Above And Beyond Promotion

With a limited advertising budget, is a poster from Lamar worth it?

I operate a contractor-based, in-home tutoring business. I am already advertising in a local parenting magazine and with the Yellow Pages. I also have a website.

I’m considering buying a poster (a smaller billboard on a Highway) in the area. The poster I can get is on a very high traffic highway in a city in which many of my parents/clients live.

The poster would be $1,500/month. This would tap pretty much the rest of my advertising budget for a month or two. As consumers, do you think this is worth the money? Would a poster legitimize a business to you and raise your interest? Or do you think I should focus on ads in magazines and a flyer campaign in doctors’ offices, dentists’ offices, etc.?

What’s up with Coke billboard?

I keep seeing these billboards advertising a 2-pack of 50-oz bottles of Coke, and they say “100 oz of Coke — Enough For Your Meal”. What does that mean? 100 oz is like 3/4 of a gallon! Does it mean that it’s enough to BE a meal by itself? Or it’s enough for my whole family’s meal? Who would drink 3/4 of a gallon of Coke with one meal? And if it’s for one meal, why is it in 2 bottles? I don’t get it!

How do small businesses decide where to spend their advertising budgets?

Their are so many places to advertise these days. The yellow pages, online, outdoor billboards, local radio, sponsoring teams or events, local newspapers and magazines. How can a small business sort through all of these options?

If a political candidate has advertising credit leftover can he/she use it for personal use?

Can a political candidate who buys billboards for example use a balance left over with the billboard company for personal use? So, for example, let’s say the candidate uses campaign money in the amount of $50,000 to advertise his campaign but only uses $40,000 of or gets a credit from the billboard company for whatever reason, can the candidate use it to promote a personal business after the campaign is over considering that the money from the billboard company is not refundable and the remaining balance can only be used for billboard advertising?

A few questions about designing a billboard?

So, for a project in school, we have to make a billboard advertising one good that was carried along the Silk Road. No one in the history class can repeat a good, and we already signed up for goods- I have to advertise grain.

Can you tell me answers of these questions:
-What is a catchy slogan to advertise grain along the Silk Road (It can be modern. Doesn’t have to be relating to ancient times)

-Can you tell me a little bit about the grain along the Silk Road

THANKS SO MUCH GUYS/GALS!

Viacom/Time Warner Cable dispute?

This is ridiculous.

Read about it here:

LOS ANGELES – “SpongeBob SquarePants” may be getting squeezed off of Time Warner Cable.

Media giant Viacom Inc. said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable is not agreed upon by then.

The impasse would mean “SpongeBob” and other popular shows like Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” and Stephen Colbert’s “The Colbert Report” will be cut off, said spokesman Alex Dudley, a vice president at Time Warner Cable. The nation’s second-largest cable operator primarily serves customers in New York state, the Carolinas, Ohio, Southern California and Texas.

Viacom has asked for fee increases of between 22 percent and 36 percent per channel, an amount that could increase customers’ cable bills, Dudley said. Viacom spokeswoman Kelly McAndrew said the requested increase was in the very low double-digit percentage range.

“The issue is that they have asked for an exorbitant increase in their carriage fees and their network ratings are sagging,” Dudley said. “Basically we’re trying to hold the line for our customer.”

Viacom said the increases would cost an extra 23 cents a month per subscriber — which works out to $35.9 million more in total. It said that Americans spend a fifth of their TV time watching Viacom shows but its fees make up less than 2.5 percent of the Time Warner cable bill.

“We make this request because Time Warner Cable has so greatly undervalued our channels for so long,” it said.

“Ultimately, however, if Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV and the rest of our programming is discontinued — over less than a penny per day — we believe viewers will see this behavior by their cable company as outrageous,” it said.

Negotiations are continuing at the highest level, Dudley said.

Viacom accused Time Warner Cable of not negotiating.

“It is our sincere hope that they will come to the table and negotiate a deal,” said McAndrew. The network operator also intends to tell viewers about the dispute in TV ads in 11 major markets.

Part of the disagreement is that most of the popular shows are rerun on Web sites where Viacom collects advertising revenue that it does not share with Time Warner, Dudley said.

“We don’t think that’s fair,” he said. “They’re trying to have their cake and eat it too online, where anybody can get it for free.”

Viacom has staked much of its revenue-growth prospects on its ability to extract higher carriage rates out of its cable and satellite affiliates despite an ad slowdown and weak ratings.

In the third quarter, media network revenue, which accounts for about two-thirds of the total, grew 6 percent to $2.1 billion, despite global ad revenue falling 2 percent, largely because of double-digit percentage growth in affiliate fees and the success of its “Rock Band” video game.

Viacom shares rose 69 cents, or 3.7 percent, to close at $19.26 on Tuesday, while Time Warner Cable shares added $1.56, or 7.7 percent, to $21.76.

The channels that would be affected are: Comedy Central, CMT: Pure Country, Logo, Palladia, MTV, MTV 2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, MTV Tr3s, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick 2, Nicktoons, Spike, The N, TV Land, VH1, VH1 Classic, and VH1 Soul.

Pop-up alerts on “The Colbert Report” and “The Daily Show” Web sites Wednesday morning informed fans that Time Warner Cable customers will lose Comedy Central shows soon and urged them to call the cable company and protest the change.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_on_bi_ge/viacom_time_warner_cable

^Honestly…18 channels? Can Time Warner really take a hit to their cable company as big as this? Will the sides reach an agreement by today? Opinions anyone?
Personally, i think this is stupid. An extra 23 cents a month or $2.76 a year is nothing. Time Warner just needs to give in already so i can watch South Park, Mind of Mencia, all my reality TV shows and definitely SPONGEBOB!

FREELOTTO?is it TRUE or LIE?PLEASE HELP & THANKS!?

OFFICIAL RULES OF FREELOTTO

NO PURCHASE OR ONLINE ACCESS FEE NECESSARY TO PLAY

1. HOW TO PLAY:
Register at http://www.freelotto.com. You must provide your first and last name, your e-mail address and your postal address. You may from time to time be required to provide additional information. You are responsible for updating your information should there be a change. You can do so by editing your player profile on our website. You are responsible for claiming any prizes that you may win as further described below. The receipt of emails from FreeLotto is required for your participation in and to claim prizes in FreeLotto games. You will be notified during game play if the email address you submitted will enable you to claim your prizes. If your email address does not meet these requirements, you will be given an opportunity to submit an alternate email address. Some internet service providers such as Yahoo and Hotmail.com provide free e-mail services. Some companies provide free internet access and may also be available at your public library.

Each day a certain number of ads or questions will be posted at the game site that will remain on the site all or part of that day. To submit your entries for the daily contests, choose your numbers for each of the FreeLotto® games you are eligible to enter each day and choose a sponsor to visit by clicking on its banner ad, or answer a multiple choice question. You may submit one entry for each game available to you on a given day. You may also increase the number of banner ads available to you by answering questions regarding your buying preferences. Your answers will determine if some advertisers who seek to selectively advertise their products will display their ads to you. (Example: if you indicate an interest in fishing, fishing related ads may appear on your FreeLotto® game page). You may enter once from each ad or question but you are limited to one entry per FreeLotto game per day.)

