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Never mind the ballots
Chances are that by the time you read this column the dust will already have settled on the voting machines and the identity of the next president will be known.
Even before this election race—traditionally a time of frayed nerves for the industry—became overshadowed by the spectacular meltdown of the financial markets, pharma was having trouble backing one horse over the other.
And as for the financial turmoil, for pharma it's almost been a case of business as usual. The largest companies have, for some time, been sitting on piles of cash, much of which is held overseas, offering relative immunity from the recent financial quake. Pharma's real woes—dried up pipelines, fewer approvals, payer issues and the looming threat of universal healthcare—are nothing new. The ongoing rounds of job cuts are hardly a knee-jerk reaction to the Street's meltdown.
In fact, the credit crunch could see many of the smaller firms and biotech startups land in the bargain bins of pharma's own version of Filene's Basement, ripe for cut-price acquisition.
And, if nothing else, at least this whole saga has taken the heat off pharma for a while. The pinstriped fat cats of finance have become the new scourge of the media and public alike. We've all read about the big bonuses and expenses-paid, spa-treatment-laced retreats, while our own hard-earned 401(k)s have evaporated into thin air. And companies that develop life-saving and disease-preventing medicines don't appear so bad after all. (Even if living longer might seem a less attractive proposition when you can no longer afford to retire).
So, as an industry, here we are still trying to do more with less, just as before. The pharma marketer has been grappling with this mandate for some time. If only there was some magical way to get other people to do the brunt of the promotional work for you—and for free. Well, there is a way, of course. It's called Web 2.0, and its inhabitants are the most willing, voluntary advocates of brands you could ever wish for.
This should not be news to anyone, of course. Joe Natale, VP new media of Johnson & Johnson's Children With Diabetes, offered a compelling illustration of how it works in practice at last month's Digital Pharma conference in Princeton, NJ.
"In the world of diabetes," he said, "people want to talk about what they are going through." Natale described this audience as loyal, aggressive promoters of the products they believe in. "Connect with your influencer and let them evangelize your brand," citing examples of two such evangelists in the diabetes social media space.
The first had adopted both an avatar image and user name replicating his brand of insulin pump. The second had not only posted a video on YouTube of himself using his preferred pump, but he had actually calculated, compared and posted the savings he makes versus competitors' products. These people are a brand manager's dream, and there are millions like them online.
Not so fast. J&J spends thousands of dollars a year monitoring its YouTube property for product complaints and off-label advocacy. And then, how do you deal with adverse events?
"There's no book or guide," he says. "Just ethics and integrity, trying to do the right thing and putting the patients first."
Natale's final point: that social media drives optimism in patients. Pity it doesn't have the same effect on marketers.

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Crittenton Services, Inc. celebrates one of its own today at its annual Thanksgiving feast.
Crittenton held its annual Thanksgiving luncheon for the girls and babies in its residential program. This dinner also includes all staff, Board of Directors and volunteers.
This year, Crittenton lost a very special part of the Crittenton family, Mary Stein. She served as Vice President of Quality Improvement for nearly seven years. She passed away in July after a courageous battle with brain cancer. The Thanksgiving luncheon this year (her favorite thing every year) was dedicated to her memory.
Kathy Szafran, President and CEO, presented the Crittenton Angel Award to Mary's family in honor of Mary. Angels have been watching over the residents and programs of Crittenton for more than 120 years. Szafran instituted the "Crittenton Angel Award" to honor those "Angels Among Us."
"Mary made me promise we would never forget her. And I know she is an angel now among us, watching over her Crittenton family. She did so much to help ensure that we were always doing quality work for all clients. We miss her terribly," said Szafran.
Once a place for "unwed mothers," Crittenton Services has evolved to adapt to the ever-changing needs of the state. Crittenton is an accredited behavioral health facility, serving young women and their children, as well as individuals and families. Crittenton remains the only licensed maternity-care residential treatment facility for adolescents in the state, maintaining its long commitment to their special needs. The young women served in Crittenton's residential treatment program come from all 55 counties and have suffered significant maltreatment and neglect in their young lives.
Crittenton also offers community-based outpatient counseling through Wellspring Family Services in 18 counties in Northern West Virginia. The agency also operates child care programs in Ohio County and an Intensive Outpatient Program for at-risk adolescent girls in Ohio County. Each year, Crittenton serves more than 1300 West Virginia citizens.
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Today, I was reminded of this recent quote from Mr E.
Whatever all those [national newspaper] correspondents do all day, it clearly doesn't involve basic factchecking.
For those who are unaware, the austere and diligent (pfft) British press tend to throw the odd tantrum against bloggers, usually levelling the accusation that we engage keyboard before tidying up niceties like ... err ... facts.
Conversely, the MSM are supposedly pristine in their adherence to publishing accuracy.
But then, when one reads quite astounding bollocks like this from the Daily Mail, such haughty posturing collapses like a weighty, inebriated tart in her new pair of six inch heels.
Bans on smoking in restaurants and bars reduces the risk of heart attacks among non smokers, according to hard hitting report. The research, by the U.S. Institute of Medicine reviewed 11 key studies of smoking bans in Scotland, Italy, the U.S and Canada.
So, considering that the largest study ever conducted worldwide on the matter, covering 217,023 heart attack admissions and 2 million heart attack deaths in 468 counties in all 50 states of the USA over an eight-year period (which the Mail notably failed to report back in April), concluded that there was no effect at all on heart attack submissions following smoking bans, I was mightily intrigued at such revelatory NEW research.
In Helena, Montana, for example, they recorded 16 per cent fewer heart attack hospitalisations in the six months after its ban went into effect. Nearby areas that had no smoking ban saw heart attacks rise over the same period.
