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From the Zoho CRM app on your Android device, you can access Zoho CRM modules and the data in them which will be stored in a local database on your phone. This ensures that you can access the important data even when not connected to the network. The following modules are supported in Zoho CRM for Android:
Zoho CRM for Android welcomes you with an attractive Home screen that displays the Activities for the week. You can prioritize your work for the day based on the activities displayed. You can also check off completed activities and add new activities from the Home screen.
Toggle between the days of the week to view the tasks, events and calls for the selected day. Click the Add (+) icon against the Event, Task or Call to add a new activity, respectively.
You can mark activities as complete by selecting the completed activities under Tasks, Events or Calls. The activities marked as complete will be clubbed together.
Feeds on Zoho CRM for Android lets you collaborate with your peers and keep a track of your organization's activities - be it your own or that of your colleagues. It lets you post and view status updates, add comments, attach files and filter Feeds updates by modules.
To create/view Feeds updates
You can create records in the supported modules from your Android device. While adding leads and contacts, you have two options: to create a new record or import from Address Book.
To create a new record
Once the lead status has reached a certain stage, (i.e. when there is a chance of further negotiations), it can be qualified as a potential. You can then convert the lead into an account, contact, and potential.
To convert a lead
You can import multiple leads and contacts from your iOS Contacts to Zoho CRM. A maximum of 100 contacts can be imported at a time.
To import a lead or contact
You can export and save the leads and contacts to your iPhone Contacts from Zoho CRM, one record at a time.
To save a lead or contact in address book
To edit a record
You can refresh the data in the Record's details page by selecting the Refresh option from the More icon.
Occasionally, you may need to remove some of the unnecessary records from Zoho CRM, for better organization of data. From the Zoho CRM App (Android version), you can delete records from the supported modules.
To delete a record
You can change the list view that helps you filter the required data based on specified criteria. For each module the pre-defined list views and the ones created by the users will be listed.
To change list views
In case you wish to meet customers near you when you are on a business trip, your mobile CRM app will instantly tell you which contacts are near you and how important they are to your business.
Using Google Maps in your Android device, you can find leads, contacts and accounts a few miles around your current location as well as a custom location. Please note that the necessary location service should be switched on in your device.
To locate leads/contacts/accounts near your current location/custom location
When you go out with your family to a great restaurant or you are at the movies with your friends, you want to share the news with the world - and so you "check-in" to the location and share it on Facebook or Twitter. Similarly, from the Zoho CRM app for Android, you can now check-in to the location when you meet with a client. Sales managers can immediately be notified of the check-in and therefore can keep a track of their sales reps' client appointments.
Check-ins are closely tied to Events. For example, you have an event called "Demo for Product at Kevin's office". When you check-in to a location, say Kevin's office, you can either associate the check-in to the existing event or create an event upon the check-in. The check-in is automatically attached as a note to the event. You can create check-ins only for the Leads, Contacts and Accounts modules. You cannot create a check-in without it being associated to an event.
To check-in to a location
Using Google Map, you can locate the address of the Leads, Accounts, and Contacts.
To view map
To send an email
With Zoho Mail Add-on configured in your Zoho CRM account, you will have an inbox full of important emails from customers that are associated to your leads and contacts. It is very important that emails from your customers get a timely response and in that case, email notifications play a vital role. MailMagnet does exactly that.
For a field sales rep on the move, the MailMagnet option is very useful to receive instant notifications so that the most important emails from leads and contacts get your immediate attention. MailMagnet intelligently scans your inbox and notifies you of the emails from your prospects and customers in CRM.
MailMagnet will be available only if you enable the Zoho Mail Add-on feature and configure your email account within Zoho CRM via POP3 configuration. See Also Zoho Mail Add-on
To reply to emails
To add a follow-up task/note to Email
To attach files
For Leads and Contacts, you can upload an image by taking a photo or using an existing photo in the Android device.
To upload photo
You can record your conclusions on a recent demo for a prospect or capture your thoughts about a meeting with a client with Voice Notes. You can associate these audio files with your records and download them whenever you need.
To record voice notes
You can make calls to your customers easily by selecting the record in Zoho CRM and initiating the call. Once the call is complete, you can also log the call.
To make a call
After making calls to your customer, you can instantly log your calls.
To log an outgoing call
To log an incoming call
To schedule a call with a lead/contact
For the events, you can view the list of records in two types of views: List view and Month View.
To view events in month view
You can create and associate the following to the various records from the Android phone:
In Leads: Notes, Tasks, Attachments, Products, Events, Calls.
In Accounts: Notes, Contacts, Tasks, Attachments, Potentials, Events, Calls, Products, Quotes, Sales Orders, Invoices, Cases.
In Contacts: Notes, Calls, Attachments, Potentials, Tasks, Events, Products, Cases, Quotes, Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, Invoices.
In Potentials: Notes,Tasks, Calls, Attachments, Events, Products, Quotes, Sales Orders, Cases.
In Products: Notes, Price Books, Tasks, Events, Calls, Attachments, Cases, Solutions, Contacts, Leads, Potentials, Accounts.
In Cases: Notes, Tasks, Events, Calls, Attachments.
In Solutions: Notes, Attachments.
In Vendors: Notes, Products, Purchase Orders, Contacts, Tasks, Events, Calls, Attachments.
In Price Books: Notes, Products, Attachments.
In Quotes: Notes, Sales Orders, Tasks, Events, Calls, Attachments.
In Sales Orders: Notes, Invoices, Tasks, Events, Calls, Attachments.
In Purchase Orders: Notes, Tasks, Events, Calls, Attachments.
In Invoices: Notes, Tasks, Events, Calls, Attachments.
