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Kosher that's not just for food
Jennifer Collins
Apr 7, 2009 As Passover begins, there is a movement in the Jewish community to expand the meaning of kosher beyond just food. Jennifer Collins reports.
Now you can bid on a bag of groceries
Steve Chiotakis
Apr 3, 2009 Auctioneer Kirk Williams had a hunch to try putting frozen foods on his auction block, and the move turned out to be tremendously lucrative. Steve Chiotakis asks Williams how people feel about the food.
U.S. food tracing system is moldy
Janet Babin
Mar 26, 2009 A new Health and Human Services report reveals disturbing gaps in the government's ability to trace food sources. Janet Babin reports.
Cheaper dinner grown in the backyard
Andrew Stelzer
Apr 30, 2012 Vegetable gardens are becoming increasingly popular as people want to save money on food in tight times. Several edible landscaping companies have popped up across the country in response to the trend.
Kellogg's CEO: Ramp up food regulation
Steve Henn
Mar 19, 2009 Kellogg's CEO David Mackay is urging Congress to improve government regulation on food safety. His company lost nearly $70 million in recalled products after the salmonella outbreak in peanuts. Steve Henn reports.
Starbucks risks running in poor taste
Mar 18, 2009 Starbucks has been shedding jobs and offering value meals in order to combat the recession, but some brand experts say this could be hurting their image. Amanda Aronczyk explores why the company may be in danger of devaluation.
A different kind of pork project
Stacey Vanek Smith
Sep 22, 2011 Tonight HBO debuts "Death on a Factory Farm," a documentary that chronicles some grizzly practices at an Ohio pork producer. The film is giving the pork industry an upset stomach. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.
Rwandan coffee pushes for distinction
Mar 10, 2009 Rwandan coffee producers see a way to get ahead by cornering a niche market in specialty high-quality coffee. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch reports what coffee farmers in the country need to do to preserve distinction in the coffee world.
Hot dog sales sizzle during downturn
Mar 6, 2009 Hot dog sales were up 2 percent in 2008, despite the economic downturn in almost every industry. So what makes the American favorite such a recession-proof meal? Chicago Public Radio's Adriene Hill finds out why from the epicentre of hot dog culture.
Food processes slow down Tanzania
Gretchen Wilson
Mar 2, 2009 In Tanzania, 80% of the population works in agriculture. But high global food prices aren't exactly helping Tanzanians. Many are still poor because much of their home-grown food goes to waste. Gretchen Wilson reports.


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November 8, 2012
Red Bank Thrift Store owner Daniel Shoats is expanding his business throughout northern Hamilton County with the recent opening of Soddy-Daisy Thrift Store. Both shops offer clothing, furniture and appliances in a range of prices, with 25 percent of profits going to Avalon Hospice to fulfill patients' dying wishes.
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Red Bank Thrift Store owner expands business into Soddy-Daisy
Owning a thrift store was never part of Daniel Shoats' life plan, but the Red Bank Thrift Store owner recently expanded his business to include a second location in Soddy-Daisy.

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President Obama and other world leaders will gather in Copenhagen next week to discuss climate change. Though this is a global issue, it's also a profoundly local one. For this reason, the Op-Ed editors asked writers from four different continents to report on the climate changes they've experienced close to home. Here are their dispatches.
Here are snippets of the four stories that ran in the NYT this weekend, along with their illustrations:
In Cape Town, a rise in unpredictable and more ferocious fires are destroying the ecosystem.
..."When we were young," the old man in Greenmarket Square observed, "seasons came and went in a predictable rhythm. Now seasons have gone amok."
In Rio de Janeiro, shifiting ocean currents and water temperatures have changed bird migration patterns.
...In the years that followed, dozens and then hundreds of gray-and-white Magellanic penguins appeared on our coasts, coming all the way from Patagonia and the Straits of Magellan.
In Tokyo, it no longer snows in winter.
...In place of the snow that used to fall in winter, the dry, cold blasts of wind come back, followed almost immediately by the unbearable heat of summer...
Because of climate change, the weather always betrays our expectations, making us wonder if the earth isn't in its last days.
Since the climate conference is in Copenhagen, here's the entire essay on Denmark:
In Copenhagen, the once moderate-to-fresh winds are now more often storms
MY husband wants a wind turbine for Christmas. Just a small one, to be erected alongside our summer cabin at the coast. "We could have it out back!" he said. Good idea, I admit. In Denmark, we get our share of moderate-to-fresh winds, as the weather guys say. More often, it seems, we have storms. In the city we don't notice them that much, but at the cabin we listen uneasily to the howling of the wind in the vents. We sit on edge at the windows and watch the wind tearing at the fir trees. We've cut down the tallest and most imposing tree in our garden so it won't topple over in a storm and smash the roof to smithereens.
Our cabin is by the ocean. Not in the first row, but drawn back some, and on a hill. When I go for a walk in the dunes, I imagine myself inside the cabins in the first row, sitting there in the late light of a Scandinavian summer evening, smoking (even though I'm a nonsmoker), drinking sundowners (gin and tonic) and thinking poetic thoughts with a hint of blue. My husband, who built our cabin on the hill long before I knew him, is slightly jealous about my flirting with the first row. So now we've been on Google Earth and discovered that in 50 years all my dream cabins will be claimed by the rising sea! In fact, most of the point where our cabin lies will have disappeared. The hill and our house will remain, an island reachable only by boat, but still. "At least you'll be able to see the ocean," my husband says smugly, forgetting that we'll both be dust by then.
"You're the ones who will have to live with the effects of climate change," we caution our youngest as he consumes yet another burger. As a 12-year-old, he has yet to comprehend that at some point he may have to choose between beef and rain forests, plane journeys or glaciers, rationing or perishing. He has no idea that insurance premiums are already rising fast (too fast!), due to the kind of climate-induced flooding that has been filling many a Danish basement. On the other hand, he knows Denmark will have vineyards, and by then he'll be able to swim with dolphins! Pretty cool, yeah?
I haven't the heart to mention the plagues of malaria mosquitoes, the risks of contracting West Nile virus and cholera. Neither have I troubled him with forecasts of the cod disappearing from Danish waters, or with the gloomy prospects for growing Christmas trees here. I did, though, (mis)appropriate the climate angle in the course of a discussion about pets. "A medium-sized dog pollutes as much as a 4.6-liter Toyota Land Cruiser clocking more than 6,000 miles a year!" I tell him, reading out of the newspaper. "Yeah, sure," he says, and rolls his eyes. As if.
He'll shake his head the same way this Christmas, when he finds out his father's got a wind turbine. Daddy gets what Daddy wants. Maybe not a whole turbine, maybe just part of one. In Denmark, there are more than 100 wind turbine cooperatives, and special exchanges where you can buy shares in them. Our Christmas will be a peaceful one: we'll talk about the wind and the weather, but in the nice way, so we'll forget that this year once again Christmas wasn't white. The snow is going, too.
The times they are a-changin'.
I hope to gather more such stories in Copenhagen. Your story is also welcome!