Eh? Would this be the 'Helena Miracle' which has been hugely derided since it poked its laughable head out six long years ago? The study which is so readily ridiculed that even anti-smoking advocates are ashamed of it?
More dramatically, heart attack hospitalisations dropped 41 per cent in the three years after Pueblo, Colorado, banned workplace smoking.
Good grief. The Mail aren't reporting on a new study at all, merely a list of the most farcical nonsense ever foisted on the public by obsessive anti-tobacco zombies.
Pueblo is also a steaming pile of horse shit, is also years old, and is also now comprehensively considered as fantasy.
Hmmm. Just my opinion and all that, but I'd say someone at the Mail is being a rather lazy fucker if they can't work out that this 'new' research is egregious cherry-picked data from some of the worst 'science' ever conducted ... on anything.
But then, they have recent form.
Last month, some dozy Mail bint came out with this.
According to some experts, third-hand smoke, as it is known, is as dangerous to health as the fumes billowing directly from a pipe or cigarette, particularly for babies and children.
A recent report in America has warned that even if you don't smoke in front of your family, you might be putting them at risk of cancer or delaying the development of their brain, thanks to polluting their environment with a lingering chemical cloud.
Err .. did she say 'recent'? As in a four year old report which was relayed by other lazy journalists nine months previously? And did she say 'research'? As in telephone poll?
The research behind this story did not actually assess the dangers of "third-hand" smoke, but instead surveyed people's beliefs about these dangers, and whether this was related to the likelihood of banning smoking in their own homes.
All one can accurately assess from these jaw-droppingly naïve articles is that the only prerequisites required to be a Daily Mail health reporter are the ability to point a finger at a keyboard, and the possession of an unenquiring mind.
Little wonder, then, that an entire film can be made about how very crap the newspapers are at reporting truthful news.
From 'flamey' Amy Winehouse to Russell Brand the banker, documentary team's fake celebrity stories fooled editors
In short, newspapers, and even the BBC, will fall for any old shit.
Yet it's only bloggers, apparently, who don't check their facts?
UPDATE: Chris Snowdon weighs in with categorical proof that not only is today's Daily Mail article utter tosh, the conclusions of the new study they report are also physically and scientifically impossible.


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And they're fighting back at Taymor.
A year ago today, Julie Taymor and U2's Spider-Man musical made its first, disastrous debut on Broadway; that first preview, as you may recall, stopped five times for technical difficulties and left multiple actors dangling over the audience. But on this, the first anniversary of Spider-Manpocalypse, things are looking decidedly rosier for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (if not Julie Taymor, who was fired in March and is still suing for compensation): The show is turning a profit, despite $1 million weekly operating costs; box office is at record highs, thanks in large part to Thanksgiving tourists; and the new producers are feeling confident enough about Spider-Man's prospects to get feisty in their legal battle with Taymor. The current team plans to fight the copyright suit, and what's more, they're now openly taunting Taymor. Our favorite burn, courtesy of Michael Cohl: "Julie who?" Oh no, she's so sad again.


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[Non-fiction] The Converted Freelancer Journalist
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Last week, I met a journalist with experience of 15 years just after I returned to Calcutta from Silchar. He was until two months back an employee of ABP / TT, the largest media group of Bengal and one of the largest of the country. Not anymore. Two months back, he "resigned", so the story went in paper (that carries his signature) and for the future historian of the type that swears by the archives.
The Group streamlined its businesses and the vortex flow thereof carried him off from the roll and he became a freelancer. He is neither happy, nor sad but in a state of confused excitement. He learnt of Wordcon – Global Platform for Indian freelancers and as recent convert, he was very excited to learn more about "the potential of freelancing." Before I narrate the discussion, a flashback.
FLASHBACK : Kalada (কালাদা) of The Dainik Prantajyoti (দৈনিক প্রান্তজোত্যি), Silchar
My first exposure to journalism and print media happened through a very interesting journalist and editor – Kalada of Silchar. My first published work went through his large and magnanimous hands and I consider this as a badge of honour.
He had a formal name, for sure but the whole town called him as Kalada, even by those who were at the age of his grandchildren. He used to roam around the town in a bullet motorcycle and there are fascinating stories. Journalism was his passion, mission, vocation, digestion and everything. His newspaper was always cash-strapped, so was he, the technology he used was of the letter-press (off-set was yet to arrive) but the Daily continued daily.
There are so many small town stories about this remarkable man with which we grew up. At a certain stage, the print quality of the daily became very poor and sometimes, whole letters were so worn they that they gave up the ghost and that created the story below.
This story was told sometime in 1980s in my hometown which is so distant to me now that I must write a list of mostly negatives to create the photographic positive image of that time in my mind – no cable TV, no mobile, no Internet, no ATM, Ambassador, plane tickets in 7 pages in multi-coloured paper, train tickets in cardboard colour chit, no sms, no bar coded cheque book, only maruti and bajaj scooter, no time zone, Test and one day matches only, no service tax). The prankster said, "Did you see the headline in the paper ? Oh, miraculous news : পুলিশের গু খেয়ে বকের মৃত্যু – Crane dies after eating shit of police. !!!!
It is highly likely that this is a made up story or may be not. The newspaper might or might not have reported – পুলিশের গুলি খেয়ে যুবকের মৃত্যু – Youth dies at police firing – tragic but nothing miraculous and we could see the randomness of the Universe in removing two letters from the sentence and a miracle happened, in agreement with all the laws of grammar, phonetics and perhaps of politics !!!
