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"The UK plays a major role in boosting fire-fighting, rescue and road crash extrication capacity around the world. The work of FIRE AID members contributes to saving lives and building needed skills in countries facing the greatest challenges. FIRE AID gives support, recognition and assistance to that important work."
Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, PC
Refugee camps and settlements are particularly prone to fire risk due to overcrowding, haphazard layout, poor construction, electrical faults, poor water supply, close proximity of dwellings, and cooking methods. According to the UNHCR there are currently 25.5 million refugees worldwide, the highest level ever recorded. With this in mind, in early 2018 FIRE AID responsded to requests from the UN camp management team in South Sudan to conduct a fire needs assessment in camps.
The Sendai Framework is the first major agreement of the post-2015 development agenda. With seven targets and four priorities for action, it aims for the following outcome: The substantial reduction of disaster risk and losses in lives, livelihoods and health and in the economic, physical, social, cultural and environmental assets of persons, businesses, communities and countries. Many FIRE AID members contribute to this aim by working to improve the preparedness of communities to respond to emergencies.
In 2011 the UN launched the Decade of Action for Road Safety with the goal of stabilising and reducing road deaths by 2020. The Decade identifies five pillars of the 'Safe System' which can drive down road traffic casualties: 1. Road Safety Management 2. Road Infrastructure 3. Safer Vehicles 4. Safer Road Users 5. Post Crash Care. FIRE AID and its members address the fifth pillar of the Decade, improving the capabilities of responders and therefore the chance of survival.
Every six seconds someone is killed or seriously injured on the world's roads. Road traffic injuries are now the leading cause of death for young people aged 15-29. For men of working age they inflict a mortality burden equal to HIV/AIDS. More than 90% of casualties are in middle- and low-income countries. Via the provision of emergency services aid, FIRE AID members seek to improve the response to road traffic collisions and save saveable lives.
FIRE AID and International Development is an association of UK charities and services with a mutual interest in providing ethical and sustainable donations of fire and rescue aid and training to those in need of such assistance. It was formed in June 2014 by a group of like-minded organisations who have been operating for many years, successfully donating equipment, training and expertise to over 40 countries. FIRE AID is a UK registered charity chaired by Jim Fitzpatrick MP and is managed by a Steering Committee of its founding members. Among other areas of work, FIRE AID provides guidance for donation projects, manages an equipment database, and provides a forum for discussion on issues relevant to its members.
The map provides an overview of where UK equipment has been donated by FIRE AID's member organisations.


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A Look at The New Low Carb Muffin From Muffin Break
Brought to you by Muffin Break and Helen Edwards Creates
Living with diabetes is no picnic as you all know, yet food is a central part of our frustrations (do you like the pun?!). But seriously, not being able to eat freely, when you want, where you want, what you want, can become an all consuming and depressing part of your life if you let it. If you can take a healthy and balanced approach to food, you will have a much happier and healthier life with diabetes. You may like to check out our resources on diabetes and food here. Today we are taking a look at the new low carb muffin from Muffin Break and why inclusion is so important in diabetes.
I wrote recently about the new lower cab muffin from Muffin Break, and the story behind this new range, which makes it much more than a muffin. It is about people with diabetes feeling included, something we often miss in many social situations and in life in general. Being able to freely make choices about what you eat when out and about is empowering and can help make you feel part of your family and friends, rather than an outsider. I know I grew up feeling very much on the outer, and I wrote a post here recently about the loneliness of diabetes.
I was lucky enough to visit Sydney recently – how gorgeous is Sydney even with grey skies – and the head office of Muffin Break, to meet the creators of the low carb muffins, John and Natalie.
John was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 18 years old and was told it was triggered due to stress. He has lived with it for 28 years now and worked with Muffin Break for many years. Over time people were asking for a muffin suitable for people with diabetes. He had a personal desire to welcome people with diabetes into Muffin Break stores. And to add the personal passion behind this story, Natalie and John's young son has also been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes so they totally get the daily struggles and juggles of life with type 1 diabetes.
The couple threw themselves into finding the solution to offering something suitable in their stores.
I had a lovely day with the team, and even got to go into the kitchen and make the muffins! One thing that I was really impressed with was that each muffin is very carefully measured to be exactly 20 grams of carbohydrate as they are made and all are baked daily. There are no shortcuts. They are placed on a set of scales while the mix is poured into each muffin tin, to be certain of the carb content because Natalie and John know how important that is to us all living with diabetes. I did not do a great job of filling the tins, well I was very slow! But the team were super slick at getting the right amount into each muffin tin, and into the oven to bake. Each store bakes the muffins fresh every day.
Here is the first part of the story and part 2 will be coming soon! Have you tried one of the low carb muffins yet? We would love to see your pictures of you enjoying a low carb muffin! So please tag me in on twitter, Facebook and instagram with #morethanamuffin
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If they're made with chick pea flour and chia seeds, does that mean they're also gluten free and suitable for people with both diabetes and coeliac disease? That would be amazing!!

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Shropshire RCC's Wise and Well team has enjoyed supporting Shrewsbury's Musketeers and Maidens Group since 2011.
In August 2011, when the Grange Day Centre at which a group of friends with various disabilities closed, Shropshire Council enlisted Shropshire RCC's help to set up a new group.
Shropshire RCC staff supported the group to pool part of their personal budgets to have a venue and the opportunity to do activities together. They chose a name: "Musketeers and Maidens" with the motto "All For One", and members of the group meet twice a week: at Mereside Community Centre in Shrewsbury on Wednesdays from 10.30am - 3.30pm, and at the Community Room at Tesco Extra in Harlescott on Fridays from 12.30pm - 3.30pm. With a helping hand from Shropshire RCC to arrange, the group enjoys many activities together including exercise classes, pottery, art, Boccia matches, quizzes, games and numerous cups of tea, chatting and lots of laughter.
If you would like to join this group please email Daphne Simmons or call on 01743 342161.
Webpage last updated August 2017


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Image Locker Ultimate is a unique (Why unique? read full article) photo and video security app, you can import your videos and photo in to Image Locker in different albums, and easily unlock them by saving them again to your phone's media library.
market place link:Â www.windowsphone.com
Price: $1.99 USD
Free Version: Yes (Image Locker 2 (without video and pattern lock))
Trial: Yes
So question is that, there are many photo security apps in the market, why Image Locker Ultimate is different, what unique it offers to the user?Trial Limitations: In trial version you can add only three albums and a single video(5 seconds) and five images to every album.
These are the main feature which makes Image Locker Ultimate unique among the others.
Read more after the break.
1) Video Transfer
There are many rare features in this app but the one which makes it stand alone in the crowd is the feature of video transfer from pc to Image Locker and Image Locker to PC without using Wi-Fi. You just need to connect your phone to pc via USB cable, and you need a PC application called FullMoon which is freely available on www.lunaplenaapps.com/FullMoon , then you just need to select a video in Image Locker and press "Send to Pc†button, that's it your  done(you can see the complete video demo on youtube, link is give above). There is no app in the marketplace currently which has the video transfer this easy.
You don't need to upload your videos to any online storage for getting it out from your phone, you don't need to configure Wi-fi or any IP address. You can add videos from your camera roll to Image Locker by first transferring them to pc and then importing  them in to Image Locker Ultimate instantly.
2) Using pattern as password
Although Image Locker has the feature to login with conventional text based password but if you have a problem remembering cumbersome and long password, then you can change your login method to pattern login, then you have to draw a unique pattern in order to login.
Currently there are other apps also providing pattern lock feature, but when you will use Image Locker Ultimate you will find, it has smooth, effective and very easy pattern lock just like you see in some iOS apps.
3) Image Viewing experience
Image Locker provides you gesture based Image slider just like built in windows phone Image Viewer. You can pinch zoom images and you can use swap gesture to change the image.
Image Locker Ultimate has unique UI theme and experience which is not similar to any app in the market place, and it is very easy and fast to use.
Image Locker is fully gesture based there is no button based paging and scrolling like some other similar apps in the market.
4) A smooth slide show
Image Locker Ultimate provides a good, smooth and easily configurable image slide show. You can control the image changing speed with a simple slider placed at the bottom.
5) Guest Login
This is a really cool feature in this app. There is a guest account login in Image Locker Ultimate, you can turn on or off guest account any time. You can set a different password for guests and you can select which albums will be shown to guests. Then whenever someone will login with guest password, he will only see the albums selected for the guest account, and he won't know that he is logged in as a guest.
6) Good Album Search experience
If you have very large number of albums in Image Locker Ultimate then sometimes you need a mechanism to easily search different albums.
So there is a search box available on album list screen, you just need to type some initial letters from the name of the album you are searching for, and it will show you all the albums with similar names.
7) Password reset option
If you forget your password you can recover it by email, at the same time you can also set your password  'not recoverable', then your password will not be able to recover any how.


