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OK. I have to make a confession. I've been telling my friends, neighbors, coworkers, even strangers about how cool my oven is (even though it's not done). I extol the virtues of wood fired cooking, retained heat, etc.
The truth is, I'm not very good at using it. Actually, nothing has really turned out well yet. (except the pizza, that rocks!)
I've overcooked ribs, undercooked chicken, and destroyed beautiful loaves of bread, all at the expense of my family, who eats it and showers me with lies.
Here is my ciabatta from today. This is using a poolish starter, bread I've made dozens of times in the oven on a stone. Multiple problems. Just one of those days. The oven was taking forever to get up to a good temp. I have plenty of firewood, but it's still not properly cured. As a result, the bread over-proofed. I baked at about 450 degrees, not as hot as suggested. Steamed the heck out of the oven. 12 minutes with the door sealed. This is my result...
Aside from a burnt crust, the top had a gummy charred covering. I think perhaps the oven wasn't hot enough for a steam "burst", and some spray may have settled down on the loaves.
I share these moments to remind newbies that there is a learning curve to this. The forum is filled with amazing photos of food that we would be lucky to have grace any of our tables. I'll eventually get there, I hope my family can stomach the journey!
Mike - Saginaw, MI
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Usually I try and give people words of encouragement and tell them its not all that bad. But this my friend... looks pretty bad
I agree with you in regard to learning how to cook with these things, it is tough. I've been tempted to glue an oven range knob on the damn thing just to give me the illusion that I have some control.
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Yet another reason why I have not ventured into baking (one miserable attempt for me)
Getting my pizza dough right every time is still a chore.......breads just scare the hell out of me.
Don't be a pansy like me (still go to a local bakery when I want good bread), keep at it you will get better. Its good to take notes for future bakes, so that you don't accidentally revisit your past mistakes. Thats what I did with my pizza dough for a few weeks. I "thought" I was doing each batch the same...after going back and reading I always found something (seemed minor at the time) that I had done slightly differently. Eliminate those minor changes and I have great dough.
On the bright side, maybe use the blackened ciabatta for a blackened grouper or redfish sandwhich.....or maybe the local ball players need a rub of charcoal under their eyes.
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Hey, don't worry!
I had my fair share of failures with the oven - still do come to think of it... remember that burnt bread? Just keep at it and I'm sure we'll all be drooling over your food photos in no time.
One word of practical advice: Keep it small to begin with. Two drum sticks instead of the whole chicken, reheating leftovers (and I'm speaking from personal experience here), or make something with baking powder instead of yeast.... it'll all help you get a feel for the oven but won't hurt so much if it goes wrong.
"Building a Brick oven is the most fun anyone can have by themselves." (Terry Pratchett... slightly amended)
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Hi Mike!
While I have been reasonably successful with WFO bread and never charred like yours, I think learning to make great bread in a WFO has some steep learning curve and timing the proof to the oven temp is one of the real challenges.
How did you measure the temp of the oven for the bread? How large are the loaves? Was there more? I find it takes about 15 pounds of dough for me to load my oven adequately to get a great crust. Anything less is inferior. And...all that wet dough really depresses the oven temp (one experiment said to about 350) which then rises gradually back to the baking temperature range and finishes at about 435-450. (I start at about 475 based on a IR gun thermometer). It really looks to me like the oven was way too hot - either the temperature was wrong OR the load of dough was too small (so the temp didn't drop down much so the oven was too hot).
In my experience the safest oven dishes are pot roasts of beef, pork, chicken (okay it's coq au vin but...) because they are wet and can cook all day at 250-350 (slight exaggeration) and have a lid to keep them from burning. Things cooked "naked" are much more vulnerable to problems - you can't just walk away and forget them or they will tend to dry out and/or burn (if the oven is over 275 or so). I think it is a lot easier to cook in the oven at 350 than at higher temps. Use of a thermometer to check the internal temp of the meat is a good idea.
Hang in there!
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Things will pick up when your wood is dried out better, too. It's really hard to get your oven ready at the right time to bake when the wood is not ready to go. How long are you firing the oven and to what temperature before you try to bake? Spread your coals? How long do you let it equalize? (takes longer than you'd think) I've burned the bottoms of loaves more times than I care to admit... but you can cut that part off. I know you want to serve perfect food that doesn't need bits cut off, but hell, I burn stuff in the regular oven sometimes!
