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2013 was a pretty terrible year news wise in the UK. Brooker made the best of it. Not the funniest - but there wasn't much to laugh at.
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Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Charlie Brooker's Wipe 2013
2013 was a pretty terrible year news wise in the UK. Brooker made the best of it. Not the funniest - but there wasn't much to laugh at.
Journalists Wake-Up Call for 2014
This presentation is an eye-opener for many of us. The extent of the surveillance techniques, to the point of developing back-doors on disk drive firmware or being able to switch on webcams remotely without the user knowing its active. And it is not just the NSA of course.
Appelbaum calls out several companies like Apple, Dell, to explain their position. Have they worked with the NSA to supply these backdoors or are they "victims". I'm also intrigued by the references to CNN.com. But closer analysis of the speech is troubling, especially the people tend to forget that the development TOR system that Appelbaum refers to was partially funded by a grant from US International Broadcasting body, the BBG. This from the Guardian.
The Broadcasting Board of Governors, a federal agency whose mission is to "inform, engage, and connect people around the world in support of freedom and democracy" through networks such as Voice of America, also supported Tor's development until October 2012 to ensure that people in countries such as Iran and China could access BBG content. Tor continues to receive federal funds through Radio Free Asia, which is funded by a federal grant from BBG.
If European media organisations are really serious about helping their colleagues at home and abroad, then 2014 will be the year they make it so much easier for independent journalists to do something about staying safe. We need safer tools that are easier to use. The tools from organisations such as Tactical Tech are still too much focused on the tech community.
Monday, December 30, 2013
Media Network Flashback: 02.02.1989. Border Radio
This early edition of Media Network included the story of how a TV show in the Netherlands blocked the phone lines when it asked for viewer response, we review the book Border Radio about the high power stations from across the US-Mexican border and (the late) David Monson previews the Antwerp EDXC Convention which he organised in Belgium. Actually, that was one of the most interesting European DX Council meetings I ever went to. David was incredibly chaotic, creative and an acomplished musician. He worked for several years hosting the programme Brussels Calling on BRT (not VRT) in Belgium. He should have had a producer! Thanks to Jinterwas for the photo os Antwerp Zoo. Check out more on Flickr.
Innovation is moving out of the social space.....
Saturday, December 28, 2013
Present Shock - My Personal Book of the Year
I confess I don't buy all that many books any more. I've become more comfortable with screens and even more comfortable to listening to podcasts and audio books. I use a lot of bookmarks so I can find interesting quotes again.
My favourite book of 2013 for inspiration was Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff. It woke me up to the fact that some aspects of digital storytelling are seriously broken and how in Western Europe we have become obsessed with "now". I've seen it so often in European media, especially the rolling news channels. Nothing is ever finished. Few stories are explored in depth. Some stories are so overblown as to be ridiculous (networks simply dumping everything they already had on the shelf). And I realize now that what I thought were cool new formats are really examples of Narrative Collapse. Rushkoff went on a discussion tour shortly after releasing the book in the spring of 2013. Although there are overlaps in the beginning of each interview, I found the examples given later in the conversations above to be very interesting indeed, actually they should have been in the book. I'm already using the points Douglas raises in rethinking how I help build stronger company narratives and documentary scripts. The following is taken from Rushkoff's interview with The Verge. Bit disappointed in the narrator on audible. He reads with a rather monotonous repetitive style.
Friday, December 27, 2013
When Disruption is Not An Option
The sound is poor on these closing remarks, but Stephanie Hay points out that broadcasters were testing out programme formats on selected target groups in the 1960's. That's how they discovered when children were actually learning from shows like Sesame Street (it was during the interaction between humans and the puppets.)
So how can start ups deal with the challenges of exponential growth? Hyper-growth in fact is extremely painful. Enjoyed this presentation from Ari Gesher of Palantir Technologies.
Remembering Radio Luxembourg 1991 -1995
The first Media Network programme was aired a few days after Radio Luxembourg's English service signed off from the high-power medium-wave channel of 1440 kHz, better known as the Great 208 (208 metres). The farewell show went on well into the night and contained some great stories of the English service in Luxy. The mediumwave transmitter in Marnbach is still there - I passed by on a trip to Luxembourg in the car a few years back. RTL German and China Radio International have used it since.
In 1995, Radio Netherlands signed a deal with RTL Radio Luxembourg to use the great 208 metres for a few hours each night for it's English language broadcast. We combined that with a visit to the station and made the following documentary. This was one of the first dual presentations we tried with co-host Diana Janssen. Interesting old recordings of RTL which I haven't heard elsewhere in a long time. The picture of the transmitter site at Marnach is shown above. That was were the English transmissions came from.
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Media Network Flashback 14.11.1991. Changes in Czechoslovakia
From the Media Network radio archive: The photo above shows the BBC Czech service which I visited on one of my many trips to Prague long after this edition of Media Network was made. This was almost two years after the Velvet revoltion and changes were afoot at Radio Prague as well as the Czech radio domestic service. We also talk to Bob Horvitz, formerly of ANARC, now resident in Prague.
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Media Network Flashback: 25.04.1996. ICFSW40 and Yacht Boy 360
Been curating a new batch of Media Network shows, the programme I produced and hosted on Radio Netherlands from 1980-2000. This was Media Network edition 749. And this time we review the Sony ICFSW40 and the Grundig Yacht Boy 360. We looked at the subject of diversity in the Dutch media. Arthur Cushen has the Pacific media news and Mike Bird has the propagation outlook.
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Remembering Vilnius in 1991
It's getting cold. And while sorting through some old vintage recordings of Media Network I found an edition recorded on January 16th 1991 when we had a visit from a colleague at Radio Vilnius. They used to have a haunting melody at the start and end of each broadcast. Hearing it again, I must admit I can't get it out of my brain again. It's mid way through this programme. You've been warned.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Alternative Christmas Message - A question of Trust
The UK Guardian quotes excerpts from the brief message to be aired on the network at 1615 GMT. I wonder what the audience figures will be? It is already available on demand on the Channel 4 website, though strangely you are asked to register to watch it (I would have waived the registration in this case. I feel what he has to share is far more important that what's coming out of Buckingham Palace. At 1'43 seconds, Snowden's message is certainly to the point.
I thought the passing remarks from former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt a few days ago were poignant.
To this day, Schmidt remains dubious about the value of the security services. With anger in Germany at the alleged US surveillance of Angela Merkel's mobile phone calls, Schmidt says he never had any confidence in the spooks. "I was in government for 13 years and in that time only once met the head of the German security services, and that was because he was an old friend. Otherwise, I carefully avoided having anything to do with these people. They are unavoidable but not really necessary."
Some are taking a standI don't get many paper Christmas cards any more. But I did get a brilliant one from my Internet provider XS4ALL. It says "What are you doing over the Festive Season? - We don't want to know".
The reverse side of the card explains that XS4ALL rejects all requests for customer details, unless they are forced to. And those cases are published in their Transparency Report. I didn't pick my Internet provider because it was the cheapest. I chose them because it appears to be doing the most to protect my interests.
I believe the discussion about privacy will be one of the biggest issues next year. And rather than sitting idly by, I think this is a golden opportunity for public media to show they have the interests of the citizens at heart by being a catalyst for the discussion. Such a discussion is not going to happen in Russia or China. European countries with vision could see this as a golden opportunity to attract business away from US cloud providers by offering trusted alternatives without a back door. The public media are quick to respond with special programming when there is a natural disaster. But where are they when there is a public crisis of confidence? And look at the fiasco when US commercial media have a go - the CBS 60 minutes edition on the NSA must go down in history as the worst piece of investigative reporting in decades. It reminds me of the opening to Woody Allen's film Bananas.
I expected more NSA Christmas parodies, like this one below. Seen any yourself, then put them in the comments.
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Great Christmas Present - Visions of the Future
We live in a mixed up world
Monday, December 23, 2013
More video sequences from drones - this time in New York
What amazed me is that people seem not to notice. New York City-filmmaker Nicolas Doldinger used a Phantom quadcopter for this sequence. The camera in his short "First Flight of the Phantom" soars over New York City showing the power of the gimble to stabilize the shots, taking in Central Park, various city streets, Union Square, and Grand Central Station.
10 Suggested Improvements to the Hobbit
Just love the suggestions to insert Wilhelm Screams.
Auralnauts have done other great editing montages too. And great impressions by Scheiffer Bates.
News Corp Acquires Storyful the Social News Agency
Interesting to compare Mark Little's Blog explaining the acquisition of the Dublin based "social news" agency with the official News Corporation press release.
I can understand Storyful's delight in being acquired for 25 million dollars. I'm not sure I understand why Newscorp needs to acquire the news agency in order to "expand Storyful's video products and services for newsrooms, advertising agencies and brands. News Corp will also utilize Storyful's tools to help drive engagement and revenue across News Corp's businesses". Sounds rather muddled to me.
News Corp still has a long way to go to rebuild the public trust after the UK phone hacking scandal. So, from the outside looking in, it is rather early for acquisitions unless they are purely interested in absorbing the technology into properties like the Wall Street Journal.
I note on the website that Storyful's client list includes the BBC and Australia's ABC. Both have stormy relationships with NewsCorp. I guess they will quickly look for alternatives.
So did Newcorp buy the technology or the brains?
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Why is Google Chrome blocking Russian news agency?
For some reason, Google's Chrome browser has blocked access to the official Russian news agency RIA. This is the agency that has just absorbed the Voice of Russia (the successor to Radio Moscow). VOR site still accessible. The explanation given is that the site has been compromised by Malware. Not sure if that's true or whether something else has triggered Chrome. Thanks to a tip from the latest edition of the NoAgendaShow, definitely the best podcast in the universe.
Update: 23/12. Seems to be fixed this morning.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Publicity too soon is often Fatal
Interesting working with some European startup teams who believe that the first thing their new company needs is an article in Techcrunch, TNW, The Verge, or another on-line tech-blog. And they get annoyed when you explain that's a haphazard approach fraught with danger. "But you're the media guy. Get us some coverage. We need it to get the investors in".
They often get angry when I say it is too soon. And that investors are not reading PR spin in order to make an investment decision. They have their own networks to spot talent. Techblogs depend on traffic for their survival. Writers have to churn out articles for very little reward.
So bear in mind, before you think of issuing a press release, you usually only get one chance to share your story. And to be memorable you need to show that your brilliant solution/service has already got traction. Too many companies look for applause far too soon - hoping that a spin doctor will turn it into an article that gets a million views.
As others have found out the hard way, once your article has been written up, journalists are unlikely to come back for a follow-up unless there has been a major development. And once you've been in Techcrunch, rival magazines regard you as old news. Your launch party - indeed your very existence on the planet, however strong your team, is not a story!
Lessons Learned
The first thing any startup needs is a strong market-tested prototype, followed by an engaging company narrative. All that comes well after the beta-launch and customer development. In other words, sharing your story is a strategic choice. Don't take my word for it. Steve Blank has been saying this since 2008!
Wooden Performance from NTT Docomo
So how would you promote a new phone with a wooden back? NTT Docomo did this in 2011 which must be the most elaborate musical sequence filmed in a long time. Not sure if any of the wooden instruments were really tuned, or it was all put in later in post. I understand from This Week In Google that Motorola has finally come out with a bamboo back for its Moto X phone. But what's all the fuss about?
Friday, December 20, 2013
Dr Who in the Thick of It
Rare that the Beeb allow you to embed their content on your site. Apparently the message is getting through. It is going to be weird seeing the new doctor who I can only associate with his former role in The Thick of It. Youtube is full of F-word mash-ups.
Experimental Lytro drops to US$199
I see the Lytro camera has dropped in price for a few days to UD$199. This isn't a camera for everyone. And if the technology catches on, these cameras will quickly become obsolete. And I would never use it as a primary camera. But if you like the ability of being able to capture now and focus later, it can provide some very creative possibilities. We're now starting to see the results from people who have already played.
There is a lot of information in the "blurred" area of an ordinary camera that gets chucked out because the photographer selects a particular focus point. Here is the founder's thesis describing the technology https://www.lytro.com/downloads/resources/renng-thesis.pdf. He likens "plenoptic" imaging to replacing a retina with an insect-like compound eye, so the eye still has a single lens, it just directs the rays to a compound eye that can focus and shift perspective on a per pixel basis.Photos are interactive (focal plane, depth of field), with special software, but exports to JPG are at only 1080x1080 pixels -- very small or low-res. I wish they were wide angle.
I've been told that Eric Cheng, who was Lytro's former Director of Photography until October 2013 is now doing fun videography with drones, building his own rigs for beautiful HD flights in nature. Very smart guy.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Black Magic 4K Melbourne production footage
Blackmagic's 4K Production Camera Footage from Brian Hallett on Vimeo.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
My Favorite tip for Christmas Videos...
Brilliant advice from the puppets! Stamp out vertical videos!
The team on MacBreak weekly pointed out the parody of the Apple Christmas ad, showing the fact that the kid in the video capturing the story is using his iPhone in portrait mode and so it's all fake.
During the show they point out his that the official Apple holiday ad has a glaring piece of poor advice in it.
But this is the video the kid really shot. Vertical Video!
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
When audiences lie to you
I've been filling in audience panel forms for the last couple of decades, often keeping track of the questions being posed. I really wonder what conclusions were ever drawn from them. Problem is that they are often templates and put together by researchers who are not regular listeners/viewers of the programme. I'm interested because I have always valued audience input - I believe it's essential to audience engagement. And the factual programmes that had the maximum involvement of the audience were the ones they remembered, often decades later.
In my more recent work with start-ups, I've been using the Lean Startup Methodology which encourages you to build a business model canvas and then test it on lead customers. Few business models survive that first encounter. If you've been involved in leading film, radio or TV production you already know about making a pilot production and testing it on a representative group before commissioning. So the method is nothing new. But I think many of us in the media could learn from books like the Mom Test in formulating much more useful questions in audience surveys. Just replace the word customer with listener/viewer/site user and you'll see what I am ranting on about.
The answers could be so much more use to programme makers in understanding why certain programmes or sites are more appreciated than others. If you look at slide 9 above, it shows you what someone is thinking during the test.
Found a great presentation by Rob Fitzpatrick from the Pioneers festival.
and in Berlin
Rob Fitzpatrick - How To Do (And What To Expect From) Early-Stage Customer Development & Sales from HackFwd on Vimeo.
I've done something similar with a recent survey that came in from an international broadcaster. It was clear that they simply wanted me to confirm a producer's hunch that they were making a better programme now than 6 months ago. They weren't interested in alternatives. They were making programmes for me, not with me. There was no open question at the end where I could share my thoughts. And they said my answers would be anonymized to protect my identity. In other words, if I did have something to say, the producer would never find out who suggested it. So, because I knew I had no influence on the future, I stopped wasting my time and got on with something else. In fact that was designing a much more useful questionnaire for a client. Learned a lot from others mistakes. Anyone have a similar experience?
Guardian Getting better at clear tech reviews
Monday, December 16, 2013
Light Weight Drones in Delft
Following a soft launch at the recent TEDx Amsterdam, Delft University has now released a demo if its bird-like drone. It flies itself but it looks to me as though it can't land...you simply have to grab it out of the air. Flying time in 8 minutes at the moment before the battery is exhausted. The users see it being used in concerts - though I don't believe the drone could carry a Gro-Pro plus a stabilizing gimbal. The TEDx talk mentions that it is an open source project. More details at www.delfly.nl
D-Day for Digital Radio - or does D stand for Delay?
• Matt Deegan, creative director of radio and new media consultancy Folder Media, who runs digital only station, Fun Kids;
• Scott Taunton, chief executive of TalkSport parent UTV Media, which was one of 13 media groups that came out against digital switchover last month;
• Daniel Nathan, founder of Juice FM Brighton who was also one of those media groups and has been closely involved in all things digital; and
• Media Talk regular Paul Robinson, chief executive of the Radio Academy.
update 16/12: Guess what? The minister delayed the switchover until after 2020. If it takes more than 20 years for a new idea to reach the tipping point, it ain't going to happen. Especially with so many IP driven devices out there. Why not IP beacons instead of DAB broadcast transmitters?
Sunday, December 15, 2013
The Big Shift from Push to Pull
I had read a previous book by the same authors, John Seely Brown and John Hagel III, called The Only Sustainable Edge. That was a great book, looking at how innovation in companies was happening at the edge where it was much easier to introduce disruptive ideas. There was a working paper that outlined their thinking in 2005.
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In a discussion I saw while I was in California that year (Supernova) the two authors compared how Toyota and GM worked with their suppliers in completely different ways, pointing out the collaborative policies that Toyota built were far more productive than the "lowest price mentality" found in Detroit. I remember thinking that this was also going to disrupt the media production business I was in. This was the year that HD cameras became affordable (I bought one just before the trip). Podcasting was in its infancy. And international broadcasters were still struggling with what to do with content they wanted to push towards their listeners on the other side of the world. But they were still wondering what could replace crackly un-reliable low fidelity shortwave radio.
Rereading the working paper now, I realise that what happened next to the media world I operated in was already in the 2005 paper. I quote:
Over the past decade, we have witnessed a transformation of the media landscape. On the one hand, mass media is becoming more concentrated in terms of ownership as audiences and revenue sources slowly decline. On the other hand, we are witnessing a blossoming of niche content, aided by four converging developments: the development of low cost and easily accessible content creation tools, the spread of faster Internet as an infrastructure for content distribution, the growth of new forms of access devices and the emergence of new types of distribution businesses facilitating the transition to pull models of content distribution.
Rather than waiting for media companies to deliver relevant content at appropriate times, customers are increasingly reaching out to pull content to them when they want. They are aided in this task by new distribution businesses that are breaking down the shelf space constraints of traditional distribution channels, radically expanding the range of content that is available and providing robust tools to help customers find the content that is most relevant to them. Sometimes these new businesses look like more conventional retailers in the sense of providing a single point of access to broad assortments of media (e.g., Amazon or Netflix). Sometimes they provide new ways of sampling media before buying (e.g., Rhapsody). But others are quite different, ranging from eBay where the closest analogue is the local flea market to peer to peer networks that lack any central hub at all and enable owners of content to pull from each other directly.
"Podcasters" are also emerging to share customized selections of music from many different artists with friends and broader audiences. A vibrant remix culture has also emerged, assisted by widely affordable digital audio editing tools, in which DJ's in night clubs and other music fans recombine and, in some cases, add audio tracks or channels from a recording to produce a modified audio recording.
(That paper is worth re-reading in full. I can't do justice to it here)
Why Push Media is Becoming Less InfluentialSo if we think of broadcasting as a giant push system, then the following assumptions made by John Seely Brown and John Hagel III in their latest book seem to me to be correct. I have adapted the quotation to fit the broadcast world.
- There's not enough good content to go around. If you win, I lose.
- Elites do the deciding. In push systems, small groups of people (radio and TV executives) make the decisions on behalf of passive recipients who consume the output.
- Organizations like broadcasters must be hierarchical. How else can elites maintain their command and control?
- People must be molded. As content producers and as members of the audience, people are expected to follow certain patterns in ways that support predictable production and consumption of the programmes and services that are created and delivered through push systems.
- Bigger is better. Broadcasters and publishers can reap efficiencies by getting ever bigger, so that economies of scale yield lower and lower unit costs on products and services.
- Demand can be forecast. If consumers can be molded to consume what's given to them, then it follows that business can forecast demand. Similarly, school systems can foresee what sorts of knowledge and skills students will need after graduation.
- Resources can be allocated centrally. This might smack of command economies, but the difference here is that it's the center of the institution (i.e. upper management) that's allocating the resources.
- Demand can be met. If demand can be forecast, and resources allocated accordingly, then it follows that companies can build processes and programs delivering resources to the right place at the right time and in the right quantities to meet that demand.
The problem is that for (international) broadcasters, understanding what the audience really wanted was almost impossible to measure. It was hard enough just registering that people were listening. Two of the main reasons for me to step out of the international broadcasting scene in 2003 were:
- It became increasingly difficult to work out what information audiences missed so much that they would buy a special radio and tune in on a completely different waveband at a specific time.
- Shortwave was increasingly less competitive in being able to deliver programme material at the right time on the right platform. I could also see an increasing interest in the use of video, well before YouTube came along.
|Netcasters like Leo Laporte have always included audiences in the discussion. This was taken in 2010 before they moved to much larger studio premises. But input from the chat room remains important.
From Push to Pull.
So who is building new forms of engaging narratives?
I'm seeing organisations like Deutsche Welle run on-line labs to help journalists working in difficult situations. They also recommend some excellent resources from the Rory Peck Foundation in London as well as TacticalTech.
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has started its own collaboration lab in both New York and London. The FAQ's read like they have started an accelerator, though they offer no guarantees to the teams they select that there is a commission at the end of the 6 months. That must be a financial challenge to the media startups, though being able to say you're part of a BBC accelerator adds a lot to your credibility. And they are working on new ways to offer content in different ways than linear broadcast.
And in Amsterdam, the MakerStreet guild of companies is doing some high quality work with media organisations. I like the way they operate their Masterclasses the opposite way round from traditional training centres. They start with on-line specialist webinars which lead to a project proposal. They filter out the best ideas and if participants pass that test they are invited to a 4 day master class to build their project together with specialist mentors.
How US Media failed women in 2013
Cleverly made campaign video which has already been seen by 3.9 million people, if the YouTube stats can be believed. I think the remarks made by several of the male presenters beggars belief, although some are taken out of context. Many of the ads depicted in the video here remind me of the rude postcards you could buy at British seaside resorts in the 1980's. They show they don't understand how their audience has changed. Has anyone done anything similar analysing how women are represented in European media? I have seen reports, but actual examples are much more powerful.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Radio Moscow vanishes from shortwave wireless in January?
|My Kremlin visit was amazing. Could take my HD video camera inside, but not a tripod.
When I started in international media in the 1980's, Radio Moscow dominated the shortwave airwaves. I believe it was logged as putting out 264 hrs of programming a day in 74 languages. Hard to believe nowadays. The station, now called Voice of Russia or more often "Radio VR", will in fact cease to be a radio station broadcasting on shortwave as from January 1st 2014. I'm surprised that the disappearance of a vast piece of broadcast history has gone virtually unnoticed. I have no doubt that some of the FM, DAB and even medium-wave outlets will remain, but at the moment nothing is confirmed.
|Russian valve radios of the 1950's all had shortwave on them
This next programme was broadcast at the start of 1998. We only really started to get an idea of what broadcasting was like during the Cold War towards the end of the 1990's. I remember we had a visit from Estelle Winters, who is still a regular presenter on the Voice of Russia, the station that took over from Radio Moscow World Service. I remember when we finally saw pictures of the studios of Radio Moscow and realised why the station always had a signature sound - no matter what language, you could often identify the station on a crowded short-wave dial because of the modulation. The studios had two microphones pointing towards the presenter, giving it a characteristic echo since there is a phase difference between the sound captured by the mikes.
This programme broadcast in June 1995 included a profile of the music station in Moscow Radio 7. Around 23 minutes into the programme.
I recall talking to David Smith, a former Radio Netherlands colleague, in the gardens of a radio station in Nairobi in 2010. He had some marvellous stories about listening to Radio Moscow while growing up in Canada.
Early Shortwave Memories David Smith from Jonathan Marks on Vimeo.
This next programme takes us back the start of March 1992, when things are starting to open up, media-wise, in the Russian capital. The show starts with a report by Rosella Strom who went to Geneva, Switzerland as part of the World Radio Congress at the ITU where large chunks of the radio spectrum were allocated. The Moscow report is in the second half.
Twenty-two years ago the Media News was centred around changes at Radio Moscow. With no way of doing a direct interview, we called Richard Measham at BBC Monitoring. And there were interesting comments from Vasily Strelnikov on his show. In January 1991, Radio Moscow changed its name to Radio Moscow World Service. We called Richard Measham at BBC Monitoring.
I see that Vasily Strelnikov is back on the Voice of Russia, reminiscing with colleagues about the days of Radio Moscow World Service. They have a facebook page (search for "from Moscow with Love").
In this next programme broadcast in January 1992, Richard Measham of BBC Monitoring explains how time changes in Russia have affected the complex external broadcast schedule (curiously time changes are back in the news as Russia has decided to adopt permanent summer time in 2011). Vasily explains about Radio Ala, a station which played Bard folkmusic which popped up on shortwave having hired transmission facilities formerly used by Soviet jammers. It was fascinating while it lasted. There's also an interval signal contest as compensation for Jim Cutler's Impossible Contest which we put out in April 1992. We played three interval signals at once, one of them backwards. But it didn't fool the dedicated listeners. I made the photo on a wet but fascinating day in Moscow in 2009. Incredible to see where those programmes were made.
Remarkably little of Radio Moscow recordings on YouTube. Found some? Leave a comment.
|Will never forget wandering through the centre of Moscow in 2009. It's an incredible place.