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There are few topics hotter these days than Mobile Software Development. It seems like every company is rushing to release their own Mobile Application. But when it comes time to build that software they quickly learn that things are different.
Many developers claim that it is very difficult to test drive the application and some even state that it is impossible. Traditional testing tools are unable to automate the application in the emulator or on the device so testers are usually left with a manual functional testing approach. Join Cheezy as he reveals the secret of delivering a fully tested, high quality Android application. Following an Acceptance Test Driven approach, Cheezy will begin by writing an outer loop of acceptance tests. As he automates those tests one-by-one he will then bring the application to life by test driving an inner loop of unit tests. This fast paced, hands on session will demonstrate how acceptance tests combined with unit tests can be used to drive out the behavior and implementation and help one deliver high quality Mobile Applications.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Daughter Apple Looks Exactly Like Mom In Rare Public Photo
Gwyneth Paltrow shared a rare photo of daughter Apple along with son Moses on Instagram – and mother and daughter look exactly alike! TWINS!
Gwyneth noted in the caption: "Brother proof. Sort of," referencing the helmet Apple wore while holding a puppy. Moses was holding a cat.
Apple and Moses are growing up so fast!
Gwyneth disappointed a lot of people in April when she engaged in "food stamp poverty tourism" trying to live off $29 for one week. She failed.


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Hure A, Powers J, Mishra G, Herbert D, Byles J & Loxton D. Miscarriage, Preterm Delivery and Stillbirth: Large Variations in Rates within a Cohort of Australian Women. PLoS ONE, 2012; 7(5): 2019-8-1 0
Objectives: We aimed to use simple clinical questions to group women and provide their specific rates of miscarriage, preterm delivery, and stillbirth for reference. Further, our purpose was to describe who has experienced particularly low or high rates of each event.Methods: Data were collected as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, a national prospective cohort. Reproductive histories were obtained from 5806 women aged 31–36 years in 2009, who had self-reported an outcome for one or more pregnancy. Age at first birth, number of live births, smoking status, fertility problems, use of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), education and physical activity were the variables that best separated women into groups for calculating the rates of miscarriage, preterm delivery, and stillbirth.Results: Women reported 10,247 live births, 2544 miscarriages, 1113 preterm deliveries, and 113 stillbirths. Miscarriage was correlated with stillbirth (r = 0.09, P,0.001). The calculable rate of miscarriage ranged from 11.3 to 86.5 miscarriages per 100 live births. Women who had high rates of miscarriage typically had fewer live births, were more likely to smoke and were more likely to have tried unsuccessfully to conceive for 12 months. The highest proportion of live preterm delivery (32.2%) occurred in women who had one live birth, had tried unsuccessfully to conceive for $12 months, had used IVF, and had 12 years education or equivalent. Women aged 14–19.99 years at their first birth and reported low physical activity had 38.9 stillbirths per 1000 live births, compared to the lowest rate at 5.5 per 1000 live births.Conclusion: Different groups of women experience vastly different rates of each adverse pregnancy event. We have used simple questions and established reference data that will stratify women into low- and high-rate groups, which may be useful in counselling those who have experienced miscarriage, preterm delivery, or stillbirth, plus women with fertility intent.Return


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Property Location
With a stay at Homewood Suites by Hilton Allentown-Bethlehem Airport in Bethlehem, you'll be near the airport and close to Bethlehem Golf Club and Coca-Cola Park. This hotel is within the vicinity of Colonial Industrial Quarter and Historic Bethlehem Visitor Center.
Make yourself at home in one of the 113 air-conditioned rooms featuring kitchens with refrigerators and microwaves. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while DVD players and premium TV channels are also offered to provide entertainment. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Rec, Spa, Premium Amenities
Don't miss out on recreational opportunities including an indoor pool and a fitness center. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and ski storage.
Mingle with other guests at a complimentary reception, held on select days. A complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast is served daily.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a business center, express check-in, and express check-out. Planning an event in Bethlehem? This hotel features 810 square feet (73 square meters) of event facilities. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary (available on request).
Are you affiliated with Homewood Suites by Hilton Bethlehem Airport? Apply to the Hotel WiFi Connect program to take control of your account, improve your hotel's confidence score and ranking.
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Obama & Gay Civil Rights in 2011
The big question for our LGBT community is will Obama address
gay civil rights in The State of the Union speech tonight?
Passing "Don't Ask Don't Tell" was definitely the game-changer
but until we get rid of the "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) &
pass the Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) our LGBT
community remains as second-class citizens in this country. Here
in Massachusetts we have gay marriage but are denied over 1100
federal rights & protections including the ability to file joint tax
returns, take advantage of estate tax breaks & receive spousal
benefits offered by Social Security, such as survivor compensation
for legally married gay couples. The Gay & Lesbian Advocates &
Defenders (GLAD) challenged Section 3 of DOMA which addresses
these rights & it was found unconstitutional in federal court by
Judge Tauro. Unfortunately the Obama Administration is
appealing this decision.
At the State of the Union Address Obama will be introducing
Daniel Hernandez Jr., the openly gay intern credited with saving
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's life. This would be a perfect opportunity
for the President to declare that Mr. Hernandez & all lesbian, gay,
bisexual & transgender Americans should have the same rights &
federal protections as heterosexual citizens. Watch & see if Obama
takes advantage of this moment during The State of the Union
Address on Tuesday January 25 @ 9pm EST. Updates to Come..:)
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co-chair of the Board of Directors of GLBT Historical
Society & co-curator of the new GLBT History
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text: Good housekeeping starts with taking a good care of your home. A regular maintenance is necessary to keep your home in good condition. You must have invested a lot of money on buying the most effective heating and cooling equipment for your home. But what if they break down on regular basis and do not perform well? By keeping a check on heating and cooling equipment, you not only increase the life span of the home appliances but also save on your energy bill. Remember, little chore could help you to save money on major repair in the near future. Continue reading


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Encaustic comes from the Greek, meaning "burn in," and using wax to paint has been around for over 2,500 years. Wax portraits have appeared on Egyptian mummy cases and the Romans and Greeks used molten beeswax tinted with pigments to create portraits. Many paintings which appeared on mummy cases were guilded. The technique has been revived and refined in recent years and has become very popular especially in fantasy art. Wax blocks are melted and applied to card using a small flat iron and scribing tools to achieve interesting and unusual images. The image opposite is a mummy portrait from Antiopolis. The heavy guilt portrait was found in winter 1905/06 and sold to Berlin in 1907. Berlin, Egyptian Museum.
Today wax enthusiasts buy from people like my friend Barry Moulton, a talented wax artist himself, who runs Wakes Waxes and is a host on the EncausticsNow Group on Red Bubble. Check out Barry's website http://www.waxes.co.uk/ He has helpful and informative demonstrations on the site so that you can see if doing wax art is for you. It is a fun and inexpensive hobby and Barry stocks all that you would need to take up wax art.
John Vandebrooke of Expert Village, USA also has useful demonstrations on You Tube. This is a link to one of a series of them on You Tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCOXsC2kEIM&feature=related


