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Everyday, hundreds of people all over the world join up with network marketing opportunities online, hoping to make riches, but often the opportunity that they join up with is closed down within a few short months. This is one of the main reasons that online entrepreneurs need to focus on building sustainable and long term residual incomes for themselves.
Problem is most internet marketers join every opportunity that comes their way, and then never actually make anything much in any of them. The reason is that they don't treat one opportunity like a business and work on that particular opportunity until they are actually in profit. Instead they try for a little while with one and then join up with the next best thing that comes around.
The secret to success is working your part time job just as hard as you would your full time job for at least six months or until you are in profit. Only after you have done this will you see whether or not the business will work out for you or not.
The other problem that many face is that they do all the above and then the company closes their doors just when you do start earning yourself a nice little income. Overnight, poof, their earnings have gone.
Okay, we all know that internet marketing is hard work and always will be. Only once you have in disposable income in your hands, can you make your money work for you and afford yourself more time to live your life. It will be hard work until then, building up your business and learning all there is about driving traffic to your program.
Here are some things to look out for before joining up with any MLM or Internet Marketing Business and what you can do to sustain your income:
1. When you find something that appeals to you, Google it and see what others have to say.
2. Try not to lay out any money unnecessarily. If possible, make some money first, then reinvest it into your business.
3. If there is a monthly fee involved, which there normally is in any good business, make sure that you will be able to afford the first three months at least, until you have something coming in.
4. Try to join up with opportunities that are either more than two years old, or that help you to build multiple streams of income in more than one different place. In that way if one of the streams collapses, then at least you will have another to sustain you.
5. Build up a good relationship with all the people that you bring into the business. Give your referrals all the help and support that they need, because if they are successful, then in turn your will also be successful.
6. Join up with an online opportunity that you only have to promote one URL and earn multiple streams of income. In this way you can focus your time more productively on promoting one thing instead of trying to promote many different things and thus dilute your advertising power.
7. Make sure that you invest money in a product or service, as there are many pyramid schemes to invest in with nothing to show for it, and these are normally the types of sites that don't last very long.
Network marketing is the wave of the future, as this is one of the only ways that you can build yourself a great residual income. A residual income is money that you are earning without having to put in hours of work each day, the way you would at a regular job. When you get to this stage, you will be able to enjoy your life more and not have to tie yourself to your desk for eight hours a day.
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1: What is Cyber Marketing And Why It Is So Important For The Success Of Your Website
Cyber marketing has now become an indispensable segment of e-commerce as well as the internet and World Wide Web related topics. Cyber marketing simply refers to a technique of attracting potential customers by advertising your products or services through such means as websites, emails, and banners.
2: SEO Copywriting: How To Choose Article Marketing Topics To Achieve Maximum Exposure
Distributing articles online can be an effective way to build backlinks to your website -- when done correctly. This article explores how to choose the right topics for your article marketing campaign so that they will be widely accepted and distributed online.
3: Article Marketing Strategy: Putting Together a "Class Schedule" For Your Article Topics
Businesses go to so much trouble when there is one sure-fire, simple, very inexpensive way to attract new clients to a business: Teach a free class. That is what article marketing is like. Your articles are just like free classes. You teach your target readers something helpful in your article. Your resource box then says, "If you enjoyed this article you can visit my website and apply what you have learned."
4: Stumped For What to Write About? 15 Article Topic Ideas...
Do you ever dread sitting down to write because you're just not sure what to write about? When you're doing article marketing, you need to create a steady flow of articles. Even if you feel stumped, I assure you--you have more creative writing ideas in you. You just need a little help in looking at your topic in a new way to come up with new writing ideas. Use these 15 article ideas to start your next brainstorming session.
5: Article Marketing Or Guest Blog Posting : Which Do I Favor?
An analysis of Article Marketing in comparison to Guest Blog Posting as a strategy towards achieving the twin objectives of gaining backlinks and getting massive traffic
IRVING, Texas (AP) ? NFL officials ended their labor dispute with the league by approving a new eight-year contract with a 112-5 vote Saturday, then hustled off to the airport to get to work.
Next stop, stadiums around the country.
And, the officials hope, anonymity.
"The last Super Bowl that I worked, when we got in the locker room, I said, 'You know, the best thing about this game, nobody will remember who refereed this game,'" said Scott Green, president of the referees' association. "That's how we like to work."
The vote ended a labor spat that created three weeks of increasingly chaotic games run by replacement officials who drew criticism of everyone from the average fan to President Barack Obama.
"It was pretty much 'Come on in and vote,'" Green said. "We're going to talk football now. We're going to stop talking about CBAs and lockouts and now we're going to talk about rules and video and getting ourselves ready to work football games."
They may get ovations similar to the one bestowed on the crew that worked Thursday's Cleveland-Baltimore game with the tentative deal in place.
The referees met for about an hour and a half Friday night to go over the contract, then gathered for another 30 minutes Saturday morning before approving the contract.
"We are obviously pleased to hear it," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in an email to The Associated Press on Saturday.
Because they were aware of the financial parameters, most of the discussion by the referees involved non-economic issues such as year-round work and developmental squads, said Tim Millis, the association's executive director.
The deal came together quickly this week after an increasing chorus of complaints became impossible to ignore when a disputed touchdown call on the final play gave the Seattle Seahawks a victory over the Green Bay Packers on national television Monday night.
Many thought the ruling of a Seattle touchdown instead of a Green Bay interception was botched, and the labor dispute drew public comments from Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
By late Wednesday, the sides had a contract calling for refs' salaries to increase from an average of $149,000 a year in 2011 to $173,000 in 2013, rising to $205,000 by 2019. The current defined benefit pension plan will remain in place for current officials through the 2016 season or until the official earns 20 years' service.
The defined benefit plan will then be frozen. Retirement benefits will be provided for new hires, and for all officials beginning in 2017, through a defined contribution.
Beginning with the 2013 season, the NFL will have the option to hire a number of officials to work year-round. The NFL also can retain additional officials for training and development and assign those officials to work games. The number of additional officials will be determined by the league.
