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Mobile Technology News, February 21, 2014
As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the Globe and Mail to name a few. We scour the web for articles concerning, iPhone, iPad and android development, iOS and android operating systems as well as general articles on advances in mobile technology. We hope you find this useful and that it helps to keep you up to date with the latest technology developments.
Google Street View Captures Remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands For First Time
Want to visit America's largest conservation area? Tough luck: the massive Papahanaumokuākea Marine National Monument, which includes most of the northwestern Hawaiian islands, is closed to the public.
But, as we all know, Google specializes in making private things public, and for once, we're very grateful.
Last July, lucky staffers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spent a week in the conservation area with Google Street View Trekker equipment. The thousands of images they captured across five remote islands (Tern Island, East Island, Laysan Island, Lisianski Island, and Pearl and Hermes Atoll), were recently made public, allowing folks like us to finally witness even a smidgen of the untouched sites' beauty and wonder.
Papahanaumokuākea (learn to pronounce it here) encompasses 139,797 square miles of the Pacific Ocean — an area, Hawaii magazine points out, that is larger than all of the National Park Serivice's sites combined.
Its coral reefs are home to thousands of marine animals, including many endangered species, and the picturesque beaches see 22 different species of birds. The area was declared a cultural World Heritage Site as well as a natural one because of its significance in Hawaiian culture.
The five newly mapped islands lie about 550 to 1200 miles northwest of Honolulu.
Click each island name below to check them out for yourself:
Tern Island
Pearl and Hermes Atoll
Lisianski Island
East Island
Laysan Island
(h/t Hawaii Magazine)
Meg Whitman: Traditional PCs drive growth, not just tablets
HP CEO says PC market contraction is slowing and customers need more than just a tablet for 'real work.'
Google unveils 3D sensor smartphone
Google unveils a prototype smartphone with "customised hardware and software" that enables it to create 3D maps of a user's surroundings.
VIDEO: Xiaomi takes on smartphone rivals
China's Xiaomi is not yet a global name, but the smartphone maker is now hoping to expand beyond its native China. Puneet Pal Singh speaks to Xiaomi's Hugo Barra.
WhatsApp CEO Is Against Whatever Facebook Is For
Mark Zuckerberg may be Facebook friends with the guys whose company he just bought for $19 billion. But by all indications, Jan Koum, WhatsApp's CEO and Facebook's newest board member, just doesn't like Facebook very much.
Koum's Facebook profile is sparse by comparison with most, with airtight privacy settings that keep strangers from viewing his friends, his photos and his interests. His Facebook profile picture is as blank as they come: It's a plain, white square.
When asked in a 2012 interview with The Recapp to name his favorite apps other than WhatsApp, Koum listed just three: "On my iPhone 3GS, I use Instagram, Twitter and Touch," he said.
Facebook, the company that just made Koum a billionaire several times over, is notably absent from that list.
The portrait of Koum that emerges from his interviews and social media posts over the past several years is that of a company founder who jealously guards his privacy and staunchly rejects both data collection and mobile advertising — values that clash with the core principles on which Facebook is built.
WhatsApp was created around the premise that it should collect as little information about the people using its service as possible. This commitment grew out of Koum's personal experience with intrusive government surveillance during his childhood in the Ukraine, where he saw friends and dissidents punished for private speech. Though Facebook is certainly no totalitarian regime, the company does track each message that passes through its servers. Koum emphasized how different this model is from WhatsApp's in an interview with Wired just before the acquisition.
"I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on," Koum said. "People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible. We don't know your name, your gender… We designed our system to be as anonymous as possible."
Koum has stressed in previous interviews that he seeks to keep his personal life and his business affairs private, while Facebook prefers to have us make our lives an open book. Koum's Facebook profile could almost pass for a spam account, though it's the only "Jan Koum" who is friends with WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, and the account is an administrator of the WhatsApp Facebook group. Koum did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Koum has also been an outspoken critic of online advertising, arguing that it intrudes on what he considers the intimate space of a smartphone and is quickly forgotten. Facebook, of course, draws most of its revenue from brands that pay to reach its more than 1 billion members.
"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need," Koum tweeted in 2011, quoting a line from the movie Fight Club.
Koum and Acton have said publicly that they oppose data tracking, another favorite practice of Facebook that undergirds its core business.
"Everything is tied to our rejection of advertising," Koum told El Pais in 2012. "We worked for a long time at Yahoo! and when we left we decided to create something that would have nothing to do with this model where the user is the product — something that would be a more conscious, private experience."
The difference between the values of Koum and those of Facebook is hardly bad news for the company. If anything, it may be to Facebook's advantage — and its members' — to have a strong advocate for privacy and anonymity in the upper echelons of the social network. And the timing is especially fortuitous for Facebook, which faces growing competition from apps like Snapchat that lets users, and their messages, disappear.
Whether Koum's principles will be made to disappear within Facebook, however, is another matter entirely.
How to Find Someone's Secret Hangups by Looking at Their Profile Photo
Image by freeparking (Flickr), CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
You are judged by your appearance. Fully aware of this reality, you dress and style yourself accordingly (whether you care to admit this or not). What you might not realize is how often you are judged by your online appearance — namely your social media profile photos. Even if you have only the most rudimentary of online presences, your chosen avatars may get more views (and judgment) than your actual face.
My interest in the revelatory nature of profile photos piqued after I kicked off ArtCorgi, a site that makes it easy to commission original, personalized art from up-and-coming artists. Many people commission social media profile images and avatars through our site as part of a concerted effort to take ownership of (and control) the way they come across online. The images they commission reflect their values, their interests and their best attributes.
I found myself wondering if profile images are something that require more thought and careful presentation. And I realized that they do. Whether in the midst of email correspondence, Twitter and Facebook chatting, or online background checking, people are judging your online profile photos — and they might be saying more about you than you'd like.
The Maslow's Need Hierarchy of Profile Photos
One way to look at online avatars is through the perspective of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a psychological theory that ranks human psychological needs from the most fundamental to the most refined and developed.
By Factoryjoe, CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Those who are barely functioning in society are stuck with needs at the bottom of the pyramid; those who are thriving pursue those at the top. People find it difficult to focus on more refined needs when their basic needs are not met (so even very successful and self-aware people can find themselves mentally plunked back to the bottom of the hierarchy when they feel they're in danger or are incredibly hungry).
Conveniently, Maslow's needs can be seen pretty clearly in many individuals' profile photos, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter cover photos, and pictorial updates. Let's explore them.
Physiological Needs
The physiological needs associated with Maslow's hierarchy have to do with basic everyday needs: air, food, water, sleep and sex.
These needs shine through in those ever-popular profile and social media photos depicting subjects with hot girls/guys. They can also be seen in profile photos in which the subject is posing with food (or perhaps just showcasing the food alone).
You may think that frequent online food photo posters might just really like food, but some psychologists suggest that the behavior may be associated with eating disorders (both associated with being overweight and underweight). Disorder or not, those touting sex and food in their social media profiles are communicating their strong desire to have physiological needs met.
Safety Needs
Per Maslow's hierarchy, safety needs are associated with a desire for security, physical safety, employment, health, property and family.
Profile photos particularly revelatory of these needs include those touting personal wealth (showing off big purchases, nice houses or expensive vacations) fancy jobs (tradeshows, important meetings, etc.) and fitness (running marathons, biking and showing off nice muscles). Those showing off their various forms of security may be revealing their heavy orientation around that particular need.
Love/Belonging
The love/belonging needs associated with Maslow's hierarchy address family, friendship and sexual intimacy.
Surely you can name several friends whose profile photos feature not just themselves, but themselves ensconced alongside a husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, son, daughter or pet. Those who mostly post photos of themselves with the ones they love (or just the ones they love) may be quite likely to be caught up on this rung of the hierarchy.
Maslow's take on esteem relates to gaining others' respect, achieving great things, being self-confident and getting along well with others.
Nothing screams a need for esteem like a profile photo featuring the subject speaking on stage (surely you've seen the token TED Talk headshot floating around on more than a small handful of profiles). Other profile photos suggesting esteem needs include those depicting impressive feats (e.g. the subject climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or receiving an award) and being surrounded by smiling friends and colleagues. Esteem needs might also be reflected in the presentation of images other than oneself in a profile photo: the use of images touting causes, showcasing celebrities or depicting a favorite fictional character communicate an individual's desire to be associated with a certain group or movement.
Self-actualization involves reaching the pinnacle of one's ability: accepting facts, abandoning prejudice, acting in a moral manner, solving problems and becoming creative and spontaneous.