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How to: Upload files to Amazon S3 with FirefoxBrett Batie, April 15, 2009
This short tutorial will explain how to upload a file to the Amazon S3 Web Service using a Firefox add-on. Before following the steps below, you will need to have Firefox installed and an Amazon S3 Web Service account. The following are the basic steps in this process:
- Install the Firefox Plugin
- Get the Amazon Access Key and Secret Key
- Login to the Amazon S3 Web Service
- Upload the File
- Set Permissions
- Get the URL
Install the Firefox Plugin
In order to add files to your Amazon S3 account, first you need to install software that will allow you to upload files to the Amazon S3 server. The software that we will be using for this tutorial is a Firefox plugin called "S3 Firefox Organizer". To download and install this software go to the Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer add-on page and click the "Add to Firefox" button. After installing the software, restart Firefox.
Get the Amazon Access Key and Secret Key
In order to allow the Firefox add-on to access your Amazon S3 account, the access key and secret key from Amazon are required. Simply login to the S3 account to obtain these keys. After logging in at the above link you should be viewing the "Access Identifiers" page (image right). Leave this page open as you will need to copy and paste the access key and secret key in the next step.
Login to the Amazon S3 Web Service
Now that the Firefox add-on is installed and you have the access key/secret key, you can login to the Amazon S3 Service and upload files. To login to the Amazon S3 Web Service go to Firefox and click tools→S3 Organizer in the file menu. This will open a new window and should give you a message stating that your login credentials are invalid, click "ok". Now click "Manage Accounts" and fill in your login credentials. The account name can be any name that will help you remember what account you are logging into, such as "My Account". The next two fields, "access key" and "secret key" need to be copied and pasted from the Amazon Web Service page in the previous step. After filling in the 3 fields click "Save" and "Close". After clicking "Close", the Firefox S3 add-on should automatically log you into your account. It will display your local files on the left-hand side of the screen and your Amazon S3 files and directories on the right-hand side of the screen.
Upload the File
Now that you are logged into your account, you just need to upload the file(s) to the Amazon S3 Web Service. First you must make a folder (aka bucket) to save the files in. To do this, right click on the right-hand side of the screen and click "Create Directory". After creating the directory, find the file you would like to upload on the left hand side of the screen, select the file and click the right arrow in the middle of the screen to upload the file.
Set Permissions
After the file has finished uploading, it is by default only viewable by your account. If you would like to make the file viewable by anyone, you will need to change the file permissions. This can be done in the S3 Firefox Organizer by right clicking on the file on the right-hand side of the screen and selecting edit acl. In order to make the file viewable by everyone, you will need to give everyone permission to read the file. Just click the X's to change the status. The screen should look like the image below when you are done.
Get the URL
The last step is to get the URL for the file that you have uploaded. In order to get the link, simply right click the file in the S3 Firefox Organizer and select copy url to clipboard. Now that you have the URL you can email it to others or place it on a website. This will give others access to your file that you have now stored on Amazon S3.
Congratulations and Welcome to the cloud!
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How to create a FavIcon for your websiteDawn Rossi, December 29, 2008
Dynamic Drive has a great tool that allows you to transform any image to a favicon.
You can access the tool here: FavIcon Maker
All you then have to do, is place the favicon.ico file under the top level directory of your website and viola - an icon will show up for your website.
Standard Banner SizesDawn Rossi, December 18, 2008
The most popular banner sizes are:
728 x 90 Leaderboard
468 x 60 Banner
120 x 600 Skyscraper
160 x 600 Wide Skyscraper
336 x 280 Large Rectangle
300 x 250 Medium Rectangle
250 x 250 Square
200 x 200 Small Square
You can see a sample of the different banner layouts on this page.
Other popular sizes include:
300 x 600 Medium Rectangle
180 x 150 Tiny Button
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YouTube gone High DefinitionKate Richards, December 6, 2008
YouTube is joining Veoh, Viddler, Vimeo and others already offering high quality videos.
One thing is certain - Video is here to stay.
With video consumption on a steady increase, video quality surpassing DVD and universal search pushing videos to the top of the search results, the message is clear -
If you're not using videos today for your business, you're missing out.
Video = Traffic + Brand recognition = Money
Advertise on SoftwareProjects.comAdrian Singer, October 7, 2008
SoftwareProjects reaches a highly influential audience who cares about new technologies and services. Our community includes entrepreneurs, software engineers, venture capitalists, marketers, corporate decision makers, media and interested consumers.
SoftwareProjects was recently honored by Inc. Magazine with the designation of America's fastest growing full-service Internet Marketing & Web Development firm. With 3,000 business customers in 14 countries, SoftwareProjects.com attracts high quality decision makers who are on the lookout for new technologies and services.
SoftwareProjects Sponsors
SoftwareProjects offers premium sponsorship ad units, displayed on every thread page, featured in our RSS feed and featured on the site as a review by our editors. (See sample reviews here, here and here)
These sponsors are very important to us, and we look for products and services that we feel would be relevant to our targeted and influential audience.
Ad Specs:
Premium sponsorship is $10,000/monthly.
We operate with a minimum term of two months, followed by a month-to-month plan where either party may terminate the relationship on 30 days notice.
If you are interested in securing a premium sponsorship on SoftwareProjects, please contact Amy Lee at amy -[at]- softwareprojects.com.
CPM Advertising
SoftwareProjects has partnered with Google to offer text, graphical, and rich media ads through the Google AdWords program. If you'd like to take a self-service approach to advertising on SoftwareProjects, and have your campaign live within the hour, you can do so by setting up an AdWords Placement Targeted campaign.
You'll be able to bid for placement on either a CPM or CPC basis across various channels on softwareprojects.com. All of our placements are exclusive to Google and optimized to ensure a high click thru rate so that you get the most bang for your buck.
Visual Search is Here!Dawn Rossi, July 24, 2008
You love Google's simple interface and think there's not much to be done on the user interface level?
Think again!
Meet SearchMe. The second generation of visual search, that actually works.
We've all seen how Ask.com and MSN Live have been incorporating built-in images/video search as part of search results...
SearchMe takes it up a notch. All search results are displayed as screenshots, with a Mac like sexy panning interface.
It's kind of like snap.com, only much better :-)
One of the cool features of SearchMe, is the ability to create custom stacks (collection of browser pages, images, videos) and embed them on your blog -
Thank you Steven for the heads up
Affiliate Marketing Product Feeds IntroductionAdrian Singer, January 7, 2008
Product feeds are spreadsheets provided by a merchant (Amazon.com, Overstock.com, Zappos.com etc) listing every single product available for you to promote and earn a commission for.
While you only need a single link when you're building a NetFlix landing page, a lot more comes into play when you're setting up a niche shoes store, virtual shopping mall or comparison shopping site, displaying hundreds of products from multiple vendors.
CommissionJunction, LinkShare and ShareASale are the top affiliate networks offering merchant product feeds. Signup for an account with all three so that you cover all merchants in your target verticals.
Once you have an account, apply for the merchants you are looking to promote. You are also going to have to apply for FTP product-feed access (One-time $200 fee with CommissionJunction, $250 with LinkShare and free with ShareASale).
A typical merchant product-feed includes:
Product ID (merchant specific)
Product Name
Product Description
Product Image (small)
Affiliate URL
Category (merchant specific)
Some feeds also include information about the Product Manufacturer and the Manufacturer SKU.
Once you start handling product feeds, you'll find just like anything else in life, product feeds are not perfect.
Merchants try to keep all information in the product-feed accurate and up to date, but there are often price mismatches, broken urls, missing images, bad descriptions and proprietary categories.
As an example, here's a record from today's Buy.com product-feed for the "Desktop Computers" category of products -
Yes, you're looking at a phone, incorrectly categorized as a Desktop Computer.
Another thing to note is that Buy.com, much like all other merchants, doesn't provide all information they have about a product as part of the product data-feed.
Here is how the exact same product is represented on the Buy.com website:
Notice the brand-level categorization, detailed product summary, tech spec, warranty information and reviews, all of which missing from the product feed.
So before you integrate a merchant's product feed with your website, you have to scrub it. And since you'll be dealing with thousands of records, automation is key.
6 Steps to Scrubbing Product Data Feeds:
In general, Product ID, name, price and url are the only four fields you can rely on in a merchant's product feed.
Images are going to be too small, descriptions too short and categories - merchant specific.
The steps to effectively downloading and processing data feeds:
1. Download merchant product data feed from FTP site
2. Write a script that will iterate through all data feed listings and identify the unique product each listing is describing.
Hint: If you operate in an industry that has universal product SKUs (books, laptops etc) it's easy. However if you're dealing with shoes, magazines or jewelry - you'll have to employ some "fuzzy logic" to identify two listings referring to the same product, each using a different name.
3. Identify a website that offers the best (largest size) images for products in your target industry. Check copyright regulations and if all is well, write a script that will harvest the larger than life images and match them to products.
4. Identify a website that offers the best (longest) descriptions for products in your target industry. Check copyright regulations and if al is well, write a script that will harvest the descriptions and match them to products.
Important note about descriptions - Having unique descriptions is a lot better than scrapping the same description all of your competitors use. If you have the budget, invest in paying a writer to write new descriptions for your website, at least for the most popoular products. You'll score points with the search engines as well as with your website visitors.
5. Decide on a category structure for your website (get ideas for competing sites in your industry) and then write a script that will match merchant categories to yours.
Every merchant is going to have different names to their categories and in order to have products from different merchants show up under the proper categories on your website, you'll have to develop a matching table.
6. Write a basic script that will iterate through all destination urls looking for a specific phrase to indicate the page loaded successfully. Automate this. If you're sending PPC traffic to your website, you're going to want to know when a destination URL stops working - so you can stop promoting that individual product.
That's it.
Affiliate Marketing with Product Feeds offers huge benefits, but requires a lot of planning, testing and ongoing monitoring.
Are you using product feeds as part of your affiliate marketing strategy?
Please comment and let me know if you are following a similar system or if you've simplified things.
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There are a lot of different people in the world, but still we are cut from the same cloth. We're people. We're human. It's not about ethnicity, even though the world sees it that way. But I don't see it that way."
It would have been easy for me to judge, profile or make assumptions to the intent of stranger now friend Michael. A mountain of a man, I met him as he sat ominously under the shade of a tree, his sheer stature taking a dominant section of city bench as he waited for his wife to conclude a doctor's appointment in a nearby medical building.
Interviewing 1000s of strangers has taught me to see a world covered with diverse and inspired people. It's been an experience for certain. One that has humbled me in ways never imagined. A social lesson of sorts, it is teaching me to make no assumptions about anyone. It's a hard practice, one that I know I could not undertake without the example of the community of Operation-365. We are a movement of individuals who, every day, are looking outside of ourselves in a desire to know and extend empathy toward our neighbors. We are a diverse people who, together, are growing a real majority. Giving and sharing as we accept our similar want to be loved, to feel safe and be allowed to express and live our value system without the fear of being persecuted.
So it was with this subtext that I reached out to Michael as he relaxed in a shaded escape from the hot afternoon sun. No malice to hurt, no judgmental finger pointed or any agenda other than simply wanting to meet another human and find out who he was and what he had to share.
Michael was reserved, yet in a slightly held back caution, I saw an open mind.
For about 30 minutes we found a bonding peace as we talked beneath the continued pulse of smaller moving vehicles and over the occasional thunder of passing trucks. Michael's opening advice to the world, "I'd tell everybody to treat each other like you want to be treated.
There are a lot of different people in the world, but still we are cut from the same cloth. We're people. We're human. It's not about ethnicity, even though the world sees it that way. But I don't see it that way."
Shaking the ground a little, an eighteen-wheeler thunders by!
A brief pause and Michael picks up where he left off, "I think we'd live in a whole much better world if people would just take the time and hear what the next person's got to say, and to pass something on that is good if they do have something to say."
Michael speaks of his observations of society, "You have people that are here for one reason or another. For whatever they think they may stand for, or what they might do, or something like that. I find today that a lot of people are unapproachable. But still, there are a lot of people who are approachable.
I'm no individual to judge, but you can pretty much see the good from the bad, and sometimes I miss a call: The person that you think is bad, is not, and the person you think is good, is actually bad. It all depends on how well you get to know the individual and what they are going through."
Therein the wisdom in Michael's eyes was revealed. My take on what he was teaching, we need to at least be open in getting to know the people around us, not judging, and surely not attacking.
"It all depends on how well you get to know the individual and what they are going through," Michael points out.
Perhaps in this he is suggesting that we can have no idea of what is truly inside a person at first glance. What appears as dismissible intolerance could actually be feelings of loss, despair or lowliness. Or, the grasping sound of ecstatic laughter could be a shroud to escape any range of self-issues. There is no absolute answer to knowing of any deep experience that any one of us is going through without as least looking at, and listening to, each other with compassionate and inquiring minds.
I'm not saying that we have to be saviors to the world, or victims of injustice in any form, just suggesting taking an extra second to govern our mind waves in regards to how we act or react to all we meet, or pass by, in our everyday living.
"People seem to be disconnected today" Michael observes, "and a lot of it has to do with technology.
You walk and you see a lot of young kids. They have headphones on and they're really not paying attention to their surroundings. They are not looking up. They are looking down at their phone screens and texting.
To me it seems that if we keep heading in that direction we are going to fall out of touch with the real value of human socialness; and, if it keeps going like it is, people are just going to fall out of touch with each other completely.
People are not aware of their surroundings and I don't think they really care. It's all about right now. They are not looking into the future.
If this continues I don't see a real good future for us. I hope things can change or get better, but I don't know?
People don't talk anymore. Really talk! You know, To try to see where each other is coming from?
The way I look at it, the Internet, the iPhones, the iPads— even with them, everyone is disconnected."
Michael's wife arrives from her doctor's appointment and I am grateful for the time he has shared with me. I offer him my departing words. With a handshake, "You are not alone, my friend."


