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Blogging for Dollars — It's not just a hobby — some small sites are making big money. Here's how to turn your passion into an online empire. — (Business 2.0) — Michael Arrington is a partying kind of guy. While showing off his home in Atherton, Calif., he boasts about how he crammed 500 people …
Discussion: GigaOM, Mathew Ingram, Blogging Stocks, The Paradigm Shift, Socialtwister 2.0, Joe Duck, blackrimglasses.com and Joseph Scott's Blog
Liz Gannes / GigaOM: You Down with MSB? (Yeah You Know Me)
Mathew Ingram / mathewingram.com/work: Forget Digg, what about Fark?
Brian White / Blogging Stocks: Google started the monetization of blogs
Joseph Scott / Joseph Scott's Blog: Blogging for Dollars
Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
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YouTube eyes ad money with Paris Hilton channel — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - YouTube, the online sensation that facilitates the viewing of 100 million amateur videos a day, is introducing a couple of new ways for advertisers to tap into the Web site's popularity while preserving its decidedly noncommercial attitude.
Discussion: Techdirt, Good Morning Silicon Valley, InterMedia, Frank Barnako, loadedpun, i-boy and Micro Persuasion
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley: BoobTube — Paris Hilton is no stranger to self promotion.
George Nimeh / i-boy: YouTube + Paris = BoobTube?
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion: YouTube Debuts Brand Channels
Financial Times:
YouTube in push to link with advertisers — YouTube, the fast-growing internet video site, will on Tuesday unveil its most ambitious attempt yet to make money from advertisers by allowing them to promote their brands through customised channels on its site.
Discussion: Mashable!, Publishing 2.0, TechEffect, Bloggers Blog and Clickety Clack
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Paris Hilton Videos Now on YouTube
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0: Brands Will Have a Tough Time on YouTube
Brian Ward / TechEffect: YouTube crawls into bed with Paris Hilton
Junior Hines / Clickety Clack: YouTube Trying To Figure Out A Business Model
Michelle Quinn / Mercury News:
YouTube's new ad model
YouTube's new ad model
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Catharine P. Taylor / adfreak: Is YouTube's new ad model a good thing?
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Can Paris Hilton boost YouTube?
Can Paris Hilton boost YouTube?
Discussion: Los Angeles Times, CNNMoney.com, Open Culture and Blogspotting
Oliver Ryan / CNNMoney.com: New Paris Hilton video hits YouTube
GeekyGirl Dawn Foster / Open Culture: Paris Hilton Rescues YouTube
Heather Green / Blogspotting: Break.com's Innovative Marketing Deal With Showtime
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
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YouTube's Ads Blur Lines
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What's new for your Blackberry — When I got my Blackberry, at first it was culture shock, I wanted my Plain Jane Nokia back, but after a while I got used to using it as a phone, then fell in love with it because it did email so well, but I wanted more, I wanted news.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb: TBL Podcast, Mobile News, and 2 tickets to Future of Web Apps to give away
Dan Farber / Between the Lines: Mobilizing the river of news
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun: Mobile web invention or re-invention?
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer: New York Times for your mobile phone
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The river of news — Dave Winer is up to something important... again.
The river of news — Dave Winer is up to something important... again.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Facebook adds blog-like notes feature — A week after winning applause across the blogosphere for taking the big step of opening up its API, social networking site Facebook today launched a new feature called notes - essentially a blogging tool. — The best thing about the new notes tool …
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat: Roundup — Facebook's notes, Box.net, and other news
Jay Savage / Download Squad: Facebook adds blogging feature
Richard Maven / E-consultancy: Friendster receives VC boost
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!: Facebook Notes - Facebook Adds Blogs
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat: Friendster raises $10 million more; Facebook valued at $500M?
Paul Stamatiou / PaulStamatiou.com: Facebook Introduces Blogging Functionality "Notes"
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
VC funding for individual blogs? — Several high profile blogs have taken VC money recently. Om Malik, formerly of Business 2.0 and writer of Giga Om, has struck off on his own with VC money from a startup VC, True Ventures. SoftBank Capital invested $5 million in HuffingtonPost.com, a blog written by Arianna Huffington.
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VCs see opportunity in blogosphere
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Hello hullo! — Over the last few weeks I've been playing with the beta of a promising new free service called hullo. Now you can try it too. — hullo bills itself as a personal call manager. The promise is that it will help you stay in touch better than ever before.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Hullo To Enter VOIP War With Free Product
Jordan Running / Download Squad: Hullo: Versatile VoIP
Jim Courtney / Skype Journal: Beta Launch of Hullo - A Personal Call Manager
Matt Mondok / M-Dollar:
Microsoft invites Firefox development team to Redmond — Microsoft wants to help aid in the development of Firefox. It sounds pretty scary, doesn't it? If you're still here, let me tell you that it's not as bad as it seems. Sam Ramjii, Director of Microsoft's Open Source Software Lab …
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Co-founding Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward paid tribute to his contemporary in Led Zeppelin on his 'Rock 50′ radio show (embedded above), saying, "If you want to strive toward something, just listen to John Bonham."
Ward offered "Good Times Bad Times" and other tracks from early Zeppelin recordings on the program, asking listeners to focus on Bonham's footwork — which he called "pure magic." Ward's high praise included also this: "He has to be the finest rock drummer of our time, as far as I'm concerned."
Elsewhere, "Rock 50″ featured segments on a new band featuring Dave Lombardo, a co-founding member of Slayer; as well as the Big Bopper, Richie Valens and Buddy Holly — who all perished in a February plane crash 55 years ago.
