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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
LinkedIn branches out with new blogging and 'following' features for select group
LinkedIn has always been based on the notion of "connections" rather than "followers," but the social network has made a bit of a break with that tradition today. For the first time, it will let users follow people they aren't connected to, although their choice of people is initially limited to a group of 150 individuals that LinkedIn deems to be "thought leaders." What's more, the company is also giving them access to some more advanced blogging tools that will let them publish longer posts with pictures and videos. Of course, while it's fairly limited in scope now, LinkedIn is clear that this is only their first step in this direction. It says it will continue to expand its group of "influencers" over the next few months (it's taking suggestions), and LinkedIn's Dan Roth told TechCrunch that "eventually we want to allow all people to follow each others." In the meantime, you can get the full rundown of what's in store at the links below.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Forrest Griffin admits to taking Xanax before losing to Anderson Silva at UFC 101
August of 2009 was not a good time for Forrest Griffin. He was eight months removed from losing the UFC light heavyweight belt to Rashad Evans. He was then given a bout with Anderson Silva, who was moving up from middleweight for the main event at UFC 101.
With so much weighing on him, he now admits he took anti-anxiety medication Xanax the night before the fight. Griffin told the MMA Hour that his drug test did come up positive after the knockout loss to Silva.
"I failed my drug test I think for Xanax," Griffin said. "I had a doctor's prescription, I was just, I didn't do it before the fight, I did it the night before, I was nervous and I couldn't sleep."
He said he never revealed the information publicly because there was no point in adding to the embarrassment. Greg Sirb, the head of the Pennsylvania commission that administered the fight said strict privacy laws keep him from sharing information about the 30-day suspension Griffin received after the loss to Silva.
When applying for a license for his next bout at UFC 106, Griffin said he recently had a 30-day suspension, but didn't say why. Medical suspensions of 30 days are fairly common, particularly for fighters who suffered a knockout like Griffin.
Griffin tweeted about his admission:
Just to be clear I was not on drugs for the Sliva fight I simply appeared to be stoned
? Forrest Griffin (@ForrestGriffin) October 1, 2012
Web MD cites drowsiness, dizziness and low energy as common side effects of Xanax. Though he took it the night before, not one of those side effects is surprising when you consider Griffin's fight with Silva. Even with Silva's Matrix-esque moves, something looked not right with the former champ.
Did Griffin do anything wrong, or was it an innocent omission? Speak up in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.
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internet home based business: The 3 Best Reasons To Start An ...
So without further ado, here are my 3 best reasons to start an Internet based Home business:
Its Easy - now this is already a controversial statement, let me explain. Right off the bat if you own a computer and have Internet access you have all you need to begin. There are many ways to make money online with no money needed to get started, my favorite being affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is when you sell other peoples products online for a commission. This can be done completely with free promotion methods, such as with social media i. e Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube just to name a very, very few, the social networking world online is vast and a huge global marketplace that is free to access. There are also, in a related sort of way, many free Internet real-estate out there, such as free blogging platforms like Blogger and WordPress. Another aspect of affiliate marketing ?is recruiting sub-affiliates. You can find great high paying affiliate programs that are 2 tier and even 3 tier affiliate programs. This means you don't just make commissions on the products you sell, but make commission on the work of others and the products they sell. Another thing that makes it an easy transition career wise which I guess is also a bit of advice is, you can start right away without throwing your life into turmoil. Don't quite your day job until your Internet marketing is paying the bills, but work towards being your own boss responsibly.
Non Fixed Income - You are truly the master of your own destiny. In traditional business, as an employee, you know exactly what you will bring home every paycheck. You can work hard and hope for a raise, but even wage hikes are standard and predictable. With an Internet based ?home based business it is possible and probable to become an Internet Millionaire in as little as a couple years and there are even many stories of it being in months.
Nurture Passion - The world of Internet based Home business is wide and varied. There does not seem to be a limit to what field or industry you can make money online with. People have created wealth with Internet based home businesses in there passions from parenting, dogs, scrapbooking, travel, collectables and on and on, Seriously! I love the quote attributed to Confucius "Find a job you love and you never work a day in your life" This what is totally possible and maybe the most important reason, your happiness is no joke, it is a right, not an accident.
So in conclusion I just want to encourage you seize your life with both hands and take your happiness seriously by at least doing the research in how to turn a passion of yours into a Internet based home business. Take action now!
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Monday, October 1, 2012
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Moscow court postpones jailed punk band's appeal
MOSCOW (AP) ? An appeal by three members of jailed rock band Pussy Riot was postponed Monday after one of them fired her lawyers in what prosecutors criticized as a delaying tactic.
