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Ntr's Janatha Garage hitting screens on second September and audio of the movie yet to come. Meanwhile fans are showing their love towards NTR through movie promotional song. Song recorded and choreographed by themselves. Now this song is going viral through social media. we Know that audio launch planning tomorrow at Hyderabad. After audio launch promotional events palnned in various city's like Vijayawada, Vizag and Kerala.
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Mr.Sambangi Productions produced in association with A1 Dimension Frames
Lyrics by Kishore Babu Sambangi
Music by: Kesava Kiran
Singers :Revanth Kumar and Princy Teju Priya
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Atari's Mythical E.T. Landfill Has Finally Been Discovered In New Mexico
E.T. The Extraterrestrial is widely regarded as the worst video game ever made. It probably always will be. No other title was so devastating to the industry as a whole. Because of E.T., Atari's reputation fell into the toilet, video game-based movies were forevermore accepted as awful, and the great video game crash of 1983 eventually came to being.
In other words, it was a game so terrible that it nearly destroyed gaming.
In hindsight, it's not all that surprising the title garnered as much ire as it did. It's one of the highest-profile flops in Atari's history; the company was paid millions to develop their movie tie-in, and the developers were given almost no time to create it. To make matters worse, they manufactured millions of cartridges - more than they could possibly have sold even if the game had been a smash hit - and sold scores of copies before word began to spread: this game was bad. It was practically a video game version of the Ark of the Covenant, only instead of melting your face, it made you hate video games forever.
Not long after E.T.'s release, Atari decided it was done. It quietly pulled the game from store shelves, and rid itself of the cancerous title. No one was entirely certain what happened to all the copies they didn't sell, but rumors began to circulate that the company buried them in a secret landfill located somewhere in the Mexico desert. As months turned into years and years into decades, these rumors were eventually dismissed as simple urban legends.
Except that they weren't. Turns out, Atari actually did order a burial - this past weekend,a construction team finally excavated a New Mexico landfill near the town of Alamogordo, bringing to a close a story that spans almost the entire history of gaming. Years of evasion and denial from Atari were tossed out the window as former manager James Heller - on site at the time of the excavation - revealed that he was the one who originally ordered the burial, condemning 728,000 cartridges and a whole bevy of merchandise to an early grave.
The excavation took place as part of a new series set to debut this year on Xbox Live; a documentary produced by Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn which examines the impact technology has had on popular culture. Director Zak Penn was on-site at the excavation, alond with his production crew and the construction team. There were also over two hundred residents and enthusiasts at the site Over two hundred residents and enthusiasts gathered at the site when the excavation took place early Saturday morning.
One of the attendees was Armando Ortega - a city official who back in 1983 received a tip from a landfill employee about the massive stockpile of games
"It was pitch dark here that night but we came here with our flashlights and found dozens of games," explained Ortega. "We had to sneak past security, braving both coyotes and snakes in the darkness, but it paid off. We found dozens of crushed cartridges which we found were still playable when we took them home."
Ortega evidently forgot about the find until recently, when his tip brought Penn and his team here. The crew had only his word to go on, coupled with the vague hope that they might find the rumors to be true. Thankfully, they did.
"I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something," added Penn, as members of the production team sifted through the trash and pulled out boxes of Atari products, including the massive collection of unsold cartridges.
Digging up the landfill was no easy task - after Atari originally dumped truckloads of waste driven in from El Paso, raids on the site by teenagers looking to salvage and sell old products became a constant problem. Technically, they weren't breaking any laws, as scavenging was allowed in the cities landfills. Atari didn't much appreciate this, however; eventually, the company decided to pour concrete over the entire site. As a result of this, the burial - and the incidents which followed it - were gradually forgotten, fading into the local folklore of Alamogordo.
Now, however, the worst game in the history of the industry has finally been dug up, and with it, a decades-old urban legend has finally been put to rest. I don't know about you, but when the time comes for the debut episode of this documentary, I'll definitely be tuning in. Hopefuly it's not exclusive to Xbox One.

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- starlight1222
- 4 years ago
- Wedding: November 2012
I have been struggling with this decision for the past two days. I have two job offers, both with positives and negatives and I cannot for the life of me decide which is the better option. This is a great problem to have, but I'm still stressing it. Here's the situation:
I've been at my current company for almost three years. I have a fantastic reputation there and management loves me. The problem is, there has been a lot of change in the past year that has not benefited me. Instead of just promoting from within our team, upper management decided to do a management rotation. My old manager was rotated off and I was left with a new manager and the potential of no opportunity to move up. Then they decided to lay off another team. The environment is now extremely negative. The manager they rotated into my old manager's position obviously does not like being on our team. My old manager was amazing. He taught me everything I know and sadly for the new manager, everyone kept coming to me once he left for help. Needless to say, it made me disgruntled after a year of doing this for no promotion. So I got fed up at the lack of opportunities and bad management tactics and started looking elsewhere. I'm not going to lie…I've invested a lot of time and energy into this company and it would be hard to throw it away.
I got an offer with a Fortune 15 company that moved ito my area recently. For a lateral movement, they offer more money, half the drive and amazing benefits. Plus, I know a lot of people who have also migrated there and they say it's a fantastic environment. I'd be doing something new, but I would be starting completely over. Since I have no management experience, I didn't feel comfortable not knowing the business and jumping straight into management. This would potentially put me back at least a couple years to get promoted.
I put in my two week notice. Tomorrow is SUPPOSSED to be my last day. Monday my Director and Manager came to me offering me my Manager's chair. They moved mountains to make this happen and my current manager would get a position she would be happier in. The catch is, they decided not to be competitive with my Fortune 15 offer. The compensation is higher but really immaterial compared to the new offer. In the end, if I take the job, it's going to be rough. I anticipate people leaving my current company soon as they've discussed this with me. This would leave me with open chairs to fill. As a new manager, dealing with the stress of the environment and the threat of people leaving so soon seems overwhelming. I would be doing this for the title and the experience.
What do you all think? Have you ever regreted not taking a promotion? My Darling Husband suggested I take the promotion at my current company and stick it out for at least 6 months and then leave if I don't like it. Then I have the Manager title and the experience. The risk with his idea is that the Fortune 15 company will want nothing to do with me if I end up quiting my current job anyway and try to get another job with them (note they are hiring hundreds of people in my field as they are new transplants to the area). Thoughts? I'm so torn!!
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Growing up on a farm meant spending long hours helping my parents with the animals and many chores. We had a huge vegetable garden. The smell and taste of a freshly picked tomato cannot be compared to anything you buy at the market. We were eating by the seasons. Over the years I have become more confident in the kitchen, started my own cookbooks collection and wanted my children to have lasting memories of what we cooked and baked at home.
In 2006 La Cuisine d'Hélène was born and I dedicate this blog to them. Another passion that follows me since my childhood is photography. When I had my first real job I bought myself a Nikon with couple lenses.That was really expensive at the time. I now shoot with a Canon Rebel T4i with a macro lens for my food photos. I much prefer to shoot digital.
I was born in Québec and now reside in Ottawa, ON. For the past 26 yrs I have moved in 7 different provinces from Coast to Coast. I started a career in the military and met my husband in Portage-la-Prairie, Man. After dating for three months we were married. We wanted to start a family and I decided to quit the military. I wanted to be home to raise my children. When my third child started kindergarten I returned to work for five years with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Fredericton, NB. I was working in Criminal Intelligence. Loved every minute of it. Sadly my husband was transferred to Nova Scotia and I had to quit my dream job. Since then I have been a stay-at-home mom.
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DescriptionStaries is similar to Gems Swap but you position stars. Also, rather than swapping two stars or rotating four, you slide the entire row to get clusters of three or more stars of the same color together. Use the mouse to slide a row of stars horizontally or vertically so that you create a cluster of three or more of the same color. The clusters do not need to be in a straight line row. If you cluster five stars together, you will get a power star, represented by a star with smaller stars orbiting it. If you cluster a power star in a three or more star group, the power star will explode, destroying the eight star surrounding it.