Those of us who lived in small towns in 80's might remember that police used to check late night movie returnees and demanded to see the counterfoil of the tickets and it had happened with me many times. A new Superintendent of Police arrived in town and perhaps he was young and he was told about Kalada and his bullet motorcycle. Kalada used to roam around the town and outskirts with his bullet. At 3 am, he could be spotted with his bullet, traveling 30 km off to report something and in one such missions, a rookie police beat challenged him. He politely told that he was a reporter. The policeman did not understand and detained him. Kalada did not talk much and engaged them. In the morning, the SP got the report and he arrived. Kalada introduced himself and the whole affair became a story.
Kalada never became rich. I suspect, he borrowed heavily to run his paper and he did continue with his mission. He did not leave any fortune to his family. In spite of being owner and editor of a daily that ran for so long in a small town, he was remarkably accessible and easy to be with.
Society of that time was fast changing. In late 1990s – an altogether new age was on the horizon that was going to consume many things, including printed newspaper.
But without the passion of man like Kalada, any age or place – small or big is not worth living.
His press and office was not very far from the place where I was born and grew up till I was eighteen (The Heritage House) and sometimes in the early morning or late winter night, I used to hear the boom-boom of his bullet and I knew and everybody knew that Kalada was on his mission.
I still miss this sound along with my childhood – never to return and my small town memories are all squeezed into such a deep recess that only some music, some prose, some poetry, some painting or some smell only penetrates that cavern and that too, not at all times.
My advice to the converted freelance journalist
I have no experience as a journalist. Hence I cannot say anything about the profession. However, I can say something as a freelancer. In 2006, on my 31st birthday, I found myself sitting in my flat ( it was then I took the nick name as ফ্ল্যাটপেঁচা- (The Owl of the Flat), having left the corporate cubicle which smelled the deodorant of mine because I was more of less like a furniture there.
- Once a democracy attains a certain level of maturity and evolution, media will be captured by "special interests." This is as sure as getting only the option of Rs 2000 note in an ATM nowadays.
- In a democracy, since no one can either earn money or get power without the co-operation of equally powerful (or powerless) fellow citizens, professionals of all types have powerful psychological incentive to help the dominant "special interest."
- Since all forms of special interest and power – political or otherwise must understand, modulate and channel public consciousness to continue the status quo, media will reflect the course of this modulation and will be eventually modulated.
- Twenty years back, Indian fathers did not so happily choose a journalist as a groom but now the sentiment has slightly changed. Living in India for last forty years and reading some of her greatest lovers and observers (not the analysts and think-tanks or economists and bestselling authors), journalism was perceived something by our old Litmus man as having serious potential of "social mobility."
Rx as Dr. Philo
My recommendations below will sound and feel "strange" and "shocking" but the situation is also extra-ordinary.
- Passionate journalists have only option now : to appeal directly to the people and continue creating stories. They must become a true public intellectual – a true Brahmin, who will demand from the society donations to have a basic level of living. He/she must live below his means and must re-design his life.
- It is highly likely that his/her call to donation from the public will not be responded ( go raas gali gali phire / sura baithi bikay – Milk is to be sold from going door to door, alcohol gets itself from a single point) and hence he must get any job – menial, abominable, drudgery. His whole leisure must to dedicated to his craft.
- Does this picture resemble more and more like those mad pioneers of early journalism, early film industry, early Renaissance period of Calcutta where a genius like Vidyasagar was crafting the very modern Bengali language in a hello hole in North Calcutta. He could maintain his integrity, first because of the innate strength of character and secondly, he became a writer-entrepreneur and built a fortune. Frame his picture and keep this in front of your desk. There are very few man, in Bengal and in the entire history of the world like him.
The Future is very grave indeed. For print media journalists and those who write in vernaculars, the fate is similar to the scholars and teachers of Sanskrit, Arabic and Farsi around 1820 in Bengal when overnight, their skill became obsolete in the market. A new world-view was emerging and was adopted passionately – the modern Indian population.
But there are tremendous opportunities. We shall see some men, by Nature's own mechanism who will be pioneers and heroes and through their efforts the whole vocation will have a Vita Nuova.
Some of the young journalists who got off-loaded from 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street and in all likelihood, for good stand at the entry of the Great Historical Lottery of being true heroes and the glory of being remembered alongwith Young Bengal of 200 years back.
Further Reading
- Mr. Biswajit Roy, a 57 year old journalist who was one of the 700 people who "resigned" during the business re-structuring reports the event in his facebook page. I did not find any other voice.
- রামতনু লাহিড়ী ও ততকালীন বঙ্গসমাজ – শিবনাথ শাস্স্রী
- Democracy in America – Alex de Tocqueville
- আমি কেন লিখি ?– নীরদচন্দ্র চৌধুরী
- An Intimate History of Bengal – Pritam Bhattacharyya


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Will Ferrell played a cruel prank on Zach Galifianakis by giving him a fake Bill Cosby signature after learning The Hangover star had pined for the autograph since childhood.
The actors played rival politicians in The Campaign, and Will Ferrell reveals he and Galifianakis became quite close by the time they finished shooting the satirical film, and even handed each other parting gifts.
But the Elf star admits his present was not the genuine article, telling Britain's The Sun, "Zach told me how he had written to Bill Cosby as a kid but he never wrote back. So I got Bill Cosby's book and a headshot and forged his signature.
"I signed it, 'Better late than never - The Cos.'"
Will Ferrell softened the blow by tracking down a real signed book for his pal, who was thrilled with the token - but sad to wrap their collaboration.
Zach Galifianakis adds, "I wrote an email to Will in a coffee shop in New Orleans to tell him it was the best job I had ever had. I was crying when I wrote it. It was the best work experience I have ever had for sure."