The two year-sentences given in August to the three performers for hooliganism after they performed a "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's main cathedral have provoked an international outcry, and celebrities worldwide have expressed support for the trio.
Band member Yekaterina Samutsevich unexpectedly announced at the opening of Monday's hearing that she has fired her three lawyers over an unspecified disagreement.
Samutsevich said she had found another lawyer but had not yet signed a contract.
Her fellow band members said they supported Samutsevich's choice but would still retain the services of the lawyers.
The appeal was adjourned until Oct. 10. Prosecutors condemned the move as a delaying tactic.
Olga Mefodyeva, an analyst at the Center for Political Technologies, suggested the decision might have been a public relations ploy.
"It is possible that because attention to the case has weakened somewhat, they are using such events to draw that attention once again and make this issue into a subject of active discussion," Mefodyeva said.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alekhina, 24, and 30-year-old Samutsevich were arrested in March after dancing and high-kicking at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral as they pleaded with the Virgin Mary to save Russia from Putin, who was elected to a third presidential term two weeks later.
They said during their trial in August that they were protesting the Russian Orthodox Church's support for Putin and didn't intend to offend religious believers.
The women have all been resolutely defiant during their initial court hearings, but the apparent differences over their legal strategy have led to speculation of possible fissures.
Defense lawyer Nikolai Polozov said the group had come under threats and psychological pressure from authorities.
"They threatened to take away their children," Polozov said after Monday's hearing. "They try to find weak spots from any angle. Essentially, their position is to push them apart."
The Russian Orthodox Church said Sunday the rockers would deserve mercy if they repent for their February stunt. Earlier, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had said that keeping them in prison any longer would be "unproductive."
The calls reflected an apparent desire by both the government and the church to put an end to the case, which has caused international outrage.
The band members' imprisonment has come to symbolize intolerance of dissent in Putin's Russia and caused a strong international condemnation. Their cause has been taken up by celebrities and musicians, including Madonna and Paul McCartney, and protests have been held around the world.
Even some government loyalists criticized the harsh sentence, voicing concern about the church's interference in secular affairs and a growing repressive streak in the Kremlin's policies.
Dozens of supporters gathered outside the court building in solidarity with the group.
The international support for the group, however, has also fostered irritation among many Russians over what they perceive to be foreign meddling in their justice system.
A group of anti-Pussy Riot demonstrators outside the court carried inflatable female dolls in balaclavas to the court building in protest at international organizations bestowing awards on the band.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/moscow-court-postpones-pussy-riot-appeal-082424772.html
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MONEY INTO LIGHT: BEN TREBILCOOK TALKS TO PAUL ...
Ben Trebilcook is a London-born screenwriter and producer who got very close to having his scripts turned into the third and fourth respective installments of the DIE HARD and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE franchises. He has a repertoire of many as yet unproduced screenplays ranging from Westerns and detective comedies to hard-core action and spy thrillers, and with production partner James Michaels (a former exec at Twentieth Century Fox) at Wonder Pug Films, is currently producing the martial-arts thriller KNOCKOUT starring Tom Sizemore. Ben is also preparing a big budget spy picture, seeking new representation and trying to get his first novel published. He is the Head Judge at The Rob Knox Film Festival (Rob was an actor in the Harry Potter series who was tragically murdered in 2008 and the festival is held in his memory, promoting and encouraging new film talent). Trebilcook often counsels young offenders and disaffected teens in South London. I talked to Ben about his experiences trying to get two separate scripts filmed as the third MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE film. How did you get involved with writing a script for the third MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE film?
I had a spec screenplay entitled ?Breakneck?. I wrote it with John Cusack in mind. A CIA agent was tracking down somebody blowing up the Wonders of the World. C/W really liked this idea. I was originally asked if I could fit Tom Cruise?s character from M:I into the script, which I did speedily. I loved the first MISSION: IMPOSIBLE (1996). The team was awesome and I set my script as a prequel to the first, just because I could bring back Emilio Estevez, Jean Reno, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Jon Voight!
When did all of this happen? Did you spend a long time on the project?This came around 2000/2001. First through a production executive on M: I -2 (2000) and then staff at Cruise/Wagner Productions. It was incredibly surreal. I received a message on the answer phone from C/W saying they?d been in touch with my agent. I?ve kept that message for over ten years! In the end, things just faded. It was extremely quick with them. It was a pleasant enough time. Other projects took over in my life. It wasn?t constant, day in day out with MISSION or DIE HARD, I had so many other scripts.
How much of a fan of the movie series were you?
I liked them all, even John Woo?s M:I-2! People slate that one, but I don?t think they get it. If you know John Woo movies, then you?ll understand it more. Doves, slow motion, two-handed gunplay, Catholicism, two guys and a girl. It?s John Woo! The fourth, GHOST PROTOCOL (2011), I really liked too.
