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BETHLEHEM, Pa. – It's Easter morning. A boy rouses his younger brother, and they run to the living room to find their baskets filled with — what else? — Peeps.
"Peeps are THE candy of Easter," the excited boy tells his wide-eyed sibling, who pops a yellow marshmallow chick in his mouth.
"You can eat 'em, smash 'em, microwave 'em, deep fry 'em, roast 'em on a stick," the boy explains. That's not all. You can make "historically accurate Peeps dioramas … Peeps pop art … You can make a Peeps topiary." On he goes, all day and night. "Peeps jousting … hide-and-go Peeps … Peepshi … that's sushi made out of Peeps."
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"Everyone seems to have a Peeps story," says Ross Born, third-generation operator of Just Born Inc., which hatches 5 million Peeps a day at its plant 60 miles north of Philadelphia. "And they are free and willing to talk about how they eat their Peeps, how they cure them, how they store them, how they decorate with them. And these are adults!"
Just Born calls it the "Peepsonality" of consumers who buy Peeps not only to eat, but also to play around with.
"If you had asked me about this 25 years ago, I would've been rather bewildered about the whole thing," Born confesses. "We were candy makers."
Not that he's complaining. Just Born had its best year financially in 2012.
His grandfather, Russian immigrant Sam Born, started the candy company out of a Brooklyn storefront 90 years ago. Born advertised the freshness of his product with a sign that said "Just Born." The name stuck.
The burgeoning business moved to Bethlehem and acquired the Peeps brand with its 1953 purchase of Rodda Candy Co. of Lancaster. Best known for its jelly beans, Rodda had also introduced a small line of marshmallow chicks and bunnies, employing dozens of women who hand-squeezed them out of pastry bags.
"It was really very difficult, and these women were strong," said David Shaffer, Sam Born's nephew and co-CEO along with Ross Born.
Ross's father, Bob Born — a physicist and engineer by training — automated the process in the mid-1950s, and a version of the machine he invented is still in use today, extruding millions of those familiar shapes on peak-Peep production days.
The company, whose other brands are Hot Tamales, Mike and Ike, and Goldenberg's Peanut Chews, has never suffered an unprofitable year. But its growth has always been relatively slow, steady and controlled. So a few years ago, Born and Shaffer decided to accelerate it.
The longtime partners brought in a new management team, spent heavily on marketing and broke back into the chocolate business, introducing chocolate-dipped Peeps as well as Peepsters, small chocolate candies filled with marshmallow-flavored cream. (New for this year is a yellow chick nestled in a hollow chocolate egg.) They also focused on holiday seasons other than Easter, particularly Christmas.
The result: Shaffer says last year was "off the charts." While Just Born is privately held and does not disclose revenue, he says it posted double-digit growth across all brands. And Shaffer sees more growth potential as the confectioner works to position its products in warehouse clubs and convenience stores.
Just Born certainly benefits from being part of a $33 billion candy industry that is seen as basically recession-proof, offering an inexpensive indulgence during tough economic times.
"Candy did not seem to take the hit that some other industries faced in recent years. We think a big reason for that is candy's place in our hearts and minds," says Susan Whiteside of the National Confectioners Association, a trade group.
Long associated with Easter, Peeps have penetrated the pop-culture consciousness in a way that other candy brands have not.
Aficionados send chicks into battle in a microwave "sport" known as Peeps jousting. They enter Peeps art contests, dozens of which are held around the country this time of year. They innovate recipes like "Peepza," a desert pizza. They write cheeky blog entries with titles like "101 Fun Ways to Torture a Peep."
Hoping to capitalize, Just Born recently opened three Peeps & Company retail stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Minnesota.
While the company churns out more than 1 billion Peeps this Easter season — a record — it sees the 60th anniversary as another marketing opportunity and a chance to connect with its fans via social media. In addition to the TV ad campaign, it's promoting a Facebook survey that asks knowing questions like this one: Do you like your Peeps fresh, frozen, or "aged to perfection"?
So which is it, Ross Born? Fresh or stale?
He's happy to address that perennial Peeps debate. Just don't ask him to take sides.
"There's a lot of gray area here," Born says diplomatically. "There are people who tell me they put a one-inch slice in the film (that seals the box), and they'll lay it on top of their refrigerator for two days. No more, no less. Then they are PERFECT to eat.
"So it's not necessarily stale, it's just a little firmer. All right? It's just like politics," says Just Born's commander-in-Peep.
"You've got people way on one side, and way on the other side, but there are a whole lot of people in the middle."
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A new Theatre company challenges the idea of a cultural hierarchy and aspires to make work that is intelligent and provocative without being exclusive.
The joy of theatre is it's ability to cater to everybody regardless of wealth, status, wit or ambition and throughout the course of history the theatre audience has stretched across the width and breadth of the social classes. However, despite this potential, much theatre is exclusive by nature, and in Britain at least, the idea of a "legitimate" theatre is something that still persists. Certain types of theatrical performance, usually those that appeal to the masses, are often deemed as "low-culture" and there still exists an arbitrary division between the theatrical forms. A remnant from The Licensing Act 1737, which drew legal distinctions between low-brow entertainments and so-called "serious" theatre, there remains an enduring sense that comedies, musicals, cabarets and puppet shows (to name a few) are somehow less sophisticated than other forms of theatre.
This concept of "legitimate" or "serious" theatre is by nature an exclusive notion and it is one that many performers still rally against. Matt Rudkin, co-founder of the company, Inconvenient Spoof, is one such performer. Hailing from an art background, Rudkin is painfully conscious of the proclivity towards pretension that much "serious" work can have: "There are certain kinds of work that are referential, and if you don't have that fine art knowledge, you can't possibly understand it or appreciate it in the same way as somebody who does." It is this type of exclusivity that Inconvenient Spoof seeks to avoid in the work that they produce and along with his partner, Silvia Mercurali, Rudkin aims to challenge the concept of a cultural hierarchy, in which theatre only serves the needs of a select few. "Personally, I'm not motivated to make work for the art-informed elite. I'm interested in the kind of communitas, the sense of a shared collective experience that you get with something like street theatre for example, which a lot of people generally don't have a high regard for."
