As school nears summer recess, Amazon has jumped on a commercial opportunity Involving students: Summer reading lists. The tech giant is offering an e-reader package targeted toward children That includes a Kindle device, a protective cover, and a two-year warranty. Whereas normally Those three items a person would run about $ 140, the new deal prices them together at $ 99. Parents need not worry about Their kids slacking off and using the device to play games either: The Kindle e-reader, unlike the Kindle tablet supports only books-not apps. It also comes with “Kindle FreeTime,” and a progress tracker parents can use to Prevent Their children from accessing recreational Amazon content on other devices until they’ve met Certain goals. For example: finishing a chapter in a book before popping open, say, Angry Birds. FreeTime puts social media websites and the Kindle store off limits, too. Parents can instead choose what books to make available on the e-reader, Which comes with four gigabytes of storage, five different colored covers-dark blue, green, purple, red, and black-and can stay charged for up to four weeks. That assuming the user only reads for a half hour per day and does not use wireless. The company has assembled its own recommended summer reading lists as well, Including selections for the categories “Baby-Age 2, “” Ages 3-5 “” Ages 6-8 “and” 9-12 Ages. “There are nearly 3,500 books total in the company’s” summer reading for kids’ collection.
Kindle Deal This Is Perfect For Keeping Your Kids Reading This Summer
And you get to save some cash
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
This Kindle Deal Is Perfect For Keeping Your Kids Reading This Summer – TIME
Kindle の た め だ け に 作 ら れ た Amazon の 新 し い タ イ ポ グ ラ フ ィ 「Bookerly」 – ギ ズ モ ー ド · ジ ャ パ ン
最高に い い 読 書 体 験 の た め に.
いまやE-bookの代名詞となっているAmazonのKindleに新しいタイポグラフィ「Bookerly」とレイアウト・エンジンが採用されました。長らく指摘されていた紙と比べた時のKindleの読みにくさを大幅に改善してるとされます。
今までKindleではCaeciliaがデフォルトのフォントになっていましたが、新しいBookerlyはそのCaeciliaと200年以上も愛されてきたBaskervilleの間の子のような書体になっています。
具体的にどれぐらい読みやすくなったかというとAmazonの調査によると2%読みやすくなったんだとか。「え、たった2%？」って思うかもしれませんが、世界中のKindleユーザーが膨大な本を読むことを考えるとすごいですよね。
さらに新しくなったエンジンによって今までの違和感のあるレイアウトがより自然になっています。むしろこっちのほうがユーザーには分かりやすいし嬉しいかも。
左 が 前 レ イ ア ウ ト, 右 が 新 レ イ ア ウ ト
Bookerlyと新しいレイアウト・エンジンは現在はiOS対応のみでE-InkリーダーやAndroidなどは今年の夏以降に対応するそうです。日本でもせめて新しいエンジンで読みやすくなるといいですね〜。
Source: What Design
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Will new gene editing technologies eugenics kindle aspirations? – Genetic Literacy Project
While the process of synthesizing and arranging genetic code has many processes, perhaps none has been as promising as the CRISPR-Cas system. From laboratory experiments is emerging software code used to create genetically almost as easily as code for a computer, gene editing has never been easier, opening the door to never-before-possible applications. Perhaps no technology has yet been poised to change the world so profoundly. All life on Earth, every living organism, now stands The Possibility of Potentially being “edited” on the most basic genetic level, enhancing or degrading it, but changing it forever.
Talk of gene usually we revolves around editing its use to treat diseases and produce super-crops and livestock to “save the world.” But as history has shown us, any shoe technology is a double-edged sword. Whatever good it is capable of, it is proportionally capable of just as much bad.
The first and foremost danger of human gene editing in Particular is its use in weaponized vaccines. Such fears are founded upon what was revealed by the United Nations during the apartheid government in South Africa where a government program named “Project Coast” actually endeavored that produce vaccines That were race-specific in hopes of sterilizing or killing off its black population.
