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  • v. Present participle of cricket.
  • adj. That plays cricket.

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  • But in an era in which cricketers make absurd claims (Monty Panesar is the best left-arm spinner in English cricketing history according to Kevin Pietersen) Frindall's sense of perspective is more vital than ever.

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  • This fresh minty morning, with its lackadaisical "cricketing," counterbalances so much caffeine, suggesting a new rhythm.

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  • I asked him if he was sure it wasn't "cricketing" state of health.

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  • The new product will include in-depth sports news, reviews, interviews, polls, betting odds, extended horse racing coverage, plus columns by expert commentators such as cricketing great Neil McKenzie and former Bok coach Jake White.

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  • After all what enhances the appreciation of the great game of cricket more than that newly introduced "break activity" when a pretty lass is culled from the crowd, based on her "cricketing" acumen, as part of the competition wherein a cricket-loving member of the audience will get a chance to be in a Bollywood item number.

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  • Under the test, which was introduced by the Howard government, prospective Australian citizens are quizzed on numerous topics relating to Australian culture such as cricketing great Don Bradman, legendary racehorse Phar Lap and Simpson's donkey.

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  • In view of this it is obvious something should be done to shorten play and to make the game more attractive for the cricketing public.

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  • Our grandfather, Tom Compson Trumble (1898 – 1970), known to the Peter Trumbles as “Pa,” and to the Colin Trumbles as “Cum-pa,” was the youngest of the six children of John William Trumble, the cricketing legend and solicitor of note, and his wife Susan (née Davies).

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  • But for the dwindling number of Australians who still make an issue of that, it must be even more irritating to discover that his first cricketing experiences came in the early 1980s in Caulfield, a suburb of Melbourne where, according to Wisden, his father, who works in insurance, had taken the family "in search of a less politically charged environment".

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  • n. One that makes or manufactures. Often used in combination: a policymaker; a drugmaker.
  • n. Law A party that signs a promissory note.
  • n. God. Often used with a possessive adjective: prayed to her Maker for guidance.
  • n. Archaic A poet.

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  • n. Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something.
  • n. God.
  • n. A poet.
  • n. Someone who signs a check or promissory note, thereby becoming responsible for payment.

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  • n. One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.
  • n. The person who makes a promissory note.
  • n. One who writes verses; a poet.

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  • n. One who makes, creates, shapes, forms, or molds; specifically (with a capital letter), the Creator.
  • n. One who composes verses; a poet.
  • n. The person who makes the promise in a promissory note by affixing his signature thereto.
  • n. In bridge, the declaring hand.
  • n. In shoemaking, the laster (a man or boy) who places the closed uppers of a boot (in hand-sewn work) over the last and attaches the bottom material.

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  • n. A Eurasian lily (Lilium martagon) usually having pinkish-purple, spotted flowers. Also called Turk's-cap lily.

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  • n. A Eurasian lily.

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  • n. A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.

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  • n. The Turk's-cap lily, Lilium Martagon. The bulbs are said to be eaten by the Cossacks.

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  • n. lily with small dull purple flowers of northwestern Europe and northwestern Asia

Middle English, from Old French, from Old Spanish, from Ottoman Turkish mārtağān, a kind of turban.
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Take a peek inside design at Xero

Great design is core to Xero’s DNA. In fact, Philip Fierlinger, Xero’s head of design and co-founder, tells people that Xero is not a software company, but a user experience company.

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He believes this is what sets Xero apart. In contrast, our competitors try to solve problems by giving  people more software and technology, which ends up making the experience more frustrating and confusing. For him, the key to great design is not about making software look pretty but getting the technology and software out of the way as fast as possible.

Philip recently interviewed with InVision, a top design collaboration platform, which is key to how Xero communicates and gathers feedback on design prototypes across the company.

To get a look at Philip’s  philosophy for design at Xero and vision as a designer, including his favorite tools, inspirations and workspace must-haves, read the entire interview on InVision’s blog.

Gayle Buchanan
May 3, 2014 at 5:43 pm

Thanks so much Philip and the team – the user experience is what sold me – how could you not share that with the world of SME owners … envy every new business that starts with Xero – gotta be good for all hospitals around the world funded by ‘fun tax paying Xero users’. Seriously – nice one

Heather Smith
May 3, 2014 at 9:26 pm

I read the article – I aliken reconciling to space invaders 😉 but snaps a better analogy – smart 3 year old!

