a time spanning approximately up to 220 years Hijri before "innovations appeared en masse, the Mutazilah let their tongues loose, the philosophers raised their heads, the people of knowledge were put on trial for saying that the Qur'an was created, and the state of affairs changed radically." Another definition of the as-salaf as-salih defines the concept as those who lived before the year 400 Hijri and the khalaf as the subsequent generations of Muslims. Therefore, given the various definitions of as-salaf as-salih generations and who belongs to them the concept of Salafism is not precisely defined in the Islamic tradition.
Salafism, as an Islamic precept, seems to have been developed in the late second century Hijri. As a concept the genesis of the Salafi mind-set is best understood in the light of the political and theological schisms that took place in the Muslim community in the first century Hijri . At that time, the concept of Salafism was used as an anchoring point for various ideologically competing groups who were all eager to show that their views, unlike those of others, were consistent with those figures who were held in high esteem during the inception of the Muslim community. This is, for example, evident in the use of word as-salaf as-salih in treaties attributed to Hasan al-Basri's (d. 110/ 728 ) to support the doctrine of free will to which he, unlike his interlocutors , considered as being a doctrine espoused by the as-salaf as-salih . This quest for religious legitimacy by linking one's theological, political or legal views to that of the as-salaf as-salih would, thus, imbibe these factions with the sense of normativeness, credibility and authoritativeness.
From a historical point of view, the earliest usage of the terms as-salaf as-salih is therefore to be understood as a particular outlook of the post- as-salaf as-salih generations of Muslims on the early historical events that took place after the Prophet's death regarding the issues considered unresolved in the Qur'an and Sunna as well as the means of getting to terms with the above mentioned political and doctrinal schisms that plagued the nascent Muslims community. This salafi doctrine proved particularly important for the formation of what now is largely considered 'mainstream' Sunnism ,at times referred to as Ahl-Sunna wa Jama'ah, (The People of Sunna and Muslim Majority Community ) in the fourth century. Its significance was in its function of serving as a political mechanism which purported to cleanse all of the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad of any partaking in or responsibility for the ensuing conflicts and violence between various Muslim factions that threatened to disintegrate the very social fabric of the nascent Muslim community. This was also important for the development of Hadith criticism studies since the methodology adopted by the muhaddithun based on isnad relied on the sound character of Companions who transmitted these Hadith. As a corollary, the Salafi worldview can also be conceptualised in the idea of the "emulation-worthiness" of the first century religious and political authorities who were perceived as having remained faithful to the teachings of the Qur'an and the example of the Prophet (i.e. Sunna) in relation to 'aqidah (beliefs), manhaj and 'ibadah (worship) in contrast to those who deviated from them. Moreover, towards the end of the second Islamic century this Salafi-embedded worldview started to shape the epistemological boundaries of the Islamic thought soon becoming a norm ( for reasons I outlined in the book). This is evident, for example, from the fact that the founders or initiators of the various Islamic sciences sought the ideas and the views among the as-salaf as-salih as intellectual antecedents in order to bestow legitimacy to their respective disciplines. In this context a prominent scholar of Islam I. Goldziher asserts that
As such the imitation of the salaf, the pious ancestors who formed their habits under the eyes and on the example of the prophet, became the ideal of pious Muslims. Gradually Salafi, i.e. the one who imitates his ancestors, becomes the supreme title of praise in pious society.
The concept of Salafism as "an invariable element within the Islamic conscience, has also formed the conceptual foundation for the adoption of the madhahb and ahl-hadith based approaches to the Islamic tradition." The former , termed 'genuine traditionalism' attempts "to neutralise the evolutionary effects linked with the tension between an ideal past and a present always on this side of the ideal past" and the latter, salafiyya , ancient and modern, which continually endeavours to update the changes –conceived as necessary alterations in relation to deviations and innovations ( bid'ah), –believed to be necessary in view of restoration in all respects of the ideal past ( more or less freely defined in relation to demands of each particular period) of the salaf.
As such these two approaches constantly challenged and continue to challenge each-other to the present times competing for 'authenticity'(asala) as evident in the contemporary debates between the so called 'khalaf' or madhhab-based scholars and that of the 'salaf' or the ahl-hadith based scholars.