I'm getting to where if I'm only doing one recipe's worth of bread, I do it in the kitchen oven. Not because of the crust, like Jay, but because I'm lazy. And sometimes, like yesterday, I didn't check the timing properly and ended up with seven loaves of bread of different types all proofing at different rates and needing to go in the oven at different times! So, I ran the kitchen oven all evening. I still have two loaves retarding in the fridge, as an experiment. They'll go in the regular oven this afternoon.
My first non-pizza food was beer-can chicken. It was great. You do have to keep looking at it and rotating it, though. I do a lot of beans and pot roasts. Um, one tip is if you burn the food a little on the bottom of the pot, you can salvage it if you don't stir all the burned muck up and just dump it into a serving dish. Don't ask how I know this...
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Good comments, Elizabeth! And I won't ask how you learned not to stir - obviously it was from watching SOMEONE ELSE make that mistake and you want to protect them from embarassment! Must have been your mother-in-law!
You are great!
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This weekend I pitched a batch of pizza dough. I had not examined the flour closely and it had some bugs. But heck it's flour, water, salt and yeast! All pretty cheap! The biggest investment is time, but you need to travel that road anyway.
Don't feed your family bad food! Let it go!
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Only three loaves in the oven. What do you do with 15 lbs of bread?
My temp stated 450 by IR . This was floor and dome. Walls a little less. Maybe they were in too long?
For what ever it's worth, we just tore the loaves in half and ripped out the inside. That bread was awesome!
Thanks for the encouragement/advice. I'lll keep you posted.
Mike - Saginaw, MI
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Hi Mike!
We will assume your IR thermometer is correct (which is, of course, not certain, but... is probably within reason).
Your bread looks like it went in a 500 or 550 oven. I can't burn bread that bad in a 460 interior oven with a big stone (also checked as being 450-460 with IR) baked for 45 minutes. And you did it in 12!!!! Crazy!
Spraying the oven also cools it down so....more crazy....
Ahhhh.... Did you have the door open while it was cooling down to 450 or was it sealed? If it was open, the surface may have been at 450 and the interior at 500+ which could be how it got hot enough to burn the bread. The other trick is that it was 3 fairly small loaves so they couldn't cool the oven much. If the door was closed and the oven at equilibrium I don't understand how it could have been....
Wait...you said it was overproofed. Bread will often burn a little where the bubbles are right against the surface (a standard ciabatta issue). Also...it tends to burn where it is dry - did the bread form a skin while you waited for the oven to get to the right temp?
RE: 15 pounds. That is exactly why I don't usually use my WFO to make bread. It is too much work and I am absolutely fixated on how I want my bread to look and I can't get that look in a partially loaded oven. So I pretty much do a ton or none. I am sneaky though. When I do bread in the WFO I always make ciabatta as one of the breasds so I will have REALLY WET DOUGH to help humidify the oven!
Look forward to your reply regarding the door....it is the only thing I can think of that really makes sense! (As an aside, when making bread I burn for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours and sweep the oven, close it up and let it heat soak to about 460. Mop it, load it, spray it with water, and bake for about 20 minutes. Then open and rearrange the bread. Close and finish baking, about 25 more minutes for 1 1/2 # boules.)
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Scrape any sugar grains down from side of bowl and from beaters several times.
The beating process will take about 10 minutes, depending on room temperature, humidity and size of egg whites.
Lightly grease an oven tray.
Sprinkle tray with a little plain flour, shake away excess flour.
Mark 18cm circle on tray; use plate or cake pan for this.
Scrape all the meringue into the circle.
Using spatula, carefully spread meringue to cover the circle on prepared tray, as shown.
Try to make side of meringue as straight as possible.
Make furrows up side, as shown.
Furrows add stability to pavlova while it is cooking.
Level top of pavlova.
Bake in very slow oven for 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until it feels dry and crisp.
Turn oven off, leave oven door ajar, cool pavlova in oven; this will take about an hour.
Using sharp knife, carefully cut around top edge of the pavlova.
Push crisp centre down gently so it rests on marsh-mallow in the middle; sometimes the centre will fall itself.
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I still, to this day, think that Demonlover is the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. Her face…. her face….. 0_o.
Someone rec'd a Jack Ketchem novel to me once upon a time. It was some idea of horrible sickness and depravity. I don't recall the name. I began to read it but never finished. Why am I reading this, was my reaction. The guy is twisted, and not in a cool way.
If depravity is your thing, you need to watch Aftermath.