Ward had been off the air since last August, after undergoing shoulder repair surgery. The procedure was complicated by a perforated diverticulitis issue. "I'm doing much better," Ward told listeners. "I'm getting healthier every day. I'm moving forward, spiritually and physically, I'm very happy to report."


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Something is amiss on Madison Avenue. The much-hyped "stars" of the third most-watched program in television history — the ads of Super Bowl LXI — were, all in all, a bust.
The players had to contend with torrential rain, yet they managed to make the game suspenseful well into the fourth quarter. Prince braved the elements to give a virtuoso halftime performance, while probably wondering if he was going to be electrocuted. But advertising's best and brightest didn't get it right — despite having months to plan for the biggest night of the year, perhaps the biggest night of their careers.
What's the problem here? Perhaps, with about $86,000 per second on the line, too many cooks want to stir the broth, or the pressure to perform has become too great. Or maybe the problem is that no one is quite sure what a Super Bowl spot should be: an integral part of a consumer marketing plan or an entry in the world's biggest advertising popularity contest.
Writing about last year's game, we put forth the quaint notion that the purpose of advertising is to sell something, and anything else is a waste of marketing — and shareholder — dollars. It's obvious that few people were listening — to us, or to such industry icons as Bill Bernbach and David Ogilvy, who defined creativity as a selling message ensconced in a relevant entertaining idea.
As has become an annual custom, just about every industry columnist, and legions of bloggers, have weighed in with their list of favorites. In years past, there was a great deal of overlap. But this year there was a wide range of favorites — or, to call a spade a spade, nothing really stood out.
We're not going to join the bandwagon, in part because we don't have enough favorites to make a list, but mainly because we don't want to help perpetuate the lunacy that the most expensive air time in the world should be spent on commercials whose raison d'etre is to make somebody's list. Call us sticks in the mud, but the purpose of a Super Bowl ad, the mother of all marketing investments, should be the mother of all returns. That's all there is to it.
In approaching the Super Bowl, advertisers would be well advised to consider the following: Greatness is certainly elusive, but this year no one seemed even to be trying. The agency should be required to watch a reel of classics, such as Apple's "1984," Budweiser's "Frogs" (1995), Xerox's "Monks" (1977) and Master Lock's "Marksman" (1974-'93). If the agency won't commit to reach for the stars, clients should save their money.
Everyone needs to be on the same page regarding the objective of the effort: Do you want a spot people will talk about ... or a spot that will make people talk about your product? You can have both, but Super Bowl entertainment-for-its-own-sake conventions suggest you need to be pretty insistent.
Recognize that great humor, especially humor that is relevant to the product, is very hard to achieve. Gratuitous humor may rate high in post-Super Bowl consumer polls, but it's not likely to do much for your business. Some of the very best Super Bowl commercials weren't made for laughs: the aforementioned Apple and Master Lock spots, Monster.com's "When I Grow Up" (1999) and Budweiser's "Welcome Home" (2005), to name but a few.
Subtlety can also be a trap. The Super Bowl audience has been conditioned to watch commercials, but it's still a big, often well-lubricated party. This year's FedEx "Don't Judge" cleverly associated names with body language, but unless you were glued to the screen, you probably missed the joke.
Controversy can help generate instant name recognition, as it did for GoDaddy.com several games ago. But if you don't need it, why take the risk? It's hard to understand why Masterfoods would do that with its venerable Snickers brand.
Don't forget that there are women in the audience — lots of them. The ones with whom we watched the game were repelled by Bud Light's "mean and macho" strategy and turned on by Revlon's surprise appearance in the third quarter. It didn't hurt that Revlon's "Not Fade Away" was probably the best marketing idea of the night.
Shorter spots cost less — and can work harder. CBS may not have intended to upstage all its clients and their agencies with its 10-second Late Show with David Letterman commercial. But it did.
Finally, advertisers should carefully assess whether their product really belongs here. Categories that are low-interest, require detailed explanation or are not fun to talk about should probably avoid the Super Bowl. Do people really want to think about urination problems during the biggest game of the year? Or annuities? If you don't belong, don't do it.
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Raven-haired burlesque beauty Dita Von Teese (born a natural blonde 41 years ago as Heather Renee Sweet) knows a thing or 36D about lingerie. Known from Paris to Pasadena for tastefully taking off her dainties, Von Teese has led the full-blown revival of striptease that continues to gather audiences seeking seduction over sex.
"I'm very surprised at the growing popularity of burlesque," purrs the polished Von Teese, sitting on a Victorian settee at Dark Garden, the Hayes Valley custom corsetiere where many of her costumes are made. "When I began performing in 1991, I definitely did not think it would become a worldwide phenomenon. And I would never have dreamed I'd still be doing it."
Von Teese is in town to promote her new Von Follies line of lacy lingerie, which will be carried at Dark Garden. This is the first time the collection will be sold in America, a continuation of her successful line of vintage-inspired bras, garter belts and panties that launched in Australian department stores in 2012.
"I had a lot to prove," she says. "It was very important to have creative control over every aspect of the design. I've been observing the worlds of fetish gear and retro styles for years. I've designed the pieces I've always wished I could find."
Von Teese is an avid collector - and enthusiastic wearer - of undergarments and clothing from the '20s to the '60s; she also drew inspiration from the trove of vintage lingerie catalogs she seeks out in her travels. She is particularly proud of the "inclusive" price points and the wide range of sizes in the Von Follies line.