The officials that worked Thursday's Ravens-Browns game were cheered from the moment they walked onto the field. The difference between the regular crew and replacements was clear. The officials kept the game in control, curtailing the chippy play and choppy pace that had marred the first three weeks of the regular season.
"I think the thing we're most proud of is the lesson that we all learned," Green said. "If you're going to be in a professional league, you've got top-notch coaches, you need professional officials as well."
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Saturday Highlights: US appeals court sends Galaxy Tab 10.1 sales ban decision back to lower court endangering Apple's victory?more in our Apple/Macintosh section; interesting analysis over at Fortune ponders the man in charge of Siri and the new Maps: Scott Forstall; Louie Herr of Digital Trends says we haven't learned the lesson from Antennagate with regards to Maps, saying we've overreacted to the ordeal; Andy Ihnatko says Tim Cook's letter to consumers was the "perfect response", but that Apple's mistake was pushing Maps right into the deep end when they should have approached it like they did Siri; meanwhile, Jim Dalrymple believes this is a simple "black eye, nothing more"; curious question arises out of the Maps issue: "should Apple let users select alternate default apps?"; Consumer Reports not too hard on Maps; some ex Apple and NASA engineers make a pricey coffee maker; Jack Purcher analyzes Intel's computing direction toward "transparent computing"; over at TidBITS, Glenn Fleishman probes mysterious cellular data usage occurring on iOS 6 devices; Apple removes "the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever" from Maps description on Apple.com; InformationWeek's Eric Zeman reviews his iPhone 5 experience, while Mark Crump provides a view of the iPhone 5 from a photographer's perspective, and over at iDownload Blog, Sebastien Page presents a course on B&W iPhone photography.
Friday Highlights: Tim Cook apologizes to customers for Map errors, says Apple doing everything they can to make it better, in the mean time he recommends Bing, Waze, others as alternatives?numerous reports in our Apple/Macintosh, and Op/Ed sections, Jonny Evans believes the message hints that Apple is working to make their mapping service best in the world, not just better; Chris Ciaccia at The Street calls the apology a grand slam saying "no company on Earth...knows how to spin a negative story into good positive vibes better than Apple"; Tim Bajarin says the real reason Apple jettisoned Google Maps had to do with giving valuable customer data to Google, which would help Android; iPhone 5 available for sale in 22 countries starting today; Macworld reviews Parallels Desktop 8, VMware Fusion 5; US Air Force uses iPads saving more than $5 million/year; court in China says Apple must pay $82,000 to encyclopedia company due to App Store piracy; report says iPhone 5 prices are least in United States, most in Italy; ABC News report on TSA official theft of iPad; Sharp says they are not the cause iPhone 5 shortages, pumping out "adequate volumes of display[s]"; TechInsights analysis of A6 chip; Macotakara blog posts mock-up of apparent iPad mini; San Jose Mercury News's Larry Magid reviews iPhone 5, says is "a worthy upgrade, but nothing to get excited about"; however, Dwight Silverman at the Houston Chronicle is "even more sold on it" now that he's tested his iPhone 5 with LTE finding a big difference from pre-LTE iPhones; Mactuts+ shows you how to upgrade RAM in your MacBook Pro; Mac OS X Hints has a tip that could solve WiFi woes on your iPhone, as well as a tip to arrange icons on your Apple TV menu; New York Times's J.D. Biersdorfer answers reader question on asking Siri questions the right way.
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"Microsoft slammed for Windows 8's games strategy" The Times of India
9:14 AM
"Apple vs. Samsung: Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban could be lifted"?Bloomberg News?12:20 PM
"Samsung wins reconsideration on Galaxy Tab sales ban in US"?Crave @ CNET?9:02 AM
"Sales ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 will be reconsidered"?Ars Technica?2:50 PM
"Apple's Mapping Strategy: Today China. Tomorrow the World"?Forbes?2:34 PM
"Apple's Maps Is A Black Eye, Nothing More"?TechCrunch?10:08 AM
"Apple seems to have gotten a little bit lost"?CNN?2:34 PM
"Apple issues full apology over iOS 6 maps cartastrophe"?Wired UK?12:27 PM
"Judging From Apple's Apology, Maps Matter and Nokia Has Maps That Work"?Forbes?8:10 AM
"iOS 6 Map Flap: Should Apple Let Users Select Alternate Default Apps?"?Forbes?8:15 AM
"Tim Cook: 'So sorry for Apple's crap maps app - try Bing or Nokia'"?The Register?8:59 AM
"Apple's excessive work hours progress: tracking 800k, 97% 60-hour work week compliance"?The Next Web?10:31 AM
"'Weak' Apple iPhone 5 Sales Are A Glitch"?Seeking Alpha?8:11 AM
"Apple sued again, this time over Numbers spreadsheet tech"?Crave @ CNET?9:02 AM
"Apple's Cook sorry for Maps errors, suggests rival services"?Reuters?9/28
"Apple apologises for Maps switch 'frustration'"?BBC?9/28
"Apple Maps Apology: There is no company on Earth that knows how to spin a negative story into good positive vibes better than Apple, and the company did it again on Friday."?TheStreet?9/28
"Apple's Tim Cook apologises for iOS 6 Maps in open letter, suggests users try Google, Nokia and other mapping apps"?The Next Web?9/28
"Apple CEO 'Extremely Sorry' for IPhone Maps Frustration" [Video Report]?Bloomberg?9/28
"Tim Cook Apologizes for Apple's Maps"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?9/28