To associate related records
You can search for records to quickly fetch what you are looking for. Each module has a search tool which looks for records in the particular module.
To search records
Feedback can be sent to the Zoho Mobile development team, using the feedback form.
To send feedback
For any troubleshooting and support you can reach the Zoho Mobile team using the feedback form (mentioned above) and submit your questions. You can also email your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Published by Dahku, Developed by Dahku
Genres: Platformer (1 players)
US release date: Jun 5th, 2014 | EU release date: -
Prices: $5.99 (US)
He has a glandular problem, he swears
Review written by
Griffin Cost
July 9th, 2014
Recently I got my hands on a copy of Chubbins for download on the Wii U, seeing as my only other options for review codes at the time were limited to the likes of Evofish and I am an Air Traffic Controller Airport Hero Hawaii, and I didn't feel like being driven to suicide at the time. Regardless, my expectations were pretty low entering the game seeing as how the titular hero has a blank, possessed stare and a generic-looking design. However, I ended up playing a pretty solid and hard-as-hell platformer with some inventive mechanics, whose quirky faults ended up making me laugh rather than making me angry.
Chubbins' main draw as a platformer on a console already dominated by triple-A titles of the genre is the way our cholesterol-filled protagonist moves and controls. This bunny never stops jumping; the platforms he lands on cause him to jump again to a height decided by the speed and direction of the block's animation. A block with fast-moving arrows pointing up will sends Chubbins soaring, while a block with slow moving arrows pointing down will cause him to rocket back down like a fuzzy comet. Some of these blocks break and disappear for a time after Chubbins' bunny butt smashes them to bits, and seeing as there's no main floor for our long-eared friend to meet with, careful control and quick thinking is required to make sure Chubs McGee doesn't get sent back to the depths of Tartarus from which he came.
The enemies are relatively cliched but with some surprisingly-funny twists. For example, one of the first foes Chubbins must navigate around is a badger' WITH A FEDORA. Not doing it for you? How about a fat brown bird with a fez? No? How about a pimpin' eagle with gold & jeweled rings around his talons (his 'Lucky rings' as the game calls them). The designs aren't wholly creative, but the presentation and small additions made me giggle; it's funny in the same way as Superman being able to disguise himself perfectly with a suit and glasses, in that it's a slap in the face of logic and originality that is made all the more stinging by how effectively the method works.
Speaking of design aspects, the levels themselves are crafted exceptionally well. Some even allow you to take different paths to reach the end, and require a bit of strategizing on the player's part. Even if the graphics themselves are reminiscent of the GameCube, the aesthetics of the game are cutesy and coherent enough to draw attention away from the outdated visuals.
Chubbins, as stated earlier, is not a perfect game, and has its own series of obvious faults, the most hilarious and confusing of which are the subtitles selected for the levels. One was called 'Roots in the Community', and another 'This is not a pry bar'. Level 2-2 was called, quote, 'TWENTY-TWO!!!'. This was one of the more decipherable examples the game had to offer. The names either make no sense at all or are so blatantly obvious that a five year-old could have written them; kind of like the plot of a Dan Brown novel.
Speaking of Dan Brown novels, this game would be short if a lot of the content wasn't there specifically to lengthen the game. The levels are well-designed and the checkpoint placement is some of the best I've ever seen in a platformer, but like NES titles of old, almost every level has segments designed specifically to waste your time. This includes enemies which require you to hop between various platforms just to get in position to bounce over or under them, hiding the finish line in a non-linear level behind multiple walls of spiky orbs only passable by collecting vegetables scattered as far from each other as possible, and creating situations where the player must die in order to figure out how to complete the challenge. Unlike most of Super Meat Boy, Chubbins' difficulty is determined by the developers rather than the skill level of the player.
My biggest gripes with Chubbins are due to its insipid and ear-shredding sound design. Upon starting up the game, the player is greeted with a still model of our short-lived bunny friend, a world selection screen, and no sound. Oh, silly player, you had the volume off, you missed out on the dollar store midi keyboard on a panflute setting playing the kind of simplistic, trite music you'd hear on a kids cartoon only airing at 2 AM on Disney Channel. Thankfully, some of the worlds are graced with some variation, but it still isn't much better than the pitiful opening ceremony. The only other dominant sounds in the game are the bouncing noises, metallic shine/sparkle effects, and the disturbing infant-cries of a dying Pudge Bunny. If I could offer any one piece of the advice to the developers, it would be to spend more than 50 dollars and a hot dog on your sound design, because this game, while not perfect, deserves better than what your 5th grade daughter's music class can provide.
And really, this goes for the entire game. I enjoyed it, I truly did, but I feel like with a bit more effort, money, creativity, and hopefully someone who can speak basic English, Chubbins could've been an indie hit. The unique controls and difficulty set it apart, but generic character design, dated graphical capability, and painful in-game audio, I can only recommend Chubbins to a small niche of people. If you have five dollars and a hankering for a unique, challenging platforming experience, and can look past the flaws of this game, I think you'll find this bloated rabbit a fun little break from the ordinary.
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Imperial Gardens Draw a Crowd
It's not often that the normally sleepy Hong Kong Museum of Art hosts blockbuster exhibitions, but visitors to its current show, about a Qing Dynasty monarch's retirement palace in Beijing's Forbidden City, are likely to find themselves jostling for elbow space.
"A Lofty Retreat from the Red Dust: The Secret Garden of Emperor Qianlong" provides a rare glimpse of the aesthetic and religious passions of a figure often seen as China's greatest emperor, who ruled for the better part of the 18th century.