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There's been increasing discussion about the possibility social gaming has finally jumped the shark this year, and Zynga's big drop in daily active users sent investors in the social gaming giant rushing for the exits earlier this week.
And now comes news two of the game developers building games for Google+ are calling it quits. According to Gamasutra, PopCap and Wooga, whose games combined count more than 50m monthly active users on Google's social network, have decided to remove their titles from Google+.
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As Caoili notes, one of those other platforms is likely Android, Google's mobile operating system. Which provides more evidence that gaming companies are rethinking their social gaming investments and instead starting to focus more on mobile opportunities. And perhaps for good reason: research firm ABI Research predicts in-app purchases will turn mobile gaming into a $16bn per year market by 2016.
Obviously, social gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry in its own right, but there are significant questions about its future. The biggest social gaming platform, Facebook, hasn't yet figured out its mobile platform strategy, leaving game developers unable to tap into its rapidly growing mobile audience. And there are concerns that users are tiring of the world's largest social network, which would obviously be bad news for those operating social games on Facebook's platform.
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Janet Leigh Pate and Stevie Moore Peedin of Goldsboro exchanged vows in a double-ring ceremony April 19 at 3 p.m. at Rosewood First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Vernon Braswell officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Donald and Iris Pate of Mount Olive and the granddaughter of the late Alonza Pate, Hettie Pate and the late Elwood and Sally Underhill of Mount Olive.
She is a graduate of James Sprunt Community College. She is employed as director of nursing at Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation of Mount Olive.
The groom is the son of Cornelia Peedin and the late Albert Peedin and the grandson of the late Daniel and Bessie Peedin of Princeton and the late Jim and Nancy Moore of Kenly.
He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is employed as an electrical engineer at Cooper Bussmann.
The bride was escorted by her brother, Don Pate, and given in marriage by her parents.
She wore an ivory gown of silk taffeta with a halter V-neckline. The fitted bodice was embellished with pearls and crystals accented with a champagne ribbon sash. The A-line skirt was beaded with lace appliqués scattered throughout and cascaded into a semi-cathedral train.
Her headpiece was a silver comb of rhinestones, crystals and pearls.
The bride carried a tied bouquet of purple and orange roses with yellow lilies.
Alyssa Herring was her mother's maid of honor.
Danielle Peedin, daughter of the groom, was the bridesmaid.
Jason Peedin was his uncle's best man.
Blake Herring, son of the bride, was the groomsman.
Ushers were Blake Herring, son of the groom, and Danny Peedin, Larry Peedin and Terry Peedin, brothers of the groom.
Nancy Underhill, aunt of the bride, directed the wedding. Presiding at the register were Dennis and Robin Pate-Edwards. Lynn Pate, sister of the bride, distributed programs.
A program of wedding music was provided by Leigh Ann Underhill, cousin of the bride, pianist, and Dave Underhill, cousin of the bride, vocalist.
Following the ceremony, a reception was held in the church family life center. Larry and Susan Peedin, brother and sister-in-law of the groom, greeted guests. Debbie Pate, sister-in-law of the bride, and Darlene Peedin, sister-in-law of the groom, served the wedding cake. Nancy Peedin, sister-in-law of the groom, and Barbara Millard, friend of the bride, poured punch. Alonna Pate, niece of the bride, and Shelley Peedin, niece of the groom, distributed birdseed bags and bubbles.
After a wedding trip to Charleston, S.C., the couple reside in Goldsboro.
Events held before the wedding included a lingerie shower April 10 hosted by Jeanie Bland, Belinda Brewer and Wendy Weeks, co-workers of the bride; a pig picking April 4 at the home of Don and Debbie Pate hosted by the Pates, Dennis and Robin Pate-Edwards and Keith and Jannah Pate; and a party March 29 at the Steak Barn hosted by Larry and Susan Peedin, Danny and Nancy Peedin, Billy and Kim Goff and John and Donna Mercer.
A rehearsal dinner was held at the church family life center. The couple chose this time to present gifts to their attendants.
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This month Mixology Monday looks back in time to 19th century cocktails, a topic already very familiar here on Oh Gosh!. After some searching around the classic cocktail books I settled upon The Delicious Sour, a mixture of applejack and peach liqueur taken from "The Only William" Schmidt's 1892 book The Flowing Bowl.
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Though you may expect a liqueur with the word créme in it to contain cream, it infact means that the liqueur has a single dominant flavour, usually a fruit. Créme de pêche is one of the more unusual fruit liqueurs, but along with its cousin créme de pêche de vigne it can make some wonderful cocktails.


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Rounding off my reviews of the Ritter Sport 'Winter Varieties' range that Dean-German-Grocery sent me, I today tried this Orange Liqueur Truffle variant. This bar followed much the same premise as both the other liqueur 'Winter Varieties', and was formed of 'milk chocolate with a butter truffle filling (32%) flavoured with orange liqueur (5.8%)'. I hadn't tried an orange flavoured Ritter Sport bar before, so I was looking to see how well the brand could pull off this classic combination.
I am sure by now you are all aware that these 'Winter Varieties' come in the standard 100.0g Ritter Sport size. As usual I ate this entire bar over two servings - both of which I found very substantial. Once again I thought the black coloured portion of the wrapper added an aire of sophistication - the orange liqueur theme was also well communicated with appropriate colours and pictures displayed on the front. Having tried all the 'Winter Varieties' now, I can tell you that if you put all three bars side-by-side it would be impossible to tell them apart on their aesthetic appearance (out of wrapper of course!!). One distinguishing feature they all had though were their aromas. This orange variant wasn't the most forthcoming with its fruity smells, though there was element of orange to the prominent dairy smells of the chocolate.