Although much theatre has its origins in the street, street performance is one of those theatrical forms generally aligned with "illegimitate" theatre. However, it is arguably the most democratic form of theatre, as performers are literally performing to "the man on the street" and not even a lack of money is an obstruction to observing the show. Rudkin comes from a background of street performance and is of the opinion that this concept of "high culture" does not have any real bearing on quality: "Obviously there is a lot of poor street theatre, but just in the same way that there is a lot of poor experimental live art." The audience should not feel excluded by the notion of "art" and art and entertainment need not exist separately from one another: art should operate at the common level.
Rudkin speaks of a desire to create theatre that is inclusive, and at its most basic level, entertaining: "We wanted it to be something that people would simply enjoy." The entertaining aspect of theatre is, Rudkin feels, something that can be lost in the search for "art." He recalls visiting the National Review of Live Art as a student and realising that, although everybody there was interesting, the work itself was of limited appeal: "I remember thinking that hardly any of it was giving me any enjoyment or any experience that I value. At a certain point there was a choice to make: do I continue to go and see this work because I have faith that there is something important about it? Or do I say, look, it's not working for me?" He chose the latter, challenging the notion that art must be meaningful and suggesting instead that it can simply be enjoyable.
This is not to say that the work Inconvenient Spoof produces is without complexity: their show, Dean Gibbons and the Knowledge of Death, is a detailed observation on the peak oil crisis and aims to introduce the audience to the very real environmental problems facing us today. The show is part lecture and "it's very informative in terms of scientific theories to do with evolutionary psychology and peak oil." Rudkin is interested in the "architecture of the mind" and aims to present academic concepts in an entertaining manner: the performance utilises an abundance of theatrical techniques including puppetry, video and physical theatre in an attempt "to make the surface as interesting as possible."
Although Rudkin admits that he would like the audience to take something informative from the show, at its core, is a simple desire to entertain. The performance is partially a lecture, but "it's definitely a comedy" and Rudkin is ardent that the audience walk out of the performance not wondering if they enjoyed it, but knowing for certain that they did. This ambition to create a fully inclusive show, which entertains and offers what Rudkin calls "the most valued experience," is admirable, but also troublesome. Whilst the unusual structure of Dean Gibbons and the Knowledge of Death makes it appealing to a wider audience and challenges the notion of a differing cultural value between theatrical styles, it is also the thing that may well encourage an exclusive audience. Paradoxically, it is likely to be only the "theatre-going" audience that will be comfortable with attending the "experimental" show. Perhaps only the theatrical elite are concerned enough about theatre to go out of their way to discover these smaller, more ambitious theatre groups that aim to diversify and blur the artistic boundaries.
Rudkin is aware of this dilemma and suggests that it is a question of marketing: "I think that it's a festival show. A festival show is where a lot of different people are there to see something new and there's quite a lot of opportunity to attract people who say, 'Well alright, they're going, I'll go.'" However, this idea of a "festival show" brings with it the same conflict: the sort of people who go to a festival such as The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and who watch theatre with the intent of seeing something new, are arguably, already part of an exclusive group. It's an impossible bind and a form such as street theatre only avoids this problem by taking the performance to the audience rather than waiting for an audience to enter the theatrical space.
Britain has a dynamic and vibrant theatre scene though, and the sheer abundance of these smaller, more experimental shows across the country inspires hope that they will manage to access a wider, more inclusive audience. There are an astounding number of small, innovative theatre companies working across the UK today and these, along with the black box studios and the smaller theatre spaces, form the lifeblood of the British theatre scene. It is wonderful that fresh and inspiring work continues to be produced on the secondary stages at theatres around the country, but often these productions are supported by the income from shows with more mass appeal: often "serious" theatre and pantomimes.
Sadly, taking street-style theatre off the street and into the theatre often has the effect of making it potentially less inclusive than the more traditional theatrical shows. Such a show acquires an air of "experimental" theatre and, contrarily, may appear more pretentious than the high-brow "legitimate" performance to the non theatre-goer. Inconvenient Spoof aims to combat this, stating: "It's a challenge for us in terms of our publicity and our marketing." For Rudkin, it is also about not restricting the length of the run – shows with a short-run inevitably suggest exclusivity, like a limited batch of special-edition champagne: "I don't like the idea that you work for a year on a show that you do four times. Or a show that requires so much money that it's not practical to keep it going." The ideal show is one that is simple, enjoyable and transportable.
With the spending review and the budget cuts to the arts, this straightforward approach to theatre is likely to become more necessary. Unfortunately, it may well also be the small spaces and the new shows that suffer, but on the other hand, theatre will be forced to trim down the frills and get back to that most fundamental of performance ideals: to entertain. Exclusivity will no longer be an option.
Dean Gibbons and the Knowledge of Death was on at Camden People's Theatre, London until the 11 December 2010 and then moved to The Hawth, Crawley for more performances in 2011. www.inconvenientspoof.co.uk
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Despite the skepticism Domino's might initially encounter, CEO Patrick Doyle says that the chain's delivery model may give it an advantage in Italy.
"There's a lot of pizza, but there's not a lot of delivered pizza," Doyle explained. "So there may still be an opportunity."
Italy aside, Domino's, which is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been enjoying strong sales growth overseas and boasts nearly 6,000 international locations.
Back at home, where it has 5,000 locations, Domino's has been trying to improve the image of its pizza, which has long been plagued by a reputation for tasting generic and manufactured.
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Q: Domino's launched an ad campaign in late 2009 to address the negative perceptions about the taste of its pizza. Do you think the image still needs work?
A: I think there is room for improvement, but clearly people's impressions of Domino's have improved.
We built a brand for 50 years that was around the convenience of delivery. Nobody loved the food. There are a lot of people who tried it in the past, didn't love it and haven't tried it again.
