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After about seven hours and as many six-packs, the computer guy has transferred everything from my old computer to my new, state-of-the-racket computer. The whole shebang is programmed, fine-tuned, and ready to go. The computer guy stands back, burps, and smiles.
I look over from the couch at the new 19-inch analog TFT-LCD flat-screen monitor delivering an 800-to-1 contrast ratio, 260 cd/m2 brightness, 1280 x 1024 resolution, 170/170-degree viewing angle, and a scanning frequency of 30–81 kHz horizontal and 56–75 Hz vertical, or so I'm told.
What I see are the green hills, blue sky, and stratocumulus and cirrus clouds of the Napa County bitmap landscape called Bliss, the Microsoft Windows XP default desktop wallpaper. It looks like an invitation to suicide on a Sunday afternoon.
"Can you change that thing?"
The computer guy goes into the settings. I look again and see a rustic path carpeted with beautiful autumn leaves from big old maple trees that bow, lush and dreamy, overhead. That's more like it. And it's also the beginning of a certain madness.
I go to Jersey City, I go to Paris, I go to the Arabian Peninsula, I come back home.
I sit on the couch and stare at that rustic path and those big old maple trees. By now I know the name of this particular wallpaper or background or whatever it is: Autumn. Moving to the desk and gazing more closely, I see a vague, dark, summoning something at the end of the path. A cabin? A covered bridge? A barn? I want to be there, for real, on that path, under those maples, moving slowly toward that dark, summoning something.
I return to Paris, go from there to Tokyo, from there to Milan and Lake Como, then back here. I'm tired of everything, everywhere. I want only to go to Autumn.
It's a lead-pipe cinch, I figure. I'm a good detective. I've found opium dens in Vientiane; been granted interviews by cardinals, mafiosi, and sheikhs; discovered the meaning of "half-and-half" in the old song "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee"; conned the Vatican into bestowing a doctorate on me so that I could gain access to hiddenmost archives; deciphered the cryptic message Ezra Pound scrawled in his own copy of the Cantos while in the bughouse; tracked down and interviewed Phil Spector's first wife, long presumed dead; charted my way to the sacred stone of the Great Mother, in Cyprus; gotten Charlotte Rampling's cell-phone number; even come close to understanding the second page of my Con Ed bill. Finding out where a picture was taken—a picture plastered on millions of computer screens—seems a shot away.
What fools we mortals be. Clicking on the picture's display properties yields the response: "What's This?" My question exactly.
Going deeper, a file called "Autumn Properties" reveals only that it's a five-kilobyte Windows Theme File. When I try to find out what a theme file is, the Windows Help and Support Center suggests, "Check your spelling."
Well, hell, somebody at Microsoft ought to know. As it turns out, if they do, they're not telling.
Curiosity becomes yearning, and yearning becomes obsession. Several friends are drawn into my search. I no longer want merely to find Autumn and go there. I now want to go there and look for a little place to live not far from that leaf-covered path. Photo editors, editor editors, fact-checkers, researchers, computer guys and computer dolls—my motley, shifting, devoted crew come to be known as Team Autumn.
Every member of Team Autumn begins as I did, confident that finding the location pictured will be a quick and simple matter. As the months pass, many of my volunteers, rather than admit defeat, resort to the exculpatory "maybe it's a computer-generated picture" premise and retreat to their real lives.
Queries to Microsoft are redirected to the public-relations firm of Waggener Edstrom. The following e-mail exchange between a member of Team Autumn and a member of the Waggener Edstrom Rapid Response Team is representative:
"Hello, I'm a journalist writing about computer desktop artwork and I have a question—can you tell me the name of the photographer and the location depicted in the wallpaper image that comes with Windows XP entitled Autumn? The exact image is attached. I know this is an unusual request; any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated."
"I am happy to look into this request. Please give me a chance to connect with colleagues about your inquiry. Will this be for an article, and if so, what is your deadline and how will the information be used?"
"Thanks for getting back to me so quickly! Yes, this is for an article. My deadline is July 10. The article is about the ways in which people's desktop wallpaper effects their work habits. This particular photograph is my personal favorite, and I'm going to write about the ways in which it has inspired me and stimulated my imagination while writing. Finding out who took the picture, and, particularly, where this photograph was taken, will be very important elements of the piece. I will of course acknowledge your assistance on Microsoft's behalf and will send tear sheets upon publication. Thanks again."
"Hi. I am following up per your last e-mail and have connected with colleagues concerning your request. Unfortunately, we will not be able to participate in this opportunity. I apologize for the inconvenience. Best regards."
"Can you tell me why not? Thanks."
"Hi. Unfortunately, I was not in the decision process for this request and am not able to comment on my colleagues' reasoning. I apologize for the inconvenience. I would suggest the Web for more information about the images. Best regards."
I see people in black hoods and robes sitting round a table, bound by blood oath never to divulge the latitude and longitude of Autumn.
Why this wall of silence and secrecy? I've never before known a company to resolutely shun good publicity.
The dwindling members of Team Autumn begin making weird comments to me:
"There are horses nearby. You can't see them, but—there—see that old, falling-down fence here to the right? That's a horse fence."
"I think it's somewhere in Vermont. It feels like Vermont."
Thus, to the Vermont State Department of Tourism: "Hello, can you please tell me where in Vermont this photograph was taken? I'd like to visit there. Thank you very much."
And thus, from the Vermont State Department of Tourism: "We believe the photo is a stock screen saver that was bundled with MS Windows a few years ago. It's not from our stock library in any case.… I have queried the Vermont Life magazine editor to see if the location is familiar to him."
In the far, misty reaches of an exhaustive Internet image search, Autumn is found lurking, as Tender Autumn, at something called 7art-screensavers.com. An e-mail plea is dispatched: "Can you please tell me where Tender Autumn was photographed?" The reply is fast and friendly, seemingly from Russia:
"That photos come to us from opur friends so i don't really know there origin. But i know the origin of photos from Fallen Leaves scrensavers. It's Moscow Botanical Garden. Best wishes, Merry christmas, Roman Rusavsky."
I ask S. I. Newhouse if he knows Bill Gates. I ask people in bars if they know anybody who works at Microsoft. My e-mail to Gates—firstname.lastname@example.com—remains unanswered, but I know he owns the picture. He owns the goddamn Leonardo da Vinci Codex Leicester. He owns everything. He must own Autumn—the picture, if not the actual place. And at least one of the 70,000 people who work for him, if not he himself, must know where that picture was taken, or who took it.
He owns Corbis, which holds something like 70 million pictures. As it turns out, the Corbis library, where Bill Gates is willing to sell me pictures of me, has about 5,000 photographs under the subject heading of "autumn." I begin a methodical hunt through all of them. About halfway through, I find it: CB047623 (Autumn Leaves Falling on Road). Other Corbis pictures list the photographer, the date photographed, and the location information. This is payday, baby. I click on the image for the details. This is what I get, and nothing else: "Date Photographed: October 1999."
"Dear Corbis … "
I come across a picture by the photographer James Marshall, who lives in Brunswick, Maine. The picture, of fall maples in Hadley, Massachusetts, reminds me of Autumn.
"Sorry, Nick," he says, "but this one is not mine."
Some have tried to console me: "Hell, it's probably next to a toxic-waste dump." My buddy Bruce suggests there's a sinister element: "It could be like Blow-Up. Something bad could be happening at the end of the path. Maybe that's why they won't tell you anything."