Joseph Heenan
May 5, 2014 at 10:50 pm

To be honest, I think this is an area where Xero really needs to improve. Whilst the design is nice, I do not find the user experience good – the things that I (as a small business owner) do repeatedly are not quick to do. The example that springs to mind is reports: there is one report I like to view, with one particular layout and set of options – I’d expect to be able to bookmark (in my browser) or favourite (in xero) that report, and be able to get back to it in a single click. The reality is that’s a multi-step operation where I have to remember which options and layout I selected last time! And every year I have to ask support how to view last year’s month by month P&L report as it’s baffling un-obvious and completely different to how you look at the current year’s month by month P&L.

rick hopps
May 6, 2014 at 8:31 am

i believe the whole xero system works great and i can grab any reports really quickly,but i have to agree with Jospephs comments that it would be great to have a shortcut to my transaction reports.

Mark Whisson
May 6, 2014 at 1:10 pm

i think Joseph is on the money. yes Xero is better than other packages, but that doesnt mean that users are completely happy. for example, i havent received any response to a suggestion i made for dealing with cheques (quite some time ago), but i keep on seeing these little missives about how wonderfully responsive and user friendly ‘the Xero Experience’ is.
there are a number of other little things that are really annoying, but which i havent bothered to write about because my experience is that nothing at all will happen.
guys, a bit of back slapping is good, but dont get carried away with it- it’s for your benefit, not ours.

Sharna Brockett
May 6, 2014 at 2:32 pm

Thanks for the feedback about your experience with Xero and some of the features that you’d like to see. I’ll make sure to pass it along to our design and product teams.

David Heron
May 7, 2014 at 2:06 am

While I respect that this Blog is to highlight the advantages of using Xero – I’m hooked – we took a look at InVision and have decided to use it ourselves. Can you recommend the tools you use for building a transactional Web site?

Michael Mori
May 7, 2014 at 4:47 pm

One improvement on the user experience which will make life easier for every user, is the option to move to another page at the top of the Bank Reconciliation and Bank Transaction screens, instead of scrolling down to the bottom of the page first.

As I said in a previous request, this does not affect accountants, but the users like bookkeepers and business owners who use these screens all the time.

Sven Andriske
May 18, 2014 at 3:31 pm

You are stating Xero is not a software company but a user experience company. How comes that Xero touch is not the best of an experience I would expect when someone calls himself user experience company which is equal to “usability” which I miss there.
I started using Xero and Xero touch on both iOS and Android some month ago.

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Following the announcement of our iZettle integration earlier this year, our customers all over the UK have been reaping the benefits. Like Ben Govier, founder of Dylan’s Ice Cream, they’ve been able to accept card payments, increase sales and manage their accounts in a simple and convenient way. We’re thrilled to now be taking our relationship ...

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Bear Grylls, 39, lets Us inside his adventurous world. Catch him on Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls on NBC, Mondays at 9 P.M.!

1. My book Mud, Sweat, and Tears was voted most influential in China last year.

2. I set the ball on fire when I threw out the first pitch at an L.A. Dodgers game!

3. I'm ambidextrous. It's helped me a few times in the wild.

4. At bath time, I get in with my three boys (Jesse, 11, Marmaduke, 6, and Huckleberry, 3, with wife Shara, 38). It's getting crowded!

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6. At home, I play guitar and piano.

7. I have Mike Town, my teacher from Eton College, to thank for encouraging me to climb.

8. I pick up the kids from school in an old London cab we own.

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9. After filming, my crew and I usually sit at some bar in the middle of a jungle village, happy to be alive.

10. My crew is my greatest resource.

11. People ask if I eat bugs at home. No!

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20. My favorite book is Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.

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22. My hero is my late father, who taught me to climb.

23. I learned from my father to not listen to dream stealers.

24. My other hero is Roger Federer! He is amazing.

25. I'm inspired by the saying "Faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor."

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After a long wait, Jim Rash has finally brought his other talent to the set of Community (the first being his amaze-dean drag impersonations as Greendale's Dean Pelton). Rash, who won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for 2011's The Descendants, penned this week's especially kooky episode "Basic Human Anatomy," in which Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi) swap bodies a la Freaky Friday. Sounds pretty great, right? Wrong, it sounds amazing and is a must-see for even the most disillusioned Community fans.

