Cubs badge crime prevention honour [1]
Release date: Wed 2 July 2008
Last updated: Wed 2 July 2008

Victoria Police recognised future crime preventers this week when one of the first cub packs in Australia was awarded the first Neighbourhood Watch (NHW) badge.

An initiative of Scouts Australia, Neighbourhood Watch and Victoria Police, the NHW badge has been designed to teach young cubs how to be safe at home and to introduce them to the Neighbourhood Watch scheme.

“This initiative has been carefully co-ordinated to ensure that every will be awarded the badge by their local Neighbourhood Watch Co-ordinator who will also talk about personal safety and the work of NHW” Acting Deputy Commissioner Bob Hastings said.

The introduction of the NHW badge for cubs is the first step in establishing a link between Scouts Australia, Neighbourhood Watch and Victoria Police.

Scouting has a long history in assisting young people to become responsible members of society and Neighbourhood Watch is always looking for new volunteers of all ages to become active members of the community.

This year, Neighbourhood Watch celebrated 25 years of service to the community and currently has 22,000 volunteers across the state of Victoria.

“We hope that by introducing children to NHW at an early age, we may be able to encourage them to participate in the NHW scheme and become future crime preventers,” Mr Hastings said.

More details as I can find them.

[1] Cubs badge crime prevention honour (2008-Jul-02) [Victoria Police]

This magazine will be devoted to promoting various genres by showcasing invited authors to craft a project based on a particular theme. One issue may deal with family; and, we may ask humor writers to submit articles geared toward life with relatives or children. Journalistic pieces may surface about the apparent degeneration of the nuclear family, or the advantages of an extended family. We may recognize a current social topic or a personal theme such as coping with the loss of a loved one.

Writers of poetry, fiction, essays, and opinion articles can all tackle themes of such universal nature because we practice the art of written communication. This society has the advantage of being able to use the vast resources, which is its membership, to request such material.  There will be works published by the founders as well, and we will continue to put forward our finest efforts.

This introductory issue is devoted to those writers who seek publication outside the traditional means of brick and mortar, paper and ink venues via the use of blogs and other internet apparatus. They are as valid a voice as any “published” author who sits at a table autographing their books. The goal for all members is to continue to seek similar notoriety, yet maintain their integrity by striving for literary excellence in an often hostile and critical blogging environment.

Their work will be featured here, and readers will come to know the talent first recognized with the symbolic Raven Emblem which is now the official badge of the Society. Look for our completed magazine in the coming months with featured articles and thematic elements unique to the writing styles and efforts of all the members of The Society of the Midnight Wanderers.

I finally came up with the term and graphic to go with it. The badge is simple but my hope is that it will be "worn" with honor by journalists who have shown their true integrity, compassion, and knowledge when they report on any story related to postpartum mood disorders.

If you come across any journalists (or if you are one) who have reported on a PMD story and done so in the manner set forth above, please submit the story and journalist's name for consideration to sharing.the.ppd.journey (at) gmail.com with GRACE AWARDS as the Subject line.

The first journalist I would like to honor is Anna Velasco for her story, "Shining A Light after Tragedy," written regarding the Jenny's Light Foundation I posted about yesterday. Ms. Velasco showed a tremendous amount of integrity, compassion, and knowledge in her writing of the story as well as highlighted her talent for focusing on the positive in light of such a tragedy. Thank You, Ms. Velasco. Wear your badge with honor!

If this is ok, I will print it out on colour paper and paste it to a nice board with a safety pin at the back. The board can be cut into shapes that you want. If we don't have time, it will be just square or rectangular. It will be printed in black and white on colour paper unless somebody has colour printer.

Posted by Lam Seng

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Shaquille O’Neal will lose his special deputy’s badge in Maricopa County because of language he used in a rap video that mocks former team mate Kobe Bryant.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the Phoenix Suns center’s use of a racially derogatory word and other foul language left him no choice. Arpaio made Shaq a special deputy in 2006 and promoted him to colonel of his largely ceremonial posse later that year.

“I want his two badges back,” Arpaio told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they’re fired. I don’t condone this type of racial conduct.”

Shaq was seen in a video posted on the celebrity news and gossip Web site TMZ.com rapping that “Kobe couldn’t do without me.” O’Neal skewers the Lakers’ star, with whom he won three straight NBA titles from 2000-2002 while with Los Angeles, for not being able to win a championship without him.