"Apple CEO Apologizes for Maps App"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9/28
"Apple CEO: 'We are extremely sorry' for Maps frustration"?CNNMoney?9/28
"Tim Cook apologizes for Apple's new Maps app"?Fortune?9/28
"Music publisher blocked iPhone 5 music service, report says: Sony/ATV and Apple couldn't agree on licensing fees and that's why we didn't see a Pandora-like music service from Apple, according to a story in the New York Post."?CNET News?9/28
"Apple iPad dominates tablet web traffic: An analysis of traffic from tablet computers to more than 1,200 websites found that 98.1 per cent of the traffic came from the Apple iPad."?Telegraph?9/28
"Gene Munster: iPhone 5 stockouts in 16 of 20 stores/Only 4 stores in smaller cities had iPhones 5s available for sale, and only for Sprint"?Fortune?9/28
"Appeals court sends Galaxy Tab injunction back to trial judge"?Reuters?9/28
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AppleCare/Troubleshooting
"OS X Server: Packet filter rules do not load"?Apple Support?9/28
Reviews/How-To/Tips
"Review: Parallels Desktop 8 vs. VMware Fusion 5"?Macworld?9/28
"Review: Adobe Premiere Elements 11 offers an easy, fast, and simple take on video editing"?TechHive?9/28
"Review: Things 2.0 makes managing to-do lists manageable"?Macworld?9/28
"MacMost Now 767: Using Text Columns in Pages"?MacMost?9/28
"Add New iOS Style Widgets To Mountain Lion Dashboard [OS X Tips]?Cult of Mac?9/28
"An Easy Way To Generate The Toughest, Coolest, Longest Passwords Right On Your Mac"?BohemianBoomer?9/28
"How Many Ways Can You Listen To Music On Your Mac? Here's Another One!"?TeraTalks?9/28
"Is Your Life Worth A Journal? 2 Ways To Journal Your Day On A Mac (one is free, one is not)"?Mac 360?9/28
"How To Control iTunes, Spotify, And Rdio From Your Mac's Menubar (and what's missing in the mix)"?NoodleMac?9/28
"It's Baaack! The Compression And Archive Tool That Mac Users Love To Hate"?Mac 360?9/28
"How To Get Free Music, TV Shows, Movies, And Apps Delivered To Your Mac"?Mac 360?9/28
"Free: The Top 10 Add On Features For Safari That Apple Forgot To Include On The Mac's Favorite Browser"?McSolo?9/28
Op/Ed
"AirPlay Mirroring A Killer Feature In Mountain Lion"?MacNews?9/28
Press Releases
"Blinq Turns Your PC Or Mac Into A Server For Sharing Photos"?AddictiveTips?9:04 AM
"MOTU ships Digital Performer version 8"?Electronista?9/28
"OmniGrowl Updated for Growl 2, CaliBrate Also Updated"?prMac?9/28
"FCP Editors Go Retro with New Slide Pop Special Effects Package"?prMac?9/28
"Report: Apple Maps usage down to four percent"?Electronista?2:35 PM
"Original 2007 Google-powered iPhone maps app reportedly built by 2 engineers in 3 weeks"?iMore?8:01 AM
"Weekly Wrap: iPhone 5 review, iOS 6 annoyances, and a Tim Cook Maps apology"?Macworld?2:34 PM
"Consumer Reports: Apple's Maps App Still Provides a Good Solution for Standard Software"?ModMyi?10:30 AM
"U.S. regional carriers undercut major carries with iPhone 5 discounts"?BGR?10:29 AM
"Former Apple, NASA Engineers Make $11,111 Coffee Maker"?ABCNews?8:12 AM
"Steve Jobs (Action Figure) Returns From the Dead"?PC Magazine?7:31 PM
"Artist Creates Sculpture Made Using Steve Jobs' Recycled Trash"?technabob?9:05 AM
"Urban Outfitters drops cash registers for Apple's iPad in 400 stores"?AppleInsider?9/28
"Apple Launches New App Store Feature Section for Alternative Maps"?MacRumors?9/28
"Global iPhone 5 Rollout Continues, Tight Supplies Be Damned"?AllThingsD?9/28
"iPhone 5 dials up discount for regional carrier debut: Some smaller carriers will trim $50 off the normal retail price for Apple's next-generation smartphone when they begin selling it tomorrow."?CNET News?9/28
"Videos: Queuing up for Apple's iPhone 5 in 22 languages"?Fortune?9/28
"The iPhone 5 goes on sale in 22 more countries today"?iDownload Blog?9/28
"Apple's iPhone 5 Availability Expands: What It Means To Regional Carriers"?TechCrunch?9/28
"Most iPhone 5 Customers Will Buy in Next 6 Months" [Video Report]?Bloomberg?9/28
"Survey: Younger Shoppers Increasingly Using Mobiles To Buy And Compare"?TechCrunch?9/28
"As Apple says sorry, Google Maps gets a little better"?CNET News?9/28
"Apple Clears First Hurdle, Possible iPhone 5 Launch In China Before The Year-End"?Forbes?9/28
"iPhone 5 lights up China's gray market"?CNET Asia?9/28
"US Air Force Electronic Flight Bag Team fought Windows bureaucracy and deployed iPads?[Video]?9 to 5 Mac?9/28
"Thanks to the iPad, The Air Force is Saving More Than $5 Million Per Year"?PadGadget?9/28
"Google's Answer to Siri Thinks Ahead: The company's data stockpile and investment in AI means a smartphone helper that answers queries before you even ask them."?Technology Review?9/28
"Company Alleges that Apple's 'Numbers' Infringe on Borland Patent"?Patently Apple?9/28
"Apple sued over spreadsheet technology"?CNET News?9/28
"Chinese court rules Apple must pay over $82K to encyclopedia publisher over App Store piracy"?AppleInsider?9/28
"Apple music logo trademark rejected"?TG Daily?9/28
"Italians Pay The Most, Americans The Least For iPhone 5"?App Advice?9/28
"Apple iPhone 5 proves a hit with V3 readers"?V3?9/28
"Need a bit of Bible? There's an app for that"?CNN?9/28
"ABC News Tracks Missing iPad To Florida Home of TSA Officer"?ABCNews?9/28
"Find My iPad Catches Thieving TSA Officer Red-Handed [Video]?Cult of Mac?9/28
Non-Apple News
"Cellphones Take a Big Bite Out of Budgets"?WSJ.com [Paid Membership Required]?9:12 PM
"What happens if smartphones become commodities?"?Reuters?7:22 PM
"Google rolls out more improvements to its mapping tools following Apple's Maps apology"?Digital Trends?8:04 AM
"Neil Young reveals Pono music player, promises 'the best sound anyone can get'"?The Verge?9/28
