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The Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen, has welcomed the latest official economic growth figures from the CSO which show the economy expanded at a rate of 6% last year.
Mr Cowen said the rate of expansion was greater than most commentators had expected.
However, he warned that despite the size, strength, and length of Ireland's economic success, it can not be taken for granted.
The Minister said that Ireland was part of an increasingly competitive global environment and needed to trade to prosper.
He said the country must build on its competitiveness by keeping taxes low, keeping costs in check, and by building a better public infrastructure.
Mr Cowen added that budget responsibility was the best guarantee of future sustainability.
The Minister for Finance also said that the Government's plans for the future were dependent on maintaining a strong economy.
He warned that without economic growth, the Government would not have the resources to reform taxes, or fund mprovements in public services.
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IBEC, the business representative body, has said that there is no comfort in today's figures.
The figures point to a slowdown in the housing sector which IBEC says intensifies the need to sell more of our goods and services abroad if living standards are to be maintained.
The organisation said the 2.9% decline in exports in the final quarter of the year was a dismal performance.
David Croughan, IBEC's chief economist said this is a measure of the loss of competitiveness that has resulted from unbalanced economic growth in recent years and that it cannot be sustained in the medium term.
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The CSO figures published today showed a growth rate, as measured by gross domestic product, of 6% for the year as a whole, boosted by a good performance by industry as well as strong growth in consumer spending.
Gross national product (GNP) growth was 7.4%, the best figure since 2000.
But the national accounts show a slowing of housing activity in the final quarter of last year.
The numbers also suggest that Irelands export boom is over, with the volume of goods exported down by 2.4% by the end of the year.
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Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso's government says it has fired 136 policemen who were involved in a mutiny last year.
Thursday's statement also said 32 policemen were reprimanded and two got warnings for joining soldiers in the April and May mutinies.
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Sexuality: Christian Friend or Foe?
- 2009 Mar 05
In Christians, Non-Christians, and the "Fully Man" Problem With Jesus, I wrote that I equate having a sex drive with necessarily being sinful insofar as Jesus said, "Do not commit adultery. But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." I then joked that virtually every man with a sex drive looks at a woman lustfully at least once a day---"maybe twice, if he's had a good night's sleep."
A reader responded with a comment that caught my attention. He said, "I'm not sure about [your] comment about equating a sex drive with being sinful. Having one is not sinful if it's kept under control, and self control IS part of the fruit of the spirit."
So here we have the idea that a devout Christian, through the power of the Holy Spirit, is capable of so utterly controlling his sex drive that he actually stops having lustful thoughts about women. The Holy Spirit, in effect, simply short-circuits his lustful thoughts.
The model of the Pure-Minded Christian is certainly common enough, is it not? It's within the shadow of this assumed ideal that so many Christians struggle so mightily (and worthily!) to be constantly blameless before God.
Relative to the nature of sexuality, I think there are two very different kinds of Christian men. The first considers their sexuality their enemy, in that it constantly compels them to offend God. The second considers their sexuality their friend, in that it constantly reminds them of their profound humanity, and of the literally unfathomable power with which God has infused all living beings. (I wrote more about this in Sex is God's Way of Humbling Us.)
That said, though, it does seem worth noting that, generally speaking, young men naturally tend to fall into the former group, while, with age, one gradually begins (hallelujah!) slipping into the latter.
Sex. It's so ... inescapable central to the human experience, yes? No matter our understanding of God's will; no matter the strength of our own.
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LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) — His father was a pioneering hog farmer 50 years ago. And now, he and his wife are on the leading edge of a small but rapidly growing toward organic and natural farming.
Black Creek Farm owners Scott and Lydia Enlow opened their Lowndes County operation to a tour Sunday as part of the state's sustainable farm organization.
Scott's father raised pigs on the family farm he bought in 1958 and was an innovator by being one of the first to raise pigs in buildings rather than in fields. He was the state's largest hog farmer for several years.
Scott moved away but when he and Lydia returned to Lowndes County, he bought part of the family farm off Black Creek Road just outside Columbus.
The Enlows recalled how concerns over chemicals and hormones in food helped them turn their home garden into a profitable farm market operation.