“I was freestyling. That’s all. It was all done in fun. Nothing serious whatsoever,” O’Neal told ESPN.com Monday. A call to the Suns on Tuesday seeking comment from O’Neal was referred to his public relations firm, which didn’t immediately respond.

Arpaio, who describes himself as “America’s Toughest Sheriff” and is best known for feeding jail inmates green bologna, clothing them in pink underwear, and making them work on chain gangs, said he didn’t expect his actions would teach Shaq a lesson. But he hoped he learns that as a role model who wants to someday be a full-time sheriff, he needs to know his words matter.

“Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I don’t think that either conduct should be out there publicly, even if media wasn’t there,” Arpaio said.

O’Neal previously served as a reserve officer with the Miami Beach Police Department while playing for the Miami Heat. He also volunteered with the Tempe Police Department after being traded to the Suns in February.

But we need to write the words (nice fanciful fonts) on a piece of paper and cut the wordings and use colourful pens to trace the wordings onto the heart shape.

Simple and easy to do. But we need someone who can write nice fancy words on a paper. What do you all think?

Posted by Lam Seng

小時候，警察的正義形象深入我心，他們威風凜凜的外表，著上制服更顯「有型」。亦正因如此，我也不知道自己何時開始有收集警章的習慣，到處搜羅本土，香港，國內，台灣或其他地方的有關警察的東西。至今花了多少時間，心機，金錢，我想應該數之不盡吧。現在先給大家看一些我的收集，也不算得上什麼歷史東西。

What's even cooler about these pins is that some of them can level up! I won't tell you which ones yet, but I will tell you that these are gonna be released next week! So stay tuned folks!!

♥ Himani

Jadi penasaran apa saja standar yang dia pakai sampai bisa menyimpulkan reading level ini. Any idea?

Want to test yours? Check aja di http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx

We got early and saw Keas. They are before Cubs. We played Chinese whispers with the Keas.

On the Cubs subject, we explained rules of Cub Camp for our Cub Camp Badge. We sung some songs that we will do near the  campfire at Cub Camp at Saturday night. They were funny, silly, repeating and cool. I showed my music badge to Akela.

I had fun.

Objectives: Don't die in Streamline

Rhythm Prodigy Badge:

Objectives: Don't lose a single life in Streamline

Keep in mind, these aren't the same.  The first badge is essentially (don't lose), the second is don't die at all.

I thought this guide would be easier with pictures instead of words because most likely people would be saying "Huh?", so here's the picture guide:

Part (Level) 1:

Part (Level) 2:

Part (Level) 3:

Part (Level) 5:

You can win one of two ways.  Get the enemy castle (not the fence, fence doesn't matter) to 0 or get your own castle (again, fence doesn't matter) to 100.

The game concept is rather easy.  Play cards that give you bonuses to things and sometimes negative effects to the other player.  For this one, start the game on the easiest difficulty.  For your strategy this game is going to be simple.  Here's the priority, from most important to least important, of the cards you're going to play.  (Note: Keep in mind that some user interaction is involved.  For example, if the enemy castle is at 10 with no fence and you have an attack card that you can play that will do 32 damage, don't play the +Castle card even though it's higher in priority).  Heres the stategy:

o.  +Castle (trying to win by getting to 100 and surviving attacks)
o.  Attack (Greater than 12), Fence (Greater than 12)
o.  +Builders, Soldiers, Magic (for increased production every turn)
o.  Transfer Enemy Stocks (they lose some you win some)
o.  -Enemy Bricks, Weapons, Crystals, Stocks (they can't do as much overall)
o.  Attack (Less than 12)
o.  +Bricks, Weapons, Crystals
o.  +Fence (Less than 12)

Good luck, I haven't lost to the computer yet.

~Gilgalith

This game is a top-down shooter.  I found this game really easy (but then again, secretly, this is my favorite game type, don't tell anyone).  Here's some tips.

1) Dodge, dip, duck, dive and dodge.  You get this badge if you complete the stages, not if you get a certain score or how many planes you shoot down.  Therefore, NOT getting hit (although such a simple concept) is your top priority.  Also keep in mind that not dying means you won't lose any of the powerups you've gained.  Make shooting and killing your second priority.