I'd say Salò, mostly because I've seen it when I was 12 or something like that. Calvaire kinda freaks me out too
I found Salo disgusting but not particularly disturbing. The one movie that got under my skin and wouldn't go away was The Vanishing (the original European version). That film is one I'm personally banning from my life.
Salo(120 days of Sodom) = I first obtained this dvd when I was in high school and I thought I was getting the real deal Criterion. I was pissed when I found that the eBay seller whom I purchased it from sold me a bootleg copy. The quality was ok but I was pretty repulsed by the rapes and over nastiness of the film. I took the dvd and through it on some train tracks by my house. In retrospect I think I did this beacuase I was pissed I didnt get the authentic criterion Salo. I would like to revisit the movie now.
Aftermath is pretty gruesome
Everyone seems to be united that Martys is pretty nasty, I've never head of it but I'll check it out
I love Irreversible and I really dig Gaspar Noe's work.
One of the most graphic movies I have seen is the is Japanese movie called Flowers of Flesh and Blood. Its based off this graphic manga artist's interpretation of this video he received from a serial killer. On the video the serial killer is dressed in samurai garb and his dismembering a drugged up semi conscious chick. It's pretty disturbing its FAKE but still disturbing. The fact that manga artist choose to recreate the video is depraved. If your a gore hound and or love special effects its a must own. I own the second in the series there are like a few in this graphic series. The first one which came out in like 1985 was so realestic Charlie Sheen saw it and called the FBI because he thought he seen a snuff video they investigated it and found it be fake. I havent seen this one but I plan too. someday.
Jack by Coppla
Truly evil and sick and sinister
cannibal holocaust.
this is totally subjective but Blue Velvet was pretty f'd up for me when i first saw it… my thoughts: "an ear?!? nitrogen?!?!? why is that guy just standing there!?!"
" i stand alone"
Salo, without a doubt. Hated the film.
Martyrs or Ichi…maybe Transformers.
Kids was quite disturbing. I immediately quit my "bad habits" after watching it.
I have to also say Salo and the Devil's Rejects (unrated directors cut). There
are some others but all of those experiences have been overshadowed by
a video link a friend sent me which took me weeks to recover from watching.
It wasn't a film and I was only able to watch about a couple of seconds of it
once I realized what it was. I wouldn't want to take this thread off topic so
I guess I will leave it at that.
Welcome to the Dollhouse for sure.
I have not seen Salo, fortunately/unfortunately, but I found Pink Flamingos to be pretty disturbing.
However, the movie that makes me squirm the most, and still bothers me to even think about 15 years after seeing it, is Un Chien Andalou by Luis Bunuel. Basically it's only one shot that's disturbing, and you all probably know the shot, but it's haunted me for years. YEARS! I truly wish I hadn't seen it. But you can't go back, can you?
Ya pussy!
Martyrs >
the house of fog and sand (no gore, just emotionally bdaisfsdykjcheiuchWEKCJI)
ERASERHEAD and mulholland dr
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the piano teacher…
for me personally, it would have to be mean creek.
a short by the band nine inch nails called 'broken' that was never really "released", but made its way around is pretty messed up. you can find it in two parts on youtube. it intertwines their music videos for each song on the album with a snuff video. pretty brutal.
Marina De Van's "In My Skin" was pretty disturbing.
by Hanake
for animal lovers:
blood of the beasts
for people lovers:
the act of seeing with one's own eyes
titicut follies
The ending of Fat Girl was incredibly disturbing because it comes out of nowhere.
I saw Salo: Or 120 Days of Sodom and I agree that it is way more disturbing than Caligula (Which no one seems to have mentioned here) but not that disturbing overall. I'll have to check out some of the other films mentioned. There is also a french film with a 15 minute rape scene that is pretty disturbing but I cannot remember the name. Does anyone here know which film I am talking about?
Funnily enough – far from a good film but Alpha Dog had me wrenching inside – (SPOILERS) it shook me to the core when Timberlake's character was comforting the kid just before they killed him, reassuring the terrified lad that all was going to be fine, convincing him to place his trust in him – which he does – and then bang, they waste him. I shudder recalling it even now. (Incidentally I have seen the poor kid's Mum post on IMDB boards since the film – raising support to lengthen sentences of the convicted if I remember rightly – what a god-awful mess).
@ Mikelikesmovies – Irreversible.
What about Street of Crocodiles?