Just as with the William Birne truffle variant, the taste of the outer milk chocolate was affected by the inner filling. Though predominantly delivering all the standard creamy, cocoa driven flavours, the taste was also noted with an orangey hint - this was a nice warm up for the far more intensely flavoured centre. The melt of the outer chocolate revealed the inner filling at a nice rate, allowing the establishment of all the usual milk centric flavours. The filling itself was nicely flavoured and had a nice smooth, soft texture. The orange was the dominant aspect of the taste, establishing a real zesty, juicy flavour base. I wasn't all too sure about the inclusion of the liqueur element - it seemed to take the sweetness out of the orange, to be honest I would rather have just had the flavours of the orange and rid of the liqueur altogether. One redeeming attribute of the liqueur was that it did make for a long sustained aftertaste, it made the bar seem that bit richer.
Overall though not my favourite Ritter Sport variant this was yet another instance of a flavour combination they have soundly delivered on. The chocolate orange mixture wasn't quite the classic combination of say Terry's Chocolate Orange, but it was still nicely flavoured nonetheless. Even after trying this range I am still a little unconvinced in regards to liqueur flavoured chocolate - this variant didn't do too much in the way of changing my mind about that either. If your a fan of chocolate orange chocolates but often find the more mass produced offerings too cheap, then this would be a bar you should seriously consider.
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- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1/4 cup pomegranate molasses*
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, pressed
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 pound trimmed boneless leg of lamb, cut into twenty-four 3/4-inch cubes
- 1 large red bell pepper, cut into twenty-four 3/4-inch squares
- 24 small metal skewers or bamboo skewers, soaked in water 30 minutes, drained
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Heat small skillet over medium heat. Add cumin and stir until aromatic and lightly toasted, about 2 minutes. Grind cumin in mortar or spice mill. Mix pomegranate molasses, olive oil, garlic, oregano, salt, pepper, cinnamon, and cumin in 1-gallon resealable plastic bag. Add lamb; chill at least 1 hour and up to 4 hours.
Remove lamb from marinade. Thread 1 lamb piece and 1 red pepper piece on each skewer; place on baking sheet. DO AHEAD Can be made up to 2 hours ahead. Cover and refrigerate.
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BASRA, Iraq — On a bleak stretch of desert near the Iraq-Kuwait border — half a world away from the Gulf of Mexico and last year's nightmarish blowout — BP is riding high, rapidly developing one of the world's richest oil fields.
The British energy giant plans to drill 3,000 new wells here over the next 10 years and build a town from scratch to house 4,000 employees. BP and Iraqi officials hope the Rumaila field soon will become the second most productive in the world — after Saudi Arabia's Ghawar — propelling the country into competition with Saudi Arabia and its other powerful oil-producing neighbor, Iran.
Iraq sits on the world's third largest oil reserves, after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, with the biggest known fields lying under the windswept sands outside Basra. Despite aging pipelines, spotty electricity, chronic insecurity and a maze of inefficient bureaucracy, the oil sector is pressing an ambitious expansion plan that will determine Iraq's economic future long after the last American soldiers withdraw at the end of the year.
Earlier this month, thanks largely to the gains at Rumaila, Iraqi officials said that daily oil production had climbed to 2.7 million barrels, the highest level since the U.S.-led invasion nearly eight years ago. Though that's barely a quarter of what Saudi Arabia produces, Iraq claims that within seven years it could surpass its rival by increasing production to more than 13 million barrels per day.
That would be a colossal achievement, and few expect it to happen. But after three decades of dictatorial neglect, economic sanctions and conflict that decimated Iraq's oil sector, the increases so far are "extraordinarily encouraging," said Jim Jeffrey, the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad.
"I can't stress how important that is from the standpoint of Baghdad and the politics and economics of this country as it gets reintegrated with the rest of the world," Jeffrey said during a recent visit to Basra, Iraq's port on the Persian Gulf and the hub of its southern oil region.
The international oil industry views Iraq as one of the last great crude jackpots. Experts think that Rumaila and the nearby West Qurna fields — where a consortium led by Texas-based Exxon Mobil is working — could reshape world markets and bring down oil prices. They also could rattle the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, putting Iraq on a diplomatic collision course with fellow members of the oil cartel.
More immediately, oil could finance Iraq's postwar recovery. Crude exports account for roughly 90 percent of government revenue, more than $190 billion from 2005 to 2009, according to U.S. government figures.
So central is oil to Basra that the province's official seal features a derrick. At the height of the sectarian warfare that followed the invasion, however, it was one of the scariest places in Iraq, a battle zone ruled by Shiite Muslim militias such as Muqtada al Sadr's Mahdi Army and the Iranian-backed Vengeance of God. In 2008, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki deployed thousands of security forces to retake control.
Today, oil companies worry less about security than about logistics: difficulties securing visas for foreign employees, for example, and long delays in clearing heavy equipment through customs at Basra's airport. Still, the companies employ large private-security details and, in an unusual arrangement, BP and a few other British firms are renting some offices and bedrooms from the British consulate, housed in a bombproof building on the U.S. military base in Basra.
"The British government is not usually in the hotel business," said Alice Walpole, the British consul general in Basra. But the arrangement was "a major help to British companies operating in a particularly challenging environment."
With most of Iraq's new government in place — including a veteran technocrat, Abdul Karim al Luaibi, leading the Oil Ministry — "oil production is likely to increase more rapidly than many forecasters assume," the Eurasia Group, a risk consultancy, wrote in a note to clients this month.