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- Clean with White Lightning.
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- Buff if you like the flat chalky finish.
- Clear Coat is a water-resistant poly-acrylic. Available in flat, satin and gloss.
- Gator Hide is a very durable water-repellent poly-acrylic. Recommended for heavy use areas, such as cabinets or tabletops.
- Best Dang Wax is a creamy, smooth, easy to use wax. Clear wax will brighten your paint. Other wax colors will change the color dramatically.
- Glaze is used to create depth and dimension.
- Patina Collection creates rusty, weathered effects.
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Thibodaux man heralded as 'Mardi Gras Social Media King' by police department
A man who has an affinity for social media has been branded as the "Mardi Gras social media king" for the Thibodaux Police Department.
Thibodaux Police Chief Scott Silverii said he is willing to try anything that will bridge the gap between his department and the community.
Justin Tabor, a social media enthusiast, worked with the department in a campaign to Tweet-The-Beat during the Ambrosia night parade. Tabor tweeted from the department's Twitter account the experience of the parade.
The Police Department said positive replies poured in over the social media experience and gave residents the ability to track the parade and experience the night digitally -- a move never done before in Thibodaux, the department said.
Silverii branded Tabor as the department's "Mardi Gras social media king" -- A fitting title during Carnival, where many who participate in parades are referred to as royalty.
The Thibodaux Police Department can be followed on Twitter via @ThibodauxPD.