Too hard to pick a disturbing film. All of those mentioned have their qualities for me, but I also really love a lot of them for reasons otherwise.
Yes I would have to say Salò also.. for a few days I was disgusted with almost everything.
most disturbing film that i loved: bertolucci's "la luna"


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The Hillshire Brands Company Holds Annual Meeting of Stockholders

 Company Declares Quarterly Dividend

Thursday, October 25, 2012
The Hillshire Brands Company Holds Annual Meeting of Stockholders11:53 EDT Thursday, October 25, 2012 DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (Business Wire) -- At The Hillshire Brands Company's (NYSE: HSH) annual meeting of stockholders, held today in Bloomingdale, Ill. management reviewed fiscal year 2012 business developments and discussed ongoing initiatives to strengthen its core brands, drive innovation, and reduce costs. Also, the board of directors today declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.125 per share on the company's common stock. The dividend is payable on December 31, 2012 to stockholders of record at the close of business on December 3, 2012. Finally, the company announced the preliminary results of voting, in which the stockholders: Elected all eight incumbent directors and two new directors, Craig P. Omtvedt and James D. White, to serve one-year terms on the Hillshire Brands' board of directors Ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Hillshire Brands' independent auditor for fiscal 2013 Approved an advisory stockholder vote on executive compensation Approved the new 2012 Long-Term Incentive Stock Plan Omtvedt, 63, served assenior vice president and chief financial officer of Fortune Brands, Inc. from 2000 to October 2011, and is a current advisor to Beam Inc., the successor to Fortune Brands. He also serves as a director of Oshkosh Corporation and General Cable Corp., and as a member of the Standard & Poor's CFO Advisory Council. White, 51, has been chairman of the Board of Directors, president and chief executive officer of Jamba, Inc. since December 2008. White previously served as senior vice president of Consumer Brands for Safeway, Inc. from 2005 to 2008. He has held positions in business development with Gillette Company and customer development with Nestlé Purina. "I am pleased to welcome Craig Omtvedt and James White to the Hillshire Brands' Board of Directors," said Christopher Begley, chairman of the board, Hillshire Brands. "Craig brings exceptional consumer products know-how and financial expertise from his tenure at Fortune Brands. James provides unique experience in business and customer development from his roles at Jamba, Safeway and Gillette. I look forward to working with both, as I know they will each be a distinctive asset for the board." They join Todd Becker, Christopher Begley, Ellen Brothers, Virgis Colbert, Sean Connolly, Laurette Koellner, Sir Ian Prosser, and Jonathan Ward as members of the Hillshire Brands' board of directors. About Hillshire Brands Company Hillshire Brands Company (NYSE: HSH) is a leader in meat-centric food solutions for the retail and foodservice markets. The company generates approximately $4 billion in annual sales and has approximately 9,500 employees. Hillshire Brands' portfolio includes iconic brands such as Jimmy Dean, Ball Park, Hillshire Farm, State Fair,Sara Lee frozen bakery and Chef Pierre pies, as well as artisanal brands Aidells and GalloSalame. The company, formerly known as Sara Lee Corporation, began trading under the "HSH" ticker symbol on June 29, 2012, following the successful spinoff of its international coffee and tea business. For more information on the company, please visit www.hillshirebrands.com. The Hillshire Brands CompanyMedia: Mike Cummins, +1.630.598.8412Analysts: Melissa Napier, +1.630.598.8739


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The '80s band the Power Station was comprised of Robert Palmer, John and Andy Taylor of Duran Duran, and Tony Thompson, formerly of CHIC. Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers, two former CHIC members, were also involved with the band. The Power Station was formed in New York City after Duran Duran decided to go on hiatus. The band took their name from the recording studio, where their first album was recorded.
Upon the release of Duran Duran's third album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger, its members split up in to two different projects. One was Arcadia, the other the Power Station. Roger Taylor played drums for the former, but also contributed percussion tracks to the Power Station. In early 1985, the Power Station made an appearance on Saturday Night Live, performing "Bang a Gong" and "Some Like it Hot." This would be Robert Palmer's only live appearance with the Power Station.
In the year 1985, the Power Station broke up. They would reunite ten years later with all the original members, including Palmer. However, John Taylor had to withdraw from the band before the recording of the album was complete, owing to a drug problem and a divorce battle. Bernard Edwards, formerly of CHIC, stepped in and took Taylor's place, although he suddenly died before the band was able to go on tour.