This piece originally appeared on Climate Progress.


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Women For: OC are Stitching and Bitching
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Santa Ana River Ready for Its Renaissance
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Can Tech Ruin the Kim Pham Murder Trial?
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Orange County RegisterIt appears Greg Haidl now knows his actions carry consequences. Locked up since Nov. 16 for repeatedly violating the conditions of his $100,000 bail, the 19-year-old son of a wealthy, ex-assistant sheriff doesn't want to spend another minute incarcerated. Jail is apparently uncomfortable.
And on Jan. 10, after a judge refused to move him from the Orange County Jail to a private mental-health facility in Costa Mesa, Haidl wept.
The gang-rape suspect's tears and sniffling seemed genuine. Twice, he buried his face in a white handkerchief and noisily sobbed while his usually hard-nosed lawyers patted his back and offered soothing words.
In making his decision, the judge considered a complaint list compiled by Haidl's team of nine attorneys and four doctors: the jail atmosphere is stressful. He can't sleep comfortably. His back hurts. He isn't satisfied with visitation procedures. He wants more privacy. He'd like a new cell and more time on the phone. He thinks scary inmates shouldn't be housed nearby. He's tired of deputies listening to his conversations with other inmates. He's pissed jail officials won't give him better anti-anxiety drugs.
Oh, and he wants something else: affection.
"The kid needs love," testified Dr. Jeffrey I. Barke, co-owner of Newport Medical Consultants and Haidl's latest physician. "He needs TLC . . . and they're not giving him that in jail."
Haidl had already been given one break. Back in November, Superior Court Judge Francisco Brise�o made sheriff's department supervisors guarantee this rape defendant won't be sodomized in jail. And though the judge blocked efforts to release Haidl to a private mental hospital at this latest hearing, he says he wants to be sensitive to the defendant's feelings.
"I'm reluctant to take him off 24-hour surveillance," said Brise�o, who then noted he'd "try to get a greater degree" of concessions for Haidl from the sheriff's department. "I accept the doctor's [Barke] estimate that he's in great need."
While officials study how to make Haidl more comfortable, jury selection began Jan. 11 for the upcoming retrial on gang-rape charges. Opening statements are likely to begin the first week of February. Prosecutor Chuck Middleton says Haidl and two buddies (Kyle Nachreiner and Keith Spann) videotaped themselves raping and molesting an unconscious underaged girl on a pool table during a 2002 Newport Beach party.
The alleged crime began after the defendants, who were drunk, gave a 16-year-old girl beer, marijuana and a glass of Bombay Gin. When the girl became incoherent, they used her for sex and ended the night by shoving a pool stick, Snapple bottle, lit cigarette and juice can into her vagina and anus as they laughed and danced to sexually suggestive rap music. Haidl lost the tape after showing it to friends. Police who recovered the video initially thought the female body in the film was a corpse.
Defense lawyers have offered varying claims, some of them contradictory. In one instance, they claimed the girl had given permission for sex before passing out (which isn't supposed to be a legal defense in California), and then that she'd faked unconsciousness for a necrophilia-themed porno. Elsewhere, they maintained law enforcement doctored the tape to remove exonerating scenes in an effort to ruin Haidl's father, then a multimillionaire assistant sheriff who was close friends with the county's top cop, Sheriff Mike Carona.
If convicted, Haidl, Nachreiner and Spann face sentences ranging from probation to 23 years in prison. In plea negotiations last year, a defense lawyer insisted Haidl receive nothing worse than probation or a short sentence in a privately owned prison. A jury deadlocked last June. Less than a month later, Haidl was arrested and charged with statutory rape of a second underaged girl he'd met while celebrating the jury deadlock. That case also involved alcohol abuse.
The next jury should prepare for mind twisters. Tracking defense-team assertions often requires a flow chart. For example, in October, Haidl violated bail by drinking alcohol, getting high on painkillers and then crashing his 2005 car into oncoming traffic. At the scene, he said he was sober and blamed his appearance on "spicy Indian food." Later, we learned Haidl was extremely intoxicated and had been searching for his Santa Ana drug dealer before the crash. In November, a Haidl psychiatrist—hoping to keep Haidl out of jail and in a mental hospital for alleged suicidal tendencies—testified that his patient had been trying to commit suicide the night of the crash.
That having failed, the defense team offered a new spin on the October crash. On Jan. 10, Dr. Barke said, "The car accident was the result of medication he took and was his way to ease the pain of his depression. I don't think the purpose was to kill himself."
Deputy District Attorney Brian Gurwitz asked Barke if he'd be surprised to hear Dr. Irwin Rosenfeld, Haidl's psychiatrist, had given the court conflicting information about the night of the crash. "No," said Barke, who described himself as a "doctor, counselor and friend" to Haidl. "How we interpret that night is variable."
What's not variable, at least to Barke, is Haidl's condition.
"He's suffering from severe clinical depression, severe anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, and he desperately needs counseling," said the doctor, who called the rape suspect's experiences "horrendous."
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Blake Shelton, Amanda Lambert, Carrie Underwood and several other country singers are my favorite artists right now.
I am LOVING The Zac Brown Band currently!
Ive been listening to 70/80s and older country. All time fav….Journey!
I am enjoying Hillsong music right now.
Mark Knopfler, love his music!
Tool is my fav
Chris Brown, Mary J Blige,Rhianna
I love 70s and 80s music. That's always been my favorite. But some of my current favorites are Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood, Glen Hansard, Brooke White and the Nashville Soundtracks.
Old 60's blues and soul.
I love music and a wireless speaker would be a blessing to have.
I am enjoying the music of Jason Mraz
Been listening to Van Morrison.
I love music and am blessed for an opportunity to win the speakers.
Third Eye Blind is one of my favorite groups.
listening to Dire Straits
70's and 89's rock
Miguel, T-Pain Eminem
Mever Land-Andy Mineo feat. Marz
old elton john songs
Kaskade, Hardwell, Don Diablo, Dillon Francis
Lourdes We are Royals
Rolling Stones and the Beatles.
Drake, Weekend
steely dan
I'm obsessed with Beyonce right now.
allman brothers
Allison Kraus
only the 80s music is all we listen to ..
listening to some southern rock and roll
boz scaggs, 70's rock
Drive By Truckers
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A blend of classic alternative, new wave, and modern indie. Favorite artists include Depeche Mode, Beck, New Order, MGMT, Sisters of Mercy, The Bravery, Gary Numan, The Cure, Ultravox and The Smiths.
I love a mix of the new and old. Some of my favorite artists are influenced by classic 80's new wave. I feel Depeche Mode and New Order did a lot for modern music and much of it sounds just as good today as it did in the 80's. The artists I stream are the artists I listen to on a daily basis. I'm always excited about discovering new music and really enjoy bands like Metric, DOM, MGMT, and Tegan. The station I've put together hopefully reflects that.
Thanks for listening.