It takes time to work through that. So I think absolutely there's still opportunity to change people's minds about the brand.
Q: What prompted Domino's to acknowledge its taste problem so openly?
A: Marketing 101 says you always talk about your point of differentiation. For us, that was delivery.
So we just kept hammering away at delivery as the point of differentiation. And there just came a point when it stopped working. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, our sales were negative in the U.S. I think we finally stepped back and realized there is no conflict between delivering a pizza quickly and consistently and having it taste great.
Q: Tell us about the new "pizza theater" store design that you're in the process of rolling out.
A: When you walk into the stores, the kitchen is going to be open, the walls are going to be gone and you're going to be able to watch the process of your pizza or somebody else's pizza being made.
We realized customers want to see the food. They want to see how it's being prepared. The fact that we're starting from a fresh dough ball is powerful for the consumer.
Even if it's only once or twice that they're coming to the store and seeing it, now they've got a mental image of how that pizza's being made. That stays with them.
Q: Why has Domino's performed so well overseas?
A: The wonderful thing about pizza is that it adapts incredibly easily to different tastes. The bread, the sauce and the cheese works fundamentally everywhere. Then we top it differently around the world.
So in Asia there's a reasonable amount of seafood and fish that's on the pizzas. In Latin America it looks a lot more like it does in the U.S. In France, the four cheese pizza is incredible.
It's the great thing about pizza — it's actually very easy to adapt to local taste profiles.
Q: Do you think you'll ever have stores in Italy?
A: We're looking at it. But you'll see other markets open before you'll see Italy.
The other big market that we're not in today is Argentina. And it's almost for the same reason — Argentina is actually very heavily, ethnically Italian.
Q: Are there any patterns in what people order in different parts of the country?
A: Interestingly, pan pizza and thin crust pizza do better down the center of the U.S. Everybody eats more hand-tossed pizza than anything else. But it's particularly stronger on both coasts.
Q: There are several higher-end pizza places popping up, including Chipotle's Pizzeria Locale, which people in the industry refer to as fast-casual pizza chains. What will their impact be on Domino's?
A: If you think about what fast-casual means in the minds of the consumer, it's about better quality food and ingredients. It's about an open environment. It's still fast and convenient and still needs to be good value. We're addressing all those things.
In terms of the fast-casuals themselves, they are still very small. I am sure that somebody will break out and start to grow. But there are going to be a lot of them that are going to fail.
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"What made me sad was that I think that I can fight better than that day
when I'm a hundred percent. So that's what I'm hoping to do." - "Minotauro" Nogueira
Come on. You had to know that someone who survived getting run over by a truck at the age of 10 wasn't going to leave the sport of mixed martial arts quietly. In fact, one of the most enduring qualities attached to former PRIDE and interim UFC heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira is his otherworldly level of toughness.
Yet even his staunchest supporters had to wonder what his 35-year old body had left when he stepped into the Octagon in August to face up and coming knockout artist Brendan Schaub. Nogueira was coming off a layoff of over a year due to knee and hip surgeries, he had lost two of his previous three bouts, both by knockout, and in any combat sport, Father Time's knock on the door can come at anytime once you hit your mid-30's.
But this was a rested Nogueira feeling better than he had in years, he was fighting in front of his home fans in Brazil for the first time ever, and that was really all the motivation he needed to turn back the clock, which he did by knocking Schaub out in the first round.
"Fighting in Brazil was amazing to me," said Nogueira. "It was the best experience of my career to fight in front of my people, my family, my closest friends. The arena is less than two miles from my gym, so I had a lot of support, energy, and motivation. Fighting is about motivation, and when you have a special case like this, you do your best and you can surprise people with how good you can do, and that's what happened in this fight."
Nogueira has been around this sport long enough – over 12 years to be exact – to know what the whispers were heading into the Schaub fight. To many, he was done. But he knew better, and even though he admits that he wasn't fully operational after his last surgery in February, even the level he was at was so much better than he had been over the last few years.
"I was injured for about three years, and I couldn't perform so well in the last fights," he said. "After my last surgery, I took the fight (with Schaub), even though I was like 70 percent. But it was enough for me to be way better than I was before. I was faster, I was punching faster, I had my hips to throw my right hand better because the power comes from the hips, and it was great to fight in better shape and in better condition. I'm feeling good right now."
Almost like a new man. He laughs.
"I'm feeling better. Before I was feeling like 45; now I feel like 25."
So there's no better time than now to revisit a loss that still eats at him, his UFC 92 defeat to Frank Mir in December of 2008. Hit with a staph infection during training camp, Nogueira recovered, but was also saddled with his other injuries, and it was the worst timing in the world for him, as Mir was on top of his game that night in Vegas. What resulted was Nogueira's first knockout defeat. Three years later, this Saturday night in Toronto, Nogueira gets his rematch.
"He (Mir) won that day, I can't change the story," said Nogueira of their first bout. "That day he fought better. He was faster, he was more athletic than me, and it worked for his game. What made me sad was that I think that I can fight better than that day when I'm a hundred percent. So that's what I'm hoping to do. A fight is a fight, but I think I can do better than the last fight."
We've already documented how different Nogueira will be this time around, but Mir has not sat idly by in the last three years either. His standup and wrestling have improved, and he's constantly tweaking the areas of his game that he thinks need adjusting. This subtle transformation hasn't gone unnoticed by Nogueira.
"I think he's improved his standup and his Muay Thai's gotten better," he said of Mir. "He's a complete fighter, and he's improved his endurance. I know I'm gonna face a good opponent, but I'm ready for everything."
A win would make it two in a row for Nogueira and end the year on a high note. But as far as title aspirations go, he doesn't have any at the moment considering one of his protégés, Junior dos Santos, is the man holding the UFC heavyweight crown.
"Right now I'm not thinking about that because of Junior," said Nogueira. "I don't have that goal right now to fight for the title because he's got the title. I want to be the best I can in my weight division, but it (getting the belt) is not my goal right now."