But—toxic waste, dead bodies—I don't care. Autumn awaits me. Somewhere. Yeah. Over the rainbow. Yeah. And I'll find it yet.
I lay down my pen right there. An e-mail arrives in response to the one I sent to Bill Gates. It's not from Big Bad Bill himself but from someone at something called exchange.microsoft.com: "The location of the image is Campbellville, Ontario, Canada."
Now all I need is the name of the photographer to lead me home to where I've never been.
"The stock agency, Corbis, really doesn't want to give out the name of the photographer because the stock agency owns the rights to the image."
I don't want to infringe on any rights. Please. I just want the name of the photographer.
"Best of luck."
I reach out to Campbellville for help. Historical societies, the chamber of commerce, inn owners, realtors, librarians, horse farms. None can identify the scene. I call on Graydon Carter: "You know I am crazy, but … "
I hear from Ann Schneider, the senior photo research editor of Vanity Fair. I now refer to her by other titles—goddess, divine intercessor—for she lays on me, wrested through magic, the name of the photographer: Peter Burian.
I get out the crystal tumbler and the scotch and I smile wide. But soon the smile, like the scotch, is gone.
Peter, who lives in Milton, Ontario, says, yes, he did tell Corbis that the picture was taken in Campbellville, but, "as I think about it, it may have been in nearby Kilbride." He drives out, searches through both Campbellville and Kilbride. "It's not in either village," he reports. "I was wrong." But "I know it's within a 60-mile radius of my home in Milton." He himself refers to this as a "needle in a haystack" situation.
The man who found Autumn has lost Autumn.
But he is now as obsessed as I am. He is leaving for Paris in 10 days, and there is much work to finish before then. "And melting snow is not great" for roaming the rural byways. But "I am a determined kind of guy; we will find the location."
Meanwhile, at the first mention of Kilbride, I'd written to a score of people in Burlington, the closest place to Kilbride that had a score of people to write to. I hear from Jane Irwin, a volunteer archivist at the Burlington Historical Society: "Kilbride is part of the city of Burlington, but in the rural northern area, accessible only by car. I do not drive and have not been there for perhaps 10 years, but the allé looks vaguely familiar. My best guess, based on the fence and the glimpse of an old gray barn at the end, is that it's the lane leading south to the old Harris homestead."
Though Kilbride has been ruled out, I pass Jane's suggestion to Peter, who revisits the village the following Saturday. That night, I receive from him the words I myself have been yearning to say for more than a year:
"I found it."
So here I sit at dawn this winter Sunday morning, a cheap black mug of coffee in my hand instead of a crystal tumbler, smiling more serenely. As one far wiser than I once must have said, Nobody with a decent map needs rainbows.
Nick Tosches is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.
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Online social networks or social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, who, for example, share interests and/or activities. A social network service essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the Internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. Online community services are sometimes considered as a social network service, though in a broader sense, social network service usually means an individual-centered service whereas online community services are group-centered. Social networking sites allow users to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks.[citation needed]
The main types of social networking services are those which contain category places (such as former school year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. There have been attempts to standardize these services to avoid the need to duplicate entries of friends and interests (see the FOAF standard and the Open Source Initiative). A 2011 survey found that 47% of American adults used a social network. [1]
The potential for computer networking to facilitate new forms of computer-mediated social interaction was suggested early on.[2] Efforts to support social networks via computer-mediated communication were made in many early online services, including Usenet, ARPANET, LISTSERV, and bulletin board services (BBS). Many prototypical features of social networking sites were also present in online services such as America Online, Prodigy, and CompuServe. Early social networking on the World Wide Web began in the form of generalized online communities such as Theglobe.com (1995),[3] Geocities (1994) and Tripod.com (1995). Many of these early communities focused on bringing people together to interact with each other through chat rooms, and encouraged users to share personal information and ideas via personal webpages by providing easy-to-use publishing tools and free or inexpensive webspace. Some communities - such as Classmates.com - took a different approach by simply having people link to each other via email addresses. In the late 1990s, user profiles became a central feature of social networking sites, allowing users to compile lists of "friends" and search for other users with similar interests. New social networking methods were developed by the end of the 1990s, and many sites began to develop more advanced features for users to find and manage friends.[4] This newer generation of social networking sites began to flourish with the emergence of SixDegrees.com in 1997,[5] followed by Makeoutclub in 2000,[6][7], Friendster in 2002,[8] and soon became part of the Internet mainstream. Friendster was followed by MySpace and LinkedIn a year later, and finally, Bebo. Attesting to the rapid increase in social networking sites' popularity, by 2005, MySpace was reportedly getting more page views than Google. Facebook,[9] launched in 2004, has since become the largest social networking site in the world.[10]Today, it is estimated that there are now over 200 active sites using a wide variety of social networking models.[citation needed] May 2011: Based on TNS research, the global average of who access daily the social networking sites accounts is 46 percent.[11]
Social impactsEdit
Web based social networking services make it possible to connect people who share interests and activities across political, economic, and geographic borders.[12] Through e-mail and instant messaging, online communities are created where a gift economy and reciprocal altruism are encouraged through cooperation. Information is particularly suited to gift economy, as information is a nonrival good and can be gifted at practically no cost.[13][14]
Facebook and other social networking tools are increasingly the object of scholarly research. Scholars in many fields have begun to investigate the impact of social networking sites, investigating how such sites may play into issues of identity, privacy,[15] social capital, youth culture, and education.[16]
Several websites are beginning to tap into the power of the social networking model for philanthropy. Such models provide a means for connecting otherwise fragmented industries and small organizations without the resources to reach a broader audience with interested users.[17] Social networks are providing a different way for individuals to communicate digitally. These communities of hypertexts allow for the sharing of information and ideas, an old concept placed in a digital environment.
In 2011, HCL Technologies conducted research which showed that 50% of British employers had banned the use of social networking sites/services during office hours. [18] [19]
Typical structureEdit
Social networking sites share some conventional features. Most often, individual users are encouraged to create profiles containing various information about themselves. Users can often upload pictures of themselves to their profiles, post blog entries for others to read, search for other users with similar interests, and compile and share lists of contacts. In addition, user profiles often have a section dedicated to comments from friends and other users. To protect user privacy, social networks usually have controls that allow users to choose who can view their profile, contact them, add them to their list of contacts, and so on.
In recent years, it has also become common for a wide variety of organizations to create profiles to advertise products and services.
As the increase in popularity of social networking is on a constant rise,[20] new uses for the technology are constantly being observed.
At the forefront of emerging trends in social networking sites is the concept of "real-time web" and "location based." Real time allows users to contribute content, which is then broadcasted as it is being uploaded - the concept is analogous to live radio and television broadcasts. Twitter set the trend for "real time" services, where users can broadcast to the world what they are doing, or what is on their minds within a 140 character limit. Facebook followed suit with their "Live Feed" where users' activities are streamed as soon as it happens. While Twitter focuses on words, Clixtr, another real time service, focuses on group photo sharing where users can update their photo streams with photos while at an event. Facebook, however, remains easily the greatest photo sharing site - Facebook application and photo aggregator Pixable estimates that Facebook will have 100 billion photos by Summer 2011 [21].