Starting with level three, you will have some stars have a ring form about them with a padlock at the top. These stars are locked and they, and their row, cannot be moved horizontally or vertically. This can make creating star cluster more challenging. Locked stars can be removed if you can get them into a cluster or explode a power star near them. Unlike other Novel Games Limited action puzzle games, this game is not timed. You simply keep playing towards higher and higher levels and scores until you cannot make any more three-or-more star clusters.
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Are you a creative person? Perhaps you're a fiction author, or an investigative journalist. Perhaps you like to write songs and perform them online. Perhaps you're an artist taking breathtaking photographs, or creating amazing graphics that you then share on your Tumblr. Thanks to the Internet, it has never been easier to share your creative oeuvres with the world.
Monetization has always been tricky though. We've discussed how to monetize blogs 5 Interactive Ways To Monetize Your Blog & Increase Traffic 5 Interactive Ways To Monetize Your Blog & Increase Traffic Read More in the past 4 Ways to Make Your Blog Pay Real Money 4 Ways to Make Your Blog Pay Real Money Writing a popular blog, getting famous, and then living off the Internet from a desert island beach are faily common dreams for many aspiring bloggers. With the advent of content management systems such as Wordpress... Read More (we even wrote a manual on it). But what if you're not just a blogger? What if you're a programmer, or a videographer, or a musician?
If so, this article is for you. Here are 4 of the best ways to monetize content you've probably never thought of.
So, you've been doing your thing for a while now. You've built a following on Twitter and Facebook. You might have even done a successful Reddit AMA The Best Reddit AMAs Of All Time [Weird & Wonderful Web] The Best Reddit AMAs Of All Time [Weird & Wonderful Web] Under the IAmA subreddit, you'll find informal interviews with all sorts of interesting people. These are some of the best AMAs online. Read More . You're now recognized for being the best at what you do.
How do you turn that into hard cash? One thing you might want to consider is Patreon. This site has borrowed the tiered-perks, crowd-funding model of Kickstarter, and mixed it with recurring, monthly payments. Kind of like Kickstarter by subscription.
One musician who has effectively used Patreon Support Your Favorite Online Artists And Get Exclusive Rewards On Patreon Support Your Favorite Online Artists And Get Exclusive Rewards On Patreon Patreon is a new initiative from musician and video-maker Jack Conte, that tries to solve the age-old problem both artist and fans face every day. For artists, it's the need to stay afloat while still... Read More to fund her work is American indie-folk singer Kina Grannis. Almost 300 of her devoted fans contribute financially to the production of her YouTube videos. Each clip she publishes pulls in $1,672 per clip. Not bad. Not bad at all.
But what's in it for the fans? Well, it depends on how much they are willing to contribute. The highest tier gets free concert tickets whenever Kina rocks up in town, in addition to the same stuff the lower and middle tiers get. This includes free music, and monthly Q&A meets with Kina on Google Hangouts.
The beauty of Patreon is it allows creative individuals to leverage the enthusiasm of their fans, whilst simultaneously rewarding fans for their loyalty.
Patreon is available internationally. Opening an account is free, although they do take 4% from all transactions as a commission. This covers the cost of processing credit cards (which is expensive indeed), as well as the costs associated with operating the site.
Beacon can best be described as two separate properties. The first is a beautiful content management and publishing platform that rivals the likes of WordPress and Tumblr in their ease of use. It allows journalists and writers to publish stunning, engaging content, without breaking a bead of sweat.
Another — more interesting — facet of Beacon is how it allows readers to support content creators with monthly financial gifts, much like Patreon does.
However, unlike Patreon, if you fund one writer, you don't just get a single perk. You get access to all the works produced by writers working on the Beacon network.
There's a diverse range of journalists and storytellers taking advantage of Beacon, from cutting edge science writers, to stories of people hitchhiking their way from California to Africa.
Beacon empowers users to fund research into stories they care about. One author I fund personally is Lyra McKee. This Northern Irish investigative journalist is currently researching the decades old murder of a Unionist politician during the turbulent period of The Troubles.
Over 150 supporters have contributed almost $9000 to her research, which has funded six, richly detailed posts about this real-life murder mystery.
And much like Patreon and Kickstarter, there's also the option to offer tiered rewards. If you contribute more, you might get more.
Beacon is currently invitation only. Prospective writers can submit applications to become an author, although there's no guarantee they'll be accepted. Beacon gives 70% of all subscription dues to the author, and keep 30% for themselves. They have a minimum pledge, which is $5 per month.
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Paywalls. They're not for the little guys, right? They're for the big players. Paywall Trend On The Internet [INFOGRAPHIC] Paywall Trend On The Internet [INFOGRAPHIC] Being a former newspaper journalist, I can sympathise to a very large extent with the plight of print media. With the relentless onslaught of the Internet, and peoples expectations that "information should be free", print... Read More The massive media houses, like The London Times and The Telegraph. They're the ones who have the audience, the money, and the technical infrastructure to actually implement one and make a profit.
Well, that's not exactly true.
It's not just mainstream media outlets who operate paywalls. The likes of Conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan (we've written about him before Banners Begone: How Readers Supported These Three Websites Banners Begone: How Readers Supported These Three Websites How to survive in a post-banner-advert world? Here's how two popular websites have managed it. Read More ), to German cycling e-zine Farrhad Journal both restrict some content to paying customers.
Paywalls allow you to control who gets access to your content, and to actually give your content a tangible dollar value for consumers.
But how do you actually implement one? Well, that's easy. TinyPass is a service that allows you to add a customizable paywall to your website with just a few lines of JavaScript What is JavaScript and How Does It Work? [Technology Explained] What is JavaScript and How Does It Work? [Technology Explained] Read More . You can control everything, from how many free articles someone can read, to how much people pay for access. Setting up a paywall has never been this simple.
TinyPass also handles the tricky process of taking payments. Their services aren't free, however. They insist on a commission from each sale, with the fee for payments over $2 being a somewhat painful 18%. That's not quite as much as Patreon charges, but many magnitudes above what BeaconReader takes.
Take Tips
There's still a place for advertising on the Internet, but this model is under serious threat. This is partly due to the spread of AdBlocking software, and people trying to stiff content creators by avoiding banner adverts entirely.
Many content producers have taken to accepting tips in order to supplement the income from their online properties. Tipping is pretty hot right now and there are two horses in this race worth mentioning.
The first is Flattr, which was created by Peter Sunde — one of the three founders of The Pirate Bay. We've talked about extensively about this service before. Their product works a bit like this. Users sign up and establish a recurring payment which tops up an account with cash. This is then later used to 'tip' content creators.
Site operators then put a 'flattr' button on their website. Whenever a user presses that button, they indicate that they wish for a portion of their funds to go to them. At the end of the month, the money in the user's account is divided equally between the sites who have been tipped.
Flattr takes a cut of any money donated, but rival TipTheWeb does not. Instead, they fund their operations through tips themselves. There's no monthly subscription to pay, and users are free to choose how much they wish to tip, from $0.05 to as much as $100.
TipTheWeb also allows you to support not only blogs, but also open source software on Github, presentations on SlideShare and videos on YouTube and Vimeo.
Another service is Gittip. Despite the name, it has got nothing to do with code-hosting service Github What Is Git & Why You Should Use Version Control If You're a Developer What Is Git & Why You Should Use Version Control If You're a Developer As web developers, a lot of the time we tend to work on local development sites then just upload everything when we're done. This is fine when it's just you and the changes are small,... Read More or the Git version control system, and nothing to do with software development.
Rather, it's a slightly bizarre hybrid between Patreon and Flattr. You sign in with Twitter, and you select who you wish to 'tip'. That person is then sent an unconditional cash payment from you each week. The person receiving the cash doesn't have to be a software developer. Anyone can get paid with Gittip.
You can sign in with your Twitter, BitBucket and Github account. Beneficiaries can get paid via direct bank transfer in the US, and they accept International users, although this is handled manually through the banking system.
And if neither of these take your fancy, there's still Dogecoin Dogecoin: How A Meme Became the 3rd Largest Digital Coin Dogecoin: How A Meme Became the 3rd Largest Digital Coin Read More .
As a revenue source, tipping is still incredibly speculative. It hasn't been proven as a reliable model for monetization like advertising. With that said, when used in addition to traditional revenue models such as advertising, it becomes an appealing additional source of funding. .