Some experts wonder whether it's expanding too quickly. On Jan. 2, after less than two weeks on the job, Luaibi announced that bidding would start before the end of the year on new blocks for oil and gas exploration in western Iraq, despite concerns over security and the oil sector's ability to serve the existing fields.
"It took a lot of people by surprise," said Ben Lando, the founder of Iraq Oil Report, an industry newsletter. "In seven years you're planning to raise capacity to more than Saudi Arabia, the most oil that any country has ever produced. You don't know what the market is going to look like ... and you are just lacking in the technical and legal capacity.
"To go to a (new) bidding round and stretch yourself even thinner — it's clearly going to be a challenge."
Among the biggest concerns are the old, corroded pipelines that carry three-quarters of the crude that Iraq sells abroad. They were last inspected in 1991 and "are ready to burst or at least drastically leak," Lando said. Some of the aging pipelines are underwater, mainly those that connect the port to offshore terminals.
Iraqi officials acknowledge the danger of a spill but they argue that shutting down even temporarily would cost millions that the government needs for reconstruction.
Instead, Iraq has opted for a combination of quick fixes — injecting a chemical into the piped oil to reduce pressure on the pipelines, for example — and some big initiatives. In September, a Singaporean firm inked a deal to build a $733 million offshore oil terminal that's projected to double Basra's export capacity by early next year.
For all the activity, however, the oil sector has generated relatively few new jobs so far in a country where unemployment is estimated at 30 percent. Some say that Iraqi officials are focusing too heavily on oil when promoting agriculture and small business development would do more to spur employment.
"Nowhere in the world has the oil industry been the response to huge job-creation needs, particularly for young people," said Ad Melkert, the U.N. special envoy to Iraq. "This requires an effort way beyond the oil industry."
BP says it's doubled the number of workers at Rumaila over the past 12 months to 10,000, although the company didn't specify how many were in new jobs.
The payoff for the oil majors could be massive. BP, for example, pledged last year to set aside $20 billion in a fund to compensate victims of the Gulf of Mexico spill. The company expects that Rumaila, where it heads a consortium that includes PetroChina and a state-owned Iraqi firm, one day could produce 2.85 million barrels of oil per day.
If it does, and with oil at today's price of about $90 a barrel, the field would generate $20 billion in about 11 weeks.
With U.S. forces set to go soon, Iraqi police stepping up
2011 looks grim for progress on women's rights in Iraq
Kuwaiti official visits Iraq, a 20-year first
For more news from the Middle East, visit McClatchy's blog, Middle East Diary.


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N-Gage (device)
|Handheld game console and mobile phone[1]
|Sixth generation
|Release date
|7 October 2003[2]
|Retail availability
|26 November 2005[3]
|Units sold
|3 million (as of 30 July 2007)[4]
|Operating system
|Symbian OS 6.1 (Series 60)
|ARM920T @ 104 MHz
|MultiMediaCard, 3.4 MB internal memory (1st gen N-Gage)[5][6]
|HSCSD, GPRS, Bluetooth[5][6]
|Online services
|N-Gage Arena
The N-Gage (a play on the word "engage") is a PDA combining features of a telephone and a handheld game system developed by Nokia, announced on 4 November 2002 and released on 7 October 2003.[2] It runs the original Series 60 platform on Symbian OS v6.1. Its original development codename was Starship.[citation needed]
N-Gage attempted to lure gamers away from the Game Boy Advance by including mobile phone functionality. This was unsuccessful, partly because the buttons, designed for a phone, were not well-suited for gaming and when used as a phone the original N-Gage was described as resembling a taco, which led to its mocking nickname "Taco phone".[4][7][8]
Nokia introduced the N-Gage QD in 2004 as a redesign of the original "Classic" N-Gage, fixing widely criticized issues and design problems. However, the new model was unable to make an impact, and with only 2 million units sold in its two years, the N-Gage and its QD model were a commercial failure, unable to challenge their Nintendo rival.[9] The N-Gage was discontinued in November 2005, with Nokia moving its gaming capabilities onto selected Series 60 smartphones. This was announced as the N-Gage platform or "N-Gage 2.0" in 2007, carrying on the N-Gage name.[10][11]
Around 2000, gamers increasingly carried both mobile phones and handheld game consoles. Nokia spotted an opportunity to combine these devices into one unit. Nokia announced in November 2002 that they would develop the N-Gage, a device that integrated these two devices. Instead of using cables, multiplayer gaming was accomplished with Bluetooth or the Internet (via the N-Gage Arena service). The N-Gage also included MP3 and Real Audio/Video playback and PDA-like features into the system.
With a launch price of US$299,[4] the N-Gage was not commercially popular.[citation needed] In its first weeks of availability in the United States, it was outsold by the Game Boy Advance 100 to 1.[12][13] Within 17 days of the deck's release, popular retailers GameStop and Electronics Boutique began offering $100 rebates on the deck's price.[14]
Besides its gaming capabilities, the N-Gage was a Series 60 smartphone, running Symbian OS 6.1, with features similar to those of the Nokia 3650 (it does not have an integrated camera, however). It was able to run all Series 60 software (other than those that require a camera), and Java MIDP applications as well. Its main CPU was an ARM Integrated (ARMI) compatible chip (ARM4T architecture) running at 104 MHz, the same as the Nokia 7650 and 3650 phones.
As of August 2007, it was estimated that Nokia had shipped more than two million N-Gage game decks.[15] The "N-Gage" brand name still had a poor reputation within the gaming media and among the few consumers who recognized the N-Gage brand, due to the weakness of the system's first games and the original model's limitations.[citation needed] Many gamers were unaware of the later QD redesign.[citation needed] Nokia had more than 50 games available for the system.