According to the museum, more than 2,500 people per day have flocked to the exhibition every weekend since it opened in late June, with total attendance now approaching 80,000 visitors—unusually large for a city where respectable daily attendance figures tend to be in the hundreds.
"Secret Garden" comprises some 90 sets of objects on loan from Beijing's Palace Museum collection, with 19 of them on view for the first time outside the Forbidden City.
Though a handful have traveled overseas—to three U.S. museums, including the Metropolitan Museum in New York—this is the first time an Asian institution has dedicated an exhibition to Ningshougong (Tranquility and Longevity Palace), in whose grounds and pavilions Qianlong imagined he would spend his old age contemplating art and immortality.
In reality, however, he stayed in the main palace of the Forbidden City and exercised political power even after he abdicated to his son in 1796. He used Ningshougong, which he personally designed, for special occasions.
The U.S. versions of the exhibition focused on furniture and architecture, including ornate cabinets and screens and trompe l'oeil perspective paintings.
In Hong Kong, the show, which marks the museum's 50th anniversary, instead emphasizes Qianlong's legacy as an arts patron and collector, as well as his interest in Buddhism and culture.
"We wanted to stress how the garden expressed the inner longings and aspirations of the emperor who wanted to live like a recluse-scholar," says Hong Kong Museum of Art curator Rose Lee.
"It reflects the intimate world of the emperor, unveiling his thoughts, instead of looking at the grand and monumental."
Works are displayed in an installation that recreates the feel of a Beijing garden, complete with flooring that imitates Ningshougong's stone. Highlights include a set of 16 wood screens, each over 2 meters tall, depicting Buddhist practitioners in jade and painting.
Elsewhere, four ink-on-silk scrolls picture Qianlong hunting on horseback, a reminder of the era's collaborations with Europe—the figures, detailed in colored ink and possibly painted by Italian Jesuit court artist Giuseppe Castiglione, are set against classic landscapes in traditional Chinese brushwork by an anonymous local painter.
Also on view is a technically brilliant ceramic vase with an enamel mouth and a revolving interior, categorized as a Class-A national treasure in China.
"He liked this kind of special things," notes Ms. Lee.
While efforts have been made to render the exhibition's complex themes accessible to a wide audience, not all are successful—for instance, where a round silk portrait of a young Qianlong in his studio is likened to "an emperor in cosplay" in the exhibition's brochure.
The museum believes the exhibition's success is fueled by "the imperial touch" and the high prices that royal objects command at auctions in Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, Qianlong himself has enduring star power, having presided over an apex of China's political and economic power and expansion.
Back in Beijing, Nishougong's gardens are currently undergoing a restoration sponsored by New York's World Monuments Fund. Once completed in 2019, it is unlikely that the exhibition's paintings, ceramics, scholarly items and architectural elements will be allowed to travel again en masse.
"A Lofty Retreat from the Red Dust: The Secret Garden of Emperor Qianlong" is on display at the Hong Kong Museum of Art through Oct. 14.


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I was a little disappointed in the ending but the book kept me right there to the end. good read.
"I wanted to know why the deaths were occuring..."
The book was slow to begin with but it grew on me as the plot thickened. I thought the narration was well done.
I got this book while trawling around looking for a new author to follow. I am not disappointed! The story started out in a bland enough manner, but suddenly threw in a rather nice twist that grabbed my attention. Thereafter, a succession of twists followed, continuing right to the end. I thoroughly enjoyed 'A Conflict of interest' and will definitely be looking out for more of Mitzner's work.
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I have no other Audiobook to compare it to at present, but It makes me want to find more to listen to of this same genre.
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|Background information
|Newark, New Jersey
|Hip hop
|Years active
|Associated acts
|Fugees, Morcheeba, Busta Rhymes, Flipmode Squad, D12, Eminem, Bizarre, Royce Da 5'9"
|Rah Digga
Young Zee
Azz Izz
Yah Yah
DJ Muhammed
DJ Sprunk
Loon One
|Past members
|Slang Ton (deceased)
Outsidaz are a hip hop collective from Newark, New Jersey, perhaps best known through their affiliation with fellow New York-area rappers, the Fugees, and Detroit-area rappers D12.
The group formed in 1991 after underground rappers Young Zee, met D.U. and Pacewon at a New Year's Eve party. At the time they met, Young Zee and Pacewon were rival MCs. Pacewon & D.U. were members of a crew named PNS, while Zee headed a crew named Pskitzo members Anthony D. Ore aka (Maddfile) and Augustus C. Battle aka (A-Form). They decided to unite into one group called the Outsidaz, following a lengthy microphone battle that it was decided ended in a tie. Along with Pacewon, D.U. and Young Zee, the Outsidaz consisted of Axe, Az Izz,[1] DJ Muhammed, Denzy, Loon One, DJ Spunk, S. Coop, Nawshis, Rah Digga, the late Slang Ton, Bskills and Yah Yah.[2] The Outsidaz are affiliated with the Refugee Camp, and made their first commercial appearance as guest artists on the song "Cowboys" off the Fugees multi-platinum sophomore LP The Score. They were also affiliated with Detroit-based rap collective D12, collaborating with them on different projects. D12 member Eminem shouts out the Outsidaz at the end of the song "Just Don't Give a Fuck", in the beginning of "Cum On Everybody", and in the song "As the World Turns", all of which were recorded on his major-label solo debut The Slim Shady LP. He also acknowledges them in a track titled "Till Hell Freezes Over" which was intended to be on the album. A rift developed between Eminem and Tha Outsidaz when Young Zee and Pace Won each recorded verses alongside Bizarre for the 'Amityville' track on Eminem's major label sophomore, The Marshall Mathers LP. Dr Dre complained that Eminem had too many guests on the album, so Pace Won and Young Zees' verses were removed from the track. In a 2015 interview, Pace Won indicated that the original version of the track was probably permanently erased, and as yet, this would appear to be the case, as it has not yet emerged from the vaults.[3] In 2009, Young Zee appeared on Chicago rappers Saurus and Bones' debut album, Mind Like Mine on the song "Let The Trumpets Blow.". Eminem's Shady Records label recently released Shady XV, a compilation album which featured a track titled, "Fine Line" by Eminem. On the song, he spits a verse showing his appreciation for the group (specifically Pacewon and Young Zee).