The albums of the Power Station include The Power Station, Living in Fear, The Best of, and 2005's The Power Station: 20th Anniversary Edition.
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|This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may only interest a specific audience. (March 2015)
Native name
|موبی لنک
Formerly called
|Jazz, Indigo
|Public Limited Company
|June 11, 1994[1]
|Saif Group[2] and Motorola
|Islamabad[3], Pakistan
Area served
|More than 20000 cities, towns, and villages across Pakistan[4]
Key people
|Jeffrey Hedberg
(President and CEO)
|Mobile Telephony, WiMAX, VoIP, DSL, PCO and Mobile Banking[5]
|$1.1 billion
Number of employees
|VimpelCom Ltd.
|Har Dil. Har Din.
Mobilink (Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited or PMCL) (Urdu: موبی لنک) the first GSM based cellular operator in South Asia,[6] operates the leading GSM network in Pakistan and provides a range of prepaid and postpaid voice and data telecommunication services to both individual and corporate subscribers. It employs about 8500 people across Pakistan, and has served more than 38.1 million customers as of March 31, 2014.[7] Its head office is in Islamabad, and the current President and CEO is Jeffrey Hedberg.
- 1 History
- 2 Mobilink 3rd Generation
- 3 Subsidiaries, joint ventures and holdings
- 4 Governance
- 5 Mobilink Foundation
- 6 Awards & Recognition
- 7 Other Services
- 8 See also
- 9 References
- 10 External links
Mobilink, registered by the decision of P-00664 of 1990 or CUIN 0022993 (Both active & valid) on December 27, 1990. It started operations in 1994 as the first GSM cellular mobile service in Pakistan with a joint venture by Saif Group and Motorola Inc., who later sold it to Orascom Telecom, an Egypt-based multinational company and then they also further sold it to Vimpelcom Group, a Russian Company.
It initiated its network modernization project in May 2013 and more than 70% of the network has already been revamped with 3G-enabled equipment.[8]
The Orascom group, who formally owned Mobilink has a major share in TWA (Transworld Associates) which operates an undersea fiber-optic cable from Karachi, Pakistan, to Fujairah, UAE.[8] As of June 2010, Mobilink had issued two listed bonds valued at PKR 30.2 billion and PKR 60 billion.
As part of Orascom-Vimplecom deal all Orascom operations were bound to re-brand in all operating markets. Just like Orascom had announced to rebrand itself to become Global Telecom Holding in late 2012, inline with the outcome of the deal, Mobilink has reshaped itself along with changing the architecture of its brands.[9]
Mobilink 3rd Generation[edit]
Mobilink won 10Mhz block for 3rd Generation spectrum on 23 April 2014 and has launched its 3G services in major cities of Pakistan. Mobilink has announced that it will complete the roll out of country's largest 3G ready network with more than 9,000 cell sites across Pakistan by July 2014. Mobilink has the largest market share in Pakistani market today, and its 3G subscriber base will be the largest in the country.[8]
Data Devices[edit]
Mobilink introduced the 3G enabled Data Devices in Pakistan, for high speed internet reaching up to 7.1 Mbit/s.[10]`
After its initial 3G launch in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Multan, and Faisalabad, Mobilink has expanded its 3G availability in different cities across Pakistan.
Subsidiaries, joint ventures and holdings[edit]
Mobilink is a communications access provider offering customers access through different channels. The four key platforms Orange operates are:
- Mobile Phone Telephony
- Broadband access
- Internet
- Mobile Banking
Mobilink (PMCL) acquired and merged the different external or internal divisions managing each platform and now all operate under the different brands.
Mobilink has partnered with Waseela Microfinance Bank to mark its entry into the branch-less banking segment. With Mobicash, customers have access to the simplest way to conduct their financial transactions, related to paying bills, sending/receiving money within Pakistan, purchasing top ups for their cell phones (Pre-paid).[11]
LINkdotNET (an Orascom Subsidiary) commenced its operation in Pakistan by acquiring two already existing Internet Service Providers (ISPs) named as World Online (WOL) Telecom Limited and Dancom Online. LINKdotNET merged the resources of these two companies and by putting in more investment launched its operations officially on 2 February 2008. It was offering its services in more than 130 cities in Pakistan and in two years this company raised its customer base up to 35,000. LINKdotNET provided services for both home and commercial users and was the second largest broadband service provider in Pakistan after PTCL (Pakistan Telecommunication Limited).[12]
Mobilink Infinity (WiMAX Division)[edit]
Under the brand name of Infinity Mobilink had started its WiMAX services in major cities of Pakistan.