Who has the best Community abs: Jeff or the Dean? The cast sounds off

Regardless of how you feel about the show's first post-Dan Harmon season, all fans will love the sheer novelty of seeing Glover and Pudi switch roles. "Watching Donald do Danny's mannerisms as Abed is quite a feat because it was such a sweet, sweet portrayal of Abed," Rash told "And subsequently, just watching Danny have so much fun being Troy and [having] a completely different brain wave than he's been operating for three seasons before this."

To help get the characters just right, Glover and Pudi recorded dialogue for each other to provide a blueprint of how they would deliver the lines. But recordings aside, the pair took to each other's roles with an eerie ease. "It was scary how much they fell into it," Rash said. "Those two guys know each other so well and they really can play each other. And so that is the freaky part of it all."

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Though "Basic Human Anatomy" is full of classic gags and study group shenanigans, Rash also used the homage to tell a very sincere — and surprisingly emotional — story. "I was happy because my favorite Community episodes are the ones — and there are a lot of them — that have a fondness for balancing comedy and having these moments of real heart," Rash said. "Because you love these characters and you want them to both entertain, but be as human as they all feel. I was excited that this sort of became an episode that needed to do that."

But no matter how bittersweet the episode might be, Rash insists there's enough "insanity around the heart" to keep things fun. With the swap falling on Britta and Troy's one-year anniversary, the skeptical Britta agrees to go on a date with the person whom she believes to be Abed. And thanks to a classic Greendale loophole, Leonard has overthrown Annie and Shirley from valedictorian, setting the pair on a mission to oust their shocking new rival. Plus, did you know Greendale by-laws allow three wishes to any student scolded by the Dean?

Of course, all these plots are all overshadowed by Rash's own performance in the episode. When Jeff enlists the help of Dean Pelton to get Troy and Abed to drop the bit, things don't go exactly as planned when the Dean attempts his own body swap.

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The AnyClip Plot

Imagine a web service where you can find every moment of every film in pristine quality.  You can search by dialogue, tag, actor, or any possible data source you can name.  You can cut any moment of less than 2 minutes and post it, send it, tweet it to anybody anywhere in the world.

You can access this service on any digital platform web, mobile, television etc.

This services allows you to relive every iconic moment you have ever experienced in your film-watching life no matter where you are.  Scenes pop into your head and you can instantly find, share, collect, distribute or any other verb you can possibly imagine.

Technical challenges abound for this service.  Extracting metadata, serving, editing and the panoply of technology elements create a thicket of problems none of which are insurmountable.

The real issue for AnyClip is that Hollywood wants to get paid and consumers (everybody thinks) want everything for free.  How do we find ways to get digital consumers to spend money for content?

Today, Fred Wilson will give a talk on disruption to arguably the most disruptive company in media history — Google.  For Fred, there are six words to consider when making a quality web service:  global, social, open, mobile, playful, intelligent.   How would the movie studios would fair under such scrutiny.

In certain ways, the movie industry is among the most zealous in the world when measured against these business values.   Global filmmaking has arrived and content is exported throughout the world.  It’s hard to think of a more playful industry and for all of the hand wringing that goes on among culture afficionados, plenty of thoughtful, intelligent, moving content originates and is developed by big movie studios.   While the studios don’t create many social services, they create much of what we talk about in social situations.  Movies are social.  Eventually the industry will figure out mobile.  They have proven their ability to adjust to new mediums many, many times.

BUT THE STUDIOS ARE NOT OPEN.    They believe that they should closely harbor what they own and get paid in advance by consumers and businesses who want to experience  or use their content.   And they absolutely disapprove of “playing” with the content.  They are playful, but only until the movies are completed and then, please, please don’t try to change or edit these works.  Openess is deeply foreign to Hollywood, but vital to the success of latest wave of Internet hits (MySpace, Twitter, and even Google) come to mind.   This tension is the opportunity for AnyClip.

I am an Internet executive, but also an aspiring filmmaker.  I want people to see my film, pay for it, and I surely don’t want consumers to steal it.  Still, I will put 100% of the content on the Web in different stages because for The Aaron Cohens to build an audience, the film and its marketing must be open, global, playful, intelligent, mobile, and, most importantly, social.   Surely, these “six words to live by” are the cost of entry for AnyClip.  We must execute on these values.

But will the studios connect and embrace this vision?