"We go up to a G cup, which takes quite a bit of engineering," she says. Her experience draws upon her years as a lingerie store salesclerk from ages 15 to 22. "That's what sparked my interest in pin-ups, which began my career. I see what women want to wear, and what makes them feel good about themselves."
Although a relative newcomer to retail sales, Von Teese has had extensive involvement with fashion design. She studied historical fashion in college, and conceives the sets and costumes of her many performance tableaux, which have included an en pointe ballerina set inside a life-size music box, a Shanghai-inspired opium mistress, and a rootin'-tootin' pink cowgirl on a bucking satin mechanical bull.
"Autumn Adamme of Dark Garden and Catherine D'lish made that amazing outfit covered in thousands of pink Swarovski crystals," Von Teese says, which was most recently seen in San Francisco at a private party celebrating the opening of the de Young Museum's Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective in 2012.
Over the years Gaultier has designed many one-of-a-kind ensembles for Von Teese to wear down the runway. "Jean-Paul and Mr. Pearl (his corset maker) have taught me so much about haute couture," she sighs. "It's a rarefied world for the lucky few. How many people can fly off for 12 fittings in Paris?"
Q: You recently were the muse and model for the world's first 3-D printed dress, which was made of interlocking carbon fiber embedded with Swarovski crystals. Did it feel different than some of your fittings with Jean Paul Gaultier or Vivienne Westwood?
A: It's totally different. I have respect for both kinds of creation, but they are not the same thing. Everything in haute couture is hand sewn. People provide the labor. Real haute couture is something that costs a fortune, but it is because it contains hundreds of hours of expert work. It is fashion as art.
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Surely, design fans (and the people who love them, or who can understand what they are saying, or who think they dress well) will want to know fast about this year's Architecture and Design Film Series at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax, considering that it starts in just a few days.
It's a swell – and long – lineup of films, assembled with the expertise of the group Design OnScreen. The emphasis is on architecture from the last 50 years – some of it good, some disastrous, but nearly always fascinating. There are also receptions and appearances by key filmmakers. Prices vary, but it's all a deal, really.
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Aileen Sandridge necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 176 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
We need an amazing designer to help us create the world's easiest baby and pregnancy journal. The winning design will wow our customers with its simple elegance. Impress us with your design and there will be more work -- there's much more that needs to be done for this website.
Here's the simple explanation of the site's offering:
How It Works:
1. Every day we will send you an email asking you "How did baby's day go"?
2. You hit reply and type as much or as little as you want. (You can even attach photos if you like.)
* That's it! You end up with a baby journal that captures all of your little one's moments.
The design will be:
** Simple-as-can-be. Adorely must be the baby journal that busy parents will actually use.
** Tactile. Tactile design elements will invoke physical journals so parents don't miss the feel of paper.
** Pitch-perfect. thebump.com meets ohlife.com meets physical baby memory book.
** Sophisticated and fun. This site is for mom, not for the kids-- it shouldn't be kiddy, busy, or loud.
** Gender-neutral. We like rich colors that work for moms of babies of both genders.
New and expecting moms, ages 25-35+, with more money than time.
After reviewing initial designs, I've come up with some additional guidelines for everyone.
** The Post page will often **Not have any photos**. The page must work in that case. I'd prefer it if, going forward, you would submit a version of that page **both with and without** photos. Most designs I'm seeing won't work without photos.
** We are much more interested in *simple* and *elegant*. cute and fun are great, but not at the cost of simple and elegant.
example 1: http://www.etsy.com/listing/47708772/
example 2: http://www.paperstyle.com/is-bin/Li…-57-1028FN
Please follow these rules for the welcome page:
1. There must be a BIG, PROMINENT "Sign Up" or "Sign Up - It's Free" button above the fold.
2. The Sign Up button must stand out compared with any other elements on the page.
3. The Tagline "World's Easiest Baby Journal" must be above the fold for a small browser window and very easy to read.
4. The main part of the page cannot be consumed with a photo.
Design a logo and two key pages (Welcome page and Post page) for Adorely, a baby journal site. Look and feel is critical-- it should be fun and sophisticated and tactile. And easy easy easy -- nothing should feel hard or complicated.
Include a logo that is simple, easy to read, and fits in with the rest of the site. In addition to the name ("Adorely"), we are not sure whether or not we will want an image/figure/character to go with it-- use your best judgment or show it to us both ways. Overall site look-and-feel is much more important than an impressive stand-alone logo. Examples of logos we like are listed below.
The welcome screen must draw people in with its beauty and simplicity and a clear and compelling offering. The most important part of the page will be a prominent sign up button-- the overarching goal is to get people to click that button.
This view is the heart of the journal and must wow moms with its beauty and simplicity while showcasing the all-important journal entry. It should make moms feel good about keeping the journal, and be so tactile they are tempted to feel their computer screen.
Detailed requirements on the welcome page and post page below. Also, see the attached very rough wireframes, but do not be limited by how the pages are laid out-- I'm not a designer. That's why I'm here.
* People to learn about the service to determine whether they want to sign up.
* People who have already signed up to log in
* People who want to sign up to create an account
It consists of the following parts:
* Header: Logo, Sign Up link, Login link
* Call to action -- Sign Up
* How It Works pitch
* Footer: Contact Us, FAQ, Privacy Policy, About Us
* Viewing a single post, including date of post, baby's age, photos, and text.
* Navigation between single posts.
