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Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). For many years, it had the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, although it is currently second to USA Today. It is owned by Dow Jones & Company. Nicknamed The Journal, this newspaper primarily covers U.S. and international business and financial news and issues--in fact, the paper's name comes from Wall Street, the street in New York which is the heart of the business district. It has been printed continuously since July 8, 1889. The newspaper has won the Pulitzer Prize twenty-six times.

Global Events. Financial Markets. Your Personal Finances. What's the one source that can tell you how all the pieces fit together? The Wall Street Journal, the world's most trusted source of vital business news and analysis. Get the world's most trusted and reliable daily newspaper delivered to your home or office - and receive free weeks when you subscribe now.

Business Journal

Ottawa Business Journal

The Ottawa Business Journal is published by Transcontinental Media Inc. The fourth largest print media group in Canada, Transcontinental Media is the premiere publisher targeted publications. It is particularly active in four niches: business and finance, sports, trade publications for the construction and new information technology industries and consumer publications.

Transcontinental Media's network of regional business publications extends to Montreal and Quebec City with titles such as Les Affaires, Le Journal économique and Connexions Affaires. Other business and technology publications include IE Money, Revue Commerce, Computing Canada and Direction Informatique. Transcontinental Media is also the second-largest publisher of regional and community newspapers.

Ottawa Business Journal is the leading source of local business news and information for Canada's national capital region. Every Monday, the newspaper provides authoritative and in-depth news coverage on the sectors that comprise Ottawa's vibrant business scene, ranging from technology to commercial real estate and corporate finance to hospitality. Readers can turn to the Ottawa Business Journal for exclusive news, analysis, features on hot new trends, behind-the-scenes coverage of major deals and profiles of the players that make things happen.

Budapest Business Journal

Budapest Business Journal is Hungary's leading English language business publication. Our web site, BBJ Online, is designed as a ""one-stop shop"" for business information about Hungary.

Founded in 1992,Budapest Business Journal has acquired the reputation of being the Hungary's leading investigative business weekly -- breaking news about the leading companies and business people on the local scene days and sometimes weeks ahead of other publications either in Budapest or abroad. Budapest Business Journal prides itself on the independence, accuracy and even-handedness of its reporting. The publication is wholly-owned by Vil Lapkiad?Kft.

Sports Business Journal

Street & Smith's SportsBusiness Journal is a national weekly trade magazine that was launched in April, 1998. In a short period of time, SBJ has become a must read for sports business executives. The magazine is part of Street & Smith's Sports Group, which is a division of American City Business Journals, a unit of Advance Publications.

Each week, SportsBusiness Journal provides the critical news and information sports industry leaders need to compete, negotiate and succeed. Every issue features coverage of the deals, trades, contracts and boardroom power plays that shape the rapidly changing sports industry. Regular columns cover every aspect of the sports industry from media and marketing to finance and facilities.

Daily News Journal

Murfreesboro, Tenn., has always been a crossroad for history. Two centuries ago, Murfreesboro, located 30 miles from Nashville, was an important cross road between the North and South. The Battle of Stones River, one of the bloodiest of the Civil War, was fought here. Thousands of history buffs still annually visit the national battlefield and other historic sites.

The Daily News Journal, or at least one of its precursors, was there to cover the battle and its devastating effect on Rutherford County.

Back in the antebellum days, the Murfreesboro News (founded in 1849) was a strong advocate of secession, or separation from the North. The paper’s motto was “We claim the right of thought, and what we think we assert.” The Murfreesboro News survived the war and merged with the Independent Banner in the early 1900s. C.C. Henderson, who was to later write a history of Murfreesboro, was publisher. During this period a new competitor, The Home Journal, was established by Chip Henderson. In 1911, J.R. Williams purchased the News Banner and published it until 1927. Jesse C. Beasley converted the newspaper into a “daily” or a newspaper that’s printed each day.

The Home Journal was sold, upon Henderson’s death, to Louis Burgdorf, who continued publication until 1920. The printing plant was then sold to A.L. Todd and W.H. Trevathon. Jessie Beasley bought an interest in the Home Journal in 1931 and consolidated the two newspapers into The Daily News Journal. During the Depression, the News Journal was sold to state Sen. Ned Carmack, the son of Nashville editor Edward W. Carmack who was shot to death near the State Capitol by a political rival. Carmack published the News Journal until he sold it to A.L. Todd, who later sold it to Jack McFarland and William Rynerson.

