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Morgan Freeman is 75 ? what's his best role?
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Morgan Freeman poses with the Oscar he won for best supporting actor for his work in "Million Dollar Baby" on Feb. 27, 2005.
By Randee Dawn
It's hard to imagine a time when there wasn't a Morgan Freeman on our screens. The Oscar-winning actor, who turns 75 today, has been performing since he was 9 years old and in the ensuing years he's used his sonorous, commanding voice and soulful, charismatic presence to play dozens of roles -- God, the president, a convicted criminal, a chauffeur and an easy-reading hipster, just to name a few.
Freeman has a versatility that can make him menacing, warm, superhero-like and an everyman -- he's never gotten typecast. Sure, he's played his share of sidekicks (sometimes while appearing with Thursday's birthday boy and friend Clint Eastwood in movies like "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby") but Freeman is the rare actor who can ease straight into the driver's seat of a film (literally in "Driving Miss Daisy"), and no one blinks.
Though he's made some headlines recently -- no, he's not going to marry his step-granddaughter -- there's no question that the Memphis-born Freeman remains one of Hollywood's most beloved actors. In the end, there's no question that you fell in love with his talent and abilities -- the question is only when it happened.?
Happy 75th, Morgan Freeman!
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Friday, June 1, 2012
Social Media Marketing ? Successful ... - Honest Reviews Online
A survey conducted by Wildfire Interactive in November 2011 revealed that 97% of the marketers (who participated in the survey) found that social media provides value and benefits to their businesses. These statistics state that social media is the rapidly growing and successful marketing platform for businesses. In this article, we will know how this marketing strategy helps in the growth of auto dealership businesses.
Popular social media tools
Social media is the latest buzz on the Internet. Popular social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn, Flickr, Blogger, etc., have created a new opportunity in Internet marketing. As majority of the Internet users are hooked on to these social networking sites, these sites are becoming the latest target for the businesses to promote their businesses.
Gives great exposure
Social media is one of the best platforms to increase your auto business? visibility and brand awareness. Create a social profile and offer the visitors useful information about your products and services. Social media also has great potential to get customer referrals, which for sure is a smart way to expand your business.
Wider reach and generate leads
Social sites are more than advertising tools that only develop awareness of your brand; they are highly helpful in gaining new customers, retaining the existing ones and reaching the customers faster. Having a huge customer base from all across the globe, these sites enable a wider as well as targeted reach for your business. Standard business profiles and informative updates help in engaging the audience, hence creating high chance to generate leads.
Platform to interact with audience
Social media enables two-way communication. It allows the business owners to get instant feedback from their customers on their services, new launches, offers, etc. By answering the customers? queries and concerns in a timely manner, they can offer good customer service. Also, most of the customers prefer to post their criticisms directly on the profiles. Further, when a customer complaints/posts negative comments, you can respond immediately and rectify your faults and when your customer gives a positive feedback, thank him. This kind of active and direct communication brings you close to the customer.
Update with new models, services and offers
An auto dealer can tweet or post or create regular updates on new models, promotions, services, coupons, contests, events and offers. Updates spread faster in these sites due to the active sharing and follows of the people, hence don?t keep your profile static, keep updating. Some business owners even create their own apps which will allow the best deals and latest offers to be posted right on the home pages of the customers, without having them to search through the net or having the need to leave their profile page.
Builds reputation of your dealership
By having a profile in the social networking sites, an auto dealer can develop his reputation and business contacts. These sites are the places where people love to express their opinions; hence, these sites not only help in building goodwill, but also help in spreading it. As the name goes, these social media sites enable socializing. Socializing enhances the confidence of the customers in your business, and creates long lasting customer relationships.
Inexpensive marketing strategy
Of the various online marketing strategies, social media marketing is inexpensive. The cost of generating social media apps that are the effective means to promote your business is less. In contrast to the traditional marketing techniques like trade shows, company events, etc., which require huge resources to implement, the social media tools are user-friendly, inexpensive and generate high ROI in a least possible time. The results of the social media ad campaigns can be easily tracked and quantified; hence, facilitating immediate improvements in marketing strategy.
An effective social media marketing strategy, designed as per the business?s goals and objectives will prove to be a successful promotional strategy by increasing site traffic, customer acquisitions, customer retentions and sales.