Foursquare gained popularity as it allowed for users to "check-in" to places that they are frequenting at that moment. Gowalla is another such service which functions in much the same way that Foursquare does, leveraging the GPS in phones to create a location-based user experience. Clixtr, though in the real time space, is also a location based social networking site since events created by users are automatically geotagged, and users can view events occurring nearby through the Clixtr iPhone app. Recently, Yelp announced its entrance into the location based social networking space through check-ins with their mobile app; whether or not this becomes detrimental to Foursquare or Gowalla is yet to be seen as it is still considered a new space in the Internet technology industry.[22]
One popular use for this new technology is social networking between businesses. Companies have found that social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are great ways to build their brand image. According to Jody Nimetz, author of Marketing Jive,[23] there are five major uses for businesses and social media: to create brand awareness, as an online reputation management tool, for recruiting, to learn about new technologies and competitors, and as a lead generation tool to intercept potential prospects.[23] These companies are able to drive traffic to their own online sites while encouraging their consumers and clients to have discussions on how to improve or change products or services.
One other use that is being discussed is the use of social networks in the science communities. Julia Porter Liebeskind et al. have published a study on how new biotechnology firms are using social networking sites to share exchanges in scientific knowledge.[24] They state in their study that by sharing information and knowledge with one another, they are able to "increase both their learning and their flexibility in ways that would not be possible within a self-contained hierarchical organization." Social networking is allowing scientific groups to expand their knowledge base and share ideas, and without these new means of communicating their theories might become "isolated and irrelevant".
Social networks are also being used by teachers and students as a communication tool. Because many students are already using a wide-range of social networking sites, teachers have begun to familiarize themselves with this trend and are now using it to their advantage. Teachers and professors are doing everything from creating chat-room forums and groups to extend classroom discussion to posting assignments, tests and quizzes, to assisting with homework outside of the classroom setting. Social networks are also being used to foster teacher-parent communication. These sites make it possible and more convenient for parents to ask questions and voice concerns without having to meet face-to-face.
Social networks are being used by activists as a means of low-cost grassroots organizing. Extensive use of an array of social networking sites enabled organizers of the 2009 National Equality March to mobilize an estimated 200,000 participants to march on Washington with a cost savings of up to 85% per participant over previous methods.[25]
The use of online social networks by libraries is also an increasingly prevalent and growing tool that is being used to communicate with more potential library users, as well as extending the services provided by individual libraries.
A final rise in social network use is being driven by college students using the services to network with professionals for internship and job opportunities. Many studies have been done on the effectiveness of networking online in a college setting, and one notable one is by Phipps Arabie and Yoram Wind published in Advances in Social Network Analysis.[26]
Privacy concerns with social networking services have been raised growing concerns amongst users on the dangers of giving out too much personal information and the threat of sexual predators. Users of these services also need to be aware of data theft or viruses. However, large services, such as MySpace and Netlog, often work with law enforcement to try to prevent such incidents.[citation needed]
In addition, there is a perceived privacy threat in relation to placing too much personal information in the hands of large corporations or governmental bodies, allowing a profile to be produced on an individual's behavior on which decisions, detrimental to an individual, may be taken.
Furthermore, there is an issue over the control of data—information that was altered or removed by the user may in fact be retained and/or passed to third parties. This danger was highlighted when the controversial social networking site Quechup harvested e-mail addresses from users' e-mail accounts for use in a spamming operation.[27]
In medical and scientific research, asking subjects for information about their behaviors is normally strictly scrutinized by institutional review boards, for example, to ensure that adolescents and their parents have informed consent. It is not clear whether the same rules apply to researchers who collect data from social networking sites. These sites often contain a great deal of data that is hard to obtain via traditional means. Even though the data are public, republishing it in a research paper might be considered invasion of privacy.[28]
Privacy on social networking sites can be undermined by many factors. For example, users may disclose personal information, sites may not take adequate steps to protect user privacy, and third parties frequently use information posted on social networks for a variety of purposes. "For the Net generation, social networking sites have become the preferred forum for social interactions, from posturing and role playing to simply sounding off. However, because such forums are relatively easy to access, posted content can be reviewed by anyone with an interest in the users' personal information".[29][30][31]
Following plans by the UK government to monitor traffic on social networks[32] schemes similar to E-mail jamming have been proposed for networks such as Twitter and Facebook. These would involve "friending" and "following" large numbers of random people to thwart attempts at network analysis.
Risk for child safetyEdit
Citizens and governments have been concerned by a misuse by child and teenagers of social networking services, particularly in relation to online sexual predators. A certain number of actions have been engaged by governments to better understand the problem and find some solutions.[specify]
A 2008 panel concluded that technological fixes such as age verification and scans are relatively ineffective means of apprehending online predators.[33] In May 2010, a child pornography social networking site with hundreds of members was dismantled by law enforcement. It was deemed "the largest crimes against children case brought anywhere by anyone."[34]
- Main article: Troll (Internet)
A common misuse of social networking sites such as Facebook is that it is occasionally used to emotionally abuse individuals. Such actions are often referred to as trolling. It is not rare for confrontations in the real world to be translated online. [citation needed] Trolling can occur in many different forms, such as (but not limited to) defacement of deceased person(s) tribute pages, name calling, playing online pranks on volatile individuals and controversial comments with the intention to cause anger and cause arguments. Trolling is not to be confused with cyber-bullying.
Online bullyingEdit
Online bullying, also called cyber-bullying, is a relatively common occurrence and it can often result in emotional trauma for the victim. Depending on the networking outlet, up to 39% of users admit to being "cyber-bullied".[35] Danah Boyd, a researcher of social networks quotes a teenager in her article, Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites. The teenager expresses frustration towards networking sites like MySpace because it causes drama and too much emotional stress.[36] There are not many limitations as to what individuals can post when online. Inherently individuals are given the power to post offensive remarks or pictures that could potentially cause a great amount of emotional pain for another individual.
Interpersonal communicationEdit
Interpersonal communication has been a growing issue as more and more people have turned to social networking as a means of communication. "Benniger (1987) describes how mass media has gradually replaced interpersonal communication as a socializing force. Further, social networking sites have become popular sites for youth culture to explore themselves, relationships, and share cultural artifacts". A Privacy Paradox Many teens and social networking users may be harming their interpersonal communication by using sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Stated by Baroness Greenfield, an Oxford University Neuroscientist, "My fear is that these technologies are infantilizing the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment."[37]
As social networking sites have risen in popularity over the past years, people have been spending an excess amount of time on social networking sites and on the Internet in general. The excessive amount of time that people spend on social networking sites has led researchers to debate the establishment of Internet addiction as an actual clinical disorder. [38] Social networking can also affect the extent to which a person feels lonely. In a Newsweek article, Johannah Cornblatt explains "Social-networking sites like Facebook and MySpace may provide people with a false sense of connection that ultimately increases loneliness in people who feel alone." John T. Cacioppo, a neuroscientist at the University of Chicago, claims that social networking can foster feelings of sensitivity to disconnection, which can lead to loneliness. [39]
Dating applicationsEdit
- See also: Online dating service
Many social networks provide an online environment for people to communicate and exchange personal information for dating purposes. Intentions can vary from looking for a one time date, short-term relationships, and long-term relationships.[40]
Most of these social networks, just like online dating services, require users to give out certain pieces of information. This usually includes a user's age, gender, location, interests, and perhaps a picture. Releasing very personal information is usually discouraged for safety reasons.[41] This allows other users to search or be searched by some sort of criteria, but at the same time people can maintain a degree of anonymity similar to most online dating services. Online dating sites are similar to social networks in the sense that users create profiles to meet and communicate with others, but their activities on such sites are for the sole purpose of finding a person of interest to date. Social networks do not necessarily have to be for dating; many users simply use it for keeping in touch with friends, and colleagues.[42]
However, an important difference between social networks and online dating services is the fact that online dating sites usually require a fee, where social networks are free.[43] This difference is one of the reasons the online dating industry is seeing a massive decrease in revenue due to many users opting to use social networking services instead. Many popular online dating services such as Match.com, Yahoo Personals, and eHarmony.com are seeing a decrease in users, where social networks like MySpace and Facebook are experiencing an increase in users.[44]
The number of Internet users in the U.S. that visit online dating sites has fallen from a peak of 21% in 2003 to 10% in 2006.[45] Whether its the cost of the services, the variety of users with different intentions, or any other reason, it is undeniable that social networking sites are quickly becoming the new way to find dates online.