* Editing of a post
Consists of the following parts:
* Header (Logo, Settings link, Logout link)
* Navigation between Posts
- Older
- Newer
- Jump To -- pops over a calendar that enables jumping to the date of a different post
- View All -- goes to a view with all posts
* The Actual Post
- Date of post
- Age of baby e.g. 3 weeks 2 days old. If pre-birth, displays the weeks and days into pregnancy. e.g. 28 weeks 3 days pregnant.
- Photos -- first photo is included at the top of the post, any additional photos are included in a "filmstrip" below the photo. Clicking an image from the filmstrip will change the featured photo. Remember, photos will be absent more often than not: The page must be great even without photos.
- Text
- Edit and Delete links or buttons
* Footer: Contact Us, FAQ, Privacy Policy, About Us
Example Websites:
http://www.thebump.com -- Love the logo, the colors, the little baby character.
http://www.ohlife.com -- Love the simplicity, the easy user interface, the tactile design elements (e.g. the linen paper background). This site basically offers what we plan to offer, but for personal journals rather than baby journals.
Examples of texture we like (largely from physical products):
http://www.tinyprints.com/product/1…berry.html -- Ribbon gives a tactile feel, the overlapping "name tag" also lends some physical, 3D element to it.
http://www.tinyprints.com/product/7…nille.html -- (Though not the color-- too girly)
Colors we like:
Others design elements we like::
http://www.tinyprints.com/ -- cute logo
http://www.oeufnyc.com/ -- I like the hand-drawn, script feel of the facebook, twitter, and mailing list links. Perhaps lends to tactile feel.
http://www.adenandanais.com/ -- Like the classiness, the background, the fonts, but prefer warmer colors. Don't like the figures in the logo.
http://angeldear.net/ -- cute logo
http://www.paperstyle.com/is-bin/Li…-57-1028FN -- cute bird
We like the texture and detail on the BACK of these cards: http://www.paperstyle.com/is-bin/Ba…-54FN-041G (green dots lining the bottom), http://www.paperstyle.com/is-bin/Da…6-55-FN005 (textured background)


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Basudeb Pal Majumder, born in Kolkata in the year 1970, is a 1st Class Bachelor in Visual Arts (fine arts) from Government College of Art & Craft, Kolkata . Since his childhood he has an extreme urge for innovations and a strong inclination towards the art world which gradually transformed into his passion for drawings & paintings.
Basudeb, as a part of his work and also for his wildlife photography, spends a lot of time in remote places, tribal villages & forests just to get in touch with another world. He has always been inspired by the sensuous beauty of life & living entities which provoke the visual philosophy of his canvases with images that are juxtaposed to the web of enigma illustrated by fragments of memory, visual humors & impressions of subconscious mind. "Living in a busy metro city, I always play a game of hiding in the inexplicable; find myself in the unknown, lost in canvas" - says Basudeb.
• Certificate of Merit for Wild Life Photography, JAVINLA, 2008
• Certificate of Merit in Painting from Bombay Art Society, 2000
• AIFACS Scholarship Award for Water Colour, 1996
• Academy Award from All India Fine Art Exhibition, 1995
• Certificate of Merit from Govt. of West Bengal, Year: 1992
• Award from Govt. College of Art & Craft, Kolkata, 1987-92


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Set collecting
Players: 2 - 5
Age: 8 +
Available Languages
Status: Out of Print
Stock Number: 320
Each player uses small, large, wild and exotic animals and their young to try and attract as many visitors as possible to their zoo. But be careful - the zoo must be carefully planned. Before you know it, you have too many animals and no more room for them. That brings minus points! Luckily, your zoo can expand.A zoo of a family game in which less is sometimes more ...
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New Enclosures
First, print the picture and carefully cut out the 3 new enclosures at the fine, bright lines and paste on cardboard cut to size.
The usual Zooloretto rules apply, with the following exception:
Place the 3 new boards in the middle of the table. On each board is space for 2 tiles of the animal species illustrated (panda, chimpanzee, or camel). Using a cash action, a player can buy any of the new enclosures from the middle of the table for 2 coins.
Restaurant: front
Print the images and paste on the front and back side of a piece of cardboard, cut to size.
Use the basic Zooloretto rules with the following addition:
Place the restaurant in the middle of the table. Using a cash action, a player can buy the restaurant for 3 coins.
The restaurant is treated as a stand and may only be placed on the two adjacent stand locations (if they are both empty) beside the four-space enclosure.
At game end, the owner of the restaurant gets 2 points for for each stand on a stand location (including the restaurant). This player does not score for different types of stands.
Petting Zoo:
Print the images and paste on the front and back side of a piece of cardboard, cut to size.
Use the basic Zooloretto rules with the following addition:
Each player takes a petting zoo as additional enclosure, which he places face up next to his player board.
Each petting zoo has room for two baby animals. When a player takes a baby animal, he can decide whether to place it as in the basic rules or place in in his petting zoo.
When a player puts a baby animal in his petting zoo, he gets 1 coin from the bank. For the baby animal placed in his petting zoo, he gets 2 coins from the bank.
At game end, a player receives no points for his petting zoo.
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US pressing Egypt to adopt more moderate policies
CAIRO (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday made the highest-level American visit to Egypt since President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi took office as Washington presses the former army chief to adopt more moderate policies.
Economic and security problems are undermining Egypt's stability, and Kerry's visit signals an attempt by the Obama administration to thaw a relationship with a longtime Mideast ally that has cooled in recent years during the country's political turmoil.
"For Egypt, this is also a moment of high stakes as well as a moment of great opportunity," Kerry told reporters after meeting el-Sissi. Kerry then headed to Jordan as he began a weeklong trip to the Mideast and Europe.