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New Honduras top cop once investigated in killings
In this May 22, 2012 photo released by the the presidential press office, Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, right, known as ?El Tigre? or ?The Tiger,? is sworn-in as Honduras' chief of police by President Porfirio Lobo, left, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Bonilla Valladares, the new chief chosen to clean up a Honduran national police force tarred with allegations of corruption and involvement in murders was accused by the department?s internal affairs investigators of running a death squad when he was a top regional police official. (AP Photo/Honduras' Presidential Press Office)
In this May 22, 2012 photo released by the the presidential press office, Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, right, known as ?El Tigre? or ?The Tiger,? is sworn-in as Honduras' chief of police by President Porfirio Lobo, left, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Bonilla Valladares, the new chief chosen to clean up a Honduran national police force tarred with allegations of corruption and involvement in murders was accused by the department?s internal affairs investigators of running a death squad when he was a top regional police official. (AP Photo/Honduras' Presidential Press Office)
In this May 22, 2012 photo, officer on Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, known as ?El Tigre? or ?The Tiger? speaks to the press after he was sworn-in as Honduras' new Chief of Police in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Bonilla Valladares, the new chief chosen to clean up a Honduran national police force tarred with allegations of corruption and involvement in murders was accused by the department?s internal affairs investigators of running a death squad when he was a top regional police official. (AP Photo/Fernando Antonio)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) ? The new chief chosen to clean up a Honduran national police force tarred with allegations of corruption and involvement in murders was accused by the department's internal affairs investigators of running a death squad when he was a top regional police official.
A 10-year-old report on Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, nicknamed "The Tiger," resurfaced in widely distributed emails and on a local website after he was named police chief May 21 as part of President Porfirio Lobo's efforts to reform a department that is widely accused of killings and human rights violations. The report named Bonilla in at least three killings or forced disappearances between 1998 and 2002 and said he was among several officers suspected in 11 other cases.
Only one of the allegations against the now 46-year-old Bonilla led to murder charges, however, and he was acquitted in 2004. The verdict was upheld by Honduras' Supreme Court in 2009.
Internal affairs investigators weren't able to substantiate many of the cases because of interference by top security officials, said Maria Luisa Borjas, who as head of the police internal affairs department at the time signed the investigation. She was suspended before she finished the report because she had called a news conference to complain about the obstruction.
"I said the investigation pointed to certain officials, that we had evidence and witnesses, but there was no desire on the part of any authority to process this case," she told The Associated Press, adding that she and her team at the time also received death threats.
Borjas said she documented a policy of killing gang members and crime suspects rather than bringing them to trial when Bonilla was regional police chief in charge of Copan, Santa Barbara and Ocotepeque provinces in western Honduras. He held that post from 1998 until September 2011. Borjas said she collected descriptions of cold-blooded killings in San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa and other parts of the country to try to establish what she called a pattern.
In one case, a witness said Bonilla sent a team of officers to track down a suspected leader of a kidnapping gang, Angel Maria Romero, in December 2001.
When they identified him, Bonilla said, "You've got him. Do what you have to do," according to a witness quoted in the report.
The witness, who was with Bonilla while talking to Romero on a cellphone, reported he heard thunderous gunshots, and then Bonilla said: "It's done. Let's go take a look"
They arrived at the scene to see Romero's body in a car that had crashed against a wall.
Bonilla, who serving as liaison between the national police and the army when Lobo tapped him as Honduras' police chief, said he is not granting interviews. The president's office is standing by him.
"He's clean," said Miguel Bonilla, spokesman for Lobo, who gave the new chief emergency powers to fire any officer who fails or refuses a background check. "He has the attributes to head the police and to lead an effective cleanup. We know we have problems and we have to clean up the police in a quick manner."
Honduras' human rights ombudsman, Ramon Custodio, who also participated in the 2002 internal affairs investigation, said he backs Bonilla's appointment, calling it "the best message Lobo could have sent on the issue of security."
After his acquittal, Bonilla built a reputation as a gregarious patriot who aggressively pursued drug traffickers in border states and reported other officers for corruption and unethical behavior, Custodio and others said.
"You can't keep persecuting him for something he was acquitted on," Custodio told the AP. When asked why he had changed his view on Bonilla, he said, "I don't have any other comment to make."
The appointment of Bonilla comes as the United States is paying special attention to the impoverished Central American country, which is a key drug-transport hub with one of the highest murder rates in the world. The U.S. State Department, which has cited repeated concerns about human rights abuses, appointed a special security adviser for three months and Vice President Joe Biden visited in March reiterating U.S. support for Lobo's administration.
The national police chief post has become a revolving door, with various scandals of alleged police involvement in high-profile crimes.
Bonilla replaced Ricardo Ramirez del Cid amid charges that police were involved in the May 9 kidnapping and murder of one of Honduras' best-known journalists, Alfredo Villatoro, a close adviser to Lobo. Villatoro's body was found six days after he was abducted. Ten people have been detained in the case, including a former police officer already incarcerated for another crime, police spokesman Hector Ivan Mejia said.
Ramirez had been appointed in November after charges that police were involved in the murder of Rafael Vargas, 22, son of Honduras National Autonomous University President Julieta Castellanos. Security cameras filmed men in police uniforms killing him and a friend. Some of the officers involved in the crime escaped after being granted weekend leave. The head of the Tegucigalpa police force and its investigative section were removed and are also under investigation.