Educational applicationsEdit
The National School Boards Association reports that almost 60 percent of students who use social networking talk about education topics online and, surprisingly, more than 50 percent talk specifically about schoolwork. Yet the vast majority of school districts have stringent rules against nearly all forms of social networking during the school day — even though students and parents report few problem behaviors online.
Social networks focused on supporting relationships between teachers and their students are now used for learning, educator professional development, and content sharing. Ning for teachers, Learn Central,[46] TeachStreet and other sites are being built to foster relationships that include educational blogs, eportfolios, formal and ad hoc communities, as well as communication such as chats, discussion threads, and synchronous forums. These sites also have content sharing and rating features.
Social networks are also emerging as online yearbooks, both public and private. One such service is MyYearbook which allows anyone from the general public to register and connect. A new trend emerging are private label yearbooks only accessible by students, parents and teachers of a particular school similar to Facebook beginning within Harvard.[citation needed]
Medical applicationsEdit
Social networks are beginning to be adopted by healthcare professionals as a means to manage institutional knowledge, disseminate peer to peer knowledge and to highlight individual physicians and institutions. The advantage of using a dedicated medical social networking site is that all the members are screened against the state licensing board list of practitioners.[47]
The role of social networks is especially of interest to pharmaceutical companies who spend approximately "32 percent of their marketing dollars" attempting to influence the opinion leaders of social networks.[48]
A new trend is emerging with social networks created to help its members with various physical and mental ailments.[49] For people suffering from life altering diseases, PatientsLikeMe offers its members the chance to connect with others dealing with similar issues and research patient data related to their condition. For alcoholics and addicts, SoberCircle gives people in recovery the ability to communicate with one another and strengthen their recovery through the encouragement of others who can relate to their situation. DailyStrength is also a website that offers support groups for a wide array of topics and conditions, including the support topics offered by PatientsLikeMe and SoberCircle. SparkPeople offers community and social networking tools for peer support during weight loss.
Social and political applicationsEdit
Social networking sites have recently showed a value in social and political movements. In the Egyptian revolution, Facebook and Twitter both played a pivotal role in keeping people connected to the revolt. Egyptian activist have credited social networking sites with providing a platform for planning protest and sharing news from Tahrir Square in real time. By presenting a platform for thousands of people to instantaneously share videos of mainly events featuring brutality, social networking proves to be a vital tool in revolutions.[50]
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- ↑ "A New Generation Reinvents Philanthropy", Wall Street Journal website.
- ↑ includeonly>"Half of employees banned from Facebook at work", The Daily Telegraph, 2011-05-11.
- ↑ http://news.searchofficespace.com/sos-news/50-of-british-employers-have-banned-facebook-from-the-office-what-do-you-think.html
- ↑ Search for "e-commerce, social networking". Google Trends. Accessed 26 October 2009.
- ↑ http://mashable.com/2011/02/14/facebook-photo-infographic/?asid=c228f21b
- ↑ MG Siegler Jan 15, 2010. Yelp Enables Check-Ins On Its iPhone App; Foursquare, Gowalla Ousted As Mayors. Techcrunch.com. URL accessed on 2011-03-13.
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Nimetz, Jody. "Jody Nimetz on Emerging Trends in B2B Social Networking". Marketing Jive, November 18, 2007. Accessed 26 October 2009.
- ↑ Liebeskind, Julia Porter, et al. "Social Networks, Learning, and Flexibility: Sourcing Scientific Knowledge in New Biotechnology Firms". Organization Science, Vol. 7, No. 4 (July–August 1996), pp. 428–443.
- ↑ includeonly>Carlson, Ben. "March 2.0: Success of the National Equality March relied on social media tools", Media Bullseye, April 28, 2010. Retrieved on 2010-04-29.
- ↑ Arabie, Phipps, and Yoram Wind. "Marketing and Social Networks". In Stanley Wasserman and Joseph Galaskiewicz, Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1994, pp. 254–273. ISBN 0-8039-4302-4
- ↑ Social network launches worldwide spam campaign E-consultancy.com, Accessed 10 September 2007
- ↑ Moreno MA, Fost NC, Christakis DA (2008). Research ethics in the MySpace era. Pediatrics 121 (1): 157–61.
- ↑ David Rosenblum (2007). What Anyone Can Know: The Privacy Risks of Social Networking Sites.
- ↑ Henry Jenkins and Danah Boyd. Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). URL accessed on 2006-05-26.
- ↑ Susan B. Barnes. A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States.
- ↑ includeonly>BBC. "Social Network Sites 'Monitored'", BBC News, 2009-03-25. Retrieved on 2009-03-25.
- ↑ (2008). Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies.; Mangu-Ward, Katherine (May 2009). MySpace = Safe Space. Reason 41 (1).
- ↑ Wilson, Charles (May 27, 2010). Child porn 'social networking site' busted by feds.
- ↑ Computer Science Illuminated
- ↑ Boyd, Danah. "Why Youth (Heart) Social Networking Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life." Dokutech Eres. Web. <http://eres.ucsc.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3840&page=docs#>.
- ↑ includeonly>Derbyshire, David. "Social websites harm children's brains: Chilling warning to parents from top neuroscientist", Daily Mail, 24 February 2009.
- ↑ CBS "Social Networking: An Internet Addiction?", CBS News, June 24, 2008. cbsnews.com. URL accessed on 2011-05-13.
- ↑ Cornblatt, Johannah, "Lonely Planet", Newsweek, August 21, 2009. newsweek.com. URL accessed on 2011-05-13.
- ↑ MySpace, Facebook Add Opportunity for Love, Trouble to Online Dating, FoxNews.com website.
- ↑ MySpace Adds a Security Monitor, NPR.com website.
- ↑ Online Dating: Can Social Networks Cut In?, internetnews.com website.
- ↑ Online Dating vs. Social Networking – Which Will Emerge as Premier Matchmaker?, WRAL.com website.
- ↑ Social networks vs. dating sites Commentary: Fragmenting may save online dating sites, marketwatch.com website.
- ↑ Seeking Love Around The Web , Forbes.com website.
- ↑ learncentral.org
- ↑ Social Networking: Now Professionally Ready, PrimaryPsychiatry.com website.