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Vienna Jacques: A Glimpse in Transit
Vienna Jacques, one of only two Latter-day Saint women to be mentioned by name in the Doctrine and Covenants (D&C 90), lived in Boston, Massachusetts in 1830, a seeker of religious truth and of a church which she could feel embodied the characteristics of the New Testament. She obtained a copy of the Book of Mormon, read it, and received a confirmation of its divine nature. In 1831 she traveled – alone – from Boston to Kirtland, and was baptized. She then went back to Boston, and in 1833 returned to Kirtland. From then until her dying day, she remained with the body of the Church, donating her hard-won savings to the Church to buy land in Jackson County, moving to Nauvoo, crossing the Plains, and settling in the ward where I now live. She didn't age well, according to some accounts, becoming a lonely and somewhat difficult old lady; nevertheless, she remained faithful. I've visited her grave in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, marked by a small, flat stone nearly buried in the grass.
One of my favorite discoveries from searching old newspapers for Mormon stories is this one, found in a Boston newspaper which reprinted a clipping from another Massachusetts newspaper. The woman quoted in this story is unnamed, but the time, place, and circumstances identify her as Vienna Jacques, returning to Boston following her first visit to Kirtland. While intended to disparage Vienna, it nevertheless preserves the testimony borne to strangers by this remarkable early Latter-day Saint sister:
Courier (Boston, Massachusetts)
10 October 1831
The Hampshire Gazette says – A lady from Ohio informs us that many of the Mormonites in Geauga county have started for the promised land in Missouri; some of them passed through the town in which she resides; their language was – 'We have left Babylon, and are going to Mount Zion.' Among those who have embraced the doctrines of these fanatics are two merchants, and some respectable farmers. One man joined them whose property was estimated at 7,000 dollars.
The lady to whom we have alluded found in the Lake steamboat a Mormonite woman on her return to Boston. She said she had made a journey all the way from Boston to Ohio, to investigate the subject of Mormonism, and had satisfied herself that the Mormon bible was a revelation from God, and the leaders true prophets. She stated that others from Boston had become converts to the new system. She believed that the Mormonites could perform miracles. When asked if she had seen any miraculous operations, she replied that she had seen a person who was very sick suddenly restored to health. On other subjects she conversed like a sensible, pious woman. She stated that she was a Methodist when she left Boston.


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The Army of Crime (L'Armee du Crime)
Dir. Robert Guediguian. France, 2009. 139 min.
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Should have gone to Specsavers....
Whatever the Chinese impose on others in terms of trade tariffs, impose on them. They will soon get the point.
..'.nother tit in the (pay)wall.....
On the NHS? You are kidding right? must be private patients ;)
The NSA.
Its coming in an update after launch:
"The spacecraft exited safe mode at 4:12 p.m. CDT (5:12 p.m. EDT) earlier today"
Typical Windows. I hope they fire the sys admin who booted it into safe mode and forgot to take it out again.
Ext2Read is the utility you want to read MyBookLive drives in windows. Crack open the case, remove the drive and hook it up via sata and run Ext2Read. Voilà.
Then go and buy a better backup solution ;)
Not had a good experience with 2 x WD mybooklives - as soon as there was a power failure the bloody things would not get back on the network. Ended up ripping the case open to get the drive out to read the data.
Bought a Synolgy instead...
GTA should be banned. Think of the children.
Bollocks :D
Its insanely fun, I thought I was slightly mad until I met Trevor this guy is off the reservation in a big way lol - looking forward to MP.
Although I have to think of my state of mind when I enjoyed driving to the top of Mt Chiliad, finding some hikers and pushing them off then parachuting to safety from the cops...;)
As long as its not mushroom shaped then that's ok.
Store data in a Chinese cloud?
<falls off chair laughing>
You are bloody kidding right? What next, filing on the word THE?
So does this mean someone at the NSA is going to be sentenced to 33 years in prison as well?
Thought not.
Or the perps wear balaclavas (sorry stereotyping!) or similar head gear....
A Chinese company registering a trademark?
Anyone else see the Irony here?
You know, I only have absolute respect for these people who go into space and the boffins who get them there. It's a very hostile environment and its a monumental achievement by man (and women!!)
What grated me this morning was reading in the BBC article the statement:
Downing Street has said the case is an "operational matter for the police"
How bloody convenient, the government can say "oh it was the wholly independent police force which stopped Miranda, not us" and sit back and claim no involvement whatsoever despite the fact that it would not just have been the police in the room with Miranda. You can bet your arse M15 were there too.
I do not know if its old age, but I am getting more and more inclined to join / start a new political party to fight these moralless people in "charge". For that statement alone I have probably just marked myself as "troublesome".
In fairness to Obama, and I by no means defend him - the situation in America (and probably the UK) is that the security agencies have become so unwieldy and self propelling organs of self interest that I doubt he has much clue about what they do.
This is brutally evident in the expose on the NSA.
When a country thinks it needs a secret court, secret sealed subpoenas etc then it clearly needs to sit up and re-evaluate what the hell it is actually doing.
1984? We are already WAY beyond that.
"Unlawfully obtaining or accessing personal data is a criminal offence, under the aforementioned Section 55 of the Data Protection Act 1998. The offence is punishable by a fine of up to £5,000 in a magistrates' court or an unlimited fine in a Crown court."
Maybe they should start looking at the ACPO then as well.......
Great leap forward but with only 30 mins flight time I cannot see much use for it tbh.
They should just ban these outrageous in app payments and charge a bit more for the game in the first place. For example, I was looking at the smurfs village the other day an the "smurfberries" are extortionately priced - £99 yes nearly 100 quid, for 2000 of them.
That game will not be going anywhere near my tablet.
NOTE: All payments on my table are password protected so there is no chance of buying these in app purchases but it grates me all the same.
They did not get the IP address to block from Andrew Crossley by any chance?
Wait for the - please block http://*.*
Apple knows that now, if it loses a patent battle case, the ITC decision to ban imports of its new phone will be overturned by Obama so they have nothing to fear.
How the hell did Obama keep a straight face when he made this appointment? Does he seriously think that anyone will believe what Clap Trap says?
The drones are reportedly being withdrawn slowly from Pakistan and Afghanistan - I wonder where they will be going next ? :)
That's diplo speak for "Woohoo we have someone with intimate knowledge of the NSA" but need to be seen to begrudgingly take him in.
In reality, I bet he is being debriefed extensively by the Russians right now.
If I were in charge of Samsung, I would pull out of the American market entirely. They do not need them based on their sales. Leave the US "innovate" and see how long it takes for them to go "oops we cocked up".
Obama, you have just made the US justice system and the ITC (if it were not already) a laughing stock.
So, a private charity can request highly personal information through a private company (ACPO)?
The ICO should be crawling all over this.
Thank your lucky stars you did not have any tomatoes with you....
"depleted uranium shot" WTF? in a shotgun?!?!
On one I had I absolutely support the artists in the royalty rate saga but on the other hand these artists took the devils payment when they signed with the money grabbing music companies. Spotify is partly owned by the big music companies so the blame while not completely absolving spotify, needs to go back to the labels the artists have signed with.