Borjas' 2002 internal affairs report coincided with a United Nations report that said Honduran police were conducting a campaign of "social cleansing," using killings to rid the streets of gang members.
In 2004, a State Department report noted that Bonilla had turned himself in as a suspect in extrajudicial killings and was out on bail. Three years later, the State Department said Bonilla was suspected but never charged in a series of killings.
In the 2012 human rights report issued last week, the State Department also said Honduran law enforcement agents have murdered and tortured people, though it did not mention Bonilla.
"Among the most serious human rights problems were corruption within the national police force," the report said.
Lisa Kubiske, U.S. ambassador to Honduras, wouldn't comment on the internal affairs report but told the AP that she thinks Bonilla's boss and others in the Lobo administration have "heightened awareness on human rights."
"We definitely hope this change in leadership really leads to effective, lawful cleaning up of the police," she said.
The internal affairs report lists 22 deaths or disappearances in San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa. The most direct allegations against Bonilla involve suspects or witness in the kidnapping of former Economy Minister Reginaldo Panting, who was found dead in 2001 after his family paid a ransom of $125,000.
Borjas told the AP she was ordered to conduct an investigation based on a complaint from Enelda Caballero, whose son disappeared in custody in June 2002. According to local news reports, Caballero knew of a band of kidnappers her son was involved with and gave the information to Bonilla. Instead of arresting them, he killed them, she said. She and her other children fled to Costa Rica after receiving death threats, having filed a complaint against Bonilla with the prosecutor and the human rights ombudsman.
At the time of the internal affairs report, authorities had already issued an arrest warrant for Bonilla in the June 6, 2002, killing of Jorge Luis Caceres, who was picked up for questioning by men in ski masks and was found riddled with 36 gunshots the next day. Bonilla was at the scene of his abduction, witnesses told Borjas.
Neither the security minister nor the police department "moved to carry through" in arresting Bonilla or ordering him to appear, the document said.
Borjas said she was hampered from the start by then-Minister of Security Oscar Alvarez, who took away her investigators, then gasoline for her cars, then the cars. Borjas called the news conference in September 2002 and was suspended that Nov. 28 for violating rules of confidentiality, she said. She delivered her report three days later.
The investigative report lists names and dates of the alleged killings, and in many cases a short paragraph describing how a victim was lured to a particular spot and then ambushed. Borjas said the interference kept her from producing more evidence.
Alvarez, who also was security minister under Lobo and now lives in the U.S., could not be reached for comment. A person who answered his phone said to call back later. Later calls went to voice mail.
In its conclusion, the report said the investigation "gives us the names of some police officials who allegedly are responsible for directing an intelligence team that has the responsibility for, or has had something to do with, the extrajudicial killings of young people in the country ... operating as a supposed death squad."
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Associated Press reporter Katherine Corcoran reported this story in Tegucigalpa and Martha Mendoza reported from Santa Cruz, California.
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Importance of Business Networking Events ? hot news
Business networking is an activity of socioeconomic character, which brings together like minded people or businessmen, to create new business opportunities and also act upon different business ideas. And business networking events provides a platform for such activities to take place. It is a type of social networking activity, which is very important for any business to succeed. It is very important to be a team player, and in order to increase your associations and PR activities these business networking events offer a very good platform. These are very cost effective programs that help companies to develop their business relations.
These business networking events are conducted, may be once in a month, or weekly, quarterly or even yearly. It may be conducted in person or can also be online. Since business is a very demanding job therefore, one need to move around due to work which restricts them from being present in these events in person and therefore for the benefit of such people it is very helpful to participate in the events conducted online. In fact over the years these events are being conducted more on the internet then in person, for the same reason discusses. This is also because of the growing popularity of the internet and business networking websites.
These business networking events are very well organized, in terms of the work flow, the kind of companies which will be invited, the transactions and the coordination of the activities. These events have participants who belong to small business organizations to large business organizations, online business networking companies, face to face business networking and even general business networking companies. These events are very advantageous to the small scale organizations because they get to meet many new different types of people business organizations, with whom they either enter into business or get into business association with them. Some business organizations even propose the large scale organizations to be investors for their company.
The business networking events is also a platform where one can learn a lot. The presence of several business organizations, work as forum where people discuss their work and experiences, which is quite a learning experience. This is not even just a platform for different business transactions, but also a forum where people can come up with different business plans and also provide different business related solutions. Such plans are not only very effective for small scale organizations but even certain large scale firms also gain from it. It can also be considered as an option for generating more employment opportunities. You can become a member of the event and propose your business plan before several esteemed business organizations and if you are good, you just might find a job for yourself.
The online business networking is a big part of business networking events. More and more businesses are becoming a part of online network in order to expand their business across the border and the ocean, and this platform enables them to get in touch with clients across the sea, without even crossing your backyard.
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