- ↑ Social Networks Impact the Drugs Physicians Prescribe According to Stanford Business School Research, Pharmalive.com website.
- ↑ Comprehensive listing of medical applications using social networking via Dose of Digital
- ↑ includeonly>Sutter, John D.. "The faces of Egypt's 'Revolution 2.0'", 21 Feb 2011. Retrieved on 13 May 2011.
Further readingEdit
- Alemán, Ana M. Martínez; Wartman, Katherine Lynk, "Online social networking on campus: understanding what matters in student culture", New York and London : Routledge, 1st edition, 2009. ISBN 0-415-99019-X
- Barham, Nick, Disconnected: Why our kids are turning their backs on everything we thought we knew, 1st ed., Ebury Press, 2004. ISBN 0-09-189586-3
- Baron, Naomi S., Always on : language in an online and mobile world, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-531305-5
- Cockrell, Cathy, "Plumbing the mysterious practices of 'digital youth': In first public report from a 'seminal' study, UC Berkeley scholars shed light on kids' use of Web 2.0 tools", UC Berkeley News, University of California, Berkeley, NewsCenter, 28 April 2008
- Kelsey, Todd (2010), Social Networking Spaces: From Facebook to Twitter and Everything In Between, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 9781430225966, http://books.google.ca/books?id=1EgTu8fFMJgC&lpg=PP1&ots=HUuksBAE9m&dq=Social%20Networking%20Spaces%3A%20From%20Facebook%20to%20Twitter%20and%20Everything%20In%20Between&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true
- Davis, Donald Carrington, "MySpace Isn't Your Space: Expanding the Fair Credit Reporting Act to Ensure Accountability and Fairness in Employer Searches of Online Social Networking Services", 16 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 237 (2007).
- Else, Liz; Turkle, Sherry. "Living online: I'll have to ask my friends", New Scientist, issue 2569, 20 September 2006. (interview)
- Glaser, Mark, Your Guide to Social Networking Online," PBS MediaShift, August 2007
- Powers, William, Hamlet's Blackberry : a practical philosophy for building a good life in the digital age, 1st ed., New York : Harper, 2010. ISBN 978-0-06-168716-7
- Video on the History of social networks by WikiLecture
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"the withness of the body"" The heavy bear who goes with me, A manifold honey to smear his face, Clumsy and lumbering here and there, The central ton of every place, The hungry beating brutish one In love with candy, anger, and sleep, Crazy factotum, disheveling all, Climbs
Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz was born in Brooklyn to Romanian Jewish parents on December 8, 1913. He enrolled early at Columbia University and also attended the University of Wisconsin, eventually receiving his BA in philosophy from New York University in 1935. He went on to begin graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University, but he returned to New York before completing his studies.
In 1936 Schwartz won the Bowdoin Prize in the Humanities for his essay "Poetry as Imitation," and in 1937 his short story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" was published in Partisan Review. The following year this short story appeared with other poetry and prose in In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (New Directions, 1938), his first book-length work. As John Ashbery writes in The New Yorker, Schwartz's "literary career had begun auspiciously, dazzlingly, with the publication" of this book, which also received praise from T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, and others.
Schwartz published several more books of poetry and prose during his lifetime, including Genesis: Book One (New Directions, 1938), a book-length poem; Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems (New Directions, 1950); and Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, 1959), which was awarded the Bollingen Prize. In addition, he published critical essays on important literary figures and cultural topics, and he served as the poetry editor at Partisan Review and New Republic.
He taught for many years at Harvard University, and he also took on teaching positions at Bennington College, Kenyon College, Princeton University, and Syracuse University.
John Ashbery writes that Schwartz's was "the classic saga of a brilliant poet, first heralded as a genius, the greatest young poet of his day, who quickly burnt himself out as a result of mental illness and addictions to alcohol and narcotics." Schwartz spent the last years of his life in New York City, where he was a frequent patron of the White Horse Tavern. In the summer of 1966, Schwartz checked into the Columbia Hotel near Times Square, perhaps to focus on his writing. He died there, of a heart attack, on July 11, 1966.
Selected Bibliography
Shenandoah (New Directions, 1941)
Genesis: Book I (New Directions, 1943)
Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems (New Directions, 1950)
Summer Knowledge: Selected Poems, 1938–1958 (Doubleday, 1959)
What Is to Be Given: Selected Poems (Carcanet New Press, 1976)
Last & Lost Poems (New Directions, 1989)
Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz (New Directions, 2016)
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (New Directions, 1938)
The World Is a Wedding (New Directions, 1948)
Successful Love and Other Stories (Corinth Books, 1961)
Selected Essays of Delmore Schwartz (University of Chicago Press, 1970)
The Ego is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles (New Directions, 1986)


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Alan Pardew: Newcastle MUST push for Champions League this season
NEWCASTLE boss Alan Pardew admits teams have to be pushing for the Champions League if they are to retain their best players.
The Magpies have lost France internationals Yohan Cabaye and Mathieu Debuchy to Paris St Germain and Arsenal respectively since the turn of the year with both clubs able to offer them European football.
However, Pardew is hopeful that the additions of the likes of Daryl Janmaat, Siem de Jong, Remy Cabella and Emmanuel Riviere will allow the club to compete for a top-four finish once again.
He told BBC Radio Newcastle: "If you don't make the Champions League, then the big teams come for your players - look at Southampton.
"We are pushing every year to try and build to hopefully get to a stage where we make it without losing our players.
"We have pitched in and signed players that we think give us a chance to push for Champions League.
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Advantech SRP Business Model Creates New Value in Intel
Advantech SRP Business Model Creates New Value in Intelligent Services
Advantech (2395.TW), a global leader in the industrial platform computing and automation device market, held its investor conference today and announced its 2012 consolidated financial report. Consolidated revenue was reported at approximately NT $27.55 billion, an increase of 4.2% compared with 2011; operating margin was NT $10.93 billion (39.7% gross margin); and net profit after tax was NT $3.49 billion, which represents about NT $6.22 per share after-tax earnings for the year.
Advantech President Chaney Ho said that after two years of transition, the world is now firmly entering an intelligent era in technology. This year, keeping this theme in mind, Advantech will provide services to meet the needs of various industries including providing cloud infrastructure, cloud intelligence services as well as services related to smart cities and the internet of things. Advantech will also develop strategies to augment global distribution and to assist business organizations in taking advantage of the new services.
Chaney also announced a change to the organization. In the past, the organization was structured along geographic or product boundaries. Today, the new organization will be based on vertical sectors and applications. As a result, it has been realigned into three Master Business Groups (MBG): AASECO (Advantech Automation Sales Eco-Partners, AASECO) which serves automation system integrators; the Embedded Design-in Group to service equipment manufacturers; and the iServices Group to serve solutions providers in the creation of intelligent services. The organizational changes, chosen to drive business forward, are based on two major criteria: vertical sectors and applications. In the area of global deployment, in addition to continued steady expansion of high-end markets in Europe and North America, research coming from the newly developed collaboration think-tank, the Advantech + Technology Campus (A + TC), has identified more business opportunities in the emerging markets of Russia, India, Israel, the Arab states that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, and the Latin American market.
Advantech Intelligent Services (AiS) will also provide a new Solution Ready Package (SRP) business model to the market. Advantech Intelligent Services Vice President Ken Yu said that as the paradigm in technology continues to shift over the next decade to create the intelligent era, "services" will replace "products" in mainstream market demand. Additionally, following global trends in urbanization, intelligent cities will flourish, with innovative services, interconnected and integrated devices marking a significant change in the mode of operation in the industry.