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1/3/2014 | By Mitch Irzinski
Dennis Gershenson, president and CEO of Ramco- Gershenson Properties Trust (NYSE: RPT), joined REIT.com for a CEO Spotlight video interview at REITWorld 2013: NAREIT's Annual Convention for All Things REIT at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis.
Gershenson provided an overview of the acquisition market in the shopping center industry.
"It's very interesting, because we were in a very frothy market in the first five months of 2013," he said. "When Mr. Bernanke came out with his prognostication that things might change, the market just crushed. It took most of the summer for both the buyers and sellers to feel that there was some normalcy coming back into the marketplace. Now, here we are in the fall (Editor's Note: video was recorded in November 2013), and we're seeing the high quality shopping centers, as well as the B shopping centers, back on the market. What we find is, that as far as the highest quality assets are concerned, the institutional buyers are still paying approximately the same cap rates that they were paying before, and there is a tremendous amount of competition for those."
Gershenson described his company's involvement in in development and redevelopment activities.
"Development takes one of two forms," he said." Either it's legacy property that we purchased in the go-go days of 2004 to 2007, and we're now redeveloping those properties. We will not be greenfield developers going forward, but what we have been doing is acquiring land adjacent to our most recent acquisitions – that gives us the opportunity to expand on a very successful asset."
Gershenson also talked about his anchor tenants, and what changes he is seeing in terms of occupancy.
"We're very focused on improving the quality of our anchor tenants, as well as the whole spectrum of retailers in our shopping centers," he said. "We have filed our shopping centers where we had vacancies, either that existed before the debacle of the recession, or as a result hereof, with high-quality, national retailers. One of the exciting things about bricks and mortar retailing, is it's always refreshing itself. So, with the problems that Circuit City and Linen's had, along comes retailers like BuyBuy Baby."