The concept of Salafism in pre-modern Islamic thought is also embedded in a particular understanding of time and history, and their relation to the present (and future). This notion is derived from a reading of few ahad ahadith going back to the Prophet Muhammad in which he reportedly asserted that the best people were his generation and then the next and then the following and so on and that there was no year or day except that which followed was worse than it. According to this understanding it was the Sunna, rather than the Koran, which instituted one of the most characteristic traits of the Islamic vision of history by imposing the idea a priori that this history was said to have been inevitably followed by a period of relaxation of standards, deviation and finally of division.
Moreover, according to this Salafi mindset time is not conceived as in itself the medium and instrument of change, but rather as reappearance, re-enactment, after a period of abeyance, degradation, descent into superstition and irrationalism
This Salafi-embedded worldview evident in both the madhhab and ahl-hadith –based thought, therefore, sees the past to provide all the answers and constantly imposes itself upon the present. In other words the authenticity of Muslim identity can only be established by returning to a fixed point in historical time, that of the Prophet and the early Muslim community.
From the above discussion on Salafism we can conclude that the concept refers to several interrelated phenomena. Firstly, it signifies a particular methodology of interpreting the Islamic tradition as a way of distinguishing it from other approaches considered not to be based on the (supposedly) as-salaf as-salih manhaj. Secondly, it is a religio-political doctrine purporting to bestow an amnesty on all of the Companions of the Prophet in the midst of socio-political chaos that characterised early Islam in order to validate the methodology of Hadith criticism developed by the muhaddithun. Lastly, it denotes an approach to conceptualizing the Islamic tradition premised on a pre-supposition of a regressive view of the nature of history and time.
In summary, Salafism is a contested concept that underpins a particular approach to interpretation of the Qur'an and Sunna, a particular worldview and a particular interpretation of early Islamic history.
Dr. Adis Duderija is a research associate at the University of Melbourne, Islamic Studies. He recently published a book: Constructing a Religiously Ideal "Believer" and "Woman" in Islam: Neo-traditional Salafi and Progressive Muslims' Methods of Interpretation (Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History,
http://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Religiously-Ideal-Believer-Woman/dp/0230120571
URL: https://newageislam.com/the-war-within-islam/salafism/d/6624


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Typical Premier League. Arsenal – Mourinho
The current season of the Premier League is already showing its results. The main contenders for the title are:
1. Manchester City – who has already won the champion title twice.
2. Liverpool – who is still in the top 4, but it is clear that the Reds are not going to stop at this.
3. Chelsea – who, despite the fact that the team is not the strongest, is still able to fight for the top-4.
4. Arsenal. The Gunners are the main contender for the champion trophy, and it is obvious that they will not stop at it.
The team is led by Arsene Wenger, who has been the head coach of the team for several years now. He has managed to win the Champions League a number of times, and he has managed not to lose in the Premier league.
The season has already shown that the Gunners have a good squad, which is able to play in the strongest league in the world.
Main Intrigues of the Season
The main intrigue of the current season is the struggle for the Champions trophy. The team of Wenger has a good lineup, and the main players of the lineup are: Ozil, Sanchez, Ramsey, Sane, Giroud, Lacazette, Wilshere.
It is obvious how the team will play in this season, because they are in a good position. The club has a number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 positions. The positions of the main competitors are: Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham, and Chelsea.
Of course, the team of Guardiola and Klopp is also a contender for a place in the Champions league zone, but they are not in the same league as the Gunner's team.
However, it is not only the main rivals that are in the fight for gold medals. The teams that are fighting for the same positions are: Everton, Watford, and Southampton.
What to Expect from the Team in the Next Season
In the next season, the main intrigue will be the fight in the Europa League. The Europa League is a tournament that is held in the middle of the season. The tournament is for teams that do not have a chance to win in the main tournament.
In this tournament, the teams are divided into two groups. The first group plays against each other, and then the teams will play against each another in the second group.
This tournament is a real test for the teams, because if they win, they will get a ticket to the next stage. The clubs that have a decent lineup will be able to win this tournament. The most likely winners of the Europa league are: Manchester United, Liverpool, and Tottenham.
The second half of the championship is in full swing, and now it is time to see who will be in the leading positions. Real Madrid and Valencia are the two main contenders. The last time these two teams met was in the final of the Champions Cup, and they lost the match 2:0.
At the moment, it seems that the situation in the championship of Spain is not very stable. The Royal club is in a very good shape, and this is another proof that they are ready to fight against the weaker teams.
Despite the fact, that the club is not in a great shape, it still has a chance of winning the championship. The problem is that the players of Real Madrid are not able to perform at the same level as the ones of Valencia.