Orascom took over the management[edit]
Despite of having the 26% of Mobilink GSM business share, in April 2001, Orascom (GTH) took over management control of the company. As the market leader, Mobilink serves approximately 38.1 million customers and has a 28% market share (as of March 31, 2014).[13]
Orascom's acquisition of Mobilink[edit]
On March 30, 2000 Mobilink was 26% acquired by Orascom Telecom (now Global Telecom Holding), telecoms company. Orascom has mobile telephony holdings in a number of countries in Africa and the Middle East.[14]
President and CEO[edit]
- 2014: Jeffrey Hedberg
- 2008: Rashid Khan
- 2003: Zouhair Abdul Khaliq
|Aamir Ibrahim
|CCO & Deputy CEO
|Agha Mohammad Qasim
|Vice President
|Corporate Affairs
|Ahmed Hussain Suliman
|Chief Strategy Officer
|Office of Strategy Management
|Andrew Kemp
|Chief Financial Officer
|Azfar Manzoor
|Vice President
|Business Sales Development
|Khalid Shehzad
|Chief Technology Officer
|Sadia Ahmad
|Vice President
|Human Resources & Administration
Mobilink Foundation[edit]
The Mobilink Foundation is a registered non-profit organization, which provides support for the local community not only financially but also through dedicated volunteer hours. Being a philanthropic[15] organization, it is purely based on employee volunteerism. No administrative costs or overheads are incurred by the organization and therefore, every single penny that is donated to Mobilink Foundation goes directly into making a difference on ground.
The Mobilink Foundation Torchbearers clock an average of 4 to 5 dedicated hours per person per month during official working hours. On average the volunteers spent more than 4,500 hours in 2013 in community service initiatives.[16]
Awards & Recognition[edit]
Ethical Corporate Award 2014
Mobilink, in a joint entry with VimpelCom has won the Ethical Corporate Award 2014 in the category of "Most Effective International Community Investment" for its m-Literacy Program. The awards were organized by internationally renowned Ethical Corporation that serves CSR,[17]
GSMA's Global Mobile Award
The GSMA's Global Mobile Awards 2013 recognized Mobilink Foundation's efforts in education by selecting the 'SMS Based Literacy' program as the winner of the inaugural Connected Life Awards. The program was deemed to be the Best Mobile Education or Learning Product or Service.
Green Office Certification – World Wide Fund for Nature
Mobilink qualified for the WWF's Environmental Audit to become the first and the only certified telecom operator in Pakistan to have received the Green Office Certification from WWF.
Shaukat Khanum Corporate Social Responsibility Award
Mobilink Foundation was the recipient of Shaukat Khanum's Social Responsibility Award for Top Contributing Corporate. The award acknowledged the Foundation for being the Top Donor of 2012.[15]
Overseas Investors Chamber Award 2010
Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industry (OICCI) recognized Mobilink as the top donor for relief of flood affected people with a contribution of Rs 236 million[18]
Annual Super-Brands 2009
Jazz and Indigo are both recipients of the first Annual 'Super-brands' Award
Annual Super-Brands 2008
Jazz and Indigo are both recipients of the first Annual 'Super-brands' Award
Employer of the Year 2008
Mobilink was recognized as 'Employer of the Year'
Brand of the Year 2006
Mobilink was acknowledged as the 'Brand of the Year'
Research In Motion (RIM) Blackberry Award of Excel
In 2005, Mobilink received the Research In Motion (RIM) Blackberry Award of Excel.
Other Services[edit]
Mobilink also provide free services like access to Facebook's Facebook Zero, Twitter's Twitter Zero and Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Zero.
See also[edit]
- ^ http://www.moremag.pk/2014/06/11/mobilink-celebrates-20th-anniversary-with-cash-prizes-worth-millions/
- ^ http://www.saifgroup.com/executive.php/
- ^ http://www.mobilink.com.pk/about-us
- ^ http://www.mobilink.com.pk/about-us/coverage/
- ^ http://www.mobilink.com.pk
- ^ "http://www.saifgroup.com/executive.php".
- ^ http://www.gtelecom.com/company-profile
- ^ a b c [1]
- ^ "ProPakistani".
- ^ "Mobilink Brings Pakistan's First 3G Enabled Dongle". Brandsynario.