"The more I read, the worse it got until I finally just told him one day, I said, 'We've got to start raising our own food,'" Lydia said of the genesis of their farm, which is among the popular booths at the Columbus Farmers' Market and has a growing clientele across the region.
"We picked a little flock of chickens up for ourselves and then we started a little garden for ourselves and people started wanting what we were growing and this farm's kind of grown out of that," Scott added.
Beaverdam and High Hope farms in Clay County and Bountiful Harvest Farm in Starkville also were on Sunday's tour.
For information about sustainable farming, visit your local MSU Extension Service office.


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I am new to Wiki editing and am not familiar enough with it yet to attempt to edit this myself so commenting to bring this to the attention of more experienced WoWwiki members. I get the feeling that someone has either been vandalizing pages by mixing up the text or that there may be a member with a shaky grasp of English editing. The notes segment currently says: "Golden Staff of the Sin'dorei was forged by the Highborne-Sorcerer Dath'Remar before he became Queen Azshara.He was the first High-King staff." Seems a little incorrect... --SkavenWolf (talk) 04:03, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
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Graphicool: not very helpful, I know, but I just installed AllShare on an XP machine and a W7 machine, and didn't suffer that problem. My problem was getting the TV to see the PCs. For reasons I don't understand, it can now see the W7 machine, but not the XP machine.
Out of interest, which TV did you get? I got the UE40ES8000, and I couldn't be more thrilled with it.


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Edmonton Sun
There's nothing like a trip to Las Vegas to get away from all the distractions.
While it might not be an ideal retreat for everyone looking to get down to business, Sheldon Westcott couldn't think of a better place than the mixed-martial arts Mecca.
"It's the Mecca of fighting, in general. I got to go to the Pacquiao vs. Mosley fight," said Westcott, who is coming off a draw against MMA veteran Thomas 'Wildman' Denny at MFC 28: Supremacy in February.
Unhappy with his performance as much as he was with the result, Westcott spent the past month improving his craft at Wanderlei Silva's The Wand Fight Team Training and Conditioning Centre in preparation for a rematch against Denny in June.
"My manager actually knows a boxing coach out at Wanderlei's and when we signed to fight Thomas Denny, he gave him a call and we kind of set it up to get me out of town, concentrate on the fight and just train," Westcott said.
It's been the modus operandi of his young career. The former national-level track-and-field athlete traded the track for a roped-in ring with his professional debut in 2007. After suffering a loss at the hands of Victor Bachman in a split decision, Westcott changed his approach.
Though he has had just a handful of fights since then, it's been by design.
"What a lot of people do is once they start fighting, they fight every couple weeks and all they do is fight," said Westcott. "Where I had a fight, then I took a year off and got better.
"This (upcoming rematch) is probably the closest fights back to back I've had. I like to take a little time to get away and actually get better with every fight rather than just fight."
Instead of racing to put together quick wins, he has preferred to study the sport abroad.
"I went away to England, Switzerland and Amsterdam, helping Paul Daley get ready for some of his UFC fights," said Westcott. "Just kind of training all over the place and going to different gyms. I actually really enjoy it because you get a different look and you get out of your comfort zone.
"Really, you're not in your comfort zone when you're fighting, so why would you want to be when you're training?"
While Bachman remains the only loss on Westcott's 4-1-1 professional record, he counts the draw with Denny as another blemish.
"Personally, I look at a tie as a loss," said Westcott, who has 40 fights to go before reaching Denny's experience level. "It was really weird, though. It was the same result for both of us, but he was in the back extremely happy and excited where I was in the back, literally, it was a loss. I had an overall bad fight, I thought. I chalk it up to a learning experience.
"The day I'm happy with a tie, I really shouldn't be fighting."
While he valued his time there, Vegas had its share of distractions for fighters in training.
