70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MAMMOTH TOMATO SKIRMISH

La Tomatina commemoration

Tomato is an essential ingredient in several dishes all over the world, for its resourceful nutritious value as a fruit. Spain is the country where this juicy red fruit is loved incredibly. So, it isn’t unforeseen that in Bunol, a Spanish town, the most substantial tomato feud of the world is being celebrated on a yearly basis.

Celebrated annually on the concluding Wednesday of the month of august, La Tomatina festival is a divergent food bout occasion. It intrigues thousands of Spanish tourists as well as tourists from several other nationalities. The township of Bunol is situated near the Spanish province of Valencia. The boulevards within the venerable town proximity are the prime venues for the lively tomato-throwing ceremony. Nearly 50,000 people engage themselves in this prodigious confrontation, making Bunol’s systematic small populace to surge up during this one week -long celebration. If you are uptight about dissipating tomatoes at this event, do not worry. The largest food feud in the world uses marginally over 100 metric tonnes of over-ripe tomatoes.

Shop-owners of various shops neighbouring the food-feud venue uses plastic covers to protect their store veneer ahead of the tomato fight. The centre of the town is known as Plaza del Pueblo where numerous trucks hauling loads of tomatoes drive in. The La Tomatina festival initiates at about 11 a.m. and firing of the water cannons mark the beginning of the battle, where each of the individual is responsible for himself. The water cannons are fired again after an hour to mark the end of the feud.

Taking part in the La Tomatina Festival may be the most delightful and sloppiest ordeal of your will ever have in your life. Since the event have high chances of getting rambunctious, so the ones participating are asked to follow some rules. It is highly suggested that you slip into protective gloves and goggles during the tomato fight. There are high chances of some revealers will try to off your clothes, though it is prohibited to do so. One must always squash the tomatoes before throwing them, glass bottles and hard objects are also restricted during the feud. It is advised to wear closed shoes which can be thrown away as slipping into flip-flops can easily get you hurt. Don’t forget to bring a waterproof or a covered camera if you’re planning to click snaps of the festivities.

La Tomatina doesn’t only comprise of the big tomato-feud. One can expect a lot of firework displays, dancing, parades and even cooking contests on the famous dish local to Spain called paella. The local government has introduced a ticketing policy to check the number of people who are participating in the food feud. Make sure you have booked your tickets well in advance.

There are a number of Spanish tour companies that provides one with entry tickets which also include food, accommodation and transport packages during the celebration. Since, the reconciliation options can be defined in the town itself, many tourists prefer to stay in Bunol’s neighbour town Valencia, which is nearly 38 kilometres away. If you are lodged in Valencia during the la Tomatina Festival you can reach Bunol easily by driving yourself or by a public transport like the bus or the train. Fire Away!      

INTERNET AD REVENUES GET A LOFTY RISE IN Q1 OF 2015

Us Internet Ad proceeds achieves a consequential $13.3 billion during the Q1 of 2015, showing a 16% hike over Q1 2014 milestone numerical, advertising dividend report by IAB 

According to the current IAB Cyberspace Ad Dividend Report released recently by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PwC USA, the internet ad proceeds strikes a historic Q1 hike at $13.3 billion. The latest industry high demonstrates a 16% boost over the previous year’s Q1 epic total of 11.4 billion.

The IAB entrusts the marketing and media industries to bloom in the automated economy. It consists of 650+ leading technology and media organizations which are responsible for delivering, selling and optimizing marketing campaigns and digital advertising in the US. They sum up to form 86% of online advertisements in the US. Working along with it co-member companies, the IAB classifies and endorses practices and standards and fields demanding explorations on interactive advertising. This organization is devoted towards knowledge elevation, professional development, expertise and skills of entities crosswise of the whole digital marketing corporation. It also educates agencies, media companies, marketers and the broader business community on the power of interactive advertising. It has its headquarters located at the New York City and was established in 1996.