While the N-Gage did not have any significant financial successes, it did have a handful of critical successes. Pocket Kingdom: Own the World received a handful of glowing reviews when it was released, and Pathway to Glory was Nokia's first self-published success. These games came perhaps too late to have much effect in improving the perception of the N-Gage hardware itself in the eyes of consumers or press.[citation needed]
In February 2004, with the N-Gage failing to make a major impact four months on, CEO Jorma Ollila claimed that the device would be given until 2005 to be judged whether it was a success or failure.
In January 2005, UK sales-tracking firm ChartTrack dropped the N-Gage from its regular ELSPA chart, commenting that "The N-Gage chart, though still produced, is of little interest to anyone. Sales of the machine and its software have failed to make any impact on the market at all."[16] Although only directly reflective of the UK market, this was interpreted by some as a serious blow to the N-Gage as a viable gaming platform. Despite this, Nokia reaffirmed their commitment to the N-Gage as a platform, to the point where a new version of the hardware was rumored after GDC 2005.[citation needed]
February 2005 saw Nokia appoint Gerard Wiener, formerly of Sega Europe, to the post of Director and General Manager for Games at Nokia.[citation needed] Wiener steered Nokia away from looking at the N-Gage as primarily being a games console to "this is a mobile phone that is great for playing games on."[citation needed] In November 2005, Nokia admitted that the N-Gage failed, selling only one-third of the company's expectations. The product was discontinued from Western markets, but would continue to be marketed in India and parts of Asia.[17] Nokia did continue N-Gage promotions at E3 2006.[18]
The last game to be released in the U.S. for the system was Civilization in March 2006 according to Metacritic.[19] In November 2006, Nokia released its last game for the N-Gage QD – combat racer Payload.[citation needed]
There is some disagreement in sources about the actual number of N-Gage decks sold. Nokia initially claimed 400,000 sales in the first two weeks the deck was available. However, independent market research firms Chart-Track and Arcadia Research claimed that the N-Gage had sold only 5,000 decks in the United States in that time, and 800 decks in the UK. Critics suggested Nokia was counting the number of decks shipped to retailers, not the number actually purchased by consumers.[20] Nokia later admitted this was the truth.[12]
In 2004, Nokia claimed in a press release that it had shipped its millionth deck, represented as a company milestone despite falling short of the company's initial projection of six million decks by the end of 2004.[21] However, this number shipped does not give a reliable picture of the actual sales of the deck.[14] Nokia ultimately shipped 3 million N-Gage decks by 2007.[15][better source needed]
N-Gage Classic[edit]
The original phone's taco-shaped design was considered clumsy: to insert a game, users had to remove the phone's plastic cover and remove the battery compartment as the game slot was next to it. Another clumsy feature was the speaker and microphone being located on the side edge of the phone. This often resulted in many describing it as talking into a "taco phone"[22] or "Sidetalking", or simply that they had one very large ear, because the user held the edge of the phone against the cheek in order to talk into it. Usual for a phone, but unusually for a game system, it had a screen taller than it was wide, with a size of 2.1' and resolution of 176 X 208, giving an aspect ratio of 11:13; most televisions and portable game screens were 4:3.
N-Gage QD[edit]
N-Gage service[edit]
The new N-Gage, also referred to as N-Gage Next Gen or N-Gage 2.0, saw a change in concept as Nokia explained to the world during E3 2005 that they were planning on putting N-Gage inside several of their smartphone devices – rather than releasing a specific device. In August 2007, the new N-Gage platform was finally finalised and was released in April 2008. It was compatible on many Symbian S60 smartphones. The service was discontinued in October 2009.
Demos and games[edit]
Before the launch of Nokia's first in-house N-Gage title, Pathway to Glory, a one level demo of the game was released to journalists to allow them to sample the game, and understand the concepts behind the turn based wargame. This demo was subsequently placed on the N-Gage.com website as a free download. Undaunted by the 16mb download size, fans jumped on the Pathway to Glory demo. The success of the download paved the route for future titles.
There are fifty-eight full titles available for N-Gage, but only 56 of these saw North American releases. The titles that were not released in North America are : Flo-Boarding (Germany and UK only) and Sega Rally (Australia and Brazil only). All but three of these titles (Payload, Snakes, & Virtua Cop) were available for retail purchase. These are:
Along with those listed above, one more game was bundled with the N-Gage (on the Support CD): an exclusive version of Space Impact Evolution X, that was later made available to Symbian S60v2 phones.
See also[edit]
- Nokia 3300
- Nokia 5510
- Mylo (Sony)
- Ogo (handheld device)
- Danger Hiptop
- Scalable Network Application Package
- Xperia Play
- ^ "Get out and play - with N-Gage games in your Nokia device". Nokia. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ a b "Let the sales begin! Nokia N-GageTM game deck sales to start". Nokia. Archived from the original on 10 December 2008. Retrieved 7 October 2008.
- ^ Evans, Mike (26 November 2005). "Nokia kill the N-Gage". MobileMentalism. Bundance Media. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016.
- ^ a b c Blake Snow (30 July 2007). "The 10 Worst-Selling Handhelds of All Time". GamePro.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2008.
- ^ a b "N-Gage Game Deck Tech Specs". Nokia. Archived from the original on 5 February 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ a b "N-Gage QD Game Deck Tech Specs". Nokia. Archived from the original on 15 January 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
- ^ "Hold On, My Taco is Ringing Nokia says it has the phone for Gen Y", "CNN.com" 8 December 2003
- ^ Saylor, Michael (2012). The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything. Perseus Books/Vanguard Press. p. 81.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2008.