"Especially when you're dieting," said Westcott, who initially faced Denny at 170 pounds, while the rematch will be at 165. "I walked past In-N-Out Burger every day and I was sitting there like, ÔWhat I wouldn't give to eat one of these right now!' "


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Book Review: Venice Disputed
Venice Disputed: Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture
by Deborah Howard
Yale University Press, 2011
Ever since the first wooden pylon went down into the silt of their lagoon, Venetians have argued about their architecture. They joined their handful of little islands into one big island, interlaced it with canals, and started piling on marble like there was some sort of prize to it. And there was a prize: their city itself became a marvel, something the world had never quite seen before. In a procession that started centuries ago, millions of tourists stream into Venice every year, coursing over her innumerable bridges, gawking at her innumerable churches, making their innumerable complaints about her climate, her citizens, her coffee, taking their innumerable bad photos of her stately palazzi, and then decamping back to Akron to sigh about the lure of the Adriatic.
A touchstone of virtually all of those tourists, ranking only slightly behind the Piazza San Marco and the Bridge of Sighs, is the fabled Palazzo Barbaro, the gorgeous Gothic pile (actually two, haploidally melding into each other in the true Venetian manner) visited and loved by the likes of Henry James, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Robert Browning, and Edith Wharton.
The palace was city-home to generations of the Barbaro family, but in her new book Venice Disputed, Deborah Howard, Architectural History professor at the University of Cambridge, has one particular Barbaro in mind: Marc'Antonio (1518-1595), a nobleman who spent virtually the whole of his adult life in the service of the Republic of Venice in one capacity or other, elected or drafted into one after another committees or procuratorships whose positions were constantly filled from the ranks of Venice's noble families. The peculiar claustrophobia of that world is something Howard evokes early in her book:
The Venetian Republic was democratic only in the sense that power was carefully spread among the ranks of the nobility, a closed oligarchy amounting to approximately 5 per cent of the population in the later sixteenth century.
In the course of her gorgeously illustrated (Yale University Press, once again doing their ancient name proud) book, Howard lays out for her readers what amounts almost to a dual biography, since any account of Marc'Antonio must perforce also be an account of his older brother Daniele, graduate of the University of Padua, correspondent with humanists, and learned translator of Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture into Italian in 1556 (Howard calls his commentary on the text "supremely intelligent"). Daniele is a figure fit to overshadow just about anybody – Howard writes, "He aimed to replace ignorance and credulity with knowledge and certainty" – and he sometimes threatens to swipe the narrative of this book right out of his younger brother's grasp.
But it's ultimately Marc'Antonio we're dealing with here, not his smarter and more serene older brother – this is Howard's decision, and it's a wise one. Though a skilled draughtsman, it was Marc'Antonio who was often at odds with experts and professionals who consulted with his committees on such projects as building the Rialto Bridge or restoring the Doge's Palace, and Howard wants to show us that conflict in all its details, the better to flesh out her picture of the tempestuous arena of public service in Renaissance Venice. Marc'Antonio has traditionally been revered as the quintessential public servant, but Howard is at pains to demonstrate that he was scarcely ever so revered in his own lifetime.
The book delves into his private life and his religious life, but its main focus is architecture, the buildings he either designed or helped to design. Foremost among these is the place he and his brother called home most of the time: the Villa Barbaro in the village of Macer, on the mainland. A good deal of Venice Disputed keeps bringing us back to the Villa Barbaro, with its remodelling designs by Palladio and its captivating, playful frescoes by Veronese. Windows open up onto gardens, where there are neither windows nor gardens, and people – life-sized and vividly life-like, almost caught in mid-word – greet the visitor from many walls, and the gardens and grounds are marvels of planning and vision.
Visitors to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (in their innumerable hordes?) have stared at one of Tiepolo's most stunning masterpieces, the Glorification of the Barbaro Family, which is all angels and idealization. I've stared at it myself, many times, but in addition to its hilarious pieties, I find I also like the more subtle glorification Howard is about. Her choleric, inventive, and entirely human Marc'Antonio is not idealized in these pages, far from it, but even so: this is one of those very rare oversized graphics-heavy monographs that readers will enjoy more for the words than the pictures. It's a must for any Venice-themed library, but I recommend it to anybody who's ever looked aghast at some public building and said, "What were they thinking?" Marc'Antonio would sympathize.
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Here is another thought provoking book that deals with one of the most important issues facing the church today. How much latitude do we have in coming together with Christians who are not of the same theological stripe? Can we develop a unity in the body of Christ that transcends our particular denominational or theological persuasion? Can we do that in a way that does not finally compromise our theological integrity?