Another danger is “slow kill.” This would be the process of using gene editing it: affect Individuals Directly or through a genetically modified food supply subtly, infecting or killing off the targeted demographic groups over a longer period of time. The advantage of this method would be the ambiguity surrounding what was Causing upticks in “cancer” and other maladies brought on by degraded immune systems and overall health.
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog / article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Read full, original post: The overlooked threats of gene editing
The Printing Press is Dead. So Luther Buy My Book on Kindle! – Patheos (blog)
Many historians have noted Johannes Gutenberg That’s newly invented printing press made the sixteenth-century Reformation possible in a way That it might not have been in a previous generation. The ability that produce many copies of tracts, treatises, essays, and sermons, and distribute them widely, meant That the work of Luther, and John Calvin, and Ulrich Zwingli, and Erasmus, and others you read, studied, and preserved by a lot of people.
In my book, Two Reformers , I described it this way:
“His treatises and essays were widely distributed because of the newly invented printing press. The public was Involved in his theological Disputes from early in his career. Access to texts in local language is a key element of Luther’s entire system of thought, and his work is built upon this access. “(P.41).
Given These reflections on the role of the printing press five hundred years ago, I was bemused to get an email from my publisher just last week letting me know That my second book, Two Reformers Martin Luther and Mary Daly as Political Theologians, is now available on Kindle. Who needs the printing press anyway?
Well, I do (and you can still get the print edition of the book). As much as I embrace new media and new forms of publishing (like this blog!), I love a book. I love books. Books that I can hold in my hand put a bookmark in, toss in a bag, read without a head staring at the screen. Books that I can walk among others and used bookstore, keep on the shelves in my dining room, old friends standing sentinel.
I also learned These amidst the 500 th anniversary discussions That some are advancing the idea of ”the Gutenberg parenthesis.” This is:
“The idea That the digital age , rather than solely a leap into the future, also marks and return to practices and ways of thinking That were central to human societies before Johannes Gutenberg’s 15th century Invention changed human literacy and the world.
The era That preceded Gutenberg’s Invention, the theory goes, was a time of fluidity and ‘orality’ -speeches, plays, songs, and other communications, Including news-that were not written down, but instead were ephemeral and uncontained, easily shared, manipulated, and changed to each person who experienced them . The printing press, the authors contend, for the first time on a mass scale Introduced the idea of fixity, permanence, and ‘containment.’ Ideas were now impressed on a page and literally ‘bound’ forever- Essentially unalterable and THUS given a new authority Whether it was deserved or not, that oral communication did not have. “
The authors of the hypothesis include Thomas Pettitt and Lars Ole Sauerberg, interviewed here, and there’s a great image Pettitt That created here.
It’s intriguing to think about this with the scope of human history in mind. Laments for the death of the book, the loss of daily newspapers, the closing of local independent bookstores are real. Yet note the ways That authority was established in the hands of the printer (Whether he deserved it or not) and knowledge you falsely fixed in moveable type. It does not take much reflection to see how this actually stratified knowledge and access in a new hierarchy That persists in publishing today. So, how will the reshape culture on the other side of the Gutenberg parenthesis?
If the technological change of the printing press itself led to nothing less than sweeping changes in human culture, then the technological transitions away from it will do (are doing?), no less.
Long live the hashtag?
Monday, June 8, 2015
Rose May and Triston Kindle captured after three-state crime spree – Daily Mail
- Rose May, 15, and Triston Kindle, 16 were in the custody of the West Virginia State Police, the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday
- The two crashed a vehicle That had been stolen in Pennsylvania and fled on foot before they were caught, Authorities said
- The teens, from Upper Sandusky and Sycamore in Northwest Ohio, had been reported missing Monday
- Sheriff Michael Hetzel said the two fled Ohio in a stolen pickup truck after allegedly stealing a shotgun shells from a Wal-Mart in Bucyrus
- They allegedly went toward Pennsylvania, stealing one or maybe two more vehicles and Evading law enforcement
- Police were called Thursday it an armed robbery at the P & amp; W mini-mart in Elizabeth Township in Allegheny County, Authorities said
- An officer sustained minor injuries after grabbing a trailer hitch and being dragged some distance before falling off, police said
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A teen couple from Ohio who Authorities suspect of a crime spree across three states was apprehended in West Virginia after a police pursuit, Investigators said Saturday.