"Amazon unlikely to launch color e-book readers in 4Q12"?DigiTimes?9/28
"Move over iPhone: In China, it's cool to call on 'Xiaomi'"?CNN?9/28
Publications/Podcasts
"Podcast: iPhone 5, one week later ? early users weigh in"?GeekWire?9:04 AM
"The Critical Path #56: Strategic Disadvantages: A discussion with James Allworth"?asymco?7:59 AM
"Gene Steinberg meets commentator Daniel Eran Dilger, of AppleInsider, and Avram Piltch, of Laptop magazine, this week on the Tech Night Owl LIVE!"?The Tech Night Owl LIVE?9/28
"Bj?rn Adamski of Telestream Demonstrates the New Flip4Mac"?MacVoicesTV?9/28
"TUAW Origin Stories: PDF Cabinet"?TUAW?9/28
"Ted Landau's iPhone 5 and iOS 6 Experiences and Opinions"?MacNotables?9/28
"Commutist podcast: Apple's iO-mess, dirty data centers and Tesla"?GigaOM?9/28
"What's Behind Mysterious Cellular Data Usage in iOS 6?"?TidBITS?12:31 PM
"Apple's iOS 6 stumbles on basic connectivity: Wi-Fi"?CNET News?9:08 PM
"SK Telecom Gains Unprecedented iPhone 5 Feature While Apple Files for Passbook Trademark and Much More"?Patently Apple?6:46 PM
"Apple no longer calls iOS6 Maps 'the most beautiful, powerful mapping service ever'"?9 to 5 Mac?9:04 AM
"Apple removes superlatives from Maps description"?iDownload Blog?10:08 AM
"Apple iPad Mini debut reportedly imminent"?CNBC?8:13 AM
"iPhone 5 Display Vs. Spectroradiometer"?MacStories?12:50 PM
"iPad mini Video, Photos Leak"?Tapscape?8:05 AM
"Sharp says making adequate volumes of display used in iPhone5"?Reuters?9/28
"Sharp: Our iPhone 5 display production is 'adequate'"?CNET News?9/28
"It's Now Pretty Clear This Screen Is The Reason iPhone 5 Sales Were So Disappointing"?Business Insider?9/28
"Turret Commander For iPhone and iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $2.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:54 AM
"Alien Booth For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:54 AM
"Leave Devil Alone For iPhone Is Free Right Now (Previously $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?8:54 AM
"Deal Alert: Apple 11.6" Dual-Core i5 MacBook Air MC968LL/A $759.99"?Run Around Tech?7:55 AM
"Woot! has 2011 Dual-Core i5 MacBook Air ? New in box (Update: $749)"?9 to 5 Mac?7:55 AM
"Mac Compatible Printers... Prices Range From $70 To $400 -Best Selling -Prices, Deals, Reviews And Information"?MacReviewZone?2:36 PM
"Best Selling Mac Scanners -From $88 To $496 -Prices, Reviews And Information"?MacReviewZone?2:42 PM
"Space Station: Frontier HD For iPad Is Temporarily Available For Free (Normally $2.99), The iPhone Version Is Also Free"?Apple Sliced?9/28
"The Magician's Handbook: Cursed Valley HD (Full) For iPad Is Free Right Now (Previously $4.99)"?Apple Sliced?9/28
"Radballs For iPhone and iPad Is Free Today (Was $0.99)"?Apple Sliced?9/28
"iPad (2012) Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?9/28
"MacBook Air Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?9/28
"MacBook Pro Prices & Sales"?MacPrices?9/28
"Apple refurbs: 5 Macs $999 or less"?MacNN?9/28
"Mac Software Deals: Photoshop Elements 11, $84; Photoshop Elements 10, $49"?FairerPlatform?9/28
Deal Brothers Daily Deal: Mac mini 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5:? $1189.00 Delivered
Reviews
"iPhone 5: My First Week/After spending a week with the Apple iPhone 5, I have a clear picture of what has improved, evolved, and gone sideways."?InformationWeek?9:08 AM
"A photographer's view of the iPhone 5"?GigaOM?12:20 PM
"CruxSkunk iPad Keyboard Exposes the Mirage of Kickstarter [Review]?Mashable?12:19 PM
"Review: Case-Mate Barely There Case for iPhone 5"?Run Around Tech?12:19 PM
"PowerSkin Battery Case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 review"?iMore?10:08 AM
"Review: Speck PixelSkin HD case for iPhone 5"?M.I.C. Gadget?9:52 AM
"Review: Wahoo Blue HR Heart Rate Strap for iPhone 4S/5"?iSource?7:55 AM
"iPhone 5 vs. the VPI Traveler turntable: The iPhone 5 may be the star of the moment, but the VPI Traveler could stay in your life for decades."?CNET News?10:07 AM
"Magia Zip For IPad Has One Sticky Problem"?MacNews?9/28
"GLAS.T iPhone 5 screen protector from Spigen SGP (Video Review)"?Insanely Great Mac?9/28
iPad/iPhone/iPod touch Apps
"6 cool little features you didn't know iOS 6 had"?VentureBeat?12:23 PM
"Top Tier Alternatives To Apple Maps For iOS 6"?Apple'n'Apps?7:56 AM
"Don't Like Facebook? Then You'll Like Voicepic Even More"?App Advice?12:50 PM
"Flurry for Twitter for iPhone review"?iMore?8:01 AM
"9 home theater apps to improve your big screen with a small screen"?Digital Trends?8:04 AM
"Arrow Mania Review"?148Apps?2:35 PM
"Little Conquest Review"?148Apps?12:49 PM
"Project: Mayhem Review"?148Apps?12:23 PM
"iOS 6 Maps vs. iOS 5 Maps vs. maps.google.com: Location data shootout!"?iMore?9/28
"Create Your Own Passbook Cards, Coupons, & Tickets"?Apple Gazette?9/28
"Brewster: Merge iPhone Contacts With Facebook, Twitter, Gmail & Others"?AddictiveTips?9/28
"Bad Piggies for iPhone and iPad review"?iMore?9/28
"Bad Piggies ? Review: Feels like Angry Birds, but plays in a fresh new way"?What's on iPhone?9/28
"Appidemic: GridBlock for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch"?AppleTell?9/28
"'Lunar Silver Star Story Touch' Review - The Classic RPG in Your Pocket"?Touch Arcade?9/28
"'Infectonator' Review - Ending the World, One Zombie at a Time"?Touch Arcade?9/28
"Score! Classic Goals for iPad and iPhone review"?Macworld UK?9/28
"Carbonite Mobile Review"?148Apps?9/28
"Note Anytime Review: A free note taking and sketching app for the iPad that's packed with many features to give users creative flexibility."?148Apps?9/28
"Find the Way Review: Find the Way is a short maze game that pits players against a clock as they race to find a way out."?148Apps?9/28