2) Since this walkthrough is based on getting the badge, I'm going to tell you the easiest way.  There's powerups that sometimes bounce around the screen after you kill enemies.  Keep in mind these powerups stack, which means once you pick up the yellow one (see immediately below), ONLY pick up the yellow one everytime you see it.  The ones you want are:

o 3 Yellow Lines

o Either Red Missile or Squiggly Horizontal Line.  The red missiles are easy to use, just mouse over an enemy while you're shooting and the missiles will go towards that enemy.  The squiggly horizontal line is a shield.  Draw a line around yourself and a shield will appear, keep holding down the mouse button to shoot.  If you click again the shield will disappear, or it'll just run out after a certain amount of time.

o Triangle-shaped Thing with a B.  This is an extra bomb, bombs are used with the spacebar.  Very handy.

o Red pill.  Gives you some health back.

o Blue pill. Restores some of your power.

That's about all I can give you, good luck!

~Gilgalith

1) Reach the boss on stage 4 – This must be done in - Music in Motion -

2) Survive 500 Frames – This must be done in "Elephant Rave." It should take about 15 seconds.

First up is Music in Motion.  This game is rather simple, the only problem I had was with the final boss at the end because I had no idea what to do.  There's no real point in telling you what to do in this game because it's rather simple, short, and straightforward.  Here's some tips however:  For the first level, all you want to do is run to the right and jump constantly.  Yes, that's it.  It's all based on luck as to whether you get caught in the gaps or not.  Don't worry, everytime you complete a level you get 3 extra lives, so it's no biggie if you get caught once or twice.  For the Second level, blocks will fall down from the sky.  The easiest way to do this one is to try and stay in the middle as much as you can and watch the order that the blocks fall.  They "blink out" in order that they fell so you can kind of get a judgment as to where you're going to run to.  There's not much else help I can offer on this one.   For the Third level, simply stand still until you see light start to emit under your feet and either go left or right a couple steps to get out of the way.  Repeat.  Or, if that's too boring, you can simply run in one direction constantly jumping, which I found didn't work out too badly for me.  The Fourth level, the boss zone.  Just by getting here you should've finished the first objective of that card, but dont check now.  Keep going and get that badge at the same time.  For the boss, pick a side, left or right and go to the edge.  I'd try and stay away from the edge about a character length because I had my guy fall through the ground once.  Once you're at the edge, stay there.  The boss will fire these little red waves at you, simply jump over them when they approach.  When the boss starts to get really close to you, do a running jump over his head and go to the other wall.  Eventually the music will slow down immensely and the boss will turn a pink'ish color.  This is the time when you jump onto him.  He's going to fire little straight red missiles out of his hand from now on.  These are easily avoided by standing on the ground.  So now repeat the strategy for when you first met him being sure to jump over the waves but be on the ground when the missiles shoot out.  The music will stop, jump on him again.  Repeat the strategy afterwards until the music stops again and hit him one more time.  Congratulations!  You've gained part of a card and a complete badge in about 5 minutes.

Next is Elephant Rave. This game is, uh...dumb.  There's no strategy I can really offer you for this one except that I had the best luck standing next to one of the walls, watching the top of the screen until the light beam appeared above me and then moving out of the way.  About halfway through the "game" a small block will come from (in my case always the left side) and run across the ground.  You'll have to jump over this.   I think that block comes about 4, maybe 5 times I don't remember.  Keep trying to do it (until you think you might suffer from Epilepsy) and you'll get it.  I think it took me 3 tries.  If you can do it for 45 seconds, you'll also gain the badge.  (P.S. - I hated this game.)

You'll have gained the "When Techno Music Attacks! Challenge" Card and the "Musical Destruction Badge", as well as the "Life, Love, Understanding Badge"

Question: How To Customize Facebook Signature?

Answer: It’s simple and you can use Facebook Badge to your sites. Instructions are given below:

• Facebook Badge Customization
• Click to “Create Badge”
• Select layout “Horizontal” Or “Vertical”
• Images Format Or JavaScript Format? For WordPress.com or Forum select Images Format.
• Choose the “Items”
• Then Save it.
• You will get codes, without changing anything just paste your desired location.

Question: How To Add Facebook Badge On WordPress.com Or How To Customize Facebook Badge For Blog Site?