Show Me The Money
There's still a place for advertising. People can still make money from their digital properties by throwing up some AdSense adverts. But if that doesn't appeal to you, there are other options.
Are you a creative? Have you found any unusual ways of monetizing content? Let me know. Comments are below.
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Thanks for listing all these good suggestions! I actually use a bit of Adsense for my own content but have been eyeing Patreon for a while now. Kickstarter has been gaining a lot of attention over the past several years I've noticed, but I feel like that's still a little too BIG-PLAYER for me right now lol (^^)
One of the more "creative" ways, I came across was using sponsored CAPTCHA's hhhhhhh this is morooocco
I notice Amazon's self-publishing program isn't listed here. Probably because it has a reputation for publishing a glut of amateurish Nanowrimo drafts with bad clip art covers -- and Fifty Shades of Gray. The reputation of the site does matter when you're building a career, and Amazon keeps shooting itself in the foot, occupying a dual identity as self-serving corporate shill and cultural philistine opening the floodgates to functional illiterates. I'm a writer myself who knows that my "brand" would inevitably be scarred by association with the Amazon name, and I'm on the side of the traditional vanguard (Hachette) and its proven track record, rather than the cubic-zirconia-in-the-rough fan fictioners. I think somehow the internet model will work better for journalists and bloggers than fiction writers. There's just something about the form that strongly resists being reduced to mere ones and zeroes. Discerning readers believe that the slush pile should stay that way, but Bezos is more than happy ($$$) to act as wish-granting genie for the unpolished Mary Sues.
I've been interested in getting into freelance journalism, and I think these could be good platforms where I could start posting work. I'll have to do a bit more research, but this has given me some great ideas! Thanks for rounding them up—cool article, Matt.
I love the Patreon platform for creators, that was awesome and I chose to join it. Hopefully it can help me to do much more with my creativity. Thanks Mathew for this awesome article. I also applied for Flattr, just waiting for contact or message from their team. Got my fingers crossed :)
Telegraph.co.uk paywall?
Just delete any cookie starting "tele". when you get the "Exceeded 10 free..." message.
Job done.
How is TinyPass' 'painful 18% more than Patreon's 4%?


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2 There an angel of the LORD appeared to him from a burning bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire, but it was not burning up.
3 "This is strange!" he said to himself. "I'll go over and see why the bush isn't burning up."
4 When the LORD saw Moses coming near the bush, he called him by name, and Moses answered, "Here I am."
5 God replied, "Don't come any closer. Take off your sandals--the ground where you are standing is holy.
6 I am the God who was worshiped by your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." Moses was afraid to look at God, and so he hid his face.
7 The LORD said: I have seen how my people are suffering as slaves in Egypt, and I have heard them beg for my help because of the way they are being mistreated. I feel sorry for them,
8 and I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
9 My people have begged for my help, and I have seen how cruel the Egyptians are to them.
10 Now go to the king! I am sending you to lead my people out of his country.
11 But Moses said, "Who am I to go to the king and lead your people out of Egypt?"
12 God replied, "I will be with you. And you will know that I am the one who sent you, when you worship me on this mountain after you have led my people out of Egypt."
13 Moses answered, "I will tell the people of Israel that the God their ancestors worshiped has sent me to them. But what should I say, if they ask me your name?"
14 God said to Moses: I am the eternal God. So tell them that the LORD, whose name is "I Am," has sent you. This is my name forever, and it is the name that people must use from now on.
16 Call together the leaders of Israel and tell them that the God who was worshiped by Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has appeared to you. Tell them I have seen how terribly they are being treated in Egypt,
17 and I promise to lead them out of their troubles. I will give them a land rich with milk and honey, where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.
18 The leaders of Israel will listen to you. Then you must take them to the king of Egypt and say, "The LORD God of the Hebrews has appeared to us. Let us walk three days into the desert, where we can offer a sacrifice to him."
19 But I know that the king of Egypt won't let you go unless something forces him to.
20 So I will use my mighty power to perform all kinds of miracles and strike down the Egyptians. Then the king will send you away.
21 After I punish the Egyptians, they will be so afraid of you that they will give you anything you want. You are my people, and I will let you take many things with you when you leave the land of Egypt.
22 Every Israelite woman will go to her Egyptian neighbors or to any Egyptian woman living in her house. She will ask them for gold and silver jewelry and for their finest clothes. The Egyptians will give them to you, and you will put these fine things on your sons and daughters. You will carry all this away when you leave Egypt.
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The 9th Annual Girls Fight Back for Shannon Mac Fundraiser is officially announced, and we are very excited for it. This year all funds raised will be donated to a non-profit organization we are currently setting up called the Girls Fight Back Foundation. The Foundation is being created and run by our outstanding team of GFB Speakers: Jaime, Megan, Michaela and Heather. The focus of this organization will be to create a network of GFB Clubs at schools and colleges across the USA (and someday go global), which will promote women's safety and self-defense education for young women. Here are the deets on the event:
What: Fundraiser for the Girls Fight Back Foundation
Host: Kate Lotz & Erin Weed
Start Time: Saturday, March 20 at 8:00pm
End Time: Saturday, March 20 at midnight
Where: Slugger's (across from Wrigley Field)
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Cost: $30 which includes all well drinks, domestic beer, wine and soda
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Congress wants to can the spam. But how? With e-mail marketing on the rise, sharp differences have emerged over what is the best legislative formula to reduce the growing problem of junk e-mail, or spam. The rub for Congress is to protect consumers from unsolicited e-mail while also protecting the rights of legitimate marketing companies that are boosting their e-mail efforts. Indeed, any bill targeting the Internet is fraught with complexity because this legislation must tackle questions about the First Amendment, e-commerce, telecommunications and technology. And although the bills target consumers, they would most certainly impact b-to-b companies.
"Privacy has been a wave for awhile," said Diana McKenzie, a senior partner with the Chicago-based law Gordon & Glickson L.L.C., which specializes in technology law. "But now, with the proliferation of the Web, [marketing] companies are accumulating data on consumers in ways they never have before, and that's making Congress nervous."
The House passed the Unsolicited Electronic Mail Act of 1999 in July 2000. The Senate hasn't yet acted on the legislation, which would require all unsolicited e-mail senders to provide accurate return addresses on their e-mail and to explicitly label unsolicited commercial e-mail. Although anti-spam legislation has been introduced in the Senate, the agenda there is unclear since Vermont Sen. James Jeffords bolted the GOP to become an independent, giving Democrats control.
House action
Two bills have recently emerged from House committees that go beyond mandating return Web addresses. Because of this, both bills have piqued the interest—and in some cases, the ire—of marketing companies conducting business on the Web.
The bill introduced by Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.), for example, would allow Internet service providers who bear the costs of having to deliver unwanted e-mail messages the right to sue those who dump spam into their networks.
The Wilson bill passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee earlier this year, recently passed the House Judiciary Committee and is now headed to the House Rules Committee. The Rules Committee will try and wed the Wilson bill with similar legislation introduced by Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) that would prohibit unsolicited e-mail.
However, the bills bifurcate when it comes to opt-out, or the virtual equivalent of hanging up a "No solicitations" sign. The Wilson bill includes an opt-out clause for both consumers and ISPs after the initial point of contact, whereas the Goodlatte bill includes no such provision.
Wilson said the language in the bill concerning opt-out ought to be amenable to Web marketers. "These are customers who don't want [marketers'] products and don't want to see their ads. All [marketers] have to do is maintain their databases," she said, adding that the language in the bill allowing both individuals and ISPs to sue companies that send spam provides the bill's legislative teeth.
Goodlatte said he's hopeful the Rules Committee will be able to work out a compromise. "We want to fight spam but don't want to expand legislation that would be too excessive or serve as a disincentive to legitimate businesses" marketing via e-mail. He stressed he does not want ISPs to become "mini Federal Trade Commissions."
Open invitation for trial lawyers?
The Interactive Advertising Bureau has kept a close eye on both bills. The group fully supports Goodlatte's bill, but has some concerns about the Wilson bill, according to John Kamp, a lawyer with the Washington law firm Wiley, Rein & Fielding and counsel for the IAB.
"There's enough ambiguity in the [Wilson] bill to invite activist plaintiff lawyers to file lots of suits against e-mailers," Kamp said. "We're worried about the costs of frivolous lawsuits against e-mail marketers."
