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These Sand Castles Will Never Wash Away

Remember all the hard work you put into sand castles as a little kid? Crouching, scooping and shaping. It was tough! And it was always for naught because the stupid ocean would eventually swallow your castles whole and wash it away. What if you could make sand castles live forever, though? Turns out you can. More »

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Shot dead, dragged through the streets - World News - MSNBC.com

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Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles as they drag the body of a man, who was suspected of working for Israel, in Gaza City, Tuesday.

By NBC News staff and wire reports

GAZA - Six Palestinians suspected of giving information to Israel during its airstrike campaign have been killed in the Gaza Strip.

One of them was dragged after his death through the streets behind a convoy of motorcycles, as some people appeared to celebrate in scenes that a leading Hamas figure described as "completely unacceptable."

Citing an unidentified security source, Hamas' al-Aqsa radio station said the six men were shot dead on Tuesday after being "caught red-handed" working for Israel.

"They possessed hi-tech equipment and filming equipment to take footage of positions," al-Aqsa radio station said.

However, on Wednesday Hamas' deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk?condemned what he called the "unlawful" killings, Reuters reported.

Explosion hits bus in Tel Aviv as deadly Gaza crisis rages

In comments posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday, Abu Marzouk urged the Islamist Hamas administration ruling Gaza to ensure that no one takes the law into their own hands.

"Punishing collaborators and especially those involved in the killing of our leaders must only be carried out in accordance with the law and through the legal procedures," he said.

"The way those collaborators were killed and the images after their death were completely unacceptable," he added.

"Those who did it should be punished and it must not be repeated," said the Hamas official, who is currently in Cairo.

Americans caught in chaos of Gaza conflict

Photographs showed one of the bodies, partially clothed, being dragged through the streets of Gaza behind a motorcycle as others rode in convoy alongside.

At least one body was beaten, kicked and trampled, Reuters reported.

Israeli security officials acknowledge they rely on a network of Palestinian informants to identify targets, The Associated Press said.?

'We are very scared': Egyptians fear being mired in Gaza-Israel crisis

The New York Times reported that another man, named as Ashraf Ouaida, was killed by masked gunmen Friday because he was suspected of collaborating with Israel.

He was shot several times and his body was left with a sign round his neck accusing him of helping Israel kill 15 Palestinian leaders and beneath a billboard featuring a Hamas fighter holding a rocket, the newspaper said.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Anchors resign on air in dispute with Maine TV news station (+video)

Anchors resign on air: Two news anchors resigned at the end of Tuesday's 6 p.m. broadcast. Later, when they were off air, they expressed frustration with the TV station's management.

By Staff,?Associated Press / November 21, 2012

Two news anchors resign live on the air in Bangor, Maine.

Two news co-anchors on a Maine television station quit on the air at the end of their newscasts, citing a longstanding battle with management over journalistic practices.

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Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio announced their resignations at the end of Tuesday's 6 p.m. newscast on WVII.

They didn't go into details on the air. But they told the Bangor Daily News later that they were both frustrated with management.

?I just wanted to know that I was doing the best job I could and was being honest and ethical as a journalist, and I thought there were times when I wasn?t able to do that,? said Consiglio, a northeastern Connecticut native who broke in with WVII as a sports reporter in April 2006,

?There was a constant disrespecting and belittling of staff and we both felt there was a lack of knowledge from ownership and upper management in running a newsroom to the extent that I was not allowed to structure and direct them professionally,? Michaels explained. ?I couldn?t do everything I wanted to as a news director. There was a regular undoing of decisions," she told The Bangor Daily News.

The 28-year-old Consiglio started with WVII as a sports reporter in April 2006. The 46-year-old Michaels was the news director and spent six years at WVII. The Associated Press left messages for them.

General manager Mike Palmer says they were on their way out, anyway. He says sometimes people leave their jobs before they're asked to leave.

?Upper management is not involved in the daily production of the news. Period,? said Palmer, He also cited the creation of 10 new full-time jobs at the station amid other changes and investments in the station.