The Daily News Journal was purchased by Charles Morris of Morris Newspaper Corp. of Savannah, Ga., in 1968 and acquired by Gannett Corp. in Feburary 2004.

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What is Icon?

Icon (computer science), in graphical environments, a small graphic image displayed on the screen to represent an object that can be manipulated by computer user

Cartoon Icons

Coffee Culture

Jetblack

How to Customize Macintosh Desktop Icons

Steps:

1. Create, copy or scan an image file into a paint program.
2. Copy the image to the Clipboard by pressing Command-C.
3. Select the icon you want to use the picture with.
4. Open the File menu and choose Get Info, or press Command-I.
5. Click in the box at the upper left corner of the Get Info dialog box.
6. Press Command-V to paste the image into the box, and voilà - your new image will be used for the icon picture.

Tips:

Mac icon images are 32 by 32 pixels. You can attempt to use a larger image, but it might get shrunken in a strange way.

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Magazines in the internet age

Have magazines got a future in the internet age? Yes, certainly. The UK's Henley Centre has published a study showing how.

A new role for magazines has emerged in the last few years, while the main traditional roles still flourish. Magazines themselves are evolving to meet the changing media environment.

A key strand of the study's results is the heightened importance of a medium's ability to create involvement and 'engagement' rather than merely attract attention. Gaining attention is no longer enough - and magazines are superb at inducing engagement.

Consumers are changing too, and keen magazine readers are more aspirational, sociable and interested in using technology than heavy users of other media. Technology and magazines go together as a neat pair.

The emergence of the internet, mobile phones, texting and so on has raised consumers‘ expectations of interactivity in all the media they use. The new role for magazines is to act as a bridge to interactivity.

This must be closely linked-in to magazines' long-established roles, which The Henley Centre classifies into two categories: Accessing personal networks of trust, and providing a source of guidance and status.

Although the study was based on British evidence, the findings hinge on the basic characteristics of magazines and new technologies like the internet, and are therefore applicable to many other countries around the world.

To reach its conclusions The Henley Centre used its Planning For Consumer Change survey, which is a British Market Research Bureaux (BMRB) Target Group Index re-interview study. In addition they also drew on the findings of a number of other studies. Their analysis focused particularly on core magazine readers - enthusiasts who can‘t resist buying magazines. It was felt this vanguard group would best show the future opportunities and trends for the industry.

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Remembrance of magazines past

Twenty years ago, when a sector of the magazine market crashed, probably people figured that fashions had changed and the sector had run its course. Now, when computer magazines crash, everyone wonders instead whether the death of print media is upon us. Not likely.

The US computer magazine market is faring no better. Ziff-Davis is said to be near bankruptcy, having closed most of its computing titles. Both markets now feature many fewer magazines, most aimed either at beginners or at specific niches. There are exceptions, titles aimed at computing professionals, but these ought to be the ones most threatened by the Internet. Professionals do not need "the comics" for news, reviews, or technical information; they get those better and faster and in greater depth from the Web and from each other in the small, trusted communities the Internet enables. Recruitment advertising, once the mainstay of Computing and Computer Weekly, is also gone to the Web.

We will never really know exactly how much the Internet's growth has had to do with the crash in computer magazines over the last two years. We do know that the combination of the dot-com crash, the stock market plummet, and September 11 triple-witched the advertising market that supported them. It's arguable that there are still too many, but you could say that of "women's" magazines, too. Martin Banks used to pop up every so often in technology journalists' online discussions to remind us all that once upon a time there were three refrigerator magazines. They ran features on how best to arrange food, how long to keep it, storage techniques, and, I imagine, quirky little pieces about whether the light stays on when you close the door. It always served as a frightening reminder of what could happen when computers finally went mainstream and became less the focus of intense interest and more just one of those things you have in your house that everyone knows how to live with.

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Music magazines

FMQ

FMQ contains articles written by music experts from both Finland and abroad. It covers all aspects of the Finnish music scene, and keep track of what happens in Finland. The magazine is printed on high-quality paper, and will fit into the most demanding bookshelf - it's an ideal source of detailed information for anyone interested in Finnish musical culture.