That's an admirable position to take, and when you hear him talk about dos Santos' title winning effort against Cain Velasquez last month, it's not as if Nogueira is a mentor or training partner, but more like a brother.
"I feel happy," said Nogueira. "He was a poor kid in Brazil and I feel great for him and how he improved. He took this very seriously and he became the heavyweight champion of the world."
That's a title Nogueira wore with pride for a good portion of his career. Hopefully as mixed martial arts grows bigger and more mainstream, newer fans will recognize that fact and recognize him as one of the game's greats. But for the moment, "Minotauro" is happy to be around to see the sport he helped build finally be accepted.
"I see how great this sport became and I see how popular this sport became in Brazil," he said. "Over 60 million people watched Junior's last fight. It was so different back when it was illegal in a couple states in the United States, and now we have FOX TV. So this sport's great, I love what I do, and I see how the sport improves every time. There are fighters coming up like Junior, Jon Jones, Lyoto Machida, and a lot of new guys, and I'm happy to be between them."
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Good posture is simply the ability to maintain the normal spinal curves. Further to this, dynamic postural stability is the concept of maintaining a desired alignment (such as the spinal angle) against external forces and loads
Normal Spinal Curves exist to increase the flexibility of movement, enhance shock-absorbing capacity, and ensure adequate stiffness and stability at each joint.
Neck/Cervical spine = subtle inward curve
Mid-back/Thoracic spine = subtle outward curve
Low back/Lumbar spine= subtle inward curve
Sacrum(Coccyx) = subtle outward angle
The first step towards improving your posture is to first become aware of it. Poor posture doesn't happen overnight, it is a function of poor habits in all activities day in and day out.
To help increase your postural awareness try these simple exercises throughout your day, everyday:
1 Neck Check - Place your two fingers at the base of your skull. Run the fingers along your cervical spine. Do you feel any divots? If yes, place your fingers back in the divot. Imagine a string tied to the back of your head. This string is being GENTLY lifted to the ceiling, gradually lengthening your neck along the way (your chin will nod in slightly). Stop lengthening as soon as you feel the divot disappear. Hold this position for as long as possible.
2 Shoulder Check - Many of us carry the stresses of our day in our shoulder area. Where are your shoulders sitting right now? Are they up around your ears? RELAX. Drop the shoulders down, away from your ears. Hold this position for as long as you can as you go about your way. Recheck often.
3 Breastbone Check - To bring your shoulders in line with your ears try this simple posture cue. Instead of shrugging your shoulders back in the classic military pose, simply lift your breastbone slightly & gently to the sky or ceiling. This will open up your chest, drop your shoulders back and gently improve your alignment. Hold for as long as you can. Recheck often.
4 Abdominal Tuck - To help begin increasing your core stability protect your lumbar spine, consciously engage your core muscles (transverse abs and anterior pelvic floor in particular). This can be done by gradually and gently drawing your lower abdomen in toward your spine/pelvis. Place your fingers on the front points of your hips. Inhale wide into your ribcage & back (think of flaring both).
These simple posture cues, if practiced daily, will not only help improve your posture to positively impact your golf swing but for all your activities be they work, home or play. However, practicing these cues are not enough. In order to have great dynamic postural stability you need to train the muscles that act as the support wires for the spine.


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A willow, not an oak. So said conservatives of Chief Justice John Roberts when he rescued the Affordable Care Act — aka Obamacare — from being found unconstitutional. But the manner in which he did this may have made the ACA unworkable, thereby putting it on a path to ultimate extinction.
This plausible judgment comes from professor Thomas A. Lambert of the University of Missouri Law School, writing in Regulation quarterly, a publication of the libertarian Cato Institute. The crucial decision, he says, was four liberal justices joining Roberts' opinion declaring that the ACA's penalty for not complying with the mandate to buy insurance is actually a tax on not purchasing it. With this reasoning, the court severely limited the ability of the new health care regime to address its own predictable consequences.
What was supposed to be, constitutionally, the dispositive question turned out not to be. Conservatives said the mandate — the requirement that people engage in commerce by purchasing health insurance — exceeded Congress' enumerated power to regulate interstate commerce. Liberals ridiculed this argument, noting that since the judicial revolution wrought during the New Deal, courts have given vast deference to Congress regarding that power. The ridicule stopped when five justices, including Roberts, agreed with the conservative argument.
This did not, however, doom the ACA because Roberts invoked what Lambert calls "a longstanding interpretive canon that calls for the court, if possible, to interpret statutes in a way that preserves their constitutionality." Roberts did this by ruling that what Congress called a "penalty" for not obeying the mandate was really a tax on noncompliance. This must, Lambert thinks, have deleterious implications for the ACA. The problems arise from the interplay of two ACA provisions — "guaranteed issue" and "community rating."
The former forbids insurance companies from denying coverage because of a person's pre-existing health condition. The latter, says Lambert, requires insurers to price premiums "solely on the basis of age, smoker status, and geographic area, without charging higher premiums to sick people or those susceptible to sickness."
The point of the penalty to enforce the mandate was to keep healthy people from declining to purchase insurance, or dropping their insurance, which would leave an insured pool of mostly old and infirm people. This would cause the cost of premiums to soar, making it more sensible for the healthy to pay the ACA tax, which is much less than the price of insurance.
Roberts noted that a person earning $35,000 a year would pay a $60 monthly tax and someone earning $100,000 would pay $200. But the cost of a qualifying insurance policy is projected to be $400 a month. Clearly, it would be sensible to pay $60 or $200 rather than $400, because if one becomes ill, "guaranteed issue" assures coverage and "community rating" means that one's illness will not result in higher insurance rates.
The ACA's authors probably assumed that once Congress passed the ACA with penalties low enough to be politically palatable, Congress could increase them. But Roberts limits Congress' latitude by holding that the small size of the penalty is part of the reason it is, for constitutional purposes, a tax. It is not so steep that it effectively prohibits the choice of paying it. And, Roberts noted, "by statute, it can never be more."