Answer: It's simple and you can use Facebook Badge to your sites. Instructions are given below:

• Facebook Badge Customization
• Click to "Create Badge"
• Select layout "Horizontal" Or "Vertical"
• Images Format Or JavaScript Format? For WordPress.com select Images Format.
• Choose the "Items"
• Then Save it.
• You will get codes, without changing anything just paste your desired location.

Question: How To Customize Twitter Badge For Blog Sites?

Answer:

If you wants to make your twitter badge computable for your blog site, you need to cuztomie your twitter badge. The most easiest way, you can do this funs and create more funs if you have idea about css, javascripts ;-)

Instructions are given below:

• [sourcecode="javascript"]

follow me on Twitter

[/sourcecode]

Instead of the username of TechIdea, type your own username.

Provide your digits &count=5 and if you need 1, type simple one.

If you're css expert, you can customize and add css here <div <--Add Style Here --> id="twitter_div">

If you need to change the birds icon, paste your desired images code here url(http://techidea.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/twitter-icon.gif)

Question: Can I Get Twitter Badge For My Site?

Answer: Yah! Sure you can get. Just go here for twitter badge and took your desired blogging platform. Copy the code and paste the javascript code in your desired place. However, some site don't support javascript, so you can use rss feed reader to get the updates of twitter.com. It's bit tricky and if you're on wordpress.com, you can do fun through rss features.

Direct Paste The Codes & Change a user name:

[sourcecode="javascript"]

Twitter Updates

[/sourcecode]

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Nella serie di widget messi a disposizione da WP ho letto il termine "del.icio.us" e mi sono detto: e che é?

N-O-N RI-DE-TE!

Così, come d'altronde fanno tutti, ho effettuato una ricerca con Google e ho trovato questo post molto interessante che ho letteralmente traslato qui da me.

Mi scuso con l'autore vittima del sottostante copia/incolla: spero abbia comprensione della mia ignoranza e apprezzi il mio desiderio di conoscenza. Non gli voglio rubare nulla. Il link al suo sito, per chi è interessato, è sul suo nome e, per i più sbadati, anche alla fine del post.

Condividere destinazioni con del.icio.us

di Pietro Izzo

Le raccolte di indirizzi sul browser hanno fatto il loro tempo. Oggi i link ai siti e ai documenti più interessanti si archiviano online, in un contenitore che permette di interagire con altri iscritti e far emergere le novità più interessanti

C’è, tra le avanguardie di utenti immersi nei fenomeni più recenti e interessanti del web, un approccio contrastante ai servizi offerti da del.icio.us (e al social bookmarking in generale): alcuni lo usano in modo intensivo, mostrando badge dinamici sui loro blog per indicare quelli che considerano di giorno in giorno gli Url più interessanti scovati durante la navigazione. Altri invece si chiedono a che cosa può servire una raccolta di bookmark condivisa quando, oggi come oggi, basta saper usare bene Google per trovare subito quello che si cerca.

In effetti, l’utilità di del.icio.us non è tanto quella di organizzare i propri bookmark: per quello, volendo, bastano i Preferiti di Internet Explorer o i Segnalibri di Firefox che comunque – ammettiamolo – hanno fatto il loro tempo. Il punto è condividere la conoscenza. Segnalare ad altri navigatori un sito considerato interessante, sia per motivi professionali che per motivi prettamente ludici. Abbiamo citato in apertura le cosiddette “manie” (in inglese Internet Meme, dove per “meme” si intende una singola unità di informazione culturale trasferibile da una mente all’altra). Questi elementi virali (perciò contagiosi) del web si diffondono proprio grazie al social bookmarking: si va da John Titor (il famigerato viaggiatore del tempo proveniente dal 2038) a Gary Brosma (il giovane nerd colto nella sua scioccante interpretazione di Dragostea din tei, che per la cronaca sta continuando a produrre deliranti nuovi video) passando per argomenti più seri come la campagna Sorry Everybody del 2004 o quella We’re not Afraid del 2005.

Cliccando qua e là sulla home page di del.icio.us si ha veramente il polso della situazione di quello che “fa notizia” sul web. Diventando parte attiva del network, poi, si può manifestare il proprio interesse per un tema o per l’altro: l’importante, come sempre, è partecipare. Vediamo insieme cosa fare per iniziare una carriera di perfetto social bookmarker.