- ^ "http://mobicash.com.pk/mobicash/".
- ^ "http://www.ukessays.com/essays/business/the-merger-of-linkdotnet-and-mobilink-business-essay.php".
- ^ "http://www.gtelecom.com/company-profile".
- ^ "http://www.telecompaper.com/news/mobilink-to-be-26-acquired-by-orascom-telecom--215013".
- ^ a b "http://www.mobilinkfoundation.org/award.php".
- ^ "http://www.mobilinkfoundation.org/index.php".
- ^ "http://www.moremag.pk/2014/10/10/mobilink-wins-the-ethical-corporate-award-2014-for-mliteracy-program/".
- ^ "http://www.vimpelcom.com/Profile/Understanding-VimpelCom/Brands/Mobilink/".
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Mobilink the largest cellular service provider in Pakistan
- Pakistan Telecom Authority
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Boonville High School senior Abbi Boling got to show her pride in joining the Indiana National Guard by wearing its colors during graduation Monday night, but not without first speaking out about a policy not allowing it.
Boling said she was excited to join the Guard in December just a few weeks after her 18th birthday. However, the high school has had a longstanding policy to not allow students to wear items with their caps and gowns that did not pertain to academic honors. That policy extends to the military as well as other clubs and organizations, said Principal Mike Whitten.
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Tampa -- Busch Gardens is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
August A. Busch Jr. officially dedicated the park on March 31, 1959, and Busch Gardens is marking its anniversary with a commemorative display.
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The claim by columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. that voter ID laws will reduce the number of votes credited to Democrat candidates is probably true ("Where is the outrage over voter ID?" July 18).
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|Recording information: The Chop Shop, Perfect Sound Studios, Hollywood, CA.
|Photographers: Piggy D.; Wayne Toth; Rob Zombie.
|As a director or as a musician, Rob Zombie shows no signs of closing the door on either of his creative endeavors anytime soon. Returning with his first album since 2006's Educated Horses, after several delays following this record's completion in 2008 -- due to his work on Halloween 2, lack of promotion, and time spent shopping for a new label after 18 years of recording for Geffen -- Zombie has since gone on to say that the songs on Hellbilly Deluxe 2 were his easiest to write. This could be because it was his first outing to include help from his bandmates (longtime touring comrades guitarist John 5, bassist Piggy D, and drummer Tommy C) but it's probably more attributed to the fact that making songs like these is old hat by now. "Jesus Frankenstein," "Sick Bubblegum," and "Mars Needs Women" are the same schlocky grooves that made up his five previous solo records and six White Zombie records. His trademark "yeah" and monotone hoedown growl are still front and center, the B-horror movie references are still plentiful (Frankenstein, martians, witches, and two songs about werewolves), and the chugging guitars and dark, sleek beats are still trashy enough to be stripclub staples. Chris Baseford's production is thick throughout, withstanding the single, "What," a song Zombie and company wrote and recorded in only a few hours. Influenced by `60s garage rock, the vocals are run through a maximal amount of mid-range distortion and accented by temporize clinks and organ riffs behind the usual crunch. At this point in his career, his best move is to take these types of risks, and when he does so on the ten-minute closer "The Man Who Laughs," with its underlying orchestral score by Tyler Bates (composer for the Halloween remakes The Devil's Rejects and The Watchmen), the results are compelling and unnerving in a good way. ~ Jason Lymangrover
Producer: Rob Zombie
Engineer: Chris Baseford; Jason Donaghy
Musical Guests
|Alice Cooper
Compilation Appearances
|Resident Evil: apocalypse
|Ozzfest 2001 The Second Millenium
|Californication:series 3 (Ost)
Technical Info
|Release Date : 09/28/2010
|Original Release Date : 2010
|Catalog ID : 177925
|Label : Roadrunner Records
|Number of Discs : 2
|Studio/Live : Studio
|Mono/Stereo : Stereo
|SPAR Code : n/a
Professional Reviews
Billboard (p.32)
- "[A] diverse and wide-ranging affair, from the industrial grind of 'Sick Bubblegum' and 'Mars Needs Women' to the garage-y fury of 'Death and Destiny Inside the Dream Factory'..."
- "[A] diverse and wide-ranging affair, from the industrial grind of 'Sick Bubblegum' and 'Mars Needs Women' to the garage-y fury of 'Death and Destiny Inside the Dream Factory'..."
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