News Corp has launched a digital newspaper just for the iPad called the
Daily. It will initially only be available in the US for 99 cents a
week.
By
Georgina Enzer
Published
February 3, 2011
News Corporation, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is expanding onto the iPad with a digital newspaper.
The designed for iPad newspaper, called the Daily, will be sold for 99 US cents per week and will be sold exclusively via Apple's iTunes store and will initially be available only in the US.
Murdoch has said he hopes the Daily will be an "indispensable source of news" in the tablet era.
News Corp has hired about 100 journalists to work on it the iPad paper, which will feature news reports, HD videos, interactive graphics and 360 degree photos designed to work with the iPad's touchscreen.
Sections include news, gossip, opinion and off-beat features.
The features also include 360-degree photo galleries, embedded video and a Sudoku and cross word puzzle.
The Daily will also be adding Twitter feeds to some articles and offer content personalized to the user.
"Our target audience is the 15 million Americans expected to own iPads in the next year," Murdoch told the BBC. "In the tablet-era there is room for a fresh and robust new voice. New times demand new journalism."
Two-hundred-million news apps have been downloaded from a possible 9,000 different apps, Eddy Cue, Apple's vice-president of internet services told BBC.
Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal, The Times and The Sunday Times have introduced paywalls for their websites and The Times has since revealed that it has seen a 87% drop in online readership.
(NaturalNews) Imagine a vegetable garden in the dead of winter, then
imagine that same garden on a sunny summer day. Part of the beauty of
nature's bounties comes from how vastly different they are during the
various seasons of the year. The seasons are a source of natural
diversity, and this is why changes in growing conditions from spring to
summer or fall to winter are considered essential for balance for both the earth's resources and its life forms.
Once upon a time, people ate certain foods only when they were readily available, accessible and in season. These days, however, it is extremely easy for us to forget about seasons when we eat. Thanks to modern food processing techniques and worldwide distribution of resources, most foods remain available year-round. Grocery store shelves look the exact same in December as they do mid July, and we are able to buy any type of food we want irrespective of its seasonal availability.
Just because technology makes it possible for us to have oranges in winter, however, doesn't mean we should eat all foods whenever we please. The disadvantages of living in a technologically advanced period with modern day food practices have revealed themselves among us in the form of an increasing number of food intolerances and allergies, higher levels of obesity, modern chronic diseases like type-2 diabetes and much more.
According to many scientists, researchers and natural health experts, eating the right kinds of foods during the right times of year and avoiding them otherwise is crucial to a healthy lifestyle. Seasonal foods are a way of reconnecting with the organic cycle that nature intended for us.
By eating freshly harvested produce, you will be rotating your foods, thereby keeping your body from developing intolerances to certain foods and reaping the health benefits of a diet that is diverse and naturally detoxifying. Seasonal foods also have a much higher antioxidant content than non-seasonal foods.
For example, in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), spring is associated with the liver -- one of the body's primary detoxification organs. Synergistically, spring is also the time when dandelion and other bitter greens are fresh and available; these bitter greens support the liver and its function of cleansing the blood.
Sustainable and environmental benefits - By eating seasonally, you will also be supporting the local farmers and local markets, which, in turn, works well for the sustainability of the entire economy. Seasonal eating helps the environment by reducing the number of food miles your food has to make before it reaches your table. The more local you eat, the less chances exist that you are consuming food that has been flown in from half way across the world, in effect consuming that much more fuel.
Economical benefits - It doesn't cost the earth to produce seasonal foods at a time when they are naturally and readily available. Seasonal foods are cheaper to produce and hence, cheaper to buy as well.
The designed for iPad newspaper, called the Daily, will be sold for 99 US cents per week and will be sold exclusively via Apple's iTunes store and will initially be available only in the US.
Murdoch has said he hopes the Daily will be an "indispensable source of news" in the tablet era.
News Corp has hired about 100 journalists to work on it the iPad paper, which will feature news reports, HD videos, interactive graphics and 360 degree photos designed to work with the iPad's touchscreen.
Sections include news, gossip, opinion and off-beat features.
The Daily will also be adding Twitter feeds to some articles and offer content personalized to the user.
"Our target audience is the 15 million Americans expected to own iPads in the next year," Murdoch told the BBC. "In the tablet-era there is room for a fresh and robust new voice. New times demand new journalism."
Two-hundred-million news apps have been downloaded from a possible 9,000 different apps, Eddy Cue, Apple's vice-president of internet services told BBC.
Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal, The Times and The Sunday Times have introduced paywalls for their websites and The Times has since revealed that it has seen a 87% drop in online readership.
Once upon a time, people ate certain foods only when they were readily available, accessible and in season. These days, however, it is extremely easy for us to forget about seasons when we eat. Thanks to modern food processing techniques and worldwide distribution of resources, most foods remain available year-round. Grocery store shelves look the exact same in December as they do mid July, and we are able to buy any type of food we want irrespective of its seasonal availability.
Just because technology makes it possible for us to have oranges in winter, however, doesn't mean we should eat all foods whenever we please. The disadvantages of living in a technologically advanced period with modern day food practices have revealed themselves among us in the form of an increasing number of food intolerances and allergies, higher levels of obesity, modern chronic diseases like type-2 diabetes and much more.
According to many scientists, researchers and natural health experts, eating the right kinds of foods during the right times of year and avoiding them otherwise is crucial to a healthy lifestyle. Seasonal foods are a way of reconnecting with the organic cycle that nature intended for us.
Research supporting seasonal eating
In a research study conducted in 1997 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in London, England, notable differences were found in the nutrient content of milk in summer versus winter. Iodine content was higher in the winter and beta-carotene was higher in the summer. The Ministry discovered that these differences in milk composition were primarily due to differences in the diets of the cows. With more salt-preserved foods in winter and more fresh plants in the summer, cows ended up producing nutritionally different milks during the two seasons. Similarly, researchers in Japan found tremendous differences in the vitamin C content of spinach harvested in summer versus winter.What are the benefits of eating seasonally?
Better nutritional content and overall health - Most grocery stores and food chains jazz up their fruits and vegetables to keep them looking attractive and inviting when they're out of season. This naturally compromises the nutrition level of the food. Non-seasonal foods require bending of nature's rules in order for them to survive the improper season in which they are brought into the world. Therefore, these foods are often full of pesticides, waxes, preservatives and other chemicals that are used in order to make them look fresher than they are.By eating freshly harvested produce, you will be rotating your foods, thereby keeping your body from developing intolerances to certain foods and reaping the health benefits of a diet that is diverse and naturally detoxifying. Seasonal foods also have a much higher antioxidant content than non-seasonal foods.
For example, in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), spring is associated with the liver -- one of the body's primary detoxification organs. Synergistically, spring is also the time when dandelion and other bitter greens are fresh and available; these bitter greens support the liver and its function of cleansing the blood.
Sustainable and environmental benefits - By eating seasonally, you will also be supporting the local farmers and local markets, which, in turn, works well for the sustainability of the entire economy. Seasonal eating helps the environment by reducing the number of food miles your food has to make before it reaches your table. The more local you eat, the less chances exist that you are consuming food that has been flown in from half way across the world, in effect consuming that much more fuel.
Economical benefits - It doesn't cost the earth to produce seasonal foods at a time when they are naturally and readily available. Seasonal foods are cheaper to produce and hence, cheaper to buy as well.
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