Pace Won appeared on Morcheeba's 2002 album, Charango. He appeared on the title track, in addition to "Get Along".
In 2008, Pacewon collaborated with New Jersey producer Mr. Green on The Only Color That Matters is Green. The first single was "Hip Hop."
In 2011, Young Zee and Pacewon appeared on the Jedi Mind Tricks album Violence Begets Violence on the song "Design In Malice." The following year, Pacewon and Mr. Green appeared on the song "Get at Me" from St. Cule's album, American Beef. That July, Young Zee and Mr. Green released a collaborative album titled "One Crazy Weekend".[4] "One Crazy Weekend" featured Pacewon, Rah Digga, Yah Yah and Zee's son, Krash Battle.
|Chart Positions
|US Hip-Hop
|US Heatseekers
|Night Life
|The Bricks
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- "Rain or Shine" (1998)
- "The Rah Rah" (1999)
- "Macosa/Do It With a Passion" (1999)
- "Keep On/Done in the Game" (2001)
- "Who U Be?" (2001)
- "Ya Can't" (2001)
- "Public Enemy #1" (2001)
- "I Want Her Out" (2001)
- "I'm Leavin'" (2002)
- "Sour 'n' Juice (feat. Pacewon & G-Smoke)" (2012)
- ^ First Solo Album entitled "BORN IN SIN SHAPED IN INIQUITY" slated for release in early 2010.
- ^ Outsidaz Biography - AOL Music
- ^ Pace Won interview - Hip Hop Daily News
- ^ "Young Zee To Release "One Crazy Weekend" Album". King Ice. Retrieved 2012-05-18.


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At this point, nobody's arguing that smoking is healthy. Everyone's very aware that cigarettes have what can be called, for lack of a better term, a "horrifying" effect on your health. But new studies are showing that smoking does even more gross things to your body than researchers previously thought, particularly when it comes to women. The long and short of it is that women who smoke are 26 more times likely to die of lung cancer than those who don't. and smoking knocks about a decade off of everyone's projected lifespan, man or woman. But here's the good news: it turns out that if you stop smoking before you hit 40, your body can actually gain back about 9 of those 10 years pretty quickly. "It's a very encouraging message," study leader Dr. Prabhat Jha says. "If you think about the average 45-year-old smoker in the United States, they probably started when they were age 15. They might be smoking for a quarter of a century. And they might think, 'Oh, it's too late. There's no point for me to quit because the damage is done.' But that's not true" ...
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MASKED AND ANONYMOUS (PG-13) Like other vanity projects, this Bob Dylan co-written opus has the stink of narcissism all over it. The same magnetic but self-absorbed aura that established the cult of Dylan in Don't Look Back remains in this post-apocalyptic political allegory with very little to truly say. Dylan is a washed up singer attempting to resurrect his career with an ill-conceived benefit concert. The stars who signed on -- including Jessica Lange, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman and Mickey Rourke -- might have thought they'd find safety in numbers but get an overburdened sinking ship. At Landmark Midtown Cinema. --FF
THE MEDALLION (PG-13) This season's Jackie Chan picture finds the aging martial arts virtuoso trapped in a disaster of a Hong Kong film. Chan plays a HK police officer who teams with Interpol agents Lee Evans and Claire Forlani to protect a child, who possesses a magical/mystical medallion, from a megalomaniacal ne'er-do-well (Julian Sands). The heavily edited and manipulated action scenes can't redeem Evans' lame Jerry-Lewis -meets-French Stewart slapstick or Chan and Forlani's romantic hamming. For Chan fans only. --AS
MY BOSS'S DAUGHTER (PG-13) The old Risky Business plan gets a bad-taste makeover in David Zucker's faux Farrelly farce that may have been funny on paper but falls flat on the screen. Tom (Ashton Kutcher) wants to get ahead at work and date Lisa (Tara Reid), the daughter of his boss (Terence Stamp). Things seem to fall into place when Tom's asked to mind Stamp's pet owl. After drugs, thugs and would-be zanies run into the house and the owl flies out, the house can be repaired but the movie can't. --SW
NORTHFORK (PG-13) If Ingmar Bergman made Northfork it would be hailed as a masterpiece, but when a film is in English, Americans expect to understand it (unless David Lynch made it). Written by twins Mark and Michael Polish (Michael directed), it takes place in 1955 during the 48 hours before a hydroelectric dam floods Northfork, Montana. Government agents encourage the remaining citizens to leave, while four reappearing angels may exist only in the dreams of a dying orphan. The visually amazing film too often seems like weirdness for its own sake. At Madstone Theatre Parkside. --SW
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$100 headset turns compatible phones into convincing portals to another world.
New Raspberry Pi costs less than the HDMI cable you'll need to plug it into a TV.
It's like F.lux but for TVs, reducing the amount of blue light emitted before bed time.
CFO compares virtual reality early adopters to limited market for Wii U, Vita.
Binding of Isaac players trace JPGs, voicemail, and GPS to hidden figurine.