If I were a group of unhappy artists I would start my own streaming company purely for artists and have a sustainable model for payments to said artists. Trouble is, I suspect a lot of the bigger bands out there like the money that comes in from being signed to a big label - trouble is you cannot have it both ways.
BTW This in no way supports the behaviour of the labels, I personally think they are parasites, but hey.
On the artist side, I buy music from sites such as http://bandcamp.com which is direct from the artist and not a label.
In my opinion if you need secret laws then something is clearly wrong.
The only way this will change is by radical upheaval of so called democracy. ALL laws and policy should be subject to a public voting system, (after all this is democracy right?) otherwise you will always be at the whim of a select few. Yes this may result in some extraordinary decisions but hey, that's life.
The revelations from the NSA, GCHQ, Mossad etc are nothing new - they have been doing this for YEARS. Snowden should be bloody knighted in my opinion, as he has taken a huge personal risk to expose the lies and corruption in our societies neatly covered as "legal" by the very same people who make the law.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely - period.
One word if you want to stop these people in their tracks :
encryption, encryption, encryption.
This used to be just for the paranoid but I even paranoid people are being watched.
What is not funny is that when HS is built it will probably be quicker to jump on a train with a large file to send to London on a USB Stick than it will be to send it on some crappy connections......
Most people buy music from (insert your store / app store here) when they have heard the track. Every time a song is played on air that is promoting it.
In the beginning, the music labels had to beg radio stations to play tracks and now they charge for it. This is like me charging you every time you walk past my theoretical car showroom just because you saw my intellectual property.
I have always been fiercely against these licenses as if it was not for the DJ's, radio stations etc promoting the artists they would not have a business in the first place. Also requiring people to pay for licences for listening to the radio in a work place is frankly taking the piss.
Just for absolute fun, it would be good to hack these and put your own message in :)
"Hello, this is God" *
*Watch Real Genius.....
That countries like the US and the UK can snoop so broadly and so secretly and call it "lawful" when they make the laws themselves.
Its akin to giving a thief the keys to a bank and saying please look after it.
This guy is a bloody hero for exposing what a lot of people knew but could not prove was happening, read the "Puzzle Palace" by James Banford for one and the "Shadow Factory" to understand it has been going on for a very long time all under the guise of "lawful".
In today's climate, can they justify 4m on this?
Governments really have lost the plot.
Its simple - I just do not tell myself the secret that I need to keep and thus I cannot post it online or email it or store it on my computer.
Its completely secure :)
Disclaimer : I am an avid Android user
In my humble opinion, no matter what hardware Apple make, it's the UI that lets it down for me. Its just not configurable how I would want to use it.
My opinion on iphones are further skewed by the fact that kicking and screaming, I was given a 4S for work and it truly is shite. Battery life is poor and it drops calls 85% of the time even with a condom around it (figuratively speaking)
Well spotted sir.
For those who want to view without silverlight and just flash:
Another foreseeable waste of taxpayers money.
The BBC (read taxpayer) is forced to fund it, forced to buy local content, the coverage will be small, and more than likely, completely ignored by all locals except those forced to watch it in care homes, doctors surgeries etc.
Hmm, I can see this being a roaring success.....
Ah, that information is buried forever on the PNC and you cannot have it so there.
The PNC should not hold old convictions / cautions UNLESS they are of a serious nature / involve vulnerable people (ie children). How does a caution / slap on the wrist (or back in the day a clip around the ear) for say stealing a mars bar from Woolies 30 years ago bear any influence whatsoever to any future behaviour? Such minor incidents serve just to cement the fact that give any establishment the ability to hold information on you and they will expand it out of all proportion on the weak premise of "just in case". Minor incidents should be wiped off after the 8 year period as detailed in the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act for spent convictions, anything less is a travesty and downright goes far beyond orwellian.
As a nation, we seem to be moving (or realistically have moved) more and more into the realm of constant surveillance and monitoring of ordinary people under the guise of "terrorism" (please) or crime prevention (really?) and seem to be able to do nothing about it. Writing to your MP is about as ineffectual on any matter as asking your dog to do the same, protests just seem to mark you for life for being "disruptive" and no doubt added to some database anyway. To me, democracy is an illusion or another way, democracy is the ability to vote in the next dictator.
Once they have these databases, they become seductive and at that point you might as well try to walk on water rather than get them to give them up.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I cannot emphasize that statement strongly enough.
No doubt not writing anonymously will mark me as a "troublemaker" but hey, fuck it.
More to the point, these are the ones they KNOW about. I bet there are lot of things the NSA do that the companies are blissfully unaware of to their data.
oooh you are SO going on the naughty chair for that many bombs....
Dammit, so am I....
People seem to think this has only just happened when in fact this has been going on for a very long time.
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Find out what is next for the fast moving world of mobile technology in this Virgin.com guest blog...
The wonders of mobile technology are here to stay, and the days of manual, so-called analog business transactions are inching out the door.
In case you havent noticed yet, the world is moving towards a phase where hands-free and hassle-free purchases and transactions can be done in minutes.
Ever since Walmart came up with the idea of using radio frequency identification (RFID ) chips for its supply chain management, entrepreneurs have been coming up with more and more ways for integrating technology into their business than ever before.
With the pace of technological developments today, it wont be long before we see entire supermarkets and malls equipped with RFID sensors and other cool shiny gadgets that will allow the consumers of the next fifty years (perhaps even less) to shop using their mobile devicesand only their mobile devices.
Dont believe me? Just wait for time to pass and youll soon be nodding agreement. In fact with new technology coming to the forefront like SquareUp, these changes might just be right around the corner.
The mobile revolution started with a rather simple gadgetthe telephonebefore things really began to get rolling. Who would have predicted that apart from enabling communication over long distances, the humble telephone would be converted into a powerful entrepreneurial tool that gives people the opportunity not just to talk, but also to shop?
Communication is Key
Mobile technology is both super-fast and accessible. The ability of mobile devices to allow people to send and receive information whenever and wherever they may be (provided there is network coverage) has taken mobile technology use to a whole new level.
Studies show that mobile use is spreading like wildfire across consumer groups at a rate faster than even PC or internet use was embraced by people. When you have a large pool of individuals using a particular communication technology like mobile devices, you have an avenue that allows you to communicate to and get to know your consumer public more intimately.
We all know that knowledge is power, and nowhere else is this clich most appreciated than in the realm of business. There is nothing more important for an entrepreneur than to stay on top of technology and new business practices, and keep an ear to the ground regarding what their customers want.
Mobile devices allow an entrepreneur to do just that: they are now able to talk to their customers, suppliers and staff in real time to determine exactly how each one is responding to particular situations, and determine exactly what they want and need.
An informed entrepreneur is a success in the making, because he knows how to approach his consumers and how to deliver his offerings in just the right way.
You can take all the customer relationship management courses you want, but unless you find an effective, cheap and accessible avenue for consumers to talk to you and vice versa, all that education is pretty much moot.