Congress has only one way to induce healthy people to purchase insurance. This is by the hugely expensive process of increasing premium subsidies enough to make negligible the difference between the cost of insurance to purchasers and the penalty for not purchasing. Republicans will ferociously resist exacerbating the nation's financial crisis in order to rescue the ACA.
Because the penalties are constitutionally limited by the reasoning whereby Roberts declared them taxes, he may have saved the ACA's constitutionality by sacrificing its feasibility. So as the president begins his second term, the signature achievement of his first term looks remarkably rickety.
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Most beginners who are new to online marketing tend to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of ways one can make money online. Unfortunately, all money-making methods are NOT made equal.
Survey sites, performing microtasks for pennies, etc. are mostly a waste of time and effort. Whereas other methods such as affiliate marketing, arbitrage, product creation, etc. are very lucrative.
Knowing which business model to choose is crucial to succeeding online. You don't want to spend time and effort trying to ice skate uphill. It's best to go with the 5 proven online business models belo
Online Business Model #1 : Freelancing
If you're on a tight budget, it's best to start out with freelancing. The good thing about freelancing is that it forces you to master a skill that you can use to generate an income online.
Ideally, your skills should be related to online marketing. For example, digital graphic design, content creation, search engine optimization, video creation, etc.
Visit freelance sites like Fiverr, Upwork, Legiit, etc. to get an idea of what the popular gigs are. As long as you have the skills to deliver similar services, you'll be able to make money.
It may take you a while to gain traction, but sooner or later clients will hire you, and if you do a good job and deliver the work on time or earlier, you can bet you'll have repeat customers.
As you get more popular, you can increase your rates and so on. The money you earn from freelancing can be used to fund your other online businesses.
Online Business Model #2 : Product creation
Product creation is one of the fastest and most lucrative ways to build an online income. Once again, you will need skills and experience.
For example, if you're into fitness or survival or you're really good at building niche sites, you could write a book or create a course on what you're good at.
From there, it's just a matter of marketing to your niche audience. While this description simplifies things a lot, the point you should note is that creating and launching your own infoproducts or tangible products is one of the best ways to make an income online
Online Business Model #3: Affiliate Marketing
If you don't wish to create products and deal with customer support, that is understandable. You'll probably be interested in affiliate marketing. This business model is relatively hands-off.
You'll be promoting other people's products and be getting a commission every time you make a sale. There are thousands of products to promote on ClickBank, Amazon, Commission Junction, etc.
As long as you can drive traffic to the sales pages, a percentage of your traffic will convert into sales and commissions for you.
Online Business Model #4 : Ecommerce
Ecommerce has seen a boom because of the COVID pandemic. Millions of people are shopping online and getting used to it.
In ecommerce, you can either sell tangible products you create or you may dropship products produced by suppliers with your own branding.
Another type of ecommerce is known as 'Print On Demand'. In this business model, you'll create designs that will be printed on hats, mugs, shirts, etc. Sites like Custom Cat, Gear Bubble, etc will create the products with your designs and ship them out. It's a very hands-free process.
Ecommerce does require a budget to get started. You're looking at anywhere from 1k to 4k when you're starting out. You'll need to run advertising and so on.
This is a VERY profitable business model when you latch on to a winning product. There are many marketers making 6-figure sums with dropshipping/print on demand.
Online Business Model #5 : Kindle publishing
Kindle publishing is best suited for those who have always wanted to be writers and publish their own book. If you are skilful, you'll be able to generate 6 figures in royalties.
You'll also need to know how to outsource some of your writing so that you can scale up faster. The key to increasing your profits is to not only write yourself, but to hire others to write for you.
Selling on the Kindle marketplace requires marketing skills too. It's not all about being a good writer.
These 5 business models are a good place to start. If none of them seem like your cup of tea, you may research other business models such as domaining, arbitrage, etc. If you choose a legitimate business model and you're focused and consistent, you will reap the rewards and have an online business you can be proud of.


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"Bidirectional" here means the merging of langauages that read from Left to Right (English, French, Spanish etc) with some Native languages that are read from Right to Left, (Arabic, Farsi, Urdu etc).
Problem arises where L2R sub-strings are inserted in R2L string or vice versa.
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The Catholic Church says new federal regulations requiring employers to provide no-cost prescription birth control as part of their health insurance plans infringe on their religious liberty.
"If we comply, as the law requires, we will be helping our students do things that we teach them, in our classes and in our sacraments, are sinful — sometimes gravely so," Catholic University President John Garvey wrote in The Washington Post. "It seems to us that a proper respect for religious liberty would warrant an exemption for our university and other institutions like it."
But while some insist that the rules, which spring from last year's health law, break new ground, many states as well as federal civil rights law already require most religious employers to cover prescription contraceptives if they provide coverage of other prescription drugs.
While some religious employers take advantage of loopholes or religious exemptions, the fact remains that dozens of Catholic hospitals and universities currently offer contraceptive coverage as part of their health insurance packages.
"We've always had contraceptive birth control included in our health care benefits," said Michelle Michaud, a labor and delivery nurse at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, Calif. "It's something that we've come to expect for ourselves and our family."
Dominican is part of the Catholic Healthcare West System. A spokeswoman for the 40-hospital chain confirmed that it has offered the benefits since 1997.
Michaud, who was raised Catholic but doesn't practice now, says she doesn't see any problem for a Catholic hospital to provide a benefit that conflicts with the religion's teachings.
"Oh no, because they don't just employ Catholics," she said. "They may be Catholic, but who they employ are not necessarily Catholic." At the same time, said Michaud, "even practicing Catholics would want to have birth control options."
Indeed, studies have shown that the vast majority of Catholic women in the U.S. use artificial birth control.
But while Catholic Healthcare West began offering coverage before it was legally required, today the landscape is quite different. According to the National Women's Law Center, 28 states currently require contraceptives to be offered in health plans that also cover other prescription drugs; eight of those laws include no exemption for religious organizations.
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., also offers contraceptive coverage to its employees – though not to its students.