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The South
African National Flag was designed by the former South
African State Herald, Mr Fred Brownell, and was first used
on 27 April 1994. The design and colours are a synopsis of
principal elements of the country's flag history. Individual
colours, or colour combinations represent different meanings
for different people and therefore no universal symbolism
should be attached to any of the colours.
The central design of the
flag, beginning at the flagpost in a 'V' form and flowing
into a single horizontal band to the outer edge of the fly,
can be interpreted as the convergence of diverse elements
within South African society, taking the road ahead in
The theme of convergence
and unity ties in with the motto "Unity
is Strength" of
the previous South African Coat of Arms.
of Arms - Symbolism
A national Coat of Arms,
or state emblem, is the highest visual symbol of the State.
The Coat of Arms is also a
central part of the Great Seal, traditionally considered to
be the highest emblem of the State. Absolute authority is
given to every document with an impression of the Great Seal
on it, as this means that it has been approved by the
President of South Africa.
South Africa's Coat of
Arms was launched on Freedom Day, 27 April 2000. The change
reflected government's aim to highlight the democratic
change in South Africa and a new sense of patriotism.
Symbolism and History of the South African Coat of Arms
Typical of this species is the pronk (jumping
display), which led to its common name. Both sexes have
horns but those of the ram are thicker and rougher. This
species has adapted to the dry, barren areas and open grass
plains and is thus found especially in the Free State, North
West province and in the Karoo up to the west coast.
They are herd animals and move in small
herds during winter, but often crowd together in bigger
herds in summer. They eat both grass and leaves and can go
without drinking-water, because they get enough moisture
from the succulent leaves. Where drinking-water is available
they will use it.
Springbuck stand 75 cm high and weigh
about 40 kg. They breed throughout the year and lambs are
born after a 6-month gestation period.
This elegant crane, that stands about one meter high, is
almost entirely restricted to South Africa in its
distribution. The blue crane is a light blue-grey, has a
long neck supporting a rather bulbous head, long legs and
elegant wing plumes which sweep to the ground. It eats
seeds, insects and reptiles. Blue cranes lay their eggs in
the bare veld, often close to water. They are quite common
in the Karoo, but are also seen in the grasslands of
KwaZulu-Natal and the highveld, usually in pairs or small
family parties.
The blue crane has a distinctive rattling
croak, fairly high-pitched at call, which can be heard from
far away. It is, however, usually quiet.
The habitat of the blue crane is open
grass fields or Karoo-like plains with low shrubby bushes.
It likes wet parts and lays its eggs on the ground. It
grazes in the field and eats seeds, insects and small
The galjoen is found only along the South
African coast. It keeps to mostly shallow water, is often
found in rough surf and sometimes right next to the shore
and is known to every angler. Near rocks, the colour of the
galjoen is almost completely black, while in sandy areas the
colour is silver-bronze. It is also known in KwaZulu-Natal
as blackfish or black bream. The record size is over 55 cm
and 7 kg, however the average is much smaller. The galjoen
is a game fighter.
The diet of the galjoen
consists mainly of red bait (ascidians), small mussels and
barnacles. The scales are very firmly attached. The fins are
well-developed with prominent spines.
The giant or king protea is widely
distributed in the south-western and southern areas of the
Western Cape, from the Cedarberg up to just east of
The artichoke-like
appearance of the flower-heads of the king protea lead to
the specific name 'cynaroides', which means 'like cynara'
(the artichoke). The name does not do justice to the
beautiful flower-heads of this protea, which is the largest
in the genus. A number of varieties in colour and leaf
shapes are found, but the most beautiful is the pink
coloured flower.
The yellowwood family is primeval and has
been present in this part of Africa for more than 100
million years. The species is widespread and is found from
Table Mountain, along the southern and eastern Cape coast,
in the ravines of the Drakensberg up to the Soutpansberg and
the Blouberg in Limpopo.
In forests, they can grow
up to 40 metres in height with the base of the trunk
sometimes up to 3 metres in diameter. In contrast, trees
that grow in unsheltered places like mountain-slopes, are
often short, bushy and gnarled. The bark of the real
yellowwood is khaki-coloured to grey when it is old, deeply
split and peels off in strips. The crown is relatively small
in relation to its height and is often covered with grey
lichen. Male and female cones resemble pine cones and are
white, light green or pink. The female cone has a fleshy
podocarpium on which the seed, which takes on the shape and
colour of a cherry, develops.
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Tonight [12/16/15] we have the opportunity to enjoy a commercial-Free special preview of the first episode for Syfy's upcoming series The Magicians at 10/9c.
The Magicians; Premieres January 2016:
Based upon Lev Grossman's best-selling books, The Magicians stars Jason Ralph (A Most Violent Year, Aquarius) as Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant grad student who enrolls in Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his 20-something friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity. Stella Maeve (Chicago P.D.), Olivia Taylor Dudley (Vatican Tapes, Paranormal Activity 5), Hale Appleman (Teeth), Arjun Gupta (Nurse Jackie), and Summer Bishil (Towelhead, Lucky 7) also star in this one-hour drama.
Groundswell Productions' Michael London and Janice Williams (Milk) will executive produce. John McNamara (Aquarius) and Sera Gamble (Supernatural), writers of the pilot, will serve as executive producers. Written by Syfy.