Ken went on to explain that the new SRP business model dividing the AiS organization into five business units was developed to fulfill requirements of the Greater China market. The new organization will divide AiS into five business units offering solutions in the following sectors: medical (iHospital), retail (uRetail), smart-city (uCity), intelligent-factory (iFactory), and intelligent-building (iBuilding). The five business units will provide a set of value-added application services, each with a different industry focus. With an in-depth industry application operating just like a normal system integrator, the SRP business model will include a professional marketing and IT team, while strengthening the sales and service teams. Advantech will also strengthen its own capabilities in various fields through its "Partnering for Smarter City Solutions" platform, which includes mergers and acquisitions, alliances with industry partners and industry/academic cooperation such as the TiC100 business model competition.
Chaney Ho stressed that the Advantech SRP business model is the best model that has been developed to date, combining intelligent technology with Advantech's past three decades of experience, and boosted by the merger with BICOM Information Technology and alliances with academic and government organizations. Advantech continually enables technology for an intelligent planet with strategic initiatives that further the development of the organization and its business models. The SRP business model will serve to help Advantech become a leading innovation enterprise provider in Greater China, as well as assist different industries in accelerating their own growth in intelligent operations.


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|Sutherland Apartments at 4659 South Drexel Blvd. formerly Sutherland Hotel
which housed the Sutherland Show Lounge.
"In 1954 when I graduated from high school I was seventeen years old and an experienced entertainer; I had been working weekends in nightclubs and earning fifteen to twenty dollars a gig. I traveled with a band called the Sultans of Swing, headed by a fellow named Rolly Rudolph. We went as far south as Cincinnati and as far west as Fort Wayne, Indiana. I took my younger brother Michael along as my chaperone.
I worked in Chicago for the first time in 1956 with Rusty Bryant's band. Rusty was an Ohio boy who became popular back home playing tunes like "Castle Rock" and "Night Train". We were booked into the Crown Propeller Lounge on East 63rd Street. Paula Grier also worked there, along with a shake-dancer and a couple of other entertainers. The owner of the lounge insisted that when the girls finished their numbers on the raised stage behind the bar; they go out front to the bar and sit and drink with the customers. Paula told me the girls always did that. I didn't. After I had been working there a couple of nights the owner came up to me and told me to go and sit on a bar stool. I said I didn't care what the girls had always done. I told the owner I wouldn't do it; I had been hired by the band and the band paid me to sing and that was all I was going to do in the Propeller Lounge. That was the only really bad experience I had in Chicago.
My next memorable trip was to New York in 1959. I went there in search of fame and fortune with money I had saved from gigging. I didn't think I was going to set the world on fire but I was confident that I could get some kind job. The first job I got was receptionist for a handbag manufacturer in the garment district in midtown Manhattan. Then I got a job as a Girl Friday at New York Institute of Technology, where I didn't have to punch in until noon, so I could look for a singing gig in the evening. I was lucky enough to get a job singing weekends at the Club Morocco in the Bronx. It was there that my friend Cannonball Adderley brought in John Levy to hear me sing one night. Levy managed Dakota Station, Joe Williams, George Shearing, Ramsey Lewis and of course Adderley himself. Levy liked what he heard, and told me he would call me the next day, whcih he did. Subsequently he had me make demo records which he airmailed to Capitol Records in Los Angeles. Within five weeks I was signed as a recording artist for Capitol, and there I met the late great Nat "King" Cole. We became fast friends.
I recorded my album for Capitol in December, 1959. It was "Like in Love", released April, 1960. Later that year I played the Sutherland Show Lounge in Chicago at 47th and Drexel Boulevard with Cannonball Adderley and Flip Wilson. Disc jockies Sid McCoy and Daddy-O Daylie picked up my album and gave it big play. Sid McCoy began to call me "Sweet Nancy". These two disc jockies really made it happen for me. Later a fellow in Los Angeles named Johnny Mangus, who was considered one of the most knowledgeable record spinners in the country, picked up the Nancy beat on the West Coast. I had national recognition. Mangus was almost embarrassing. He said, "Nancy is singularly the most important singer of the decade. She can lift a song off the printed page and groove it to her own identity. She has broken a sound barrier and made a success of pure talent."
My love affair with Chicago started at the Sutherland Show Lounge-- I consider that the foundation for what's happening for me today, nationally and internationally. It's a love affair that's been going on for over twenty years. After the Sutherland Lounge there were Mr. Kelly's, the Palmer House and later the Blue Max. Currently it's Rick Cafe. I've also done concerts at the Civic Opera House, the Arie Crown Theater and the Auditorium Theater. Of the large houses, I think that the acoustics and the sound system at the Auditorium are close to perfection as anything you will find. I regret I cannot say the same thing for the Arie Crown.
Chicago is my number one city. Sales were broken here for my first album and this town still leads the country, as it has for twenty years, in sales of my records. I don't want to sound like the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, but I had to tell it like it is. Chicago has been wonderful. It's just great."
An excerpt of an interview with Nancy Wilson by Dempsey J. Travis, author of "An Autobiography of Black Jazz"
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Aromas of lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, and galangal waft through the dining hall where this lightly sweet, spicy, brothy treasure is served. On my last journey to the small city of Lumnaria in the Lopburi province of Thailand, the family of one of my former students, Fah Vorarittinapap, showed me how rural Thais add a natural layer of sourness with chopped young tamarind leaves. Alas, we don't grow tamarind in the West, so we use fresh lime juice. If you can't find head-on shrimp, use stock (seafood or chicken) instead of water for this broth. Whenever you cook shrimp, collect the shells in your freezer. They can be used to enrich stock for soups like this. Just simmer them with the stock for thirty minutes, and then strain. The nuance of flavor they add can make all the difference.–Robert Danhi
Thai Hot and Sour Soup
- Quick Glance
- 4 to 6 servings
- 2 pounds medium shrimp, heads on
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons Thai chile jam (nahm prik pow), or store-bought chile paste in soybean oil
- 1 teaspoon minced cilantro roots, or 1 tablespoon minced stems
- 4 to 6 Thai bird chiles, stems removed split in half lengthwise
- 8 cups water, seafood stock, homemade chicken stock or canned chicken broth
- 6 stalks lemongrass, trimmed, sliced on diagonal into 3-inch lengths, and lightly bruised with blunt object
- 3 slices galangal, sliced 1/8 inch thick
- 10 Kaffir lime leaves, bruised
- 2 plum or Roma tomatoes, cut into 1-inch chunks
- 1/2 can (15 ounce can) straw mushrooms, drained (liquid discarded), halved
- 1/4 cup fish sauce (nahm pla)
- 1/2 cup fresh lime juice
- 1/4 cup cilantro leaves
- 1. Peel the shrimp, leaving tail attached. Quickly rinse the heads and shells and set aside. De-vein the shrimp and refrigerate.
- 2. Heat the oil in a 4-quart saucepan or wok over high heat. Add the shrimp heads and shells. Cook, stirring constantly for 1 minute. Add the chile paste, chiles, cilantro stems, and water. Bring the mixture to a boil, and then lower the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Strain into a new pot.