"'Super Monsters Ate My Condo' Review and TA Plays - Not Just a Sequel, a SUPER Sequel"?Touch Arcade?9/28
How-To/Tutorial
"Use Siri The Right Way On Your iPhone And iOS 6 [Feature]?Cult of Mac?12:49 PM
"A course on black and white iPhone photography"?iDownload Blog?7:56 AM
"How to Use the Panorama Camera to Take Amazing Panoramic Pictures with iPhone"?OS X Daily?9/28
"How to Upgrade the RAM in Your MacBook Pro"?Mactuts+?9/28
Tips
"How to Assign a Passcode with More than Four Digits to Secure Your iOS Device"?The Mac Observer?10:08 AM
"How to choose an Apple Maps alternative"?USA Today?9:53 AM
"Ask Maggie is back! Which iPhone 5 is right for you?"?CNET News?9:00 AM
"Here's a neat tip to help make sure you get your iPhone back should you ever lose it"?The Next Web?8:00 AM
"One possible solution to iPhone Wi-Fi problems"?Mac OS X Hints?9/28
"Apple explains how to create home screen shortcuts to Google and Nokia maps on the web"?iDownload Blog?9/28
"Q&A: Asking Siri ? the Right Way"?New York Times [Free/Paid Registration Required]?9/28
"How To Buy A Smartphone: Which Is Better, Android or iPhone?"?ReadWriteWeb?9/28
Tim Cook's Maps Apology
"Old Maps vs. New Maps"?Vore?6:50 PM
"Tim Cook's apology shows that Apple cares, but still needs to fix problem"?TUAW?12:18 PM
"The Macalope Weekly: From bad to worse"?Macworld?10:08 AM
"NYT: iOS Maps another internet services blunder for Apple"?AppleInsider?8:00 AM
"MacOS KenDensed: iPhone 5's First Week & that Maps Thing"?The Mac Observer?7:59 AM
"Hate to Say 'I Told You So', Where by 'Hate' I Mean 'Draw Great Satisfaction From'"?Daring Fireball?9/28
"Apple's genius Maps jiu-jitsu: the enemy of my enemy is my friend"?VentureBeat?9/28
"Examining Maps in the Wake of Tim Cook's Apology"?TidBITS?9/28
"Tim Cook's 'Mapology': No explanation of premature Maps launch"?CNET News?9/28
"Did Apple's Apology Scare Off iPhone 5 Buyers?"?CNBC?9/28
"Well Played On Maps, Apple. Your Move,?Google."?TechCrunch?9/28
"Apple Losing Its Sense of Direction"?WSJ Blogs?9/28
"Leaders Apologize"?Forbes?9/28
"Tim Cook open letter: We fell short with new Maps app; we are extremely sorry"?MacDailyNews?9/28
"Apple CEO Cook Posts Letter Apologizing For Buggy Maps"?Forbes?9/28
"CEO Tim Cook apologizes for 'falling short' on Apple Maps"?GigaOM?9/28
"Apple apologizes for iOS 6 maps"?BetaNews?9/28
"Tim Cook on Apple Maps: 'We Are Extremely Sorry'"?AllThingsD?9/28
I would argue that the will to become a better person and a better partner may be the most desirable asset anyone can bring to a marriage. However, starting out as or striving to become the "perfect" partner is neither possible nor desirable. In fact, strong perfectionist traits usually prevent healthy relationship formation.?
Rather than experiencing a full and healthy range of emotions, a perfectionist often vacillates between two primary emotions?dread and relief. The roller-coastering pattern of dread and relief endlessly repeats itself in the life of a non-recovered perfectionist, and spouses and children are often the unhappy passengers of this not-so-thrilling ride.?
In fact, perfectionists spend most of their time dreading the next potential failure, and successes are met with a feeling of temporary relief, rather than with a feeling of satisfaction in having done a thing well. Self-esteem does not build from feelings of relief, or the temporary reprieve of having succeeded at something. Lacking a deep and consistent source of self-esteem, failures hit especially hard for perfectionists, and may lead to long bouts of depression and withdrawal in some individuals.?
Further, perfectionist individuals are often hypersensitive to perceived rejection or possible evidence of failure, and there is a fundamental rigidity in the relentless stance of bracing for failure. Unfortunately, when an individual is caught up in the bondage of perfectionist striving, that person is likely to be less interested in developing a healthy, mutually satisfying marriage and more interested in chasing the elusive rabbit in his or her own head.?
Along these lines, partners of perfectionist individuals often comment on their partner's emotional unavailability. It is very hard for a perfectionist to share his or her internal experience with a partner. Perfectionists often feel that they must always be strong and incontrol of their emotions. A perfectionist may avoid talking about personal fears, inadequacies, insecurities, and disappointments with others, even with those with whom they are closest. Naturally, this greatly limits emotional intimacy in a marriage.?
Perfectionist individuals can also be fiercely competitive, even with their partners. Feelings of inadequacy may set the stage for downward social comparison within their own homes ("at least I'm more successful than my wife is"). Celebrating the victories of a spouse may be especially hard if such success threatens a perfectionist partner's sense of being "the more competent partner" in the relationship.?
The exhaustion that comes from striving to be perfect can also lead a perfectionistic individual to give up in the face of obstacles. Related to this, I?ve worked with a number of patients who classify themselves as perfectionists. At the same time, pictures they?ve shown me of their home environments sometimes look like the homes of hoarders. ?At first, it may seem puzzling that a person who lives in squalor could identify him or herself as a ?perfectionist.? However, if a driving factor in an individual?s psyche is the thought, ?it I can?t do it perfectly, I don?t even want to do it at all,? then the living conditions of such perfectionists makes sense.??
Perfectionism and Marriage, for Equals?