Virtual reality is the perfect place to revive the gaming halls of yesteryear.
Prototype plays SNES games, but CD drive is non-functional for now.
Get a first look at this wearable, smartphone-embeddable collectible.
Most won't find the inventive design ideas quite worth the $150 asking price.
The first modular phone, built by a Dutch startup, starts shipping in December for €525.
Steam Controller team comments on modding, 3D printing, new versions.
Kinect-like light-field technology could replace PlayStation Move controllers.
It's (almost) the same old song, but with a different meaning since you've been gone.
Weird mechanics, full-art lands, and unusual spells make for a fun expansion.
Faliszek: "It's no longer the hardware's fault any more."
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The Battle for Zendikar prerelease experience is really rather fun.
Sonic Patrol Car kiddy ride will soon be playable via MAME.
Video: Band "like the best scientists... embraced the unknown with spectacular results."
Man flew drones over football stadia and London landmarks, uploaded vids to YouTube.
Men show more interest than women in trying out new headsets.
Forget tech demos; these are the games you'll actually be playing on Vive and Rift.
"This wasn't just kid talk on the computer," Judge says.
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This news with no doubt markets will react big time and YHOO could be easily trading over $40 immediately.
No not really the markets gave up a few points and most stocks were in a tight range with buyers and sellers mostly paired off.
If majority of the buying and selling is done by a particular group off traders then I think stock manipulation in legal way is happening. The volume right now is not even close to the average volume. Wow! Nobody is selling, just waiting.
$65 is the buyout number before the end of the year.
If there is one it will be Softbank,BABA and MSFT. I think the buyout offer will be between $50 to $60 my personal opinion only.
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please, stop the constant cheerleading...
Isn't it tough to drink scope? But seriously the cheerleading is getting crazy and Yahoo will never get there on it's earnings reports. I think when the IPO hits shares fade no matter where they are. Son has hands full with the Sprint mess he is in deep with. A takeout is the only way Yahoo will ever see $50 again any time soon but I doubt it happens. I think she wants to keep being CEO.


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A familiar-looking door opened Thursday in Beijing, China, on the first Simpsons brick-and-mortar store — but it certainly won't be the last.
Customers enter the outlet at Taikoo Li Sanlitun shopping center through a silhouette of Bart Simpson's yellow hair, which gives way to retail space containing a customized art installation and more than 125 specially curated Simpsons products, ranging from a Duff Beer-themed muumuu to glittery Simpsons thermoses to a sequined Bart T-shirt. Most of the items are exclusive to the store.
As our national obsession continues with Making a Murderer, Vulture mashes together the Netflix documentary series and another cultural phenomenon to come up with … Making a Simpsons Murderer.
It's a note-perfect remix that details Homer Simpson's wrongful imprisonment for the shooting of C. Montgomery Burns, and his exoneration 18 years later. His freedom is brief, however, as he's arrested again, this time for the murder of Myrna Bellamy.
While many might argue that The Simpsons has slipped in quality in recent — or, hey, maybe not-so-recent — years, there's little denying it remains one of the most quotable series on television. Whether it's an all-purpose "D'oh!" or the more specific "I'm a brick!," there's a Simpsons quote for virtually any situation.
And now you can match the those quotes to the correlating images from the animated series with Frinkiac.
After delighting and disturbing us in 2014 with a Ralph Wiggum anatomical cross-section cake, Kylie Mangles of Letterpress Bakery kept one foot in Springfield and the other in a galaxy far, far away for a recent project: an incredible 3D cake depicting Homer Simpson as a Stormtrooper.
U.K. company Rawlins Paints & Coatings has released "An Illustrated Guide to Iconic Fictional Locations," showcasing memorable settings ranging from Superman's Fortress of Solitude and Stark Tower to the Simpsons' home and Walt and Jesse's RV from Breaking Bad.
Resembling a long-lost VHS recording of Liquid Television, "Weird Simpsons" has oozed onto the Internet, giving us a glimpse of what the long-running animated series might've looked like … had it been created in an alternate reality. One where everyone is too terrified to sleep.
Directed and animated by Yoann Hervo, it was part of a larger fan collaboration in which animators were asked to produce short stories, in their own style, set within the Simpsons universe. "Despite the fact that the project hasn't been achieved," Hervo explains, "I wanted to finish what I started."
You may remember Michael Baxter, the prison guard from Australia who hoped to land a place in Guinness World Records with the 203 Simpsons characters tattooed on his back. Last week, he did just that.
Guinness has announced the 52-year-old grandfather holds the record for the most tattoos of characters from a single animated series. Because, yes, that's a thing.
Despite Montgomery Burns' unflattering reputation, the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant must pay at least fairly well. How else could Homer and Marge Simpson afford that four-bedroom house and two cars, plus still plenty of money for shopping excursions, vacations and Homer's flights of fancy? His tab at Moe's Tavern alone must run hundreds of dollars a month.
Curious to know how much it might cost to live like a Simpson, consumer website Fat Wallet looked at five real-world Springfields — in Oregon, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio and Massachusetts — to get an idea.
Kidrobot is teaming with artists Ron English and Kenny Scharf — certainly no strangers to Springfield! — to release three new Simpsons vinyl figures.
English and Scharf famously appeared, alongside Robbie Conal and Shepard Fairey, in the 2012 Simpsons episode "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart, a nod to the Banksy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Nothing says metal quite like a green sweater, pink shirt and spectacles, and nothing says Nedal like the Ned Flanders-inspired band Okilly Dokilly.