Back to the Future
Forget having to manually check the shelves for missing stock, waiting in line to pay for purchases or even grabbing a glossy new magazine from the supermarket counter. Mobile devices are now the in thing to use when youre inside your favorite store.
The mobile world of today is all about letting people do more than just make calls and send messages through their mobile devices. Our phones have gotten smarter, smaller and packed with more exciting capabilities. Entrepreneurs and mobile experts are teaming up together to find ways to make the shopping experience of the 21st century truly amazing.
All this is made possible by the development of brave new mobile applications that have been especially designed to cater to the needs of consumers who are simply enamored with mobile devices.
So the best solution was to come up with software that will give them access to whatever is inside your store without ever setting foot in it. And they dont even have to go online to do thatthey just need to place their orders via SMS or a dedicated number for subscribers and voila! Their shopping is done.
Benefits to Mobile Marketing
Mobile marketing allows you to introduce your new products and services right in front of the faces of your consumers.
They can download product specifications and check reviews while pushing their shopping cart around the store.
They dont even have to ask your staff where a particular item is locatedyou can just send them an interactive map of your store layout so they know where to find what they need.
Finally, they can pay through electronic devices without the hassle of paper receipts and manual punching of prices on a cash register.
To top things off you can even create a customer feedback line that they can access within your premises so you know exactly how they think and feel about certain things like your current store decoration, ambiance and product variety.
From stock replacement to customer payment, mobile marketing is becoming the next big tool in an entrepreneurs arsenal of tricks.
Of course, even with all the potential of mobile marketing, theres also a bit of a downside to going mobile and using all this wonderful technology efficiently.
Currently the major downside entrepreneurs have to brace themselves for before jumping onto the mobile marketing bandwagon is the cost of installing and maintaining all that spectacular technology.
Having RFID readers and whatnot on every shelf and checkout counter in your store will definitely cost you a good deal of money, so you better save up for it.
Apart from the actual gadget purchases youll have to make, you have to do regular maintenance on the software and hardware plus regular training for your staff so they know how to work your new machines.
Then again, if the fast-paced development of mobile marketing and the booming consumer use of mobile devices are any indication, you can rest assured that you will be able to see handsome returns on your investment real soon.
Cori Padgett is a freelance writer and the creative brains and dubious brawn behind her blog Big Girl Branding. You can also follow her on twitter.
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Towards the end of winter I start getting the warm weather itch and cant wait to pull my bike outta storage..... But now I feel like im starting to forget all about her cus this snow anxiety is killin me. Oh well it will feel good to get on her again come march/april and hit warp speed on the highway.... Still havent moved her from my livingroom to the storage spot for the winter so I get to sit on her still when I eat dinner:D (hope these show up)
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Ahhhg, boner-inducing envy of you guys right now. One of my neighbors has some shitty older road bike, but every time I hear him fire it up I'm like, "I really need one of those....". I would probably kill myself though, I'm crazy enough as it is on a bicycle.
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Move to Atlanta. We have nicely paved roads and warm riding 8 months out of the year. 10+ months if you don't mind throwing on some winter gear.
Unfortunately, my R1 is currently in the shop :-(
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Gary Schwartz keynotes on the history of digital duct tape and how it is connecting things (IoT) on the new physical WEB.
25 min keynote in Abu Dhabi at the St Regis Hotel. WSA Mobile Global Congress, 2015
Before we celebrate our successes, let's look at another vertical: Cities. Like stores, their consumers are changing, their services need to adapt. IBM invested approximately $350 million in smart city technology and marketing trying to reinvent the metropolitan centers globally and have perhaps made 10 % return on this effort. But 557,000 cities spend $4.5 trillion per year, 10% of the global GDP.
According my colleague, Sascha Haselmayer, the CEO of CityMart in Barcelona, 0% of cities publish their needs, a mere 10% of cities engage with business that have new solutions and 70% only trust existing solution providers. Killer apps such as Shared Bicycles globally have taken 20 years to reach 0.1% of the market.
Why? Because cities look at a problem: Say, street lights for the blind and they focus on procuring a solution for street lights. Whereas, they should be looking to find a solution for the blind. Minnesota spent their budget on a talking street lights. Stockholm, on the other hand did not. It provided a device to its blind population that empowered them all the time (not just at street lights) and made them feel 90% less disabled and saved the city 20 million per year.
Why am I talking about cities in an article on stores?
Because we need to understand the challenges we face and embrace what we do well in order to do it better. Yes, are inundated with vendors that offer to change our world and it is a challenge to weed through the solutions and find pilots and trials. But we do.
I cannot tell you how many times I have sent an article on something that Jason Newport at Carat is doing with Macy's and have been asked to investigate how we can do this in our store. Maybe it is because we feel that we are under siege in the retail vertical and need to trial and innovate?
Well to all the innovators that are reading this article, I want to ask you to explore a very simple sea change in the way you need to adapt the world in 2015. The retail mall, the city and the shopper are all about to change profoundly.
This change is not based on a technology as much as a new way of looking at the mobile landscape. Until now, we have seen the store as Minnesota saw their traffic light challenge: "How do we adapt our streetlights to service our blind population?"
Minnesota got their best and brightest on the task and solved this problem. However, we know that Minnesota should have asked a different question: "How do we best service our blind population?"
"Spend 90% of the time framing the question. And 10% on the solution," as Albert Einstein once said.
Retailers are very good at finding solutions for "traffic lights." We have trials and jettisoned countless solutions and won industry accolades for them in the process. We celebrate innovation but we often miss the ROI award.
What are the questions? Well perhaps they are:
Or maybe we need to refashion the questions with the independent, mobile empowered shopper at the center:
Take our retail marketing departments. Our CMOs go to work every day and try to better position their products and services to the marketplace. They get to work and instead of marketing these products and services, they try and drive their app download.
Instead of marketing themselves they are marketing Apple.
Now, this understandable. Apple makes its money selling hardware. One of the reasons it has always succeeded is because it can bundle content seamlessly with an iPod or iPhone. To do this, Apple spends a large amount of its marketing dollars on helping developers. It publishes simple SDKs to help developers build better apps faster. Then they provide a virtual main street and allow retailers to publish their stores to their storefront.
There is nothing wrong with this; however, let me ask the following questions:
"What is a mobile app?" Could it be that our stores are apps? Could our shelves be apps? Could our products be apps? And the phone could be the trigger.
There is a new term in town, The Internet of Things (or IoT for those in the know). This is big. Why? Because it could force us to ask the correct questions.
The IoT is really an extension of good old machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. What the industry calls telemetry (tele – distance metry = measurement). With mobility, we have consumerized telemetry. Every modern phone has a compass, gyroscope, accelerometer ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, and many other ways of seeming sentient and smart. These sensors allow apps on your phone to also be smart and capture all sorts of information on the phone user and adapt accordingly. It also allows the app to transmit this data for medical, wellness, business needs to the cloud.
The phone was the first IoT thing. We took a rotary dial object, made it portable with a mobile network and then gave it all these smart sensors to allow it to be an ambient device.