A marriage of equals is hard to create when one (or both) partner(s) are perfectionists. A marriage of equals is a partnership between two people who see each other as true equals. Not only must they be true equals, but both must be open to influencing each other continuously in order to become perfect for, and irreplaceable to, each other.?
As I have argued in my book (www.marriageforequals.com), the way to partner with a soul mate is not to arrive as the perfect match for each other, but to become this over time. The key is how you will shape each other in the marriage as your life together unfolds. ?Mutual growth towards this end requires each partner to express a full range of emotions, including feelings associated with a sense of personal vulnerability.?
Giving and receiving feedback about the impact we have on each other calls for unconditional self-esteem that does not over-depend on others' evaluations of us. The self-esteem we derive from living a life consistent with our deepest values gives us the emotional freedom to learn and grow without fearing the shame of rejection. Striving for perfection leaves us empty and unstable, foundering like ships without anchors in a turbulent ocean.?
What if you are a Perfectionist??
Perfectionism can be treated in therapy. Some of the same treatments that work for individuals with obsessive compulsive personality features have equal potency in the treatment of perfectionism. Any treatment that works requires you to initially tolerate significant anxiety and ultimately befriend the awareness of personal imperfection.??
When perfectionism has been conquered, healthy self-esteem can flower, and when it does, you are much more likely to attract someone with the potential and desire to work at becoming the perfect partner for you (as opposed to the perfect human being).?
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ScienceDaily (Sep. 28, 2012) ? New movies of the transit of Venus on 6 June 2012, viewed from two different locations on Earth, clearly show the parallax effects that have made Venus transits so important historically. The results were presented at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid, Spain.
The movies compress 6 hours of observations and 5000 individual images taken by optical and solar telescopes into a 40 second video. Data gaps due to cloudy conditions produce jumps in the otherwise smooth Venus motion across the Sun disk. The observations were taken from Svalbard in Norway and Canberra in Australia, which are separated by 11600km.
When the images from the two locations are superimposed, the parallax effect (which first allowed astronomers to measure the distance between Earth to the Sun) becomes clear. Parallax means that when the transit is viewed from widely separated points on Earth's surface, Venus appears to follow a different path in front of the Sun's disc. Precise observations of the duration of the transit -- together with an accurate measurement of the distance between the observation points -- means that the distance to Venus and to the Sun can be calculated via triangulation.
The images used in the movies were obtained by members of the European Space Astronomy Centre, which is located outside Madrid. Two of the observers, Miguel P?rez Ay?car and Michel Breitfellner are on the science operations planning team for the Venus Express satellite, which has been orbiting Venus since 2006.
P?rez Ay?car said, "During the hours of the transit we were delighted by the slow, delicate, gracious passage of Venus in front of the Sun. A perfect black circle, containing a world in it, moving in front of its looming parent star. How thankful we were to witness it. Now with these movies, we can share a sense of that experience."
Breitfellner said, "In the 18th century people realised that transits of Venus could be used to measure the distance from Earth to the Sun. Teams of astronomers were sent all across the world to measure this effect. The 2012 transit has its own historical importance -- it is the first that has occurred when a spacecraft is in orbit at Venus. Science teams are now working to compare observations of the Venus transit from Earth with simultaneous observations from Venus Express."
Colin Wilson, Operations Scientist for Venus Express, said, "Planetary transits are not just of historical interest, they have acquired a new importance in the study of newly discovered planets around other stars. Because we cannot image exoplanets directly, it is only by studying their transits that we can discover whether they harbour liquid water or other potential 'biomarker' molecules like methane or ozone. The Venus transit is an example much closer to home, offering us a chance to test our understanding of how to interpret transit data. This certainly added extra interest as we watched the Venus transit in June -- particularly knowing it was our last chance that we'd have to wait until 2117 to see the next one!"
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Russia, China and Iran on Thursday, saying their stance on the crisis in neighboring Syria was allowing a massacre to go on unabated.
Erdogan has been one of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's harshest critics, accusing him of creating a "terrorist state", allowing the Syrian opposition to organize on Turkish soil, and pushing for a foreign-protected safe zone inside Syria.
Washington sees Turkey as the key player in supporting Syria's opposition and planning for the post-Assad era, but Ankara has found itself increasingly isolated and frustrated by a lack of international consensus on how to end the chaos.
"The main source of disappointment is Russia. Let alone raising its voice against Syria, it stands by the massacre," Erdogan said in an interview broadcast live on Turkish television station NTV.
"China stands by Russia, and although (Chinese President) Hu Jintao had told me they wouldn't veto the plan (for a safe zone) for a third time, they did at the U.N. vote," Erdogan said.
He described Iran's position on the 18-month-old uprising against Assad as "impossible to understand".
World leaders meeting at the United Nations this week have expressed concern at the continuing violence in Syria but remain deadlocked over their response.
The United States, European allies, Turkey and Gulf Arab states have sided with the Syrian opposition while Iran, Russia and China have backed Assad, whose family and minority Alawite sect have dominated Syria for 42 years.
Protection for rebel-held areas in Syria would require no-fly zones enforced by foreign aircraft, which could stop deadly air raids by Assad's forces. But there is little chance of securing a Security Council mandate for such action given the opposition of veto-wielding members Russia and China.
China insists any solution to Syria's crisis must come from within the country, while Russia has said many Syrians still support Assad.
Erdogan had been due to travel to New York to join the U.N. General Assembly meetings but cancelled his trip at the last minute. Officials cited a heavy work schedule ahead of a key ruling party congress on Sunday, but some observers said it was a sign of frustration at the international deadlock.
The violence in Syria is spiraling as Assad responds to rebel military gains with air strikes and artillery bombardment, killing hundreds every day and sending close to 300,000 refugees into neighboring Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Turkey.
"Assad's days are numbered," Erdogan said. "He may have to leave soon, he can't resist this anymore."
(Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Writing by Nick Tattersall; editing by Jason Webb.)
Malone bought the 290,000- acre Bell Ranch in New Mexico in 2010 for a reported $65 million.
FORTUNE -- On the Colorado High Plains, John Malone sits in a generous -- but not grandiose -- corner office on the second floor of a blocky, granite-faced building in a nondescript corporate park in Englewood. If, in real estate, location is everything, it's curious that the largest private landowner in America chose an office location, an hour from downtown Denver, that ... well, it isn't much. Not much to look at, anyway.