Tony Hadley, director of government affairs for Experian Information Solutions Inc., which provides e-mail and direct marketing services, said, "The narrower bill the better, because then it allows industry to mature around the market and develop its own standards."
But John Mozena, co-founder and VP of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, said the Wilson bill doesn't go far enough.
"There are far too many marketers for the average user to effectively opt out after the initial point of contact," Mozena said. He pointed to statistics showing that if 1% of the nation's 24 million small-business operations sent one e-mail per day it would equal 657 messages every day for the average Internet user. The coalition calls for a pure opt-out, or a pre-emptive strike against any e-mail marketing.
Yet Web marketers bristle at such restrictions. "The question should be, 'What is the information I want people to have about me?'" said Frank Ingari, chairman and founder of Wheelhouse Corp., a marketing technology services firm. "There's some information that is private in context but the individual wants the vendor to have. Junk e-mail is in the eye of the receiver."
Because enacting federal legislation can be a long and arduous process, it may behoove b-to-b companies to cultivate their own e-mail marketing standards.
International Data Group, for instance, created an e-mail marketing policy five years ago that includes an opt-out clause at the end of the text.
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Source of Article: http://blog.nj.com/njv_linda_stamato/2009/01/food_safety_liability_and_the.html
Next time you read a diatribe against regulation, the U.S. civil courts (and product liability
litigation), consider what life is like for those
who suffer injuries in China.
For that matter, wonder about the progress made in the Peoples' Republic
while considering what happens when a product made there causes injury and
the manufacturing company and its government conspire, essentially, to deny
you, a citizen, access to the courts for redress, not to mention the failure,
in the first place, to provide for the safety of your food and to inform the
public of potential harm when it becomes known.
In mid November, I wrote a blog, "Toxic milk and poisoned babies:
Product liability limits in China,"
that raised questions about consumer
protection laws, regulation, and access to courts in China."
This sequel, a policy commentary, is an update as well.
The Chinese courts are still denying access to the would-be litigants, the
families of those harmed and killed by melamine-tainted
products, but the Sanlu company, one of the
largest dairy companies in China, even though it is now in bankruptcy
proceedings, has offered to pay the parents of a baby who died last May from
drinking tainted milk formula $29,200 to compensate them for the loss of
their child. The parents have accepted.
Five other babies have died and, while data is released
only by permission of the Chinese Ministry of Health, so some consider the
data suspect, some 300,000 children have reportedly been sickened by tainted
dairy products and more than 800 remain hospitalized with various kidney and
urinary tract problems.
Regulation in China?
Not much. Instead, we have government and company complicity: There is no
financial penalty for those who produce shoddy goods from the Communist
Party's legal system and, to make matters worse, regulators often fail to do
their jobs. News regarding problems with products is suppressed and life is
supposed to go on. Except, of course, when Chinese officials have to deal
with one of the worst food safety scandals in decades, prompting a global
recall of Chinese-made dairy products, shaking consumer confidence and
devastating the nation's diary industry.
Then the criminal courts become engaged. In 2007, after earlier
product-safety scandals, the head of China's State Food and Drug
Administration was executed after he was found guilty of corruption and
dereliction of duty as a regulator. And, more recently, 21 individuals were
tried and, in at least two instances, men have been sentenced to death for
endangering public safety, and a woman, the former manager and chairwoman of Sanlu, received a life sentence, according to the
state-run news media and published in the New York
Times: "China Plans to Execute 2 in Scandal Over Milk." Several
others received life sentences, still others five to 15 years in prison.
The Times reported that outside the court (where the executives at Sanlu were sentenced), parents of some victims protested,
saying they were dissatisfied with the verdicts. "I feel sorry for them,
but they are just scapegoats," said one protestor, "The ones who
should take the responsibility are the government."
And, still, no Chinese court will take up a single case from citizens. A
few parents are very vocally rejecting the payment offers, the New
York Times reports. Among them are a group that gathered 250 signatures
from victims' families and is demanding long-term health care for the victims
and medical research into their continuing illnesses.
With the government and the companies, together, resisting involvement of
the courts, the likelihood of securing these objectives appears remote. Such
is the case when courts are extensions of government not independent of them:
In China courts are "passive pawns in the party's efforts to handle big
disputes behind closed doors." (International
Herald Tribune: "Lawsuits unlikely over toxic milk: China
discourages action in the courts" October 17, 2008). According to Edward
Wong, whose byline appears, officials routinely favor producers over
consumers and rarely hold companies or their shareholders accountable even in
major cases of malfeasance. Product liability lawsuits remain difficult to
file and harder still to win, especially if the company involved has state
ownership or close connections to officials who also oversee the courts.
Highly visible lawsuits are seen by the Chinese government as political
threats and, as a result, officials go to great lengths to silence the
plaintiffs rather than allowing the "wheels of justice to turn." A
full airing of the cases in courts would set legal precedents and help deter
future misbehavior by big companies or individuals, but "government
officials are quietly pressuring everyone involved, from the parents to the
lawyers to the judges, to drop the issue," according to reports Wong
obtained from legal scholars and lawyers who volunteered to help the parents.
Parents and lawyers in the milk cases have been told by government
officials that their complaints can be resolved through out-of-court
compensation payments. At least 3,000 families have accepted compensation
payments. Some parents, though, have filed
lawsuits against the companies even though the courts have refused to
accept the cases. One, on behalf of the families of 213 children, is being
brought by a group of volunteer lawyers.
The current
offer which is to be financed by 22 dairy companies,
provides about $29,000 for each family that lost a child and about $4,400 for
each child who suffered serious kidney damage. The families of children with
relatively minor health problems would receive about $290. That is about
three months of the average worker's salary. Among those refusing to accept
the compensation offer is Zhao Lianhai, 37, the
father of a 4-year-old boy made ill by the milk, who said the $160 million
compensation plan announced last month was inadequate and failed to address
the medical needs of children whose health had been profoundly damaged.
"Our biggest demand is not the compensation, but medical treatment
and academic research on the influence that melamine will have on the health
of our children," Mr. Zhao, a former journalist, said in the Times'
interview. "We want to know what kinds of lives our children will
face." (See more coverage in the chinadigialtimes).
But, consider what has happened to those who have objected to the
government's offer. On Jan. 1, five people, including Mr. Zhao, were detained
by the authorities shortly before they were anticipating holding a news
conference in Beijing.
They were held overnight and released. And, Mr. Zhao said that the parents
posted a version of their letter online demanding greater compensation, but
that it was blocked by government censors.
Meanwhile, here in the United
States, a food-related scare
is taking shape with respect to a staple in the American diet: peanut butter.
Here, though, federal health officials appear on top of the salmonella
problem and are involving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as
well as the Food and Drug Administration's food
safety center.
More than 500 people in 43 states have been sickened, with 90 reportedly
hospitalized. At least eight deaths have been linked to the outbreak
of salmonella.
All suspect products have been recalled. And investigations have revealed
a sorry picture of contamination at the primary plant in Georgia and
failure on the part of the state's Department of Agriculture regulators to
take appropriate action. The nation's Justice Department has already been
asked to conduct a criminal investigation and several members of Congress
proposed legislation to increase safety requirements for food makers and to
give F.D.A. officials greater authority and money to conduct inspections.
"Every Peanut Product from Ga. Plant
Recalled" in the Washington
Problems can certainly occur in the U.S. food-protection system, and,
it is essential to maintain a regulatory network to prevent and, when needed,
to take action to remove tainted food products. Regular inspections need to
occur; it's clear that food safety must be heavily regulated. As it is now,
public information is made available; warnings are issued by federal health
officials; citizens are advised to avoid certain products. Companies are told
to remove suspect items from store shelves; companies and their distributors
comply. The FDA has created a searchable list of recalled products and brands
on the agency's website.
And, citizens, harmed by products, have recourse to courts for civil
damages and we have criminal courts to prosecute where negligence may have
occurred. Citizens have a basis to believe that food is safe in America.
In China?