IAB finances the IAB internet Ad earnings report, which is done independently by PwC’s New Media Group. The conclusions are treated as the most authentic measurements of interactive ad revenues since the inputs are assembled directly from the instructions supplied by corporations trading ads on the cyberspace. The analysis comprises of data regarding online ad yields from commercial online assistance, web sites, complimentary e-mail providers and every other company trading online advertising.

The whole report is published twice annually for half and full year data, and quarterly assessments are produced only for the first and the third quarter. PwC doesn’t examine any information or administers any assumption or other state of affirmation concerning the information.

According to Randall Rothenberg, President and CEO of IAB, the digital screens have turned themselves into an unquestionable part of the commuter’s lives. On the other hand, bilateral is having an essential part in today’s Marketing Mix and these epic figures affirm its growing prominence.

Brand marketers must be where the commuters are. Talking about today that is indisputably on the digital. The double figure expansion speaks about preposterous fame of bilateral screens. The annual steep growth in the numbers is the forthright result of media and brand agencies growing commitment towards digital marketing. It is clear enough that reciprocal has turned into an indispensible in achieving key enumeration with tailored and creative messaging

Children and Smartphones

Role of Smartphone in increasing children’s exposure towards violence pornography and other inappropriate materials.

•  Approximately a million children aged between 8-12 years have Smartphones, forming 25% of the total 2.8 million children Smartphone users.
• There are no parental surveillance's on the mobile phones of about 87% of children.             
• Nearly 40% children enter social networking sites and watches video through their mobile phones.

Recent researches suggested that a huge number of teenagers have used their smartphones to access furtive videos and pictures. So the parents are being alerted to keep an eye on their children’s Smartphone usage.

A new report released recently suggests that only a 13% of the total minor Smartphone users have their phones equipped with surveillance settings.

This can be compared to the 44% homes where the laptops and home computers have parental restrictions where anti-virus software’s are installed in about 84% children’s home computers.

Alerted by ooze in online sex crimes and child abuse related to pornography, the Union asked the Supreme Court that the sites for social networking which includes Google, FaceBook and Twitter will be appealed to have domestic servers in the country so that the government can keep bookmarks on abhorrent contents. A recently posted petition filed by advocate Vijay Panjwani states that the illicit content s that children are going through nowadays are far more violent, graphic, brutal destructive and deviant which has endangered the entire society and even poses risk to the Indian public order.

It also says that most of the crimes committed against children/ girls/women are incited by pornography. The issue to be bothersome about is that the gravity and severity of those images are growing aggressively. Prepubescent children are being raped is a matter of grave concern.

PIL asking to put a ban on those illicit sites and against the deficiency of applicable law comes up for a hearing on April, 2014. The Government told the Supreme Court that legal actions aren’t possible in several numbers of cases and a complete ban on cyberspace pornography in the nation cannot happen.

Due to technological issues, coupled with practical complications a policy, though exists to release directions to close off all the pornographic sites isn’t totally achievable stated the Secretary of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). The internet servers of most of these illicit materials are located in the foreign countries where such publications are permissible. A total ban on these sites needs censorship before it is being discharged on the internet.

Although there are commercially accessible filters to check clandestine content, their effectiveness are limited as they can also filter information feasible for medical research, education and more besides making the Net slow. The government informed that these filters can be easily bypassed by using the encryption technology.

The Secretary of Dot said that their part is limited to issue orders for closing off the assistance providers merely after the group supervisor in Cyber Law Division of the Bureau of Information and Electronics Technology orders it to do that.   He/she cannot even do it themselves. The process however envisages that a petition for blocking the website needs to come from a nodal officer of an organization or a court and accusations from no individuals will be honored.

 Usage of Smartphone has now become the life-line of several lives. But alike all other essential things it also has pros and cons. It makes life way better and smooth but immature children can be exploited easily through this. So as it cannot become extinct overnight but the underdeveloped future of our society can be safeguarded. The parents need to take the responsibility to scrutinize their child’s Smartphone. Mobiles should be coming with default filters which can be activated without haste. Remember , precautions have no limits.

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