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Hate Crime Charges For Allegedly Stealing From Mentally Disabled
Woman and co-conspirators will face a first of its kind hate crime prosecution.
Jan. 23, 2013 -- A Philadelphia woman and four others face a first of its kind hate crimes prosecution for allegedly imprisoning mentally handicapped adults in a basement while stealing their benefit checks.
The 196 count federal grand jury indictment unsealed today claims that Linda Ann Weston, 52, and her alleged accomplices preyed on people with mental disabilities from 2001 to 2011 when four adults were found confined in her Philadelphia basement.
"Shocking does not begin to describe the criminal allegations in this case where the victims were tied-up and confined like zoo animals and treated like property akin to slaves," U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Zane Memeger said in a statement.
The case will be the first to utilize a 2009 statute that enhanced punishments for criminals who target the mentally disabled. Weston is accused of targeting mentally disabled people in order to steal their Social Security disability payments.
Investigators in Philadelphia said in 2011 that Weston and her accomplices were carrying out a "widespread fraud scheme," and that they trafficked the victims from Texas to Florida to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, they held their alleged victims in Weston's daughter's apartment building.
The victims are believed to have been in the 6 by 10 foot boiler room for about 10 days. They were found in October 2011 reeking of excrement from the bucket they were forced to use, police said.
According to the indictment, one of the victims, who have not been named, was Weston's niece.
Weston allegedly targeted mentally disabled individuals who were estranged from their families and offered them a place to stay. In some instances Weston pretended to have a romantic interest in her victims as a means of luring them into her home, the indictment states.
Once she had convinced them to move in, Weston became their representative payee with Social Security and began to collect their disability benefits, according to the indictment. At times two women were forced to engage in prostitution, and when victims attempted to flee they were beaten, kicked and burned, court documents state.
When police searched personal belongings of Weston in 2011, documents belonging to 50 persons turned up, authorities said. The documents allegedly included drivers licenses, Social Security cards and even power of attorney forms filled out to allow Weston access to the victims' money.
After discovering the documents, police launched an investigation, believing that she may have had victims in Florida, Virginia and Texas.
The indictment unsealed today names Weston, Eddie Wright, 52, of Killeen, Texas, Gregory Thomas Sr., 49, of Philadelphia, Weston's daughter Jean Mcintosh, 33, of Philadelphia, and Nicklaus Woodard, 26, of West Palm Beach, Fla.
All five were charged with four counts of a hate crime, conspiracy, racketeering, and kidnapping. Weston Mcintosh and Thomas were charged with involuntary servitude. Only Weston was charged with two counts of murder.
Confinement and abuse caused the deaths of two other victims, the prosecutors allege and Weston worked to cover up their deaths.
All five of the defendants in the case face life sentences.