The profile photos of self-actualized people are amongst the most difficult to pin. The most common behavior amongst those considered to be self-actualized (successful leaders, CEOs, etc.) is to post straight-on headshots. This could have just as much to do with these people having professional headshots done for other purposes and designated teams managing their online appearances as it has to do with their supposed enlightenment. But if one is at peace with oneself and focused on higher goals, is a straightforward headshot not the most logical thing to use for an image that is supposed to depict… well… a straightforward headshot?
Think Through Your Online Image
Maslow's hierarchy of needs is simply one of many psychological theories and by no means a universally-accepted means by which people's psychological needs can be placed. That said, it doesn't hurt to take time to consider what your profile photo says about your interests, needs and values, and Maslow's hierarchy offers a simple structure to use.
I encourage you to evaluate your present online avatars (and other social media photos) to determine if they line up with the identity you wish to project.
When in doubt: get a nice headshot!
Domain shift sends cyber world dotty
How new top-level web domain names will transform business
Amazon Prime Pricing: A Sensitive Subject
Churn Data Belies Intent to Renew Memberships
Loyalty Depends on Video, Other Factors
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners released new survey analysis of member loyalty and price sensitivity of Amazon Prime members from Amazon, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). This analysis indicates that Prime membership is growing even as customers already cancel memberships at a higher-than-expected rate, and a price increase could dampen membership growth.
Based on our survey analysis, we estimate that as of February 7, 2014 Amazon had approximately 26.9 million Amazon Prime members, an increase from our estimate of 16.7 million as of September 30, 2013. Amazon Prime members account for 45% of all Amazon customers (see chart). Among Amazon buyers, 32% are not and never have been Amazon Prime members, while 23% previously had a Prime membership that they did not renew.
Amazon Customer Prime Membership Status
Almost a quarter of Amazon buyers in the survey period had a Prime membership, but let it lapse. One way to look at this is that Amazon Prime is not for everyone, but trying out Amazon Prime is for almost everyone. About three-quarters of those that did not renew their membership did so because of cost.
Among Amazon Prime members, almost all intend to renew their current membership at the current $79 price. 94% of survey subjects "definitely" or "probably" will renew their membership (see chart).
Intent to Renew Amazon Prime
CIRP also checked the renewal intent at the proposed $99 and $119 prices, and found dramatically different results. At $99, under half of subjects think will either definitely or probably renew. And at $119, 40% of subjects say they will definitely not renew their membership.
Frequent use of Amazon Prime free Instant Video seems to be the most powerful lever to promote loyalty. Among frequent users of the Amazon Prime Free Streaming Video service, defined as those that use it at least once a week, 100% say they will "definitely" or "probably" renew their Amazon Prime membership, assuming the current price. At $99, 69% of frequent video users say they will "definitely" or "probably" renew, and at $119, 29% say they will "definitely" or "probably" renew.
Amazon has created a set of loyal customers using both free shipping and free streaming video benefits of Amazon Prime. Yet it seems that even these dedicated customers have their limits, and a 50% price increase to $119 could push a significant portion of them away from Amazon Prime.
CIRP based these findings on its survey of 300 subjects who made a purchase at Amazon.com in the three-month period ending February 7, 2014.
For additional information, please contact CIRP.
Barclay's analyst downgrades AAPL on growth worries
There is a tendency among analysts to think of Apple as only "the iPhone maker" and ignore its other products and services, feeling that the fortunes of its most popular and profitable product — the iPhone — is the key to the company's overall health, at least in terms of its performance on Wall Street. Barclay's analyst Ben Reitzes told investors in a memo on Thursday that he expects AAPL to stay within a narrow range for the next two years.
No Games, No Ads, No Gimmicks: Why WhatsApp Is The Startup Silicon Valley Deserved
Two days ago, if I'd mentioned the name Jan Koum, you would've had no idea who I was talking about.
Today, you might recognize him as the now billionaire CEO of WhatsApp, the messaging service that on Wednesday announced it was acquired by social networking juggernaut Facebook in the largest acquisition ever for a venture-backed company.
The deal has understandably drawn a staggering amount of media attention. There are now profiles of Koum and his humble beginnings and statistics justifying the deal's high price tag. The publicity has shed some light on this otherwise very understated company run by a couple of very private men.
And the more I hear about Koum, the more I think Silicon Valley needs to be taking notes. In a land of pushy 20-something wunderkind CEOs and data leak scandals, he's a 37-year-old black sheep who just wants to build a great product without media attention, without selling his customers' data, without even worrying about advertising his product. No muss, no fuss. And, bigger than that, he's just a nice guy about it — a quality that extends to his product and how he does business. (Apparently, it's paid off.)
So, Mark Zuckerberg, you spent $19 billion bringing WhatsApp into the Facebook fold. Want to get your money's worth? Here are some lessons you can learn from your new Facebook board member:
Stick to Your Guns: In the beginning, Koum said there would be no advertisements. Five years later, WhatsApp still has no advertisements and has no intention of using them anytime soon. Koum repeatedly states that WhatsApp stores no data from its users; he says it doesn't need to if it's not making ads. There's absolutely no money-grab aspect to WhatsApp. It's just a great service for which you pay a small fee.
Make it Easy for the Consumer: One of the key elements of WhatsApp — what helps to make it work — is that it's very easy for the consumer to use. It syncs with your address book. You don't have to build a new friends list or remember a password or find a username that's not embarrassing. You use the phone number and list of phone contacts you've been building for years.
Don't Get Fancy: …if it sacrifices quality. In a market in which messaging services have become saturated with features like desktop versions or usernames, WhatsApp has been keepin' it clean and simple. The result is an easy to use, consistent product that is never bogged down with unnecessary features and buttons. It doesn't worry about how brands will use it to connect to consumers. It doesn't worry about attracting teenagers. It does exactly what it sets out to do, which is to provide an easy, convenient messaging service for the consumer. Nothing more, nothing less. And more than 400 million monthly active users seem to like that.
Patience is a Virtue: If you make it, they will come… if it's good. WhatsApp watched its service grow, slowly, throughout the course of several years with no marketing effort on its part. Focusing on organic growth, WhatsApp spread by word of mouth from user to user — a strategy that was so effective that even charging for services early on didn't hinder the product's growth.
No News is Good News: WhatsApp doesn't really bother with a lot of media hype. Leave Apple and Google to their "look at me" product launches and rumor mills; WhatsApp has instead asked bloggers and journalists to stop spreading rumors. In an interview at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference last May, he politely asked bloggers to be more "responsible," since addressing rumors distracts from what's important: building a great product.
Stay Humble: It's a mark of Koum's "good-guy-edness" that his product has more active users than Twitter, and we're only finding out about him now. He has routinely avoided the limelight, stayed out of the public eye and focused on his product first. In the same interview at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference, he said he's concerned he's wasting time being interviewed when he should be answering customer service emails. Based on what I've read about him, it doesn't seem likely that attitude will change now that he's a multi-billionaire.
So Silicon Valley, are you taking notes? Because you should be.
Can Your Phone Teach You a New Language?
This post first appeared on The Linguisticlast, a blog dedicated to language learning and all things language. You can follow The Linguisticlast on Twitter at @linguisticlast.
Spoiler alert: No, your phone cannot teach you a new language. Your ability to accomplish that depends entirely on you and your motivation, but having a smartphone can certainly help. Here's how:
1) Live Your Digital Life in Your New Language.
The very first thing I always do when trying to learn a language is change my phone — along with my email accounts, social media accounts, search browsers, etc — into that language. Do not underestimate the power of passive learning. Before you even crack open a phrasebook, you'll know words like "send," "delete," "edit," "message," "cancel," and all sorts of other vocabulary just from using your phone on a daily basis.
2) Find A Flashcard App
Hey — the '90s called. They want your paper flashcards back. The cool kids now use flashcard apps on their phones. I love my flashcard app, Flashcards Deluxe. Why? With the app, you can create all of my own flashcards, with up to five sides, and upload them to your phone using either Google Drive or Dropbox. You can choose how you'd like to learn your flashcards, either through a standard sequence or by using a spaced repetition system (SRS). Spaced repetition knows when you're likely to forget a piece of recently learned information because it tracks your performance and usage history. It then sequences your flashcards so that that information is constantly fresh in your mind. I would actually go so far as to say that flashcards comprise the lion share of my language learning method. And because I have them on my phone, they're always there with me — on the metro, in the waiting room at my dentist's office, before I turn out the light and go to sleep. My point, flashcards and I have a very intimate relationship.
3) Your Phone As a Dictionary
Finding a good dictionary on your phone can be tricky, but it's crucial, especially while you're in public. During my first few weeks in France, I often found myself glued to my phone in supermarket aisles trying to figure out what I was buying. After you start speaking and gaining some confidence, switch to a monolingual dictionary to challenge yourself.
4) Change the Music You Listen To
This is one is fairly self-explanatory. I love to look up the lyrics to foreign language songs and translate them line-by-line. The result is that no matter how rusty my Spanish gets, I think it's likely I'll always know all of the words to Bacilos' "Caraluna." It's also worth mentioning that the language in which a song is sung can change the music itself. As William Weir writes on Slate, "English-only listening habits deprive us of the natural rhythm and melody of other languages — the nasal vowels of French, the alveolar trills of Portuguese, the consonant clusters of Czech."
5) Learn a Language Through… Your Texts?
Yes — texts. You read that correctly. Texting with your native speaker friends will help you pick up on phrases you would otherwise miss in ordinary conversation. Write them down; look them up; ask your friends what they mean. Texts are little goldmines for finding slang words and colloquial expressions you'd otherwise miss in a classroom setting or while speaking.