J. I. Packer, a noted theologian within the reformed tradition, and Thomas Oden, of Wesleyan Methodist lineage, have attempted to make an effort to define evangelicalism today. Is there a point of convergence where the ideas presented by the two authors come together in a meaningful way? One Faith answers that question in depth. I have had the privilege of participating in some of the conferences mentioned from which covenants and manifestos were drafted. These documents set the basic doctrines of the Christian faith together in a missional motif that could unify diverse groups of people.
Obviously, the concern is whether or not our Christianity, especially within the broader evangelical setting, is causing us to fragment into smaller and more isolated groups. On the other hand, are we coming together in ways that will allow us to express a common commitment to basic tenets of the Christian faith while allowing the freedom to adhere to our own theological and denominational distinctives?
Both authors write on the premise that there is a common theological consensus that draws us together into the broader movement of evangelicalism. They seek to develop a framework or foundation upon which the broader evangelical world can come together in a way that will give rise to a new ecumenical consensus. They cause us to identify what we are willing to give up to accomplish this.
Packer and Oden divide the broader evangelical community into two rails of the track. The Calvinists, Lutherans, and Baptists are on one part of the track while the Arminian, Wesleyan, Holiness, Charismatic and Pentecostals are on the other side. The purpose of this book, according to the authors, is not just to share information but also edify and determine whether there can be enough agreement to transcend those differences. "We decline to discuss secondary matters on which disagreements surface, such as variations on polity, modes and subjects of baptism, glossolalia, millennialism, theological epistemology and specifics of exegesis." "This book celebrates the work of God in bringing evangelicals together in fundamentals, and that is the reality on which we labor to keep all eyes trained."
One might be tempted to read up to this point and debate whether such a consensus could or should exist. However, whether we like it or not, we cannot dodge the issues raised in this book. If the question is not about us but about God, how much energy and effort does God want us to expend in focusing on the unity that transcends our particulars?
The authors begin by describing evangelicals as, "Those who read the Bible as God's own Word, addressed personally to each of them here and now; and who live out a personal trust in, and love for Jesus Christ as the world's only Lord and Saviour." From there they state "historians categorize evangelicals as people who emphasize (1) the Bible as the Word of God, (2) the cross as the place where salvation is won, (3) conversion as a universal need and (4) missionary outreach as a universal task"
A plus of this book is it brings together in one place many of the statements, covenants, and declarations of the 20th century. These statements are in the missional genre, underscoring the global aspect of Christianity. Though they were produced in a missional setting, they challenge us to realize we are part of the one body of Christ worldwide and through all the ages.
The book contains sixteen chapters on the doctrines the authors believe are commonly held by evangelicals. They connect these doctrines to documents produced by the various evangelical movements of the 20th century, particularly the later part of that century. Naturally, they point to Billy Graham as the main catalyst behind the various movements within evangelicalism.
This book will push you out of your comfort zone at places, challenge you to focus on unity within the Body, and cause you to think seriously about how to experience and express our diversity and unity while respecting both. There is a wealth of information in this concise volume.


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As I've mentioned in other reviews, I'm a complete technophobe, so you can imagine what a nightmare presents itself when trying to purchase a new gadget!
For the past six years, I've relied on a Nikon Coolpix, and it's done OK; however, recently I noticed a decline in the image quality and batteries seemed pretty useless all the time: I knew I needed a new digital camera.
So, where on earth do you start? There are literally hundreds of digital cameras on the market, and all have their own plethora of weird and wonderful capabilities. On a personal basis, I wanted something which was generally just 'point and press' with possibly a few variations on this theme for particular times of day and night. I wanted another camera with the ability to set the camera up and for it to take the photo automatically within a set number of settings. In addition, due to my own eyesight, I needed something which a reasonably sized screen.
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When I first unpacked the camera, I was a little concerned at its size; it is quite small, but surprisingly, it does has a welcome degree of weight to it. It's comfortable to hold, and all of the buttons are clearly marked and easy to press. A double bonus on this camera is that whenever you select a particular option or press a particular button, text is displayed on the screen telling you what it does. This is an enormous help to me who can never make head nor tail of the pictorial symbols on these devices!
