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Category Archives: Coaching
How Can A Coach Help Build Your Business?
Your business becomes an extension of yourself.  You have worked hard to create it, sustain it and grow it. But oftentimes, there comes a time when you get stuck! You run out of ideas or you are excellent at your skill or trade but somewhat lack in business strategy. This can happen to anyone with any…
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Why Would I Need A Coach?
Why would you, need a coach? First let’s define what a coach is. According to Webster a coach is a) a private tutor b) one who instructs or trains; especially: one who instructs players in the fundamentals of a competitive sport and directs team strategy. For many years coaching was specific to sports. The concept…
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Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Farmyard Fun over Fixed Prices
I have no idea what publishers do all day long. I like to imagine they stroll into the office just ahead of a nice long lunch, go through their appointments with their attractive secretary and gracefully grant an audience to a few bowing, scraping minions in between, who beg them to publish certain books. Then they sig...
Siv Bublitz, I suspect, doesn't fit into this pattern. Right now I'm imagining her more like a mother hen, struggling to keep all her cute fluffy chicks in line. She dashes ahead to pick some corn, and as soon as she turns her back one of them's up to mischief again. Siv Bublitz is the publisher at the Ullstein Group.
Hardly has she issued a whole load of statements over that little Axolotl Roadkill issue, than the next one is due. This time it's a Swedish author who's been causing havoc in the farmyard. According to German trade mag Buchreport, crime writer Liza Marklund went up to the pigs and poked her tongue out at them, not rea...
Marklund gave an interview to Hannes Hintermeier in the FAZ (read it here). And despite being "motivated by class struggle and feminism" according to Hintermeier, she came out with the following humdinger (my re-translation), quoted in the context of the German fixed book price system:
"'Books should be on sale everywhere. I have zero interest in small booksellers. Let them disappear – who cares?' The idea that bestsellers take readers away from good literature is a misinterpretation, she says. 'It's the other way around: If it weren't for bestsellers no one would go into bookshops.'"
Cue massive email campaign by small booksellers, who boycotted her new book (trans. Anne Bubenzer & Dagmar Lendt). And then cue Siv Bublitz, who helped Marklund formulate a very apologetic press statement (which you can read via the first link). I quote:
"Siv explained to me exactly what role the small and medium bookstores play in Germany, that they often know their customers personally, actively recommend books and do a great deal to help titles to success. The German-speaking countries seem to have a different bookselling culture than in many other countries. That i...
I can't help thinking it all sounds rather naive from a woman who set up the Swedish publishing company Piratförlaget, a house that shares profits 50-50 with its authors, as far as I understand. But maybe being in writer mode automatically transforms even the toughest businesswomen into fluffy chicks, who need a strict...
Anonymous said...
Wow--"Let them disappear--who cares?"--what a shocking and sad thing to hear a writer say about smaller bookshops. Or any size bookshop. Very disrespectful. Thank you for blogging about this. I'll share it with my fellow American booksellers.
kjd said...
Well, do take the time to read her statement behind the link to Buchreport (if necessary Google will help you translate it - but don't tell anyone I said that).
Because she does actually acknowledge the role small bookstores play, in Germany at least.
And the interesting thing about the case is that it's shown that when working together, small bookstores do have power to make a difference.
Gaining Educational Necessities Within Video Games
There are several wonderful features that video games offer the youth of today that are often times completely overlooked by adults, who often feel that these games are simply a waste of time for children that would be better off focusing there spare time on more constructive activities.
Video games offer several unique features that provide young people the chance to increase their learning abilities while stimulating their minds. The younger generation are constantly feeling the demands and requirements that the school place on them. However, they often use video games as a way to release the pressur...
The main objective of most video games is reaching the highest score or making it through that next level that is often time more challenging than the one before. Often times, video games will give the gamer a variety of options or strategies to choose in which to be able to either move onto the next level or simply wi...
If video games were designed differently to where their outcomes would be different each time they were played, then this would drastically reduce video games becoming old and boring. Many of these video games offer children with the ability of memorization where the gamer has to remember where special rewards are hidd...
There are also games being developed that have more of an ethnic balance by providing more issues within game play where there are options in character gender and have even begun breaking the language barriers. Video games that enable children to learn help teach children in a variety of subjects, which include learnin...
Most video games teach the youth of today in the areas of strategy, time management, and definitely in role-playing. However, every video game offer gamers new opportunities to be able to learn new types of strategies and a variety of problem solving techniques that will be able to be applied in real life. For the most...
Friday, 14 March 2014
ISPs and content owners square up in Oz iiNet battle
ZDNet carries a very readable review of some pithy comments made by Music Rights Australia's General Manager Vanessa Hutley, who was speaking at the Australian Copyright Council's Copyright Law and Practice Symposium in Sydney, and some equally forthright comments back from Australian ISP iiNet's chief regulatory offic...
Australia, along with a recent appellate decision in Holland, has bucked the growing trend for courts to issue blocking injunctions forcing ISPs to block access to websites such as The Pirate Bay. Courts in the UK, Belgium and France have all granted blocking orders and in UPC Telekabel Wien GmbH v Constantin Film Verl...
Hutley's view is that the Australian government should undo what the High Court did. She said that although there has been an explosion in the availability of legitimate digital music services in Australia, such as Spotify and iTunes Radio, they are unable to compete on a level playing field with the likes of the Pirat...