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New York Philharmonic 2006
Weathering the rain
Location: Central Park, Manhattan
Date: July 18, 2006
Photographer: Malcolm Pinckney
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Universal Coverage: Nothing to Fear
Oct. 18, 2006 -- Most people know that all other developed nations -- like England, Canada, Germany or Japan -- provide universal access to public health-care coverage but spend far less than we do for health care.
But most Americans worry that if the United States adopted a public system of universal health-care coverage, this wealthy nation would not be able to pay for it while still providing the kind of health care that those Americans who are now insured are used to.
The question is: If the United States did adopt a universal health-care system, would those of us who are now insured and have reasonably good access to health care be denied the health care we want or need?
Or, would health care be rationed?
The experiences of other nations could shed some light on the subject.
Every country organizes health-care financing in its own way.
A few like the United Kingdom are "single-payer" systems administered by the national government and funded from general taxes.
Others are funded by general taxes, but are, like the Canadian system, decentralized, and funded at both the national and state or local level.
Many systems, including the German, French and Japanese, are social insurance systems.
Countries also organize health-care delivery in their own way.
In some countries, health-care services are provided directly by the government, but in most countries services are provided by private hospitals and professionals.
There is one thing that all these countries have in common -- in no country does everyone get all the medical care that they want or from which they could benefit.
Resources for health care are limited and have to somehow be divided up among a country's citizens.
The United States divides up health-care resources even now, even without universal coverage. America allocates most health-care resources on the basis of whether or not people can pay for those resources.
Most people think that kind of allocation is unfair or unjust, even irrational. The healthy baby of a wealthy family may get more medical attention than the sick baby of a low-income family.
In countries with universal health care, the sick baby would be guaranteed access to medical care.
But that kind of guarantee -- that the universal system will provide health care to the sick -- isn't enough to convince most Americans that a universal system is a good idea.
What most Americans think of when they think of health care rationing in other countries are waiting lists. So, the sick may be guaranteed care over the healthy, but the sick still have to wait for care.
That is a reasonable concern -- in both Canada and the United Kingdom, waiting lists for medical care are a problem.
In many other countries, Germany, Japan and France, for example, waiting lists are not a major problem.
Indeed, in Germany, patients with health problems are more likely to get an appointment to see a doctor the same day as they need it -- and less likely to have to wait six days or more to see a doctor -- than are American patients.
Germans are much less likely to have to go to the emergency room to get care on nights or weekends than we are.
Germans are no more likely than Americans to have to wait more than four weeks to see a specialist.
In Japan, a patient can often go to a doctor without an appointment, but may have to sit for a long time in the waiting room.
Whether one has to wait for medical care or not turns more on how much a country spends on health care or how health-care delivery is organized than on whether or not health care is publicly financed.
Many Americans also worry that universal health care means losing the freedom of choice of provider -- as if you no longer could choose your doctor, but someone else told you where to get care.
But that also isn't a real problem in other countries that have universal health care.
Germans, and Japanese, and Canadians can in general freely choose their own doctor, unlike many Americans in managed-care plans.
Some other countries have "gatekeeper" systems that limit access to specialists, but many countries allow direct access to specialists as well as to primary-care physicians.
Americans like to think of themselves as a resourceful, creative people.
If other countries can make health care available to all their residents while spending less than we do, and yet do so without wait lists and without limiting the availability of useful technology, why cannot we?
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost is the Robert L. Willett professor of law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va.