Unlike my previous camera, as soon as the 'on' button is pressed, the camera is ready to shoot; this prevents the subject having moved on by the time the device has warmed up!
A number of shooting options are available: panorama; auto exposure; intelligent adjustment; easy shooting (with simplified display); and scene. Given that the intelligent adjustment setting has a green symbol, I've assumed that this is the most common used setting. Of course, the device also allows you to film short videos. The screen is large (as big as the camera itself), and at the press of a button, you can scroll through and delete photos already taken. The flash can be altered, and it has an interesting setting for automatically taking the photo when it detects the subject is smiling.
I really cannot praise this device highly enough. Before I purchased it, I did some research on the internet, and whilst not all reviews were positive, I generally found that people's negative opinions rose from a false expectation of the capabilities of the camera. For me, it does everything I want it to do, and with the minimum of fuss. As I wanted, it really is as simple as 'point and shoot'.


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Gaslamp Games (Dungeons of Dredmor) has revealed their next project - a city-builder titled Clockwork Empires. This is where we'll part ways, because it's not remotely an RPG, but I thought I'd post this once. Official reveal is here but PC Gamer's preview includes screens. A steampunk SimCity, is their early take:
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In Post-CD Era, Gracenote Makes a Big Business of Content Recognition
For Gracenote, the media database company, Christmas used to be the busiest day of the year. They called it "iPod Day," because that was when millions of people would be unwrapping their new iPods and then rushing to their computers to rip dozens of CDs so they'd have some music to play.
For every ripped album, Apple's iTunes software would contact Gracenote's database, which would run the music through its audio recognition system and send back track and artist names and cover art.
"We'd see these massive spikes, three times or four times the regular load," Gracenote CEO Stephen White says. "We had to architect the whole service so that we could support Apple on that one day."
Sales of iPods peaked in the U.S. a long time ago—back in 2008—and CD sales have been plummeting for years as device owners have turned to direct MP3 downloads from online stores or streaming services like Pandora or Spotify. But the history that White is recounting isn't as ancient as you might think. It wasn't until 2010 that Gracenote's Christmas rush began to abate, he says.
That's mostly thanks to globalization. "As iTunes has come to Korea and Russia and India, you have a tremendous number of new consumers going through the same evolution," White says. In other words, people outside the U.S. and Europe still buy most of their music on CD, and still need to rip it and run it through Gracenote. "Globally, the CD recognition numbers have started to flatten out, but they have not started to decline yet."
Still, the CD is a dying format, and White says Gracenote isn't counting on revenues from its music fingerprinting service to buoy it forever. Unbeknownst to most consumers, the 350-employee subsidiary of Sony has spent years building up other businesses. It has large divisions that work with TV manufacturers, cable networks, and other content distributors on video recognition technology, and with automakers on systems that help drivers use voice commands to navigate their music playlists. Last year the company exceeded $100 million in revenue for the first time.
Behind everything there's still Gracenote's massive database of 130 million songs and more than 1 million movies and TV shows. But these days, the lookups against that data are coming from hundreds of types of devices, from smartphones to smart TVs to set-top boxes to in-car entertainment systems.
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"We see ourselves as the underlying knowledge base that links together all of these various fragmented music and video assets all over the world," White says. "So ultimately, yes, we do understand that the CD will go away. And we have built a diversified business to allow us to add value in other parts of the ecosystem and make up for it over time."
I visited Gracenote's headquarters in Emeryville, CA, just as executives were getting ready for the International CES show in Las Vegas, and got a survey of its historic offerings as well as a bunch of edgier projects that show where the company is going in the near future.
Just look at Gracenote-powered apps like Habu Music—which lets you browse your music collection according to the mood you're in—and it's clear how far the company has grown beyond its origins in the early 1990s as the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), the first large collection of disc names, track names, and other metadata about the music files on CDs.
"A lot of folks think of us as a metadata company, but we are really not," White says. "We are a technology company that happens to have a tremendous amount of metadata."