The sheriff’s office in Wyandot County, Ohio, said the 16-year-old Triston Kindle and a 15-year-old Rose May were in the custody of the West Virginia State Police.
The couple had been dubbed by one police chief as “a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. ‘
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Search: The sheriff’s office in Wyandot County, Ohio, said the 16-year-old Triston Kindle and a 15-year-old Rose May were in the custody of the West Virginia State Police on Saturday
Wanted: The teenagers, who are pictured grinning side-by-side in Facebook photos, had been reported missing Monday – and family members had Expressed Their fear for safety
The teens, from the communities of Upper Sandusky and Sycamore in Northwest Ohio, had been reported missing Monday. Family members had Expressed Their fear for safety.
Now, West Virginia and Pennsylvania state police are jointly Investigating a series of crimes That May be connected to the juveniles, Including armed robbery, car theft and fleeing from police.
Immediately Authorities did not say if any charges were filed against the teenagers.
Sheriff Michael Hetzel told WTVG-TV Earlier this week That the two fled Ohio in a stolen pickup truck after allegedly stealing a shotgun shells from a Wal-Mart in Bucyrus, about 20 miles east of Upper Sandusky. They allegedly continued east toward Pennsylvania, stealing one or maybe two more vehicles and Evading law enforcement to possibly hiding out in wooded areas.
Police were called Thursday it an armed robbery at the P & amp; W mini-mart in Elizabeth Township in Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Authorities told CBS. An officer sustained minor injuries after grabbing a trailer hitch and being dragged some distance before falling off, Authorities said.
Allegheny County Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt told ABC News’ The officer, in an attempt to grab them from the truck, grabbed the door handle and in an attempt to open the door, they started pulling away.
‘The officer felt he had to hold it because he thought he would get dragged underneath the truck. … He was dragged a short distance. ‘
Moffatt told ABC News he did not suffer life-threatening injuries.
On the run: The couple allegedly the table and the vehicle in Upper Sandusky, Ohio on Monday before dumping it in Jefferson County, PA on Wednesday. On Thursday they were seen in Elizabeth Township
Scene: They allegedly tried to rob this Pennsylvania gas station on Thursday
Probe: An officer sustained minor injuries after grabbing a trailer hitch and being dragged some distance before falling off. Authorities said
‘We’ve got a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde out here from Ohio,’ Elizabeth Township Police Chief David Keresteš had told WTAE. ‘I can not even imagine how they ended up in little Elizabeth Township, Pennsylvania.’
Keresteš said dozens of responders searched for the teens. He told TribLive.com That and similar manhunt was and conducted in Brookville on Wednesday.
Kindle was described as a white male, 5’5 “tall and weighing 150 lbs with brown eyes and brown hair, while May was described as a white female, 5’4 “tall and weighing 130 lbs, with green eyes and blondish-brown hair.
On Sunday, the Elizabeth Police Department wrote on Facebook ‘PUBLIC NOTICE:
‘ETPD has been informed That the two suspects Triston Kindle and Rose May were apprehended in West Virginia this morning.
‘We would like to thank all assisting agencies and the community for Their support.’
Did you see them? These missing posters were released in an attempt to find the teenagers
WTAE reported the teens were seen in a stolen truck that before Authorities a 12-mile pursuit.
The two crashed a vehicle That had been stolen in Pennsylvania and fled on foot before they were caught, Authorities said.
The crash took place in Sistersville, West Virginia, WTAE reported.
May and Kimble leapt into the Ohio River, the television station reported. According this WTAE, May had a handgun.
West Virginia State Police’s Sgt. CJ Lantz told the television station ‘Once they Realized they were not going to make the swim, they turned around and came back.’
The teens’ parents were European notified Their children had been apprehended and the parents Traveled to New Martinsville, West Virginia, to meet with Investigators, the sheriff in Ohio said.