- ^ "N-Gage First Access Begins!". N-Gage Blog. Archived from the original on 7 February 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2007.
- ^ "N-Gage First Access". Nokia. Archived from the original on 7 February 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2007.
- ^ a b "The N-Gage Doesn't" Game Now, January 2004. Retrieved 5 May 2007.
- ^ Smith, David. "N-Gage Moves Under 5,000 Units" 1UP, October 2003. Retrieved 5 May 2007
- ^ a b Smith, David. "US Retailers Cut N-Gage Price". 1UP, October 2003. Retrieved 5 May 2007.
- ^ a b "Play It Again, Nokia. For the 3rd Time.". 27 August 2007. The New York Times. Retrieved 27 August 2007.
- ^ "N-Gage Dropped by ChartTrack (Nokia N-Gage)". Spong.com. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
- ^ Nokia admits N-Gage is a failure
- ^ N-Gage still kickin'
- ^ Civilization game-page on Metacritic, archived April 2010
- ^ "Nokia figures claim massive N-Gage sales". October 2003. The Register UK. Retrieved 5 May 2007.
- ^ "Nokia ships one million N-Gage game decks", "Nokia.com", 1 September 2004
- ^ "The 7 Deadly Sins of N-Gage", GameSpy.com, 16 February 2004
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nokia N-Gage.
- N-Gage Rarity Guide
- Nokia's official N-Gage site
- N-Gage (device) at Curlie (based on DMOZ)


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Fireworks for a new K-drama kiss: The Upside Down Kiss!
Yes! Fireworks are on, because a new K-drama kiss is born. You've got to watch Let's Drink (Drinking Solo) to see it, or you can scroll down to see it in our special clip. There are other upside-down kisses, but this one is unique and takes some special effort on the part of our cute leading couple, Ha Suk Jin and Park Ha Sun. Take a look!
SPOILER ALERT: I'll be showing you photos and a video clip about a special kiss in episode 7 of Let's Drink (Drinking Solo).
At this point in the drama, the aloof Jin Jung Suk (Ha Suk Jin) is becoming irresistibly attracted to new teacher Park Ha Na (Park Ha Sun). Even though he is not admitting it yet, but he, and the rest of us, find him willing to go out of his way to help Ha Na.
For instance, he showed up unexpectedly at Ha Na's live chat to help her get more online viewers. They then went out to take photos of the fireworks, as they had promised the viewers.
With the crowd, however, Ha Na couldn't take good photos. So Jung Suk becomes a chivalrous knight.
What does he do?
Here is the fantastic video that has everything you'd wan for a surprise kiss, plus beautiful fireworks!
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Ryan Guzman is an actor who dances, not a dancer who acts. And so the toughest part of making his second Step Up movie was getting you to believe he has been dancing since he took his first steps.
"The hardest thing is matching my skill level to the professional dancers who've been dancing for 25 years," says the 26-year-old star of Step Up All In, which opens Friday. "Acting like I can dance is one thing, but making it believable to the audience is another. I'm training nonstop with these dancers, learning the ins and outs and everything I can to make it look like I'm as good as they are."
The fifth film in the high-energy series, Step Up All In picks up about six months after Step Up Revolution, which was shot in Miami (Guzman found that shoot memorable after he went Jet Skiing on a day off with some of his co-stars and returned with jellyfish stings all over his body). In the new film, Sean (Guzman) and his dance crew have moved to Los Angeles but can't find work. His friends go back home, but Sean stays and decides to put a new crew together when he learns about a dance competition in Las Vegas with a three-year contract at Caesar's Palace as the prize.
The plots of the Step Up movies are similar — young dancers strive for success — but the storylines aren't the point, Guzman says.
"We realize we're a dance film," he says. "We embrace that instead of shying away from it. There's more dancing in Step Up All In — and better dancing, because that's what the fans want."
Step Up All In's thrilling dance sequences and tight shooting schedule kept the cast working nonstop. Guzman and his co-stars (who include Briana Evigan and Adam G. Sevani from earlier films) had three weeks to get the numbers down before shooting started, but there was so much to learn they were rehearsing almost every moment they weren't in front of the camera.
"Whenever we had spare time, we'd rehearse," Guzman says. "We rehearsed the day each number was shot. It's nonstop with the Step Up films. ... The choreographers are the key to pulling off these huge, amazing stunts and putting that vision into play. They don't want you to say, 'Oh, this film is just like the other one.' They're amazing."
The jaw-dropping finale took the longest to shoot, about a day and a half. Other dance scenes were shot in a couple of hours. Guzman's favorite? His romp with Evigan around an old amusement park ride to Bobby Brown's Every Little Step: "I had so much fun doing those '90s dance moves, grooving out to an old-school song."
Guzman credits his mixed martial arts training for helping him stay focused.
"I wouldn't be where I am without the MMA," he says. "The discipline and determination I had to have for martial arts, I carry on as an actor." And there's an added benefit: "I know even the worst day of acting isn't going to be anything compared to getting hit in the face by five different guys!"
That determination keeps Guzman on target to use the Step Up films as a springboard to bigger and better parts, just like the first film's star, Channing Tatum. Next up for him is the Jennifer Lopez film The Boy Next Door, which opens early next year, and a live-action version of Jem and the Holograms.
"I'm very stubborn," Guzman says. "After Step Up Revolution I was known as 'the dancer guy.' … I'm not taking the 'dancer guy' label and leaving it as it is. I'm continuing to grow. I would like to get more into drama and action and then direct and produce. I want to step outside the boundaries and learn what I can from the industry. I started from a blank slate three years ago. I've learned so much and evolved so much."
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