2. Players have the opportunity to play the 6 consecutive FreeLotto® games consisting of FreeLotto, FreeLotto Win A Car, FreeLotto Pay Off your Mortgage, FreeLotto FastCash, FreeLotto $100,000 GiveAway and FreeLotto SuperBucks each day. (The FreeLotto® game sequence consists of 6 games which must be played in consecutive order). Players must play each game they are offered in succession to be eligible to play the subsequent game and must enter all of the first 5 games they are offered to be eligible to play FreeLotto SuperBucks. The 5 games that follow Classic FreeLotto® are FreeLotto Win A Car, FreeLotto Pay Off your Mortgage, FreeLotto FastCash, FreeLotto $100,000 GiveAway and FreeLotto SuperBucks. From time to time the FreeLotto games may be offered individually or out of sequence. In such instances all other provisions of the FreeLotto Game Rules apply.

3. How to Play FreeLotto Games:
a. Classic FreeLotto
1. To enter the daily Classic FreeLotto® sweepstakes, you will need to pick 6 different numbers between 1 and 54, with no duplicates. This can be done by one of three methods: (a) pick 6 unique numbers; (b) allow the computer to pick the numbers (referred to as a “Quick Pick”); or (c) designate and save 6 numbers as “Favorites” which can be automatically selected instead of selecting unique numbers each time you enter; or (d) click on “Hot Numbers” which allows the computer to pick your numbers based on the most common drawn winning numbers.

Each day, six (6) Classic FreeLotto winning numbers between one 1 and 54 will be selected at random via a random ball drop lottery machine at around 5:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time). These numbers will be matched against all entries received between 3:00:01 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) the previous day and 3:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) that day. The winning numbers will be posted after the drawing on the FreeLotto® website.

2. Classic FreeLotto Prize: If an entry identically matches each of the 6 winning numbers that appear on FreeLotto the ball drop, that entry will be awarded the Grand Prize, pending eligibility verification and the administration of a skill-testing question (referenced below) if the entrant is from Canada. Second prizes will be awarded for matching 5 of the 6 numbers drawn, third prizes shall be awarded for matching 4 of the 6 numbers drawn, and fourth prizes shall be awarded for matching 3 of the 6 numbers drawn. The FreeLotto daily results email is the sole notification of any prize winnings and prize winners must claim any prize by following the instructions within the FreeLotto daily results email. Classic FreeLotto® GRAND PRIZE: One Million ($1,000,000.00) US Dollars, paid out as an annuity of $40,000.00 per year for 25 years. If more than one entry contains all of the winning numbers, the Grand Prize will be divided evenly among the correct entries. Cash prizes for multiple Grand Prize winning entries will be paid out as an annuity based upon dividing the Prize by the number of winning entries, which will be paid out over 25 years. SECOND PRIZE: $300.00. Maximum cumulative dollar amount awarded for any drawing for the 2nd prize in the FreeLotto game is $250,000.00. Therefore, if there are more than eight hundred thirty three (833) 2nd Prize winners in any FreeLotto drawing, then those 2nd Prize winners for that drawing will be awarded an amount equal to dividing $250,000 by the number of 2nd Prize winners. (Example: if there are 1,000 2nd prize winners, each 2nd Prize winner would receive $250.00 ($250,000/1,000 = $250.00)). ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE FreeLotto® GAME RULES APPLY. THIRD PRIZE: $5.00 to each winner. FOURTH PRIZE: $1.00 to each winner. The winning numbers will be posted after the drawing on the FreeLotto® website http://www.freelotto.com. Odds of winning: Classic FreeLotto® Game: Grand Prize – 1:25,827,165; Second Prize – 1:89,677.66; Third prize – 1:1,526.43; Fourth Prize – 1:74.66.

b. FreeLotto Win A Car
1. To enter, play the daily FreeLotto® game. Once you play FreeLotto®, you become eligible to play FreeLotto Win A Car. FreeLotto Win A Car is played the same way as FreeLotto®, but you need to select 6 out of 42 numbers correctly with no duplicates (rather than 6 out of 54 numbers in FreeLotto®). This can be done in one of three ways: (a) pick 6 unique numbers; (b) allow the computer to pick the numbers (referred to as “Quick Pick”); or (c) designate and save 6 numbers as “Favorites” which can be automatically selected instead of selecting unique numbers each time you enter.

2. Each day, 6 Win A Car winning numbers between one 1 and 42 will be selected at random via a random ball drop lottery machine at around 5:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time). These numbers will be matched against all entries received between 3:00:01 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) the previous day and 3:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) that day. The winning numbers will be posted after the drawing on the FreeLotto® website

3. Win A Car Prize: If an entry identically matches each of the 6 winning numbers that appear on the FreeLotto Win A Car ball drop, that entry will be awarded the Win A Car Prize, pending eligibility verification. There are no secondary prizes for FreeLotto Win A Car. If there is only one winner, the winner will win a luxury car with a retail value of up to $50,000 USD before taxes. or have the opportunity to choose the cash value of the prize, which is $40,000 USD. Once the car selected has been paid for, the cash over and above the value of the prize is forfeited. If more than one entry contains all of the winning numbers, Win A Car Prize will be divided evenly among the correct entries. Odds of winning:1:5,245,786.
ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE FreeLotto® GAME RULES APPLY

C. FreeLotto Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage
1. To enter, play the Classic FreeLotto® game and then FreeLotto Win A Car. Once you play both, you become eligible to play FreeLotto Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage. FreeLotto Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage is played the same way as FreeLotto®, but you need to select 6 out of 47 numbers correctly with no duplicates (rather than 6 out of 54 numbers in Classic FreeLotto®). This can be done in one of three ways: (a) pick 6 unique numbers; (b) allow the computer to pick the numbers (referred to as “Quick Picks”); or (c) designate and save 6 numbers as “Favorites” which can be automatically selected instead of selecting unique numbers each time you enter.

2. Each day, 6 Pay Off Your Mortgage winning numbers between one 1 and 47 will be selected at random via a random ball drop lottery machine at around 5:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) . These numbers will be matched against all entries received between 3:00:01 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) the previous day and 3:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) that day. The winning numbers will be posted after the drawing on the FreeLotto® website

3. Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage Prize: If an entry identically matches each of the 6 winning numbers that appear on the FreeLotto Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage ball drop, that entry will be awarded the Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage Prize, pending eligibility verification. There are no secondary prizes for FreeLotto Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage. If there is only one winner, the winner will win $100,000.00 USD If more than one entry contains all of the winning numbers, $100,000 will be divided evenly among the correct entries. Cash prizes for Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage will be paid out as an annuity of $20,000.00 per year for 5 years. Cash prizes for multiple winning entries will be paid out as an annuity based upon dividing the Prize by the number of winning entries, which will be paid out over 5 years. Odds of winning:1:10,737,573.
ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE FreeLotto® GAME RULES APPLY

D. FreeLotto FastCash
1. To enter, play the daily Classic FreeLotto® game. Once you have played Classic FreeLotto®, FreeLotto Win A Car, and FreeLotto Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage you become eligible to play FreeLotto FastCash. FreeLotto FastCash is played the same way as FreeLotto®, but you need to select 6 out of 33 numbers correctly with no duplicates (rather than 6 out of 54 numbers in FreeLotto®). This can be done in one of three ways: (a) pick 6 unique numbers; (b) allow the computer to pick the numbers (referred to as “Quick Pick”); or (c) designate and save 6 numbers as “Favorites” which can be automatically selected instead of selecting unique numbers each time you enter.