6) Podcasts
Podcasts can help you learn everything from Portuguese to Pashto, and they're a great way to spend a period of time during which you'd normally listen to music or the radio, like your walk to work.
7) Duolingo
Though I haven't personally used the Duolingo app, Apple named it 2013's "free iPhone App of the Year." My friends who use it swear by it, and some have gone so far as to say it's addicting. The app works like a game: You advance through different levels while learning your target language. In the process, however, you help to translate chunks of the Internet. If this sounds familiar, it's because Duolingo's founder, Luis von Ahn, also created reCAPTCHA, which does the same thing, except with those annoying CAPTCHAs you have to decode to prove you're human. Pretty cool, huh?
8) For iPhone Users: Bonjour Siri!
Siri is now available in for use in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, and Korean. It just so happens that those are some of the most widely learned languages as well. How convenient! In my experience trying to use Siri in French and Spanish, I've had difficulty if my pronunciation is off, but I also have plenty of difficulty using Siri in English as well. I've found that Siri's voice recognition ability has greatly improved with the introduction of iOS7.
HP's Q1 beats estimates as PC business surprises
The PC business didn't suck nearly as bad as feared, and Hewlett-Packard's first quarter benefits. The company sees strong enterprise demand for PCs as Windows XP systems are tossed.
Let's Put an End to '30 Under 30 Lists' and Recognize What Is to Come in Your 30s As a Woman in Tech
I read an article today about how the lists that the tech world put out like "30 under 30," top blah blah blah under blah, etc. are really really wrong. We should stop doing them. The author of that post from The Huffington Post, Carolyn Gregoire, writes about some things that I want to think more about and talk about here.
All these lists focus on one thing: how young you are and how wonderful you must be for doing something awesome like becoming a CEO at a certain age where most normal people don't. There has always been this obsession with young people doing cool and awesome things, but now it is more than ever focused on tech blogs and media lists focusing on the success of young people in their career. These lists are making it hard for anyone over 40 to be seen as someone doing something great. Why can't we just recognize greatness at any age? Age should not be part of a discussion in whether or not you are successful.
I am turning 30 in a couple of months, and this article stuck out to me because soon, I will never ever be able to be on a list like this. I never made it on a list like that and for some reason, that makes me sad. What if those lists didn't exist? Then, I wouldn't be feeling like this. I bet I am not alone.
I also start to think about what I have done later on in my career in my 20s. I have learned so much over the course of my 20s, and I think as I move into my 30s, I am more in a place than ever before where I should be celebrating my successes. If it took me longer to do it in my 20s, then fine. We need to stop putting so much pressure of people at certain ages as to what success should look like for them.
Make success whatever it should be to YOU and have it be at whatever time in your life you want it to be. It should not be relative or contingent upon an age.
In my 20s, I was and still am obsessed with doing my best. I actually don't think that will change just because I am turning 30. I am already stressed out enough. I don't need the media constantly comparing me to people. I compare myself to people already and don't need them doing it to me as well. Playing devil's advocate, I do think that it helps to keep 20-somethings motivated to do more and more with their time. When you see these lists, you start asking yourself questions… Are you good enough? Are you doing enough? All these thoughts start streaming through my mind when I see these kinds of lists… Why don't I have my own company? Why am I not a CEO?
I can tell you why… I AM NOT READY FOR THAT. What I am ready for is to learn as much as possible in my 20s to prepare me for my 30s. I am ready to learn as much as I possibly can in my role here at HubSpot. I need to learn how to be the best sales person ever and that is what I am doing right now. Learning. I want to take that knowledge and then in my 30s or 40s or 50s — who knows when? — take that knowledge and bring it to another company where I can make a huge difference. I don't know if being a CEO or doing something so fantastic in my 20s would be a good thing for my long-term goals. Don't let these lists and the media tell you what success is for your 20s — or any time in your life.
Say I had been on one of those lists — one of those 30 under 30 lists — by now. That probably would have meant I had started a company. My 20s would have been way different than they were. I don't know if they would have been better or worse. Would I have learned more? Would I be smarter now? Who knows? I don't care, though, because I am secure in what I am doing with my 20s. I made a proactive decision to learn as much as I can here at the company I work for now in my 20s and moving into my 30s even. I want to take that knowledge and experience and do something with it in my 30s, 40s etc. when I am smarter, older and more knowledgeable than I am now. I hope that pays off for me.
Your 20s and 30s are for figuring things out. Like I said, I don't know everything and from what I have seen and even experienced for myself, the older I get, the more I learn and the wiser I become. I should keep figuring things out in my 20s and get really good at what I do so in my 30s or 40s, I can crush it with that knowledge and experience.
Apparently, amazing things happen for people in their 30s. I look forward to it. Bring it on, 30.
Since my 30th birthday is right around the corner, I keep having these weird moments where I am thinking to myself Holy cow, have I done enough? Am I doing what I should be doing? Am I on the right path? All those things that happen to people before a moment that the world has made seem like a big deal. They say your 30s are the time for breakthrough moments. Maybe my breakthrough moment will be in the next 10 years.
Here's my number one point: Later on in your life, you will know more, have experienced more and will likely do better at what you set your mind to doing.
Hopefully, everything I am learning now will help me in my later years in my life. I hope that the things I have learned in my 20s in the business world will set me up for even more success than if I had been super-super-successful (in the eyes of the media) in my 20s. I personally think I have been successful in my 20s. Who is the media or blogs to tell someone what success is in their 20s?
What do you think about not hitting what the tech blogs and tech media says is success in your 20s? Is that okay?
This post originally appeared on Womenpreneurs.
Inequality, Productivity, and WhatsApp
If you ever wonder what's fueling America's staggering inequality, ponder Facebook's acquisition of the mobile messaging company WhatsApp .
According to news reports today, Facebook has agreed to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion.
That's the highest price paid for a startup in history. It's $3 billion more than Facebook raised when it was first listed, and more than twice what Microsoft paid for Skype.
(To be precise, $12 billion of the $19 billion will be in the form of shares in Facebook, $4 billion will be in cash, and $3 billion in restricted stock to WhatsApp staff, which will vest in four years.)
Given that gargantuan amount, you might think WhatsApp is a big company. You'd be wrong. It has 55 employees, including its two young founders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton.
Whatsapp's value doesn't come from making anything. It doesn't need a large organization to distribute its services or implement its strategy.
It value comes instead from two other things that require only a handful of people. First is its technology — a simple but powerful app that allows users to send and receive text, image, audio and video messages through the Internet.
The second is its network effect: The more people use it, the more other people want and need to use it in order to be connected. To that extent, it's like Facebook — driven by connectivity.
Whatsapp's worldwide usage has more than doubled in the past nine months, to 450 million people — and it's growing by around a million users every day. On December 31, 2013, it handled 54 billion messages (making its service more popular than Twitter, now valued at about $30 billion).
How does it make money? The first year of usage is free. After that, customers pay a small fee. At the scale it's already achieved, even a small fee generates big bucks. And if it gets into advertising it could reach more eyeballs than any other medium in history. It already has a database that could be mined in ways that reveal huge amounts of information about a significant percentage of the world's population.
The winners here are truly big winners. WhatsApp's fifty-five employees are now enormously rich. Its two founders are now billionaires. And the partners of the venture capital firm that financed it have also reaped a fortune.
And the rest of us? We're winners in the sense that we have an even more efficient way to connect with each other.
But we're not getting more jobs.
In the emerging economy, there's no longer any correlation between the size of a customer base and the number of employees necessary to serve them. In fact, the combination of digital technologies with huge network effects is pushing the ratio of employees to customers to new lows (WhatsApp's 55 employees are all its 450 million customers need).
Meanwhile, the ranks of postal workers, call-center operators, telephone installers, the people who lay and service miles of cable, and the millions of other communication workers, are dwindling — just as retail workers are succumbing to Amazon, office clerks and secretaries to Microsoft, and librarians and encyclopedia editors to Google.
Productivity keeps growing, as do corporate profits. But jobs and wages are not growing. Unless we figure out how to bring all of them back into line — or spread the gains more widely — our economy cannot generate enough demand to sustain itself, and our society cannot maintain enough cohesion to keep us together.
ROBERT B. REICH's film "Inequality for All" is now available on DVD and blu-ray, and on Netflix in late February. Watch the trailer below:
Kepler Space Telescope's Amazing Discoveries Highlighted In New 'Deep Astronomy' Video
How much have we really learned about alien planets?
Twenty years ago, we knew nothing about any other worlds outside of our solar system. Now, we've discovered the Milky Way is teeming with planets just like Earth.
That's thanks to NASA's Kepler space telescope, which launched in 2009 to explore our galaxy's interplanetary systems. A new video from the YouTube channel Deep Astronomy highlights some of the telescope's amazing discoveries. Just check it out above.
"The Kepler space telescope has opened up a new era of astronomy in our lifetimes," Tony Darnell, video blogger and social media manager at the Space Telescope Science Institute, says in the video. "For the first time in our history when we look up at the night sky, thanks to Kepler, we know that there are more planets up there than there are stars."