But the building and its location are Malone writ large: standalone, brawny, and commanding views of clean sky and snowcapped mountains shining like chrome in the distance. Malone, 71, whose thick hair is as white and flawless as his wrinkle-free shirt, sits behind his desk wearing an elegant rose-colored tie and tells a visitor, "My wife and I are going to look at something that's for sale on Friday."
By "something" Malone means land. Given that in 2011 Malone bought 1.2 million acres of Maine woodlands, thereby surpassing his old friend Ted Turner as the nation's largest private landowner, one might view the Friday shopping trip as a touch superfluous. Malone doesn't. He's got the land bug, thanks in part to Turner, now the second-largest private landowner in America, with whom he has a fond rivalry. If, as the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel posited, "property is the first embodiment of freedom," Malone is one liberated individual. According to The Land Report magazine, he now owns an estimated 2.2 million acres of U.S. cropland, ranch land, and woodland, an area about three times the size of Rhode Island. (The largest landowner in the world is Queen Elizabeth II, because technically she owns places like Australia and Canada.)
There's no master plan to the way Malone acquires land, no imperialistic imperative, no mano a mano contest with Turner -- "We are not having a race," Malone says. "I certainly applaud what he's done, and we share very common goals" -- but neither is there any indication that he will stop anytime soon.
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Although Malone expresses manifold motivations for buying more land, the primary reason seems to be simply that he can. "Basically, for my whole life all my assets have been tied up in the companies I've started and run," says Malone, the founder and chairman of Liberty Media (LMCA), a major distributor of TV entertainment, sports, and other programming, including Discovery Channel, USA, QVC, Encore, and Starz. In recent years he has successfully spun off businesses and is now free, he says, to spend more of his wealth on land, although it's not clear how much he has invested so far in his holdings. But he can afford it. After years of wheeling and dealing, Malone is worth an estimated $5 billion.
No matter where he is or whom he's with, John Malone seems at home. Jerry Lindauer, an early player in the cable-television industry, once said of Malone, "You could put him on a panel of nothing but experts in their respective fields, be it financing, marketing, programming, engineering, technology, whatever it is ... he was a tour de force. He can cross all disciplines."
Some of Malone's cattle holdings on a Colorado ranch
One particular instance of Malone's savvy was understanding that the cable-TV business was what is now called a "content business" long before most people had any idea that such a thing existed. He was also good at engineering complex financial transactions in the field of telecommunications. Entering a business deal with Malone is like playing chess with a grand master -- not only are you going to lose, but it's going to take years for you to figure out just how early and thoroughly you were outmaneuvered. Malone has crossed fountain pens with the greatest media titans of the telecommunications age -- Ted Turner, Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller -- and often walked away richer.
Essentially, after a mind-numbing series of mergers and stock splits, spinoffs and standoffs, Malone emerged on the sunny side of some of the biggest business deals in the history of telecommunications. At one point or another, he has owned stakes in Sprint (S), Interactive Corp., Motorola (MSI), Time Warner (TWX), News Corp. (NWSA), AT&T (T), Sirius XM (SIRI), and even analog media like Barnes & Noble (BKS). The media titan never shied away from a fight. In a 1994 Wired interview, Malone joked that Reed Hundt, then chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, should be shot. Not exactly Mr. Nice Guy.
Malone didn't know how much he liked land until he came West as a relatively young man. Raised in Milford, Conn. -- then a village of 2,500 people -- Malone spent summers on his father's family's farm in southeast Pennsylvania. After graduating from Yale in 1963 and earning a Ph.D. in operations research from Johns Hopkins, Malone by 1970 was running a division of General Instrument Corp., a pioneer in the cable-TV industry. Dissatisfied with the company's management and told he was too young to run the place himself, Malone in 1973 moved to Denver and took a 50% pay cut. There he worked with a customer he always admired, an entrepreneur named Bob Magness who ran a fledgling -- and nearly bankrupt -- cable-television company called Tele-Communications Inc. Malone would build TCI into what would become the second-largest cable-TV company in the country, after Time Warner.
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Magness, a former cattle rancher and seed salesman, was "really as much a father and a mentor as a partner," says Malone. They had adjacent offices. They shared motel rooms when they traveled "because we were cheap," he recalls. Malone remembers his 25 years of working with Magness with great fondness, and his mentor's enthusiasms had a way of rubbing off on Malone -- including a longing for land.
"Bob Magness was absolutely in love with land and with ranches in particular, and that really introduced me to the possibility of owning landscape-size pieces of land," Malone says. "In the early '80s we bought a piece of land on behalf of the company and put together the [80,000 acre] Silver Spur ranch in Saratoga, Wyoming."
Magness died in 1997, and two years later Malone sold TCI to AT&T for $48 billion -- the second-largest business transaction in the country up to that time. (Malone would later spin off Liberty Media and leave AT&T with it.)
That same year, Malone bought the Silver Spur, his first major land purchase, from TCI. "I knew the ranch and loved it," Malone wrote in a recent e-mail. Following that acquisition he went on a land-buying orgy in Wyoming and Colorado. "I liked the efficiency of scale and learning about the ranching business," he recalls.
But it wasn't until he toured some of Ted Turner's landholdings that Malone began to see an even bigger picture. "Ted and I have been buddies for many, many years, and in many ways the idea of investing in land ownership and stewardship came to me from Ted. He was the one who gave me the concept that you could do well and do good in landownership."
For his part, Turner is proud of anything he might have sparked in Malone. "John feels a deep reverence for the land and is very aware of the responsibilities that come with being a landowner. I also feel that way. We both see landownership as a personal investment, but also an opportunity to contribute to the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants," Turner wrote in an e-mail.
John Malone is many things -- a telecommunications mogul, a cross-country skier, a multibillionaire, a family man, a yachtsman, an unreconstructed and sharp-tongued libertarian -- but he is, first and foremost, convincing. His voice, substantial and steel-cored, helps ensure that when you hear Malone speak, you believe what he's saying. Also, you know that by the time the sentence slices into the air, Malone has thought about what he's saying, possibly for years. Despite, for instance, his mentioning of "aesthetics" first on the checklist he considers before acquiring a new piece of property, you know he isn't suggesting he's amassed 2.2 million acres of "pretty."