Both clubs have a number one, two, and three positions. In addition, the club has the following players:
* Ramos;
* Modric;
* Kroos.
All of them are able to make the difference in the game.
Also, the Royal club has an excellent lineup. It is possible that the next meeting between the teams can be decisive for the championship title.
Live Results of Football Matches
Now it is easy to follow the results of the matches of the Spanish championship. You can use the sports statistics website to find out the latest information about the results.
Among the most popular sports statistics websites, you can find the one that provides the most detailed information about matches.
One of the most interesting confrontations of the football season is between Real Madrid – Barcelona. This is a match that is expected to be a real fight for a position in the elite division.
Barcelona has a lot of problems, but the Royal team has a great lineup. Among the main contenders of the champion are: Barcelona, Real Madrid,      and  .
You can find out live football results of all confrontations on the sports data website.
Results of the Match of Barcelona – Real Madrid
The first match of the new season of La Liga was a real success for the Royal Club. The players of Barca were able to show their maximum and score a lot.
After the first minutes, the score of the game was 2:1. The game continued for a long time, and in the end, the final score was 3:2.
Many people thought that the final result was a result of the lack of concentration of the players, but in the first half, the Real Madrid team was able to achieve a good result.
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Love song for the apocalypse to play in exclusive line-up at Park City, Utah's Slamdance Film Festival.
Synopsis: We've all passed that abandoned farmhouse and wondered who lived and died there, or the derelict motel just off the highway built by the sweat of someone's dream, or a factory from a bygone era, once all action and turbulence by design, now rusting and untroubled by human endeavour. Their slumping decay, as if back into the natural elements they sprang from, filled with a ragged beauty and mystery like passing micro-museums of recent history. But a new phenomenon is evolving the abandonment scene into a subcultural high art-form and something more intangible. A celebration of fleeting human spaces and what returns after we are gone. A search for something we are missing in a world without us.
Love song for the apocalypse tells a story of nostalgia, beauty, pain and danger in the decay and detritus of humanity. Lyrical, visually and aurally experimental, the film exposes us to a sub-cultural scene that crosses the terrains of the artistic and psychological, the historical and the natural, to preserve and re-purpose in its last moments the worlds and life narratives we construct, and then leave behind.
Funding: Love song for the apocalypse received funding from Bravofactual, a Bell Media Fund program.
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Beating poverty in Ethiopia: No drama, just success.
Written by Kieran McConville
Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is almost never a dramatic process. It takes time and commitment, and often the results don't seem very impressive. But, done properly, it can be seriously life-changing in a real and lasting way.
Rural poverty in Ethiopia is a serious problem
Workit Kassaw Ali inside her home in a remote area of northern Ethiopia. Photo: Kieran McConville
"We had nothing — no land, no animals, no money… nothing at all." 22 year-old Workitt Kassaw Ali describes a scenario facing many young families in rural Ethiopa. Here in the highlands of Amhara, there simply isn't enough land to go around and, without land, your options for making an income and feeding your family are extremely limited. It's a classic example of rural poverty in Ethiopia, an issue that is challenging a whole new generation.
"We had to rely on handouts from the government."
Workitt and her husband, Ketamaw, lived with his parents for the first years of their marriage, planting barley on a tiny plot of borrowed land. "It didn't even provide enough food for 6 months," Ketamaw says. "We had to rely on handouts from the government." Over time the couple managed to build a small, basic house from wood, mud, and thatch.
Ketamaw, outside the tukel he shares with his wife. Photo: Givewith
Graduating from poverty in Ethiopia
Concern has employed the "Graduation" model of poverty reduction in various countries to great effect, and in 2017 introduced it to the Dessie district of Amhara (a hot-spot of poverty in Ethiopia) under the title REGRADE. For the record, that stands for Resilience (RE) + graduation program (GRAD) + evidence (E). Partnering with the Ethiopian government and local communities, the country team drew up a list of the most vulnerable families and set to work. Workitt and Ketamaw were on the list.
"You help relieve the pressure of day-to-day survival."
"We got a lot of training and some cash payments to help us get by while we were taking part," Workitt explains. "Then we got a grant and a loan through our local SACCO (savings and credit cooperative) and used it to buy 3 ewes for breeding." (For the uninitiated, a ewe is a lady sheep.) Concern brought in a high quality ram from the nearby agricultural research station to do his bit in producing sturdy hybrid lambs. Within a year the couple had 11 sheep, which they could then sell for income. Then they acquired an ox, which Ketamaw could use for ploughing his own plot and those of other local farmers, in exchange for money, grain, or seeds. Soon, the couple were able to start saving regularly with the cooperative.