Kerry said Egyptians want better economic opportunities, greater freedoms, a free press and the rule of law.
"We talked about that today and I think we really found ourselves on a similar page of changes that have yet to be made, promises that have yet to be fulfilled, but of a serious sense of purpose and commitment by both of us to try to help achieve those goals," he said.
Over the last year, in particular, the U.S. has watched warily as Cairo has outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist political opposition group that was ousted from power last July.
U.S. officials cite hard-line policies -- including the sentencing of hundreds of people to death in trials lasting only a few hours, and the jailing of journalists -- in refusing to fund all of the $1.5 billion in military and economic aid that Washington usually sends to Cairo each year.
The U.S. reluctance has fueled frustration among Egyptians who accuse the Obama administration of favoring the Muslim Brotherhood and starving Cairo of help at a time when the country's economy and security are at risk.
Earlier this month, the U.S. quietly agreed to send an estimated $572 million to Egypt in military and security assistance on top of $200 million in economic aid already delivered. But Egypt is still calling for the U.S. to send the rest of its annual $1.5 billion in aid, most of it for the military, which has been suspended until Washington believes Cairo is committed to democracy.
Officials say they have seen some small encouraging signs that el-Sissi is prepared to protect Egyptians' rights. They cite the issuing of tough penalties for sexual assault against women and the freeing a jailed journalist who works for the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV.
Kerry said he discussed these issues with el-Sissi, adding that the president promised reviews of human rights issues and legislation.
Kerry also said they discussed the trial of three Al-Jazeera English correspondents on trial on terrorism-related charges since February. A verdict was due Monday in a case that has caused an uproar and concerns for freedom of expression in Egypt.
"He gave me a very strong sense of his commitment to make certain that the process he has put in place, a re-evaluation of the human rights legislation, a re-evaluation of the judicial process and other choices that are available to him, are very much on his mind," Kerry said.
Kerry also the Obama administration is working with the U.S. Congress to sort out differences over the rest of the money designated for Egypt.
"I'm confident that we will be able to ultimately get the full amount of aid," Kerry said.
But the U.S. remains concerned about the Cairo government's crackdown against the Brotherhood, which Washington considers a political threat to el-Sissi -- not a security risk to Egypt.
The government's security crackdown has targeted secularists and Brotherhood supporters who have protested against its heavy-handed policies. Some youth leaders who were at the forefront of the 2001 uprising against former President Hosni Mubarak and who also opposed his successor, Mohammed Morsi, are now languishing behind bars, mostly for violating a law that has restricted any public gatherings.
The president was sworn in earlier this month after leading a revolt last summer against former Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood leader who was the nation's first freely elected leader. Since Morsi's ouster, the Brotherhood has responded with protests that have turned into violent clashes between demonstrators and government security forces.
A Brotherhood spokesman said the group sees "no political process whatsoever in Egypt" to participate in and that Morsi's removal from office was a coup.
The U.S. wants el-Sissi to build a more inclusive government, and that largely means lifting the ban on the Brotherhood and allowing it to participate in the political process.
Egypt is also facing a growing jihadi threat in the Sinai Peninsula, where militants are thriving on a flood of heavy weapons easily smuggled from Libya.
The security problems have contributed to a severe slowing of Egypt's tourism industry that began in early 2011 when a popular uprising overthrew Mubarak, president for three decades.


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You're probably familiar with Greenpeace's complaints about Apple's "greenness" in its computers, but you would think that the latest environmentally minded decisions in the MacBook Air would have been enough to satiate the eco-group. Nope. Here's what they said about the new Air.
"Apple is getting greener, but not green enough," said Rick Hind, the legislative director of Greenpeace's toxics campaign. "The Macbook Air has less toxic PVC plastic and less toxic BFRs, but it could have zero and that would make Apple an eco-leader," he added.
"Apple sometimes gets really defensive," Hind admits. "They say: Why are you picking on us—especially when we have such a small market share compared to the rest of the industry?"
The reason, according to Hind, is simple. Apple is seen as a tech leader, especially when it comes to innovation. Even though companies like Dell and HP are much larger and ship many more computers, Greenpeace singles out Apple in order to draw attention to the whole tech industry's eco policies, Hind says.
Read the rest of the back and forth over at Wired. [Wired]


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Americans just can't get enough bottled water.
A new report from the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) states that in 2012, overall consumption of bottled water jumped by 6.2 percent to 9.67 billion gallons, while sales increased by 6.7 percent, totaling $11.8 billion. The statistics were compiled by beverage consulting firm Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC).
With every American consumer drinking an average of 30.8 gallons of bottled water last year, the report stated that per-capita consumption of bottled water was up 5.3 percent in 2012, and that the beverage increased in absolute volume more than any other beverage category in the U.S.
"Bottled water added more gallons to its per-person consumption rate in ten years than either ready-to-drink tea or sports beverages reached by the end of that period," said Gary Hemphill, managing director, information services, BMC.
Hemphill noted that, in comparison to the staggering amount of bottled water that Americans consumed in 2012, neither ready-to-drink tea nor sports drinks reached five gallons of consumption per U.S. consumer last year. Based on the numbers, and lifestyle shifts toward health and wellness, Hemphill said that bottled water is poised for future increases in per capita consumption.
"All signs point to U.S. consumers' already displayed thirst for bottled water continuing in the years ahead," Hemphill said. "Changes in per capita consumption indicate persistent interest in a product that consumers embrace as a healthful alternative to other beverages."