So far, Kepler has looked at just a small slice of the Milky Way, discovering 3,538 potential worlds — 104 of them are in the so-called "habitable zone," meaning their environment could potentially support life, and 10 are about the size of Earth, according to NASA.
In fact, NASA data suggests that there are at least 8.8 billion stars with Earth-size planets in the habitable temperature zone. Wow.
iPhone leads to surge in China Mobile's high-speed data subscribers
China Mobile added 14 million more high-speed data subscribers in January, a growth faster than at any other time in its history, according to data from Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Brian White. The 7.4 percent increase is attributed mainly to the iPhone, which Mobile started selling on January 17th. In December, by contrast, Mobile's high-speed base grew by less than 6 percent.
Google Wanted To Buy WhatsApp, Too
Two separate sources have told me that's how much Google (GOOG) offered to purchase WhatsApp.
What State Lasts The Longest (And Shortest) In Bed?
If you've got some time, head to New Mexico.
Fresh data from Spreadsheets, a sex-tracking App launched last August, may show how your state measures up — endurance-wise — to its neighbors.
"We're creating a sort of thermometer for sex," co-creator Tyler Elick, 29, told The Huffington Post. In addition to how long you're lasting, Spreadsheets can keep track of thrusts per minute, audio levels, and frequency of sex.
"Our goal is to provide a product that … connects people on an intimate level," he said. Elick and co-creator Danny Wax "saw a need in the market" when they realized that people were already tracking activities like their runs and sleep cycles.
This week, Nerve.com compiled a state-by-state rundown of averaged sex times, which can be seen below. The data comes from approximately 5,000 users and 23,000 individual sex sessions in the U.S. (there are about 10,000 users worldwide). Here's the list, from longest to shortest:
1. New Mexico (7:01)
2. West Virginia (5:38)
3. Idaho (5:11)
4. South Carolina (4:48)
5. Missouri (4:22)
6. Michigan (4:14)
7. Utah (3:55)
8. Oregon (3:51)
9. Nebraska (3:47)
10. Alabama (3:38)
11. Delaware (3:33)
12. Hawaii (3:28)
13. Wisconsin (3:22)
14. North Dakota (3:18)
15. Arizona (3:17)
16. Maryland (3:15)
17. Mississippi (3:10)
18. Rhode Island (3:09)
19. Connecticut (3:07)
20. Texas (3:06)
21. New Hampshire (3:04)
22. Wyoming (3:03)
23. New York (3:01)
24. Pennsylvania (2:58)
25. Maine (2:58)
26. Washington (2:51)
27. Iowa (2:50)
28. Illinois (2:49)
29. North Carolina (2:47)
30. Tennessee (2:46)
31. Kansas (2:38)
32. California (2:38)
33. Massachusetts (2:31)
34. Florida (2:29)
35. New Jersey (2:28)
36. Indiana (2:26)
37. Virginia (2:23)
38. Oklahoma (2:21)
39. Colorado (2:21)
40. Minnesota (2:19)
41. Ohio (2:18)
42. Louisiana (2:17)
43. Kentucky (2:14)
44. Arkansas (2:08)
45. District of Columbia (2:08)
46. Nevada (2:07)
47. Georgia (2:07)
48. Montana (2:03)
49. Vermont (1:48)
50. South Dakota (1:30)
51. Alaska (1:21)
But before you New Mexicans start swelling with pride, (or you Alaskans shrink in embarrassment), keep in mind that it's tough to say what — if anything — these stats actually represent.
According to the Nerve.com writeup, these times represent intercourse alone because "the app doesn't cover foreplay," but Elick told HuffPost that's just not true.
"Our app isn't purely about penises entering vaginas," he said. "Our app is more about tracking entire amounts of sexual activity. If that includes foreplay for people, we're open to that."
While a user can set the phone on a mattress to monitor "movement," the timing feature of the app can be used as a simple timer. One user may opt to start the timer before foreplay begins, while a different user could interrupt the mood completely to go fiddle with his phone prior to entering thrust-city.
However, with the median at around two and a half minutes, we really hope people aren't clocking in until the main event.
Elick was quick (but not as quick as an Alaskan — hey-o!) to point out that some users may also be skewing the results low by pulling out the app to show a friend or partner, and running the clock for only a few seconds.
Either way, though, Elick believes the stats are valuable because of the kinds of conversations they can spark.
"Real data makes people more comfortable and ideally less highly sensitive … or over-sensationalist about physical intimacy," he said.
Elick also wants people to know that he and Wax don't have access to data for individual users or sessions. Instead, they rely on Google analytics, which aggregates the duration and session count for particular regions. "We don't want to be the sexual Big Brother here," he said.
Poor UX Could Kill Your Start Up
If you have a tech start up, the chances are you are trying to get to grips with product design, but you can't afford to pay a full time UX designer to help develop your interface. Good user experience is essential if you are trying to scale your product, but money is always an issue for start ups. I know of many cases where start ups have ended up with poor UX as a result of trying to keep costs down by hiring a graphic designer to work on their product. This blog will hopefully help you navigate this journey better.
In the pre software days, designers used to make things look pretty. The job description "UX designer" started in Silicon Valley in the 1990s. It has only become mainstream in the last decade. When a UX designer is doing their job well, using software is effortless, meaning that often they only get noticed when things went wrong. UX is the design behind the visual.
Good UX people always have the mantra of "I am not the target audience" running through their heads. They can also predict ahead, i.e. if you do customer discovery, people will largely tell you what you want to hear. They also think they want different things to what actually works for them. An experienced UX designer will see through a lot of this and be able to predict what people will like.
Remember graphic designers still do great work. They will make your website look slick and are essential for your branding and content marketing. But you need to know when to stop using a graphic designer and start using a UX designer if you are creating a product. This can be confusing; I have witnessed firsthand how graphic designers, keen to win business, may tell start ups they can do UX work. To try and avoid this, you need to know the following.
1. What product and UX work they have done before — you don't want them to be learning on your time. Make sure you have a look at this closely. Website design is totally different to designing a product.
2. Is the person you are communicating with going to be doing the hands on UX work? If not, things can get lost in translation. Especially if they are off shoring the work which happens a lot in UK and Ireland.
3. You expect them to be asking you a lot of questions, as a good UX designer will know that user experience is influenced by a multitude of things such as:
• marketing copy
• speed
• functional performance
• colour scheme
• personality
• customer support,
• set expectations
• financial approach.
I recently attended a UX training course and the lecturer, Colman Walsh, who has worked in UX for the last 15 years in Silicon Valley and Europe explained
"Because of the word 'design', UX often gets conflated with styling. But they're not the same. UX is a problem solving discipline. Identifying problems, solving them and designing elegant solutions. Styling is often part of the solution, but doesn't have to be."
Lets look at some practical examples. Survey monkey have built up a huge reputation around good UX. Having recently used the software (initially for free and then paying) the experience was a good one from start to finish. I have tried to break down why it was good and why I will use survey monkey again and recommend it. These second two benefits show that good UX is critical to the success of software.
Survey monkey is clear about what it is offering you, it is helping you create and distribute a better survey without over loading you with advice. The process is streamlined from start to finish, and when you have completed the survey the analytics are good. You can take a number of months break from pre paying the monthly subscription and your data will still be there. All this and more means that survey monkey has totally nailed the UX without the graphics being anything special while you are working through the process.
For those like survey monkey who have mastered UX, it is easy to see their money spent on this area is giving a great return on investment. For you and me it is sometimes harder to join the dots from good UX work to the bottom line of your business. However, good work is being done here by Elisabeth Hubert and others who are actively working towards mapping user experience activity to business value.
Always remember that the ability to understand and communicate can be as, or more, important than graphic ability with a UX designer. It is also a much more iterative process than you might expect, so be patient!
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Google Launches Facebook Competitor Google+
Written by Kipp Bodnar @Kippbodnar
Social networks aren't anything new. Today, however, Google made news with its biggest attempt to date to take hold of the social networking market. After a year of development, Google+ began rolling out to early users today. It will be a long time before we know if Google+ is a true social networking competitor and worth the time and effort of marketers. Until then, let's take a quick look at what Google+ actually does.
Circles+
The foundation of Google+ is something called Circles+. Google's belief is that existing social networks like Facebook and Twitter have failed at letting users connect with subsets of friends in an easy way. Friend lists were add-on features of most social networks, but they are at the foundation of Google+. Circles+ is a drag and drop system for organizing friends into different groups.
Video Chat and Photos
When it comes to photos, Google has a section for viewing, managing, and editing images and video. A Google+ user can see all of the images he or she has, but unlike Facebook, it is more than just photo tagging. Users can edit images, add photo effects, and edit sharing options.
Google has also create Hangouts, in hopes of increasing the adoption of online video chatting. The idea is to have designated chats that members in a group of friends could easily find and join.
With Google+ comes yet another feature, Google+ Sparks. Each Spark is a collection of content on a subject that pulls in information using Google technology like Google Search. Sparks places Google not just in the content sharing business but also in the content discovery business. In addition, Google will be launching a mobile version of the entire Google+ system, starting with the Andriod operating system.
Marketing Takeaway
It is clear that Google knows that the next step of its business is social. Marketers should understand that, with moves like Google+, search will only continue to get more social. Having and growing a social media presence will be critical to generating inbound leads in the future. That said, Google+ does lack the simplicity that enables Google Search to be successful. As marketers, we will need to understand how Google+ is adopted and how Google integrates it with other valuable properties like Google Search and Google Maps.
Google+ is currently available via invite only, but you can sign up to be notified when you can start using the platform.
Originally published Jun 28, 2011 4:38:00 PM, updated October 20 2016