In the IoT of 2015, everything you can shake a stick at has the potential of being an IoT thing. The lighting system in your store, the POS, the electric switches and garbage disposal units. All inanimate things have the ability with sensor and business logic of becoming much more efficient and intelligent in their tasks.
So when a retailer looks at their store this year, do they want to think of putting their store on the app store or making their store into an app? When the digital web is becoming a physical web (See Google's Github post: https://google.github.io/physical-web/),perhaps we need to repatriate the interactivity of our stores from the app store and infuse it into our bricks and mortar?
Ah, good question. Well the first thing that many well says is use a $20 beacon. This is a good answer. If you have an investment in apps and need to connect the app to the store, a beacon is a good solution.
But if you want to go IoT on the status quo and put the store back in the center, start to delight your mobile consumer by offering smartphone like services in the aisle and counter.
Does your store have Wi-Fi? Well a mobile consumer is a connected consumer. Let them offload their social Wi-Fi data needs onto your network. Act as a gateway to the web and be the concierge.
If this simple move did not intimidate Apple, they would not have made such a privacy fuss about nothing by hashing the phone unique identifier. (Privacy for pseudonymous consumers can be addresses without Apple's deus ex machina approach.)
Wi-Fi offers the store (from basic VAS to super enhanced value):
The store becomes the smart IoT things and the phone becomes the IoT trigger. The investment is back in the store's domain and cannot not be disintermentiated.
Tie this engagement to wallet and coupon, and the solution becomes more and more sexy. And you thought IoT was something futuristic? Start being the innovators you are and begin asking the right questions.
Read on RetailTouch Points @ http://www.retailtouchpoints.com/features/executive-viewpoints/the-retail-internet-of-things-iot-turning-your-store-into-an-app
Gary is the CEO of Impact Mobile, Inc. and author of The Impulse Economy and Fast Shopper, Slow Store, which were published by Simon & Schuster, Atria Imprint. He also is working on a new book, covering the Internet of Things as the new app store. Schwartz founded and chaired the mobile committee for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) helping to establish a joint task force between the IAB, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) and the Media Rating Council (MRC) to develop global mobile measurement standards for which he received an IAB award for industry excellence in 2009. He was elected for three terms as the Chairman of MEF North America and currently is the Global Director of Location Based Marketing Association; the Executive Chairman of 4More Innovation (Thinkwire platform on Twitter) and Special Adviser to The Wireless Registry.
Retailer Innovator 2014 Awards: Gary Schwartz on innovation 2:30 min interview.
Retail Innovator 2014: Gary Schwartz on "Who drives innovation?" If you focus on technology you lose the retail mission of connecting to your customer. One minute interview at the Retail Touchpoints' Retail Innovator Award. June 18th 2014
HEDNA.org Brussels Conference, June 2014 Keynote by Gary Schwartz on the Internet of Things and how it impacts your hotels and the relationship you have with your guests.
While the phone will continue to connect people to people, it will increasingly connect machine to machine. The new phone will amplify, control and navigate the world around us. Many call this the Internet of Things (IOT).
The IOT is about how to talk to your washing machine as your friend. Maintain a relationship with your baby as if you were beside them in the crib. It is about finally having the basketball tell you how it thinks you have played and could improve your game. It is about having plants talk to you and shoes become your eyes. It is about clicking, signalling calling, texting, waving, approaching inanimate things and making them into digital, active, responsive stuff.
The digital app store is expanding to a new app store of objects for our home, work, and travel.
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When Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, took the stage at CES in Vegas this year and announced that there was a difference between The Internet of Things (IOT) and the Internet of Everything (IOE), many cried "semantics". But there is a difference and one that ripped across the US to the National Retailer Federation (NRF) Big Show at the Javits Centre in New York.
IOT, according to Chambers, is made up of billions of connected objects; however, IOE are the smart networks that are required to support all the data these objects generate and transmit. What will help move the IOT into the IOE and drive what Chambers predicts to be a $19 trillion in new revenue by 2020?
IOE requires a universal solution to tie the billions of sensor data into an intelligent device and system agnostic solution.
To our detriment, we are so focused on the idea of a hardware (IOT) solving all our problems that we neglected that simple insight that all these hardware solutions require a method of managing the people and service behind them.
The industry needs a wireless domain (DNS) naming solution that can provide profile, tools and privacy controls to enterprise and the consumer.
When I was invited to sit on a panel at the launch of the new wireless registry (www.wirelessregistry.com) at the NRF show and I realized that this registry could be the silver-bullet platform.
50 Billion Things
When Cisco, Qualcomm, IBM and other set up shop at NRF to talk retail, the IOT verse IOE discussion continued. Brand agencies such as Ogilvy were pitching a solution using Qualcomm's wireless Gimbel platform to solve retail engagement in the store. Qualcomm's Gimbel platform is essentially an IOE riding on Apple's IOT's iBeacons? Mobile Location Analytics (MLAs) companies that collect consumer behavioural analytics, are a big data IOE play riding on the IOT emitting from the phone and anchored to its MAC address
There are a proliferation of IOE solutions using different technology that require different CAPEX and resources.
Presently there are an estimated 10 billion sensors globally. This is predicted to grow to 50 billion sensors by 2020. Imagine the wireless noise we can anticipate as we move from city to city, street to street, aisle to aisle.
There are barriers everywhere:
How will the consumer navigate this noise? How will the retailer, brand, entertainment provider select from the exploding list of vendors selling various solutions using LTE identification, WiFi MAC identification, Bluetooth MAC, IMEI, etc.
My Wireless Name
The phone in 2014 is becoming less of a Cracker Jack container that acts as a repository of millions of sundry apps, and more of an intelligent device that performs as a server that can manage our world through smart profiling and APIs.
Think about it. We have been hoodwinked by the OEMs to believe that an application store tethered to a phone can deliver any service, entertainment, widget. The app store was a marketplace to the world: clocks, measuring tapes, cash registers, coupon dispensers, shopping lists, ad infinitum.
Google's acquisition of Nest is good example of the changing landscape where the app will live in the IOT and the device will simply be the profile and the auto-controller. The 94Fifty smart basketball, the Sensible Baby smart sensor monitor, the remote Vibeasy vibrator: all use the phone as the remote control manager.
A service such as The Wireless Registry can offer a naming protocol that can work agnostically with all the in-market sensor solutions and offer a central repository for a retailer, brand, and entertainment provider's identity. Any existing wireless signal (SSID) that a coffee shop or a big-box retail transmits can now have a name (Starbucks, GAP, Walmart) with an accompanying sophisticated profile. A consumer that has a phone, tablet and PC can now attach a personal name and wireless profile to their MAC addresses.
When the retail and consumer wireless signals bump in the proximal world, the consumer profile can do a simple look up can see what offers, services, commerce is available to them based on their specific identity. The consumer can also block unwanted solicitation answering Jules Polonetsky and the Privacy Commission's concerns around "do-not-track".