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Jesus told us that in the last days false prophecy will deceive many. He warned us about the false religion that shall speak lies and deceive the world. But did He know just how great the deceit would be?
Jesus saw how false religion was deceiving great multitudes of people in His day. He saw how the church was trying to sell salvation to His people. He witnessed first hand how self-righteous religious leaders were forsaking the poor, sick and needy. Jesus cried out his last breath against the great evil of religion. Religion was exposed for what it was (a lie) when the veil of the temple tore in two! Mark 15:38
Jesus knew that false doctrine would become so bad in the world that He reiterated it in Matthew 24:24
He used great emphasis in Matthew 24:24
"For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect"!!!!
Wow! Even the elect, if possible, will be deceived during these times! The elect He is speaking of is people like you and I who should be able to determine a lie about the True Gospel when we hear it. He doesn't desire for us to be ignorant or brain washed with lies about God when He told us the truth.
The antichrist's job is to make it appear their message is the good news from God. Their job is to make you believe their message is divine. How do they do this? Easy they offer great promises about God. They promise peace and prosperity and say a few words on what to do to make God act on your behalf. Their job is to make you believe you can obtain prosperity and peace by doing certain things for God. But most importantly, their job is to remove the source of your answers (Holy Bible) with their own version of the bible. Their job is to cover this great deceit by showing you "great signs and wonders"
Jesus said they "will show great wonders and signs"
He said they will show you how their ministry feeds thousands of people. Jesus said the antichrist will show great healing of all kinds of infirmities. Jesus said the antichrist will show you how wonderful His crucifixion was with amusement parks and how blessed you will be when you attend their conventions. Jesus said if they tell you to "Look" at all these things as true-- "do not believe it"! Matthew 24:26
Jesus said do not go running looking for Him in any of these places. He said do not look for Him in any of their literature. Jesus assured us that He will not be there! He said do not come looking for Him in their church when they proclaim He's there. Jesus said "do not believe it"
The antichrist's job is to replace the Holy Bible in your home with their satanic material. This is very easy to do. Instead of offering to sell you a gift Bible for comfort, they offer to sell you their doctrine in books (their bible) for comfort.
Jesus said this would happen over two thousands ago. He knew The deceit would be so great until it would fool even the best bible scholars! Jesus knew the deceit would be so great that it would even fool world renown professors and theologians.
Jesus said do not allow the "great signs and wonders" deceive you. God is not apart of their great miracles! God said He will not be apart of any of their church activities.
I promote the bible here not my own doctrine. I haven't told anyone that they will find the answers to their life in my book. The mega churches have committed this great sin before God. This is why He has condemned them, and is coming to destroy false religion once and for all soon!
Only the Bible can provide you with the answers you seek for your life. Their books, CD's or DVD's cannot do this. The antichrist does not sell you bibles because if it did they would go out of business the next day! They have demoted God when they sell their own material before they offer The Bible first. God is very displeased about their blatant disrespect for Him.
The antichrist is a business! It's part of the beast in Revelation, but not "the beast" itself. The beast is "capitalism" in which God is about to destroy soon. The antichrist isn't about promoting God. They only promote themselves and do not give honor to God by doing so.
The antichrist carries the spiritual mark in which God will destroy soon. Their mark is the mark in which God will see on us. He will see whether or not we have been loyal to Him, and have not turned to them for any spiritual matters.
"And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie" II Thessalonians 2:11
The great beast eats your money and can never become full. The great beast (capitalism) eats and never sleeps. The beast searches for prey to devour day and night. The beast never rests nor is it ever satisfied. It looks to devour the weak, poor, sick, and needy.
Look and see some of the corporations who are apart of the great beast: Casinos, GM, Ford, Pepsi, Facebook, Banks, Mega churches, etc.. They are all brands (marks) of the beast (capitalism). Who can stop the great beast from its destruction? Who will stop it from devouring our money, homes, and peace? Will God pardon us for having the marks of the great beast? God will not pardon the mark from the mega churches unless there be repentance for blasphemy. If no one repents for these things God will not relent His anger against the deceivers.
Join in the fight to promote God! Promote God with the Holy Bible. Do not be deceived by the antichrist's great "signs and wonders" God said He will not be in their CD's, DVD's or books!
KJV Electronic Bible
Do Not Accept the Mark of the Beast!