2. Each day, 6 FastCash winning numbers between one 1 and 33 will be selected at random via a random ball drop lottery machine 5:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) . These numbers will be matched against all entries received between 3:00:01 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) the previous day and 3:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) that day. The winning numbers will be posted after the drawing on the FreeLotto® website

3. FastCash Prize: If an entry identically matches each of the 6 winning numbers that appear on the FreeLotto FastCash ball drop, that entry will be awarded the FastCash Prize, pending eligibility verification. There is one daily prize — $10,000.00 USD. There are no secondary prizes for FreeLotto FastCash. If more than one entry contains all of the winning numbers, the FastCash prize will be divided evenly among the correct entries. The FastCash prize will be paid in a lump sum. Odds of winning: 1:1,107,568.
ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE FreeLotto® GAME RULES APPLY

E. FreeLotto $100,000.00 GiveAway
1. To enter, play the daily Classic FreeLotto® game. Once you played FreeLotto®, FreeLotto Win A Car, FreeLotto Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage, and FreeLotto FastCash, you become eligible to play FreeLotto $100,000.00 GiveAway. FreeLotto $100,000.00 GiveAway is played the same way as FreeLotto®, but you need to select 6 out of 47 numbers correctly with no duplicates (rather than 6 out of 54 numbers in FreeLotto®). This can be done in one of three ways: (a)pick 6 unique numbers; (b) allow the computer to pick the numbers (referred to as “Quick Picks”); or (c) designate and save 6 numbers as “Favorites” which can be automatically selected instead of selecting unique numbers each time you enter.

2. Each day, 6 $100,000 GiveAway winning numbers between one 1 and 47 will be selected at random via a random ball drop lottery machine at around 5:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) . These numbers will be matched against all entries received between 3:00:01 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) the previous day and 3:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) that day. The winning numbers will be posted after the drawing on the FreeLotto® website

3. $100,000.00 GiveAway Prize: If an entry identically matches each of the 6 winning numbers that appear on the FreeLotto $100,000.00 GiveAway ball drop, that entry will be awarded the $100,000.00 GiveAway Prize, pending eligibility verification. There is one daily prize — $100,000.00 USD. There are no secondary prizes for FreeLotto $100,000.00 GiveAway. If more than one entry contains all of the winning numbers, the $100,000.00 GiveAway prize will be divided evenly among the correct entries. The $100,000.00 GiveAway prize will paid out as an annuity of $20,000.00 per year for 5 years. Cash prizes for multiple winning entries will be paid out as an annuity based upon dividing the Prize by the number of winning entries, which will be paid out over 5 years. Odds of winning: 1: 10,737,573.

F. FreeLotto SuperBucks
1. To enter, play the daily Classic FreeLotto® game. Once you have played FreeLotto®, FreeLotto Win A Car, FreeLotto Pay-Off-Your-Mortgage, FreeLotto FastCash, and FreeLotto $100,000.00 GiveAway, you become eligible to play FreeLotto SuperBucks. FreeLotto SuperBucks is played the same way as FreeLotto®, but you need to select 7 out of 50 numbers correctly with no duplicates (rather than 6 out of 54 numbers in FreeLotto®). This can be done in one of three ways: (a)pick 6 unique numbers; (b) allow the computer to pick the numbers (referred to as “Quick Picks”); or (c) designate and save 6 numbers as “Favorites” which can be automatically selected instead of selecting unique numbers each time you enter.

2. Each day, 7 SuperBucks winning numbers between one 1 and 50 will be selected at random via a random ball drop lottery machine at around 5:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) . These numbers will be matched against all entries received between 3:00:01 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) the previous day and 3:00 PM Eastern Time (New York Time) that day. The winning numbers will be posted after the drawing on the FreeLotto® website.

3. FreeLotto SuperBucks Prize: There is one daily prize — $10,000,000.00. If an entry identically matches each of the 7 winning numbers that appear on the FreeLotto SuperBucks ball drop, that entry will be awarded the $10,000,000.00 Prize Annuity, pending eligibility verification. There are no secondary prizes for FreeLotto SuperBucks. If more than one entry contains all of the winning numbers, the FreeLotto SuperBucks prize will be divided evenly among the correct entries. The Grand Prize will be paid out as an annuity over 41 years. Annual payments of $100,000.00 USD will be paid out for 40 years and a final balloon payment of $6,000,000.00 USD will be made in the 41st year. There are no secondary prizes for FreeLotto SuperBucks. Cash prizes for multiple winning entries will be paid out as an annuity based upon dividing the $100,000 annuity by the number of winning entries, which will be paid out over 41 years, with a final balloon payment equal to dividing the $6,000,000.00 USD by the number of winning entries. Odds of winning: – 1:99,884,400.

4. You may enter once from each ad but you are limited to one FreeLotto, one Win A Car, one Pay Off Your Mortgage, one FastCash and one SuperBucks entry per day. Your entry and your numbers picked will be assigned a unique Transaction Serial Number (TSN), which will be confirmed by e-mail and which you must keep in order to claim any prize. You must provide your Transaction Serial Number (TSN), in order to claim your prize as further described in Rule 5. You are responsible for checking your FreeLotto results email to see if you have won a prize in the FreeLotto games. This information is also available, for your convenience, on the website. You will need to follow the instructions within the FreeLotto results email to claim any prize that you may have won. If you are a Prize winner you must respond with your entry TSN and your name as per the instructions of your FreeLotto results email. The TSN and name must match the information in our database before a prize will be awarded. In the event of a dispute, the information in our database will govern. Entries will be deemed made by the person whose name was given in the registration process. Entries must be made before 3:00 PM Eastern Time (New York) on a given day to be eligible for that day’s drawing. All entries made after 3:00 PM Eastern Time will be entered into the following day’s drawing.