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Replies to Idolators:
As we saw earlier, idol worshiping is not favored by most of the religions. After all they are condemning it. But wherever you go, you see people worshiping created things (idols) as if they are worshiping the GOD.
The most common excuse they have is, "It's hard to worship the unseen God".
"So, this allows you to worship something other than God?"
"Why is it hard for you when it is not hard for 'billions' of people?"
Another thing they say is, "God is present everywhere. Everything is God. We worship God through His creations".
"Whoa! Worshipping God through His creations? Why do you need this 'through'? It doesn't seem logical?
Why can't you worship God directly?
And again as I have said earlier in the post 'Is Everything God?' we can conclude "Everything is God's" and everything is NOT God.
Anyways, worshiping the Creations doesn't mean you worship the Creator. It simply means, 'You worship the Creations'!". [And you know that's wrong]
Again they say, "No no, it's not the stone we worship. Its God present inside the stone".
"This is another version of the previous question. God can never be inside a stone which is one of His creations"
"You see, we don't worship all stones, only special kind of stones. Also gold, silver, brass".
"You are in a very dangerous position you know. You are more special than a gold or a silver or a brass, aren't you? So we worship YOU?
What is the authenticity of your practices? If we read your scriptures we find exactly the opposite. So where do you get these things from? From some stupid man or from God?"
"Ok fine, idol worship has no basis in our religion, its wrong. But.. common people can't worship God without an image. It helps to focus our concentration. When we get trained we don't need that image. Like in school, in 1st grade you have an idol but when you finish your final grade you don't need an idol".


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If you think you can eat these gummy bears, you'd be wrong. They're not real. As in they're not actually gummy bears. Instead, the gummy deliciousness is actually an extremely photorealistic painting made by Jeanne Vadeboncoeur. So good.
It's crazy that Vadeboncoeur can get the color of the gummy bears just right—it looks perfectly translucent. Vadeboncouer has pretty much mastered the art of creating gummy bears. Check out these bears in a row:
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Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas has quashed speculation that he could field a weakened side for their trip to Inter on Thursday evening.
The Portuguese takes his side to Milan with a comfortable 3-0 lead after goals from Gareth Bale, Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jan Vertonghen put Spurs on the brink of a Europa League quarter-final spot.
When asked if he intended on resting star players, Villas-Boas told reporters: "No chance. There is no scoreline that could make us change six or seven players so we will play a strong team to make sure we go through in this competition. We take this game very seriously."
The north London club will be without Bale, however, after he received a caution for simulation in the first leg, his third booking of the season's competition, although Villas-Boas is confident that his side can do well without the Welshman.
"We've been in the situation where he is not with us and we got results," the Portuguese added.
"Gareth can make a difference in any game, we know. We will miss him but we won't want to prove anything without him because we believe a lot in ourselves and also we believe in Gareth.
"It's not a case of proving anything. We just want to do our job to get through. We had very difficult draws for the last 32 and last 16 in Lyon and Inter.
"They are two teams used to playing Champions League football and who are full of European experience.
"It's been a brilliant experience so far and it shows the route we've chosen to take, by playing it seriously, has paid off in terms of these fixtures, which has been amazing.
"Hopefully if we can manage to overcome Inter we can put ourselves in a strong position, although we admit there are still some very strong teams in the mix."


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Texas Kids Can't Wait
Equity, Adequacy, Excellence
Our kids need you today.
In Texas (as well as in other states) there are those at work to destroy public education. They impose draconian accountability systems and austerity budgets to make sure that schools struggle. Then they advocate for corporate takeover of public schools through charters, vouchers, online courses, etc.. Stand with us! Our children, their future, the future of Texas, and our democracy are at stake. Kids can't wait. Their time is NOW!
One of our major strategies is to provide information so that all interested Texans can learn how the Texas school funding system works--and how it does not work for the vast majority of our kids. We will conduct public forums and communicate in as many ways as possible to spread the word. Watch the interview video below for more information:
We are convinced that nothing will substantially change without grassroots political organization and action. Another strategy, therefore, is to teach our members how to be effective advocates for an improved funding system for all Texas children and how to resist all forms of corporate takeover of our schools. Our goals include (1) equitable funding, (2) adequate funding, (3) funding to cover inflation and new students, and (4) taxpayer equity. We also oppose all efforts to destroy public schools.
Join us!
Start making a difference today by joining Texas Kids Can't Wait! Go to the "Contact" page and send us an email that includes your contact information--name, mailing address, telephone number, and email address. And/or send us an email to request information, to schedule a public forum, or to provide information. Follow us on Twitter @txkidscantwait . Also, please "LIKE" our Facebook page at http://www.Facebook.com/texaskidscantwait. You can email us directly at email@example.com.


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If you are a real estate agent looking for online property CRM software or a SEO optimized website, or just looking for advice on how to get more buyers online, then this is probably a good place to start.
plus many other great real estate agencies & professionals. Please, feel free to contact them for references.


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Market reactions to changes in the Nasdaq-100 Index membership Xu, Yuanbin (Brock University, 2012-05-17)We examine stock market reactions around the Nasdaq-100 Index reconstitutions. We find a symmetric and transitory price response accompanied by a significant increase in trading volume on the effective date. Firms added ...


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Evening Tour of the Library
Discover one of the world's largest independent lending libraries, steeped in over 175 years of history and housing a fascinating and varied collection.
The London Library hosts free guided tours on weekday evenings offering visitors the opportunity to visit this historic literary oasis in the heart of the capital. There's no fear of getting lost as our friendly staff guide you around the mind-boggling 1 million volumes on 17 miles of shelving.
Are the tours free?
Yes. Numbers are limited so reservations are essential.
What time does the tour start and how long is it?
Tours start promptly at 6.00pm. Please allow an hour for the tour.
Is it suitable for children?
Tours are not particularly recommended for young children. Tours take place during working hours and noise and disturbance needs to be avoided. Buggies cannot be taken around many areas of the building including the narrow bookstacks.
Is the tour suitable for people with mobility problems?
The tour encompasses walking up and down many flights of stairs, and due to the nature of the building we are unable to offer lift access to all areas. The tour therefore may not be suitable if you have mobility problems. Please inform us when you book and we will do our best to accommodate you. Iron grille flooring in some areas may make flat shoes preferable!