text: Home > News Sereno: Submission to impeach process is to defend judicial independence Ina Reformina, ABS-CBN News Posted at Dec 07 2017 04:19 PM Share Save Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. ABS-CBN News/File photo MANILA- Embattled Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Thursday said she submitted herself to the impeachment process to defend the independence of the judiciary. In a speech, Sereno reiterated that the allegations against her have no "sufficient basis." "I have submitted myself to this process according to the rights that are accorded anyone in my position, and I hope that you have taken it all in good faith that that is my intent--to defend the dignity and independence of the judiciary," she said at the 14th Metrobank Professorial Lecture on Judicial Accountability and Disciplinary Action held at the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice has not attended any of the impeachment hearings at the House of Representatives but sent her team of lawyers to represent her. "In various fora, I have already tried to encapsulate in very, very brief form why the charges against me, in fact, bear no sufficient basis," Sereno said. Sereno is accused by lawyer Lorenzo Gadon of culpable violation of the Constitution, betrayal of public trust, and other high crimes. INFOGRAPHIC: CJ Sereno impeachment: He said, She said The House Justice Committee had found the complaint sufficient in form and substance, and is conducting hearings to determine whether there is probable cause to try Sereno before the Senate, sitting as an impeachment court. The top magistrate on Thursday reiterated her plea for officials and employees of the judiciary to focus on their work, and not be distracted by the impeachment proceedings. "What I just want you to do, and I had actually asked the members of the judiciary this, are just three things: continue your work undistracted, professionally, and excellently as you have been doing in the past; monitor and watch and be on the lookout for the hallmarks of independence, integrity, and the dignity of the judiciary to be preserved; and continue to pray," she said. "There is much to be done for this country. Our country is crying for justice, and above all, may we continue to trust the Almighty God," she added. Share Save Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Read More: Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno impeachment Supreme Court judiciary House justice committee checks and balances /news/12/06/17/another-sc-justice-interested-to-attend-sereno-impeach-hearing-umali/news/12/06/17/speaker-eyes-ethics-raps-vs-colleagues-slamming-sereno-impeachment/video/news/12/07/17/alvarez-nagbabalang-ibabasura-ang-mga-inihaing-sagot-ni-sereno


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I was chatting to my boss today and asked for an update on an email trail. We had a conversation and then he asked why it mattered as the subject probably wouldn't crop up again, to which my response was that I'd rather be prepared in case it did recur rather than be fighting a rearguard action.
This brought to mind a phrase which my mentor had used in the past: hope for the best, prepare for the worst. It's also one which I have played back to others and which seems to resonate with most people.
But the concept isn't new, it's not even recent. My favourite quote on the subject comes from Sun Tzu:
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
How often have I sat through a presentation only to watch it derail as a predictable question causes the presenter to flounder? Perhaps Sun Tzu is cautioning against the complacency which suggests that some questions are therefore unexpected?
There are many techniques to prepare for the worst, but I think that two of them will cover just about any situation:
- PPPPPPP: I first saw this abbreviation thirty years ago and it's still as relevant. It means: Proper Prior Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance
- always have an escape route: I don't mean literally, but a couple of phrases which will buy you time are invaluable. For example
- "that's a very interesting point, but it could take longer to address than I should spend on one subject. If you'd like to chat afterwards I'd be happy to go through it with you."
- "I'm not certain and I don't want to give you an inaccurate answer, but if you leave me your contact details I'll be sure to double check and drop you an email."
Do you have some helpful, back-pocket phrases for use in case of emergency? And what techniques do you employ to prepare for the worst?


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I have spent my whole life under the bar, researching, and trying to figure this thing out that we call "strength". Now my passion is turned to teaching the world all about the barbell, and all things that go along with the barbell. Thanks to the world of CrossFit, people all over the world want to know all about strength and all of its mysteries.
In today's world of social media, it is much easier to spread one's message. Along with my amazing staff at Mash Elite Performance, we now have a Podcast "Barbell Life" where we focus on all things jacked with a family and spiritual focus. I love being a part of it, and I totally feel called to grow this show. Below is the link to the show on Spreaker.com. If you like what you hear, I would appreciate it if you followed the show.
We also have a YouTube Channel full of inspirational and educational videos focused on weightlifting, powerlifting, mobility, and athletic performance. We strive to add at least three videos per week. I have placed the link below. If you like what you see, I would appreciate it if you would subscribe, like, and comment. I will do my best to answer comments.
I will continue to bring you all as much free content as God will give me energy to produce it. Of course we have online coaching, online team, seminars, apparel, and more that is for purchase. This is the way that we make enough money to fund the free stuff. If you see something that would help you or that you would enjoy, we would appreciate your business. If not, we appreciate your loyalty in trusting us with your barbell knowledge.


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The app is free in the iTunes Store, and we will create more worlds, characters, stories, games to add to this.
You can see a teaser/trailer of the app here.
oh! this is reallllllly wonderful, steph! love all the textures and details! i'll keep my eye out for it @ the app store! "-)
Today I made it to my children and it's great
Love the look of cut paper in these designs. Very nostalgic. I recall favorite books of my childhood.


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A gift economy, gift culture or gift exchange is a mode of exchange where valuables are given without an explicit agreement for immediate or future rewards.
When it comes to gift culture there are 6 kinds of people;
The believers and the true followers,
These are those people who completely believe in gift culture and follow it without doubting it a bit! I has sprained my hand once, and someone asked me to visit this guy in a village a bit away from Udaipur, I went there it was old house with a few people waiting outside, every 3 minutes there will screams of "oohh!!" and "aaahh!!". So when it was my turn I went inside I saw the person who had come before me threw some money in the shelf and left. When I went it the guy didn't say a word, I showed him my had, the pulled it and there was some noise, I screamed, and I felt a lot better, he asked me not to sleep on this side for the next 2 days and he called the next guy. He did not ask for money, it would have cost me a fortune if I had gone to the doc. I just left some money in the shelf and left. Now HE is a true follower, he doesn't talk about it but does it!
These are the people who follow it without naming it anything.
The believers and the ego boo's
"Ego boo is a colloquial expression for the pleasure received from public recognition of voluntary work." These are the kind of people who believe in it and tell other people that they are following "gift Culture". I don't mean to say that there is anything wrong in it but yes they satisfy their ego by getting that kind of a recognition.
The ones who do it for the return gifts, prestationers,
Basically they are the ones who try to sell the concept of gift culture, the ones who do it for the benefits or a total prestation(A prestation is a service provided out of a sense of obligation, like "community service). Say, politicians such as the ones in Tamil Nadu, who give away things like television sets or help people in need to lure people into voting for them.
The pretenders,
"The paradox of keeping-while-giving"; they are given as gifts (not sold) yet still retain a tie to their owners. These gifts are not like those given in regular gift giving in the West on birthdays for example. Rather, these gifts can't be re-sold for money by the receiver because the value and the significance of the gift cannot be alienated or disengaged from its relationship to those whose inalienable possession it is.
The partial believers,
These are the people who expected a generalized reciprocity when they gave away their things (gifts).
generalized reciprocity is the exchange of goods and services without keeping track of their exact value, but often with the expectation that their value will balance out over time
The non-believers and the critiques
These are the people who sit and speculate about anything and everything. Or these are the people who strongly believe in the monetary system, these are the people who think that there can a VALUE (in terms of money) for everything.


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Over at the Artopia blog is an interesting post on shit. I don't know why it's interesting to me and I probably should stop mentioning shit on this blog before I develop some kind of shit fetish. I just thought I should point it out as John Perreault has obviously spent some time thinking about the topic.
He focuses on the shit of Piero Manzoni, the Italian artist that is best remembered for his canned artist shit, but also mentions the shit of a few other artists like Andres Serrano and Paul McCarthy.
To be honest, I only know of Piero Manzoni because of his canned shit, but according to the post over at Artopia, the artist produced more work..
1. All-white paintings initially made of clay-soaked canvas.
2. Balloons containing the artist's breath.
3. Living sculptures signed by the artist.
4. Pedestals for "living sculptures" — and one for the earth itself.
5. Very long lines inscribed on scrolls and sealed in tubes.
6. Most notorious and victorious, his very own canned shit.


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An eargasm of smooth, playful beats with plenty of head bobs. Enjoy the ride!
Head bobs
Hey Lion –Sofi Tukker
Hey lion
You're not my king
And I don't want your worship
[Playlist Alert] Daisy's Top 15 in 2016
By now, many know of my slight affinity for music. Let's rewind and replay some of my top tracks in 2016.
Keep You – Wild Belle
Mellow beats and sultry vocals:
Same song, again and again
You wrong me twice and I keep coming back…
Sleepless – Flume
The laid back beats and smooth vibe can turn anyone's Monday around…this song always eases my mind.