Still, at the core of the business is the care and feeding of Gracenote's media databases. Record labels, artists, publishers, and movie and TV studios submit more than 100,000 new songs and videos to the company every week, and a large editorial team at Gracenote does nothing but curate and enhance this data.
There's software that creates a fingerprint for every file, and plenty of machine learning algorithms to help describe elements of the submissions, such as their mood and tempo. But humans are needed to train the systems, and to annotate things machines don't know. (White says it's very important, for example, to have unique fingerprints in the system for the "clean" and "explicit" versions of pop songs; software has a hard time telling the difference.)
It's partly because of this human element, by the way, that White doubts there will ever be a single standard for the metadata describing songs and videos, the way the EXIF data embedded in a digital photo can tell you things like where it was taken and at what exposure. He says the idea of a universal identifier is both a holy grail and a red herring for the media industry, in part because of cultural differences.
"For example, what we call 'world music' in the U.S. is not world music anywhere else," he says. "You need a flexible way to represent metadata based on the geography and the use case."
Beyond identifying albums and tracks from ripped CDs, Gracenote's databases power newer services like Apple's iTunes Match and Amazon's Cloud Player. These programs scan your computer to see what songs you've got on your hard drive (no matter where you obtained them) and give you access to cloud versions of the same tunes, playable from anywhere. Both services cost $25 per year, and White says they give music publishers the ability to earn back some of the money they've lost to free download sites like The Pirate Bay and MP3.com.
"The reality is the music industry has recognized that there are pirated version of content out there," hey says. "There's not much they can do about that, and they would rather participate in the revenue of unlocking those items in the cloud."
A big part of Gracenote's revenue—35 percent, according to White—comes from another industry that's struggling to adapt to consumers' new media consumption habits, namely automakers.
Gracenote's history in the automotive business stretches back to the early 2000s, when co-founder and chief technology officer Ty Roberts was summoned to Japan by Pioneer, the giant home and car electronics company. Pioneer was working on a system that would allow car owners to rip CDs to the hard drives inside their GPS devices. It wanted Gracenote to supply software to both identify the songs—a challenge, given that cars had no network connectivity in those days—and let drivers use voice commands to play specific songs.
"As Ty is apt to do, he said 'We'll figure this out, give me a couple of weeks,'" White says. "He came back here and told the team 'All we have to do is take our database and find a way to put it in a car.' They thought he was crazy. But six months later we shipped the first code."
White calls the project with Pioneer "the birth of the digital media experience in the car," and it blossomed into big current-day contracts like one with Ford to supply the music recognition and interaction components of the Ford Sync entertainment system. Gracenote's most important contribution to Ford Sync, says White, was a vocabulary of phonetic strings adapted to the world of music.
"A normal text-to-speech engine doesn't handle music very well," White says. "There are so many nicknames and non-standard pronunciations, like Sade, AC/DC, 311, and that's compounded when you go international—-50 Cent in French is not 'Cinquante Cents,' and Elvis, in Mandarin, is not Elvis, he's 'The Cool Cat.' We did the artist names and nicknames and variations in 30 languages to enable these engines to work properly."
But with in-dash infotainment systems getting more sophisticated, drivers and passengers aren't limited to interacting with their music by voice. At the CES show in both 2012 and 2013, Gracenote showed off a touchscreen system it calls MoodGrid, which lets listeners pick something peppy or poky, depending on what kind of stimulus they need. The grid's x axis runs from "calm" to "energetic," and the y axis runs from "dark" to "positive."
The system—which taps into music on a car owner's iPod or smartphone, and can also connect with streaming systems like Spotify or Rhapsody—is already showing up in hardware from manufacturers like Garmin. "The auto guys love this, because they can create simple touch interfaces that sit on top of large collections of music," White says. The same technology behind MoodGrid is available to smartphone owners in the form the Habu Music app, developed by the Gracenote-owned app studio Gravity Mobile.
Helping consumers navigate huge media collections is also a challenge for smart TV makers, which is why Gracenote's third major business revolves around video. Manufacturers know consumers are tired of old-fashioned electronic programming guides that organize shows according to channel and time. "The interfaces for TV listings have been pretty stale for a long time," White says. And anyway, "Very few people outside of sports fans actually watch TV shows when they air."