5. Claiming Prizes
The FreeLotto daily results email is the sole notification of any prize winnings. The receipt of emails from FreeLotto is required for your participation in and to claim prizes in FreeLotto games. Players must check their FreeLotto daily results email to determine if they are a prize winner and then must follow the prize claim instructions within the email to claim their prize. Failure to claim the prize within 30 days of win date shall result in forfeiture. Any prize unclaimed for 30 days of win date shall be deemed null and void and shall be forfeited. Players must forward their FreeLotto results email to FreeLotto at PrizeClaim@freelotto.com evidencing that they have won either a FreeLotto Grand prize, ($1,000,000.00), a FreeLotto 2nd Prize ($300), a FreeLotto 3rd Prize ($5.00), a FreeLotto 4th Prize ($1.00), a Win A Car Jackpot Prize ($50,000.00), a Pay Off Your Mortgage jackpot Prize ($100,000.00), a FastCash Jackpot Prize ($10,000.00), a $100,000 GiveAway Jackpot Prize ($100,000.00) or a SuperBucks jackpot Prize ($10,000,000.00). The subject line of this email must only contain your FreeLotto Confirmation number (Transaction Serial Number- “TSN”). The TSN is displayed after each game played on the website and is also located in your FreeLotto Confirmation email. The body of the email must also include your first name, last name, address, phone number and date of birth. Send this to PrizeClaim@freelotto.com Failure to provide the TSN, or failure to claim the prize within 30 days of win date shall result in forfeiture. The TSN must match the FreeLotto Confirmation Number in our database for the date that the prize was awarded and must also match the player information. Once a prize claim has been verified and this information has been matched, all prize winners will receive additional instructions by mail. The instructions will require Grand Prize winners and 2nd prize FreeLotto winners to sign and notarize an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release and return it to PlasmaNet Inc., within seven (7) days following the date of the attempted mail notification. Grand Prize and 2nd prize winners must provide picture proof of identification to the sponsor, which may include a driver’s license, passport, a voting card or similar government issued photo identification, which must exactly match the information provided in your FreeLotto registration. Non-compliance within this time period shall result in prize forfeiture. The instructions received by email for 3rd prize and 4th prize FreeLotto winners will offer the winners to either click on the link in the email to donate their winnings or receive a check for such amount. If neither link within the email is clicked, a check for prize winnings will automatically be sent to the winner.
Prior to being declared a winner of any prize, a Canadian resident will be required to correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a mathematical skill-testing question to be administered by email. If the Canadian resident does not claim their prize or cannot be contacted and the skill- test administered within 7 business days of the drawing date, the prize shall be forfeited. Failure to correctly answer the skill test question shall result in prize forfeiture.

The winning numbers will be posted after the drawing on the FreeLotto® website http://www.freelotto.com.

6. ELIGIBILITY:
FreeLotto® and the FreeLotto Games are offered in the United States of America and Canada, except as set forth below, and are subject to special rules for players outside the USA and Canada (see # 16). You must be at least 18 years or older to play. You must be a registered FreeLotto member and subscribed to the FreeLotto emails to be eligible to play and win FreeLotto. This promotion is void in State of New York, State of Florida, Puerto Rico, Province of Quebec, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Cuba, North Korea, Sudan, and Afghanistan, and any countries that are included on the United States of America Department of State “Trading with the Enemies Countries” list, may also be null and void. As of July 13, 2007, this promotion is also void in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Korea Democratic People’s Republic of, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Nepal, Niger, and Nigeria. Void where prohibited. Principals and employees of PlasmaNet Inc., and its respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and immediate family members of each are not eligible (immediate family consists of husband, wife, mother, father, sister, brother or children).

7. No other prizes will be awarded. No substitution or transfer of prizes is allowed including transfers made by reason of law or upon death of the prizewinner. Taxes are the responsibility of winners. Non U.S. residents may be subject to U.S. withholding tax.

8. GENERAL CONDITIONS:
Entrants agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules which are final on all matters pertaining to FreeLotto®. By using this site, you agree to the FreeLotto Rules and the terms of use. If you not agree to these rules and terms of use, please do not use our sites. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these Rules and terms of use at any time. Your continued use of the PlasmaNet sites or your continued acceptance of our email following the posting of changes to these Rules and terms of use will signify your acceptance of these changes. Please check this page frequently for any changes. FreeLotto® is governed by the laws of the State of New York and the laws of United States.

9. FAST (FreeLotto Automatic Subscription Ticket) Subscribers:
FreeLotto members are eligible to sign up for the FreeLotto Automatic Subscription Ticket (FAST) service, which is a service whereby your numbers will automatically be played for all six FreeLotto games (Classic FreeLotto, FreeLotto Win A Car, FreeLotto Pay Off Your Mortgage, FreeLotto FastCash, FreeLotto $100,000 GiveAway and FreeLotto SuperBucks) each day for the duration of your FAST subscription. FAST members will automatically be informed when they have won a prize. For any Grand Prizes won in Classic FreeLotto, FreeLotto Win A Car, FreeLotto Pay Off Your Mortgage, FreeLotto FastCash, FreeLotto $100,000 GiveAway and FreeLotto SuperBucks, or 2nd Prize in FreeLotto, PlasmaNet Inc., will automatically send the FreeLotto FAST subscriber a winners notification package by mail with instructions on how to claim their winning. The instructions will require Grand Prize winners and 2nd prize FreeLotto winners to sign and notarize an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/Publicity Release and return it to PlasmaNet Inc., within seven (7) days following the date of the attempted mail notification. Grand Prize and 2nd prize winners must provide picture proof of identification to the sponsor, which may include a driver’s license, passport, a voting card or similar government issued photo identification. 3rd and 4th place prize winners will automatically receive a $5.00 check (3rd place prize) or $1.00 check (4th place prize) for their prize winnings ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE FREELOTTO® GAME RULES APPLY

10. FAST PRIZE DOUBLER SUBSCRIBERS
FAST members are eligible to sign up for the FreeLotto Automatic Subscription Ticket (FAST) Prize Doubler subscription, whereby FAST Prize Doubler subscribers numbers will automatically be played for all six FreeLotto games (Classic FreeLotto, FreeLotto Win A Car, FreeLotto Pay Off Your Mortgage, FreeLotto FastCash, FreeLotto $100,000 GiveAway and FreeLotto SuperBucks) each day for the duration of your FAST Prize Doubler subscription, whereby any prize winnings will be doubled during their subscription. ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE FREELOTTO® GAME RULES APPLY

FAST Prize Doubler subscriber Classic FreeLotto® GRAND PRIZE: One Million ($1,000,000.00) Dollars times 2 ($1,000,000.00 x 2 = $2,000,000.00), paid out as an annuity of $80,000.00 per year for 25 years. If more than one entry contains all of the winning numbers, the Grand Prize will be divided evenly among the correct entries, and then the Prize Doubler prize winnings will be multiplied by two. Cash prizes for multiple Grand Prize winning entries will be paid out as an annuity based upon dividing the Prize by the number of winning entries, which will be paid out over 25 years. SECOND PRIZE: $300.00 x 2 = $600 to each winner. THIRD PRIZE: $5.00 x 2 = $10.00 to each winner. FOURTH PRIZE: $1.00 x 2 = $2.00 to each winner. ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE FREELOTTO® GAME RULES APPLY

FAST Prize Doubler subscriber Win A Car Prize: If there is only one FreeLotto Win A car winner who is a subscriber to the FAST Prize Doubler program, the FAST Prize Doubler subscriber will be awarded 2 luxury cars or have the opportunity to choose the cash value of the prize, which is $40,000 x 2 = $80,000.00 USD. (Approximate Retail Value: up to US$50,000 x 2 = $100,000.00). Once the car selected has been paid for, the cash over and above the value of the prize is forfeited. If more than one entry contains all of the winning numbers, the Win A Car Prize will be divided evenly among the correct entries and then the Prize Doubler prize winnings will be multiplied by two. ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THE FreeLotto® GAME RULES APPLY

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I think this is a scam,so be careful & stay away from this website.NO free……………………………

Investing opp..?