La pagina principale

(Ingrandimento)

La pagina iniziale di del.icio.us è molto semplice e lineare: a centro pagina è evidente il link Get started che permette di iscriversi (gratuitamente) al servizio. Più sotto, una selezione di “temi caldi” con tanto di tag associati e numero di utenti che hanno segnalato un determinato Url. A destra una spiegazione sul concetto di tag e una lista di tag “da tenere d’occhio”: ovviamente, una volta iscritti, saremo noi stessi a definire questa lista con i termini per noi più interessanti. Iscriversi è banale: basta inserire uno username e una password di propria scelta. Come passi successivi, del.icio.us propone di installare due tasti nel menu del proprio browser: My del.icio.us e Tag this, che serviranno in seguito per aggiungere e gestire Url all’interno del proprio spazio sul sito. Dopo l’installazione un breve tutorial spiega come utilizzarli.

A questo punto ci troviamo in una desolante pagina bianca: quella dei nostri preferiti, che ovviamente non contiene ancora nulla. Possiamo intanto notare una cosa: in testa alla pagina si trova un finto Url che comprende il nostro username e a seguire una casella bianca di richiesta testo. Qui sarà possibile scrivere un tag, cioè un termine identificativo che descrive in qualche modo la pagina che vogliamo cercare (nel momento in cui, ovviamente, avremo inserito un certo numero di bookmark). Ancora in testata troviamo il menu principale che ci permette di visualizzare il nostro Network, le eventuali Subscriptions (torneremo su questi aspetti più avanti) e i link proposti da altri utenti per noi. Sempre in questo menu c’è la possibilità di postare un Url nei propri Favorites. In questo caso occorre digitare per esteso l’Url, ma se abbiamo letto con attenzione il tutorial sui tasti aggiunti al menu del browser, sappiamo già che la stessa operazione si può attuare molto più semplicemente con un click sul bottone My del.icio.us.

La pagina personale

(Ingrandimento)

Sulla destra, due link di servizio permettono di vedere gli Url più popolari del momento o quelli di inserimento più recente, mentre subito sotto troviamo i tre link fondamentali che ci permettono di modificare il nostro profilo utente, di uscire dal servizio e di ottenere qualche spiegazione in più sul social bookmarking: l’help di del.icio.us è di certo uno dei meglio strutturati che si possano trovare navigando in giro, e – a patto di aver voglia di leggere molto in inglese – ci illumina su tutti gli aspetti della questione, dai più basilari a quelli più tecnici (il codice sorgente di del.icio.us non è disponibile, a maggior ragione dopo l’acquisizione di Yahoo, ma è possibile usare e programmare diversi tipi di Api).

Per cominciare, quindi, potremmo inserire un primo bookmark con il link “Post” nel menu in testata. Vengono subito richiesti i tag associati, una descrizione e delle eventuali note. Tutti i tag che inseriremo verranno riportati nella colonna di destra, dove sarà possibile vederli sotto forma di lista o di “nuvola” (una possibilità in genere molto apprezzata che prevede di marcare con un carattere più grosso i tag più ricorrenti e con un carattere più piccolo quelli più rari). I tag potranno essere rinominati, cancellati o organizzati in bundle (gruppi tematici di tag).

Immaginiamo di salvare la home page di Apogeonline: potremmo associare una descrizione del tipo “Webzine di informatica e cultura digitale” e una serie di tag separati da spazi come “webzine informatica digitale web libri editoria computer software tecnologia” (in ogni caso, come spesso accade per i servizi più usati del web 2.0, conviene abituarsi a usare almeno qualche tag in inglese se si vuole far parte di un network più ampio). Una volta salvato, il nostro bookmark apparirà nella finestra prima vuota con la sua descrizione, i suoi tag e un’annotazione evidenziata in un rosa più o meno acceso a seconda di quanti altri utenti di del.icio.us hanno salvato lo stesso Url in precedenza.