Well, with its compensation plan and the sentences--21 to date--of those held
responsible for the melamine scandal, the government is clearly bidding to
put an end to the crisis. Without solid regulation and access to courts,
though, China
is a long way from doing things right--protecting its citizens, regulating
its food industries, and providing open access to information and access to
courts if products harm people--a fairly good incentive to produce food
Those who would assail the U.S.
system ought to consider how well it serves us. We have a reasonably
effective regulatory system (despite eight years of efforts to reduce the
efficacy of the F.D.A.) but we also have a sound tort system that provides
for sanctions, often severe, to be assessed on companies that manufacture or
market products that hurt people. Before we seek to change it, consider
carefully what it does for us and what can happen instead when politics (and
ideology) trump law, policy and consumer protection.
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Once a plan is made on safety, it is possible to move forward with repainting and refurbishing. If the unit is still connected to electricity or another power source, disconnect before painting. Turn off the power source at the fuse box. Spray paint is flammable, and it could be dangerous to proceed with painting before securing the unit.
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Hysteresis in Action: Firms Allowing Recruiting Functions To Wither
"Hysteresis" is a funny-sounding word for a funny-sounding problem—when a spell of cyclical unemployment goes on for a long time, the structural level of unemployment goes up.
The reason this happens is that matching workers with jobs isn't a trivial task. If a single parent or both adults in a two-parent household are going to work, there needs to be child care arrangements for the kids. Firms with openings need a way to communicate the existence of job openings to potential applicants and then screen them in an efficient way. Yet as high unemployment persists, the tendency is for these matching functions to wither away. And that's the right way to understand Nelson Schwartz's piece about companies increasingly relying on internal referrals to fill new positions, thus locking the long-term unemployed and those without connections out of jobs.
After all, running a recruiting operation is a cost of doing business. If you're able to fill all the jobs you need filled without running one, then why bother? If the unemployment rate were 5.5 percent, then the point of running a recruiting operation would be that it's cheaper than constantly offering everyone raises so that nobody ever quits. But when the unemployment rate's been lingering above 7 percent for years, it makes more sense to focus on cost-cutting rather than expanding your labor pool. But as companies disinvest in recruiting functions, people who are isolated from the labor market become even more isolated.


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You can find advice, research and insights for your business here, regardless of its size.
Time and time again, a person dreams of starting a new business venture but dashes one concept after another because of a seeming lack of total originality. The theory seems to be that in order for a new venture to be worth its proverbial salt, it must be founded upon a new idea or concept. The reality is that complete originality simply is not required when it comes to launching a startup enterprise.
If you're the owner of a small business, chances are you're always on the lookout for ways to attract more loyal customers and increase your sales. One way you can help your small business flourish is by incorporating social media into your marketing campaigns. If you're not convinced of the importance of social media marketing for your small business, here is some information that will likely change your mind.
Burger King. Papa John's Pizza. What do these two well-known brands have in common? Neither of these two restaurants were the first to use their company names but both of them own the rights to use these names on a national scale.
Starting your own business is a big responsibility and requires a lot of hard work. If you believe otherwise , then being an entrepreneur probably isn't for you. There are a lot of mistakes that a fresh entrepreneur can make in their first year. Here are seven tips that every up-and-coming business owner should know.
Twitter provides a free platform that enables you to reach millions of active users all around the world, as well as in your local area. Building your brand can take time and effort, but Twitter gives you the opportunity to build a strong brand without the need for expensive advertising campaigns.
Hiring competent management should be a top priority for any business, and is often the difference between failure and continued success. Reliable managers know how to use their time wisely and get the most from every employee to meet company goals. But micromanagers constantly undermine company objectives, and no business can afford to let their damaging influence go unchecked.
E-commerce is by far one of the best ways to make money online. Anyone can make their own store; you don't need to be an expert at coding to get started. There are plenty of tools that can help you build your store, and some of them are even free.
As any modern business should know, appealing to a mobile audience is one of the defining factors of a successful digital marketing strategy. While the online audience used to rely on desktop and laptop computers for the entirety of their browsing and online shopping experiences, the mobile device has now become the primary way for people to access the Internet.
If you're thinking about ways to earn extra cash in your spare time, you might have considered selling on Ebay. It's a brilliant way to make an additional income, and there's even the potential to turn your venture into a real business opportunity if you have the right tricks up your sleeve. Before you get started, though, it's wise to know the pitfalls that many people make along the way.


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Batman Arkham Origins Season Pass Details
Holy addons!! Yet another game franchise taking the Season Pass route.
What do you get for your hard earned cash, well…
Batman Arkham Origins Season Pass Details
Players who purchase or pre-order the Batman Arkham Origins Season Pass will gain access to the following content:
– Gotham by Gaslight Batman Skin
– Brightest Day Batman Skin
– New Millennium Skins Pack (5 Batman 1 Robin Skin)
– Infinite Earths Skins Pack (5 Batman 1 Robin Skin)
– An all-new story campaign
– Arkham Origins Initiation: Play as Bruce Wayne before he became Batman, and face his final test to prove himself worthy to his greatest teacher, Kirigi.
That's the content, what's it gonna cost?
The Batman: Arkham Origins Season Pass (for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC) will be available at launch for £15.99 UK and $19.99 US
Batman Arkham Origins – Initiation Challenge Map DLC available Now Check out the trailer and details
October 28, 2013 at 1:44 am
I was wondering if someone could help me I have purchased my season pass and have completedy story mode and various other side missions however I still can not access half of my skins. Is this because the millennium and the earth skins can only be used in online multiplayer or have they got to be unlocked to be used in story mode.
Hope you can help
November 6, 2013 at 4:06 am
Hi, I have a 360 and also purchased the Season Pass. I do not play online. In the story mode I have zero new skins except for brightestday/gaslight and 2 others unlocked in-game. I don't have Robin either. I also do not have the Bruce Wayne campaign or the post-campaign. I've read the details on the package and it doesn't say 'exclusive to multiplayer only'. I just want to know if WB is going to fix this and if there is any kind of date. Pretty disapointed with all this but I'm willing to be patient and wait as long as I'm not waiting in vain. Is there some kind of refund set up? Cause if they're going to fix it for story-mode/challenge then all I bought was 2 costumes…
November 15, 2013 at 2:29 am
So what is the new story? Gamestop says it's the Bruce Wayne thing but this clearly states that is separate from the new story. I want to know what the gist of the new story is before I decide to buy it or, don't want to waste my money, just being smart.
November 23, 2013 at 10:33 pm
When does all of the season pass content become available? I want to play the new story and the bruce wayne challenge.
November 26, 2013 at 3:19 pm
Hey guys, I purchased the season pass but it did not completely download because i am not able to play the other stories and I do not have access to the Infinite Earth Skins Pack so could you guys please help me out? Thanks.
December 2, 2013 at 2:37 am
I bought the season pass for 360 and so far I can't use brightest day batman or gaslight batman In multiplayer. I also don't have the Bruce Wayne challenge map. I also got all the skin DLC with the season pass but can't use most off it in multiplayer even the robin skins that are only available in multiplayer. This is not just me all my friends have the same problem.
December 9, 2013 at 1:27 am
I did download everything separately it's just locked for multiplayer.
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Having a big problem. Bought the season pass today, but I can't access the in game store. When I select the in GAM store it says "there is no downloadable content available. Please try again later. I downloaded and installed from PSN,but nothing is working. PSN and WB games haven't been able to help. Tried a new profile, deleting install data, and reinstalling update, and a bunch of other stuff. At a loss here.
April 19, 2014 at 10:55 pm
I bought the season pass I've got ally my infinite and millennium skins but my Gotham by gaslight and brightest day aren't showing up I've tried restarting my system redownloading the season pass nothings working any ideas?


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Cocktails of pomegranate and lime juice with fragrant rose water cooled the steaming fashion crowd who were heatedly debating their next vintage acquisitions. Lunch was served on a tropical garden terrace with palm tree vista juxtaposed with Parisian jazz. At a stunning table setting we ate organic dill rice, freshly grilled vegetables and traditional lamb stew. The homemade pesto lasagna was long gone before some of the guests could get hold of it. We finished off with delicious rosewater and date macaroons by Alexandra M, homemade mini cheesecakes and crème brulee with pistachio Ishtha. Happy shoppers didn't leave empty handed: Fabulous goodie bags including Camilla Morton's newly launched book "Christian Lacroix and the Tale of Sleeping Beauty" hot off the press, a selection of exclusive The overdressed postcards, a special Atelier-Mayer lip gloss inspired by Klimt containing 24 carat gold leaf, and a selection of typical Austrian Salzburger Mozart chocolates. Wish I was there!