Was your time on the project an enjoyable experience?
It was a dreamtime, very, very surreal. I did a couple of versions. I tend to think of something halfway through that would be pretty cool and thus I would scroll back to previous pages and insert, change or tweak. I tend to edit as I go along. I have a strange process. My brain tends to function like a mind-map. It spirals off, but does join up and is very contained. I have a notebook filled with random one-liners or oddball dialogue, as well as crazy action scenes and set pieces. I often refer to it and think, hmm, this could be inserted here and I drop it in. It might mess up something a character previously said or did, so I go back and alter it. I?m not saying my first draft is my last draft. I always keep a first draft. I?d say my second draft is the one that continuously evolves.
What kind of directors were interested in your script? I heard Ang Lee was interested in my script, but he left to do HULK (2003). I was told Oliver Stone and David Fincher were interested too, too and of course, how could I not mention Joe Carnahan in all of this? He spent 15 months on this movie and at the expense of Paramount?s card! He?s an excellent writer, too. I think Joe?s take would have been very real and in your face. A true spy movie.He was dealing with them, Darabont, Ang, me and so many others. I liken a film to a Government and all these different departments, reeling in what they can to make for a better end product.
A great deal of things were occurring simultaneously. On a parallel. Missy and Gaye at Cruise/Wagner were in close contact with me for a bit, though they no doubt were with everyone associated to that project at the time.
Why didn't your script get used for the final film?
My first draft, based on ?Breakneck?, the?Wonders of the World? themed screenplay, had a scene in the script where a plane crashed into the Statue of Liberty in New York City. The world witnessed it on their TV screens. As the world mourned and nations prepared for immediate action, war, Ethan Hunt discovered the attack was smoke and mirrors and was actually carried out by rogue agents with missiles and CGI effects, with the news networks in on it and running certain imagery simultaneously. This script was sent in early 2001. A few months later, people watched a similar set of scenes play out for real with 9/11 and the Twin Towers. I was stunned. I still am. It?s not the first time art has mirrored life or vice versa and it sure won?t be the last.
Action movies were put on hold after that. Certainly MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and the blowing up of Wonders of the World! What was deemed entertainment was now deemed offensive.
A lot of things were going wrong at the time. I was young and out of my depth and it wasn?t just me, my agent was, too. He didn?t pack the punch I needed. He was nice enough, but.. I don?t know. Things happened. I was poorly treated during that time. I was mostly in London, my agent in California. There were so many statements being banded around and odd things being said to me over the phone, confusing the heck out of me, and him! "Your agent isn?t a Guild Signatory." "We?re not taking this any further. Frank Darabont is going to clean up a few drafts for us, so good luck." "You were majorly screwed out of that deal." said a producer at a party I attended to in LA around the same time. "Everybody gets fired." he said. I was bemused. I had no idea what happened or what was going on. I received a fax saying it?s not going to continue, something like that.Did you give up on the film after your idea was shelved?
No, I had another draft, which I did off my own back. As sad as I was that New York, favourite city, had been attacked, I didn?t want any movies to be shelved or demonised. Movies are fantasy and escapism. I know the Bush Administration at the time asked a bunch of action writers to form a committee to discuss possible terrorist ideas and threats for movies that could potentially be done in real life. I was considered, too, here in the UK, but a committee of one action screenwriter seemed pointless, so the Blair camp didn?t take me up in the end.
So, I penned this new draft that had Ethan Hunt involved in organ smuggling and the private military in Africa. Some great scenes in Africa, like a speedboat chase up the Zambezi river.
Can you tell me more about this second script?As with most franchises, there's always more than one story and idea being generated by a vast number of people, who are on many different levels. I was certainly on the bottom rung of the ladder regarding MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, and don't think I registered on anyone radar. I'm not lessening myself or my writing ability in any way, I just don't believe that my name flagged up on the 'top list' of screenplays they had at C/W at the time. I know they had more than one (more than my screenplay) which featured the destruction of wonders of the world and without a doubt there were more stories being worked which centered around organ smuggling. I was never in any kind of 'in the loop' regarding knowledge of what's going on behind the scenes. I'd be fed off-the-record information every now and then on who's getting in on the action and talking about it, but would rarely learn who was definitely penning what kind of story. Definitely not at the time anyway. I'd discover a fair bit much later and way past my involvement.