Workitt, with one of the family flock. Photo: Kieran McConville
"It's all about helping people build up their assets and putting them on a financially sound footing," explains Endris Feyessa of Concern. "You help relieve the pressure of day-to-day survival, and work with them on a plan to develop a sustainable income."
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Dealing with setbacks
Then, in April of 2018, tragedy struck. Workitt, who had become pregnant with twins, suffered complications and lost both babies. Worse still, she required surgery to recover. The couple took the decision to sell the ox and used that money to pay the hospital bills — something they would not have previously been able to afford. "I think it saved my life," she says. With the remaining money, they decided to buy materials for a new, bigger house, with a tin roof. Currently they share their space with the animals at night, to keep them safe from predators.
Workit and Ketamaw with some of the construction materials they've been buying to build a new, better home. Photo: Givewith
"Having that financial cushion helped them to recover from what otherwise would have been a terrible blow, which would have left them in an even worse situation," according to Concern's Feyassa. "That's the beauty of this whole thing."
"I don't want my children to grow up poor like me"
Workitt and Ketamaw still plan to have a family, once their new home is finished. "Two children is enough — that is what we can afford," she says. "I grew up in poverty. My mother was widowed when we were young and there were six children. None of us went to school and we were always hungry. I don't want my children to grow up poor like me."
Meanwhile, the couple continue to breed and fatten lambs, and plan to buy another ox, when they have enough money saved. Ketamaw supplements the family income with occasional labor, and Workitt grows vegetables and raises chickens, also supplied as part of the program. To an outsider it might not seem like much, but to this young couple it is nothing short of transformational. We believe it's one of the keys to tackling poverty in Ethiopia.
Beginning their journey out of poverty
Not far away, in Gobey village, another couple are just embarking on their own journey of transformation. Mohammed and Merema have one son and live in a run-down "tukel", a traditional thatched house. With no livestock and a half a hectare of poor quality mountain land, their situation is familiar.
Merema Yimmer and her husband Mohammed Assefa.They have a small plot of poor land and no animals. Photo: Kieran McConville
Merema has tried her best to improve their lot, with the limited resources available, and is particularly proud of her kitchen garden, where she grows a variety of vegetables and some Irish potatoes. But it's a real struggle to make ends meet.
"I don't want to be poor anymore"
The couple have been nominated by their community to take part in Concern's "REGRADE" program.
Mohammed has modest expectations of what they might achieve with Concern's help — some new animals and a chance to upgrade the family home. But, having seen the success of other families, Merema has higher ambitions. "I want to build a new house closer to the town, and open a shop or maybe a restaurant. I want us to dress differently and I want us to think differently."
All of this is delivered with a look of steely determination that defies any doubt Merema can achieve her goals. "I don't want to be poor anymore," she declares.
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Merema Yimer in her kitchen garden beside her home in Amhara, Ethiopia. Photo: Kieran McConville
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In Argentina, E-books Are Sexy! (But You Can't Find Them Anywhere)
In Guest Contributors by Octavio Kulesz October 15, 2010
• Publishers and readers across Argentina are talking about e-books — and their relative scarcity
• Digital entrepreneurs are hard at work, but the market has a great deal of ground to make up before it catches America or Europe.
By Julieta Lionetti
BUENOS AIRES: Buenos Aires has a coffee-shop culture similar to that of Vienna or Paris, making it easy to stumble upon people engaged in serious conversation, penning the next great Argentine novel, or closing a big business deal over a glass of wine or a cappuccino.
But, unlike those European capitals, you'll almost never spot someone sitting in a coffee shop using an e-reader: E-ink devices area all but nonexistent, the Android tablets on offer are expensive low-end gadgets from China, and I can count the number of iPad owners on two hands. At the same time, in our country of 40 million inhabitants, there are 50 million cell phones in use. My housekeeper is reading a pirated edition of Isabel Allende she found on a P2P online sharing site. And she's reading it on a lowly Java-based feature phone.
This past summer, I sat with Dario Wainer, the co-founder and CEO of GarageLabs and mastermind behind the successful e-commerce platform Tematika, discussing e-books while sitting at the T-Bone (an unlikely name for a snug coffee shop near the Botanical Gardens), a man sitting at an adjoining table interrupted our conversation, eager to find out what we knew.