Now the consumer is in full control of their identity and the phone becomes an intelligent server interacting with the world of wireless signals based on that consumer preferences.
While this solution can interface with existing apps on the phone, ultimately the profile and preferences can be baked into the OS as part of the devices DNA.
Until later. Yours truly from my MAC address aka "MOBILEGUY"
There must be the equivalent of Moore's Law for the speed of turning mobile intent-into-action and mobile path-into-purchase. Technology and patents are rippling through the marketplace that drive measurable efficiencies for brands, retailers and their consumers.
This week Amazon predicted that small, unmanned drone aircraft could be delivering packages within a year. Many have viewed the fun look-see video showing a web purchase and immediate dispensing of a 2.3 kilograms box into the carriage of a buzzing drone and after a short flight, a smiling kid waiting for the package at the doorstep.
(And before we tackle any ensuing U.S. Federal Aviation Administration regulatory issues of landing a package in a backyard ball hockey game or logistical issues such as possible "drone chasers" who maybe on the hunt to pick up drop offs nationally, let's talk bras. . . )
While Bezos was pitching Drones, Microsoft announced research on sensors built into female lingerie, which collects EKG activity near the heart that predicts a "cookie snack attack" and sends a notification to the smartphone.
The month before, Motorola joined other patent holders such as Nokia/Microsoft that are positioning epidermal haptic feedback tattoos to speed up the connection between wanting-to-connect to the phone and connecting.
All of the above future-facing ideas are attempting to do one thing: anticipate intent and eliminate barriers.
In short, these solutions optimize the process of turning mobile intent-into-action and mobile path-into-purchase.
From purchase to delivery, from munchies to mobile warning, from tattoo sensor activation to phone activation is ideally all one blink, no needless hesitation, no undue thought.
In The Impulse Economy book, I spent 300 pages discussing the value of impulse. All mobile action is predicated on a paving a smooth path. Any bump en route drives precipitous drop off and abandonment.
Intent to take action (such as buy, opt-in, download) is a fragile thing and on a mobile device this dance between the seller and the buyer is even more perilous.
A Better Mouse Trap
The entire purchase process is like designing a good mouse trap. We see a call-to-action (trap well positioned at the mouse entrance); the good price or value proposition (cheese); quick ramp up to the product (platform) and a fast trigger mechanism to close the deal (hammer).
While our response may be based on previous advertising or experiential conditioning the sale is all based on how well the brand has built the process. Many brands focus on the pickup and well they should but sitting pretty on the physical or virtual shelf is not good enough. P&G labeled the sitting pretty moment: FMOT – the "First Moment Of Truth".
(No not "Follow Me On Twitter")
This is the moment when the customer sees the product and in a 5 x 5 (5 seconds by 5 foot) moment throws that product into the shopping basket. But we know that many shoppers will leave their shopping baskets and exit the store if the line is too long or the checkout is too cumbersome.
Moreover, shopping is not a linear process. We may research the product in what Google calls the ZMOT (zero moment of truth) and only rebuy the product if the product performs in the kitchen, livingroom or bathroom. (What the FMOT folk at P&G call the Second Moment of Truth)
Coining a new efficiency law
But for all this shopping science, the consumer is very grounded in decision and reward. To close a deal, buy a product, opt-in to affinity programs, the industry needs to find ways to speed up the purchase cycle.
We know the famous Moore's Law shows that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. Martin Cooper coined the mobile spectrum equivalent of Moore's Law that spectral efficiency has doubled every 30 months since Marconi patented the wireless telegraph in 1897.
There is a mobile path-to-purchase law to be coined.
Intent-to-action efficiency doubled every X months. As an industry, ideas that work are the innovative ideas that drive this efficiency, optimize process and speed up the loop from call-to-action to action.
What is X?
Part II: Wild Turkeys (continuing from the Nov 26th post)
Here are three tips on identifying elusive innovation and finding a black swan. I had just returned knobbly kneed from a trip through South Asia and Russia. I attended three conferences and was just decompressing on Thanksgiving and felt obligated to continue the turkey analogy from the previous post.
1. Bottling Innovation
On the road at various industry events, the keynote always seems to start with innovation. The word has been peppered into panels and keynotes as in the place of the term "technology." It is as if by magically by using the word "innovation" it will prime the techno-entrepreneur's pump.
This is not a bad thing. It certainly gets the attention of the patriarchs. The Moscow Open Innovation Forum was keynoted by Dmitry Medvedev, prime minister of Russia, accompanied by the prime ministers of France and Finland. The World Summit Awards in Colombo, Sri Lanka, was opened by the country's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Innovation is associated with fresh ideas and out-with-the-old. At each event, the youth innovators are marched out bushy-tailed and bright-eyed. Mr. Medvedev and Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson posed smiling with the winning youth delegates.
The challenge is that while we all want to celebrate innovation, it is a difficult to bottle it. We find it hard to present it as a formula. Disruptive innovation is central for businesses that want to survive and stay competitive.
Incumbent players such as the wireless carrier want to appear light-footed and on the next wave, but the discussion generally gravitates to bemoaning the OTT competitors – that are never in the room – and proposing that the ecosystem is not sustainable.
There is unquestionably innovation, creativity and energy in the room, but we tend to present "wow," and not the ingredients to cook up the same "wow" at home.
We chase mobile ideas to improve our retail business when, in fact, the sexiest thing about innovation is the resulting customers, sales and EBITDA.
2. Digital Inequality
Clearly, innovation is fueled by connectivity. I met with the Nikolai Nikiforov, Russian minister of communications and mass media and the youngest person in that country's history to take over a ministerial position at the tender age of 29.
We talked about "digital inequality" in Russia and as well as other nations and how this is one of the biggest inhibitors of innovation. How can Russia future-proof its mobile network infrastructure to allow for universal access to high-speed Internet for the data-dependent business, education, health and entertainment services that will appear over the next decade?
"Electromagnetic spectrum is the crude oil of last-mile connectivity." Mr. Nikiforov wants high-speed fiber with wireless relay into every community of 500 and above. The challenge is finding the funds and partnership.
When Peter Diamandis, the charismatic cofounder of Singularity University, took the stage, connectivity became a firebrand. "We have not started." In ten years distance will mean nothing.
"Where you live and where you work do not need to be the same," Mr. Diamandis said.
3. Crowd-Sourcing Innovation
So, for those of us that cannot cook up innovation, we know there is abundant creativity out there that we can tap into and global access and connectivity is making this possible.
Apple has shown us that by creating a marketplace for ideas, developers have risen to the challenge. The app store is a case study in innovation: The smarts of Steve Jobs to provide an SDK and audience and the smarts of app shops globally in designing for every possible user need.
So there is much talk about how to best crowd-source innovation globally. After all the discussion of innovation and digital access, we can focus on harvesting business ideas that work.
Mr. Diamandis showed how his first X-Prize challenge of $10 million to build a reusable rocket to take humans into orbit generated more than $100 million in R&D.