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Mazda Posts significant Sales Jump In March
By Arman Barari on Apr 02, 2011 with Comments 0
In spite of the horribly painful earthquake, tsunami and then several nuclear explosions in their homeland Japan which have pretty much disabled the car industry in that country, Mazda is still doing strong.
In March 2011 they've enjoyed an increase of 33.3 percent in sales compared to March 2010. That means in the first three month of 2011, Mazda sales have gone up 15.4 percent, with 64,559 vehicles sold.
A large part of this success is duo to the everlasting popularity of the Mazda3. They've sold nearly 12.5K units of this vehicle just this March which shows a near as makes no difference 10 percent increase. We can mention interesting design, great level of equipments, decent quality, affordability and above all amazing driving experience as reasons why the 3 has such a vast customer base. It is offered around the globe in both hatchback and sedan variants.
Mazda's sporty crossover and SUV, CX-7 and CX-9 also have a good performance in the American market and managed to secure a large part of the extremely popular crossover market.
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Mazda North American Operations (MNAO) today reported March 2011 sales of 30,905, an increase of 33.3 percent versus March of 2010. Through the first three months of the year, Mazda's sales are up 15.4 percent, with 64,559 vehicles sold.
The company posted strong gains across the board this month, led by the ever-popular Mazda3, which recorded sales of 12,467 vehicles, up 9.8 percent from last year. The fuel-efficient Mazda2 reported its best month ever with 2,500 sales, while Mazda5 sales more than doubled from last year to 3,866 vehicles, also good for its best month ever. Mazda6 sales also rose 15.3 percent with 4,135 vehicles sold.
Sales of Mazda's efficient CX-9 and CX-7 crossover SUVs continue to remain hot. CX-9 posted its best month ever with sales of 3,635 vehicles, up 22.5 percent, and CX-7 recorded sales of 3,407 vehicles, up 30.7 percent.
"As fuel prices continue to soar, consumers look to purchase fuel-efficient vehicles that don't compromise on design, features or performance," said Jim O'Sullivan, MNAO president and CEO. "Fortunately, Mazda is well poised to meet the needs of our consumers, thanks to our highly attractive vehicles that deliver exhilarating performance in a fuel-efficient manner, all at an affordable price."
Rounding out the North American market, Mazda Motor de Mexico (MMdM) reported strong sales of 2,282 vehicles, accounting for a 21.0 percent increase versus last March. MMdM's year-to-date sales are up 26.0 percent, with 6,671 vehicles sold. Mazda Canada, Inc. (MCI) sold 5,787 vehicles, which is down 29.0 percent versus last March. MCI's year-to-date sales of 13,645 vehicles are down 21.0 percent.
Mazda North American Operations is headquartered in Irvine, Calif. and oversees the sales, marketing, parts and customer service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States, Canada and Mexico through nearly 900 dealers. Operations in Canada are managed by Mazda Canada, Inc., located in Ontario; and in Mexico by Mazda Motor de Mexico in Mexico City.
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Saturday, January 15, 2011
Seraphim Incessabili Voce
Fossil fuels; they're what's for dinner. A good portion of the calories you consume are there because of petroleum-derived agricultural fertilizers. Then there's transportation, because much of the food you eat comes from places very far away, unless you happen to be living on a kiwi-fruit farm. As the world's oil reserves decline, food production will decline with it, until the Leviathan of hunger rears its head and human populations drop precipitously.
There's a gun show in Tucson this weekend.
Cynaegeirus was one of the 192 Greeks who lost their lives at the battle of Marathon. He was attacking one of the Persian ships when it is said his hand was cut off. He was the brother of the famous tragedian Aeschylus.
Julia Fischer isn't just a sensational violinist. She is also a formidable pianist and on occasion she has played both a concerto for violin and another for piano during the same concert.
What's a Reince Priebus? One may similarly inquire, as did Rowan and Martin, "What's an orange gopher?" (The answer is "about a quarter each.")
Janacek. He drinks out of the bowl by dipping his paw in then licking the water off it. If I do not awaken at an appropriate time he gently paws my face in the very early morning. My spouse found him hiding under a car during a hot summer long ago, when he was still a kitten.
Arizona state senator Lori Klein, Republican, carries a Ruger in her purse while serving in the Capitol even though signs on the doors indicate that it is a weapons-free zone.
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Shrimpie, I'm sorry not to have stopped by sooner.
I'm so sorry for what Tucson has gone through. I'm sorry for what your colleagues have gone through. I always appreciate those in the healing arts, keenly so today as Gabby goes into rehabilitation.
I saw your comment on the arbitrary nature of God... supposedly helping those who survived, and those who died, not so much. In the face of the religiobabble that we hear so much, it's easy to become cynical, or if not cynical, simply numb. I tell all who will listen that God is found in the belief that there are eternal things such as truth and justice, and that anyone who does believe in something larger and more permanent than our human endeavors believes in God.
Why do these terrible things happen? Because some among us do not see beauty, experience love, believe in truth or otherwise get beyond themselves and their small lives. Jared Loughner was obsessed with grammar as a means of controlling the world. It may have been whacky, but it's not fundamentally different than believing in money or power to control the world. As to why some people live and some die, it's a mystery, impenetrable.
This is my long way of saying that you're in my thoughts and prayers, with thanks for what you do.


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This is all acted toward being tempted or allured into something, it may be divine truth, it may be the mystery of armeggedon, wouldn't you like to know? This is a Temptation Revelation.
Being tempted into finding out something horrible...or divine. Pretty much the same as the definition.
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Ross Cummins, 22, was found unconscious in a house in Dublin city centre in the early hours of the morning.
The DJ was taken to hospital but was pronounced dead shortly afterwards, the Irish Mirror reports.
Police do not believe Ross' death was suspicious and a postmortem was carried out last night. Dublin's Coroners Office will examine the circumstances surrounding the tragedy.
Following Ross' death it was claimed he had been involved in a social media drinking game known as Neck Nomination.
The craze involves the participant filming themselves downing booze before nominating someone to continue the game.
Security sources revealed police were aware of the claims and are now awaiting the postmortem results.
A security source said: "The young man was found unconscious in a house on Macken Street in the early hours of the morning.
"It is believed his body was discovered was just a few minutes' walk from his family home. Emergency services were called at around 5.30am and gardai were alerted."
The young man from Ringsend was well known on the capital's DJ circuit and regularly performed in clubs.
It is understood he may have been drinking spirits before his death.
In a video posted on Ross' Facebook page just over a week ago he is seen participating in Neck Nomination.
The talented DJ can be seen drinking a pint of what appears to be beer, before nominating two of his friends to continue the game.
Friends and family were last night consoling his distraught girlfriend Niamh Murphy.
In a moving tribute to him on Facebook, Niamh wrote: "Today was the most devastating day I have ever had.
"Words can't describe how broken and empty I feel.
"I lost not only the love of my life today, but my best friend.
"Usually I think it is wrong to be writing on Facebook but I am so overwhelmed by the lovely messages and support I have witnessed in the last few hours that I had to respond.
"Ross was not only one in a million, he was my one in a million, and I really don't know how to be a person without him.
"I just wanted to say thank you to everyone.
"Ross would be overwhelmed and delighted with your messages and prayers. I love you Ross more than anything and I will never ever be able to explain how heartbroken I am to never hear you laugh again. You made my life complete."
Friends of Ross paid tribute to the keen sportsman who played for East Wall Rovers FC.
A spokesman wrote: "Everyone loved you down at the club. You were a terrier on the pitch and a Messer off it. You fitted in perfect when you came down to us.
"We're all thinking of your family in this horrible time. We love you brother and you'll always be a terrier mate."
Former Tesco colleague John Feeney said: "Even as his night manager at one stage you always knew it was going to be a good night when Ross was working as he brought so much laughs into the night and what an outstanding character he was and for that Ross I thank you and I'll miss you loads."