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Rose May and Triston Kindle captured after three-state crime spree – Daily Mail
- Rose May, 15, and Triston Kindle, 16 were in the custody of the West Virginia State Police, the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday
- The two crashed a vehicle That had been stolen in Pennsylvania and fled on foot before they were caught, Authorities said
- The teens, from Upper Sandusky and Sycamore in Northwest Ohio, had been reported missing Monday
- Sheriff Michael Hetzel said the two fled Ohio in a stolen pickup truck after allegedly stealing a shotgun shells from a Wal-Mart in Bucyrus
- They allegedly went toward Pennsylvania, stealing one or maybe two more vehicles and Evading law enforcement
- Police were called Thursday it an armed robbery at the P & amp; W mini-mart in Elizabeth Township in Allegheny County, Authorities said
- An officer sustained minor injuries after grabbing a trailer hitch and being dragged some distance before falling off, police said
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A teen couple from Ohio who Authorities suspect of a crime spree across three states was apprehended in West Virginia after a police pursuit, Investigators said Saturday.
The sheriff’s office in Wyandot County, Ohio, said the 16-year-old Triston Kindle and a 15-year-old Rose May were in the custody of the West Virginia State Police.
The couple had been dubbed by one police chief as “a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. ‘
Scroll down for video
Search: The sheriff’s office in Wyandot County, Ohio, said the 16-year-old Triston Kindle and a 15-year-old Rose May were in the custody of the West Virginia State Police on Saturday
Wanted: The teenagers, who are pictured grinning side-by-side in Facebook photos, had been reported missing Monday – and family members had Expressed Their fear for safety
The teens, from the communities of Upper Sandusky and Sycamore in Northwest Ohio, had been reported missing Monday. Family members had Expressed Their fear for safety.
Now, West Virginia and Pennsylvania state police are jointly Investigating a series of crimes That May be connected to the juveniles, Including armed robbery, car theft and fleeing from police.
Immediately Authorities did not say if any charges were filed against the teenagers.
Sheriff Michael Hetzel told WTVG-TV Earlier this week That the two fled Ohio in a stolen pickup truck after allegedly stealing a shotgun shells from a Wal-Mart in Bucyrus, about 20 miles east of Upper Sandusky. They allegedly continued east toward Pennsylvania, stealing one or maybe two more vehicles and Evading law enforcement to possibly hiding out in wooded areas.
Police were called Thursday it an armed robbery at the P & amp; W mini-mart in Elizabeth Township in Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Authorities told CBS. An officer sustained minor injuries after grabbing a trailer hitch and being dragged some distance before falling off, Authorities said.
Allegheny County Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt told ABC News’ The officer, in an attempt to grab them from the truck, grabbed the door handle and in an attempt to open the door, they started pulling away.
‘The officer felt he had to hold it because he thought he would get dragged underneath the truck. … He was dragged a short distance. ‘
Moffatt told ABC News he did not suffer life-threatening injuries.
On the run: The couple allegedly the table and the vehicle in Upper Sandusky, Ohio on Monday before dumping it in Jefferson County, PA on Wednesday. On Thursday they were seen in Elizabeth Township
Scene: They allegedly tried to rob this Pennsylvania gas station on Thursday
Probe: An officer sustained minor injuries after grabbing a trailer hitch and being dragged some distance before falling off. Authorities said
‘We’ve got a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde out here from Ohio,’ Elizabeth Township Police Chief David Keresteš had told WTAE. ‘I can not even imagine how they ended up in little Elizabeth Township, Pennsylvania.’
Keresteš said dozens of responders searched for the teens. He told TribLive.com That and similar manhunt was and conducted in Brookville on Wednesday.
Kindle was described as a white male, 5’5 “tall and weighing 150 lbs with brown eyes and brown hair, while May was described as a white female, 5’4 “tall and weighing 130 lbs, with green eyes and blondish-brown hair.
On Sunday, the Elizabeth Police Department wrote on Facebook ‘PUBLIC NOTICE:
‘ETPD has been informed That the two suspects Triston Kindle and Rose May were apprehended in West Virginia this morning.
‘We would like to thank all assisting agencies and the community for Their support.’