"See," Dario announced, "E-books are sexy."
Yes, you might say that, but a large part of the reason e-books are currently such objects of desire is their scarcity.
Earlier this year, that looked as if it was going to change. In April, Argentine online retailer Musimundo launched its e-bookstore to much fanfare. The opening happened in the midst of the Buenos Aires Book Fair and received lavish press coverage, particularly for the promise that it would have 20,000 titles available almost immediately—a number that, if you're counting, is ten times what is offered by Spain's Libranda, whose eagerly anticipated e-bookstore promises just 2,000 titles (none of which, by the way, are as yet available in Latin America). Unfortunately, even today, when you visit Musimundo's ebookstore, what's on offer is severely limited: the 20,000 so-called e-books are merely downloadable PDF files, a selection of titles that seems whimsical at best. A mere $30 will buy you a license for a DRM-protected PDF file published by the town council of Torrejón de Ardoz, outside of Madrid, Spain, that was used to train their clerks. Good luck finding Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy or its like here: the store isn't even organized into categories.
Andrés Zaied, digital business manager of Musimundo, knows there are shortcomings and acknowledges that the e-book market will only take off when publishers start to digitize meaningful content. He explained that the decision to launch the e-bookstore using whatever titles were available at the time was made with the aim to be first to market, "the first to be associated with e-books in the consumer's mind," he said. Of course, it's important to remember that consumers also have an enduring memory, as well as an ingrained aversion to bad shopping experiences.
Waiting on Spain?
The major conglomerates in Spain control world Spanish rights to most of the authors they publish, which amounts to 60-70% of the total output in the language—meaning that the ideal content necessary for building e-book mindshare is out of reach for local publishers. Argentina's independents could see all their digital strategies dashed by the decisions made by the Spanish Big Three and their associated publishers when they finally launch Libranda in Latin America. The fact that Libranda is still viewed as something of a half measure—largely due, surprise, to its rather thin content — has done little to motivate Argentina's conservative publishers into action. As Seth Godin would say, competition validates your project, it creates a category, it allows the decision to be this or that. Without competition, you are stuck competing against nothing, against the inertia of inaction, which is a much more challenging rival.
One example of this is the Argentinian Book Chamber — the independent guild for local publishers, distributors and booksellers — which, at the same during the Buenos Aires Book Fair where Musimundo announced their e-bookstore, also announced their intent to study the merits of launching their own proprietary digital platform. Unfortunately, to date, almost nothing has been said about the plan's progress or potential.
Caution: Entrepreneurs at Work
While we wait for Musimundo to improve, for the Book Chamber to get its act together and for the big publishers with headquarters in Barcelona and Madrid to sort out Libranda's next act, other players are doing their best to get in the game. These are the young and high-spirited digital entrepreneurs that everyone expects will help forge the future of book publishing. Unfortunately, most of them are also poorly financed and, consequently, somewhat limited in ambition and technological scope. They call themselves publishers, but most do little actual publishing. Instead, they make money from digital conversion and author services, generally stopping short of offering marketing or distribution. The savviest among them worry about what they will be able to offer once globally oriented companies — such as Smashwords from the US — begin to compete with local startups.
Teseo, run by Octavio Kulesz, offers conversion services and POD to academic authors who can't find a university press to print their work. These authors typically bring institutional financial backing for publishing papers and academic essays, thus mitigating any financial risk of publishing. At present, Teseo offers only POD editions for sale, offering them through partnerships with four retailers, one of which is Seattle-based Amazon.com.
Another startup — Autores de Argentina — is unabashedly in the author services business. The company is managed by social-media darling Germán Echeverría, which uses its follower base on Facebook to recruit clients — anyone longing to become a published author.
Still, it's not all disappointment and false hope. El Aleph was among the first Spanish-language e-bookstores to launch anywhere. Today, their site remains a hub for all manner of things literary. They sell both secondhand paperbacks and EPUB files, they scan rare treasures and antique books from the National Library, and they offer author services for pay. Oh, and they also publish several well-known local writers, such as Juan José Sebreli, and classics like Henry Thoreau. Perhaps most importantly, the e-books they do offer are reasonably priced or even free.
Sexy? Yes, but what's next?
