He sure looks very happy to be stomping in the boots.
Oh.. and the boots were featured in my fave magazine too.. here and here
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Based on your answers to the questionnaire, you most closely resemble survey respondents within the Omnivores typology group. This does not mean that you necessarily fit every group characteristic.
Omnivores make up 8% of the American public.
Basic Description
Members of this group use their extensive suite of technology tools to do an enormous range of things online, on the go, and with their cell phones. Omnivores are highly engaged with video online and digital content. Between blogging, maintaining their Web pages, remixing digital content, or posting their creations to their websites, they are creative participants in cyberspace.
Defining Characteristics
You might see them watching video on an iPod. They might talk about their video games or their participation in virtual worlds the way their parents talked about their favorite TV episode a generation ago. Much of this chatter will take place via instant messages, texting on a cell phone, or on personal blogs. Omnivores are particularly active in dealing with video content. Most have video or digital cameras, and most have tried watching TV on a non-television device, such as a laptop or a cell phone.
Omnivores embrace all this connectivity, feeling confident in how they manage information and their many devices. This puts information technology at the center of how they express themselves, do their jobs, and connect to their friends.
Who They Are
They are young, ethnically diverse, and mostly male (70%). The median age is 28; just more than half of them are under age 30, versus one in five in the general population. Over half are white (64%) and 11% are black (compared to 12% in the general population). English-speaking Hispanics make up 18% of this group. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many (42% versus the 13% average) of Omnivores are students.
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LIBRARIES on wheels, a common sight in Singapore during the 1960s, are making a mini-comeback.
The Government on Thursday launched Molly the mobile library - actually a converted SBS bus - in a bid to reach readers who seldom visit brick-and-mortar book centres.
On trial till May next year, the mobile library will visit neighbourhood primary schools, orphanages, children's homes and special education schools, said the National Library Board.
The interior of the bus, which holds 3,000 books, was remodelled to resemble a real library. It features specially designed bookshelves, a borrowing station and e-kiosks where users can check their book-loan records and pay fines using ez-link cards.
Its collection of books, which comes from a pool of 23,000 titles, is restocked daily.
Books on the bus will be selected to meet the needs of the readers at its destination. The bus will make visits once every three weeks to coincide with the loan period of books.
Mobile services were started in 1960 to relieve the pressure on Singapore's limited library system. They were discontinued in the early 1990s when more public libraries were built in the heartland.
Speaking at the launch event at Pathlight School, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan said that Molly was 'a kind of sampler' to entice people to visit the main library.
'The challenge today is not the physical availability of libraries, but rather, reaching out and making sure that people who can benefit from access to books know about it and are given the access to it,' said Dr Balakrishnan.
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On trial till May next year, the mobile library will visit neighbourhood primary schools, orphanages, children's homes and special education schools, said the National Library Board.
The interior of the bus, which holds 3,000 books, was remodelled to resemble a real library. It features specially designed bookshelves, a borrowing station and e-kiosks where users can check their book-loan records and pay fines using ez-link cards.
Its collection of books, which comes from a pool of 23,000 titles, is restocked daily.
Books on the bus will be selected to meet the needs of the readers at its destination. The bus will make visits once every three weeks to coincide with the loan period of books.
Mobile services were started in 1960 to relieve the pressure on Singapore's limited library system. They were discontinued in the early 1990s when more public libraries were built in the heartland.
Speaking at the launch event at Pathlight School, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Vivian Balakrishnan said that Molly was 'a kind of sampler' to entice people to visit the main library.
'The challenge today is not the physical availability of libraries, but rather, reaching out and making sure that people who can benefit from access to books know about it and are given the access to it,' said Dr Balakrishnan.
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Read more here
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