The Phoenix-based quintet — Head Ned, Red Ned, Thread Ned, Stead Ned and Bled Ned — calls itself "the world's only Nedal band," a claim that's difficult to dispute. "Most of our songs are direct Ned quotes," states Okilly Dokilly's Facebook page.
Marcia Andreychuk and Joel Hamilton are no Marge and Homer, but they're certainly dining like the Simpsons. Mmm … dining.
Serious fans of the long-running animated series, the Calgary couple is remodeling their kitchen to look like the one at 742 Evergreen Terrace, right down to the corn cob-patterned curtains.
Ryan Humphrey had no way of knowing that his Simpsons/Akira mashup would inspire James Harvey to spearhead Bartkira, an ambitious — epic, even — jam project in which hundreds of artists would recreate every page from Katsuhiro Otomo's pioneering cyberpunk manga using characters from Matt Groening's beloved animates series. That, in turn, led international art shows. Now add to the chain Bartkira: The Animated Trailer.
We already knew LEGO Dimensions would include Valve's popular puzzle game Portal in its mashup world, but this new trailer from Warner Bros. and TT Games demonstrates just how fully it will be integrated.
In the video, which debuted at E3, Portal's primary antagonist GLaDOS puts Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle through a series of tests that can only be solved using the LEGO Dimensions Toy Pad (it's what allows players to introduce characters, vehicles and devices into the toy-to-life game). The footage also depicts Homer Simpson, who doesn't fare so well, and Portal's protagonist Chell.
David Letterman's farewell last night after 33 years on television was packed with tributes from the likes of Tina Fey, Bill Murray, Peyton Manning and the Foo Fighters. While the Simpsons apparently weren't able to appear in person on the Late Show — hey, Beavis and Butthead pulled it off in 1996 — they did send along a clip that pokes fun both at Letterman and their own long-running series.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment trumpeted its "toy-to-life" console game LEGO Dimensions last month, it promised "a lot more" properties would join the likes of DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings and Back to the Future at launch. Thanks to a leak, we now know at least some of them — including Doctor Who, Portal 2, Jurassic World and The Simpsons.
Similar in approach to the popular Skylanders and Disney Infinity, LEGO Dimensions will enable players to purchase LEGO sets that they'll build into characters, vehicles and devices that can be introduced into the game with the Toy Pad. They'll be able to mix and match characters and objects from a range of properties, changing and expanding gameplay.


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Skip to comments.'Gunsmoke' Actor James Arness Dies at 88
Posted on 06/03/2011 10:35:24 AM PDT by Wilum
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The Thing is dead? Sad.
So long, Matthew.
You were the best...................
Him and his brother, Peter Graves, were Minneapolis boys.
So long Matt, and thanks for all the great work on GS!
Wounded at Anzio, Bronze Star...
Peter Graves was his brother, I think. Didn't he pass away first?
So long Mr. Dillon....RIP
You will be missed.
May God Bless.
From Wiki, he was severely wounded in WWII at Anzio, and his war wounds pained him ever since.
A true hero long before he played Marshall Dillon.
Or was it Dana Andrews who was Peter Graves's brother? Not sure and not able to look it up right now.
No link?
TVs John Wayne, I loved his acting.
Arness' brother Peter Graves died March 2010.
Thanks :)
Links now.
He was Peter Graves' brother.
Local channel started showing older TV shows about a month ago.
Mr Dillon comes on @ 5 AM & Gunsmoke comes on in early afternoon.
Sure was a pleasure to watch James.
R.I.P., Mr Arness. You will never be replaced.
RIP, Marshall Matt Dillon.
I'm very sorry to hear that.
R.I.P. Mr. Arness.
Actually, it was "Them".
Premiering on CBS in September 1955 and completing its network run September 1975, Gunsmoke is the longest running dramatic series in the history of television. Two of its stars, James Arness and Milburn Stone, remained all 20 seasons, with Amanda Blake a close second, departing after 19 years.
Me, too. Great actor as Marshall Dillon. R.I.P. Another end of an era death.
I knew one of his sons in the 1960s, Craig who lived with his grandmother in La Habra, California.
Craig had everything, as the son of a very popular actor of the time. Science and microscopes and fancy expensive stuff.
Extremely intelligent, and he went on to have accomplishments of his own. Craig died in 2004.
James Arness was a Republican.
I've been watching "Gunsmoke" again lately, and man, was he born for the role of Matt Dillon!
Duh. MARSHALL. Head slap.
He was an honorary Deputy US Marshal....he was much loved by the Marshals Service. Rest In Peace Marshal Dillon.
He always seemed so gentlemanly, dignified and mature.
Matt, Kitty, Chester, Festus and Doc Stone. They're all gone now. RIP, Matt, you brought life to the best TV Western ever made. No wonder it lasted 25 years or so.
I have 16 episodes on DVD that I taped off the Westerns Channel. I'm going to watch one tomorrow in honor of this fine man.
RIP Marshall Dillon! I loved that show when I was a kid...that and Bonanza!
My first "crush". Loved Marshall Dillon.
The parents referred to him as "the young actor".
IIRC, John Wayne was originally asked to take the part, but he had movie commitments and recommended James Arness for the part. Wayne also did an introductory audio for the first episode. I just might have it on file somewhere.
Ken Curtis, who played Festus, also had an interesting life. He sang with the Sons of the Pioneers, it's been rumored he was thought of as a replacement for Frank Sinatra after Frank left the Harry James orchestra, was son-in-law to the director John Ford and stared in a number of movies with John Wayne (Rio Grande, The Quiet Man, The Wings of Eagles, The Searchers, The Horse Soldiers, The Alamo and How The West Was Won), as well as his long stint as Festus.
Sad day in Dodge.