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Q: Customize treeview items in package explorer in eclipse
Spring Tool Suite 4.4.2, KDE Plasma 5.3.
Is it possible to reduce spaces between items in this treeview in package explorer? (I'm not talking about changing font size. I already did it)

A: I doubt it has to do anything with STS... This is probably a problem with SWT on KDE Plasma 5.3. If you don't see he spacing between tree items the same elsewhere in your UI outside of Eclipse I'd raise an issue against Eclipse SWT project.

A: It might be possible to change the spacing by modifying the CSS. The way I understand it, since Eclipse 4, the IDE is fully 'themeable' via CSS. So in principle it should be possible to control the spacing.
As I haven't tried it myself, I have no idea if it will work for you though. The best I can give you is a pointer to some info about the CSS stuff:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse4/CSS

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Bacteria in the intestine and ATF6 stress gene could tumors (exclusively in the colon) and without the involvement of inflammation, finds a new study. The findings of this study are published in the Gastroenterology journal.
"With our study, we originally wanted to study the role of bacteria in the intestines in the development of intestinal inflammation," explains Professor Dirk Haller from the Department of Nutrition and Immunology at the Weihenstephan Science Centre of the TUM. "However, the surprising result for us was the discovery that bacteria together with stress in cells caused tumors (exclusively in the colon) and without the involvement of inflammation."
The investigations were initially carried out using the mouse model. In germ-free (i.e., sterile) animals, in which the activated transcription factor ATF6 regulated stress in the intestinal mucosa (intestinal epithelium), no change could be observed. But as soon as the microbiota, i.e., all the microorganisms in the intestine, were transplanted back into germ-free animals, tumors developed in the colon of the mice. Using Koch's postulates, Haller and his team were able to show that microorganisms are involved in the development of cancer in the colon.
The transcription factor ATF6 regulates stress in cells, and the intensity and duration of activation are increased with diseases. "However, it is not cell stress alone that leads to tumor growth, but the combination of stress and microbiota that favors cancer growth," says Haller, head of ZIEL - the Institute for Food & Health at TUM.
Subsequently, in cooperation with the clinic on the right side of the Isar (Prof. Janssen), the data of 541 patients with colon cancer were examined. In those cases where the level of transcription factor ATF6, which triggers cell stress, was significantly increased, the recurrence rate after surgery increased: About ten percent of patients were at risk of getting colon cancer a second time.
"In certain patients, the protein ATF6 could serve as a diagnostic marker for an increased risk of colon cancer and could indicate the start of therapy at an early stage," said Prof. Haller - "a microbial therapy is conceivable when we know more about the composition of the bacterial flora. What now became clear, however: Chronic inflammation has no effect on cancer development in the colon."
Forgoing chemotherapy linked to worse survival in among patients 65 and older with advanced colon cancer who had dementia.
Chemical compounds produced by vegetables like cabbage, kale, and broccoli may protect us from colon cancers, finds a new study.
Immunoscore an effective tool that predicts which patients are at high risk of tumor recurrence among colon cancer patients has been developed by experts. Immunoscore will help improve the care and treatment of colon cancer.
Mucosal healing may require more aggressive medical therapy early in the treatment course which may contradict treatment guidelines.


Defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad made a perfect start to their Indian Premier League campaign crushing a depleted Royal Challengers Banaglore by 35 runs.
Defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad made a perfect start to their Indian Premier League campaign crushing a depleted Royal Challengers Banaglore by 35 runs in the opening encounter.
RCB's top four - Chris Gayle (32), Mandeep Singh (24), Travis Head (30) and Kedar Jadhav (31) were all set before getting out.
Kedar's dismissal was the turning point as RCB were never in the match after that.
On a belter where pacers became easy prey for the batsmen, Sunrisers skipper David Warner rotated his spinners well trying to take the pace off the deliveries. Young Rashid, who created history by being the first Afghan to play an IPL match got Mandeep with a fuller delivery that didn't turn.
The batsman trying to cut got an inside edge onto the stumps. The celebration was atypical Shahid Afridi just like his style of fastish leg-breaks.
Rashid also got Travis Head when the batsmen tried to play a slog sweep. But Deepak Hooda got the most important wicket when he got Gayle trying to hit him over long-off for a second six only to be caught by Warner.
The wickets fell at regular intervals and there was no pressure on Sunrisers as they coasted to victory.
Ashish Nehra (2/42) also gota couple of wickets to reach a personal milestone of 100 IPL victims. Earlier, a vintage Yuvraj hammered RCB bowlers to submission as Sunrisers Hyderabad posted a commendable 207 for 4 put into bat by Shane Watson.
Yuvraj's innings had seven fours and three sixes while Henriques' innings had three fours and two sixes. Skipper David Warner started with a couple of boundaries and huge six over long-on off left-arm seamer Aniket Chaudhary but was gone when his slash was taken by a leaping Mandeep Singh at backward point.
Dhawan banged rival skipper Shane Watson for four boundaries in the final Powerplay over to set the tone. Henriques at the other end chanced his arms to hit a six over long-on off Travis Head. Once Dhawan was caught in the deep off Stuart Binny's delivery, Yuvraj came in and started taking on the bowlers.
Rajasthan's Chaudhary, who has been with the India camp came in for special treatment including a lofted extra cover drive for a six apart fom two fours in a single over. Aravind, who dropped him bowled a back of the hand slower that was dispatched into mid-wicket stands.


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Previous games commonly result in away wins.
Previous games commonly result in away wins. Rotherham is a great team frequently dominating their opponents. Recently Rotherham have been in poor shape. The last games MK Dons has persisted awful form. MK Dons has just now gained positions in the league.


In 1988 Dr. Lauro Cavazos became the first Hispanic ever to serve in the United States Cabinet when he was unanimously approved by the Senate as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Education. Born on the King Ranch, in Kingsville, Texas, Cavazos holds other honors as well: he is one of an estimated 2500 Southerners who trace their ancestry to one of the least-known heroes of the 1836 Texas war for independence: Francisca, or "Pancita," Alavez, the Angel of Goliad.
By all accounts, Panchita Alavez was petite, beautiful, passionate, compassionate, courageous, noble—and well acquainted with trouble herself. She had been abandoned in her infancy—orphaned—and she would be abandoned by her husband—who was perhaps not really her husband because he was still married to another woman he had formerly abandoned and by which he had had two children. In between these two tragic events in her life, however, she performed in the space of a few weeks the heroic deeds that have immortalized her name among Texans.
In 1836 Panchita was twenty years old and accompanying Captain Telesforo Alavez as he rode with General Jose Urrea in Mexico's campaign against Texas patriots. Captain Alavez was thirty-three, paymaster for the army, commander of the Centralista forces at Copano and Victoria, and had already distinguished himself in this and previous campaigns. Panchita took her place confidently among the officers' wives and the officers themselves.
On March 20 Panchita arrived at Port Copano shortly after Texian Major William P. Miller and his seventy men surrendered to Alavez. Their bonds were too tight, she said, and cutting off the blood flow—take them off, she gently commanded. They are famished, she observed—give them food and drink. The men had a ministering angel among them. But none of them knew yet to what extent that angel would go.
Three days later, Alavez took Miller and his men to Presidio La Bahia, the fort at Goliad, which held other Texian prisoners, including Colonel Thomas Fannin and over three hundred men who had surrendered at the Battle of Coleto the same day Miller's men had been taken. Panchita knew their story, that Urrea admired Fannin and had said he would do what he could to secure honorable treatment for him and his men.
Panchita also knew Santa Anna, however, the tyrannical President of Mexico and General-in-Command of the Mexican forces attempting to suppress the revolt. When a message came Saturday evening from Santa Anna to Goliad commandant Colonel Nicolás de la Portilla, she was among the first to find out its grisly contents: all Texian prisoners were to be executed immediately. Disgusted but not surprised with the despot's brutality and injustice, she nevertheless controlled the outward expression of her fury and quietly set about executing her own plans to save as many lives as possible.
She found an ally in Mexican Colonel Garay. She and Garay successfully pointed out to Portilla that Miller and his men had surrendered unarmed and therefore should be spared (technically only those caught in armed rebellion were subject to the death sentence). Next Panchita and Garay identified all of the prisoners who had any experience in the medical field—doctors, hospital workers, etc.—explaining they must be officially reserved for use with the many wounded Mexican soldiers. Interpreters were also needed, of course—this and that soldier who knows both English and Spanish must be retained and not killed. When excuses ran out, Panchita began concealing soldiers one by one, without informing them why, and connived with officers to smuggle them out when the coast was clear.
The following morning, Palm Sunday, Portilla ordered the execution. Texians, insensible to their own impending destruction, were ordered to form three lines in the courtyard. As they marched out of the fort, the only possible clue they might have received was the young Mexican woman vociferously abusing the officers in Spanish—it was Panchita, now showing little restraint with her emotions, shamelessly shaming the men who could oversee such slaughter. As the lines progressed on three different roads, Panchita made one final stab at being savior and asked through General Urrea's wife for the attending officer to release to her a fifteen-year-old boy who was passing by. The wish was granted, and the boy lived to tell the next generation.
Three hundred forty-two men lost their lives that day; over one hundred survived, however, the majority of them owing their lives to the compassionate courage of Panchita Alavez and the officers who conspired with her. Throughout the rest of the war, Panchita kept up with the survivors and other Texian prisoners, sending them gifts and corresponding with them out of genuine concern for their safety and welfare.
The war ended with Texas the victors, and Panchita went about her life in Mexico. When, however, Captain Alavez had fathered two children on her and abandoned her in Mexico City, it was Panchita's turn to receive mercy and compassion. She returned to Texas, where grateful Texians both honored her and provided for her and her family. Her son later found employment at the King Ranch, and many of her descendants live there and throughout the South today. Each year they and many others honor the memory of the Angel of Goliad at the Goliad Massacre memorial in Goliad, Texas. Interestingly, like Cavazos, many of Panchita's descendants tend toward occupations of rescue, nurture, and compassion: teachers, doctors, nurses, soldiers—angels in their own right, inspired, one may suppose, by their common angelic ancestry.
At 6'2″ this Texas Ranger was tall in stature but perhaps even taller in tales.