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The streets of New York are busy with the hustle bustle of urban life. But, like so many big cities, those streets are also full of human pain and misery.
On November 14, 2012, a tourist — Jennifer Foster of Florence, Arizona — witnessed someone reduce that misery by a notch, with an act of kindness.
An NYPD officer gave a shoeless homeless man with blistered bare feet a pair of warm winter boots.
Foster took this photo with her cell phone, unbeknown to the officer. The photo has since gone viral.
Liz Klimas reports for The Blaze, Nov. 29, 2012, that Foster is the communications director for the Pinal County Sheriff's Office in Arizona. This is her account of what she saw:
"Right when I was about to approach [the homeless man], one of your officers came up behind him. The officer said, 'I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather. Let's put them on and take care of you.' The officer squatted down on the ground and proceeded to put socks and the new boots on this man. The officer expected NOTHING in return and did not know I was watching. I have been in law enforcement for 17 years. I was never so impressed in my life. I did not get the officer's name. It is important, I think, for all of us to remember the real reason we are in this line of work. The reminder this officer gave to our profession in his presentation of human kindness has not been lost on myself or any of the Arizona law enforcement officials with whom this story has been shared."
The police officer is Lawrence DePrimo. The photo has made it onto news sites and blogs around the world, as well as posted on the NYPD's official Facebook page, which has received over 315,000 "likes" and shared more than 74,000 times. According to the New York Times, as of yesterday evening, the pic has been viewed by more than 1.6 million people.
Thank you, Officer DePrimo for reminding us there is still good in this world.


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Is anybody getting the small "BibleWorks" windows coming up when they click in the info window at the Matt 6.13 link for 1 Peter 1.25? I click the ok but it keeps coming back for several clicks.
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By the end of this course, you should understand the fundamentals of forces and moments, and be able to solve equilibrium problems for rigid (non-deformable) bodies in both two and three dimensions.
What You Should Already Know[edit]
In order to completely comprehend the material in this course, you should have a firm understanding of all math leading up to Calculus I. Also, an understanding of basic physics, as well as technical sketching is useful.
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Equilibrium For Points and Rigid Bodies[edit]
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Justin Long, Ricci's co-star in horror film After.Life shed some details about this diabolical little movie about a mortician (Liam Neeson)'s secret laboratory of horrors. Sounds like Ricci is in for some mad science.
In an exclusive interview with Shock Til You Drop, Justin Long pulled the shroud off the diabolical plans for tormenting Ricci in After.Life. Ricci (who plays Long's lady friend) gets in a seemingly fatal car accident, and wakes up in the funeral home.
"It's going to be genuinely creepy and disturbing" Long explained. "She gets taken in by this mortician Liam Neeson plays. She wakes up on the table as he's preparing her body. She's obviously quite confused and he convinces her he's a medium for the after life [and] she's really dead, but she's in this purgatory state when in fact he's injecting her full of...there are in fact chemicals that make the body appear as if it's dead."
Far out, my friends - after seeing Neeson in Taken I know that there really isn't anything this man can't do, so I'm quite thrilled at the idea of him playing someone this warped. Read the rest of the interview over at Shock.


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Welcome to Wednesday Magness, in which we "read" the celeb tabloids. So you don't "have" to.
US Weekly is the biggest newsstand tantalizer this week with the hed "Her Twisted Double Life" — her being Angelina — and promising to analyze
-her broken promise to be a stay-at-home mom
-Secret fights with Brad over Pax's adoption
-How she uses her kids to manipulate the media.
(Our boldface, natch!)
The effect of which is sort of a bonerkiller to Life & Style Weekly's promise to reveal details of Brangelina's death threats. Yawn. Slightly more interesting, if you care about Katie Holmes (not really) or Scientology (totes!) Star and InTouch both front stoned-looking pix of K, with InTouch sporting a typically horrid couple shot and detecting another hirsute bun in her oven, Star promising to reveal details of what happened when Tom uncovered Katie's secret plan to leave him.