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Comcast Xfinity TV Player update adds downloads for offline viewing on iOS, Android

Comcast has brought video on-demand streaming to subscriber's mobile devices since early last year, but now an update has added the option to download (some) content for offline viewing. Arriving simultaneously on iOS and Android, the Xfinity TV Player apps support downloads from premium channels Showtime (which was also one of the first up for streaming when that launched), Starz, Encore and MoviePlex. We downloaded the app on both platforms and found it to work in similar fashion, assuming you're already logged in (and have any of those channels in your package) the option to download is right next to the usual stream button with options available for two different levels of picture quality. The high quality option wasn't quite HD quality to our eyes, but certainly passable for viewing on a flight or subway. We did run into a hiccup on Android however, with an "unknown error" stopping us from downloading files to our Galaxy S II running ICS. If there were more content available it would be a decent no-additional-hardware-needed matchup for solutions like TiVo's Stream or DirecTV's Nomad, while we wait for that you can get a taste of the apps for each platform at the source links.

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?So, How Did You Learn to Write Thrillers?? | Maine Crime Writers

James Hayman:? Whenever I give a reading in a bookstore or a library, I usually mention that when I began writing the first McCabe thriller, The Cutting, I had no prior experience writing fiction. I?d never written so much as a single short story.? Not even as an exercise in a college creative writing class.

When I say this, someone in the audience, often an aspiring mystery writer, inevitably asks, ?So, how on earth did you manage, first time out, to write a thriller that someone wanted to publish??

?Well,? I respond truthfully, ?I started by reading a bunch of how-to books on the craft of writing mystery fiction.?? These included James Frey?s How to Write a Damn Good Mystery, Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel by Hallie Ephron and Write Away by Elizabeth George. All were helpful in teaching me the basics. How to structure a plot, how to build tension, how to shift point of view and a number of other writerly techniques.? ?But,? I tell the audience, ?I can?t honestly say they gave me the skills I needed to write and publish The Cutting.?

?Okay, so what did?? my questioner asks.

?Well,? I say, ?I?ve been a writer all my working life and managed to make a living so I guess writing comes naturally to me. It?s about the one thing I think I?m genuinely good at.?

The questioner still looks dubious. ?What kind of writing did you do??

I then describe how, for the ten years prior to sitting down to write The Cutting, I churned out an almost endless stream of brochures, newsletter and business press articles, web content, speeches and white papers that were written mostly for companies in the healthcare and financial services industries.? I also mention the two non-fiction books I wrote, one a history of Banknorth Group, the other a history of Maine Medical Center.

?Do you think writing that stuff gave you the skills you needed to write thrillers??

?Well, some,? I reply honestly, ?But not all.?

At this point, my questioner usually gets a determined look in his or her eye. ?Okay,? they ask, ?so what did??

?Advertising.?

?Advertising??

?Yes. Advertising. Specifically television advertising.? More specifically television advertising for clients who, back in the eighties and nineties, wanted and could afford to pay to produce big-budget movie-like commercials shot on location by top-notch directors like Michael Bay, Joe Pitka, Tony and Ridley Scott, Eddie Bianchi and others. Before going freelance, I worked as a copywriter and creative director at one of the top agencies in New York writing and producing those kinds of commercial for clients like the U.S. Army, Lincoln/Mercury and Merrill-Lynch.?

At this point there?s usually a joke from the audience. ?Advertising?? some wag will say, ?I thought you said you?d never written fiction? before.?

Having just lived through a political campaign where nearly everything the candidates claimed in their TV commercials was exaggerated to the point of being flat lies, I can?t do anything but smile, nod and agree.

?However,? I add, when the laughter finally dies down, ?that?s not really my point. The truth is writing mini-movies like TV commercials is great training for writing not just thrillers, but any kind of fiction.?

I believe that to be true, for three distinct reasons.

First, writing TV commercials teaches you to write dialogue.? A lot of aspiring writers find creating believable dialogue to put in the mouths of their characters is difficult. But because so much of writing for film requires writing dialogue, that eventually, if you have any kind of ear for how people speak (and I think I do), it starts to become easy. All three of my books are dialogue-heavy.? Most of the story is told through conversation. One character telling another what I want the reader to know. I imagine the same can probably be said about most of the books written by most of the other writers who have come out of ad agency backgrounds?James Patterson, Stuart Woods, Marcus Sakey, Ted Bell, Chris Grabenstein and many others.

The second important thing writing for the camera teaches you is to think visually. You have to know where the camera is in your scene and mentally write down exactly what it?s seeing. For example, when I was writing commercials, I might write a camera direction like:? ?Open on a a long shot of a white sand beach on an overcast morning in September. We can see a calm ocean behind it. Camera moves in to reveal two people, a man and a woman, walking along the waterline. They?re both wearing white. Continue to move in on their faces to medium close-up. Finally they stop walking and look at each other. Continue move to tight close-up of their two faces.?