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
It seems that another cloud mining operation is having trouble to keep running, this time because of mining hardware stolen by one of the partners. We are talking about the Chinese mining mega farm AMHash, a partnership between ASICMiner, RockMiner and Havelock Investments. You would expect that when ASIC manufacturers start their own cloud mining operation it should be reliable and secure and have no trouble, but apparently not if these are Chinese companies as it turns out. Throughout February some people started reporting that they are not getting their payments sent for the hashrate they have in AMHash. The apparent reason was due to the long New Year holidays in China, but it turns out that it was way more serious than that, but AMHash just recently at the last day of February explained the actual reason.
The Announcement of AMHash Dividends Suspending
Dear customers,
We are very sorry to inform you that we have to continue to delay AMHash's dividends, as we haven't received the payment from ASICMINER since 8th Feb, we are trying to communication with ASICMINER for this issue:
1. Dividends will be restarted in 24 hours as soon as ASICMINER sending us BTCs.
2. Dividends will be paid from 8th Feb and all missing dividends will be included if we get the payment.
3. Trading of AMHash1 on HAVELOCK will also be suspended until the dividends restart.
4. Any third-party platform collapse will be handled in the same way as hashie.co, AMHash will complete the hashrates transferring and subsequent dividends.
We are still in active communication with ASICMINER, please be patient,and we will update in time if we get any new information.
AMHash Team
And a bit later another post detailing the actual reason why the payments from ASICMINER have stopped appeared yesterday also posted on the Bitcointalk forum.
The 3.546PH AMHash's hashrates have disappeared since 25th Dec 2014. We found this problem two days later, we asked friedcat, he said it was mining farm's maintenance issues, hashrates would come back soon. But one week later,hashrates didn't come back yet. When we asked FC again, we were told that all mining devices were robbed by the partner of the mining farm. And all hashrates were out of control.
After then, FC told us that hashrates from new mining farms will be deployed, but we didn't know the amount at that time. Right now, we still don't receive any update from those new hashrates.
AMHash Team
Things are definitely not looking good for AMHash and for their customers, but we still need to see how they will handle the situation as they previously had some trouble with other partners and they have managed to do things right. We are going to keep an eye on how the situation develops as we also do have some hashrate in AMHash and we have not yet received any dividends from mid February until now.
Copyright ©2014-2020 - Crypto Mining Blog - It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies.This is a blog for crypto currency miners and crypto coin users of Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), Ethereum (ETH), ZCash (ZEC) and many other altcoins out there.


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Here is just some of the news that made the news in the Kankakee Valley this week.
Diana Jedynak, 67, died of fire related injuries after her home caught fire early Monday morning in Washington Township. Indiana State Fire Marshal, Fred Sumpter, said the investigation into the cause of the fire was postponed due to the weather conditions and the integrity of the structure.
The Northwest Indiana Forum's Board of Directors have voted to acknowldge the organization's service territory to extend beyond Lake, Porter, LaPorte and Starke Counties to include Newton, Jasper and Pulaski Counties.


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CRON-O-Meter is free, open source, and cross-platform (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) dieting software written in Java. It is a fully featured nutrition and biomarker tracking tool. Designed for practitioners of Caloric Restriction (CRON) Diets.
From the project site:
CR (Calorie Reduced) diets require a lot of information to perform optimally. In order to restrict caloric intake, but remain healthy, users of the diet must track their vitamin, mineral, and protein intakes with great care.
We aim to provide a complete solution to the CR dieter. Current open-source diet-tracking applications fall short in some vital respects. Either they are not detailed enough, or they suffer from critical usability flaws. We believe that a diet tracker must be effortless to operate for the activity for which it will be used most of the time, keeping track of the foods eaten in a particular meal.
To this end, we are developing CRON-O-Meter, an application that will take into account good usability design and dense functionality. It will provide diet advice, track consumption and exercise, and generally assist in all aspects of a CR diet.
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001. I'm now back at the Casa De Mmmymlrs! The trains were absolutely hellish trying to get home yesterday and my Flatmate took about 9 hours door to door! So nice to be at home with my family without having to worry about anything. I feel so blessed to be in a warm house, a fridge full of food around the people I love. I don't appreciate how good my life is sometimes, and I think it's always nice to take a step back and be thankful for the things around you. My Step Dad and I are currently watching a marathon of one of my favourite TV shows, Storage Wars, God Bless the History Channel! My Mum's determined to fatten me up with mince pies, crisps and nuts, And although my siblings drive me crazy but Christmas wouldn't be the same without them!
002. I decided on my Christmas day outfit a few days ago and despite ASOS ordering troubles. I had to order and cancel my orders a grand total of four times before I got my act together and actually ordered it to the right house with the right delivery method! #llymlrsproblems. I decided on this dress, polka dot tights and my Office Flatforms. I bought a selection of jewellery with me when I came back so maybe some sort of statement necklace, either this Urban Outfitters one, my Rose Gold ASOS collar or my Primark "Transformer" necklace. Any thoughts on which one I should wear?
003. I've been collating my best of 2012 products to round up over on my other blog this week. It's so weird to think of all the products I've used this last year and try and put down on paper (well, digitally) which were my favourites and why! The posts will be up next week so I hope you enjoy them!