I am working on a website that will educate and teach people how to profit off of penny stocks. The site will include Stratégies, live seminares and online trading advice. I am looking for a partner however this is not a free ride me doing all the programing and that kind of jazz i need a partner to help invest in the advertising and that kind of stuff. there will be a charge of $25.00 for them to join the site. all profits will be split 50/50 with partner. Email me if you would like to take this up. moneyman77301@yahoo.com

I know this question has been asked many times, but how would I make money from home?

I’ve read many Yahoo Answers Questions about this, and all I see is mow lawns, surveys, babysitting, or fast food. But what about an answer that’s actually unique, that works, and you can do from home?

I know so many ways, but I don’t know how to get started or where to go.

There’s the wonderful world of advertising, which means you can help someone, sell more things. Sounds easy right? Well, first you either need something that attracts many people, and you need to do the hardest part… Find the people! Nobody seems to want to do that, because they can do it themselves. So Advertising isn’t it.

You can buy things from websites & sell them for more on Ebay, Amazon, or any other site! Except, there’s so many people doing that, that the things on Ebay end up being cheaper than on the sites since they rather get rid of the items than to keep it & try to make profit.

You can do amazing services online for people! Like video editing, picture editing, doing things for people on video games, selling virtual money for real money. & so much more! But in this world, nobody trusts eachother to do that, and they think they can do it themselves. So this is once again.. another fail.

Now, I can go on and on about what to do to make money. But none of it works. Surveys are all scams, and it’s all a mess to do the most amazing thing ever. ‘Make money from home’

All I want from this question, is simply. Any of the things listed above, do you think you can point anyone, or me that’s reading this, into the right direction? To those people that need advertising, or services, or things on Ebay. To help those ideas actually work? That would be the best ever, and this would be the most popular “How to make money from home” question in all of Yahoo Answers History.

So if anyone has help, to anything unique that you can do, not mentioned in other Answers. & not an answer that makes you sound like a complete jerk, feel free to mention it, and you will get a best answer, and the thanks from thousands of people.

Note: Anything that spams survey sites will be flagged. Those never work, don’t try it.

Can we make a website for no-cost at all for our animal funeral services?

Me and My best-friend (aetd96) run an “under-the counter” funeral home. And what I mean by that is we run a funeral service for animals kinda quitely. I have been doing this since I was 10 years old in 2003. I established my animal funeral service b/c in 2003 I have deicded to become a LIC. funeral director for people when I’m old enough. As of now I’m 15 and in the next year I plan on working as an apprentice at a real funeral home. I do this animal service sort-of for practice.

My associates and I have been carring-out our traditions for nearly 6yrs. and we have had 4 members along my side through the years. now I only have 2 besides my self.

We do not charge any money! If we are given money we donate the cash to a local animal charity or shelter. We offer complete services that any that any funeral home would normally offer. We pre-arrange, consualt, make memory cards, obituaries notices, hand-made caskets, and rubbermaid burial vaults. We only bury in owner’s yard not a cemetery. We do memorbila, such as slide shows .and cremation services as well. If cremation is deisered the master of the pet must send the body to a LIC. company, once ashes are returned to the owner we offer what ever they want done. We preform Calling Hours (viewings) and Full-Funeral services as well. This is generally held at your home in the living room, we will re-arrange chairs and sofas to create a funeral home atmosphere and bring our own pink-torchiere lamps for the mood-lights setting as well. Sorry we don’t embalm.

As our moto at my funeral service says…

“Every life is significant, everylife has a story to be told, let us help you tell that story”

I’m serious in what I do, Animals have lives don’t they? They have a story to be told? Why don’t they desvere to have it told? Well I think they do! — And that is why my associates and I do what we do best!

If you are a funeral director and you are reading this I would appreciate your imput, I need some perfessional help. I do want to become a real Mortician in the years to come. I’m 15 so I will be soon. I’m only do the animal services now sort-of as practice.

So I want to create an online website for no cost and to advertise my services.

If you any questions plz. feel free to contact me by email….
nicholasfacci@yahoo.com

How much money can you earn in the Aussie Army reserve?

I dont have a job at the moment because I quit my evil job as a proof reader/administrator at an advertising agency. I want to join the reserve over full time service because I am pursuing other careers that are very difficult to develop a stable career in i.e. modelling, music, acting, writing etc. Then if that fails I can transition into reg army. I want to sign up and do the maximum work hours possible and do my modelling jobs whenever I get them because it pays very well and im at the only time in my life where i can do this kind of work.

So how much money can you potentially earn in the Australian Army Reserve? Is it enough to cover basic costs of living?

Cheers.
Thank Joel, I want to know what the maximum days are a reservist can work so i can calculate a yearly salary.

When I see things like this it makes me sick – President Obama Thong?

Now do you know why we must protect our President?

White House Lawyers Look to Limit Commercial Use of President

Julianna Goldman – Fri Jan 30, 4:16 pm ET
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Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama’s popularity makes him a marketer’s dream. Now, the honeymoon may be over for those trying to profit from his appeal.

White House lawyers want to control the use of the president’s image, recognizing the worldwide fascination about Obama’s election, First Amendment free-speech rights and easy access to videos and photos on the Web.

“Our lawyers are working on developing a policy that will protect the presidential image while being careful not to squelch the overwhelming enthusiasm that the public has for the president,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

Obama’s calls for change and his “Yes We Can” campaign mantra are being evoked to sell assembly-required furniture in Ikea’s “Embrace Change” marketing campaign, bargain airfares during Southwest Airlines Inc.’s “Yes You Can” sale and “Yes Pecan” ice cream at Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. shops.

“I can’t remember this ever happening to an active politician before, as a spokesperson or as an image for a brand,” said Brad Adgate, director of research for Horizon Media Inc., a New York-based advertising agency. “He’s in the highest profile of any person in the world right now.”

Riding the wave of Obama’s popularity may become a concern when advertisers use his likeness without permission to imply that Obama is endorsing a product or cause. The White House through the years has objected to commercial use of presidential faces, such as footage of President George H.W. Bush in a Cold War-themed 1989 television ad for cold medication.

Presidential Speeches

The National Education Association is running a TV ad with excerpts from a speech Obama gave on July 5, 2007, with the group’s logo behind him.

The educators’ group has previously shown remarks by Obama in Web videos and is confident the president shares a “clear and longstanding” commitment to “real change and real reform in education,” said Steve Snider, NEA’s manager of advertising and broadcast services.