Gone from our presence, but forever in our hearts (and hopefully on TVLand), adios Sheriff. Until we meet across the river on the other side.
When I was a kid of 10 back in 1957, we did not own a TV, so we went next door to watch "Gunsmoke" and "Perry Mason". Our neighbor on the other side was Roger Mudd, the newsman, back when he was a local reporter for WTOP News.
Rest in peace, Marshall Dillon, you did so much as both a TV character and as a US soldier in WWII to keep/restore the peace!
Amanda Blake and James Arness (Marshall Dillon and Miss Kitty)
Sad news going into the weekend...RIP, Marshall...
Dennis Weaver did a stint on the Westerns Channel some years back. Don't know if he continued it up to or shortly before his death as I cancelled my subscription for a time. They're all gone now. About the only ones I can think of who are still around are Burt Reynolds and Buck Taylor (son of actor "Dub" Taylor.
Still watch Gunsmoke, a great series.
RIP, Marshal Dillon.
He was studying at Beloit College when the war broke out. His ambition was to become a navy pilot, but his height, six feet and seven inches, disqualified him. His Anzio wounds landed him in the hospital for 18 months, and during that time he became involved with an acting group.
Discharged with a bronze medal and Purple Heart, he enrolled at a radio announcing school in Minneapolis, and he worked as a disc jockey and announcer at a local station. On a lark, he and a buddy drove to Los Angeles. His mother predicted he would never return. She was right.
An appearance at a little theatre led to an RKO contract and his first movie, The Farmer's Daughter, as one of Loretta Young's three brothers. More featured roles followed, including the horror classic The Thing.
Then came the fateful interview with John Wayne at his Republic Studio office.
"He asked me a couple of questions about my acting," Arness recalled. "Then he said, 'The main thing I have to know, is — do you drink?' I didn't want to say, because I didn't know him at the time; maybe he was a teetotaler. I said, 'Well, I have been known to take one occasionally.' We got a laugh out of that, and he put me on the picture, Big Jim McLain."
Arness appeared in four Wayne films during three years under contract to him.
A very touching posthumous message from Mr. Arness just went up at that website...
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A sample log sheet is available on the website and logs are due four weeks after the contest. Logs can be submitted by email to W1ZB @ ARRL.net or by US Mail to Jerry Reine, 5 Tobey Lane, Andover, MA 01810.
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Posted on Tue, Feb. 17, 2004
Miller report hits Wal-Mart 'costs'
By Thomas Peele
CONCORD - Colossus retailer Wal-Mart drains government resources because its low-paid, under-insured or non-insured workers have to rely on public subsidies, such as school lunch programs and Section 8 housing, according to a congressional report Rep. George Miller released here Monday.
With supporters of a March ballot measure to ban Wal-Mart superstores and other "big-box" businesses in unincorporated Contra Costa County flanking him, Miller, D-Martinez, ripped the Arkansas-based corporation for creating "downward spirals in communities," violating child labor and workplace safety laws and "paying wages below industry averages."
The report, which the Democratic staff of the House Education and Workforce Committee prepared, estimates that taxpayers bear $420,750 in social services costs for each Wal-Mart store with 200 workers. The company is the nation's largest employer with an estimated 1.2 million employees and more than 3,200 stores.
"Wal-Mart puts a great deal of pressure on its competitors to lower prices," said Miller at a Presidents Day news conference at his district office. "This is about the real price of Wal-Mart."
By not providing health insurance to workers who log less than 34 hours a week, "those workers go to public hospitals and everybody picks up the tab," he said.
Forcing employees to go back to work after punching out at time clocks and locking them inside stores on overnight shifts so they can't leave to seek medical attention also have been commonplace for the company, which Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, said was "built on human misery."
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Mona Williams called the report irresponsible and said Miller was pandering to labor unions that make up much of his political base. Wal-Mart stores are non-unionized.
<< SHOOORT!!!!!!!!!!!! after a gain of 1.2$ nearly.. here we go for the small plunge.. >>
Splish, splash, you're all wet!
Please do short!!!!!!! I love to see shorts burned. I am telling you for your own good, do not short Walmart unless you are sadistic and just enjoy losing money. Walmart is going up. There is one negative on Walmart and that is the lawsuit in California and the rest is positive.
I actually felt sorry for you and gave you a rec.
Rising tides = sinking shorts.
Nearly everyone I know enjoys increasing wages over the years, union or non union. And that's while union membership has been drastically declining.
And yet Wal-Mart still continues to grow.
Go right ahead and take the plunge with your brand new (2/19/04)ID.
BTW, how well do shorts do at trying to walk under high water?
Good luck! :-)
Thank you...I should have read ahead before I replied to Papa-hotshot. I'm glad I was not totally misunderstood.
WalMart like any business will fall someday. Who will be let to pick up the pieces.
They will have helped ruin the American economy in the name of so called efficiency.
They will be gone those who made money on them will move on.
Many areas of the country will be in ruin.
This is not just from Walmart but they will be a big contributing factor.
I think this country is in for a rough 20 years or so.
Hmmm Recent posts suggest Walmart should change the designation of minimum wage associates to minimum wage slaves. INTRESTING, however compared to 21 st century slavery in Arab countries, Africa and parts of Asia, at least Walmart's edition get minimum wage. That compares to wages in Iraq at around 35 cents an hour. Perhaps WMT can out source some jobs to Iraq to save money. Some suggest the CEO, CFO, board of directors, buyers, etc.
Geez! Where do you live? $3600/year for car insurance? You're either driving a very expensive car or have a very bad driving record. I pay less than $1000.
$5000/year for life insurance? How much is that policy? A few million?