004. I've noticed I've had a sharp decline in traffic recently thats coming from blogger and I've finally discovered that it's because it isn't directing traffic to my blog. My blog isn't showing up in a lot of Readers dashboards. If you're having trouble seeing my blog on your dashboard you might have to follow it via another method. For example Blog Lovin' (thats my reader of choice!) or via Twitter or via Facebook or just do it the old fashioned way and bookmark it. To check if my blogs showing up in Blogger Reading List, go to your Dashboard, then down to your reading list and then find my blog in the sidebar. Click on it and if it's saying "You have followed this URL, but we couldn't find a feed for it" then it won't be coming up. I keep getting mixed messages if it works or not, so please let me know if my posts show up for you or not! I don't know why there is this issue and I'm working on fixing it!
005. I'm not the biggest Christmas person, I don't get festive at all! But now Im back at my Mum's with all our Christmas stuff I'm finally getting all those Christmassy feels and embracing the season! All I need now is a bit of Michael Bublé and some mulled wine and I think this Scrooge will have softened up a bit! Anyway, I really do hope everyone has an amazing Christmas. Even if you don't celebrate it just have a nice chill out for a few days!


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To the editor: President Obama's recent picks for Secretary of Defense-Chuck Hagel and Secretary of State-John Kerry call into question Obama's judgment and wisdom and his ability to lead this country.
Chuck Hagel opposed the successful troop surge in Iraq and he wants to prematurely pull troops out of Afghanistan. He believes in placating Communist Cuba and wants to negotiate with the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah. Hagel is committed to negotiating with Iran on its nuclear development program. He wants to make dramatic cuts to our military, which will weaken our national security posture. Hagel will be in lockstep with Obama and will continue the policies of appeasement.
John Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran with medals that Swift Boat commanders stated he did not deserve, will march to Obama's tune of appeasement. Kerry, in Congressional hearings, turned on his fellow Vietnam War veterans. He could be another apologist for the Obama administration.
As a former Navy enlisted man and officer I question the ability of the Obama/Hagel/Kerry threesome to lead this country from a position of strength in the world. I do not have confidence in the capabilities of these key individuals to promote our national security.
Donald A. Moskowitz
To the editor: In response to Mr. Gessis' letter charging the President with hypocrisy because he was told that "neither one (of his sons, age 22 and 24) can be covered by (his) health insurance even though supposedly those under 26 could be covered under ObamaCare," I was curious enough to check out why this might be. This is what I discovered:
Extending Coverage for Young Adults. Under the law, young adults will be allowed to stay on their parents' plan until they turn 26 years old (in the case of existing group health plans, this right does not apply if the young adult is offered insurance at work). Check with your insurance company or employer to see if you qualify. Effective for health plan years beginning on or after September 23.
Sometimes I think that people have a negative reaction to the Affordable Care Act because they may not fully understand what it is. I would suggest for those that do have questions, they check out this website: http://www.healthcare.gov/law/timeline/full.html There they will find a complete, easy-to-read overview of the key features of the Affordable Care Act by year.
Sandra D. Gagne
To the editor: The U.S. is in financial trouble and the politicians are to blame. There are 192 countries in the world and we give foreign aid to 160 of them. Many would like to see our downfall like Venezuela, run by dictator Chevez, who makes hundreds of millions each year selling his Citgo gas in this country.
We also give foreign aid to China.
Why don't we stop this foreign aid and put the money in the social security fund which should be given to qualified recipients only and not for the government to use at it's discretion.
Why don't we cut the salaries of the politicians. They just sit around all day long trying to figure out how to put the shaft to the average worker so they can pocket more themselves.
Politicians should not get a pension after serving one or two terms. They should have to work 20 years just like any other federal retiree. Also, term limits should be strictly enforced in all states. People like John Bonehead, Harry Reid, Mitch O'Connell and Nancy Baloney should have been gone long ago.
We don't need 435 people in the House of Representatives. It should be cut down to 250. The government grows bigger every year. There's no need for that.
There are many ways to cut back without putting the shaft to the average worker. These are just a couple of suggestions.
Wayne Packard
To the editor: In the aftermath of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. we've heard from commentators in the news media, politicians, gun control advocates, 2nd Amendment defenders, mental health professionals, school officials, lawyers, video game experts and public safety officials. All agree that more has to be done to protect our school children and each has a prospective solution: more air time for gun control, more information in order to make a decision, stricter gun and ammo laws, better mental health screening, safety committees, someone has to be sued, tone down the violence in children's games and armed guards in schools.
The individual I have not heard from in the mad media publicity scramble is the security professional. A security professional is an individual who has education, training and experience in the protection of people, property and facilities through the use of a variety of security systems and procedures. He or she identifies and assesses internal and external threats and develops policies, plans, procedures and physical safeguards to counter those threats.
A risk assessment that I conducted of a multitenant office building in a major city included the offices of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The offices were found to be particularly vulnerable in a number of areas. At a meeting to discuss the results of the audit, the special agent in charge of the division told me, "We are in the business of finding ways to get into buildings not in trying to keep people out." Law enforcement and fire officers are not always trained and experienced in security practices and few public safety academies have a security component. This is a discomforting situation.
Most of the proposed solutions are one-size-fits-all approaches to school security when in fact each school is unique and should be evaluated individually. Millions of public dollars are spent on nutrition studies and meals programs and failed education initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and Obama's Race to the Top. School administrators go to extraordinary lengths to ensure that resources are available for individual special needs students yet when it comes to the security of faculty and students, incredibly ordinary measures usually suffice.
Clint Rand
Retired FBI special agent
Dear Mr. President,
Unless the United States Constitution has changed since I last read it, one of the divisions of power is the Executive Branch, not the I Branch.