This is the narrative tension at AnyClip.

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  1. great post!

  2. Smart thinking Aaron, and the new company name–AnyClip–is way better!

    We’re struggling with the same issues in distributing our films of course. Our partners at B-Side recently launched a pay what you want site for our film “Rip! A Remix Manifesto” ( So far about 70% are paying essentially nothing, but the 30% who are paying are paying enough that if we crank up the volume of traffic, we’ll actually do quite well.

    Plus anyone can remix and post the film, or portions of it, at, so here’s a film that truly is open.

  3. […] Aaron wrote a great post detailing some of the challenges we have before […]

  4. You are def. up for a challenge and I am looking forward to seeing you guys succeed over time…but the immediate (pessimistic) questions that come to mind for me when learning about anyclip are such:

    1. The studios and film-makers have to front a lot of money to develop the works that the do…without really knowing, I would guess that it’s substantially more than that of a music production (like a CD)…and involves a lot more parts than just a band of artists…so why wouldn’t the industry want as much up front money as possible from their content efforts…without out it will the ‘high budget’ blockbuster movies cease to exist and only low-budget indy-type films be affordable to be made?

    2. Are movies and movie distribution as disrupted by new technology as music and print has been? Again without knowing anything it doesn’t seem like people are going to less movies at theaters…until the bread-and-butter starts to clearly dry up, won’t it be hard to change ‘business as usual’ for the studios? Maybe if you can spin it as an additional source of revenue (at no extra cost for the studios) it will be easier?

    3. Assuming that studios sign on and do offer up all their content to be chunked and played with…what sort of applications do you envision the general public will want to pay for utilizing that content? Don’t get me wrong, the idea of being able to pull up random clips of interest for a given moment seems like fun, but I just don’t see anything that would motivate me to actually pay for it (and hence the fears of the studios become re-enforced)…I think you’ll have to really lay out a killer concept to consumers that will make them want clips so badly that they’re voice will force the studios to eventually cave…

    Anyway – all those negative questions aside (I’m probably just not grasping the whole idea or don’t have enough industry knowledge to ‘get’ it), it is interesting to hear about the idea and the early stages of what you guys are working on…I do hope you achieve it all!

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God in Biblical Theology

Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary, wrote a thought-provoking piece for Mixed Multitudes about the God of the Bible:

I just finished a book, The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel, which will be published next year by Cambridge University Press. In it I describe an ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity that shows up in certain parts of the Bible, according to which a god (or, in its biblical version, God) differs from a human because a god can have more than one body, each one located at some specific place on earth or in heaven.

Prof. Sommer believes that this topic is important not only for academic research, but also because it provides a new perspective for the modern Jew.  For example, the idea of sacred space:

The centrality of sacred space is important for many Jews on the left, who fail to acknowledge the holiness of the Land of Israel as a crucial aspect of Jewish belief. The relativizing of sacred space, on the other hand, is important for certain Jews on the right, who need to hear this critique lest they continue to promote their idolatry of the Land of Israel.

And the definition of a Jew’s relationship with God:

This is a God whom we can love and be angry with and speak with, a God with whom we can have a relationship, because a being with a body is a being like us. An embodied being can be wounded and can change. In short, the embodied God is the personal God of our father Abraham (and of Abraham Joshua Heschel).

Another interesting point made by Sommer is that although mainstream Judaism may have moved away from the perception of a god of many bodies, the concept still exists in kabbalah and in Christianity.  Later Jewish thought has developed, integrating biblical theology and other philosophies into a Jewish theology for the modern Jew.

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Voi Doid – Atman-Brahman

Released as MC and webrelease

Music and recording by Voi Doid
Mastering by Angakok Thoth
Cover by Luboš Auda
Thanks to Andrej Chudý

2015 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

Elena Pustova (Voi Doid) was born in 1990, Kaliningrad, Russia. The musical breaking point for her came when she was eighteen years old. Various elements started merging together in her brain. Academia and Sufi trance of Jajouka, industrial music and african tribal dances. Step by step, day by day, the deeper she was falling in the rabbit hole, the stronger she was staying on her curious venture to find out her own meaning of sound.

Atman–Brahman is a product of this psychedelic search. Taking ancient trance songs – mantras, Sufi songs – and intertwining them with synth noise and сonga beats, she is creating music that at the same time is exploring trance and is trance.