Gramophone Magazine

Since its first issue in April 1923, Gramophone has grown up alongside the classical record industry. In our pages we have followed the latest technical developments, greeted the greatest talents and watched the repertoire expand to embrace music that our founding editor would not have dreamed possible.

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Top magazines

Top1 Maxim

Maxim is written for young, professional men who are confident, intelligent, everyday guys.

It serves as both a fun and informative publication, delivering a healthy balance of accessible service with a humorous tone.

Top2 Perfect 10

Perfect 10 is a men's magazine for connoisseurs, featuring classy nudity in a mature setting.

Perfect 10 calls its models the "world's most beautiful natural women," meaning they are untouched by plastic surgery or airbrushing.

top3 RAZOR

Brashly confident and self-assured, RAZOR is for men who strive to go faster, farther,

and higher — men who live their lives in the extreme.

top4 FHM

FHM - For Him Magazine - England's hottest men's magazine comes to the U.S. - FHM is all about drop-dead gorgeous women,

the latest men's fashions, the coolest adventures, and the best tech toys.

top5 Hustler

Hustler is a monthly adult magazine that includes explicit erotic nudity. High-quality, steamy pictorial spreads feature America's sexiest women, along with political and current-event satire and social exposés.

Hunting Magazines

Real Hunters Real

Hunters add a great balance to the journal, outdoor writers such as Dave Fulson, Larry Weishuhn, John Woods, Luke Clayton, Jeff Shaw and others have contributed over the years with some fantastic stories and information. These pros will continue to appear in the journal and I know you will enjoy and learn from their contributions. It is also a good bet that someone you know personally will pop up between the pages with their story of an outdoor adventure.

Boar Hunter

Boar Hunter Magazine is exclusively committed to the fast growing and exciting big game sport of wild boar hunting. Growing family of over 55,000 readers per issue in 50 states and 19 countries consider Boar Hunter Magazine to be the premier source for wild boar hunting information in the world.

Bear Hunting

Bear Hunting Magazine is the only publication with an exclusive focus on the sport of bear hunting. Our writers are bear enthusiasts and dedicated to bringing you quality articles on all subjects related to bear hunting. We cover black, brown, grizzly and even polar bears using all legal hunting methods and weapons.

Whitetail Fanatic

The Whitetail Fanatic's unique style appeals to all deer hunting enthusiasts wheter you're a serious trophy hunter, a young hunter just starting our or somewhere in between. The Whitetail Fanatic will get you up close and personal with giant bucks, the hunters who pursue then and all the latest strategies and equipment.

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Women's magazines are dead

The death of Mirabella is a leading indicator of a new reality: Gender roles just aren't as important in daily life anymore. The problem is that women's magazines depend on the notion that the major signifier of identity is gender, and this is less and less true. Gender roles just aren't as important in daily life anymore, and the work world is readier to ignore sex than most of us are. Mirabella's demise may be a leading indicator of this new, de-girlified reality of women's lives.

What we're left with now is, well, interests. Narrow-casting. You're a 26-year-old female gay Chinese-American webmistress in San Francisco and you mountain-bike to work and collect vintage handbags and rock-climb on weekends. You're a 47-year-old white male lawyer in Manhattan, ivorced with twin boys, and you play club tennis and serve on the board of a small theater company and collect Italian mid-century furniture.

In fact, the American men's magazines that have targeted the "laddie" sensibility most strenuously have gone out of business the fastest, while those like GQ and Esquire that address a broader range of interests and pride themselves on the quality of their writing have flourished.

What Web browsing suggests is that narrow-casting is the best way to reach most people. Tap into the niches out of which they forge a self. Advertisers are starting to get it. But as a quick glance at the current crop of women's mags shows, they don't yet see that gender isn't the best basis for narrow-casting. For one thing, it ain't that narrow. For another, it's not related to enough economic activity. Only a small percentage of purchase decisions are directly gender-linked, mainly clothing and personal-care products. And how many of these can you buy?

One of the corollaries of the fact that we now have everything available to us all of the time is that we are ourselves available to everyone all of the time. You can reach me reading a trade publication online and convince me to look at some sporting equipment that's on sale, or catch me on eBay trolling for art pottery and suggest a new book.

What you are less and less able to do is convince me or, especially, people under 30, to sit still for 400 pages of one thing, whether it's fashion or politics.

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