After asking himself if a particular parcel of land is something that deserves to be preserved from an aesthetic point of view, from a biodiversity point of view, from an if-we-don't-preserve-it-what's-going-to happen-to-it point of view, Malone eyeballs issues closer to the bottom line, which provokes a spreadsheet of questions:
Does it make economic sense? Does it bleed money or is it self-supporting and self-managing? Do I have to get involved in day-to-day operations of the business, or does it have competent current management? Does it represent economic diversification for myself and my family?
"Productive land is one of the very few permanent values throughout history," Malone says. Others are certainly acting on that assumption. In the Midwest, farmland prices have skyrocketed. From 2011 to 2012, according to the Chicago district office of the Federal Reserve, Iowa farmland prices saw a 27% increase. Last year a farm in Iowa's Sioux County sold for a record $20,000 an acre. On Canada's plains, investment funds are buying up wheat and barley farms in Saskatchewan. Over the past decade farmland has generated annualized returns of 13.9%.
Even less lucrative ranch land has become highly coveted. Jim Taylor, recently retired as the managing director of Hall & Hall, one of the country's largest ranch-land brokers and managers, says that despite economic hardships in residential real estate, ranch land has been a solid investment. Hall & Hall recently had its best run in the company's 70-year history. From the last quarter of 2010 through 2011, the brokerage sold about $460 million worth of ranch land.
Malone's Greenland ranch in Douglas County, Colo.
"The buyers are people with a very large net worth who don't need a lot of cash return," Taylor says. "I think these purchasers are worried about inflation, and they're willing to accept an investment that doesn't get you a great return. You put a certain amount of value in land today and you come back a thousand years from now, it's still going to have value -- whether you're measuring it in dollars or rubies or rubles."
Taylor, who attended Yale but didn't know Malone, has been watching Malone's acquisitions with interest. "When there's any kind of uncertainty in the national or international economy, everybody sits on their money," Taylor says. "You don't invest in long-term assets when the world may be coming apart. On the other hand, if you're really smart and really rich, that's when you do invest in long-term assets because that's when everybody is trying to get rid of them. That's where I think Malone fits into it."
Malone wants his land to generate at least enough revenue to support itself. He playfully chides his conservationist friend Ted Turner for trying to "take [his land] back to precolonial times, where I'm content to take it back to perhaps the late 1800s."
One thing he looks for is synergy. Malone's cattle ranches in Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado send cows to his Nebraska feedlot to fatten on grain from farmland he also owns in that state, boosting productivity and generating a little revenue. But there are so many ways for billionaires to generate revenue.
"People say to me, 'Why don't you own a bunch of gold because of how you feel about the government?'" says Malone, a libertarian who is not enamored of the federal government's handling of debt or, really, the federal government as whole. "But I have a really hard time owning assets that aren't productive."
Malone figures that his cropland will get a 5% operating return as an investment, while his forest investments in New Hampshire and Maine should get closer to a 2% to 3% real return. Ranching, he says, gets close to zero in terms of an operating return. But it does have potential for appreciation, especially in times of inflation.
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"In the long view in real dollars," contends Malone, "cropland is probably best, because it's producing a commodity that is consumed by a world market." One thing Malone likes is that the demand for farm and wood products (and, to a lesser extent, beef from ranching) is independent of domestic fiscal and monetary policies. "You're not dealing in strictly the local currency," explains Malone, "so you get protection from the fact that the thing your asset produces is desired by a worldwide market. To me it looks like one of the safest places you can invest money is productive land."
When negotiating land purchases, Malone calls upon the same skills that served him so well in the business world. Eric O'Keefe, editor of The Land Report, a publication dedicated to monitoring the high-end land market, says, "John Malone is as tough in his timber dealings and is as disciplined in his ranch acquisitions as he is in any transactions made on the Street." The 290,000-acre Bell Ranch -- about 453 square miles of New Mexico -- was originally listed for $110 million in 2006, then dropped to $85 million in 2010, when Malone entered the picture. Malone is believed to have paid between $60 million and $65 million for the ranch. "He's very open-minded and thoughtful about the process it takes for a seller to sell," says Ron Morris of the Colorado-based Ranch Marketing Associates, who has represented Malone in several large Western land deals. "But John's not foolish. In my experience with him, there's no second chance. He'll make one offer and moves on."
Malone outside his office in Englewood
And yet, one look at Malone's history with land and it's easy to see that all this land-grabbing isn't only -- or perhaps even mostly -- about investment. Malone and his family are active outdoors enthusiasts. As a kid, Malone says, he could "go down to the water and get in a boat and lose yourself pretty quickly." On his vast holdings in the Northeast he likes to snowmobile -- particularly on the long stretch he owns along the border with Canada. He pursues less mechanized activities too: cross-country skiing in the north woods, fly-casting from a sea kayak along the mangrove flats on his private island in the Bahamas.
And so, lying beneath the financial spreadsheets and income forecasts, there's a romance to owning all these places. It seeps through when Malone suggests he might covet land because he's of Irish ancestry. "I actually do believe," he says, "that there may be a genetic element in wanting to own the land you're on. For 400 years the Irish farmed land that was owned by English landlords. The farmer's existence was temporary, transitional. I'm not a believer in mystical things, but I am a believer in evolution, and there could well be some element of generational memory that goes into this kind of stuff. Or at least a way of thought. Call it an empathy."
When the conversation turns to conservation, Malone starts to sound like an MFA student in creative writing. "The point is, going out on one of these ranches and being able to look for miles in any direction and seeing pretty much the way it used to be, and knowing you can go back in 10 years and it will look pretty much the same way -- it's a value, an aesthetic. You defend it on the basis that you're doing this on behalf of your fellow man."
Which for this shrewd businessman is, of course, only part of the story.
This story is from the October 8, 2012 issue of?Fortune.
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Brining is one of the best things you can do to cook juicier, more flavorful meats. For extra punch, consider adding a spoonful of Sriracha to that salt solution. 