Did you see them? These missing posters were released in an attempt to find the teenagers
WTAE reported the teens were seen in a stolen truck that before Authorities a 12-mile pursuit.
The two crashed a vehicle That had been stolen in Pennsylvania and fled on foot before they were caught, Authorities said.
The crash took place in Sistersville, West Virginia, WTAE reported.
May and Kimble leapt into the Ohio River, the television station reported. According this WTAE, May had a handgun.
West Virginia State Police’s Sgt. CJ Lantz told the television station ‘Once they Realized they were not going to make the swim, they turned around and came back.’
The teens’ parents were European notified Their children had been apprehended and the parents Traveled to New Martinsville, West Virginia, to meet with Investigators, the sheriff in Ohio said.
Friday, June 5, 2015
Warriors: For fans, the NBA Finals a chance to relive fond memories this, kindle new ones – San Jose Mercury News
OAKLAND – Thursday was the moment every Golden State Warriors fan has waited for, but it’s exciting Especially when you’ve been a season ticket holder for 25 years.
Henry Cortez, 48, has suffered through the Golden State Warriors’ countless losing seasons – and also the unexpected highs, he said, dry as the “We Believe” squad’s remarkable upset over the top-seeded Dallas Mavericks in 2007.
The Daly City resident and San Francisco native said he got several offers for his lower level seats – Including one for $ 1,000. But his seats were going for almost $ 2,000 on StubHub.
Even with a better offer, Cortez doubted he could have parted with his tickets.
Golden State Warriors fans Lynda Pakzad of Oakland, center, right, and her husband, Behrang, right, react during Game 1 of the NBA Finals at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 4, 2015. (Dai Sugano / Bay Area News Group) (Dai Sugano)
“This is a once in a lifetime event and I needed to be here to witness it,” said Cortez, who attended the game with his wife, Cheryll. “I just could not pass this up.”
The Warriors fans have always made Oracle Arena, one of the most raucous basketball venues in the NBA, but there was a buzz Particular about an hour before tip-off as The NBA Finals kicked off.
Sam Gebremedhin, 28, said he moved to the Bay Area about 10 years ago from Seattle to attend school at Santa Clara University.
The opportunity to see LeBron James versus Stephen Curry was a dream, he said. But it might have not happened without a few choice bets.
Gebremedhin said he won about $ 600 in friendly bets with friends as the playoffs Began in April. He matched his winnings and bought a $ 1,300 ticket in the lower level to himself, he said.
“I tried to get my friends here but they did not want to spend the money,” he said.
Other fans Traveled from out of the area to catch the action.
The Howard Greenberg, a San Diego business owner, said the San Francisco company Anchor Steam beer helped him and a few others find tickets.
He was normally a fan of the Chicago Bulls, he said, and did not have a favorite team.
“Just here to see good basketball,” Greenberg said.
Mahin Khoe, visiting from France, said she did not have a favorite team, either. She was taking her young grandchildren to the game and was sitting several rows from the court.
“We almost know all the players,” she said.
The crowd was subdued as the Warriors’ offense and defense struggled early, but came alive as the team got a spark from the bench in the second quarter.
Aime Sibley, who splits time between downtown Oakland and Las Vegas, said the first half was “intense.” Marreese Speights returned to the playoffs and hit three shots in four minutes.
“He changed the atmosphere,” Sibley said at halftime.
“The Warriors are always in games, no matter the score, “chimed in Jim Cox.
Golden State Warriors fans react during Game 1 of the NBA Finals at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, June 4, 2015. (Dai Sugano / Bay Area News Group) (Dai Sugano)
The crowd was still dominated by hardcore fans like Michael Warriors Miller, a Novato resident and season ticket holder for 15 years.
The Miller’s son was in the third grade when he Purchased the tickets and the pair had many special moments in Oracle, he said. One of the most memorable moments prior that this season was watching Baron Davis dunk over Andrei Kirilenko in the 2007 playoffs.
“I never saw this place explode like it did after That dunk,” Miller said.
Miller said he was confident the Warriors would win Their first title in 40 years. He Predicted the series would end with a Golden State win in Cleveland.
“Warriors in six,” he said.