Using its metadata about video content, Gracenote has been able to construct snazzier interfaces that let users search broadcast schedules and streaming catalogs and see recommendations based on their viewing history. For Sony and Philips televisions sold in Europe, for example, Gracenote supplied a system called eyeQ that shows app, broadcast TV channels, and on-demand content on a single home screen. And if you have a Sony Xperia device, you can run your Sony TV using a Gracenote-powered programming guide that's been shrunk down to tablet size.
White says Gracenote wants to enable even more "second screen" experiences where TV viewers are watching a show on their big screen and simultaneously interacting with related content on their tablets or smartphones. To sync up the two, Gracenote has built a content recognition system called Entourage that can listen to a TV show's audio track, or even analyze the video signal, to figure out how far the program has advanced. NBC Universal's Syfy Channel uses Entourage in its Syfy for iPad app to provide fans of two shows, Haven and Faceoff, with content such as challenges and character back-stories.
Entourage is also behind an experimental ad replacement technology that Gracenote showed off at CES. By monitoring the video signal, the system knows when a commercial is coming up, and seamlessly superimposes an ad downloaded from the Internet over the one in the broadcast signal. If the TV or set-top box equipped with the system also has some info about the viewer's age, gender, and location, then it can "target advertisements to you based on what you care about and who you are," White says.
The advertisers who paid for the submerged ads might not care for the whole idea. But "nobody is trying to start World War IV," White says. "This is a $70 billion industry, and it's really about how we increase the value to the advertiser and the consumer, and how we all participate in the upside that results."
Gracenote was founded in 1998, the same year as Google, and in at least one way its rise has paralleled the search giant's: both companies thrive by managing data about data. Gracenote arguably has the more difficult task, since songs and videos are much harder to interpret than HTML Web pages—and they come with a lot less metadata. But that's exactly why people are willing to pay Gracenote for its services, whereas Google has always had to give its search results away for free and monetize them through advertising.
As a growing list of manufacturers and networks sign up to license Gracenote's software and data, it's starting to look like Christmas every day of the year.


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wikiHow to Use the Mozilla Thunderbird Forum
Two Methods:Use mozillaZine ForumUse Thunderbird Community Support ForumCommunity Q&A
There are two different Mozilla Thunderbird forums available. One is a part of the "official" mozillaZine forum, and one is a Thunderbird community Support Forum.
Use mozillaZine Forum
1Open forum from this link: http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?sid=e86d21e54fd93a6a45afc09e8e1abf70
- If you are already a member of this forum, press the "Log-in" button.
- If you're not a member, click the "Register" button to register with the forum, making sure to enter your valid e-mail too.
- When you receive an e-mail confirmation link in your e-mail, click on it to conclude your registration.
2Return to the forum.
3Find a Mozilla Thunderbird section on the forum and click on "Thunderbird Support".
4At this time, you can do one of these (see image) :
- Search for the similar problem in their database in the search window, and if you could not find your problem there, click the "New Topic" button to open a new window.
5Enter a subject of your problem (or question).
6Provide as many details as necessary. If you already took some actions to solve this problem, add them too so they know what was already done. See an example of a new message shown in the image:
Use Thunderbird Community Support Forum
1Open forum.
2Register with forum. Make sure you enter your valid e-mail too.
3Depending on what you need, click on either the"Ask a question" or "Report a problem" button. Then click the "Continue" button. (see image for a message example)
- Try to apply some of those you think come the closest. If none of those work for you, click on the "Finish posting my question" button. It will open a new window for you.
4In the "details" window, provide as many details as necessary. If you already took some actions to solve this problem, add them as well.
5When you are done typing, click the "Post" button.
Community Q&A
Ask a Question
200 characters leftSubmit
- Thunderbird Community Support Forum has been closed and is no longer available.
- On mozillaZine forum go to your profile page and make sure that an option about the instant response notification in your e-mail ticked.
- On Thunderbird Community forum go to your profile page and make sure that an option about the instant response notification in your e-mail ticked.
Things You'll Need
- Internet connection
- Mozilla Thunderbird
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