Ovviamente non è necessario procedere così per ogni link di proprio interesse. Se l’esigenza più sentita è quella di avere comunque i propri tradizionali bookmark accessibili sul web da ogni client, si possono facilmente esportare i Preferiti di Explorer o i Segnalibri di Firefox in del.icio.us. Ovviamente dopo l’upload starà a noi assegnare a ogni Url i suoi tag, se non altro per ritrovare la strada in caso di raccolte di indirizzi che superino le poche decine di oggetti (il processo di upload, va detto, è un po’ lungo). Se i propri bookmark erano già organizzati in cartelle (per esempio, “casalinghi/ricette”), il sistema assegna automaticamente i tag corrispondenti ai nomi delle cartelle e delle sottocartelle in cui gli indirizzi erano memorizzati. È anche possibile rendere private le proprie raccolte di bookmark, anche se questo va contro il senso ultimo del servizio. Basta selezionare Private saving nei propri Settings.

Abbiamo parlato anche di network di utenti: torniamo all’annotazione evidenziata in rosa. Cliccando sul link saved by n other people possiamo vedere tutti gli altri utenti che hanno salvato lo stesso Url e visitare il loro profilo. Se l’utente in questione ha salvato una serie di link che ci sembrano interessanti, potremmo aggiungerlo al nostro network (il link per farlo è situato tra il menu principale e l’elenco dei favoriti dell’utente). Oppure possiamo vedere il suo network, e scoprire così un intero universo di utenti che condividono i nostri stessi percorsi di navigazione, visitare i siti proposti da loro ed eventualmente salvarli e “taggarli” a nostra volta. Cosa che, ammettiamolo, richiede un sacco di tempo libero per navigare.

Proprio per questo, esiste la possibilità (molto efficace) di “iscriversi” a particolari tag. Si segnalano (tramite il link Subscriptions nel menu in testata) uno o più tag a proposito dei quali si vuole essere sempre informati: un utente di del.icio.us potrebbe infatti farci scoprire qualcosa di nuovo su un argomento che ci sta particolarmente a cuore. Dal momento dell’iscrizione, ogni volta che cliccheremo su Subscriptions del.icio.us fornirà le ultimissime dal web su quell’argomento, per come sono state segnalate dagli utenti del network.

Il servizio offerto da del.icio.us può sembrare un po’ la scoperta dell’acqua calda: le prime, pionieristiche pagine web del 1994-95 consistevano per l’appunto in raccolte di segnalibri. Ma un concetto vecchio non è per forza obsoleto o inutile. Se un tempo si inserivano sui server pagine fisse di link, oggi si possono gestire le stesse informazioni con qualche strumento in più. E, per gli utenti più esaltati, c’è anche la possibilità di inserire nei propri blog qualche gadget gentilmente offerto da del.icio.us, come i linkroll, i tagroll o i blogfeed. Nei primi due casi (in assonanza con il ben noto blogroll, l’elenco dei blog più letti) si tratta di un modo per mostrare in un’area del proprio sito o blog uno spazio con gli ultimi bookmark inseriti in del.icio.us o con la propria tag cloud. Nel terzo caso (un po’ più avanzato) si tratta di costruire feed automatici per i propri blog che pubblichino ogni giorno un post con gli ultimi link salvati su del.icio.us.

Il mondo del social bookmarking, insomma, è da provare. Se non altro per trovare, magari con un pizzico di serendipity, nuovi siti interessanti da consultare. E se vi chiedete perché del.icio.us ha scelto un nome di dominio così irritante e difficile da digitare, sappiate che è solo un gioco di parole sull’estensione geografica .us e sullo spelling inglese della parola delicious. Se proprio non vi piace, funziona anche delicious.com.

Fonte: Apogeonline

Un grazie a Pietro Izzo da parte mia.

by Aly Adair

Associated Content recently sponsored a media contest for Internet Week New York where anyone could submit text, video, or audio content.  The theme of the contest was "What's Next" where content producers look at trends one year from now and describe how the Internet will serve online consumers for these trends. 

Party Mama Irene and Party Mama Aly submitted their original contest articles about What's Next for the Internet one year from now.  The grand prize for the Associated Content Internet Week New York contest is $5,000.  The winner will be announced on June 10, 2008.

Good luck to all the Associated Content social media producers who submitted contest articles, video, or audio.  Below are links to the Associated Content Internet Week New York contest articles submitted by Party Mama Irene and Party Mama Aly:

Will Rising Prices Cause Consumers Stop Consuming in 2009?
Cro-Magnon Man Had it Right! Let's Get Down and Barter!
by Irene Lynn

The Next Family Home: Web 2.0 Meets Real Estate 2.0
A Social Network like the Internet
by Aly Adair