That's a relief for Andrea Waters, who works at the university's law school. She's 26, Presbyterian and lives with her boyfriend.
Without the coverage, she says, "I think I'd have to reevaluate what I spend monthly" in order to afford birth control pills.
Now some religious employers have been able to skirt state requirements by becoming " self-insured," rather than buying insurance from a company. That makes them subject to federal, rather than state regulation. But they are wrong if they think that gets them out of having to offer contraceptive coverage, says Sarah Lipton-Lubet of the American Civil Liberties Union.
"Institutions like hospitals and universities ... you're required to include contraception coverage in your insurance plan where you include coverage for other prescription drugs, as a matter of basic gender equality," she says.
That's the result of a ruling in 2000 by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It found that employers whose health plans offer prescription drugs and other preventive services but not contraceptives violated the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, 1978 civil rights law that amended the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
And what does contraception have to do with pregnancy discrimination? "Prescription contraception is a form of health care that is unique to women, and the consequences of the inability to be able to access contraception, those fall primarily on women," Lipton-Lubet says.
The EEOC ruling isn't technically binding unless people who are being discriminated against take action. That happened recently when some faculty members at a small Catholic college in North Carolina filed a complaint. The EEOC ruled in their favor.
What the Catholic Church's leaders are now seeking from President Obama is a broader exemption from the new rules, which would let them not offer — or stop offering — contraceptive coverage. They have the strong backing of Catholic members of Congress like Pennsylvania Republican Tim Murphy.
"The foundation of our country is not to impose laws that restrict the ability of persons to practice their faith," he said.
But Lipton-Lubet of the ACLU says this isn't a fight about religious liberty.
"What the bishops and their allies are asking for is the ability to impose their religious beliefs on people who don't share them," she said.
A decision by the administration on the rules is expected soon.
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STEVE ROTHWELL Monday, 31 December 2012 05:39 PM EST
If you'd told investors what was going to happen in 2012 — U.S. economic growth at stall speed, an intensifying European debt crisis, a slowdown in China, fiscal deadlock in Washington, decelerating corporate earnings growth — and asked how the stock market would perform, few would have predicted a good year.
But that's just what they got.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Standard & Poor's 500 and the Nasdaq composite index will all end the year substantially higher, despite losing ground in the final days of year as concerns about the looming "fiscal cliff" mounted.
The Dow posted a 7 percent increase, its fourth yearly gain in a row, having started the year at 12,217. The S&P 500, which started the year at 1,257, was up 13 percent, beating the 7.8 percent average annual gain of the past 20 years. The Nasdaq also logged a better-than-average gain, 16 percent.
Those returns were higher when dividend payments were taken into consideration. On that basis the Dow returned 10 percent, the S&P 500 index 15 percent and the Nasdaq 16 percent.
"There's been a lot thrown at this market, and it's proven to be very resilient," said Gary Flam, a portfolio manager at Bel Air Investment Advisors in California. "Here we are at the end of the year, and it's still relatively strong."
Stocks started the year on a tear, with optimism about an improving job market and a broader economic recovery providing the backdrop to the S&P 500's best first-quarter rally in 14 years.
The index advanced 12 percent by the end of March, closing the quarter at 1,408, its highest in almost four years, with financial companies and technology firms leading the charge. The Dow ended the first quarter at 13,212, logging an 8 percent gain.
Apple was one of the star performers of the first quarter and was probably the year's most talked-about company.
The popularity of the iPhone and iPad led to staggering sales growth that helped push its stock up 48 percent to almost $600 at the end of March. Apple also announced a dividend and overtook Exxon Mobil as the U.S.'s most valuable company.
Investors' optimism faded, though. The intensifying European debt crisis and concerns about the impact that it would have on global economic growth prompted a sell-off.
Within two months, by the start of June, U.S. stocks had given up the year's gains. Borrowing costs for Spain surged and investors fretted over the outcome of Greek elections that had the potential to pull the euro currency bloc apart.
The outlook for growth in China, the world's second-largest economy, also began to weigh on investors' minds. Economic growth there slowed to 8.1 percent in the first quarter as export demand waned, and investors worried that it would keep falling.
The Dow fell as low as 12,101 June 4. The S&P dropped to 1,278 June 1.
The second quarter was also marred by Facebook's initial public offering.
The stock sale was one of the most keenly anticipated initial public offerings in years, but investors didn't "like" the $16 billion market debut. The social network priced its IPO at $38 per share, and the stock started to fall soon after the first day of trading on concern about the company's mobile strategy.
Facebook closed as low as $17.73 on Sept. 4 before recovering some of the ground it lost.
Company earnings reports were also starting to make uncomfortable reading for investors. Earnings growth for S&P 500 companies fell as low as 0.8 percent in the second quarter, according to S&P Capital IQ data.
The stock market only recovered its poise after the European Union put together loans to bail out Spain's banks on June 10 and the head of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, pledged to do "whatever it takes" to save the euro.
Speculation that the Federal Reserve was set to provide the economy with more stimulus to prevent it from slipping back into recession also bolstered stocks.
The rally even survived a blip when a software glitch at trading firm Knight Capital threw stock prices into chaos Aug. 1.
The firm said the problem was triggered by new trading software it installed. Erroneous orders were sent to 140 stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, causing sudden price swings and surging trading volume.
Apple launched the iPhone 5, the latest version of its smartphone, in September, and the company's stock climbed to a record close of $702.10 on Sept. 19. That gave Apple a market value of $658 billion, and many analysts predicted more gains lay ahead.
By the time Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke announced Sept. 13 that the U.S. central bank would start a third round of its bond-purchase program, which is intended to push longer term interest rates lower and encourage borrowing and investment, the S&P 500 had surged 14 percent from its June 1 low. A day later, the index peaked at five-year high of 1,466. The Dow Jones reached its peak for the year of 13,610, Oct. 5.
As is often the case on Wall Street, investors "bought the rumor and sold the fact," and quickly turned their attention to the challenges that lay ahead.