$2500/year for house? I think I pay $400.
You need a new insurance carrier.
"I thought you had agreed, in your post 152589, that passing the medical costs back to the employee would be a wage decrease."
Everything else being equal it would be a wage decrease. If your wages went up more than the increase in health care costs it would obviously offset.
What is your point? Either way this would be an isolated incident. It still does not prove that wages are decreasing on average.
I am still waiting for a link from Snow that shows wages are decreasing. You seem to agree with him. Maybe you can find a link? I doubt it... You don't like to deal with facts.


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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- Tournaments come and go in golf, as do sponsors and venues. That especially has been the case for the LPGA, which has spent 59 years patching holes in a sometimes leaky bucket and still surviving as the oldest and most successful women's professional sports organization.
But if there is a cornerstone in the foundation of this tour -- and there is -- it is the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club, scene of an LPGA event since 1972, making it the current longest continuous venue on tour.
The list of winners at the Kraft Nabisco Championship -- which became a major in 1983, a year after Nabisco came on as the title sponsor and restored a fourth major to the tour after 15 years of only three -- is pretty much all the affirmation the course needs as a top-tier venue. Of the 37 times this event has been contested, 21 titles have been captured by players now in the LPGA Hall of Fame.
The second Colgate Dinah Shore -- and there are still veterans who call the tournament "the Dinah" -- was won by Mickey Wright, and the sixth winner was Kathy Whitworth. Those are the top two winners in tour history. They were followed by the likes of Amy Alcott; Betsy King; Juli Inkster; Patty Sheehan; Karrie Webb; Annika Sorenstam; and, last year, Lorena Ochoa. Fluke winners are far and few between at Mission Hills. It identifies champions.
Just as rare at the Dinah are boring finishes. In 1987, King holed out for birdie from a bunker on No. 16 to hold off Sheehan. The next year, Alcott touched off what has become a tradition in victory, jumping into the pond by the 18th green after winning. Three years later, when Alcott won again, Dinah Shore joined her in the pond plunge. Sorenstam's mother; Morgan Pressel's grandmother; and caddie Dave Brooker, who has made the dive with both Ochoa and Grace Park, are among others to join players in the water.
More recently, Webb holed out for eagle with a wedge from 116 yards on No. 18 in 2006 to force a playoff with Ochoa, which was won by Webb. That was the same year 16-year-old Michelle Wie could have joined the playoff by making an up-and-down from the fringe on No. 18, about 25 feet from the hole. Wie chose to chip instead of putt and knocked it 12 feet past, missing the come-backer. She returns to the Kraft Nabisco this year for the first time since then, having missed '07 because of injury and '08 because she didn't qualify.
In 2004, 17-year-old Aree Song laced a 7-wood from 210 yards on No. 18 and rolled in a 30-foot eagle putt to force Park to make a 6-foot birdie for the dramatic victory.
And it was with a victory at the Kraft Nabisco in 2001 that Sorenstam began one of the great streaks in tour history. Over the next five years, she won 43 of 104 LPGA events and captured eight major championships over six years. In 2002, Sorenstam memorably won the Dinah wearing red shoes on Sunday -- shoes made by Nike, which did not put a smile on the face of her equipment sponsor, Callaway.
A big part of what makes the Dinah Shore Tournament course special is the 18th hole. A par-5 with an island green, the closing hole can play 531 yards or 485 yards. The recent tradition has been to play from the up tee on Sunday and tempt players into going for the green in two. The statue of Dinah Shore, which welcomes players to the green, and Poppy's Pond -- named for longtime tournament director Terry Wilcox -- are the signature of both the hole and the course.
But the difficulty of the finish begins well before the 18th hole. After the 495-yard par-5 11th, there are no easy opportunities coming in. Just ask Suzann Pettersen, who was four stokes up with four holes to play in 2007 and finished bogey, double-bogey, bogey, par. Pettersen tied for second, one stroke behind Pressel, who won the tournament while hitting balls on the practice range and watching the finish on the giant TV screen there.
In 1994, Laura Davies -- then the longest hitter on tour -- arrived at the 18th hole with a one-stroke lead. But after driving into the trees, laying up, and then leaving herself a 100-foot birdie putt, she three-putted for bogey. That gave Donna Andrews the title with a final-hole birdie and a two-stroke swing on No. 18.
While there have been years when unusually harsh winters have left the fairways spotty and the greens bumpy, Mission Hills more often than not is in great shape. That's certainly the case this year. The greens are velvety, the fairways lush. And with the rough relatively scaled back, it should be an inviting venue for the bombers on tour to let out the shaft. That's good news for Ochoa, Webb, Pettersen and Wie.
There is something else that makes Mission Hills special: the fans. They are among the most knowledgeable and energetic on tour, in part because they are so familiar with the course. The 18th ends in a tunnel of noise, with bleachers lining the right side of the green. Last year, when Ochoa won, a mariachi band magically appeared to lay down a sound track of Mexican music for the most massive pond plunge ever -- Ochoa and at least two dozen friends and family members.
Given the recent history here -- the last seven Kraft Nabisco Championships have included four one-stroke victories and a playoff -- chances are good the tournament will be decided on the 18th green again, or in the pond that surrounds it. One thing beyond all doubt is that the winner will end up celebrating in that pond. It is an integral part of the Dinah Shore experience at Mission Hills, the one venue that refuses to slip through that leaky bucket of time on the LPGA.
Ron Sirak is the executive editor of GolfWorld magazine and author of the best-selling book "Every Shot Must Have a Purpose: How GOLF54 Can Make you a Better Player" and recently released "The Game Before the Game: The Perfect 30-Minute Practice."