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Library group feel views have been ignored by council
Hay library group feel views have been ignored by Powys County Council
By Ben Goddard @bengoddard_HT Head of sport content
LIBRARY supporters feel their views have been ignored as the council pushes ahead with plans to move their town's facility into a newly built primary school.
Hay-on-Wye Library Supporters (HOWLS) wanted to keep their library at its current location in Chancery Lane and drew up plans for a 'self-financing community hub' to make this a reality
However, the group claim that Powys County Council has blocked their attempts to meet with councillors to discuss any business plan for the current site.
The council's proposal is for the library to be incorporated in the new £5 million primary school currently being built.
"It is clear that Powys CC has no intention of honouring their previous decision to consider proposals," said Anita Wright, Chair of HOWLS.
"Powys CC intend to push ahead with their plans to move Hay Library into a smaller space in the new Hay primary school and sell off the current Library building and green space.
"Once again Powys CC has run roughshod over the wishes of local people and will deprive Hay of yet another well-loved community facility."
Mrs Wright added that in an attempt to break the deadlock, HOWLS produced a Library Development Plan to present to Powys CC that would have made the building a self-financing community hub with cafe, offices and meeting space. However, Hay Town Council declined an offer to join them in partnership.
"The proposed Hay Library space in the school is smaller, and intended for other uses by the school," said Mrs Wright.
"Powys CC also plans to half the library opening hours to 12 hours per week.
"Selling off the current library site is nothing more than Powys CC asset stripping, with complete disregard for a community they serve, in a desperate attempt to sort out its own financial mess."
In response a spokesman for Powys CC said: "We are deeply disappointed by the group's statement, we had a constructive meeting with the group last week to discuss future plans for the library service in the town and they agreed to support the service whatever location was used.
"The county council is investing £25m in the Gwernyfed catchment area building five new community focussed primary schools, the project includes a new library provision in both Hay-on-Wye and Talgarth schools.
"While the new service will not be the same as before the council has had to find a significant number of savings and changes in the way services are delivered are common place. We are confident that the new library will be a huge asset to the school and the wider community.
"Work on the schools is progressing well and we anticipate they will be ready early in the New Year with the library moving in the spring. No decision has been made about the future of the existing building that will be made by the council's Strategic Asset Board which has to provide the most advantageous return for the council. "


We've got another Blu-ray review for you today from Tim: A look at Warner Archive's new Blu-ray release of Freebie and the Bean. You can find that here.
We've also updated the Release Dates & Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. You'll find that here.
All right, we're closing out the week at CES 2017 with a couple of additional bits of 4K and industry-related news.
CES 2014 wrap-up – 4K, DEG stats & Dolby Vision, plus cool new BD announcements & artwork!


For over 10 years, Instant Toilets & Showers has been providing ablution solutions in Perth, and has been cemented as the go-to provider for businesses, events and individuals across both Perth and greater Western Australia.
Our Digital Advisory team found a great opportunity for Instant Toilets & Showers to increase their digital marketing efforts. This included utilising a number of innovative strategies which aimed to put them a step ahead of their competitors.
Over the past 3 years, Instant Toilets & Showers campaigns and business exposure have gone from strength to strength.
While targeted SEO campaigns drive the vast majority of traffic and leads to the website, Facebook Remarketing has opened a whole new avenue of business for Instant Toilets & Showers. It is now allowing Scott to demographically target the right market quickly. Be it renovators, those holding a corporate event or simply a birthday party, this targeted remarketing allows the business to be seen by an audience who might not have considered them an option in the past.
Working with Bonfire has opened our eyes to the range of innovative marketing opportunities our business can adopt to ensure we are being seen by more potential customers. Jonette and her team are very proactive in their approach to our campaigns, constantly suggesting ideas to suit the season or changes in market. We're very happy with the quality of leads coming through from our website.


Marketing issues asides, this wasn't a bad start at all. The concept behind The List, if it even needs explaining (the title alone is sufficient) is that Norman Osborn's rule is now secure enough for him to initiate a hit list of all those quarrelsome heroes that once bothered him. Ronin, a.k.a. Clint Barton, is persuaded that the only way forward is to assimilate Osborn; an ultimatum his team-mates do not share.
As always with Bendis, it's the more understated moments that made this issue worthwhile, from the new Captain America's admission that he in fact killed Hitler to the bumbling encounter between Barton and the former Moonstone. And the team definitely benefits from the exclusion of Wolverine and Luke Cage, the requisite heavy-hitters who've never offered more than hackneyed machismo and weary chauvinism, respectively. Artist Marko Djurdjevic (Thor) struggles through these static scenes, though, and his pencils only really come into their own when Ronin finally mounts his assault on the Dark Avengers.
Unlike Civil War and Secret Invasion before it, the events of Dark Reign don't so much assimilate the titles it crosses into as rest heavily in the foreground. But The List doesn't seem to be the second chapter in Dark Reign so much as an obvious continuation, and there's only so long so this event's momentum can build before we'll require a discernable conclusion.


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Bring a stone for the Princess...
Cairns have significance in a number of cultures, and have their origens in KhoiSan culture, where they were used to mark a burial place or a place of religious significance. Travellers would add a stone to the cairn as a mark of respect. They also feature in isiXhosa culture (isivivane), a practice probably adopted from contact with the Khoi.
The Princess Vlei cairn was started on 22 September by Khoi elders and religious leaders from different faiths, as a symbol of our commitment to save the space, and also to honour the memory of Father John Oliver. Stones have been brought from all over Cape Town, from the mountain and rivers and sea, to show how the Princess Vlei brings us all together. We invite all to keep adding stones to the cairn.
Emma Oliver, wife of the late Father John Oliver who was a passionate champion for Princess Vlei and other environmental and social causes, led a ceremony involving pouring water from Princess Vlei around and onto the stones.
"This is water from the Princess Vlei. And as the water is poured around the stones we remember all those from the past for whom this is a sacred site. We also remember and honour my late husband John Oliver. John loved the water. He loved to be in it, swimming, he loved to be on it in his kayak, he loved to be beside it, watering, planting, weeding, tending and caring for this earth that we are standing on.
...We remember with gratitude his attempts to draw together people of all faiths, and we look around with gratitude at this gathering today, people of different faiths and cultures but all one gathered together. So we remember and honour John's work and the work of the Princess Vlei Forum to save this sacred site from becoming a mall.
As we pour the water, as it washes over the stones, it symbolises the washing away of our differences, the washing away of the disputes of the past, the washing away of heavy dust and dirt that weighs us down. We pour water over the stones to cleanse and make new, to make a new start and energy and commitment to caring for this place, for Princess Vlei. We pour water to make new, renewed energy for working together... to symoblise this new start that we are making together today. "
Bradley van Sitters, a Khoi descendent in the House of Xoraxouhoe and Nama scholar, led the ceremony. This is what he said:
What we are doing now is making a symbolic grave site for the Princess of the Vlei. We don't know where she's buried but we feel her spirit here because her name is here. If you pass on the road, remember to put a stone in your car, and then bring your stone here. If you pass here, don't just pass, bring a stone. Collect them by the rivers, by the oceans, by the mountains so that this little pile can become a mountain and every time we pass here, we bring a stone. This is the Khoikhoi culture. It is still with us ...
This is the first time in your life you are singing in Khoikhoi, but you have been speaking in khoi khoi all your life... when you say uh, for yes, and uhuh for no, or when you say, "kyk die kogga... quagga... kieries."
In England they speak English and they're English. In France they speak French and they are French. But Khoi means a person, a human being, the human nature of all people.
When I went to learn Nama in Namibia, and I said how difficult is this language... my Great Grandmother spoke it, my grandmother could count to ten, my mother could not speak anything... when it came to me, I said, no, I must bring this thing again to my people.... We lent many clicks and words to the Xhosa, so we have shared our language with many people, we even shared our land, so much so that today we are without land. But we are people of great love.