Analysts had also been cutting their outlook for growth in the final quarter of the year. At the start of the second quarter, estimated earnings growth for the period was 15.7 percent. That forecast had fallen to 3.4 percent by Dec. 27.
"One of the blessings that supported the stock market's moves in prior years was earnings growth," said Lawrence Creatura, a portfolio manager at Federated Investors. "That's true this year, but at a decelerating rate. It's not gone unnoticed that earnings growth is slowing, and many forecasts now include a full stall."
Apple's halo also began to slip in the final three months of the year. Its iPad Mini tablet, launched Nov. 2, met with lukewarm reviews, there were hints of unrest among its executive ranks. Investors began to fret that the intensifying competition in the smartphone market would crimp Apple's profits. The stock tumbled, and despite rallying in recent days is still down 27 percent from its September peak.
The year's final twist came in Washington.
Stocks wavered ahead of a presidential election that at times seemed too close to call, and while President Barack Obama ultimately reclaimed the White House by a comfortable margin, the Republicans retained control of the House.
The divided government set the stage for a tense end to the year as Democrats and Republicans sought to thrash out a budget plan that would avoid the U.S. falling off the "fiscal cliff," a series of tax hikes and government spending cuts that economists say would push the economy back into recession.
Initially, markets fell as much as 5 percent in the 10 days after the elections as investors worried that a divided government would not be able to agree on a budget plan to cut the U.S. deficit.
While the S&P 500 managed to recoup those losses by December on optimism that a deal would be reached, some investors are still urging caution. Any agreement will still be "ill-tasting medicine" to the economy, as it will almost certainly involve both spending cuts and tax hikes, says Joe Costigan, director of equity research at Bryn Mawr Trust Company.
"The question is, how much will the drag from the government be offset by business and personal spending," says Costigan. "The market has reasonable expectations for growth priced in, so I don't think we're going to see a big run-up."
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We began our Italian adventure with an antipasto of Toasted Bread with Burrata and Basil . Next we travelled to the Italian coast for an il primo of Spaghetti con le Cozza. Next we moved to the secondo or "second course" which is the main dish with Agnello Scottadita (Burned Fingers) which is a dish aptly named. Now onto our contorno or side dishes.
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Almost every city and town in Italy has its specialties, and there are regional trends too. The end result is a huge number of local cuisines rather than a single national cuisine. (I will take one for the team and make every attempt to explore as many dishes as possible). Of course there are some dishes that you will find almost everywhere, and that are now standards among the many Italian communities scattered across the globe.
Italian cuisine is all about the freshest, most flavourful ingredients prepared simply yet exquisitely. Gilbert's time in Italy is spent immersing herself in the romantic language and cuisine of Italy that we all love. My menu does not concentrate on just one region in Italy but embraces the entire country in my own culinary adventure to celebrate the release of the movie.
Our first contorno or "side dish" is a seasonal vegetable dish. A Tiella is a layered vegetable dish often containing tomatoes, potatoes, and zucchini that is popular in southern Italy and baked in an earthenware dish. It reminds me of a Greek dish Briam or even perhaps that classic ratatouille. I know as with all dishes each region in Italy has their own favourite version of Tiella and it may be different each time it is served depending on the whims of the cook. In Puglia it often contains either mussels or cozze, while some other regions encase their Tiella in pastry. What can be said about Tiella is that it varies each time I make it depending on what vegetables are seasonally available. I think you should experiment with your own vegetable combinations and create a dish that best suits your taste.
In this version inspired by Deborah Mele I actually precooked the vegetables before I assembled the dish to enhance the flavour and cut down on the actual baking time as well. This dish is best served at room temperature or just slightly warm, and in fact tastes great if prepared earlier in the day as I did which allows the flavours to meld. In the heat of the summer when fresh garden produce is available preparing and cooking this dish in early morning for serving a room temperature later in the day will keep your house cool and your kitchen free.
In this Tiella I have used potato slices on both the top and bottom to serve as anchors since potatoes are fairly sturdy and the dish is removed from the pan to serve. Each layer is simply brushed with seasoned oil and fresh herbs. There is also a little grated Parmesan or Pecorino cheese sprinkled between each layer which not only adds a wonderful saltiness and flavour but helps to hold everything together. Using a spring-form pan with a removable bottom works well to make this dish as you can easily move the Tiella to a platter for serving and what a presentation it makes!! Feel free though to make changes and create your own individual version.
If you would like to join me simply prepare an Italian dish from antipasti, primo, secondo, contorno to dolce and send the link with photo to eatchallenge(at)gmail(DOT)com before the opening of the movie. The possibilities are limitless!!!! On or around August 13th I will round up your recipes and post this journey we have all been on together. There is not much time before the movie release so join me if you can!
1 large onion, peeled and thinly sliced
1 medium eggplant, sliced Into 1/3 onch rounds
2 zucchini, sliced lengthwise
2 red peppers, roasted and peeled
2 ripe red beefsteak tomatoes
3 large potatoes
olive oil
Salt and pepper
1 teaspoon dried oregano
Finely minced fresh basil and parsley
3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Cook the onion slices in 2 tablespoons olive oil until the are very soft and beginning to brown. Season with salt and pepper. Preheat the broiler and lightly oil a baking sheet. Place the eggplant slices on the baking sheet, and brush the tops of the slices with a little oil. Broil until fork tender and lightly browned on both sides. Cook the zucchini and potato slices the same way.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Lightly grease a spring-form pan and begin by laying down potato slices slightly overlapping to cover the bottom. Mix together about 1/2 cup of olive oil, and 2 tablespoons of each of the minced basil and parsley. Add the oregano and season with salt and pepper. Lightly brush the top of the potatoes with the seasoned oil and sprinkle with a little of the grated cheese. Begin to layer the rest of the vegetables on top of the potatoes in the same manner brushing with a little oil in between and sprinkling each layer with a little cheese finishing with a layer of potatoes.