- 3. Add lemongrass, galangal and lime leaves; simmer 5 minutes. Add shrimp, tomatoes, mushrooms, and fish sauce. Bring back to a simmer; cook 30 seconds, until shrimp are just cooked. Remove from heat.
- 4. Taste and adjust seasoning using the fish sauce and lime juice. Divide the cilantro leaves among the bowls, and then ladle the soup over them. Serve immediately.
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Rescuers say sea lions that washed ashore in Malibu died of gunshot wounds
MALIBU, Calif. – Wildlife rescuers say three sea lions that washed ashore in Malibu earlier this month died of gunshot wounds.
Jonsie Ross with the California Wildfire Center tells KCBS-TV (http://cbsloc.al/1ajbiEX ) that sea lion shootings happen every year in October when squid fishing season begins.
Lights that fishermen use to attract squid also attract sea lions. Fishermen are allowed to use nonlethal means to scare away the sea lions.
The California Wetfish Producers Association, which represents the squid fishery, said fishermen who recently worked in Malibu are unaware of any shootings.
Sea lions are protected under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act.
A person could be fined $10,000 and face possible jail time if convicted of shooting a sea lion.
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Mau Mau is a classic card game of two to four players on your mobile phone screen.
The game is played against three AI opponents, so that total four players participate in the game. The player may choose in menu also different number of players from two to four, and select which players should be present.
Player's cards are located at the bottom of screen. The game is turn-based, each time a player moves, (s)he either plays card from hands, or takes card from the base pile. The goal of the game is to get rid of all cards from the hand. (Note that this description doesn't supplement actual game rules, which are not described here, but are completely described in game's help screen).
After winning a round, the winner gets points, and the game continues with next turn, until one of players reaches such amount of points, that the game is over. The round winners are rewarded after each round, as well as the winner of the game is rewarded when the game is over. The reward is in a form of special item placed in front of winner, and satisfaction from seeing the opponents being deadly sad that they have not won.
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Daniel ICS needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 70 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
ICS Internet Consumer Services
ICS Internet Consumer Services is the holding company of two serial entrepreneurs from Germany. ICS starts new businesses, supports other entrepreneurs (business angel funding, series A funding, operational support) and restructures start-ups focusing on b2c internet ideas (new media).
Founded and supported projects are (were) in the fields of Online Ticketing, Online Gaming, webbased Yellow-Pages, low cost travel internet portal etc.
ICS is "founder" as well as "investor" (in the early stage). As an investor, ICS is a long term partner helping the founders to grow their company. ICS has a team of developers, online marketing experts, business developers etc. how can held the companies. We offer our investment companies help but we do not force them to take it.
We had some successful exits selling companies to international buyers.
The main goal of the website is to present to company (it is not the goal to collect business plans)
- Business Partners
- Press
- other Founders looking for help
The audience will find the relevant information the company, the team, the projects/investments.
We are looking new website. The whole site will consit of 8 pages
- Home page
- About us
- Companies
- Team
- Jobs
- Press
- Contact
- Imprint
We would like to get an design for three of these pages: Home Page, Companies and Jobs
The content of the other pages will be provided by us.
Overall requirements:
The site should have the following "feeling":
- modern
- simple
- Web 2.0 style
- reputable
But: We are neither a bank nor a private wealth company nor a big VC found. We are founders ourself. So not too reputable.
More details:
- No cartoon images
- No bright colours
- Mainly white background
- Clean Layout
- The header should be clear and simple and bold
- Not to fancy (we want partners not to be afraid to get in contact)
but also
- Modern (we want to present that we are creative, innovative founders)
- Web 2.0 style
- Creative
We would like to get 3 sites:
1) Homepage
- Logo / Name
- Navigation (Home / About Us / Companies / Team / Jobs)
- Links to: Imprint / Press / Jobs / Contact
- copyright: Company plus Address
Main part:
"About Us" section with 3 elements:
* We found
* We invest
* We restructure
(= 3 headlines, each plus text with 250 to 300 characters)
- Logos of companies ICS founded invested in (about 10 investments will be presented; examples for logos please see existin website); Next to logos URL plus founding year
Integrate Facebook "I like" and "Twitter" Button in Footer or header
2) Job board:
- Header and footer as on homepage
- List of Jobs with
* Titel
* Company
* Type (full time, internship, traineeship)
* Location (town, country)
- There should be an option to filter the jobs (for each column)
- At click on one of the job offers, the sepecific information should appear (one the same page)
- Specific information
* Description (text)
* What you can expect (bullet points; see also http://www.internetconsumerservices.com/jobs/)
* What we expect (bullet points)
* Contact information: Name, Adress and E-Mailadress
Comments: We will realize at least this section with word press
3) Companies (= short presentation of our companies / investments)
- Header and footer as on homepage
- Presentatoin of each companie
* Logo
* Name
* Description (about 300 characters)
* Links (optional)
Existing site: http://www.internetconsumerservices.com
But: Not a refresh but a whole new design. Colors and logo can be changed.


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(August 15, 2012) — The United States has made great progress in reducing overall tobacco use over the past several decades, but some parts of our society bear a disproportionate burden of tobacco use and tobacco-related illness. People living in rural communities are more likely to use tobacco and have especially high rates of smokeless tobacco use. Rural Americans are also more likely to be exposed to secondhand smoke and less likely to have access to programs that help them quit smoking. Our latest health disparity report, "Cutting Tobacco's Rural Roots: Tobacco Use in Rural Communities," examines the uphill battle rural communities face against tobacco addiction and secondhand smoke and weighs in on what can be done to remedy this acute health threat. Root of the Problem Tobacco use is higher in rural communities than in suburban and urban communities, and smokeless tobacco use is shockingly twice as common. Rural youngsters are more likely to use tobacco and to start earlier than urban youth, perpetuating the cycle of tobacco addiction leading to death and disease. Why is this epidemic plaguing rural communities? Education and income levels. Increased tobacco use is associated with lower education levels and lower income, which are both more common in rural areas where there may be fewer opportunities for educational and economic advancement. Secondhand smoke exposure. Exposure to secondhand smoke is also higher as rural communities are less likely to have smokefree air laws in place and less likely to have voluntary restrictions on smoking indoors. Tobacco industry marketing. For decades, the tobacco industry has used rural imagery, such as the "Marlboro Man," to promote its products and appeal to rural audiences. Over the past several years, the tobacco industry's marketing of smokeless tobacco products has skyrocketed. Less help avoiding tobacco and quitting smoking. Sadly, as the tobacco industry spends millions of dollars targeting rural youth, these young people are less likely to be exposed to tobacco counter-marketing campaigns. Rural tobacco users are also less likely to have access to tobacco cessation programs and services to get the help they need to quit. Promotion of the availability of state counseling services by phone and online resources also lags in rural communities. Cheaper tobacco products. Many rural states have low tobacco taxes, making these products more affordable, especially to young people, who may be thinking about trying tobacco for the first time. Raising tobacco prices is a proven strategy to reduce tobacco use. Cutting the Roots It is imperative that government agencies, the research and funding community, health systems and insurers, community leaders, schools and families all take steps now to cut tobacco's rural roots. The rural community clearly requires special attention if we hope to end the epidemic of tobacco use in this country. We must all work together as neighbors to overcome this health disparity. State and federal tobacco control programs must make a concerted effort and dedicate funding to reach rural communities; the research community should focus attention and resources on identifying effective cessation treatments for smokeless tobacco use; and school, health and employment systems in rural areas must all implement effective tobacco control strategies including smokefree air policies and access to cessation services. Here are some resources the American Lung Association offers to help people quit smoking for good: Freedom From Smoking® is a program that teaches the skills and techniques that have been proven to help hundreds of thousands of adults quit smoking. Freedom From Smoking is available as a group clinic, an online program and a self-help book. Not-On-Tobacco® (N-O-T) is a group program designed to help 14 to 19 year old smokers end their addiction to nicotine. The curriculum consists of 10, 50-minute sessions that typically occur once a week for 10 weeks. The Lung HelpLine, 1-800-LUNG-USA, offers one-on-one support from registered nurses and respiratory therapists. Individuals have the opportunity to seek guidance on lung health and find out how to participate in and join the Lung Association smoking cessation programs. Take some time to read the full report, which details action steps to reduce rural tobacco use. Let's remove those tobacco roots and nurture a new culture of lung health.American Lung Association


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Amazing facts about Holi in ThailandMarch 23, 2016 18:18
People of Thailand celebrate Holi in a different manner. Holi celebrations in India happen only for a day, where as Thailand people love to celebrate Holi for three days. Songkran is another name for Holi in Thailand, which is even celebrated by people in Thailand as New Year. Songkran is the most important festival for Thais. The first day that is 13 April is the end of the year and is called as 'Mahasongkran', 14 April i.e. Second day is named as Wan Nao, and the last day that is 15 April is the beginning of the new year, called as 'Wan Thaloeng Sok'.