The Web site for McKinstry Co., a Seattle-based mechanical contractor that Obama visited during last year’s presidential campaign, features a YouTube clip of Obama praising its work improving energy efficiency at schools and office buildings. “As president I’ll use companies like McKinstry as a model for the nation,” Obama says. McKinstry spokeswoman Genevieve Guinn said the company bought rights to the video and hasn’t gotten any White House complaints.

Obama’s face is on a full-page newspaper advertisement by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, a lobbying group in Alexandria, Virginia.

Burning Coal

“We figured out how to put a man on the moon in 10 years,” the ad quotes Obama as saying last August. “You can’t tell me we can’t figure out how to burn coal that we mine right here in the United States of America and make it work.” The group also began running a TV ad in December that shows footage of Obama promoting clean-coal energy during a campaign event last September.

The clean coal lobby group told Obama representatives about the ads before the inauguration and received no signals from them that there was any discomfort,

As a record-setting crowd jammed Washington earlier this month for Obama’s inauguration, Obama’s face was featured on thousands of t-shirts, coffee mugs and calendars for sale at stores and street vendors across the capital. Obama’s official inaugural committee got into the act, too, setting up its own memorabilia store.

Malia, Sasha Dolls

Since the Obamas moved into the White House, Michelle Obama objected to the sale by Beanie Babies-maker Ty Inc. of dolls with the same names as her daughters. The company said the Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia dolls weren’t modeled after the first daughters.

A search for Michelle Obama’s name on Google Inc.’s Web site brings up an online ad for J. Crew Group Inc., which got free publicity when the first lady wore a J. Crew outfit on NBC’s “Tonight Show With Jay Leno” last October. “Inauguration Style: Get Looks Like Those Worn by the First Lady” the Web ad says.

Psaki wouldn’t provide details about legal options the White House counsel’s office is considering to deal with commercial use of Obama’s likeness.

The White House lawyers may have to make case-by-case determinations about the best ways to protect the presidential image without tempering enthusiasm or trampling on free-speech protections, said Jonathan Band, an intellectual property lawyer in Washington.

“It will be difficult,” Band said. “Because he is the president of the United States and there was this campaign and everyone’s proud, I think the First Amendment will be applied much more broadly with respect to people wanting to use an image of the president than it would be with

Why is this article a TOS violation? ?

Around the world, atheists hit road to knock down God
by Prashant Rao Prashant Rao – Mon Jan 19, 1:07 am ET AFP/File – An artists impression of a London bus with the slogan ‘There’s probably no God. Stop worrying …
LONDON (AFP) – An atheist drive to persuade people that God doesn’t exist is catching on in a surprising fashion — on the sides of buses in a growing number of countries around the world.
With the concise message “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life,” the campaign took to the road in Britain this month, while similar drives are underway or planned in Spain, Italy, Canada and Australia.
The British campaign was originally floated by comedy writer Ariane Sherine in a newspaper column in June, and is hoping to reach the majority of the country’s population in some fashion or another over the next three weeks.
“We could never have imagined it would have gotten this big, and we would have raised quite this amount of cash,” campaign co-founder Jon Worth, a political blogger and website designer, told AFP.
“It’s astounding.”
Sherine wrote her column after advertisements began appearing on central London buses directing passers-by to a website that told those who did not accept Christianity that they would suffer for eternity in hell.
Soon after it was published, Worth contacted her asking if he could set up a pledgebank based on her idea, and shortly thereafter, the Atheist Bus Campaign began taking donations, initially hoping to raise 5,500 pounds (6,200 euros, 8,200 dollars).
To date, it has raised upwards of 140,000 pounds, enough to pay for advertisements on 800 buses across Britain — 200 in central London alone — along with 1,000 posters in London’s Underground trains and two video screens in a popular Tube station, all for a full month ending in early February.
Unsurprisingly, the campaign has struck a nerve among God-fearing commuters, prompting around 200 complaints to Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), which regulates commercials here.
By way of comparison, the most complaints the ASA has ever received over an advert was 1,600.
The watchdog needs just one complaint to investigate an advertisement, which are judged on a variety of factors including harm, offence, taste and deceny as well as factual accuracy, but will wait until next week to decide whether or not to probe the Atheist Bus Campaign’s ads.
“A few religious people have complained to the ASA, which seems rather odd, as if they (the ASA) will be able to make a judgment about the evidence on that sort of issue,” said Peter Cave, chair of the Humanist Philosopher’s Group, which advises the British Humanist Association.
Along with opposition in Britain, attempts to engineer a similar campaign in Australia have run into obstacles, with the country’s biggest outdoor advertising agency APN Outdoor deciding to reject a bid by the Atheist Foundation of Australia for ad space.
“Any company really has the right to refuse a service to a customer, but in this instance, you have to wonder,” foundation president David Nicholls told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Atheists in Italy and Spain, however, have had more success with their attempts.
Buses with a similar slogan to the Atheist Bus Campaign’s message, translated into Catalan, began appearing on two routes in Barcelona on Monday, with plans to extend the campaign to the rest of the country.
In Italy, meanwhile, buses with the slogan “The bad news is that God does not exist. The good news is that we do not need him” will begin traversing the northern Italian city of Genoa on February 4.
Here in Britain, apart from opposition from religious groups, some atheists are unhappy with the inclusion of the word “probably”, principally added so that it would adhere to British advertising rules.
Cave, though not in agreeance with the word’s inclusion, noted that the campaign is trying to make a broader point.
“I can see no evidence for God just as I can see no evidence for pineapples floating around the moon,” he said.
“I don’t say there probably aren’t any pineapples floating around the moon, I just say I know there aren’t any pineapples floating around the moon. But, it’s a piece of marketing, and I think it’s good because it makes people think.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090119/lf_afp/lifestylebritainreligiontransportatheism;_ylt=Aks_7U2DZt1hoo9IABQYcSU7Xs8F

Realtors: Would you change your advertising if presented with the following scenario?

Let’s say you work in a wide-spread area, both city and country properties in the MLS. You advertise your listings/yourself in a “homes” magazine and it’s the only one available in your area. Most agencies use the magazine, which is distributed for free. A year-long contract will get you the discounted rate of $60 per page. The magazine is black & white newspaper print of poor quality and the pages are in random order.

A new magazine becomes available. It’s full color, glossy pages and has listings arranged by location and price. The magazine offers to add your listings for free, permanently, no strings attached. They also offer the option to buy advertsing for yourself at the same rate as the black & white magazine, with shorter term contracts. In addition, everything goes online for free.

Would you use the free service? Would you abandon the poor quality magazine and advertise in the nicer one, even though your listings are already in there, by location and price, for free?
Do you see any advantages or disadvantages of the new magazine?

How would you feel about your listings being comingled with other agencies listings, for the purpose of buyers being able to find what they want more easily?

Advertising for escort vacancies?

I’m starting an escort agency on the outskirts of London. Does anyone know of a decent website where I can advertise for escorts wanted that’s effective?

I have asked this question before on here and got the answer below.

‘A decent website that is effective is Craigslist under adult gigs. It’s cheap, easy, and you get to dictate what is on your page as opposed to adult help wanted which will make your classifieds full of other ads’.