It is understood Ross was especially close to his older brother Sean and mum Jackie.
The Neck Nomination game has swept social media here in recent weeks and has been condemned by alcohol awareness groups.
A spokesman for Alcohol Action Ireland last night warned people to be aware of the dangers.
He said: "While some may see this as a game, the consequences of drinking large volumes of alcohol in a short period of time can have very real consequences for those taking part.
"We would call on people to look after their health and well-being by not participating in this 'game' and to protect their friends from the serious risks associated with it by not nominating them to take part."


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Description:Eddie Garrett (Jake Johnson) is a ludopath who agrees to take care of watching a bag to an acquaintance while he is serving a prison sentence. Tempted by curiosity, he decides to open it and discovers that it is full of money. Eddie can not resist and decides to play the money in bets, but ends up losing everything. The situation gets complicated when Eddie learns that his partner's sentence has been reduced and he barely has time to recover everything he spent.


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The aim of a retreat is to have time away from your normal everyday life, with all its demands and distractions, to explore who you are, and how you are, or perhaps just to be with the way things are for a while. A retreat can be an opportunity for reflecting on your life, exploring the Buddha's teaching, or deepening a connection with nature. All our retreats are camping retreats on beautiful sites in Devon.
Living simply, elegantly and close to nature go some way to providing the space for positive change to happen. We use Buddhist practices such as meditation and ritual to help us engage with different aspects of ourselves.
People come to our retreats with all different levels of experience of Buddhism. You don't have to be a Buddhist for our 'open' retreats, on which introductory sessions are provided. The general approach to our retreats is that you are free to join in whatever is useful to you.
What do you do on retreat?
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Most retreats follow a similar daily programme with meditations first thing in the morning, a work period after breakfast and then the main morning activity. Depending on the retreat, that could be a talk, workshop, discussion, practical activity or more meditation.
Although each retreat has a different theme or emphasis, you'll generally learn two kinds of sitting meditation, the Mindfulness Of Breathing and the Metta Bhavana — loving-kindness — meditation practices. There may be periods of walking meditation too. Retreats are usually led by one or two teachers who are ordained members of the Triratna Buddhist Order.
Retreats are a truly communal experience, where everyone's contribution to running the camp is important, whether that involves chopping wood, preparing vegetables or keeping the hot water going for tea.
Afternoons are free for walking, catching-up on sleep, chatting, reading, writing. There are often yoga or Tai Chi sessions on offer.
In the evenings, there will often be a Buddhist ritual in the richly decorated shrine tent or in a sacred place under the skies. This is an opportunity to engage the heart and imagination, with chanting, drumming, poetry and dance. Before bed, you can enjoy a hot drink by the fire or a soak in the hot tubs under the night sky.
All kinds of people come on our retreats, of all ages and from many different backgrounds. We find that the shared experience of beauty and practice supports a very warm-hearted and open environment where deep communication can arise and friendships are forged.
Our retreats are generally one or two weeks long. However, we also hold a longer intensive meditation retreat with a four-week option.


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- Jenn said...
I like the salads/dressings idea! I'd also like recipes for soups (especially beef noodle soup)!
- September 7, 2009 at 1:09 PM
I was wondering if you have any recipe for milk tea (like the one for boba milk tea). Us Davis folks wanted to see if we could serve milk tea for this year's new student outreach event, and we know that the Austin folks did it for their outreach event. It'd be nice to have a recipe with portions adjusted to feed 100++ people. Thanks!
- September 9, 2009 at 12:55 AM
- Linda said...
thanks for having this site. would there be a way for you to put up recipes with the meats that are on sale?
- September 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Steven said...
how about some smoothies recipes? the one you made on saturday was really good!
- September 21, 2009 at 1:08 PM
oops, sorry tom - i never submitted those vegetable recipes you requested...will do on monday!
btw, i really like the sales you post each week. helps a lot w/ planning. thanks!
- October 2, 2009 at 9:59 PM
How bout my recipe???
- October 20, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Maybe you could post about different restaurants or coupons...
- October 22, 2009 at 1:26 AM
i agree with jenn, can we get more soup recipes or stews?! thanks tom!
- November 10, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- tomkim said...
I'll start posting soon, once school starts slowing down.
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AIDS Wallpaper, 1989, by General Idea. Part of the exhibit This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Opens Saturday. (Image courtesy of AA Bronson.)
- L.A.: Daniel Joseph Martinez, I want to go to Detroit; Cheerleaders CHEER, at LaxArt. Through March 3.
- Detroit: Joshua White and Gary Panter's Light Show, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. Opens Friday.
- Miami: Mary Ellen Mark: An American Odyssey, 1963-1999, at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse. Through April 28, in the Wynwood District.
- Savannah: Leo Villareal, at the Jepson Center, one of the Telfair Museums. Through June 3.
- NY: We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Filmmakers Co-op, at Microscope. Starts this Saturday at 5pm, in Bushwick.
- NY: Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine and Elizabeth Riley, at Storefront Bushwick. Opens Friday at 6pm.
- NYC: F*ck Art, street art meets sex, at the Museum of Sex. Opens today, in Manhattan.
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My Scott O'Dell Award Challenge: Dash by Kirby Larson
About a year ago I challenged myself to read all the winners of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction and to blog about the history and writing lessons I learned from each book. At one book a month, this challenge will take me more than three years, but I'm about one-third of the way to my goal.
This month's book is the newest winner (named in February 2015): Dash, written by Kirby Larson.
After the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Mitsi's best friend Dash, her dog, is her only friend, until she meets a new neighbor, Mrs. Bowker. Mitsi wants life to get back to normal, but soon the government declares that she, her family, and the rest of the Japanese Americans and Japanese immigrants on the West Coast must leave their homes for relocation camps. To make things worse, Mitsi is not allowed to bring Dash with her.
History lessons:
Relocation: I was somewhat familiar with the incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans in the U.S. during WWII. However, it was eye-opening to see the camps through Mitsi's eyes. For example, housing was terrible–some families lived in old horse stables.
However, Larson also showed how brave some of the Nikkei (those with Japanese ancestry) were, how they tried to establish a normalcy (schools, newspapers, landscaping), and how they looked out for each other. I was also thankful to see, again through Mitsi's eyes, that some Americans remained loyal to the imprisoned Nikkei and tried to help them.
Author's note and acknowledgements: I've said it before that I love it when historical fiction authors include an author's note detailing historical context and additional information. In Larson's, she reveals her novel was based on a factual Mitsi (Mitsue Shiraishi), who although an adult during WWII, was separated from her dog, Chubby.
Then, in her acknowledgement page, Larson included a website by Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project, which provides lots of information, first-hand accounts, as well as suggestions for educators. The website also included a terminology section which was very helpful to me, because sometimes official vocabulary used at the time of an event is not accurate. So I learned why, and with what, some of the old terminology should be replaced.
For example, during WWII, the places the Nikkei were sent were called Internment Camps. But, according to Densho, internment is a term for imprisoning non-citizens during wartime. However, two-thirds of the Nikkei "interned" were American citizens. The camps are more accurately named incarceration/prison/concentration camps.
Writing lessons:
Plot Twist: This is trickier to talk about because I do not give away spoilers. But, there is a plot twist near the end of a story done so well I can think back and recall the trail of clues.
Since I've been studying and writing fiction, I can often predict a book or movie ending. However, Larson surprised me. How? She planted clues throughout earlier parts of the novel that suggested one thing, but ended up meaning something different. I can't say anything more!
Author's Note/Acknowledgement Page: Not only did Larson tell how she learned factual Mitsi's story, but Larson also wrote about how Mitsi's story made her think how she hates to be apart from her dog, Winston. This led to her wondering how difficult it would have been for Nikkei children who were separated from their beloved pets. Those thoughts led to Dash.
Therefore, when I'm developing story ideas, I should ask myself "what if"-type questions, such as how would this situation impact a child? How would I respond?
Finally, Larson thanked people who helped her with her research. It is confirmation to me to keep asking for help. People often go out of their way to aid researchers and writers share stories that need to be told to the next generation. In fact, Larson has agreed to help me! Join us next Tuesday for an author interview (and a book and swag giveaway) with Kirby Larson about Dash!