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Feb 16, 2018
Welcome to Waifu Wars! It's a YouTube series where me and Sirancho interview REAL ANIME NERDS and help them find the two-dimensional love of their lives. You can watch the video here.
In our first episode, which was actually made months ago but fuck it, we meet "Chuck." He's a real-life meme, as the commander of "Fort Waifu."
He loves two different fictional girls – Louise something, and Misaka something. I know nothing about them, and he seems creepily into their panties. Let's listen!


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Yesterday (June 19, 2011) - Marking the 25th year of radio broadcasting news and services, DZMM's Silveradyo in cooperation with the Filipino Association of Singapore (FAS) presents the first ever singing caravan in Singapore. Sixteen talents compete on Global Pinoy Singing Idol Grand Finals held at NTUC Auditorium Level 7 Singapore.
Here are the Pinoy Singing Idols and their Tagalog Songs:
(First Batch)
Julius Candelaria - Giliw
Francis Alegre - Ikaw Ang Aking Pangarap
Cindy Azur - Habang May Buhay
Philip Peñaflor - Kailangan Kita
Gerson Lapid Jr - Hindi Magbabago
Zanie Caroy - Bukas Na Lang Kita Mamahalin
Orville Alderite - Sana Maulit Muli
Gedelia Leyte - Kung Maibabalik Mo Lang
The acoustic guy and singer-composer Jimmy Bondoc was cool and entertaining. He sang The Man Who Can't Be Moved, Let Me Be The One, and his own rendition of Kanlungan.
(Second Batch)
Mayo Ong - Paano
Ronald Maranan - Kastilyong Buhangin
Dempy Dumdum - Patuloy ang Pangarap
Gerard Gonzales - Ikaw Lamang
Billy Calili - Panalangin
Jerus del Soccoro - Lipad Ng Pangarap
Asher Gad Cacho - Paguwi
Rodel Miguel - Dati Rati
Dempy Dumdum bags the Most Popular Award.
Here are the Top 6 Pinoy Singing Idols as they render their English songs.
Francis Alegre - This Is The Moment
Orville Alderite - Home
Dempy Dumdum - One Moment In Time
Asher Gad Cacho - Goodbye's Not Forever
Gerson Lapid Jr - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going
Jerus del Soccoro - I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing
Star Power Angeline Quinto was pretty in pink. When she sang 'I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing' on stage, it's true -- she sounded like Regine Velasquez. She got the powerful voice but hers is more bolder.
Asher Gad Cacho and Jerus del Soccoro took home SGD1000 and won the Global Pinoy Singing Idol.


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The 24-year-old Tunisian blamed for the attack on an ancient synagogue in Tunisia this spring, an assault considered the deadliest by operatives linked to Osama bin Laden since Sept. 11, was a surprising convert to Islamic militancy, intelligence officials have concluded.
Officials in Germany and France say that the Tunisian, Nizar Ben Muhammad Nasr Nawar, spent months planning the assault, which killed 19 people, 12 of them German tourists, on April 11. Tunisian investigators say they have identified Mr. Nawar, who was killed in the blast, from dental records. They have no doubt of his complicity and that he himself put together the crude explosive.
A scramble is on to find any Qaeda cells in Canada and Tunisia that backed Mr. Nawar before they cover their tracks and strike again.
His story is in some ways typical of dispossessed and uneducated young militants, but there are still big gaps in what officials know about Mr. Nawar's travels and activities, including whether or not he was the lead planner in the attack.
So far, intelligence agents have concluded that he moved, often abruptly, between his boyhood home near Tunisia's border with Libya and the apartments of two uncles on the island of Djerba, where the attack took place. He also vanished for long periods in Canada and may have traveled from there to Afghanistan.Continue reading the main story
One of his brothers said the family had not seen Mr. Nawar for two years.
Mr. Nawar was raised by his mother in the dusty town of Ben Gardane, in southern Tunisia. The oldest of three brothers and one sister, he was a mediocre student who never finished high school. His father, a laborer in Lyon, an industrial city in the east of France, came home for periodic visits.
''There was nothing to really distinguish him,'' said an uncle, Muhammad Chedli Nawar, 47, interviewed near the family home, in Ben Gardane. ''He was not good at school and when he dropped out he made his living traveling into Libya to buy cheap goods and sell them in the local market. He was not religious. He drank. He went to the tourist hotels to the bars. He wore shorts, unlike Islamists. I never saw him pray. But all this was before he left two years ago. During the last six months he was back I never saw him. This was strange.''
Mr. Nawar's father, who left for Lyon in 1971, lived in a stark single-residency dormitory for guest workers. In 1999, Mr. Nawar asked his father to help him get a visa for France, but his father was unable to prove that he could support his son or provide him with a place to live. The visa was denied.
Mr. Nawar's father eventually moved out of the dormitory into an apartment and a year ago was able to bring his other children and wife to France. Another son, Walid Nawar, 22, had to travel on a tourist visa because he was over 18 at the time, but is now facing deportation to Tunisia for overstaying his visa.
''Nizar never tried to come to France again,'' Walid Nawar said. ''We did not see him during the past two years. He called once in a while, but that was it. We lost touch.''
Mr. Nawar, through Tunisian contacts, went to South Korea in 1999 and worked in a restaurant, his family said. But the owners, after nine months, never paid him. His mother and father sent him the money to fly back to Tunisia.
''He was very bitter, very angry,'' Walid Nawar said. ''He felt he had been used.''
Mr. Nawar then borrowed money from his parents to go to Montreal where he said he had been accepted at a school that trained travel agents. His family said they did not know the name of the school, and Mr. Nawar never provided them with a phone number in Montreal.
When he returned to Djerba at around the start of this year, he dressed and acted the same but avoided relatives and old friends. When he did see them, he spoke little about his life.
''He came to see me one night three months after he came back,'' said Muhammad Nawar, 43, another uncle, who lives on the island. ''He came for an hour, chatted, disappeared for several hours and then came back only to sleep.
''In the morning he left early. I never saw him again. He did not do his prayers while he was with me. There was nothing to show that he was religious.''
The last-minute preparation for the attack was a closely guarded affair. Mr. Nawar operated under a pseudonym, Seif el-Islam Ettounsi. On the morning of the attack he and a colleague drove the truck behind a tourist bus near the synagogue. He ignited the tanks from the driver's seat after an accomplice fled on foot. His charred remains were found inside the cab.
Another uncle of Mr. Nawar's, Belgasem Nawar, whose apartment in Djerba he often shared, is now under arrest.
Investigators said the planning for the attack appeared to have been done outside of Tunisia. ''Who knows where he really was during the past two years,'' an intelligence official said. ''Just because he said he was in Canada does not mean he was in Canada.''
German and French investigators suspect that Mr. Nawar was part of a ring of militants linked to the Qaeda network that worked out of Montreal, probably, they say, the same network that assisted Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian convicted of plotting to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during the millennium celebrations.
''What we do not know yet is how he fell in with Al Qaeda and which cells he worked with in Germany and Canada,'' said a senior French intelligence official interviewed in Paris. ''This is what we are examining, especially in Canada.''
It was in Montreal, at a school for travel agents, that Mr. Nawar's life was to have taken a turn for the better.
But although he told his parents he spent a year and a half in the city, Mr. Nawar was not registered at any schools for travel agents, either under his name or under an alias he is known to have used. Canadian officials said neither name appeared in their database of immigrants.
''The fact is we do not know what he did or who he worked for,'' said another uncle, Mongi Nawar, in Djerba. ''He did not tell us any details after he came home. We rarely saw him.''
In February, he left Tunisia and again headed for Montreal where he spent four weeks on what investigators suspect was the final planning for the bombing of the synagogue, the oldest in North Africa. When Mr. Nawar returned to Djerba, he was accompanied, family members said, by a small number of men whom he described as ''colleagues from the travel agency.'' They kept to themselves, did not meet his family and then departed abruptly.
Mr. Nawar's uncle Belgasem bought an old refrigerated truck a few weeks before the attack from a butcher in Djerba, Tunisian officials say, and the nephew kept it hidden in a small garage where he filled the tank with propane by hand.
The day before the attack, Mr. Nawar packed one suitcase and told family members he was going to Libya, his brother Walid said. But the next morning German taps on the phone of a Polish immigrant in Germany named Christian Ganczarski, who had converted to Islam, picked up Mr. Nawar asking him to ''pray for me.'' He said all he needed was ''dawaa'' or a command.
Besides Mr. Nawar and his uncle Belgasem, a French intelligence official said there was an accomplice ''in the cab of the truck who fled moments before the explosion.''
Canadian intelligence officials, who said they spent several weeks tracking Mr. Nawar's movements, declined to comment on the case.
Several Tunisian community leaders in Montreal insist that Mr. Nawar was not a part of the social circle and did not frequent Tunisian cafes and restaurants.
Rather, they said, he probably gravitated toward the radical Algerians, who have a small presence in Montreal. French intelligence officials, too, believe Mr. Nawar had links to radical Algerians in Canada.
In Canada, Mr. Nawar is suspected of having built ties with the former Tunisian opposition party Ennahda, led by the exiled Islamic leader Rached el-Ghannouchi. Tunisia banned the group in 1991.
From there, these intelligence officials said, it was a short step into the arms of Mr. bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. ''This is what we suspect, but we have yet to nail it down,'' a French official said.
Intelligence officials say they suspect that Mr. Nawar belonged to the most dangerous of the half-dozen armed Tunisian groups thought to be operating in Europe, called the Tunisian Fighting Group. It is based in Hamburg, Germany, and in northern France. ''We have evidence that ties the group directly to Al Qaeda,'' said a French intelligence official.
The crude explosive device used in the Tunisia blast -- a truck filled with gas -- was a smaller version of the device used in 1998 at the American Embassy in Tanzania.
''There are a few hundred Al Qaeda militants in Europe who know how to do the same thing,'' a French official said. ''It all fits.''Continue reading the main story