Yes, e-books are sexy. But what's it going to take to get readers to consummate their relationship with this new, lithe digital form? In my opinion, it's going to take a digital entrepreneur — a visionary, really — who can re-think the traditional value chain and business models; one who can focus on short term goals while still embracing the long-term view of publishing as a business in perpetual beta; one who can cater to both existing readers and attract young digerati, the curious and the e-book-starved mass market. There's no shortage of regional venture capitalists waiting to invest in that kind of publishing.
In Argentina, a country of readers served by scattered bookstores, with an expensive but failing distribution system, the development of such a publishing enterprise, one that guaranteed accessibility to rich content for a reasonable price, could only lead to one thing: another money deal to be sealed with a handshake in another snug cafe. Who, we wait and wonder, will it be?
Julieta Lionetti is a freelance writer and editor based in Buenos Aires.
DISCUSS: Will Ardor for E-books Diminish as They Become Commonplace?
Octavio Kulesz
Tags: Argentina, Buenos Aires Book Fair, Digital Publishing, E-readers, Ebooks, entrepreneur, Latin America, Musimundo, Octavio Kulesz, Teseo


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Why reconciliation means supporting Indigenous entrepreneurs
Haley Lews is TVO's Indigenous Hub reporter. She recently had a conversation with NACCA CEO Shannin Metatawabin, which formed the basis for the following article:
Indigenous-led businesses help combat economic marginalization — but they face many barriers. TVO.org spoke with three organizations about how to foster entrepreneurship and keep money in communities.
From 2003 to 2011, the estimated number of Indigenous entrepreneurs across the country increased from 27,195 to 38,000. According to a countrywide survey from the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business, more than 43,000 Indigenous people were self-employed in 2016 — 10,320 of them were based in Ontario.
But, as the Conference Board of Canada notes, research shows that Indigenous people continue to "face significant barriers to accessing various forms of support (e.g., capital, equity, business training, business planning) for their start-ups." One of the most commonly referenced issues, it says, is locational — would-be business owners simply don't have access to financial services.
And even when they can access such services, loans can be difficult to obtain: Indigenous entrepreneurs are sometimes seen as "high-risk," says Shannin Metatawabin, CEO of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association.
"We have policies that the Indian Act put in place that say we can't put up security on our communities," he says. "We're not close to the market. We don't have any equity. Our families are not rich."
Please read the rest of the article on TVO website at tvo.org (https://www.tvo.org/article/why-reconciliation-means-supporting-indigenous-entrepreneurs)
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Online Yoga Classes – Should You Try Them?
There's no question yoga has become one of the most popular fitness activities in recent years. We've incorporated it into our daily lives and culture - Instagram is flooded with young yogis and teachers doing various poses, we dabble in meditation, and even yoga clothing for the office has become a recent trend.
Studios and facilities have popped up all over the world, too. Yoga class passes have become as popular as gym memberships. There are multiple styles of yoga - some that include chanting or sweating while others are straightforward stretch classes, depending on where your interest lies. Some teachers even give outdoor classes in local parks and green spaces.
While many of us have grown used to taking yoga classes with others, the focus is on the individual's own progress. Each person practices at a different level in accordance with his or her own body requirements. Practicing with a class is not important, except if you are motivated by the social aspect of attending a class.
Lower cost. This is probably the biggest benefit whether you are a beginner or veteran yogi. Online classes are a fraction of the price of an in-person class, so if you have been wanting to try it but it seems too expensive, or the equipment and clothing costs too much, then you can save money by practicing in your own home.
Can choose your coach, including those not in your city. This is a huge benefit as well – some people aren't able to commute to take the yoga classes from instructors they like. And with a few celebrity instructors that attract people from all over the world, it can be difficult to find something similar close by. Instead, you can go online and take classes from the instructor you like, or the type of yoga you prefer, regardless of where you are.
Accessible anytime, so you don't have to adjust your schedule. Do you have a demanding job that means you can't commit to a regular yoga practice? Are you taking care of a family, so you aren't able to make classes at the times your studio offers? Online yoga is a good answer. You can take a yoga class at 3:00am if you want – nobody is stopping you.
Practice in private. Are you uncomfortable starting yoga when you aren't familiar with any poses? Or do you feel intimidated in a class? With online yoga, you can practice in the privacy of your home. This also means that you can fall, make mistakes, and do some poses over and over again if you'd like. There's a freedom to online yoga classes that don't stick to the rigid schedule class instructors have to abide by.
There are several advantages to choosing online yoga classes, so feel free to give them a try!


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