Place the spring-form pan into another larger dish to catch any juices that escape and bake the Tiella for about 30 minutes. If it begins to brown too much on top, cover the top with foil. Allow to cool to room temperature before serving.
Serve the Tiella at room temperature or just slightly warm for the best flavour.
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In Mexico, the past five years of President Felipe Calderon's drug war have been marked by brutal violence, unsolved kidnappings and tens of thousands of deaths. Most of the violence has come from the drug gangs, but some of these atrocities have been committed by the Mexican military and police.
Human rights groups say that as state security forces battle the drug cartels, they've tortured, abducted and killed criminal suspects and even innocent civilians.
The city of Sabinas Hidalgo is stuck in the arid northern plateau of Mexico, roughly halfway between the industrial hub of Monterrey and the U.S. border. It's a place many Mexicans abandon in favor of trying to find work north of the Rio Grande.
This past summer, 22-year-old taxi driver Jesus Victor Llano Munoz was also considering heading north, but instead he was arrested by the Mexican navy and hasn't been heard from since.
On June 23, a group of Mexican marines were searching the San Angel motel in Sabinas for drug suspects when Jesus Victor pulled his cab into the driveway of the motel.
His father, also a taxi driver named Jesus Victor Llano, was parked at a taxi stand across the street.
"My son had just dropped off some passengers from his taxi," Llano says, when the marines ordered Jesus Victor into the back of a gray military pickup truck.
Llano says he pleaded with one of the officers to let his son go. He recalls the officer rudely telling him that if his son had done nothing wrong, they'd soon release him.
But then the marines started driving out of the parking lot. Llano says he ran alongside the convoy of pickups, yelling: " 'Give me my son! Stop! Give me my son!' But they kept going, and that was the last I saw of him," he says.
The Mexican navy not only says they don't have Jesus Victor, they say he was never arrested. Officials with the navy didn't respond to repeated calls by NPR regarding the case.
The Mexican navy, along with the army, has been involved in routine drug enforcement operations across Mexico ever since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels in 2006.
Llano says he's visited police stations, prisons and military barracks, but six months after his son was whisked away in a military pickup truck, he can't find him anywhere.
Vanishing At The Hands Of Security Forces?
Over the past five years of the drug war, more than 40,000 people have died in drug-related violence, and thousands have gone missing. Most of the disappeared were abducted by criminal gangs, but the country's human rights commission says hundreds also vanished after being detained by security forces.
In November, the New York-based Human Rights Watch issued a report documenting more than 200 cases of kidnapping, torture and extrajudicial killings by the military and police.
Nik Steinberg, the Mexico and Cuba researcher with Human Rights Watch, says investigations by Mexican authorities into these alleged abuses go nowhere.
"And the message that that sends to the armed forces, to police at the federal, state and local level is: You can do whatever you need to do, so long as it's in the name of public security, fighting organized crime," Steinberg says.
Just after Human Rights Watch released its report, a crew from the Mexican television channel Milenio TV filmed police torturing several suspects after a shootout in Mexico City.
In the video, a half-dozen uniformed officers are holding a young man. The suspect is on his knees in front of a bucket of water. His hands are bound behind his back with black tape. His T-shirt is pulled over his face. The officers repeatedly shove his head into the bucket and hold it there.
Elva Davila Alves says police used similar techniques to force her son to confess to murder. Davila says in September of 2010, her son Marcelo was arrested by plainclothes police in Monterrey. The next time she saw him was more than a week later in jail.
"He was still in bad shape," she says. "All his fingers were bruised and burned. His jaw was twisted. He was beaten and bruised over his whole body. He couldn't walk well."
According to court papers, Marcelo had voluntarily gone to the police and admitted to killing a fellow student at the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon. Marcelo's lawyer and family say he was abducted, beaten and brutally tortured, including having his head submerged in water until he confessed to the murder.
To get the police to stop, they say he made up an extravagant story about how he hired a cartel hit man in a city park for roughly $300.
President Calderon's Pledge
Marcelo, like many criminal defendants in Mexico, did not get a chance to go before a judge. His confession, along with phone records that allegedly showed him making calls to an unidentified hit man, were enough to convict him.
Based on the confession, which he says he was forced to sign, Marcelo is now serving 42 years in prison. His mother, Elva Davila, says she knows the police tortured her son. She saw how beaten up he was, but she's afraid of retribution against her family if she pursues legal action against the cops.
"I have more children. I have grandchildren. And Marcelo is still inside, and the conditions inside the prisons aren't very secure," she says. "Because of this we haven't made any formal legal complaint against the officers who did this to our son."
For weeks, the police refused to let Davila take pictures of her son or have him examined by an independent doctor. Marcelo's family has filed an appeal of his conviction.
After the Human Rights Watch report came out in November denouncing systematic abuse by security forces in Mexico, President Calderon's office issued a statement saying the real abuse of human rights in Mexico is by brutal organized criminals.
Calderon himself has launched a series of town hall-style television appearances where he's addressed the accusations of abuse. He says his forces respect the human rights of everyone, including criminals, even though this is difficult.
"The only way we can win this battle is to confront the criminals with the full force of the government, including the military," Calderon said, "but at the same time, respecting the law and human rights. Because if we don't, we become as bad as the criminals. And we lose all moral authority."
Human rights groups say Calderon needs to do more to control his security forces if he wants to hold on to that moral high ground.
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It is popularly believed that young Meera was just four years of age, she found herself to be deeply drawn towards Lord Krishna. As she grew older, her desire to be with her Lord grew more intense and she resolved to be committed to him forever. Despite being forced into marriage with another man (Prince Bhoj Raj), she defied the social norms and continued to worship Lord Krishna as her lover.
The characters in Serial Meera will be essayed by a new generation of actors:
Young Meera – Aashika Bhatia
Meera's mother (Veer Kunwari) – Gauri Harmit Kaur
Meera's dad (Ratan Singh) – Kunal Bakshi
Meera's cousin brother – Paras Arora
Meera's friend Lalita – Twara Desai


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