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Quicken Online For The iPhone
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Wesabe, Mint and Quicken Online are fighting in the market of money management online. The latest news is that Quicken Online has launched an app for the iPhone, and it's called Quicken Online Mobile. They are looking to make a difference with this app and really take the market with it.
While it's a lot like Wesabe and Mint, Quicken Online Mobile isn't really something that should be used by people that want all the small details about how their investments are doing and how their money are flowing. This tool is best for those that are just looking to find out how much money they have in their account.
Besides showing you what updates took place in your account and what balance you have, this application also calculates what your remaining budget is, after taking into consideration your usual expenses (bills). Basically, you can just look at your iPhone and find out how much you can spend before you reach the limit of your budget. Want to find out if you can afford paying a round of drinks to the entire bar? This app should come in very handy.
The features that I liked the most in this app are that it shows you where the nearest ATM is. This app uses the WiFi or GPS triangulation to find out where you are and how close you are to an ATM. For example, I tested the app and it showed me all three ATM machines that are in the vicinity of my house. Not sure how complete their map is, but for me it worked quite well.
Downloading Quicken Online Mobile is completely free, as long as you create a Quicken Online account. You should also test Wesabe and Mint for iPhone and see which one works best for your needs.
Wolfram Alpha Search Engine Answers Questions
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A new search engines that is currently in Beta stage, Wolfram Alpha is a bit of a mix between the Google OneBox and Wikipedia. It's closed right now, as they are still testing it, but when it's going to be open it will allow you to use normal search queries, as far as I can tell from the video demo that they've released.
I didn't get a chance to test this start-up yet, but they are launching soon enough, so a more detailed review is going to show up eventually. You can find out a lot about Wolfram Alpha by watching the video, as it gives you a lot of tips on what this new search engine can do. If you love data, the possibilities that this start-up is offering are stunning to say the least. The video is a bit blurry, but you can still get what it's saying very well. Still, they should've done a better job on the video, considering that it's the demo that they're showing to the world.
Wolfram Alpha shouldn't be considered as something that will kill Google, but they aren't really on the same level. There isn't anything being done by Google right now that is on the same level as Wolfram Alpha. The public data search from Google might come close a bit, but not that close. Ultimately, the public test will make it or break it. If it's good enough to be used on a daily basis then maybe it has a future.
Anyway, as far as a normal search is concerned, Google is the best and it will be for a long time. Taking a look at it, Wolfram Alfa actually seems to be more of a Wikipedia competitor than a Google one. I'm actually looking forward for the open test, to see what it can really do.


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"James Turk and Alasdair Macleod discuss the pros and cons of the gold standard, the benefits of competition between different currencies and the historical role of gold in international monetary systems.
James Turk points out that he is actually not in favour of a classical gold standard as it grants excessive monetary authority to governments and central banks. He prefers free competition between currencies, and thinks that gold has proven itself as the best form of money over thousands of years. He says that gold will always be the ultimate standard for economic calculation.
Both men agree that money should not be a product of governments, as most modern monetary theories advocate, as well as influential people such as Warren Buffett. As a result of on-going debt monetisation and expansion of the money supply, James Turk ultimately expects an Argentinian style hyperinflation. Macleod argues that it will be almost impossible to raise interest rates to re-establish faith in the bond markets because the current debt levels are way too high already.
While James Turk is optimistic that a solution will eventually be found to our financial problems, he expects a serious crisis before gold is reintroduced in one form or another back into the monetary system. Therefore he advises that you should become your own central bank by buying gold and silver as a means of protecting your purchasing power. When buying precious metals one should make sure not to have counterparty risk which is why Turk and Macleod advise buying physical metal only.
In conclusion, James Turk points out the difference between price and value and argues that gold is still undervalued even though the price has risen for 11 years in a row. Talk of a gold bubble is therefore misguided. James is still expecting much higher prices in the future due to on-going money printing. Alasdair also talks about how little investor participation there is in the gold market in comparison with other assets, and points out the lack of speculative buying.
This video podcast was recorded on March 8 2012 following the Mises Europe gold standard conference in Brussels, Belgium."
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Saturday, March 05, 2016
Country Risk: Taiwanese election tests Chinese strategy
China remains committed to eventual unification with Taiwan despite its moderate response to the election of an anti-unification Taiwanese president in January.
The acquisition and development of more advanced weapons capabilities by China has shifted the military balance across the Taiwan Strait, but military conflict remains unlikely.
Instead, Beijing is likely to use economic influence, non-state actors, and intelligence operations to manipulate Taiwan's democratic institutions and build support for unification among the population. The election of the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) Tsai Ing-wen as Taiwanese president on 16 January 2016 has ushered in a new era in relations across the Taiwan Strait.
My analysis, published today in IHS Jane's Intelligence Review, is available here (paywalled).
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It's known in Korean restaurants as Haemool Pageon, but I like to call them Hamal Pigeons. Order it my way in Korean restaurants and waiters will either graciously attempt to teach you the correct pronunciation or give you the thousand-dagger stare – either way, hilarity ensues.
For the uninitiated, rest assured that this isn't some Middle Eastern take on roasted pigeon, but rather a random assortment of carbohydrates, vegetables and seafood that has been mercilessly cooked in a thin layer of oil such that you end up with a crispy oily dinner-plate sized flat thing. Jenny Craig would be disappointed.
1/4 Cup Flour
1 Egg
1/4 cup milk
Half a potato (think, giant genetically modified Russet)
Couple sprigs green onion
Slice of Onion
About 3/4 cup of seafood
Salt (a pinch… or three)
Using a mandoline, slice the potato into 1/4″ thick strips. If you don't have one, you can use a sharp knife to make the strips. Do think about buying a mandoline though. In addition to slicing your fingers, it does a very nice job on vegetables.
Mix the flour, egg and milk together and whisk until smooth. Toss in the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
In a large pan (think dinner plate sized), coat the pan with a nice generous layer of oil on medium high heat. Spoon the mixture into the pan and brown. Flip it over and toss it in the oven for about 15 minutes at 400 degrees until it's cooked. If you lack a convection oven, it'll probably take about 25 minutes or so. As always, be sure to experiment.


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