The word Songkran is extracted from Sanskrit word Sankranthi, indicating the migration of sun from one zodiac sign to other where it exposes, and it is welcoming another new year for Thailand people. Songkran is the combination of two festivals like Holi, celebrated by Indians, and Ching Ming, celebrated by Chinese people,. Thai people follow the Chinese ritual of bathing Buddha on that special day and sprinkle scented water on elders, as a mark of showing respect.
People of Thailand clean their homes and temples and give offerings to the monks. Sprinkling of water is considered as a Symbolic mark of cleansing of body, spirit and mind. Thais trust that scented water wipes their bad luck. Songkran is celebrated during hot weather conditions, and that is the main reason to consider water as a welcoming relief.
During the Songkran Festival, Thai people follow three rules
1. People should not lie.
2. They should not hurt animals.
3. And finally they have to work and earn little money and avoid spending.
To enjoy the hot condition, celebrate Holi in Thailand and drench yourself and get splashed.
- Divya


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Suspicious Death Ruled Homicide
Monday, Sioux Falls Police responded to reports of a suspicious death. On Tuesday, the death is now being investigated as a homicide.
Fifty-year-old Crescencio "Chris" Conde-Vargas was found dead from head injuries Monday in his northeast downtown Sioux Falls home. Police say evidence shows Conde-Vargas was in a struggle with someone before he died. Authorities found no evidence of anyone trying to break in and believe the man knew his killer.
Police have not pin-pointed a weapon yet and interviews are on-going in the early stages of the investigation.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
With rumors that Iran has activated yet another underground nuclear facility, Israel Today's Jonathan David took to the streets of Jerusalem to ask average Israelis what they think should be done about this existential threat.
Here's what they had to say:
Meyer Amon: "First of all, our government knows what to do. People outside of Israel should not rally or demonstrate against Israel's actions, because that's what hurts the most."
Omri Karavani: "I think the government and the army should take care of this. It's a really big problem, you know. Israel can disappear from the map."
Avigail Shomron: "I don't personally think we can stop it by ourselves. We do need the help of God, that's for sure. Even though we have all the (technical ability), that isn't enough to at least cause them not to think to destroy us."
Bill Ashendorf: "Netanyahu, I think is willing to make the tough choices, but he has terrible pressure from the President of the United States, President Obama, and I don't know if he can stand up to the pressure. It's something that troubles us."
Arab Girl from Israel's North: "I don't care if (Iran) destroys Israel. It doesn't bother me. Destroy it!"
Elliot G.: "Many people have done it in the past and they've all failed; even Hitler. He was quite successful, but at the end of the day, the Jews are thriving again."
David B'tesh: "An organization like the United Nations, which is created to preserve the peace, should take more action in the matter. Always, when it comes to Israel they start taking steps back. It's the only organization with power to do something about it, and they don't."
Elad Edri: "Both sides should take into consideration that the Western world did not deter North Korea from getting a nuclear weapon, and it's having a long lasting effect on the peace in the area. When North Korea threatens South Korea, it has a smaller regional effect compared to Iran's threat to take control over Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon. The effect is much bigger and has much more effect on world peace and world economy."
Asher Trujeman: "I think it's going to make a lot of problems, and it's going to be World War III. If Iran pushes the button, what we'll have is all the world is going to the end."
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No one puts together a runway livestream like the Europeans, and Burberry has set an extremely high bar this season. I kicked off my work week by watching the show yesterday morning, and from the setting to the attendees to the apparel, the entire presentation, from start to finish, gave the fashion world something to talk about. The coats and jackets in particular, for which Burberry is known, shone (literally) as they walked down the runway. I honed in on the accessories, naturally, and not only do we have photos to share, but Burberry is selling these items straight from the runway, right now. Looks like Burberry got the memo - we see it, we like it, we want it right then and there.
The big Burberry bag for their Spring 2013 season is the Burberry Blaze Bag, which comes in a variety of finishes, most notably with see-through colored vinyl with tonal metallic python trim.
I have a problem with this bag, and believe it or not it is not the vinyl finish. The shape of this bag is incredibly hard to wear, and you could see the models even had a bit of a struggle walking with this bag by their side as it would rub against their body with each step they took down the runway. The design of the Blaze bag is wide from front to back which will keep it from being carried in the crook of the arm properly, as it will never hang correctly. Just as the models had to, you will have to carry this bag in your hands, and this simply does not happen much if at all anymore - it makes no sense, design-wise, and defies logic from a practical retail standpoint. Those aren't the only issues, though: the bag's price point is extremely high for a hard-to-carry piece made mostly of vinyl. Price is $3,695 for this version via Burberry.
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If you aren't the fishing type, then there is a fantastic, historic pub and locals reckon you should check out the Mango Tree Church on Hodges Road.
Cordalba is surrounded by the Cordalba State Forest which is characterised by it's rugged hills of open eucalypt woodland, this park is an adventurer's retreat. You can spotlight for possums and gliders at night and go mountain biking or birdwatching during the day.
There are mountain biking trails which are frequented that can be accessed by taking the turn-off to Cordalba via Claytons Road and then turn left onto Promisedland Road. The turn-off to Promisedland mountain bike trail network is approximately three kilometres along this road.
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Newport-Mesa Unified School District (NMUSD) is considering a shift to a collegiate calendar to more closely align with neighboring school districts and local colleges. This shift would start the school year up to three weeks prior to the Labor Day holiday and end the first semester prior to the winter break.
As a unified school district, this decision impacts everyone; therefore, NMUSD is in the process of seeking input from the school community regarding the potential shift. Please see the Collegiate Calendar Fact Sheet link below. The Fact Sheet includes background information, dates for informational meetings, benefits, concerns/frequently asked questions and the survey link (survey will be available November 1-15).
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