It rang alarming to me when you were speaking with a meetinghouse-type group saying repeatedly 'I' (the pronoun), don't intend to take guns away from certain sectors. It just doesn't sound right. Executive orders be-damned, that's serious messing with the very fabric of the US Constitution.
And all this time I thought The Executive BRANCH ( v. dictatorship, Crown, etc.), enforced laws written by the Legislative BRANCH and interpreted by the Judicial BRANCH of government.
Oh, silly me, it's probably only a Freudian slip, but I will sharpen my words when I hear My Subjects, from My Liege. And let's not let this get to the it-depends-on-what-your-definition-of-is-is thing.
Bruce C. Bacon
(the v. should be in italics)
Bruce C, Bacon
I read with some interest and not a little amusement the story from Foster's of Friday, January 11 regarding Durham's "proliferation of stop signs." Henry Smith was quoted as saying he was unhappy with the stop signs. Mr.Smith has evidently never walked a dog or strolled the streets of Durham for if he had he'd be as frustrated as I as I witness motorists driving well-over any 25 or 30 posted speed limits in residential neighborhoods. We live on Madbury Road, or more appropriately Madbury "Raceway". There are times I have to shy away from the curb as trucks (not allowed) and cars tear by us. In the past I have written Mr. Selig and Chief Kurz on a number of occasions to erect speed tables as they have in other parts of town, or even lower the speed limit from 30 to 25, though I doubt that would do any good. Because there are no other intersections on our strip of Madbury other than the one where Emerson comes in, a stop sign or two would not be called for. So, unlike Mr. Smith, I'm FOR a proliferation of stop signs and any other devices that will make it safer and more pleasurable to be a pedestrian in Durham and I commend the town for being aware of citizen concerns in this regard.
Peter R. Flynn, Sr.


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Over on the International Union of Mail Artists' (IUOMA) website, a mail art "call" has recently been posted…
(a call is basically an invitation to mail artists to participate in making and sending mail art to a provided address, for use in a specific exhibition, project, thesis presentation, etcetera. Often there are rules, such as size, or medium, or a theme for the mail art project…)
The call that caught my attention tonight was from one IUOMA member who is "Helping to Start a Permanent exhibition on the most remote and isolated Island on the planet : TRISTAN DA CUNHA"
What a MARVELOUS place to send mail art! Just look at the ADDRESS we all get to use:
Post Office & Philatelic Bureau
Edinburgh of the Seven Seas,
Tristan da Cunha,
South Atlantic Ocean
Have you ever sent mail to a dreamier address than this? Imagine, not even a country but an Ocean for an address! It's almost as good as sending a letter to Peter Pan ("Second star to the right, and straight on till morning…)
N.B. Tristan da Cunha is part of the group of islands known, collectively, as the "British Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascencion, and Tristan da Cunha"
There is a settlement, known as The Settlement, and a Post Office on the island. Although they have internet, the Post and the arrival of the mail is still a very important aspect of everyday life. Look at these recent postage stamps…
The Mail Art Project is to send some artwork to a permanent exhibition on the Island for the locals who live there, and for all who visit the Island.
No Limitation on Themes, Size, or Number of works. Just send mail art. It's very different from penpals, or letter writing clubs—you're not writing a letter, and the point is not to get to know anyone, although after some time friendships are built on a steady backing-and-forthing of mail art.
Best think of it as an open and inclusive art exchange, made possible by the International Postal network, where art has no price tag or monetary value, and money is not a motivating factor at all. For a feel of what mail art is, you can browse Wikipedia's Mail Art or IUOMA's Start Here page.
If you're curious about the mail art scene, this is a great first call to respond to (unfortunately, you probably won't get mail art back…unless some local gets it in his/her head to reply…well you never know!) and a fantastic address to write to. Imagine the locals looking through what you have sent, and imagine the few visitors to the island enjoying the fact that somewhere in the tiny Post Office there is this exhibition of postal art from around the world.
Go on, make something and send it to the village of Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, you know you want to.
P.S. despite the "badge' and all this talk of membership, anyone can join IUOMA …all welcome, no experience necessary… IUOMA


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Recently the Town completed the installation of additional water and sewer lines under the Intracoastal Waterway. These additional lines will help to ensure the ability to operate in the event of an emergency.
Our public utilities department is committed to public service and can be reached at 910-579-2166.
When buying or selling property please contact the Administration Department to establish new account information with the utility clerk.
Water Adjustment Application
Water/Sewer Application for Service
Water/Sewer Account Information Change Request
There is a night deposit box at the front of Town Hall for your convenience.


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What is the Archives?
The Saint Mary's College Archives collects, preserves, and provides access to records, publications, and other documents pertaining to the history of the College.
The Archives was created to collect and preserve these documents and to serve the research needs of the College community and the public. The Archives collections include documents dating from the founding of the College in 1863 in San Francisco, through its relocation to the "Brickpile" campus in Oakland in 1889, to its move to the Moraga campus in 1928 and up to the present.
Typical topics for research in the College Archives include:
Background information and photographs of famous sports figures such as Coach Slip Madigan, football great Herman Wedemeyer, baseball Hall of Famer Harry Hooper, basketball standouts Tom Mescherry and Peter Thibeaux, and professional baseball stars Tom Candiotti and James Mouton.
History of the College's incorporation of liberal arts and the development of the Collegiate Seminar program.
Student unrest and demands leading to the current 4-1-4 calendar, coeducation, diversity student recruitment and faculty hiring.
Navy Pre-Flight School presence on campus during World War II.
Family history - "Do you have a photo of my father who went here in the 50's?" You bet we do!