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NHL Morning Coffee Headlines – September 15, 2017
by Lyle Richardson | Sep 15, 2017 | News, NHL | 3 comments
Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin confirms he won't be participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
NHL training camps are open. Check out the latest news in your NHL morning coffee headlines.
CSN MIDATLANTIC: Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin issued a statement conceding he won't be participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeonchang, South Korea. While remaining defiant ("It sucks that we will not be there to play!"), Ovechkin acknowledged the decision was no longer up to him. The NHL and IIHF aren't allowing players under NHL contract to take part in the 2018 Games.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Ovechkin's statement also puts to rest the notion that he could retire from the NHL in order to play for Russia in the 2018 Games. I'm assuming this issue will be among several that will prompt the players to exercise their early-out option from the current NHL collective bargaining agreement in September 2019.
THE DENVER POST: Center Matt Duchene has reported to Colorado Avalanche training camp, but he doesn't seem happy about it. "Guys, to start, I'm not taking any questions right now. I'm here to honor my contract, I'm here for respect of the fans, and I'm here for my teammates. I had a great summer training and I'm in good physical condition, so thanks so much I'll see you in the next couple days, OK?" he said.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: It appears Duchene, the subject of non-stop trade speculation for months, thought he might belong to a new club by now. His unhappy demeanor will only stoke the trade chatter. I'll have the latest in my Rumors section.
NEWSDAY: New York Islanders captain John Tavares said he's comfortable talking contract extension with management during the upcoming season. The two sides have had limited discussions, mostly tied to the Isles efforts to secure a location to build a new arena. He said communication with management hasn't been an issue.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Tavares is eligible for unrestricted free agent status next July. His future with the Isles will continue to draw attention throughout this season.
THE DETROIT NEWS: Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg clarified comments he made to a Swedish news agency last month suggesting he might only play two more seasons. Zetterberg, who has four years remaining on his contract, said he intends to play out the remaining tenure of the deal but adds it will depend upon his health. Zetterberg's been plagued by back injuries but he said it's been getting better the last couple of years.
BOSTON HERALD/CSNNE.COM: The Boston Bruins yesterday re-signed right wing David Pastrnak to a six-year, $40-million contract. The annual average cap hit is $6.67 million and comes with some no-trade protection in the final two years. Meanwhile, Bruins general manager Don Sweeney said he's interested in re-signing captain Zdeno Chara, who's eligible next summer for unrestricted free agency.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: Pastrnak's new deal is a reasonable one for a 21-year-old winger coming off a 70-point breakout performance. The Bruins went a little higher than their original offers worth $6 million per season, but it's considerably lower than the rumored $7.5 million asking price of the Pastrnak camp. Should the young winger continue to put up 70-plus point campaigns, this deal will be considered a bargain for the Bruins.
As for Chara, he's no longer the dominant defensemen he once was but he's still an effective blueliner. I can see him getting a two-year deal or a one-year, bonus-laden contract with the Bruins.
WINNIPEG SUN: The Jets re-signed center Bryan Little to a six-year, $31.7 million contract extension. The annual average value is $5.291 million. Little, 29, was eligible for unrestricted free agency next July.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: The underrated Little wants to spend his entire career with the Jets, who obviously had no qualms accommodating his wish. Though his offensive numbers will likely decline in the final two or three years of the deal, GM Kevin Cheveldayoff complimented his "200-foot game" and his professionalism. Little will be a crucial part of the Jets' quest to reach the playoff this season.
TWINCITIES.COM: The Minnesota Wild re-signed forward Marcus Foligno to a four-year, $11.5 million contract. The annual cap hit is $2.875 million. The Wild acquired Foligno last June in a multi-player trade with the Buffalo Sabres.
OTTAWA CITIZEN: Senators winger Clarke MacArthur failed his training camp medical yesterday, though the club wouldn't say if it was related to his concussion history. They hope to have an update on MacArthur's status in the near future.
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL: Golden Knights winger James Neal will likely need another two-to-four weeks to recover from a broken right hand suffered during the 2017 Western Conference Finals .
NBC SPORTS: Dallas Stars center Martin Hanzal is nursing a sprained ankle suffered during recent offseason training.
TORONTO SUN/TORONTO STAR: The Maple Leafs have given defenseman Roman Polak a professional tryout offer. Meanwhile, GM Lou Lamoriello also announced the Leafs are content to play this season without a team captain, instead icing four alternates.
NBC SPORTS: Former NHL player Jeff Parker has passed away at the age of 53. His brain will be donated for examination. Parker, who played parts of five seasons in the NHL during the late-1980s and early-1990s, was part of the concussion lawsuit filed by former players against the league.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: My condolences to Parker's family and friends.
Brock Landers	on September 15, 2017 at 11:30 am
Bryan Little just doesn't get the credit he deserves and this contract is a steal. If he hit the open market, he definitely would have gotten over $6 mil per season. His draft year comparables are Jordan Staal, Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand and Kyle Okposo in terms of production/games and he's certainly a "200 foot player" who can do it all.
Taz	on September 15, 2017 at 12:37 pm
to be honest, this is the one player getting paid correctly. The madness with these over inflated contracts has to stop. To think the oilers have over 25% invested in two players is a crazy concept.
Laurie	on September 15, 2017 at 3:34 pm
I see that the Bruins have signed 32 year old Teddy Purcell to a PTO. It'll be interesting to see how well he performs at training camp and whether he makes the opening night roster. With so many young prispects vying for jobs, it's difficult to see him making the team.
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//December 6, 2017
An Interview With The Dallas, TX Based Pop Rock Band, LOVE PAST BLUE!
Love Past Blue is an award-winning, indie alternative pop-rock band based in Dallas Texas. The group recently completed a mini-tour of the L.A. area, performing at several venues including the legendary Whisky a Go Go on the Sunset Strip. The band's members already have one EP...
An Interview With The Rising Canadian Songstress, ELISE LEGROW!
With co-signs from The Roots, Betty Wright, and electric blues pioneer Marshall Chess, Elise LeGrow is redefining music history with swanky sophistication and robust rasp. The young Canadian crooner's "dreamy and velvety" (Billboard) aura is inimitable. On...
The Brooklyn-Based Garage Pop Band BEST BEHAVIOR Chats About New Music, Creating The EP and More!
Meet the Brooklyn-based Garage-Pop band, Best Behavior! They are gaining momentum with their "infectious garage-meets-surf rock sound" [Nylon]. The trio recently self-released their new EP, a four-track dance-inducing stunner entitled 'Things That Happened.' The project is...
An Interview With Singer-Songwriter, KATIE COSTELLO On Her Latest Third Album, 'Twice The Love'!
Katie Costello recently released her third studio album "Twice the Love," via REBEL POP Records. Some notable collaborators on the record include Justyn Pilbrow from The Neighborhood, who lent his hand on the production of "Holiday," and Tim Myers (founding member of...


April | 2016 | Heart Gifts of H.O.P.E.
The Bible, which is God's inspired Word, holds a treasure storehouse of over 8,000 precious promises. I joyfully embrace them for a hope-filled and joy-filled abundant life!
You gave me this simple, but powerful and true message to share with the world. May you open the spiritual eyes of all who read this post or hear this message that I eagerly and joyfully am delighted to share for your honor and glory. In Jesus Name, Amen.
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Getting the right mountain bike size for you!
Getting the right mountain bike size for your body can be the difference between a great ride and a terrible ride that will haunt you in days to come. Why?
What influences the bike size?
Saddle height – This is a key parameter to get the leg spinning the pedals at the right angles. Mountain bikes are designed so there is a lot of adjustment possible, it's unlikely you'll every ride with the saddle all the way in, touching the frame.
Saddle position – you can move the saddle forwards and backwards, although on a mountain bike this is rarely changed.
Handle bar stem length – this is rarely changed given the adjustment possible on the saddle.
Adjust the saddle to fit your leg length.
There are size charts for every bike type from every manufacturer. There is no standard however sizes hover around the same ranges. So if you're a medium on one bike then chances are you're a medium on another bike, unless you're at the boundary of the range.
How does Leap choose the right bike frame?
We think getting the right bike size is hugely important for a great ride so we ask for the height of the rider to help determine what size you'll need. Since there are so many bikes, shops will possibly stock different brands of a certain bike type so the sizes may vary slightly. With the height of the rider the bike shop can decide on the best size, they're the experts and know their bikes.
Be concerned if you book somewhere and they're not asking you for it, you might not get the bike you need especially if you're a Small or X-Large as they carry fewer of these models.
What are the NZ Cycle Trails?


The U19 league fixture on Wednesday (26th March) will now be played at The Welfare Ground.
U19s 3 Eccleshill 0. We are now 10 points clear at the top of the league. Match report to follow.
AFC Emley U19s 5 Silsden U19s 0.
Huddersfield Minors beat Halifax Minors 5 2.