I did try Craigslist as suggested, but found I was either getting a lot of timewaters or the ad got deleted despite other similar ads being on there which seemed to stay. When I contacted CL customer services to ask why my ad kept being deleted I found them about as much help as a chocolate fire guard.

Can anyone recommend any other websites?

Should I be applying to other companies while I’m interviewing with one?

I’m in my internship semester at college, which means that I don’t have any daytime classes but will have to spend most my time on work placement. I decided to go a step ahead and just look for a paid full time job that’s relevant with my field of study. I listed a lot of companies to apply to, but didn’t get around to send my resume to many.

Anyway, one of the first companies I applied to just interviewed me today, and a follow-up is scheduled. It is a prestigious media group, where I would be hired to report and write for their newest lifestyle magazine; but the chief editor told me that there would be opportunities for me to transfer to the other magazines, newspapers, and TV stations in the group. I’ve a feeling that I will end up working here, but I can’t know that for sure because it’s still the very early stages of our negotiations.

My campus sent me an internship form to fill out; I’ll have to name at least 3 companies with their contact persons. If I am already working, I could submit a letter from my employer and count that as my internship as long as I can justify how it will apply the things I’ve learnt from my college classes. I have applied to several “companies”, but really my major is performing arts and most of the organizations I applied to are theatre communities from which I am expecting no pay. I sent resumes, but most didn’t reply, and the one that did wasn’t currently recruiting, so I wouldn’t have contact persons for those organizations either. The other companies I considered included advertising companies, embassies, UN bodies, and international schools, but I didn’t get around to write to any of them.

Should I be applying to other companies and comparing their offers? Or should I just blindly stick to the good offer I currently have my hands on? This offer is rare enough and I don’t take it for granted, but do smart job seekers always have a back up plan? Or is it better to not apply to others at all than to risk turning down a good offer I might not be able to follow up on?

Changing my major during junior year?

I am 20 years old and a junior. I am an elementary education major but now that I am getting into my major courses, I really do not think teaching is for me. My parent’s are telling me to just stick with it and get the degree, and that I can do other things. The truth is that I can hardly do my school work for these education classes because I am just NOT interested in it! And I am scared to death of student teaching. I am seriously thinking about changing my major to International Business or something in Mass Comm (PR, Advertising). I feel like one or two more semesters in college would be better if I was more interested in the subject.

What do you all think? What should I do? And how should I get my parent’s to understand….

Is something FINALLY being done to prevent illegals sneaking across our border??

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Arizona borderlands that are covered:
• More than 60 miles stretching from about seven miles east of Sasabe to south of Fort Huachuca in Cochise County.
• More than 55 miles on the Tohono O’odham Reservation from just east of the village of Ali Ak Chin to about 21/2 miles west of Sasabe.
• More than 50 miles across the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of Lukeville.
• More than 20 miles from about seven miles east of Douglas to about 11/2 miles west of the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
• 13.3 miles along the Colorado River near Yuma.
• 61/2 miles south of Sierra Vista near the Coronado National Monument.
• 6.9 miles starting 10 miles west of Naco going east.
• 6.4 miles starting just east of Naco running east.
• 5.3 miles starting from about 31/2 miles west of Lukeville to east of the town.
• 3.8 miles from Yuma County south of Somerton toward San Luis.
• 21/2 miles from a couple of miles west of Sasabe to east of the town.
• 1.6 miles on the western edge of the Tohono O’odham Reservation south of the village of Ali Ak Chin.
• A one-mile section west of Douglas.
Sources: Department of Homeland Security, International Boundary and Water Commission.

Other articles by Howard Fischer:
Fining gov. in ELL case floated
Domestic-partner benefits get boost
Guest-worker bill runs up against legislative barrier
Legislation rebuilds legal shield for people acting in self-defense
Rancher to face charges of violating entrants’ rights
Other articles by Brady Mccombs:
Arson destroys North Side apartment
Man is shot by police in domestic dispute
Passport rule delayed
El camino legal hacia E.U. más costoso y complejo de lo que se piensa
New U.S. immigration chief for AZ intends to stick around

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Sonora Enviromental
Scale & Dispatcher Office and Clerical
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Heath Consultants Inc
Pipeline Safety Inspectors General
Assistant Director & Teachers Trades/Construction
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Fuel Service Driver Sales and Marketing
NW Publishing
Advertising Sales Rep Education
Flowing Wells Schools
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Tucson Region
Rules waived to add security along 220 miles of AZ border
By Brady McCombs and Howard Fischer
Arizona Daily Star Capitol Media Services
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.02.2008
advertisementThe Department of Homeland Security laid claim Tuesday to at least 220 of the 350 miles of U.S.-Mexican border in Arizona to build fences, roads and towers without having to comply with environmental regulations.
A congressionally mandated deadline to have 670 miles of fences, barriers, roads and lighting along the U.S.-Mexico border in place by the end of the year drove Secretary Michael Chertoff to invoke the waiver. To date, the agency has completed 309 miles of projects, leaving it with 361 miles to complete in nine months.
What Tuesday’s order does, Chertoff said, is ensure that the rest of what is necessary can be built without having to complete full-blown environmental-impact statements — and without fearing that one or more sections will become tied up in court.
The announcement, however, was greeted by disdain from local environmental-protection groups and a pair of Arizona legislators.
“I think every American should be up in arms that the federal government is waiving these laws,” said Sean Sullivan, co-chairman of the Sierra Club Rincon Group, which covers Southeastern Arizona. “They are just going to bulldoze ahead in order to get all the projects they had lined up completed.”
The waiver encompasses nearly two-thirds of Arizona’s international border, including swaths of land from as far west as Yuma to near the Arizona-New Mexico state line. Some of the larger expanses revealed by Homeland Security include:
? More than 60 miles stretching from about seven miles east of Sasabe to south of Fort Huachuca in Cochise County.
? More than 55 miles on the Tohono O’odham Reservation, from just east of the village of Ali Ak Chin to near Sasabe.
? More than 50 miles across the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge west of Lukeville.
? More than 20 miles from east of Douglas to near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
In total, Homeland Security identified 13 areas in Arizona. The detailed plans — or what’s already under construction or has been completed — for each of the areas weren’t available Tuesday. None is a new project, said Amy Kudwa, Homeland Security spokeswoman.
“We are simply moving forward with their expeditious construction,” Kudwa said.
The projects will fall under the general category of “pedestrian and vehicle fence construction, towers, sensors, cameras, detection equipment and roads in the vicinity of the border,” Homeland Security said.
It’s the fourth time Chertoff has used the waiver, created in the 2005 Real ID Act to waive compliance with federal regulations for all border projects. He invoked the waiver on the previous three occasions for individual projects: in October 2007 for construction of two miles of fencing in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area in Southeastern Arizona; in January 2007 on the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range in Southwestern Arizona; and in 2005 in San Diego.
Each use has elicited harsh criticism from environmentalists and critics who say no one person should have such overreaching power.
Chertoff’s use of that 2005 waiver authority “has created a lawless border,” said Matt Clark, Southwest representative of Defenders of Wildlife.
The waiver continues a pattern of neglecting important environmental, health and safety laws to build an ineffective and environmentally damaging border wall, Clark said.
“That arbitrary deadline has resulted in lawlessness along the border and a disregard for environmental health and safety laws,” he said.
In a statement, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., called the use of the waiver “outrageous,” saying neither her office nor local or state elected officials were consulted.
“This is unacceptable,” Giffords said. “A federal government construction project of this magnitude will impact significantly on local residents, communities and the environment. Those of us who live on the border and represent border communities deserve a seat at the table.”
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz., called such a broad and poorly conceived waiver lazy.
“Secretary Chertoff is abusing the authority granted him by the Congress with this ham-handed waiver,” Grijalva said in a statement. “With the stroke of his pen, he overturns 36 laws — some of which have been protecting our resources and our health for more than a century — in an area stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean.”
In a prepared statement Tuesday, Chertoff said his actions are justified.
“The flow of illegal traffic through the border region imperils our ability to fight terrorism by stopping the illegal entry of terrorists, and exposes our border communities and the rest of the United States to the ill effects of drug smuggling, human smuggling and gang activity,” he said. “Illegal border traffic has also caused severe and profound impacts to the environment.”
Invoking the waiver will prevent legal wrangling that could delay projects, he said. That’s exactly what happened last year when two environmental groups sought to halt construction of fences and vehicle barriers along the southern edge of the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area. Challengers said federal officials did not properly consider ways to minimize the impact of the new construction.
Chertoff eventually invoked the waiver, and construction continued.
Chertoff denied that environmental concerns are being ignored. He said that there is at least a “draft environmental assessment or environmental impact statement” for all of the miles where his agency is erecting new pedestrian fencing. And he said most of the other projects — aside from fences to keep pedestrians out — also will have those kinds of assessments.