Larson is also the author of other historical fiction for children, including Hattie Big Sky (a Newbery Honor book), Hattie Ever After, The Friendship Doll, Dear America: The Fences Between Us, and Duke. For more info about Larson, see her website.
For another Scott O'Dell Award winner about a Japanese American WWII experience, see my post about Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury.
Have you been separated from a pet for a lengthy time? How did you cope? What other children's books about the WWII Japanese American experience can you recommend? As historical fiction writers, especially for children, how do we include the vocabulary of the past, yet be honest and respectful?


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FOR the past five years, the NATO allies have aimed - with limited success - at a target of 3 percent real growth in defense expenditures. When they set the goal in 1978, most allies thought it was a difficult but not impossible objective to average over five years. This, however, was before the 1978-79 oil price increases and the consequent recession, which brought economic growth in most NATO countries to a grinding halt.
Now that the 3 percent goal has expired, the allies are seeking a suitable replacement. The question is on the agenda for the annual end-of-year meetings of NATO defense and foreign ministers this week.
Meanwhile, the allied failure to meet the goal has become the principal focus for congressional criticism of allied defense efforts. For some members of Congress, the 3 percent formula has become a litmus test of European commitment to the alliance - a test which, in their view, the allies have so far failed.
In recent years, NATO's supreme allied commander, US Gen. Bernard Rogers, has argued that NATO countries need to increase defense spending by at least 4 percent a year to reduce reliance on the early use of nuclear weapons to blunt a Warsaw Pact offensive. But there is no way the allies, climbing slowly out of recession, will sign on to a ''4 percent solution.''
Many NATO experts believe that it would be more constructive to focus allied objectives primarily on output goals - what the allies get for their money - than on a simplistic input goal like the 3 percent objective. NATO's new secretary-general, Lord Carrington, the former British foreign secretary, has suggested that the European allies concentrate on improving NATO's infrastructure, such things as airfields and control facilities.
NATO professionals recognize that the failure of the allies to meet the 3 percent goal has been a serious political liability for the alliance with US public opinion. The failure contributed to the substantial congressional support for Sen. Sam Nunn's proposal this year to cut US troops in Europe unless the allies met the 3 percent objective in the future or made specific improvements in their defense efforts. Most experts argue that such ''punitive'' legislation, if passed, would not have the desired effect in Europe. But simply saying ''goodbye'' to the 3 percent solution without providing some prominent new goals might raise a considerable furor in the next Congress.
If the allies conclude that some input goal must be retained, they might consider making the objective more relevant to fluctuating economic circumstances in NATO countries than was the 3 percent solution. For example, NATO could agree on a real growth plus one formula for future defense spending, linking the defense spending objective to economic performance, and therefore to available government assets in NATO countries.
A ''real growth plus one'' formula would retain the incentive for growth in defense expenditures, but in a way more directly related to allied economic fortunes. For example, under such an approach, if West Germany were to realize real economic growth of 1.5 percent in 1985, the following year the government in Bonn would budget at least 2.5 percent real growth for West German defense spending in 1987. This approach would at least take into account the direct relationship between economic performance and the relative ability of each ally to increase its contribution to the alliance. And, combined with a variety of ''output'' objectives, such as those proposed by Lord Carrington, the approach could chart a more realistic course toward decreased reliance on nuclear weapons.
Debates over sharing the NATO burden have been part and parcel of transatlantic relations since the 1950s. They will remain a prominent feature of the alliance landscape for as long as NATO allies are faced with competing demands for limited resources - in other words, for the indefinite future. The challenge for the allies today is to frame the issue in such a way that countries are encouraged to fund required improvements to sustain deterrence, yet to do so in a way that protects the fabric of alliance cohesion from political and economic frictions inherent in burden-sharing relationships.


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Well, for all the usual reasons. I've asked myself that question a number of times, while debating whether to start a blog at all. And the answers do not sound any better in my head than they do when I hear others state them:
- A place to express myself on subjects of personal interest
- A testing ground for ideas that have been fermenting, half-baked, in my mind over a long period
- An opportunity to interact with others interested in the same subjects as myself...
I don't expect many people to read these postings. If you do: welcome, and I hope you find them interesting enough to justify the time spent. If not, that's OK. because I think I have come to the conclusion that -- if for no other reason -- this blog will be useful as a prompt, spurring me on to get my thoughts down in writing, formally, in an organized fashion. They may never go any further than that. But with luck I will then be able to discuss them a little more clearly when called upon.
It's just a thought. And there's no way to tell until I try.


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Minyan "S" Coop writes:
"Once again you have to pick on the CHISOX. Just because ratings are down this year because the Yankees and Bosox aren't in the ALCS you feel you have to put them down.
You are beginning to sound like another organ of the elitist media. Off handed smack downs of things, whether it be the Whitesox or Bush, just ends up being gratuitous, monotonous and tedious. Instead of that, say exactly what you don't like and how you would fix it, whether it is the economy or baseball ratings. Thanks for your time."
"S" Coop
Evanston, IL.
I was beyond fired up to get this email. Not so much the "organ" or "elitist" parts. And I think you misread my reasons for picking on the ChiSox. But those were simply endearing flaws in an otherwise brilliant note.
What made me giddy was the part where you suggested I lay out "exactly what (I) don't like and how (I) would fix it". Dude... grousing and explaining how I'd "do things differently" are my two of my favorite hobbies. Indeed, noting flaws and suggesting fixes could be my defining characteristics.
I'm rarely actually asked to bitch n' fix for two reasons: 1) I get the impression it's not something everyone "enjoys" 2) Asking me to observe specific flaws and smugly make corrections would interrupt a bitching and fixing session already in progress.
I'm saving the details on how I'll fix the economy until after I'm Fed Chair. I have a plan, of course. A secret plan which ensures prosperity with honor. Also a chicken in every pot, 3 cars in every house and two houses owned by every man, woman and child in the United States. Utopia, baby.
But I won't get confirmed if I tell anyone what I really think so I can't yet share my plan. Since we have some time to kill before the Age of Macke, I'll go ahead and fix baseball.
Why the ALCS is unwatchable, just like all modern baseball.
In the interest of brevity, I'll stipulate the following to be fact (rather than my personal opinions):
Games, particularly play-off and WS games, are impossibly long, largely as a function of the television commercials.
9-Million viewers tuned into a competitive play-off game between teams based in the 2nd and 3rd largest markets in the country. Martha Stewart's NBC show is on the cusp of being cancelled for an audience of the same size.
Attending games live is wildly expensive and now features nearly as many commercials as watching on television.
Drugs have ruined every major record, and thus all the sense of history, from the game.
- Minimize the ad-break between innings and destroy the one between pitching changes.
I know "the networks need the ad dollars, that's the whole point". The television ad is dying, whether networks like it or not. The solution is not to try to jam more ads into consumers' faces, using ever more volume and force. The solution is to rethink the entire revenue process.
Sell fewer ads, in spaces organically created by the flow of the game. Less ads will mean a better product which will lead to higher ratings. Let Budweiser (BUD) have all the ads for the entire game - just don't let them interrupt the game.
With higher ratings, BUD will pay more for the ad-space and exclusivity. The network makes its money and, as a nice bonus, stops killing their own expensive product.
The networks don't have the wontons to make the leap of faith that fewer ads will mean higher ratings. They insist that more ads sold at lower rates is a better economic solution. They are wrong. I am right.
Seriously, Coop, thanks again for asking. It was a true underhand lob of an email for me to take a rip at. The great thing is, even if I whiffed, I can just run to first anyway!
Good luck to your squad in the remaining 2 months of the baseball season! Let me know how it turns out... this organ plans to be at the golf-course.
MLB should also stop drug testing. The genie is out of the bottle; let's see if it can hit 100 home runs in one season!
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Coffee quote from yesterday"We know Bob Corker is lying-his lips are moving..."
More a bit later this morning-I may have something "big" to write about, and not much big happens in White Pine, so it ought to be good.
Well Dave, the more you write about WhitePine, the more curious you make me;and quite frankly, more inclined to believe it could be my kind of place. Can't wait to hear more. As for Corker, well, let us hope and pray that every lie which falls from his poisonous lips will come back to him.