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This document covers how to use the Google Play Console to set up Google Play games services for your Android game. The Google Play Console provides a centralized place for you to manage game services and configure metadata for authorizing and authenticating your game.
To add your game to the Google Play Console, follow these general steps:
- Create an entry for your game and specify details such as the name and description of the game.
- In order for your game to access Google APIs, you must provide the necessary credentials to authorize and authenticate your game.
These steps are covered in more detail in the sections below.
Step 1. Sign in to the Google Play Console
To sign in, go the Google Play Console. If you haven't registered for the Google Play Console before, you will be prompted to do so.
Step 2. Add your game to the Google Play Console
To add your game, follow these steps:
- Open the Game Services page, select the Google Play games services tab on the left, then click the Add New Game button.
Specify if the game you are adding already uses Google APIs.
- If this is a game you are creating from scratch, or you have never set up Google APIs for it previously, stay on the I don't use any Google APIs in my game yet tab. Enter your game's name and assign it a category, and then click the Continue button.
- If this is a game for which you have already set up one or more Google APIs, select the I already use Google APIs in my game tab. You will see a list of projects from the Google API Console for which you are listed as a developer. Select your project from this list, assign the game a category, then click the Continue button.
In the Game Details form, add the description, category, and graphic assets for your game.
- Only the display name is required for testing. The other fields must be filled out before you can publish your game.
- The display name and description for your game should be generic enough to apply across all versions of your game that share the same Google Play games services.
- For guidelines on creating the graphic assets, see the Google Play for Developers guide and the Google Play Featured-Image Guidelines.
Click Save to create a new entry for your game in the Google Play Console. A corresponding entry in the Google API Console is also created for you.
Step 3. Generate an OAuth 2.0 client ID
Your game must have an OAuth 2.0 client ID in order to be authenticated and authorized to call the Google Play games services. To set up the association between a client ID and your game, use the Google Play Console to generate the client ID and link it to your game.
To generate an OAuth 2.0 client ID for your game, follow these steps:
a. Create a linked application
To link your game to a Google API Console project, open the Linked apps page, and then follow the instructions specific to your platform.
- Click the Android button.
- The application name may be shown to your players, so specify a name that closely matches the name of your actual Android game.
- Add the application's package name.
- Select whether or not to turn on Anti-Piracy.
- Click Save and continue, then follow the steps in the Create a client ID section below.
- Click the Web button.
- The application name may be shown to your players, so specify a name that closely matches the name of your actual web game.
- Add the URL to launch your game.
- Click Save and continue, then follow the steps in the Create a client ID section below.
b. Create a client ID
- In the Step 2: Authorize your app screen, click the Authorize your app now button to begin the process of creating an OAuth 2.0 client ID.
- You will be prompted to enter a package name. This information will appear in the OAuth 2.0 permissions dialog box when a user is asked to authorize your game. Your game name is placed in the project name field by default.
- Click Continue, then follow the steps in the Specify client ID settings section below.
c. Specify client ID settings
Next, specify your client ID settings by following the instructions specific to your platform.
- Choose Installed application as your Application type and select Android as the installed application type (these should be your only options).
- In the Package name field, enter your Android application's package name.
- Open a terminal and run the
Keytool utility to get the SHA1 fingerprint of the certificate. You should
get both the release and debug certificate fingerprints.
To get the release certificate fingerprint:
keytool -list -keystore <path-to-production-keystore> -vTo get the debug certificate fingerprint:
keytool -list -keystore <path-to-debug-keystore> -v
- The keytool prompts you to enter a password for the keystore. The
default password for the debug keystore is
android. The keytool then prints the fingerprint to the terminal.
- Paste the SHA1 fingerprint into the Signing certificate fingerprint (SHA1) field.
- Click the Create client button, then follow the steps in the Gather credentials for authentication and authorization section below.
For more information about OAuth 2.0 on Android, see Authenticating to OAuth2 Services.
You should create two client IDs, one with the release certificate fingerprint and another with the debug certificate fingerprint. Make sure to use the same package name for both. This allows Google Play games services to recognize calls from your linked APKs that are signed with either certificate. For more information about certificate signing for Android, see Signing Your Application.
You can add more than one Android app to the same game entry in Google Play Console. However, this should only be done if there are different versions of the same game (for example, the free version and the paid version). In this case, always list the paid version before the free version (or the full version before the demo/trial version). Do not link different games to the same project as this may cause incorrect behavior. Instead, create a separate game entry in the Google Play Console for each game that you publish.
- Choose Web application as your Application type (it should be the only option).
- Enter the site or host name where you will be hosting your app. You can add additional sites later.
- An OAuth 2.0 redirect URI will automatically be created for you. You can change this later if you want to redirect to a different URI. If you're using JavaScript to handle your OAuth 2.0 sign-in, you can ignore this URI, and delete it later.
- If you want more control over the hostnames and/or redirect URIs, click the more options link. This will allow you to add multiple redirect URIs, as well as multiple authorized sites (also called JavaScript Origins) from which you can call client-side OAuth. As a general rule, you should have as many authorized hosts or redirect URIs as you need for development, but no more. You should also remove URLs like "localhost" as authorized origins before you publish your game. If you are using server-side OAuth (that is, redirecting to an OAuth page and redirecting back to your game), specify the page to which you redirect back in the Authorized Redirect URIs box. If you are using client-side OAuth (that is, having the OAuth dialog appear in a pop-up dialog), specify the servers from which you are serving your game in the Authorized JavaScript Origins box.
- Click Create client, then follow the steps in the Gather credentials for authentication and authorization section below.
d. Gather credentials for authentication and authorization
Depending on the platform you are developing for, you may need to locate and record the following credential information.
Client ID
After you click the Create Client button, you should see your new client ID for this application. Make a note of the client ID, as you will need this information later. You will have a different client ID for each platform.
You can always find this information later by revisiting the Linked Apps page and clicking on the linked application associated with the client ID for your platform.
The client ID is listed at the bottom of the page.
Application ID
You may also need to know your application ID to properly set up sign in. You can find this by looking for the 12-or-13-digit number next to your game's display name at the top of the page.
e. (Optional) Creating multiple client IDs
If you are creating a game that runs on multiple platforms, you will need to create a separate client ID for each platform. To do this, click the Link another app button on the Linked apps page and repeat the steps starting from the Create a linked application section.
Avoiding common setup problems
To avoid common setup mistakes, make sure to follow these recommendations when setting up your game to use the Google Play games services.
- 1. Set up your game with the Google Play Console
- If you created an Oauth 2.0 client ID for your app in the Google Play Console,
Google Play games services will not know about the association between the
game's achievement and leaderboards and the client ID. To create this
association, you should first link your app with the game as described in
Create a linked application.
- 2. Use the correct application ID in Android
- The application ID is a required string resource that you must reference in your Android manifest. The application ID string consists only of the digits (typically 12 or more) at the beginning of the client ID provided by the Google Play Console. To learn how to find the application ID, see Application ID.
- 3. Sign your APK with the correct certificate
- When linking your Android app to your game in the Google Play Console, you must use exactly the same package name and certificate fingerprint that you used to publish your app. If there is a mismatch, calls to Google Play games services will fail. You should create two client IDs, one with the release certificate fingerprint and another with the debug certificate fingerprint, and use the same package name for both. To learn more about how to specify the signing certificate in the Google Play Console, see Signing Your Applications.
- 4. When developing for Android, include the Play Games SDK as a library project, not as a standalone JAR
- Make sure that the Google Play services SDK is referenced as a library project in your Android project, otherwise this could lead to errors when your app is unable to find Google Play services resources. To learn how to set up your Android project to use Google Play services, see Setting Up Google Play Services.
- 5. Sign in with a tester account during development
- If you have not published your game setting changes in the Google Play Console, you might encounter errors during testing if you are not signed in with a whitelisted tester account. You should always enable your Google Play Console publisher account for testing. To learn how to manage tester accounts, see Enabling accounts for testing.
- 6. At release, publish the Play Games services settings first before you publish your game
- Developers might accidentally publish their app without publishing the corresponding Google Play games services settings for their app. This might cause players who are signing in with non-tester accounts to encounter errors since the app cannot reference the correct game settings. When releasing your game, remember to first publish your game settings by using the Publish Game option in the Google Play Console. To learn how to publish your changes, see Publishing your game changes.
For additional tips, refer to these related resources:
- Top 7 Google Play games services setup mistakes - Video that describes common Google Play games services setup pitfalls and scenarios.
- Android troubleshooting guide - Developer documentation that describes how to troubleshoot issues while developing Android games.
Next steps
Before proceeding further, you should add test accounts to your game as described in Enabling accounts for testing. Users with authorized test accounts will have access to to your unpublished game in Google Play, and can test that your configured Google Play games services are working correctly.
Once you have completed the initial setup tasks described above, you can proceed to configure Google Play games services for your game, such as leaderboards and achievements. To learn more, see Configuring Play Games.


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The Prince George plans to celebrate the tiny royal's first birthday with a karaoke bash
A U.K. pub named for Prince George has big plans for the royal heir's much-anticipated first birthday on Tuesday – and everyone's invited.
The Prince George, which renamed itself after the royal tot last fall, will host a traditional British sing-along next week in honor of its namesake.
"We have a 'Royal Knees-Up Karaoke Party' planned with fancy dress and all British food. It's exciting," landlord Terry Rigg tells PEOPLE of his establishment in Watford, Hertfordshire, on the outskirts of London.
The pub debuted its new moniker last August, one month after the little prince was born, after Rigg appealed to locals to choose a new name for the struggling watering hole.
The majority voted to name it after the young prince, and Rigg, an enthusiastic royalist, felt it was only right to inform the royal family of his pub's new name.
He was both shocked and delighted when Princess Kate and Prince William responded.
"We got a letter back from Will and Kate with a lovely picture of the three of them," says Rigg, who added that the image is now proudly displayed on one of the pub's walls.
The wording of the letter: "The Duke and Duchess were touched that you would change the name of your pub to the Prince George and have asked me to send you and your customers their warmest thanks and best wishes."
Patrons at the birthday bash can get their picture taken next to the official letter – as they often do – and immerse themselves in all things royal.
All cocktails in the pub are named after royal family members, and the "Prince George" burger – which the little prince could surely sample if he stops in before he's eligible for a drink – is a menu staple.
Rigg says his establishment will keep a close eye on the royal tot's development – and plans to evolve right along with him.
As he grows up, we will put more pictures up on the wall," he says. "It's fun and it's become a local tourist attraction."


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