This ability to link innovation with connectivity allows entrepreneurs such as Sascha Haselmayer, CEO of CityMart, to build a crowd-sourcing engine for more than 80 cities globally. His engine allows for ideas to be vetted and adopted all through a remote online process. Sascha's engine is a blueprint for crowd sourcing retail innovation.
So innovation has a retail formula and it is:
Black Swan innovation = connectivity for all + a readily accessible global market place


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VW's strong incentives in the US mean that dealers continue to do brisk business despite the emissions crisis. However, inventories are now very low, and that doesn't look to change in the coming weeks.
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Dear Editor:
I hope you're getting a number of emails or notes like this one! I just read your article in this week's Black Mountain News about the "new" source for fresh seafood in Black Mountain. Well, not quite.
We are part-time residents (from southwest Florida) and have been ordering fresh seafood from Becki Janes, of Becki's Bounty, for several years. Becki has been in the business for about 10 years, relying on Carolina Wild Seafood in much the same way as that described in the submitted article.
Becki takes orders by 10 a.m. on Thursdays for pick-up on Friday or Saturday. Everything we have ever purchased from her has been first-class. She also sells wonderful produce raised right here on her property on Hiawassee Avenue.
Becki originally welcomed "the competition," but reading that the new Black Mountain Seafood Market is a "first" was a bit hard, for her and for a lot of us, to swallow.
Please consider some sort of correction, or at the very least, a great photo of Becki at the Saturday morning Tailgate Market on Montreat Road, with an appropriate caption. Becki's loyal customers would appreciate it.
Becki can be reached at (cell) 828-775-9251 or e-mail beckisbounty@ gmail.com.
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The good news is that the Black Mountain Tailgate Market (BMTM) carries fresh seafood and has for the past six years via Becki Janes from Carolina Wild Seafood in Kitty Hawk. The even better news is that the seafood is collected directly from fisherman and taken to Carolina Wild Seafood's partner company, Carawan's Seafood in Kitty Hawk, where it is professionally cut, weighed, packaged, and labeled with price per pound, portion weight, and date of packaging.
The seafood is immediately packed on ice and driven to our area on Thursday night to insure peak freshness for Friday delivery. The seafood is maintained on ice until direct sale to the customer. The fish, shrimp, and scallops are never exposed to air and temperatures are monitored to ensure proper refrigeration of the product.
The BMTM appreciates the opportunity to serve our customers fresh, high quality, properly handled seafood provided by Becki's Bounty and Carolina Wild Seafood.
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This is to correct the item in the last Black Mountain News about availability of fresh seafood from the coast of North Carolina.
I personally have bought seafood, fresh, not frozen, from Becki Janes at the Black Mountain Tailgate Market for more than two years and I know she has been selling it longer than that so it has been easily available and the "new" market is not the first by any means.
Becki emails the list of what she will have before the weekend so we can order what we want. That's pretty personal service, if I may say so!
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Dear Editor:
The photo Mr. Begley showed in the May 29 edition - it just so happens that a very few weeks ago I sent a clipping from the Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper of the first aerial view of the hospital through Mary Hemphill for the museum at Black Mountain.
Construction on the hospital commenced in May 1942 and the work greatly added funds to an area hamstrung by the Great Depression. The money it took to build the hospital was in excess of $5,000,000 and it served many soldiers who were sick or wounded during the war. I`ll stop at this point because I don't want to steal Mr. Begley's thunder.
My mother worked at Moore General as a stenographer for the Red Cross and my father was the Protestant Post Chaplain at the VA Hospital at Oteen (having pastored the First Baptist Church of Black Mountain for six and a half years in the 30's).
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I am delighted that EPA has finally moved to abate the disastrous impacts of climate change by regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But, given the adverse reaction from the coal industry, the agency should have issued parallel regulations on emissions from meat industry operations. Each state could then determine its own optimal strategy for curbing greenhouse gases.
A 2006 U.N. report estimated that meat production accounts for 18 percent of man-made greenhouse gases. A 2009 article in the respected World Watch magazine suggested that the contribution may be closer to 50 percent.
The meat industry generates carbon dioxide by burning forests to create animal pastures and by combustion of fossil fuels to confine, feed, transport, and slaughter animals. The much more damaging methane and nitrous oxide are discharged from digestive tracts of cattle and from animal waste cesspools, respectively.
In the meantime, each of us can reduce the devastating effects of climate change every time we eat. Our local supermarket offers a rich variety of plant-based lunch meats, hotdogs, veggie burgers, and dairy product alternatives, as well as ample selection of vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts. Product lists, easy recipes, and transition tips are readily available online.
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No ID, no vote
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I am a Black Mountain native. I read the article from Anne Welsh on "Who stands for democracy" and her concern in asking for a I.D at the polls.
You must show an ID at the library as well as other places.
Nothing wrong with insuring that only valid American citizens get to vote in our elections. This is democracy at its finest. No ID, no vote.
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In Bob Gunn's enthusiastic account (What Voter Fraud? - June 5-11) of "speaking truth to power" about voter fraud to Nathan Ramsey, he neglects to mention that the voter repression he saw was all done by elected Democrats in the past, who now have donned the mantle of "voting rights."
The N.C. State Board of Elections determined that more than 35,000 North Carolina voters who voted in the 2012 General Election also voted in another state. The Pasquotank County Board of Elections found 57 of 60 voter challenges to be fraudulent in 2013. The Pasquotank County and N.C. State BOE hearings are proof that if there is a system in place to identify voters, fraud can be identified.
I wonder if Mr. Gunn would have denied the extent of domestic violence or child abuse based on the number of convictions before the institution of better laws which caused increased reporting of such crimes.
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CULVER CITY, Calif. (AP) - It's not just a single life that gets toted up when Shirley MacLaine receives a career award. It's all her lives - past, present and future.
MacLaine earned the American Film Institute's life-achievement award Thursday night with friends and colleagues praising her accomplishments in this life - and cracking jokes about the reincarnation believer's other lives.
Jack Black presented a hilarious reel of himself congratulating MacLaine at life-achievement honors from prehistoric times to the Elizabethan era to U.S. colonial days. Carrie Fisher described MacLaine as some lucky future person's past life. Jack Nicholson said MacLaine loves her audiences and is the only person outside the clergy promising them eternal life.
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I have been a BCR volunteer for the past 15 months. Prior to becoming a volunteer I was a donor/supporter. Big Cat Rescue volunteers are the most dedicated and hard-working group of people I have ever met. The well-being of the cats is first and foremost. Big Cat Rescue's mission is to 1) Care for the Cats and 2) End the trade.
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TOPEKA, Kan.-- A Topeka man will stand trial in the shooting of a Clay Center woman- but on a lesser charge than prosecutors sought.
The Clay Center Dispatch reports a judge Friday bound Tracey Hackey over on a charge of second degree attempted murder.
He was charged with attempted first degree murder but the paper says Judge Bill Malcolm ruled evidence of premeditation was lacking.
Hackney is accused in the December fourth shooting of Terry Buskirk in Clay Center.
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