In my first book, The Cutting, this kind of camera direction was translated into the opening two paragraphs of an important? chapter:? ?Had anyone been watching, the two figures would have appeared almost spectral. A man and a woman, both dressed in white, moving together across a translucent, nearly monochromatic emptiness, where sand blended into sea and sea into overcast sky without perceptible delineation.

For a time, they seemed lost in thought, each looking down, each noting the prints their steps left behind in the sand. After a while they stopped and the woman turned toward her companion. She took one of his hands in hers as if willing him to move closer. He didn?t. She let go. A wisp of blonde hair blew across her face. She brushed it away.? Seeing the scene in your mind as clearly as if you were watching it in person or on a screen, then writing what you see helps the writing succeeds.

Finally, the third thing writing TV advertising teaches is to write tight.? In a sixty second commercial you get a maximum of roughly one-hundred-and-twenty words to tell your whole story. Beginning, middle and end. In a thirty second commercial, you get sixty words. In either case, every word counts. Not a single one can be wasted. It?s an important discipline that serves one well when writing fiction. Or, frankly, when writing anything else.

Those are the primary skills advertising gave me that helped me write all three of my books, The Cutting, The Chill of Night and my upcoming thriller Darkness First. You don?t need to spend twenty years in an ad agency to get them. Just listen to how people talk, imagine what your scene looks like and don?t get wordy.? Having said all that, I have to add it doesn?t hurt to have an active imagination and a natural affinity for the English language.

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Business Data - 5 Effective Ways To Gather Quality Data For - Mark

The competition in the business world has gone to the cut-throat level. Companies small and large have entered into a war zone to survive in the market. The competition has changed a lot unlike the old days. Companies have started to apply unique methods to acquire as much clientele as they can acquire. The more clientele the companies acquire, the more profits they reap. For the purpose of acquiring clientele, the companies acquire business data that helps them get in touch with hundreds of people. The question comes to the fore, how the business data generated is and what strategies are applied by the company to make a powerful database for themselves to bank on.

The following points can help you get an insight on the means to acquire business data:

• Seeking Help From The Internet

The present business world has turned to the internet for acquiring business data. In the world today, online marketing has become a powerful tool to meet the needs of both the companies and the customers. More and more companies are seeking business opportunities from the internet. Online marketing has played a pivotal role in making the companies achieve the objective. The online presence of the company is of utmost importance to the decision making process and PPC campaigns and the online media are the necessary tools for acquiring B2B business data.

• Referral Programs To Gather Business Data

There are many referral programs that can help the company generate B2B business data. It is an instant method to multiply the sales of the company. By partnering referral programs with the assistance of the companies, they are able to produce more business from the clientele. This kind of methodology is very ideal for the companies and an easy way to keep in touch with the clientele as well.

• Telemarketing As An Effective Medium

Another cost effective method to acquire B2B business data is through telemarketing. It is not at all expensive and thus can be termed as the easiest method to boost the company?s sales. Through telemarketing, a company can acquire as many as thirty decision makers in a day with the cost bearing on one decision maker as low as $15. With such a low investment, the company can gain more business in an easy way. Telemarketing, when effectively executed, can raise the sales of the company in an adequate manner.

• Email Publication And Print Advertising

This can be the most direct way to get in touch with the clientele. Email publication can lead the company to the clientele very easily. The best part about email publication is that it comes very cheap to the company. Direct mailing can also be a cost-effective method to gaining prospective clientele. Another traditional method is print advertising that can also generate B2B business data for the company. The print advertising involves the introduction of the new products and its reviews, tips from the insiders, broadcasting newsletters etc. Both these methods are an effective method to generate traffic to your company.

• Make A Use Of Search Engine Optimization

The study has revealed that as many as ninety percent out of the total companies are taking to the internet as the means to generate B2B business data. It makes it more pertinent to keep friendly ties with the SEO lead generation programs. The SEO will help the companies acquire the prospective clientele at the very early stage of the sales.

The business data is nothing but an information list that can be acquired from other companies to gain profits for your company. This data is sold by such companies at a reasonable low price. Now, this data can be used for your own benefit and make profit for your company.

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