With that said, like 'Die Hard 4', I wrote two very different stories for M:I-3. The 'wonders of the world' one and an 'organ smuggling' one. There are always similar ideas knocking around. My one was very, very dark and was, once again, an original script of mine, which I tore apart and simply said 'I have another idea, if you're interested!' I wanted to grasp onto anything I could in order to keep a hold on being associated to the series and of course, Tom Cruise! Who wouldn't? This is nearing over ten years agoThe original 'organ' script I wrote was entitled 'Radical Extremes'. In an extremely bizarre turn of events, this tidbit, too, is linked to Joe Carnahan. I had learned that a comic book company called Top Cow had acquired the feature film rights for 'The A-Team' and so I wrote to them and Stephen J Cannell, who created the fantastic show, to ask if they had a writer for the movie. Stephen was a hero of mine, without a doubt. Anyway, they hadn't locked in a writer and I was speaking regularly to a head honcho at Top Cow, submitting ideas and outlines and cast suggestions for THE A-TEAM. It was one of my favorite shows of the '80s, and I longed to be part of it. There were a few scripts knocking around, but none suitable enough for the movie. I provided a sample script to show my writing, which was 'Radical Extremes'. It was about a female FBI agent who was pursuing a serial killer, bumping people off for their organs and using extreme sports as means of escape. The agent had to train in extreme sports in order to catch the killer. It was originally written for Sharon Stone. The guy at Top Cow liked it and wanted it as a side-line project of his own, so the A-TEAM stuff was pretty much laid to rest. They'd got Kevin Brodbin, who penned Seagal's THE GLIMMER MAN (1996) to do an A-TEAM draft, too. Funny, one producer said "Radical Extremes? Sounds like a Muslim movie." As much as I tried to explain it was extreme sports and 'yeah radical dude' and that it was POINT BREAK (1991) meets SEVEN (1995), they weren't having any of it, so the script split. The Federal Agent became a man who did extreme sports instead of a woman, which defeated the object of what I was setting out to achieve. A female action movie. I took what I had left, the character of a female spy, which is another big spy project of mine with a working title of 'Vauxhall Crossed', and a story about organ smuggling, that was incredibly dark in tone.
I?wrote this draft very fast and placed Cruise's Ethan Hunt into new and extremely unfamiliar and unsettling territory. I had hardcore, private militia in Africa and speedboat chases along the Zambezi River as well as of course the removal of human organs! I have no idea whether anyone like Fincher or his caliber read it. Like I said, a franchise as big as this, it's without a doubt several plots and a gazillion different writers worked on them at the same time and different times.
I had my agent send it over to my contact at C/W. Where that script ended up I don?t know. This was all during a time that was no doubt extremely stressful for Tom. He had of course divorced Nicole Kidman, was associated with a few fantastic looking female talents, endured a PR meltdown, difficulties with Carnahan's M:I-3 and then along came Katie! I think fresh eyes, going after the 'rabbit's foot' and a trustworthy-with-the-spy-genre like JJ was, in hindsight, a good move.
I do occasionally think back to that time and play out a different ending in my mind to how it panned out for me. I had no interraction with them, but I would have loved any of those talents, Ang Lee, Oliver Stone, David Fincher, to have taken hold of my whole script and have brought it to life. Even to have HELD my script. They're amazing directors.
Any interesting anecdotes from the whole experience?
There were some good parties and events. I was at a party in LA. A big producer introduced me, very loudly, to a few people. ''Benji writes action scripts. Benji done an early draft of one of the spy movies. The Mission movies. Benji done one of those, yeah.'' He started to cough as he laughed when introducing me all night. ''This is Benji done, Benji done.'' He said. There has been talk that Simon Pegg?s character, Benji Dunn, from M:I -III (2006) was named after me. He probably wasn?t, but that?d be brilliant if it was true.
What did you think of the final M: I- III?
I loved it. J.J. Abrams, Bob Orci and Alex Kurtzman did a great job. I like the fact Hunt got married and I love the bridge scene! Philip Seymour Hoffman was a brilliant bad guy, too. Every MISSION movie is different. I think that?s what Tom wants. The first was De Palma?s MISSION, the second was John Woo?s MISSION movie. They match the director and I like that. Who knows what the fifth will be like? Maybe Tom should do it. He?s worked with the best directors on the planet.
Ben was interviewed by email during August and September 2012. I would like to thank him for his time and the use of his memory!
My
interview with Ben on writing scripts for the fourth DIE HARD film.Paul Rowlands is a Japan-based writer. After completing a BA Humanities course (majoring in English and Science) at the University of Chester, he moved to Japan in 1999. He writes for the James Bond magazine, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, has had articles published on Press Play and other sites, and has had an almost lifelong obsession with cinema, something the advent of DVD only increased.
Source: http://www.money-into-light.com/2012/09/ben-trebilcook-talks-to-paul-rowlands.html
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