Interviews! I get stuck on this question. How do I solve it?

The question of ‘what will you bring to my company?’ I just never know what to say properly i.e. if it was for this job, what could I say?
Description
Graduate Advertising Executive

Your Profile

As a Graduate Advertising Account Executive you will be a Graduate or of Graduate-calibre and looking to join one of the leading international out of home Media Advertising Agencies. This specialist Media Advertising Agency are seeking a self motivated, enthusiastic graduate, who has a passion for the media and advertising industry. You must have an interest or experience in media ideally within the outdoor industry!

The Role

The successful Graduate Advertising Account Executive will join the team from the bottom and learn the basics of out of home advertising, working closely with the Account Manager, taking briefs from agencies and assisting with the planning of advertising campaigns. You will work across the variety of out of home advertising mediums – being creative in your approach.

The Company

This worldwide Media Advertising Agency have over 30 years of media planning and buying experience dealing with Ambient Media and Out of Home advertising, which comprises of roadside posters, bus advertising, taxi advertising and Underground advertising. With offices all over the world and with central offices in New York, Singapore, Frankfurt, Budapest and the Philippines.
it ISN’T working from home.
I DID look through the website, I DID read through the thing above but I panick at that question ALL the time. I am a creative person and this job would HAVE been ideal for me because I have 5 yrs experience in the design field. I will bring new ideas to the table and with that, put to use my good communication and organisation skills. I am passionate and hard working…do you mean stuff like this? It was all written in my CV. I don’t want to repeat things. DAMN!

Math problem involving Combinations & Permutations! HELP!?

International Enterprises
123 Hamilton St.
Allentown, PA 18104

Mathematics Department
Johnson & Wales University
7150 Montview Boulevard
Denver, CO 80220

Dear Statistics Students:

I recently landed a Job at International Enterprises. Parts of my job responsibilities include organizing an advertising campaign for one of our clients. I have run into some trouble with this. I called the math department at your school and they referred me to your professor who referred me to you.

The restaurant chain Chicken Licken has asked our company to write and design their new ads. They offer a deal where for $8.95 the customer chooses one of five main courses: a chicken sandwich, a chicken breast, chicken pot pie, chicken sticks, or vegetarian lasagna. With each meal the customer also has the choice of two side dishes. The restaurant offers French fries, mashed potatoes with gravy, baked potatoes, hash browns, bread, salad, soup, biscuits, cottage cheese, or fruit. So in total, there are ten side dishes. The meal also comes with dessert. Here are the four choices: pie, ice cream, cake, or cookies. As part of the ad, the company wanted to know the number of different possible meals. After consulting a book, I calculated there are 1800 possible meals, which seemed like a nice number to use in advertising.

I told a friend about my project and she said that she had read an article (“Teacher’s Diligence Finds Fame, Free Lunch,” The Morning Call (Allentown), Jan. 21, 1995, Joseph P. Ferry) about how Boston Chicken (now known as Boston Market) had run a similar ad and has miscalculated the number of possible meals. Apparently they offered sixteen side dishes and the customer was allowed to chose three of them with each meal. The company’s ad (apparently featured quarterback Joe Montana) claimed that there were 3,360 possible combinations of three side dishes chosen from the sixteen offered. A high school mathematics teacher, Bob Swaim, Convinced them that they had made a mistake. He and thirty of his student received free lunch from Boston Chicken. He also appeared on the CBS program “Good Morning America.” The teacher argued that whoever had done the mathematics had confused the concepts of permutations and combinations. By his calculations there were only 816 different combinations available. He also noted that the ad did not allow the possibility of choosing a side dish more than once and that his formula did. After hearing about this I began to question the calculations that I had made. I don’t want to be embarrassed by having the same thing happen to Chicken Licken.

Since you are college students, I have every faith in your abilities to help me out. I need to know how many possible meals there are. I would also appreciate it if you could tell me how Boston Chicken and Bob Swaim arrived at their different answers. Thank for all of your help.

Yours Sincerely,

J.R. Doe

Advertising Slogans?

Does anyone know the brand which uses these slogans?

1) “For fast pain relief, use…”
(no- it’s not advil, tylenol, or aspirin)

2) “Putting things into perspective”

Thanks!

Can someone tell me about the use of logic in advertising slogans?

I’m working on a project which investigates advertising slogans and for my conclusion i need to describe what i learned about the use of logic in advertising slogans. Any help is greatly appreaciated.

advertising slogans?

Who used the slogan “Simply the Best”?

What is the video about a world of advertising slogans and characters?

I saw a video (on youtube possibly) which was a little epic advertising vid. Everything in it was a slogan. It began with two policement chasing McDonald. And ended with the advertising world falling apart and we zoomed through space with a whole tonne of space advertisements filling the screen. There a scene in a zoo and in a cafe (which got blown up by Mcdonald).

Anyway if anyone knows this and can provide a link or a title I would be very grateful!

Cheers!!

What are some good advertising slogans?

I am running a canned food drive at school. The idea is that if you bring in a can of any size or content you go in the draw to win an 8GB iPod nano. All of the donations will go to the Samaritans. I need some ideas of short and catchy slogans or phrases that could help advertise the campaign, and motivate people to take part.