"The right to go to court and argue a case is not going to kill the internet. Here's a news flash: There were four orders today made in the UK against four major sites and last time I looked, friends of mine in the UK were sending me email," she said.
"Those orders are presently being made around the world, and the internet is not broken. Freedom of speech has not stopped. I think there needs to be a little more calm in this discussion."
"The Copyright Act needs to be amended to force ISPs to 'act reasonably' to prevent their users from infringing on copyright" she said. However, Hutley said she doesn't know what reasonable measures could be used against an ISP's customer, but did say:
"Just to be clear: We're not breaking the internet; it's not about filtering; it's not about censoring creative expression. It doesn't prevent free speech, we're not asking for anyone to be disconnected, we just sort of want them to be slightly educated about what it is they're doing and maybe ask them to go somewhere ...
"It won't result in a lot of litigation. It isn't about that; it's about giving the space to the genuine, fully-licensed, legal services to compete head to head and actually give consumers the music they want."
Hutley made it clear that suing customers is no longer a priority, and that MRA had no interest in individual customer's details, and admitted that she doesn't know how much it would cost ISPs to implement blocking orders or a 'three strikes' system, and said it never came up in the three years the ISPs were in discuss...
iiNet's chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby, who was a participant in the roundtable discussions before they came to an abrupt halt last year, told ZDNet that costs were repeatedly brought into the discussion, but it wasn't about the quantum so much as the principle of the liability for costs saying "The content owner...
For a TPP perspective and opinion see "The US and Australia Propose an End to Free Speech on the Internet". 
1 comment:
Graham Smith said...
The plaintiffs in the iiNet litigation argued unsuccessfully that iiNet itself infringed copyright by authorising its users' infringements.
The EU blocking injunctions are against ISPs who, it is accepted, do not infringe.
The two are quite different: conceptually, jurisdictionally and in the balancing of interests when an injunction is sought against a third party acting lawfully rather than against an infringer.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Power Of Mind...
Most people aren't sure of what they really want in life. I received this
letter from a friend on the computer, did what it told me to, and ! within
a week, everything I had wished came true!!
Here's an exact copy, this really works!!!!
1... Say your name to yourself, then say the name of the only person you
want to be with 3 times!
2. Think of something you want t o accomplish within the next week and say
it to yourself 6 times!!
3 . If you had one wish, what would it be? Say it to yourself 9 times!!!
4 . Think of something that you want to happen between you and that one
special person and say it to yourself 12 times!!!
5. Now, here's the hard part! Pick only one of these wishes and as you
scroll down, focus and concentrate on it and think of nothing else but
that wish & final wish that you picked.
After reading this, you have one hour to send it out to at least 15 people,
and what you wished for will come true within in one week! The more
people you send it to, the stronger your wish will be! The more, the
If you choose to ignore this letter, what you wished for will just never
come true!
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how can you till if a chick is blind ?
Discussion in 'Raising Baby Chicks' started by call ducks, Apr 12, 2009.
1. call ducks
call ducks silver appleyard addict
Mar 4, 2009
waterville , canada
one of mine has olny 1 eye open and we had to get him out of the water 2 times yesterday.
2. addicted2chicks
addicted2chicks Chillin' With My Peeps
Mar 19, 2009
I am not sure if there is a sure way to tell if it is blind. We had one that I realized after 3 days was smaller then the others. We gave her special care and when we would go to pick her up she wouldn't run like the others. So we flicked our finger in front of her face and she never moved. So we figured she was bl...
My guess is yours might be blind or something else is wrong with her. I am still new to chicks but I am guessing it is something else. Seems like she should be putting up a fight in the water even if blind. Hopefully someone else has an idea.
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Florence Kambole is 13 years old. She lives within “walkable distance” of her school- Chitanda Primary in Matero, Lusaka, Zambia. It was here that she was first introduced to Camara’s computers at the age of 12.
From assignments to educational games such as Zuma; the computers have assisted Florence in a vast array of areas on her journey to education.
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Florence Kambole; student and enthusiastic user of Camara computers.
She has found that using Camara computers has assisted her in her understanding of ICT, in turn, it has increased her interest in learning: “Using computers make it easier for us to understand Computer Studies. Computers make learning very interesting. Before we received the computers, it was difficult to practice what...
Her enthusiasm with regards to education has grown since the Camara computers were introduced to her school; mentioning that she has spent more time than ever before in school since the computers arrived: “I spend more time in school than I used to before we had computers in the school.”
Even at 13, Florence has already recognised the significance technology enhanced education will have on her future: “I believe being educated will help me have a better future. The things we learn on the computers will help me get into college or university.”
With high hopes for the future, basic computer skills are necessary for her to succeed and excel: “When I grow up, I want to become an accountant. My dream is to become a leader in the government”.
Florence is one of over 24,000 Zambian students Camara Education has impacted. We are constantly striving to rise this figure and inspire young individuals like Florence to improve their life opportunities.
Free Ticket to “Consumer Generated Media”
I’ve heard so many brands talk about the importance of “Consumer Generated Media,” yet so few doing anything interesting. For the most part, brands have established little billboards far removed from highway exits. Why not get on the highway, guys? Fish where the fish are (to used a tired cliche).